The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1869, Page 4

EUROPE. English Opinion of President Grant’s Message. The Financial Policy of the United States and the Attitude Towards Cuba. Mr. Burlingame as an “ Itinerant” Ambassador. MM. Mazzini’s Mission ani M. Rochefort’s Speech. The German muil steamship Rhein, Captain Meyer, from Southampton, England, on the 7th of Decem- ber, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon, Tne Rhein delivered our Kuropean files and special cor- Tespondence, dated tojher «tay oF sailing, at the HER- ALD Building at hall-past six intheevening. . Mr. Labouchere, M. P., addressed a numerously attended’ meeting o/ the electors of Soutuwark, Eng- lana, gn December 6, In referring to the appesr- ance of Sir 8. Waterlow, Sir F, Lycett and Mr, Odger, also as liberal candidates, Mr. Labouchere felt that, if all the liberals went to the poll. the return of a conservative wouid be rendered possible, Mr. L. B, Mozley and Mr. Caaries Mozley, two of the former directors of Barned’s Banking Company, again appeared at the Mansion House, London, to answer a charge of conspiracy. The principal witness Was Mr. Banner, an accountant reaiding at Liverpool, and one of the official liquidators of the company. His evidence occupied the greater portion of the sit- ting, and at the risiag of the court tue laquiry was adjourned, The Pans Riforme 13 informed that Signor M ziai leit London and was travelling in Geri “Indefatigable in his work,” it adds, “be realize lus great idea of the fusion of the Lat lvaly, France and Iberia) unger tle republican banuer.”" Inu an article upon the Ecumenical Council the Florence Diril/o says tt bas several tiwes referred to the “profound indifference with which Catholic Europe has received the various announcements respecting the assembly, and it knows no circum stance which proves more eloquently the mmmense revolution waich has taken place in the religious ideas of our own day.’ in the opinion of the Duritto “Europe regards the Council just as tH docs a con- gress of naturalisis, archwologists or working- mea.’’ ‘The London News of December 6 remarks:— The synodical condemnation of “Essays and Re- views’ by Convocation, of which so much is made by Dr. Temple’s opponents, Was dealt wita by Lord Westbury, when he occupled the woolsack, in the month of July, 1864, “hf”? said his lordsiup, “the book had been the work of one hand. the sentence might fave had some effect; but seeing that the book is nothiag but @ pair of covers holding togetier seven separate essays, being the gistinct works of 80 mMavy authors, and seeing that this sea- tence floes not attribute any offeuce to auy- wing but the volume containing those separate yritings, no one of the authors is condemned. Convocation could not have been wore successtul if they had synouically sat dowu to produce a sen- tence oi no meaning than they were when in their labor they proc this ridicuius mus, AsO judg Ment this seavence has no meaning Whavever—this Judgment is no judgment at all.” Lord Napier of Magdala made a presentation o: prizes to the Tyird City Rife Volunteers of London, the Lord Mayor presiding. During the week 153 adjudications of bankruptcy were made in the London court, and in most of the cases the petitions came from the bankrupts them- selves. The process of ‘self-mad Kruptey”? will be at an end io land with the working of tte new act, which comes into operation on the 1st of January. M. Rochefort’s ‘maiden speech” in the French Chamber appears to have been well received, and to have excited sume surprise by the moderation of its tone. Several of the Paris papers speak of it favorably. In the opinion of the Debats M. Rochi fort possesses the “true Parliamentary nianner.”’ The Siecie says he ‘expr: <i himself in very Mtting terms, and with a3 much clearness as simplicity.” The Journal de Paris remarks “that ne referred to the coun d in quite @ Parliamentary style, and Was attentively lisiened to by the whole House.” The Constitutionnel says the game, and sees ‘‘noth- img unreasonable in M. Rochefort’s proposal that the Chamber should be protected by the National Guard instead of by troops of the line.” Mr. Ariés-Dufour writes to the Fr h papers that the protectionist agitation in the north of France ts causing serious uneasiness in the south. He says that the city of Lyons, which exports marufactured goods to the amount of tweive millions sterling. without ever having asked for protection, is now forming committees for the organization of @ mon- ster meeting in favor of treetrade. The days of monopolies and privileges, commercial and polltt- cal, are past in France, M. Arlés-Dufour thi never to return. Maui telegrams announce the arrival at Catro on Friday, December 4, of Server Exfendi, with the note which the Sultan sent to the Viceroy of Egypt. ENGLAND. First rusage—=What Is PolicyUnited States Finance President Gra Said of Lis and Cuba. {From tne L The first message been awaited with musual in time when he first accepted the nor party in the suort jete “Let us have peace,” been able to esca his ideas on the gen has been sedulously porters; by se ind unable t tf republican the words, y ay, he has sssiiy ol formulating y of bis ¢ y. He Wirepullers and r persons have been niag of the fatute LU beset b; atiga him any Ii this h nation, for it has tended tor dition when the people's annals first Monday in Ty Bilence of the Pre and General Gra a town and city of tue Uno: das the I’resident to sas pelled to spea. The Presid vantages 0} orig: the part of the question at issue between the raian can read ng with the zdom and the feaeration without being apparent inabliity of the writer to compreliend how tie same facis can be regarded from L of view ens urely different from his ow appropriately opens his messa, with ressions of thaukfniness jor the rec jon of the Union, now pro j plete. Of the eleven States which had fort aeration at the close of the war seven have been fully restored, and are now again endowed with republican iatitutions contain. ing guarantees for the full rights of #3 of citizens. Virginia is in a position to be added to the re-admitted seven, and the Presideat recommenas thas 1 be restored to the faintly of states, Etections have becn lel in Mississippi anu Texas too recentiy to admit of an estimate of the results; bur General Grant hopes that the citizens in the! may have proved themscives worthy of complete Tebabilitation. Georgia only 1# refractory, Georgia Dad been provisionaliy re-established, bat the ma fority of tie members of its new Legisiature had, under several pretexts, ousted their colored col leages and aduitted in their stead men who were Gisgoalified under toe reconstraction laws. The iaent recommends Congress to empower tne Governor of the State to restore the ejected meui- bers and to.enforce upon the Legislature of Georgia the hecessity of observing wwe guarantees of future loyalty to the Union wich Congress had provided. The sentiments of the President on the Hnancia Situation of the Union will probably be more closely studied on this s.de of the Atlantic than his views on the @mpletion of reconstruction, for the double rea- gon Mat the principles invoived, being free from local accidents, are more intelligible to us, and that nota few in Europe are directiy interesied in tue Hpavcial Management of the Luion. ‘The repoxt of the year ending on the 30th of June jast is eminently favorable. The revenae amounted to $371,000,000, against aN expeodmure, including interest on tonal debt, of* $921,600.00. This ts an improvement, boch in increase of receipts and in a decrease of outgoings, over the estimates of Mr. Secretary McCulloch, and the