The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1869, Page 4

EUROPE "SPAIN. * Discussion in the Spanish Cortes Regarding the Dake of Montpeusier. MapsiD, March 10, 1869, 4004 deal of light was thrown on the status of the Duke of Montpensier as candidate for the throne by a debate that was unexpectedly brought on in the Cortes last Monday. The discussion arose on an in- terpellation on the part of the republicans to ascer- Xan by what mgbt the Duke held his rank of Cap- tain General in the Spanish army after the Bourbon dynasty had been overthrown. General Prim, whose position and sympathies towards the Duke have been very uncertain, replied in behalf of the government, eaying that the government, formed in con- sequence of the revolution, found Antonio d’Orleans expatriated as themselves; they saw that ‘the was a captain general ,who quickly recog- nized the revolution, and they could not do other- wise than acknowledge his position in the army; as they did not believe the cry of “Down with the Bourbons” affected one who was not only not a legitimate inheriter ofythe crown by what is called divine right, but ne could not have been in any case called to the throne. He did not comprehend ‘why the opposition launched against him the anathe- ‘ma that he in no way deserved, Castelan replied that the recognition of Montpen- ler was a recognition of the fallen dynasty. Mont- pensier is an individual of a foreign house also overturned. If he has given services those services were with a foreign army. He shed his blood in Atrica for his real country. He came to Spain by means of a fe with the sister of Dolla Isabel mi de Bourbon, who conceded, by right of this marriage Oniy, all the titles and decorations, The Duke has never commanded in*the Spanish army, nor even pee himself at the head of a squadron. What has e done to preserve this courtier’s sword, this dynas- tic title? He then went on to show that there were two classes of captains general, the effective and the honorary. In the effective.were the Duke of Vic- toria (Espartero), who obtained his tities by wars in Awerica, the siege of Morella and the siege of Lu- chana. Serrano gained his title by his services in the civil war, and Prim by his African campuign, his Mexican expedition and his services an the revolution, But the ttle of the Duke de Mont- pensier 1s purely honorary, because ‘Marriage to the daughter of Fernando VIL., the sis- ter of Isabel, it was only a dynastic ttle. The speaker recalled to the Secretary of Wur the = fact that royal families in all the members are united with the chief; tnat they participate in the honors and share the misfor- aunes that he may meet with, and they are never Separated from him. He illustrated his position by citing the cases of the Prince Napoleon, the Prince de Jotnvilie, the Count of Syracuse, and others, to show that both in the glories and in the defeats the members of the royal houses were united to the chief, whether they were really in sympathy with him or not. He believed that the Duke de Montpen- sier Was comprehended in the list proscribed in the ery of abajo ios Borbones of whe revolution. He would never consent that a foreign prince should become chief of State in his country, because that Would be the continuation of his country’s unhappy history and the sign of her irremediabie decadence. Sehor Tope.e, Minister of Marine, a firm {friend and supporter of Montpensier, then rose, and with @ good deal‘of animation said that if the Duke ‘was not onboard of the Saragossa during the Cadiz revolution it was because he had thought it ‘Dest tuat he should not be there. He closed by say- ‘ing that before the republic he was for the Duke de Montpensier as King. This frank, sanor like way of dealing with the subject created a great uproar on the republican side. and the entire party was on its feet to reply; but Prim, more experienced thaa Topete. @rose and attempted to correct tue blunder commit- ted by the blu Admiral. Cuastelan replied and Figueros spoke strongly against Montpensier, say- ang that he would have no Kings 19 Spain if possible. He preferred the republic, but if that was not at- tainable like bis forefathers he would be vulgar and refuse to have French kings. Genera! Serrano closed the debate and suggested that Admiral Topete was merely expressing his pri- vate Opinion as deputy; that the question of the form of the government and the selection of the can- didate for the throne was in the hands of the Con- etituent Cortes. The Executive would bow to its will, If it decreed a republic it would cry, “iva la Republica!” 1f wt chose the monarchy it would gay, “Viva la Monarchial” The Cortes must settle the question, and the people would support them. after @ little more debate the incident terminated, aud it is admitted by nearly every ong that the prospects of Montpensier have been greatly favored by the dis- cussion, and it is a8 well conceded that he 1 ture King of Spain. Many of his frieuds assert that he will be on the throne in less than three months; but thas Cnyed depends on the management of the atiair, which has thus far been handled with a great deal of skill. ROME. Number of Prelates Expected to Take Part in the Comiug Council—Hospitable Prepara- tione—St. Peter’s Threatened with Destruc- tion by Fire~Prospects of Papal Clemency— Distinguished Converts. Roms, March 9, 1869. In order that your readers may form some idea of the numer of prelates who may be expected in Rome to take part in the approaching Ecumenical Council | present a catalogue of the Catholic prelates now living, as well as of the vacant sees. ‘The complete list gives 12 patriarchs of Latin and Oriental rite, 12 Latin archbishops immediately de- pendent on the Holy See, 120 with ecclesiastical provinces, 7 Oriental archbishops. Total, 139. Of Latin bishops there are 6 called suburbicarmas, always cardinals, with sees near Rome; 84 immedi- ately subject to the Holy See, and 570 with dioceses; 66 bishops of the Oriental rite. Total, 723. His Holiness has elevated to the metropolitan dig- nity 16 eees and erected 6 archbishoprics and lil bishoprica. Total, 131. Archbishops’ seea in partivus, 36; bishops’ sees tn partivus, 198. ‘The vacant sees are patriarchal—16 archiepiscopal, 106 episcopal Those occupied amount to 747 patriar- chal and residental, and 234 in partivus. So that the titular Catholic hierarchy comprises 951 prelates. There are 135 apostolic delegations, vicariates and prefectures, besides which the present Pope has Created thirty-two similar offices. Of these eighteen are vacant. The lengthy catalogue is completed with stxteen abbacies and nullius paeiacies. In order to provide with suitable loag dignitaries of the Church the Pope bh named a special Commission of six prelates and a presideut to provide residences and exercise tue sacred duties of hospitality in the name of bis Holiness towards the reverend fathers assembied in council. The eign for the seais and stalls im the transept of § Peter's has been enlarged. There will be now four- teen rows of stalls, rising one above the other in the. semi-circular form of te Greck and theatres, 80 that the outside row will be about the height of the first story of ay ordinary dwelling house. The lope