The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1869, Page 4

EUROPE. England’s March Towards Republican Democracy. PARIS DURING THE DULL SEASON General Sickles’ Mission and the Cuban Question. One Hundred and Eleven English Love Leiters in Court. Our special correspondence and files from Europe supply the following important and interesting de- talla of our cable telezrams to the 2ist of August, besides furnishing @ comprehensive and accurate re- view of the actual position of affairs, with the ten- encies of the people. The London Spectator commences the publication of a series of papers on the prospects of the English laborer in America. ‘They are condensed by their author from a report made to the Society of Arts, who sent him out to examine the question. His general opinion may be summed up thus:—The English mechanic gains little or nothing by emigration, except the chance of a good gratis education for his children. The unskilled iaborer gains, in addition, a great increase of wages, of com- fort, and of liverty; while the agricultural laborer may be said to gain everything. His report on the free schools is less favorable than usual as to results, the ‘grounding’ being, be believes, decidedly in- suMoient.”” ‘With respect to the amount of city taxation in London comes a statement of the local rates an- mually paid by a householder tn the parish of Cam- berwell. His house ts rated at £55. Poor rate, 2s. 0d.; general purpose rate, 1s, 2d; water rate about 1s. 1d.; expenses of Board of Works, 6d.; lighting rate, 5d.; local sewer rate, 4d.; main drain- age rate, 3d.—total, 68. 64. Even Camberwell is better off in this respect than some of the East End Parishes. In 1862 the rates in St. George’s-in-the- Eastamounted to 7s. 3d., and those in St. Nicholas, Deptford, to 9s. 2d. in the pound, Thus the inci- dence of taxation in London affords an incentive to the discharge of the great duty of getting on. When @ man grows richer and moves westward he finds a double improvement in bis circumstances. He has fewer rates to pay and more money wherewith to pay them. If he goes to Tyburnia he will only be liable for 2s. 44. in the pound; if he takes a still higher fight and settles in Mayfair he will escape ‘with 23. 14. Areturn just issued relates to English Parliamen- tary boroughs having a population of 20,000 or more, and to the poorrate made next after Christmas, 1867, when the Reform act of 1867 had come into full operation, abolishing composition and requiring that every householder be tated to the full rate. The return shows a rate to be collected amounting to £2,218,858, There was actually collected £1,828,325; £21,811 was legally excused; £90,147 was, for other cause, not recoverable; the recoverable arrears are stated at £126,659; but in several instances no entry appears under these last three heads, the rate not having been closed; 52,343 persons, almost an exactly equal number of men and women, were ex- cused from payment of the rate on the ground of Poverty; 137,926 summonses were issued for re- covery of the rate, and 20,442 distress warrants. ‘The return shows 155,281 tenants at weekly rents. An instance of attempted heavy cheating by tele- graph 1s related:—The agent of the Commercial Branch Bank in Stirling received a telegram, pur- Porting to be from the head office of the bank in Glasgow, instructing the agent to pay over to a Mr. John McKinlay, Jr.,the sum of £280, Mr, Morrison,the agent, thinking this procedure unusual, telegraphed back to the Glasgow branch, and a reply was re- ceived informing him that no such instructions had been given from tne office. This fact aroused sus- Picton. About half-past two o'clock the same day a man presented himself at the bank and produced a telegram, which he said he had received from tbe head office of the bank in Glasgow, and setting forth that the agent in Stirling bad been communicated with regarding the payment of £280. The bank agent declined to pay over the cash, notwithstand- 1ng the appeal of the individual that he must get either the whole or part, as his failure to do so would put him to great inconvenience. In the evening information was lodged with the county constabulary, and after inquiries it was learned that 8 man answering the description given had taken up his quarters at the Queen’s Hotel, Stirling, for the night. About midnight Chief Constable Camp- bell and Superintendent McNab, accompanied by Mr. Morrison, proceeded to the hotel in question, nd there found the object of their search. He de- clined to furnish any information regarding himselr. The London Saturday Review holds that “the causes which tend to diminish orginal power, whether in the nation or the individual, are faulty education, @ distracted mode of life or too rapid Production.” The London Heraid observes that ‘had such letters as those of Baron Thiele aud the repiy of Count ‘Beust passed between governments which had any serious cause of quarrel they would have seemed, as such despatches often do, the prelude of war. It is fortunate, then, that there 1s no longer any tangible rivalry between these kindred nations. They have no longer the same ambition, and can aiford, the writer says, ‘© leteach other alone, and attend to their own concerns without quarrelling.”’ ENGLAND. Falitical Organizations and Assemblages Fonianiem, Its Operatio: Bearing—Is Rovolation in Prospect tC. to the American System. Lonpon, August 21, 1860. Io @ recent number of an evening penny paper devoved to the London snobs the account | gave you 4m a former letter of @ meeting of Fenians at which I was present is very coolly set down as s sensational invention of my own. To prove that what! said Was true would be to violate all contidence placed in me when I was admitted to the assembly. Of course it is well for newspapers who, in true Eng- lish fashion, know, and wish to know, nothing of what is going on inthe midst of them, to sneer at accounts of Fenians and their meetings here in Lon- don, But time will show whetner I am right. There are not only Fenian meetings, but they are revolutionary meetings, and going on in London every week. They are kept private, and as yet their object is merely to preach and spread their political doctrines in every possibie direction; and they have succeeded wonderfully, considering the short time they have been at work. The iower orders and @ vast number of the lower middle class are thoroughly imbued with the very worst of revo- lationary principies, If, which God avert, we had a revolution in London to-morrow, hundreds of thou- sands who are thought to be peaceable, loyal sub- Jects would join in any tumult or violence in which they thought they might gain something. It is not from the Fenians that Englishmen have learned these political doctrines; nor yet have they reached us from your side of the Atlantic. It is the fault of, a6 it is said, the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the aristocracy that revolutionary principles have be- come s0 popular. Of the Queen, on account of the ‘way she has shut herself up for so many years from communication with her subjects, and the Injury she has done to the trade of the metropolis by the vir- taal witadrawal of the court from London, It is the fault of the Prince of Waies on account of the inte- rest be took and the welcome he gave Garibaldi in London some yeats ago. It is the fault of the aristocracy on account of the change in their habits as @ body, and the comparatively poor wa! they live now as contrasted with their habits an dives iw was court in London, and when vate life of that court was an example for kno ribet there is & great evil brew! a Ld rewing aroun: us. don’t write about is, for, unfortunately, our ita seem to it better to nore any overs unti the storm burst NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1869.