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6 “EUROPE. Tho Irish Radical Revolutionary Agita- tion and Premier Gladstone’s Legislative Difficulties. Ear! Derby as the Leader of the English Tories. Rutos, Regulation and Work of the Eeumenical Council. Travel and City Scenes in Italy and Greece. ENGLAND. Five Tnonsand Troops Ordered to Ireland What Mr, Gladstone Said About the Fe- miaos—Uni Among Ministers on the Irish Land Question—Dificultics of the Education Bill—The New Leader of the Tory Party. LONDON, Dec. 9, 1869, During the last two days four regiments of im faniry, one of cavalry anda battery of fleld artil- dery—making @ total of 5,000 effective men of all arms—have been ordered to Ireland, aud wil! land tn Dublin before the end of the present week. This maovement was only decided upon at the Cabinet Gouncil of Ministers held on Tuesday, the day before yesterday, and it was known to ail the Fenian iead- @s in irelana before the order was received by Wwe authorities at Dublin Castle. It has for some days past been expected that the Habeas Corpus act would be suspended in Ireland at once; but this measure bas for the moment been de- layed. The Ministry and indeed the people of Eug- Jand In general are under the impression that, because for the last week or ten days the Fenians have been more reasonable and not quite so full of What we call “bounce’’—not so given to what in your couutry 18 called “tall talk,” they have become more sensible, and have determined to give up what I may term ‘physical force agitation.’’ This 1s, how- ever, a mistake—in my opinion a very great mistake. The threat of suspending the Habeas Corpus act has certainly proved ‘a scare’ to the party, but it has merely frightened them into being more circumspect, and not blustering out all they do, and boasting of aii they intend todo. The conspiracy is more hidden, Dat not iess dangerous that it was. Pray note that When I say “dangerous” I don’t mean that there is any danger to the British government, or what the Fenians can do. They may Injure trade, prevent What Ireland wants most—namely: capital being invested in the country; sill a few innocent, harm- Jess people, cause the illness and death from expo- sure of many soldiers who do their duty—all this ‘they may, and probably will do, But they will not gain theirends. The amnesty for the Fenian prison- ers will be further off than ever, and all that their handiwork can achieve will be keeping vack the measures intended to establish good government in ireland. Not three days ago I was speaking to a country gentleman from the North of England, a persona! and an intimate friend of Mr. Gladstoue, aud he told me the following anecdot #aid that less than twelve montn3 ago Mr. stone Was present at a dinner party where the conversation turned upon Fenanism. The Premier lamented greatly that so much foliy had been com- mitted in Ireland by a political agitation which could possibly dono good; but at the same time expressed 8 conviction that before 1870 the Fpirit of tue country in generai would be #0 {ar improved that Fenianism would be forgotten and ali the Fenians set free. ‘The same gentieman told ime further that nota month ago he heard Mr. Gladstone deciare how sorry he was that the mad folly of the Fenian prisoners ‘had tied his bands ana revented him from opening the doors of the prison. it 18 impossible, however, to measure the depth of credulity that 18 to be found amoung the Irish people. Some persons call them “religiously”? supersutious, but tt always seems to me that they are as ready to folliow—nbay, at present, much more ready—iaymen who put themselves forward as politicai leaaers, than they are their own priests. Any agitator secins to find favor with them, aud the stronger, the more reckless, the more lilogical lis language, the more they seem to like nim, In a recent letter | mentioned that there was con- ®iderable difference of Opinion among the ministers Fespecting the Irish Land vil Lam now credi- bly informed that this diMicuity has been got over, and that each member of the Cabinet has undertaken to support any bili which is approved of by the ma- jority of his colleagues. Englaud 1s a country of compromises, and itis only by compromises be- tween interests and interests that we can get ou in our government, The irish land question will be no exception to this rale, ‘ne bill which Mr. Gladstone’s Ministry will introduce on the Jand question will no doubt be a compromise between what the tenant farmers would as a body wish for, aud what toe landlords would like to re- lain, The real difficulty of Mr. Gladstone's Ministry ‘Will Dot be the amnesty of the Fenians, nor yet the Jand quesiton, but the Education bill. if the meas- ure in favor of estabiishing secilar education throughout Eng! nd abolishing what is called the denominational system, is introdu as > ernment measure, the days of Mr. Gladstone’s Min- Astry would be numbered, for the bill would, no doubt, be ignominiously rejected. The Ireh mem- bers— whether Orangemen, moderate liberals or rad- deals; whether Protestant or Catholics, are ail in Javor, not only of supporting denominational educa- tion in England, but of extending it to Ireland aiso. On the other hand, a very jarge portion of the Kag- ligh liberal press—indeed I might say the immense majority of the liberal papers—are in favor of intro- ducing at once a bill by which local rates shall be estaviished, in order to provide education for the Door, and that thia education shall be purely secular, without any religious teaching whatever. But I must tell you that although there 1s @ strong party among the liberals of England in fe vor of this measure, there is’ a ‘y strong party against it. The Roman Catholics, who have always been numbered amongst Mr. Gladstone’s strongest supporters are dead against it—laymen quite as much 80 as priests, The Anglican church- men are also very strong, indeed, against the Measures, as are the sfethodisis and most others of the religious sects, Indeed— I believe m s poor, community. mdeed, for any class of the But he has among his colleagues so many that ate 4p iavor of it, that it is supposed he will have to give way. Jf so, the bill which introduces secular €ducation will prove the ruin of his administration, and We shall see @ return to office of the tories, headed by Lord Stanley that was, who has now succeded his Tather as Earl of Derby, and has been determined upon by his party as their new leader, to take the piace of Mr. Disraeli, who is, what you term in America, quite “‘piayéd out,” There was @ meeting of all the tory leaders at Hatfield, the princely residence of the Marquis of Salisbury, last week, and it-was decided that the Jeadershtp of the erty, in the House of Lords should be offered to tue Earl of Derby, and that he stiou!d succeed his late father ag the leader of the whole, ‘and if they sacceed to power, shouid be put forward as Prime Minister, or rather have it intimated to ner Majesty that a large ly of what wil in fatare be culled the liberal conseryatives, including the Fari of Carnarvon, and ali the younger men of the old tory party, With the Marquis of Salisbury and the Dest talent of Mr. Disraeli's late ministry, will be ready to serve tinder the present Hari of Derby, ‘Who, until the death of bis father a short time #at in