The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1869, Page 4

m|, Austi’ca Poliey Germany. How tho Irish Church Bill is Regarded | in Ireland. Poe ee ere Spain Advised to Sell Cuba to the United States. The Inmon steamship City of Paris, Captain Ken- nedy, from + rpool the 14th and Queenstown the 26th, Via Halifax 22d; the German steamship Silesia, Captam Trautman, Hamburg the uth and Havre the 14th, andthe Cunard steamship Cuba, Captain Moodie, from Liverpoot and Queenstown 14th and stu, arrived heve yesterday. They bring detals of our cable telegrams up to date of satling. A serious iaundation has occur Surgerau, in ue dyke ofthe Rhine has been swept away for upyards of 300 feet in lengta and all the crops are destroyed. Jn reply to the Pope’s invitation jor preiates to viait the Gouncil in Rome numbers have answered that they will wulingly do so providing (heir ex- penses are paid, their position net aliowig such an Outlay on their own account. The Mr rof Justice in Italy Las issued a cir- cular respocting the ex es of a part of the Italian preaa. Tiese excesses, the Minister adds, must be repressed, aad he th ecalls uy ties to exercise a sirict vigilant c offending jouraals, and to con’ they viol ‘The no} government by Miss Burdett Coutts to repair the 3 for the supply of water to Jernsalem, at her own cost, has been declined. Lhe Turkish government, however, have promised to undertake this work. About thirty journalists on the 10th dined together at Bon’ France, to celebrate the 10th of August, versary of the capture of Louis XVL at tio Tuileries, The fictitious character of the correspondence be- tween tle King of Prnssia and the Emperor of Anstria in 1506, which recently appeared in the Saxon Gezete, has already been authoritatively an- nounced. The Oficial Gazette, of Lerlin, of the 10th, sligmatizes the communication as a “paltry fal hood.”’ It siates, moreover, that no correspondence took piace botween the two monarciis for several months provious to the war of 1868, ‘The new crimmal code for the North German Con- federation has been submitted to a commission of seven eminent lawyers of North Germany, selected by the Federa! Council. It has also been published ne, 1a order to permit every one who requisite capacity and experience to take part ia the national work, and by making his views knowa to tue commission aid them in their ‘task and od tribute to the improvement of the code. Aa iniportant despatch of Count Bismarck to Biron vou Weriber, dated the 17th of March, 1863, has latety been published for the first time. In it the Prussioa Minister clearly states his opinion that the Diet, wile talking a great deal of the wrongs of Schleswixy 10, had done nothing at ali to re- Yieve them, and wished Prussia alone to vear all the Decoasary sacrifices, A terrible cuss is just now before the Assize Court Of the Bouchss du Rhoae, in Fi oure of the village of Beaux and his female servant are ac- oused of murder, the husband of the latter boing the Victim. The acte dlaccusation, or indictment, 18 Published in the Freach papers, bui uo report of the evidence las yet appeared. ‘The Levant Times says the long promised budget 1G now dally expected to appear. it 1s understood Vhat it Makes a volume of some 200 pages, contain- ing a complete and very detailed review of the im- perial inco:;ne and expenditure. It will be published ia Turkish and French. Notice 13 given by the Im- périal Telegraph administration that despatches in foreign languages are now transmissible trom the station at Kerassoon, on the Black Sea coast. Tha price ur a uiessage of twenty words to and from ConStantiaople is thirty-five piastres, Monsieur Lesseps is ready with a new Project for gutting through the Isthmus of Corinth, which, if Garrled iuco eitect, will shorten the jouruey from Marseilles to Constautiaople by fourtecn hours, and that irom Trieste to the same town by twenty hours. ‘The length of the canal would be two miles and a half, and tie expense, if commenced next spring, nly 12,000,090 francs, as a iarge number of the Workuen now employed on the greater works at @uez could be transported ata trifling cost to the acene of ‘ie contemplated undertaking. Ameiancholy accident, says the Gu. wanne, occurred a fow days back ai ¢ Madame Wahisachal, wite of the director of the Dresden Bank, with their only son, a lad of thirteen, ‘wagon the bridge of the Lutschine, when the hus- band and 4 guide, wio had remained together short dis * behind, observed an enormous block of ice carried along by the violence of the stream. He calied(o Madawe Walilaschai’ to fy, but either he was not heard by her, or she was paralyzod by terror, for sue remained motionless, and the im- mense inas3 being impelled against the frail struc- ture, carried it away with both the mother and the son, ‘The Elote of Brussels says that among the work- ing classes of that city there is great excitement just pow ou the subject of the kidnapping of children. Some time ago, it seems, the papers published an account Of the arrost of a princess accused of killing chiidren in order to batie in thelr blood tor the pur- pose of preserving her beauty. This absurd inven- Won took such hold of the popular imagination that within tae last few days several persons—among them two Lnglishmen—who have accidentally Spoken to children in the streets have incurred the Suspicion of oeluz Kiduappers, and have been sub- jected to very rough usage by the crowd which at once coilectel. tte de Lau. indenwold. ENGLAND. Phe oath of Cornelius Crtanell, The folowing is from the Isle of Wight Times, published al Ryde, where the fatal accident to Mr. Grinnell occurred, and contains the {wlest and most correct account of that unfortunate casuaity:— Barly on Tuesday morning, the 10th instant, a hocking and faial accident occurred to Mr. Corne- us Grinneli, of New York, one of taose visitors to the old couniry whose presence was expected to add 0 much ‘cli Lo the preseni yachting scason. It has Gast quite a gloom over the town, aud especiaily over the yaciiting community. The deceased gen- Berman had only just been adinitted a member of the de Victoria Yacht Ciub, having at Cowes pur- Chased the steam yacht Hawk (142 tons). The inquest ‘on lis body was ucla at Stvier's Liotel, Pier street, es Blake, deputy coroner for the isiand, ou Ps jay afternoon. The jury was a most respecta- one, Sir Jonn Montagu Gourgoyne, bart., being ats foreman, and there was a large audience, com- prising several yatchmen. The following was the evidence:— Mr. James Gordon Bennett—1 live at New York; the body (hat nas just been viewed by the jury 18 that of Cornelius Grinnell; I do not know his age; I have knowa him about ven days; since my arriva, here; ‘Was with bun yesterday afternoon; I came up in a wo here and dined With him at the Royal Victoria ‘goht Ciub annual dinner lagt might; he was lody- fog at 25 Pier street, opposite this house; we leit the club shortly atter twelve; lam not quite certain as ‘Wo the time; Mr. Homans, Mr. Grinneil and I came pray together; as we had no rooms tie deceased of- fered to let us sleep in his sitting room; we all went A Stairs; ta a few minutes I went down again tothe ont door; Lleft Mr, Homans and the deceased up few when t got to the door I savy a body laying ly on the pavement gnd partly in the road; Mr. or m, (nls Le] eve et A) doh ‘. out of the window; I immedia ‘went to the body and assisted ip carrying lin Up giteet Spoke to biw, but he did not answer me; was streaming from the back of his head; we at once sent for a medical man, and Dr. Ollard came; iba after the accident. A jaryman— wf band left the room, there was no “ “poet Ma wy, eee going on? — ere at ot when you lett ine room? 