Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1876, Page 10

10 ; TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, lo/6—1WELVE LONDON GOSSIP. The Appointment of Lord Lytton a8 Vieeroy of Iudin, “Owen Merodith." as He Was Twenty Years Ago, and as Ho Is How. Tho Death of Yord Stanhope---What Iie liad Accomplished in Litorature, Why Do 8o Few of the Dritish Nobility Exhibit Literary or Artistio Excellonco? Their Devotion to tho Art of Govarn- mont, and How That Devotion Bonefits Their Country. Oponing of Parliamont-Grumbling Because the Princo of Walos Inspected tho Canino Tooth of Buddhx. Sueeial Corsestomidencoof The Chizago Trbune, Lowoos, Eug., Jan, 22.~Tho appoiutmont of Lond Lytton a8 Viceroy of Indis, fn placo of Lord Northbrool, who has just reilrod, a year before the expiration of hiz term of ollice, 1 congoquenco of tho severe atraln vpon bis hoalth, oocagioned Ly bis aiduous dutles sud {ho relaxing oXocts of tho climato, has been greotod with anrprige 1 #somo quarters, and in ptliers with n mingled fooling of plessurs pud regrot. Barprino smong statesmen and lpolmeinm, who nro scarcely resdy to beliove ‘tunt tho accomplishod diplomat nud post pos- sosres, or hns proved that ho ponsossos, tho commanding qualities roquisite in #o impor- Jut o part; whilo Lord Lytton's Losts 3f frionds havo greeted tho nows atonco with Tolight snd regrot,—congratulating thomaclves iiat 80 great an honor shoutd have beon award- W to thoir favorito, eud sorrowing thnt thio nonor should neeessitate his residonco 1w anwiber soumtey. aud doprive thom for o uuniher of yeara of this onjoyment of his society. LONb LYTION In one of tho fow Linglish noblemen who, tol- Iowing iu tho footetops of hig itlustrions fatuer, bns devoted himselt feciously to litefaturo, Liplomocy has buon, after o, his socondary oo cnpoticn ; it ia to literaturo that Lo bas given Din fmpaceionod dovotion, whicl haacalled out his truo nmbition and bLighest aspization, It was in Flotonco—benutiful Llorence, tho cily of poeta—that T had tiret tho pleasurs, many yeary 8go, of meetiug Lord Lytion, then Leginniog Lis peetic oud diplotastie carcor. Inndsowo, puave, gracaful, accomplishied, ho wae, at that (ime, quita the conventional benu-ideal of the young enthusinst and pact. Absorbed in com- yosing tho pocma which were shortly to flutter tho pulszs of wo many tonder Licarts, sud badew with pontly drops o many tender oyes, when s Owon Mozedith's " it volumo was publisbed, and reading them, 08 o priceless favor, to a littlo circlo of admirlug votaries; rondercd mclan- cuoly by the coldness, if not avertion, of liy fathor,—tho indifierenco of Buiwor poro to Lis pmisblo son was foo woll Lnown to be kept secrot,—who, whilo the young man regarded Lim with o Joving ontbusiaatn, which was pathotte considoring tho treatment Lo rocelved, denied bim tho least manifestation of perscoal intorost sod offoction, andj(tho final blow to the poot) frownod sternly upon, and endeavored to stiflo, bis litorary aspirations ; In love, a3 A mal- tor of conrse, and, almost oqually as & mattor of ‘course, porhaps, IN LOVE WITH A MARDIED WOMAN, . & hopoless pussion which Leld rim vibrating upon the vergo of suicide,—n fatal precipico from which, at tho critical moment, ho Lad al- waya strongili to withdraw, finding tho dear re- liof of his despair at tho feot of the Muso in- etéad of in tho eold ombrace of death (this hopoless passion did nol prevent tho young poat from onjoying a mild thrtation when s favoring fato, in tlio abaoncw of tho slar of his worship, “brought Lim tnto comounion with any sweetly- sympathotio soul ju the form of & woman); git- tiug humbly at tho foot of tha Browmugs, then residing in tho immemorial Casa Guldi pulace ; Joved with & motherly tonderness by tho tendor and holy epirit ot Llizabeth Lartott, uud emited down upou sorcewhat condescondingly by hier husband, who, with bis pro-cminoutly mas- culiuo gonluy, perhrps nndorvalned the talsnt of uis devoted discipln ; sccomplished, smiable, . brilliant, with endloan sweet sad winning quail- ; tics. nlthon us his best triouds wolo ready to udmit, s litrle pontimental and offominato,—such was the ltebart Bulwer, the * Owon Meredith ", of twenly vearaapo, Sinco that long-azo era, the charactor of this bnliput wan lad under- gone, if vot o comploto (raneformation, yot o vury unusually KOLLY AND {IARMONIOUR DEVELOTMENT. . His connection with Lhe diplomativ turvico— aithough iu e inferior rank—han Lrought nm limo raiations with the groot statesmen and rulers of Lurope, sud kopt hiw in mid-stream in ithe headlong curreut of uodern events, «Mw happy marriage to o very boautiful, +nccomplielied, aud noblo woman ; tho love of ‘lovely cbildren: tho enroestuess of his putuuit of literaturo aud high nmbitton; tho devotion of troops-of frivnds,—sll things have combiued ito givo depth and earncstness Lo o character iwhich, at one time, secmod to Juok theso quali- tins, Lu literaturo, althought tho highent dis- tincilon hsa pover boon wwarded him, he has ttained n world-wido ronown aud popularity ; und Le hiag now boen appointod—ecarco yob tn tho primo of life—to tho higlest oflice within the gift of tho great Englvh Uovernment. Ho * sor thero hes besn o Groek-liko prosperity and * soronity {n bis carcor, which, i thi troubled ora, §s very attracttvo ; and ono can only hopo thiat ho wiil continuo to tho ond in full favor with tho fieklo Uoddera of Fortuno. I liave #aid that Lord Lytton's appolstment aa Vicoroy has occasfoued surprise, and i might havo mddod dissatisfaction in cortain dis. tioguiehed quartors. ‘Fhia not improbably atises from tho fact that his unnsnal grace and awia- bitity—it may bo alsa tho charactor of hiy liter- . ary atteinments—have cansed his practical abili- {4y to bo undervaluod, Looked upon ng the ,conrtly man of tho world and elegant verifior, tho favonto of ladies and darling of drawing- . x00ma, his more storling quahiics have bosn ioverlooked. fut thoro have boen many in- atancos in which goutloness of mannor and an apparent pliaut offeniinacy of naturs Lave veiled real strongth; and also, on tho other hand, in which strongth has been doveloped, in a nature ariginally lacking it, by favoring circumstauces. 