Uke House of Commous as Lord Stanie; 0 doubt but what this change tn the leadership of the tory party will soouer or later create a great change 10 the party itself, The present Lord Derby was born in 1826, aad is consequently only justin the prime of life, He is an excellent man of business, a good debater; much more liberal in his views than yoany Who fight under the same flag as himself, and respected both on account of his talents and his faunly. He 18, moreover, very popular in nigh Places, and itked by the Queen, because he was & Kreat lavorite of the late Prince Consort, The report 4s that should he ever have a chance given him, tue present Earl of Derby will do his best to bring into power an amaigated ininistry, composed of the old mt party and the cleverest of the liberal conserva- s. Our prospects in London for the coming winter are Jar from bright. The amount of misery, the ‘want of work among the laboring el and the general poverty of all those who live by the sweat of their brow J hat hever geen equatied in this me- ticle Of 1004 1s dear; house rent for the poor is exceedingly high, and the weather is such ag to make us feel pretty certain that the cold wiil be very indeed. in a word ‘hard times” &re upon the poor, and added to thet isa t of rebeluon, Hot #O MUCH against authority as agelnat roperty, am all the working classes in id. n plain words T believe that we are not far the commencement of great social trou’ which will bring about immense social changes 1 The London papers of yesterday had, neari them, comments a the President's Mess: enciowe a short abel t of the Jeading articies on the principal points, You will at once perceive that, usnal, the pith of the matter is not rightly under- swod by the English press, although, as usual, tiey proceed to lecture tose who iu any Way hold opinions Ajperent irom ther own. The News te ao NEW YORK HHRALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1869 Snel teen mn eee Sam ae se ey ST es Es a Ear ee ene ew varias) Gana’ exemption to this. But In every one of the English i P59 how entirely the question of fguulng ec ed, and how wonderfully ready they all ure to ‘Oe any tling f@r the sake of peace. ROME. Constitnent Parts and Organization of the Ecumenical Councii~The Prela Tovited to Work—Formation of the Hierarchical “Com- missions”=—Right» of Proposition, Debate and Voting—How €nnons are Drafted and Adopted=No Speeches—Tho Kegivicrs of Notee—Ditferences of Opini: Rome, Dec, 10, 1869. Although it Ilsexpected that upwards of Gov pre- lates wili take their piaees in the Council before it closes they will not all be on a par, not only asto rank, but also as to the right of voting. And here tle quea- tion arises, of what persons an Ecamenicai Council ought strietly to be composed? Certainly only of those Invesied with episcopal character and juris- diction. But, notwithstanding, cardinals, wuo are not bishops, are admitted to these assemblies by a pontitical privilege granted them, with the same pow- ersas bishops, By the same privilege mitred or not moitred generals of monastic orders are admitted, all having deliberative voices. As regards bishops tm partious, the Court of Rome has decided that they shall only be admitted after having applied for perm! n, The same condition has beeu imposed on chapter vicars, who are not bishops, ‘Ihe proxies of absent bishops will only have consultative voices, Eeclestastics o1 the sacerdotal order are Lever sum- moned to the Council except as consultors. Laymen are never convoked [© such @n assembly at all. The sacerdotal and lay elements of the Cburci have beea gradually excluded from many privileges, such as the election of parish priests, of bishops andof the Pope himself, in proportion as the Church centralized itself in Rome and became monarchical, It would be too long a digression from my present eudject to trace the course of such changes in the history of the Catholic Church, of Ihave given several instances in preceding letters on the same topiog Dut it will be important to observe whether in the Council the evident tendency to etl farther centralization on the part of the Court of Rome wiil meet with opposition from the majority of the bishops or not. After the solemn inauguration of the Council the bishops are invited to dtvide their labor among the preparatory commissions. These commissions meet, each under the presidency of its cardinal, as hereto- fore, and at diifereat hours, go that the same bishop may take part in two or more commissions if equal to the exertion, In these meetings, which will be, 80 vo say, familiar, without formal speeches, steno- graphers or voting, and unshackled by the presence of the Pope or his legates, the bishops wiil study and discuss, a8 much as possible in Laan, the questions especially belonging to each commission. The bishops will not put forth mere volta or opinions, lixe the consnitor3s who have been working for the Jast elgnveen months on the themes to be decided in the Counci®, bus neither will they give definitive decisions, It 18 a rule thata single bishop has not the right of disputing the Gtness of subwitting to the Council a question placed in the programme by the Pope's order. Butif a notable number of bishops are of opinion that if any proposed canon should be modi- ned in any particular kense the cardinal president of the comulssion will report their opinion to the directing congregation of cardinaia, wio will decide the question with the Pope. The same routine wiil be observed if a considerable number of vishops propose an entirely new canon. ‘The particular congregations—such is the name given to the sessions of the commissions heid sepa- rately—will be secret, as well as the genera! congre- gations, which are the sessions heid by ail the com- * missions united in the council halle These general col gregations Will take piace only when each com- mission shall have studied and discussed @ certain number of questions, The Pope will be represented in them by his legates a latere. The canons which have previously passed through the coumuisstons will be read, and the bishops may then put forth their opinions tm estenipore or written discourses, In Latin, which will be taken down by the shorthand writers, Then wiil take place the preliminary vote, The semutatores Will pass before each prelate, who Wil vote aloud, saying placet or non placet. The votes thus collected will either give & moral unauimity—that is tO say, lour- fifths will be favorable—tn which case the canon will be submitted to the definite vote in the eX session, or taey will be unfavorabie, in which case the Pope. if not inclined to yield, will send the canon back to the commission appointed to study 11, exhorting the bishops to pray and meditate agai. Froin tune to time, When the preliminary voting has been successfal with & suiticient number of canons, @ session will be held in the Couucii Hall. On these occasions the Pope will be present. ‘The prelates appear in all the splendor fitting their dignified rank, and the assembly wiil be complete. There wil ve no speeches, Tne canons in ques- tion will be read with closed doors, after which the scrutators will gasler the votes, which will then be considered definitive. ‘ihe doors of the Council Hall Wiil then be reopened, and the Pope will proclaim the new canons ex cathedra.. itis