—TRIVLE SHEET. ore doubt abont tt. They don’t ba Ne licy and fashion of the day among us is to * and be merry, for to-mor- Tow we may die."" they know, they feel it ex- ists, and that at no very distant day there will be an overtu of the very A cigeresr of government in hat 1 cali the le of land, that in tue nard oF proresstonl classes and the 1 rs, are weary of being over- Ciba aud badly, governed. What do they’ care about the Reform — eee a act? Nei- @ nor the other affects them, that het reformed debt, It does abolish imprisonment uw the case of men who owe large sums; but for small debts, for anything under dfty pounds, not only may the petiy courts imprisom &@ man again and days each time, but the imprisonment does not purge the debt. Is this right? 18 not this making one law for the rich and another for the poor? No lon; than three nights ago, on my way home from a dinner part ai mapped into @ respectable tavern to a bottle of water. I heard some talking going on in the room benind the bar, and asked what it was. The landlord told me it was a debating club, and would Istepin? ididgo. The room was filled with @ dozen or more of evidently re- spectable tradesmen, and the subject of debate was, “the present government of England.” There was no secrecy, no di ige about the matter. If the speakers had been Irish, and were called Fenians, the police would have been among them 1n five min- utes, As it was, they were sina talking what Eng- lshmen a few years ago would have called treason against the throne. They were not induiging in “tall talk,” nor spouting for the sake of hearing themselves talk, They were earnest men after their own convictions, and were calmly asserting that im Np ese we shail never get rid of the load of taxation which bears us down, nor yet of the immense difference which exists petween the laws for the wealthy and the poor, until we have @ republic stead of Lords, Commons and crown to govern us. I was given perhaps half adozen small tracts, which, sofar as tam able to judge upon a hurried perusal, seem ably written, all upon the one subject. [ was told of no less than six places in diiterent parts of London where on Sunday evenings lectures upon the advantages of repub- licanism are given, And | heard enough to con- vince me that there ts a set of opinions working their way among us, which are by no means what the friends of the English crowa could approve ot, But go higher, much higher, in the social scale, You will hear among the highest in the land repub- lican notions and ideas talked of, with approval, by men belonging to the best families in England. America has been much more visited du ing the last few years than ever she wag before. Your institutions are better understood, your wonderfui ostionality 1 more envied. You seem, as 1 heard a member of Parliament say lately, you seem to centre in Washington politically as m: different interests as Rome does nations in churci matters. Your trade and commerce is sncneasing. and spreading all over the world, In Germany an in France some of the leading writers on military matters have borne to the extraordinary power which you raised up in the phone of an army, and now political writers on this side the Atiantic are wondering at that vast host of men, all of whom seem to have returned 10 their civil occu) eaten a pations. Only this morning 1 was reading in a paper by the gentioman Known a8 “Bull Run’! Russel tribute of Seen to your marries ralvay organization for military purposes during the great The article was a resume or abridged transia- from Le Spectateur Militaire, a French mulitary jagazine. Go where you will, read what you like, talk to this, that or the other person about the future of the world, and the conclusion is the same. ‘Look at America” is the ory of every one. The results of your government are that every man who is honest and industrious may have @ roof over his head and @ meal wren us table, Look, then, at England. We have in England, ireland and Scotiand about 300,000,000 acres of waste land that could be cultivated and would give Occupation and food to many hundred thousand peop le. But we take no steps to improve tuis land. On the contrary, it seems to be an axiom that a poor man ought never to feel he has a home of hia own. Every year we are draining the country or allowing tt to be drained of nearly half a million of our very best people. Who remain behind? The wealthy and the roughs—the idle, fashionable, and those desperate from poverty. Can such a stave of things last? I believe not, and every thinking man in your country and in ours will agree with me. Breach of Promise of Marriage—Heavy Dam- agesOne Hundred and Eleven Love Late ters. [From the London Sun, August 19.) A breach of promise case, in which heavy dam- ages were obtained, has been tried at the Liverpool Assizes. The plaintiff was Miss Kate Fleming, young lady, twenty years of age, the second daug! ter ofthe late Mr. Fleming, of Glasgow, a well known accountant, who died in 1868. The defend- ant was Mr. James Elliott Thompson, the son of the eminent shipbuilder, of Sunderland, and was twen- ty-four years of age. While Mr. Fleming’s life lasted his means were good and his daughter Was consequently sent to a good school in Edinburg, Where she was @ schoolfellow of the defendant's Sister, Who there became her inumate friend. She was thereiore invited to stay at the Thompsons’ house in Sunderland, and spent Christmas of 1865 there, and made the acquaintance there of the de- Tfendant. Inthe summer of 1867 she was asked vy her friend's family to join @ Continental trip, but her father having died in the meantime, and, con- trary to expectation, having left his family in some- What embarrassed circumstances, she was compelled to decitne the tnvitation from a fatlure of means. {n the meantime she had been offered @ home by her sister and her husband, @ gentleman named Ache- son, and she lived with them at a@ residence called Windsor Lodge, near Dublin, and sometimes at @ shooting box which he sentee, called Kip- pua Park, m the county of icklow, She visited the Thompsons, however, again at the Christmas of 1867, spending several weeks with them there, and then it was that her engagement with the defendant occurred. Sie returned home in the spring of 1868 and obtainea her brothe r-in-law’s consent to the engagement, and the correspondence then commenced. It was very voluminous, extending into the February of tne present year and contained in all 111 letters, but comparatively few of them were used in court. They began tn the usual gushing style, and went on so until the defendant wished to have the marriage day settled in November. But the plaintiff would have it put off until February. After that the correspond- ence on the plaintiff's side was a trife cooler. By aud by the time came for buying the furniture; and in the letters between tue couple on this subject the plaintiff charged hia “darling Kate” with being un- concerned about the future. She replied that she was not so. She was not so enthusiastic about getting the linen—bed or table—as he had ex- pected. What he would seem to have wanted was to have