present Secretary has been enabled to put tm operation the provision of the act of February, 1862, 80 long {noperattve, order Jug the creation of @ sinking fand. The Président Biaves that, with the present scale of taxation and expenditure, the entire debt might be liquidated in fe years; but he righty believes that the euelts resuling from such @ rapid repay- their position in the fe: NEW YORK outstanding bonds would not ment of compensate for the burden of taxation neces- Bary to ootain if. He recommends a reduction of taxation, and he e@xpressea an opinion that the time is approaching when the power of the govern- ment to redecin its bonds might be exerc sed, 80 ag to Rrocate @ reduction of che rate of interest to four and @ half per cent, It woud ke unfair to expect a Slinple soldier to have mastered the deepest reason. lng of economic science; but it would seem obvious to any one acquainted with the management of affairs thatas long as the six per cent bonds are below par in the marset it is impossible to effect a reduction in the rate of interest ghey bear, The contrary opinion, often enough expressed in American Journals, 139 countenanced by General Grant's language; but, a8 no practical consequence can follow from the error, it may be allowed to refute itself, The views of the President on the reduction of thé currency and the restoration of specie payments, so far as they canbe gathered From his ambiguous language, seem equaly erro» neous, The telegraphic summary represents him a3 saying that the only means, in his opinion, of insuring & retura to specie payments would be found “tn auchorizing the Treasury to redeem its own paper at a Uxed price whenever presented, and to withhold from circulation all currency received until sold again for gold.” This would appear to imply &-proposal to fix, once for all, the relative price of goid and paper; but as the Irredeemable pro- mises of the federation cucelate under the double guarantee, frst that they shall always be received atthe Treasury at their pominal value in discharge of alt debts other than customs duties, and, sec- ondly, that at some fatare mdeteriminate time tne nation Will redeem its promises—tuat 18 to say, withdraw the circulating paper as received,—the action apparently recommended py the President must be condemned as violating both We may, however, remember that every Message sent to Congress from the beginning of the war has besa marked by reasoning on the financial condition of the Union and proposals for its amendment equaily irreconcilable with justice and gvod poilic, but these theoretical errors have never led wo any practical mischief, The intervention of a higher power than President or Congress—the Supreme Court—in 1s impending decision on the Iimits of the constitationality of greenbacks, may not impro- bably do more than anything else to enlighten the citizens of the Unton on the proper mode of dealing with this avnormal and discurbing element in their commerctai transactions, The special message which General Grant promises to send Congress on the restoratiun of commerciai prosperity may be followed by modidications of the tariff, discussions on which it wiil certainly provoke; but tbe expe- rience of the last sesstou shows the diticulty of carrying any change im eituer direction of its import duties through tue present Legisiature. The President refers at some ieugth to the circum. stances of the negotiation and te tallure of tne Alubama convention, as it was called, signed by Mr. Reverdy Johason; but it is uulortunate that his paragraphs on the subject shouid be separated from the part of his message referring to Spain and Cuba by a discussion on the surveys, charters ana concessions leading up to the formation of the Darien Canal. The President expresses the natural sympathy of the people and government of the United States with the strugglug Cubans, put adds that “the contest in Cuba bas never assuined a condition which amounts lo @ War ina sense of In- ternational law, or watch would show an existence of de facto political organizauon of the insurgenis sufficient to jusufy a recognitien of belligercucy. rhe principle is maintatned,’’ however, tue sum mary goes on to add, that “this nation lls own Juage Whea to accord the right of beliigerency either to a people struggling to free them: $ [rom a Zov- ernment they believe to be oppressive, or to nations at war wich each other.” When we associate these sentences with tle language referring to the duter- ences with ourselves, we are lost wita astonishment at the inconsistency unconsciously manifested. ‘Tire vresident approves the rejection of the Convention of last year pecanse its “provisions were wholly inadequate to a settlement of the grave wrongs that had been sustained by the government as well a3 by 1s citizens,” and he describes these injuries as 1n- cluding the dimiaoution of foreign trade, the trausfer of the commerciai taarine under other flags, the pro- longation aud increased cost of the war, In another paragraph Genecal Grant condemns the Convention as Insufticient, because it con'ained nothing ‘to remoye the sense of the unfriendiiness of the urse Great Britain had pursued."’ It 1s not easy to understand bow the President fatied to see that ihe chief accusations thus repeated py him depend upon the orginal act of acknowledging the siatns of belligerency of the Southern States, and that tuis act is one of the propriety of which tue nation commit- ting It must, in his own language, be “11s own judge.’ Ibis impossibie to Insist upon the right of the government of the United States to decide for itself when to accord the condition of belligerency to Cubans aud to deay to the United Kingdom the right ide wien to accord the same conditlon to the States In secession. The President has himself feit, aS his message shows, the inconvenience of with- holding the ackuowledgiag of the beligerency of the Cooans, though his admiaistration have undoubtedly righily decide | that no political organization of the insurgents existed de fac.o sulicient to warrant the acknowledgment. Ie stopped the departure of the gunboats in process of constraction for Spain upon a roundabout allevation that, being fitted ont against Cuba, they might relieve war vessels now ou duty there, and leave them at liberty to operate against Pern, and suosequentiy, not feeling authorized to jetain the property of a nation wiih which the ates Were at peace, he remitied the matter to the cision of the coy ne exper a pg fg learned might, we could have hopel, fave led Présidoar Grant and his Cabinet to regard our own conduct irom @ diferent point of view from that to which they were before accustomed; and we cannot but regret that the language of the President shows .bat ideas are stil prevalent in Washington which are absolutely inconsistent with tne prospect of an early settlement of the question. Every ene in England will reciprocate the language of General (rant, that “the time may soon arrive when the gov- ernments snall approach @ solution of this moment. ous question With an appreciation of what is duc to the rights, dignity and honor of each country, and with @ determination not only to remove ali causes of complaint for the past, but to lay tne foundation of broau principles of public law, Which would pre- vent fature differences and convert into firm, con- tinuous peace wnd friendship this the only grave question wh now the United States have with any loreign nation.’ But i cannot be concesled that che acceleration of this desirable period is impossi- ble naless each nation attempts to understand some- thing oF the Views aud position of tie otter, (From the London Post. Deo. 7.) * * * ‘The President's statement in regard to Cuban affairs will be awaited with auxiety py the insurgents and those who sympathize with them. They have been put off froin tume vo time with vague and unoiicial assurances of sympathy and With statements to the effect that to Congress alone belonged the power of affording them any aid. We may expect that at the very opening of che session resolutions will be introduced directing the Executive to recognize the belugerent rights of the insurgents, if not to directly intervene im their chalf, Hut ib is by wo means certain that either nuse Will deem it prudent to adopt these resolu- tions, or todo more than express their willingness to support the Executive tn any action concerning Cuba which he may please to take. Nevertheless, What has recently taken place in the United States. the despatch of naval vessels to the Bay of Samana and the increase of tne naval force off the coast of Cuba—seems to indicate @ dasire on the part of the government to be prepared for speedy action should the Congress insist npon it. Among te other matiers to which the attention of the Congress Wili be invited at its present ses- sion will be the questions of Canadian reciprocity, Chinese emigration, reform in or the aboution of the national banking system, the relawons of the United States with Mexico, and the preparations Jor ihe taking of the census of the coun- try next June. Whether anyeniog will be done con- ccrning the Alabaria cidims, although mach, will be said, 18 doubdtul. With the exception of al weusures recommended by the Secre- of the Treasury and the Cuban matter, the basuiess of tue session will probabiy be of the nature of talk rather tuan of action, Chinese Tope. {From the London Standan, Dec. 6.1 ‘The Chinese Embassy continues to eajoy itself in Europe, aud had been invited, according to a tele- grain {row Berlin, which we pabiushed on Saturday, ne on that day with the King of Prussia. The 1 States Minister at the Morth German Court to be engaged in organizing a banquet in The Burlingame Cmbassy im Eur honor of the illustrious stranger, and of that suare im their great enterpriss which may be conside-ed due the great republic of which ihe Cuinese Ambassador himself is a citizen, Of course no one is entitied to raise any objection if the King of Prussta or any olber soverei from F su chooses to entertain @ party of gentlemen in, aud nothing 1# more patural than for Mr. bancroft, or any other American Minister, to do the honors of the place in which he may be living vo @ Wandering compatriot, It ts impossible not to feel, bowever, tuat no matter how great may be tue personal claus of Mr. Barlingame to the courtesy ot Gil persons enjoying the pleasure of his Scquaintance, and no matier how amusing it way be vo catch and Honize @ party of Chinese travellers, stil European governments who ente: tain tae Chinese Embassy officially are, alter all, clinging to 4 Inistake which may have been pardon- abie at first, but ought certainly to have been given up jong belore now, People who were inumately acquainted With China deciared from the beginning what the course of events during the past year ought certainly to bave made apparent io all men by this time, that the Chinese Km- bassy is simply @ buffer, Its mission is to keep Of Europeans. 1c naturally finds that the best way of fulfilling tois charge is to persuade Europeans that Ms object was exacily the reverse, and jor this reason it makes use of the language which pleases tne Huropean car in connection with Chinese affairs, and taiks of progress, civilization and the development of resources; but ali this time Our own Min- @ man who iv 18 really @ budler, and noching else, ister in Pekin, Sir Rutherford Alcock, is in the worst possible odor among CT residents in Chiga, through being considered tng slave of retrogressive haif- hearted champion of o18 Countrymen’s interests, has himself been moved to deciare that he tinas tha ob- structive spirit of the Chinese government as great now, if not greater than ever. Mr. oss Browne, tue American Minister at the Court of Pekin, who suc- ceeded Mr. Burlingame whep that genteman was appointed to take cuarge of the Emvassy, has avowed his conviction that it 18 a delusion and a sham, in a speech much more remarkable for candor and sin- cerity than for diplomauc reserve. Meanwiitle, the only thing waich the Embassy has accnaily Gone has veen to extort from this government con- cessions which no Cavinet in harmony with the sspirations and the gouius of the country would ever ——— baye granted and of gr ish Jee effect mst be tametrically aitagonistic to the purpose which we ought to have aud tbe Chinese ombasey ttself pre- tends to have in view. In Purls Mr. Burlingame 1s not reported to have done well, but it was hardly to be expected that the Emperor of the Freach would be so easy & victim as the Foreign Secretary of & radical Cabinet in England. Foreign policy was never the strong pomt even of the whigs, an: their Modern successors are still less distinguisned in diplomacy. in Berlin and St. Petersburg, however, the envoy from Pekin has a aew field of operations, new hospitalities to receive and new laurels to win by ovtrusively doing nothing. Moreover, it is ob- viously a law of bis political existence that be must keep moving. He is necessarily an itmerant am- bassador, for it would be impossible to remain in one place and do nothing in & striking and impres- sive manner for several years continuously. it may have been noticed, however—and while on this subject it may be worth while to point out tor the benedt of all believers in the Celestial Ein- bassy—that, despite the honor paid to it, the Duke of eye | visiting Pekin has to go incognito to avoid the slight which would otherwise be offered to uum by the Chinese Court. To that august govern- ment it appears only futing and seemly that gentie- men honored with its conndence should be received with marks of distinction and -respect by the sovereigns and ministers of European States, but to Imagine tuat thir courtesy Ought to be reciprocated In any way is preposterous. A Chinese ambassador may be the equai of a barbarian king, but it does not follow for & moment that @ barbarian prince is wortny to be admitted to the glorious presence of tae Chinese Emperor. Perhaps, indeed, the present incumbents of the Treasury colncidé in this view. Radicals in their body policy olten enjoy—like Uriah Heep—the sense of being ** ‘umbie,” especialiy when their ‘umbieness 18 accomplished at somebody else's EXpense, The Loudon Money Market as Affected by the Situation Abroud. (From the London Times (city article), Deo. 7.) A decided inpulse is being giveu to confidence by the continued rise on the Paris Bourse, where the rentes have closed this (Monday) evening at a fresh advance of one-half per cent, yet the English funds remain allogether without movement. The Imn- provement to-day was chiefly observable tn foreign bonds, including Italian, Spanish, Egypian, Argentine, Turkish, Brazilian, Honduras, New Granadian, Portuguese and some of the Russian railway loans, italian bonds were strengthened by @ belief that General Ciaidini will succeed in forming a Cabinet; Spanish, by the restoration vy the executive of consutuuonal guarantees; Portu- uese, by the favorable character of the Hnanclal ac- counts from Lisboa, and Turkish, by the reported canceiment of u large amount of five per cent stock, by way of cOmpensation, as it would appear, for the suppression of the action of the sinking fund. Some of tho principal transactions were io United States goverbuent bonds, wiich, though falling back in the aftermoon trom the best prices of the day, closed one-quarter