thought that there will not be more than eight or ten of these sessions during the whole Council. At the definitive voung the votes are to be “morally unanimous,” and they Wili be $0 Of necessity, siuce the result will have vecn insured in the preceding general congregation. Lhe Pope has named Cardinals Patrizi, De Reisach re acting for him until his healta is restored), silo, Bizzarri and De Luca as his legaies to pre- side over the congregations, Ladd sowe wore details to the programme of the opening ceremonies which 1 sent you in my Jast let- ter. After the Father assembled in the hall and the Pontis had given his benediction and allowed the publication of lus indulgence by the Episcopal orator, the secretary general, Monstgnor Fessler, Placed. the books of Holy Writ on ine altar, on which are also ranged the Pontifical ornaments. The Pope having assumed the paliium and next received homage trom aii the Fathers of the Council, who, holding their mitres in their hands, ascended the steps of his throue, the cardinals to Kiss his hand, the patriarchs, archbishops and bishops his right knee, and abbots his foot. This act of obedi- ence completed, ail the Fathers knelt in their places towards the ailat, while the Pope, standing, pro- nounced @ Latin prayer, imploring Divine aid and inspiration for the Council. At the command of two cardinals, deacons, vraie and erigite vos, the Fath- era twice prayed in silence, afterwards rising, while the Pope uttered another shorter prayer aloud. The choir and assembly then sang the ‘Litany of the Saints,” after whieh the Pontuf, with bis mitre on, and holding across in his left hand, solemnly con- ferred his blessing super synodum, The, Gospel was next chanted and the Pope, kiss- ing the book was incensed in the usual way. All the Fathers, then sitting, with their mitres on, Were exhorted to their duties by the Pope, who after- wards, kneeling again, intoned the Vent Creator. Other prayers and responses followed until the prefect of the ceremonies cailed out Lreant omnes wocum non habentes tn Concitio! Then by com- mand of the Holy Father the opening decrees were read and put to the vote, which was given by tue Fathers sitting, and wearing their mitres, except the abbots and generals of orders, who voted stand- ing and uncovered. The Scrmtatores having col- lected the votes refered the result to the Pope, who stated his own opinion and promulgated it with the following sormuta:—*Deereta modo lecta placuerunt omnthus Patridus, nerine dissenttente, (or there sball be dissenting voices) fot numero excepts, Nosque sacro approvante Concitio ula tta dever- nuns, statuirius, aqua sancinnus ut lecta sunt,” ‘The apostolic pronotaries then duly registered the acts with official seals and witnesses. Finally his Holiness entoned the Te Deum, After this hymn and anotuer prayer, the Poutit was relieved of bis sacred vestements, and in siole and mozzetin, prayod in silence at the altar, rising from which he Diessed the Synod and departed trom the church. The Pope received the bishops at the Vatican as fast as they arrived, in batches of five or six, or even more, ata time, as to see so many separaiely would occupy his whole time, Au anecdote apropos of this 1s relatea of Archbishop Manning, of Westminister, and Bishop Mermiliod, of Geneva, who were pre- sented together, The Pope rejoiced to see two pre- Jates ruling souls, one in the great ‘rebel city” of Loudon, and the otuer in the ‘Protestant Rome,” as Geneva lias always been calied, His Holiness having announced In a letter to Arch. bishop Manning, written on the 30th of October, tnat & commission of Catholic theologians will be ready to dispute with any Protestants who may come to Rome tor that purpose, three Church of England ministers have been deputed to take up the gaunuet and beard the ecciesjastical lion in his den. Some echismatic Greek prelates are also eald to have deterininod to brave the prejudices of their countrymen by coming to Rome for the Council. The new Spanish Cardinal, Moreno, Archbishop of Valladolid, consecrated in the Church of San Gia cormo the new Bishop of Chtapa in Mexico, having for his assistants during the ceremony the Mexican Bishops of Guadaiaxara and Puebla. The Archbishop of Paris arrived half frozen in the snow of Mount Cenis, which has given him the rheumatism in bis legs. itis atiitude towards the Holy See is conciliatory, probably view of the possibility of obtaining a cardinala Dat. The central door of the Councti hall was left open for the public to view the arrangements inside. ‘They were not allowed to enter, however. 1 have aiready described suMciently the design of the en- closure, The coup qa irom the door 1a regular and imposing. In the centre is ihe altar and beyond it the papal dais and throne. The two hemicycies Of seats rising in successive rows Mi the two sides, and the arched entrances to the lateral chapels have galleries hat! way up, Among the decorattona tho rincipal Fer catSSs “ee ae een “ovr The “Rush” of Visitore—Opponents of Pi Infalti y~The German = Prelates=—The French Ambassador Holding a Key, Rome, Dec. 10—P. M. CrowGs of travellers of al! ranks have been rosbing into Kome. ‘the Empress of Austria arrived by a special train. ‘Two of the Mout vigorous Opponents of the Pope’s personal infallibillty—Monsignors Dupanioup and Maret—have arrived. Itis expected thas the Bishop Of Orleans wl prove a formidable antagonist to the pretensions of the Ponti, although he velegraphed big respect and submission to his Holiness en route at Montalto, the PopuGeal frontier station on the Maremma thine, i hear that the German prelates of the Mberal Catholic party have had a conference, to which Monsignor Mardi was admitted, for what purpose one Cannot tmagine, a8 the laiter is @ fervid al champion, and has replied energetically to Mons nor Dopantoup respecting the Pope's infallibility. Cardinal Antonetii has transferred all the respon- sibility of granting places in the diplomatic gallery in the Councii hail to the French Ambassador, Mar- wis de Banne ville, as dean of the diplomatic vody. 18 EXcollensy Was expecting an official invitation to attend the Council, but as it nevercame he bag been obliged to coatent himeelf with the key of the gallery, and consequently he ha@@sent round tnvita- tions to his colteagues to occupy seats there—)iint- ing, however, that want of space Will necessitats the exciusion of their ladies and friends. he Senator of Rome has put forth an address to the citizens, reminding them of the solemnity of (he ceremony and ipviuag them to alow the apprecia on of it ITALY. Travelling from Florence to Naples—Tie Papnl Frovtier—Bishops and Priests by the Wayside—Roman Courtesy to Travellers Peep into the Council Chamber at Rome Foreigners on Sight-Secing—The Delights of Capua—Incident Between an Amertean and a Nenpolitan=Tho Weather ond Faslion at NaplesThe Anti-Councii. NAPLES, Dec. 6, 186% The ride by express tram from Florence to Rome, 250 miles, 1s now made in eleven hours, the Papal authorities having been, after long hesitation, in- duced to remove their veto against speedy com- munication with the excommunicated dominions of Victor Emanuel, who they absolutely refuse, how- ever, to style King of Italy. In Papal eyes te is merely King of Piedmont, excommunicated to boot. Many suppose thatthe Roman