produced a coolness on Miss Fleming's side such as existed on his own part. In this, however, he was not successful. She declared her willingness to do what she could, and charged him with bemg cool towards her. By and by he brought matters to 4 consummation by a letter, in which ne said:—“I received your two letters, also one from Acheson. Iam sorry to say that | am disappointed in the way this engagement of ours has turned out. Ivhink | have been deceived about many things. in linen (there was here much laughter as the Jearned counsel read the letter) 1 understood you had the greater portion of it, aud 1t now tarns out that everything except table napkins would have to be vought, The list of silver you have sent would not be sufficient. Acheson and you gave me to un- derstand that you had the whole of it, and you have oiten told my sisters that you got tne whole your father had, and | know he had @ great deal. How about antimacassars, &c.? (Great laughter.) You do not say anytu about them, and these things you could have worked yourself had you felt at all inclined. Nad I known you were making no effort to do things for yourself 1 might have got my sisters to have worked them. Was it Acheson who toid you to ask me ior fifty pounds to buy linen and spend the remainder on yourseit? Ifhe did he ought to think shame of him- self, Iam thoroughly disgusted. 1 was not aware until Jately that I was expected to provide clothing for the lady before marriage. I cannot express to youhow much I am disappointed, and think it better for both parties if this marriage were broken off, lregret it very much, and cannot see any pros- pect of happiness for the future. You ought to have dealt candidly with me.” Upon this letter both Mr, Acheson and his protégé wrote protesting against the defendant's crucity. Thompson wrote back asking Miss Fleming whether she did not think it better under the circumstances ior the engagement to be broken, She refused to consent. He then ad- mitted that he had cooled down considerably, and refused to marry the plaintiff, marrying, soon after, a@Mother lady instead. For the deience it was urged that the defendant had not acted so as to incur the necessity for great damages. The plaintiff was still young, and would soon get a haspand. After the summing Up of his lordship, the jury deliberated for some Ume, and returned a verdict ior the plaimtift, with £1,500 damages. FRANCE. The Dall Season im Paris—Leisure Enjoy- ments of the French—Who Are at the Watering Places—Napoleon’s Fete—The Dy- nastic Succession Plan. PARIS, August 21, 1969, We are at the height of the dead season. Kvery- body who can leaves Paris in August for no matter where, It is not fashion merely that dictates 1m- perilously @ fight from the metropolis, but that love of aholiday which is an instinct’with ali French. men, and women too, is ample motive to induce thousands at this season to take to the seaside or to the more seductive allurements of the German watering places. The French do not affect the mania for mountain climbing which inspires the more athletic English, who invade Switzerland in masses at Unis period, ali bent on achleving immor- tality by acaling*the dizzy heights of Mont Blanc, some not unfrequently perlahing in the attempt, No; your Frenchman’s 14ea of enjoyment in summer weather is entirely dissociated with labor of any kind. His delight ts to loiter about @ sea beach or saunter through pleasant walks, under snady foliage, in daytime, and to dance, chatter and firt at night. This . kind of amusement is not sought after merely by the noble snd rich, but w equaily | t i | return to Paris. dead season, yet 1 don’t know when we have oe exciting week. suribe this, for its details would swallow up the whole letter and @ dozen more. nual greater expense than usual was lavished upon the 16te this year, and nothing was wanting in the way ol amusement or ornament thas could be invented chief afterwards, aa being Uliberal and indigestible for Spaniards; this one crawls ont to light, and ror- tuilously, as it were, contrives to show thatit were dest that Spain should geil and fill tne depleted treasury. Another launches out against La Patrie and condemns it for its impudence; but afterwarda admits that La Patrie ts not so much to blame, but the French idiom, which precludes all other con- struction, and this one in a despairing, jerky-iogical article writes as follow: attractive to the tradesman and his clerk, though the former ciass seek it at Homburg, Ems or Baden- Baden, while the limited means of tho latter con- fine them to the humble but ever gay villages on the coast of Normandy. There are well-known localities on the northern seacoasts that are likewise frequent- ed by the élite of French society, and sometimes ta great numbers—such, for instance, as Dieppe, Deau- ville and Trouville. The latter place just now is overflowing with the nabobs and the grand of all countries. English, Americans and Spanish are as numerous as French, Tne ex-Queen Isabella and suite are there, occupying no legs than sixty rooms atone of the leading hotels, for which she pays the trifle of $20,000 a month. I suppose this includes board as well as lodging. The last ramor about Isa- bella is that the Emperor has persuaded her to abdi- cate formally and in favor of her young gon, the Prince of the Asturias, She might as well, for | josing our natio er. aa ‘Cuba are very smail indeed; yt ere are en destro; cummerce dependents about her who bave constantly sougnt sol casey ie sapaaaeh Te meee to persuade her to the contrary, far more are aqaualy opoaplentia, pe i riage, Jo porte. of an in their own interest than hers The Barcelona are the dopontaran eth tamome trafic, scales are beginning to fall from her eyes and the | All # merchant Ocean anc Prone, the Aycophants about her are being | Mediterranean ports, | hare, | | Greater, interests ia brushed away. Should she abdicate at once and tn | {Ne,,Pore and great oltios of the Tetand of Cade # thousand toe right time her littie son, an interest Doy Of | Cuba there would Bot be enough ‘in the world to com- twelve years, might be taken up to settle the vexed | pensate so much ruin. The value of estate in the hands aeemcar the ‘other day that Isabella, while taining | sndits commerce tous ie valued nt 150(000,000. per euucrs? vo hear the other isabella, w! ‘al e with a friend of mine, discussing the pecuilar- | Tt in ys Soman shat in sells Cubs she te going ities of various nationalities that she had met types of, and after commenting on tne English, Freach, ‘The news| rs here faithfully record whatever Germans, &c., suddenly she broke pn an em- | General les does, or even one of the Legation, phatic expression of her liking for Americans, | 4ll being just now objects for sharp scrutiny lest thoy steal Cubs away from Spain unawares by some di- plomatic wile. If General Sickles, or Colonel @ private wiicto tome Madrid igularyee Spkala “Yes,’’ she declared, “they are @ straightforward, honest kind of people aud mean what they say. ‘They dabpie little 1m compliments and sometimes lack in ceremony and ces but you can believe in them and rely on them.” ‘This sounded oddly in the | 18 on the spot and next morning ali the metropolis mouth of a woman who was not supposed to be | knows it, to the intense wonderment of all. the either 80 observant of reflective. Yet these are her very words, She must have been favorably im- pressed by some of our Ministers at Madrid. But to General gets a telegram, itis