The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1868, Page 4

4 EUR By steamship from Europe we have the following OPE. interesting details of our cablo telegrams 0 the 17th | was three days without official news from Madrid, of Oc ober. ps of Paris complained of the non-arrival of Spa NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1868—-TRIPLE SHEET. 7 arrived and the public agencies’ despatches when private intelligence failed. His Holiness imstantly complied with the Queen's tmpioring tim to insert in his daily colebration of mass the prayer ad sedandas redettiones, The Spanish Embassy here and only learned by the newspapers of the Queen’s entry into France. As to her Majesty's taking refuge ish hewspapers, implying that this was, due | in the Eternal City it has been surmised that in 50 to their Laving been seized at the Post OMice. to | mora) a court as that of Pio Nono some objection which accusation the Monitexr replies by asserting Toight be made to her bringing the intendant Mar- the fact that from the 20th of September, the day on forl with her, and she certainly would not come which the revolution broke out, up to date there has been but one single Spanish paper seized. Phe English government commission appotnted to investigate the relatioas between landlord and ten- ant in Ireland will commence its sittings soon, It is intended that the report shall be an exhaustive one, and that al! detatls respecting the tenure of land in Ireland shal! be set forth, The Commissioners will be abie to place their report before the new Parila- meat eatly in the first session. SPAIN. Caange of OficialeIncreased Revenue from State Property—Entry Into Madrid of Ad» miral TopereDespateh from Captain Gene eral Lersendi from Cuba—Washingten’s Portrait Raised in Place of Inabellas—Gen- eral Friendiy Fecting 'fowurds the Unilied States. Mapx1p, Oct, 11, 1568, ‘The new government is now pretty drmly Oxed tn the saddle, with the reins of power in its hands, and the people begin to discover that the wheels are in motion bearing them forward. Gacela de Ma- aria, the oMcia! organ of the provisional govern- ment, is rapidly fliling up with notices of removals of prominent oficiais in the various deparimen|s who are not regarded quite sound on the questions of the hour, aud with announcements of the appointment of persons who are more in harmony with the poliey of the pow that be Any one prominently con- nected with the government just overturned has no chance of retaining nis position, as there are equally as good men se ected for all the places and men who can be trusted as liberals, It is pretty hard on some of the old oMtceholders, but individual mterests must be subordinate to the public welfare, and they are compelied to relinquish thelr Lold on the public treasury. In many respects the changes are likely to be benificial to the government in more ways than one. Some of these old fellows are notorious pecu- lators and rascals, perfectly up in the most skilful ways of filching the funds of the State, and with no conscientious scruples which could prevent them from being an expensive sieve through which the income of the country struggled to reaci the strong box in tle treasury. = The at rition witch wore away tie money that travelled from the people to_the gobern- Ment was something never dreamed of in natural Philosophy, and the same exhausting process was encountered in paying money out of the treasury, ger eet government prrooses to do away as Much s possible with this !oss from wear and tear and reduce it down to the lowest Known percentage. With an honest administration of public affairs, now that the immense ciyil lisis ure cut of, there js no reason why taxes cannot be reduced and = a_ beginning made in the payment of the public debt, the interest of which would soon ewamp spain if things went on as they did under the old administration. ‘The financial prospects of ‘Spain are not so bad now as they might be. The immense estates of the crown, located In the most desirable provinces in Spain, are now at the disposi- tion of the State. Look at the royal reserve at Ar- anjuez, about forty miles from Madrid. It 1s a vast tract of land, thirty miles long by as many broad, con- taining the choicest farming and grazing land in this portion of Spain. Although it has been wostly rented out to thrifty farmers and,dsirymen tt never brought in apy revenue to the privy purse of the ex- Queen, and, on the contrary, 1 was a source of con- siderable expense, All this can be changed by sell- lug the entire tract, excepiing the park immediately abont the beautifu. palace, which niigit be let for a hotel and putting the money into the treasury. Other esiates of thy same character, of no use to te State, can now be sold and tle proceeds de- voted to paying of the public debt. Be- sides the crown property, valuod at over $60,000,000, not counting “the larger palaces and that grand but worthless old mass, the Escu- rial, which cost a fabulous sum of money, the Church has five times as much property as the Queen held, and property, too, that brings m moon. of py t course, most all of this will be confikcated he State and sold, Already in many places the Juntas have ordered the Jesuiis to leave their establish Mente, wich by right belong to the State, aud to deliver over the keys to the oficers appouited to re- ceive them. ‘The very choicgsi places In Spain are in the hands of some religious order, and the pro- visional governments are determined that the proper and not a few persuns shall enjor them, All these es tates und property will bring into the public treasury an immense sui of money, Which 1s grea'ly needed for the payment of the debt and the construction of roads through the intertor, now practically destitute ofthem. Nothing seems wanting now but honesty, enterprise and wisdom to‘put Spain on her feet again as powerful and prosperous as ever. We shall wee whether the new government is equal to Its lofty duties and the demands of the time. Admiral or Commodore Topete has assumed the duties of his office. He arvived yesterday, and mei. with a very cordial an? enthusiast reeep- tion, His escort consisted ef regulars, yolun- teers aud sailors, who bore » banners, &c. The affair was uot so grand ax that on the oce sion of the arrival of Serano and Prim, but it was Bone the leas very flattering to the piucky Commo- dore, Who cares very littie about the AB leader of the rebellion in Cadiz he was eniitied to something Dice, and the post of Minister of Marine ve ya one given him. The Commodore ts a brave, gal- and accomplished officer, snd a pleasant, agree- ees, very generaily liked, He will doubt- Jess introduce into the navy some desirable reforma, Lieutenant General Dulce, whose name is men- toned with others in connection with the Captain Generalsiip of Cuba, has been uppointed chief di- rector of Cavalry, His health is exceedingly delicate ‘and it is doubtfnl whether he can perform duty for some time to come, ‘There was great excitemen! on the Bourse yester- day and a decided fail o1 the fans in consequence of @ report, taken from an wish journal, that had pronounced aud deciared her independence, So many ay have investments there that K created 8 terrible panic for awhile, untit it was seml-ofictally stated that ali the news from Cuba was perfectly sat- iafactory; (hat the island was tranquil and that there was liftie danger that an act of such @ grave character as 4 sepatation from the mother country Would be performed, It may be remarked as a very singular fact that we have pol as yet asingle line announcing the course of events in a. despatch to the government from Captain General Lersundi,has been given to the journals. In that he merely deals in generalities. Tle