The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1867, Page 7

tatned many a picture of English life which deserves in- Corporation in the English literature. It was obviously the work of one who loved the old land for its busy Present uot less than for its historical past; and yet not | to M. Chapon, bas been totally destroyed by tire, & few of our critics flew into fits of patriotic indignation because Mr. Hawthorne had ventured to remark that the married ladies of Engtand are occasionally rather fat. Our own novelists and travellegs, we imagine, have been quite as candid with regard to the ladies of America, | The disappearance of the clerk of an agent de change, Why was it, how. | says the Nord, with six hundred thousand france is an- that Mr, Hawthorne’s book excited a feel- | nounced. ing which could never bave been aroused by a hundred thousand libels from s hundred thousand | ter of Paris of persons charged with the fabricati Frenchmen? Simply because praise from such a man— ~ he arb the representative of such @ nation—was so precious and | of Hayti. 80 welcome that anything like ridicule or censure jarred The Belgian Minister of Public Works has asked harshly on. our feelings. Let us cease to taunt our cou- mae ws an EUROPE. The Irish Telegraphs Inter- rupted by the Fenians. only in an opposite sense. No Commanication Between Killarney and Valentia and Neo Cable News of the “ Rising.” selves. If the two nations can but be got to understand ‘The Polish in Galicia and wo each other better they are sure to be fast friends, though tea anaes tye eal otstinach eke taaanty eae generous rivals in that groat work of progress which its Key, and teems with unfavorable criticisms upon the seems confined to their common stock. The Americans, | condact of public affairs at Vieuns. we may hope, have by this time got rid of their wild no- tions with regard to our aristocracy, while for our own part it is surely as well that we should cease to talk of dollar worshupping in conmection with a race the most a fh ple A ai Speech of the Great Reform Leader at Roch- closer together now; we can talk to each other without diplomatio delays. Let us resolve, then, on both sides, ‘The Fendered Present Troated as a | 0 7eek with slitile more Kindness anda little more ‘The Offer of the Yacht Henrietta to the Duke of Edinburg. OPINIONS OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. Tne London Morning Star, a jourval opposed to the English government, published the following editorial on the 12th inst, :-— Mr. J. G. Bennett, Jr, is the ‘most distinguishea American who ever conferred upon Europe the favor of 8 visit, 80 at least we infer; for we may as well confess at once that until within the last three or four months we were hardly aware of Mr. J. G. Bonnett, Jr.’s exist- JOHN BRIGHTS SPEECH AT ROCHDALE. BY THE CABLE TO FEBRUARY 16. IRELAND. The Fenian “Rising”—Interruption of the Telegraph Lines and Ne News by the wolt known James Gordon Benneit, tho jo New Yorx Hesap, In our days, how- ever, 4 man may claim to be ranked as the son of his own wofks, and Mr, Bennett, Jr., isthe hero of a gal- jant and daring exploit at yacht racing. When some- body endeavored, in Napoleon’s earlier and better days, to make out a pedigree for himself as the heir of an cx- tinct regal house, the conqueror scouted the idea and manfully affirmed that he traced his pedigree no further VarewtiA, Ireland, Feb. 15~8:45 P. M. The tolegraph wires ceased working betwoen Valentia and Killarney at half-past seven o'clock last night and So we are quite willing to regard Mr. Bennett solely az the chief of the daring yachtmen who lately crossed the Atlantic, and to put out of consideration any histori: From the fact that these lines traverse the district now haracter or the management in rebellion it is supposed this temporary hiatus in the prada cineca caulk may! seu connection was the work of the Fenians, Two long despatches which were sent through the cable to-day were received by mail from Killarney. cal | and of the New Yor« Heratp. But we infer that Mr. Ben- | aa possible, in the ho) nett is the most deserving and distinguished American | Whatever that ever landed on our shores, from the fact that none other has ever received such peculiar honor. not aware that any author, artist, statesman, philosopher Ad or divine who ever paid Europe a visit from Mr. | accident which I cannot explain, partly in the forefront Bennett's country received the distinction paid to Mr. Bennett, Running over in memory the names of the eminent Americans whom we recollect as visitors to England during the present generation, or since Wash- ington Irving was a guest at Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, we cannot remember that royal princesses much troubled themselves to show exceptional courtesy to the stranger. Nay, we do not know that many of our own great men are frequently oppressed with notice from | putation; but no man living, however much opposed to hign quarters. Did Spoke of the Nile receive any roya! attention, except, indeed, a gold medal from the King ATLANTIC TeLEGRAPH OFFICE, Huanr’s Conrenr, Feb. 15—9 P. Lf No further particulars of the trouble in Ireland have ‘been received from Valentia, ENGLAND. ‘The London Press on the Offer of the Yacht Hlenrietta to the Duke of Edinburg. Lonpon, Feb. 14, 1867. ‘The Daily Telegraph of this city, on the 12th instant, published the following editorial :— In any future polite letter writer or collection of elegant ‘episties & conspicuous place must be given to the corres- Pondence published yesterday between his Royal High- ‘ees the Duke of Edinburg and young Mr. James Gordon | Of Italy? It is an old jest and quite a true one, Bennett, of New York. The story of the yacht Henri- | that the only mark of distinction ever conferred ‘etta has been interesting from the very beginning, and | by the English government upon Charles Dickens {ts latest chapter shows no falling off in the sensational | Was when they instituted a prosecution ‘against him for character of the narrative. The little ship’s first exploit ‘deen strai a breach of the City Newspaper Stamp act. Certainly public, administrative and royal favors aro like the smiles m. ‘ ‘was due to the courage and enterprise of the yachtman ‘who sailed his own ship across the A\ fn the wild | have ocourred to an Emerson, a Channing or s Motley to ‘December weather, We drew attention, indeed, to the | do anything of this kind, and therein, doubtless, lies all we bope and believe they do not, any grudge towards us Rot for our somewhat unbrotherly comduct during their struggle, the sense of injury is hardly tobe by a few compliments paid to Mr. Beanett, Jr. STEAMSHIP TO FEBRUARY 2. obliterated | You, whomow can ber mere money value; she was ‘worth to her fiuitely more than to any one else. Whatever she might do in future contests (and there is no doubt that om the 6d of February, arrived as Halifax five o’clook yesterday morning, on ber voyage to Boston, She experienced very heavy westerly gales On the At- Moravian, from uveep ith nese sod create FF fact ia known, it is said, that the Dake de Morny, of the Legislative body, hed frequently Emperor to allow the Deputies to and that o decided disinctination ff bi i | i F i i i ! : i ‘My eust not be all on one side. “to believe that the graceful little good effect, both in friendly +-tations between doped solely on pounnl arrangements, 1s the possible maladroitness «¢ politicians Likely to disturb them, The diplomuie Aifculties that srope during the late war seem in & fair nay of nettle. ‘mont; but {tis one thing to terminate disputes and an- other to restore frank and cordial good fellowship. i i [is ij i] 3 | to the political existence Disturbances broke put at Turin on the wary, Bands of workmen, to the government ¢ mn E E i + ‘They plilaged some baky Dut raised no seditious cries, The national - saarq rd ema ardor was finally testored. ‘Know more of one another, We aro aggustomed to thes! in the Jaugh at the gensitivences of the Americans to hostile | geuong criticisms; bat we should im fairness remember that | of M. Tonello puch a feeling is really an tment to ourselves, and that # is a8 unplea- fant for a notion a3 for 4 man to meet ‘with ungenerous satire from thord whose appreciation te ‘sought