The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1869, Page 4

EUROPE. English Discontent, Corporate Frauds, Money Losses and Cuba. The! ish Land System and How It Works in Kerry. Napoleon and His Dynasty as Viewed hy 4h Orleanists. Bohemia the Excitement in Relations with Austria, By steamship at this port we have our special cor- respondence irom Europe, with & mall report in Interesting detail of our cable telegrams to the 23th of September. The exclusion of M. Leden Rollia from the Napo- Jeon amnesty 18 the subject of comment in the Paris jouroais. M. Rollin maintains that the order to arrest him was sent to the outposts the very night the amnesty was signed. Ho says that “on two occasions witlin the last ten years attempts nave been made Lo obiain his extradition from the British government. On the frst occasion the application was refused by a majority On the aext it Was coniemptuonsly rejected. Tho Empress of France would, it was said, “post- tively" ieave Paris for ihe Kasi on the Soth of Sep- tember. Her Majesty will stop tive or six days at Venice aud one day at the Pireus, but will visit the King and Queen of Greece on ier return voyage. ‘The arrangements for tue journey, according to the Pulrte, ave on a very simple scaie, and it is calculated that the coat will not exceed 709,000f, M, Louts Blanc seems to the London Zeonomist to have got the true key to the imagiwative strength of the European republican purty: but he also seems to have deceived his owa brilliaut intellect into that subdstilution of the means for the end which is essen- Wal to the success of a repubican party. Many of the forms of @ constitutional monarchy, saya the writer, “aro emply enough—looked at in the light or pure reason, some conceivable forms of republican- ism are far more defe e But surely the prin- ciple in politics cannot be identided with tae out- ward form, but only with that which it is the object of the outward form to guard and cultivate—crue freedom, 1.¢., true popular aud national responsi- bility.” The London Spectator argues that what has con- verted the tory po'iticiane aud ihe tory newspapers to the great heresy of fixity of tenure iu land, is the clear perception that the agrtoultaral population of Ireland Would accept any real boon in that direction @s @ piedge of reconciliation with the jaw; as a sign that Irishmen are at last to lave the unexpressea law of [relaud expressiy administered by Irisu ut- bunala, The London Scotsman caiis that there are those wuo demand Sutte interference in land grievances not in treiand aione, but in Scotland also. The argnment which they put forth is that where the manggement of property entats agrarian muider® and the cosi of # standing army of | jotimidation, as in Ireland, and widely disused | pauperis coupled With a feariui mortality among @n overcrowded pocr population perforce concea- trated in the slums of larga towns, as in Scotland, there is a prfmasacte case made to entitle the State to step tn, and either compel the preseut holders of land to provide the remedy themselves, or, giving compensation, divest Laem, and take the new atrangenient into ts own haads, An Irish correspondent of we Pall Mall Gazette attempts to suow the impossibility of arriving ata | satiafactory solution of the land q ‘estion by putting attention to the fact out @ series of proviems tlustrative of tts dimeculttes. | The letter merely shows toe canger of half mea- sures. Mr. stone, 8 represented by the cable, deciined a bang t offered by the Towu Council of Aberdeen. Iu bis reply he says:—“After a session which has | been ar. 10s beyond my sirengih I find myself engaged In the labor of preparation for ssion likely to be not jess arduous." Mall Gazette of Septeuiber 23, speaking ue in Manchester, says:— | fhien Lancashire can have plenty of good cotton, | Say midGliog Or.eans, for alxpenoe per pound, Lanca- shire thrives; but when she has to pay twice or thrice taat amount for her raw material Lancashire droops. Hence cotton mills are running short time Or Closed, aud chambers of commerce agitating for greatly extended felda of cottou culture; for cotton 80 cheap that Lancashire may again cloibe the the produce of her jooma. Tuat in many pasliire has been tnjured oy the cotton yceriain, When ashire is in dis- | th in fr ade is upt to be shaken; It the American civil war; it is to a cer- nov fauiug is ve tress lier f was 80 (ur tain oxtont so ‘The Londou Star of the 234 of September says:— it isto be fenved there is to be a paraiicl to the os Albert Avguranc: Company. Yes- ication was tm to Vice Chancellor in chambers, on several them by a uolder of 8,000 shares of the European Assurance Comp pany formed in 1854 as the P 8 Provident so- ciety, and Which vook its yy (name tn 1859, Its hastlities are said vaguely to ainount to several | millions, The capital Was £1,000,00, and the shares have all been issued. It was siated yesterday that | there 18 now due £100,000 ou policies, to meet which Shere is only £10,000 at the banker's. A London journal says that the Cape of Good Tope Parliament has been occupied vy a’ proposal, con- veyed tu a wessage from the Governor, to substitute for the present Legislature a small chamber, con- sisting of twelve clected and three nominee mom- bers, with @ president appointed by the crown. This proposal was rejected by a majority of 17 in a hous or 61. James, itions, one of the winding up This is a com- ENGLAND. | Joha Buil Grambling, as nmal—The Cuban Question—the Liie Assurance Corporation PouicNine Miliions of Pounds sterling In- volved—Commercinl Gambling. Lonpox, Sept, 27, 1869, Why, as a rui¢, are Frenchmen 80 much more agreeable companions than Englishmen? Why are they better liked, even by Americaus, who are of the same race asthe English? The answer to this question was given me many years ago by a quaiut oid Bavarian, under whom it was my fate to atuay, but noc to jearn, German, during along sojourn at Munich, Englismen, notwitnste advantages, have a facility of making enemies all over the world that I bave never secn equatied. In days gone by, when I was twenty years younger, | could not understand why this shonid be, id asked my German teacher for bia opinion. The old gent man was very frank in his repiy. men,” he said, “are really the most unpicasant peo- ple in the world, ana the reason is that you have | never yet met with any trouble or misfortune, at jeast not for many generations, within you country. You find fault with sider or reflect What you are or what you ha and never care to spare any one’s feelings.” Woil, hereis acase in point, The London Times Of this morning devotes @ column and @ hall to finding fault with Goneral Grant oa account of tls Managowent of the Cuban quesiton, and about as much more to abusing Mr. Summer because he has found fault with the conduct of England ducing the American war, av opluion in which fam quite sure be would be upheld by at east nine handred and ninety- Hine mea out of every thousand throughout the civilized world. It 18 curious to observe the two leading articles as they stand side by side on the same page of the 7imes—the one taking your Presi- dent to task for the part ho | tion; the other taking Mr. Sumner to task because he bas dared to find fanit with the part Rogiand took in the American war. But in these two articles of the Ties there is an. other inconsistency that I would cal! atiention to, as forming part of what may be calied Engiana’s stand. ing policy respecting all rebels, except those who rebel against British misgovernment. it ts this:—In the loading Journal, asin ail fie Engilsh papers, there ta a strong sympathy showh for those who are ia arms agalast the power of Spain in Guba, Do not imagine