The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1870, Page 4

4 EUROPE. Caristmas Amusements in England and the Morale of British Speculation. Irish Radiezliam in National Polities and ve- linc of Churea Influence. THE LAND QUISTION IN IRELAND. Our special correspondents in Europe supply the following valuable extibit of the siiuation as It existed ta Emgiand, ireland and France on Curse mas day. ENGLAND. Christmas Timo in London—Joint Stocw Fi- nance—Tho Ovorend-Gurney Trial~The Re- suit of Ladictments in Different Cascs—How the Cuses Wiilor. Lonpon, Dec. 25, 1869, If an Englishman wanted an Amerisan friend to form good opiuion of England, and had that faith on first impressious Wuich experience teaches us ‘has.6o much to do with tac good or the evil we think ol men or piace’, be Would certainly try and make bts frtend visit tats country a few days before Christmas, aud remain with us until the holidays are over, Siricuy speaking Christmas time is the oue only huliday im England that is general, and of it may be said wiih truth that, from the peer to the Peasant, every ove wore or less gives hunself o Tespite from labor aud takes his yearly rest from Work, Christmas tue with us ts to the rest of tue year whut Sunday is to the week, And i has also 1ts owu peculiar ivaiures, It partakes somewhat of the nature of tue Continental carnival, It 6 our Season—a short oue | allow—for merry making and taking our ease, And we are more genial one towaids unotier, less given to dispise this man be- cause he bus cesuer tlle or wealth, and to bow down to that one because he has either or both of these qualifications, than at any other season of tue year. Persous trois otuer countries, and particularly those speaking what ‘ihackeray Called “the same dear motver tongue,” who reach England at tie present seusoa, cau hardly fail to be struck with whe generui-the almost universal—genial fecling that pervaa wong all classes of the community, gad the hearty greetings which are heard at every turn betweea man aud mau, There is far more equality, iar mere good feeling, far less bowing to the two gods we worship with us sincerely, namely, birth and weeita, thao at any other time of the year. Ina word, visitors to Eng.aud would haraly iat! at the present season to by more pleased with what they saw tn tus couutry than they would if they eame hero during any other mouth of tac twelve Which consiituie ibe annual round of the sua. Among tose who ougut to rejoice aud be, Waankfnl for all wercivs tney have received since last Carist- mas ihe direc.ors of tue Ovecead, Gurney Compauy BhOUd not be tha wost baccward, A3 you have no doubt bern tutvraed by telegram these gentiemen Were deviated by a jury of ‘city men” to be ‘not guuty” of the crimes ian to they charge. In this wunlry We have ne public prosecutor, and, ticre- Tore, one of the greatly injured sharehoiders of- the @onceru, u Osriai Dr. Thom, took 1 upon himseif to “veil We @4.,” wud Weal Co the expenge of providing Tunds witu winica Co OFIUg Nove LO Lhe direciors tue ofeuces uF Wuice public vpinion and commen sense Gectured taeu to ve guity. They bave got ou vy Hot # legai Vat wu eyusy yuibiile, and Dr. ‘Thou 13 Bout 20,0 OUL Ol pocket. Had he prosecuved uot tie who beard vi directors but only tat Laree or Jour wo Cousiiuied We original firm and why sold te couceru io We pubic, there can ve no count bub that @ Verdict of “guily” woud buve been returced; Lub waving mixed up tuse Woo Were noa.¥ Kad tegally gully with the \our or live Whu Were Woraily, Dut Bus legally go, the whole have wauaseu w gel ol scottree. We are im biuy- laud very uiucu given te taik abdut the Oicklouess of Public Opinio. Adierica, aud We changabiencss Of the pubne VieW la your country, Bub was ever Any tai seen so wosUrd Ms the caange that has come Over pudie opiaoa in Loudon With Pespect Lo Wie geutlemm wav were trieu a few days ago on w Cuarge ol having “doue” the public out of muny MniliOns Siibing ? In sanuary ast | Was preseus in the Guidhau Wuen the Lord Alayor, in bis Capacity of IagISirAle, CoMMlicat Me UVEreud-Guruey airee- Yorsior tual, ‘Lacy were admitied to bail, aad on Weir Way Home hey Were hooved, Movved, aud ru Builed W BucM aa extent thar tuey had’to ve pro- tected vy vie police, Ou Wednesday Ia-t, when iney Werv deciarea Ww oe Dot guiity by bas jury, thoy were cheered as if they Were tue most meritorious nen thas hud ver sudicred persecution sor rghseousness sake. ‘The Wid Wid Los be Without Ls (rulis, aud very Ditver wid tows part ve. siencefortu it will ve iiui- Posstbie bo couvict tae directors uf jviat sock com- Pantes of any duduciel ¢rime. We haa betore this luore than envnge of those commercial adveuturers Who lived vy tts oricks Wihou’ siraw, but Now thal the beides. swindie, even if desecied, has becu suowa w we iegally & mere UNiLrtulute specu- fauon, tor Wuick “LGoody” is VO blame; Lhe UuaL- Clal distiouesty of (us, already too” disnouest city, Wil inercase” und muuply feurfoid. in ail tus, oy le seems Ww luc, there 1 a future which Cass Ns skaiows before. Already, lor years pus, it lus al but passed on ‘to o prover) with us, Liat there is oue law for tue rich wad aanviser for the poor, The Overene-Gulucy Ua Is Oe likely to dimiu- ish the WU.woer Of those Who beueve in this dve- tine, i was all very wall to hear the well-to-do chy bakers and Wercbants cheering the prisouerg Wuo had jusi Joi ou! oi tue dock Ou Weduceday 1ast, DUL With (dese exuitutions ought to be publsned we language of ike less distinguished thieves—tue ageuen,” tue “rag droppers,’ tue “house and oLlerd Who atteudeu the court. ‘ihe 1 Classes in London believe firmly that tho rhey direcuns su counsel to deteud they are wrong? Aud Who sdall say that Che lute triad has one pom of fact BeLijec—tual it is Jawlui aud justinable wo otter to purchasers @ vroperiy iu wulch is involved the risk of losing all tiuse purchasers possess, aud to mide drou: Wem tue msas buey Tun ik becoming pur- thea. euasers. itis a proviamauion of tree trade—of free ‘Trade on Loues.y, us weil a8 On responsibility in Oummercial mariers. It uus proved thal in Lngiand B man may be tevady bouest who ls nov so morahy, And As by sigma iisea by bis ielow men, And it has Shown wat us geaciai public will run down us Tuscais (vse Wuvia iuey ure delighted vo houor so BOON 88 Lue Grima law declares 16 has no hold over then. Mysteries ef Wonden=Tke Irish Kadieai Kevoiatiouary Conspirac, Lonpon, Dec. 25—1'. M, “London,” (as I beard the present emperor of the French say, when be was living amoug us, more than twenty years ago, a8 a simple, private gentio mau)” London is a p.ace a0 vast, and of which even the detective poiwe know so litte, that any crime may be committed within its llaits, and any pum- ber of traiors might find shelter within its bound- aries aua nobody bo a vis tie wiser. This hay been exemplified witaiu the last two days by @ discovery whic te Howe Office Las made—made nos by any cleverness on the part of its subordinates, but by the usual means of ono Irishman tvurning traitor to his fellow consyirators—respecuing the Fenian conspu- acy. lt seems Uiat the real danger to be appre- hended from this combination of swupid recklessness od utéer folly is in London, not in Duplin, Asl ‘Wrote some montus ago W the HERALD, the Fenian combinatioa in London is more wealthy, beiter orgauised and less Known to the poilce thanin any part of the kingdom. It is, in fact, a regular Fevyolutiouary society, bound together by 4 oath, having at its command ample Goons; and walang its timo te injure the vexecutive in England, so as to make, if not a diversion witch shall be useful to their cause io jreiand, at any rave one which will be most tronvle- Yeome to the suthoriues both there and in wngiand. {Que Feniaus here aud in London are Bow mixed up ‘Wich ail the uuwasaed revolutionary scum of "Burope, the so caiied “patriot,” many of them having leit their own countries in consequence oF tain wistakes made respecting the property or Ke Signalures Of OLners tuan tuemselves, have found juge iu Loddon and take the brevet rank o1 suf for political cuuses, and make believe to be in .