The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1870, Page 6

8 ‘THE BON-BON BUSINESS, ‘A Second Chapter, with Decided Varia- tions from the First. Alleged Adulterations in Candy Manufacture, ‘Ferra Alba as a Substitute for Sugar—Verdi- gris, Fusel Oil, Lampblack, Lard and Subli- mate of Mercury Said to be the Other Principal Ingredients in the Great Pabulum of Sweets—Our Leading Confectioneries and Those Not Leading—A Story and a Moral. My story is candid, eneas And with a amack of swee! ids ay An enterprise ble, di erous COnBEqU Of honorable, dang q ieee q Alas! what shall Tsay, My credit now stands on wuch silppery ground! Marie Antony» Now I feed myself With most aelicious poison. Cleopatra, All fs not well, J doubt some foul play. Hamlet, The recent article in the HERALD on the “Bon-bon Business” in its revelation of the economical pro- sltvities and practices of some of our wealthy faml- Nes in their purchases of bon-bons, marrons glacées, chocolate creams and other kinds of candy, created @ curious flutter in certain circles of our metropoll- tan society. It was shown that in Wooster Breet the most expensive kinds of can- dies—those highest approved as the choicest ana daintiest—could be obtained for one-third the price paid at our leading city contectioneries; and further, that in pursuance of the penny-saving phi- Josophy so cogently enforced by that sage economist, Dr. Franklin, a large share of the patronage of this ‘Wooster street establishment came from the créme de la créme of society, although in saving the penny ‘was coupled a universal striving to save reputa- tions, as well as not to let the fact out of such pica- yune practices of plebelan economy. With the recital of the mutual dismay of two ladies from Murray All on meeting here and their mutual pledges to secrecy in the matter the story in the HeaLp ended. ‘This story Is but the beginning of the beginning of What remams to be written regarding the manu- facture of candies in ths city—the pleasing pro- logue to a sadly human drama, im which the darkest and direst passions, greed of gain and ambition 4 the splendor of wealth, at any sacrifice of me healtn and lives of others, are said to be strangely and deeply interwoven. If the subjoined state- ment if true—and it must be take as true until most clearly and positively yefuted— were ig in the manufacture of candies ip this city an amonnt of deception and villany practised ex- ceeding almost the power of finite computation and the compass of human credibtiity. The deception 14 alleged adulteration, The villany is the allegea using as adulterating material substances destructive of health and life. The statement avowilng these adulterations and explain- ing the nature of tie adulterating materials em- ployed is made by the head manufacturer at Mr, Maiilara’s estaplishment, on Broadway. WHAT MAILLARD’S HEAD MAN SAYS, “How is it,” we asked, “that the same kind of can- dies you manufacture can be made and sold so much cheaper elsewhere ?” “You refer to the piace in Wooster street, I sup- pose,” he answered, ‘where they sell candies for about one-third ous prices +” “Partly that,” we answered, ‘‘althouch almost everywhere of Broadway the prices are much dower.” «Some persons are fools enough to suppose,” he proceeded to say, ‘that the matter of prices of con- fectionery is ruled by location and rents, It is no such thing. Excepung at very few places the candy made in this city 18 most villanously adulterated. The wuduterations of cutee, wa, sugar, spices, drugs and the like are nothing to it. The nearest approach 4s in the adulteration of liquors.’” “Please explain the adulteration in candies,”’ “In Lue first*place We use a3 @ basis the bess refned sugar, and then the finest almonds, filberts, pistachio nuts, gum arabic, cherry pits and licorice. or flavoring we use vanilla, raspberry, strawberry, pineapple, and for coloring we use cocaineal for waking a red color, safMfor for yellow, for green pistachio nuts and verte vegetabie—u vegetable green used in France, the moe of making Which 18 a gecret—and other similarly prepared vegetable pro- ducts for biue, Violet aud other colors. In piace of mugar those resorung to adulteration employ terre alva, & species of cluulky earth. ‘There are tiousands of hogsheads of tus material used every year in this city. Formerly 1t was imported from Prance anu Englaud, but now tt is imported in consider able quantiues from Kentucky. It costs at present one cent and @ quurter a pound, while sugar costs fifteen cents. Like gypsum, it dries up y quick. it has # SWeet taste, and m this regard 1s a very good subsuvute for sugar; but its effect on the physical system 18 very deleterious, destroying, as it does, tne digestive organs and ouberwise affecting the health, ‘Thus arucie enters Joso almost every kind of candy, of which where are some 1,500 varieties. In lozenges aduiterations are almost universal. For instauce, thirty pounas of peppermint lozenges can be made for fourteen cents @ pound, 80 cueap are the materials employed; be- sides, the most of them beng unwWholesome, suct as serra alba, to start with, then starch, glue and glucose core and feculg. ‘Tue terra alba gives them te aj Desrance and the weight of sugar, apd the starc' and glue hold them togetner. To produce a green color vhe adulteravors use verdigris, What would cost us fifteeu douar« for coloring green would cost them only fifteen cents, The red is produced by aniline or vermidon, otberwise known as tue s#ublimate of mercury. ln candies where Ucorice 1s used ley use innitations of licorice, and to make up for the faued color use lamp- Diack, @ Ot very appeuzing substance — cer- daiuly. For vanilla they use the ‘onka bean, the injurious effecis of which to the nervous system are Worse than the worst cigars andsuquors and are almost as badas opium. ‘'o produce fa- vors of the pineapple, raspberry, neciarine, banana and Other fruits wey use Chemically prepared ex- tracts, ito Witch not a partic'e of the juice of these fruits enters, and which are only so many poisons ine troduced mito the Numan stomach.’? You are making out a severe case for the adulte- ators,” we 1verruplied. “461s impossible to make out too severe a case for them,” he rejotned, with increased e} jwost OULragevUs practices are resorted to 10 almoss every brauch of the trade to impose their worse Wan Wortiiess products on the puvitc. Take for in- wtauce marrons giacces, which we md rom alan and French nuts—tie former from Lucos veing tue vest—they make pyncipally out of sweet potatoes and tue Tonka bean. ‘Their cifbcolate creams have very dittie of genuine chi te or sugar in them, Their exterior 18 wade of cocoa shells and tuetr interior of terra alba, made with lard to make them soft and soluble on whe tongue. ‘Vhe liquor in their cordial candies is made of snsel oil. Where we use almonds Luey USE peanuts: Where we use ottar of roses and rose water they Use a mixture of geranium aud turpentine.” We will not pursue took ux through ti the conversation further. He vented rovins tn a rear build- ing, where the © for this establishment are mavutactured. ‘Te Aeftiy cunning ot man’s tn wenuity to fabricate alluring Compounds of candied sweets for the paiate