'Y practical joking going nh, dear no. Nothing of the kind. Np Dorone! Coroner—I1 suppose fl nee you were ali ‘ oat had been No quarrel between yous (aoe a fot at all; quite the reverse; as @ t—] ware hi and to sleep on ti ie . was Do » uy ‘oon Pp fofa himeels, Homans) live at New York, and mot ADS OF my rinnell had jallen the deceased for the first time at the club tas! even Ing, although | have known his famaly intimately for some time; 1 and deceased and Sr, Bennett leit che club togetlier, aud roy pression Is that it was a littic arter twelve o'clock, but I am not sure; the deceased had offered to let us steep in his sitting room; there were two mattresses to lis bod, aud we had separated thei and made up one bed on the floor; belore Mr, nett ont down stairs the deceased wanted Lim to p 1 his (deceased's) bed and to let him sleep on sofa, bat Mr, Beanett refused to do #0; he then went down stairs; deceased had an impression that he Was going to look for anotuce room, ratier than inconvenience him; be said, 1 witli see; | will step out on to (ie balcony and speak to Din; he drew | Up the Venetian binds and thiewgopen the window and stepped out; he disappeared; not hearing him on the palcoay Ewent to the window aud looked out; I could see no balcony, and the thought flashed across ny mind that he mnst have fallen out; 1 jooked tuto the street, but could not distinguish any thing plunly; 1 then ran down stairs, and found the lying uuder the window; | telt his puise, took he i, and spoke to hum, and then called to Mr. Bonnett that it was Mr, Grinnell; deceased was lying on his back; when I felt his puise there was not the slightest mouon ta it; | ran to the ciub house, and sent the sieward for a medical man; } was in deceased's room when Dr. Ollard and another medt- cal man arrived; they pronounced him dead; I am salisticd his death was mstantaneous; Tam sure be was sober; {should like to make that assertion as ly as langeage can make it. . 2. Ollard said he was seat for shortly after ock, and found deceased on a mattress in here the jury bad seen him, quite dead. death was, he should think, fracture of Kull; he found an external contased ¥ ere was no other injury to be seen, was such a one as he should think ioned by a fii from the window. The 18 over twenty feat, He thought death aneous, and based his opinion as to its on the fact that when he turned tha, body blood owed from the nostrils and ears, ou J. Burgoyne sail he thought one fact could not be brought out too distinctly, and that was the sobriety of deceased, He therefore asked the Ooro- ner to exainine several gentlemen who were willing to come forward and testify to that fact. Vor his own part he bad a long conyersation with Mr, Grin- nell just vefore he left the club, and he could. swear that he was perfectly and entirely sober. Captain Bedford Prin, R. N., said he wag at present staying at sir C. Locock’s, at instead; deceased was well known to him and he could swear that he was quite sober when he lefi the club; Sur Charles Locock, too, was quite willing to come forward and stity Lo the fact, if necessary; besides there was ud, who could tell them the state in which Was when he arrived, 1 of the jury present said they did not think it necessary to pursue the tnquiry any fariter, On that potut they were perfectly satisfied. ‘rue Coroner—So am I, gentlemen, It has been so distinctly and forcibly stated by both the witnesses that | think there can be no room for doubt, A juryiaan said tt had struck him and others that the wridow of the room was very dangerous. Not onty was it very low, but there was no balcony.. It ought to be protected in some way. ‘The Coroner—I was about to wake a similar sug- gestion. I will take care and inform the pas Meh oi the house of your views and myown. He then suinmed up the evidence, which, ne observed, was as salisiactory a8 anything in connection with 50 melanchoiy an occurrence could be. The jury returned a verdict of accidental deatn, and appended to it au expression of thelr opinion as to the state of the window. Sir J. Burgoyne—I propose, gentlemen, that in the natne of the whole Britisi public, and especially of the yacuting community, we express our sorrow at tails untoward accident to one of our visitors from across the Atlantic. ‘The jury acquiesced in this remark, and the pro- ceedings teviniuated. (RELAND. Tho Irish Caurch Bill at Home—Feeling Re« garding [t—Divisioa of PartiesTalk Among the People. DvBLin, August 10, 1869. It ts almost two weeks since her Britannic Ma- jesty gave her assent, by commission, to the bill disestablishiug and disendowing the Church that “Blut Harry” and “Glorious Bess’ spent so much blood aud treasure to establish ia this island; but the masses show no signs of thankfulness, still curse the allen government and spout “treason felony” over their foaming pints and quarts of Dub- Jin stout. One can write pretty correctly of the public feel- ing now. It could not be done when the bili was signed, two weeks ago, unless the ebullitions of “loyal? Orangemen and the significant grins of aristocratic Catholles were taken as the opinion of the people. The first burst—very silent, in- ceed—of anger onthe part of the descendants of the heroes of the Boyne aud Athlone, and the smiling congratulations of Cardinal Cul- len and company have faded, and all's quiet upon the banks of the Liffey; but there is a feeling creeping over the entire “Island of Sainta’’ that may be the salvation of this beautiful but tac- tuon-cursed country, The Protestants see that they have been sacrificed to please -movuay, unless the rich Cathviies, who are the best guardians of tie English garrison in Ireland. The poor farmers and artisans of the Roman Church don’t see the utility of making 80 much noise about a Church that would mention that deceased wished | fall to pieces in a few years from inhe rent weakness and corruption, while the landlords remain the shame of England and the disgrace of the nineteenth contury, and trade as lifeless as it ever was in the capital of Old Erin since the January morning when her Parliament committed political salcide, When the news arrived of the signing of the bill tue loyal Protestants—chere are few disloyal ones— cursed slowly, but made no noise, The Catholic masses paid no more attention to the fact of the royal assent belng given to it than if it were attached to a railroad bill for Cornwall. The high Roman Church dignitaries were highly gratified, but wisely abstained from cock-crowing, because they knew the poor Catholics don’t care a pinch of snuff about tne whole affair, and the Protestants are not the fel- lows to be laughed at or ridiculed. Prudence or Policy kept the uitramontanes from making a fuss over the passage of the bill, and they have done well and wisely by 80 doing. Like sensible men, the abandoned Protestants haye commenced to counsel union, to bury forever the contentions that for so many long years have blackened the fair name of Irelaud; have held out the green bough of recon ciliation, and look forward to a day, not far distant, wuen under the simple name of Ireland they wiil, Protestant and Catholic, labor for her exclusive glory ana benefit, ‘Ten days ago there were two bitter parties in Ire- fand—Protestants and Catholics; to-day there are \aree moderate ones, two of which were as antago- nistic as Gueiphs or Gtibbeline, Capulet or Mon- tague. The parties in Ireland to-day are consutu- Wonais, Orangemen and Fenians, The former are the ola geutry and admirers of O'Connell, whose agitation for peace and repeal was the most suc- cessiul failure of the first half of this century; che Orangemen belong to all classes of the peoples Dee lieve in liberty without priesteratt; woul mantuily figit to extend and preserve the same; but are almost monomaniacal against “Popery,” and delight in iusuiting their Catholic countrymen. Their stupid and slavish celebrations in honor of William ili, are on the decline; the ae iad of tntelligeut aud active democracy is pervading their ranks and is not unwelcome in their