1t would bo ldlo to clann, for Loid Lytton tho rank of a great poot, but, among the minor poets of tho day, UE 14 PRE-EMINENT, Tho purity and elovation of tono oconspicuous ju bis later works, and his esquisitelv-wurical and delicately-elaborate vorsification, qualitios in thomselves fudicato power, power of » mfih order, Occasivnally ho iy struck, a8 in the most popular of his books, # Lucille,"n sympatbetio chord that Luas vibrat in overy Lieart; sud, in eome of his latest pub- lications, tbore 8 & subtle thoughifulnors and frocdom of movoment of which bis eariier pootns gave no promize. Mis qualifications oy u ntatesman, his powor todirect ovonts and rule men, romsin, it must Le confetsod, an unsolved o broblom; tho publiv Las Lnd wo oppustuuity of judgiog; but tho fack thut Dieravli—a Minis- tor 8o able uund loug-oxpericnced, who boat Luows what abllity ho bas divplayed and vesults achioved in tho diplotatic servico—should huve velected bimn a8 Viceroy, I8 stroug presumptive ovidenco that Lo must bo ftted for the post. Cexm‘u\[y this iy the opinion of the Ministcr, or Lo woulQ not Linve givon bim tho appoiotuicnt ; and Diersoli j8 not & wan apt to be deccived in hiucstimato of charactor. My beliof 1u, that Lord Lyttoo will ot prove unworthy of thu trass reposed in Lim ; sud that o will very likely als0 cecomplish mioro in literature thau is now sutlcipated. It s pot improbablo that ke will caomiand bofore bis death & nigher roputation tian bis fathor. both ma statcsman avd authaor, TIE DEATU OF LOMG BTANHOLE L not only occsuloned deep rugret wmong bis persousl fricuds, but Laa called out endluss mauifestations of Interest aud sorrow frum the publio o general, JDs nawe occurs to mo in thiy counectior becanso Lord Btanhupe was one of the fow noblemen who, like Lord Lyttou, bayo purmsued lteraturo a4 8 profossion, Vithout brilliaut etlity, bo hed, wovors {befesy, eufliclent tulent, fuodustry, aud swuition, to create for Limsolf o distivot sud assured position as susntlior, Jiis lirst worls, on “The Bpsuish War of Huccession,” is a worthy monument of zeal and industry; wlulo his ¥ Listory of Fogland from fhe Pesco of Utrocht to tho Ponco of Vorsaiitos la still tha most popular account that Lins boon given of thia Important oplsode in Lnglish history. 1o bas pubhshed aleo_n wotk on ** Tho Leign of Quocn Anne to tho Peaca of Usreoht.” intended ne a continustion of Macaulay's Historvy to which brilliant work 1t offors a singuiar con- trast, sluce Stanhopo's apecial qualitics are tho fnirnoss, mconraoy, integrity—tha litorary con- Bolontionanesa — in_ihich ~ Macaulay waa fo Jamentably deficlent: whilo Btanhopo, on his part, i6 no less defigient in tho forco, aloquonco, and impgiuation, whiclh mako tho op, cramatic Maoaulay so fascinating & writer, and, in apito of bhis grave doticloncies, 8o pre-omi- nently _ popular. Lord Htanhopo _ has published also n “Lifo of it “Lifo of Condo,” aud othor works. An Barl who condeaconds to bocomo an lustorian i3 a faro phoiiomenon, to whain tho highost honors aro gladly awarded by hin less cotorprising brotier-Poors. Lord Stanhopo's lifo is tho hise tcry ot a sorics of MILD AND_AGREPADLE TRIGMPIS. Of litorary entorpriscs, soclotios, sud nssocia- tions innumerable, tio haa beon tho patron and Providont ; s correspoudenco with tho groat Iwaplo of o day hins beon carofully prosorvod ; \ia suggentionn na to art-colloctiona and build- ings havo beon ldoqled with fruitful rosult; in chort, m & thousand ways, although not n man of goujun or unusual power, Lo has dono good and sohicved disiination. I tho langnago of tho Saturday Heviow, which hag tho advantago of boing muggentivoly Beriptural, ovon if lacking tho entinelasm of s noro cloquent euioyy: **In wll rospects ho duvosted to tho utmost ndvantego tho respectablo sum of talent which had been intrustod to biscare, Although o had no pro- toution to be great, his lifo was grontly aud variously tisofnl ; aud hobas, porbaps, loft wo suecoesor who will exactly il Lis pb!cu. In roferring to Lord Stanbopo’s lamoutad donth, tho Saturday Keview comnionts upon the slugular fact, that, * Out of four or five hnn- drod hereditary Peers, not moco l!:lll Ll dozon Liave over publishod 8 volumo,” And less, it might have addod, have they nachioved cistinction in tho tine arts : N0 groat painter, no ereat seulptor, ot masician, has come out from hoir ranke, TMis I (udosd A HINGULAR PACT, and oue varionsly suggostivo. For these four or fivo hundrod hioraditary Poors occupy a position of magniticcnt command ; thoy possess enor- wous ndvantages; oll the grand achiovemonte of modern civilization, of art, and literatare, and scieuca, ore theirs to dispose of at will. Fliey have, w tha tirat place, the aupromo ad- vantage of race,—heraditary doscont; bhigh treining, phiysical and wontal; culturo, leisuro, refined aad noble surroundiugs; theint aro tho traditions of tho past and the wolcoming smilca of the faturo. Can {t bo tbat thoy have among thein no mon of transcendent gonius, nono endowed with the Ltghest and ratost qualities? ‘Lhis 18 most glar- tugiy improbablo. ‘Lhe faot of thoir conturios of tiuo breeding oud fino cultura renders such a sapposition fucrediblo, And what, then, be- comes of their groat men who do not develop their talents hecauss of having avory oarthly onportunity of daveloping thom graodly and hatmobiously? Tho lovo of the poct or arhist for hiy art [ supposed to bo, and {3, tho most imparioud and iresistible of all passions. What Tiad not tiiis tery inspiration, this ticrco enorgy, of the divino spirit cnabled 1ts posscssor to wehiovo? Whatdulicnltioshas it not conquered, what dangors vvercomo, in order to oblain ox- presslon? How is it that this subtlo aod potent cuergy is self-vauquished and silencod in tho mognificont nbodey which would,scom to be fitted to. hecomo the favored hannts of tho Aluses? Wit bocomes of 187 Waither doosab vanih ? 1t i bard to holfuve that the old theory is cor- reot, that wdversity nnd povarty aro essontial to wdico men to develop their highiost Jpawers ; thiat the cruel promeure of oxtornal neconsity is & slropger molive than the diving nmward tmpul- slon of love; sud yot the evidouco of tha En- glish hotoditery T'oors i ALL IN FAYOI OF THIR DUCTRINE. Whon iu Ituly, many yoara ngo, I had tho ad- veutage of being noqiatnted, in Rtomo, with a hittlo ot of Englixh peoplo of Ligh rank, mith all tha graces, sud accomplishments, aud virtuos which, to people of u cerlain class, aro oo in- heritznco. Among thew woa o certain noblo- man, o man of inumense forco and gening, cisoly tho tture which, sccording to wmodern theory, onght to be tho final product of & raca and family kept m n stato of high por- fection for mged. [ha grasp of futelicct enabled him to conquer, na if by instinet, what ottiers labor for yours or 8 lifetimo to achioves sl fio fiad in a wunderdful dogreo all the epecinl artistic gitts; could moet on their own gronnd Wil vorts of nitists; was musiclan, poet, paintor ; and, in all that ho did, showed, not the qualities of the nmatour, but the mastor. Ilo followed, lhowever, no profession or Art, oxcopt us an awatour. This man may have beeu an oxcop- tionat charncter; but it 13 certainly o fact that ho neomod astamed of allowing bis nbilities to Vo knoan, or allowing it to ba known inat he mado auy use of thow with aoything approach- ing an onrnont eim ; while ho uade the eerions Lusiness of his life the physical amusementy which Englishmen delight, and tho strict