is bere shown In the bighost seeming degree of perfection. ‘Tne ricaest colorings are here burmoniousiy bleuded. In getting up pleasing devices of forms ali the resources of art have beep exhausted. A perfect parterre o: Tallized sweetly is bere seen, garacn erys- and if not a slower Such aa maidens dream of when they Musy oa love, Js at least oue of surpassing beauty to the eye, and to Whose joy begotten of beauty ts added the pleasu of waste excceding the lotuest realms of iestheric ideaity. A deseription of the mode of making and painstaking requtred in the manufacture of the best class of caudy--those of the bon-bon genus, the eryataliized fruits, Fopdants, various kinds of jellies, cordials and freifpasves covered with cream— would be bighly inereating, but thi does nos come within the province of — our present article. Some are drawn out, some moulded, some stamped and some of the Oner kinas made iuto sections of two or three pieces each ang shen put together. if there ts any faith in invoices and Custom House bills and receipts it ts certain thata good quantity of the material has been 1m- ported, 1 is claimed that only the best and purest of articles are used, and that nov a single substance of a deleterious nature ts employed. THE OLDEST CONFECTIONERY IN NEW YORK. At fudiey & Oo.’s manufactory, corner of Cham bers and Warren streets, we also paid a visit, ‘Th Ja the oldest confectionery house in the city, having been estabiished ,in 156. They do an imidense trade, “Queen Victoria sends us regniarly four orders a year,” remarked w us the wentieman in charge in NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1870. the course of our conversation on the subject of the trade. “ does that prove?” we asked Ina tone of republioan hauteur, & though the fact was one of no consequence, “Prove ?” he spoke up emphatically; ‘‘we consider it proof that we make the best and purest candics in the world. “That you claim, I suppose !”” ‘We do.” am not prepared to dispute 1t.’” jo one can dispute it.” ‘But there are bogus candies made, are there not?” “Tons of it every day in this city.” At their retatt store on Fifth avenue, which we also visited, the throng of buyers does not seem to have siackened much, notwithstanding the holidays are over, The caste of trade, as of social distinction, must and will be kept up. Byron bits at the truth and reveals the principle in those familiar lines:— And if things be dear, *ris only that they love to throw away Their cash to show bow much they have a year. ‘Thus it will goon, No cheap side street places, poison or no poison, can ever command a!) the upper class patronage. ‘There are Stewarts in every trade, preaching and candy included. A CHEAP CANDY STORE. Into a dingy room in a narrow and dirty street we entered in pursuit of our inquisitorial researches in the candy business, ‘This was after the above visits, Behind a diminutive counter 0 en in shire sleeves and four women, graceless alike in figure nd dress, were selling can compact with buyers. We thought of a dog neighboring yard that keeps us awake nights by his incessant barking. It was some tim fore we could get a place at the counter and tbe attention of the larger man in shirt sleeves, whom we at once settled in our mind a8 the proprictor, “Are you the proprietor?” we asked him, to make assurance doubly sure. “Tam, sir.’? “Tow do you seil your candies ?”? “Pairty cents u pound,” “How can you afford to sell so cheap 7” “I pay very little rent.” “You sell as good candy as anybody 1’ “as good as you pay ninety cents & pound for on Broadway.”” “Sell bon-bons at thirty cents 1? Bon-bons or anything—same price for all.’’ ‘The proprietor’s statement we leave, like the state- Ments given apove, to carry ils own weight of influ. ence and credence. We bought a pound of his can- dies—for that dog. ARNAUD'S AND A STORY. The two candy stores of Arnaud are among the finest confectionery establishments in this city. His story, though not so elaborateiy given, is in sub- Stance the same as thd? of the managing man of Mr, Maillard. He hy the same outws familtarity with the bogus aud deleterious ingredients alleged “the candy manufacturers proclaims him- is own candies. A iiner looking sssortment of candies 1s certainly to be seen nownsre. He nad read the articies in the HERALD on the ‘von bon business.’? “The story Of the two fashionable ladies from Murray Hill meeting one another at the Wooster street placeatused me highiy,” he said, “but I can tell one I taink a little better.!? “Shall te glad to hear it,” we remarked. “Que of the wealthiest ladies on Fifth avenue,” he went opto say, ‘bought, several days since, a few candies Of me; she asked for some of my laced paper, bavil name stamped tn the centre, used to corer boi after being sold and placed ina box, I thought nothing of it, and gave her some. | afte'wards learned, and know it to be a fact, that she bought some boxes of candies at the Wooster street place and placed my laced stamp paper over tuem lo give out the idea that she had bougnt the candies here,” “What did you do about it?” “1 sent the lady word that I didn’t like her way of using my laces.” “*What did sne say?” “Havn’t heard from her, and don’t expect to. I know I have lost her custom, bus I don’t care to keep such customers. I don’t want any poisonous candies palined off for mine, She ts a bigger fam- bug and quite as dangerous as the biggest humbug candy dealer in the city.’” And here ends the second chapter tn the bon-bon business. The following letter on the subject, coming as it does trom one of the dealers, will be interesting: — To THE Eprror or THe HERALD:— In your issue of the 24th ult., under the title of the “Bon-bon Business,” | have observed a detailed ac- count of the cheap candy and bon-bon business as known to your reporter and the public generally, and as you have given that articie space in your columns ana he has seen fit to mention my estab- lishment in his article, which he terms “A candid statement of the candy controversy,”’ I trust you wl, = justice to the public and myself, insert tus in reply. ‘The aduiteration of candies in New York has of late become truly alarming, and in order to produce cheap goods manufacturers wre adulterating with various poisonous extracts and substances which are without exception seriously imjurious to the consumer; in fact, many children are, it 1 thought, annually sacrified by these datnty mor- sels of poison given to them innocently enough by their parenss, little dreaming of the consequences. ‘Terra alba (white earth) is extensively used for adul- teration in the place of sugar. Lozenges are actuaily produced by these cheap dealers at from two to five cents per pound less than cost of sugar per pound by the barrel. Glue is used instead or gum arabic in the manufacture of guin drops, the former costing @ few cents per pound, the lawer about forty cents. Verdigris, Tonka beans, Paris green, chrome yellow, Berlin bine, aniline and sublimate of mercury are all used, nearly all of which are deadly poison and all injurious to the system, ‘The common method of favoring candies in order w produce them at so great a difference can be illustrated very readily. Poisons are cheaper than genuine