The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1869, Page 4

~ > 4 EUROPE. The Ecumenical Council and Attitude of the Catholic Powers. Dr. Comming in Imitation of the Bohe- mian ‘Heretics? and Huss, The Land Question and Revolutionism in Ireland. Lord Byzon’s Metal Organization and Home Treatment, The Inman steamship City of Paris, Vaptain Tlb- Detts, from Liverpool on the 16th and Queenstown the 17th of September, arrived at this port yesterday evening, bringing a mai report in detail of our cable telegrams dated to her day of salling from Ireland. dhe half yearly General Court of Proprietors of the Bank of England was hel4 September 16, tn the bank parior, Mr, R. W. Crawiord, P., the Gover- nor, in the chair. The Onairman said the net profits on the hal{ year ending 30th of Auzast bad amounted To £650,433 17s, 2d., making the rest £3,678,963 12s. 8d,, and after providing for a dividend of £4 10s, per cent the rest would remain at the amount of £3,024,078 125. 84, He had therefore to propose that a dividend of £4 108, per cent be paid on the Sth of October next, free of income tax. Mr. Bocley weconded the motion, which was agreed to, after some sharp criticisms had been passed upon the Chanceilor of the Exchequer’s proposais to compel the payment of dividends quarterly tustead of halt yearly. The faa! dividend of one shiiling—meking twenty shillings in (he pound—was in course of payment to the creditors of Overend, Gurney & Co. Tne major- ity of the creditors agreed to postpone their claim for interest until the 35th of June, 1570. One or the largest financial undertakings of modern times has been wound up thus in the space of three years and a halt, La France, of Paris, of the 14th inst., speaking of the Sickles diplomacy in Madrid, says:— We have reason to believe that a very important note has been recently delivered tv the Spanish gov- ernment by General Sickles, Minister of the United States at Madrid. We need hardly say that it refers to the affairs of Cuba. Without going so far at present as to concede to the insurgent creoles the ttle and rights of belligerents, the American dipio- matiat is said not to disguise the fact that lis govern- mient ts preparing to take that step, if the situation fs not modified within a brief period. The Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, France, is ex- pected at Rome in the month of Octover, and will lodge with some other bishops at St. Louis des Fran- gaig. The Cardinal was the Superior of that estab- lishment when, in 1848, be was appolnied to the bishopric of Carcassoaue. Tne Noriieae#ern Correspondence, of Berlin, e@Mfrms that the Prussiau authorities have given notice in Schleswig to tho eifect that any applica- tions made to the Emperor of Austria to obtain the execuiton of arilcie ive of the treaty of Prague would be copsidered as an act of high weason. A seminary has been founded near Berlin to educate preachers and teachers for the German emigrants in North America, Jt is called the Stern- eabaus (star house), after the bannergof the United Staves. M. Emile Ollivier, the French deputy, was married at Marsellics to Mile, Gravier, daughter of a mer- chant of that place. The London Post of the 16th of September pubd- lishes the follow nz notice: M. Maurice Strakosch has for some time past been actively enjaged in selecung an italian company, composed sively of individuals of the highest talent, with the intention of making 4 six weeks’ tour through tue French proviuces, starting from Paria avout the middie of Gctober, The chief attraction in his promised programme Appears to be Rossini’s now famous “Petite Messe Solennelle,”” the execution of which 18 certain, with such a combination of first class per- formers a3 M. Strakosch has combined, to attract universal attention, even m the remotest districts. Madame Marietta Albont (the Countess M% 1), the Jascinating Marie Battu, Heart Vieux Bowtisint have all accepted engager troupe. Ent in addition to these popular favorites M. Strakosch has also been iortupate enough to secure the services of the renowued Tom Hohler, who long since attatued the highost position that has ever yet been achieved by any English te A very remarkable story is toll @ corr pondent of the London Tia he steamer Lady Wodehouse, wii left the ‘3 for Dublin, bad on board al casks of petroleum and ~ a —tumber —-of + hte chests of Incifer’ maic The ship was caugit im the fear- ful gale which burst over the country lately, and after a time the petroleum casks broke loose, and dashed agaist and ignited some pack- awes of matcyes. Inan Instant the deck was dooded wtih blazing Oil, and for three bours the passengers and crew were ina situation of the greatest peril. Ultimately, however, the Names were extinguisned, and the whole of the petroleum casks and lucifer thrown overboard, No lives were lost, and the captain, whose conduct ia very highly spoken of, succeeded in bringing hts sip into Ports- mouth on Tuesday. ‘The London Telegraph says tho report relative to the discovery of documents in the Arctic regions de- tailing the fate of Sir John Franklin and his com- panions {is untrustworthy. “Mrs, Scowe’s affair seems to have brought American discovertes rather into disrepute just at present.” On the 16th of September an aggrega'e meeting of the Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Clare, Matiow and Macrodm Farmers’ Clubs was held in Cork te adopt resolutions on the land question. The meeting was of aneasentialiy representative ciuracter, and tts proceedings marked throughout by great ttellt- > gence, diguity and moderation, A letter of Miss Burdett Coutts, suggesting “ays- tematic education for the humane treatment of ani mals,” called forth @ communication from the secretary of tlie Royal Society for the Prevention o1 Cruolty to Animals, in which it is stated that the Society does not neglect to prosecuce oifenders who maltreat foreign cattle on landing on the soil. There ere, however, many ‘diiicuities la the way of aecurlug convictions.” A carpenter, named Jonathan Judge, and hia wife and two children, were found dead in tueir home at Bromley, {ngland. A pan of charcoal stood on the floor of the room in which the bodiea were found, ana there was littie doubt that the charcoal was lighted by Judge and nis wife with the deliberate design of destroying their own lives and the lives of their children. A St. Petersburg letter has the following:— ‘Tue Russian clergy formerly cousisted of a sort of cuate; the son of & priest was bound to follow his fatner's proiession, and to Marry the dauguter of an ecelesiastic; similar condilious existed for the chantera, sextons, &c, The exceptions were rare, The celeprated Count Speransky Was the fatuer and the son of &@ priest. At present, the liberal ideas which nave entered (he government of the Emperor Alexander are also producing their eneci on tue orthodox clergy. The sons of eccie-iastics, i! they have no inclination for the calling of their fathers, are free to eubrace whatever career they may please; they may become soldiers, trade assistants or Merciunis, and they have the riguts of the per- wonal nobiiity. The same advantages aré accorded to the sons of clianters, sextons, &c., with the post- tion of noble citizel Vue children of priests oiher persons attached to churcles preser bueir former privileges. Several Englishmen of experience In African ex- ploration tiave offered to lead an expedition to Ca combe tn search of traces of Dr. Livingstone; bet no decision will be arrived at in the matter until the assembling of the Council of the Royal Geographical Boolety of Great Britain in the autumn. ~ Aletter from Khorassan, Persia, tn the Levant T nes of September 3 sayat— ‘rhe Vurkomans have been aga’ gud have succeeted 1k muking the most successful foray Lean remember. THO Various trifes of Akhole Veke-Harok and Sonlér, for tue tine being forgetung their mutual animosities, have conchuued a treaiy omgnaive