that this is done on principle, Very tar ing their many | “You Hnglish- | own | . | Into It 4 iu the Cuban ques- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. from tt—or, rather, {6 is doae on principle, and a very bad principle, too. If Cuba was annexed to the United States to-morrow, and if you gave that isiand aa free a government and as free Institutions as you enjoy yourselves, aud i, after five or six years, rebellion against the States was to raise its head in Juba, the 4ympatnies of ngland would be wil With the rebels. L¢ seems Co Le our mature, or, | father, the nature of our public press, to sympa- thize with all those who raise the standard of revolt in any part of the world, always excepting those who try aud shake off the most galling of ail tyran- nies, which is what we suffer from in Eagiaud, namely, the tyranny of claas, Since’ my last letter auother tnsarance oMce, namely, tue Kuropean, has come to griel, id the consequences are that every man who has insured his Life lor the benedt of bis family is now frightened H fe dies his poltcy may tura out so much waste paper. Of the failure of the Albert I have spoken before, and you lave read, no doubt, moro than enongh about it im the English papers, But { the case of the European ta, if po: le, & more | dowarurht swiadie, although, perhaps, on a smauer scale Luan its predecessor, in rascality. ‘This office owes at this moment Upon policies that have lapsed aud are about to become due about $500,000, For | Wiese movey has or will wave to be found during the next two months, 1 should say that the mougy ought to be found; but the whole of the assets of the Company amount to about $150,000, although until witiin the last few weeks tt hag advertised ‘self a8 having $5,000,000 invested im government securities. Now, ia not that a fraud of the moat outrageous description? If some poor, uniortunate mechanic, perhaps with a sick wile and a large fam- Uy, Were to go into a shop and say he was iu the receipt of forty doliars a week in wages, if tbls Waa untrue, if he haa but tea doliarg a week and on the strength of Lis misstatement obtalu credit for twenty dollars what would be the result? He would be suu- moned before the magistrate, sent for trial to the Sessions, condemned to hard labor for mouths, come our of jad to be an outcast and a pauper bis children would be sent to the work hou hls home be broken up, and he end, probably, by being driven through want into crime. But how are tue directors of the Atbert and European Insurance Companies treated? They have again and agaia sigued their names to what they knew at the me were fwlsehoods—direct, wil- ful lies—by which thousands of persons would be injured for Ife; and yet they are in the enjoyment of tuetr incomes, they ride about in thelr carriages, they give and are given the best of dinners, they eat, drink and are merry, and no doubt go regularly to church, and when the commaudment, “Thou shalt not steal,” is read out by the ininister, they respond most devoutly, “Lord have mercy apon us, and iucine our hearts to keep this law.” th which tuese insolvent assurances have ogiand among the hard-working pro- suen is deplorable. Kvery aay cases are to iny Knowledge of Men who have for years Liemselyés in every way to pay up the pre- on their life policies and thus provide for their Wives and chitdren at their deaths, and who are now dead and their families leit paupers. I Know of one case in which the father of a large fam ily, a clergyman in the Established Church, never had during luis liietime more than £400 per aunum in the Way of income. Of this, by the greatest possible self-denial, he used every year to put by £5) and pay it to the Albert office in order to tusure £3,000 at bis death. He died a few months ago, and as 8 matter of course tae sum for waich he lad insured his life Was payable to nis widow three months alter Mis death, The wicow bad gathered woat little belongings sho owned about her and was avout to go to the island of Guernsey, as being a cheap piaco to Hye in, She was merely waiting to receive the money due to her from the Albert, when the oftice failed and she was jell peauitess, utierly destitute, and was only saved irom the Workhonse, which ta Christian England is but another natoe for bell on earth, by a score of literary men who had known her husvand, subserib- ing among them a small sum, out of which she and her seven young cllidren were supported until Ler brother, an oMcer out in Lidia, could be written to, Another case, far inore deplorabie, 18 that of an old gentleman, eighty-three yoars of age, who for thirty years had paid a large sum of money every year io the Albert in order to Insure is life for the beneiit of his wi ad @ poor bedridden sister, who.hag been ior haifa century depeading upon her brother, This gentiemau’s tncome dies with inm; but he had so far stinted Mimsolf that he was sure ie would leave his wife aud sister well ot. But the Albert failed; J he had paid upon his policies is lost, and this so preyed upon his mind, added to the fact that at his 2 he could not insure his ufe again, that it ‘Liu. ths widow and his sister are now tn the Worktouse. But l might fil the whole of the NEaaLD With anecdotes of a like Kind. [see it this day's Aforn- tng Fost a statement to tue eifect that the outsiand- ing policies of the European insurance Company may be reckoned at upwards of £9,000,000 sterling, and this fact alone will show you how great must be the misery caused thronghout the land if the com pany breaks, a3 tC is sure to do, although the direc. tors have put forth a circular stating that the alfair is ail right, and that the policy holders need not be afraid of their money, But 1 au sorry to say (hat wereantile fraud, financial cheating, and commer- cial swindll rm the rule far more than the ex- ec land at the pregeut day; and this is a Why trade is so 4tagaant and there is h money locked up at the preseut time in country. 1e 7 pectus of a “great affair,” called the Oceanic Teegraph Company, was been issued this morning. The capttat wanted to carry out the is only 0,000 sterling. The object of the any i3 stated to be to provide cheaper and direct telegraphic communication between A cable 13 to oe laid between the southwest t of ireland and Sabie island. ‘Tne company based their calcuations upon geuting as inuch to do asthe French and Eogush cables togetier have now, and thus they certainly make matiers look very pieasant indeed—on paper. ‘There is aa old saying that ae who Cries Lo prove too muck often ends by proving too little, On the Lstof directors Udo not see a single well-knowa name. 4 more | Europe and Aw IRELAND. The Land Qaestion—Necessity for Immediate LeaisiationWerking of tio Systom in the County Kerry. KILLARNBY, Sept, 24, 1869, Absenteeism aad tenancy wt will have robbed Kerry 0/ as many mliitous of cash as they have auy of her sister counties, and Dave driven thousands of ber peasantry to seek “@ fur day's wages for # fair way’s labor’ in the land of Washiagton, The county of Kerry ls irregular ta aypearance— is formed of Monniain ranges intersected by deep valleys with some level ground; her charming lakes and scenery annually attract thongaads {rom Ame- rica and the Continent, but the exactions of the land- lords, notwithstanding the expenditure of the many visitors, keep Lhe boatmen, guides aud laborers ina state of indigence really puiable, ina state of legal vassalage ¢ is unquestionsbly and certainly gratifying to them as landiords, but not very rema- nerative to the Kerryman who tsa tenant at will. The principal, the first landlord tn Kerry, ts the Right on, Viscount Castlerosse, His estate includes all the lakes of Killarney and the iqlands in