autuorities stiii in- terpose innumerable vexations and obstacles to travellers bound for the Hiernal City; but auch is no longer the case. At the present time they are show- ing unusual attentions ana marked courtesies to wayfarers, and appear anxious to give satisfaction to ali visitors to the Council, we left Florence at ten P.M., with a full train of passengers, among whom were prelates from all quarters of the earth, who are hastening forward to the throne of St. Peter; archbishops, bishops, earnest looking priests, gay curates, with their various attendauts, black gowns, fancy South American sombreros, peculiar carpet-baggers. Some travel in a princely Style, others in & more Christian way, but ail seem to be in hopeful spirits, to enjoy the best of appclites at the buffets; they have been most frequently found indulging themselves in good, square repasts by the Wayside at the hotets, restaurants and cafés. Con- Versation with many of them educed this muth, they are all prepared to receive the watchword from Rome and to act accordingly. In regard to the an- tagonism existing between the Dupanloup and Man- ning schools on the question of Papal infallibility, they unanimously agree that that is so far an out- side question, which may or may not come up before the Counctl, but that if it does 1t will be settled to the satisfaction of all the faithfal. Not one of them showed any intention or desire to express an indi Matern Opinion on taking their seat at the Council oard. Un reaching the little village of Orte, the frontier, or cordon, of Papal territory around Rome, is passed, Orte 1s Dfty miles from Rome, and the train makes a short delay at the station im order that ine Pope’s gendarmes, who are gotten up in the sprucest French style, coais adorned with ribbons, cro: and medals, may visa passports and examine bag- gage at the Custom Hous Our passports were visded gratia, and tie trunks were merely peeped mto. Kussia and Rome are the only governments keeping up tue exploded idea of passports. in time they will also give ito the age. At the same time the Roman authorities are even now very solicitous of currying favor with the travelling public by fat- tering, high-sounding notices placarded in all ile public places. As an instance of this practice | may cite the nonces put up at Orte, as weil as on tue southern frouuer lookiag toward Napies, in three different languages, calling on the pabilc to report yaty complaints tor disrespect or negligeuce that they may feel themselves justified to against the officials and employes, from whom they have a right to exact the utmost courtesy aud atiention.”’ Outbidding im poilteaess and in the artof uckling the public vanity the rougher . of the neighboring dominions, At nine o'clock in the morning ue train Teaches Koine, and here our prelate passeagers tumble out with the most unmistakable sigus of joy at having attaimed safe and sound the end of their journey. They have come trom afar and beea long in coming, but the sight of St. Pe 3 Maguilicens dome looming up has amply sufficed to cheer them aud compensate for many of the inconveniences undergone, which, to tell the truth, atier all, have not been so very heavy. Ecumeuica! Councils surely owe someting to the telegraph aad the railway. At Rome, as 80on as we left the station, the streets Wore an unusuul aspect of bustle and commotion. Foreigners everywoere, here and there, doing “the Eternal” on foot and in cab, of all nationalities; yet it was found that the hotels and apartmeats were by no means crowded, nor was it expected that they would be at any time. ‘Tne rush, or course, of the newly arrived was tor St. Peter's, to kisa the toe of the Iron statue of the Saint-Founder and to peer at the Council chamber and the vations prepa- Tations going on therein, Curtosity on this latter subject was large, but iliy repaid; for we could de- tect, after straining all our eyes, very little except the carpeted pews in the mgh! ices we the door of which was barricaded and guarded by one of the fancy gendarmes aforesaid. One old woman, with hood and specs, Was seated fiat on the floor sewing together a red carpeting over the pavement. The white chair, under the door of peace, in the side ‘Wing, Was already waiting to receive his Holiness, and seemed to be voted by the sage throng of spec- tators at the entrance to be rather a scanty throne; as In fact the whole halb, with its thrée or four make- snow galleries for the outside world, seemed to be scanty. After acursory glance at things and folks in ihe superb temple, out we go to catch a glance at the peopie “doing” the sacred and profane curiosi- ties In the other sections of the city. At the Capitol, the Forum, the Coliseum, the Vatican, we come across a goodly number of Americans and English people, the latter Murraying around as with a com~ pass and needle. The Americans were more lively, Tunning i helter-gkelter fashion, not caring for a book or @ guide, but simply taking in their iuopres- sions with the bright morning air. We were hailed in crossing the bridge over the Tiber by @ cad fuli of jolly New Yorkers, who seemed more anxious to exchange saluta- tions with thelr compatriots and to make merry generaliy than was deemed consistent with the rules and regulations which forbid stoppages on the strucuure, and hence the carriage was sternly ordered on its Way across, rejoicing, Itarried not at Rome, but have burried on down to this delightful city and into this charming climate, What @ change! from the snows of Mont Cenis to the balmy atmosphere of the Riviera di Chiatal The trip from Rome to Napies (175 miles) is made in eight hours, with the same slight delay tor passporta and customs’ examination at the southern he frontier, In the compartment of the trata in which your correspondent was seated the only other pas- Senger Was an American, Who had made it his prac- tice 6 get out at every baifet to take drinks—wine, cognac, or whatever drinkavie that might be had, the buifet being poorly supplied, He bad become lively at last, and had reached that agreeable point when he took it in his head to dub the Neapoutans, Napoleons, or more pointedly “John Nappy,” and to address them as such in the English langttage, to their great bewilderment. Reacutng the station at Capua my Amenican’s curtosity was vividly raised and he determined to take an extra potion by way of tasting at ib some of the delights of Capua,” With the effects of which he had read, he sald, tnat Hannibal was benefited. As soon aa the train,door ‘was opened @ vender of coffee and milk came about shouting in Neapolitan style his mercvandige, ‘milk, milk and coffee! serapis! cigars The American hailed him and took a cup; two o'clock in the night, everything being still, nothing audible except tha shouting of the vender, ‘The American paya the price, ome franc. He pays with two franc piece, and of course expects w receive @ franc in return cnange, ‘John Nappy” in the meanwhile makes fimself extremely busy over his tray of coals, upon which nis most outiandisn milk and coffee boilers (apparently of Pompeiian manufacture) are trying to keep warm. He gets into a stew, handles ‘a 1ew coppers tn the bottom of his basket as if ail his change waa gone, runs afew yards off as if he was going to get the change, and then rushes back to nis stock in trade, as if in de- spair, all the time shouting “Late, latte! serapis 1” ‘The American haiiooing in the interim the following words, which I might almost call Italian, ‘Press ¢ change |’) but they had not the slightest effect on “Joun Nappy,’’ who, whenever pressed too point- edly would throw in a “‘c’é tempo" (there is ume). Finally, things proceeding at this gait, the incident ‘Was ciosed by the American, who jun picked up “Nappy’s” tri brought them into the coi air, That brought the Neapolitan to terms, and he came up in the most artistic, ploturesque of bonnets and general accoutrement, with a ing yet can- ning countenance, to apologize for the delay and hand in the lacking franc. It would be whotly impossible wo describe the arch simplicity and pleasant of the air ‘With which he finally recognized that the cunning of his shop had been outwitted by Yankee shrewaness, The American responded, atways in En; to the Spologies given “that he was not going to be gone back upon in that style on his frat appearance in tne Neapolitan kingdom, having seen too much of back- woods life.” Le didn’t get over his laughter at the whole occurrence antl we got in sight of Vesuvius, ‘The weather has been rainy of late at Naples; but ite mildness yesterday (and to-day is extremely de- lightfol ac this season ol the year. Aal write the Toom, even with all the windows wide ip wi comfortably hot; the streets are filled with a motiey Wropg enjoying We delicious atwosphere; the bare headed and bare footed not being the least happy of all. There was asplendid turnout of equipages yes- terday, Sunday, along tho garden of the Riviera, and we nad some fine miliary music In the garden se araliog the roaring bay from the gayest promenade of the City, The Riviera ona Sanday drive will eom- pare favorably in point of elezance ana fashion with Centra) Park or the Bois de Boulogne. It was truly amagnifieent sight to behold, in connecuon with tie altractiona of the bay. ‘there are not many foreigners here at present, but many are expected after the opening ceremonies at Rome; the rough weather in the north will drive, it is anticipated, @ large number of tourists and winter sojourners this way. The anti-council of freethinkers, as an offset to the Eeumenical assembly, will be opened here on the 9th instant, at midday. tn she St. Ferdinando theatre, The order of the first day’s proceedings, as I aan in- formed by Count Ricclordi, wno bas convoked the assembly, will be an maugural address, a report of the Freethinking Committee and the reading of the several letters of adhesion sent in from prominent aaa ye a calling of the roll of members and visi- ra. in the subsequent sittings the middie of Ukings will be pitched into and Kome squasbed; re- ligious liberty, complete separation of Church aud State, morality versus religion, organization of a permanent committee, &c. So far the excitement over either eounct! is small on the part of the hallves: but we will ‘see what we will see,”” GREECE. #rom Constantinople te Athens—Metropolitan and National Contraste—Greek Entertain ment for TouristemAmericun Celebrities. ATHENS, Dec. 5, 1360, * After wandering through the crooked, irregular, narrow end filthy passages of Constantinople it is pleasant to WK and drive about the clean, broad streets of Athens end breathe the bright and sunny alr of Greece, To enjoy Athens vo the fuil extent one should come here from Constantinople, ‘The Turkish capital 13 the political and commercta! centre of an empire extending over a great porticn of the Continents of Europe and Asia, of an empire which comprehends within its boundaries some of the finest and richest lands in the world. ‘Turkey is supported and upheld by the moral and physical force of Weatern Europe. England, France, Italy and indirectly Austria, poured out without stint the blood of their subjects in order to secure the fabric of the Ottoman Empire from final rum, After the Crimean war money was lent im large sums to the Turkish gov- ernment by the capitalists of the West. Everything was done to put fresn blood and Hife into the be- numbed and motionless body of the “sick man.” What are the results? Not a road or asingle im. en made, In all Constantinople t or & promenade in the Enuro- pean sense of the term. Even in Pera, the European quarter, the heaviest and coarsest articles of mer- chandise are transported on the backs of men, donkeys and mules. Not a wagon is to be seen, and it may be truly said that the greatest possible amount of power is expended in obtaining the smallest possible resuits. Wath all the support which Europe is able to give her Turkey seems to be declining every day. Finances are becoming more ana more hopeless. Instead of reducing its debt the government 1s making new loans to pay the interest on old ones. Constantinople occupies the most beautiful and commodious site in the whole world, Notwithstanding this 1t wonld be diMcult to find a more filthy, disagreeable Gnd unpleasant city to live m. No one who passes in a steamer from the Black Sea tothe Marmora can help feeling sad at seeing such advantages thrown away, Itbas been of late the fashion in Western Europe to decry Greece and to dwell with as much emphasis as Domsitie on her faults and shortcomings, without saying @ word about her good qualities or taking into consideration the difficulties of her position. In writing of ‘turkey the opposite course is pursued, Laws and reforms existing on paper, but, unhappily, nowhere else, are paraded before the worid, an when after years of misrule it ia found that the country is going on from bad to worse the want of success is ascribed to Russian imtrigues. The most eloquent commentary on the state of things in ‘lurkey 1s the fact that European residents are sub- Ject, not to the authorities and tribunals of the country, but to their own consuls. If the protecting Powers had any belief in the reality of Turkish re- forms tliey would certainly show it by leaving to Turkish laws the task of protecting foreign citizens, as is the case in every country claiming to civilized, Neither France nor England would for a moment nk of abandoning her own sudjects to the justice of a Turkish court. At the samie time they pledge all their moral and material power to compel mil- luons of Christians to obey the caprice of ‘urhish omMctals and be satisiied with such government as these gentlemen may think fit to.administer, In treating of tue condition of Greece 1t is always necessary to bear in mind that at the close of the war for independence the whole country Was ruined, the cities destroyed and industry completely dis- organized. With the advent ef King Otho a Ba varian army of 6,000 men was quartered upon tte country, and served to impoverish it without per- forming any material service. Notwithstanding all these drawbacks Greece has kept continually ad- vancing. Athens, from having been a wretched Village, has become @ pleasant city, with broad, clean strects, comfortable hotels and many fine pri- vate residenccs. No man coming from Constanti- nopie can avoid making a comparison between the two cities, much in favor of Athens. Constantinople in the hands of a civilizing people might become a whole empire In itself. 1n ita pros- ent condition it 1s but @ collection of Asiatie vi interspersed with Ei oatae: palaces and barracks, Athens 1s not a rich city never will be, but with its slender means in the course of forty years it has become a pleasant residence, has organized a uni- versity having 1,000 students, a library of 100,000 volumes, weil supplied with all the important pe- riodicals of Europe. In short, the moment you en- ter Athens you feel that you are in a city of civilized peouls. Of Constantinople the contrary may be con- \depuy asserted, On arriving at Athens a few days ago I found a considerable number of Americans, among others Rey. Dr. Lyman, formerly chaplain of the American Legation at Rome; Mr, Reverdy Johnson, Jr., son of the late American Minister in London; Professor Tyler, of Amherst College. Dr. Lyman has been in- viced to preach in the Royal chapel on Sunday next. I have jnst received notice that the King will gtant me an audience to-morrow. Iam besides to have an interview with one of the abiest and best informed political men tn Greece, the results 1 shall give @ full account. Prominent Arrivals in New York City. Congressman G. W. Hotchkiss and Hiram Wal- bridge, of New York, and J. H. Livingston, of Aspin- ‘Wall, are at the Astor House. E. H. Rollins, of New Hampshire; Potter Palmer, of Chicago; J. Plummer, of Pittsburg; A. A. Ran- ney and 0. Wakelield, of Massachusetis, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Parkhurst, of Sandusky; General J. B Stewart, of Richmond, and Seiior Lodenfu, of Cuba, are at the St. Charies Hoiel. W. A. Griswold, of Philadelphia, is at the Hoffman House. Lieutenant J. P. Walker, of the United States Army; J. N. Hazard, of Rhode Island, and 8. 8. Kennedy, of London, Engiand, are at the Brevoort House, Personalitice. Napoleon II. hates poetry. There are only 100 Japanese in Caitfornia. Seven geotiemen want to be Mayor of Americus, Ga. ‘The Snitan still keeps the conventional astrologer and dwarf. A French soothsayer teils fortanes by the feet in- stead of the paim, Ex-President Fillmore has ordered a Scotch gran- ite family monument, The Auburn (N. Y,) prison contains a convict who has just had a legacy of $22,000, General Hiram Walbridge, of New York, intends making Richmond his future nome, It is understood by the quidnuncs that Senator Fowler ja bard at work on # speech with which he hopes to annihilate his colleague, Mr. Brownlow. A Boston husband, for spite, cut off the beautiful Dionde hair of his wile as sne slept, and can’t sce her now without ringing bts mother-in-law’s door bell, A Mr. Street, of Salem, Mass., is sowing Salem broadcast out West. He named the towns of Salem in Ohio, Indiana aud Jowa, and is now at it in the Territories, ‘They call the State Entomologist in Illinois “Bug- master Geperal.”’ He has collected more than thir thousand bugs, and it is feared, as well as surmi: that he intends to open a hotel in Chicago. ipoleon is giving little dinners at the Tuileries, in Paris, to which he invites ali the members of the Corpa Législauf, opposition or government. Ho doesn’t feel hurt at the many invitations refused. A San Francisco woman engaged 4 servant girl to do the work of a family of five persons. ere proved to bi average of nine, including visitora, bets the girl sued and got twenty dollars a month extra, The Lord Mayor and Sheriff of London recently expended $140,000 of their private funds to hasten the completion of the Holborn Viaduct. It would be a sight to see American officials loosening their purse strings to aid public works. Mrs, Nancy W. Nixon, a venerable lady of ninety- two years, died in Boson on Saturdey. She received & pension for her husband's services as a fifer, when @ mere jad, in the Kevolutionary army. His father, ‘& brave officer, was wounded at Bunker Hil, aa ss—s— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, Bonvay, Dec. 26, 1869. Holiday week promises to be @ very dull one in ‘Wati street if the experience of the past week be & eriterion. Naturally the end of the year, with the winding up of accounts, brings about a more con- servative tone among moneyed men. On the present occasion this duluess is assisted by the adjournment of Congress, whose proceedings are 80 closely watched by the financial community and give the cue to go many business enterprises. The money market has worked comfortably to borrowers on call, and loans on pledge of the usual collaterals Dave been freely made at six to seven per cent. There Js little or no apprehenston concerning the im- mediate future of the market, inasmuch as the pert- odicai demand for currency by the interior has been fwliy supplied and capital shows a aisposi- Won rather to begin its usual winter ac- cumulation at this centre, The thousand and ono enterprises which call. for money are in abeyance until the opening of spring. Doubtiess. In the ensuing week we shall experience some ac- lvity in the local money market, owing to the call- ing in of loans to prepare for the liguidation of the Jauuary instalment of interest by our numerous savings banks and for payment of coupons on fail- way and State bonds and like interest-bearing secu- ities. Such money, however, soon finds its way back again into bank, The stock market bas boen especially quiet, and the fluctuations were made on light transactions, the principal operators seeming to be content with small profits, for which reason they realized on smell advances, The only feature was the dispost tion which stocks manifested to out loose from gold, witn which they had closely sympathized ever since both stocks and gold had their great trouble last September. The government bond market has been alternately strong and weak. Operators for a mse were disappointed by the steadiness of the for- eign market, which, it was expected, would be strongly active after the presentation of the Cabinet reports, and especially upon the flattering exhibit of the national resources, as contained im the various documents suymitted to Congress. The @ecline in gold was also counted upon for its effect abroad, but the foreign bankers have contented themselves with brief and light ventures now and then in the gov- eriment market. There has been a steady reinvest- ment of the coupons due January 1, and which have been payable at the Su-Treasury since Friday last. In the Southern State bonds the features have been & sudden rise to 66 for the Louisiana levee sixes, which were in request on foreign account, and the firmness and activity of the South Carolinas, which rose to 8434 for the new bends upon the publication of the advertisement of the State agent in this city, oftering to pay the January coupons in gold. This notice, which appears elsewhere in our columns, is in pursuance of a law just passed by the State Le- gislavure, ordering. the fature payment of the inter- est on the public debt to be made in coin. The mer- curial Tennessees and North Carolinas were better and firm at the improvement, Foreign excharge was active under a scarcity of commercial bills and geod demand from the importers, who were remit- ting to close up the year’s business. The latest quotations were firm on the basis of 109 for prime bankers’ sixty day sterling. Commerciai paper was without important feature. Kates were a shade easier, The weekly statement of the banks excited con- siderable comment and was variously construed. The specie decreased over @ million and a half of dollars, despite the government sale of Thursday; while im legai tenders there was a loss of three hun- dred thousand dollars, in face of the disbursement of over two millions by the Treasury. The deposits, also, fell off nearly four millions, and the loans have been contracted a million and three quuriers. As the statement ts only for five days it 18 suggested that there has not been 80 even a distributién of the different Items, inasmuch as the banks lose the chances of the last day’s exchange being in their favor, Again, the payments into the Sub-Treasury for customs, combined with the specie shipments of the week, will go far to account for the accrease in specie. Taking the specie from the de- Posits woulc leave about two and a half milhons of the latter to be accounted for. This is done by con- jecturing that the withdrawal of funds to meet vari- ous payments of interest due from railway aud other corporations, together with the temporary diffusion of money among the shopkeepers for holiday goods, ‘Will fully amount to the sum in question. The effect upon the stock market was hardly perceptible, inas- much as only o few brokers stili remained on the sidewalk after the publication of the statement, aud among them it was not regarded with any apprehen- sion. It is only proper to observe that, so far as the banks are concerned it really leaves them in a bet- ter position than might at first appear. with the decrease in loans and reduction of deposits they are about in the same position as when they began the week. While tho loss in reserve is two millions’they can afford to lose one million, so that the surplus above the reserve required by law is decreased by only the latter amount, The totals of the last two statements are contrasted as follows:— 34,102,303 34,127,837 see 181,078,455 177,165,586 Legal tenders. ++ 44,812,273 44,498, 992 The changes in each item are as follows:— Decrease in loans. . $1,738,914 Decrease in specie Increase in circulation. The banks, it will be seen, hold $20,090,614 cess Of the reserve required by law. The range of the gold market during the week is shown in the following tabie of the highest and low- @st price on each day:— in ex. Lowest. 1204 ‘Tuesday . ‘ 119 Wednesday. 1203, ‘Thureday.. 12055 Frida! 120% 6 * (Christmas ihaltanys ‘The following were the latest street prices for government bonds:—United States currency sixes, 108% @ 10014; do. sixes, 1881, registered, 116 a 116; do. sixes, 1881, coupon, 119 @ 1194s; do. five-twen- ties, registered, May and November, 11144 a 112; do, five-twenties, 1862, coupon, May and November, 113% &115}¢; do, five-twentier, 1864, coupon, May and November, 112 9 112%; "do. five-twenties, 1865, coupon, May and November, 112% @ 112%; do. five- twenties, registered, January and July, 111 a 111%; do, five-twenties, 1865, coupon, January and July, 31434 @ 114%; do, five-twenties, 1867, coupon, January and July, 114% @ 118; do. five-twenties, 1868, coupon, January and July, 115 a 1154; do. ten: forties, registered, 108% @ 109; do. ten-fortiés, cou- pon, 109 a 10914. The early adjournment of the Stock xchange on Friday prevented the compietion of an official list of quotations. The following were, Lowever, the latest prices in the Long Room ana on the street, where business was desuitorily continued until the after. noon:—Canton, 48 a 49; Cumberland, 25%; 226; West- ern Union, 82% & 82%; Quicksliver, 15 a 15%; Mariposa, 8@ 854; do. preferred, 15% a 16; Pactfic Mall, 48/4 © 48%; Boston Water Power, 144 14%; Adams’ Express, 6044 a 615g; Wells-Fargo Express, 19%; Aierican Express, 88 bid; United States Rx- press, 60 bid; New York Central, consolidated, 862, @ 8744; dO. scrip, Ble & 82; Erie, 225 a 23; ao, preferred, 39'4 bid; Reading, 99% @ 100; Michigan Central, 116 @ 120; Lake Shore, 853¢ @ 85%; Illinois Central, 13144 bid; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 83 bid; Chicago and Northwestern, 6844 a 68 do. pre- ferred, 82 a 82%; Cleveland, Columbus and Cincin- nati, 7434; Rock Island, 104% & 104%; Milwaukee and St, Paul, 73 @ 734; do. preferred, 8514 a 86; To- jedo and Wabash, 52 vid; Fort Wayne, 86 bid; Ohio and Mississippi, 24 @ 245; New Jersey Central, GOK, @ 9074. NgGRO SCHOOLS AT THE SouTH.—The whole num- ber of negro schools of every description in the South is 5,454, with 9,503 teachers and 256,353 schol- ars. Of these 3,314 schools are regularly reported, ‘with 204,268 scholars, of which 192,237 were slaves. The negroes sustain wholly, or in part, 1,681; own 769 buildings themselves, and are furnishéa 772 buildings by the Bureau. In tne last year Virginia has gained 60 schools; North Carolina 83 school with 3,200 pupils; Georgia 105 schools, with 4, pls Miaaissippl 67 achools, with 2,073" pupils, and nneasee 95 eChooik, With 4,343 pupils. The other Southern States show Increase, but not so much. Alabama te beninG aly, THE COURTS. A Staten Island Quarrel—Enclosing a Por- tion of a Highway Forbidden—Tho Ramsey-Erie Litigation—That Pro- tested Note Business—The Note Already Answered. SUPREME COWRT—RICHMOND COUNTY, Proposed Enclosure of a Portion of a Highe way—Decision of Judge Gilbert, Michael N. Wiener et al. vs. The Village of New Brighton et at.—Judge Gilbert hag just rendered & decision in this important and somewnat novel case, denying the application for an injunction, which was made by the plaintiffs. The action was brought to prevent the defendants from interfering with the plaintiffs in enciosing about one-half of Arietta street, which leads from Tompkinsville landing to the Riche mond turnpike. It was claimed by H. W. Johnson, counsel for the plalntifs, that their deed from the State of the Guar antine grounds gave them the right to the wi of this street, the boundaries inclading 1t, but that they had decided to enclose a trifle less than one-~ half of 1, which would be a girip of ground fees wide and some five or six hundred feet long. ltwas also claimed that the defendants, being a part of the peoples ware estopped from questioning the plalie tiffs’ deed. ., 16 was shown by A. Rrentice, an the part of the “village, that this road was opened the width it now is more than fifty years since, and has been used and workea as a highway ever since. That it was laid out for a turnpike road 134 feet wide, by the consent of the Stave, in 1816, cutting of that Much from the southerly side of what was then the Quar- antine grounds, ‘The State having acquired its title in 1814 Lhe turnpike company abandpued its use in 1817, aud it was thrown opea as a highway tm that year and has #o continued untii this time, Iq also appeared that the State, in numerous acts of the Legislature, had recoy thie as a street, once as early as 1817. in 866. Lage lature directed the Quarantine grounds fo e veyed and @map to be made and flied in the office of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of sale, This was done, and bounded the grounds on tha south by Arietta street. ‘he Legislature subse« quentiy passed an act ark map and (i. recting certain comumssioners togell the Quarantine lands, It was done, and under this deed the plain- Ulls seek to shut up @ pertion of tus street ‘hich 1s the leading thoroughfare on the north end of the isiand, the ground Claimed being wortn some $30,000 to $50,000, The plainwifls, some months since, com. menced to set a line of posts in the sireet to enclos@ the strip claimed. ‘The trustees of the village ordered their marshal to take tuem up and to ES hibit others being»placed there, ‘he plajatits im brought this action and askea for an injuncuion prevent the trustees from iaterfering with them, which mouion Judge Girbert bas just dented. SUPREME COUAT—ALBANY COUNTY. The Ramsey-Erie Litigatlon—That Protested Note Business. The Erie Ratlway Company vs. Joseph H. Ram sey.