for most keenly and stost highly valued. Nor should we forget that afterall dur talk of coolness we are ‘Mearty a thin skinned a8 our frieads over the water. ‘on the subject of the sts ernment in a semi. tmpti€a compli cs pgaace guag Archbishop of Lyons, is seviously A large cotton manufactory at Curs (Rhone), belongtag The Pans Union states that a bauking firm at Guirande (Loire-Inferieure) has suspended payments and been declared insolvent, The liabilities are estimated at nearly 600,000 franca, Several arrests have been made in the Vivienne quar- forged notes of foreign banks, particularly of the Bank JOHN BRIGHT’S POSITION. dale—A Comprehensive Popular Platform + and How to Sustain It, &o. should endeavor in the interval between the session of 1966 and the session of -1867 to defame me as much of injuring in some degree influence may havo in favor of the great question of the extension of the franchise; and, secing all this, you thought it but fair and right that you, my neighbors and townsmen and friends, should give m°? such —_ as was in your power, in the hope that, placed as I am, by of this great conflict, I might, perhaps, derive, as I shail certainly derive, much strength from your generous sympathy, (Loud cheering.) Wondering sometimes at thege various and continued assauits, I have just cast a look over the twenty-five years of political life which I have lived, and I have asked myseli how it bappens that ‘that is done in political life which is not done in any other kind of life with whieh we are acquainted. (Hear, hear.) A man maf be very active and in the forefront of areligious controversy; he may hold the samo posi- tion in some literary controversy or in some scientific dis- uim, would think of pursuing bim with that rancorous spirit which, ynfortunately, 1s introduced into political controversy, and’ whicti has pursued me with an unrelenting animosity, not for months only, but for years past. (Loud cries of ‘Hear, hear.””) Ia looking over those twenty-five years, I found, as far a3 my mental oye could detect, that "7. had |, not varying, so far as Erow, to the right or to the left from any unworthy motive. ta cheers.) I found that the principles upon which I acted were well detined, SS oe avowed, and the peopl thas to ail quee- ‘Maoala belog Buse atnple Lat sublime prinples the high sublime , the hi Ged cverlacth o Toray wiiich wo ee ae .) Well, with this sympathy it was ws -five years ago I should ind called out Into active political life, for a pouny as cood a mesrspaper world—many of you have not an suppose al the grecuot tae country wns feiored.The paper iaker the was fo! maker could tall before be could sell a sheer of paper could tell that big en to print the Manchester Hzamémer upon, for example, he bad to pay an excise Se Oey Pe cent, and there was a government ir going in end his works just with equal authority with zs ie i had paid bis tbirt; t ant Ribat followea Why, that the editor could it until be gota siamp put ‘apon the corner of it, which the whole value of the paper. i i g : é fi was ono line or i Hf it ul : thet thea with the 7 (inns tall hected Bon ag ie fot in year a pa CH nae if Knew it, were more pane 4. wm | tazet than the tory Seat cee at "alfce t Setn haver on a) gor, Manas acy nee Tors AS ES aR Sa iage ta tue United i i He i f i FE: i ul Hebe H f ul | | countrymen may be freely heard in that Chamber for #0 many hundreds of mons of when I have sai only power cam be recei the power to remedy abuses which are acknowledged exist on every hand in the d ina e_additional vote of g talk of the reconstruction of thd navy, votes of past of Admiralty wants roforming; snows that tho laws of England of equailed in the world besides, and that it remains very | niuch like what Cromwell described them two hupdi Jaw of England stands 5 roatost luminary or the ih t to the time of the Reform bill, a ‘hundred and forty years, You will considerable, wise Immediately after great popular cotamotion, there were measures passed, and f& twade, aided by the famine in a revolilion was Accomplished, but since then: deca done and pothing can be dome at this venture to say that the