The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1870, Page 8

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S—Paris: The Tide of Battle ‘Turning; General Trochu Heads a Successful Sortie; Une Hun- dred and Twenty Thousand Frenchmen En- eed; German Troops Kepuised and German ‘orks Occupied; The Victory at Orleans—Aa German Army with al! its Artillery Captured; Bourbasi’s New Command; The Battle 1 the Forest at Fontainebleau iu favor of the French. 6—The American Jockey Cinb: Last Day of the Pall ing at Jerome Park; A Delightful Day ndid Sport; Britiant Assemblage of 5 =; Sketches and Conversations of Sporting Characters; Ciosing Cotillion at the Club House—Prospect Park Fair Grounds: Closiig Day of the Agricultural and Horttcul- ral Exbibition; Brillant Assembiage to Wit- ness the Trials of § Ni Races—Rensselaer Park lac 7—State and City Politics Battle Array; Politic: enson Made Popular: Local Nominations—Brooklyn City News—Up Town Travel—Relimious Inteliigence—An Em- pire Without Inhabitants. 8—Editorials ; Leading Article, How the War May be Ended and Peace Mattatned—Amusement Announcements. O—Esitorial (continued from Eighth Page)—Teleg graphic News from all Parts of the World: Reported Acceptance of the Spanish Throne by Prince Amadeus, of Italy: uirty Persons Killed and Wounded by Accident in an Eng- lisn Shipyard—News from Washington— Amusements—Personal Intelligence—A Tra edy Averted—Yellow Fever—Yachting— usiness Notices. $0—The Fashions Eo Zigzag—A Stockjobbing Operation—An Opening for American Oom- merce —Public Female Evening Scnool—Art Notes—Army Intelligence—Escape from Sin, Sing Prison—A Desperate Horse Thief French Charitable Fair—Board of Health—The Thira Avenue Explosion—A Counterfeiter Iu Limbo—Preserved Fruits for the War—Astro- nomical—Obituary—The National Game—A Pugilistic Police Captain—Arrest of a Smug- ler—South Fifth Avenue: The Widening of Laurens Street—Fatal Blasting Accidents— Political Forces in NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER, 16, 1870..QUADRUPLE, SHHST, Maistained. secured, statesmen, governments and the public are much exercised. With all the accomplishing this desirable object—that is, for the people of Germany to rise in their might and demand peace, to hold out the hand of fellowship and good will to the people of France. There is no cause for enmity, no cause for war, between the people of the two countries, They are on both sides equally the victims of ambitious dynasties and scheming political chiefs. They are led to the slaughter of frightful wars with as little concern as butchers take their cattle to the abattoir, simply from the rivalries and aggrandizing schemes of kings, emperors and unscrupulous ministers. The blood runs cold in our veins end we shudder with horror at the hecatombs of slain and countless numbers of mutilated men, the flower of the land, in this terrible war between Prussia and France. It is enongh to make angels weep to see the desola- tion of this war, the hundreds of thousands of people made homeless, the fair flelds turned into a wilderness, the works of civilization destroyed, and all the other enormities that are the result, and all this for what? To gratify the dynastic ambition and pride of a few rulers. It has ever: been thus, and there might have been some reason for it in the Dark Ages, when the mass of mankind were vir- tually slaves and nations were crystallizing into a homogeneous or national shape under the lead of aspiring chiefs; but in this enlightened age it is monstrous that such a atate of: things should exist. When Napoleon first declared war against Prussia, or, rather, against Germany, without cause and merely to strengthen his dynasty and power, our sympathies and the sympa- thy of ‘the world generally was with the Germans. It was natural and proper for them to desire national union. It was con- sistent with the tendencies and civilization of the age that a people of the same race and speaking the same language should be united in one grand federative nationality. Their safety and future demanded that. Napoleon making war on them to prevent this object was out- rageous and inimical to the spirit and pro- gress of the times. The French people had really little or nothing to do with the war. Of course they rallied to theit flag and became warlike in spirit when the issue was brought upon them. Patriotism—their country, right or wrong—was then the strongest sentiment, The war, however, was made by Napoleon for his own ambitious purposes, and the en- thusiasm exhibited by his Cabinet and the members of the Legislature was only that of his tools—the truculent Bonaparte faction. The true representatives of the people—the men who are now in power provisionally— were opposed to the war. The republican sentiment of France was opposed to it, and we have no doubt that if a fair vote of the people could have been faken on the question