wentto ¢xaM@ine the samples of seats on Saturday, a section of the woodwork being prepared in the transept. [is Holiness made Moi signor Teodoii get in to try them, a2 4 maximum siz that prelate being ‘cast in Nature's largest mould.” While giving news from the Vatican | must not omit to mention that the whole of that maguiieent pile of Pontifical splendor was in danger of being destroyed by fire on Sunday moruing. he coniia- ation burst outat six A. M. in aground floor of e triangular courtyard, used as a store for the plat- forms and benches érected jor foreign visitors in St. Peter's during tho‘Naster week ceremonies. Such a mass of old, dry woodwork bu like wateh wood, and fears were enteriuined that the flooring above would give way and aliow the dames vo penetrate imo the mosaic mauulactory, where would have been irreparable, as Kaphac!'s col picture of the Madonna di Foiigna is now being ¢ there; but 1ortunately, although the beams wer much scorched, they did not yieid, and as the corps of fremen always stationed at ihe palace and a de- ings so many tachment of zouaves irom the gr guard house ‘were at once summoned to the scene of danger the fre wae extinguistied after four hours’ burning, without further damage than the total destruction Of the wooden apparatus a The Pope, warmly wrappe looked out of the windows of his suit of aj now and then to see dinal Antonelli, Who, as pre‘ immediately on active duty, re repeatediy. ¢ Pope is in the best health and spirits possible. jace, Was his Holiness 1 can quote a very recent occurrence in confirma- tion. jast letter informed your that the 11th of April would be # day of commemorative re- joicing throughout the Catoolic worid, as Leing the Aitieth anniversary of te Pope's having said mass for the first tune. scale took place in of that influential er,,Father Beck2, having © brated the fiftieth anniversary of his officiating at On Saturday evening he went to the Pope ate the event, and his Holiness repiied, ocularly, “You precede me by # few days; but who nows that I shail not celebrate likewise the frueth anniversary of my consecration as bishop?’ As this event took place on the 26th of May, 1527, when Pius 1X., then Monsignore Mastai, was made Arch- Dishop of Spoleto, it is evident that iis Holmes - anticipates the achievement of his eigitty-sixth year and a reign of the exceptional duradon (ivr a Pope) of thirty-one years. It is Said that the lope intends to grace by an act Of mercy the approacning 11th Apri. An amnesty on a large scale is to be granted, by which the Mtioal prisouers concerned in the last Gari NEW YURK HRALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. attack on Rome will be benefited as well as othor odenders. Archbishop Manning has left Rome for his dtocese of Westminster. Monsignor, Talbot. & preter Poe pope pe pe house- hold of his loliness, and now holding the office of hes been sent by tish Life Guards, Cont ns toe the heart of his Holiness. The most im| t of late, after that of the Marquis of Bute, isthat of the Prussian Prince von Schonbourg, whose riches and station are not interior to those of the Scotch Mar- quis, FOREIGN MISCELLANEGUS ITEMS. Two siavers, having 116 slaves on board, were recently captured off Madagasear by the Britiso frigate Penguin. The Emperor of the French ts about to purchase the property of Saint Point, belonging to the estate of the late M. de Lamartine, for the of establishing a model farm, os ee On March 29, the anniversary of the Battle of No- varra and the abdication of Carlo Alberto, the inhab- itants of Naples presented a crown of Emanuel, as the “founder of Itatian ‘The arranged mecting at Gorritz between the King of Jtaly and the Emperor of Austria has been aban- doned, on account of it being deemed unadvisablie at present to give rise to any surmises that might tend to disturb the tranquillity of public opinion. ‘The Kladderadatsch, of Berl, under the title of “The Amiable ‘Trio,” ‘represents’ Rouher, N: and Haussmann arm in arm, going across the Place de la Bourse, of Paris. Napoleon is in the middie, placidiy smoking; Kouher is uttering some of his phrases, and the Baron 13 scattering money in the Streets. The Bourse beara the following imscrip- tion:—“After this comes the deluge.” London has a sensation preacher in the person of Ned Wright, a converted burgiar. His language is 80 striking and 80 effective that Mr. Spurgeon stands no chance against him with the female pocdos, of the audience. He has lately been preac! at the aaaniens Mission houses in London, and with such force that many women fell insensible and had to be removed on stretchers, ‘The duel in which Don Celestino de Olo: was killed was caused by a trifling dispute wi took place in the Spanish theatre im Madrid. The arms chosen were sabres, of which the unfortunate young man knew nothing, although his adversary was weil Car cn Bat aol Wenaee uy e air ig but @ polit vengeance aimed at the Olozaga family. Za Iberia, of Madrid, is an implacable enemy to Montpensier’s candidature to the Spanisn throne, and qualifies ut as anti-popular, anti-liberal and anti- revolutionary. £l Puedio another Madrid jour- nal, compares the Duke of Montpensier to Martin Merino, who was garroted in 1852 for attempting to assassinate Queen Isabella, and the journal &! Kogo asserts (hat Spain can never enjoy true liberty until sue has caused a sea of blood to fow aad a million of heads to fallon the scaffold, DOMINiON OF CANADA. The Recent ‘Highway Robbery in Fulton County, N. ¥.—Arrest of the Thieves in Canadu—Sharp Resistance—The Extradi- tion. St. CATHARINES, Ontario, March 29, 1869. On Tuesday afternoon, the 23d instant, Sheriff Wil- liam P. Brayton, of Fulton county, State of New York, called upon the authorities here to take steps to secure the arrest of two notorious criminal fugt- tives from his State named Clay Matthews, alias Johnson, and Benjamin Miller, the latter being de- scribed as @ desperate chatacter and one who treated the life of another as of no account. The sheriff, having procured the services of couusel, had the necessary information sworn to before Thomas Burns, police magistrate of the town. The information charged the desperadoes with having on the nizbt of the 3d of October iast, be- tween the hours of eight and nine o’clock on the public highway leading from Gloversville to Johns- town, Fulton county, committed a daring robbery upon one James Vanatter, proprietor of a akin mill at Gloversville. Mr. Vanatter, it appears, was returning from Gloversville to his residence, a distance of about two miles, on horseback, and when about half way was overtaken by Miller and Matthews, one of whom seized his horse by the bridle, and the other, seizing Vanatter by the collar of nis coat and throat, dragged hin off, and after assaulting him took from his trousers pocket a wallet containing $145, cur- rency, and two bank checks for $572 50, in all, The robbers were on the Monday after arrested at tho instance of Vanatier and placed in the hands of a constable, who, considerately at least for the prison- ers, allowed them to go to a restaurant for break- fast, @hich farnished them with suflicient time to make their escape to Canada. For some time they remained in the neighborhood