@ for having lougut against emperors, Kings and winees in foreign jauds, John Bull ia always ulous With respectto similar adventurers, and faiways believes everybody who 19 1 rebellion alost other goverameats than his own to be in Jats For iiity years past every scoundrel who Wo black @ sheep to remain in bis own land has ound protection anu hospitality in England. Until ow tense very dirty aud generally very poor ‘strangers dia us neither good nor harm, for It ifs ouly very lately that @ revolotionary party has bore up among ua But it 19 very dulerent at ry present day. A large proportion Oo! our workiug ‘Clusses are republicans in ry; @ much iarger un Ol woraing Irwh are revolutionisis ieecaie ain ag tuey dare be. absink by 1 Aiuical iamuee. ba Want OF WeEk, oF ane other reason NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. whatever were to take piace, woe should find to ou Cost that we had among us an element for evil o whicu even our toss practised statesmen KNOW Dub littie, If for mastance,, ike bread riots, the ic movement, or even tho retorm agitation of two ears ago were tobe renewed, we shouid flod in dun that tuere is a well organizod, well disci- Plime apd very numerous bod) of ines in the nast of us, whose ann ia bot to Obtain this or th political right, bus simply to Cause as Much wetress among the people of tats couatry and plunder as much property us they possibly could. In a wor we never had uuiil now the elements of a muichicy. ons revoluion ta the midst Ol Us; and even Row buat we have tt. nineveen out of wwenty Englisainen are unaware of ils existence. If 'oumgs go simovthiy with us, Welland good; but i otherwise the tury of Kngiand ior the vext tweive montas will bot be @ pleasunt one to write or to read. During Uke pass fortuighs there have been no leas than six Cablvet councl® of tue sipistry. aj! having more or leas reterence to the Ish Land ybill, whica it is proposed to introduce next session, and oi Waioh doth the outline and devatis have beon pretty well soctied, aithougn tho vill itself ts not yet dratt- ed. 1p the mean tiwe iuere hav boon a gathering of the conservative chiel# at Hugkendoa manor, Mr. Disraeli’s piece, in Buckwghamsiire, about turty mites irom Loudon, From Huguendoa the waole party procecd to spend ye Chris"inas week at Bioudein Vaiace, the dowatn of we Duke of Marl vorough, in Oxforashire. The question of the day With (he conservatives Is not so much What are to be theu tactics Guring the coining sea-ion, as who is to lead tweir forces im the Louse of Lords, and whethes they are Wo take a violent tory or a& more mouéralely conservative line of policy wheo oppos- ing Mr. Gladstone, 1 beweve (aud my opinion 13 founded upon what] hear the best informed men fay) Lunt tbe latter will be the course they intend so pursue, [believe tat the future ieadcer of the couservatives in the House of Lords wil be the Karl of Dervy, who until the other day eat in the House oi Commons as Lord Stamey, aud, therefore, that tie loue of the opposition wil be much more mod- erate than im former days. Outsiders lave an idea that the great battle of the session will be fought upon tae Irisa land question, but this is a mistake. Lue great nope of the con. servatiye parcy 1s that Mr. Gladstone will iniroduce a sécular educaliym bul, and upon this measure those who oppose the present Ministry wi ave the support of many Wao now vote With MY, Gladstone. ‘Tae jatter does not want to bring in auch a bill at ail, uc tis Delieved that he wil. be overruied by the more radical mewbers of the Miuisiry, ile wiole of tue Koman Catuolic party, and a very large ma- Joruy of the strict English Church people, together with @ considerable proportion of the Wesieyaus, are a.ainst a scheme of ular education tor the poor. But it bag also many supporters, and tae bat- tle in the House of Coumons will be Jought hard and jought long on both sides. Reductions in the army, the navy, the civil service, the convict aepartiwent, aud in every braaca ol the public service, continues. Most of tese will take eitvct fromm the commencement of the imaucial year, which begins on the ist of April. Mauy of them are exceedingly unpopular, but among the midwe classes no measure | remember has cunsed so much general di$satisiaction as che payment 12 advance of the taxes, Wiica Will Comuience next month. ‘The shopkeppers, the poorer ciass of houselioiders, and Out Lins pla of Mir. Lowe’s a8 tiey would an attempt to rob taew, Of course lt Is mde USe O1 a5 & MeANs Lo Create opposi- ton to the government, aud I lave nO Goudt taal, If @ general eiection were to take place, Mr. Giadstone Would fecl the eifects of au agtanoa whic ts ouly now commenctug, bul Which WI ere loug be very serious, Two more’ regiments, both of this week at Porismouth, from in ordered off to Ireland without landiag. which arrived ave been Cardinal Cullen’s Political Fastoral—Tone of tho Fenians Towards tho Church. Ud LonDox, Dev. 25—Night. Talking of Ireland, a Roman Catholic priest irom Dublin wold me yesterday an aneciote, which, curious to relate, ha3 never found its way into print, but of which he was an eye witness, You may re- member that some six weeks ago Cardinal Callen, the Archbisaop of Dublin, then on the eve of nis departure for Rome, published a pastoral against Fenlanism. According io tue order coutaiued 1a this pastoral, as well #3 Woe Custom of the Kowan Courca in such cases, the document had to be read oa whe Sunday alter it was pubisied ab every mass. It wis read at the Orsi mass in every churcu, bat when they heard what it contained the people created suck & disturoance in the varlaus charches that tue priests were positive y afraid to read it at ihe subsequent services. Many OL tem telegraphed of to cae Vicar General, the Cardinal having leit tor Kome, to know what was to be aone, and gos for a reply that “they mizot read It or nul, as ihey deetacd uivst prudent.” 