there would have been no war. But with the fall of Napoleon and flight of the Regency all has been changed. The very men who op- posed the war are now forced to fight it out, and those who made it are out of the arena. It is no longer an aggressive and ambitious Emperor fighting for his own ends and aggran- dizement, but the republic and people of France, struggling for the life of the nation. Prussia, yes, Germany, has become the ag- Hew the War May De Ended and Peace To find a solution to the question how the war in Europe is to be ended and peace apparent difficulties there is a certain way of William and Bismarok talk of guarantees for future peace. This is the best guaranteo that could be found; this will perpetuate lasting friendship between the two great and civilized nations that border each other. The Progress of the War—The Sortie at Parts. Our special despatches and other regular telegrams unite to-day in confirming the report of General Trochu’s brilliant sortie ot Wednes- day last, although, so far, but few additional details have been received. As one result of it, however, the Prussians at Orleans, who were going South to strike the army of the Loire, have evacuated that city, after a sharp fight, in which the French gained great suo- cesses, and are falling back on the invested Ines about Paris. We shall probably hear of other detachments more remote from: Paris being also recalled. It must be remembered that their recall relieves the French volun- teers in the provinces and gives them an opportunity not only to organize, but to strike the rear of the investing Mne in force. The solution of the war lies at Paris. For the Prussians to raise the siege of the capital or to be effectually defeated by the besieged garrison, would be a virtual ending of the war in favor of France ; forall France will fall upon them like hungry bloodhounds if they suffer a demoralizing reverse. the walls of Paris, harassed as it would be by Franc-tireurs, by the peasantry, those unor- ganized legions of France, and by the immense Arretreat from before army of Trochu, would be more disastrous than the Moscow retreat of Napoleon. It would sweep away all the glories and gains of Woerth, Gravelotte and Sedan. Prussia must therefore concentrate all her efforts again upon the capture of the city—a task that looms up now far more arduous and difflcult than ever. Our Versailles telegraphic correspondence, dated before the sortie, states that the sharp- shooters in the French lines and the heavy guns upon the French forts keep up a deadly fire upon the besiegers, and that the shells from Mont Valérien especially aro aimed with telling accuracy. The Prussian siege guns are still delayed, the troops were getting anxious to commence the bombardment, and although food was not scarce at present there was a general feeling of uneasiness and insecurity at the contemplation of the long line of communication over which the food must come. The calculations of war are some- times very uncertain. It was not in the plan of Von Moltke when he sat down to starve Paris out that he himself should risk starva- tion, nor did he expect while preparing to bombard Paris that Paris would first bombard him. . The siege of Metz continues to present a spectacle of heroic resistance that has long been unparalleled. Provisions are said to be plentiful inside, except bread and salt. siege operations at Soissons and Verdun have commenced, and vigorous opposition has been developed. Throughout France the popular spirit is aroused by the recent successes. Gam- betta, with his young blood, is infusing new life into the organization of the volunteers, and everything indicates that hope and confidence have been revived in the beautiful France that a few days ago lay paralyzed at the feet of her The enemy. The Bravery of the Landwehr. The Franco-Prussian war has taught the world one thing among its many bitter and severe lessons, and that is that irregular troops, raised from the people, can do more greasor, and an implacable persecutor. With this change the sentiment of America and of liberal-minded people everywhere has changed. Our sympathies and the sympa- thies of mankind generally are now with re- publican France, Our correspondent, who had an interview with Garibaldi, reports the old chief to have splendid fighting and exhibit more endurance in many cases than soldiers of the line. Instance the conduct of the Prussian landwehr at the batile among the villages before Metz on the 13th, as described in our despatches en Friday, in the terrible bayonet fight with the troops of Bazaine. Sullen and stubborn, they advanced upon the French batteries, although Westchester News Items—A Po'lce Force for Summit. 1—Naval Intelligence—A Steamship in Great Peril—Assassination Made Perfect—Proceed- ings in the New York Courts—Emigration for the Week—Financial Report—Statistics of Commerce and Navigation—Drowned off a Fishing Smack—Sale of Real Estate—Mar- riages and Deaths—Advertisements. 