instantly set down as an official document pertaining to the Cuban question. ‘This curiosity mantiests the great anxiety Span- lards labor under, and the suspicion that the new Minister’s mission has something to do with Ouba. Spanish animosity towards France and the French Cwesar ig Incalescent even now. A few more Carlist demonstrations on the froatier and European peace will be endangered, and pore Spain will ve involved in ruin. Hear how the /berta—I organ— talks:—“The trae auxiliary and first instigator of Carlism is Sefior Bonaparte, che Spanish revolution has no greater enemies ia the world than this same Emperor of the French and his spouse, the Empresa ome, Both jugants call to Paris the terso; thane they protect bim, there they second him and I ‘by saying this was the very height of the a the splendid féte it 13 useless to de- It be; by the Emperor on Sunday I It was the centennial an- niversary of the first Napoleon’s birth, and tne an- ebration of the 16th of August was, there- ore brilliant this year than ever before. Far fore, or imagwmed. After the fun of the day was over | there they advise him. And this conduct appoars began the far more striking features of the night's | Contradictory when we remember the attentions celebration—the fireworks and the iliumiuation. A paid iaabe la; but it is simply in conformity with a new site was selected this year for the former, and | P roti ich they have » fe prom the Bourbonics: @ better one than ever before. 1t was @ vast plain pe in. cae and Donna nie wish to called the Trocadero, just oppoaite the Champa ae | destroy Spanish democracy for fear that some day Mars, where the last exhibition took place. will tnoommode him, for ts has the effect of show- ‘This’ afforded ample space for the untoid ing peoples atill in bondage what may be done when thousands assembled to witness | this briliant | ones untied. In fine, with the perspicacity which & without inconvenience or jostling. It also en- aeeee marks the Tullleries king when he under- abled his to treat his liege subjects with es tO accomplish an idea, he says—now, we will suoh a display of p; ‘a8 Was never witness- | Promote in Spain a civil war between the Carlists ed here or elsewhere previously. Not that in- | #04 the revolutiontets which will tire them, when genuity could devise, nothing the most liberal ex- diture could supply was wanting to make this ex- bition an event that will always be associated with this anniversary. The Parisians and provinciais, in countless numbers, were in Gad and if not mute 4 wonder Were frantic with delight. But, after all, the illuminations were the grandest feature of the 1éte. The Champs Elysees, a mile and a quarter in on both sides in glittering fes- they will tarn round and espouse the cause of Don A DODAE CRIM ee aettnines Pierasore of Spalix In this sentence we have a complete know! and thoroughly EN at how it ts that the Min ssCapiaos tcl rauae tad at ha in to @ frien the fret- Le Mancha. It is also certainly is additionally ao ee , daugbter of the turbulent and ie length, were hung tious Mo: toons of ‘ats, with the gorgeous marble arch nto, works hard to marry Don Alphonso at one end gt =A with eleceia light, and at the to the Duke of Alba’s daughter, who is of course a cousin of beautiful Eugénie. Therefore we are not surprised at telegrams which inform us of the pro- digious_ activity now to be seen among the Isabel- other end the great square, calied La Piace de ia Uon- corde, actually bathed in a dazzling sea of glare, Adjoining this scene was the garden of the Tullenies, which was illuminated tn every possible | tooving us ‘nt premet. Gi Re te PERT. re ee eS emfoct was | ible to us, Knowing all these intrigues, what the the long rows of chandeliers in all the dining of Isabella ana Donna Paquite with the Em- alleys forined by the noble trees, of which there are 80 many. All the public buildings of Paris were thrown into bright outline by sparkling lines of gas runaround them. All this was the work of the government and done on a scale that outran compe- tition; yet the most LntereeHng, if not the most im- posing part of the display was the universal private iluminations of houses, shops and cafés. When gas was too expensive Chinese lanterns were re- soried to en masse, and It Was amusing to see some- times @ single ene hung out of a garret win- dow in all parts of Paris. No better evidence could be given than this popular tribute to the memory of the great Napoleon, for the day was dedicated this year to his honor, being, aa | said, his centennial anniversary; aud those who doubted the duration of the dynasty hia geniug founded must have felt their misgivings gradually oozing away as their eyes wandered up and down the spacious streets in every quarter of the illuminated metropolis, Last, but not least, the day was signalized by an unexpected act of imperial clemency. An amnesty, unconditional and unrestricted, for all political of- fences, was proclaimed all over France at dawn of day, and henceforth the word exile is biotted from the French vocabulary. Noman now need pine in foreign lands after the loved land of his birth, unless exile has greater charms for him than her household gods can offer him. yrdom for opinion’s sake is atauend in France, and those arch enemies of Napoleon, the brilliant Victor Hugo and the great socialist, Louis Blauc, with a long ime of others, may now take the iirst train and return to their old haunts as free snd unmolested as though they had, hever conspired, fomented sedition or worked at revolution. The amnesty was, in fact, a surprise, for though rumors of it had spread abroad, yet tt Was considered improbable from its very boldness. When, however, it was really announced, ana was found to include all ranks of offenders and free from all regulations and exceptions, everybody ‘was astonished, and most of ail the recipients of the Pardon. Public opinion has warmly and unani- mously endorsed this sagacious act of clemency, and the praise grows louder as the secret leaks out that the Emperor incurred the risk of a new ministe crisis by insisting on a free pardon to all alike, eral of his Cabinet thought the act too general, and tuat gonditions should be annexed, wile others thought the amnesty unnecessary and aangerous, Napoleon, patient and sel{-possessed as usual, rea- soned and argued, and at last appealed cw hia ad- visora to withdraw their opposition to his earnest wish to commemorate the day by an act of grace. ‘Tats was irresistible, and the Ministers, though not cunvinced, gave way and countersigned the am- nesty. The journals of Paris which lay any claim to peror and Empress at St. Cloud means; nolther are We at @ loss to know the blissful affection that seems so exist thi out this circles of ious friends. Isabella shall abdicate, and Alp! Asturias, during bis minority shall be under the re- gency of his mother, after which his Highness Al- phorso shall be king. Three months after the abdl- cation Napoleon promises to be at the royal palace at Madrid. Very good, indeed. Let Napoleon order the music to stcike up, and let the royal cortege commence their march. The metropolis knows how to a pay. respect to Bourbonic royalty. ‘he Spanish crown has certainly taken to gipsying around the world in a most remarkable manner. From Portugal 1s went all over Europe, and it has travelled back to Portugal, and was, according to telegrams, within an ace of having seitied on the brow of Don Luis, the King. In fine Dun Luis