porfortaance of tho vatlons social dutiew which they impuse upon themselves. His great predilection a3 ortist was for painting, and, in o wtudio Lermellcelly panled to the world at Inrge, ho amused himwolf with painting pictares which, if they had been eshibited, would binve piaced him high in rank among; the artists of the day. Fanny Kemblo wan ot this time in Rome, and vory iutimate wilh theso pooplo; snd 1 remember hesring hor way, on one occarion: **Whut a misforlunel If (= bind Dot been 8 nobleman, e WOULD 1AVE BEEN A MICHAEL ANarzol™ A dear surrender of the highest and mest potent geaco that can be conferred upon man, if for tho fako of the appanages of rank and wealth, In complinnee with dull routine and Labit, Lo snc- rificod tho glorions nurcola of imwortality, It i1 uscless to fottow his carcer. Huiilco 1t to aoy that ho liag grown old without being kuown in ony other charactor tlan that of a socle- ty man; without achloving any distinction othor thou thot which comed of neconsi- ty to theso posscening raunk and wealth, ’Io revert to the Safurday Review, Lo did not otlow the examplo of Lond Btanhope, nud, *in all respects, invedt Lo the utiiont advantage the magniticent sum of talonts intrusted to hin care.” Qmta the contiury. bo did not invent them nt alt; and neither did ho wasto thom fu prodigal estravnganca ond dissipation, but buried shiom darkly and silently ia tho tomb of a baeo servility to iguoblo prejudices, routio, and worldlincse, In epita of tho ovidenco of the Dritieh Neroditary 1'oors, 1 shall uot allow that necessity is the truo motive of astistie schiovement, Michaol Angelo; Raphaol, and Leooardo da Viuci, wero not geaded on to creato thoir mag- nifleout master-plocen by necoasity, but by the DIVISF COMPULBION 0¥ ENTITUSIAHA, Holdom 13 tho true urlist Bwaynd by n difforent motive, In” all tho greatest artistio oras, tho artists nud poots have been powerful, aod ac- knowledged as o power; in supremo oray, nu fu (e of Periolos nnd Avgelo, thoy have becn wealthy,coursed, superb, ‘Theraaro special cansoy which oxplamn without dificulty this doreliction of the Euglish nobility ; their fotal feilnre, nd & genetal thiug, to mako tho trie uso of their op- portutitics in oboying tho dictutes of a lofty and disiutereated ambitlon, But this 1s too twapor- tant o matter to bo dispored of {u o paragravh, and too nttractive, If 1 rhiould take it up nt wll, not to tompt 1o to give it moro upaco than your columns could well aiYord. # 1{opor to whow bonor fadao." The eerions occupstion of tho groater number of tho English nobility ls, a4 overybody knows, amusement— riding, bunting, racing, traveling, society, to- Kethor with a suflicient degroo of study and fo- to'loctual offurt to bo agrecablo and keop their inds actlve, Lut thera s one grand art which 1ho earnost spirlts among thom do pursuo in all CAFLCHnCHS, THE ART OF GOVKNNMANT, Tho horeditury I'oors sssumo the respansibility as far as possiblo, aud accopt the burdens, lnburs, and responstbslitions of goversiug Buginnl, aud hervin, I take il, is ono grent eafeguard winel Hoglaud possosses, and ouo ouormous advautage ovor our country : thio fact that thers s horo a clusy of men—powerful, woalthy, highly traiued, loyal, and ambitivus—who ~ara rosdy to davato themaalves disinterestodly to tho serving of tbe countty. With us il Is notorious that tho Lot people, us they are callod,—our profossional and literary clnusns,—avoid politics ; eir ambitions aud aima are all conceusrated in different splicres, And the mneu who seak ofiico do wo, for tho most part (thora are, it i3 to bo hoped, exceptious to tho rule), if not os u spocus lation, yot witbout being ndiTerent to the tiopo of waking mouoy, Heuco wo have the wisgov- orumeus of Now York and roign of Tammany Iuge ; hienco oxposures of corruption and fraud in Washingtou, which briug us to shamo over tho whola civilizod world. English uoblemon, instend of seeking olticy with the bopo of any othior ewoluwont than that of increased digulty of poeision, spuud their own fortuuud, us freoly sy our I'weeds sud Bweoueys do tho stolon mouoyd of our uufortuusts and wmuch- veplundered Coluwbia, to securo the houor of being clectod to ollico, And, when the object of their smbition is attslued; whoen they are so sutticlently blessed a4 to be able to add to their signatures thoso csbulivtio lotters 3. 12,"— tbeir powmtion, culture, woalth, end traditions sre as goud # guaruutea by huiau buiogy can Te0eivy, that thoy will bo ABOVE TUE SUSPIGION OF TEMPTATIONY, and will perform thew dutios (such duties ss they havo ability to perform) faithfally and woll. Uniil our country has become (however tho rosult may bo obtalned), apart from ita hugo and clamorous material oxistonce, an ideal ab- sfraction, sronsing in our peoplo tho loyalty which is tho lifo-broath of an Eoglishman’a soul; shall I say until logalty with ua has coms to mean truo servico instead of npread-oaglo bom- bast7—until wo have again our Wash- ingtons and Patriek Uonrys, our Jeflersous nod Adamses, or. of very late dap— frropronchiable in loyalty whataver mav hava been_thoir othor doliclencios,—our Webstors, and Clays, and Sumnory,—mou who undorataud that unwamnunhl!s in ouo of tho grandost of pursults, whose lisos aro tha proparation for their great anccesses, whora nloprity is sbove suspicion, nnd whoso loyalty abave roproach,— until such mon aro at tho hoad of our Qovorn- mont, wo shall not havo psasod the most dan- gorous of tho racks or shoals ovor which the £hip of stato of a Hopubtio iadoomed to pass. TARLIAMENT is now abont to opon, and tho seszlon beging with evory Drospoct of & prosporons and hoacoful timo. It s just two yoeaw einco Mr. ladetone, by ~ s brillisnt coup d'otat, achiovod the uuwonted Buccosa of turning himsolf and his party out of olico,—to lta own amazemont, and that of the country. ‘Iho violont agitation which onaued”lins quite subsidod. Mr. Gladatons, tho {rroslatibla orator, nand, for 8o mnn{?