lodges. Nobies and merchants, great lawyers and skiiful artisans ure to be found in thetr ranks, The com- pany 1s heterogeneous, Wut walike anything of the kind among the Catholics, The latter are vain and consequential When they possess fifty pounds and a score of cattle, and would not deign to associate with an humbler (in pocket) countryman, ‘The former are Wary, intelligent, bouud by the strong bonds of a great idea; have been tue prop and great reliance of Engiand, but they feel huri to the aoul, feet that they have been shamefully betrayed and “tne act of union violated ;” but they are not dispir- ited, but are arranging to live upon the grace of God and, like their Catholic fellow countrymen, the hebdomadal pennies and occasional legacies pre- sented by all living and oxp-ring believers in tae gospel as preached by Martin Luther, ‘The Fenians are strong in numbers put weak in brains, They are beginalng to exercise their power im the municipal elections; politicians are deferen- Ual to them they are looking up, and soon may be as respeciab!e as the old repeaiers or the true blue Orangemen; but they must blow off considerabie us In some silent place—some impregnaced valley seldom visited by any of our species—drink less whiskey and porter, and place more reliance upon themseives and less upon the vapid cliels of the de- lancet ‘Moffat Mansion,” or the expiring “Senate,” T have visited a few of the leading rendezvous of the Fenians in the hope of finding how they view the Irish Church bill and their opinions in general of the ‘ast act of kindness at the hands of her Britannic Majesty's government. bn parenthese, the restoration of the $20,000 to Mr. O'Mahony is the greatest of the topics among aii the laititul, and his partisans here are putting on atrs, assume @ haughty bearing, look forward to plenty, bave been shamefully betrayed, and ‘ihe act of union violated;’’ they are Seine prepara- tions to live upon the grace of God and the pennies aud legacies of the true believers in the gospel, as preached by Martin Luther, T have visited sevoral of the leading rendezvous of the Fenians in the hope of finding uow they view the situation, and what they think of the last act of kindness at the hat of the English government. En parenthose, the recovery of the $20,000 by Mr, O'Mahony is the great topic among all the faithful, and his partisans here put on airs, look forward to plenty of the needful for contingencies, and “the oly cause of Iretand,” and are sure the “Senate will be bought up, body, boots, old and young po! ticlans, ouc-horse weeklies, and to clinch the bar- jain, as & good natured butcher throws ina bit of t to the poor Widow's pound of scraps, the gallant “senator? who put the plans for ing the Vasile of Dublin, the Rock of Cashel and Blarney Castie in is boots and lost them. That £4,000 has revived the spirits of the original simon pure Fenians, and ‘a8 a matter Of course geveral heavy tron-clade may be sent to Dundrum or Dubiin bay, the habeas corpus | besides to make his suspended and the poitee armed night and day, wot | Dutch oven all itke Shakspeare’s sextoa, With a pickaxe, ahovel and spade, As the Heap {8 supported by the sons of toil, amoug whom are wate, thousands, huudreds of thousands of Ireland's children, a few words about them before I write about Maznum 1, or Bombo Ll. On the north side of the Liffey, not a thousand yards from the leading hotel of the city, there 1s a little public house, where all the stimulants needed by the Dubliners are sold by retail at the hands of a barmaid, whose laughing eyes, carmine cheeks, lovely lips and beantual sorm attract attention at a giance, and profound admiration after a brief con- jab or “banterings of innocent nothings.” Entering with a buriy, Dat respectable son of Ireland, to whom We presented letiers of introduction on our arrival tn the city, we took a glass of young claret and courteously saluced the sweet face belind the tap and walked luco the back room—parior, There was nothing in the place w attract attention; the door was clean, 80 was the table and deal chairs, but over the “freplace” a lithograph of “Robert Kmmet before Norbury” hung, which was flanked by a ood likeness of General Meagher aud gallant “Phil” Sheridan. At the opposite side steel engravings of round tower and Crowniess harp, old castle and thatched cottage peeped through the creeping shadows of the evening. The piace Was cosey but piain, decent but simple, Half a dozen of young wen, smoking pipes sans souci, sat near the little table. They talked of a variety of things, sipped their ale or negus and demurred and contradicwd as they felt inclined. After a proper introduction 1 was cordiatly received and invited “to take something.’ To reiuse is almost equivalent to an insuit, at least It is considered unfriendly. AS I had aa object tn view T accepted the invitation, and took a small portton of young claret, But when 1 had tasted it 1 thougnt it time to ask questions like a true Yankee in a “furrin land.” My neighbor was a Mr, O'f—,, next to him sat Mr. Patrick Mc—, but ! only addressed Mr. O'L—., CORRESPONDENT.—What do you think, Mr. 0'T— of the Irish Dull? Mr, O'T——.—Not much, sir, I’m @ Cathoite and so was my father before me; but 1 don’t want sops to please the heartiess aristocracy of the Catholic Church in Ireland. CoRRESPONDENT.—Why don’t you like it? What do you mean by ‘‘sops?’? Mr, O'l——.—Thav’s hard to answer. Idon’t lke the bill because it won't do the working people of Ireland any good. It will please the ould gouty Cathohe grannies, and arrest, for a time, the de- struction of the power of Eugland in ireland for another few years, at any rate. It’s done to please the aristocracy—the fellows who prate always about the Holy Father and who belicye there are only two Toads in eteraity; one to heaven for Catholics who are inside the Churet and the other for Protestants aod all who don’t believe in the Pope and his tegions at home and abroad. CORRUSPONDENT—You use atrong language, my dear sir; may 1 ask if Catholics in general, or only a few, entertain such sentiments as you do about the Irish Church bili? Do they believe the Cathoile aris- tocracy uutriendly towards the national cause, as it 1s termed? Mr. Parrick Mc——.—Yes, sir; hundreds and thou- sands—a scowl upon lis brow—they’re the curse, vermin of the country. What the devildo I care about the established Ohurch so lomg as I haye leave and license to attend my church or chapel. Tie big bugs of the Catholics are always begging and cray- ing for something for themselves or their relatives— cousins and wives’ poopie Bipod relatives—but they never do anything forthe poor man but spent and shout for the Pope, and cringe before ould Paul Cul- lens at a meeting—lot's take a drink !—they're a set of humbugs; ould Nick will never have his owa until he has them, every mother’s son of them, Mr. Mc—— finished his eid ebulition with a pint of XX in his sinister digits and in two minutes drained the metallic goblet to the dregs. Wiping “the fraught of the porter” from his mouth, he resumed his seat and took out his dudeen ana tobacco, As he spoke incoherently, excitedly and aid not appear to be biessed with much ot the lore of the hedge or na- Uonal schools, I turned towards Mr, O’T—— and re- sumed my conversation:— . CORBESPONDENT—Don’t you think, sir, that Mco— is rather bitterer agalust the Catholic gentry than the generality of the Irish people? that his remarks have no greater base than his own prejudices or those of his family who may have suiered some injustice at the hands of some member of the Catiotic nobility ? Mr, 0’T——,—He's bitter, but nota whit more than many others, He expresses himself, it is true, rather blunily; but the people of Ireland are daily becoming more and more hostile to the so-called Catnolic aris- tocracy. They have no sympathy with the poor; are aiways begging and ee, to aunoy the Ministry until they are provided for, Look at their conduct towards the poor fellows who are eating their hearts in Mounjtoy, Portland and Pentonville prisons, They never lead in any good cause, but are always found in every bad one as far as the tnterests of Ireland are concerned. CoRRESPONDENT—But do you think religious equality a great privilege? Mr, 0'T——.