was to have accepted it, with the concurrence of Marshal Prim and the Progresistas. But out comes @nother telezram from another Portugal, saying, “IVs no such thing.” Don Luis refused it, that everything Was all wrong with the telegram, and _ it Wasa seh firicrtoene — the Spanish crown gins anew i ying, and again do we see it about ike a tennis Pall or, better still, @ football. Telegram No. 1 sald:—Fernandez de los Rios has offered the crown vf Spain trom Marshal Prim and pe to Don Lis, King of Portugai. The King Don us accepts it. This project promises in reality to fuse the two kingdoms into one, and the name of Portugal will be biotted out from the map of Europe. Fernandes de los Rios, Minister of Spain, is tur- nished with a copy of this remarkable despatch, and indignantly seeks print, aud there, as an embodi- ment of his thoughts, we see an emphatic denial, clear and precise, worded thus:— T have seen with pain the publicity which you bave given toa most false and scandalous despatch concerning my ap- polntment here. It is my duty to inform you that there not s word of truth inthe despatch. I never received any such instructions, efter verbal or written, and I cannot con. cety this come to Spain to exercise such # mission, fraught with and consequences to @ people whom I no much admire and esteom. God guard you many years. I kiss your hands, FERNANDEZ DE LOS RIOS. There is no more to be said. It was all faise—a sensation of Seiior Fabra. Both peoples were much excited, especially the Portuguese, However, tne i laeeed people thank Seflor Rios aud have become 1e qui dgnaidad contains a bouncer upon the subject:— Senor Fernandes de los Rios has made his diplomatic d‘bus in Lisbon with a fiasco which almost produced au interns- tlonal contlict. Senor Olozaga could not be satisfied with the x impartiality or freedom from party bias are | repulse he received from Don Fernando, and obatinately pro- loud im = their approval and admiration; | poses the Spanish crown to the house of Braganzs. He but the ultra party prints, whose very | sentasbiscreature to conquer Don Luis’ prejudices Fer- heroes are returned to them en masse, have | Bantex de los Rios. But the creature turned out to be = bungler; had no adaptability for it; was never born to di- macy. He wounded the aational ausceptibilities of the jusitanians. Verlly, we are very covetous of Portugal. Be- moat excited » conflict between botn coun - on if of Cain II. (Montpensier). ral sallios against kings we would recom- mend the progresistas to try the young Duke of Genoa, who years seven months and twelve days. He imbeciie, but that will necessitate a regency. Several priesta have been arrested in Madrid for proved coinpiicatious with Uarlism. As they were being marched from the church to the prison the populace followed tuem aud thelr guards, saluting their ears witn the vilest epithets, Now and then, gumulated into boldness by applause, one of the mob would break through the circle of Guardia Civil aud belabor a poor priest across the face and over the head. Indeed, so unmitigable seems the hostility of the people to the sacerdotal class that had the Guar- dia Civil been weaker or less disposed to resent de- Monstrations against their prisoners there is not ‘the least doubt that the priest would have fared badly, probably massacred. A most severe order 1s about to be issued by Minister of Grace and Justice Ruiz Zorrilla, retative to the clergy. There are many priests who have considered it a3 being contrary to conscience to swear fidelity to the last democratic constitution; but Minister Zorrtila will not receive that a8 a sumMclent excuse to absolve them from their duty. He, therefore, having in his mind the fact that to permit persons in- mmical to the fundamental code to receive govern- ment support for preaching sedition would be highly cul le 11 him, will in the forthcoming order, in plain and explicit terms, iniorm the whole of the gacerdotal body that unless he receives the as- surance that before a fixed day they have taken the Oath to the constitution their names will be struck ou ihe priestly pay roll. There 1s a strike among the workers in fabrics in the manutactories of Barcelona, but there are no reports of any disturbance as yet. bon Nicholas Maria Rivero, Alcade of Madrid, Deputy and President of the Cortes, democrat, has been deep in inti lately. Foreseeing some event of unusual and dread importance which wiil occur in the proximate sessigns, he has had the mind to prepare for ib having procured for himself the ap- intent of General-in-Chief of the Volunteers of iberty. This 1s, of course, @ political move; it is not only @ check against military dictators, but against reactionists, unionistas In particular, Atthe next meeting of the Cortes a petition ts to be presented to ft that @ portion of the Casa de Campo be set apart for a new Necropolis for the city of Madrid, the present one being nearly full. ‘The Casa de Campo ts the she box of the King, surrounded by three or four hundred acres. The Spanish Bible and Psalmbook are sold pub- lcly in the streets of Madrid, the first ror eighteen cents, the second for two cents copper, both hand- failed to express their joy in any but very moder- ate and hesitating terms. Is it that they care a great deal less for the dear friends now hurrying back vo Paris than they have been professing for so many Years, in painting toe sorrows and miseries of pollti- cal martyrs, or are they annoyed and embar- Tassed at losing such exovlient pretexts for making war on the imperial regime, which bas be- come @ second nature to them, or 1s 1t both of these? Be it what, the journals of the “irreconcilabies” draw their euecorenen very mildly, and itis very easy to see that they are looking very anxiousiy about for a chance to pick flaws, so asto resume their wonted ditties of censare and abuse. In spite of ail the opposition may say or do, Naj leon has outgeneralled them again, and It is loudly asserted by Close observers that the Emperor was never more popular in his whole career than ne 18 at the present hour in France. The English journals have behaved with the utmost magnanimity on this occasion. They have dropped criticism and aban- doned ail cavil, and fairly, loudly proclaimed the inesty NOt more liberal than itis wise and even merous. The Times has utterly changed its tone, and shows that all the late policy of concession to oer ie on the part of the Emperor has surpri if not discomfted them. Lote of shrewd people besides the Times, botn in England and France have been astounded at the promptitude and boldness of Napoleon in giving up his entire system of government, and are begin- ning to search for some satisfactory solution of this perplexing mystery, The Times has made up ite Taind on the point and made it known with its usual ability, but it will lack novelty for your readers at least, since I ventured to state a month Ld that the Emperor was preparing the transformation of hus government, with the simple view of paving the way for the accession of his son, I declared, ag you May remember and as your files will show, tl Napoleon had accomplished the mission he bad laid out for himeelf and that henceforth the keynote of all bis policy would be the future interests of his hetr, “It te a8 evident to him as to others that his son, whatever hia intelligence, could never guide or Inauvage duok @ government ag oe had dir 1852, for Brea experience and knowledge, as well a4 natural ability, would be necessary for the task. fore, Le bas set to work to make his son's job an easy one by throwing the government into the hands oj the politicians and to witudraw thelr oppo- nition to his dynasty. ‘The plan is #o0d, put who can foretell the result ? 