extracts, frult juices and harmiess colorings. Terra alba, or white earth, is about one cent and a quarter per pound, while good sugar is worth by the barrel about fifteen cents, It is no wonder, therefore, that Wooster street dealers can place their goods at so great a discount. ‘ake, for instance, the cheap method of Mavorlug candied almonds, sugar plums, &c. The pineapple, banana, peach, — nectarine and pear flavors are made. from fusel oil, which is very poisonous. Bitter almond Mayor 18 made from prussic acid, unadulterated. Pmeapple flavor is obtained irom rotten cheese (very rotten) and nitric acid. From some of these Truils, as the banana, peach, &c., it is unpossibie to make extracls, a3 the juices have no flavor in them- selves; yet many candies are made with these flavors. Cheap candies, when tested by @ process. known only by a Jew large manutacturers, exhibit poison in a very large degree. Should these things continue it whl ‘fail ike a bombshell om Murray Hill,” and, in fact, everywhere, aud the vagabends who manufac- ture these sweet morsels at reduced prices will meet with a proper reward, but not, we are afraid, until they have sown their poisons broadcast and created dissolution in many households by the intro- daction of poison and deleterious matters in their candies, In order to produce it cheap, to compete with dealers who Nave neither the heart nor con- science to swindie and poison the public, Yours, truly, H. MALLLARD, 619 and 621 Broadway. THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. ‘ fs A Fuss Among the FogiosA Bombsiell {nto Their Quiet Camp—“Unprecedented Things” Made Matters of Precedent. % For the first time in the history of this rather ancient society a noise has been made at one of their usually unimportant stated meetings, and‘ un- precedented things’? made matters of precedent, to the delight of the disaifected, who felt that some revolution in the manner of the administration of its business was necessary. ‘To enter the first wedge they attended last night's meeting, convened to elect & certain number of members, who in turn nominate the list of ofMcers regu- larly bailoted for in February of each year. As usual, the leaders endeavored to “jump” the whole proceedings through, as they have done for years, but they of the reform school would not have it in that wise, and instead of an miormai meeting in which @ caucus, packed, cut and dried, and conducted in an indecent, shameful manner, ag Dr. Rick characterized the method, to “run men into office in this institute,” in one of his speeches, tne whole aifair was decided in open meeting and the “go-bys’’ of years had a show. ‘The following resolution, offered by H. L. Stuart, was the bombshell Into the Loasiliferous camp:— Resolved, That the institute in this, a formal meeting, pro- ceed to nominaie a committee of fitteen to prepare and pre- rent a list of candidates for office the ensuing year, and that such committee shall repurt to an adjourned meeting to be held (wo weeks heuce, abd that no member nominate but one perwon each, Instantly forty members were on their feet at once, aud Horace Greeley, the president, became perceptr- bly ruled 14 bis endeavor to deal with so wide a proposition, White-haired men became excited; oid men and fat nen frantically uttered objections, and some young men, it is regretfully added, in- dulged in personalives unbecoming and disgraceful. But it was of littie use to arrest and try to squelch the resolution: it had too many friends, and te elo- quent and forcibie speech of 1s mover carried whe day amid au excitement that never before disturbed the old fogyish, namby- pauby, gentiy-operating board of managera of this assoctation, Atter the resoluuon had been the foliowing gentlemen to perform the y above referred to were eiected:—N. U, Ely, General Hall, E, Walker, T. A. Bassett, Dr. Rich, — kmery, Dr. Preterre, Norman Ward, R. S, Shannon, Thowas M. Adriance, ‘Thomas {. Disturnell, Lanson Nash, Charies 5. Bird, dM. L. Stuart, P. H. Vander- weyde, ‘the meeting then adjourned—the revolutionizers happy in the success of their project, while the “old boys” Were evidently disconsoluce and badly disap- | Poluted, “Chere 1s musie am the wr.” j THE “SPIRIT’'=""TURF”” LIBEL CASE, | One of the Detendants Builed. | Mr, Sanders DP. Bruce, one of the defendants | in the libel case of Mr. George Wilkes, ap- j>rirea veiore Judge Dowlmg yesterday after- noon, He watved an examination and was held to answer at the General Sessions in $1,000 ball, In bis formal examination he said he was forty-four years of age, was born in Kentucky and resided at No. 338 Saat Fifty-seventh street, and was by occupation an editor. r. Otis M. Catier, of No. 161 Lexington avenue, became bail. Mr. J. ©, Simpson does not reside in the city, and was not able to answer the Inagisteria) sumpions. THE COURTS. Proceedings in the Law Courts Yesterday, Admiralty Court Business—The Bowne Es- tate Controversy—Action Against a Railway Company—Result of a Rise in Stocks—A Stabbing Affray—Sentences, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN ADMIRALTY. How Business Is Retarded. Before Judge Blatchford, ‘There are @ good number of causes on the perma- nent calendar of tms court; and on Tuesday last Judge Blatchford, according to the order laid down for the transaction of business, opened the court for the trial of admiralty cases. The calendar for that day being called and no cases being ready for hear- ing the court was compelled to adjourn. On Wed- nesday the cases set down for that day were called i their order, and the usual response in the in- stances where counsel thought proper to be in attendance, was given—“not ready.” Yes terday Judge Blatchford called the calendar for the day, with the like resalt—no response, or the cry “not ready.” In this way no less than twenty-five causes were called on, in none of which were counsel on either side prepared to go on. ‘This is the Way in which the courts are hampered with business, 1endering it almost impossible at times to appoint days for the trial of these passed cases. SUPREME COURT—GENERAL TERM, Action Against the Second Avenue Raiirond Company—The Propriety of Sending Books toa Jury. Before Judges Ingraham, Barnard and Brady. John Schappner, Respondent, vs. The Second Ave- nue Rallroad Company, Appellant.—The action was brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintit! through the negligence of the defendants. It appeared that in November, 1864, the plaintuf was walking along Chatham street, and was crossing the New Bowery at the Junction of Oliver street und Chatham square, when one of the railroad cars belonging to defendants was driven over him, breaking both his legs. The defence was a general denial of the allegations contained in the complaint. ‘The cause was tried before a jury and a verdict for $6,000 returned in favor of the plaintiff. A may trial was subsequenuly applied for, but de- nied. ‘The case now came up before the General Term on appeal trom the previous decision, the principal point raised by the appellant being that upon the trial the jury retired, and upon resuming their seats before the rendering of the verdict counsel for the defendant objected to receiving it on the ground that while in their jury room they had sent out for some book, that nad been sent to them by the Court with- out the consent of either party in the case. The Court now reserved its decision. A Rise in Stocks—Question of Chattel Mort wage. J. B. Woxtworth vs. Thomas Morris.