of Fort Erie, passi themselves oi for persons who, havi fnan- cial diMicuities at home, selected the Dominion as their retweat until their friends could matters. Friends, however, of a different na- ture and disposition were in the mean time making arrangements not at all in accordance with the wishes of the fugitives, for, hav- ing heard of their whereabouts, the Sheriff (Braylon) and District Attorney Rosa had taken the necessary steps lo procure a requisition from the President upon the Canadian autnorities for the surrender, a8 aso the proper authority to the Sherif so receive them when surrendered. Thus prepared and with a warrant issued by Police Magistrate Burus, Sheriit Brayton, with Constabie Oswald, of this place, and two United States officers, proceeded to Fort Erie, arriving there om Wednesday morning, the 24th inst., about two o’clock. Having discovered the house in which part of their game was they sur- rounded it and began to explore, Vonstabie Oswald being in advance, with Detective Brayton support- ing, eee the Sheruf and other officers were on guard. They soon found Ciay Matthews, alias Johnson, cutting Wood in tue shed, and he, recognizing the oificers, at once prepared himself for a aesermined resistance, using fis axe with considerable skill and eect. Uticer Oswald, who had served as an arulleryman torough the Crimea, and who had had too faay encounters with more effective Weapons than an axe, was not vo be deterred, aad, abiy assisted by detective Bray- ton, rushed upon their nan, took him by the throat, and aiter a desperate struggle, succeeded in wrench ing the axe from his hauds and decorating his arms with @ pair of bracelets of the moss approved pat- tern. Having safely secured Matthews, they vurned their attention to the capture of Miler. He was not to be so easily found, having, no doubt, got some waruing. However. the officers were not tw be pat- fled. ‘aking two sleighs, they set out by diferent roads for @ piace Known aa the “Sinugglers’ Home,” avout a mile irom Kidgeway, the scene of encounter between ihe Fenians aud Canadians tn 1406, shinking that they wouid either find bi there or hear some- thing o: him. He had been there, but was not then to be found. By carefully faying plans they on Thursday came upon him as he was driving a ped- ler’s sleigh between Fort Erie and Port Colborne. He, too, Was prepared for resistance, but a revolver, Weill directed but not discharged, soon persuaded Lim that sabtaission to the decorations ofered was the better course. Having secur Matihews the offic him and proceedea to pick up ems proceeded to St. Catharin arrivid placed hot cot g there about eight 0’ at night, and nin the town lock-up. authorities tig that such accomphsned scoundrels in that place put@ guatd over tuem for riday morning (Good Friday) broaght up, they having ex. ir willingness to go to the staves and hearing and formal surrender. ‘The ap- Lnce us Weil a8 the manuers of the prisoners are alnly agalast them, especially that of Milier, wio is a stout Well framed man of avout Uuriy years sandy hair, and with a unintelligeut, he has ued Villain, and t home,’ as he styles his former hing but good. Matthews, on tie otuer hand, is iailer and thinner, but has # wiry fh anda countenance but litte more favorabie 1s comrad souers were cau tioned and asked by ve Burns if it was true that they ates at ouce aad would waive they consulted together tihews then stated “hey Belore their consent could be were and would,” drawn and signed Miller changed his mind and said “| gucas we won't go.’ He had an idea that he could effect an escape from the lock-up. He was frustrated in this, however, by being remanded to the jail, which he soon entered, he and his companion hav- ing on their decorations in the shape of leglets, as well a8 braceleis. saturday morning they were again brought up, wWhea Vanatter, Sheriff! Brayton and detective Brayton were examined and the charge fully proved, and the prisoners were at once remanded ‘to the jail, to remain there until sur- rendered or discharged by law. ‘The necessary papers were forwarded on Saturday to the Governor General, turough the Secretary of state for Canada, by James A. Miller, of the firm of Miler & Miller, barriatera, of this place, who has had the conduvt of the prosecution, mstrucied by Sherif Brayton, and the necessary warrant is ex- pected in the course of ten days, when it is hoped the prisoners Will ve taken and brought to trial and receive the punishment they so richly deserve. A Contous Case.—The St. Johnsvury (Vt) Cate. donian says that on Wednesday night of last week the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury received a package of twenty-one five dollar bilis for redemp- Uon, which were in the safe of an express com; on tne W. R. Carter when she biew up, burn sunk in the Missias# river in February, 1966. After lying at the bol of the river till a 1865—two years and @ half—a large amount of trea- sure was revered from this sunken etoamer, and among the reat $106 in bills on this bank, All the biils are more or jess mutilated, and some of them are so burned that nothing but the Ink on the printed letters shows. Others just the casuier’s a! ure and the denomination can be distiaguished on the Gua cinders Which are pasted gn thin pieces of paper. ZWEl. ‘Tho Manefacture and Consumption of Lager Beer in the City and Vicinity-The Amount of Capital Invested—A Hint to Exciso Law Makers. ‘The manufacture and consumption of the pre-emt- nently Teuton beverage, beer, known now among us by the generic term lager beer, has assumed gigan- tic proportions in this country and city within tne last few years. That it is purely of German origin is generally admitted; for already Tacitus, in his history of the Roman wars in Germany, speaks of the use by the people of a beverage made of grain, evi- dently a rude species of beer made from barley. In more northern climes, a in England, it was changed to a stronger potion, such ag ale and porter; in Northern Germany to the Braunschweiger Mumme; but in the central and southern portions of the land of the Teutona it retained its original mild charac- ter, though its manufacture improved as the pro- gress of science and of mechanical appliances leut it 6 helping hand. ° With the Germans it cathe to this country, and its manufacture increased and improved with the in- creased number of German settlers, Its use, how- ever, was not long confined to the German national- ity among us. Its mild effervescence, pleasant taste and exhilarating effects, possessing intoxicating qualities to an almost infinitesimal dogree, and es- Dectally its acknowledged nutritive properties, gradually brought it into favor with nearly all classes of oyr citizens. Even physicians had their attention turned to this beverage, and the relieving effects of ‘ager beer in the incipient stages of consumption and in some other pulmonary diseases began to be noted from the fact that brewers, known to be great con- sumers of the articie, are never troubled with serious affections of the throat or lungs, and are known never to be subject to consumptive ailments. Hence the use of lager—leaving out the word ‘beer’ for the sake of brevity—grew more and more in popularity