18 aged fourteen teedia to bean AIN. sP The Cuban Quc ion—General Sickles? Mise sion—Public Opinion of the Sule of the | Cone 'y bound, Inoue café house @ man Bold four pT d—The Throne and Royal ( psalmbooks in three seconds. Don Carlos te be Shot if The Koglish government bas sent a magnificent telescope to Captain Caystana Beltran, of the Span- MADRID, Auguat 39, 1860, The Cuban question ts being thoroughly ventilated by the Spanish press. No one need be at a loss to Know Madrid opinion upon this subject. La Patrie’s precipitate settlement of the question has been the means of evoking whole hosts of political sermons from newspaper organs of all colors and creeds. One insists on impartia! discussion of the status of affairs as preliminary to @ thorough comprehension tah merchant ship Maria Kosa, for saving the life of the captain and twelve seamen of the English steamer Omer Pacha, which went ashore on a sinall island in the Mediterranean. Tue Polo faction are very active. They are still gate in the Toledo Mountains, now and then sallying sand giving battie to the volunteers. So far they have been highly successful, and Vommandant Polo's forces are increasing. Fifteen prisoners were made at Oeceria, Valencia, by the Guardia Civil and volunteers. Another band that had risen in the of the situation; another darts ous of a century stl- | Kj Marl feet iassten oon. came op ence with @ deflant challenge to the world—all civil- | wi J me Log ni and seprene tanrered ized and uncivilized portions of tt; another, doube | The mn volunteers of Aljelo de jr a less believing that the more troubles environ Spain ey np tn pnek tighs Has poparred the merrier tt will be for him, is unnaturally volatile, po fo ee, benorae parr end icle “La 0 and the Alcalde postmaster, a few Guardia Civil an: and after heading an article “La Cueation de Cuba,” twenty citizen volun’ who were in the shoots into the empyrean, and we hear no more of | parracks by the febels. Consid that both par- him and know nothing of him, except @ velief clings | tes were com; of extem} soldiers, a good to one that the editor i# the most optimtatical one oy hh mn to thelr res ve causes, on both ever heard of. One is inclined to trace out opinion or countries and consign Wom ali to tue mis- wounded. A iv i F 2 i i i Zz z é : 5 £ = 5 FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ‘The new university at Vittoria, in Spain, was re- cently inaugurated with great splendor. An officer arrived in Spain gn the 15th ult. bear- ing important despatches from the Captain General of Cuba to General Prim. ‘The Paris journals of the 20th ult. mention that there 18 no doubt but that the Qarlist movement is inne gieees in eee although no cities had, 80 Advices from Astrakhan complain sadly of the con- tinued drought. A fire took place at Tcherni-Yar privet be a 200 houses and has caused great A disastrous fire ocourred at Moscow on the 34 ult,, consuming eleven houses and causing damages to the extent of 70,000 roubles, rte anne te Soran sia, for the purpose of infuenc! ¢ immigration of laraelite @rtisans into the Russian empire, An oll refiner of Glasgow has offered £450,000, or $2,200,000, for the Island of Arran, on the coast of Scotland, and outbid the Marquis of Bute by £50,009. ‘The Paris Figaro mentions that the féte of the 15th of August only cost the trifle of $106,600, walch can be added to the city budget, The Spanish government is experimenting with a new rifle, called the Nunez rifle, which can be dis- onarged ope Heep times per minute and is re- ported very effectiv: The Paria Figaro informs its readers that Princo Al tin de Yturbide, son of the Emperor of Mexico, is it to dispose of his oafé at Courbevois, doubt- less in order to prepare his claim to the Spanish crown in time for the meeting of the Cortes. Prince Charles IIl., of Monaco, 1s about to abdi- cate in favor of bis gon, on the event of the latter's marriage with Lady Hamilton Douglas. The following honors, conferred by the King of Prussia on Italian oMcials, ia more or less indicative of the friendly relations exist: between the two countries, Count Oambray Digny, Minister of Finance, has received the order of the Royal Crown of Prussia of the first class. Cavaliere Peiroleri, of the Foreign Office, that of the second class, with the star. Signor Tantesio that of the second class. Cavaliere Tosi that of the third class, and Signor Tugini that of the fourth class. The Austrian vessels in the Golden Horn have re- eg comer the Austro-Hungarian flag, which dif- fers from the old flag by the lower horizontal bar being now half green and half yellow. The Hun- [lions national shield is placed beside that of use, ‘The Zpoca, of Madrid, mentions that the Orleanist Princes are to have a meeting in any early in September, which may be in reference to some mat- ters that will be teher, 2) before the next meeting of the Oortes. Query—Can this refer to the election of & king for Spain? AMERICAN COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY IN THE FAR EAST. New Yor, August 30, 1869. To TH® EDITOR OF THE HBRALD:— By the opening of the Isthmus of Suez, which is Preparing for Asia a great politico-geographical re- Volution and development of commerce, the far Hastern question ig made to-day the principal thought of all nations. By force of circumstances Pekin has become the open field of diplomatic rivalry. Affairs in that city are inclining to take the same fournure as in Constantinople. It is, 80 to speak, a permanent Torneum for the supremacy of influence between France, Russia and England. These three Powers find themselves again the front in the Chinese capital; and now to these three has been added a fourth competitor—America. The Chinese character, as well as that of the other Astatics, ts very peculiar. They judge mainly by outward appearances and listen to and prefer those who are familiar with their ideas, language and cus- toms; and furthermore the impressions which they first conceive, either in regard to @ man or a4 nation, remain compara- tively unchanged ever after. Upon their first impressions they very generally base their ac- tions. Who has ever made better impressions than America: in that quarter of the world? In 1860, without firing a gun, she obtained from the Chinese government the same treaties and privileges as France and England, who have been compelled to go to war to obtain them. What Minister of any other nation has received from the Chinese government equal proof of esteem, confidence and sympathy with the American Bur- lingame? I was present in the American Legation at Pekin in March, 1863, when the Secretary of War of the Chinese empire came to visit Mr. Burlingame about the succession of General Ward (from Salem, Mass.), and I have witnessed what marks of high consideration and cordial sympathy that high Man- darin and the others of lis staf showed towards the American representative. The grant from the Chinese government to Mr. Andrew G, Curtin, President of tne China Telegraph Company, to establish a submarine telegraph from Canton to Shanghae, is sure to be the herald of some other equally important. Are not all these things irrefragabie proof that the Chinese government desires to entertain with the Americans 4 close and