—This case came up on a motion fora Dew trial. It appeared that the plaintut went to the defenaans and requested @ loan of $250, offering as security 1,000 shares of the Hudson Slate Company. Morris re. fused to take the security, but purchased the snares for the amount mentioned, agreeing that if Wood- worth returned the money within tea days he would give him back his shares. Woodworth returned in eleven days with the $250, but Morris refused to give him the shares, which in the meantime nad risen in value, He then instituted an action to recover the increased value of the shares since the tme they had been handed over to Morris, who claimed that the shares were merely chattel mort- gage. The jury found a verdict for the defendant, Gnd the piaintiif now applied for a new trial. by SUPREME COURT—SHAMBERS, The Bowne Estate=A Complicated Litiga- tion—-Motion to Continue a Receiver. Before Judge Cardozo. Elizabeth’ R, Bowne vs, Peter Leveridge and Her- manns B, Duryea, Executors, and others—This case came upon @ motion to continue the receiver appointed on an ex parte motion. It appeared that Samuel Bowne died, leaving property to his son, Gilbert W. Bowne, amounting to over a million of dollars; to the plaintlit, bis mece, $100,008 and to his two nephews over $100,000 each, In 1853 Gilbert W. Bowne died, and in his will left the residue of his property to Hermanns B. Duryea, Jolin Leveridge and ‘T. Cumbergon, having made provision for his widow, a8 executors, with instructions to have the property so divided that no inequality should exist between the snare of the miece and the nepnews. The property was to be held in trust tiil the niece came of age and then to be divided. If e:ther of the nephews or the niece died before she arrived at twenty-one years of age, that share was to be divided among the others. Before Gilbert Bowne’s death one of his nephews died. The will was proved in 1863, and in 1854 the executors passed their accounts, showing the amount m hand. Shortly alterwards they petitioned the Supreme Court for compensation for their japors-as trustees, and the Court allowed them one per cent on the value of the estate for past services and one- half per cent on the value of the estate and the income annually for the ruture. Jn the year 1866 the plaintiff came of age, and being m iil health proceeded vo Cuba, giving power of atiorney to a Mr. Binnse. On her reiurn she found that a suit had been com- menced and the property im the hands of the execu- tors, and that Hermanns B. Duryea had succeeded to bis deceased son’s share of the property. Piain- tiff claimed that although she assented to a division, she did so through fraudulent representations as to the value and partly by the suppression of certain facta relating to the property. Under the agree- ment to this division a judgmeat was taken in asuit in December, 1867. A suit, however, was in- stituted to have the agreement and division of the property set aside as fraudulent, and that the judg- ment be opened, that the trustees be compelled to account and that a new division be made. Mr. James M. Sweeny was appointed temporary receiver, and the mouon Now mude was to continue the set- eacae ‘The deiendants deny all the allegations of raud. The arguments in the motion will be continued, SUPERIOR” COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Alleged False Imprisonment. Betore Judge Barbour. Patrick Radicaré vs. John Doe.—The defendant John Doe was arrested and held to bail in $1,000 for an alleged attack on the plainuif, The complainant states that on the 24th of December last plaintiff was om board the ship Dr. Barth, lying oif Bedloe’s Island, and was by some persons to him unknown severely beaten and thrown overboard, and that but for the timely assistance of a passing boatman he would have been drowned. The case came up on a motion to vacate the order of arrest. Several am- davits were read in support of the motion, but fur- ther hearing was postponed until other testimony coald be procured. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—GENERAL TERM, Mutual Pleasure Club Suing for’ tho Nou-Fulfillment of a Contract. Before Judges Daly, Loew and Van Brunt, Win. McMahon et al, vs George Roahr.—This case was first tried in the Marine Court and juagment Tendered against the defendant, who now appeals to the General Term of this court to obtain a rever- gal of the juagment. ‘The facts of the case are these:—The plaintiffs are Members of the Mutual Pleasure Club, They gave wn order to defendant to build them 4 pleasure boat, With directions to have it property fitted up and o: good sailing powers, paying him §260 in advance, Roabr having built the boat, he and the members of the ciub went on an excursion down the bay. During the trial the Mutuais became convinced that their contract had not been fuifidled, the boat being lobsided and a very slow sailer. They expressed to Roahr their dissatisfaction aud he offered to build them another boat in better style, to be delivered 1a @ specified time, but the time being up and uo boat being delivered to them they deternriaed to bring suit against Mr. Roahr for the $250 advanced fi and another $260 paid on the launching of toe con- demned boat. ‘he defendant asks for a nonsuit on the ground that he is only responsibte to the Mutual Pleasure Ciud, and not to the plaintiifs, who are only individ- ual members, afd also claims that he bas mifilied his contract, inasmuch as he was to have received a model and insiructions for building tne second boat, which he says he has not recetyed, The Court, after listening to vhe arguments of counsel, Wok We papers, reserving its decision, The Trial by Jnry in Civil District Courts. Betore a Full Benca. Alexander Ranson Charles 8. Nuvell.—This action Was Drought in a civil court by the plaintily to recover a debt from the defendant, At the jotpin, of the issue defendant’s counsel demanded a jury trial by twelve men. Subsequent to tiis, in a case in point which was appealed to the General Term of this court, 1% was decited that jury of wix was a legal jury in a Civil District Court, Subsequentiy to this decision the Legisia- ture passed am acc by which parties so desiring could nave @ jury of twelve by the payment of an additional fee. ‘The trial in the case new before this court was had by @ jury of twelve, before the pas- sage of this act, and judgment rendered against de- fendant, who now claims that the trial and judg- ment were tliegal. ‘The Ggyuera! Ferm berenpon holds now that by submitting to @ trial by a common law jury, without objection, the defendant waived the irregularity, udgment aMrmed. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. A Suloop Keeper Stabbed tn Third Avenue The Youthful Offender Sent to the Peni- tentlary. Before Gunning 8. Bedford, Jr., City Judge. Assistant District Attorneys Fellows and Blunt appeared for the prosecution yesterday. SENTENCED FOR GRAND LARCENY. ‘The first case disposed of was an indictment for grand larceny against a young German named Christian Schmidt, who, on the 14th of December, stole @ watch valued at forty-five dollars, the pro- perty of Julius Bartus. He pleaded guilty and was neat to the State Prison for two years. PBITY LARCENY CASE. James W. Hayes, allas Campbell, pleaded guilty to petty larceny irom the person, the 16th of De- cember he stole a watch worth twenty-five dollars from Captain Dickson, of the Eleventa precinct, Jndge Bedford sentenced him to the Penitenuary for ‘one year and ordered him to pay a fine of $100. SENT TO THB RBFORMATORY. Emilio Jarvose, a little colored boy, who stole, on the 14th of December, two rings, valued at fifty doi- lars, the property of Vicenta Boudat, was sent o the Cathohe Reformatory. A FELONIOUS ASSAULT CASE, James Keliy, who was jointly indicted with Jobo H. Brown, charged with committiog a felonious as- wault, Was placed on trial. The complainant, Lewis Bramson, Who keeps a restaurant and jiquor saloon corner of Fourteenth street and Third avenue, testi- fied that early on Sunday morning, the Sth of De- cember, Kelly aud Brown entered the saloon and had drinks, which amounted to twenty-live cents; that Brown tendered fifteen cents in payment, which the barkeeper refused to take; that Brown used very abusive language and refused to leave the place, whereupon the proprietor struck him, and he fell into the arms of a walter, At this tme the prisoner Kelly had Bramson around the waist, and when he reached over him to strike Brown he felt something in is side. He subsequently discovered that he was stabbed in the side, A walter in the place saw Kelly make @ motion at the time that Bramson felt something 10 his side. About fourteen hours after Kelly was arrested, and had a large knife upon his person. The physician who attended Bramson and probed the wound gave 10 as his opmion that it could have been inflicted with such an instrument, Kelly, who was quite young, proved an excellent character by fis employer. ‘The jury rendered a verdict of guilty of an assault with a dangerous weapon With intent to do bodily harm. Judge Bedford, in passing sentence, said that it was seldom that a young man convicted of such & crime as the jury had found him guilty of was able w prove such an ireproacnable character, His Honor added—When nardened offenders come before me I shall always mete out the severest penalty known to the law; but wien young men of your antecedents are convicted and 1am satisded that it is their first offence, and they prove mitigat- ing circumstances, leniency will be shown. | snall not brand you 48 a felon, but will send you to tie Penitentiary tor two years. ‘The following is the calendar for to-day:—The People vs. Mott Bedell, obtaining goods by false pre- tences; Same vg. Thomas J. Radclitt, gas larceny; Same vs, George Newcomb, grand larceny; Same vs. Charles Olsen, larceny from person; Same vs. Annie Miller and Dora Meyer, grand larceny; Same va. John O'Neil, grand jarceny; Same ve. James Vroons, larceny; Same vs. Peter Treadwell, Edward ‘Treadwell and James Vroons, larceny; Same vs. Thomas Murphy, assault and battery; Same vs. George Brenkenfelter, assault and batiery. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. SurreMeE CourT—GENERAL TERM.—Before Judges Ingraham, Barnard and brady.—Court opeus at lail- past ten A. M.—Nos. 21, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 45, 54, 56, 66, 57, 68, 69, 6, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 9. Supreme Court—CaamBers.—Held by Judge Car- Call of calendar, twelve M.—Nos, 22, 30, 34, 38, 61, 60, Tl, 72, 7%, 82, 100, 104, 140, 115, 121, 122, 143, 131, 136, 165, 169, , 171, 172, 178, 178, 186, 212, 213, 115, 216, 217. Marine Court—TniaL TeRM.—Part 1.—Before Judge Gross. Call of calendar, ten A, M.—Nos. 4500, 4716, 4798, 4799, 4800, 4301, 4502, 4803, 4304, 4805, 4606, 4807, 4808, 4809, 4810, Part 2 fore Judge Curtis, Nos, 4438, 4556, 4561, 4600, 47: 4728, 4737, 4752, 4911, 4812, 4813, 4814, 4815, 4816, 4818, 4819, 4820, MORE POLICE MYSTERIES. ‘Amateur Detectives” Alleged to he Victisnized by the Police—The Life of “Soiled Doves” and Their Blackmailers. The At the Special Sessions yesterday, before Judges Dowling and Bixby, the case of the ‘amateur de- tectives,”” Dennis Shea and Thomas Murray, charged with an assault and battery upon a “soiled dove,’’ named Addie King, was brought before the Court. Shea said be was a butcher and kept @ shop at 234 Elizabeth street. Mr. Howe defended, and the evidence for the ae- fence is to be neard this morning, a special day having been fixed by the Court for it, The defence is expected to disclose matters which will show that these defendants are victims, instead of criminals, Addie King, a young lady with the blonde kind of attractions and residing in contiguity to the well known ffouston street saloon, took the stand and said she was in Houston street after midnight of ‘Tuesday night, she thought avout two in the morn- ing, when she was accosted by Shea, one of the above defendants. Addie said:—“He came up to me and ulled me about, laid hold of my arm and bruised it; he sald that he was an officer and he must take me to the station, but that if I woula give him tnree dol- lars he would not take me in; { told him that I baa not got any money or else I would give it to him; the other ‘said, “Run her in;” we then went towards Headquarters and on the way he wanted to come home with me; he did go as far as the stoop of the house with me.’? Cross-examined by Mr. Howe—I never saw officer Twyford before we two wen knocked Twytord down. Mr. Howe—Now, Addic, do you mean to swear before this court that you had not seen officer Twy- ford before this night and that you did not know him before? Addie—I do. Mr. Howe—Well, there are many things surprising in this world, and this ts one of them. Now, Addie, don’t you know that he is on post In Houston street, and have you not scen him there? Addie—No, Ihave not. Mr. Howe—Had he not been with you that very ht at your house ? ; ddie (with emphasis)—No, sir; he had not. Mr. Howe—Have policemen never asked you for ; Tam not such @ fool as that, prostituve my body to pay ollicers. By the Court—I did not make any proposal to this man to take him home with me instead of payiog him the money; but I did say that if I nud the money I would have given it to nim. Jennie May, also one of the frailty, boarding at the game house as the previous witness, a young and fascinating brunette, fashionably attired in winter costume, gave evidence confirmatory of ,that given by the previous witness. ‘The following was the substance of the cross-ex- amination:— Mr. Howe—Yon know me, Jennie? Jennie—Yes, sir, | do, Mr. Howe—Well, do you know Twyford, the police I don’t omeer? Jennie—I never saw him before unth this afair happened. Mr. Howe—Will you swear he had not heen at your house that night? Jeunie—I will. Mr. Howe then called Twyford, and he took nis Place near the stand. Mr. Howe—Now, Jennie, look at that man and tell me if you ever saw him before until you saw him in tuis aifair. Jennie—I did not, sir. Mr. Howe (with a strug of nis broad shoulders)— i Jennie. ‘Ywyford said that he saw the occurrence as given