corruption of Pari class interests tnore represesented that the = ot Commons is ie ed whieh it ts anid nt t saree thing to, be dome, "ae nay te Boek Merk anes Proposed, Dir pit Bi LH “f He Justice to Ireland as if it were cxerely A catch phrase for the ear in that country, O2d as if it had uo real T hold that to »weteln in a Soa that Oh b ters bu irc enc! within ite bor“ters but a very mall minority of “the people an act of injustice su as ip OF misstatesmanship I'betieve. states- wnever yet a national divisi the whole toil has been comfscated ae Ws hae boom within the last two hundred years, is to the exch sion Of the people from the porsasion of" Their orem tons, cxad i : : i f I during the ¢wonty-ave oo lookieg back condemn m) for L ooking book | de_F< any gue of thenequasioun and { ry low, when I you thus to recapitu- A, : J ite England, when good ery where, . the sceptre which for the been wielded by a class— y when I aay this Iam subjected not only to opposition— for that I could oe with a falschood and a malice which know no understand—but to an opposition con- ecruple, and which, if I were not supported by the ‘thies of lions of my countrymen, Im ine. (Cheors.) What is the end pro- ‘posed by these % It is not to destroy our institu. ny of the rly tte not gee fe moraine an propery give to i vice the disposition of great national affairs, but it ts give power to Parliament iments and the I tion of the State. (Cheers.) Parliament has not power now to save the lic money. We would give it power to save the public money; to make the law something r million or two boing bay RATOnS the cenaanirs ve say ort Bat igs fg no iveryboay are a chaos hardly years. wer in Parliament to roi it jous and: I ole Jegal system has‘ been codified, tt least, oan Understand the law. Pass any decent or saietuctory meas. bf the case of the SYR ate 4 Twoutd not add to bee fears; but. the Church jst’ now Fomine me very much of that old woman of whim the doctor asked was the matter with her, and the said 5 : i i i rt I : im to begome to Take ee House of ‘Mr. Gladwtone, there fs no man either 1m the Ministry or the opposition who can prevail ow the House of Commons todo anything substantial to remedy the griavances of the Insh In fact i* bas beea 80 for along time in the of Eugtand, from the time of the revolution down i i i fi 5 or good the Motors bill on Ef H a 3, . I i the Hai Md 5 Hi 55 #t a3 Dapere, which are looking ai ure {a elle vo tno peng Su Deel to do any. batch of merc wees- of administrative reform. Some measur fi wee iy ge ‘passed, it will some! ve emall; who have not sat in the House ‘meet in that House text week can prevail ou it to sat iteolf reeotutely and honestly to the consideration of +f have a righ to ‘comand and ‘which moony Parliament will admit call for bis atten- ede Sit tins eed a rate, there of power to be exerted on beb-) io0'e Crt. nes ae em, evotradiotion, oom “ad the improvement not made on the sub- ah Tt Reve, rather ae se ooking back over twenty gearstince I have been confronted end af all prominently with the poll- tics of the . Thave pointed outto you many of the ce im which Ihave taken any tn- terest, some of these questions great progress has been made; in im many others, very little bas been done, fou : Es mod vo death.” Tho Yes han ot been eaverniaed, Ee THE FLESHETS. ee Overtiow of the 2 eee’ and Chomunug Rivers. RocNmsrer, N. ¥., Feb. 15, 1867, had iermed against the piers of the Erie Railwa/Jtidge over dhe river, gave way about ten o'clock jag/ Aight, and all deager of a further sub- merging of yrcity was at an end. Some damage was river side by the moving out of the Sale of Ol! Painting The sole of modern pai Miner's Art Galtier: gs Mprising the gallery A. Cadart, Eaq., of Paris, and coax *ing of contributions by the French Btching Club, was con Cludod last evening, at Miner's Art Galiery, in Fifth sven * was good and some lively competition @ ed for a num- favorite masters, win \° 8010 othor have commanded oo, "8iderable at- it Saeeaners oi Views venice, qi ber of the pieces works which shou! sennnes with thas deneite broken awi re ae the time it did the da & pwu tn Kentucky Five Feet Under Water. Lovrsviz, Feb, 26, 1867. town of Taylorsville, Spencer county, is five foot weter frou: a freahet, The Effects of the Freshets in Ilinols. Curcaco, Feb. 15, 186%. ‘The Chicago and St. Louis bridge over the Kankakee CITY INTELLIGENCE. The Waraiy Henat for the présont week, now ready, ‘contains the conclusion of an original stery in twe chag> “THE THOUSAND DOLLAR BILL," ‘WRITTEN FOR THE WRERLY BRAID BY JORN ©. ORTON. Posray—Vatentive’s Day,” written for the Weacsw Hunatp, by Tuxopoes P, Coo; “Wa-Wa-Yampa.”