speakaof his iu- without hini; but it must be recollected that her grandmother, wife of Carlos IV., whocame to Rome with her husband in the beginning of this century and resided here for ten or twelve years until her death, which took place in the reign of Plus VIL, met with no such severity on the part of that eu- lightened Pontiff, out enjoyed uninterruptedly the society of her favorite factotum, the Principe della Pace (angiice, Prince of Peace), who has left as 8 memorial of his prolonged sojourn in these parts, a very large palace at Albano, in a delightful situation which is sul! called by his name. It is certain that the Pope has conferred with his maestro di casa, Commendatore Spagna, as to the preparations which it would be necessary to make et the Quirinal Palace for the reception of the royal fagtiive, with her husband, family and suite; but ac- cording to another report @ grand Bourbon gather- ing is to be effected by her Majesty taking up her re- sidence in the Farnese Palace, where the state apart- ments are being prepared: for her by the ex-king of Naples. | Should (Queen Isabelia imitate the examp'e of Pius TX, at Gaeta, and summon around her tho ponageey representatives accredited to her at Mad- arid, the Papal Nuncio will, of course, attend her; hat if not he will be recalled from Madrid, to his great regret, no doubt, 93 he has scarcely had time to derive any pecuniary benefit from his appointment, which isthe most lucrative mission on the Pope's diplo- matic list. ‘The Spanish revolntion deprives the Holy See of a support which it felt certain of obtaining from any conservative ministry in power at Madrid and leaves the Pope more than ever at the mercy of France, The Queen Maria Sophia of Naples arrived in Rome on the 3d inst., and yesterday assisted at the festive family demonstrations in honor of her husband's name day—the 4th being sacred to St. Francis, his pairon saint. The Queen's health is stiil very bad, and she was 80 much exhansted by her sea voyage thatshe was obliged to rest two days in the dele- io 's palace at Civita Vecchia before coming on to Rome, A new offering has arrived at Civita Vecchia from the Catholic Committees of France, consisting of two steam launches ordered at Toulon last February and constructed in the government arsenal. ‘These boats are each to carry oue gun and ten men, aud will be employed in watching the Tiber from the Italian frontier at Correse to the river’s mouth at Plumi- como. ‘The introduction of hostile men and arms into the Pope’s dominions by way of the Tiber—the im- minent danger of which the government of his Holl- ness persists in asserting, if not crediting—is also to be guarded against by the establishment of par- ties of soldiers in huts on the river’s Danks. Al- though it is mot likely that ithe Pontifical navy will ever have an opportunity of inangu- rating such an astounding coup dé/at as that which Spatn has just effected, anu enume- ration of its force will serve to demonstrate the maritime resources of the Pontifical government His Holiness’ navy consists of thirteen vessels of rious dimenstons, carrying 280 men, and command- ed by Captain Alessandro Cilaidi, one of the most dis- Unguished hydrographical engineers of Italy and author of an esteemed work recently pubtisted on tue action of the waves of the sea, First on the list is the Papal yacht Immacolata Concezione, a screw steamer mmpropeny: termed a corvette, built in Eng- Jand and carrying engines of 150 horse power and ight guns. The interior is fitted up for temporary occupation by the Pope in case ii should ever be agreeable or necessary for bis Holiness to undertake a sea Vo , Which is very uniikely beyond an after- noon’s cruise olf Clvita Vecchia or Porto d’Anzo. Then we have the steamer San Pietro, forty horse power, two guns: San Giuseppe and Blasko, ewch thirty horse power and two guns; the two eteam launches just arrived, and seven sailing guardacastas, On the Sd @ merchant ship arrived at Civita Vecchia from Antwerp with Remington rifies of Liége manufac- ture, 2,000 of power and as many of lead. Ob the same day and yesterday sixty-seven recruits arrived for the corps of zouaves. A sergeant of ar- tilery, named Ramponi, has been arrested on sus- picion of an intention to poison the men of his sec- ton. He had applied to severai chemists for arsenic io destroy, a5 he said, the rats in the barracks who gnawed the soldiers’s belts; but no chemist consent- ‘al Kanzler has a project for fortifying the Pontifical coasts by means of floating batteries and the restoration of the medieval towers originally constructed to prevent Saracen invasions, but whic now present onty aserles of picturesque riding all down the Mediterrancan coast of Italy. ‘The en- ‘inever and artillery officers, Caimt and Lana, have een set to inspect the coast and report on the possibility of the plan. I mentioned in my last letter that the trial of the prisoners os gan | in the biowng up of the Serris- tort barrac! and: the attempis on those of Cimarra and the Castle of St. Angelo concluded on the 27th ult, with the condemnation to death of Monti and Tagnetti, two ot to the galleys for life, five for twenty years and two for ten years. The advocates for the defence appes against several irreguiarities in the trial, and the tri consequently, instead of entering the vacatic tomary during this month, resumed their sittin, the revision of the sentence on the Ist of Octol er, and it is expected that their deliberation will not be concluded before a fortnight nor be prolon beyond that period, being merely matter of form ; whereas the fate of the’prisoners ia fully decided on aud the execntion of thoae condemned to death el- ready arranged, as,fur as is known, for the 22d inst., the anniversary of the crime for which they are to suffer. The prisoners implicated in the defence of = house im Trastevere are to be tried in No- vember. In the Pope's tetter ad omnes Protestantes aliosque acathoticos inviting them to consider the error of thelr Ways on die occasion of the eprgceching coun- cil, 1t must not be supposed that the expression acatholicos means Jews, Mussulmans and Pagans in contradistinction to Protestants, bat only such de- nom{nations of the latter as are not organized tn rega- lar churches, such a6 the Ang!o-Episcopalian, Scotch, Swedish, Latheran, Calvinist, &c., bnt practising Worship in scattered and headless sects. GERMANY. The Political Situation—Confereuces at Mus nich—War LEnthusiaste—Arbitrary Press Prosecutions—Increase of Hanoverian Lee gion—Prince Salm on Mexico—tieneral Prim Originally a Teutou—Ordination of a Miiltary Bishop for Prussia. Berurs, Oct. 12, 1968, Whatever surntises there may We on your side of A | the water respecting a disturbance of the Buropean peace, to be caused either by a war between France and Germany, by the Eastern question, or by the pes tention to do his duty patrioticaily, &c., but he does | domestic diMculty in Spain becoming contagious, not saya word about the fecting or the events among the Cabans, The New York papers will doubtless bring us some Intelligence from # depen- dency of Spain that is just), priceless jewel in her ‘one of the prominent Cubans hth to Sefior Azcarate, the Minreter o! with the otyject of taying before Sefior Ay: ral reforms that Cuba has desired a Minister promised toe give to that coun liberties compatible with the high interests that were be gnarded, and he hoped that his brethern be- Yond the see would soon enjoy the same rights as the citizeus of the Peninsula, It is quite certain that the Cuban amairs will, at a very carly moment re- ceive the attention of the Ministry, and that every favor and liberty will be granted the people of the Ever Faithful Isle, crown. Yesterday