ana belonging to the same and thousands of acres of the best Jand in the county, His income 14 £62,000 per annum; $310,000 “in gold.” The equivalent for tnis princely income is a residence im Ireland of three mouths or less ia each year; but his lordsbtp is considered a good landlord, He does not evict so long ad bia vassals pay promptiy their part of the £62,000 income, The foliowtog are also landiords of importance:— Lord Castlcrosse, Wiliam Denny, Lord Headley and Henry A. Herbert. Mr. Denny ts a bad landiord, out a very ambitious Inan. He lias endeavored to repre- sent the borough of Tralee for the past twenty years in the imperial Parliament, but the peopte are go ignorant of bis merits, but thoroughly acquainted with lis unkiodpess as @ Jandiord, that they have permitted him to remain at home. Lord Headley is not kuown to any extent; he seldom visits “the acres of his ancestors,"’ but receives his rents very punctually aad spends them very rapidly outside of Kerry. | Mr. Herbert is the worst landlord tn the county, | ‘The proprietor of an immense tract of territory, ats | income does not exceed £10,000, but wlat be lacks ) 1m pounds sterling he has in mountaia ranges, rocky | heights, and that curtoas body of water known aa the vil's Punca Lowl,”’ a small oval shaped | loUgh; 18 area ts about thirty acces, 1t8 level above the ower lake 1,141 feet. [t# waters are perpetually | icy cold and deadly to any species of the Many tribe. Several attempts have been made to introduce fisn but twenty-four hours after being put in they were found dead. The latest attempt was on the part of Mr, Herbert, who had three dozen trout ) taken trom the lower Jake and thrown into the | “Bowl,” the next morning they were found dead | and foating near the bank. Cnaries James Fox ia yeported to lave swam rouud the “Punch Bowl When on a visit with Lord Kenmare In 1772, Mr. Herbert is not an absentee, but he Is the moat exnctiig man of his class, One of his acts almost cost Litt bis life, The old abbey of Muckross and its cemetery are in the midst of his demesne. Cer- | tafo families in Killarney and the villages tn te | vielnity have certain rights and privileges to bury in the cemetery, Which ir. Herbert attempted to deprive them of, The friends of the dead assem. | bled in bandreds to ask him to explain why he desired to avolish @ priviiege known to be honored for over #ix huudred years. He did not meet the remonsirants, but he has imposed a tax for right of | way that is @ disgrace to any man or corporation, But he has also prohibited the boatmen from landing excursionists upon any part of his lands from tie lakes, If any person or persons desire to visit Muck- rosa Abbey they must go in by the “front door.’ ‘There are a few faintlies of the old stock who, aitiough in reduced circumstances, are deaily joved by the people, Their estates are small, put they,act on the Christian precept—“De good unw anotler as you expect others to do unto you.” ‘the first of this class 1s the representative of the O’Con- nell’s (Dantel O'Connell, of Derryname Abbey, | the present occupant); The O'Donoghue (Daniel | O' Donohue, Esq), and the Knight of Kerry (i’eter Fitageraid, 5 | Tho above aco very kind towards their tenants | | and are always on the Itberal side. But evictions have not disgraced Kerry for some time past, although poe who fill the iand are as insecure to their holdings as any others. Not a man has a lease—not one will be granted. The decrease of her Population tells us of her status. Population in 1851, 288,289; in 1561, 201,800—loss, 88,230, 1 have vised several farmers; all have had the Same statements—uo 1o‘erest in tile land but to eke out @ living, save a little to go to America and pay the rent, The system of tenure in Kerry 18.80 much per acre for arabic laud, and for rocky, barren soil so much per head for ie, subject to the caprice Of the lord of the soul. Hence the farmers must live in squalidaess and rags, because if they buy aay articles of furniture not absolutely necessary or iudulge in any articles of wearing apparel consid- ered by civilized people to be essential to decency and comfort their reat wil be raised, If they remon- strate they will be told, ‘You're able to buy new Jurniture, to slate your house, to build a decent pigpen or cowhouse, to buy new clothes, aod you must pay more rent.” Expostu- lation t# @ waste of time, If the famners do not like it they may leave; they have no redreas; they have uo protection. 1 was told a case that will show how exacting Irish landlords or landladies can be. A thrifty farmer had a good crop two years ago tn @ certain plage; he was teutperate and tndus- lous: paid thé endriious 8 of £2 1 r acre or his farm. ‘The Christmas subsequent 13 good harvest his daughter came of age, and, being pretty and intelligent, the kind father bought her a cheap silk dress, Between Christmas Day and New Year's Day there is a kind of half holiday among the farm: ers. Two days after Christmas tls daughter was waiktng along the road with a companion of herown sex, wien the carriage of Lady —- drove past, Her ladyship broughé her gold-rimmed spygiass to boar upon the two girls; sue turned to Jones, the foot- Mau, wien a stort distance from them, and asked him U le kuew who that girl was with the silk dress, “Yes, your ladysiip,"’ “replies the lackey, “she's Peler McCarthy's daughter, wtd lives two miies irom ——.” Her ladyship gatd nothing, but When she arrived at —— House she sent for tho ent of her lord's estates, and tnguired what ceu' ir McUartuy, of ——, was paying. ‘The attentive v agent promptly replied £2 108, per acre, the very highest, a8 the lan nprelty good. “Increase it to £3," reapouded her ladyabip, “But tt is not worth it," responded the agent. “It must be when ho can afford to put a silk dress upon his daughter," replied her ladysaip. “I don't know anything about the silk dress, but the jauds are let according to their situation and supposed value. ‘Toat beeu the custom, but of course your ‘!adysuip’s order will be tnetantly obeyed," ineekly auswered the agent. Belore the Ist of January, 1869, poor McUarthy received notice that bis reat was to be mereased ten shillings an acre. The poor wan held a farm of fifty acres, tor which he paid @ rent of £125; because he saved a a tow pounds and boughta cheap silk dress for n3 catid his swal! farm was taxod ten shillings more, anu in future he had to pay £150 per annum or leave—go to Amorics or—Borneo, He waiied upon the agent, He could do nothing for tim, conceded by themsclves, the govorament turned the irritation into a frenzied desire of showing that the people had uo iutention to be trifled with, and gave rise bo an tl feeling of which the records of the pub- le meetings previous to tho elections bear testl- mony, This change being borne in inind tts immediate result is apparent in the sense of the duncully wich it has created for the dynastic iriends of the Bona partes vo prociaim a fourth Napoieon under the re- goucy of the Kupreas. Some time ago # meeting ta said to have taken place of the principal leaders of the opposition, in which it was decided that ag the present Emperor had only been elected in consequence of the coup @etat, which had wrosted for him snd from more legitttnate hands the crown of France, the coantry, at ais death, Would revert to the slatus quo wich existed immediately before the coup d'état, and that honce the crown would become eleclive—a means, it ig aald, of placing the question of the Comte de Paris’ succession somewhat in the back- ground, in order to open the Heid to competitors, Such as the Duc @’Aumnale, wnose ability ant great mental capacities are acknowiodged by all parties, ‘This decision, Uf at all acted upon, is