lasting friendship, and quite im contra- diction with the assertion of the Hon. J. Ross Browne, thut the Chinese rulera neither like nor pre- fer any nation, and do not want progress. The Hon. J. Ross Browne had the fatal misfortune of not being willing and not being able to comprehend the Chinese, and listened too much to the bad advice of Sir Rutherford Alcock, the British Minister, and algo to those of the astute secretary and interpreter of the Britian Legation, Mr, Thomas Wade, an Irish- Englisnman; and furthermore is culpabie for not having foliowed the right way marked out to him by his clever predecessor. And he has failed. Who- by is the cause of his own failure has only himself to blame. It ts unquestionable that after tne brilliant success of Mr. Burlingame, the position of American Min- ister to China has become more dificult, also more important, following the treaty of July, 1863, be- tween the United States and China, which treaty it is rumored has not been ratified by the Chinese. I really pelieve this to be @ canard, from British sources, and to be the effort of a clique headed by the English representatives and the primotpal opium traders, the worst enemies of bina, trying to create obstacles to the exe- cution of the treaty because it does not suit them, and to embitter the feelings of the Amert against the Chinese and their distinguished countryman, Mr. rlingame. The Chinese \darins have been ac- oustomed to deal with Mr. Burlingame, a very cour- teous and very intelligent diplomatic man, of very fine personal qualities, who always respected the customs and ideas of others and never cared if the Chinese were Christians or pagans, and, what was excellent tn him, never allowed himself to be influ- enced by the English. This course ought to be pur- sued by all the future American Ministers in the far East, to have the least possible to do with the British Tepresentatives ana British merchants and in every Circumstance to de in opposition to them. America eager many very able politicians, but not all of hem are fit to fill the Chinese mission. In the Dresent circumstances it ts too important and too much complicated, In China, as well as in all other wa. of Asia, practical experience prevails over eory. if the Americans firmly wish to obtain the place which is due to them tn the far East—that 1s to say, the supremacy—they must send to ot Jeddo and Bangkok able, far-seeing, bold and practical men as Ministers, also competent Consuls in the various sea- ports, At Wo mrt they already have a good one— Mr, George F. Sewara, Then, taking advantage of our geographical ition—viz., from our Pacific coast, we have with the far Kast the nearest connec- ton, and by properly directed efforts from us, and by steady ar, well applied by our Ministers there, can intallibiy ol tain the supremacy in that part of the world, which will be for more than a century to come the universal bazaar of commerce and the rendezvous of all bold and enterprising men, Ja- pan, China and Siam require more steamboats, rail- Ways and telegraphs, of Wich up to the present they have nothing. The Americans can easily furnisi all this to them. The Chinese emigrants, most of them agricultur- ists, will be very usefal for the Southern Stat and very likely introduce the cultivation ot tea an mulberry plantations for the sik worm, for the pro-~ duct of which many millions are going yearly 1 Onina. The Chinese are very industrious and hard- ene a and owns they go they bring ricultural prosperity. La politique o'est a ootenoe des faits, Tas not the American government facta ei fh to be induced wo rate for the last a steady policy? Shonid the present administration meet ¢his mo- Meatous question boldly tt will secure the graterul ition of the entire fa My glory second none achteved by any admi jon FAnce the for- Mation of our ernment, General Grant wil\ ht page in the histor/ of Amorican THE GALLOWS. Interview With a Condemned Man—What uo Says About the Murder and the Trial. {From the Toledo (Ohlo) Commercial, August 28.) Through the politeness of Sheriff Kingsbury and his deputy, Michael O'Connor, our reporter waa granted an interview with Conrad Meler, convicted of the murder of Solomon Feldenbeimer, a full account of whose trial was published in these col- umns. Conrad Meter is of German descent, bis father hav- ing been 9 resident of Stuttgart, in Wurtemberg, where he followed the carpenter trade, and died at vhe age of eighty. Meier’s mother died about thirty years before his father’s decease. Conrad, now & Man of thirty-seven years, about tive feet five inches in height, and 130 pounds weight, is of rather dark complexion, with an opencountenance, He had but one brother, who is atill living at Stuttgart as a jew- eller. Conrad received a fair common school edu- cation, and learned the trade of gilder, which business he worked over four years in the country. He came here et the age of thirty-two and spent the first year near Ann Arbor, Micd., with a countryman of bis, doing numerous kinds of work. From there he went to Oincinnatt and entered into an e: ment with Messrs. Garlis, Nurre & Eckhart, picture frame manufacturers, where he worked without interruption four years more, He was married at Cincinnati to hia present wife, who, though born in this country, 19 also of Geran parents, her mother having come from javaria. He has had two children, one baving been atill born, and the other died April 4, 1868, nearly two years old. Meler and wife are both Protestants and formerly attended divine service at Rev. church on Elm street, (incinnal The brother of Meier's wife, Paul Winner, lives at Waterville, this couaty, and is engaged at Pilliod’s sawmill, where, as Meler says, he works from twelve o’cl mid- night, to twelve o’clock M. To visit this Paul Winner Meier and wife came trom Cincinnati, Their main ob- Ject was to find better work and higher pels eg but trial, a w ume after five weeks of vain poi Meier’s wife seems to have been the only one to have earned something, they conciuded to go back to Cin- cinnati, Meter had been at Toledo several times ve look for work, but couvid make no satisfactory ar- rangements; so fearing that their small treasury, which originally consisted of only fifty dollars ot Meier’s and three or four dollars of his wife's, would Give out, they concluded to go back. The prisoner's statements, thus far, bore the ap- pearance of truth, willingly and readily communi- cated. As our opinion as to his guilt was fully mad up long ago, the evidence on the trial scarcely leav- ing a le of doubt upon our min we could but wonder at the coolness and deliberation with which he answered our questions; but when, with appa- rent confidence as to the result, he yaid that all he asked was a new trial and chance to bring forth his witnesses, our abhorrence of the murderer gradu- ally changed to sympathy with 9 man who, unabie to understand or talk the language of his accusers and judges, surrounded by strangers, aNd the first, considered him the murderer, overwhelmed by circumstantial evidence, apparently establishing his crime, {still might be innocent, His wile, who, as he said, could prove the identity of aid pantaioons, had not been called upon. Ske returned to Cincinnati, and now lives with her Mother-in-law at their old place in No. 60 Finley street, or can be inquired for there. He represents her to be enceinte, and be expects to be the father of another child within a week or two. He says is will surely kill her 1£ they