10 wiost of the Caurches 1b Was Rot Tread @ second time. Teu years ago sach a thing coud pot possivly have occurred, but now tue Fenian movement has euirely superseded tue reli- gious fovtugs of the lurge majority of we Lrish. IRELAND. Agvteultnral Torritorial Statice—Loedonder- ry Coanty, Its Area and Nature of the Soil—War and Confiscntions—Himory of the Lendon “Companies” and Their Titles to the Land=ienant Evictions—Condition of the Farmiug and Laboring Classes in Derry. LONDONDERRY, Deo, 23, 1569, Derry—or, ag it is now called, Londonderry—is ome of éhe oldest and most historic cities in [reland. It ie situated on the ieit bank of the Foyle, on a bill which has, In trouvied times, been selected as the acropolis of the north. It derives its name from dvire, a word which signifies the place of oaka as Sue DU on Whica it stands was once covered with a forest of that species of tree. The chiefs historical event in connection with the city Is the galant rosistance offered by the citizens to wae last of the ‘Stuarts iu a siege Of 106 days, which, according to Lord Macaulay, is the most memorabie one in the annals of the British wsies. Londonderry has @ popu- lation of about 23,000, and, in comparison with many other towns in Ulster, is a busy and flourisning cisy. Unfortunately party feeling is ever hign in Derry; the population 1s divided into two classes very unfavoravly disposed toward@eaca other, and the hostility existing between them ia, I feel certain, most injurious to the prosperity of the city. ‘The county of Londonderry is wasbed on the north by tho Atlantic Ocean, and lics between Antrim on tne east and Donegal on the west. It is forty miles in length by thirty-four in breadth, and has an area of 613,595 acres, Of these 518,595 acres, 318,282 aro arabie, while there are no less than 180,709 acres which have, as yet, been uncultivated, Many parts of the conntry are very hilly and rugged; but there are others, particulariy in the eastern district, which are broad and fiat. There are also very extensive tracts of bog in the eascern part of the county, which uently flooded with pools of water. The* southern division is much more fertiie than the muddte and northern districts, where the land is very loose and gritty, and js generally found to be. fil adapted for te growing of whe: ‘The landed system of the north of Ireland is very peculiar, and, to understand it thoroughly, a know- lodge of tho tmes preceding and following upon the piantation of Ulster 1s indispensable. Whoever undertakes to trace historically the events which produced it ought properly to begin at Derry, for Derry was the first of the six counties contiscated to James L in which the plantation by Enghish colonista of the escheated lands was undertaken. It is a fact which cannot be disguised thas from the first settic- ment of the English im ireland their leading idea Was how to obtain possession of the soli. Elizabeth had joug looked wiih wistful eyes towards the rich piatns of Cister, and was anxious, no douot, to reward her segrants aud retainers with these lands, Hier troops, during a great part of her reign, wero engaged in reducing the refractory rsh chieftains to Submission, and in parcelliug out the lands of the old population to Engiiah and Scotch advon- turers. In the south her arms were partialily successful, but in Ulster they made little progress, owing to the formidable resistance they received from the warlike chieitains of the north. Tho two attempts made during the reign to colonize Ulster wei ‘nai failures, Her successor Was more Ior- tunate. ‘The frutta of her conquest of Ireland fell to the Jot of James, and thts circumstance, together with one or two other incidents, equally fortunate and adventitious, enabled him to succeed where his Wiser and more accomplished predecessor failed, By the Might of the ears James had an opportu- nity of introducing what he called “english law and civility” into no leas than six counties of Ulster, ‘Yhese were Tyrone, Fermanagh, Derry, Donegal, Cavin ana Antrim, Half a wilion of acres we thus eschoated to the crown, and, in one {ell swoop, the simple, unoifending peopie who had lived ani Wiled on these lands were bauished forevor from the homes of their tatuers, James next conceived the idea that the body best qualified to undertake ¢he plantation of Ulster were ‘the corporation of tue city of London. These civic functionaries belag spoken to om the subject were not backward in availing themselves of the King’s otter, particularly so as they foresaw that it wi likely to benefit themselves. “Accordingly an order Was drawn up b: King, making over nearly tne entire county of Londoaderry to twelve London companies, and these tweive London companies are In possession of the beat part Of the coanty of Lon- donderry io this day, In fact more than two-thirds Of the entire lands of the county are in the posscssion Of iay and ecclesiastical corporations. Might of the mn Companies are in possession of nd less than ,000 Ares, While the Archbishop of Armagh ana the Bishop of Derry hold broad scres, nos including the glebo Jands. ‘Tne rental of the church lands 8 about £20,000 per annum, and tho rental of the companies exceeds £100,000, not mciuding the four freehold Uae tea, ‘Though the Injustice of the great plantation canaot be cefended, It must be said to sames’ credit | what he did nos Qudertake & suroudl aay conaidera- tion of personal interest, fis object was to intro: duos Ba casa civilization Into Ulster aud Ww pisos Uvoy vue Jandy @ peacetul and industrious povuia on. When, alterwards, he found thas ths como nies bad Tailed Lo Luli tue conditions mplied im te Graal he Lareaceuod bo disposaeas thom, & 1ao% Unit ciearly proves that he did not bestow these lands as O Javor, Lub for a Useiul aod Important purpose. 1s is perhaps, Superfluous for me Lo say Chas the origi. Nai coutvioas Have never veed fullliel, Mor Mw It ab al likey thas they ever will. So niucu of tae laad being in the hands of those corporations, tuere are comparatively tow landed proprietors ta Londonderry. some of uiese have tue reputation of pelng exceliens landiords and others have a reputation quite the reverse, ‘There are, | md, a iow of the landed proprietors tn tus country who still fuly revogmize Wwe custom of tenant right, A large proportion of taew, how- ever, during the last twenty years have made ea- Croachiuenis upon it, Whe Oblers Nave abo sued th ailugetver, Upon the tstaies of the Maurquid Of Waterford and Lord Tempiemore toaant pracuca ly euforged, ‘The conanss on theag prope! lies are very Happy aud very prosperous b> much bY, Mudegd, Lat LhOse On LNO Lorwer Gstale lave olferedy to 8 mun, bo buy their farms from the land- lord, Who 19 aouUt Lo dispose of hig property in this county. The second class of lanuwdrds mentioned Abuve Chervach upon tue Lenane regis in tuis way :— 11 tevant wisned to setl his tatu, the frst atep he ius take 1M lias direcuon ts to acquaiut the agent Of His Inveution, ‘Lue ageul assumes 0 UliNEol bie right cf wuvceptyag oc refusing as the caso may be, any person who wishes A put chase we farm. If bis politom principles, for exainple, do not Solnotig With those of “ie Owner of the property, LO ts unoonaition- aly sot aside, even tuough he may be dis- posed to give @iarger sum Lo the outgoing tonaat than wny other Of tue Competivors. Ayatu, ib is BOE An unusual thing tx the agealto Hx the price to be paid the outgoing teusul, and tous he is not un- frequently devurrea trom rece.ving tar or reason- aole vaiue for lis interes in ine Bull. ‘The proctice 43 ROW uiso becvaling very prevaleut of raming tue Tents upon the expiraviva oi leases, and on w few ostaces in Londonderry, | heard, that the rete were raised two, threo and even four Limes, ‘tue taird class of landivras, or tuuse Why recognize no sys- tem of tenagt rizht, ure, napplly, tew tu his county. ‘there 14, however, oue uowue lustance of tue kind, walen, 1 think, is two flagrant to be passed over. The proprietor to wuom I ret. 13 @ justice of tne peace, o deputy iieu- tenant, aad at one ume was hizo sheruf oi tuts couaty, Some few years ago ve purchused an estate. Upon that estate, among vlhers, weretwo tenanis, Whose unnud reutai was £9 and £12 Loa, ‘Toe rents were raised, 1 believe, two or buree Lumes, and vow Lucy are respectively £24 10s, Bud £34 lus. Or Mure than double the government Vaiuation. At tue time le Came upon tho estate the iandiord’s auauat reuial was £1,600, and now, by degrees, It has mounted up ( £2,200. FRANCE, Paris Babies—Progress of Popalation—Ynfants at Nurse and infantile Moriality—M. Louis Biauc’s Retura—Victor Hugo and Geor Peabody—Tho Political Situation, Panis, Dec. 20, 1869. Iclosed my Jast letter with the intimation that I should have something to gay in my next on the tu- tergsting topic of Freuca Davies, It is a sudject of universal interest, however, and appeals directly— none more so—to the business aud bosoms of man- kind, There is beyond a doubt uo small diversity of feeling in different countries on this vital matter. in our country, where pupulation is stil Limited, a baby ts regarded a3 an article of prime necessity; but in China, where the market 1s over supplied, 1) aust be regarded a3 a nuisance, since so many are prematurely consigned to the river, In France, on tne other hand, @ baby 18 looked upon as a luxury that only the ricaer classea can mdulzo, and the consequence Is that tho utmost self-restralot 13 ex- eveised to avold thelr undue accumulation. There has )een some discussion here lately on Usis point growing out of tho fact that tno population of France reniwins almost statlonary. This enigma is explained by some from the more cauttous production of babies, while others assert that the crop 14 as large as in other countries, but that a mod> prevails as ¢> thelr treatment that tolls fearfully agatast their full development, Iam uawilitng to take the responst- bility of giving the result of my own observations on this delicate subject, and wiil, therefore, quote those better taformed. A late authority delivers himself in this wise: — From Parts, especially, but also ta a greater or lesser degree, from the provincial towns, a stream of newly-born infants coustantly tows toto tie rurat austricts. ‘The mothers must work; they cannot afford to keep vheir children at home. More value is at ta¢hed to the lavor than to the weulare and Jifs of ue heipless beiug Comantted to a stranger's hands; only the ligher classes go wo the expeass of & wes nurse at home, Suepkeepers aud gencraily wie trading and toiling popuiation of the cy seud their chiidrea away. For the most purt they do not even soe the place whisher ticy are takea, but leara the name of the village or haniet from @ certificate presented by the Mayor of the locality. From tune to tie they vistt their children, but usually at iong lutervals, because it 13 offen too far away and oftener too great an expense. In France, as is kuown, Women take 4 More active pactin the business of iife than im mos otter conntries, and this ig espoctuily the case with the trading classes. ‘rhe Frencumau who takes to himsell a wile doea not regard her merely as an aflectionate companion, the mother aud nurse of his children, the Keeper of his bouse, but he makes her also the watchtul guar- dian of his mercannie Interests, chief saleswo- maa, his bookkeeper, his corresponding cierk. 1t is the general and alinost universal practice in France that the roung married woman should ba fer hus- band’s chief associate 1n bis business. No merce- nary aid, itis argued, Can be so vaiuavle, 80 zealous org#o cheap as hers. Tue bride steps from tho chureh to the counter, the desk or the workroom. When children come they must be got rid ol; ume 1s Wo Valuable to be employed in watching and vend- ing them. And 0 they are despatched into the country to some Woman who makes 1 her trade to take vursiings. The resuits are obvious enough. ‘Yoe maternai caro, which nothing can replace, Wanting, 9nd the mortulity ts tur greater than in countries where 4 different system prevaus. Of eourse the poorer the peopie Who tous put out their infants the less ttey can pay, and the greaver ig the neglect to which the ehildren are exposed, Buteven when the payment ts liberal the security is small, “1 will cite an instal says ihe same authority, “thas cawe wiioin my knowledge. A prosperous tracesmaa in the full vigor of life imarried a young wife, wko was forin- with installed ag bis head clerk. A child was bora and sent out to nurse tn the country, ‘Ine parents visited it as often as is usualy Lue case, ut the child died. Auother followed, was similarly rastiested, and likewise died. ‘ihe same thing occurred with a third, fourth and fiffh child. ‘Toe fatuer having reauzed a competency disposed of his business. A aixth child was born aud was reared at home, trove welland is growing up. ‘The parents are healthy people, and tt is only fairto sujypose that if the flve children bad received the same attention as tue sixth tney also would have lived aud flourished.’ it may be said this is an exceptional cage, but 118 no rarity to hear of hpalthy cuiidreu dying out at nurse, and if we may believe the Frencn journats the vighance of the local authorities is not suillcient tocheck the imal-practices of those child-farming women who, if they do not actually poison tho children, are guilty of such negleot and ill-treatment as to lead to the same result. ‘There exists in France an association fur the protection of children; but 16 tay be counted if tueir action can do much to stem this sad state of things, The above publication brought a response in the way of @ remousirance at the somowhat exaggerated” picture of the evils of baby farming, and the writer of the latter thus comments onthe story given above:—‘As to the number of children ia your model family of six, be assured that if the two tirst bora of the fam- ily had hived and prospered the four others would never have been called into existeaco, They were merely supplementary childron, and the number of six was never seriously intended.” Here we have the two opposite views on this pregnant topic, if 1 May 80 speak, that I alluded to at the beginning, Whether it 18 to be attributed to the. resulta of baby farming or the caution aad providence exercised by tne French of all classes, 1s 13 hard to say, but the Jact is none the Jes prominent that of ail countrics the population of Mrance makes the slowest advances, while that of England, os European nations, probadiy grows the iastost. Louis Blanc, 80° well known by his socialist theories, and who figured for tree montas in the provisional government of 1848, when he was ex- led from Franco by his own y, has availed imself of the ainnesty of August | and has como back 6 Paris wy his fortuue ouce more, Te tue surprise of many who admire his literary ability and thought ne would urn 18 to advantage by writing sumething worthy his former reputation, he has ao- cepted the offer of the revolutionary organ, tho ippel, and is duly tossalied a3 ono Of ity edito: with quite @ Qourish of trumpets. It ts doubuul whether he will hold this equivocal posltion for any ; for Louis Blanc writes with too much va readers of this ultra print, and he will Hkely disap- point them by his moderation. Victor Hugo, in his recent letter about tho late Mr Peabody, said, ‘iis voice was not that of France, bat was the voice of exile.’”’ Some of the cha journals rap the knuckles of the would-be exve quite vigorously for tis wilful perversion of the truth. Everybody kno’ Victor Hugo was tu- cluded in the list of tho amnesty, and that he 1s ag free to return to France as Louis Biang and all the rest of the cal ; but he prefers, evidentiy, to live im the pleasant little island of Guernsey, where he bas rigged up & house in the fantastic le that guits his peculiar taste, This, however, is y no reason Why he should go on playing the interesting role of @ political martyr when be 1s not one any longer. It is @ matter of wonder here that #o prominent & public man as Victor Hugo sould be guilty, in a public letter on so grave @ topic, of su & gross misrénresentation as to whine over lis sad fate ‘ag an exile whon it was me) his own will and pleasure to live esewhere than ig France, Hyza, it must be remembered, however, {$ & poot and romancor, fod don’t reaily know bait the tine wherher he writing fictiou or ot..etwise. Some oae who visited ta grotesquo.y furnisacd house 10 Guerasey a Baors Ume ago Was amused bo Bee bhat the Chair bo nad occupied ta tuo Guamper of Peers und Lous Vialippe was careiuily preserved and exhjpited to all visitors, ‘Tuis snows plainly how very proud he is of his former Ute of Peer of I Whd no is dally claiming in tae papers Loup @ ved xopubiican, We iust not exact tuo much COnsis.cncy rom this briliiant novelist. Mis 604 Dharies ot eee Just bevn “jugged"* soon moatas, a3 for seéking Ww SOW $0“iuon in the army, wi to write oditorigls %yr iis Rappel oii tae same, and L wonder at tbs Sxcreme clemeacy on the part oF chi governmp”, ‘Tuo drat uso Ne has pul his waKresslve pon 13 to belavor savagely Wo well Known wo de Girardin for auriag to say what Sverebouy thougat—nimely, that he (Hugo) richly deserved the ‘punisament’ the courts asaxned Luu; Lor he tad done more by his licealious excesses to bling digcredit on tho journa ism of Paris, ab hong And abroad, Liaw even Ktochefory Mungo, ‘nis vie of howety trudh nas made young tluso smurt agala, and he 18 calimg wll tue World Go wioneds Liab “uOb only 13 Lue press (incauing bimse.f, Gu Rappel per~ secuted by the government, but Ib 13 betrayed by & brovber journalist; gud then he ser to work, Mn Ls biter, rauvoruus way, bo tell Girardin waat U@ thinks of aim, Since the Cuamber met they have done nothing else bus verily tue returus of the new members, Waiel in Hogiand aod tn tne United states is always dove in cominitteo, wich the final decision of the whole touse, Lowever, every country has ia cuswoms, aud 16 Comes Lo tie cunmittes in the end no douvt, la a@notuer Week they will get Carouge WIth tuese elec- tion roturas, wad tuen be busiuess of the reguiar session Will vewin. It i certain to be taaugurated with a seb of now ministers, most of whom ure Uu- Kuowan out of france, mile ilivier, who nas be- come more prowinedt of late yt il be tne lead Ing spirits of Lhe new Comoination. Liberalisa: wil oe tie vauge of the coulog government, and the Lin- peror 1s vecided to carry ous practical reforms and Preis ba Uliras bo Bpous a8 MUCH asthe please LOOUL ely FOREIGN MISCELLAHEOUS ITE Six thousand colliers are on strike at Waldenberg, Prussia. A treaty for tho extradition of ortminals has been glgned bevweea Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Baden. ‘Toe tax on dogs in Great Britain 1s five shillings per Head, aud tay reluras show thas thers ure 1,038,221 on the lists, ‘The population of Germany 1s now 33,302,000, of wiiea (oe Norta Contederation numoers 29,494,476 aud the Soutuern Stabs 8,807,028, 5 ‘The government of tho canton of Appenzell, ta Switeeriand, vas forbidden all pudlic diversions Gury tae term of tae Couacl now situng in Kome. ptrict orders have been given throughout tue Rus. sian empire Lo prevent suy manifestation on te au niversary of we emuncipation of tuo seris, which occurs ow Feoruary 27. The many courtesies shown by the Emperor Na- Poieon to Mr. De Wetner, the Prassian Ambassador 1 Paris, give risa to mucd comment, espectaily atte: tue receat exchange of iriendly eentiuments between Kussia and Prussia, Reports trom russia state that a general activity 18 Keot up iu the armumeats, waica im many places are fur;idabie. ‘Lie irendsvip vetweon Kussia and Prussia 19 NOW aN established faci, and some move 1S KOO Anlicipuced In relerence to Austria wad France. The public excitement at the commencement of the trai in ars of traupmaug tor the murder oi the Kineg faiaiy, Was so great thas 15,00) appiica- vions for tickets Wore made, Bua Many ladies passed the previous night im tue court ior lear of arriving too late, The King of Prussia has ordered that all priests shail take &2 outa, Of Witich Lue tollowing is a Bum nary :—"i swear before God and by Lis word to be aiways faitniul to my gracious King and to my muiguty visuop. I will aiwaya doiend the throne, and Wil deaouttce ali thai coaches me througa toe confessional thas inay be harmiul to tis Royal Mae esty, lis goverament and bis Weil-beloved sway.” PAUL SCHOEPPE. Important Disclosures from Kurope—Who is Dr. Panl Schoeppet—Great Exoitemeout Among the Gormans—Letter from Professor Gnueist, of Borlin—A Serisas Quostion of Identity. In order to call the attention of the reader to the very interesting case of Dr, Paul Schoeppe, of Car lusie, Pa., 1 is not necessary to recapitulate ita wrole history in detail. 16 1s sufficient to repeat that Dr. Schoeppe pracitsed medicine as Carlisie and bevame professionally acquainted with a wealthy spinster bamed Misa Stoinecke, About a year ago she took suddenly il and died, After her death Dr. Paul Schoeppe produced a will of tho late Miss Steinecke bequeathing ail her estate to the Doctor. The will was witnessed by the Doctor’s fatuer, a German Lutheran clergy- man. The relatives of the deceased opposed the probate of the will, declared i to be a forgery and procured the Doctor’s arrest on tne doubie charge of forgery and of having poisoned Miss Stelnccke. ‘fhe Doctor was tried, convicted and now lies under sentence of death for the murder of Miss Steinecke, and the public are fully familiar with the detaus of the extraordinary efforts made to have the sentence commuted or a new trial granted. In support of this agitation, and in order to bring every poasibie weight of authority to bear upon tho Pennsylvania oicials tn favor of Dr. Scnoeppe, a gentleman of this city wrote to Professor Rudolf Gneist, of Berlin, a prominent jurist and author, mem- ber of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies and of the North German Parliament. The roply of the learned professor will be found below. It is of extraordi- nary character, considering the wide exient this agitation in favor of Dr. Paul Schoeppe had assumed in this country and the importance which attached toit in consequence. It was published on Thurs- day 10 the Sats Zeitung, and, anything, 1% intensified the excitement among our German citi- zens, and quite diferent and diverging were the views expressed. But here ig the letver of Professor Gneist:— 2 Your honored letter of November 271 received five days ago and the papers belonging to it threo days ago, and in great haste I did what was possiole to nave the lite of'a coun. tryman perhaps uajustly condemned. This was not easy, ainee in these days the sessions of the Chambers and my participation at tham and in committes occupied the whole obtain the opinion of the juridical faculty was !mpor- reagun that the sudject for a juriJtcal revision 0 Rot even in tho form ot ossible to determine that of th nd T ot Jurists here, who immedial ely sole tee to consider what steps inay pouslbly be taken in favor of Paul Schoeppe. In this soveral of our juridical experts have Jadly taken part, eapectally the court physician, Professor (mann, and ‘the chemist, Professor Sonnensshein, whose " hij thority will be recognized aise in the United States. Th on concur with the opinions of American experts, as published in your hewspapers, that the process adopted for the Ulscovery of prusstc acid and morphium in the body was Snediciot and in part utterly erroneous. Our experts could