to three-eighths per cent higher than on Saturday. Much contidence is luspired by ue statement that the liquidation of tie deot has proceeded during the last five and a Lalf months ata rate which, if continued, would ensure its entive extinction, enormous though its amount is, in thirteen years. Throughout the foreign stock market the tendency upwards, purchases being jnuuced by the approach of the January dividends. Neither does it escape attention that ‘the joreign Joaus jately imtroduced have been of a sounder ebaractor than usual. Home ratlway stocks closed iu many instances at ap advance of one-fourth Ww one-Ualt per cei 1 An Enflishmon’s Viows on Premier Giad- stone's PositionThe Herald’s Speciul Cor- respondence. New York, Dec. 10, 1869, As an Englishman (knowing something of her politics and position at the present time), and late a member of the Executive Council) Reform Leaguo, London, fentirely agree with the remarks of your London correspondent in yesterday's impression respecting Mr. Giadstone’s troubles with his cabinet and the insecure state of the preseat government. Previous to the general election which placed him tn power, I, in conjunction with several others, was sent through the country in order to gauge ita posi- tion as regards the standing and political status of the candidates then before the enlarged constitu- eucles under the new Reform bill, We soon found that the majority of them cared no more for Mr. Glad- stone than they did for the Khan of Tartary, or less, for in their bearts they hated him as weil as feared him ; but to serve their purpose before the constitu. encies they took up his cry of disestablishment and disendowment, In fact it was wonderful what they were willing to promise—in fact anything from the irish Church almost to republicanism 1tself; bul it was all false, as they were nearly ‘all Whig nominesa and protegés of | the aristocracy, and it was amazing how quickly ney were up in their parts, It takes some litte tune to make a good politician; but these men sprung, Minerva-like, irom ‘m and the mercuant’s desk into full blown legislatora, I stated im iay reports on my return to London that they would go jor the irish Church question, and that ouce passed they would ‘rat’ from the Premier in dozens upon any other great question concerning true progress. 1 was laughed at and scouted for my troubie. 30 prophesied that the present government or ParLament would not last eighteen montis. 1 was worse than scouted for that, was actually persecated aud lost my trade through it, so that 1 Wasina manner compeiled to leave, Well, I may have been wrong a3 to tne time, butit has not passed yet, and much may be done in six months. ihe workingmen have no rea! power in England as reguras government, nor ever will till they get qualified manhood suffrage with a pure ballot, and hat the upper classes wil! not give. Anything else but that. It is their last hoid, and they will tight for it like grim death; for that once gone, away goes ali their power aud rule, That it must come no sane person can doubt for a moment; but it wiil take ume. I should not have troubled you with this onl, to prove the trath of your correspondent’s remari and to show that others have shared his opinions for some time. lam, sir, &c., A. T. BANNISTER, Liberty street, New York city. HORSE NOTES, Mr. Erastus Corning, Jr.'s, horse George Palmer Wili be jogged on the road this winter instead of being kept inthe stable without exercise, as was the case last year. G. N. Ferguson's horse Needle Gun, who unfortu- nately broke hts leg in the early part of the fall, by care and good nursing is now able to walk about. He lapped Little Fred out at Prospect Park track last summer in 2:26. Little Fred, the property of Mr. Meserole, died from locRjaw a short time since. His best recorded Lime was 2:263q. Puritan, @ Hambletonian, who trotted tm the Spirit of he Times’ colt stake in 1867, died last week of kidhey disease. He was the property of Mr. Mark Littell, who had retused $4,000 for him. The black team of sr, Wilkins attracted @ great dea! of attention daring the late sleighing, showing a forty cilp handily, They are easy drivers and a perfect road team, Their owner is very proud of them, . The trotting horses J.J. Bradley, George Wilkes and Americaa Girl are in winter quarters at Harlem, Goldsmith Maid is ‘saying up” ac Bristol, Pa., and the old mare, Lady Thorn, 13 reposing on her laurels Tor the Winter at the farm of Mr. Welch, one of her owners, near Philadelphia. Mr. Millinger sold his bay mare, a day or two since, for $1,000. She has trotted in 2:45, Mr. Kendall has sold the trotting mare Lady Ken- dall to @ Mr. Whitcomb, of Kochester, for $1,600, Mr. A. Dorian, of Brooklyn, has a fast and stylish roan and bay team that he intends to bring on the New York roads next sleighing to try their mettle. He formerly owned the famous team (80 well knowa on the Coney Isiand road), Saddle Rock and Uncas, FAITH AND PRACTICE, ‘The Inner Life of Plymouth Church, Brooke tym. On Friday evening the usual lecture room talk and prayer meeting at Plymouth church was conducted by the superintendent of the Plymouth Bethel, in Hicks street. The Rey. Henry Ward Beecher was absent oa a lecturing tour, and there was no lack of Speaking on the part of some of the principal mem- bers. ‘The tongues seemed to be loosened in the ab- sence of the great man, and there was a general dis- position to take stock of the inner life of the church. AS & few interesting facts were brought outin the course of the talk we give them a wider publi- city:— Plymouth church numbers about 2,000 members, Of these, one of the speakers sald, there were not 300 who did any active work In connection with tne church. Aggressive action by any of the 300 was very limited; and he seemed to imply that the end and object of ail the expenditare of time, talent and trouble of this vast Piymonth organization was to listen to the very excelient discourses of thetr much respected pastor, and as @ proof of Ui he mentioned that the prayer meeting licid early in the week, when the pastor was Not present, was not attended by seventy persons. was entirely neglected by A fleid of labor th the church was instanced by one of the speakers, and earnestly commended to the attention of the ladies. This was the 60,000 sewing women of the two cities! A gentleman connected with the trade said that he did not believe that the average arn. ings of these giria were more than three and half dollars per week, with which they had to find bread, lodging and dress. ‘Tne marvel was to hum that vice was 80 limited among this ciass; not that It prevailed so extensively. He knew of no religious churen (hat seemed to care for them. This kind of talk continued untit it was abruptly brought to a close by the singing of a bymp. THE SUEZ CANAL. The Future of the Great Work—Its Uses and Profits—English View of the Commercial Revolution—Ismail Pasha’s Grand Ball. {Suez (Nov. 29) correspondence of London News.) * * * The talk avout the canal having a show end ike 9 Covent garden faouneny, pottie, and of eye witnesses being gulied by {t, has been so specious and confident, the assertions of people on the spot ag to the all-al t supply of waver and tie unbroken communication between sea aud sea have been contradicted so conststently and smiied at so often a8 superfictal, that the eanal’a break- ing down pearly or closing up prem: turely, or being impracticable for vessels of large draught, or tnficting iremediable injuries on the craft entrusted to it, or of being otherwise unmanagable and useless, are now the iogical harbors of refuge for the many prophets in distress. It was so when the Atlantic