resented himeelf la the ithe. Az onc of the rigns the times T may mention that the poriral been placed under the grand canopy, in front of the town liall of Barcelona in place of ‘the of Isabel Segunda, torn down. Harcelona ts can, and it manifests its sympathy with republican institutions by placing in the ros#t Nonorable post- tion in the commercial capital of Spain the portratt of one of the celebrated founders of free institution’ im the world. spain is marching on. The reyolu- tionary holiday seems very litle like growing to @ close. Bands are traversing the city at ali hours of che day and night, and epthustastic processtons fol- low the never to be tired of “Hivmn of Riogio,” that ts heard sung, whistled and bummed every morning, noon and night to the wutier exclnsion of an, other music whatever. I could not bear Doodte” or “John Hrown's March," if p! fifteen conseentive deys without sntermiasion, much Jens dot my? the patriotic Spanish music, which has merits to he sure, but scarcely en to bear it through thie musical crisie, It will be all over, some of these days, J hope. Ail the Spanish in the most cordial and friendly manner of the United States, which so prompuiy exhibited its aym- pathics for free institutions A acknowl the rovisional government founded by the erie) the ple, and they have given no heed to the evident! ise report of the Philadelphia corteapon dent of the London Times that the governmen: hed initiated a movement for the annexation of Cuba to the United | States. They have too much senee to believe apy stupid report like that. | ROME. Morality of the Court of Rome—Addition to and Force of Royal Navy—Attempted Poi. soning of the Troops—French Recruite—New | ‘hat the Munich conferences, far Coast Defences—Seovere Sentences Pasecd om Prisoners—Elucidation of the Invitation to the Concilie, Rome, Oct, 5, 1868, I have already informed you that from the very beginning the news of what was going on in Spain produced a profound and painfal impression atthe Vatican, where the Pope eagerly demanded ie Nonclo’s telegram from Macirid as faet as they | were lo ceca! we must be allowed to differ with them, and to adhere to our view of the political situation at pre- ly considered the most | sent and for some time to come a# indicating pro- found peace and tranquillity, Not only has nowiing aa Affairs, | happened of late to diminish the chances of adurable peace, but they have grown materiaily stronger, since no longer @ doubt exists of the entire harmony between Russia and Progsia, & harmony which m the absence of solemn treaties seems never- theless sincere and trustworthy. Napoleon is by this time fully aware of this close entente coriale between the two most powerful governments of the Continent, and knows how difficult a task it would be to sever these ties of dynastic consanguinity, and, moreover, of Washtugton fas | of a voluntary alliance. Thus, France to-day, hardly daring to measure its strength with that of Germany, nbli- | 1s almost paralyzed as long as It has not first #e- cured Russia's neutrality, though Germany alone would be able to take up Freuch challenge. The Spanish revolution is looked upon here with com- plete indiference, and has not had the least effect upon the action of Prussia or the North German Confederation, except, perhaps, the sending of @ vessel-of-war to offer protection to German residents in Spain, If, a# may be hoped, a de /ecio govern- “Yankee | ment #tould be soon established there,and be ac- lased for | knowledged by the United States and Fngiand, i | will be simply @ change of the credentials of the Ger- man Ambassador in Madrid, who has not been re- called, though the Spanish Minister here is prepar- ing to leave for the castie of Pau, under the convic- tion Ln ty government will not need him at aie the —- aspect is thus entirely peacefal no great is attached to the military confer- ences now held at Munich, which are to pave the consolidation of the northern and southern Cie Ls pe untarorabie to te propositions vorabie to the 0. Ot the North te offers of entering. into conventions | similar to the ome relative to the division of Hesse artes have been refused. Southern Gi is deter- ined to have tte own Independent military organl- zation, thongh not averse to some of the ing points, expecially ing prompt mobilize. tion, witich exist in the Northern army. om Press, tn order to show its discretion, to from With stipulations offensive and defensive, are en- ‘d with purely internal affairs, such a9 fortifications, their garrisons, &c.; but if such topics only are discussed why have various government seouirger® Oe appointed to participate in the pro- At any other time these Muni ferences would e Heres; preoccupation in another diiection ‘bs Ardor of the ae eee Southera unionists, who al before {a their clainors for » fusion grand German which should strike terror into the French hosts. Not that such @ fusion could have i ge th cmon a thas Baden lery, train, and m department the principal dicuity lies In the arrangement that in and North Germany the mep of the second ban, in case of war, have to do home duty in garri- mane fortresses, and alao form the coast guard, while in South Germany such troops exist on payer only and inust be sapped, th Case of need, by di- minishing the lar forces. Having alluded in a former letter to a rabid war enthusiast in the person of a teacuer at a Berlin col- lege, whose dissertation on State pour. seemed & high bid for preferment to office, to be followed by @ decoration, we may Wind up this little bit of infor- mation by stating that since then the attention of the school department has been directed to this an- called for effusion, and a vote of disapproval assed upon it by the Common Council. We also 00k Occasion to pronounce our veto against the war passages in the late lecture of Hon, Mark D. Wilber, ‘and in order to make up @ trifoliam of beiliger- ent enthusiasts we may Name to-day Professor Lev, of Halle, the ultra conservative, who has just come ont with an essay on the present political situation. In this he says:—‘May God preserve us our Prussian reality, and not let us Moat into that indefiniie state called Germany. Our antipathies against Austria, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and even our antipathies against France, are diminishing.” So we find the professor from Halle complain in great ef; but the old fogy knows, too, where (o tind a remedy for the evil, Bloodletting, according to his Idea, cures the whole evil, He proceeds:— “split blood is the noble price that binds nations: binds them better than the so-called moral conquest wedded to good intentions, All forbearance Lowards the newly annexed provinces will not gain us thelr hearts untli they have shed their blood in a joint action with the old ones, Goa give us soon again a great war that alone can give nsatight hold upon our aunexatious. This policy of good intention will never obtain for u3 a German emperor; for that we needa war, but such @ one In which we do not always conquer, but ave now aud then placed in ter- rible anxiety whether we ourselves do not come to grief.” ‘Tae learned professor concludes his oration with the legend of the ravens at the castle of Ky hauser, in which old Barbarossa is 51 sed tor matn in a comatose stace until the aforesald birds take their departure. “We need, then.” says the professor, “a most sanguinary war beyond the bor- ders of Germany, that vast felds of human corpses aay attract the ravens to fatten upon.” Let us chronicle an important step tow of North and South Germany, a plgmy ef the Main fine, and one, too, which ough both sides biush, It is no less than a treaty bet Prussia and Bavarla of a very arbitrary nature con- cerning press