from year to year, and trenched upon the fleld heretofore monopolized by the flery stuff known as whiskey and rum. If this German beverage of malt and hops and water shall continue to in- crease in popular favor for the next twenty years as it has for the last two decades the distilled spirits may altogether cease to be used as beverages and be consigned to their proper province of medicinal and mecbanical purposes. In this view the enthusiastic German panegyrist, who claimed for his favorite “lager” a civilizing mission in America by limit- ing and gradually abolishing the daily use of ardent spirits as beverages, may not only be pardoned but justified as a true prophet. It is, indeed, an incon- testable truth that the apostles of the temperance cause, as crystallized in the attempted enforce- ment by stringent statutory law of the doctrine of total abstinence, do at present admit that their work was much easier 30 long as whiskey and rum were the beverages in most general use, but that now they have a much more obstinate and nearly invin- cible enemy to encounter in the unexpected popu- larity of the mild and healthful lager, which they say has done more to oppose their proselytism and prevent thelr success than the combined efforts of distillers and spirit venders could do heretofore. This aistinction was already known in the days of Hogarth, whose capital representation of the squa- lor, misery and death in “Gin Lane” contrasts with the nealth, vigor, activity and enterprise as vividly given in his cartoon of “Beer Lane’ like the cold desolation of winter with the teeming fruitfulness of harvest,time. It is this very contrast which the total abatinence and “Maine Liquor law” advocates say hurts their cause most. And it is this very same distinction which brings all the trouble among the originators and advocates of the Metropolitan Ex- cise law in force in this city—a distinction which the fanatical will not comprehend and which the more reasonable cannot deny yet dare not act upon for tear of the party whip. THE CAPITAL INVESTED IN ITS MANUFACTURE, But the subject of lager beer merits the attention of tne public and of legislators not only on account of its beneficial effects upon the moral and social habits of the people and for lessening the deleterious use of pure alcoholic substances for beverages, but also on the ground of the magnitude of the monetary interest engaged in tts manufacture and of the large number of people dependent upon it. The exten of this interest ts known to bat very few, and th general public will be quite astonished when the; peruse the fi below. It should be prem! that tne breweries in the city of New York proper do not begin to supply the demand, which is daily on the increase. There are no less than tweive brew- eries in Morrisania, six !arge ones on Staten island, about nine disiributea between Unton Hill, Gutten- berg and Hudson City, N. J., and a still larger num- ber in Newark, N. J., which all send nine-tenths of their manufacture to this market. It should further be remarked, in order that the table below should be Tully understood, that under the heading of “Capt- tal Invested" is meant solely the amount represented by the buildings of the brewery, the vaui cellars, many of which are hewn out of solid rock; the ma- chinery and brewing apparatus, the coaches and the casks, while the amount of ready cash necessary to carry on the business of brewing, for the purchase of malt and hops, for fuel, for feed and for the wages of cmployes 1s not included, but will be referred to he r. In re- gard to the number of barreis of lager beer given in the following table it must be explained that the fig- ures only reter to the number brewed for summer consumption or lager beer proper, known among brewers as unfergauenrig, while every brewer makes what is called winter beer, or overgaehrig, for im- mediate consumption during winter within a@ week or ten days after made. It 18 safe to assume that each brewer makes an equal quantity of this winter beer as of lager. The contents of a barrel are usually thirty-two gallons, and will be so rated in subsequent calculations. BKEWERIES IN MORRISANIA. va No, of bbls. Brewers. Zelwner. Bichler. ... Kun, 100,000 160,000 40,009 Kirchhoff... Brueckner. Dielil. . Haven, (¢3 of ale DIOWELY) .... cece cece eee eee 69,000 Total....... +++ $1,270,000 NBW YORK CUTY—PAST Sipe. Ruppert seeee 6,000 Kuret.. 5,000 Elias . 4,000 Menges. 9,000 Schmitt 3,000 Winkens. 4,000 Eckert. 4,000 Oriental 5,000 Kresa...... 9,000 P, Doelwrer. 5,500 Jac Ahier.. 3,500 J. Doeiger. . 3,000 ¥, & M. Schaefer. . 10,000 P Abler......... . 60,000 3,000 Clausen (exclusive of ale browery). 4,000 Ruppert. 6,000 DOKE. «+. 7,000 Neumann... 6,000 Huepiel 4,000 Kun 2,000 Luekhardt 1,500 Hanek 2000 Gloeckuer . 500 Sundry other su 2,000 Total 103,000 Heindel . 4,000 Lyon Bre 12000 Striker’« iba 1,500 Groh Brothers 45000 . Schaefer. 7,000 4,000 5,000 1,000 4,500 Sommer 45500 Lebkuchner . 4,000 Sundry other small bi 21000 ‘Total 500 6,000 6,000 4,000 5,000 5,000 2,000 28,000 » GOTTENBRRG, HUDSON CITY. Roomelt & Oo..... 009 10,000 Peters & Co 5,000 Alt & Arnokt 8,500 Heim.... 4,000 Bruenget & Co 6,000 Meckert . 5,000 6,000 6,000 TOMI. ees cose ssseessees 1,200,000 44,500 New York city, it is generally admitted, draws from Newark, Williamsburg and other places at least 100,000 barrels of beer during the year, half of which is r, half of what has named ober. gaehr, or beer. It is farther undoubted that a like number of barrels of an tana oe the brewers named in the table, We may, there- 67,000 114,000 03,000 208, 53,500 107,000 Union Hill, & 200,000 ‘aise 89,000 Newark, Sc*.-. io00,000 60,000 - 100,000 Total...........$T, 780,000 33¥, 000 672,000 As bas been stated above, the amount here given as the capital invested is not the whole sum of $7,780,000 jay he ae aN eee own by tl Si. on repre ited ar the ‘real estate, In _ addition ay a total if ture of beer, and ol concerned in the manufact beat, en by legislation in e e to the enormous extent of $11,812,000. ‘There are few industrial branches, if any at all, which within a radius of twenty miles from the City Hall have anything approximating such an amount of money 1n' . But this is not all. Each barrel of beer requires about two bushels of barley, which gives for the whole number of barrels manufactul in the city and vicinity 1,344,000 bushels, Assuming the average proaect of barley to the acre to be about twenty-five ushels, which is about correct, we have 53,760 acres of agricultural land, represent @ value of about $1,250,000, equally interested with the brewers in thls branch of manufacture, and certainly over 5,000 souls of the agricultural population of the country. If to this calculation were added the interest wers—there being about & similar number of pounds of hops consumed as of bushels of barley—the freights earned by railroad companies for the transportation of the ma- terials entering into the manufacture of beer, of the maltsters, of the stave manutacturers, of the coopers, of the ice dealers and of the thousands of other ae sons othe! directly and indirectly inte: in the business of beer brewing, and the revenue de- rived by the national government from this indus- Wote