cable was laid, it was 60 when the first railway opened, tt was, doubtless, so when the rash experiment of building @ house, or of replacing the ancestral figleaves by garments more substantial, was frst made. The objections already being raised in Cairo and Alexan- dria will, however, assuredly find echo in Europe, and are therefore worth treating gravely and exam- iming seriatim, They are both strong and bitter, and may be divided into three heads— the commercial, the engineering and the nautical. ‘The canal cannot the original shareholders. ‘The cost of widening and deepening wiil be woo great, the charges for maintenance too absorbing, and the dangers to ships above a certain draught too nume- rous for anything approaching a legitimate return Jor he capital already expended. So runs some of the talk, We hear ao much of ‘the poor sharehold- ers,”’ and go Many estimable peopie are derivipg a gloomy relish from the supposed misfortunes of (at body that have been at some pains to ebtain statistics of the Suez Canal and believe them to be generally as follows. On such a subject data ts necessarily speculative, but speculation is right sometumes:— « * * Now comes @ branch of the subject upon which some diversity of opinion way be madulged in—namely, what the earnings of the canal are likely to be; and here 1 prefer quoting gentlemen whose names are well known in the commercial world, wno nave, like the rest of us, just been over the canal, and who are not likely to be suspected of undue impulsiveness or enthusiasm. In the course ol # semi-pubiic discussion which took place recently among some of tie leading Englishmen in Egypt, one of the speakers, in reply to the tocal assertion, “the canal can never pay,’’ stated bis conviction that, taking it ag It stands, another penny being spent on save It for purpos completion, 1t 18 fuily capable of earning such an In- come as will pay its shareholders their dividends, Ships of 2,000 tons register made the journey the other day with safety; but if we take, for the sake of argument, vessels averaging 1,500 tons register and assume that two of these pass through the Canat each way every day im the year, the re- sult at the present rate of tari, & ¢ ten francs a ton, woula yield £875,600. M. Lav- elley has offered to maintain the canal for £40,000 & year, So that with the £560,000 interest on the shares held by the public there would, even on this low estuumate, be £273,600 for salaries and for uivision, the Viceroy taking one-seventh and the shareholders sixth-sevenths, according to arrange- ment, ‘This ts, of course, tended as a reiuctio ad absurdwi, of the hypotiiesta that the shareuolders of the Suez Canal will surely be prevented reaping the Iruits of its success, Let shipping authorities or students of the Board of Trade returns say by how many times these two suppositicious vessels should be multiplied. Let us now quote another high authority in com- mercial circles, One of the largest dealers in Man- ebester sods 1n tbe world, aud whose trade with 18 outspoken opinion that 1g henceforth the highway between England and the East. The character of much of the wade will be altered. ‘Lo talk of ahips being too large ror the canai is to con- devin them as unfit fortheir work; to cavil or argue as to the relative advantages of the Isthmus and the Cape will be to enable your rivals to stip, land and selia cargo while you hesitate. Both the geu- Tlemen quoted are shipowners, both are interested In existing erie and both have decided teat the final stroke has been given to sailing vessels between. England and the East, and that the canal, at its pre- sent dimensions, can, when finished, be made to carry all the commerce of ail Europe to aud from the East, * ‘The engmmeering and navigating objections remain to be disposed of. First, as to the actual state of the canal aud what is absolutely necessary to be done to it. And here I have simply to repeat the words I used in recording my impressions after tak- ing private soundings nearly ® month ago. ‘“fime, labor and capital” are still required, though by no means to the extent the croakers would have us be- lieve. The three things which need seeing to at once are the blasting away of the Serapeum rock, which asserted itself so impertinently at the iast moment, and gave rise toso much consternation and derl- sion; the additions to the pier on the Daimuetta side of the harbor of Port Said; and the walling of the banks for about thirty miles of the canal, The blasting will be tedious, and it is estimated tat three months must pass betore so much of the rock—which 1s of gypsum and dimMeult to move— can be destroyed as will make the depth of water uniform. ‘ihe operation need not, however, tnter- fere with the traffic of the cana!, as vessels of cue draught of those which have passed through can proceed to and fro in the intervais of firing. [i muat be said, however, that the highest inde- pendent professional authorities estimate the cost of vlasung away this rock ut irom £200,000 to £300,000. * * * Bot the bottom of thecanalis not yet fat. The seooping out of the sand has been suffici®nt to enabie ships to pass through, because 4: has been accommodated in some measure to the shape of their hulls. Dredging will, however, soon Pte this right, and my readers have now before them, as 1 believe, all that can be uw against the canai in an engineering sense. It needs more capital, more labor and more time; but a small—comparatively speaking a very small— portion of each is required, and it can be earning money in the meantime. Allowing for the forego- ing work and all contingencies, two. millions sterling is the estimate of the professional autuorities I have already quoted as the outside sum required for the completion, an amount which shouid be taken into consideration when weighing the calculations [ have given as to capital and in- terest. Some shrewd thinkers who have been to the canal consider that a strong wind blowing full on a ship's beam is sure to drive her aground; but this theory 1a disposed of when we consider that the Great North Holiand Canal is navigated without such casualties. ‘That channel of water is sixty-eight miles long. and far narrower than the Suez Canal. It 1s, moreover, so banked uw that the ships on it are far more exposed to win than on the Suez Canal, but its navigators are accustomed to a kind of work which was new toa majority of the seamen who conducted the vessels last week, and one never hears of the periis of von. veyia craft through it. Dropping anchor is anoticr way of meeting the suggested dificulty. 1 have now, I believe, gone through the main objections with which those who find it the reverse of easy to admit of the success of the Suez Canal are likely to solace themselves. The choking up with sand and other of the more determined hostile theories are not seriously believed in by peopie who have made the journey. The time was favor- able for ascertaining the opmions of men eminent in their severai wWaiks, a) us circumstances have given me considerable Nities for domg so this letter simply professes to be a reflex of the carcful decisions of those best capabie of forming them. ‘ois said whene’er the jucgment’s weak the preju- dice is strong” is as true as when Vestris sang, and some appeals I fave beara to “the laws of nature” against the canal’s permanence, remind one of the cynical phiiosopher im “Paul Clifford,’’ who advised his pupiis, when needing a satisfactory authority for groundless assertion, to c.asp hands on hearts and “to appeal to the laws of nature, which, ag they are nowhere written, no one can contra. flict.” So much lor tne future, Ismail Pacha’s Supper nnd Grand Ball, (Cairo (Nov. 23) correspondence of London Post.) * * * The immense supper tent, in which covers were laid for 400, was besieged at an early hour, and the most curious scenes took place in the course of the evening, when hunger or giuttony got the best of good manners, I am thankful to say that I can exonerate our own countrymen from ail participa- ftoy in the unseemly struggie for food which ensued at ond period of the Svexing, The menu 18 quite a curiosity in ita way, and 80 [ give it you én ex/enso, I did not remain long enough myself to ascertain if its brilliant and artistic prowise was fuldlied: GRAND SOUPER DONNE A ISMAILIA, AU BAL DE WIN- AUGUBATION DO _OANAL DE LISTHME DE BURZ, LE 18 NOVEMBRE, 1860. ENU. Grandey Pircer.Poiason a la reunion des deux mers. VAngiaiee. Galantine de dinde a Is Perigueux. Grand pain de givier eo bastion voliere. la D'Oraey. Langues de bout rac. Galantines. de callie en bel -Culssot do chovreuti, a St Hubert. Dindonne aux Faisans au cresson. Chapona garnis de cailies, trues. Kntremets.