all the more important when it is remembered that atthe death of tue Corate de Chambord the Comte de Paris be- comes the actual heir to the Bourbon houors and the Figuctl succesyor to the legitimate kings of Franoe. And again, that should such an election be resorted to, it must eqaaily be borne in mind that in a com. peliuon of the kind @ Frencaman wiil always have au advantage ovor foreigner, and that the Orloanist princes, espectatly if strengthened by Lie moral succession which Heury the Fith wust leave them, are Frenchmen, bearing old tradiuonal French names, aad, ipso facto, stroug enough to appeal with success to their owa compatriots; at a time, especially, when thia country is sight y Beda the very patiiameatary form which hav ever been identiiiod with tneir rule, ‘Tue preatige of tae Napoleon name is such tuat it will, roaghous this ceatury, ever rally around it a largo number of the people; but it cannot be for- gotten that in the late elections even the so-called oficial candidates owed their return to the promise whick tuey were obliged to make to their const, tuents, Of supporting # more pariuamentary form of government, and that in proof of the necessity of obeying tie wil of the people a modified constitu. lon im the sense wished for has, wit whimsical rapidity, been prociaimed in the Senate. ‘There renatus another contingency which would favor the democratic party—that ts to say, the “irre- concilables.”” Lt 18 diiticuit to ussert that ths pariy iy sivony enough at the present time to carry tue day agaiust either of the pariies above mentioned, aud Wf at any time, which may be @ matter of question, they owned a chiel, it can scarcely be said that Prince Napoleon, after ts speecit in tue Seuate, republican though tt was in sense, bus essentially loyal in its expressions of devotion to the preseut Emperor 2nd hig son, can ve looked upon as the head of that party, Astute of anarohy might pro- babiy reign for no litte time, duriag which the rabid democrats, such as Bancel, Rasvan, Carnot and Can- tagrel, Would endeavor to prociaim anotuer republic; but frankly told him the cause, Her ladyship, ia the meantime, had left ber Irish estat tor Italy, wiich she rarely visited; but the idea of au trish fariner’s daughter wearing silk was too Shocking to her exaited notions of meum et teum. Peter had uo opportunity of “laying his case before er ladysip;” had to goto work and make £150 per annum for her ladyship to spend upon the bauks of the Seine or “Wandering Po.” A farmer informed me when I asked him way he did not bave his baro repaired, ‘Och! falta, the barn wilido me, Do ye think 'm goin’ to have my riat riz, Faith, if the agent seen & new rool or door he'd be sending me notice of an increase.” asked him if he baa any money in bank. He looked at me very kuowingiy, and after @ moment replied, “Money in bank! I wish I bad tin thousand pounds, Faith, mister, that’s a curious question to a poor man like me,” “Yes,” T replied, “but you have not answered me. Tonly ask you to show how little confidence you have in the future of your farm; that is, you would not spend a penay upon it, because if you did your rent would be increased, aud, such being the case, you have to live, appearingly, very poor, or run the chances of an increase. You know that Pm not seeking for information to injure you, bat solely to preseut your condition to the best and most intellt- gent jury ia the world—the people of America.’” “Zim me soul, the Americans are the best in the worid. But, of course, I’ve @ trifle in the baux. How would [ manage in case of sickness In the family, or the landlord took 1: into his liead to put me outtor some other man? There ts nota farmer but has @ Littie; there is mot one of us but inay be put out before a wonth.”” iu reply to several questions ho answered me frankly, the substance of waich 18 that there never wiil be any peace in the iaad until there be fixity or tenure, a fair vaigation for improvements, long leases, protection for him aa for the landiord, i met & suiall farmer who bad @ boat for ire upon the lakes, remarkably iucelligent, He spevt ® year in the United States, and, althouga a man of no education, waa wWioroughly posted ia all ihe quea- tions of the day, COBRESPONDENT—Ia the country unproving? was my frat question to him. FaRMER—Iit 15 In One sense; the sarvants get better wages. ‘Twealy years ago 1 knuwed men that only got sixpences a day; they're pow getting turée shill- ings; farm lads get twenty and thity pounds @ year; so does the gitis get good wages, but when they bave ten or twelve pounds together they go of to America. didn't you ConnesronDENT—W ay America? PAXMER—D'd no money and was not able to pay rint and sapport a big tnmtly on three doliars a week. J was too ould wheu L went aud not adie to do hard work, ConzEesroNpaNT—What is the cause of so much poverty where servants get such good wages? Ail the women { see, with lew excepitons, aro baro- footed. Fakaer—Oh ! that's a custom; they don’t mind it. «They're saying up to go to America, or to be married, CoRRESPONDANT-—Have they no slioai? How MGod tnust & Poor person pay We priest to be mar- ried? fk The lo west price for a marriage ts one pound toa—thar ts, for laboring mea; buttne peoplo of aay Wages at all must pay tive pounds. CORRESPONDENT —Does the man wate until he bas the marriage fee or doos the woman help him to procure Il? Fauwen (with a laugh)\—Faix, very often the woman pays for ali, priest, Wedding and all. Where could the gosgoons get two or turee pounds? ‘The giris are in @ great harry to get marrfed, once they're axed; but when you excuse yourself, on account of not img the priest's money, ikey will soon find It, CORRESPONDENT —The farmera tn Kerry are not a troublesome class like the Tipperary men? FARMER—Tipperary 1s the Kay of Ireiand and first ofall ireland, Wali the others were like her the landiords couldn't do as they liked, Discontept has penetrated every ridge, every mountain of Kerry; but the induence of the clergy 13 most poweriul. © Agrarian outrages fave setdom stained ner fame, but tne condition of the people ts deplorable, Old men and women tradge dally bare- footed, wilh chormous packs upon their backs. They look like people who have lost all hope; loak upon themselves as loomed to a life of sorrow aod mivery, ihe only thing that cheers them 1s the feeling, true or faise, tat America will have Ireland be- fore long. Teuant rig.it and religious equaity have jost all vaine to them, They don’t velieve it ta the power of the British Parilament to do thein any good; to America the young jook forward with eager eyes and hearts; the old live upon the happy tine that Is to come, and dredge and toil to the uiusic of faded memories and broken hopes, Kerry is lonely, sorrowful and beauti(ul, but ber people aro as low In purse as any in ireland, FRANCE. remain tn MER—Yes, thoy have for Sunday. Napoleon and His Dynasty from an Orlean- ist Point of View. Paris, Sept, 25, 1309, With the returning heaith of the Emperor people are beginning to smile at the terrible panic bis tem- porary indisposition occasioned throughout Europe; yet when it is borne in mind that the First Napoleon and the present Napoleon's mother botn died of the tumor which the doctors fear may result from the very paiaful disease from which he has of late been suffering, it is no longer @ matter of astonishment if the alarming reports spread at the Bourse at one time were able to gain credence with those to whom the above particulars were known. He is better, and @ sense of relief greets every- where tue announcement—a proof that though he has dispossessed himself of late of a good portion of is personal authority, nis life is necessary for some time