—Yes; but if there is no trade ina tn no education what is the use of any of equality? A es | man—a man with a big family—likes bread and wages, not acts of Parila- Ment and hifalutin phrases about religious equality. All such legisiation ts for tho rich, ‘They take no in- terest ip the poor man, but when they assist in taking his coppers to send to the Holy Father. During our our colloquy several of the fraternity came in, and each one had his say. I thought it prudent to cease, as One of the new comers began to sing “O'Connell Aboo."” ‘ re HOLLAND. The Iuternational Exhibition—Its Original Object=The Exhibitors—Considorations for the Working Class—The Articies on Exhie bition—Real Dutch Taste. AMSTERDAM, August 2, 1869, To veteran travellers the annouacement of a Grand Industrial Exposition to be held in the Dutch cap- ital was r rdly necessary to draw them to the most delightful country in Europe during the summer months, No one who has loitered through the his- toric cities of Holland or sauntered tn the good, old, easy going style over its charming lowlands would fail to revisit the most attractive and fairest portions of the Continent did opportunity offer or occasion adinit, But tothe thousands who are accustomed to make yearly tours over the more familiar countries of Europe, the fact that Amsterdam presents to the curious @ peculiar Internationa! Exposition, in addl- tion to its ordinary attractions, may form an tncen- tive to make a visit to a country too little known and too often slighted by the students of history, the lovers of the picturesque, or the admirers of grand and curious old architecture. Whatever may have been the design of the promoters of the Exposition here, it ig certain that the result will be that thou- sands of people will pe drawn to the country which they might otherwise never have seen, and a better knowledge gained of a nation that has well played aa important part in the world's history. If it may only accomplish this much, tt will not have been brought about in vain. The orignal object of the Exposition, as announced in the early days of the project, was of a maritime character; but somehow or other the display of ariicles in the graceful Crystal Palace do not carry outthe idea. It is pretty dificult to say precisely what the Exposition does represent, We have no email part of the building devoted to the dsplay of objects immediately relating to the seafarlug profes- sion, yet the great majority of the articles of the collection would seem to indicate the object of the Exposition to be to bring to the knowiedge of the working classes such articles of household and per- sonal economy as combine durability and usefulness with cheapness. ‘The Exposition is more in- dustrial than maritime, and it may he said that it 1s a success, if one may judge by the number of articles exhibited accordin to the exceedingly Datch catalogue, which have been bothering my brains over the past forty-eight hours. Somehow or other tt did not occur to the management that perhaps not all the visitors to the Exposition could read the Datch ian- guage, sonorons and musical as {tis whea spoken, even if not understood. However, we have some prospects of secing a change in the announcements, as the French and German languages are beginning to be employed, much to the relief of those wao can make nelther head or tall out of the Amsterdam vernacular, printed or spoken. According to the catalogne nearly 2,400 exhibitors have placed articles upon exhibition, divided into seven classes—houses, Wonsehold necessaries, clothing, food, mechanics, means of moral, intellectual and bodily improve. ment, excluding school books and reports and sta- tistics of association for promoting the welfare of the industrious poor, The Netherlands have $50 contributors of this number; belgium, 580; France, 300; England, 200; the Germanic Confederation, 200; Austria, 150, and Sweden anti Denmark each 60, We notice no articles from American ex- hibitors, although there are doubtless some under other names, The Dutch are of course ahead im all articles relating to househoid economy, and they have carried out in a practical manner’ their ideas of what may prove cheap and serviceable to the working Classes, Never before have I geen pre> parations made to care for poor visitors. In this exhibition everything has been done to make such of the working classes as may visit tt exceedingly comfortable at the lowest possible expense, And in thig one feature there 13 quite as rauch novelty and attraction as in any othor of the Exposition. Outside the pleasant grounds ot the Crystal Palace three sets of temporary buildings have been put ap in wood for the accommodation of the poor. tors. ‘They are perfect models in their way. They are comfortable, cleanly, well ventilated gud neat. They are divided into two ciasses. The first, which affords accommodations for twenty conte per night, has a@ quadruple row of little chambers, furnished wita one or two beds, opening out upon a broad, airy, well lighted corridor. The beds are clean and comfortable, and the furniture, consisting of chairs, table, mirror, washing Lae are of an excelient Kind. An unlimited supply ol water and @ liberal quantity of towels are futnished to cach guest. The second class houses are nearly as weil furnished and equally as clean, the price of lodging per night being only fifteen cents, Tickets these model houses are obtainable outside the palace. Inside the grounds are the resta where an excellent kfast, dinnel maay be obtained for sixteen ponte, each, jn id they inevery way satisfactory. e mi thirty conte @ day, aud have schuapps enguan head sound Ike @& night iong, Mf so desired, With cheap traias ruuugimg through Hol land, and easy modes of conveyance from England and France, it 18 not surprising that foreign artisans are flocking in here, tO spond Spm and profitable holiday, It costs a wooderfully small sum of money to accomplish all this, thanks to the foresight and liberality of the managers. One is quite as much entertained by the funny efforts made by the English workmen to cruise about and make themselves understood with their broad shouldered Duteh brethren, as by anything Amsterdam can exhibit. Somehow or other the bold artisans from Engiand get aloag nicely, because it is easy to pro- nounce the word schnapps, and every Dutchman knows what that means, Schnappacost avout three cents a glass, and ia by all odds the purest drink oue can find in Holland. Our English cousins Seamed the shops very liberally, you may be assured. Although there are many cases yet unopened lying about the palace floors, the show of goods ts exceed- ingly fair. France gisplays @ weaith of articles, all luxurious and elegant, which contrasts strongly with tue simple, unpretending, durable and useful department of Holiand. You may imagine what France would send—all gilt, glitter and eumptuous elegance, a5 il! adapted to the wants of the plain, simpie, hardworking population of the Netherlands as could be imagined. The Dutch “exhibits” are cheap ahd good, especially in the household line. You may see here chairs, good enough for any per- son of moderate taste, that coat less than forty cents, which will outlast 9 generation. Otuera, less fancy in color and quaint in style, may be had for ten cents, and garden seats may be bought for eight cents which will adorn any tea garden from Nieue Diep to Utrecht, Your true Dutchman has no taste for gilding, He wants his furniture of plain wood, in order that