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EUROPE. A Frouch “Pampiilet” to the Members of the Papal Council. Napoleon’s Printer Asks a Ques- tion of the Holy Father, The British Parliament and Ameri- can Congress in Contrast. By special correspondence from Europe we have the following interesting report of the Old World situation as it appeared on the 21st of May. ROME. Napoleon’s State Printer Asks a Question of the Pepe—An Lmperial Pamphlet from Paris—Circulate the Documents—Infullie bhity—Why the Delay of Declaration? Romu, May 17, 1870, Perhaps all your readers are not acquainted with the fact that the Himperor Napoleon's printer at Paris is M. Plon, and still less will they be acquainted ‘with the fact that this very tmperial printer has just published an important pamphiet, entitled “Oe qui we Passe au Concile.”” Such a document, coming out just when everybody is really wanting to know what is going on at the Council and why the Pope does not either put his infallibility dogma to the question at once or let it alone pro tempore, caunot fail to have an immense interest, and the mere glimpse at us contents which 1 have been able to getas yet Bhows me that it must have been wriiten by gzome one having the habitual entrée into the Coancil, elther as Pontifical reporter or theologian, if not gotually invested with the episcopal mitre. There tea certainty of facts and a degree of detail which Botray a master hand in tils work, which is only liven as the “First Part.” Your readers may perhaps inquire why my ex- Pmination of this pamphlet was so hasty. I reply ‘hat only four or five copies have escaped the gen- fal orders for sequestration which have prevented large CAB containing 690 of them, frow reaching the French prelate to whom it was addvessed and forwarded to the Custom House of Rome by the Ordinary transport of the Messageries Impériales, ‘The 600 copies were divide! into ltic buudics of half a dozen each, addressed to one of the French ‘bishops now tn Rome, with the fuligwing uotice on the elip of paper enclosing inem:—Begging your Grandeur to keep one copy and distrivute the others W foreign fatheis.” The prelate to whom the whole case was addressed 1s not @ bishop, but op very good terms with his episcopal fellow countrymen, Qou 10 a high position here as French auditor of the sacred Row tribunal, J understand tvat he 13 rather perplexcd at having ‘been selected for tuts pi of disaibational duty, ‘but he bas been relieved of the troabie of carrylag it out by the confiscation of the case at the Custom House, Hitherto 1: has only been at the Post Unico eels addressed 0 bishops, but hostile to the Court of Kome, hase been detained by the autho- Tities. The Ecumen thers have enjoyed diplomatic privilege: Custom House in getting thelr parceis unopeaed and untaxed until the pre- Bent seizure. ‘Ihe Post Ofice has been less couite- ous from the beginning, as Cardtuais Rauscher and Schwartzemberg can testify, by the seque-tration of their pamphiets and ihat of Mgr. de Ketteler on the inopportunity of defining the Yope’s personal infalii- bihty, and that of Mgr. ielelé ou the condemnation of Honoris. We are not getting on so rapidly with the infalli- Puy Question as might have been expected from @ Singular vivacity Wilh whch the Pope replied to the French memorandum by ordering the immediate distribution to the bishops of the reformed Schema de Ecclesia, or rather that part of it qarticularly treating of the Pope’s pruuacy and infulltuility, Bight days ago, when the la:t general cougrega- dion concluded, the dean of the Cardinal Legates annouuced to the fatiers that the day sciected for d to them at their eived respective residences, ve nob rect yeu nt that the day b any such noilce as yet it is evid pot yet fixed, WHY THE FEELING? There are various opimio:s as to the motives of this detay. In the first place, an indueutial section Of cardinals and bishops, headed by tue emineutiast- mi Bilio, Morichtui and Matnien, are beginning to hesitate at taking the grand iniailibilty Jump; and, ag exainpile in these matters 18 everyting, there are already a considerable number of prelates grouped around them who would ‘ain, before it is too Inte, nd out some formula for defining the infalllbility which would be acceptable to ail the fathers and obnoxious to none, Is tits possible? I leave‘theo- 1 2 to docile, hut moanwhils the result 1s delay, Abother cause of diay 1s the wish of the govern- ment that the Schon de ke its appoaralice a the pr BW the Pope and the peop sentient voices, Now, ai the de! general congregation of tie 4th instant, on the complex of that selena, there were no fewer than seventy positive now places and fifty modified votes, approving only under specified conditions, There were sixty fathers wo did not come to vore at ail, so the her out of op- position or indtiferentism, 150 did not vote with the government majority, ‘this is too large a minority to hazard encountering the puabitc s$-ssion, as the ambition of the Pope is that all the de rees of tie Council shall be promulgated vu 3 nemine dissentiente ve the formy every canon. In this interval, tic of learned and well attecied fathers round of the rebellious ones, is ler to try and bring them into a more submissive and tractabie frame of mind bere bringing them up definitively to the Pontulcal uusting + This brief calm in discussion has beeu profitavly ‘the foreign prelates in visiting Bishop Strossmuye and of German Dishops and ationdant pri has just returned from a reitgious and classical pilgrimage to the Benedictine monastery xt Subiaco, and the de- liclous scenery and picturesqye ruins at Tivoli, TUE BAST. The Armenian Archijishp of Antioch, who quarel- led with the Pope about his secretary, the abbot of the Armentan convent here, has found ii expedient to leave Rome altogether, in company with afew of his fellow countrymen: but the remaining mouks at the convent bebind tue Colonnade oi St. Peter's have hoisted the Turkish flag in the trst quadrangle of their establishm as a protection against auy ble encroach of the Ruman Pontitf, 15 aving been rumered that hts Holiness, to punish these Orientals for their reiractory conduct, intended vo dismiss them fron thls city and bestow their habiiation upon another confraternity. It 1s ap parently to discuss Pio Nono’s right thus to dispose of a Tate | under Ottoman protection that the ‘Turkish Minister at Florence, Rustem Bey, has agaio Feturned to Rome. ENGLAND. The \:ncrican Congress and the Imperial Pare Hament. Lonpon, May 18, 1870, Many comparisons have from tine io time been drawn by Englishmen between the United States Congress and the British Parliament—compartsons which, a3 was to be expected, have always been more flattering to the latter than tothe former. Oniy the other week Lord Bury favored the House of Com- mons wit a disquisition upon the subject, in which he deciared that American politicians were inferior to English politicians in education, breeding and good manners, Indeed, it has all along beea too much the fashion to speak of Congress as being upon the whole rather a vulgar boly, whose acts and behavior were wanting in that dignity which becomes statesmen and legislators. Joha Bull has in fact been troubling himself so-much regarding the beam in his Brother Jonathan's eye thit he has quite failed to perceive the mote wiich obsiraets is own vision. And yet that mote is neither small nor inappreciable. On the contrary, it is suiticlently “pronounced” to be patent to ali observers whose sight is not warped by self-couceit or blinded by false judgment, Had Brother Jonathan but been present in the House of Commons during the past fortnight he would have carried home with him an array of facts upon this very maiter which would have enabled him to silence bis detractors