to come, not only to interested speculators but to France, who at present cap only foresee anarchy and disorder were Napoleon I{L to justify we prophecy that 1469 ts to be his fatal year. The French have a proverb which says that an evil is always good in some respects, aud we think hore that the panic which the Emperor's ilineas has created in Germany, expecially where the wildest speculative operations were induiged in, will have a beneficial effect, Masmuch as tt will serve asa warning, accustom people not to think the Frenc sovereign immortal, and check operation’ on a seale 80 large a# lo endanger the Interests of too many, Another good resulting from the illness of his Majesty has beeu tue necessity for political people to concert together in the event of an emergency oc- currtag to call for a change of government or may be of dynasty. It ig unquestionably diMcult to say what would or even might occar at the death of the present Em- peror, but it may be positively asserted that what would take piace now Would not have been possible a year ago—a proof of now the opmions of tue many have changed in ashort time. A yoar ago, vefore M. Pinard’s Injudicions conduct as Minwter of the Interior had brought to the front the present Deputy for Paris and Marseilles, M. Gambetta, @ young man of no greater ability than the power of influencing the masses by loud talking fod common “stump phraseology, the irritation against the Bmperor’s foreign policy was bat a mere ebullition of sentiment which time would have easly mastered; but by evincing ®& despotic wish to rule O vor tie people by Gl We pressure of We power but the feellug in genoral would be against them, owing mostly to the fact that personally they carry nO moral weight with the people and are besides considered as very iusignificant men, With regard to the more nuted radicals, such as Gambetta, Vilivior, Pelictan and Jules simon, there ig @ rumor current that they are Orieanist agents. Sucia is, in a few words, the state of France at the present time, and it cannot be wondered at if, under tue circumstances, appreheations of the future fll all Frenchmen with disquievude at the announce- ment of their present soverelgn’s ilineas, and pro- duce almost @ similar resuit with foreiga nations, Who, foreseeing the struggio Wich must lollow & con- tingency of the kind that has been feared for nearly @ month, see tu tha depreciation of every kind of stock and a fall in all commercial shares, it would be untair at this criaia to question the benefits derived by we tmpertal rule over France; but it must not be forgotten, nor do Frencimen for- give it, that, thanks to the Emperor, Prussia has grown into a threatening Power and Austria has declined into an insignificant empire; that while they protect Rome, Italy has been formed at the expense of the French, and that France has been powertess in carrying out its im.entions either in lextco or even in Spata. * I cannot, however, close'this letter without quoting @ somowhat amusing paraliel in the Gaulois news- Rae of yesterday between Prince Napoleon and ‘Tiberius, While, Bays the French paper, Tiberius succeeds to Cesar, who had conquered half tue world, and immediately after Augustus, who had rebuilt Rome and tusututed the empire, Priaco Napoleon comes atter Napoleon L., who was master of Hurope, and by the side of Napoleon Ill, who hag remodeiled Paris and fimagined that he could combine hereditary and the plebiscite: Whereas betweou the throne and ‘Tibe- re were the eae of Augustus, 80 be- $ween tue Prince and his cousin stands the son of Napoleon UL; out while Tiberius, as @ {oung man pacified Germany, pantshed Illyria an conquered Psunonia, Prince NapoNon iw sald never to have conquered anything, wor even to bave Clastised any one by the sword, Art and Skotches of Arts and Artiste—Death of T. P. Dantan, Panis, Sept. 25, 1869. A letter from Baden of tno 6th inst. contains the following:—“To-day, at two o'clock, expired at Baden the colebrated Parisian sculptor, Dantan, jr. He died very suddenly. I suppose you roe member the date of his birth, tut if not exactly, it was the 286h of December, 1800,” Jean Pierre Dan- tan was a friend of the writer of the above; but he was overy one’s friend, tor the matter of that, and ail the Paris papers of this day have devoted a column end more to his memory. He was calied Dantan, Je, to distinguish him from Dantan, Sr, hia brother, who is also a sculptor, aged cignty. The Dantan collection, No. 41 Rue Bisuche, is one cf the most curious histories of con- temporary ceiebrities, There they all are—but carica- tured (at their bidding) in plaster, wax, marble, stone or clay. His statues of Roasinl, Meyerbeer, Horéldteu, Rase-Chéri, Velpeau, Néiaton, &c., are all great works. His busts are too numerous to be recorded; but where Dantan excelled was to the burlesque; and those who have seon the origi- naid of some of his best caricatures are only able to appreciate how profoundly he had studied every mental weakness of his models before he would convey them to the cleverly manipu- lated mould he used, A visit to Dantan’s museum on drst entering produces @ most ludicrous impres- sion. His coples are so perfect in point of resem- biance that they seem almost gifted with the power of specch, thus viewed in the attitudes peculiar to them or tn those they affected. Some are absurd; others a winking, lounging, desponding, sitting in strange contortions, grumbling, begging, gesticu- lating—it 1s all a species of cold Impdom. You turn, expecting to be spoken to by the statuettes, and seo Wellington—such a bootful of Wellington! Lora Brougham—such a pocket-handkerchief and such a nose! the Comto d'Orsay, overcoming with fascina- tion; Rossini, with ms head in a dish of maccaront; Moyerbeor, seated at an organ—such long fingers | and the Africaine screwed to his back; Balzac, with hij stick, of which he boasted that it had cost him a hundred crowns; Victor Hugo, with @ huge bump of improbabilities instead of a fore- head; Lamartine, as long and meagre as thirty-six days Without meat; Liszt, in a Hungarian unlform, fevertatly thumping inspiration out of a grand piano, while his hair 18 hanging all about, seared from his temples in horror at the din. Jt is said that Liszt ‘was very much offended at the length of this hair, aod Dantan took revenge by making another carica- ture for him with two feet running off out of a wig. The facility with which Dantan executed likenesses at tirat sight is D dep An anecdote is told to iliustrate this of @ young attaché at one of the embassies, who, calling on Dantan, asked how he could make stich admirable caricatures, 40 “Well, this is how I do," answered the king up @ handful of damp clay, ‘I be- gin 80, a on 80, and then I put in my fingors Dore, and bring them out there, d’ye see? After that Iturn ap and down.” ‘What's the matter?’ he asked of his visitor suddenly. ‘But that’s me,’ ex- ciaimed the attaché; that’s my head you are mak- ing, my own!’ and so it was, only Dantan had with fis usual deviltry made the young dipio- matist'’s face peep out of a seething ketue, “to define his career, he dryly explained. Per- haps Daaten’s only woak point was pun- ning, for he did the thing wholeyaie. His heart was excellent and characteristic of this in his eat aversion to execute the burlesque or any famed female artist, He would say the ridicule remained atcached to ® woman forever. Mulibran, however, was very auxioua he should caricature her, and was &® whole yoar, on every Occasion when they wet, elo- quent in entreaty. Atiength be compiled, though uawillingly, and only when she gave Lim a writien request, thus worded:—‘Malibran has asked the scuiptor Dantan, Jr., to parody her portrait in order togive the publio an occasion to laugh at her.”’ it waa done; but when Malibran saw herself thus, with deficiencies exaggerated that she had not dreamt of, she burst into tears, and this incident strengthened the artist in bis resoive nover to show & Woman what her harmoniatio characteristics were again. Three years later Mario Malibran died at Manchester (1836), and Dantan, in a thrill of grief, wrote to her husband, “Laughter is horrible lacing death, I have vroken the parody to pieces with one blow from @ hammer.” Dantan’s youth had been a hard school. His father was a carver in wood, and at @ very early age his socond gon showed talent for sketching, He would sketch every one who came in his father’s workshop with # pleco of Charcoal in hand; but the likeness wos always a burlesque, He preferred carving stone to wood, snd soon ornamented public buildin; He helped to restore the underground vaults of the abbaze of St. Denis ju the year 1819, Then he bad an order tor some carving round the Bourse, which was foliowed by another atthe Drenx ol 1, atthe Havre theatre and at the town house of . fe exeouted mnany ovher minor works until he could atford to pay a master for lessons In the art of modelling portraits, His eldest brother gave him. exceiient principles, but he really was the pupil of ‘Basio. In 1428 he received Dis first medal, and 6 wame year exhibited busts, among which was Baron Haussmann’s Vernet and Napoteon Musard. and he twel ner, the gayest of a party, Biving out his most brilliant puas mong 6 aillicted with this mental infirmity, Nothing indicated he would so soon leave this world. The way in which he founded the fortunes of the famous “ de Chasse” ts well known at Baden, though not correctly out of the immediate locality. He was travelling tn the month of July, 1 with @ pay of artists, and the tourists suddeniy all burst one tit of laughter at the sight of @ sign hanging out of an inn, @ hunting hora with the tuscription ‘+A la cor de chasse;” the grammatical au was all that was wanting, instead of a la, but when tourist are inclined to laugh, the substitution of one gender for another is enough. At the sound of the ring- ing fun out aprang the master of the inn, round- faced, jolly sort of man, but he bowed such ridicu- lous salutations, aud grinned so tremendously, thereby dispiaying two rows of the most irregular and = broxen the tourists took him for anything but human. ‘fo imorease their hilary, he opened the door of the rattling conuveyance—a hired fly—and insisted on their getting down. “No, no.” “Yes, yes," he re- plea; “I bave got tro shrimps and ham’! *Glorious,!” said Dantan. ‘ell, my good —— fel- low, we'll come back to dinner.” ‘They kept their word, much to the surprise of the innkeeper, for no water drinkers had ever dined at his wretched inn. Just before they sat down to dinner, and when the Proud proprietor was ready to flourish fis white table napkin under his left arm, @ voice from the young Parisian wiuspered “Willtbald Thié 1"? That was this frisky innkeeper’s name, He turned. “li you waut to make your fortune now is your time,” said the Parisian. “The geatleman ta the “centre is Dantan—there.” “Who's he?’ asked Willibald. “He? Ask bim to ‘do’ your face with ail your smiles on it, and when it is done hang tt up outside under your sign and you'll see if that doesn’t draw custom, that's ali, and you'll give me 8 dinner now and then for the advice when I come painting the onvirons. Remember me.” Willibald looked hard; yes, he would remember him. Soup was carried in with all the smiles on Willibald’s face he could dispose of and he had got on his best c.othes in no time, and be stood belind Dantaa’s chair bowing at ever, order and capering and rolling languid eyes an showing his dilapidated ivory immensely. Dantan got rather tired of so much locomotion about him. “How long are you going on like thaty”’ he asked suddenly. “sir,” said Willibald, “I know who | have the honor to serve, and couldn't do with one of my best manuers less, for Lam just going to ask you to take—my portrait.” Saying this le scratched hia head and smiled benignantiy. ‘the guosts nearly rolled under the table with laughter. “Well, if that isa’t—" said Dantan. “I deviare, that {s cool; though, altogether, his phiz, on second consideration, is splendid, What a type” he added, holding his sides. “No, it is too good” aud he wiped nis o.ea with irrepreasibie laugiter. ‘Now, oon io after coifee, pray, a8 Wl die over vhis dioner, Out went Willibald, but he came with dessert aud @ piece of charcoal, which he presenied to Dantan, it being tie instrument he used to cast up Ws reckonings on the whitewashed wall of his kitchen. In ten minutes he was done, with a hora under his arm, on the wall of the room Dantan and party had dined in, Willibaid Talé’s wife and daughter were called In to look at the sketch, and both began to weep and sob with emotion, Willibald bellowed to see his portraiture on the wall, “all so natural like, smiling gud all.” “Oome and see me at Baden before 1 leave," said Dantan on leaving and paying the bill. Willibald stood tn his room with hat in hand two days afterwards, grinning aa before, and the way ho twisted besides can never be forgotten when Dantan came in with his buat to clay,@ kind of duplicate of the man, “Take it home,” said Dantan, ‘and when the young Parisian stroller comes back to your inn tell htm you informed me how you found out whol was, aud always give him a meal gratis, Willibald, out of souvenir, for my sake, If you do so 1 will come back to you next year. “tho followin yur, 1855, when Dantan went to Baden, he found that the innkeeper, not content with bis portraic in and charcoal, which had drawo a i custom, as the ‘atroling artist vrodicted, had had the clay done in stone by & Baden sculptor. The wandering Parisian had not come back. “Willibald ‘Thio," sald Dantan, “you must have this copy in stone encrusted in your wall outside, under your sign, as the young stroller told you, and t will super- vise the work. And I will give a dlaner, too, to inaugurate the event; perhaps that will draw all the more custom.” i Wullibald’s joy can be imagined. The work was dono, tho dinner iver, and one sunset eve a weary pilgrim walxed in, attracted by the portrait iu stone, for he was the landscape student and ry rea to aro with hunger, Hearty was ed welcome,” and welcome to tno strolier the news. Willtbald 13 now a rich wun, and next time any of your readers go to Baden lot them look out for the sign “A la cor de chasse,’ It ig not unlikely that when arrested by the memory of this true story they will on lifting their eyes up & little highor see the face of the owner just above, for ho loves still to iy heed hod auow passers-by the copy aud original sido by st of all ie anoura Dantan, Wiilibald This ana the former stroiier, now a fuil gcown tattying wan, will be the most moved, BOHEMIA. A Genoral Elcction and General Excizement— Tue Political Situation as it Was and in Austrian Policy and Influence of the Em- e—How the Huugarisns Rank in tho CirclemA Straggle for Nationalism—Scenes at the Polls. PRaaus, Sept. 22, 1869, The kingdom of Bohemta ts at the present time in the midst of an election excitement. No one writes, talks, or thinks of anything except the election of members for the coming Dict. To-day members have been chosen for the country districts, and on Friday, the 24th inst, Prague and the towns will elect thelr representatives. 