wonld foot ‘up to sok magnitude 9 few not whole woal U such mi intunately conn with the subject have ever be- lieved to be possible. THE CONSUMPTION OF BRER IN NEW YORK AND VI- CIN! ITY. Not all of the 672,000 barrels manufactured, a8 stated above, is consumed here. A good deal of it is exported to other markets, coastwise and by rail- roads, to small cities and villages in the interior. Yet the entire consumption of both winter and summer beer in the counties Ge New ly thirty-two gallons per barrel, lons. Each barrel 13 estimated to yield 400 giasses, which gives a total consumption in the counties named of 220,000,000 glasses of beer during a twelve- month, Leaving out 20,000,000 of glasses for a pos- sible mistake in the calculation, and recko! the bar drinking adult population in these counties at 500,000 souls, 1t would give to each 400 glasses a year, or not even one and a half glasses per day. Con- siioring the large foreign population in this city alone it will be admitted that this calculauon ts rather below than beyond the actual ‘The exposition of the bar interest may serve our Legislature as @ lesson, and from it they may learn what extensive interests are involved and how many industrial and productive branches are touched by the present sumptuary Excise law. *NotR.—There 18, of course, a much larger capital invested in the brewing business in Newark alone, but the sum stated is taken in proportion to the quantity of the beer sent from there and other neighboring villages to this city. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Beiligerent Rights and Consular Powers— Neutral Certificate of Ownership for a Con- sideration—Validity of Such a Coptract wit a Foreign Consul—The Certificates of Mr. Coppell, British Consul at Now Orleans in 1863—They Are Pronounced Monstrous. *| H. F. Hall and B. F, Mann vs. George Coppeul.— This cause comes here by writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Cop- pell, the defendant in error and plaintiff below, was, in 1863, the acting British consul at New Orleans. On the 14th day of September of that year plaintur in error, Hall, sold to Coppell 1,189 bales of cotton, then in the parish of St. Helena, for which Coppell gave his two promissory notes, amounting to $175,350. The cotton was left in the hands of plain- tiff in error, Mann, Coppell agreeing to extend Britisn protection over it and transport it to New Orleans, and to retain as a consideration one-third of the profits upon sale. The cost price of the cot- ton was eight cents per pound, and upon sale the amount due to Hall was to be endorsea upon the notes, Hall was a citizen of the United States, domiciled. at New Orieans. The cotton remained in the hands of Mann down tothe close of the war, when the plaintufin error, as alleged by the de- fendant, violated the contract by an attempt to sell the cotton, This action was thereupon brought and 789 bales of the cotton were sequestered, The trial in the court below resulted in judgment for the de- fendantin error for the sum of $20,644 20, with privilege won the sequestered cotton. From this judgment writ of error is taken to this court and itis contended by the plaintiff in error that the agreement between the parties was not a sale of the cotton or any part of it to Coppell, its object and effect being merely to constitute Coppell a factor or agent for the sale New Orleans of their cotton situated inarebel region beyond the city, which Hall undertook to faruish. Coppell had no right to the possession of tae cotton until he made the stipu- laved advances, and the dam: recoverable by him for a breach of the contract by Hall could in no event exceed one-third of the profits upon sale in New Orieans. The chief objection of the plaintiif in error is, however, to the contract sought to be made elfective by the suit below. The court, tt is urged, in effect, instructed the jury—first, that a British subject domictied in New Orleans could make a valid contract, during the war, witha citizen of the United States, by which such British subject should agree to cover and protect with his neutral British name, cotton situated in the hostile territory within the rebel lines; and, second, that a contract between such citizen and a@ British consul at New Orieans, by which the latter agreed to issue false certificates that such cotton was British property, with a view to its protection within the rebel lines, was a valid contract, enforceable in @ court of the United States by that British consul. [t needs no argument, it is submitted, to disciose the error of such rulings. In the firet proposition the ruling applied, not only to a case where the property was owned in New Orleans, but also to the case of the ownership of the property sought to be covered by & British utie by persons ‘residing within the rebel lines, ‘The court held that the contract was not void in ether case, whether the property was actually owned within our jurisdiction or within the enemies’ country. it would hardiy be supposed that any one would have the hardrhood to «aloubt that such @ contract was absolutely vold, as against public poilcy and as in contravention of the belligerent rights of the United States. Nor is it believed that this court will tolerate for one moment the monstrous doctrine that the issuing by a British consul, re siding tn our jurisdiction, of false and fraudulent papers, asserting that property in the enemy’s country belonged to British subjects, is a consideration Which will sustain a contract between that consul and a citizen of the United States, It is also objected that the cotton in the parish of St, Helena was beyond our military lines, and that at the date of the contract ali commercial intercourse with territory beyond our lines was sirictly prot. bited, except with the license of the President; and the Treasury officials named in the Treasury reguia- tons of tember 11, 1864, were only authorized to license and permtt trade between New Orleans and piaces within our lines, ‘The duty of the plainti, in virtue of the contract, Was to protect the property in the rebel region, to transport it from that region to New Orleans, and there dispose of it tor the benefic of Hali. These things could not be done without holding that descrip. tion of tatercourse with the insurrectionary district, which the law# of war and the statutes of the Untted States strictly inhipite The military order, under which the contract proceeded, had no emciency to give validity to the agreoment, and the court should have so instructed the jury. The coutract being thus in contravention of the laws of war and the municipai laws of the country no rights accrued to Coppell by or under it, and no action was sustamable against plaintuf in error to enforce tt. Other minor exceptions were also taken and argued to the ruling of the court below. The defendant in error maintains it togbe settied beyond controversy that two members of the same comm u- nity may make any transfer Of personal property within the enemies’ lines, not vased upon nor look- ing to communication with the enemy. The re- straints upon the defendant as a Britiah subject or consal were even leas than those springing from his domicil, viewed as @ momber of the community