and defensive—otlensive as regards Persia, deivosive a8 regards Russia, They can (hus threaten the whole Persu-Turkoman, 43 also a great part of the Perso-Afghan frontiers, aud at any thoment can as at 8 faven, point & body of from 20,000 to 80,000 ‘To the busy at Khorassan hol was confided the first attack, they wrew @ body of cavalry into thé district of wat, utterly destroying throe villages, killing 916 and oa 140 of thetr Inhabitants, and then Tanenogtstely rouse into their own country. ROME. The Kcumonical Councit—Atticude of the Cathotio Powers—Napoleou’s Position and Unintelligeut Tolograme—Tho Resideut Lay Ministera~The Convocation of L868—Boun- parte and Victor Kmanuel—Quaker Disctp- line Adopted by His Holiness. Rowe, Sept. 6, 1869. + In my two preceding tettera on the sudject of the Council { traced out its progress from tts first con- coption to its present atate of preparation, and en- deavored to demonatrate the unfounded nature of recent reports insinuating that in consequence of unexpected obstacies the Court of Rome had decided to defer, if not altogether dismiss, the tea of an Ecumenical Council, In the prosent letter I wish to expose to your readers the attitude assumed toward the Holy See by the prtacipal Cathelic governments with respect to vhe coming Council and thelr pros- pects of being admitted to or exctuded from an ofl- cial participation in its deliberations. The seml-ofictat Roman paper, Osservatore Ro- mano, of the 3d instant, printed with an incredulous note of interrogation after it the following tele- graphic message from Paris:—‘*fhe Svening Ofl- cial Journal announces that the government has decided not to seud @ representative to the Council.” Quoted from the French govern- ment official orgau tho news doserves credit, and the mortification of the Koman journal is casily to be conceived, as it 1s highly probable that other powers’ will sali in tho wake of France, whereas the court of Romo ail along flattered itself that soon or late the principal governments would respectfully request to be formally admitted to the sittings of the Council. A few days before this telegram, another from Fidrence trumpeted forth to the world a pleco of news On the same subject as received by the Nazione from Rome. The correspondent of that paper wrote that “the Congregation of the Council had decided that only purely passive representation at the Coun- cli should be granted to governments requesting it. That is to say, that the ambassadors of such Powers should submit their observations or proposi- tons to Cardinal Antonelli, and enter into discussion exclusively with lus eminence.” Telegrapiic messages are frequently tncorrect aad usually incomplete, so that the one in question may be excused for mentioning ‘the Congregation of the Council” Which 8 & pecmanent commission of Car- dinals holding sessions in Kome exclusively to inter- pret the canons of the Council of Trent, and there- lore lucompetent to make any official decisions with respect to the coming Vatican Council, for the direc- tiol Of whica in ad preparatory branches a special congregation of Cardinals ias been appointed, wiicu SubIUits all its propositions to the approbation of the Pope as a counctl of lay ministers to the head of a temporal government, This congregation uas not proposed, nor has iis Holiness sauctioned, any such mere passive representation as tiat meationed by the Vaztone, although the report Las been in clrcu- lation for some time. The Freuck government has resolved, as thus oM- clally aunounced, to send no represcutative to the Council, put tue laconic oiiciai journal probaoly means no special representative. Soon after the Pope deciared unmistakably his intention of holding an umenical Council, ib appeared to be resoiver the French government to intervene oillcialiy, an M. Walewski tirst, and then M. Baroche were men- tioned as the special envoys to be sent to Kome, to be jomed there by the ecclesiastioal counsellor of the embassy, the Franciscan Father Truliet, a friend of the Freach Foreign Minister, De Ip Vaiette, but not a great friend of the Pope's, These reported {ntentions soon vanished away, ministers changed, aud now tue French government, and most likely other goveruments, following Us example, will not send apy special ambassador to the Council. We Cannot assert, However, that the foreign ambassa- dors oOfiicially residing in Rome will take absolutely No notice of what goes om at St. Petsr’s and the Vatican on the 5th of December, and afterwards unt (he cosing of the Council, The Marquis de Banueville returns bo his dutios in Rome at tue end of tuis mont, and the Preach government has saltl- Clent trust in nis tact and expertence to entrust Mim With furnishing timely and correct information of ail the deliberations of the assembied Consoript Fathers. 1t beg pretty clear iuat no spectal envoys wiil be sent to tie Council, l¢ remains lor us wo con- sider what wiil ba the atuvude of the resident dipio- matic body towards that assembly. Three courses are open to them. 1..An offictal Participation in the same solemn iorm as at sue Coun- cil of Trent. 2, A itmited participation as mere spec- (ators and auditors, 3 An entire abs-nce from te proceedings. Tue present state of civil and religious society towards each other docs not allow of foreign am- bassors adopting the first course, Church and Stace being no longer so intimate.y united as three centu- Ties ago. ‘Ihe second is more practicable, because the Church requires, if not the co-operation of the State, at least its suderance, in order that the deci- sions of its councils may be made Known and re- specied lu the eatire Curistian community; and tho State requires a certain co-operation of the Church, which, if hostile, could still by its influence over ignorant masses of people create embarrassment to governments, Mor Us very reasou the third course, of entirely ignoriag tue Couuctl, would ve impra- dent On the 20th of June, 1863, the Pope convoxed the Council m his Luli avlernt Pacris, Wherein, without formally imviing sovereigns, he expressed a. hope “that wey Would offer no hindrance to bishops com- ing to the Counctl, but rather aid them, with tae zeal Ling tor Catiolle princes, in the performance of rything couducing vw the greater giory of God and ine advantage of tie sald Couuctl.” ‘this lefta door open for ucyotiations M the sovereigns close to express & desire to be represeated at tie coming assembly. Although the separation of Church from State ts being gradually aecompusued every wuere, except ia te dominions of the Vope, tt is” lardiy anywhere quite complete, and both have still some interest ia acting togetier Upou certam points, Their tucipi- ent mdopendenc? oi eavi otuer authorized the Pope to sumiuon @ council without consulting Catiolic overeigh: p tie Ponti would not have taken so freely niuries ayo, Bld excuses Nim for not expiiciily mviting tuem Lo be present, personally or by proxy, ae the Vatican, even if be had aot anotuer Valid excuse in tue anomaious condition of his present relatious with sach governmenis as ihose of ttaly, Spata or Mexico, By unplication, how- ever, the door of the Counc was throw, open to all sovereigns or their envoys. A iew days afier the pubiication of the bull the French goverauient gave proof of its friendly dis- position by declaring through M. Baroch ip, tha’ it would oppose no bin. drance to the Councii; that it hed not yet desided about sending an ambassador, put that the question was under consideration; tuat it put a favorable construction ou the omission in the butl of a precise end formal invitation to sovereigns; aud ibaliy, that it rejected tue tea of a separation betweon Church and State, When reported to the Pope tiis last de- ciaration, provably dictated by a fear least cle Coun- cil should act too independentiy, drew from his Holiness the remark that the French were now afraid of the very separation which they had peen