42—A Political Bear Garden: The Trouble that ‘Tammany Brewed in the Kepublican Party; A Magniticent Row Last Night; A “Spliv”’ in the Camp-—Cricket—Shipping Intelligence—Adver- tisements. 43—Europe: The Fature Constitution of Germany; French Diplomatic Negotiations with Den- mark; Dissensions Among the Spanish Mipis- tera; Terrible Evictions ta Wicklow, Ireland; Miscellaneous War Items, 14—Advertisements. 5—Advertisements. Advertisements. Berrer THAN THE Rep Cross Kniaats— Whe Order of the Red Cross ladies of this city, organized for the relief of the sufferers from the war in France. Tax Hout or aN Iron Streamer building at Newcastle-on-Tyne fell through the ways on Friday and crushed thirty workmen underneath to death. Jno«y O'Brrex, they say, can’t understand the nomination of Ledwith for Mayor, and that the Little Indian was lately seen taking an ob- pervation of the Big Indian of Tammany Hall. Tux Herarp Qvuaprurrz Snerr.—In order to meet the immense pressure upon our advertising columos and at the same time to supply our readers with the news gathered from all quarters of the globe we are com- pelled to issue to-day a quadruple sheet; and even with the large additional space thus ob- much of ‘our correspondence from J Europe, Asia, Austrafia and South America is excladed, It has been so almost every day ‘since the commencemont of the war between France and Germany. The reading matter which we can make room for is but o small proportion of, that procured for us at great expense at home and abroad. Stas Tur RervsiicaN GENERAL COMMITTEE amet in their rooms last night to make friends ‘with those party men who had accepted office ander Tammany. The proposition was to rescind the resolution passed recently read- ing out all such mercenary republicans, but it was apparent before the meeting proceeded very far that the non-holders of fat offices were too indignant to compromise, and, being virtuous themselves and determined not to hold any office under Tammany, they would not allow any pretender to virtue to have cakes and ale or hold such offices. In fact, there wasa row highly characteristic of the party of great moral ideas, and the meeting ended without felleving the harrowing sua- pense of phe regubliona offive-holdera, ee ’ ty said:—‘‘Why will not the noble American republic—the glory and admiration of free peoples—send material aid to the young and struggling republic of France? Italy, France and Spain anxiously await one determined word from America to cast off their detested chains.” The young and struggling republic did promptly receive the moral aid of the the mitrailleuses and Chassepots were mowing them down by hundreds. They drove the French gunners from their guns, forced them back into the villages, and, fighting “‘like devils,” as the French did, in the narrow streets, the landwebr soldiers, ‘‘with inexor- able stride,” annihilated them with the bayonet. United States government, and it has the best wishes of both our government and people. Nor has France failed to receive such material aid as can be lawfully given; but it ought not to be expected, nor would it be well for this country to embroil itself with European affairs, We can do more, indeed, for the progress of liberty and republican ideas by abstaining from direct tntervention und through our moral influence. His appeal should be made to the people of Germany. They are, as was said before, as much the victims of this dynastic war on the part of Prussia as the French. Let the people of Germany throw off the yoke of the Prussian monarchy and their petty princes and aristocracies, and the war might soon be ended. Republican Germany and republican France would have no cause for war. Each would keep within the limits of their race and proper nationality. There would be no motive or destre for the territorial aggrandizement of one at the expense of the other. Each would develop its own national peculiarities of civilization, and both would march together in harmony and friendship in the way of pro- gress. The asperities and enmity of the war would be buried in the grave of the mon- archies that caused it. We see already indi- cations in Germany of opposition to the war. In fact, this has been so apparent that the mil- itary autocrat who governs Prussia and his aristocratic minister, Count Bismarck, have found it necessary to muzzle the press and to imprison the liberal leaders of the people. Republics are peaceable. Monarchies, which are the aggregation of the old turbulent feu- dalism, are essentially warlike. Though re- publics have had their wars such wars have been waged for national defence or national integrity. That has been the case with the United States, It was so even with the first Fregch republic, although the circumstances of the times then were exceptional. In repub- lics political