forever, Me would have been able to tell the citizens of the States that, notwithstanding their pretensions, are by no means perfect patterns of decorum, nor exclusively possessed of the high virtues of gentle- manly breeding and deportment, With all its boasted superiority and cultivation there are times, When the House of Commons 13 not a whit better behaved than a squabbling board of guardians oro petiy tribunal of quarter sessions, As much dissen- pon, disputation, hard words, personalities and un- fouth sounds and noises occastonally prevails in the Amperial Legislature as was ever awakened by a Gens contest or a village fight over churchwar- ‘here have of late been frequent examples on Lu presence ay number of dis- tive voting in te ol sea of episcopal eyed by some-of 2 cay Irons of Rome. . of thts during the debates upon the question of con- Yeniual inquiry, All tol There are not more than fifty Koman Catholics in the House, but what the lack in numbers they more than make up ia Zeal an hot temper, Those of the Protestants, oa the other hand, who take an active share tn religious Parliamentary war'are, are both bigoted aad Lanai cat; and hence with, a8 it were, dint on the one side and steel on the oticr, the two never come tnto con- tact without flerce fire belag struck, ‘This, at all events, is what has been ae and over again during the last few weeks. Every time that the proposal to pry into tho discipline of the con. venis has come on for debate the House lias been turned into a “bear garden.” It must be borne in muid, aga not unimportant clement in the up’oar, tuat these indammable di-cussions have always arison after dinner, when members have come to the Howe ivesh om tho wa nuts and the wine, with their blood hot, their fancies heated and their pas- sony inthe ascondant. Perhaps it onght neither to be toll in Washmeton nor New York, but ye: the face remains that it sometimes happens, even in the pure regions of the English Legisiature, that squires und dandies forget themselves, as did Father Noah o! old, and reveal ther weakness before the multt- tude, Atall events, from the three causes combined— of political anvagoutsm, religious ammosity and hearty dianers—such @ quesilon as that of the inspection of convents cannot arise without the occarrence of what is catled a “tremen- dous row,” Shouts, yells, Fr imitations of the cries of animals and wild shrieks 10 all the gradations of the gamut I have over aud again Leard during the brief but unprecedentedly stormy period s.nce the death o! Palinerston, Anit her? I may remark that no one who has not heard the sound which 500 pairs of lungs can pro- duce, when shouting iusilly and simultancously, can have any tea of the noise wh.ch oitentimes causes the celling of the House of Commons to shake through all its rafiers, Once heard, it isa sound never to beforgotten, It stirs the blood like oid wine, and can only be produced by a race like the Angio-Saxon, MR. WHALLEY, This gentleman ts the-prime mover tn the creation of these unseemly disturbances, He is & poor, weak ature, holding certain opinions regardin; tie Pope, which ho publisues in season and ont oi season, Whether he ts more fool thaa knave is a question that has often beca debated, and even to ths day it 1s au undecided questiqn. He himself profeases to be the chawpion of English Pio- testantism; but he has so often brought the cause, whose apostie he has elect:d him- self, into contempt that there exists a pretty widcspread belief thut he isin the es the Propaganda, He is said to be a Jesuit in disguise, and is employed by Rome to weaken the cau-e of Provestanusm by making It ridiculous, Wheiher or not this be true [shall not presume to say; bu: cer- tain 1 43 that his bigot:y and narrow-mindedness have this %. Such, in consequence, is the detes- tation in which he is beid by both sides of the Housa, that whenever he rises aR speak upon any subject thee arhies a choy rus of yally and shouts which ar veats Veh a word of Wnt he u'ters belis hettd. Olten it happeas that Uhe “row” ts kept up for hail an hour, during the whole of which time Mr. Whalley qoay be seen fiercely gesticulating in the midat of the tempest, screaming for h words which no manu can hear, Somethme like this occurred during the recent convent discussio., witlt this diterence, that t roar was greater than Lhaye ever yetheard i when Mr. Whatley 13 playing his part. Nor wa: shouting the worst of It, wit. jt be credited gt W inzton?—Will Congress pelio¥é “sich” a ze oi hey decorons and hizh-bred relation, the Im- perlal Pariiament?—Several members, in tie nfdst of the din, actually shouted out repeatedly, and with malignant intent, “Kick him! Strangle him)’ Poor halley strove to get the blvodthirsty repre. ives brought to justice by appealing to the #, but his voice was swept away ia a whiriwind umd. Falling in his hopes of redress in this di- he wrote a letter to ihe Times, in which he hinted that a piot was being batched up by the Ro- man Catholics to murcer him, The matter was cought under the novice of the Speaker, who severely rebuked Mr. Whaliey for striving to obtaia redress thiouzh the columus of a newspaper instead of tnrough the House. THE IRISH LAND BILL, This measure coniuues to drag its slow length along with @ tedionsness thatis causing Mr. Giad- Sone almost to lose heart. So tardy is its progress tha: many people are beginning to think that only one-haif of it will be passed into law this session, ‘The bill, according to the lawyers, has been very badly drawn, and is much too long. Experienced draughismen aver that its clauses might have been compressed into one-half of their present buik, and that, had thts course been followed, the advancement of the bill would have been very materially promoted. Nor 1s the loose construc!ton of tne bil the only difilculty which Mr. Gladstone has to contené with; he is sadly tm need of an abie lieutenant to do for him ta the case of the land what Mr. Sullivan last year did for him in the case of the Church, Asit is he is compelled to rely almost entirely upou Lisown resources, Mr. Bright i3 away; Mr. Lowe ts preciuded from joiming tn the debates by his strongly conservative opmions upon the land question, and the other members of the Ministry in the Lower House are profoundly ignorant upon the subject. Had it not been for Mr, Chichester Fortes- cue’s vanity c’ever Mr. Sullivan might have been retained (9 have fought the battie of the bi'l, but the irish Chief Secretary gave him # judgeship in order to become more prominent himself ta the debates, and as he is intellectually very weak the rid gnences are coming every day tié more deplor- able. Mr. Bright 1s beginning to fear that the first part of the bill, which relates to the law of compensa- uon to tenants, will be all that will be passed this session, and that the second part, of which he js (ie author, and In which he 13 the most direct'y in- terested, will be sacrificed, This second part reiates to the sale of land to tenants, and was inspired by Mr. Bright, with the view of taking the tirst siep toward the realizat‘on of his pet scheme of a peasant pro- ietary. Several members of the Cabinet, including Ir. Lowe ana some of the Peers, huve rogarded thia propes.l very coidly from the first, and none will be more delighted than they will to sce obstacles thrown in the way of its realization. Mr. Bright, who sees that there ts grcat fear of th nd that his continued absence from the Cabt- iabling his more conservative colleagues to erything their own wey, ts said to be bota y and dissatisfied. Were tu not that his seces- sion at the present time would endanger not only the existence of the Land bill, but would: vastly weuken the stability ot the Ministry, he would at cuce insist upon Mr. Gladstone accepting his resige nation. He has