the good housewife may scrub {t and polish it until 16 shines white and clean, If you must put @ green and blue windmill on the furniture and aisplace & drove of white and black cows, let them find place on the upper edges, ao that they May not be scrubbed out. But | must reserve for subsequent letters a more detalied description of the Exposition, which has really many Utings worthy of notice and perhaps of vaiue to the people of the United States. AUSTRIA, Austrian Relations with Prassia=Beust and Bismarck. {From the London Herald, August 13.) Count Beust atfords a striking tllustration of the fact that the grievous fault of excess of zeal may be fallen Into by others besides aubordinates and those whose diplomatic experience is only brief. ‘The obli- ations of the Austro-Hungarian empire to its Saxon Jhancellor are neither few nor trivial, He accepted ofiice ata moment when it was much more likely that he would damage his own reputation than benefit the country he sought to serve, yet it is everywhere acknowledged that he has succeeded both in raising himself considerably in political esti- mation and in giving to the Kaiser a firmer hold upon his throne and the affections of his polyglot subjects than he ever before pos- sessed, But while he has shown in do- mestic affairs unexpected skill and triumph, and even in foreign affairs has occasionally come otf with the show, if not with the substance of victory, he has displayed a bickering restiossness in the man- agement of the latter which, if his provoking atti- tude had been followed by its natural consequences, would perhaps already have rather marred than made his fortune, We need not be surprised if he has not forgiven Prossia forthe humiltatton and misfortunes inflicted by that aspiring Power on the empire with whose interests he is now sv intimately associated; and though in this case it 1s not that for- giveness to the injnred does belong, still tc 1s certain that Austria has not been pardoned by the statesman who at Sadowa did her such tremendous wrong, But at any rate Count Bismarck 1s discreet in his animosities, They may be cherisued most when least revealed; but 1 19 some- thing that he does not seize every available 0) portunity of publishing them to the whole world. He gives his enemy rope enough, and trusting to his adversary’s folly does not scandalize people by tug- ing at 1t with his own hands. There may be malice, ed may be even moral guilt, in this astute pro- ceeding; but over and above its sparing us a shock- ing spectacle, it leaves it Open to the intended victim to abstain from despatching himself if he pleases, In plata words, if Count Bismarck bears Austria any further grudge, he does not ine Count Beust, on the other hand, loudly complains that Prussia matn- tuins an unfriendly attitude, How does he prove it? He entirely abstains from attempting any demon- stration, which would probably be impossible, even though the allegation may be perfectly true. We are informed that during the last eight months the Aus- trian Ambassador at Berlin has not had a single interview with Count Bismarck. This 1s es sufficient of an uniriendly condition of things. juz on Whose side 1s the unfriendliness? An impar- tial umpire would probably say on the side of both. ‘The difference, however, between the two is that the one complains with a certain amount of petulance, which sounds almost like anger, while the other, geriia influenced by far deeper malevolence, wisely olds his tongue, If Count Beust would only say less and write less, and believe in Lord Melbourne's recipe of “leaving it alone" for the cure of what seems the incurable, itis probable that the relations of the two Powers Would rapidly experience amelioration. When we are told & Queen’s speech that England and America, having. serious differences and also Pract! grounds for them, have improved tnkeir relations by @ suspension of negotiations, it is conceivable that everybody wili not take this op- tumist view, and that even people may smile at what they may think an instance of extreme political sim- pitctey. But between Austria and Prussia the case quite different. They bave nothing to quarret about; their ditference of opinion has been settled, Nothing but the remembrance of an oid feud and of &@ recent struggle survives to place enmity between thei, and that is peculiarly a case for the cessation of gratuitous verbal communications. Sores must have time to heal, and they heal most quickly when they are most seldom touched. Count Beust would appear to think that he is in Possession of some surer and swifter method; whether at hia desk or in the Reichs- rath, be cannot persuade himself of the wisdom of the aphorism, (he least said the soonest mended, He is for mending things with a prodigality of words and arguments. No wonder ff concord be no nearer, “Tn France,” he bluntly declares, to the Reichsrath delegation, ‘‘we have @ good friend. It is a question whether Germany couid help us if we required tt, The French government up to the present has al- ways shown itaelf friendly towards us, France sin- cerely entertains kindly sympathies for all the people of Austria, Most of the disagreements with Prussia arise from the publication of the Red Book.” Was there ever a series of more provoking and irritable statements made in the full light of day and forth. with flashed by the telegraphic wires to every capital in Kurope? Count Beust seems to have a gratuitous preference for keeping everybody and everything 1n hot water, at @ moment, too, when cold appitca- tions would be highly desirable. Why need he men- tion France at all? The world has surely beén made uwacomfortable enough by certain imperial visits paid and returned. Still it would willingly forget, or at least cease to lay any stress on such incidents, if it only were allowed; but Count Beust must needs give us an ungentle reminder that France and Aus- tria—for this 18 what it amounts to, if it amounts to anything—are just a8 united in their feelings and aims as they were when their union was belleved to be far too close for the welfare of Europe. Moreover, the contents of that red-book, whose publication Count Beust acknowledges hag caused most of his disagreements with Prussia, tend to show that if France and Austria are pot still practically one in general policy it is not the fault of the Austrian Chan- celior. His complaint that the Prussian Cabinet had informed a third Court of what it thought of the Austrian intereession in the Franco-Belgian affair having at last thawed the reticence hitherto 80 dog- gedly maintained at Berlin, has not only brought ‘upon him a terrible rebuke, but has let us fully into the secret of what was the nature of that tnterces- sion and also Into the peculiar mode by which it was urged. When Count Bismarck is provoked into being frank be is frank with a vengeauce, and If we are to believe the information vouchsafed by him, Which there seems good ground for doing, since published documents support it, the Interference of Count Beust in the France-Beigian af- fair was not only dictated by an extravagant regard for the original pretensions of France—pre- tensions with that Power aiterwards wisely and moderately withdrew; but was directed to a special quarter where Prussia could not fail (o regara it a8 an act of positive aggression. Lasing his excuse on the ground that an attempt seemed to have been made to influence to his prejudice the judgment of the Saxoa government respecting his behaviour in the Belgian affair, Count Beust addressed a de- Spatch to the Ausirlan Minister at Dresden, for the benefit of that Court, couched in a tone that might have been proper enough if Saxony were still @ perfectly independent Power. This shockingly indisereet conduct has induced both Saxon; and Prussia to retort with considerable spirt Herr Von Friesen, the Saxon Minister for Machi Affairs, totally