difficulties and strife find a set- tlement at the ballot box. Monarchs resort to war to effect this object. The peaceful devel- opment of nations can be best obtained through republican institutions. This fact is now too evident to be questioned. Let Germany, then, throw off the incubus of monarchy and aristoc- racy and she will soon close up the war and hold ontithe hand of followshin to th bt re end neighbor oe But it is not on the Prussian side alone that the admirable fighting of irregular troops was manifested. In many of the late sorties from the intrenchments at Paris the Garde Mobile outdid the soldiers of the line in persistent bravery, and on more than one occasion main- tained their ground under tremendous fire when the regular troops broke. This proves the value of training the people to military duty. The Prussian military system has attested its excellence by the conduct of the landwebr on all these bloody fields. The Garde Mobile, too, has shown what the people can do in an emergency in defence of their country. Our National Guard might learn a good lesson from the efficiency of the people's armies of Prussia and France, Tne Papa Zovaves, who entered with so much enthusiasm into the service of the Pope, and who proved themselves most gallant soldiers on many a hard fought field, are dis- banding and coming home, now that their work is over and Italy promises to take care of the Holy Father, very much against his will. A ship load, consisting of two hundred and ninety of the zouaves, arrived at Liver- pool yesterday, most of whom belong to the Canadian contingent which went from Canada some time ago. These young men had a military experience which will not be lost on them, and may be available when Canada gets into trouble with the mother country one of these dayg Quite a large number of the Pope’s foreign guard bave thrown themselves iuto the ranks of the French republican army, where we notice that they have distinguished themselves with great valor and hard fighting around Paris, * AvxoTieR CaNpipaté For SPAIN.—An in- timation comes from Léndon that Princo Amedée Duc d’Aoste, a son of Victor Emanuel of Italy, has accepted the throne of Spain. It seema probable from this that Victor Emanuel, who so skilfully outma- neuvred republicanism in Italy, by accepting the quarrel that republicanism was waging against Rome, is inclined to strengthen his hands by an alliance with Spain, where repub- licanism has been eclipsed by similar mancn- Review Literatere-Ite Pluce asd Ite In- @uconce. Gince the discovery of the printing press how many and how various have been the vehicles through which intellectual activity has sought and found ex ! From the lumbering quarto to the it penny news- paper how large the leap! The history of modern literature, often attempted, has yet to be written. It wasa task often pressed upon the attention of the late Lord Macaulay—a man above all others in recent times qualified for the work; but other and more congenial labors occupied his leisure and exhausted his strength. The man who successfully accom- plishes this task, appear when and where he may, will at once build for himself a noble monument and largely benefit mankind. When this history is written not the least important section of it will be that which will treat of the place and power of those heavier periodicals which have acquired the denomination of quarter- lies, In that category will be included all the more solid periodical .literature which has appeared in modern times, and it will not be possible for the historian to refuse to admit that to this class of publications the rapid and marvellous development ef modern times is largely attributable. They were never written for the masses. They are not written for the masses now. But as they convey the thoughts of the higher olass of minds, so do they influence 9 high class of minds on the platform immediately below, and through that second class do they tell upon the whole body of the people. The daily newspaper which every morning like the sun bursts forth upon the people with its light and its strength makes the quarterly seem somewhat slow and old fashioned. Now that we live years in months, months in days, days in hours and hours in minutes, the quarterly review, in the estima- tion of some people, sustains to the daily news- paper very much the same relation that the antiquated stage coach sustains to the steam car or the ancient postman to the lightning- winged telegraph. For this reason it is, we are told, that the daily paper is supplemented by the weekly, the weekly by the more sober and thoughifal fortnightly and the fort- nightly by the monthly. This reasoning is not strictly correct. The antiquated stage coach where it exists is justly consid- ered a necessary evil, So, too, is it with the postman of the olden times. The steam car and the telegraph make them both unne- cessary. It is altogether