of New Orleans; for the announced attitude of his Geen in the proclamation of her Majesty of May 31, 1861, had not in the least added to the ordinary duties of neutrals, nor im- ea any additional restrainta upon her subjects, ine of the rights of neutrals is freedom to trade with the respective belligerenis in articles not contra- jaces not under blockade. So that, excluding the idea of communication, the de- fendant in error had a right to make the contract in uestion, either as an individual d6miciied in New Grieans or ag @ subject or consul of her Foes: AS to the communication with the rebel district it is that the contract was that the cotton should according to the best ad and that ton was within our lines, For it i# said that the lines wore every day changing; some days the cot- ton was within our lines and on others beyond therm, J. Hubley Ashton and William M, Evarts, for piain- tif™ in error; Sullivan, Billi and Hughes and Thomas J. Durant for defendant in error. A HOP RAISER IN A BAD FIX. Warenvitis, March 31, 1869. Mr. ©, D. Palmer. propagator of ‘the early Paimer pocodiing hope stands in the gap made by a deficit in the bank account of a warty in Uhicago, he had oudorvod. ‘The ttabuivios amount to 410/000. _ELECTION FRAUDS. False Swearing Before tho Investigating Com- mittee—Charge of Sabornation of Perjury. Yesterday morning Michael Cobby, a young maa, Was arrested by officer Palmer, of the Tombs Court squad, on a charge of subornation of perjury in per- suading Chatfleld Smith, of 63 East Houston street, to appear before @ legislative investigating commit- tee at the Metropolitan Hotel and swear that he had been a “repeater” at the last general election, and in the Sixteenth ward voted the democratic ticket “‘ear- ly” and “often.” The legislative committee were tak- ing testimony with the view to determining whether Alexander McLeod or his competitor, William Halpin, was entitled to @ seat in the Assembly from the Thirteenth Assembly District (Sixteenth ward) of this city, both gentlemen claiming to have been elected. Below will be found copies of the affidavits in the case and the statement of Cobby, the de- fendant. AFFIDAVIT OF CHATFIELD SMITH. Chatfleld Smith, of No. 63 East Houston street, being duly sworn, deposes and says that on the ist day of March, 1869, he was called upon by Michael Cobby, at the residence of his sister-in-law, No. 7 Duane street, in said city, who desired deponent to call down to the office of the Croton Aqueduct Department with him; that deponent went with him there for the purpose of meeting one Alexander McLeod as stated by said Cobby in rela- tion to the investigation held at the Metropolitan Hotel relative to the election of Assemblyman in the Thirteenth Assembly District, Sixteenth ward; that while on the way to the Croton Aqueduct De; ment, the sald Cobby stated that he wished depo- nent to be before the Assembly Committee at said hotel, and that he (deponent) voted ille- fally at the. late - gene held in Assembly District in November last, ae m1 that he voted the straight democratic ticket strai through: that he desired Led sega to get a num of other persons to dg likewise, and that recompense for the same would be all right, and that he would attend to that part of it; t deponent and said Cobby, upon ving at the said Croton Board’s offi not finding the said McLeod, went to the office of Robert Murray, United States Marshal, in Chambers street; that upon arriving there the said Cobby went up and spoke to said Mul ina famillar manner, who replied to Col «that the man had not come yet; that Cobby and depo- nent remained there for awhile when the said McLeod came; at the instant he made his appear- ance the said Murray said to Cobby, “there's your man;” that said McLeod then came up to Cobby and talked with him privately, and during the conversa- tion Cobby called deponent over to where he and McLeod were talking; that deponent had never be- fore seen the said McLeod, and there 1t was that he was introduced to him by Cobby; that the said McLeod then opened a conversation with deponent, asked deponent where he voted, how often and for whom, all of which questions deponent answered in the manner described by the sal Sonbe and falsely, at Cobby’s request; that said McLeod, Uobby and de- nent went over and had a drink together and lett (cLeod and Cobby together, who walked up Broad- way, depoaent promising to meet them at McLeod’s house that night, after first meeting Cobby at his house on West Twenty-sixth street, accompanied by Cobby and another man named “Reddy;” that aker remaining in McLeod’s house for some time he came in and pulled from his pocket a number of blank subponas, which he filled up, giving deponent and the men he brought with him one each to attend before the Investigating Committee of the Assembly of the State of New York, on the next day, at the Metropolitan Hotel; that, on the way to the house of said McLeod, Covby informed deponent and the men above referred to to have their fictitious names ready to give in, and that they were to make a statement that they had voted in the Sixteenth ward at the said election before the investigati committee, and that they had voted the democratic ticket; that deponent and said men left McLeod’s house; that subsequentiy deponent in consequence of said supborna appeared before the said committee and stated that his name was Charles Sanders and lived at No. 55 Greeue street; that he voted three times in the Six- teenth ward in said city at the last general election for State officers, all of which is false, and said statement was made or sworn to at the request and instigation of the said Michael Cobby and for money aid at theinstance and bythe sald Alexander Keteod, who handed the suin of twenty-tive dol- lars to his boy, who handed it to deponent in his (lMcLeod’s) presence; that deponent did not vote in the Sixteenth ward at the election aforesaid, and that the statement sworn to by him before the As- sembly Investigating Committee, at the Metropolitan Hotel in said city, was false and untrue in every particular, 30 made and sworn to at the instigation ‘and advice of said Michael Cobby. AFFIDAVIT OF MICHABL CRAY. Michael Cray, of 63 East Houston street, says:— ‘That on or about the 1st day of March, 1809, Michael Cobby employed deponent to go before the Assem- bly Investigating Committee at the Metropolitan Hotel and appear and swear that he voted at the various election polis in_ the Sixteenth ward, in said city, the democratic ticket; that in pursuance of said employment and at the instigation and advice of tue said Cobby he appeared before the said committee and swore that he voted in the said Sixteenth ward twice under the name of John O'Brien, which name he gave to the said committee a8 his own; that said Cobby told deponent to give any name; that the statement made by deponent before the said committee was wholly untrue in every particular; that said Cobby desired deponent to bring a number of men and do likewise which he did, and who went before the said committee; that deponent swore falsely before the said commiitee at the instance and request solely of said Michael Cobby. STATEMENT OF MICHABL CoBBY. Cobby, who is twenty-three years of