repudiates the charge that he was infinenced by anybody in the opinion he formed of Count Beust’s attitude in the Franco- Belgian atfair, whica was based on hig own know- ledge of the conduct of the latter; while Count Bis- Marck, writing through nis Under Secretary, Herr Von Thile, takes occasion to “deny, on raiional and political grounds, the right the Austrian Chancellor to offer any criticiams of the kind preferred’’—/. ¢., on the communications addressed by Prussia to Saxony, “Our communications to German govern- ments,’ continues this severe despatch, ‘aro necessarily exempt trom the control of forelgn Cabinets, ‘This remark refers to our inter. course with all German governments, and more especially with the Dresden and the other North German governments, there existing @ perfect solidarity between the North German federal be gy Fal We need not stop to criticise the gome- What disputable statement as to the relations of Prussia with “all German governments,’ the Southern States obviously inciuded, It is enough to note that at each fresh indiscreet assault Count Bismarck makes 9 fresh advanc " bis ieee whilst, more justified here than in ti le foregoing instance, he avails himseif of his adversary’s diplomatic mistakes to tighten cord which binda the North German governments to the side of Prussia. Connt Beust may rest assured that voi. umes of red books and @ world of dispatches will not undo the work of Sadowa. If itever i@ to be une done it will be by other means, & . and Convent Schools Throughout the Empire. The Vienna Press writes as follows:— at the ‘The agitation aroused by outi melite Convent of ‘Gracow is Cobiinus y Wicreasing, @nd it causes all other questions to he forgotten. de mouewme Whig tbe muuiotpaley of tema Conv reel 0 take, and which che mul Pality of Cracow have already takea, will not statin’ #one. We learn thatj other municipaiities are avo! & make the game the same manifestations, and tis. resolutions, supported by public meetings held for that purpose, will strengthen the goverament in lis onward course, and ultimately bestow upon the country @ law upon the convents in harmony with the principles of the new constitution. ‘The fact has been demonstrated by experience that at least three-fourths of the novices of the different rell- ious orders are recruited in the convent schools, in those schools the directors first of all cast their glances upon the pupils whose disposition, talents, s cial position and means, may ultimately render them useiul members of the order; and with the resources of all kinds placed at their disposal by a system of education skilfully planned for that pur- pose, they operate mm these young miuds, ana graduaily lead them by gentle gressure to the great act of the renunciation of the world. tis princl pally in the nunneries that these mancuvres are practised. Very few nuns are to be found who have not passed througit a convent school before embrac- ing the religions life, These educational establisb- lishments, therelore, should be first dealt with ti the influence of the convents 1s to be curtailea; and it is above all the system of education of young girls in Austria that must be reformed if the pernicious and deplorable competition it meets with im the giris? Scnools of tie convents is to be neutralized, SPAIN, pr Reasous Why Spain Should Soll Cuba to the United States, {From the London Post, Augast 21.) Whether there be auy foundation or uot for the re- port tuat the government of the Unijed States bave een in negotiation for the purchase of Cuba there are certainly a variety of circumstances which invest it with an air of great probability, That the United States are anxious to acquire “the ‘pearl of the An- tulles’’ there can be no doubt, and the present rela- tionship between Spain and her colony is just of that nature which would suggest the idea of ‘‘a deal’’ to hard-headed Yankee statesmen, America for the Americans has been a favorite sentiment on the other side of the Atlantic fro the days of President Monroe, and since the termination of the civil war the government of the republic have on more than one ovcasion proved the earnestness of their desire to give to it the practical effect. It must, however, be said of the Americans that if thoy seek to extend thelr dominion it is by the most commonpiace and business Ike of modes. Annexation in the sense in which that term has been too often employed in Europe has not yet found a place in the American vocabulary. If the Americans 80 far violate the decalogue as to covet the'r neigh- bors' property, they at least offera fair equivalent for its acquisition, and do not, aiter tae manner of some of the older States of the Dastern hemisphere, avail themselves of superior strength to eifect the desired transier. [tis unnecessary to refer with any partioalarisy. to the circumstances under which the ‘anish Island of St. Thomas, in the West indies, and the Russian possessions in the northwestern corner of the American continent, passed undor the dominion of the government as Wasiington. St. Thomas was undoubtedly necded, because the Ame- rican governinent were desirous of having a sta tion for their ships of war in the West Indies; but Alaska was purchased apparently with no other ovject than that of diminishing the number of foreign Powers liolding pessessions on the Amorican conit- nent, Ia both cases the transaction was of a purely pecuniary kind, and was concluded, 28 we may pre- Bume, to the satisfaction of ali concerned, Deninark had nothing to gain by spring her footing on a smail island at the opposite side of the Atlantic, and the little encouragement she received in defending her more substantial possessions in Kurope doub less exercised no hittie influence in inducing her to sella colony which she would have becn powerless to defend. As to Alaska, the Ozar was very lyon to obtain a good round sum for a barren tract of terri- tory extending into the frozen regicus, and whic! by no possibility, could ever be worth a third o! the sum for which it was sold, what the Ameri. cans on their side are equally contented we May rest assured; and having thus ousted two Powers from any plea for intervention in American affairs, or any excuse for trading on American soll, they no doubt desire to push still further that policy which until now has proved so successful. It will no doubt be in the recolleciion of the puv- lc that some months ago, and itamediately after the accession of President Grant, we called attention to What seemed to be an intention on the part of the goverment of the United States to intervene in the Cuban insurrection. Many circumstances tended to give rise to tis surmise, and no secret was made by the President and bis advisers of their desire to see Cuba admitied witiun the American Union. Suill- ciently close to the maiuiand to admit of being re- garded as in American waters, the Monroe doctrine unquestionably pointed to its acquisition, Lf such ac- quisition were possible. Under these circumstances we pointed out that, although the property of Spain, France and England had a direct interest in preventing Cuba being wrested from its pre- sent possessors, and that any attack on it would in effect be an attack on Jamaica and Martinique. If an excuse were made to-day for appropriating the Spanish colony 1t was reasonable to assume that at no distant day a pretext would be found for laying hands on those islands which now owe allegiance to Great Brisain and France. Without for one mo- Ment suggesting that the intentions of the Cabinet at Washington wore other than perfectly honeat, or that they were in any degrec modified by the pros- ct of this contingency, it is sufficient to say that ho attempt at interterénce in Cuban ataits ‘was qaade by the Ameri government, and the strict- est neutrality was ie U! tes as between the establisi government in Cul the insurgents, Thus