Uterally aubscrive to the criticiama published of that pro- cess, Khose criticlams come from men whose names are wall known also among ourvelves, and are generally recog. Tized as qaperta. Yet these opinions bad already beon, lata bovore tu Ritorney eneral att tho Governor, and n 10re Fepetition of theta cold not add to thelr authority. But the Opinion of the Attorney (eneral deciares thoae a1 itt not decisive, for reasuus against waich, from ti Of the luw as M is among you, but Ittls can be sald. Io German logisiation wo bare bildiag provisigay how to pro- ceed to establish the fact in cash of murder, polaoaing, 4c. Under our laws and tho practice, as it has developol itself, ancl ntite, faulty proof of tha aot as cate of Schoeppe, contd not oceur, raat know your laws contain no treats the proof of the fact as aay other part of the proof of gilt and then leaves the whole to the dovereien jndgmout of the jurors, ‘hia judgment 1s shaped by the totality of the procesdings and proofs, and it cannot be denied that fn'the cridence prodaeed circumstances of great moment r Gnoist here enters into a somewhat count of these gireumslances poluting Impossible for a foreign jurist to opinion prononneing the ver- diet of the jurors as basty and muconacionable. ‘Tho o-ality Of all accompanying circumstances tay establish in tho mind of @ conselontions man the faet af poisoning, oven if the asatsting chomists aud medical mon had suill more erroneously than they «iid in the present case. Publie opiniou forms. ite agitdement of guit or innobence from general impressions. But thiecircumstance 1s also un- farorable for Pani Schosppe, should he scnk the assistance of his countrymen, espectauy ‘here in Berlin, Our court of Jurors, sone six’ or qeven years ago, nalntance of 2 certain Paul om Schoeppe as = sentenced him for grad hb binding provisions, but Beriiu, kad been Secretary to Count Biankeuses and robbed hia of 27,00 thalers.) Christian name, surname, age and personal deseriptien agree faily with ‘nat of your Pati Schooppe. His father was a country parson enjoying the reputation of great piety, who, ip the same case, ras comricted of receiving stolen s00us This statement seems ayainte wi jon of your Vaul Schoeppe aidnis father, “Tu our pollee records 11s found that fatuer and som had emigraied to America, The State's Attoraey, who prosecuted the case of our former Paul Sehoeppe, makes special _montion of thefact that the forgory of doou- mente charged in your country. agrees with the method ul Schoeppe, was habitually employing. Our records here contain asertes of such documente with well ‘executed imitations of the handwriting of others. You will Ret biame pebiio opinion if {t presumes tha sdentity of the lolerable certainty, I willsend you s few from which you wil peroeive that though people have ‘an interest in Schveppe public opiaion very soon turned away from him. ‘This letter of Professor GUneint ts dated at Berlin, Necember 19, 1880, and was received here by the Bileala, The same mail brought the Norddeuteche Aligemeine Zeitung of the 221 of December, whicn contains a Jong articte on the case o: Schoeppe and fuliy sustains the damaging alieations in Professor Gneist’s letter. ‘The Kreug Zeitung and other Berlin papers also have reports of the proceedings of the Society of Juristy when thisematter was discussed, which also corroborate the above letter and plainly insinuate the identity of the Berlin Schoeppes, father and son, With the two Schoeppes now ia this country. wie, these present hypothetical disclosares of Professor Gnetss this case of Schoeppe promises to become traly @ cause celgore fa the criminal anngls Of We COpRITT. a en eee EaEEEEEEEETO « ———— ee das rem RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Religions Services To-Day- Bishop Snow wiil preach in the University, ‘Wash: ington square, this aiternoon, at (hice o’clocs, OD “Tne Kiag of Glory Riding on an Ass.” The Church of the Puritans will attind divine ser- vice to-day in Apollo Hall, corner of I'wenty-eignth streets and Broadway. Preacning by tho Kev. Dr. Cheover at half past ton o'clock, on ‘The Mechanics of Prayer.” Rev. R. N, Bellows will conduct the free services at Brovoors Mall, 154 East Fifty-fourth stroet, be- tween Leaingtow and ‘rhird avenues, to-day at nal! past ten A. M, and half-pass seven I. M. i At tho Forty-second streos Presbyterian church Rev. Dr. Scott preaches. morning and evening. “sloges Broaking the Yavies at Mouvs Siua)."” Rev. Goorgea Hopwo.tn will preach in te Charen Of the Messiah, Park avenue, tuis morning and even- ing. Subject 1a the evening, “‘ilclpa.” Kev. Moses Lull will syoak veluie the Society of Spirttualicts, at tho Evorett Rooms, this morning at half-past ten and this evening at ball-pasi seved o'clock. AtSt Loko's Methodist Episcopal charch, Forty- first street, near Sixtn avenue, preaching at hail- past tea A. M. and naif past seven I’. M. by Kev. Dr. X. 8, Foster. At the Ciurch of Our Saviour (Sixth Univeralist), Thirly-fiith street, near Sixth avenue, Key. J. a. Pullman, paator, proaches this moraiag at a quarter to eloven o'clock and this evening at huil-past seve, Ag the Free Will Baptist church, Seventeenth t, west of Sixt avenue, thore will be preacuing this morning, at hall-past ven o'clock, by Rev. , E. Blake. At the free Church of the Holy Light, Soventh ave- nue, next to ‘ihirty-ionrth street, services will be held at half-past ten o'clocs A. M. and half-past seven o%vlock P.M, Bev. Eastourn Benjauin will Preach, Rev. Chauncey Giies this moraing proaches on “Salvauon by the Biood of Curist’? in tae New Jeru- salem church, on Thirty-iifta strest, between Fourth and Lexington avenues. George Francis Train preaches this evening at the dammany wigwaw on ‘Tue Vid Fuxies of the Bible Compared with we Beautiful Character of the Saviour.” Dr. Taompson will preach this evening at the Bevadway Taoernacie, coruer of Tairty-fourti street, on “Dignity of Piatiaasbropy as Iliastrated i the tate Mr. Peabody.’ Rev, George B, Cheever, D. D., will preach in the chapel of the Trinity Baptist church, corner of Filty- second strect and Third avenue, this evening, ata quarter to eight, Subject, “Tho Guilt aad Peual- ties of Unveliei.”? Yoe pasior, Rev. J. Staaiord Home, D. D., will preach at natf-past ten A. M. As the Church of the Reformation, Fiftieth street, between Second and Third avenues, Rev. Ab- vott Brown wiil hold services ut a quarter to eleven A. M, and a quarter to eight’. M. At the Canal street Presbyterian Church services will be held by Rev. David Miicaell, Morning com- munton servic? at hall-past 102; evening haif-past seven o'clock. Subject, “Alone aud Yet Not Alone.” Rey. H. C, Potter, D. D., will preach in the Charen of tho Holy Aposiies, Tweuiy-cignth sreet and Ninth avenue, before the Young Men's Assoclauon of the parish, at hali-past sevea P. M. Rev. N. i. Schenck, Rev. J. H. Vincent, Rev. a. 8, Hunt, Philip Philips, and Professor V. E. Marston will take part at We opening tor Sunday school pur- poses Of wie Seventh avenue Methodist Episcopal chapel, corner Seventh evenue and Butler sirect, Brooxlyn, this afternoon at two o'clock. Rey. S$. A. Corey, D. D., will preach in the Murray All Baptist chapel, Lexingtun avenue, at Lalt-past ten A. M. and ha f-past seven P, M. Avthe Washingwoa Heights Methodist Fpiscopal churen, 153d street and Tenth avenue, Chaplata U. C. McCabe preacies this moraing and tio Rev. H. B. Ridgway, D. D., this evening. Special service for young men will be deld this evening at half-past