above; ne was not either atthe ‘front,’ belund or “aside” of the giris, put was some paces off; he was in ettizen’s clothes, as he was ‘in reserve” that night; he heard the men say they were detectives and he followed them; they atl went to Headquarters. Shea, one of the defendants, and whom the giris nad ideniltied as the one who asked for the three dollars, said he had been to a theatre and had been drink. ing @ little; he at Some Jength then gave particulars of how he Had spent the night, and said that he was yilolently pushed against on the sidewaik by Addie King; that he remonst ted with her, and she used flithy and abusive lan- guage tolim. He then looked round for an oficer, aud not seeing one ite said, “+l guess 1 can arrest you myself,” and he took the girls to the headquarters, but before he went up the steps the girl fainted in jus arms, and he aid not want to take the girlin that condition there, and so he held her, Twyiord then came up and the charge was made against him and Marray. He should be able to snow that what he said wus true, and that morning he bad seen girls who coutd prove If. Mr. Howe—We can show the court that this officer was at these girts’ house that mght. The witnesses re not here, though they were told to come, but 1b Js too late now L suppose. Judge Dowling—No, 1% is nos, sir. If you can sub- stantiate that statement it wil aftect the disposinon of this case. Mr. Howe—We have not the witnesses here. Judge—No, but they can be got here, and they shall come i it takes ail the police force of this city. It 1s’a very serlous charge, and I will adjourn the hearing untii to-morrow (Friday), at ten o'clock io the morning, when all the witnesses must be in at- tendasce. You can bave any subponas you may re- quire, Mr. Howe, and any force that 18 necessary for them to be properly served. Mr. Howe—Jhank you, sir, Tam much obliged for the assistance the Court nas rendered to these lwo men, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, OPENING MEETING OF 1870. The Great Recommenders in Council—Har- bor Encroachments—The Laws They Favor to be Adopted—The Postal: Tél- egraph Idea Scouted—Tho Silk Man- ufacturing Interest—British Capl- — tal in American Securities— Address of David Chad- as wick, M. P, The venerable coterie entitled the Chamber of Commerce of the city of New York assembled yesterday afternoon in stated session at their rooms, corner of Nassau and Cedar streets. Mr. Wilham E. Dodge, President, occupied the chair, “and, for @ wonder, there was a quorum of the fossils present at the nour for opening the meeting. After the disposition of the ordinary business Messrs. Gustavus A. Brett and Thomas J. Daly were duly elected members of the Chamber. Mr. R. P. Buck, from the special committee on the bill proposed in the United States Senate in regard to encroachments on the harbors, reported. The com- mittee regretted that they had not had time to set for- ward the arguments in favor of the passage of the law. He referred to the fact that a corporation in @ neighboring State was already making encroach- ments on the harbor, and such as would retard the flow of the tide and lead ultimately to the de- struction of the harbor of New York. The report stated that the corporation alluded to was filling in space about four miles long and half a mile wide ‘on the westerly shore of the Hudson river. ‘The ¢om- mittee approved of the bill as amended by Senator Morgan and recommended its immediate passage by Congress, Mr. Buck then read the bill, which re- commends as followsa:—That the President appoint @ board of harbor commissioners—five to be taken from civil life, with the Chief of Engineers of the War Department, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department and the Chiet of the United States Coast Survey as ex officio members—to be under the control of the War Department—the board to determine the boundaries of barbors—the Innits beyond which no encroachment shall be made ‘Without special authority from Congress. Any work which this board shail regard as encroaching on any of the navigable waters of any harvor may be stop- ped by an order of the board until and unless autho- rized by Congress. Other provisions are made, but are of no general importance. A motion was made to adopt the report, where- upon Mr. A, P. HIGGINS rose and stated that he appeared in benalf of a “great mass” of his friends, who lived on the route of the New Jersey Central road, against which road he thought the committee had anunadverted in their report, He thought the matter sbouid be referred back to the committee, especially as they stated that they bad not had time to prepare the report as carefully as they would wish, He then presenied a map of the ‘improve- menis” being made and proposea bo be made by the New Jersey Central Rauroad. Mr. DopGe (baving resigned the chatr to Vice Presi- dent Opdyke) opposed the adoption of the report, masmuch as he thought the allusion to the New Jersey Central unjust. He explained at length the “magniiceat Lmprovemenis” tnat that corpo- ration ttended to make, and he thought ‘hat they were such as would materially aid instead of interfering with the navigation, He objected to the plan of the proposed bill of Senator Morgan, on the ground that the experienced men were made only ex oficio members of the board, while five civilians, who might know nothing about the subjects entrusted to them, would have power to stop any Work they may see fit to object to, The debate then became somewhat general, and ‘Was participated in by Messrs. Conkling, Dow, Buck, Higgins and Low. ‘The latter gentleman was strongly in favor of the adoption of the report and the passage of the jaw. He thougdt that as the bill was intended to provide against encroacamenis on any of the harbors of tue country the five commis stoners would be selected from the country at large. The question of referring the report back to the committee was lost, and the motion to adopt was carried. ‘The SECRETARY (Mr. Wilson) then read a commu- cation trom Mr. Paine, member of Congress, in rela- uon to a bill introduced by him tn Congress author- izing and requiring the Secretary of War to provide tor taking the necessary METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS at the military stations in the interior of the Conti- nent, and for giving notice on the inland lakes aud Atiantic coast, by means of the electric welegrapn, of the approach and force of storms, On motion sf neca committee of three was ap- pointed to consider the matter. fhe President suv- juently appointed Messre, Dow, Jones and Maury such comuittee. THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH, or rather the resolution adopted by the Board of Trade of Newark, requesting-Congress to pass a bill estaplishing lines of telegraph in the States and Ter- ritories, to be operated by tue government, in con- nection with the Post Oifice Department, was read by the Secretary aéa communication trom the Board of Trade of Newark. This seemea rather uncon- genia to the fossils who were present, one of whom, without rising trom his seat,-said in the most deci sive tone he could command, ‘Lay it on the tabi Another member of “some” political notoriety stood up