prosecutions. An instance in potnt is the Hamburg journal called the Freischista, which has been refused clreulation in Mecklenburg-Schwe- rin by order of the government post autporities. ‘The editor makes his appeal now to the Bund Chanectior on the ground that accordiag to the law of the Nori German Confederation no political journal can be excluded from the beneft of being forwarded by posi Accounts from Paris state that the Hanoverian legion of ex-George has increased from 740 to 1,400 men. In Hideshelm, near Hanover, there has been another recent judgment respecting contempt of majesty. A servant maid has been condemned to two months’ imprisonment for singing a Hanoverian song, and a boy was fined ten t.aiers for shouting “Cuckoo” afier a Prossian policeman. A present lately made Px a very rich and pious family in Hanover to the Crown Prince on his birth- day consisted of a silver shield, one and & half feet 1n diameter, with a golden edge on which is repre- sented St. George in the act of asing the dragon, with the motto, “Jn hoe signo vinecs.” On the re- verse ngraved & text from Scripture, Upou re- ceiving this present the Crown Prince is reported to have said that he had the firm conviction hs should return within five years to the throne of his ances- tors, There exists not a Germany, in the political sense of the word, now. If Hanover were to rise and reclaim its rightful dynasty this could not be called treason against Germany. As regards Han- over’s present position it can only be looked upon #5 a hostile occupation, His adherents, he said, should, however, not dawage the cause by a premature movement. Of the position towards France he re- marke that it wasa calumny that Guelpha were secking support frm foreign aid; they needed neither the intervention of Austria nor ef France to obtain their rights sooner or later. If it were not that these one-sided demonstrations, spread out toto magnitude by the partisau press, must be looked upon asthe list convu'sions of an expiring faction, the Incubrations of the old profee- sor at Halle might really, after all, have some value. As it iz, however, the people of the annexed pro- vinces seem to become daily more satistied with their position and prospects. Tn a few weeks, Says the Elberfeld Zeitrng, there wili issue trom the press a most interesting book re- spoon the rise and fall of Mexico, written by Prince Salm, who is well known to have remain true to the late Emperor Maximilan to his last hours. Enjoying, a4 he did, in the highest degree the imperial confidence, Prince Salm'’s daybook, it is expected, will electrify the readers in a similar — to that of Rochetort’s world renowned Lan- Herne. Some wiseacres discovered that General Prim’s pper name i# Priss, and that he is German bora, having in his youth enlisted in the Spanish army. An industrious watchmaker at Potsdam has prefer- red a suit to recover thirty thalers for n dial sold to him mauy years ago, and ry ree the Foreign De- artment to ascertain the identity of eald Priss or Prim. Other ingenious people here pretend that the notoriows Marforl is also a Tenton. What next? We are in a fair way, if other Spanish grandees turn out to be Germans, to annex Spain, or at least force the Junta to bear a of the Prussian budget. The Prussian Sanitary Committce, founded during the Schleswig-Holstein’ war in 1864, and very active in the late campaign, has just pubiished a letter written by King William expressive of the mon- arch’s desire that the committee should extend Its operations throughout the country to every district and county, promising the assistance of the govern- ment authorities and declaring # continuance neces- sary in order to ineure eMciency during peace or in case of a future war. This letter, dated Ems, the 16th July, a. ¢., will no doubt be read and cor. mented upon in France m a similar manner as tho King’s late speech at Kiel and may be followed by an explanation of a “complete windersianding.’* The ordination of the new Prui military bishop, Rev. Namszanowsky, takes place to-day, at the cathedral of Konigsberg, by the Bishop of e- land. On the 3d proxi the St. Hubertus chase wiil come off, attended by his Majesty, and, as some be- Heve, by Count Bismarck, whose return is expected by that time SWITZERLAND. Report on the Late Inundations=Nerious tne Jury Caused=Extent of Territory Inan- dated—Estimate of Damage. BERNE, Oct. 0, 1968, * Dr. Dubs, the federal President, returned last night to the capital from his tour of inspection through the cantons of Tessin and the Grisons and has has made his report relative to the late inundation to the fed- eral council to-day. This account is very sad, and confirms in its principal parts the communications already received froma these cantons. Dr. Dubs describes the canton of Tessin as having suffered the moat by the catastrophe, the Livin and Blenjo valleys being chiefly dameged. In the Liviner valiey Bodia and Giornico are completely ruined, ‘The same fate aixo has befallen @ great number of houses in various parts of Verzasca valley; the roads have everywhere been much injured, As to the can ton of Griaons, Dr. Dubs endorses the stutements a!- laced. ft is which I think that full reliance mar be sent, Se the ad of Mr, Magar, the meml able member of me! faithful and honest witi an ‘and war' heases ena coeves? No one ts ae op- posed nianism z 5 6 visit to America, he publi ed the revals rte do not belteve that either his good or his accuracy has been impugned. He made it his business to as- certain What are the elements of the or Fenianism in America, because the anes m is this:—Is it the resuit of merely accid causes? Is it confined to the outcasts of society, orig it the deeply rooted inveterate passion that has taken hold of the minds of the people of that country as the violent recoll from the snffei they have under- gone, and which is likely to become in action as per- manent as tt is vehement, unless we can apply the remedy to the fountain bead of the disease? (Cheers.) Now, we are fond of thinking that a sen- thment of irritation in the Northern States of America has had todo with Fentantsm, Take this anecaote told by Mr. Maguire, He ineets with an Irish Southerner who has been crippled in the war by the loss of one of lus arms fichting for the Southern cause, but that man holds up the other arm and he says, is the only arm T have left, and, so heip me God, I'd give it and every drop of my heart’s bivod if I could only strike one blow for Ireland.” (Oheers.) Mr. Maguite Koes again to a mine wrought almost entirely Trish. men, about 300 in number, in the State of Illinois, Among those 300 men bi there were not six drunkards; but he said he found among the same fecting of passionate loys for Ire!and, the same feel- ing of passionate hatred toe its government; but of course meaning the British connection, (Hear, hear.) guire gives hisopmion in these words gene- “My betief is that ong Fenians in almost St e are many thousands of the very cream of the Irish population. Indeed, in several places ia which L have heen Thave learned on ungnestionable authority very frequentiy of those who rorarded Fentaniem with po: e dislike, and ers with marked distrust, that the most reg- ular, steady and solf-reapecting of the Irish youth, or the immediate descendants of Irish parents, con- tributed its chief strength.” gientlemen, I know not what such statements take on your minds. They make a deep impression on mine, You have read, probably, within tue last few weeks the painful and heartrending accounts of those at- tempts at eviction on the estate of Mr. Scully, in Ireland—(hisses)—which ended in the death of one ortwo policemen. Possibly you have read tn the newspapers the conditions of the leases