different in the world of letters. It is necessary for the well being of society that the dash, the daring, the in- caution of the daily press be held in check, and that great movements, great events, great literary and scientific works be more calmly and dispassionately examined than has yet been found compatible with daily journalism. There is room, therefore, we admit, for the weekly, the fortnightly and the monthly journals, but there is also a place, a most important place, for the dignified, solid and scholarly quarterly. Ifthe light is most use- ful at the base of the pyramid it is at least first caught at the summit. Daily journalism, invaluable as it is, will never make unneces- sary the special labors of the historian, the philosopher or the poet; neither will it ever make unnecessary the more solid class of literary and scientific periodicals. It would be an easy task to show how much good this kind of literature has effected in the past. It has been intimately asso- cited with the progress of science. and the development of political and religious liberty. Journalism in France dates as far back as 1665, and Frenchmen refer with pride to the Journal des Savans as the parent of periodical literature. The French encyclo- pedists, guided and controlled by the master mind of Diderot, were, perhaps, the chief agents in bringing about the great revolution of 1789. The Hncyclopédie was practically a periodical. It opened the eyes of France; it inspired the youth of the country with lofty thoughts and noble impulses, and under its teaching France arose like a giant refreshed and shook off from her the dust and incrustations of centuries. The impulses begotten of the French revolution gave birth in 1802 to the famous Hdinburgh Review—a publication which, appearing in 1809, shook British society to its very founda- tion, paved the way for that. magnificent series of reforms which ended with the Reform bill of 1882, and marked a new era in literary criticism. What a host of bright names arise in our memory as we think of the early days of the Hdinburgh!/ Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Brougham, Horner, Cock- burn, and later Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Carlyle and others, And how mighty was its influence on literature! Itbegot the Zelectic, which shone with the rare genius of John Foster and Robert Hall; the Quarterly, which revealed the literary finish of a Southey, the vigor of » Gifford and the polished, manly style of a Lockhart, and Blackwood’s Magazine, in which the immortal Christopher North poured forth in exhaustless profusion his witand humor. To the influ- ence of the Hdinburgh are we largely indebted for that second Augustan age of English litera- ture—an age which could boast of such names as Byron, Scott, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Thomas de Quincey, Shelly, Keats, and many more, The influence of those lite- rary forces soon told in this country. We had not been wanting in magazine literature since the days of Franklin’s Historical Chronicle. It was not, however, until 1815, when was established the North American Review, that we had a national review worthy of the name. Its success, though not equal to that ef the Hdinburgh, was great. Ona smaller scale it was the history of the Edinburgh repeated. It advocated judicious reforms; it gathered around it the best talent of New England; it inspired the rising youth of Harvard and Yale; and, as had been the case with its great prototype, its offspring became its rivals. Among its editors it has numbered such men as Tudor and Channing and Dana, the Everetts, Sparks, Bowen, Peabody and Lowell. Around it and its little sister, the Atlantic Monthly, have grown up such men as Emerson, Long- fellow, Prescott, Motley and Holmes—men who have added new glories to the English language. Time would fail to tell of the Southern Quarterly, of the Bibliotheca Sacra, f the Princeton Reni~n ond others. Suffice 4 it to say that hore, ad a Great Britain, the original Quarterly still flourishes, and reveals all the vigor of its youth, keeping its place proudly at the head of its almost countless offspring. Boston has just cause to be proud of her literary journals, and so too has New York. It is gratifying sign of the times that all over the Union a taste for the higher class of magasine literature is revealing itself more and more. Now that we are rapidly recovering from the effects of the war, that our wealthy claases and eonsequently our men of leisure are go rapidly multiplying, it will surprise us if our periodical literature in its higher forms does not take a new start. There is cer- tainly great room for improvement. But scholarship and Uterary ability are not want- ing in the midst of us. A little more encour- ment on the part of the public, and a little more liberality on the part of our great pub- lishers, would soon make the review