seven o'clock by Rev. Dr. Join Hall, im the new building of the Yuuog Men’s Christian Association, coraer Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue. The Rev. Father O'Farrell, of St. Peter's cnurch, Barelay sireot, will lecture in St. Bridget’s church, corner of avenue B and Eighth street, this eveniag. Subject, “St. Viaceat do Paul, the Apostle of Charity.” Grand vespers will commence at seven o’clock and the lecture at eizht. Tickets fifty cents. The proceods are to be appropriated for the bend of the poor of the parisi. American Bible Society, The stated meeting of the board of wanagers was heid at the Bible House on the Cti instant, Two how auxiliaries were revugiized—oue in Texas and one in Jowa., Various commualcations were re- ceived and granis of books made to the numver of 7,744 Volumes, besides others to the amouut of $1,100, and in funds $200 to tie Missionary duciety Of the Meidodist Uhureh for Bibie Work in ‘Norway. ‘the pvoks granied were in au unusual variety of languages, including Spaaisn, Italian, Portugese, German, Frouck, Ojibway and Arabic, Divorces in tho Churches. {Prom the Toledo (Ohio) Commercial.) Paorestant EriscoraL Cuvurcu—No minister 1s allowed to solenmize matrimony in any case where there isa divorced husband or wife of either paity still living; but this 13 Rot to apply to the mnocent party inadivorce for adultery or to partes ,onco divorced seekiug to be united agata. CarHOLid CHURCU-—Divorce, except as to bed and board, not recognized ln any case; and no divorced purty can bo remarried while the ovher 13 living. PRESBYTERIAN—Divoree recoguized for aduitery only, tae innocent party to be aliowed to remarry, We understand this 10 be the position of the reunited Church, a8 i¢ was of the recent brancnes. We Wink imost, Uf not all other, Presbyterian churches aduere to'tne same rule. Fitba heared the same as the Presby- ran. CONGREGATIONAL—This denomination heving no common authority, except tie Libie, each sepuraca cQureh aotermines saci matters ior liseli, ander ie Advice aud counsel of sxsociations; but we tank there 1s Uttle diuierence in praciice in it, the rule of Prevbyturian and Methodist churches being the one lollowed. Barrist—Like the Congregationalists, the Baptists have no ecclesiastical uuthority, each church de! twining ali questions for itself, The practice, how. ever, 1s Suuscantially the sanie us that of tie three Dressage denominations, toe Lible rule belog the guide. Freo Sents. The Central Presbyterian of Richmond says:— The experiinent has now been tried in many Pres- byterian churches of abolishing the complicated fad offensive system of pew ownership aud even of rented pews, and we belteve everywhere with the most gratifying resuite, ‘ko voluntary Sunday morning contmbutions bave gone far beyond tae sum of pew rents or taxes; and, fur better than that, many more have veen brought within the sound of the Gospel. ‘Phe Presbyteriau church ia S.aunton hag just unanimously resolved to make ail its seats free. Wo greet this resolution a3 oue Of the signs coming frova that large anu interesting church, tuat with life and*energy and selialemal it is dong the Masier’s worl in the Masters way. ilas not the time come for many other of our cuurches to throw away the doors of tueir pews and opea wider tan ever their exurch doors? Church Extravagance. ‘Tho San Francisoo papers complam of the ex- travagance of the churches of that city. Normally religion ts supposed to be the consolation of the poor, but tn the Queen of the Pacific siope it is a luxury i which even the moderately mch cannot indaige. Think of one thousand dollar pews! Of course, as the Sam Francisco Cali poials out, re. spectable familiea will not care to go to church if they canuot go on the same terms as their more Wealthy agsoviates. But when tip singio item of music In these churches costa bis $10,000 tuere are nut many, even in the Golden Clty, whe will find i easy bo support the eporuious asseesmMedis Whica thes religsous sorvices Linpose on thew. ‘The Early Life of the Pope. A correspondent of the Boston Traveler, writing from Rome, télis the following story respecting the early )ife of the Pope:— Those who are nearest to him, and who ought to know him weil, say he 18 @ very Kiad-hearted mau, but ts dreadiuily adiictea by hia mnuisters and agents, who ought to do his biddiug, but who would ‘use him for their own worldly purposes, Tne worid at large does not Know that fi.ty or sixty years ago he was engaged to be married to a Miss Foster, the Gaughter of an Irish bislop and the sister of the Countess de Salis, famous at that period in Italian society; and that the young !acy and her trends Waited @t the altar of the Church of S, Luigi de Francest (neat the present Post Odlce) for Count Mastai-Werretti to appear aad complete bis marriage vows, und that they Waltel and waited 10 vain, bo- cause the young Count never came. Nor 1a the world aware that the explanation given to her before her death wy tuat bis Jesuit relations had foreibly abdnoted him and sent him abroad under oath of secrecy, which he tever divulwed till afer he was yy fod that tuis Le caused to be communicaiad Oo . un jug aod that he and his Jesuit iriends inay q it or contri V6 ag tuey please. 1 hoid the document at Jength tn my own haud which tells the whole story, communicated by one Of her near relations, and given me by one whom the venerable Couns persouaily knows and was c uversed with and smiled upon siuce Be hus occupied the turooe, Frocdom of Discussion iu the Ecumenical Coan-ll. Tho Dishop of Brinn, Germany, who is prevented by delicate neath from being present at the Ecume- nical Council, nas issued 4 pastoral tn whica the fol- lowing passage 13 not anworthy of attention ;— ‘Toe discussions of the Fathers of tue Council wi be fiee, not ouly bevause Pope i1u8 has recenuy sanctioned it, bub Lecause on any oiler supposition Wwe suinmouing vf @ council Would dave been supers fluous, and he might havo prociatmed his will lade. pendent ol any such agsembly, ine Couucil will nos evevate Into dogmas new avd Strange docuines. une koown to revelauon, because the aid oF toe bd Db. 18 grapted Onl; to those Why dec.are and hol by revealed Iruta, and wothing mnust be made ap sriicto of vollet which nas vot becn atall times ute versaidy accepted and acknowledged by the Churco. Triple Consecration of Bishops in Westminster Abbey. {from the London Post, Dec. 22.4 Yesterday 1urenoon the cergmony of consecrating br. Frederte temple, of failiol College, Oxford, Bishop of Exeter; tho Rev. LoidArvhur Hervey, D. D., of Trinity votlege, Camoridge, Bishop of Bata and Weis, and tne Kev. Waite ft. Stirling, BA, Bishop of the Falkland Islands, was performed in Westminster Abbey, by commission from the Arche bishop of Canterbury, by the Bishops of Londvn, Worcester, St. David’s ani Ely, in the presence of & large number of clergymen, who occupied seats the sucrarium, and Of ieee wien tae chur aud the transon! Dr. Temple succesas tue Right Rev. Dr. Henry Phillpotts, deceased, aod Lora Arthur Hervey te Right Kev. Lord Aucklaud, who has resigned Lhe bee of Bata aod Wells, 2be Kev. fir, Strung. who 1s ihe Urst bispop of the Falkiand Isiands, bas been working tur some years past ut Terra dei #uego, Wa connection Wita the Souta Amerncan Missionary pogigly, us chied pastor of Lue Kugliol congreganund in the Falkiud b.ands. Methodists in Euzland. The numerical state uf Meihodism in Engiand, as sev forth 1 the repors of the conferences, is as folk lows:—Tae Methodlst Rero rm Union numbers 8,650 uie.abers—decrease, 704; tae Methodist New Conned- tion, ous Imembers—decrease, 555; Bivie Cars ba 20,221 Wemders—decrease, 10); Metuodist Free Cuurches, 09,092 nie.nders—ceecease, Lav; Wa uve Ailodists, 161,225 member 450, L513; Wed leyaa Meihod.ats, 345,56 memveis—inercase, 3,110, "he Empress of Franco and the Chief Rabbi of Constantivcple. The Magid contains an taterestiag article relating Odataterviey besween tas Uiel Carob of (Od ibade tinople aad the Empress of the French, Ware tho Ecupress was at Coustanuiaopie Couns Comondo, & novleman of tho Jewish faith, atreaded her by her Mujesty’s special request, She recvived the beads of various i¢ligious comuaniies at the French Eu bassy, apd ainong these were the Chief Rabbi, ace companied by wwo distinguished meuioers Of the Jewass community, He addvedoea er Majesty ta the Spanish ianguaze QS IuiuWwe:—"d, your servant, We liva oF the dowad cumuuuity, bY (he grace OF uly sUVeregy tue Duitan, ave tue Happiness ul ofering You my hoMage. 