which those holders of land were required to accept, or elee to leave their noldings, without a hope of livelthood of nd. (Cries of “Shame’), If you have read conditions, if you boar in mtod that such laws can be proposed to the poor occupiers of land in Ire- land without offending the law, and tf you then add tis recollection, that the strong arm of the govern- ment is ever at command to defend the enforcement of whatever is legal, } think every one of us can well conceive, cannot indeed justify, but can excuse, or U we cannot excuse, can at least understand, how it is that this deep ant sullen feeling of estrangement, passive estrangement, sometimes arising into active and borning hatred, has grown up in the minds of that unhappy people. (Cheers.) But, now, gentlemen, Jam going to present to you 4 contra: for many of thove gentlemen who admit in their full breadth the unhappy effects with regard to the state of the national mind of Ireland—I mean of avery large rtion of thal people—many of those who admit the cts dispute the causes, and thoy tell yon with a grave face, and many of them, I believe, are conscl- entiously convinced, sirange ag tt may appear, that all this is owing, not to agitation, as @ Minister of the Crown thinks, yet to some unhappy, incurable per- verseness of mind in the Irisiman that makes him love to live in the atmosphere of turbulence and dis- content, just as much as an inbabitant of any other couniry loves to live in the atmosphere of content- ment, ioyaity and peace, Certainly, gentlemen, that is a creed of an astounding strangeness, I was going to say it was a libel upon Providence, I might, think, stand for the confatation of that bellef upon its rank absurdity, When sach things are told us we have aright to refuso credit to them, they in- volve violations of the whole course of nature and the whole order of the world, which, many as are the imperfections of the state in which we live, nevertheless are not to be found. But we have the confutation of facis. Lord Mayo even has shown you the state of the Irishman in Ireland. Mr. Ma- guire has shown you the state of the Irishman i the United States. Now go with me across the Canadian border and look for a few min- utes to the state of the Irishman in Canada; and here, insicad of referring to lengthened and various documents, [ will quote the words but of a single witness. Possibly the naine may be known to Poe 1 am going to mention—it is the name of Mr. ’Arcy McGee, 8 gcntieman who, I believe, was well known in Ireland during so much of his life as he passed there us one of the most vehement of Irish atriots, and as one of those who either ¢: ready made that in the Valais and Peiden and the H Rheinwald vatiey, and also in Haldenstein, much damage has been cone by the inundation, while tn the same canton the roads have suffered but little and will noon be restored for traffic. ‘The losses,"* say* Dr. Dubs, “are very great, and wil! doubtless require all the energy of the habitants of the places in question to repair and reeonsiract the embank- menia, bridges an | roads destroyed. Herr Naff, the federal councillor, who was charged with drawing up the report on the destruction tn St, Gall, bas confirmed the accounts already sent in ait their essential parts, so that to judge from those oMcial reports and, independently of the havoc caused in the cantons of the Vatal# and Uri, the damages done in the cantons of Grisons, St, Galland Tessin amount to many milltons of francs, The: , at allevents, greater than those caused by the in- undations in the years 1817 and 1804, In 1834 the amount of injury caused in Switzer. land amounted to 6,130,000f,, Which sum, although somewhat largeyean scarcely form astaudard in (he the great extent of territory mendated, One journal estimates the dam at 100,000,000f, It is hoped that this calculation is ox- aggerated. Unfortunatcly, ing to ® telegram accord, from Retlinzona dated the sth inst., rain has con- Unually fallen since the before yeaterday in the canton of Tessia, and thy lage of Polengo has been ‘so buried by @ landelip that the church ateeple only is visibie, and fears are entertained that Fregelo, a village on the summit of the Liviner valiey, may also be destroyed. Lastly, in Ascoua the water has risen to snch aheight that forty-three families had to move to higher ground yesterday. ENGLAND. Me. Gladstone on Fenianiaw. Im view of the elevation of Mr. Gladstone to be Premier of Great Britain his views on the subject of Fenlapiam tay be read with more than ordinary in- Many of our cou aetna Mea that Fentaniom in ireland ie 4 | { imself on that account to the penalties of the law, or else was within an ace of so exposing himself. That was the character of Mr. D'Afey McGee. He went to Canada. Canada is under the sway of the’ game beloved Queen. tn what docs Canada differ from the United Kingdom? Canada has a free Parila- ment, and so haye we; but Canada has i gor unjust lows, regulating the tenure of the land on which the people depend for subsistence; and Canada has not got installed and enthroned in ex- elusive privileges the Caurch af a small minority. (Cheers.) It was said of ot that men who crossed the sea changed the climate but not the mind ; but mark the which passed upon the mind of = D'Arcy M Let me read you bis testimony, for they are words more significent and more weight; than.I can give you; words that cannot be carri forcil to the minds and hearts of the peo —- Speaks from this place, the capital of Britiah America, in this presence, before 60 many of the honored men of British America, let me ventnre again to say, in the name of British America, to the statesmen of Great Britain, settle, for - sakes and ge Clear | sake of ——. tional peace—set romptiy and generously the social and ecclesiastical condition of Ireland on terms to satisfy the ity of the people to be governed.”’, Geutiemen, [ wish to impress on the minds of the people of Engiand this advice of Mr. Darcy McGee. Since these words were uttered the mau from whose mouth they proceeded has been re- moved from this lower world, and his death—d as some think, to Fenian licentiousness—has add @ melancholy dignity and a greater entation of weight and force to the linpressive sentiments which he has uttered. It is in pursuance of these opinions that we have proposed to Pariiament the policy on which you have to pass your judgment. The first fruits of that policy are before you. ‘The Poor Law System aud Ite Effects. mm the London Telegraph, Oct. 13.) jo, unadulterated horror—borror that iration of a Greek t: com- story of the de: James th the Lali an errand by the workhouse oMmoials, and at the cor- ner of Park street, on his way bac! of port wine fall from @ wagon which was being and burat, the wine running into the gutter. The old pauper immediately went down on his hands and knees and proceeded Ns to swill the vinous contents of tl nnel. He swilled, and ewilled, and swilled, until he fell down insensibiy drunk, was picked yz from @ puddle ¥ port wine and taken to the workhouse, There, it is stated, medical asststance was not immediately forthcoming. When tt did ar- rive the man was dead. The suggestiveness of this story makes it reaily dreadful. A pig could have done no more, and would — have done some- thing like what James weeit did; but the pig would have known when he had ie and would have waddied away from the gutter fuil of wine. We may —— ihe pauper’s act Was that of @ brote beast; but a horse or a dog would not have touched that wine In the mire. A human rough or a black- guard street boy might huve Oiled his cap from the overflowing kennel, but he would scarcely have gone down on his hands and knees to lap up mingled aico- hol and Mith until he feli into a stupor. tis worth while inquiring whether the effect of the adminia- tration of the Poor laws has not been to convert paa- pers into something loss than human beings. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A woman in Vienna is realizing @ fortune by means of trained golafinches that draw numbers from asmall bowl. Polley and lottery players at- tach great prestige to this humbug and pay fabulous prices for numbers. A woman was lately by mistake shut tp the vanits of ® stall village charch in Sweden, where she re- mained eleven days. When found she merely asked tor some water, and, being treated with great care, perfectly recovered in a few ‘The pearl fishortes in the sia, that were explored during I ly been resumed with great success, and some magnificent speotmens sent tothe Kmpe ror by the peasants of that locality. ‘The Emperor of the French has decided that while on leave the pay of non-commissioned oMfcers and soldiera shall be aa follows:—Sergeant majors atx cents per day, sergeants four centa, corporals two cents and privates one cent, in gold. A recent imperial ukase tasued at Warsaw confers ten farms, forming part of the confiscations made in |, upon General Nabokor, his imperial Majes- ty’ © the reign of Catharine "a personal representative forthe affairs of the ‘nadora of Poland. The revenue arising from this property is stated at 5,000 rubies, or about $2,500 in gold, annually. In Paris there are from 1,000 to 1,100 stands for the sale of roasted chestnuts, kept mosily by Auvergnats and Savoyaris. The rents for the season range, according to the location, froma thirty dollars to $100. The gros4 receipts of these venders ave 900 monthiy. The fruit is mostiy ob- tained from North Italy. 7 Correspondent waggosts the fortify. ing of railroads by erecting surtable forafcations ] all the chief points, ‘The iH incipal stations can garrisoned by veteran soldiers and easily placed in a porition to withstand a si At present the only fortifications of th 1d existing are the bridge 01 Dirsehan, on the Vistula; that of Cottbus, on the Spree, and the station of Alessandria, Nort Italy. era eet Ren, Mal, hed e occupation chair Plus. Louis XVi wan beheaded under Pins V1, Napoleon I. was exiled to St, Helena under Pius VII. Charles X. lost his crown under Plus VIII. been curiously Rapien, Ring wo ot eae, ine ncoln, Maxi if Mexico sel of Bervin, . 6nd Prince ITALY AT WORK. Railroads Telexraphs, and Mantcipal A writer in the des Deux Mondes, who hap recently made a tur of Italy and who has had a¢- cess tothe latest and best sources of information, supplies to that piriodical a very interesting review of the resources, population, industrial pursuitsand state of educationof the people of the Italian penin- sula. In many he gives a much more favorable aecounj of the people and of their indus- trial character thyn has been generally credited to them, We will marize his statement. ‘The last census pf the kingdom of Italy, taken on the sist of December, 1861, and of Venetia, taken in 1857, showed @ population of from 24,009,000 to 25,000,000, divided up among sixty-eight provinces and 8,562 communes, The increase of population from 1858 to (the beginning of 1862 was considerable in all the large cities, Naples alone having tn ‘that time gained nearly 10,000, The statistics of 1465 make Italy the most nuptial country of Europe, Its natural rate of inereasa would alow it to double its population in elghty years, while France, to perform the sam feat, would require 183 years, and Austria would re- quire 217 years. Ia spite of all its sufferings from bad governments, plagues, famines, foreign wars, civil wars, emigrations and proscriptions, Italy is to-day more populated than it ever was, even under the Romans, And its people are all Italians, The number of resident foreigners is much smaller than is generally supposed, the census showing it to be only some 88,000, But even foreigners become after a lit- tle while Itallans, That is, they adopt the language and manners of the country, eat pies, drink sul- phurated water, enjoy the slesta, wear trinkets, love music and hate walking, Though Italy has been {| often conquered and occupied by the conquerors, tiese, whether Gauls, Germans, or Spaniards, have never taken ioring there, They have merely floated along on tne surface of society, leaving no more trace behind them than the ship which floats on the trackless ocegn. Milan and Venice remained Italian under the Anstrians, and Rome remained Roman under the French, Making allowance for some tri- Hing variations of dialect, and which are disappear- aug since the formation ofa new kingdom, the Italian people have but one language; and making a like allowance for some 30,000 Jews, mostly in Tuscany, and for some 33,000 Protestants, including the Wal- denses, they have but one religion. One third of the population of Italy (more than eight millions) is attached to agriculture. The peas- aui3 maintain good health by their active and lite, have large families and attain a good old age. But few of them, however, are owners of the soil. ‘the cultivation of rice is one of the richest resources of Lombardy and Piedmont, where, in certain places, particularly in the valley of the Po, the traveller inight fancy himself on the banks of the Ganges. In Central Italy they adopt the system which 1s there called the mezzeria—in France the metayage—that is, the proprietor furnishes the land and buildings and the farmer furnishes the labor and care, tho pro- duct being equally divided. The cotton raised at the foot of Mount Vesuvius (called the Castellamare cot- ton, from the name of the shipping port) is only surpassed by the sea island cotton of South Carolina. ‘The cultivation of cotton is carried on extensively in the plains of Salernia, in Calabria and in the low val- leys of Sardinia and of sicily, 80 that, during our late war the product reached $12,009,000 a year. All the industries appertaining to agriculture are visibly improving. e farmers are able to send their hops into the French market across Mount Cenis, and the sausage meats of Bolt Prato, Florence, Verona, Ferrara and Modena find an in- creasing market everywhere, The pies of Naples and Genoa are more and more exported; the oils of the Ponilles are preferred to the best French oils, and the Parmesan which is made in Lom- bardy with the milk 000 Swiss cows, brings in, On AN average, from $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 @ year. Adding to all this the products of the rice fields, of the cotion plantations, of the mulberry trees, of flax and hemp and oi the vineyards, it is evident that the development of the agricultural interest will make Italy one of the most prosperous countries of Europe. As to manufactures on a grand scale Italy need not aspire to that, Among other elements of success in whioh it 1s deficient is that of coal. The Italian him- self does not seem adapted for the work of machines. Dry and nervous, very sober, impatient, active and industrious by fits and starts, but soon discouraged, he has nothing of the nature of the model workman, who, weil nourished, a great eater and imperturable in his way, can go on ail his life performing the game routine work from morning till night. Nevertheless, the Italian works and more than he generally gets credit for. The term “do nothing’ Cannot certainly be applied to the Cmplamee in thé sulphur mines, w! ore is Car- ried out on the packs of men. The Neapolitan pro- vinces, which are regarded as an immense convent, furnished in 1861, 1,130,000 artisans, three- fifths of the whole number which all Italy counted. ‘The Neapo'ttan art! make gloves, fiddle strings stuff of silk aud géld, macaroni and ornaments in shel, lava and coral that are justly