—Macedoinea au Kirschwarsen. Pudding diplo- a Vavanas. Biscuite de Savole decores. Nayuiitain m historia. Glaces, Pieces, Montess, ‘Dessert assortt. 1 suppose not less than 4,000 persons must have partaken of this recherche banquet; and as not more than 200 ladies graced the ball with their presence, ‘on may Imagine the havoc made in the Knedive's jarder and cellar, Reales oy! hock, burgundy, claret aud beer flowed like the Nite the whole even: ing, and, considering the mixed character of the company, tt 18 surprising that #0 Much decoruth pi valled, Among the English visitors I woticed Kart Dudley, Lord Houghton, Bord Alfred Paget, Lord George Pratt, Lord Carin, Sir Alexander Milne, Sir Leopold Heath, Mr, Elliot, Colonel stan- ton. Mr. Eaton, M. P.; Colonel Gourlay, M. P.; Mr, H, Edwards, M. P.;' Prince Wittgensiéin, General Gordon, Colonel ‘michael, Sir Stafford Northcote, &ec., bub-an. whing ike alist of the foreign visitors ib Was out of my power to obtain, This ball may be said to bave been the culminating bead of Ismail Pacha’s hospitality, and it 1s appal- ing to thing of the bili which WHI bo presented to | niu woop i¢ t# all over, HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE DRAMA ABROAD. English Thentricals and Condition ef tho ‘Theatres On und Off the Stage—The Opera. Lonpon, Nov, 27, 1569. It the stage does not fourish in England it will not be for want of royal patronage, that’s certain, Not that tho (Queen is much of a play-goer, nowa- days. Since the death of her husbuand sho has never set foot within the walla of a playhouse; but the heir apparent, whose bair, by the way, grows less apparent every day, and his wile are everlast- ingly at the play. Last week they were five days at the theatre and one day at the opera, which was quite as much as could have been reasonably ex- pected of them, On Wednesddy night we had one of the most awful fogs ever known on the banks of the Thames. it was a “regular Loudon particular,” as Sam Weller would say. The darkness might be felt, It was Cimmerian; it was Egyptian; 1 was everything that could have been imagined of hor- rible and bewildering. People ‘‘mooned’’ and loafed about, playing blind man’s buff in the fog, You might hear them shouting as in a wood, and dooming one another's eyes to any place rather than Paradise, Yet the terrors of that dreadful night, when your dramatic correspondent was “within an aim’s ace’? (whatever that is) of being run over ip the Strand by the carriage of the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop ot London, could not keep the Prince and Princess of Wales ‘away from the theatre, It was a4 good as a pla: and better than many a play I have seen in my time, to seo the royal carriage whirled along and the no less royal horses galloping through the fog like some phantom in Oman, with outriders bearing torches and half a hundred men of the W division of mounted police carrying blazing flambeaux at each side of the coach, Marry, come up! it was @ grand sight, and not soon to be forgotten. And whither, think you, was the stately equipage wending its way? Why, to the little piay- house in Fovtenham Court road, to enable the Prince and Princess to witness the performance of Mr. Rovertson’s comedy of “school,” which the royal coupie have already witnessed possibly hal a dozeu times. On the following Tuesday tae Prin- cess presented the nation with w daughter, who, with the mother, 1s doiag as weil as can be ex- pected. A night or two ago the heir apparent, whose hair, &c., &c., visited the Globe theatre with his pretty little wife, to see the “Lady of Lyons,” and curiously enough tuey entered their box just at tire moment that ’auiing Descheppelies was paying her husband the compliment of saying, “Oh! you Princes are so chaugeful.” ‘Whe Queen’s soa, Who always looks pleasant and gemai, enjoyed the joke Mn- mensely, ag also did the audience. There is not much to report in the way of novelty just at this moment, We have had a great time of At, but it is “the current’s sumootiiness ere it dash be- neath,” for busy days are coming. Ihe man- agers are all” intent upon the — propara- tion of their Christmas pieces. Pantomimes get rarer and imore rare year by year, and if there should be two or three pieces of the kind at 1he West Bnd theatres this Yule tide it will be the most. We have been told for the last ten years that buriesque 13 upon its last iegs, but it manages to make good pro- gress nevertheless, ana will have possession of most of the houses at Christmas. On Monday Mr. Fechter commences an engage- ment of twelve nights’ duration ai the Princess’ theatre, opening with ‘Hamlet,’ St. James’, notwithstanding the beauty of the house and the excellence of the play, ‘ste Stoops to Conquer,” has had bat sorry luck. However, it 1s to be hoped that a more prosperous era will be Inaug! rated to-night, when idrs. Join Wood wilt make i first appearance in a new extravaganza, remodelicd irom an old one by Mr. Brougham, vo be entitled “La Belle Sauvage. Mr. Allerton’s dot too prosperous leascesiiip of the Lyceum wiil terminate on the 20th of next month, Meantime he hopes to fetch up the leeway wiih a new play, adapted from the French of Octave beuil- lat, by Mr, Palgrave Simpson, to be caildd 2 Siren.’? A new theatre, to be called the Belgravia, 13 in course of construction mm Sloan square, near we station of the Metropolitan Railway, itis to be the property of Mr. Henry Grant, of the Grecian, and is expected to open about Ouristmas. Mr. and Mrs. German Reed have come back to their old quartersat the Gallery of liustration tn Water- Joo place, and, with some stars of inferior \ustre, ara singing and piayiog to good houses in an operetta, by Mr. W. 5. Gilbert, entitied “Ages Ago,” a lively trife and pleasant withal, but of no great sun. stance—“the periuine and suppiiance of # minute,’ as one Will Shakspeare, a forgotten bard, was wout vo say. Mr. W. 8. Woodin, who has been roaming about “the country for the last year or eighteea months, has returned to London and will open anew his buaget of eccentricilies as the Egyptian Mall on Monday next, ‘The Westminster boys, or, rather, the Queen’s scholars, as they delight to be called, becatse the Queen knows nothing avout them, to have their Latin play i the dormitory of st. Pe 4s usual, Just before breaking up for tie hol But Terence is to be discarded in favor of riauius, one of whose comedies will be perforined, to tue In Guite delight, no doubt, of an audience not one in ten of whow understand 9 word of tne play. > Ifthere is little doing upon the stage there 1s a great to-do about the “dramatic monopoly,” as it 18 termed. The wonderful