already tendered it, but the Premier is t_o wise to allow him to retire at a crisis like the present. Perhaps when the Land bill 1s ent in two gud the first half sent up to the Lords maiters will be brought toanissue, Meanwhile there is much speculation in political circies, Crime and Punishment—Naval Defence of the Australian Const. » A Parliamentary return states that the following numbers of convicts wore in the under mentioned prisons on the 1st March:—At Chatham, 1,425; at Porismcath, 1,081, and at Gibraltar, 494, ‘the death is announced, in hts Dinety-third year, of Mr. James MoQueen, F. R. G. 8. In early life Mr, on Was a West India planter, and became pro- ricior of the Glasgow Courier, in which he ably de- fended the West India inter ‘The tron-clad turret sulp Cerberus, 4 guns, 250 horse tied at Chatham for service in Australia, 1e Will be employed for the ‘defence of Mel- ? was undocked on the completion of her power, where bourne, outit. IRELAND. Religion, Crime and Fatal Accidente—Fenian News from England. Mr. Cairnes, J. P., a brewer of Drogheda, has given £1,000 to the Sustentation fund of the Irish Disestablished Church. The Belfast and North of Ireland Exhibition, in connection with the Working Men's International Ex- hibition, was opened. : Mr, John Levy, a well known bankruptcy lawyer, dropped dead in Dame street, Dub)in. A Special commission will be Issued for the trial of the persons charged with agrarian* offences in Meath couniy, A petty ofticer in the British navy, named Buckley, fell from the cliffs in front of the Coastguard station at Rochespotnt, Cork, and was killed. The decree for the dissolution of marriage in the Nee and Vivian divorce case was made abso- ate, A boiler exploded at Macken's mills, Poolbeg street, Dublin, Killing a boy named Quigley anda min named Gavin, a laborer, and injuring tive others sever Two are not expecied io recover. The boiler and machine house were blown into the air. Quigley was buried beneath the bouer, The owner himseii was slightly scalaed. The Cork Herald, of May 20, speaking, in a tory of view, of Fenianism, says:—“Tue Fenians i and are just at present engaging a co: ofthe attention of the English police. From London we hear that there isan unaccountable stir among the brotheriood inthe metropolis, and that the Irish population are well armed, while Liverpoo! advices represent the local branch as swarming with mformers In league with the authorities.” The represcatative ov tne elder branch of the an- clent aud royal ho: of the O’Briens of Thomond, the Hon. Mrs. Stucley, died May 19, The head of the family now is Sir Lucius O'Brien, Lord Tneniquin, he Lord Lieutenant and the Countess Speacer visited tie North of Ireland Working Men’s Exhibi- tion at Belfast, The Corporation presented his hx- ney with an address, in which they informea that “since the census of 1261 the population of the city has juereased from 120,000 to 180,000.’" SCOTLAND. Embarking for Emigrants America, {From the Edinburg Scotsman, May 13.) The navigation of the ports and rivers of Sweden aud Norway having become open, and these coun- tries, for the most part, being now clear of snow, emigration to the United States and other paris of North America has assumed a lively aspect at the ports of embarkation, and already promises to be more extensive thin m any previous year. Greater facilities have also been afforded ior their convey- ance by some of the principal shipping com- pantes In Glasgow at very cheap rates. The emi- ranis in Scandinavia, having been conveyed from their homes, are embarked on board @ steamer and landed at Granton or Leith in from thirty-six to flity hours. They are then seat on to Glasgow by a spe- cial train, and thence in one of the companies’ Scandinavian steamers to New York. The time occupied in the entire transit te sede more taan f nm days, during which time they eee, and /alter- wards sent to jaland which they wish to £2 b al & cost for the Whole distance of something 33 than one hali-penny per mile, ‘The steamer whicu arrived at Granton on Monday night bal above 700 emigrants, and still greater numbers are alrealy hooked for fature vovnges. ‘Tho steamer which arrived at Leith on Sunday had + abso @ good complement, EGYPT. National Finance—The Budget Exhibit. fro’n the Memorial Dipiomatique, May 19.] When the late loan was contracted by the Viceroy of Fyypt, trough the medium o/ the Paris Comptoir @Escompte, the detractors of Ismail Pacha alleged that the money was required to fill up the void ta the Treasury caussd by his prodigality, and that It was only ostensibly raised, on the security of his rivate property, to elude the firman which forbids im to borrow funds for the State without the aii- thority of the Sultan, ‘To put an end to those maie- volent insinuations the Khe live has now Just charged his Mintsier of Finance to present to the Assembly of Notables, sitting at Cairo, the results of the last Budget, which comprises the period between the Lith of April, 1869, and the Ist of April, 1870, The receipts are shown to have amounted to 100,460,142 francs, and the expenditures to 152,665,063 francs only, 80 that the large balance of 37,795,074 francs remain in tie Treasury. DRESS FASHIONS AT THE ENGLISH COURT. ‘What Was Worn at Quecn Victoria’s Draw- ing Room. The London journals of the 11th of May report the tollowing brilhant scene as witnessed at Queen Vic- torla’s Drawing Room, at Buckingham Palace the day previou: Her sty the Queen entered the Throne Room shortly after three o’clock, accompanied by their Royal Higiinesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the other members of the royal family. In atten lance upon her Majeaty were:— ‘The Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes; the Viscountess Clifden, Lady of the Bedchamber in Wailing; the Hon, Mrs. Bruce, Woman or the Bed- chamber in wing: the fon. Horatia Stopford and the Hon. Harriet Phipps, Maids of Honor in Wait ng; the Earl of Bessborough, Lord Steward; Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain; the Marquis of Ailes bury, Master of the Horse; Lord de Tabley, ‘Trea- surer 0: tie Household; Lord Otho Fitzgerud, Coa- troller of the Household; Viscouat Castierosse, Vice Chamberlita; the 1 r Cork, Master of the Buck- hounds; the Earl of Gan perdown, Lord in Waiting; Goloneh Fynedoon 3urdine., Groom In Waiting; Colonel H. ¥. Puiisonby, Private Secretary; Licuten- ant Colonel Sir John Cowell, Master of the House- hold; Lord Alfred Paget, Cicvkk Marshal; Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge, by gi! 4a Wanlngs Lieutenant General Ff. H. Seymour, Grodai of {he Bowes; the Hon. F, W. Stoplord and the Hon, Fitzroy H. Solace sc., Pages of Honor i Watting. ” ‘The Queen wore a black suk dress with a train, trimmed with crape an.l jet, and a white tulle head- dress, with & long veil surmounted by a diamond crowh, Her Majesty al>6 Wore a diamond neck! :ce and brooch, the Riband and Siar of the Order of the Garter, the orders o! Victoria and Albert and Loulse of Prussia, and the Coburg and Gotha Family 01 Hier Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, train of white satia, trimmed with white c1 tulle, a petticvat of rich white silk with ruches of crépe and tuhe, and a tunic of crépe looped wiih wh.te flowers. Headdress—a tiara of diamonds With feathors and vail. Ornaments—pearis and dia- mounds, Orders—Vicioria and Albert, Catherine of Russia and the Danish Order, Her Roya! Highness Princess Louise wore a train of mauve moiré tritamed With satin, a tticoat of rich giacé, and a lace tunic trimmed with bows of satin 2nd margueriies, Headdress—feathers, vell and wreath of marguorites and diamonds, Diamond ornaments, and Orders of Vivtorla and Albert, St. deabel and the Coburg and Gotha ramily Order. Her koyal Highness Princess Beatrice wore a white tulle dress trimmed with Isle of Wight lace and pink and white May blossom, over @ pink silk skirt. Ornaments—an emerald and diamond cross attached toa row of pearls, and @ Alamond brooch contulning a miniature of the Queen, OLD WORLD ITEMS. The port dues at Aden hav> been reduced from three to two annas per toa. The tetegraphic line that is to unite England with Egypt makes gratifying progress. The prospects of the coffee crop In Coorg during the preseat season are said to be most favorable, The Chinese Embassy in Burope has received orders from Pekin to return homeward overland through Russia and Siberia. a The Sukkur viaduct on the line connecting th Great Indian Peninsula and the Hast ladian raile ways has been completed, The project of a Catholic University at Madrid, Spain, nakes rapid progress. Twenty distinguished professors are on the list. Tulips are cultivaied in 900 varieties at Paris, The most ancient tulips of all are none the less abundant tn that city. From open we learn that the splendid mines of Almaden have been jeased for a term of thirty years to the house of Rotiscnild for 130 millions of reais. The remains of the Rajah of Be beatae ne who died on nis way to Ensland, were brought back to Bombay and burned at Nassick in the presence of his suns, ¥ “i ‘rhe government have taken up 660 acres of land at Pushinuree, on the San(poora range, in the Cen- tral provinces, for Ure establishiaent of a sauita- rinm. The exports of cotton from the Madras Presidency have increased neariy sixty per cent, since 1866, owing to the opening of the railway to the coiton growing districis. é Three remarkable monuments of the Merovingian era have been lately unearthed in Paris, but, untor- tunately, Wee broken by the implements of the workmen, The Prussian government is now sending quanti- ties of gabions and piles for palisades to the fron- tiers of the Rhine. This looks like defensive fortifi- cation and tallies with the seacost preparations, Sookpilal, the chief of the Lushais, on the eastern frontier of Bengal, has promised to move his vil- lages, 80 as to interpose between the Wild trives and the tea gardens in Cacaar, M. Plichon, the new French Minister of Public Works, bas but one arm, whereupon a pitiless Paris wag remarks:—“Well, he can’t dip in with boih hands any how.’’ We have but few one armed oilice holders, The Emperor of Russia is making a brilliant sea- son at kins, The whole town was illuminated on the of his arrival, and the Grand Duke and Prince A nder of Hesse were present to receive him, ‘The populace were very enthusiastic, A universal industrial exhibition is announced to begin at Cassel, Germany, on the 1st of June and last until September. The tain front of the building 1s ‘710 feet in length aud the space covered in is 7,200 square feet. The recent rains in the Punjab, Oudh and the Northwest provinces have materially improved the condition of the couutry. Hail storms have dam- aged the crops in some diswicts, but the gencral average has been Improved. It is rumored that, during the Czar's brief sojourn in Kerhn, the King of Prussia said a good word to him in behalf of the German provinces of Russia, which have petitioned for the preservation of their language, their religion and their laws. The Workingmen’s Union of Nuremberg, Germany, has proiested against the proposed electoral law re- stricting the right of voting to persons over twenty five years of age, and -making thirty the earliest for eligibility to oilice, nish-GeimMan Railroad, between Altona and ved nearly 2,000,000 of passengera last 9,000,000,.cwt. of freight. It has just de- clared & seven per cent dividend, with coistantly inereasing business. The German provinces of Russia have received oficial hints that their claims to speciat privilege do notrest upon international law, but that they are governed by the fixed statutes of the Russian empire. Short and sharp. . The Marseillaise, of Paris, states that its former editors, Rochofort and Grousset, now imprisoned in Sainte Pelagic, have been notified by the warden that unless the articles signed “Dangerville” and “No, 444"? do not cease to appear in their paper they Wii be put m solitary coniinement. The official statistics of Bremen state that the value of the imports of Bremen in 1869 amounted to 103,312,677 thalers, and that of the exports to 94,918,619 thalers. Henee the value of the entire trade Of the city was last year 198,231,096 thaiers; im 1863 it Was 183,102,101 thaiers, Another curious case of conscience has just. bene- fited the directors of a bank at Brussels. In January last they received a package accompanied by a letier requesting that the fo until three monihs had When opened at the proper time the encloss 8 found to contain 84,000 francs restored to the bank by a defauiter, “A good deed ina naughiv world.” One of the gayest nooks in Paris ts at the extremity of the suburb of Autcuil, Where the omnibus boats come in from the Seine. Wine shops, pistol galle- ries, concert saloons and pleasure gardens populate the neighborhood, and edibie frogs, sprats, spring chickens and rabbits have a hot time in the adjacent restaurants, Music and mirth are incessant, beneath the blossoming chestnut wees, z, The Viceroy of India lately visited the salt mines at Pind Dadun Khan, when tie mines were bril- hhantly iiuminated and presented a striking spec- tacle. Lord Mayo leit 400 rupees to be distributed among the miners, His Lordship then rode to Jel- laipore for @ shooting excursion among tie ourialy or wild sheep, and was successful in shooting several of these rare animals. At Munich, Bavaria, the people's parity have pe- tidoned the Legislature of the realm to gyant the franchise to all citizens of twenty-one, aud eligibility lo ofice to ali Who are twenty-five years of age; the Deputies to be elected fora two years’ term and so distributed as to give one for every 25,000 inhabi- tants; the number Of electoral districts to. be in- creused from 148 to 164, and the cities of Munich, Augspurg and Nuremberg each to have one repre- sentatives ; land of the Wess. mer should not be opened j NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1870:—TRIPLE SHEET, CURIOSITIES OF AMERICAN LITE- RATURZ. (From, Tinsley’s London Magazine.) Sitting in my little room in this city of cities ,I often feel gratified to think that I have travelled a great deal in what steady going people consider quite out of the way parts of the world, and that the friends and acquaintances I mado during my ab- sence from England do not forget me, Iam assured that they bear me in kindly remembrance by the number of foreign newspapers on my table, sent to me by persons who are utter strangers to each other, but who are brought into an odd kind of companion- ship by the testimonies of their friendship wolch now lle before me. Jones, of Melbourne, and Smith, of New York, are separated from each other by thousands of miles of ocean, and neither 1s aware of the other's existence; but I bring them to- gether in my thoughts, and they Itke each other, for they are both good fellows, Who shall say that no community of friendly feeling exists between thom ? It gives me great pleasure to see the handwriting of my {nends, although 1t is only on newspaper covers, and I read the papers with a groat deal of pleasure, But none of the papers interest. me more than those from the United States; and the reading of those journals suggests cortain reflections with respect to the English language fifty years hence, which I shall not ces down here, as this is not intended for a philological article. Looking over a New York theatrical papor—a paper long established and holding a leading position—I learn from its columns that “business 18 dull at the Salt Lake theatre,” and that “Kat> Denin and John Wilson worried through the holidays with ‘Ixion,’ the ‘Octoroon’ and the ‘Marble Heart;’ and also that “Bates has secured a lease of the Portland theatre, and is now in town sloshing round for talent.” I am amazed to read, in another page, a clerical chal- lenge for the championship of Alleghany city from the Rev. D, I, K. Rine, pastor of the Second Metho- dist church, who challenges the pastors of the Pres- byterlan chureh and the Plymouth Congregational church to preach for the championship of the city, “if terms can be agreed upon.” ‘The reverend gentieman says that if his challenge ts accepted he sould like 1nmediaie nouce, 80 that he may commence traln- ing. Among the advertisements in this journal I chance upon one in which the members of a firm give their full names and address, and advertise thomselves a3 “manufacturers and dealers in advan- tage playing cards.” The trade Is carried on openly 1a the very heart of New York, jul apy person can thes? marked of ited Bhs wer O8s the colin lay as this paper, which may be suppoeed x some iy to have a certain Hven3¢ for que phrases aid flvertisements of & questionahie character, and I (ake up the leading American news paper, the Now Yous al ay? With the iniention of glancing through its columns. The journal consists of twelve pages of six columns cach, ‘and a great deal of its typo is wonderiully small— much smalier than the smallest I have zeen in the columns of any English newspaper—so small, tn- deed, a3 to cause an elderly lady of my acquaintance toindu'ge 1a many uncomplimeniary and unjust allusions respecting the character of American newspaper Ut_rature, I don’t think there can be any doubt that the New York HERALD realiy has the largest circulation in the wold, though | learn from immense posters on the advertising walls that other papers lay claim to that distinctton, In the firsi column of the paper before me I see under the heading = ‘“Per- sonal’? @ number of adverilsem ents of the same description as those to be seen in the second column of the Times and the last colamn of the Daily Tele- graph, The Personal” column in the HERALD is quite an institution in New York; almost everybody reads it. The fourth advertisement offers “A beau- tiful babe for adoption at 120 Greene street—Minnie Livingstone; and such advertisements as the fol- lowing are common:—‘‘Green cars, avenue A, Fri- day mo:ning—Geaticman who assisted black-eyed lady to seat, and then sat opposite, de- sires her acquaintance. Address J. Broschardt, box 1,361 ost Uilice.”” — “L,—A thousand thanks for your sweet note, Your confidence shall not be beirayed. You will hear from me shortly. L, Constant.’ “The lady in Fifth avenue stage, last Wednesday morning avout ten, with smail {eet, newly shod, will con‘er a great favor by addressing C. A. D., No. 2 Amity sireet,” A little reflection might have induced tho last advertiser to change his initials, © A D spell a very unpromising word, which does not recommend itself to a lady, especially when her feet are referred to as if they belonged to a iwrse, In the second column, under “Specia! Notices,” we are informed that the operative masois of New York and vicinity are on strike, in consequence of a reduction of their wages from four dollars and a half to four dollars per day; aud a htt.e lower down, under “Sporting—Dogs, Birds, &c.,” 1s this curious advertisement:— “All kinds of fancy dogs and birds forsale, Medicines for all diseases. Prepared food for mocking birds, at B. Dovey’s No. 3 Greene street, corner of Canal. N, B.—Ladies attended to py Mrs, Dovey.” If by “ladies”? female dogs and birds are meant, the dell- cacy of the Doveys cannot be too highly commended, The lady patients themzelves must feel sensitively rateful for the consideration extended to them. nder the mootings “Lost and Found” and “Re- wards, in the third column, a wan adveriises the loss of nearly $4,000 in gd hea and announces that “the finder can retain what he tiinks just and return tho balince.” Four or tive arivertisors offer large rewards tor property stolen from them, and pledge themselves to ‘ask no questions; and a gen- teman offers a rewara of twenty-five dollars for a stolen watch, and says that “the watch being prized aa a relict 1a of more value than its intrinsic worth, and therefore appeals to the finer feel- ing of the party who has possession of it’? The second page is filled with adveritss lodging houses, hotels and amusements; among the latter 1 chan upon the familar lames of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul, and fechter and Miss Leclereq, who all appear to be prospering in tne Oa the third page is commencad the news of the day. The first two columns are political, the chie! kems in which are debates on “The I Conspiracy Plot.” In the report of the second Session of tue Lorty-first Congress of the House of Representatives, in Washington, a debate on the repuiaiion of the nattonal aebt cause a smart firing between two members, Mr. E drldge, com- menting upon Mr, Goliaday’s speech, sald that the course Mr, Go!laday pursued was rather cowardly, Mr, Golladay, in a towering passion, replied that Mr, E.dridge hada right to form his own estimate of What constiluted cowardice; but if that gentleman desired it there were other theatres (meaning pinces) on which he might show his bokiness. To this ho! rejoinder Mr. Eldridge (after the manner of Picks wick) suid that he only reterred to cowardic? in de- bate; whereupon, ciszus'ed with such shuttling, Mj Goiladay defied his opponent ‘noraily, socially, po- litically and inieilectualiy,”” which detlance being re- ccived with pusilianinous meekne?s by Mr, Eldridge it may be assumed that Mr, Golladay remained the victor, Then follows.a meeting on “Woman’s Suf- frage,” one of the sub-headings of the report being “The Strong-Minded on Their Muscle.” The meeting dces not appear to have been a successful one in jolat of numbers, O1 eleven women being present, But though the tongt were few, they were power- The first resolution was that, ‘Whereas it is savely argued as against the right of woman to the alot that she is incapable of bearing arms, there- fore resolved, Thatalthough women generally are not fiited to serve as soldiers in case of war, yei history, sacred and profane, affords proof that woman in [shed national contingencies has saved the State by ier military skillon the fleld of battle; also, that the hospital and home services during a war are as essential to victory as the destructive work of man in the field.” The H&RaLD sayg that Mrs. Blake (evi- ey one of the great guns of the movement) “in a lengthy argument of one hour's duration reviewed the whole story of the world;” 9 feat which may be consideied a3 Lelie hitherto ‘unparalleled. In‘ the course of the meeting a letter fof a lady sympy- thizer in Paris was read, in which the writer says that the women in America were oppressed by “soclal slavery. In France there 1s not so much of socal siavery. Custom is king, and tie custom is to do as you please.” ‘The letter conc'udes with, “T watch witit tterest the efforts of my sisiers in the ments of States to secure a recogmtion of their rights, and I think that’ from the Old World 1 catch a glimpse of the coming day. God speed the an of reform! Succeeding the mecting are two articles—Torribie Calamity” and “Black Diabolism;” and on the fourih coiumn ig commenced an account of Prince Arthur's visit to New Yo: We are told that the first thing the Prince did on arriving at Jersey City was “to smilie becomingly upon the vacant atmosphere about him.” He was cheered and mobbed, but neverihe- less “his ayoirdupois was not so burdensome that it prevented him getting into a carriage.’’ Then he mace his way to New York, had dinner, went to Niblo’s theatre to see Fechter and furnished the HERALD reporter with his opinions on the United States, Of course he was amazed and delighied with everything he saw; especially “was h» very much taken by the styles in which the ladies dress, with their fashions, their pretty conceiis and their dashing abandon. He has also been amused at some of the costumes.” When he entered his box at Niblo’s “he was In @ moment pler by the barbed glances of a thousand e; but,” says the HERALD, “he guailed not.’ After the first act te band played “God Save the gees “The Prince was iastantly on his f his party rose; the audience began to cheer; wild enthusiasm swept over the assemblage and there was heartfelt tumuit and uproar. Then the applause slackened, hisses were heard, and tiose too cowardly to insit a gen- Ueman to his face took advantage of the mean se- clusion of a public throng to act the base part of po!- troons and hiss ata young man because it was iis misfortune to bea prince!’ Then follow accounts of raliway accidents, a robbery by a “sneak thief” bn capital name) and a “lenian Demonstration in Butialo,” the chief feature in which appeared to be hat “twenty young ladies, dressed in white, pre- sented George Francis rata with a golden harp,” which, it is to be hoped, will do him good. On the last column of the page are a well _wiliten report of the “Removal of tie Remains of George Peavody to the City Hail of Portland’ and the particulars of a niysterious murder. fae fourth page gives an ex+ cellent summary of European news, with copious extracts from Higiish and ereuch papers. The filth page commences in a startling manner, the first words on the first column being “Heli Gate,’ in great gapital letiorms but Hell Gate its sim the name Gren to 2 pemeee in Spe saaserh’ ensrption'ts Now fork harbor, which is Choked up with tremendous rocks. Tt is estimated that it cost $4,000,000 to clear away these rocks, Singularly eno! next to “Holl Gate” comes religious 1 r the paper T am looking over isa Sunday of the HERALD, The New York daliies publish all the year round with the exception of New Year's Day; they labor ot days @ year; there is no rest for type or ma- inery. The fissn column is devoted to the Paris fashion- able correspondent, who is not over-dell- cate in either the matter or the manner of Is correspondonce, He saw Madame do Roths- child in a box at tie opera ; “in her hair she wore a gom ned buiterfty, that seemed ready to fly at every motion of the baroness’ head.” “Hair ig worn low behind the neck ; but the front is much raised, and ornaments are putat the top of this,’ He describes the Tweifth Nignt /étes, aud ‘‘will not omit one for the simple fact of ite having been the fastest, It was @ party composed of eight; and the hidden bean was. Teplaced by a diamond as large a8 a pigeon’s egg. of the value of 90,000 francs. The ladies fend four in number, were of the demt-monde,/ thourh what is denominatea tiptop in their sphere, Their cavallers were of the world proper. A thrill of emo- tion was caused by a diviston of the cake into eight quarters; and no leas sensational was the handing round, The piece containing the gem fell to the share of & gentleman. Hoe was hailed king; after which he chose unto himself a queen. She hap- Pened to be a veryfamed actress; and not only was she made a quecn, but her sovereign presented her with the diamond. She accepted it, torsed tt into the empty champagne obiert ‘before her, where tt out- sparkled the richest Burgundy and the sparkling oscllcs, What sweet music if was to her car when it rattled, and glasses full of liquid touched tho brim of hers! How it twinkled in response to her elated gazel’’ In a leader upon this correspondence the editor says:—"Onr special fashions letter to-day sparkles a}! over with witand hamor and gems ant Jewels, and will thus give , oonso'ation and aie ne a brave on side of the Atlan- ‘The sixth page contains the leading articles, with the exception of one éntitied “The New Age: To What is the World Tending?” They are all short and pithy paragraphs, and aro, as arule, de scriptive, and not argumentative, One paragraph is remarkabie a8 giving the latest proposition for facilitating street travelling and for relievin: over-crowded thoroughfares. It is no less a 8°! than the erecting of a “grand tron arcade, to eXtend the whole length of the city, with three rall tracks on top of the arcade.” The HERALD suggests that the framework of the arcade should be filied with | Nas ko as to form one huge covered street, e last item on the pay is tion of the gold -fish — presented Pope by the young ladies of hattanville Academy of the Sacred Heart. is of fine gold, some eight or ten inches iu length; it was filled with go!d dollar pieces, and in its mouth was fixed a beautiiul diamond ring. On the seventh page we have the “Telegraphic News from all Parts of the Warld “Desperate m Ajray_m Chicag6,” “Strike of the Shoe- makers, ‘tho Nows from the Pacific Coast,” with An account of an apyroaching duel between two Senators in San Francisco, some more shoot- tog by 6. member of the Missouri Legts- lature (the pistol appears to be a strong ar- gument with American politicians), and “a curlous freak of a horse,” narrating how a horse waiked quietiy ihto & house in Greene sirect and “began quickly to ascend the stairs. The first story reached, his horseship quietly gazed out of the window ant continued his ascent to-the second story;’ there he looked out of the window again and mounted to the third story, Then he re: himse'f, and, torning round on a narrow landing, began to descend, the but, “his fore feet ipping, he went whack through the gash of the second story win- dow, thrusting his head and shoulders out and Piper ne @ very contented appear ance.’ After this amusing’ narrative come the Eu. ropean markets, reports of lectures and an account of a tragedy in Virginia, where ‘‘a lady was killed sitiing 1n @ room surrounded by her children,” » Half a coiumn of news from Cuba foliows, and then the HERALD gnotes @ paff of itself from a paper in the couniy uf Otsego, The puff concludes thus:—“The circulation of the HERALD is rapidiy increasing, and @ perusal of its colnms of spicy and nowsy in- telligence is a suMcient recommend of its ts.” We afterwards learn that great re- trenchments are being made in the naval service, and that between 3,000 and 4,000 men have been discharge’ from the dockyards. In the anmtusement column the news is detailed in this Wise, without comment:—“Pattt is warbing in St. Loulsy’ “Brignoli is chirping in Memphis;” “The Thompsonian Biondes are in Cincinnati.” Patti ts sister of our Patti, and the Tiompsonian Blondes are the Lydia Thompson troupe, which ‘has cre- a'ed such a sensiton in America, Then an ac- count of @ dramatic dress rehearsal, under the dt- rection of the Art Committee of the Sorosis. The Sorosis is a fashionable society formed quite recently by ladies for the advancement of woman’s rights, In the last column of the page is a remarkable paragraph, modestly worded, concern- ing the grain trade of Minnesota. The export of grain from that place in 1269 was 130,000 bushels; in 1869 it was 8,799,450 bushels—an enormous in- crease, At the foot of the page are afew advertise- ments, one from the mad-brained (or something worse) George Francis Train, being worded thus:— “fhe Prince Arthur Bail Flunkies!!! Stop him! Throw him into Fort Lafayette until every American citizen ts released from English dungeons and Ala- bama claims paid. Pay or fight. Reiease citizens or War! Hear George Francis Train at Tammany to- night.” In another part of the paper appears a dif- fervently worded advertisement from the same agt- tator:—“George Francis Train at Tammany this (Sunday) evening, on Old Fogies of the Bible; Con- cupiscence, or Mental Adultery (St. Paul); the Prince Arthur Bail Fiunkies, Death to England!” The eighth page 1s filled with exciting matter— copious news from Brazil, Haytinnd St, Domingo; fioronnts of panel” robbertes (ihete are numbers of izing houses im New York the walls of which are made of movable panels. When the lodger is asiee) the thief enters the room through the wall, an gutetly appropriates anything of value there may be in the sleeper’s pockets, sometimes replacing good bank notes with forged ones to the same amount, ‘The victim seldom discovers his loss until he has left the house); and police intelligence reported in tis fashion:—“A young woman, who sald she was twenty-two years of age, but looked only ninetecn, inthe custody of @ police officer, was brought before Aluerman Moore. She was bonnetless and miserably clad, and her luxuriant flowing fair hatr fell im clusters over her shoulders, and was parted over an unusualiy broad. prettily arched forehead. Her features were of the keen, sharply cut Grecian style of beanty; and asshe rested her head in the palms of a small, iadylike hand the glitter of her wedding ring and keeper were Ue) seen on her thin tapering iingers. The tears fell through her tingers on to tie bar,” &c. This meres isheade, “The Last Best Work of Heaven.” The poiice stations of New York arc suggestively calied “The Tombs.” Then follow “Suicides,” ‘A Delaware .Mystery—Body of an Unknown young Lady Found; and “Matrimonial Brokerake--$2,000 for a Husband,” recounting how an elderly gentleman bargained with a lady to give her $2,000, & piano and a goid waten If she succeeded in Inducing another lay to marry him; and how, aiter martying the other lady, living with her and burying her, he is sued for the $2,000, the piano and the gold watch—the price of his dead wife, Robberies, mur- ders, the unimasking of hypocritical “reverend gen- tlemen of the coloreL persuasion,” and reports from the vaiious courts of justice, fll up the remaining space in the eighth page. y On the ninth page, after an account of an indigna- tion meeting of the clgar trade, the members of which are furious because the full measure of protec- tion 1s not meted out to them, comes reports of the Erie Railway strike and intelligence trom the sub- urbs. From this latter we learn that it 1s not an un- common occurrence in New York aud its vicinity for criminals to be wrested from the hands of justice after sentence 1s passed. Two notorious scoundreis having been Tound guilty and sentenced, the HERALD says:—“In order to prevent the rescue of Rogers and O'Neill, who received such heavy sentences for burglary on Friday, a strong guard was piaced in and around the jail on Friday night. This precaution will be continued till the prisoners are removed to the State Prisoa. quads of New York roughs visited Hudson City yesterday, and great vigilance will be required to tuwart their orate a Lae Sera Giass er. Js singular fro, ft sclosure of the oir. Dirt ith a he uatear regal the ‘adel opular drink in America, and the keepers of drink- jug saloons in Newark have combined to resist the action of one of the most extensive brewers in the city, who has reduced the pri of his beer from ‘ten to eight dollars’ per barrel, This lece of enterprise, which we England would hail with satisfaction, “was the subject of severe de- nunciation.”” The brewer found himself one day among a company of beer retailers and upon asking them to drink with him, received the reply:—‘tNo; we won't drink with you, or any other swaidier who Sells beer for eight dollars instead of ten.”? The beer- drinking public, however, are beginning to take a slight interest In the movement; «aud there is some humor in the concluding seutences of the arti- cle, which state that consumers would not be averse to a reduction in the price, or, at all events, to @ re- scinding of the order given by the saloon keep- ers ‘to their barmen, to tiold "tm hand down; make more bubb’es.’ In other words, they might give more beer aud less froth.” A barman or maid who blows oi the froth ang then refilis the pot wouid evi- dently not be popular with American publicans, Exhaustive fnancial and commercial reports come next, and then three-quarters of a colunm advocating the constructioa of a ship canal between the Atianiic and Pacific Oceans, across the narrow lands of the American Con nent, ‘The conclading item on the page is amat monial advertisement trom ‘a well educated, kind- hearted, middie aged lady, of the highest respecia- bility,” Who is left “without friends, but not without means,” aud who pines for the acquaintance + gentieman of the sauie qualities, and not under f eight years of age.’” The tenth page is the last page of news, and com- rises murders, trials for wurder and shipping mtol- igence. The heading of a murder is as folows:— “A Brutal Murder—A Wanton Tine! Kills an Old Man in the Presence of his Childreu—No Provocation— The Viclin, the Prisoner, the Wounds and the Weapon!” ‘The last two pages are tilled with adyer- tisements of the usual variety. In jooking over them we make the a-quaintance of two astrological ladies, one of whom, Madame Ross, 2s pact, present and future;’ and the other, “tne original Madame Byron, Spiritualist, causes. spevdy inarriages,” the charge to ladies being only one dollar; that to gentlemen, as 1 13 nob staied, being, perhaps, fimilar to the oid cab tare, * you piease, sir,” as Punch says. The paper L haye-glanced through is of recent date, and is aiair specumen of the best class of America newspaper literature. The NEW Youk UsKaco 9 as great a power in America as the Zines fe in Britain; Dut there 1s a marvellous duteren tween the two journals, Thundorer Mipraese its readers with 1s loglo, tte earnestness, and ite und seriousness; while the American Thun- rer pokes its readers in the ribs, cracks them across the head, tickles them in thelr tenderest parts, and every day presents them with hignly- colored materials for any number of thrilling melo- dramas and sensational novels, THE ENGLISH STAGE, American Actors and “Bogus” Americans on the Lendon Boards—How They are Manufac- tured from Foreign “Walking Gentle men”—A New Drama and Scenes Off the Stage—Who and What. Loxpon, May 21, 1870. Mr. Willis’ homely ttle play, called “Tho Mam 0’ Airlie,” is now being performed at the Globe thea- tre with a success far from proportionate to the merit of the representation, the house being but very thinly attended, whereas the acting, in some of the parts, at all events, is exceptionably good, This drama, though not particularly well written, i eym- metrically constructed, and displays more than common skill in the delineation and concrast of character. The story, which is of the simplest, tllus- trates the sad career of James Harbeil, a Scottish bard, whose. fine intellect gives way beneath the Pressure of undeserved misfortune, He its cruelly betrayed in’ friendship, and, though par excellence the poet of the people, he is neglected and doomed to want by the fickle multi- tude who delight in his songs. He disappears from the busy haunts of men and for twenty years keeps wandcring among the mountains, living there 18 no knowing how—probably on gorse plossoms and wild ferns. ‘You cannot feed capons so.” When he ia believed to be dead everybody discovers tnat he was the finest fellow that ever lived. One bright sum- mer’s day, when a statue erected in his honor in hia native village is on point of being unveiled, the pocs appears upon the scene—wan, haggard and spocirelike—and is recognized by some of the older Inhabitants, who overwhelm him with, adulation. The revulsion of feeling caused by this mantfesta- tion is too much for the luckless bard, who sinks lifeless at the base of the stone figure reared in homage of bis genius, It is due to Mr. Herman Vezin, who impersonates the hero, to syy that he surmounts this and all other diMculties with creditablo skill, and that his péer- formance of the dowastricken bard is original in conception and most artistic in all particulars of execution, Mr. Vezin is an American by birth, and though he cannot be said to have reached the high- est rank in his professtom, he has nevertheless acquired a position which does honor to Limself and his country. Similar praise may be awarded to Mr. Chippendale, of the Haymarket, who also hatls from the other side of the Atlantic, and who is admitted the very best representative of the Fine Old English Gentleman upon the London stage, But of the so- called “American” actors established in this country, or in the habit of visiting it, how few there are to whom any measure of commendation can be con- scientiously conceded ! No country in the world has amore brilliant galaxy of actors than the United States, nor is there of English-speaking nations any other in which the drama flourishes more prosper- ously. These are facts of which the English people, with the exception of those aniong them who have visited the United States, have no conception. Form- ing their estimate of American actors from the speclinens Who appear from time to time in London, they conclude—no unjust inference from such pre- mises—that they are a “sorry set,’? - Of the performers—whether tragic, comic or melo- dramatic—who, professing to be Americans, appeat as such upon the Loudon stage, not one in twenty has @ legitimate claim to be so described. The re- maining nineteen are English, Scotch or Irish, who, buving fuiled in their own countries, take a trip to the United States, where, perhaps they obtain employment on the stuge either as walking gentleman (should we not rather say walk- ing “silck 7?) or as mere supernumeraries. After au absence of some years they assume & LeW La tlonality, and affect thrive in transatiantio “stars.” Disregarding the classic maxt™, “Celum non animum mutant qui trans mare ourruni,” they tancy themselves true Columbians; pretend not to know their way from Charing Cross to Fenchurch streot, and speak vauntingly of their triumphs in tne'r native land “beyond the briny.” That these “dutfers” should bring discredit upon themselves is a matter of very small consequence; but that they should bring American actors into disrepute is ai other anda far more serious question. Itis time that the London public should understand the true state of the case, which is simply uhis, that the vast majority of so-called “American” performers who fret aad fume their hour upon this si are British- ers who, having broken down upon the British stage, have gone abroad, Changed their names and come home with the prestige of rh) reputation purcly imaginary, even as South Alrican sherry is sometimes sent on a voyage to come back Madeira. | The remainder ure, generally speaking, genuine Yankees, who wonld be thought nothing of in New York or Philadelphia, but whom “Circumstance, that unspiritual god and miscreator,” has flung upon the London stage, where, being strangers, they receive a weicome. Now aud then, at very remote intervais, we do ind on the banks of the Thames a true American artist worihy of the name, such, for examp.e, as Mr. Jeft.erson, Mr. Clarke, Mr. VesAn and Miss Bateman, but these phenomena are of very rare occurrence, aud only serve as excepilons to the all but universal rule that so-called “American” ac- tors are counterfeits, are shams, and for thia reason, that good actors @ nothing to gain from a visit to Engiand, In their own country they com- mand salaries such as the most successiul of actors upon the London stage could not hope to enjoy; therefore they stay at home, aud in so doing slow their wisdom. A new draina, in four acta, by Mr. Charles Reade, illustrative of the life struggles of a skilled workman in the North of England, and founded upon Mr, Reade’s story bearing tie unimusical title of “Put Yourself in his Place,” is to be produced at the Adeiphi next wi Mr, Reade’s dramas are for the most part very heavy and indigesiable, After wit- nessiug one of tiem, such, for example, as “Never ‘Too Late to Menu,’ you feel as if you bad dined on underdone pork and supped on soap aud sawdust, with slices of corkwood as intermediate refreshment. The very titie of tho new piay is enough to terrify one. “Put Yourselfin his Place!’ Why shoutd f put myself io the place of a north country workman with ‘unwashed face, horny hands and greasy “cords?” I am bad enough as lam, Lobject to put myseM in the place of any man unles3 one who has £10,000 a year in consols, a house in Grosvenor square, an estateln Kent and a shooting box in the Highiands. Miss bateman, after a tour in the States occupying nearly eight mouths, has returned to London, @nd 19 to appear at the Oiympic on Monday next tn her celebrated character of Marg Warner. Sir John Vanbrugh’s old comedy of the “Relapse” is being played in an cmasculated form, under the title of “The Man of Quality,” at the Galety theatre. The piece has been compressed from five into three acta, and in the attempt to clear the text from the weeds of ne Tes not a few of the flowers of wit have been pulled up. - The present version is as virinous as the most puritanical of audiences need Peguire, but 1 is beyond endurance tame, Mr. Alfred Wigan eae eae a of as pe with fastid- joys conceit, and pregents an amusing portrait, # f ae Su ly of ak Std beat of William Lil.’ tine, bat the other parts are wretchedly performed, the actors of the Gaiety company being quite at sca in old knglish comedy. At the Alhambra sensational gymnastics have reached the very acme of horror. A boy, @ member of the marvellous Hanion family, fings bimself off a trapeze on a level with the topmost gallery of one of the lofiiest buiidiags in London, aud would inevi- tably be smashed to pieces were it not that in ha headiong descent he is caught by a brother of his who happens to be swinging, head downwards, upon horizontal bar in mid-air, A performance at Drury Lane on the 14th inst., under the patronage of the Prince and Pr.ncess ot Wales, passed off with éclat, Mi. Buckstone's comedy of “Married Life’? and ‘The School lor Scan- dai” were the plays performe. ‘The entertainment, which was under the manage- ment of Mr. Sothern, resulted in improving the ex- chequer of the C ¢ to the amount of £862 103. “J never rains but it pours.” “Frou-}rou’? has already possession of three stages—the Princess’, the Olympic and the St. James. At the last named theatre, on Wednesday evening, the American edition will be produced as transiuted and dramatized by Mr. Daly, of New York. In this new version Miss Hazlewood will play Gilbert, aud Miss Sarah Thorne Louisa, Mr. Richard Saker, a& comedian of no small promise, is reported as having died at sea on board the Hindostan, off Point de Galle, on nis way home from Melbourne. He was nearly all his lite at the Theatre Royal, Edinburg first as call boy, then utility actor, then light comedian, and finally stage mauager. ‘Two years ago he left his bleak nortuera home in search of health in niore gental iatitudes, setting at Melbourne. is forte was eccentric comedy. He was oniy twenty-eight when he died. RELAPSING FEVER, This disease has made ils reappearance among the poorer classes in this ctty, especially among those who live in entire disregard of all hygtemic laws. ‘ihe latest cases reported come from the region of the shanty settlements on West Fortieth street, be- tween ‘Tenth and Rleventh avenues, where Assistant Heaiti inspector Dr, Tanszky found several children and grown persons afflicted with It, and ascertained also that during the mterregnum of a monih be- tween the death of the old Board of Health on tie ‘Ist of May end the coming into full power of the new Bourd in Juse a mumber of similar cases had ode curred in this ne.ghborhoud.