matters continued till the other day, when it was currently reported that the government of the United States had offered to pur- chase Cuba from the Spaniards for the round sum of £20,000,000. Dismissing for the moment all notice of the some- what equivocal contradiction which this allegation has met with, we may at once state what our opinion of the transaction would be, assuming that it has in fact been contemplated by the two Powers, If Spain choses to sell Cuba she has, of course, the same undoubted right to do so that Denmark bad to part with 5t. Thomas, and we can ae say that in the event of the sale we hope we shail continue on as nelghbourly and friendly terms with the Cubans under the oew government as we have been with them under the old sovereignty, Ii the United States have @ desire to purchase as many of the outlying islands on the American coast as ‘the present possessors are willing to part with they are perfectly welcome, 80 far as we are concerned, that they should do so. The acquisition of those islands under such circumstances would fuinish no color for an attempt to annex by violent means any of our colonies, and we can therefore ford to watch with indifference transactions in which for all practical purposes we are uninterested. As to Spain, we entertain a shrewd suspicion that the best thing she can do is to close with the American oe Not only does she gain poe by uba in its present unsettled state, but she loses annually sums which she can ill afford. Apparently not strong enough to stamp out the msurrection, she is nevertheless obliged by a false sentiment of honor to continue attempts as costly as they are unavailing. Even if she were able to restore tran- quillity in the isiand, a considerable time would elapse before she would reap the full fruits of her success, and probably before that result had been attained the flames of rebellion would break out afresh. These are considerations, which, if we mis- take not, will have weight with the government to which the destinies of Spain are for the moment en- trasted; and, notwithstanding the dementi which the rumor in question has met with, we should not be surprised at hearing ere long that the purchase and sale of Cuba have been effected, FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The Viceroy of Egypt has invited Marshal Serrano, the Regent of Spain, to attend at the opening of the Suez Canal. In order to suppress brigandage In South Italy General Pallavicini has offered rewards of sums va- rying from $60 to $600 for the capture of brigands, 1D proportion to their grades. A German proposes @ tax on planos throughout Germany of ove dollar and a haif each, which would produce about $555,000 per annum. He caicaiates that there are 370,000 pianos, exclusive of those used by toachers, The overtures forthe purchase of Ouba by the United States government are creating some sensa- von In European political circles, but 1b 1s feared that the mission of Mr, Forbes will not be regarded in a very favorable light by France aud England, The Indépendance Belge reports that ina recent conversation between the Emperor of the Frencn and @ foreign diplomatist, on the present crisis in France, the foriner observed that if the ath in- teuded tw check and control tie government ne would not hesitate to appeal to the people. FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC HOTES. The German journals announce the death of Dr. Carus, President of the Atademy of Sciences at Dresden, anda man of high repute for his philo- sophical works. Of late the theory has been advanced: that earth- quakes are caused by the influence of the sun and moon on the Internal waves of the earth, A Mr, Rudolf Falb has iately written in defence of this ‘ae pothesis, and in order to gre @ cleav proof of its correctness he prophesies that the next earthquakes will occur in equatorial countries, on the 7th of Au- st, the 6th of September and the 4th of October, ne shortness of the intervais svems to prove that he i in earnest. The Varschawki Dnievnik of Warsaw announces the discovery in the environs of Ozenstochof, in Poland, of @ seam of coal on an estate named Tarkof, The combustible extracted is of superior quality, The St. Petersburg Gazette states that ex. Plorations are also aout to be made to find inines of the same fuel in the district of Waidai, govorninent of Novgorod. Berlin contains 13,011 private houses and 645 bulld- ings for other purposes. The former are butit in Separate flats, ad in Scotland, and sre divided into 162,641 dwellings, including 14,292 cellars, or rather more than one to each house, in which the poorer families live and generally carry on some trade or business. An inquiry is at present being made as to the relative number of children in families of the higher and lower ciasses, and though all the data have not yet been collected, it seoma certain that at least more children grow up in the middie and upper classes than am the work atest number Vv! I fon | a Maar Rerita THE INTER-UNIVERSITY BSAT BACE. Proparstions tor the Coming Event--Disade vauluges Under Which the Harvards* Lebor—American PluckPorsonnel of Both Crews. a ” Lonvon, August 14, 1869, The race between the American and Lnglish Unt- versity mon is now definitely Mixed for the 27th inst, and it is therefore questionable whether this letter will reach New York in time to be laid before the readers of the New YORK HERALD before that inter- esting event shall have taken place and the results be made known to the people of the United States, Yet it 1s as well now to put on record some’ pisin™ facts in advance of the great Anglo-American Unte versity contest, which will show that, whickerer aide may win, tt will by no means be @ race on equal terms, or in which even an ordinary amount Of fairness bas been shown to the stranger crew. No fair-minded man will object to the conditions made before the challenge of the Harvards was finally accepted by the Oxford four, as the latter had thelreyes open, and could have concluded or given up the match, just as they thought proper. It may be regarded as sharp work—sharper than even the much aoused Yankee ts ordinarily accustomed to Practice—for the Oxford crew to have insisted frat upon rowing their chaliengers in the English style, With @ Coxswain, instead of in the American atyle, without acoxswain; and next upon fixing the course over the water they knew so well, and refua ing to meet their adversaries upon any more neutral stream. But as the Americans yielded both thesa Points, in order to leave no loophole by which Ox- ford could back out of the match, they of course have no right to grumble at the conditions, no mat. ter. how onesided they may have been, or how favor: able to the English crew. The Harvards, however, have the right to complain, first that they were pressed and hounded to fx a day for the race before they had received the boat in which if was to be rowed; that they were held strictly up to the letter of the agreement and compelled to row in August, al- though two of their men ald not arrive in England until the first week of that month; ana, finally, that they were required to fix the day of the race unal- terably, and denied the privilege of postponing it in case cfa severe storm. The latter request every fair-minded man felt to be most reasonable. The Harvards, it is said, even offered to refer the ques- tion to three rowing men, to be selected as the Ox- ford might choose, agreeing to abide by thelr decta- fon; but the Oxford crew chose to take every chance, one of which was the luck of having a day for the race such as the Harvards bad never experienced, in England, and refusea to make even this clight concession to the strangera who had come over to meet them on their own water. The result of all this is, that two of the Harvard crew will have at longest but three weeks to practice; that none