and inserting his haads iu his pantaloons pockets and then swinging his head from #ide to side, moved “to refer it to # committee, With instructions: to re- ports year hence.” “If they like,” was added sotio voce by another of the high oid law makers, The motion “to lay on the table? was adopted. Mr. David Chadwick, M. P., from London, Eng- land, Was then introduced to the Chamber by the President. Mr. CHADWICK proceeded to address the gentie- men present in regard to THE SILK MANUFACTURING INTEREST. He referred to the report of 1863, bv Mr. Vapron, Commissioner of Agriculture in tue United States, im which, he said, he found most complete and inte- resting details of the silk culture. Me statea that the value of raw silk now manufactured exceeds $200,000,000 annually;'that before the war, im 1859, the United States had purchased $27,000,000 worth of French silks, and that the value of the silk now Inanuluctured at Paterson and elsewhere in this country was from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 per annum. He referred to the easy and agreeable task of cultivating tne silkworm in any country where the muiberry tree flourished, and stated that Cali- fornia possessed all the requisites for becoming the greatest and richest silk producing market in the world, Besides, its proximity io China and Japan would permit of the ready importation of laborers skilled in the culture of the silkworm and the making of silk. He stated that owing tothe disease 1g the silkworm-arising in, great part from the fact that the worm had not beer properly tended, and also owing to the internecine wars in China and Japan—the price of sik has increased fully 100 per cent within afew years. He referred to the work done by the silk Supply Association of Engiand, and recommended the establisament of a similar association in this country or the appointment of a committee by the Chamber of Commerce of New York to take charge of the matter. He stated that sik could be produced in apy country regardless almost of ratiroads or modes of travel, as the commodity was so valuable it would pay to carry it He said the silk could be made up"iuto cocoons, sometuing like bales of cotton, and transported from Calliornia to Paterson or Mac- clesfield or Coventry, or any part of the world, with- out damaging # fiure. He referred to the careless and inferior manner in which the raw material was now shipped, and said that by @ little proper care it could be remedied. He concluded by stating briefly the facts that California 1s peculiarly adapted tor the Cultivation of silk; that the cultivation is cleanly, agreeable and profitable; that twenty times the area in which suk is now produced could be made valu- able by the cultivation of the worm and the maou- facture of silk; that while in China they have three crops per annum they could in Callformia produce silk the whole year round. At the conclusion of his address Mr. Chadwick was heartily appiauded, and tien, on invitation by the President, he gave suine interesting hints Wi ve. gard to the investment of BRITISH CAPITAL IN AMERICAN SECURITIES, and the cause wich led to the depreciation of American ratiway bonds in Europe. He came over here, he sald, representing some $30,000,000 now invested by English capitalists in American railway securities. From these, be said, it was found dim- cult to collect any revenue. A great deat of it had beeu invesied tn bonds for seven years, and 10 some cases there had been no returns for three years. He stated that the presence of this great evil—no re- turns of mterest or principal—the want ot concur- rent jurisdiction among the jud; aud tne whole- sale distribution of ijunctions have created a great deal of distrust in Europe, and unt the law 16 altered the caplialists Will Dot invest in American securities, From the effect of the juri- cary movements m New York, and tue proceedings in the Supreme Court of the State or New York, the consequence 13 that every American security has depreciated. Toe stock of our European railroad, which pays four and a half per cent, will sell at par in London, while and Awerican ratiway can oniy seil for par whe aying seven per cent. He suggested that go G on Should be taken by the Chaiabver of Commerce, outside of politics, to have a law passed by which ratiroad corporations whose lines traverse two or more States or Territories should have power to sue and besued in the federal and not in the State cpuris, He intimated that bad such grievances a8 those of which the capitalisia whom he represented compiained been perpetrated in bia country, or mm any town or borough of his country, there would have been found a complete remedy. At the conclusion of his remarks a vote of thauks | was tendered Mr, Chadwick, after which the Cham- ber, on mafien. adinnrnad EUROPE. THE ISRAELITE EXODUS TO AMERICA, Erie Railroad Shares and Shareholders in London, en ‘Yhe Cunard mail steamship Java, Captain Cook, which left Liverpool on the 25th and Queenstown om the 26th of December, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon, landing our special correspondence. and mail report in detail of cable telegrams dated to her day of satiing from England. . Several hundred Jewisir families will in the spring be sent to America by the Central Committee of the Alliance Israelite at Konigsberg. The sub-commit- tees on, the Russo-Prussian frontier will soon be im working order too, ‘The Roumain government has sent to the different courts letters notifying the marriage of Prince Charles with the Princess Elizabeth de Wied. The journals of Milan publish accounts of a fearfal crime at Ballabia, A resident, named Santino Gorettl was seated at home, with his sli ter Maddalena and bis niece Carolina, when five or six individuals rushed into the house, pouiarded the man, who fell dead at their feet, and wounded the young girl; the woman Maddalena was spared off promising secrecy. The murderers ransacked the house and carried off @ sum of about 7,000f, A great landslip has taken place on Maesygelly Farm, in Radnorshire, Waies, ‘The mass of earth which fell was of enormous proportions, and did not become stationary until it nad travelled nearly half a mile, when it rested within a tew yards of the Aberystwith mail road, ENGLAND. The Erie Railroad Shares—Action of the Sharcholders. {From the London Herald (city article), Dec. 25.) ‘the Erte shareaoiders in London have formed a committee, cluding Messrs, Bischoffsheim, Heath, Raphael and others, with a view of teating their position before the Supreme Court of America, A sSabscription of one siuling pershare 19 to be made to carry out the proceedings, and it is pro} thas no bonds shall be dealt in on tne Stock Exchange without the impressed stamp of the committee. ‘This will have the etfect of luniting the transactions to securities that may be recognised, and prevent the importation of fresh bouds from New York, Which are manufactured according to the wishes of the directors and sent here for sale. However well intentioned the arrangement of this committee may be we are airaid Messrs. Fisk, Gould and Co. will get up some manoeuvre that will circumvent the pian. The great sufeeuard of the public will pe to avoid any dealing in Erie shares