Dr. Velere, of Harrow, und the other li-treated poets who can't get the managers to accept their plays, and are consequently doomed to be “mute lglorious” Shakspeare, are at tt, hammer and tongs, ringing the changes upon their rievances, and giving the worid to understand toat they are tho martyrs o( literature. One Victorin, who writes himself “An Outsider,” telis us of au in- genions expedient to which he has bad recourse tu ob- tain @ hearing. Finding that his communications Were neglected as long as lie dated from his private address, albeit in a street of great respectability, the happy thought occurred to him of po tog his letters inthe House of Commons, and, will It be believed that the grandeur and importance of the postmark succeeded in eliciting a reply by almost “the next post,” and two of his playa wero acceptea! Business, however, is now growing alack, but he adds, with charming naivete, “1 think | will renew the experiment.” Another gentieman, who modestly styles himself “A Small Author,” is grateful for mercies as small as himself, and bears thankfal testimony to the unvarying kindness of the managers. There 1s something extremely touching in such a statement as this:—‘From 1860 to 1866 | sent many pieces to some of the principal theatres, and in every case I received a polite answer and the return of my manuscript.” This is something to be grateful for, Who would not be a dramatic author on such terms ag these? Verily & comtented mind 16 # continual feast. Poor Paul Bedford 13 dangerovsly ill, Sir Willlam Ferguson 18 in attendance on him; bus the some time idol of the Adelphi seems bardly likely, poor icliow, to derive much benens from the.xkuleven of that famous surgeon. . Mr. Henry Russell writes to the papers to contra- fic se report of his deatn—a report which he says @ “with concern.” Not to have been able to read it at all might have been a worse calamity. It 1s reported that an Engitsh nobleman is reaay to spond £150,000 in butlding anogher opera hous. if the Proper site can be obiainea. Te T. Sullivan has been in Paris with # view, it 1s understood, to the production of some of his orchestral compositions there His “Prodigal Son” will be given at the cry 1 Palace on the Saturday preceding Christmas Day. Me. Baife, the composer, is suffering from severe tliness. The site where, previous to lis burn- ing down, Savile fiouse stood, in Leicester square, has been ired for a winter garden ana theatre of huge proportions, ‘The whole bieck of buildings has been taken, and a public company is m process of construction, issuing one pound shares, not less than twenty-tlve pounds to de taken up. ‘The auditorimin of this new theatre will seat 3,000 persons, aud the e will be larger than Drury Lane. A covered “facade” in front of the house ts also contemplated, caiculated to shelter 1,000 people (if need be) from the Hepat The Boned of this conpany— which already FY uty OPpanized—have cured a place al WieWorth for the slpply of tne plants and dowers, and have a dairy and laundry at the same place in connection with Une esiablisi- ment, The building wili begin in January, and the theatr¢g is expected to open in September, In consequence of the absence of Ariditt the short opera sea.on at Covent Garden Will be conducted by Mariani and Vianest, formerly conductors at Flo- rence and St. Petersburg. Mr. C, J. Bishenden, the new bass, has signed an engagement with the iman- ager of the English Opera Company, wiica wiil make a tour turough the United Kingdom during ine autumn of 1870, Mr. Kennedy, alter @ professional tour thromgh Canada and the United States of America, intends giving three of his popular enter- tainments on the songs of Scotiand, at the Hanover Sauare Rooms, early in January next, previous to his departure for Augtralia, A curious present has recently been sent to Mile. Nilsgon by Couut Jean Georges do Dubinski, itis a beauuilul Manuscript, written in Gothic letters of silver by one of the old bishops of the Goths, it formerly belonged to Queen Christina of sweden, and was presented to mer by Count Conisimark alter the taking of lrague. THe OP; {Paris (Nov. 26) Correspondence of London Tele- graph] Mile. Ses#i has had a second soccess in “Rigo- letto,” which was extremely well given last nigut. M. Bagier bas wonderfully improved his chorus ana orchestra; Seasi, Nicoiinl, who was in wonderful voice, and Dele Sedie were excetient throughout the opera and the final act was @ great triumph. ‘The house was crowded, and it is @ curious effect of the fear of revolution acting on the Britian mind that there were, to tne best of my belief, but two Bnglisn in tho house, There were scores of Ameri- cana, Italians and Spaniards, the later having escaped frow the fire and got into the Irying pan at Jeast. Waciilel was present, On Saturday ve sings tn *Trovatore’ aud then takes his departure for America. Thursday M. Bagier produces ‘Fidelio’ alter eighteen years, Will it please Paris? Let me tell you @ litte story—-not a fib~—a trae story. You know Mesdames A:bonl, Marie Battu, MM. Hohler, fico, &e.—1 nope they ‘Won't all call me out—are maxing # musical tour, ucceas, too, through Lelgium an ther day & deligted engraver, ou- ed ager of the entertainment, pro- duced # group of the portraits of all the artiste en- > enccancnttin SP bt gaged. To say it wasa work of high art would to deceive you; tho portraits, no doubt, had bee 4 Mk Vv somewhere once, but, “at this time day,” no. “Whodo you think those are?” ask the proud printer. 1 regret to say that the profane answer was, “Why, the Kinck fauuly, to a bat Exit printer in a towering passion. Jt was too bad. 1 au sorry to gay that 1b was decided, after a great rehearsal, that Marle Kose was noi strong chouge for the business of the Grand Opéra, Where 8ne Wild to have played Marguerite, { dare say it was 40, and so the grand operatives have lost the chance seeing and hearing a very charming singer. “Frou Frou,” the stalls-for which ure to-night worth Mb teen francs—and you must buy for time, mind you~ is going to Russia. 1 have just time to inguire after the fond parent of the ‘Bohemian Girl” He 13 bee ter docidediy, but is suffering frome Cne of chose colds which are, I velieve, truly aritcles de Lares. He doves not go out, “THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD." Conjugal Non-Aflinity at Sing Sing. itormy Results of a Clouded Honeymoon— Cupid Outwitted. by a Brido of Six- teen, Who Applies for a Divorce— Woman’s “Rights” Guarded by Revolvers. A singular and somewhat complicated incident of matrimonial incompauibillty, partaking in part of the romantic and scandalous, and which may pro bably lead to bloodshed, 13 at present the all-prevail- ing subject of conversation and unlimited comment among the various social circles in the usually monotonous village of Sing Sing. The circum- stances disclosed will be found of a pecuilarly novel order, revealing the anomalous position of a rather atwactive young wouwan leaving tue home of het husband, in distaste, a few days after marriage, and having made application for a divorce, arms hersell with a revolver for the reception of her “lord and master,” who, it is stated, is almost beside humselt with griet and expresses bis intention to re possess her, thongh 11 were at the sacrt fice of his life. Among the young wife's friends an equal spirit of determination is exhibited and expressed that she shall be protected if nec ry to the death from tie de mands of her obnoxious partner in a marriage union which the laws sustains, while being power. less to perpetuate tt, STORY QP AN ORPHAN. Some six years ago Anuie Young, an orphan and the child of poor though respectable parents, was taken into