celebrated. In the farm houses of Lombardy there are some 800,000 women employed half the hee in spinning linen, and thereby earning about three cents a day. ‘They like the work because they can attend to it the intervals of their housek business, In Ti agriculture and manufacture go hand the long green oa! jey, expose them to the sun to be whitened and ‘subject them to vari- “ & —, style of exhibiting on their own heads © hair which grew on the ds of others, Some of the finest of those hats used to cost as much as $i Twelve thousand workers, principally women and children, are stilt ip thi in this busi- ness, At Carp!, in the province of Modena, hats are made of willow bark, which are known inthe market as rice straw hats, Nevertheless in Tuscany, as in the rest of Italy, manufactures are only really superior when they are connected with art. Florence proves this by her mosaics, no leas than ten man ropes? in that city epgaged in that business, use @ siliceous paste, by which a colors is ‘obtwined. thant could Bey the use othe calcareous éto! aigniaas is pur- mp Mosaics, came rd Mee and ornaments in plaster are the sort works in w! ance. and even the humble c jistinguished for lightness. The Maddalena (so call from @ s shape of handsome small objects of the Lane The artisans jon ae hee fhe he and citron iroes, in which they set small mosaics represent! lazzaroni, fishermen, &c. But Sienna still carries of the palm for carvings, as it did three and four centu- peor an oy en come the mannfactnres of chinaware and the othtr productions of the ceramic art, which prosper in Florence and all over the peninsula, and which give employment to more than 61,000 per- sons. Naples foors the chambers of ber housea in painted and varnished bricks and supplies the for- eign market with superb Etruscan vases. The Sicilian artists monld in clay figures representin; national types and costumes, while the moulders oi Lueca cast cheap statuettes, ‘The Italian excels in everything relating to art, He carves lava and coral. He ts a born jeweller and goldsmith, Fvery one knows the filigree work of gold and sliver supplied by the workshops of Genoa post Turin, the poe gg bg igri | en pearls strung into neckia peasant Srila, the Py, little chains of Pr Plaited at venice bearing the name of nin, and tl enormous jewels which to-day, as in the time Juvenal, lengthen the ears of the Neapolitan women. Venice, for the last two centuries and more, has supplied silk iaces for the robes of the clergy, masks for all places where the carnival exista, and gold and silver brocades for the Kast. Ite mannfactories of mirrors and glassware were for a long time ite wealth and tis pride. The old government of the republic called that Industry the appie of its eye, and, although it did not recognize the children born of @ misaliiance, it authorized marriages between the patrictan’s son and the glassmaker’s daughter, ‘This industry stilt employs 5,000 workmen, some of whom earn (wo and @ half dollars @ day. Nor are the more necessary branches of industry neglected, as may be seen by — the tanneries, the paper factories (of which those of Fabriano have been celebrated for six centuries), the mannfactorics of arms and cutiery (particularly at Brescia), the printing establishments, &c. Bat the chief industry of Italy In that of silk, Before the silk worm blight, a few years since, (he profits accruing from the sik industry were more than f miliiona# a@ year. Those profits have diminished, owing to the dix- ease of the silk worms, but still there were 4,002 silk factories open in lialy in 1566, 1819 of which were in Lombardy, those latter i72 were driven by steam pow ‘The alk spinners of Como stand first in the amount of their products, donbiing thoge of Bergamo, which come next; then come those of Milan, so that Lom- bardy is the principal slik [arg rovince. The other northern provinces follow im thelr turn; farther south the moro the tion diminisies, ‘The exportation of raw silks tends to decrease, while that of silk tienes is increasing. In Lombardy the industry supports 160,000 people, many of whom grow rich frou tt. So much for the agrienitarad and manufacturing industries of (taiy, The trading and commercial classes number about 700, or about five times Jena than the indastry of the country omploys. Ttallan women are rarely seen behind the counters, ‘The liberal feesions engage nearly as many as trade d 50,000, Doctors and lawyers swarm ail o Italy. But the ranks of the clergy are by far the fullest, Of ail Catholic countries, except Portu- is the richest in that respect. Im the 6 secular priesta were at the time of the late annexation to the number of fourteen for every thousand inhabitants—the rate in Eng'and pene one and @ half for every thousand in! Beskies, the monks numbered three or four to each The egumate ia that. exotudiog bie Pon- Sipoat States, there are in Italy 174,000 men living by ne altar. There are 242,000 engaged in protecting the internal aud external safely of the kingdom, 147,000 officeholders, My Servants and 305,000 atpers, leaving about nine and a quarter millions Wne-ao not enter Into industriat statistics, ‘and whe consist for the most part of wome: om ~..., and lor! una. ‘Ti Deigpctive Ttaly. Tt 4s more. stii nd more when trav- industrious than was geucrally believ ellers, who only went there fo study pagan ruins and Catholic monuments, called it the land of the dead. It has certainly a great work to perform if it wonla reach ita past greatness, when lis artists were also the promoters o/ its gecat works, When Michael Angele furnished plans of fortiticatioas and when Leouarde da@ Vinci inade its canals na. igaiie, invented artin- clal meadows, and (anticipating tie archileets of Chi- cago), undertook to raise the Vathedral of Ploren $0 asto give ita greater elcvation. Fora long time Italy had the monopoly of invention; but, torn to pieces by the two great enemies who contended for it since the Middle Ages—the Church and the Empire—and who afterwards compromised by parcelling out its territory iato small states, it into @lamentadie state of ignorance and ness, of which the educational statistics give a © plete idea, 1861, whew the new régime was put into operation, four-fifths of the population, bey uahlouw ces of twenty-two, we NM to read or write, The shadow of }; ce «i gradually from North to South I “p pened in Piedinout, alveady transformed by @ dozen years of freedom, 49 per cent OF the people Were ignorant of tie alplia- bet; in Lombardy, 57 per cent; in the Duchies wud Romagna, 80 per cent; in the Marches, 4; in the Ombria, $6; in the Neapoliten dommtons,' 88; im Sicily 90 ond in portions of that isiand 9, When Victor Emanuel entered into Naples there were im that populons city of from four to five hundred thou- sand people only 42 schools open, attended by 3,000 upils. ‘ihe teachers were all priests, as required aroyal decree, At present there are in the same ity 16 asylums, where 2,000 chlidren are provided for, and 111 schools, attended by 17,000 pupils, A law of the Italian Parliament (of July 10, 1865) makes instruction obligatory, but the law is unpopular and cannot be enforced. Nevertheless, Italy has now more schools in proportion to population than Belgium, Holland aud Austria, Kegi- meatal schools in the army were 1866 =by 86,755 soldiers. These soldiers, on returning to their homes, are ac- lve propagandists of the new ideas which they have picked up, dnd are looked upon with suspicion by the old women and with admiration by the young ones, who listen eagerly to those bronzed men wio have travelled 40 much, talk #0 well and know everything, The influence which the army thus gains the Churek josea, And yet justice should be done to this declin- ing