threateutng to effect lor the last filty years. After a lapse of nearly a year the open door of con- cliation Was al but closed, aud 1 wii endeavor to explain why. autious examination of each other's Modus of di ad plied tue ecclesiastical and secular governments with mutuai distrust. The former feared tu show itself too con- descending if it made advaaces, and replied mystertously to the earncat inquires of foreign ministers about the Council that the Moly Spirit “bldweth where it lateto,” and that not even the Cardinal Secretary of State could presume to prog. Dosticate in What mode it might inspire the Council. ‘The latter hesitated between the fear of leaving too much license to the Council by not sending envoys and that of being outmancuvred if they did. The famous pampbiet attributed to Count Menabrea, “Le Uoncile Acumenique et les Droits de I itat,’’ gsr in April, and was regarded by the Court of Kome as a moral rifled cannon aimed against the Council by the Latin Powers from the ¢inurasure of an Italian battery. Bavaria next opened fire for the German Powers, and Prince Hoheniohe made advances to other Ger- man governments, eagaging them to preveut tie Ceunctl from trespassing upon political ground, and roposed five points conceraing that asseinbly and its probable results, for the definition of the facul- ues of law and theology in the German wuiversities, Monsignor Nardi repiled for the ope to the Italian and Bavarian Prime Ministers in such severe terms that the latter demanded satisfaction through hls envoy, Count Sigmund, of Cardinal Antonelli, who reprimanded and suspended from oMce the press censor who had authorized the printing of Mon- signor Nardi’s article 1a the weexiy paper Corres. pondance de Rome, It was soon after these diplomatic skirmishes that the government itect, Count Vesplgnal executed his plan for the councli hail and aepende: cles, and @ significant disference trom the previousl eject at yo remarked, The seats indi- Pontificial tirone as destined to in the firat plans were omitted in Vespignant’s, iu the same Manner that when Quak- ers are thea to ejoct some objectionable member from their community they merely place his cus tomary chair outside the door, Your readers will, therefore, comprehena why I say that the door of the Council) ta aii but closed against diplomatic representatives, and who knows but vio Nono may slam it in their faces ou the pean inauguration day? The journal of the Council, published by the Jesuits, the Civiita Cattolica and other Roman jouraais ha endeavored to soften down the unfayorable impres- sion produced by the tardy suppression of the diplo- matic seats; but therr articles are written with such asperity CS ambiguity that they confirm existing Suspicions that the Court of Rome does not care for any lay interlopers in the Council. Still, although there ta evidently bad biood, there ts no absolute rupture between the Catholio Courts and that of Rome on the subject of the Council, and, | may even adu, between non-Catholic governments aiso, with the exception of that of Russta, which bas pro- nounced an unmistakable non possumus, and forms the excepiton In got allowing tia few exiled Gatholic bishops to attend the Vatican Counoll, All cue Latin aud Germaa Powers, @ad of qoutes the its of the United States and most Guboss on the Amnervoan, Continent, are now disposed to let the Councit be held, reserving the right 0° pro- (eating afterwards agatnat whatever canons may be published detrimental to the rights of the State and the Ltberties and interests of individuats, Tho Frenoh government ia evidently tending (o this de- termination, which was previously indicated tn M. de Beust’s reply to the propositions of Prince Ho- dealohe, It 1s not to be apprehended that the Court of Rome will deny @ partial representation to the vari- ous Powers in case that the latucr should make any advances to obtain it, but hitherto they have not made any, either collectively or individually, It la hardly to be supposed that they will do so at tho last moment, and if they doit is not probable that such a very limited representation as that which is proposed to be granted to them would satisfy them. Anothor Man Refused—Doctor Cumming Wants to Be “Counted In,” Even if as a Heretlo or Like Huss and Jerome. To THB EDIPOR OF THB LONDON T1MEs:— ‘The editor of the Wesiminsier Gazetie deserves a medal from the Pope for his obstinate resistance to facta aud sublime contempt of all exercise of private spapmens. whatever, His last 1s a reiteration of his Girst communication, with the addition of invective gud other seasoning, intended to cover up poverty of argument and hide his retreat from an untenable position, rashly taken up. ‘hat Protestants are ad- isstble, under certain conditions, toan Ecumenical Councn is obvious from the injunctions quoted by Arcubishop Manning at page 276 of Lis work, “ingtand and Christendom." It is headed, “fhe iujancuons by which the Pope noti- fied to the legates what he would have to be observed bofore the Provestants were admitted tobe heard." After enumerating the requirements he concludes, “If they aamit as aforesaid let their complaints and statements be listened to and dis- cussed with all gentleness and deliberation and be carried to the head himself, the Supreme Ponti, for is final determination, togebier with tie upproval of tie Counctl.” ‘The Proves\ant Powers were invited to attend the Couuct of Treat in 1600, on its third convocation, But tuey deciiued, ag their requisitions or rather conditions were retused, Hardwin states, ix., 1722, “A citation was issued by the Pope to the Bohemian heretics lo appear before the Lateran Couucil,” Huss and Jerome were Lavited to tie Council of Con- stance, ‘The approaching Council at Rome may well fol- low aud ueed not bo ashamed of such precedents, In fact, and as | have proved, the rope has invited heretucs and scaismatios—not, of Course, in Lie case of the former, to seats and votes, but at least to a hearing in tue said Council. So true is this that **M. A,” i lus translation in the Zunes, modified and pared down the words, apparentiy in order to meet the exigencies of couwoversy. Lastly, if the Pope has been,so good as to tell us of our grievous heresies and perils of oternal death, and cotreated us to consider our awiul position and review our whole situation, and “avail ourselves of the opportunity of the Council,’’ tho least we owe or can give ia our accepting tie invitation and giving a reply, justifying, a3 we can, the ground on which wo stand, Where, I ask, can ali this be accom- plished? The Pope plainly proclaims the approach- Ing Councll ag the time and place, in a letter ad- dressed to us, So cicar 13 this that Dr. Manning, dir George Bower and | equally understood the Pope to invite and expect our presence, Tats is merely recapitulating what I have proved; but the utter absence of any new fact or reasoning in the lust communication oF the editor of the West- minster Gazeite absolves Ine from any further reply in this direction, and lis melancholy foundering like @ fish in a net leaves one to feel for him, and his induigence 10 mere abuse 13 quite after the manner of the fathers of the {nquisition so far as they clothed us heretics with odious dresses and fearful names, and only jails in the imitation of #0 canoni- cal @ custom by his not being abie to hand over the Dean of Ripon, Mr. Spurgeon, and myself to what would seemingly delight bis heart—an auto da se. Far be it from me to olame the editor of the West- minster Gazette for preferring lis own translation of the Pope's letter. But, in adducing reliable docu- ments, | never accept any private translation or even 1ely on my own 80 longas I can have access to au authorized one. Nor would [ dare to insult the chief minister of the Roman Catholic Churoht in England by admitting or imagining, as the editor of the Westininster Gazette does, that the Archbishop has allowed a false