‘vm. Louored aud enthuslnat- ically followed chlof, has rotired from a position which he always filiod with sathority, it ho did not alwags oxert bis posor with wisdom. Lonl Hartington, who has succesdod him an tho load- or ot tho party now in _opposition, {s winning re- Bpect sud_ cstoom, and #eems to bo training hia patty, and toaching them to .obey, to their own patisfaction and that of the country at large. Mr. Disracll ecarried throngh last yoar's nessions withous osuy very couslderablo loss of prestigo and populatity. Tho legls- fatlon of the country, indced, ot presont, would seom to mako but littlo claim upon the rosources of tho Ministers. Thoro are no for- oign complications, 1o threateniugs of war, no apparent clouds looming fn tho lorizon. Tho moat imminent chango apprehionded is, that tho Queon will agnin shirk her plain duty, aod, at tho last motment, tind somne oxcuso for rofusing to open Parliamont in _porsom,—thus croelly wronging bor aggrisvod subjects. Whis i o prospecitvo Injury: tho mont bitter actuol griovanco of thio Loudon citizens and Scottish evangeliata is, that tho Princo of Walca wont to geo the nautch-girls dnuco in Tndis, and also +vigited idalatrous tomples, INSPECTED TIE CANINK TOOTII OF BUDDUA, nnd attended gomo other nationnl oxhibitions, in which aunimals oro allowed tho priv- iloge that provos ° 8o irrenistiblo to men and wations, of fighting _osch othor, 'That **the Heir-Apparent of tho British Throne, the representativo of a Conrt Luowa ull over Europoe and tho world for its purity ” (thisis a quotation), shoutd Lave been guilty of thess Licinous offcuses, is a bittor pill for somo of tho woplo whom ho reprosents. In varlous of the gcouiah churehios monuuia bavo boon hbeld, and it 18 proposed that this obecuro subjoct slould bo inveatigated. What ia to follow tho Invesil- gation, does not appoar, —Meanwhiio, prayors aro being offerod up for the Princo’s salvation aud better guidanca. It I8 a sad thing to boa T'rinco. Whataver may bo tho habitual delin- uencies of tho Heir-Apparcnt, 1 do not aco that ho is justly to bo Liamed in tho prosent fn- esance. I thought that overy one, oven clergy- meu aud gaints (synonymous torms, I bellove, at least in tho United Btates), when journoying in forolgn countries, woro privileged to visit tuo pccurmr institutions of - thowe countries.—oven tho most objectionable of them,—as & matter of wformation or curiosity, without baviag thelr motivos impngnud. Stall our clorgymon go to tho thieves' dens und gambling-holis of T'arin nud Loudon, to flnd ont what thay aro liko; aud thio Heir-Apparent of the British Throno Lo do- wlod the pleasurs uf seeing tho caniuo tooth of Buddha, or of visiting sn_idolatrous tompla ? llore is an_unexampled instauce of popular tyrauny! ‘'Tlose who disapprove tho procasdings of tho Princo sssume nfuncroal oxprossion when ho iy meutioned, and afiirm that Lo will nover loavo tudin olive. What ground thoy have for bolioving that ho will Lo pisasainatod, T canuob sy ; bt wo will wiah tho Jovial ropreseutative of Dritish dignity » bappier fato,—bon voyage, nud » wpoody return to his grumbling subjects, who, s apito of their frequout murmurs, rogard bim for the most pact, Lom mclinod to bolieve, Wil a very profound sincority of alfection and loyulty. Y. V. THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION. STXTY TO TWENTY-TWO, In tho presnat Houss of Reprosontatives thera aro aixty officers sud soldiern wha served fu thy Uonfod- eratoermy, sud twenty-two Unin oflcors and sol. lsrs,—Newepaper, Tho cloud of senscleas hate hath pasiod, Thio wloruy wky 18 cleating; Abiove un aliines sareno at last "Thn liow of promise cheering! The vulqur, wpiteful volco is Lushed, Tup cry for veugoance hiatefni; Tbe uALioR onice 8o noarly cuabied Aaguanfwous grows, aud gralen}? Tha fatted calves sro freely slain, “Tho uation's true Jove tolling | Pweet Incense, to allay their pai, ‘Each Rebol tions b emelting { To prove whc cannot carry Lato Toyond the bounds of Tesson, The nation npens cvery guto + " Aud kandly wolcomvs treason! She shrewlly asks no sscrifice. Lut, graclously releutiog, Proctifina the policy unwisa ‘T iunat ou inuch repenting; At b0, to prove how very fuir $iio would distribute favora, . A3 thrro to ons destrayors shiare 1er nonors with hier savers | Tho vroblem of the War han found . This wonderful solutton : Thnot statesinen are the noarcat sonad Who led fu rovolution ; That thoso who in tlo foreinost van Taught to obscurs her glury Aru Jurt tho men to wisely pian Aid sbapo her future siory 1 ©On ovory lip i found the snear About played-out war-aperclies; They've grown as odfots to hear A4 ol:timo Kanaws “ screeches ) Tius public volco proucunces ban Or yirds its stinging cordon OF ceinstires around Kheeldan, iut ynte sweet faiths in Gordon 1 1f aught wera needed, this will show, eyoud all doubt of cavil, That “tis the Rebel chfefs who kuow "Ll bust vy to unravel “Thu anarls that hiold the Jand fu {hrall,~ A seerct wortls indiiing # Let Hobs i peaco recover all They lost by foolh fighting,” JL W, IL., —New Yurk Graphic. Winuebago City, Mind, e An Excitoment nt Vionnn,. Palt Mall Gazette, ‘Tho people of Vienus ara in oxcitemont about n Lox of dyusmite lying somewhere iu tha Danube, which, it ix foared, may revoal Ity pros- once by suddenly blowing up a bridge or a river stoambont. ‘I'be dangeris rondercd the mors trying tu conteruplate as the box ia queation waa droppod iuto the river by a police agout, actiug at the suggentiou of the Ministry of Commerce, «or rather of somo clorky iu that Dopartment, who, terrilled by tho rocent explosion at Bre- niorhavon, rocently bethought thom of over- Lisuling the 1uventioos lodgod at tha ollico by patentees to see if thore woro any thot coutsiuod _explosive matorlals, They, in effuct, found threas boxes marked “Dynamite, April 11, 1874" How the Loxes camo to havo been lylug unopened at the ollice.for nearly two yoars is a mystory whioh poshaps will not scom astonishing to iuventurs who biave had dealings with Uovorument dopart- moule, At any rate, the clorks bad 10 sooner discavered tho torrible parcols than thoy scut thow to the Polico Buroau, adyising that'a de- teetive should bo commissioned to drop thom at night, and s privatoly ue possible, {nto the tivar. 'Chis valusbla connsel wos followed., Un- fortunalely the agont chargod with tho_delicate duly of putting the wholo Austrian Capital in dangor of destruction was peresived by s brothor detective, who, not belng 1o tho secres, ran and fished up two of tho threo buxes mud restored then to the custody of hischiefs. The third box still rewmaing under water, Au improssion prevails mmoug the paople of Vienoa that tho ::g:r;:uuk‘en by lh:s ‘li:zunlrz‘ of Ct‘)u)mumhl;nud co in respect o is dyoawmito ought net to be estublishod oe a |1rucedodt. & —— Fortuncs of a Ilitos Lunulon 1 vinea, 3r, James Bowker wrilos to uss X havo road with pleusura tho romurks in your paper of T'uesday on tho South Keusiogton "Hand-Hooks, and I voutura to trouble you With u short state- ment in reforonce to ihe *Heruat' majotical plate, which way not be uuintetesting to _your roadors, L'his plate was wold nt tLe groat Hlowe uale o the 17¢h of August, 1818 (lub 8u4), to Alr, Forrest, thon the well-kuowa dualer in azticles of virty, of the Btraud, for £4, Vory soou aftor- wards Mr, Forrost sold tho plate to Mr. Lernal for 45, boing vory woil satisticd with the hand. some protit of 35 per cout made upon bis pure chuso, At tho eale of Mr, Boroal's collection, ou the 22d of March, 1855, this plate, lot 1,818 waa iold Lo 1o Kouniugton Musedn for £139, 1 waa in Messrs, Clitistiv’'s roow at tho dale, A, Eornal bad the goud tasle to poiut out tuat the subjeot represonted the estimation iu which the painting of wajolica was then kuld,‘.whumu (Lo ‘Painjer Was oF Dot Balacle himuols. RELIGION AND SCIENCE. Is There o Contro of tho Matorial Universo? Tho Molten Btato of tho Centre of tho Earthee=DMoses and tho Nebular - Hypothosia, Theorles as to the Propagatlon and Trans- misston of Ifeat and Light, THEORIES OF THE UNIVERSE. To the Fittor af The Chicagn Tribune: Crucsoo, Jou, 29.