power. ‘There was @ time, and not long when the priests were more advanced than the gov- bye d powers; when Austria and Naples did not love the Church, treated Pio Nono as a Jacobin and per- secuted the clergy, whose intluence on the people was not wilfully bad, but was ortentimes good. [tia to a good monk, the padre Kocco, that Naples is in- debted for its first street lamps, which had their be- ginniags in the lamps that he caused to be lit before the various images of the Virgin. This isa type of all the primary tnstruction in Italy, which was only #80 many small lamps burning for devotion sake, bub which nevertheless rendered the night less dark. The recent suppression of religious corporations has affected but slightly those engaged in the work of education, of which more than 200 seminaries and over 1,000 schools are still open and well attended. In regard to the higher walks of lea:ning, I possesses 16 universities, 210 public libraries, 81 sci- entific bodies and academies, 10 astronomical ob-' servatories, 13 museums of archeology, 13 societies for the preservation and illustrated description of ancient monuments, 12 deputations of national his- tory, 20 fine art aud musical institutes, &c., so that it is not from the want of the higher order of intel- lectul cultivation that Italy suders; it is from whe ignorance of the multitude. ‘the postal arrangewents of Italy have been em- braced in the generat movement of reform. They now employ as mi as 50 steam vessels. The num- ber of post offices has been tripled. In 1868 there were 75,000,000 of letters and 63,000,000 of printed documents carried in the mails. The telegraph linea have been largely developed and their rates reduceds A despatch for a distance of fifty miles costs erenhy. two cents, and for the whole extent of Italy o1 ‘4 double that gum. The aitention of the government is given to making Brindisi the great of the Adriatic, as it is most opportunely locat to enter into the great movement of Eastern trade when the Suez canal will be in operation. e The ship building business e wish we could pe which launched 215 reer with tons. In 1866 the number of ship yards to ninety-one and that of vessels launched to 675, with a tol Of 69,622 tons. The vessels arriving in and departing froin the ports of Italy in 1866 were ~ apo iemeeh of = 074. Its heeohicyar Ae. Aad 0 january, 1867, was composed ry-nt steam vessels and 16,707 vessels, Its navab wer consisted of ninety-one vessels, of which four- m were armored, twenty-two ecrew steamer, twenty-five sidewheet erat eight sailing ves- At over 2,500 miles of railroad open in Italy, At the close of 1870 there will The hich unites France over Mount Cenis is open, and tho tunnel gd to pierce the mountain is two-thirds com- le ihore, aud Aira of alt in tts legisistio core: wi an Me cial and communal laws are the most liberal can exist in monarchical countries. The provinces have @ sort of local self-government and municipall- ties are elected by direct 6 a The code has consecrated civil marriage, what- ever be the religion of the parties, even though a should be priests or nuns. Woman enfranchi may inherit and bequeath property. Successions are'equitably distributed. In case of intestates the Hlggitinace childrea, "Literacy property. is. recog mate childrea, ry property a nized by law. | There is | py ee! in political Ite. The number of electors has increased from 413,000 to 400,000, Every citizen who pays a tax and who can read and write is anelector. Italy endeavors, by her schools and by her taxes, to make suffrage ani- versal. ‘What Italy has done of late vears proves Pp by ol that she has all the vitality necessary to accomplish that which remains to be done. To rest, to breauy to economize her strength, to continue her eagle improve her credit, and, above all, to maintain liberties, is the before her. Those liberties have, os a or os cant cody ong eo pay begmery jomts . ey Will, sooner or later, give to Italy pre- vince that she still lacks,” BOOK NOTICES. THEATRICAL MANAGRMENT IN THE WEST AND SOUTH yor. THretTy YEARS, Ui ee anion gen, yee iven. oa arinen fp ming Harper Grouers’ wow All olf theatre-goers, both in New York and throughout the country, recognize the familiar name of the author of sketches. The very name of Sol Smith will create a smile among those who have witnessed his humor on the stage. Well, we have in this book enough to make everybodg ah and to keep him hg gain 3 Only think of am x M1 lau the humor and comical things that must have bee: of the life and Here, then, we have the pith and cream of all the funny thi that occurred in his years’ theatrical ¢: lence. They are worked uy served up in the nicest and most humorous ready for use, and there is no one that could not relish them. The book has ail the elements of popa- e larity and success in it. Manet’s Mistake. Ry Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. Peter- son & Brothers, Philadeiphia, “ ‘The pen of Mrs. Stephens is prolific if her brain ts not. “Mabel’s Mistake’ ts another addition to hee already numerous list of novels, It 1s # story of American life and the scenes are laid in the vey familiar locality of Manhattan Island. But like nearly ail the novels of the day, and of our Amert- can writers im particular, it gives false views of life, highly improbable occurrences, and tends to create an unnatural and maudlin sentiment and bad taste. The story, scenes and characters of thia book are much the same asin all of Mrs. Stephens’ works, wit the necessary variation of positions and ch of names. Yet Mrs. Stephens tndoubtedly one of our best novel writers. Her style ia certainly better and More vigorous than that of most of the female authors of the day. fowoever, there is a demand for Mra, Stephens’ productions among a cortain class of readers, and “‘Mabel’s Mistake" is the iateat conttt> bution to supply that. Sait Gorse ror Or AND ComtNG Back wirtt SvoAR— Whaling bark Addison, Corne!!, at New Bedford from Atlantic Ocean, reporta September 28, 1868, latitude 41 deg. 16 min. north, longitude 44 deg. 40 min. west, at half-past nine A. M., saw @ Spanish brig laying by @ wreck which ehe had fallen in with two days pre vious and rescued her crew ; siso stripped of her — rlaging, stores, &¢. At four P. M. lowered onr boa’ and boarded the wreck; found her to be @ Svanish brig, with @ cargo of sugar; had heen dismasted and loss rudder fifteen days previousiy, since which time had been driving about an un- phy od ‘wreck, with five feet of water in her old. The captain of the brig proposed to us to land thirty boxes of angar on his vessel's deck and he wouid abandon the wreck to us 98 an equivalent for faid service. We secepied his terins and filled the contract by eight P. M. We then proceeded to trans. por tothe Addison and by four P. M. of the ‘24th had stioceeded In securing 140 boxes, more or Jess. it then set in very rugged, rendering it im- ‘ible to boat longer. We accordingly set hor op ire and abandoued ber, INTERESTING TO SPORTSMEN. ° The Sele, ot Paris, publishes an article very im teresting to sportsmen, and states that with a little care maby Accidents conid bo avoided. Out of 100 cases of a double barrelled gun bursting, ninety-five can be traced to defects in the left barrel. The reason is simply that the right is most freqnonty used and reloaded, peri ten times to the left one being disoh: once, Every time the right barrel ia discharged the gunpowder in the left is pulverized more or less by the shock, which, therefore, leaves # Re ere — the wedding by se ing. Naturally nthe left barrel is diech it frequent explodes, These ac dons canehe avolded by sending the ramrod home with one ot two sinart blows into the non-discharges barrel evere time the other ts reloaded