1 have just returned from an election held in a suburban district, aud hasten to give an account of what I saw and heard, In order to understand tne significance of the present elections It 1s necessary to take a retrospect of Austrian policy for the last two or three years. I shali, therefore, preface my descrip- tion with @ brief atatoment of the political position in Bohemia, such as it has been given me by promi- nent men here and from such information as 1 have procured since coming to Prague. Alihougis differ- ent attempts at constitutionalism had been made in Austria previous to 1966, the governmeut always maintained its old tendencies and centralized all power in Vienna. Constitutions were drawn up from time to time, but they were either abrogated, rendered of no account by ministerial regulations issued in Vienna or wcre simply not applied, remain- ing @ dead letter. After the crashing defeat of Sadowa the old system was discarded, and it was announced to the world that Austria, which hitherto had been the acknowledged stronghold of reaction- ary principles and politics, was now to become really @ liberal and constitutional State. Hun- gary, which, since 1343, had been governed trom Vienna, was invited to come to an artange- ment. The leading idea in Austrian politics has always been to maintain the supremacy of the Gorman over all other nationalities in tne empire. It was possible to carry out this idea when Austria was at the head of the German Confederation, and when all administrative and legisiative power was concentrated at Vienna, But after Austria was unceremoniousiy thrust out by Count Bismarck it Was diticult to keep up the former supremacy of a race so small in pumbers as the German Is tn Aus- tria, and utterly out of the question if a constitu. tional form of government was to be introduced aud adhered to. There is nothing, however, so aifficult to part with as power, and although it was evident that the old system must be aban- it was only after it was shown doned, that the Hungarians must ave compicte satia- faction that these demands were acceded to by the Vienna government. Aster she agreement with Hungary Count Beugt set about arranging the ailairs of the western half of the monarchy. A con- stitution was promulgated from Vienna, by the pro- visions of which the diferent people were to have their Diets or Provincial Assemblics and send dele- gates to a central Parliament to be held at Vienna, It is generaily acknowiedged, i believe, that the constitution 18 reasonably liberal tu many respects; but complaints are made that it is used werely asa weapon to secure German ascendancy. To give the most striking example, I will take Bohemia, which is iahabiied by upwards of five lions of people. Of these abou. two millions, pearly 90, are Germans, or of recent Ver: ry It 1g evident that ff the ballot is fairly appl the Bohemians must be tu the majority. fut as Vieuna gave the constitution, #40 Vie enna undertakes to regulate the arrangement of olectoral districts aud the manipulation of elec- tions, which is done with such success that the Bohemians, who form a Jarge majority of the popu. lation of the kingdom, are represented in the Diet by @ minority, This managed by giving to amail towns having @ German majority an equal represet tation with large Bohemian towns. At tue first aes: sion of vho Diet in 1867 the Bohemian inembers with: drew, signing at the same tine a protest stating their grievances. Since that time they have taken no part in the government of the country, Upon withdrawal their seats were declared vacant, and a new election has been ordered. The great question invoived In the election Ig, “Will the country uphold the protesting members?’ As l write returns have been received from thirty-seven districts; in every ous the protesting members have been returned olther unanimously or by @ very large jority, and tho prospect iy that, every mempbor will be returned, Asked one Of the leaders of the Bolemian party yes- terday what they wero straggling for in tila contest with the government. He answered, “For our nationality and our local rights.” he, "Bole. mid 18 one Of the oidest kingdoma in the Austrian Satins caecat rtare aves Seton that the Emperor ast Wo are willing to yield to the Vienna governumant or father, Ponchard, &0, M. ‘Thiers presented to the Institut Deyjtan’a buss of Bolvldieu, the composer, He ( iowea hia brother to Rotae tu 1548 and exer yied tue bug of tue Rove, Caria for prosorving ita unjty, but ye an Mt “oteserre, par Rationality an ‘ont Joa ipativutions, We wiak W allow tho Ggrineng y {n Bohemta the fullest representation they are entt- od to; but we # not wish that toy should role over us. thia we nover will con- sent, We sre told that our hationaiiy ts nol aud therefore must perish. ‘To this a Tauswer that if we must disappear from the faut: of nations it should be by the natural course of ‘cone petition, and not by throttling us, not by depriving us Of Our rights and using violence. It may be w Vienna le thal, although aomait to remind t) nation, we are not without friends and relatives in the world. ‘The nation which gave birth to ass, and Jerome of Prague, and fought the Hussite wars, cannot be without sympathy, Besides, thers are im ‘the Kast 90,000,000 of the Slavonte race, our brothers, Russia at the head, who sympathize with us, Wao speak & ia! }o which is nearly the sate aw our own, and who must ever us ina diferent light from nations not related to us by blood. ‘The main question of the Bolemian opposition ts ® national one. The government wishes to German- ize them, They wi to preserve their nlatoricat rights and their individuality, and will continue the struggle so long as these two things are not assured them. That the absence of the Bohemian delegation unay be very serious we cau understand by tue last session of hy and Viennese delegations. ‘The Hungarians, in every instance, outvored the Germans and carried measures which raised tho ire of the whole German press, This may be attributed in @ great measure to the unsettled siate of the Wostero half of the Austrian empire and the absence of the present timo lance Pesth, and will remain there so lo) Germans ignore the rights of tho Bobe: dom, aud by their tsolated position in the seasion of tne deiegations put themselves 1n a helpless minor- i The elections of to-day are held for the pur; of re-elecung the protest! members who the Diet, The whole movement Is intended as a demon- stration agalnst Vienna, and will place, it seems to me, the ministry in an awkward position, But wo return to the election, oue of the citlzens of the disirtet where the election was to take place called at an early hour at the hotel and conducted me te tue polls, At cloven o'clock we arrived and found the voters already assembled. { wus much struck by many things which I saw both in the place and among the people, ‘The polls were at the foot of the Ziska Dill. Ziska, a8 every One knows, was the Bole- mian leader in the iTussite wara, He nevor lost a bat- tle, and on the very pare where we stood he defeated the army of the bmperor Sieenn with Slaughter. At the side of the building where the elec~ tion was to be held stood the church of Oyrill and Methodius, the Slavontc aposties, who, in the niuth cenwury, converted Bohemia and Moravia to Obriati- autty and gave all tae Slavonic nations the Bible tn their vernacular language. As soon as the hour for woring arrived we went Into a large hall and wit- a the process of saving one’s country in Bohe- mila, at one end of the hall was a long table. Behind it at the government commissioner and the ouiet of tno electoral district. Qn the table were a number o¢ beoks containing the elector’s names, each one with tts number, A clerk, or teller, called the names in numerical order, and each man advanced as his number and name were called, deposited a ticket cer- titylng who he was, and this deciared tn a loud voice the name of the candidate for