whatever. Also let operators discourage any transactions in Atlan- tic and Great Western bonds and debentures. They have already suffered enough; let them, with the commencement of the new year, seek other securi- ties, either for speculation or investment, and re- fuse to recognize tranaatlanuc bonds and shares as jnuch as possible, ‘this will be the surest way to bring the New York people to their senses, despite the voastings of Wall street gamblers and parties who do nol take the least mterest in the develop- ment of legitimate enterprise, e [From the London Times (city article), Dec. 25.) ‘The offices of the committee are at 60 Threadneedle. Street. ‘The momentous question will now be decided whether foreign investors in American undertakings are liabie to find their property seized without so much chance of redress as would be afforded even in countries infested by brigands, but where brig- ands are at all events pursued. Should the solution be favorable there ure mauy sound American enter- prises to which, in the extraordinary progress of the development of the country, European capital is Uukely during the coming year to be attracted. Pending such a setulement, however, both nations must sustain the annoyance of an almost total sus- peusfon of the advauluges that might thus be mutu- ally derived. The Penny Revenze—Cotton Fallures=Tho Alabama Case. The Inland revenue penny stamp duty of England grows more productive every year. ‘Ten years ago it brought £400,000. Siuce that time some additions have been made to the articies subject to the penny tax, and in the last fiuancial year the gross product reached £600,000. In the financial year 1865-66 182,127,932 penny staips were issued to the public; 1n 1366-67, 136,978,045; 1867-8, 140,571,429; in 1868-69, 142,041,810, or nearer five than four times the popu- lation of the United Kingdom. From Manchester two small failures are reported. Mr. James Potter, couton spinner, Bell street, Old- ham, with habilities of about £4,000, and Mr. James agate manufacturer, Radclifie, owing £1,800 to ‘The London Nets observes:—A telegram from Awerica announcing the purport of Lord Claren- don’s despatch to Mr. Thornton on the Alabama’ uuestion ig not a suMficiont basis for the serious dis- cussion of the question, Lora Clarendon’s despatch must be actually before the public in full, and we must see exactly how he has put our view of the ear before it is possible to express an opinion upon it. FRANCE. The Traupmaun Indictment—Loss of a War Steamer—M, Mazzini on the Situati Parliamentary and Fashionable. Preparations for the Traupmann trial were going on actively in Paris. ‘tne iudicement, or acte de accusation, 18 published in one of the London jour- pals. It covers four columns of solia type, reciting all the facts of the Kinck tragedy in legal phrase- ology. The indictinent says:— An investigation by experts had proved that all the letters and — signatures ascribed to Jean Kinck were p Traupmann's own handwriting, Traup- mann, nevertheless, aduered to the line le fence he had taken ‘up, adding other inventions, which it would be too long and superiiuous to mention here. ” He even. went so far as to allege that Jean Kinck had gone with him to Lille to sign the power of attorney aud the check for 5,000f., and that, instead of going on to Roubaix to see bis family, he had returned to Paris, He ago alleged that Jean Kinck’ had {imitated his (Traupmatn’s) handwriting. Traupmann, such aswe now know him, was the kind of man to brood over such a crime, ‘keep ft secret and carry it out. From the day he left Roubaix to the day be lett Havre he lived constantly alone. He lived at the Quatre ins, and must have then fixed on the spot for the . It was he alone who forged all the letters and docu- ments, who purchased and carried away the tools with which'the murders were committed. Ha alone was to de- rive profit from the crime, Kvery object which the Kincks took away with them from Koubaix was found on his per- son or in his room at the hotel. It ts no longer perraissible to dwell on the vain efforts hg is making to ret tue expia- tion which he cannot escape. : ‘The loss of the war steamer Gorgone with dt hands, off Ushant, is fully confirmed; it seems she ‘Was not @ gunooat, but a corvetie. The frst intima tion of her loas which thy naval authorities received was the coming ashore of a number of the tarpaalt hats used in the French navy, with the name of the ship stamped upon them, M. Mazzini addressed a letter to M. Angulo, Who was expelled from French territory for political offences, in which he says:— Tamm growing terribly old. In the evening Y cannot write without aufermg in my head and eyes, aod I arrive at the end of the short day having done only halt what I would hay wished to do and what [ ought to have done. You are right. France, the land of the tnioreseon, can awake to-morrow. But it {8 not right to believe that it will do ao, or that in doing to it could prosper. We must then consider {t as a mo) element, a8 a couutry of which the ever-increasing agitat! ve us, but must not inke it the centre of our actio As (ap as regards myself individually, I only believe in the “imitiduive” of the countries which have not_yet acquired their national unity, The reorganization of Europe must proceed Irom them, ROME. Papal Blessings to Austria. We have the following report concerning the Inierview between the Empress of Austria and the Pope:—When the Holy Fataer went to the Farnese Paiace w pay @ Visit to the august travelier, her Majesty not only insisted on re-conducting his Holl- ne=8 to lis carriage, but when they reached the outer door of the palace she dropped on her knees to beg anew the apostolic venediction, Pius 1X., seeing the youtnlui Sovereign at his feet, hurriedly stretched ont his hand to ise her, sayimg tm a parental tone, ‘Empress what are you domg?’ ‘nat ts not your pl be The Empress, however, persisted in bine ye | in the same position until the Sovereign Ponti bi again given ber his benediction, which he accord- ingly pronounced with (ears 1u his eyes in the fol. lowing words:—‘I give it to you from the lowest aeptis of my paternal heart, and also to your august husband aud tue wavie of the unpertal samily.”? IRELAND. ‘atholicityElection Res. ports. 5 ‘Tho Irish papers publish a letter from O’Donovan Rossa in reference to bis election from Tipperary wag the hatred vo Fenanism in which Mr, Glad- sione’s priest-supporters indulge. Rost after la~ menting that the Koman Cathoilc Church bas alited itseif with “an unnatioual English party,’ say! “Legates have done strange things in Ireland before, and in England too. If wey sent me to hell for my sing. in general Would be something, and (judgment and punishment being in the other world, as we think) no more than what God himself will do to me if L aim so unfortunate aa to ve visited by him with jus. tive instead of mercy. But to send me to the devil on 4 false charge is, I believe, entirely beyond the power of a powerfal cardinal or @ Kerry bishop.” lt ls generatly believed that Mr. Merron, the de- fexted candidate, will not lodge @ petition against O'Donovan Rossa, but ieave the matter to the de cisivn of the House of Commons, Radicalism Against