—Tie defendant, for answer therein, . First—Admits that the plaintiffs are a corporation duly created under the laws of the Stale of New York; that on or about the 28th day of October, 1869, one M. P. Bemis made his promussory note in write ing, whereby for value received he promised to pay to the order of the defendant, sixty days thereafter, $5,000, at the Market Sayings Bank, 82 Nassau street, New York; that the defendant endorsed the gaid nod in blank; the defendant denies euch and every other allegation in the complaint. * Second—For another and further defence allegcs that the promissory note mentioned and described in the compiaint has been fuliy paid and satisfied, by or on behalf of M. P, Bemis, the maker thereof. Third—For another and turther defence this des fendant shows to the Court that on or about the 23th day of August, 1862, the maker of gaid note. procured from Jay Gould a loan of $5,000, fo be used Jor or on account Of What Was call the Cross Cut’ Railroad, and the said defendant was induced to endorse a note for the same, among others, for the reason said road would be benef to the Alpany and Susquehanna Ratiroat in increasing facilities tor bringing oil on said road to the city of Albany and its Viciuity; that on or about the 28th day of October, 1869, said note was renewed for sixty days, whic is the same note mentioned in the complaint, and that before said second note became due, as this detendant is informed and believes, said Gould pre- tended that he would make further advances for said first mentioned railroad, laying a third rail thereon, and either extend it to Buffalo or have the Buffalo and Erie Railroad pen ord lay a taird rail from Brockton to Buffalo, 80 that the Atlantic and Great Western Kallroad could have @ lo con- nection, and thereby procured himself to be elected a director aud president of said compapy, and F. A. Lane, James Fisk, Jr, L. D. Rucker and others elected directors of suid company, but said arrangement Was not carried out or consummated by said Jay Gould, and thereafter all the loans and advances made by said Jay Gould, including the Joan first aforesaid, for which sai@-note was given, were arranged and paid, and the said Gould, Fisk, Jr., Lane and Rucker ceased to be directors of sal ratlzoad company, Wherefore defendant demands judgment for bis costs. City and County of Albany, 88.:-—Josepn H. Ram- sey, the above na:ned defendant, being sworn, saya that the foregoing answer is trae to bis knowledge, eXcept as to the matters therein stated on informa. tion and belief, and as to those matters he belleves it to be true. J. H. RAMSEY, Sworn and subscribed before me, December 23, 1869.—J. SHEPARD SMirH, Commissioner of Deeds. SUPREME CouRT.—The Erie Railway, ey vs. Joseph H. Ramsey.—City ana County AL bvany, ss:—Joseph H. Ramsey, beng duly sworn, Says that hg is the defendant herein® Deponent fur- ther says it he never received notice of nonpay- ment of the promissory note on Which this action is brought, that he never received notice of protest thereo!. Sworn and subscribed before me, December 23, 1809,—J. SHEP, Sarr, Commissioner of Deeds. REAL ESTATE MATIERS. ‘The following is a summary of auction sales of Teal estate during the past week: NEW YORK LEASEHOLD PROPERTY. Wednesday, Dec. 22........scceeeseerereeee $145,000 SUBURBAN IMPROVED PROPER’ Madison, N. J., Thursday, Dec, 23 3,550 SUBURBAN UNIMPROVED East New York, Tuesday, Dec. 21.. Madison, N. J,, Thursday, Dec. 23. Total........+5 The following exhibits the totals of the different Kinds of property sold at auction during the pre- ceding week:— New York improved property.... New York unimproved property. Suburban unimproved property : . 20,215 MGM uaevercctecxtiskie «$1,236,040 Of the above amount last mentioned $1,005,000 was realized from the sale of the New York Hotel, TY. $7,500 15,750 23,260 A REMARKABLE CASE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, From the St. Joseph (Mo,) Herald, Dec. 19.) The Circuit Court of Nodoway county has been in session during the past week, Judge I. ©. Parker presiding. Most of the time was occupied in the triai of Solotnon McAlpine for the murder of John Calltcott, developing @ most singular case of cir- cumstantial evidence. In August, 1866, these two young men left Hoilyville, lowa, to come to St. Joseph to buy apptes, expecting to load their wagon here and return to Iowa to sell their fruit. Not lomg after—some few days, we belleve—McAlpine returned .to Hollyvule, told some plausible story about his partner having made other arrangements and gone on to Si. Joseph, and for some time no further notice was taken of the matter, The con- tinued absence of Calltcott, and the fact that nothing was heard from him, finaily induced the arrest of McAlpine, but on his examination nothing was elicited criminating nim and he was dia- charged. A long search for Callicott proved un- availing, and for eighteen months a profound mysa- tery enveloped the case. In March, 1868, a party of raflroad engineers sur- veying the route of the Missourt Valley Raliroad, some six miles northeast of Maryville, found skeleton of a man. An investigation ‘aroused suspicion that it was the remains of Caliicott, The authorities tn lowa were written to, and witnesses were brought down. The mother of Callicott recog- nized @ bony protuberance on the chin of the skele= ton; also, the absence of a tooth drawn on the oe he started on hia fatal trip, and his mother preserve: the tooth. It fitted the jaw of the skeleton, and a dentist testified it had been drawn from the orifi Pieges of a bine coat and several pecuilar butions. were found near the skeleton. These were recog- nized a3 resembling parts of Callicott’s dress when ms a“ home, There were three bullet holes in the skull. ‘The identification was so complete that McAlpine Was rearrested and, alter several continuances, the case came to trial last Monday. The Judge in- structed the jury that any facts or want of proof mitigating the crime from murder tn the first degree need not restruin their rendering @ verdict in the second degree, or mansiaughcer. The jury, after due deliberauon, Draught 10 @ verdict of murder tn the Recond di © Jearn that neither the pris- oner nor nis or attorneys manilest any dis- salisiaction wi Verdict, and the cage will not be appealed, a THs WRALTA OF CaLivoryiA.—From figures fa: nished by the State Comptroller, it seema that t assessment Of real and personal property in all the counties of California, for the current year, aggre- Pia eens A ne jain over the previous year Of $21,105,880. In the thirty-two agricultural and commercial counties there was a of Calg in twerity-seven, and a loss of $1,273,885 in five, leaving & net gain of $25,062,128, Of the eighteen mining counties only two show & gain, amounting to $206,206; while sixteen show a loge of $4,224,530, leaving @ net lows of $8,968,243; Gain for the Whole State as above. lucing the net i