of them Wil uave Lad that length of time to practice in their race boat; and that they may be compe!lad to row in any sort of weather, without having vad a siogle opportunity to test the capacity of their boat in a storm, while the Oxford mea have been “coaching”? and training for four months, are provided with a boat to which they are thoroughly accustomed for any conceivable weather, and have been for years used to practice on the Thames and over the same course in storms in order to be prepared for any weather m the annual English university contest, Whlte no person has a right to gcamble at and few people care what the London papers may say in reterence to a race beforehaad, It is nothing but rigut to add to these remarks that the journals here have done their vory best from the first 10 decry the Harvard crew and to declare their chance of ‘success entirely hopeless, evidently in the hope of discouraging the Americans and thus adding to the chances of taeir defeat. It is now announced with a grand flourish of trumpets that the “conservancy of the ‘Thames’? have promised to cbatn the course and to allow no trafic on that part of the river, no steamers, barges or guerilla wherries on the track during tne time of the race, It1s tobe hoped they may as good as their word, and if they should be no one will withhold from them their meed of praise. It must be given, however, after it has been wou. The best people here—unfortunateiy the; are @ select party—sincerely hope for a clear fi2ld and no favor. It is proper to say that the Harvard men make no Complaints, and do not, indeed, seem to oare one straw what advantages their Oxford oppo- nents may strive to teke over them, reer are gues confident and industrious, and act as though they were resolved to do their best and to pay nd attention to emall annoyances. ‘ne following opinion of the two crews is appended, not as your correspondent's views, but as the opinion of an Eng- lishman who 1s @ competent judge of the quaiities of rowing men. It is given for what it 1s wa! but it is at least an honest expression of the writer's con- viction:— THE HARVARD CREW. It tne Harvard crew were not. gifted with a more than ordinary amount of firmness they would bave been aiscouraged long ago. Ina strange country, almost witnout u friend, and with every newspa} against them, they are training fora race ayail meu who are at homo, surrounded, their friends and lauded to the skies by their pi The betting, ‘too, is quoted at two to one against the Havard met and, in faci, everything that 1s calculated to dispiril and discourage the representatives of America tw fp aselg carried into effect. To review the atate of the case as it now stands, and to avold anything like pai tiality, 18 our object; and, setting aside the disad. vantages under which our’ men row, we shall ven- ture to give the readers of the Nsw York Hesatp the “straight dip,” as itis called here in Ei ud, and to endeavor to give our reasons for coutng 6 On M such @ conclusion. Monday, the 9th instant, tne Harvard crew took to the boat constructed for them by the English builder Salter, which is a similar boat to the one that will be rowed by the Oxonians. This is an im- portant matter; as now, should the Harvards be Successful, the excuse cannot be made that they rowed in a much better boat. When they took thoir places in the boat for the first time it was manifest to any one Who understood boating that they were Not accustomed to row in boats constructed on the principle of the one they were then in, and we must admit that when they started for thelr practice we felt that their chance was small, it bemg, We con- sidered, aimost Imposatble to acquire a proficiency in this (to them) new style of boat in the very shors time left at the disposal of the men; we coul ing out the then faults of the crew, but as they have found them out for themselves, and, still better, tia’ corrected them, we need not do so, Our next visit was on Wednesday, the ith, and if we were dis- couraged on the Monday we were more than com- pensated ror it on Wednesday. It was with some difficulty we believed that {t was the same crow in the boat, and the men being all strangers to us, wo had to make Inqnirtes in several quarters before we could really convince ourselves that the} same men who rowed on Monday, and that they were rowing in the same boat. To use a somewhat hackneyed phrase, “they rowed ag one man,” more than this they did not roil the boat, but she glided on au even keel, or rather she would have done 40 if she had a keel at all; better still, the men caught the water quicker with their oars and drew them well through the water, rather liftiug the boat at each stroke, and there wasa@ regularity between tho strokes, that is one man did not get a longer reach than another. The line of featier, too, was mac better, and although they dipped the sea with th biades of the oars occasionally there was @ ver marked Ee aerten in this inost important fauli and if the rlarvard crew ouly get accustomed ta the pocultar style of rowing that is required for their at, Instead of being two to one on the Oxonians to any unprejudiced minds it is ten to one on the Americans, THE OXFORD OREW. So much for the Harvard crew, and now for the Oxford men. On Wednesday they made thetr frst show at Putney for this race. From the many (tines. that they have trained at Putney, they must be ag. weil acquainted with the course as with the gates. of their respective colleges. We need scarcely say that we viewed their rowing with considerable at- tention, and that we sought eagerly for the long tajked of long drag, clean rowing, &c., bul We found it not. ‘The boat they rowed roiled more than the Harvards did on Monday last, and the stroke, although long and lasting, lacked that very necessary aricle, power. It is evident that effect has been carefully studied, and that, too, at the cost of propelling power. True, the men drag their oars weil through the water, but tustead of applying their force When the oar is at right angles to th \hey appear to drag when the oar iirst touches the water, but no langer, Well, then, after due consideration, and wishing to avoid anything like prejudice, we,come to the concinaion that Oxford has as much ¢o learn as Har- vard in the aclence of rowing on the and that while they have the advantage of know! every inch of the course they lack the tt power that the Harvard crew have in ad which they do not ply the power they have at the right moment, and with a clear course and no favor we have little doubt, but that the Harvard crew wil be iwo boats’ length ahead on the 27th inst, EXPORTS AND IMPORTS FOR THE YEAR. {Washington (August 23) correspondence of the Bos- ton Advertiser.) ce sheets the report of General Bureau of Statistics, for the month id the fiscal year ending with pears what the total value of dutiable articles ported for the ending June 30 was $395,847, 300 against $242,245,059 last year; the vaine artioles tree of duty was 179,172 this year and $20,879,141 last, |The totul export of domestic commodities was $413,860, 182 for this year and §454,301,713 for last. Of foreign commodities re-exported, the dutiable ticles were valued at Us heal 2 this year andig11,480,- 431 last, while af those free of duty the ae atand $14,692,065 this year and $10,709,007 last. ie total value of the products of the Amorican fisheries re- ceived into the United States during the reer end- eae ‘80, 1869, Is reported at #3,040,006, The total value of the shipments of domestic commodt- ties from Now York by way of Panama for the same timg Was $10,076,403, while in the same period the retarn shipments of domestic commoditioa by the e route from San Francisoo ta New York wo! ‘Vained at $3,057,939, The value of the shipments o! foreign commodities by the way of Panama t@ New York for the same quarter Was $52,.90h From ad) Walker, of the