the housenoid of a forist, named Deiios residing a short distance from Sing Sing, he having humanely offered to assume the guardianship of the little girl, who was then in her tenth year. In order that Se might retuin undisturbed control over Annie during ler minority ber new protector effected with the child’s friends an imdenture by which she waa egaily bound to him until she shouid be eighteen years of age. Transplanted as it were from farm Itfe into a region of exotics, apa in daily association with all that is considered beautiful and poctical in the horticultural kingdom, Annie grew in simplicity and attractiveness wit her sister flowers, not dreaming, pernaps, while toying with ‘the alphavet of the angeis” (hat she was learning the language of love. Such, however, Was the result, for at “sw sixteen,’ when the ciild had expanded ito a coquetish majien, whose profusion of Masea hair devied the thraldom of a chigaoa, Annie Was divid- ing her siniles aud a portion of her umes between two youths, Whose 2amiration for her was only equaled by their devotion to aber will. Willam Mollen, one of these sighing swatns, @ stonecutter by occupation, after mauy montus of unvarying “attention to the idol of his desires, Hnaiily proved the victorious suitor, Anuie promising to. become his wife on tue happy morning which should usher in her eigliteenth virihday, tie dawning of sald day not being exvected until about two years hence. Meautlue a dry guods clerk, ot rather pleasing exterior, appeared on the scene not many Weeks since and became go poinied in tus fre- quent attentions to the betrovhed one that her alanced husvand at once succumbed to the power of the ‘green-eyed mouster.’? instead of ais- couraging the advances of the former, he was wel- comed with a sunny smile oa ail occasious, and despite the protestations of her promised husband, Annie, a3 is supposed, had fallea violently in love With the measurer of tape. Thus matters remained Unt, a8 Is Stated, & sligat quarrel occurred between the young woman and her latest admirer, which so ruiied her disposition chat she at once conferred with Muilen, aad suggested that their marriage should take place at once, Her overjoyed auditor acte1 on the proposal with rapturous alacrity, (na consequence belug that ina lew hours they were legally pronounced “mau and wiie.” A DESERTED BRIDEGROOM, Without drawing aside the vell of domestic privacy it may be siated that the honeymoon had endured but a short ume when, as those usually bissfal days began to wane, slight digvereaces arose between the newly married coupie, and eventually it became apparent that two uacongeniai spirits had been miaied, some Irlends bride, after dollars pin Having expressed her desire to visit ina i we village, the youthful having been supplied with fiiteen money, left ior the — locaiity alluded to, witi the consent of her husband, and the promise that she would reiurn to his bed and board during the afternoon of that day. But the wayward wife forgot her promise, tar- ried many days; nor has she stuce returaed to as- sunie the retus of government in Mulien s now deso- late home. It appears that hardy had the legal obligations of marriage been assumed when te wife Was suddenly seized with an aversion to her hus band, ana up to the present indignantly repels ail etforts made with a view towards a@ recouciliation, On the first discovery of his loss the lusband sougat to obtain information of his missing bride from the dry goods cierk already alluded to, accusing bim of being cognizant of her whereabouts; but the hali- crazed man was assured by his former rival that the latter was innocent of any participation in her my s- - terious Gissppcaranoe, ALLEGED KiDNAYVING AND SEDUCTION. Puzzled and distracied on finding himself tous early & widower, tHe abandoned bridegroom first turned mis wratuful alteution towards Vellol, the guardian of his wife beiore her marrige, and caused We. ayes} oy 4 charge of Kiduapping. Previous wo however, the fotisf had received from Mullen the sum of titty doliars as compensatign for the pre- Mature separation of himeeif and fis Ward, for which he gave # release from the indentare, aud ths was executed In due legat iorm. During the progress Of the heaving whicu followed the arrest for Kidnapping Mutien received a note trom nis wife setting forth her reasons for leaving him and exonerating Vehot from any complieity in the transaction, “ils was deowed sutlicient to destroy the charge of kidnapping, aud the defendant was discharged. Immediately there- after florist, was rearrest In civil action commenced by Mullen, wherela be charges the former with seiucing and enticing Mrs. Mulen from her busband, the damages being !atd $1,000, Deliot Was required to give bonds tor tis appearance to answer this charge in the Supreme Oourt. A 1ew ays subsequentiy Mrs, Mullen appeared in propria persone av the onice of her legat adviser for the donbie purpose of exonerating the Aorist of the charge of spiriting ber away and to petition Pra divorce from her husband, Sive then returned co ine house of her late guvrdian; but itis said that he, 10 avoid further trouble, at mest resased to harvor her, and endeavored to persuade ner to reiurn to ber husband, This she positiveiy declined .o do, aver- ring that Mifiien was her lit no on ym name, ana {hat their marriage had never been consummated, Through her persistent entreaties Veltot anal senced to let Mr sien veniain in tus family tem- porartiy. Whi ig at the house o: her former guardian she has been repeatediy subjected to what she terms “intrusions” oo the part of ber husband, wlio recently caused her arrest on a charge of embezzling the flitcen dollars before mento .ed, and whieh, it 18 stared, he bad given tis wile on ‘ue morning she lett to visit her friends. ‘ihe ca eca ue before Justice yal, whe. the defendant waived an exomination and gave ball to answer at the Court of s KEARMS AND THREATS OF ASSASSINATION. Wiulo in the Justice's Court it was ascertained by the friends of Mrs. Mutlen that her husband, with, some of his adherents, would atcempt to recover her emerged into the street, and lor se tiey had come fully armed and Hearing tots, those inside woo had the woman's cause looked to the of their weapons,, aud in order that Mrs. Mallen should vot be defenceless one of them handed her a loaded revolver, telling her Co shoot the first man Who attempted to moiest her. Fortunately sor the peace of the village no atu t Was nade to carry Off the young wile. She, however, retains the pistol, and does not conceal her Intention of using it in case she Is interiered with by her buaband, It ts staved, on creditable wu- thority, that parties connected with the alair have been shot at while in the peighborhood of Deliot's residence, and aiso tat a deed of assassination has b dimly foreshadowed. No concealment 18 at tempted of the fact that firearms a rried by neariy all the parties WHO fave directly 1nterested themacives on eltoer side, aud, as the feelings en- cndered by the distracesiti avair are of the most voter and unrelenting ature, the slighcest provo. cation may precipiiate & tragedy that would shock the community, ‘THE RULING PAsston STRONG IN Deatu.—An old croupler Was dying at Baden, some years since, and his family insisted that a priest. should be seul tor. The priest came and proposed to contess him. The croupior willingly assented, Tae priest said, “Weil, my brother, this 13 a solemn hour; what have you to say?” The dying man said, ‘Not much, fatuer; bub 1 can day this:—I saw once in my life tho moat exu ordinary tht ig that happened on earth; 1 sa ‘wweaty-eight’ Gome out eleven times band runming.' prepared, espoused priming