whom he wished to vote, ‘rhe baliot is not allowed in voting for mem- bers of the Met, aud many persons with whom I spoke complained of this limitation. Some of the names called by the cler< are worthy of notice, 1 was nota littic surprised to bear Johu fuss, farmer, calied upon to give his vote, and shortly afterward John Ziska, grocer, also asked to do his duty as @ Bohemian citizen. It seemed so strange to hear suck names at wemallelection, It was as if oue should hear Martin Luther or Oliver Cromwell called upon to give their vote in a small German or English town on Some of the questions of the day. At the cloro of the election, waton lasted about two hours, the whole body of une electors repaired to a large hall in the vicinity, where the candidate of their ohotoe awatied thom. Tho election was unanimous, If there was auy (real) opposition tt was so small that the opposing voters stayed away. 1 mast here mention, a3 a peculianty of tho elec- tive system im Austria, that the candidate tg not allowed to appear near the polls or speak to the electors before voting lest he might excite them too much. 1 congeqnentiy saw nothing of the candidate till Uke ciection was over. When all was finished my companion conducted me to @ club at no groat Aistance from the polis, There the candidate was wailing tho issue. Shortiy after our arrival oa the clattman of the election commities and anu- nounced the result of the day. As most of tho elect- org had artived the announcement was received with @ burst of Cheers, tue day was carried, tue uation 1 candidate was elected. John Huss and Jobu Ziska bad not cast their votes in vatn. ‘The newly elected momber made a speech thank- ing, fret of ail, Kaose present ior taeir Kindness in choosing bio to be theu representative, and then spoke at some tength concerning the state of the country. He said thatit was a critical time, that the question of the day was whether tiey were to continue to exist a8 a nativn Or to disappear In that imdeciintte group of peopie kuown a8 Cisletthanta. Afterwards lie reviewed tue pee position of the Austrian government and renewod statemends already mate that Austrla could only succeod aa & conlederalion—as a truly cousuilitoudl Stale—aud not iu her present condition. Aslwrite uews has been recotved that all the opposition, or national, candidates of to-day's eleo- taon have beeu choseu—forty m aumber. On Friday forty more ate to be voted for, and it 18 said thab they will aiso be ciected against the government, GERMANY. Tao Graad Duke of Badev on Consolidation and National Development. The following 18 a full suminary of the speech of the Grand Duke of Baden at the opening of the Baden Chambers, synopsized to us by cavie tele- gram:— The Grand Duke said that since the last aession no iurther stops had ag yet been taken for the national evelopment of Germany. He rejoiced to be able to state that the relattons existing between Baden and tie North Geraan Confederation were being placed upon a@ still closer footing, aud he cou. firmed wich pleasure the fact tat the progress of the national conscience was tending more and wore strongly to foster a sentiment of common nalonaliy among tie German States, ‘The speech then weationed the treaties which gnaranteed the maintenance by the sigulary Sustew of the sacient federai fortresses of Rastadé, Ula Mayeace and Laudan; aad the Grand Duke adde that, coujintiy with the commission appointed to twin the above sortresses, & Commission Of in- jon had also beeu appointed, in conjunciiom witn the North German Cuutoderation, Thanks Wo those treaties, a sysem of common defeace was practically guaranteed by bot North and south Ger- inany, a syswin the necessity jor winch had beoa everywhere recognized. By the meeting of the Federal Customs Council! and the Customs Parliu- ment, the intimate co-operation of all the German States has been bappily proved on that field of lavor which appertains +o those assembiles, ‘yhe Grand Duke then expressed a hope that tha Confederation wouid ultimately be more extenstvely developed, aud that its conautation would be cou- golidated, and pointed ous that & community of joverest in commercial Matters throughout Germany ougut Lo be cstanlisued by the extension to ail tue German States of the system ol weights and measures now obtaining in the North German Coniederatfon, Tne cominercial, navigation, postal aud telegraphic “treaties which had been. con- claded by the Customs Union were then reforred to, as also Waa the introduction tnto Baden of a mil. tary organization m conformity with that at preseat existing in North Germany. By this organization the Kaden troops could enter the ranks of the federal army of North Germany on the same tgotiug as the federal troops for the delonce of the common coantry. Allusion was also made to the treaties couciuded with the North Ger- man Confederation, by which the inhabitants of Laden could serve in the federal army a vie versa, ‘These treaties would be laid before the Chan- ber, and the unity of the German military forces would thus be happily secured. The Grand Duke. hoped that the military power of Germany would not be called out for any serious service; uevertite- less, the value and character of tat power ought not, from a national point of view, to be misunder- stood, The goveramont would propose the exven- ; sion for two Years of the law on t¥e contingent, and would ask the Chamber to vote ‘we necessury ull~ tary estimates, which had been reduced to # mint- mum amount, estimates withow; which it would be lnponsible to maintain the Bayien army at that de- ree of ficiency which it ‘it attained. Fie internal quesuons of tv e country were next alluded to, the celebration O&. the nftieth anniver- sary of the constitution, /and the constitutional chaages which would be ia¥ 1 pefore the Chamber. Various bila, relating to the ee munisterial responsibility, the trial poltet oifences by Jury, compuwisal -y otvil marriage, supple- mnentary ciauses to be wdded to the law om education, slinplificatiog of the organmation of the communal authorities 5, extension of the autou- omy of tue communes, & ad also pilis relating to the rouds, railways and Cau giz, would be presented the Chamber. A bir iative to the establishment of a WAnk on the NortD German system and also @ bil on Indusirial ana? commercial associallous, Were Aunounced. * tha Fortertswoee ‘The speech conck¥ Jed with the follo “ “1 iave confide’ hat we shall peaccably achivve (ae objects We dest’ ve to attain.” ——— FOREIM | MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ‘The Russian g¢ ,vernment has docided upon adopt- ing & severer cw ysorship of the pubitc press. An srfangw nent is boing concluded beiweon Engiand aod France w exvormlaate tho Ciiueie pirates. 4 setiee A conapirg cy has been lately discovered in Rome, the onjoct a, Wiuich was to biow ap tho barracks of the Pou? iNoal Zouavos. ‘The Spe nish government is studying a new plan of terete pral diviston, Which, if adopted, will divide the cous iry into filty-tour provinces, The ‘gazette de France, of Paris, mentions that the fussian government has conisoated tie St Peter ‘8 ponce, coliected Iu Poland by tho Polish cier- gyi sn, Tue Prince and Princess Henry of Holland intend 0 be present at the opontng of the Isthinua of Sues Vanal. Before avaring for Egypt their Highnessea “will make w short tour in France and Italy aad embark at Brindisi. ‘rho Russian government proposes to eatabitah & num,oer of schools of the Balcic coast for tle pur- poo of tratuing candidates for tie Russ! oral ‘le marine, Twelve of these schogis are to oo opened in Couriand, Of these the two principal wilt be at Vindan and Livan aad Suc rost on yacloum points of the Goal } j