literature of America quite equal to that of Great Britain. The Coolie Slave Trade. Tho account which we published yesterday with regard to the arrival of coolie ships from China, from our correspondent at Hondlulu, reveals a terrible story concerning the coolie system. The horrors of the Middle Passage in the days of the African slave trade do not exceed the miseries suffered by these unfortu- nate Chinamen, who are exported from China, not as slaves, but as emigrants hired out to voluntary labor. It appears that over six hundred coolies were packed in one ship, which arrived at Honolulu from Macao; that they were stowed away between decks in a space of sixteen inches to each individual, They were cruelly whipped, kicked and cuffed by the sentries placed over them. The tor- ture became so unendurable that many of them jumped into the sea and were drowned. Shut up in the miserable pen between decks, they endured unspeakable pangs of hunger and thirst. These facts are communicated by an officer of the ship, the Dolores Ugarte, Captain Saul commanding, whose name should be known to the world. The appearance of the unfortunate coolies when they were landed on the Sandwich Islands is described as most deplorable. Many of them were mere skeletons, and many were devoured by disease. If this is the kind of emigration wo are to expect from China humanity demands that the system should be at once looked into by our government and by all civilized nations. It is the slave trade over again, with apparently no difference in the cruelty of its details, although the victims are nominally voluntary emigrants. We have taken active measures occasionally to check the abuses prevalent in the emigrant ships from the ports of Europe, and we have succeeded in @ great measure in rendering the emigrant more comfortable and the female passengers comparatively safe from the outrages which were at one time too frequent in the steerage. If the emigration from China is to continue by | thousands, as no doubt it is, the government should adopt such measures of protection to | the coolie as will prevent anything like these scenes on board the Dolores Ugarte occurring to Chinese emigrants bound to any of our ports, Tug Hory Farner a Prorestant,—The last order of the Pope before the occupation of Rome by the Italian army was a letter to the com- mander of the Papal troops, General Kanzler, in which the Holy Father said :—‘Gencral, now that a great sacrilege and the most enor- mous injustice is about to be consummmated, and the troops of a Catholic king, without provocation, without even the shadow of any motive whatever, surround and besiege the capital of the Catholic world, I feel, in the firat place, the necessity of thanking you, Signor General, and all troops,” &c., and that ‘‘in re- gardto the duration of the defence it is my daty to order that this shall consist merely in | ® protest, such as to render violence neces- sary, and no more—that is, to open negotia- tions for the surrender as soon as a breach is made.” This protest, therefore, was the last act of the Pope, which makes hima Protes- tant in surrendering his temporal kingdom. Is this not the beginning of that good time coming, when all the people of the Christian world will be Catholics and all Protestants? Who can tell? Tne Last or THE YELLOW Frver.—The panic which temporarily existed at Governor's Island appears to have exhausted itself by the decline of the disease. Only .two cases of yellow fever occurred there within the past few days. There is no report of the pesti- lence spreading in this city or in Brooklyn, and those whg might have been alarmed have come to look upon the danger as entirely passed. The prompt and ample means pro- vided by the Health Officer of the Port for the removal of the sick out of reach of the city to the salubrious little island of West Bank saved us from evéry chanéd of thé contagion spreading. The patients at West Bank are well cared for by the able Superintendent—an official of long experience—and the unremit- ting attention of Dr. Carnochan and his assiat- ants, Drs. Reid, Mosher and McCartney. We may safely calculate, then, that we have seen the last of the yellow fever. What the Quaran- tine officials so vigorously began Jack Frost will finish. The latter, after all, is the best sanitary officer. Mar or Tae Sat or War.—We have heretofore limited ourselves in the preparation of our war maps to the more immediate scene of hostilities; but now that the war is being waged and that armies are in movement over the whole territory of France, from Yetz, on the east, to the region west of Paris, and from the French fortresses on the Belgian frontier down to Lyons, on the Mediterranean, it has become necessary, for the understanding of those tremendous military operations, to pub- lish a complete map of France. This we do to-day, and our readers would do well to pre- serve it for daily reference during the continu- ance of the war. Boop 18 Tu10kgR THAN WatER.