age, born in New York, living at 220 Chrystie street, and a car- p2nter by trade, made the following statement:— 1 fot tnto this in reference to alleged repeating in the last Noveinber election. Marshai Murray gave me an introduction to Alexander McLeod, an em- ploye in the Croton Aqueduct Department, and who ‘was contesting a seat in the Assembly of this State, at the Metropolitan Hotel, before a committee, in the month of March last. McLeod asked me if | knew anything about “repeating” in the Stxteenth ward and if I could furnish evidence for him before the investigating committee, as he was contesting a seat in the Legislature. [told him 1 would try. I took Smith, the complainant, and introduc him to McLeod. Smith gave me five doliars of the money which he had received from McLeod. | gota num- ber of other men; some of the names I gave to Mcleod .and some I did not. They attended before the said committee and testified they were paid by some one. {* attended and was sworn and testified before the committee on behalf of McLeod. Gave my name as Henry Williams, of No. 102 Greene street. The day that Smith gave his testimony I was down stai:s in the hotel. Michael Cray came to my honse and said he was hard PP, without a doliar, that a little money would venefit him, and said he would go before the committee. For the services performed by me in getting the witnesses before the committee | re- ceived several sums from McLeod at various times. lrendered him no other services than this. I re- ceived about twenty or twenty-five dollars altogether from McLeod. Smith told Oray what would be necessary to say before the committee. Justice Dowling committed the accused to await the action of the Grand Jury. THE BOOK TRADE SALE. Yesterday was the last announced day of the semi- annual book trade sale at Clinton Hall. The sale was conducted very rapidly, the invoices not being as heavy as on the two preceding days. The number of buyers was as large as usaal, and the bidding quite spirited. Prices ranged at very fair rates, but none of the books brought high figures as compared with the marked prices in the catalogue. A publisher whose invoice had been disposed of expressed him- self as, on the whole, obliged to the gentlemen who had bought his books, although, he said, he had been pretty well “slaughtered.” The firat invoice sold was that of Mr. P. J. Kennedy, of New York, which mcluded many works of a religious character, such as the “Key of Heaven,” “The Manual of Catho- he Prayers,” “The Path to Salvation,” &c. These were knocked down at low prices. Prominent in the invoice of Mr. P, O'Shea, of New York, the next in the list, were some very fine imperial 4to. pictorial Bibies, containing illustrations, which brought prices ranging from $1 to $5 50, according to the binding. A folio edition of the same in morocco paneiled brought $7 25, trade price marked $25; Dean Swift's works, by the same publisher, 6 volumes, cloth, brought 80 cents per volume, aod the “History of the Christian Chureh,’’ $2 20 per volume, D. & J, Sadiier & Co., of New York, came next. “The Lives and Times of the Roman utitts,” in two super 8vo. Volumes, superbly bound, illustrated with forty steel engravings, marked in the catalogue at $52, fetched $7 50 per Volume; ‘The Life of Christ and His Aposties,” in quarto, illustrated border and twenty-four steel engravings, fetched $10 50, in morocco, block pattern, marked at $24; a Bible, in im- rial quarto, twenty-six steel engravings, was sold for $16, marked ot $: The ite of the Blessed Virgin, meidly: and iliustrated, brought $9 25; complete works of Gerald Grifin, in ten volumes, cloth, ou fine naper, tiiustrated with steel engravings, were knocked down at 65¢, per volume; the “Hist of ireland,’ by Abbe MoGeoghegan, ilustrated, fetched $1 88, and a combination of the same by John Mitche! sold for $2. Carieton’s “Tales and Traits of * brought $125; the “O"llara Ti Fy jot, tea,” ond “The [ates and , Fortunes of O'Neilt O'Donaeli,” $1. The invoices of D, W. Getts & Wood & Dreasor, and an aditional invoice of A. F. Gravos were then sold, besides a large quantity of stationery, pens, tuk, siates, &c., and a lot of school- CHANGE OF Restprnce.—The Rochester Union says that Sanford K. 0 hh, Who haa long resided at Albion, but for a year or two bas been en- gaged in the law buiiness at Rochester, is about to 0 Up his residence in that city, He haa purchased & very hanisome residence on Washi street, and, much to the gratification of the citizens of Ro- Sr Wiil make that city hia home, —Zrov Whig, Meee UU UEET TEnEIEIE EERIE BROOKLYN CITY. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. A Charge of Passing Counterfott Money. Before Judge Benedict. a man by the name of Camillio Fiol was yesterday put on trial on two indictments of passing counter- feit money. One of the bills was passed in New one in the Eastern District. The bills ir ep were of the denomination of five dollars, Fici has been but ashort time in the coun- try and is unable to speak English. Verdict not yet rendered. Verdict in the Bogart Case. £ The jury returned a verdict in the Bogart case, ported yesterday, for the government, assessing Tatoagee at ssoanean,” N° & SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge Tappen. In the Matter of the Petition of Jasper W. Gtert.— Order of assessment.on lots in Twenty-eighth street vacated. James E. Starkins vs. Ann Starkins,—Order ad- judging the marriage between plaintiff and defend- ‘ant null and void, Fre.—Between seven and eight o’clock last night a fire broke out in the turpentine distitiery of Samuels & McGowan, in Commerce street, near Van Brunt. The distillery and a large portion of the stock were destroyed, involving @ loss of $2,000; in- sured for $1,000. News In Brigr.—563 patients were treated at the Brooklyn dispensary during the month of March. Nine dollars in currency was stolen from the tM of the store of Mra. Rudolph, Third avenue, and Thomas O’Connor, @ youth of seventeen years, was sentenced to the Penitentiary for six months, on his being convicted of the offence, yesterday. AN OFFICER BREAKS A MAN’s ARM.—Oflicer Lent, of the Forty-ninth precinct, attempted to arrest Johm Harmer yesterday afternoon on a@ charge of grand larceny. The officer found the accused in a new building in Stuyvesant avenue and asked him to go to the station house with him. Harmer refused and told the officer he could not take him. The officer senate him by the collar and they struegied together until they reached the street, when Harmer, being the most powerful of the two, threw the officer dowa asmall embankment and he fell into a pond of water. He quickly recovered himself, however, and struck Harmer a biow on the arm, breaking it with his club, Surgeon Cochran dressed the wound and the accused was locked up to answer. Fire MARSHAL’3 REPORT.