—r. Ilodgman's lot- tors seem to lava provoked & good doal of hoetile critioism. Coamogony, apart from tho Mosalo account, ssoms onlirely Lo youd human comprobonsion,—at lonst up to tho prosent timo. Evon tho moat eciontifloidon —that of La Place as Improved by Prof, L'roctor and othots—(s, at Lost, only sssumption. Mr. 1i's opponents go much further thau they are warranted whon thoy ‘spoak of tho Nobular aystom s an ascertainod aud proved fact, Ono of thom arguca tit, boosuso spaco s ia- finito, therefore tho matorial Universe must aluo bo infinito. I don't eoo Lue forco of his argne ment. What ls space? Tho abseaco of tangibla mattor—omptiness—a vold—niAil; fu sbort, a nogative quality, possossing no yositive attr- Dutos, haviog noither dimensiona nor locality, hiaving no contro aud no limits, Woro thore infinito solld matter, thon no mpaco wonld oxist; wero thoro iufinlte cloar, uubrokon space, thon no mattor would oxlst, Thera is no logienl mecessity for tho co- oxistenco of both, On tho contrary, thoy aro antagonistio fv their naturo, if such an ox- proasion is allowablo, Now, matter has form and dimonsions,—oxact pointy of locality, such as oquatorial lines, polea, controa of gravity, of rotatlon, ote. Without such, tho just bolauco of tho Universo, with all its complex motlons, couid not for an instant bo maintainad, The sun coutrols its systom; without it, tho eyétomn wonld not exist,—wounld b chaotio. But what controla tho sun? Evis dently it must bo somo mightier {nfluence than his, What controls the sun conirols his systom niz0, Aud to what again {s that mightier tnflu. ance subject ? Thore sooms to 1o & Jogical abso- Juto neeessity for romo grand central Lody of mattor, vast_ boyond imnagination, directly and indirectly ruting nud_ controlling tho rost of tho Universe. Ounly upon this or some eimiliar awsumption could 1t bo upheld in _its prosont benutifully-harmontous workiog. If the Um- verso liavo a contral point, it cannot be fofloite, for iutinituds implies noithior bogiuntag norond- ing, and consoquently can havo o contra, Hpeculation would looats Ionven st this axis of tho Universo,—God's throne, where, nlthough Himeelf infinito, it pleasos Hiw to mako Himaoll mare directly manifest. I sulumnit this as a much moro sensibio view of Cosmnology than thoiden of » nover-eniing collection of sphoros, without ap- parcnt means for porfoot control.—an inlnite Bolar systetn, withont a_contral sun, That iden i abliorrent to all principles of hariwony and order,—principlos conspicuons throughout ol crestion, Mv. Ilodgman has my sympathy, al- thougl: I think one or two of his positions erd noithor wiso vor necessary. ncupoclt:’lllg.! = ENLIQHTEMMENT FOR MR. HODGMAN. T the Lditor of ‘The Chirugo Tridbune? Deconau, Ia., Fob. 8.~ am ono of the many who have road the lostors in Tuz Tribuse on Religion and Sclonco; and, ou resding Mr. Uodgman's last lettor, I dotormined to {ry and cnlighton him a littlo, Miod, Tdon'tezy 1 am going to; but Lam going to try. Now, I don't claim to bo a eclontiat, but simply a studont and a senvchor for the truth, First, in rezard to tho romatks made by Mr. Hodgman, in bis lotter of tho 20th of January, conoerning the molton stato of thio centro of our earth, Mr, Hlodgman givos throo oplnlons held by ncicntists, and says that thoy aro not sub. stnotiated. I admit that of tho first two. Tho opluionsaro: 1, ‘That the earthisa solid globo, ~-wolid to tho econtro; 2. That the earth is o hollow sphoro,—that there is nothing at tho contro; 8. hat thoe interior of, tho oarth ls an ignoous, molton mass of matter. Tho sccond is not truo, bacanse tho spocitle gravity of the oarth hias been cowputed exaotly. Mr. Hoffman's explanation of vol- canocs {3 one proof of tho third ; but 1 have ons 1 think is atill strougor, Obsorvation hna shown that, forevery 55 feet wo go towarda tho centre of tho earth, tho temperaturs rincs one degrea Fahrenhoit. Thiyis proved by tho tomperaturo of mines and of tho wnter of artosian wolld. 1enco, at the dopth of 100 miles,—to oxpress it in gnod rouud nuinbiers,—tho temperature would bo sbout Y,G00 degroos Falreuhoit ; yos, even more, for, as weo drow uearer tha cobtro, tho moro elfoct the oterual fires would have. Ton thousand degrecs Falrevheit would convert avery known substanco into a comulote atate of fluialty, it not into 1IJ)0!‘. Mr.” Hodgman ovidontly wishes ua to aceopt that myth concornlug the croation of tho worid ivan in tho Dible, which he calla **Tho lock of Etoral ‘Lruth,” and so It I8 for Moral, but not for Scionce. Now, the Nebular lypothesis bas o much wora subntantial basls, und s n groat deal more plausiblo thoory than tho old account given tn Gonesis; and, **Of two ovils, choose tho least,” Thoro is nothing that roally mubstnotiatos the Biolical account. I would recommond him to turn to Drapor's ++ Canilict Botween Rtoligion and Hsienco,” page 235 ot seq., for u comploto account of thie Nobu- lar Uypothesis, Bpeotrum analysis—the relo- vancy of which Hodgman denies—provea tho Nobular IHypothesis. 1n rogard to tho gaseous atate of the aun, 1 do not know as it is claimod that the wholo suu is in a gakcons etato: but it is cortain that at Joast twenty metallio sub- stances oxlst in the sun in vapor, Mr. Hodg- man's chist support seomn to bo his * Rock of Etornst Truth,” DBut let mo tell you, Mr. 1Hodgman, that * Rock ™ cannot bo nocsptod us n ciiterion of Beiouco, and it is contrary to ull rosson and common-sonso to tako it a8 smel criterion. Not thnt Moros wrote tho ib- Jieal account wrong designedly, but he simpl: was migtaken, Furthermoros, I do not thinl that the Bible was ovor muant to bo & criterion of ecionco, Bowo wort of au account of tho Creation liad to bo Ynt in the Diblo, or it would bo incomplato ; and the acconut thero given was prubably the ancient Llea of the mattor. Two Inoro remarke ngatust tho Inatantaugous croation of tho Uuiverse, Mr, llouguwan: 1, Matter al- ways Las exwted, aud always will oxist, Tho second was made by that’ great philosophor, Lpicurus, whom you condomn as & heathen and anathaist 1 ¢ Know fimt of all th%tvuulhlun can spring from nounentity.” R.WV. Coorzr, HEAT AND LIOHT. To the Iditor of The Chi:umo Tribune: Curcauo, Yeb, 7.—I havo read with much In- torent tho remarks of your correspondent, 0. J. Iollister, of Salt Lake, Utah ; and, whilo I have not tho time, at presont, ovon it I had the ablilty, to roply to all hls questions oc quorles, somo of which rofer to aubjects that are more or 1oas matters cf apeculntion, 88 he vory correctly wugsests, yot I may, perbaps, point ont to him what 18 pow the univeraaliy-nccepted theory among sclentists in referouco (o tho propagation ood transmission of hest. It s sobstantislly tuis ¢ that the agitating or tremulons motion of the combustivlo matorial in tho sun, by its act of combuation, fmparte to tho ethor s motion whicly, in the form of wave (bot unlike that of n water-wavo), g transitted to the oarth, and, impinging on our bodios, or any othier matorial nubstance capable of rocelving aud absorbing 1, produces In us tho sensation ot heat. Now, if this thoory ba corract,—aud thore Wi no doubt of it, for 1t can be proved in @ varioty of ways,— thien our queriet will reudity seo that Leat is not » material substaoce, that could be ocuvoled or clulled by » passsge through celuatlal epace, howovor low its teinporature might bo, 1t 1s wot loat thot is seut us from tho sun, but o wotiun, which is provagated through thomedium of thio ethor fu tho forts of wuved ; sud, whon thoy impingo on our bodios, they produce beat, It i3 not bLest winle passing through bpace, but only & weve, wlich pro. duces hoat when Ik meots with romo mutorfal rosletanco, Thon it is convected into heat. 1t sots in motion tho molecules or stowy of our Lodios or othor matorial thinge, and tho saitrition of theso atows, ono agsinkb the other, agau couverts motion iuto heat, Thua it la that wo feel tlo radiativg power of tho sun; sud in the samo way do wo reoeive the hoat froin our stoves or uther souroed Of arti- flcial huunu‘. Mr. Jlollister will, therofore, readily moe that, 84 00 heat passes Lbrough spuco, thora csu bauo lo#a of it In wpace, ‘Thus ervor is not alove with your corresponds eut, 0. J. 11, It {s a common snd popular modo of expressiug our ideas of a diminution or wealo of bear, to way that It diminisbes by dlstanco, Tt would be moro corroot to asy that (ho cther-wavos, A8 an clement of heal, dis minish, and 8 tho aqrare of tha dislenco 3 butit wmmtors little Wlml{ml’ this ouo eloment, the othior-waves, hina beeu travoting through the Tor- rid or the Frigid %ove in getting horn, Its {:owprmlutmu qualition ato not {pairod theros Y Tue samo piinciplo in applicabls ta light as to Biont, Tha ethor-waves—a forny, not a substanco —tranamit motion from s lnminous masa~thoe sun, for instanco—to the oys ; and thia motion 1s tho oliatactar of othor-waves fnfringos upon tho rotina of the oys, and thon we realizo tho ronnation of seolug, Thon thore is light, Bub thero 11 no light until thia dynamlo forco is ox- pouded against the rotina of thooye, It inmmply an application of tho universal “principle that hont produces motion, and wmotion produces hoat. It is tho aame priuciple involvod a4 whou n rifle-ball Is dischinrged agatnst o distant rook, Tho heat goneratod by tho burning {Jow:lur pro- tluces motlon Iu sending the ball on its missiou ¢ and, when the ball implngos aeainst the rouls, tha samo nwount of Lioat, lesa that waatod in heating tho gun, is producad that was wmade by the burning of the powder. od 1uto Thus wo eco that boat may bo converl ypays, motlon; and then trausmitiod through t nud again reconvortod juto Loat at tho end ©! tho journoy. . Tiis pranciplo, of such universal application, I3, 2a T tiovo boforo stalud. substanlislly tho snmo with light. Doth diminish in intensity—that 18 to Bay, ono of tho cloments that produce thom diminishes in lotensity—ns tho squaro of tho dis- tance ; and, in this sonse, tho light and Leat producing olomont I3 diminisliod. It Is, howav- or, o diminution iv fntonsity ooly, sod not in quantity, 1t 18 tho game light and heat produc- ing eloment dilufed na it radiatos from any givon paint of combustion, shnply.becauso it is sproad over o greater surface. "Tho groat seicatist Farsday, who hoid to the now oxploded Newtonian theory of tho propaga- tion of light mnd once remarkod that Lo ‘‘could not nk {La Crontor ity of 8o clumsy a contrivaco no tho filling of apace with ethor ay o medium of communication for light and hoat ;™ whoreas, in my tumblo opinion, thiv ether, of such '*in- finitosimal density and enormous elaaticity,” ns Tyndall ospresees it, by whone agonoy Night s mado to travel thrung[l 8pace at the rate of abont 190,000 miles in n second of time, and yot, In subatanco, or according to our idess of sub- stanco, no nearly nolbing as to offer no porcopti- blo reslstanca to tho movement of the cclosiinl bodies through spacs, is not by any menne ono of the leaas wonderful of tho works of tho Grant Arciltect of the univorso; mor is it an ovidouco that this groat systom of worlds, fling, asit wero, tho Inflolty of spaco, way throwo together by chance, In repard to tho doubts of your carraspondent roforred to, as to tho fact of ~ stellar apaco boing filled with othor, and that it {4 an agonay for tha tranamisslon of heat nnd light waves, I will say that, |f ho ayor visits Chicago, and will favor mo witl & call, T will show him in my laboratory tho most ivdubltablo ovidonce of this ethor, and ovidonce tho trath of shich lo cannot reslst, G, P, RaxpALL. & TIDES AND HEAT. To ths Editor of Ths Chicago Triduns: Onxaox, Mo., ¥ob, 7.—Mny I join with a word or two fn tho chanco-medioy disputation in which alluslons are made to sciontitic theorioa ? In this tolegrammatic sgo, tersoness by all moaual And tho voil of the Holy of IHolicsls rudoly torn off, Tides aro causod by the attraction of the moon, aro they 7 ‘That is, wator-particles flow- ing loosely among thomsalvey, gravity ia over- come, and tho attraction of tho moon makes tho water tend to fly towardo eald moon; that is, the water ia lighter ot cortain places. Woll, if #0, how |8 it that tho same quantity of wator welghs say aponnd at tho samo time at evory place on tho carth’s surfaco? Ditto with iron, aud everything olso. Now, If diminution of gravity (1. 0,, wolgbt) canses tides, a pound of 1ron would not weigh a pound at flood-tido. And thus away gocs this humbug thoory of tides. A century aftor common folks have known it, up will wtart some Darwin or Huxley, and proclaim tho fuct, and gain immortality, o5 usual. Agpin, as to the causp of hoat, calied nolar hoat, Naturodoosnot operate by awkward hu- mnn couirivances,” 'fo warm hor worlds, she doos not. rhcu groat furnnces or stoves in space, and supply them itk fuol. ‘Tho sun is o mighty collector and ovolver of tho mothor of light, clec- tricity. 'I'lio pasticica of Jipht, undulating from romotest space, impingo on tho outormost me- dium surronnding o world, and diive onward through thoe air, which mir or otlor envelops, be- coming_ donsor as It approaches tho sur- faco of tho plabo, offers prontor resist- nuce, and the light-matter, in paesing through, croates moro friction (hont). Honco, heat {8 cauncd by the friction produced by purticles of tight passlog through tho air. Whero thera in 10 air, therois no heat; tho raror tho air, the laza tho heat. Wora it othornise, mountain-tops would bo warmest, Tho densor tlo air, the groator tho friction, There aro many ways to nmvo this. Like tho tide-thoory, after ovory- ody knows it Bomo eminent porson will somv day announco it, and become immortal. . 1. THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS AND THE UN- DULATONY THEDRY. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Cuicaoo, Fob, 9,—* The Nobular Hypothesis was ingrafted on tho old boathon phitosophy taught by Epicuruy, Lucrotlus, and others who were tho Aticists of their day, and who consid- ored all roligiou nod atl worship as mero super- stition, Thoy taught that mattter is olornal and that originally it was diffused turoughout space, in atoms inilnitestmally small.” ~ 1 quoto tho abovo from Mr. Ilodgman'a lagt narticle, published in your lssuo of Jan. 20, Agalnot it allow mo to quoto o paragraph from big articlo i your issuo of Dec. 233 I¢ tho lupso of mioro than cightecn centurica han not beon anflicient o estabiish the clafms of our Diving Hystem of lteligion, 1t ia too lato uow for any wortal 160 to bring forward bis prayer-guuge. ‘Tl time for B gaugo of tast Ja whon thing §s now, Iflic bad ved §n the timo of Jesua or the Arostles, thore wight have boen w00 resson or propriety in tha applicatiun of bia fiu\mo. Tu the jufancy of the Church, that gangy wad rouglit to uso 1n hundreds and thoneanda of fnstan- cea, 28 all tnust know who know snythiog of (he origin oF Ghetatianily. 3ot It ia a0 Jate ta talk of puitiug Chriotianity to tho proof, at tlls advanced prriod in tho listory of her oxistenos, Dut this Nebular IIy. !:oun'nll {3 curnparatively new, and it Lss nover yet con teated, aud T 1Wink'it i time it shontd e, Those two quostions, takon togother, give us a protty fair muight of Mr. llodgman's pecutiar mothod of romsoning, Dut, not satisfled with contradicling himeclf in two waparate artioley, ho must: nocds do 2o iu ono bruath, For in- stance, in tho powsago Hrst quoted howaye: *+'Phey taugght thut mntter is otorunl; and that origmally it was diffueod throughout epace.” Now, Ldon't know suything abous tho writings of the ancients ; but I'am inclined to doubt that any wnter amoug them could propound sud teach s doctrine contajming two euch coutra- diotory assumptions, and bo accounted a phllos~ opber'to this day, Iiteroal—withoul bogimuing (or ond); original—at tho boginoiog, I say agnin, L caunot bLeliove that auy phitosophur, onclens or modern, could wiltingly meko nso of tarius Bo opposite in & connoctiou so oloss, I prefor to helieva that the langungo is Mr. Hodg- mon'sown. And yst ho boging the vory samo articlo with sn ussault on his oppononts * bo- cawse of tho vague and looso way in whivh thoy omploy the word Heieuco, as well a3 various othor torms found in thelr communications.” With your permisslon, I will quote siaio from his lnst articlos Aud now, Mr. Editor, T must aubmit 10 you whotler the problom wiilch 1 propounded aa s gaue-test il Foference to avy ollier question in Philosopliy or Bcie 00 exoupt tho ko-caled Nubular Hypolboshs, In answor to this, allow me to quote sgain o quostion of bis which [ quotod vnce bofore,— one of the very first problems propounded by Lim, and published in your issuo of Deo, 31 1¢ hoat is & natural proporty of all matier, lke grav- ity, cowd it paré wilh that property afler huviug ros tained it from & Y‘!t elernity, and Leglu to cooty couly coul, a8 he saya It Is now dofuy ali the thne? - Dooa nob this question rolato to any subject in Phulosoply or Boivuce exvept thoe Nobular Hy- pothesia? and does it nut botray on the purt of tho writor s entire lack of oven tho most ole- mentary knowledgo of this subject? I charged Mr. Modgmau with this ignorauce moro thau o wonth sgo, and now bo answers by saying that that has nothing to do with the Nebular Hypotus esin]l \When Mr. [loMnan poiuted to tho voloa- 150 ny B proof that tho wner part of tho carth is still in an 1guoous coudition, 3lr, flodgman sum- warily squelcbod him with the fatlowisg pow= erful” sud couvinclog argumont: ‘*Aa to wint ho #ays sbout voleanocs, I dou't think it is worshiy of 8 passing notice. Iiaidea is simply absurd.”’ Agsin, whon Mr. lloffman endoavored to oxplsiu to bim liow, by moaus of tho wpoctroscope, a soients oan toll whotlier a distant body, such ss tho sun, ora star, ising glowing.gaseouy state or no, bu returus Lim tho following logioal anewers **Itdoed not cowe {u 10y way now 10 natico what you ssy about tho spectruim viows of tho sun, elo, L that ls tr- rolevaus matter, not pertivoul to any quostion in dispute botweon us," Al that {d irrelovant misttor,—It has nothing to do with tho Nebular I, vummul hat is the Nebulsr Hypothesis? Mr. Hadg- man ways 1t L3 the old doutrino taught Ly the aooients, with the idea of Lieat added to the ox- terus| atoms. 1 liave never either hosrd or read o fullaud clear oxposition of tho theory; but nomehow or other ths {don han got into my hoad that it is sometning ke tho following A longth of time bank,-~T will not” venturo to any how miany years it wonld tako to equal thia porlod, for I'protast ngainst the nonsouso of meuurlnri Rreat opocha in timo with one of our yenrs, and, in liko manner, moasuring inconosiv- abla distauces in space by meaus df an Englhuls milo,—n longth of timo b 1l the bodiea now comprining the solar sys! ono vapory mass. This mass was fn rotationt how it got in rotation, I would tlke to find out. Hut, boing in rotation, it nooossarily gonoratod & cortnin fores, poonlinr to revolving bodies, and catlod, I beliovo, contrifugal forco, Whon David want forth to do battls with Goliath, hoarmed himsolf with o aling and & fow pebblos, Whon tho timo for action arrivod, bis put a stono in the sling and surned it smftly abont his head. Ile was thon gonornting this force, Whon he ind necumulated sufticient, ho ot go ona string, ro- leasing tho stono, and thereby making visible tho forco. Judging by its effect, Alv. Hodgman will adrmit that it was, to say tho least, conaidor- ablo, Iiawover, as tho groat maas of nobulous mattor revolved, thoro was what wo might call o breaking-off uow nod thon. When & grind- stono turns too ewiftly, [t Dbursts, snd tue parta fly off with grost volocity, Imagino this force exorling ilsoll in a ruass of rovolving vapor, whoro thers is no cohiosion. When the outor rim gots turning at snch a velooity thst ita coatrifignl forco oxactly equals the atiractive force of gravity, It kaops rovolving in Lhat orbit, while thie ront of the mass contracta and rocodos from it Idonot know how near I am fo tho truth; bat I om wllimg to 1ot my 1den stand eldo hg sido with that of M. Todgman on the samo subjoct, and 1 hardly think it oan bo injured much by she comparison. tia versiou of tho sanie