translation to appear 10 an oficial document for the use of all tue priests and Roman Catholics of Loh er with permissu superiorum on its title page. 1 repeat I am ready “vo avall myself of the opportunity of the general council,” a3 required and invited by Pius [X., as soon as the Pouuf is pleased to inform me in answer to my respectful letter that I shali be heard in reply to his.earnest entreaty to renounce the Provestant faith and return to the Roman Church. I have no desire to see the spectacie or to be made conspicu- ous by being ordered to leave in twenty-four hours or by being «treated and dealt wtth’”’ as ‘a con- demned heretic,” according to the Pope’s instruc- tions to @ general council already referred to. “Strike, but hear,’”’ ia my request. I have gone to work deliuorately and carelully, and I now wait for an answer to my lettef, I ai, sir, your obedient ser- vant. JOUN GUMMING, IRELAND. The Gladstone Charch Bill—How Disestabs lishment is Accepted—Influences of the American War and Foninnism—The Land Quostion—Landlordism and Polltics—Appeal to AmoricamAn Earl in Advance of His Class. WEXroRD, Sept. 9, 1869, This morning I hired a jaunting car to visit an influential Catholic clergyman a few miles north of Ferry Carrig and close to the smiling Slaney. I was prepared with a frat class letter of introduc- tion and a list of interrogatories. My note of intro- duction procured mea hearty welcome—such a one as the true Irish gentleman knows how to give, but particularly to a representative of the New York fignaLp. After the usual salutations were over I ventured to ask him how he and his neighbors ac- cepted Mr, Gladstone's ‘message of peace.” Rev. Mr. —We accepted it as what was due to us, not a3 @ favor but as a right; we lighted no bonfires, made no noise. If woe had assembled as of yore tt mignt be looked upon as offensive towards our Protestant countrymen, but I can’t see how placing the majority of the Irish people upon a religious footing with the mimority, and removing the offensive badge of ascendancy, could be viewed by any reasonable man but as an act of justice, aud oue that ought to have been received with éclat. ConrrgsPONDENT—Don’t you think that the clergy and laity acted wisely in not making any demon- stration? Rey. Mr. —They may, but it matters but little; there are other questions that will cause as much trouble as the Irish Church bill, and one of more importance than even the disestablisnment of the Protestant Church in Ireland, Religious equality 18, abstractly, of Little consequence while the land system of Sreland remains in force. Our people are Catholic; and except the sense of inferiority that wounded them occasionally they could get along very welt with the Church of King liarry and bis daughter, but they can’y much longer put up with the tyranny of aristocratic land agents—the most heartless class of men upon the face of the earth. CORRESPONDENT—To What cause or canses do you attribute the sudden action of Mr. Giadstone? Do you think with the clergyman at Drogheda who pub- licly stated that the Fenians were the cause of its success? Rev, Mr. —Mr. Gladstone himself has stated that Fenianiam (a pause) was intense; but I looked forward to the triutaph of justice tn this unfortunate land when I heard of the collapse of your great war. If your arms bad been unsuccessful wo should not have a disestablished, disendowed Church in Ireland to-day. Every leading Protestant England and Ireiand, every large land owner, wi in favor of the Souvh, not because they admired the galiant conduct of its people, but because they hoped vo see your country destroyed. The Fenians has- tened the act of justice | admit, but their bickerings have scandalized the Irish name at Lome and abroad. CORRESPONDENT—Do you think the peopie have any sympathy for the Fenians? Rev. Mr, ——— —Notwithstandingithe discreditable conduct of the leaders the people do not dislike them; they don't ike any one Ww speak harably or unxindly of tuem. CORRES PONDBNT—Are there many Fenians in Wex- ford, in the county? Rev, Mr. (After a pause)—There are a few in Wextord, [ think, but it is not necessary to bea Fenian to oppose English injustice, Cornesronpent—Is 1¢ true that the Church bill has pleased any portion of the Catholic priesthood or pd the prejudice of tenaat right or land reform Rev. Ma, ~—— —Not to my knowledge. On the contrary, the ink was scarcely ury that the Commis sioners of the Hxecutive had aMxed to the bili mak- jon Was taken up, not only by the national organs, but by the liberal Protestant pret ‘The London Times has just sent over to us a “COmmissioner’’—a great honor. It genta “correspondent” to the Crimea, the Indian empire and the United States, but we have been honored by & “commissioner." CORRESPoNDENT—Then I am to believe that tho disendowing process has only whetted the appetite of the people for land reform—a Tenant Rignt bill— ear Will secure them in their holdings ata fair ren Rev, Mr. ——— —You're right; a land bill that will protect the tenant against the villany and bie att of crael landlords and bad agents, JORRKSPONDENT—L’ve been informed that the landiords of Wexford tn general are good; that they aeidom or never evict Ld ot their tenants, and are residents, with few exceptions, Rev. Mr. —It is true that the majority of the land-owners of this county are good, but there are some Who do not supervise the actions of their agents, A steward of a lord here ta exacting, harsh and as petty a tyrant as ever lived, His ier 1a to be blamed because he doea not attend o his business; he’s @ fop, insolent, a mero ereature of pleasure. rl C—— is @ bigot and Beal He only shows his teeth when ue cocelvea big foam, wWoh arg fomuiarly pald, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 27, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET ‘The 18 of Ely is & minor and scarcely cogn! want of the conduct of his ago! Kamsgrange, will furnish you with facts about bim that will gurpriso you. Franois A. Leigh is a first class exterminator, Bruen and Kavanagh own land in this couaty, but they are residents of the county Carlow, ‘The former 18 the gon of Colonel Bruea, the tory, and the ugliest man in Ireland, The latter is the deformed member of Parliament, Both are not bad in this county, but in Carlow woe to the lenant who will vote against them or the man they prefer. ‘They prosortbe for optuion's sake where there ts 20 rent dae. CoRRESPONDENT—What kind of fandlords are Messrs. Darcy and Power? They represent the county in Parliament, I beliove. Rov. Mr, ——— —Not bad; they are not long land. lords in this county, and taus far haye done nothing very remarkable one way or the other. CoRrRKSPrONDSNT—I8 Dot the junior member the son of the late Sir Joba Powor, tho distiller of John's lane, Dublin; and Mr. Darcy whe brewer of Ushers street, Dublin? Rev, Mr, ——— —Yes; Sir James Power still car- ries on the business of distiller, and Mr. Darcy contiues the brewery. We have cartaloly. 8 Buperior delegation tn the Impertal Parltament, The two meinbers for the county are as IL have stated; the member for the town of Wexford is a distiller, The representative for New Rog, in ali tour meinbera, {s an English barrister, ‘rhe fainlest sm1.¢ Was observable upon his face as he aualyzed the vocauons of the representatives of Wexford lu “the drat assembly of gentiomen In the world.’ After @ few commonplace remarks pbout the crops, &¢., I tasted the glasa of wine he had flied out for me, and cordially bid him goodby. As I held his hand at the threshold he said:—“The influence, the trresisubie tnfiuence and power of Ameiroa, are being dauy felt throughout Europe, and in no part more than in Ireland, Write that we not oaly want land reform, bus a Legislature that will attend to Lrish Affat's. We are too numerous to be the mere appanage of any country. We have borne persyuudion, sisodor and misrepresentation for a@ long time; but we cannot (a long and sig- nilicant pause) bear it much longer. War we do not want; bloodshed we deplore ant carefully guard our peopie from staining their souls with the blood of a leiiow being; but tt is nard to bear the conduct of the wretches who gloat over the misfor- tunes of our poay people, Goodby, God be with you aud bless you. I silently bid my kind host farewell; ascended the ‘“Jaanting car;” drove rapidly towards the town of Wexford; admired tne glorious scenery tnat envi- roned me and soon arrived at my hotel, The superloyal utterances of Vardinal Cullen and Bishop Moiarty, of Kerry, have not many admirers in old Wexiord, Hor people, ke her motto, are “glow, but sure;’ it is diMcult to arouse them; once in anger they are not easily paciiled—unlike the ‘Tipperary men in thetr resentment, bat desperately in earnest when once they resort to ultimarano reguin. One of the most important expressions of opinion on the land question has been issued by the Marl of Granard, the mew lord of Jounstown Castle, in this county, By tho will of the late @ Morgan, one of the Granard, his daughter, residence and the esvates adjoining, as tho death of the late Lady Ermonde, who endeavored to break the wijlon account of Lady Granard becoming a Catholic, The noble landlord is in advance of all bis order, and certainly has caused the ‘big bugs’ to stare and “d——d Granard.” Here's the letter én exlenso:— JouNBTOWN CABTLR, WEXFORD, Sept. 8, 1869. To THR Epttok oF THR DUBLIN FUREMA {n tho present phase of public opinion asto the land ques- tion, when the necessity of an equitable settlement is no unt versally conceded by man of every shade of political opinion, T truat it may not be deamed fnopportune in me to express my Views upon a subject on which, as @ landed proprietor and as ono desirous of according the fullest consideration to the just claims of the tenant farmers, I am deeply inter. ested, Sir, Ulster {s universally admitted to be the most tlourishing as regards the tenant farmers—the moat contented province of Ireland, ‘There agrarian outrages and wholesale evictions are practically unknown, and to my mind this happy Sisto of things is to be attributed to the custom, having ‘almost the force of law, which regulates the relations of land. Jord and tenant. Inthe many land bills which for a period of several yoars havo been brought before Parliament b: admintatrations, both whig and tory, the val tom has been fully recognized in the proviso which recurs in every one of them, “That nothing herein contained shall affect’ the oustom of Ulster.” It ts has been objected by persons whose opinions entitled to respect that the effects of the tenant-richt Of Ulstor are in many respects injurious; for 4 » that the incoming tenant Is often deprived of the novessary cap! talto work his farm by the large sum he has to pay to the ouugoing one. This may. be truo'in somo cases, burt beileve them to be 60 exceptional ag not in any degree to affect tha general conclusion, which Is, I think, ditiicult to deny—that fo this custom is due the prosperity and contentment of the province. ‘There is also this argumont to bo urged in favor of the Uister tenant right, that tt is no new doctrine or experi- ment, doubtful as to’ {ts future results, ‘This has been practically tested by the exporience of nearly three Centuries, Tt i# simplo fn its application, fully under. atood by and to the wants and {doas of our peop! and, however, mu: id to be contrary to th princip les of poiftical economy, I prefer it to any more tho- bretically perfect and untriod system, believing as I do that the great mistake In legislation for Treland has always been that the eontimentaof her people have been so continually Ireland, cal government ati purposes, with [power of appeal in case of dispute toa local and Huexpensive tribunal, such as the Court of ‘Quarter. Seastons, ‘Werewuch wn enactrbent as L have akatched to become law firmly bolieve that the South Woatern counties, with their milder climate and mo le aoll, would, aon 6 if not outstrip, the prosperous condition ‘of the North. Such outrages ou hiimanlty as the Clonoea evictions and acts 0 Aimilar nature would become impossible—agarinn — distur- bance would be » thing of the past—feelings of mutual con- fidence, hitherto held in abeyance by, unjust lava, would revive between landlord and tenant, and each would find that t vi a thelr common interest lay in the improvement and regenera: tion of their common country, GRANARD. SPAIN. The Cuban Question in Madrid and Paris, Our files from Europe by the steamship Unton supply the following English detalis of the Cuban question excitement as prevailing in Madrid and Paris on tho 11th inst., additional to the report pub- lished in the HERALD yesterday :— [Madrid (Sept, 10) co ence of the London Standard.) In addition to the scenes of Tuesday night Madrid has been turaed upside Qown by the report that the United States government were going to recognize the Cuban rebels as belligerents. ican givo you no idea of the intensity of excitement this has caused. The Spanish government bave long been following a mysterious policy respecting Cuban intelligence. Nothing appeara in the papers, official as well as unoillcial, but the most cheery news, Not @ word of vbo horrible crueities and bar. barities carried on in Cuba, and not a word of the formidable proportions the insurrection has assumed. One of the opuoaition papers, the Epoca Isabellino, on Sunday nigitt went so far as to pub- lish some Cuban news of doletui import, received by it direct irom porsons Of great veracity in the island, It intimated tho probability of losing it if prompt exertions ona grand scale were not made, and it called on the government to lose not an instant in despatching the entire army and navy, The sensa- uon this created was intense, the people waking up for the first time, thanks to the secretive policy of the government, to the possibility, nay extreme probability of the isiand succeeding in severing its connection with Spain. On the top of ail this the excitement was iicreased by the next evening’s Epoca, which contained the following startliag an- nouncement News of high gravity have come to affiict our hearts as Spaniards. It ia said that the represbntative of the United States, General Bickics, whose proseuce has been the sad omen (triste aguero) for’ the interests of our eountry, has passed, {n compliance with the orders of his goverument, Hote to’ tat of Spain, 1a whic. he announces that the state opinion in the North American r tue Cuban reb to make Mention, for certainty as the foregoin; Madrid, havo not as yet pt communicating tl Silvela, who wre both in Vieuy. When we wrote about Cuba "yesterday, dolefuily impressioned, our heart sald vo us We, might even expeck greater, evils! Cupa is in danger! To this ory ft is not with dis we ought to answer, but with the spirited enthusiasm of our better times! be of tue vitality of our country. ‘ar linos, oF republicans, or any other parties, who f combating the present situation b; m if they do not, fe moment, when it'ie Ind pensable we should unite all our strength, cease thelr rancors to leave the government free to save Cuba. The revolution has conceded the right of public meeting. What more wor- thy ocoasion could we have to exercise it than in moments tke theas, #0 as to demonstrate to that great republic that Spain has but one will, when the saving ot the integrity of her territory 1 concerned? Let the men of all parties un and have meatings in every city, town and village, Tho loss Of Cuba wiil be the dishonor of the revolution, Ail the papers copied this, and Madrid at this moment is in a blaze of patriotism, the general de- aire being to put forth the entire strength of the nation to reconquer Cuba. It 18 said that 20,000 men are to go off Within (he next ten days; 8,000 of these sail next week, [Paris (Sept. 12—evening) correspondence of the London Times.) A good deal of attention is excited here dy