1 vIEsd JOU IN ILg wutue of te Gud vi israel, Woo} Que wucesiurs Avraliu, isuac and dacow Muy sud Freace ewp.re be aiWays prospecous, aad Way Ld torone ol tue powerlul Kmpgror Napo.con the Trt be permanent aud Uuguasen. May tho toperial house be Liegsed, and may Ulose biessings wita Wicd Qreea Liter Was Crowned rest Upon yout Mojesty.” ‘oe bupress was dee ly ag itied Whee lisceutng to luis prayer, Which Was Uutered da tus lauguage O. Bet OW Couutr, ; AUG dis Lhe Clef abot spoke sue came graduully bearer dud ucarer to Bhat Wien he Wau Couciuded sue sata tO Min, Ori bappy dam lo tina sowe or iny countrymen beve 1" dhe WSked Min the MuMMver Of Dpanish sews ta LUT. key, Of woom there are 30,000, “Len sue Bid, “VO they wil speak SpanwaP? “Yes, your Miaje-ty.” “aul” sald tue Ewpress, “how deuguted bum.’ It appears iuat the Cuief Kabpi received yulte excep- tiuual iaarks Of favor Irum the Empress at tas ree ceplod, ho oluer ecclesiastical cules belag received 1a uke Waar, Religious Notes. The Baptists of Iowa number wbout 20,030, which is a numerical gain of 2,000 over last year, A new Jewisu synagogue bas just been completed and dedicated in Porttaud, Oresou. ‘The ciuzens of Corinne, Utah Territory, have batle an adobe caurch, the drss Christtan edifice in Utah, Rev. George Vearce ts tho oliest missionary in India. We has been laboring there, under the ap poiniment of the English Bapust Souiety, for forty- voree years. ‘The Ciuistian Register says:—Tne Rev. Mrs. Hanalord (Unitarian) 13 about Lo ordain her own son to ine Work Of the winistry—10e iurSs ANstauce Ui tue kind on recora.”” In North Falmouth, Mass., there fs but a single church m the vulage, and that is of tue Congregu- tonal order, in waich every fawily mects tor red- gious wo: ship. j Rav. Dr. Gannett has resigned the pastcrate of the Arington street Udiiarian courch, in Boston, Wwaien be bas held over iorty-iive years, begiuuiny as ihe colleague of Dr, Chanainz. There arc in France thirty Wesleyan ministers, 184 clapels or preaching piaces, 110 local preachers, 2,125 memvers, 11 day scnvvis, 67 Sunday schools and upward of 10,000 regular hearers. The st@tistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church South sum up a3 fui.ows:—Tuere we uiae bishops 2,495 travelllug preachers, 4.413 local preachers; White meinbers, 69.,595; colored wempers, 32,035, The aggregate of members and predthers 13 545,08). Kev. Arthur Mitchell, of Chicago, declines an of- fereu addition of $1,000 to bis salary, &0G preposes that 1t be donated toward surnisaing cheaper su- tags Jor those Wilo are Kept aWay Irom the sanctuary oa account of dear pew rents. ‘The fanergl services of an Indian 107 years of age were held at the church im Greeuviile, ac., on tue ‘12th of December, He had long becn a professing Christian, and often held religious meetings with nis trite. iis pame was ‘tomer, ‘Nhe follower3 of Alexander Campbell, who calt themselves *'Tue Diacipies of Carist, nutuber 40 000 communicants, all of whom gathered wittin the last nucy years. They have 2,000 churcees and 1,0u) reg- ular ministers. Besides ouhec iiverary insuvuuons, toey have @ Mammoth university, located on tio Ilcnry Clay estate in Kentucky, enbracing within Itseul six distinct colleges, wita nearly su students. be SULCIDE OF A CATHOLIC PAIEST. (From the Jamestown (N. Y.) Democrat, Jan. 5.) On Wednesday moriniwg last our citizens were thocked to hear that the Catholic prics: resiciag here had committed suicile the nivus’belore by sovoting kimsell. ‘fhe purticuiars, as we haye gathered them, are as 1olluws:— The trst intimation thas was had of his attempt. Ing any Uung of Lhe kind he gave to lis housekeeper, Wheu asked to come to supper he repiica that be should eat no moe suppers nor preaklasis eitner. Sue questioned him #8 to Lis sirange conduct, but obtained no satisfactory answer, and regarded the mater ina jesting light, Shortly after ne sent his boy aown to tbe drug siore ior some croton ol, alleging he wished it to rub on his cbest. In reply to ye housekesper’s question what he had sent for, be id her it Was ma.erial for buraing inceuse, When the lad recarned Father Uabiil look the package aud went up stuira, before dotag so he gave the boy some money, and told him to retura io bultalo, whence he came, He then bid Lim gooudby, as also the housekeeper. Shoruy alter ire went up stairs the girl jollowed nm, and discovered tim just in the act of swallowing the poison. sae kaocked it crom his band and vegan exposiuiating with him. He ja bade her gooaby, said there was ‘‘one more Chance lett,” and ordered her from the room. she went down and soon heard the report oi a pistel. She rasbed up siairs and found bim standing 10 tis centre of the room with a pistol ta his hand. He re marked that he bad miased his aim. She again ox postulated with Lim with the same reauit. sue dea cended, and in a fow moments another pistol report caused her to go up and she found him lying in bed, the pistol in his hand and @ wound near we, right temple. He was bieeding profusely, and dying. He recogulzed her, and again bid her goodby. Medicat aid Was sum:noped, but all to no purpose. He lin~ gered unttl four o'clock the next morning before he died, but unconscious. rie tired tue fatal shot abous Beven O'clock tue evening beiore. ‘The touowing is the verdict given by the Coroner's Jary:— ‘The said J. T. Cahill came to his death about four o’ciock A. M. on the 2vth day of December, 1860; that sald Cahill, about nine o’clock of the evening pic- vious to the 2vth, voluntarily shot biuwself wita & pistol, tue ball passing into the head just below the night temple, producing hemorrhage whick caused his death, Tne Lare Storm IN New HAMPsoire.—Faran Accipent.—The Nashua Zelegraph says that Moa- day morning, a8 the gravel train on the Suncook Railroad was on ge 3 along about three muey above Suncook, the road bed suddenly guava way, plunging the engine and some cars ito an ex- cavation some five feet deep, ‘The water bad wasied out under the road, leaving the surface looking ei) right, and the accident came withous warn’ freman, Mr. John Neal, was wedged 1p so that ho could not extricate himself, and, pesides other m- {nes ‘was terribly scaided by escaping steam. He ingered until evening in misery and shen diga, Tho Merrimac and Nashua rivers had rrsen Tuestiay fore- & noon to within one foot of the hizuest it Kuown, were obliged suspend and the Jackson evening on Ge of the od on, Weduauda operations on Mon water, aud had mot: