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4 EUROPE. Mr. Ashbury’s Banquet to the Yachtmen. Fashionable Movements to and from Egypt. Disraeli and Smith, or the Ex-Promier and the Professor. THE BOLTON “MASQUERADERS” TRIALS, Lord Derby on Charity, Intemper- ance and Pauperism. By the Onnard mail steamship Tarifa'at Boston we Teceived our European files and correspondence, em- bracing interesting details of our cable news tele- grams to the 8th of June, at an early hour yesterday morning. ‘Yhe Inman steamship City of London, from Queens- town on the 10tn of June, delivered a European newspaper file package at the HuRap building at three o’clock yesterday afternoon. The papers are dated to her day of sailing from Ireland. ‘The London journals of the 8th of June announce “Mr. Ashbury, the owner of the Cambria, gave a amner on Thursday evening before to Mr. Douglas, of the Sappho, at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond. The company included the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Longtellow, Commodore Lee, Lord Willtam Lennox, Lord Borthwick, Viscount Gort, Mr. Chadwick, M. P., &c. The Prince of Wales and Mr. Bennett, of the New YorK HERALD, were unavoidably absent." A Paris letter of June 7 reports the following intel- ligence from the fashionable circles:— Prince Napoleon iutends to undertake a long voy- age to Egypt, and to proceed thence to Cochin China. Princess Clotilde, I beiieve, is going to spend the season at Eaux-Bonnes. Count de Trani, brother of the ex-King of Naples, and related by affinity to the Emperor of Austria, has made his with Victor Emanuel, through the agency, it understood, of Je Comte de Beust, and has been restored to his property. The eldest son of the Viceroy of Egypt is about to make a tour in Western Europe, and will visit more poaady the Court of Austria, to respond to'the Witation which his Apostolic Majesty gave him orally at the inauguration of the Isthmus of Suez. A similar compliment was paid him by the Empress of the French, who has preserved the most agree- able remembrance of the ficent hospitality she received at the hands of the Viceroy, Nubar Pacha, tne Egyptian Minister of,Foreign Affairs, will leave Parts lor Vienna to meet the Prince, who isto arrive via Varna and Hungary. Miners continued to leave Cornwall in large num- bers for America, Australia, &c. The emigration agents were weekly receiving scores of applications. Most of the copper mines in Cornwall were 1n difi- culties, Much anxious speculation prevailed among the Engush farmers as to the character of the forthcom- ing crops. Writing from Knaphuill farm, Surrey, Mr. T. C, Scott concludes thus:— We shall bave a good crop of wheat notwithstand- ing the severe ravages of the wire worm and slug. We shall have a ligt crop of barley, because it has been f cniag ra by Ule sun and scourged by the wireworm, rom the same causes oats will be a light crop. Winter beans have a miserable appearance, arising from the long continuance of bleak and wet weather in winter. All these cereal and pulse crops will come much sooner to the sickle than was anticipa- ted six weeks ago. The Chamber of Agriculture Journal (London) makes the following remarks on the agricultural “prospects:— Owing to the continued drought and the discour- aging reports received ‘of the crops generally the grain trade has ruled very firm, especially as regards spring corn. Wheat has been’ very firmly heid by farmers and the supplies on sale have been very scanty. Trade has therefore been of quite a retail character throughout the week. From Yorkshire it is stated that the conaition of the land is one of complete dryness. The whole of the early sewn turnips are lost, and farmers asa Tule are quite puzzied what to do, ‘The reports from Austria and Hungary as to the harvest are mos: sat.sfactory, while on the Rhine only a middling crop, even in the most favorable case, is to be expected. ‘Tne town council of Wiesbaden has imposed a tax on all visitors who remain one week in iheir town, on the pretence that the municipality have to incur great expense in keeping up “the promenades, bands, &c., for their recreation."? The elevation of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland (U’Hagan) to the Peerage was hailed with satisfac- tion by the British press, representing almost every shade of politics, and regarded as “‘an important ac- cession to the strength of the liberal ranks in the House of Lords.” Lord Houghton, speaking on the subject of educa- tion at Pontefract, Engiand, said he did not fear that the religious difficulty would cause dissensions in the school boards. “There are some people (said Lord Houghton) who think that when churchmen and dissenters are brought around atable to talk about schoo! education they will immediately set to fisticuffs, and, if not literally, yet morally, try to break one another's heads. 1 do not think they will do that, I think there is nothing like bringing a set of men of different opinions together around one table for a common purpose. I believe that in that case the violent men are driven from very shame to abate their violence and to combine with the mode- rate men for the public good.” The Cork police made a seizure of arms and am- Munition in the store of Mrs. Govenay, whose hus- band is asuspected Fenian. They found 800 weight of gunpowder, a quantity of rifle cartridges and cases, several gun barrels, a sword scabbard and flask, belonging to Captain Kay, Royal Engineers, end @ box of the captain's, containing arms, maps, &0. At the half-yearly meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, in Loudon, the chair- man stated the Suez Canal was not yet in a state to enable the company to derive immediate advantage from it, “‘as there were several minor defects that required to be remedied.” Amecting of the General Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian Church was heid in Belfast. The sus- fentation question of the Ministry was before the mombers. Twenty-two thousand pounds sterling Subseribed; thirty thousand wanted. ‘The marriage of the Marchioness of Hastings with fir George Chetwynd, Bart., was solemnized June 9 at St, James’ church, Piccadilly, in the presence of a brilliant aagemblage. The Journal de St. Petersburg contradicts the {odian news of a contemplated attack on Khiva; var a Kavkas, a semi-official paper, not only the Bembay intelligence, but actually enumerates the troops detailed for the campaign. ‘The expedttionary force consists of 5,000 men, re- cently a from Petrovek, on the western shore of tke Oaspian. The Viceroy of Egypt will visit Constantinople in July to mgke Bis peace with the Sultan. DISRAELI AND SMITH. “a ann Professor to the Ex-Premier. . Goldwin Smith presents his compliments to the editor of the Daily ‘aph (London), and begs ve to enclose a copy of a letter whicit he has ad- [ressea to Mr. Disraeli as the author of ‘‘Lothair.”’ CORNELL UNIVERSITY, and N. lay 26, 1870. Sm—In yourTothair’ you introduce an Oxford Professor who is about to emigrate to America; and Pi be him as ‘a social parasite.’ You’ well now that if you had ventured openly to accuse me of 4 social bageness, you would have had to an- Swer for your words. But when, sheltering yourself under the literary forms of a work of fiction, you seek to traduce with impunity the social character of @ political opponent, your aspersions can touch po man’s honor; they are the stingless insults af a coward, ¥ ‘our obedient servant, GOLDWIN SMITH. Spe filgne Hon, B. DisRaxut, M. P. the London News, June 8. we to-day a letter which Mr. Goldin Smith hhas addressed to Mr. Disraeli. The author of “Lo. thair” is probably this time convinced that he r een and It eo" Marr “4 yap trange story. mistak Woreat word thattoan be used wity respect to. the of ite contents, ver be a sketches from the of Duchess, of Oardinal , Of auson, } PAINE Oh A ORS CeAgiDg bad Lt, Smith is @ calumny, more ridiculous than ‘What is else most ridiculous in Mr. Disraeil’s fantas- tic story, is not too severely rebuked by its honect when he denounces tt as the slander of a coward. It recaliy the vituperation of Runnymede, Mr. Dis- raeli haa been 1 ed in many wordy conflicts with Mr. Goldwin Smith. The fact that he has betaken himself, 10 this solitary instance, to poisoned wea- 8, shows @ consciousness of having been foiled and worsted with more legitimate arms. He calls Mr. Golawin Smith @ parasite, because he knows that character to be of all others the most foreign feetings of his Disraelt himself does not, and never did, beltev takes the sting out of its malice. “Coward” ts word which is not ootinarty applicable to Mr, Dis- po he bas sarang i a te case, Eas ie as he may, he cannot escaj stro! hand which brands him with it. He) rf Public Opinion of the Quarrel. The London Times of June 9 thinks it imprudent on the part of Mr. Goldwin Smith to recognize in the character portrayed by Mr, Disraeli in nis ‘Lo- thair’’ an embodiment of his own social opinion and conduct. The London Times of June 10 thinks Goldwin Smith has, in hisietter to Disraeli, shown his “‘accus- tomed unwisdom by appropriating to himself ene of the least flattering characters sketched in ‘Lo- thair.’ Public curiosity, it adds, would be much re- lieved tf the prototypes of Mr. Phoebus and Mr. Pinto would also reveal themselves.”” The London Standard says Mr. smith’s ‘‘violent and abusive letter goes far to confirm the very char- acter which he repudiates. Nothing more weak, more h, More vail Or More arrogant has ever come from Mr, Goldwin Smith himself than his letter to Mr. Disraeli.” : {From the London Telegraph, June 9.) In the letter which Professor Goldwin Smith has addressed to Mr, Disraeli another note offinsult has been struck in a most unseemly squabble. The quar- rel between the Professor and the leader of the con- servative party is of oid standing. Years ago Mr. Smith accused Mr. Disraeli of unscrupulousness; and in his lectures on Pym, Cromwell and Pitt he aimed more than one shaft of neronen at the same occasion of Mr. Disraeli’s accession to the Premier- ship, the Professor published a letter in which the statesman’s early flight from radicalism to tory- ism, his attacks on Peel and his sudden conversion w the conservative principle of household sui wealth of invective to whicn the political writing of were reviewed with @ the age can present few parallels. Returning to tho charge, Mr. Goldwin Smith, in the second edition of his lectures, said that the days of Bolingbroke were not the last time in which “statesmen of easy vir- tue” and “unscrupulous ecclesiastics” leagued them- selves together to attain thelr common ends. Finully, ina public speech, referring to the conduct oi Mr. Disraeli, he said that the Trisn Church was so bad as to require in its supporters “even stronger stimu- lants than fapaticism.”’ To that long string of in- sults Mr. Disraeli replied by sketching, in his ‘“Lo- thair,” an “Oxtora Professor” who was @ democrat on paper and a “sociul parasite” among men, The sketch was bitter, but it was certainly not unpro- voked. Mr. Goldwin Smith, however, 4 so incensed that in a letter to Mr. Disraeli he brands the asper- Sioas of the novelist as ‘the stingless insults of a coward.” Assuredly the two literary rye have e in the most extravagant and doubtiul of competetive examinations, in which the initiative has been taken by the Professor. (From the Pall Mall Gazette, June 8.) The author of ‘‘Lothatr’ perhaps anticipated the attacks of the critics; at least he had a hard word lor them beforehand—‘“the critics, the men who have failed in literature and art,’ He could hardly, however, have been prepared for such an onslaught as that or Blackwood. in 1868 a highly laudatory pineese phy: of Mr. Disracli began to appear in that e. It contrasted him, greatly of course to antage, with Gladstone and Peel, praised him his car or, openness of min “suavity Manner,” ‘force and clearness of rea- soning,” and other qualities of statesmanship, Incidentally Peel was abused for his mistake in not distributing his patronage so as to bind men of ability to the party, and the duty of “uotng something” for rising talent was strongly asserted. This biography Was commenced just about the time when Mr. Dis- raeli became Prime Minister. Only three chapters were printed; the rest never appeared. After an in- terval of two years Blackwood now assalls its ido! as a “madman in plush breeches,” a “jack- pudding,” whose latest novel resembles the ‘‘gin-tn- spired dreams of the assistant of some fashionable ha- berdasher,” and recalis the vender of “old clo’.”” Mr. Goldwin Smith's lunge at “Lothair’ is more intel- ligible. Everybody knew that the professor of the story, “a social parasite,” was intended for Mr. Goldwin Smith, honda not on account of that offensive and absurdly ialse epithet as applied to such &man, but on account o: various minor cir- cumstances with which the character was connected. Mr. Smith, it must be confessed, has never spared Mr. Disracli tn his invectives, but at least he did not, ashe says, shelter himself under the literary forms of a work of fiction. Mr. Disraeli’s aspersions he calis the ‘‘sttngless insults of a coward,” but stingiess is not ¢xactly appropriate, seeing that the Prowessor lias been stung into a very angry reply. {From the London Globe, June 8.) * * * Mr. Goldwin Smith was certainly an Oxford professor, and has emigrated to America, butis he a “social parasite?’ Mr. Goldwin Smith talks of the “stingless insults of a coward.” But why, if there is nothing to write about, write? We think of Byron with his curled lip and thin skin, of Pope writhing as he perused the scalding critiques of his works, which he called his *diver- sions.” Are professors, then, a “genus irritabile”’ as well as bards? What would not Mr. Goldwin Smith have written if pe had lived through the taunts which Mr. Disraeli has, witn perfect manil- ness and s spect, proved to be “stingless” by never having been provoked to call them so’ Mr. Disraeli’s Health. [Special Telegram from London to the Irish Times.] LONDON, June 9, 1870. Mr. Disraelt, after nearly three weeks’ absence, appeared in the House of Commons Ley look- ing remarkably weil. His recent indisposition seems to have entirely passed away, and, judging by the manner in which he conversed with his colleagues on the tront opposition benches, his spirits have lost none of their accustomed buoyancy. ENGLAND. The Boulton Masquernders’ Trin. + {From the London Telegraph, June 8.} The bill against Ernest Bouiton, twenty-two, clerk, and Frederick Willtam Park,twenty-three, clerk, who are charged with conspiring together, and with divers others, to commit a serious offence, and with “disguising themselves as Women and frequenting Places ol public resort so disguised, and thereby openly and scandalously to outrage public decency and corrupt the public morals,” &c., has not yet been returned by the Grand Jury; but it is expected that the witnesses will be taken before them this (Wednesday) morning. The attorney General, the Solicitor General, Mr. Poland, and Mr. Archbald, will prosecute on behalf of the Treasury. The prisoner Boulton will be defended by Mr. Ser- ant Baliantine and Mr. Besley; and Park by Mr. rgeant Parry and Mr. Straight, and Mr. Montagu Wiliams will watch the case on behalf of Mr. Haxell, hotel proprietor, of the Strand. ‘The trial is expected to be commenced on Thurs- day morning. blends The Indictment. In London, June §8, afternoon, the Grand Jury, re- turned a true bil! for misdemeanor against Lord Ar- thur Clinton, Cumming, Boulton, Park, Thomas and Louis Hurt; also a true bill for felony against Lord Arthur Clinton and Park, and against Boulton and Park, and an indictment tor felony against Clinton and Boulton. The trial is on the list for this (Thursday) morn- ing. Svarrants have been granted for the apprehension of the persons not in custody. The Trial On—Cash Aid From a Friend. (From the Cork (Irelana) Reporter, June 10.] At the Central Criminal.Court, London, yesterday, before Mr. Justice Biackburn, Boulton and Park were placed in the dock on several charges of felony. The Attorney General, Solicitor General and Mr. Po- land prosecuted. Sergeant Ballantine defended Boulton and Sergeant Parry defended Park. po prisoners pleaded not guilty to all the indict- ment permeate Parry applied for a postponement of the. trial to next sessions, urging that the prisoners were ignorant of the several charges brought against them, and that they had had no opportunity of pre- paring their defence, and that other parties against whom warrants have been issued were included m the indictments, The Attorney General, who announced his inten- tion of pressing all the charges, ald not oppose the sa og oe? which was granted. it is stated that £5,000 have been sent anony- a the benefit lessrs. Boulton & Park. ‘Tne London @tobe has “‘reason to believe that all the arties against whom fresh warrants were yesterday issued in the women personation case, 80 far from keeping out of reach, were, with the exception of Lord Arthur Clinton, who has been abroad for some time, among the crowd, in or about the court.” Public Opinion. From the Pall Mall Gazette, June 8.) ‘The trial of Boulton and Park ‘3 not a subject on which we wish to write more tin can be helped. But there are things of greater importance ti superficial propriety, andjas it seems not unlikely that an effort will be made to induce the government hem that in disregarding these persuasions they rr ese persuasions the; ‘Will have the support of ait the really decent public, ‘orning contemporaries have enough of Sore tiie Peng oper of Such caggh, Gad We have altcady acen tas this feeling may lead them to counsel a degree of haste and compression in the conduct of the trial which would be highly prejudicial to public morality. It is quite ‘that many fathers who distike being ob! keep thelr morning paper under lock and will be disposed to tako the same line, They will argue that the crimes charged these men are at all events not committed ino pen day, w! unfortunately, the evidence adduced in support of the charge is invested with al! the papnclty that can be given it by @ conspicuous place In the columns of the Times and felegrapn. Is it not better, they will say, that the guilty should be left in the enjoyment of virtual impunity tan that the mnocent should be exposed to the clauce of having their minds polluted by half-understooa hints of "vices of which they had previously no con- ception? They will admit, perhaps, that justice allke to the community and to the accused may demand a full investigation of the allegations against the pri- soners now in custody, but can it be needful to carry the inquiry further, or to put any new prisoners into the dock? Grant! even that what has yet been done will only check the most flagrant forms of the mischief, may it not be better to rest satistied with this qua‘ified success than to go further in an in- quiry, when the conditions under which it secms necessary to conduct it are attended with such seri- ous drawbacks * Nor, we may be sure, will another sort of pressure be wanting. If the government is resolved to see this business out 1¢ must do 80 at the cost of much suffering to people Lora Arthur — Clinton wied as soon as he 18 caught 8 clear from what has already come to light, and it 1s understood that the evidence in possession of the government involves at least one person whose title 1s more than one of courtesy. A scandal of this magnitude is certain enlist & variety of influence on the side of hus! tt op and when to direct entreaty is added the nat dislike of the government to dl: ce Ent 2 in the: estimation of the world by exhibiting the highest classes of society infected with vices which in mod- rate, have been conveniently as- only found in combination with the brutal ruManism, it will easily be may need some resolution on the part of the government to stand by their righteous Di UurpOse. For that it isa righteous punpose no man who will look at the question without bias can possibly doubt. We do not wish to pass judgment on the par- ticular cases which stand for trial this week. Boul- ton and Park may be, for anything that we or the public at large Know to the contrary, unjustly ac- ‘cused.*They may be mere reckless offenders against manly feeling; they may be the unwitting accom- plices or scapegoats of other men’s crimes. But, whatever character gmay be assi to these two performers, it is impossible to doubt that the government have at last laid their finger upon a serious and extensive conspiracy agalast public morals, We call it a con- spiracy because, When a number of men are found associated in a common practice of going about to public being in women’s clothes, as to some of ‘whom there is hardly any room for question that they make the disguise which this dress atfords them a cloak for the vilest iniquity, their acts have precisely that character of (ol acted ‘and concert to which the term properly applies. Such conspiracy will embrace various degrees of guilt, and it is essential for its continuance thac it should on enlisting fresh members. In this last t, perhaps, lies its worst feature. It is of the very nawre of such an organiza- tion that it should aim ‘at extending its area. The panddr must necessarily act the part of a recruiting sergeant. Ina lower rank of life this would have been too dangerous a game to play. It would have ended in placing those who had any position to lose at the mercy of those who had none, By choosing all the accomplices among nominal gentlemen is risk 1s immeasurably lessened, and to carry out this process of selection the arts of the seducer must take the place of more vulgar instruments. ‘The existence of this con- spiracy has been suspected for some time. It has looked on the universities as natural feeding ground, and it has not been the fault of some at least in au: thority there that so few obstacles have hitherto been offered to its development, The tardy prohibi- tion at Oxford of theatrical performances in which women’s parts were piayod by undergraduates might have come carlier if grounds of suspicion been held, as they well might have been, a sufficient motive for precautions which to most people would no doubt have appeared motiveless, Under these circumstances we are justified in saying that there are considerations involved of more importance than superficial propriety. Indeed, whatever injury that can receive it has recelvea aiready. There 1s com- pares little fear of the reports of any future trial eing read by any one who has not a fairly accurate knowledge of the sort of entertainment which he or she is about to enjoy. Enough has been said and written on the subject to make every modest woman avoid, as by instinet, any reference to that part of the newspaper. The annoyance having been inflicted, and the antidote peing alreaay at work, any dislike of publicity which can at ail interfere with the compiete success of this and subsequent prosecutions 1s altogether out of place. The Mordaunt Divorce Case. A mail telegram from Loridon of June 8 reports a3 follows:— The arrangements for the appeal to the House of Lords in the Mordaunt divorce case have been com- pleted, and I understand that it is the opinion of eminent counsel who have been consulted on behalf of the petitioner that the appeal will be successful, and that the ultimate decision must be 4 Mordaunt’s alleged imsanity will not prevent the progress of the suit tor the dissolution of her mar- riage with Sir Charles Mordaunt. All previous de- cisions bearing on the case are opposed to the view of Lord Penzance and his colleague, and in favor of the Lord Chief Baron, who ditered irom the majority of the court. The Financial System—The Bank Returns Fluctuations. The London Financier thinks “a glance at the fiuctuations in the bank returns during the last three years is very instructive. At this time last year the rate of discount was four and a half per ceut and it is now three per cent. The bank then held £17,821,023 in Dulltlon und specie; it now holds £20,494,302. The reserve then Was £9,296,478; It 1s now £12,481,202. At the same time there 18 an advance of £4,000,000 in the government balance, which has risen from £6,064,' to £10,065,809, The question arises whether the ‘all ta the rate of discount should not in the natural course of things have beea more than from four and @ half to three per cent, The amounts of the bullion ana the reserve are almost exactly the same as they were at the beginniug of June, 1368, the totals then held having been £21,290,000 and £12,600,000 respectively. At that time the rate of discount was only two per cent, and now, With a reserve of £12,500,000, the rate is kept upatthree per cent. And here our comparison brings us back to the inflated state of the govera- ment balance. At the commencement of June, 1868, the amount was east and, as we have said, 1G is now £10,005,809, Mr. Lowe's arrangements have had the effect of driving the revenue into the bank to an unheard-of extent, and the bank, being thus rendered ‘master of the situation,’ is enabled to exact an unduly high rate from the public for the use of what is really the public's own money.” “Reds” Fraternity. A Birmingham correspondent sends the following communication to a Dublin newspaper:— An extensive organization, which sprung out of a number of enthustastic meetings recently heid in Birmingham, and which devotes itself to Irish sub- jects, has issued a manifesto. The association directs its attention first to Ireland, because the exigencies of that country most demand it. Action is to be taken on the following subjects:—Irish Land bill, which the association belteves will fail to restore peace and harmony in Ireland; Coercion bill, hopin, expression of public opinion may lead to the repeal of that unconstitutional and iniquitous measure, or shame the government into allowing it to remain a dead letter on the statute book; the political pris- oners, the association considering it a disgrace that polmical prisoners should be allowed to exist ina land so proud of its liberty; and lastly, land and Nberty of for England, The chairman was the Rey. Arthur O'Neil, who suttered imprisonment for Chartism, The Birmingham on Equality and Lord Derby on Charity—Intemperance, Vice and Pauperisin. The Earl of Denby, on June 6, after laying tit foundation stone of the Stanley Hospitat, ariel ri to be erected in Liverpool on a site given by the late Earl, his futher, made some remarks upon the sant- tary and social questions which arise in populous towns. Touching upon the subject of public chart- ties, the noble Lar! observed:— It is, Lam afraid, indisputable that the diMculty of dealing with individual povery and distress le greater Yo a commie nity of some hundreds of thousands than where each family lives among ® few neighbors, all of whom know and are known to one another. Personal aympathy and personal soqualntance are things not easy to do without or to ro- place in the relief of the poor, and in a great mercantile or manufacturing community they will be rarer than elsc- where, not assured suse there {s less benevolence, but Pecqute érery ody lane got his own business to mind, and anybody Knows the name of bis next door neigh- bor, You may, indeed, argue that with so much weaith and prosperity we ought not to have mauy poor; but unhap- pay this 1s not a conclusion that nce verities Where ihere is drunkenness there will always be improvidence— wuperiem, and often things worse than either; we may be mending in that respect—and ft think, on che whole, we are-—-I am afraid it must be ad- mitted that we are still very far from being a temperate where uoskilied labor is much in de- , and where, as in business connected with shippin, and docks, good deal of that demand Is uncertain and fluctuating, you will have, I fear, a class permanentiy on the edge of want. Let sanitarists do what they can—and they can do much—to check the first growth of disease; lot eauca- tionists and sooial reformers exert themselves as {hey will to raise the lowest class of honest laborers into a better posi- tion, we may feel quite sure that as long as any of us live lo esses to cure, and bem ri doctors will have lent persons will not want for objects of legitimate charity to assist. Well then, [think we may assume that if a hospital is = good it will bea of thing anywhere thing here. (Appiause., sil himan institutions a well managed hospitd We one ot the Teaat liable to abuse. ‘There ts absolutely no soom for impos- ture about it. A patient bas no motive for pretenaing to be ill when he fs not, and_if he were to make the attempt he would probably fall. Then, again, though againat the ordi- nary contingencies of lite you may’ fairly expect even a poor mat lo provide, yet the acoldent of being thrown for weeks ‘ont of work, eltier by illness or casualty, and thereby losin; tf meeting even ordinary expenses at a moment ‘ts character as to Justify the application of remedy. So gaia you may pauperise a man— that fs, you may teach bim to depend on begging rather than on working-by helping him over many digiculties, be cause many dificnities are apt to recur, and with them recurs the temptation to beg; but nobody who has been treated for a broken leg ever wishes to break it again merely for the pleasure of being qured (Iaughter snd cheers). ‘There is still another view the cage—that by bringing Nogether the nick apd tae lalgced plexity and difloulty, others, of ‘mind fad an excellent excuse for not help rane It seems, themselves. ter, to say, that If any one eels he has matter of givi wrong if he Seed hospital iu populous an Ml ing ay except fore, worth. whi y ‘duty to perform in he ng, And in perplexed in his eholee, he cannot go foots aa the ser of ha oh ‘a well man- ‘The Fatal Yacht Accident off Hastings—Four- teen Persons Drowned. [From the London Globe, June 7—Evening. Ata quarter to tive yesterday afternoon the pleas- ure yacht Royal Albert capsized, about a mile off Hastings, with fourteen or fifteen persons on board, including George Wenman and Thomas Stichborne, boatmen, The accident was caused by gust of wind. Immediately on the occurrence belng ob- served numerous boats put off to the rescue, the first result being that eight persons were picked up and brought ashore. Among these were two boat- men, The ieg of Mrs. John Chambers, Grange street, Hoxton; Mr. Richards, London; Mrs, Maynard, Vale place, Hammersmith, and of one’ person unknown have been re- covered. Mr. and Mrs. or Hastings, are missing. One of the persons saved was Mr. Archer, jeweller, of George street, Hastings. Amongst those Picked up were a lady and gentleman—husband and wife—who took apartments in the cutter on mae pee vious night, Every effort was used by the mi gentlemen in attendance to restore animation, and they were successtul in the case of the husband. To-day’s Sussex Advertiser says crowds of pepe gathered round the houses whit been conveyed, and the most pi sympathy was manifest both by the townspeople and the visitors. The general impression prevailing was that from fourteen to sixteen persons were on board— indeed, it was stated by some of the spectators that as many as twenty passengers had gone out to sea. A large number of visitors had flocked to Hasti for the day, amongst whom, it ia needless to add, the terrible catastrophe produced a most painful shock. ROME. Irish Clerical Adhesion to the Holy See—Infal- libility and National Devotion. {From the Cork Herald, June 10.) ‘The following 1s the translation of the address re- cently presented to Pio Nono by the Lord Bishop of the diocese—the Most Rev. Dr, Butler, The ad- dress was drawn up by the Dean of the diocese and unanimously adopted by the clergy of his decanate in conference assembled, and signed by the whole— that is, by the thirteen parison priesis, including the Administrator of Abbeyfeale and by thirteen carates ofthe same decanate, it was subsequently adopted at the conferences of Rathkeale, Bruit and Limerick, and signed at Rathkeale by eight parish priests and twelve curates, at Brutf by fourteen parish priests and twelve curates, and at Limerick by six parish priests, incinding the administrators of St. Michael’s and St. John’s, and sixteen curates, also by the regu- lar clergy of the city, the total number of names being 123 secular and regular clergy of the diocese of Limerick, ‘The following 1s the address:— Most Hoy FaTurg—The Dean, Archdeacon, Vicars General aud clery (secular and regular) of the diocese of Limerick, in Ireland, humbly approach the feet of your Holiness ‘to express their love, veneration, obedience and devotion towards you, Most Holy Father, and towards the most sacred See of St. Peter. No one is ignorant that the Irish, in every aye, huve been most devoted to the Chair of St. Peter, and that they have counted nothing dearer or more sweet than to venerats and magnify the paternity and authority of “Great Rome.” Our fau ft nothing undone to celebrate ‘the almost divine See,” as our St. Columbanus calis it, as the teacher of the faith, and have shrunk from no suffering to manifest their love and fidelity to the same chair of Peter. Being thus illumined by the hight of their ancesiors and supported by most evident testl- monies of the sacred Scriptures and the Holy Fathers, the Irish of the present day are filled and animated by no Hence there can lens respect, reverence and obedience. be no ible doubt that they would consider it a jewel in the crown of tho Holy See and an orna- ment of the Church of Christ, 1f during the rofgn of that Pont who has endured ko’ many and such grievor ry of God, the fathers of the ot Holy indi aRould decree ase doqma of the faith the infallibility of the Sovereign Ponti when te cz cat on faith or morals. Whereupon the above named clergy, secular and regular. of the Diocese of Limerick, ear- hesily supplicate that his Holiness would delgn to propose to the fathers this cardinal point of doctrine, that, being de- hned by # solemn judgment and precise formula, it may bring peace and ‘consolation to the hearts "of the faith And indeed, Most Holy Father, it ts known toall the Church, on account of the facility which error en- jova in these times, not only of creeping, but of runt Always requires an authority to be provided for her by whic five may protect her children froin the fatal poison of false- hi ich an authority we recognize in the irrefragable judgment of the Holy See; and, therefore, most Holy Fatuer, Prostrate as supplicants, at the fect of your Holiness, we ardently but humbly and lovingly implore this deliuitioa. LimegicK, May & 1570, REPLY. ‘The following most gracious reply was sent from the Vatican on the 24th May, ult., to tne Lord Bishop of Limerick :— VENERABLE BRoTHRR—Health and Apostolic benedic- tion. Although we know well that whatever reverence and love is shawn by the Irish peopie to this, Holy See is an in- hertancétrom thelr fathers and forefathers, being imbibed with thelr mothers’ mik; and although, therefore, this very Coustancy of their devotion aud affection renders dearer to us their faithtul service: rel we cannot but con- tulate you that your’ clergy respond so beau- fiuly, to “the ‘sentiments of your own faith and to your earnest zeal for the divine prerogatives of this Holy See. We receive, therefore, their filial expressions with a very grateful heart, rejoicing that we can em! them all in you, and juyoke upon them, present with us, as it were, through you, every happiness and abundant wealth of heavenly gifts. Wherefore, as an earnest of these graces, and a pledge of our especial benevolence to you, venerable brother, we most lovingly impart 20 each of your ‘lergy and to your whole dio our Apostolic benediction, Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, 23d May, 18:0, mn the 24th year of our Pontilicate. PIUS P. P., IX. FRANCE. Execution of the Railroad Car Murderer= His Crime—Unropeniant to the Last. The Figaro of June 9, of Paris, publishes an account of the execution of Bayon, who was con- demned to death for the murder of a merchant bamed Lubanskl, in a railway carriage on the Paris and Lyons line, The prisoner was visited by the chaplain of the jail at Valence, where he was con- fined, but rejectea all offers of spiritual assistance and advice. On the evening before the execution the chapiain again attempted to bring the prisoner into a better state of mind, but without success, al- though Bayon clearly understood that tie fatal hour was near at hand, and, indeed, before retirlug to rest laughingly stated so to iis keepers. ‘The next morning, at four o'clock, when the governor of the prisun came io awaken him, he exhibited no emotion, and simply ob- served, “All rignt; I expected it.” He then dressed himself, ate a hearty breakfast, drank a cup ol coffee, and, after having smoked a cigar, resigned himself into the lands of the executioners from Lyons, Grenoble and Nimes, with whom he con- tinied to converse while he was being prepared for the fatal operation. Tie venerable priest made another attempt to soften tue heart of the prisoner; but Bayon thrust him away, saying with the utmost calmness, “No; leave tae aloue, M. le Curé; L have nothing to tell you.” Tie chaplain, however, would not leave the unhappy man, but accompanied bin from the prison. It was wien half-past five o'clock, and percelviag in the court yard 4 carriage intended to convey him to the place of execution, he complained and re- fused to enter it. “A coach,” sald he, ‘iust as if one was going to the Palais de Justice, No, I wish to proceed on foot to the guillotine.’ The officers insisted upon his entering the vehicle, but in vain, and at last, to avoid a dreadful struggle, which Rayon appeared deterinined to make, they yielded to Mis wish and allowed him to ane to ‘ the oe be Maggs One it the executioners ak by the arm, the chaplain walked Xj aie ‘Stier t 4 his they passed throngn the outer gates ot the ath und which had gathered a considerablé thidng 0: persons, Mids Women aud children. Bayon looked around wit confident air, and then between adouble line of soldiers the melancholy procession advanced to- wards the scaffold, which was erected on the Place St. Félix. As they drew near the Place the prisoner remarked to bis attendants upon the crowd of peo- ple who had assembied, and noticing that some who saw hiia paas did not attempi to lollow, ne had the hardihood to exclaim, * why do you not come on. ‘The sight costs nothing”? ‘The priest had continued during ull this time to pour into the ears of the con- denned man words of repentance and pardon, but the latter took no oor whatever of them. Arrived at the foot of the scaffold, he quickened his movements, boldly ascended the steps, damp with the night dew, aud on reaching the platform he signed to the executtoneer to be expeditious in his duty. The man being somewhat slow in fastening the straps which bound the prisoner in the fatal groove, Bayon looked up, and seeing the priest still near him, gave expression to his anger, and said harshly, ‘No more here than in the prison.” These were the last words uttered by this hard. E oni ve es = Se aimee A few seconds later justice was sat- istied. AUSTRIA. Cabinet Hostility to the English Money Changers. [From the London Times (city article), June 8.] A teiegram from Vienna announces that the Ministry, in consideration of the hostile attitude of the London Stock Exeimnge, nave decided defini- tively to abandon all attempts alan arrangement in the matter of the Austrian bonds. Under these cir- cumstances Austria will remain henceserth excluded from the English money market, until after having, through the injury to her credit, paid a penalty year after year of ten times tle extent of the amount she has saved by her breach of faith she finds the damage intolerabie, and takes advantage of some change of ministry to apply for readmit- tance among the circle of non-defauiting nations. As the Vienna Cabinet were reported to have mani- {ested some disposition a few weeks back to meet the question, it 18, pete to be retted that @ little time was not accorded to see if this would be carried out; but in any case there could be little con- fidence in the permanent course of @ government that makes the practice of honesty comtingemt upon Nag Qnaer ance Of RUACTLG FIRE IN TURKEY. The Great Conflagration in Constantinople. PERA AND STAMBOUL IN FLAMES. The “Fire King” in Conquest Over Palaces, Mosques, Churches and Consulates, Fatalism and Faith, but Very Little Water. — Our European mail advices to hand yesterday supply the following details of the origin, progress and ravages of the great fire in Constantinople. The main facts of the visitation have been already re- ported to the HERALD by telograms, forwarded by way of London and through the Atlantic cable, from the Turkish capital:— Fire in Pera=Its Spread aud the Couse- ces. {From the London Globe, June 7—Evening.) We announced 1n our special edition last night the destruction by fire of the British Embassy at Pera, together with a large part of the city; and the 8 ive some description of the place—the Frank ql for of Constantinople, the district of diplomatic resi an society. dences and Euro} narrow street rising from the squalor of the Galata waterside and flanked in its course upwards by buildings in which ordinary meanness is relieved by occasional splendor, has long been one of the regular haunts of the tourist. Very well known, tvo, is the British Embassy, which dominates the lowly habitations around tt, and has always been upheld by our countrymen as the great “lion” of Pera, Its splendor ig at an end. A fire, which 13 described as burning from one o'clock in the day to near midnt Lt has destroyed the palace of the great English Kichiand we know not how much of the city. There was a mene wind, the flames spread with rapidity, and, besides the British Embassy, there were destroyed “the American and Portuguese Con- snlates, the Naoum theatre, the palace of the Ar- menian Patriarch, many churches, moeqnes and sev- eral thousand houses and shops in the finest part of Pera. In the imperfect civilization of the East there are few means of lightening such a blow as has now failen on the population. Many own the houses in which they live and in which they carry on their business, the house and its contents forming often their only fortune. Pera in this matter is certainly better off than tamboul, since there is a good deal of stone in ils construction; but even in Pera @ fire rages as it sel- dom docs in a Western city. The quarter where the conflagration chiefly raged contains the most valu- able sites and would best repay improvement, and for improvement there is indeed room, A great deal has been done for Pera during the last lew years. Gas was introduced in 1858, and the inhabit- ‘antes are no longer obliged to pick their way over the fanged stones of the streets by the light of their little paper lanterns. New and spacious houses have nm built, and where ground is so valuable the lower class of buildings must gradually be su- perseded by more ambitious structures, But, like Most cities which have been laid out on no reguiar plan, but have grown up by the simple process of people building their houses as and where tt suited them, Pera provokes very unfavorable criticisin. If the Grande Rue were swept away altogether the calamity would be great, but the opening for the architect and the sanitary reformer would not greater than is needed. Whatever may happen in Pera, we doubt whether the British Embassy will be restored if its destruc- tion be complete. No one connected with the Em- bassy ts injured, and though the members have lost their personal effects, the archives and pl are pai This building 13 described as “completely utted.’? * ‘Thus has perished one of the most pretentious and costly buildings that have ever been erected for the service of the British nation, ‘the ambassador at Constanimople is a great personage. It has always been thought nece: that at that focus of diplo- matic rivalry the British sovereign should have a personal representative entitled to personal inter- views with the Ottoman ruler. Not less has it been the tradition that he should be princely in his estab- lishment, after the fashion which imposes on orien- tals and on occidentals likewise. This theory has been carried to the furthest pointin the palace of the British ambassador, Many a sovereign has not a grander house over his head. Size, strength, solid- ity were its aspect, severe and gaunt though this might be, What astonishes us 18 that it should ever have been burnt. It hada fireproof look about it that might make one fancy the atvachés looking coolly on the conflagration from their windows as if they and their belonging and the “archives” were in a veritable diplomatic safe. No one knows how much it cost. If ‘ge Pera Embassy be really no more, future ambasszdors will nave to content themselves with & more modest residence, The ambassador has also an excellent house at Therapia, on the Bosphorus, where the Embassy usually goes to reaide about this time of the year. It was in the tremendous conflagration which de- stroved the greater part of Pera thirty-nine years ago that the last British Embassy was destroyed. ‘That fire aiso swept away numbers of the old wooden houses, and made way ior the new City of our time. It was on the 2d of August, 1831, that a fire began in @ house beyond the Great Burying-ground, at a considerable distance from the town, The wind carried the sparks, and the houses, dry as tinder unger the summer sun, took fire in every direc- Udon. As in the present case, the British Embassy was a building standing by itself ; but nothing could resist the force of the flames which were rolled against the palace {rom the wooden houses around, It was totally destroyed, and then the fire spread into the body of the town. ‘The French, Russian and Prussian Embassies, all tirst class hot were de- stroyed, and, indeed, every European Mission in Pera except the Austrian. The number of persons who were made homeless was 80,000, The British and Russian Embassies rose irom their ashes more magnificent than ever. ‘The latter remains; ours is gone. WOODEN HOUSES—FATALISM AND WEALTH—LAZINESS AND LITTLE WATER. [From the London Telegraph, June 8.] * * * In Stamboul and its suburbs tue residents are so well accustomed to the atarm of fire that they scarcely give themselves the trouvie to stir till the “hoodoodies” Knock at the wicket and mention the fact that ‘next door 1s already alight.” Fatalism and wooden houses have made Constantinople so often the prey of the devouring element that a pra- aent Turk expects to be burned out twice or thrice in the course of his existence, and acquires the sala- mandrine capacity of not greatly caring about it. Nevertheless, we must not lorget that fire burns fatalists and ruins Turks as compl.tely as other people; and there can be little doubt that a very terrible aud exceptional catastrophe has occurred in the European quarter of the Ottoman capital The confagration appears to have broken out early on the morning of Sunday last; for the elec- tric wire nowadays ‘makes the whole world kia;”” and we were informed of this disaster before the flames were extinguished; just as yesterday they wired us a message from Simla, in India, whicn beat the sun by four hours. Telegraphing from Pera on Monday morning, our Ambassador sent imielligence that an immense fire had laid that suburb in ashes, destroying a Vast number of houses, and gutting the English Embassy, where nothing had been saved ex- cept the archives and plate. Later we learned that the flames raged all day long on Sunday, being fanned by a strong wind; and that, spreading with irresistible rapidity, they had swept away several thousands of the wooden shops and houses upon the slopes of Pera, completely destroying, besides these inevitable victims, the English Embassy, the Ameri- ong BN Portuguese Consulates, the Naoum Theatre, te ohtan x qyfiarch’s Palace, along with church. iy Dutlamsss The loss of prop- erty is said to be very great, Bild SOVéR pore sons have been killed and wounded; nor were the flames extinguished at the date of the secdiid fele- gr No doubt, as it is reported, the scene in Pera is “heartrending?” a larg portloh of the Frankish patter must be jying in ashes; thousands of poor reeks, Levantines ahd Turks, with their families, must be not only homeless, but suddenly plunged into universal poveriy and arena. We suppose that even in Pera and Stamboul there has occurred no such tlre a8 the present since the great conflagra- tion of the 2d of August, 1831, when 75,000 people were rendered houseless, and old Pera was all but utterly annihilated. The Pera made familiar to so many eyes by the Crimean war was the half-fedged and rather dirty phoealx which rose ‘rom the ashes of that great bonfire. The Embassy House just con- sumed sprang also from the ruins of that prodigious blaze, and not only did it cost £100,000 to build, but it has been like a running sore ever since in esti- mates for “repairs and improvements,” It is “an ill fire which roasts no man’s chestnuts,” as Turks say; and the British taxpayer, with Mr. Ayrton to back hum up, may secretly rejoice that the never-to- be-tinished palace of the English KEichee is “gone to Jebannum’’ at last, CAUSES. One main cause of these disastrous occurrences at Coustantinople is, peevesbods. knows, the practice of building houses of wood. The Turk ts lazy to a degree almost unimaginable in our busy West. He has plenty of fine quarries near Stamboul, but he does not care to work them, or to bulid the magniti- cent terraces of mosque ana bazaar which ought to rise, and were meant to rise, on either side of the Bosphorus. Even among those buildings and abodes in the various regions of the squalid capital which are constructed of stone the greater part ‘were put ther with masonry and ruoble filched from the old and splendid labors of Latin, Greek and Ottoman rulers and citizens, A board or a joist is easier to cut, if not cheaper to buy, than a block of stone or marble; 80, as fast as the Names clear the ground for him, and offera new chance, the Turk Tuns up the same old-fashioned weather-buarded resi- dences, with stripes of gay paint along the front, making the street look like @ child’s toy oaty and then he settles in again till Allab and his - bors are pleased once more to burn himout. But ‘wood is not the only cause that predisposes tinople and its quarters to such serious disasters. Cqntalned MARY Wel) BUH Gone and ‘honses, and a street of quite uropean appearance— a ante ie; wis te omuassios’ and publie ings which have succumbed were in built without ‘a ro oon, ics ite up the side of the hill. such goateionee la the dryneas which prevails in Stamboul at time of the year; the excessive heat parches everything, and makes everything like tinder. As to the pans of lighted charcoal everywhere burn- ing without a cover, the innumeraple “kebab. hs,” and the pipes forever pufing with » great lump of glowing tobacco and @ fire-balj upon them, make the origin of conflagration in. teliigible enough. Again, as to its water supply. Constantinople 18 most imperfectly provided, a Torks catch the surface 4) e in the adjacent means of reservoirs, and collect @ little valleys by store from the rains into the old cisterns dug under the town by the Byzantine but in th Test of the thiray capital eir backs from Scutari; e were in charge of the fire bri- o mad from something the ite you the Steatan winds 4 talwaye blowing froin sian Winds are alW: the Black Sea down the Bosphorus, ready to fan into fury any little blaze which may break forth. It w: thus be seen, that without attri anne ny malignant! practices to Djins or Glaours, all 1 lane! ta are carefully provided by nature and man between them, HOPE AND CONSEQUENCES. If great barracks and white marble palaces nave been reared in excess, instead of te. cae squares and streets of stone, there is, possibly, some excuse in the fact that Constantinople comptes, aoe haps the finest site in all the world for a noble city. Constantine, who founded the city, had thought frat sa a AS San gps gman world; but wi saw the between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmora, created by nature to be the connecting point of twa continents and the metropolis of an rte he very rally pon that site atonce. Tradition 8 that an eagle fying before the Emperor let fall alarye gem upon Seragito Point, and that a guide, invisible to ail but himself, traced the boundaries of the new city. But any surveyor’s apprentice sail ing from the Dardanelles into that lovely scene might come to the same resolve a8 Const 4 without eagles or angelic help. Constantinople can never fail to be a famous and important place; and we may hope that a inning Will be made at last, with the space now cleared in Pera, to render the city what it should be in view of the traffic which the Danube and Buphrates railways must by and by