the note sent by the United States government to Madrid respecting Cuba, The Patrie says that Spain is going to send iron-clads to the West Indies, and is chuckling at tne prospect of a war between the Spaniards and the Yankees. Our transatlantic consins have grown all of a sudden such amazing favorites with us, we have grown so fond of them ail at once, that 1 really don't know whether I dare venture to point out that their treatment of Spain exceeds even the customary Yankee disregard of common honesty and common decency. Spain being ina difficulty, the United States choose this moment to try and wreat Cuba from her. This is @ requital for the conduct of Spain im closing her ports against the Confederate cruisers, The old French proverb waa right after all, though a proverb— *Gignea vilain, vous poindra,” General Prim’s Nogotiations at St. Cloud. {Paris (Sept, 15—evening) correspondence of the Loudon Post.) Marshal Prim and his Excollency M. Silvola, the Spanish Ambassador, bave suddenly come up to Paris from V ‘The Marshal has asked au inter- view with mperor, and he will probably be received to-day or to-morrow at St. Cloud. It is reported that the Spanish government has mado representations to foreign friendly governments concerning the attitude of the United States towards the Cuban revolutioniste, The American Kavoy at Madrid, we heard last woeok,had sent in ®@ communication from Washington: but tt ia not atated precisely Whar ls tue uature Os now, OF 8100, now nearly @ year old. As Majcsty ter he may be well enough to give the minutes and listen to his representations on the posl- ton of affairs at Cuba, or the occupation of the Span- ish throne, or both. attitude of the Frenoh gov- ernment towards Spain since the revolution, a3 j= qhentiy inved out, has been similar to that of bngiand—an attitude of observation, with a desire and dctermination not to interfere. Let the Spaniards choose their own govern- ment and sovereign; there will be no dim. culties made by any foreign Power. Such was and is the order of the day. Meanwhile Queen Isabelia and her family have received the hospitality and sympathy of the Emperor and Empress, and such attentions as do not tn any way indicate political meaning. The Queen and her friends Lave not given any trouble to the French government, and ldo not belleve that the exiled Bourbons have intrigued or made any efforta for inducing political parties in Spain to call to the throne the youthful son of [aa- bella. From all we can learn the Queen watts events, and trusts in the will of Provi- dence. Nor have the Carliats recelved any coun- tenancy from the French government; on the contrary, the French frontiers were very carefully watched during the late pra of the elder Bourbon to revive tho cause of legitimacy in Spain. Marshal Prim is not likely to change the attitude of France towards Spain. He may seok to engage the good offices of France at Washington in the Cuvan diMoulty, and the good offices of Engtand may be equally solicited; and what Holand does the French Cabinet will in all probability do also, We have heard about Spain selling Cuba to the United States, and then we have becn fold that no Spanish Minister dare do anything of the sort, Con- fusion and indecision are all Marshal Prim can report to the Emperor at St. Cload, and what can Napoleon ILI. do to remedy such ovila? THE BYRON CONTROVERSY. What William Howitt Saye—His Opinion of Byrows Brain and Bind=Deieace of the Poet. To THe KprToR OF THK LONDON News:— A considerabie amount of discussion having now taken place on the Byron question, and tiere ap- peartny a great danger of the vital points of the con- troversy being buried under a multitude of words, 1 beg once more to recall the public attention to a few plain facts, ou which the foundations of the whole dispute rest. The great fundamental fact is, that ali the dark and revolting Charges ‘against Lord Byron are avowed to proceed from the very person who, before making them, took care to destroy the evidence of the person agawsa. whom they aro made, That is, Lady Byron during the life of her husband had sternly refused to make any expia- nation to him or tw the public of the causes of ner separation. If she had uny to make the proper time to do that was while hor husband was living, and, if not true, could have rebutted them. Sne should have doue this or forever after held her peace. But when her husband was dead, and died with the hun- dred times repeated declaration of his ignorance of her reasons tor leaving him; when she had accom- plished the destruction of ber husband's statement of hig side of the question, and then written, as we are informed, her own representation of it; when all those who knew hin best—who had his full confidence and could best defend him—had iol- lowed him to the tomb, we find her, in open breach of her solemuly reiterated assertions of an inviolable silence on the subject, coming out, If Mrs. Stowe's story be true, with the most damning calumnies wiich 1t 18 possible for a woman to utter against her husband. I beg to ask once more whether it be the opinioa of the justice-loving British public that this style of conduct can for a moment receive its sanction? Ifa practice of this kind can be tolerated, then wiil no man’s reputation be safe from “ine wife of his bosom.” Any wife with a pique may, the moment that the breath is out of her husband’s body, rifle his cabinets, overhaul the most sacred records of his past life, and then with tmpu- nily proceed to blacken his memory with the most odious pigments of hell. This, however, is precisely what the zealous advocates of Lady Byron’s unwar- rantabie proceeding recommend to us as adniissi- ble. I have no hesitation tn asserting that it 13 a pro- ceeding a8 odious, as abhorrent to every right feel- ing, a8 opposed to aud destructive of every principle that is sacred tn life, as tt is pre-eminently un-in- glish. 1 repeat it, that the moment that Lady Byron caused to be destroyed the memoir of her husband she put berself out of court on the question, and rende.ed lt impossible that it can ever be settled except upon defective and ex parte evidence. Beyond this primal fact, which ought to nd for ever broadly, strongly, and uneclipsed by verbiage or sophistry before the public eye, it is scarcely worth while to go; but there are one or two minor facts made pateut by recent correspondence. It is pertectly clear, from the letters of Lady Aune #ar- nard and Lady Byron, quoted by Lord Lindsay, and made still more palpable by the important state- meuts of “An American Citizen” in the Zines of the 8th inst, that for years after the separation Lady Byron had no idea of any such crime as Mrs, Stowe makes her allege against Lord Byron thirteen years ago. There 13 not a shadow of a shade of any such Cause assigned for the separation, The causes ‘enumera’ ere violent conduch — affect and general licentiousness, had lo idea of any such part the ‘American Citizen" satis- factorlly shows from his intercourse with Moore; tnat Lady Byron had no such idea, the fact, so well observed, of her naming her infant daughter after Augusta Leigh 18 most conclusive proof. If Lady Byron afterwards fell tuto such a belief it must have been from the flenish insinuations of some base per- none the woman “born 1n a ggrret, in the kitchen bred. One mote fact, The writers, English and Ameri- can, Who ciaim ior Mrs. Stowe the pecullar and aimost exclusive confidence of Lady Byron on thus suoject, are dealing in mere fudge. [tis wellknown to acertain number of persona that Lady Byron, with ail her aitected strength of character, had the weakness to make such confldantes of most of her lady friends ef long standing. Most of tiese ladies are now dead, and prudentiy “died and taae no sign.’’ But there is one at least still living who pos} se3se3 a series of letters irom Lady Byron, contain, Ing not horrors of the Beecher Stowe type, but heavy charges not only against her husband, but against her own daughter. What are we to do with @ person at once so virtu- ous and go vituperalive—so saintly in one corner of her mind, and harboring in another that which does not spare even her own flesh aud blood? What are we to say to the noble reticence of a wife who de- stroys her dead husband's deience, outwaits his re- maiuing frieads, and then furnishes to her lady adherents all round @ sheaf of poisoned arrows to be slot olf wien not an opposing shield can be raised against them? It is the story of Orpheus over again—torn Lo pleces by a mob of tnfuriated women ! Certain anonymous correspoudents talk of byron being ‘now unmasked.” He was the very last man to Wear @ mask. His faults lay from first to last open to the day. We know no more posi. tively of Lim now than we cid. We have no proof whatever only one-sided assertions, but much gounter proof; and we are bound to characterize this attempt to swear away his literary and moral character—such as it was—as most monstrous, I have no desire to condemn Lady Byron. No one honors certain parts of her character more than | do; but she has condemned herself by her breach of her once honorable silence, and by the irreparable wrong done to Byron by the destruction of his justi- ficatory case, Once more, and finally, for with this I close my earnest protest on this subject, | exnort you, my countrymen, to revert to and to hold fast and Imimovabiy by those great principles oi justice which have distinguished us in ail ages, ‘‘Noiman,’? ays our law and our deepest moral sentiment, ‘shall be condemned unheard.” But tf Lord Byron be condemned 1s must be unheard. His lady has inur- dered him to his sleep; in the last great sleep ag it regards this world. She has stifled his voice from the tomb, And let her not persuade you, under these circumstances, tliat even his poetry is a sham, an empty theatric impersonation, studiously got up for effect, in whatever he wrote Byron was only too real. At midnight, over his gin and water, penning “on Juan,’ bis mind floated in the sphere of a lawless world and its reminiscence When he wrote his dark dramas of “Cain” and “Manfred” he was oe endeavoring to probe those 4 mysteries of @ corrupt hutnan nature, which Shakspeare, Danto, Goethe had explored boiore him, and, contemporaneously, bei yet with no man accusing them of incest. In “Out ide Harold” he shut out the lower and {njurious world and its asso- ciations, and rose into a povier and purer element. He ascended into rapport with the spirit of the aug and eternal mountains aud their sub- lime sense of purity and awe, A _ voice of loftiest inspiration, @ loving, genuine voice of man’s highest and noblest aspirations then awoke in him. In that spirit ho wrote one of the sweetest and noblest poems which live im any tel tae poem which breathes the true trumpet tones of imperishable freedom; a tone of God's and man’s justice to universal man, a glorious heritage of our language and our common nature; a tone even of religion, with which the mathematical mne- dlocrity which now seeks to crush him could never sympathize, becauge It could not liveup and in to it. Great, immense allowances are to be made for a man like Byron, struggling with @ blood and consti- tion infected by @ mad and wicked ancestry. It might be a great misfortune for Lady Byron to marry such & man—which she did with her eyes open—but t was a terrible one for him to marry a woman who could desert him living and defame him dea Poor Byron! But spite of all nature's and woman's wrongs; spite of all defamatow efforts, hia best sentiments shail animate our chil- dren to the love of liberty, of nature and of patriot- iam as long as the nation and its janguage last, And if they descend to his less hallowed themes, they will do it at thelr own poril and responsibility, as they do when they indulge in the grossnesses of Ovid and Catuilus, of Sterne and Smoliett, of Voi- tatre, Rabelais and Paul de Kock, or wilfully seek ‘the acenes of-tne degraded life of our present cor- rupted cities ith these words { close my part in this contro- versy and wait for tne authoritative words of those few Who are now the only ones in a position to.pro- nounce them. Tam, &c. WILLIAM HOW iit. PENMABNMAUR, Sept, 16, Lewis Sergenni’s Opinion. To THe Epiron oF THR LONDON STANpARD: This foui case, built from begtuning to end on woran’s scandal and woman's unsteadfastnoss, and fanned by tue unscrupulous criticism of what: Mr. Car.ylo called the “Age of Shams," has assumed fo Skt geod which at once disgust aud mystify. hhat the worst of sensual crimes should made, by the agency of a married woman, & ion topio eraMlOd MIQpe We W ourely GinmUMLAS eeny' brought opposite and tion, = With you permission 4 will draw up @ contrast between several pairs of statements in connection Many others} wil bo suffolent 10 tax" tho ingenuity many rs) wil suficien: ne of the most ingentous of juries:— ‘Stowe nol jon I tale het aaltvit that Lord Myroesaftoc his eaparetions woee his wife's money to pay his debts with. ‘This wou:d appear to reat on Lady Byron's authority. Mrs. Stowe, on the same authority, avers that Lord Byron carried on an latrigue, £05 Mis, Stowe, on the same authority, statos that. whem Lord and Lady Byron were returning in their carriag the wedding ceremony Lord Byron broke out into denunciation of her, sayiay, “You might have prevonted this, madam,” and “you will Gnd you have orarried @ devil.” Mra. Stowe, on the same authority, states that Lord Byron doter- mined'to get rid of his wife, who was willing to slay with him and be something leas than his favorite Mi Stowe, the Saturday Review and other autboriti “Btanfred,” “Cain” and other of Lord Byron's works oeu- tain a justiscation of incest and collateral evideuce of the own ain in that respect be tron va. Stowe.—Letter 220 in Moore's Life, aa ed Pe ors that Lond Byron employed for tm 5 By Mr, Perey Boyd, purpose the proceeds of the sale of Newstead Abi ‘not bis wife's fortune. Mr. Boyd aays that the cause of sepa- ration fs “known to many peraons still living,” and declares it to involve “no kind of moral guilt or opener’ done in Galt, in his “Life of Byron,” quotes the ty denial of anything of the ki id the latter adds that if be had sald what was impnte: im Lady Kyron had quite et out of the carriage and leave him alone ady Anno Jernard, quoted by Lord, Liude aay, reporte a conversation botwcen herself and Lady B. in which the latter gives ber quite another version of enrriage scene to what Lady Byron fs sald to have toll Mra, Stowe, Lord Byron, Thomas Moore and other crediblo wit- neawes agaert that Lady Byron left her husband of her own free will and that th latter frequently exproasod hls desire for reooncillation. Goethe, Galt and other writers id critics affirm that there is no allusion to incest in “Alaulrod” ner ang jnstifiention of that crime in “Cain ‘These, str, are only a few of the atrange incongrat- tles that this question has produced, which wht serve at least to syow how small are the grounds on which we are asked to condemn Lord Byron, I, for one, confess that the discussion of tho last fort night, having induced me to read once more the greater part of Byron’s poems, has wonderfaliy rengthened his influence over my mind; and if Mra, Blowoe really believes in the story which she has given to the world sho will have the satisfaction of Jeeling that, instead of:weakening the poet's hota on Wit hiaglnation of his readers, she has confirmed, 1 think | may say in thousands, the authority of such @ pernicious writer. A word, by the way, tor Shelley. One of Mrs. Stowe's s: pporiars said that ai a certain time Byron was much in the company of Shelley, and that thou society was congerial, inuamuch as Sholley was. proiessed deiender of incest, and notably so.in the “Revolt of Isiai,” which was written mainly with that very purpose. Surely greater stuff waa never written, The morality of that poem