sentence him, During his three months’ confinement no one of his country- men has ever yet addressed him either peraonally or 10 writing. No levter but one to his brother-in-law, Paul Winner, in Waterville, has been sent by him, and to this be has received no answer—forsaken by all except his counsel, Messrs. Haynes, of this city, and Ford, of Maumee. “If they will only grant me a new trial,” said Meier, “the good testimony that I can bring from my former employers, Messrs. Garliss, Nurre & Eckhart, and the witnesses that can teatily as two my coming into possession of my money ia Cin- cinpatt, and the way | obtained those pantaloons, which furnished so igen 4 an evidence against me, I shall come out all right.” He repeatedly made the above assertion, and, by @ desire into de tails by calling up various points that had furnished so strong proofs of pie gute Upon inquiry as to the whe ute of his pre- tenaed witnesses he said that his wife ought to be aamitted tor what her afidavit would be worth. ‘The testimony of Mr, Garliss, who 18 Consul for Nor- way and Sweden, he says would be of benefit to him and his good character, that never permitted him to get mto difficulty. He pretends never to have been committed before for any crime or misdemeanor. His character thus established might relieve him of that great pressure which potated him out from the first as the only possible actor in this drama. Meier upon repeated inquiries refused to point out any one else as the probable doer of the horrid deed, but al- ways seemed to have a strong suspicion on another pany, but said as he could bring no proof it would uselesa to name anybody. At Geller’s, the farmer with whom Feldenheimer staid over night, Just previous to the murder, Meier met two Germans, quarrymen, from the neighbor- hood, one of whom only had appeared in court against him. The other could not be found. He paonaait he ought to be found for his (Meier's) net. Meier reasserted the facts set forth in his aMdavic concerning the pantaloons, which were admitted as eviaence the same as though the parties had been in court and sworn as he claimed they would swear. He accounts for the wearing of two pairs of pan- taloons by tue circumstance that he, upon a i ‘his wife, put them on that, in case he should fi work at a farmer’s, he might be providea with » chan He appeared much dissatisfied with the measuring of the tracks, as several different measures had to be called into question to make them correspond with his, and then he said they did not agree. Sev- eral other objections were urged, among which was the assertion that several of the jurymen had leit their seats and absented themselves for some ime during the proceedings, while others tell asleep aud had to be awakened by the turnkey. They produced @ snuffvox, which, he sald, had been pronounced by several Israelites to be the silver snuffbox of Feldenhetmer and had been taken from him, but restored after it had been ascertained thas: it was nothing but pewter. He compiained bitterly that only through the kindness of his attendants he had secured a scant supply of snuff, to the use of which he seemed strongly addicted. With the above ahd several other assertions of a similar chatacter he repeatedly complained of the undue haste and hurry of his trial, consoling him- self, however, with the hope that @ publication of his complaints, together with the action of his attor- neys on Monday next, would cause him to receive the benefit of a new trial. It will be seen that Meier, while he finds fault with the verdict and asks for a new fatia to point out @ particle of new evidence of the least oasible importance which he could introduce. He fails to tell where he spent the night prior to the murder, and all that he claims he could prove con- cerning the pantaloons was in evidence. What benefit he could derive from a new trial when he is unable to discover a particle of testimony favorabie to his acquittal is more than we can tell. The evidences of his guilt are very strong, and, judging from his own statements, the testim taken at tue jate trial cannot be impeached tn essential particular, even though he might ve able to prove all that he claims could be shown. He is evideutiy beginning to realize his situation, and during the conversation which elicited the tore- going facis and siatements als eyes were frequently filled with tears. LONDON AND ST. LOUIS VIA NEW YORK. Visit from the Chief of London Fire Brignde to St. Louis—Exhibition of the St. Louis Steam Tabs. (From the St. Louts Republican, August 30.) Mr. Eyrie M. Shaw, chief officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade of London, made a flying visit to the city yesterday and stopped at the Everett House, He has already, since his arrival tn this country, made extended visits to our chief Eastern cities, in- cluding New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia, hia object being @ personal examination of the work- ings of the departments in the principal cities of the United States, with a view of ae te different systems of this country with that of Lon- don on gaining @ knowledge of recent improve- ment On reaching here his arrival was made known to. Mr. Henry Clay Sexton, Chief Engineer of our Fire Department, and that fas took him in nan and in company with Mr. Trice, the Assistant Chief, the chief points‘of interest in the city and suburbs were visited. Among the places visited were Shaw's Gai La- fayetie Park, the Water Works reservoir, &c. us five o’clock an alarm was tarned on from Fifth and Locust streets, in order to give tne London chief ocular demonstration of the alacrity and promptitude of the force in repairing to the scene of a fire. The engines arrived on the ground in three min- utes from the imstant the alarm was turned on, ac- cording to Mr. Shaw's watch, and were pi and panting and tn readiness to. throw water, aa if they had been called out for real work. The following were on the spot and put Im position, but no streams. were thrown, out of re to the sanctity of the Sabbath di ‘The Hook and Ladder Company, the Missourl, the Franklin and Washington engines. Mr. Shaw expressed himselt highly gratified with what he saw, and some very gratifying enceniums. on the efficiency of our department generally. He took copious notes of what he saw, and obtained all the statistical information needed for the purpose which be had in view and which called him hither. An accident occurred during the turnout of the department. The hose carri of the Missourt, wille making @ turu on Seventh and Locust streets, @lid on the crossing, breaking & wheel, and slightly injuring Isaac Aitsiatt, the driver, whose wrist was sprained by the accident. Mr. Shaw left last evening for Ubicago, having ex- ressed himself highly pleased with his brief visit. ie served ten years in the British army, giving him & training that has qualided nim to reduce the work- ings of tue London Fire Brigade to @ most periect system, From @ very complete official report, made by him of the London Fire Department, we subjoin the follow! statisti here are 49 fire engine stations, 9) fire escape stations, 2 foating stal 47 tel ph fines, 71 tulles telegraph lines, 2 floating steam fire hem pond § large land steam fire enginos, 17 small land steam fire engines, 16 7-inch manual fire ante, 61 6-luch manual fire enginea, 13 under Ginch fire engines, 94 fre Sscapes, 873 firemen, ‘the number of watches kept up throughout sag taetropa = Lis ts 96 by day and 13 by wight,