bring. As for the destroyed Emt , it is no doubt very sad that our diplomatic staff should be burnt out of house and home; but the British Ambassador has & splendid new residence at Theraj and we trust that no exaggerated notions of the necessity for ostentation.in the eyes of the Turks will Tead to a ritish, ets for another colos- renewed tax upon sal like that which the flames have repaired and “improved” out of existence. By far the sad- dest part of the occurrence, doubtless, 1s the desola- tion Which will have overtaken many thousands of very poor Turks and Franks, who will be literaily destitute. Yet even here we have some consolation. ‘The season is dry and healthy for a life under tents and booths, and if any people in this world know how to fail upon their feet those peopte are certainly the traders and hucksters of Pera. Loss of Life and Property. {from the Irish (Dublin) Times, June 10.) About fifty stone houses leading from High street, Pera, to the left, were burned, the spread of the flames being facilitated by the strong north wind. kism street and Hakka, Misk, imam, Sekyz and Agatch streets and others were almost wholly inha- bited by rich Armenians, who that day were cele- brating the fete of the Constitution, and had there- fore formed large pleasure parties and gone into the country. They were all, therefore, absent and have lost everything. Many other inhabitants were also absent in the country, the day being Sunday. Almost the whole of the Italian working classes in- habited one of the quarters destroyed and have coats suffered. Among the superior class of resi- ents the English and Armenians are the greatest sutferers, though it is impossible to state with cer- tainty the amount of their losses, Dead bodies are being found every moment, 250 having been discovered up to the present. Detach- ments of soldiers are in the streets to stop the sage In several places in consequence of the walls, as several persons have already been killed ta this manner, Since Sunday the flames reap} at the back of the French Hospital, but were exttn- guished by the commander and crew of the Messa- geries Imperiales steamer. ‘The government has erected tents, and provisions are served out to all applicants. ‘From the London News, June 8.) Yesterday’s advices from Constantinople state that great depression prevails throvghout the city in consequence of the terrible fire whitch occurred on Sunday. The Exchange and nearly all the shopa were closed on Monday. One despatch says that although the loss cannot be estimated at present it must amount to seve- ral ions sterling. ‘The Exchange and almost all the shops are closed. The French Ambassador has invited all Freach subjects who have suffered loss in the late fire to ga to the Embassy to receive pecuniary succor. Several English bave suffered loss. A telegram from Constantinople, dated on the 7th of June, says:— The following are further details of the great flre:—The hospital aad the residence of the German charitable society were destroyed, and the invalida were rescued by the gallantry of some of the Ger- mans, two of whom died from injuries received. The Armenian Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion was seriously damaged, but the copy of the Transfiguration worked in Gobelin tapestry and pre- sented by the Empress Eugénie, was saved. Acom- mittee has been formed for the relief of the suffer. ers, and a large amount has been subscribed. All the foreign ambassadors have distributed reilef to their countrymen. The Levant Herald announces that according to a communication of the police 7,000 houses have been destroyed and the total loss is estimated al £5,000,000, French Aid. {From.the Cork Examiner, June 10.] The Empress Eugenie has seni ten thousand france ne ae reef of the suiferers by vhe fire at Coustan- tinople. ‘Tne French Foreign Minister gave five thousand francs lor a sumdar purpost Incidents. [From the London Globe, Jane 3.] The great fire in Pera was preceded by one at Galata on Saturday week, in which about sixty houses were destroyed. The old adage of the Ul wind that brings nobody any good was realized in this instance, as the fre has cleared away one of the worst nests of dirt and vice In the capital, but only two or three of the Box street houses and shops were damaged. The box makers—who are all of them Turss, trunk making being one of the very few craits followed by Mussui- ‘man hatives—have ever relied on a promise oi Sultan Mahmood the Second that they should not pe re- moved from their place in this the main-street of Galata except they happened to be burnt out, and but for their great energy the whole line of dukians would have been destroyed The flames were first seen well to windward be- hind King’s Hotel, which was saved, King’s Hotel is the corner house of a little street which, like the | one not far on its left, called Rue Helvayi, runs into the street connecting in a straight tine the Voivoda with the charch and schools of St. Benoit, nearer Top-hana on the rignt. it is to the square bounded by these four sireets that the fire was chiefly confined, although it spread a little farther to the right and leveled about a score of houses to tne ground. In the street on the left, Rue Helvajl, run- ning up towards the Votvoda (police-station) a res- taurant was pulled down to stop the flames, and here a large enciosed square, consisting of several magazines, withstood the fire for a long ttme, Rig eae of the magazines within were de: stroy The Farmacia Maniofia, at the opposite corner te the King’s tiotel, escape REAL ESTATE. SALE! Pia Meast's. James M. Miller and A. J. Bleecker & Son had important sales of real estate at the Exchange yesterday. The property they disposed of was all located in Brooklyn. There was some New York property sold by order of the Supreme Court by Messrs. E. F, Raymond and D, M. Seaman. Messrs. Lawrence Oakly and Fleury did not sell the lots on Eighteenth street, as advertised, the sale being post- poned until Tuesday next. ~ To-morrow there wil: be an important sale of ore uit It will be sold on the grounds by Measrs. ory & Blackwell. Five acres will be sold, together with a fine residence and outbullaings, and a carriage house and stables. A train will leave ‘Thirtieth street at two P. M., which will be met at the depot in Tarrytown by carriages. NEW YORK REAL ESTATE SALES. By D. M. Seama: Taree story brick house and lol ne LUth et, 187.8 tte Of 2d av, lot 18,9x100.11. J T Adriance.,....+- +000. 89) half story house and two lo One and Nos. 198 and 200 Water at, 175 it w of Bridge et, each lot 27.6xiu0, C,H. Cook... é 212,500 By A. Two story brick hous tween Coles and Rapel: + 5,350 UNUSUAL FoG ON THE COAST. —The United States rev- enue cutter Vigilant, recently returned from a cruise on her station, touching at Provincetown, Chatham, Hyannis and other ports along the coast, reports very dense fog nearly all the time. Hercommander, Captain Fengar, states that frequently at mid-aay it was difficult to see from one end of the vessel to the other, and even when there was a breeze it only seemed to pile the fog fagethes in denser darkness instead of dispersing it. Navigation under such cir- cumstances was very dificult. The lead when any- where near the coast was kept constantly guing, and the bell and fog horns were also freely used. Cap- tain Fengar said that a sight of the sun to-day was very welcome to all on board the cutter, for she had sailed at least 500 miles surrounded by fog that was dark enough to have been imported from London iis 4 the mouth of November.—Boston Traveller. 8 206