is intensely high and pure, and from first word to last there ts not the remotest aliusion to, much less a aefence of, incest. Nor do I beiteve that either Byron or Shelley had any more sympathy with incest than ‘Tennysen or Browning. What Shelley thought of it may be gathered from his “Cenct.” ‘The fact 18, che narrow- minded and earthy vpet of their age was utterly in- competent to appreciate or be just to either of those great omg We are beginning to make a tardy com- pensation, and all true lovers of genuine poetry and genuine poets must not forget to be grate(ul to ita. Stowe for her valuabie assistance in the case. fam, Sir, yours fatthfally, LEWIS SERGEANT, OuBLTENUAM, snough spirit to with the maid, Lady Byron’s Name and Lineage. The writer of ‘Table Talk” tn the London Quar- dian supplies the following information:— Everybody is asking just now wbo Lady Byron was and how she came to be known also ag iv Wentworth. She was, as most people know, & Miss Augusta Millbanke, the only child of Sir Ralph Mil- banke, baronet, of Seahain Hail, county Durham. Her mother was the Hon. Judith Noel, daughter of Slr Edward Noel, baronet, who in 1745 succeeded his cousin, Martha Lovelace, in the ancient barony of Wentworth, and was subsequentiy created Vis- count Wentworth. This latrer tivle became extinct ab the death of Thomas, second viscount, in 1315, whem Sir Ralph and Lady Millbanke succecded to the Wentworth property, and took in consequence the name of Noel, a3 also did their daughter aud her husband. At the same time the barony of Weat- worth fell into abeyance between Lady Miilpauke and her sister's son, aticrwards Lord Scarsdale, whose death without issue in 1864 terminated the abeyance, and the barony fell to Lady Millbank: only chuld, the wife of the poet. She lived to enjoy the title only about four or five yoars, Thouga when young she iuherited an ampie fortune, itis & mistake on the partof Mrs, Beecher Stowe to sag sie had “a country seat near She lived at one time at Ealing, and eventually purchased, a smait house m St. George's terrace, adjoining Prim- rose Hill, in the Regenv’s Park, and there she died in the year 1830 or 1861. The half-sister o€ Lord Byron, Whose name turns up 80 unhappily ia the recently published notices of Lord and Lady Byron’s married life, and is there mentioned as “Augusta,” was the only child of John byron, the poet's father, by his first wife, Amelta d’Arcy, in het own right Baroness Conyers, who had herself been divorced from the Duke of Leeds. She was bora January 26, 1733, and was consequently older than the poet by just four years. In 1307 she married Taeutenant Colonel George Leigh, of the Tenth Dra- aconte by whom sie had issue, She died iu Novem er, 1851. SCOTLAND. Dd iption of the Wallace Monument. [Stirling (Sept. 11) correspondence of London Post. Since a national monament has been erected te the memory of one of the bravest of Scottish patriots, the propriety of perpetuating the name and valtant deeds of Wallace in stone and time ia this énlightened nineteenth century need not be catied in question. A Wallace monuinent, suffice 16 to say, at a cost of nearly £14,000 lias been erectea on the Abbey Craig, near Stirling, and it was for- mally inaugurated to-day, ‘The history of the Wallace Monument ts fraught with many inisfortunes and diMcuities, extending over & period of at least eight years; but the reproach: which threatened Scotland has fortunately been re- moved, and the Wallace cairn hag been almoss completed. The appearance of the monument la of an imposing character, It 13 situated on the highest point of the Abbey Craig, which is at least 340 feet above the level of the sea and is seen on all sides from @ great distance. The design consists of @ Scottish baronial tower, 220 feet high and thirty-six feet square. ‘Tife wails'are massive, being eighteen feet thick at the base and from five to six feet at ita thinnest part. At the east sido of the towers a lo for the warder, and an open courtyar entered arvhed gateways with bold moula- 3, separates the main building from the warder's dwelling. Above the outer gateway are the Wallace arms, surmounted with a large Scotch thistle. Passing through the gateway into @ stone arched passage, a series of steps leads to an open octagonal winding staircase, projecting {rou the southwest angle of the tower, and running up nearly its entire height, Arrowlets plerce the walls of the staircase at intervals almost to the summit of the tower, and bold cable mouldings, with moulded angles, bind the walls exterually. The staircase forms the approach to several spactous and lofty halls Gesigned for the display of armor and antiqua- rian relics. On reaching the top of the stawcase there ig a bartisan parapet five feet thick, and eee tected on the outslds with a parapet wall atx feet wide and eighteen imches thick, On going round the four sides of the parapet the bartisan platform te reached, an open space of about twenty-five feet square, paved with heavy flags, and tected on the outside with a low parapet consistt of large balla, aurmounted by & mouki cope, An imperial crown forms the apex of the monument. Tuls coronal top is upwards of seventy feet high and comprises eight arms from the angies and aules, asl converging to the centre and forming a series of richly moulded and fying buttresses. The building 1s of freestone with the exception of the intertor and packing, which ts whinstone. From a financial be aged it appeared that the sum of £12,962 16a, $d. had been subscribed. Ad- vauces had been made by the building commltiee to the amount. of 2712 9s. 10d., while there was @ credit account in the bank of £214 4s. 10d,, thus makin om the income side a total of £13,401 1s, 8d, This total sum, it appeared, had beeu expended on the build- ing. TURKEY AND EGYPT. The Grand Vizior’s Reply aud Terms to the Viceroy. The Levant Herald of the 8th of September pub- lishes the following:— The publication of the text of the Grand Vizter's rejoinder to the Viceroy’a defence 1s atill withheld, but we are enabled to state with more exactness than tn our last tae conditions which it categorically imposed upon his Highness, These were:— 1, That the effective of the Egyptian army shall be roducod to the Iintts fixed by the firman of 1806, and that the uniform of the troops shall be in exact conformity with those of the Vurkisy army, 2 That the breechloaders ordered in Kuropo, or whiek by i in Egypt, aa also the (ronciads be coded to the Porte and vessels of war, shall be sold or ol: at their cost price. 8, That the La apis budgets sball be submitted yoarly for ho approval of the Sultan. whatorer shall be carried on by the . through the am. of the ry ta, ‘That the Khedive shall contract po further Jona without A special Orman from the Sulta . That the Orgimat shail recelve ite complete application and oxaction in Egypt. eh Waa abana 2, That bis Highness sh vie tases ood upon his acer ‘The te of this uiimatam, with the ent ad- vico to accept them, were telegraphed to M. Bouree even before Aiaat Pacha left with the text of the document, aud it was reported during the wook that humiliating as they are his Highness had replied, ao- cepting the whole, and annouuciog his speedy com- ing to complete in person his place at Dolmabakcche and the Porte. This, however, \urns out not to have been 80, He takes objection to the two conditions re- spec ting the budgets and foreign loans considering that they trench on his rights of Independent admin~ istration, and postpones his visite accordingly uit these points be setticd. It remains to be seem whothér the Porte will yield or stand firm on what are for Baypt itaelf the two most important of the conditions imposed. if the Vioero} aliowed to evade these It matters litte whether he nominally accepts the others or not, for with practically limit. leas command of money his pots for intschiet Will remain just as it Waa whon he last weat (@ Burne? ieee k |