—According to the reporé of Mr. Keady, Assistant Fire Marshal, for the month of March, there were twenty-eight fires in Brooklyn during that period. The totai loss involved in the destruction of property amounted to $98,136, apes which there was an insurance of $158,660. causes which led to these fires are classified:— Accidental, 10; malicious mischief, 2: explosions, foul chimneys, 2; unknown, 4; incendiarism, 2; col air flue, 1. A large proportion of these fires nave been caused by the carelessness of property owners and tenam®s in leaving the fire burning in the | Soong when they close their stores or places of busi- ness for the night and leave the prem! unguarded. The statutes relative to the crime of arson should, in the opinion of the Marshal, be amended before the islature adjourns. The County Judge,+Dis- trict Af ey, the police and magistrates of Kings county, have afforded every facility for the prosecu- tion of arson and it seems almost tmpossibie to bring the incendiaries to justice. BoakD OF SUPERVISORS.—The regular meeting of the Kings County Board of Supervisors was held yes- terday afternoon, Supervisor Osborn in the chair. A large number of bills were reported from the Pi- nance Committee, which were, with the exception of one, received and oraered to be paid. The special order of the day was the consideration of the report of the jatl committee, presented at the last meeting in favor of enlarging and improving the jail in Ray- mond street. Supervisor Smith moved the adoption of the following resolution attached to the report:— Resolved, That the County Treasurer be and is hereby aa- norined and directed to ralse. 50,000 on Seriifcaton ot tho county, for the enlargement and improvement of the ‘County Jail, be Inserted in the tax levy. Supervisor Dwight Johnson made a few remarks on the subject, in which-he stated that a few years ago the jail was enlarged at an expense of $110,000. Subsequently $76,000 additional was expended upon farther repairs, ‘The building will accommodate 800 persons, The prisoners convicted of trivial offences ‘were sent by the justices to the jail for twenty-nine days at a cost of a. cents a day for tue board of each prisoner. If these bummers were sent to the Penitentiary instead, Where the cost is only twenty ccnts @ day for cach prisoner's board, that institu. tion might be made self-sustaining and the prisoners made to work for the benefit of the county. Taxes were now enormously heavy and it appeared to him that they were “‘gettung into deep water.”’ Supervisor Smith said that the condition of the jail at the present time, when from six to eight per- sons are frequently confined in one room, was such that no casper would oppose the proposed im- provement and risk @ recurrence of the scenes en- acted tnere during the pestilence two years ago. Supervisor Crook remarked that there was no au- thority possessed by the Board to raise more than $5,000 any one year in the manner proposed. He concurred in the expression that the building im question was miserably constructed and badly lo- cated, but he maintained that the necessity for the enlargement of the jail would not exist were it nos that the justices send prisoners there on twenty- nine days’ commitments, thereby giving the Sheriff the profits of the fees accruing. He did not think that it was much out of the wi on the part of newspapers to call the a county building association. The accommoda- tions at the jail would be ample were the justices to send provisions to the Penitentiaty instead of adding to the profits of the Sherii. Supervisor Cassidy said that there were not more than six persons on twenty-nine days’ commitment at presont in the jail. Supervisor Johnson was surprised to learn this, as he had been credibly informed that there were 600 commitments there during a peri of three months. ‘The resolution was amended by inserting $25,000 pncnd of $50,000 in the resolution, and was finally adopted, The Board then adjourned until Tuesday next. DEATH OF A BOSTON MILLIONAIRE IN NEW YORK. Mis Patronage of Art cad Artiste—Muvificent Bequests, {From the Boston Transcript, March 31.) ‘Thomas Thompson, a native of this city, died at New York, on Sunday morning last, in the seventy- third year of hisage. He was a graduate of Har- vard, in the Class of 1817, in which were several very pega nee men, among whom may be named the late Edward Everett, Rev. Dr. S. H. Tyng, of St. George's church, New York; George Banc: Davia Lee Child, George B. Emerson, Sanne! J. May, Jame W. Sever, Charles H. Warren, Caleb Cushing, Lynde M. Waiter, the first editor of the Transcript, and others of note, Mr. Thompson was a gentieman of refined taste, a lover of art, and greatly encour: those who re- quired assistance in establishing themseives in land- scape, historical and portrait painting. Having in- herited a Jarge property, which steadily auginented in value, he was enabled to gratify the kindest tn stinct of the haman heart. The income of Mr. Thompson’s property. amount- ing to nearly $50,000 a year, goes exclusively to Mra. ‘Thompson for life. At her decease it ts given, under the management of trustees, equally to the towns of Brattleborough, Vt, and Rhinebeck, N. Y., to be propriated exclustvely for the benefit and arsistance e — who are dependent upon the needle for a living. Some years since the revenue of his valuable reat estate here was willed tq the same class of female laborers in this city; but owing to what he consid- cred a very unfair course on the part of the assessors In regard to his personal estate, Mr. Thompson left Boston, whieh he really loved above all places in the world, and took up his residence in New York, never once revisiting his old home. Some curiosity has been expressed as to Mr. Thompson's reasons for the selection of the two pleasant places above as his beneficiaries, since in both he was comparatively a si , It is said that tn consequence of being treat in & particularily considerate manner in Brattle- horoagh, where he was passing a month or twi the impression of the attention shown him wag abi ing, and he remembered ft. As he was travelli New York in his own carriage, his wife was detal at Rhinebeck by indisposition, and tt was Rn | the marked kindness and sympathy mani scores of good people, that that town also came for a generous legacy. It 1s said Mr. Thompson was never in @ rail car or on board @ steamboat, His timidity and reserved habits were marked traits im his character, and his nearest neighbors could hardly be said to have been at all acquainted with him. But notwithatanding hia reserve and seclusion he was, whilst living, the known and more frequently the unknown benefactor of many sufferers, often choosing a8 the objects of his anonymous charity persons who were overlooked by benevolent societies and bene. we our readers may, perhaps, remember that we took oo- caston a few years atnce to speak of the filial devo- tion and sad fate of a young dancer, who was burnt to death in New York. je article brought us @ tender and sympathetic letter from Mr. Thompson, putting a liberal sum at our disposal for the benefit of the widowed mother of the unfortunate and worthy artist, ‘This was but one of numerous in- stances of his thoughtful beneficence, the eccen- tricity of which consisted in the selection, as we have said, for nis gifta those apt to be n others, and not letting his left hand know what right hand did, ‘he remains of Mr. Thompson reached this Rornme, and wero aro in anit the by in cometery at the lower part of the his ancestors are entombed. = With his a8 be loaves netther brothers, sisters nor the , family ts extinot.