* It also contains:—The bighly Important European News ‘of the weok by the Cable and the Mails, including owe” Speotal Despatchos reporting the Proceedings of the ‘Last and Greatest Reform Demonstration of the Discom- tefves aglish People; The New Fenian Alarm; The Latest Developmentg in the Mexican and Eastera Ques» (ions; The Ominous Aguation throughout the Cabinets and Courts of Europe, and wiier mattors of Interest; Our Special Washington. Despatchrs, giving all Nows of importance and interest transpiring at the National Capital, together with an epitome of ceedings of Congress; The Fenians; The Political Situa- tion in Canada; The Atlantic Yacht Race, comprising #: Sketch of the Professional Career of Captain Samuela. and the Official Log. of the Vesta; Domeatic Intelligence; The Current Week, embfacing all imteresting Political and Locat- Events, and the Latest News from Mexico, the West Indies, South America, the Pacific, Varieties; Our Musical and Theatrical Review for the Week; Facetie; Foreign Gossip; artistic, Scientific, Mia- ing, Religious and Literary Intelligence; Editorial Ar ticles on the- prominent topics of the day; Our: Record, containing ® detailed Report of the: recent Prize Fight for $1,000 between Bolater and War- burton, &c.; Our Agricultural Budget, containing valuar ble and interesting reading for Farmers and Gardeners; Reviews of the Cattle, Horse, Dry Goodd, and Boot and: Bhoe Markets; Financial and Commercial Intelligences. Marriages and Deaths; Advertisements, and accounts of all important.and interesting events of the week. Tenus,—Bingte subscrigtioa, $2; Three sapien, Exurmmox or Davoit's Foo Arrararoa.—One of Da- boll’s Rotating Fog Apparatus was yesterday exhibited in the building of the Ericsson Caloric Engine Company. This invention of the late Mr. Daboll, which consist of ‘a huge trumpet, sounded by means of compressed air, has been in usein this country during the past seven years, and ite value is now being recognized by the English government, for whom the builder is construct- fag an apparatus of immensely large dimensions, Those on our coasts are attached to caloric eng! iugs are so simple as not to require a special engineer the machine. The blasts of the trumpet, which jnes, whose work- to apparatus is to be sent. ‘Danna Rosssrr m Tax Custom Hovse.—On Thursday ———— a aspen rue a yn ‘THE FEMANS IN THIS CITY. Excitement Caused by the News from Ireland. ‘The despatch in yesterday's Hzratp by the cable from. Treland has preduced intense excitement among the Fenian element of our population, ‘That am uctual ising bas taken plaee in the quarter designated by the shore SS ta et viral retest eae ah Bs Pde PERE AR EO & 00., Boston—Pirst Fore hae sof PR DANES MEET IA Srecdvay. “Bgscect owrter sak se - fil he ii rr | TERED ane and w i That ney onan pave, te forty-eight night to get an early morn RELIEF FOR Ly SoyTH. cae 4 The President f the Now York Stock Exchange ad- dressed the following letter yosterday to Mr. James M. Brown, Treasurer of the Sout! Commission :— Youn, Feb. 16, 1867. actos! of sare SORES ts sah. Satttet! wreaese, tc fate ep ete Ma? BAR Sp men Cony baie os juaily ready to respond to fellow counirrmen: Vary ILLIAM ALEXANDI The foliowing is a Wa PER 8 donation of $5,000 be ‘other necesnaries of lif ei foreen es CR RE COLLISION ON THE EAST RIVER. Shortly after five o'clock inst evening the ferryboat Clinton, of the Fulton strest line, when shout euvoring the slip on the New York side collided with the pilot wall, owned by Mesers. Carrol and Brewer, which struck the ferryboat Hanson Bautngartoo was hanged at Marietta, Ohio, to day; for tho murder o