thoory, it will bo remembored, is, that mattor is stornal; that it wan tn a glowiog-hot =sud gassvus siate from s Pm otornity ; and that origmally it was ;lmumlul throughout epaca i atona tutluitesimale y amall. In my Inst lattor, whon speaking of tho radin- tion of Leat, Cincidentally made mention of tho universal ethor whioh porvades all spaco. I as- sumod the existenco of thia other aa & provou fact; but ono ot your correspondeuts had soen 1it to question the truth of its oxistenco, and, in o somowhat luumh{ lr.flxmunt. oudoasors Lo prove that tho ldea of such a fluid is entirely un- nocesanry in order to oxplain tho phenomous of light und heat, Bpealiug of tho idos of radiated heat, ho vays @ In my Idos, §t s Just2a hord Lo concelvo hieat pass- ing through tho intinilety large and cold ocoan of spsce, witliout boing loat, ag It 14 to trngluo ot body precipitated through that cold, {limitable ocean withi~ out radinting and losing its beat. ‘The mintake of your correapondont is, that lio compnares hoat to a substance ; whorens, accord- ing to tho Dynamical Thoory, it ia but an effect. 1o n‘\gum toforgot that thero s a vast differ- ence botweon a wave of heat, orlight, and a body of mattor moving through spaco. 'Thero ean bo no hotter analogy drasn between them than can bo drasn botweon a wavo of saund aud s pro- jectilo thrown from tho band. Intho ono cnse, o subslance {8 transmitted ; fnthe otlor, nothing is transmitted but & form, each particlo of tho transmitting mediam morely vibenting across tho live of propagation, If Ar. Hollietor will but think for a moment ho will oo bhow a wavo of this other, whoso oxcocding ratity and olasticity far surpags our dull percoptions, may travel through nimost Infinito distance without paing lost. When n porson takes ono ood of s ropo which is lying strotched slong tho ground, ohd gmvea it & suddon shako, o cerfain loop-like form travels along the ropo. 1t thig form is Jot nlone, it will travol on till all {ta force is spont in overcoming tho friction of the ropo, and then dio out. But lotn second person grasp tho ropo firmly, within trav- cling distance of this form, and, when tho loop readlics him, ho foels a sudden jerk; the form in anvibilated, and tho forco is ‘made manifest, Ho with s wavo of other; it travelson till it meets something against which to impinge, and thon, but not tiil thon, 18 tho effect produced. After referring to Prof. Tyndasll in proof of his statoment that, when the onrth collides with the sup, the hoat goncrated by the frmpact will bo suflicient to vaporize tho opliro waes, your corrospondant nska syhero tlo heat is to como from if it 18 ot atored up, in some way or other, in tho aarth. Now, I fail to porcaive how thoy are golug to collido ot all with such groat force, because, if thoy docomo in contact, it will bo by tho contractlon of tho easth's orbit; Lut this contractlon poos oo go slowly that it will bo o very long tima boforo the earth reachios tho gun, and_cven then thore can- not bo u direct collislon, Dut, i tho earth wors now to come fn direet collislon with snothor bady like itsolf, tho heat goncrated thereby would nn- doubted be somothing like what Prof. Tyndall caleutates, And, 1f BMr. Iollister will but as- sunio for a moment that hoat ia motion, hio will readily undersiand whoro 8o much of iU s to como from, Tho impact would simply chango oue motion iuto another,—would divide tho mo- tion of tho groat wholo among the particles, But your correspondent hss a theory of bls own, which ho would substitule for the wave thoory, Tio saya: * May not our heat, our light, our magnetlam, etc,, ba tue reault of the force of the sun, the agitation of ita wmolecules, acting, space helng void, on the carth's molocules'sud forces, procisoly as 1f ' tho two bodles wero in contact 2 Lot us nssumo thig to bo the case. Now, tho snn is o good distance frow the oarth,—somo 2,000,000 miles,—yot its nfluenco would bs tho samo it its distanco wers but half as far away, beezuse tho smoinnt of spaco botween them hau no tnflnenco whatever on tho mutual action of tho particles. Consequentiy theio sould bo no differeuce if it wero twico an far—if it woro n million times na for—nway. ‘Tno atar Birlus 8 & much larger sun thao oirs. It undonbtedly containg the samo cloments that onter into tho composition of onrs. Ita dist.nco is about a million tiincs that of ours. Now, I wonld liko to know how it is that the in- fluonco of the eun on tho carth isso much greater than that of Birius, Tho inilucuce of the latter should bo much tho groater, and wo nhould recoive from it moro light and heat than wo recoive fram our own gun, Will Mr. Ilollis- ter pleasa explain ? Thoro Ia auother oh*ocunn to tho Undulatory Tueory which ho urges i sustainiog s position, 1 will givo it in hisown words : ' Why, imagine the enrth truversiog spice permeated with & ponderable other S00 degrevs colder than the freczing point, at tho rato of 1,400 miles in & minnte, —counting onfy ono of its movements, that around the #un,—is it possible that fta atmosphers wonld not bn traiied off ‘at once and loat, and the osrtl’s surfaco bo nakedly nxxpmed to tho alioust juconceivable cold of ‘Tho stlier, ll;nml 7 remembar, i3 suiticiontl; udor- ublo to rotard camots and Iengthen thelr perlods; also to retard tho sateliites, planuts, and suns. ‘Whon wo remombor that tho comota are som- posad of gas nowhoro noar a4 denso as our nt. mosphera; whon we romombor, furthier, that tho rotardation of a body moving through a ro- tarding medinm {8 in proportion diroctly ns tho volocity, and inversoly as tho density of the body,-~Lhat Is, tho greater tho volocity, and tho 108 tho donsity. tho greator the retandation in o gliven timo; ana whon wo remembor, alao, tho great velocity of theso cowmets,—a velocity roach ang at times Lo thousands of miles in & vocond ; aud, flually, whon wo remowber that, aftor all theso couditions favorable to a rotardation, tho sald retardation is so ematl during hov- drods of youwrs that [t iy olmost fm- mensurablo,—we bogiu to concolvo how excood- Ingly raro {s this inedium, and how oxeecdingly wmpll the frigtion, Buroly, our utmosphbera muat comparo with such a substanco as a luwp of iron comparcs with the stuiosphers, And yet, nothing but just such s fluid will satisfao- torily auswor tho conditious of tho Undulatory Thoory. I think, thorofors, Wo may accopt tho oxluteuce of this fluid with ronsonabio certalnty, nt lonet 60 long ua {4 explaius with watisfaction ull the caunsos, phenomens, and offects of lght aud Leat. \When thero arisos a phonomouon which it eannot account for, it 1s timo for us to question she thoory, Jas, McConyigk. ON THE DEMISE OF VERY REY. JAMES WILLS.* Husli ! lnla | tho fist has goe fosth, And ho i# ealled away; And thosa who kuow Bow duwn in griof o-day. 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