—The Em- preas of Austria, who is a Bavarian, is very proud of the bravery displayed by her country- men in the present German war with France, and it is said that there is but little pity in the imperial house of Austria for the fallen Emperor, who was the cause of the untimely and violent death of the accomplished Maximi- lian and of the sad misfortunes of “poor Carlota.” Thus ‘time at last makes ail shings even.” ’ ‘The Palace of Versailles. “A toutes lee glotres de la Francd”—‘To all the glories of France—to everything that has reflected honor upon her annals, frem the cradle of the monarchy down to the present day!” Such was the dedication given by Louis Philippe to the main building of the palace of Versailles when he converted it Into avast and magnificent museum of painting, sculpture, carving, cameos, bronzework and numberless other mementos of the wealth, splendor and renown that had accumulated in the history of the ‘grande nation.” How strangely must that dedication read to-day, in the presence of the “amused and talkative German officers,” who stray from corridor to corridor and from hall to hall in the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon feasting their* gaze upon the colossal war scenes of Horace Vernet, the cast and chiselled groups of Cous- tou, Coysevox, Puget, Legros, Girardon and their compeets. King William, the successor in our time and in the meridian of Paris, of those barbaric chieftains who overran luxurious Romein the decline of the Bas Hmpire, strolls, their sole master and possessor now, through those matchless terraced gardens that ex- hausted the genius of Le Notre, and reviews his grim troops from the borders of the Rhine and the distant Daaube, in those beautiful courts which look like the massive frostwork of a fairy realm, so richly and so whitely are they encrusted with fine marbles and studded with statued groups and curiously wrought monuments. To such a man, of so varied and peculiar a life record, at such a pinnacle of renown in recent warfare and with such heaped-up tro- phies of victory at his feet, what emotions must not the contrast between the France of yesterday and the France of to-day bring rushing upon his mind! Here, in the vast cour du palais or main courtyard of the royal residence, where the Prussian Guards are now exercised, he beholds the statues of the great men of France, her nobles of renown, her marsbals, her statesmen, her lawgivers, ora- tors, poets and artists, as though assembled there to witness the bivouac of ‘‘the wild Pomeranian hordes” in the very heart of their’ refined, luxuriois Paradise; while the colossal bronzo of Louis Quatorze, who spent two hundred million dollars upon the perfection of those splendors, seems still to hoid as haughty command from the back of his charger asin those grand days of the old school monarchy when he could proudly claim that he, and he solely, was the State! Yonder, looking out upon the many minor courts and passages, the parterres of rarest shrubbery and bloom, the densely shaded walks, the velvet lawns, the alleya overarched with meeting branches, crossed and recrossed like the fretted beams and joists of Gothic aisles, are the windows of 173 ma- jestic halls, filled with the 4,838 pictures, groups, casts, medallions and reliefs that em- balm forever, for the gaze of posterity, the faces, the figures and the deeds of the sages and heroes of France. There, on deathless canvas, are the battles of the first and second empires and the story of the Bonapartes, from the Fight of the Sectloas to the charge at Inkermann, the capture of the Malakoff and the glorious day at Solferiao. How sad and strange they look while our eyes are atill . blinded by the smoke of’ Woerth and Grave- lotte, of the bombardment and surrender of Strasbourg and, worst of all, of the supreme disaster at Sedan! We cannot banish these reflections, even when we turn away, with King William, for relief to the lighter splen- dors of the Salon d’Hercule, where Lemoine has covered the walls with the radiant won- ders of his pencil, or to the Grand Gallery, two hundred and ten feet long and thirty broad, on the sides and ceilings of which are seen glowing the allegories of Lebrun. No! Out of the fallen grandeur of the present the teeming past will still vividly recur. From the remote eleventh century, when Versailles was but a petty village dependency of the an- clent Abbey of Saint Magloire, down through the long succession of those historic times when the figures of the Cardinal de Retz, and Louis XII; of Louis XIV. and his magnifi- cent following and court; of Louis XV. and the celebrities who surrounded him there throughout the entire continuance of bis reign; of Louis XVI, closing the long record of the ancient monarchy amid the dying cries of his faithful Swiss and the howls of the sana ou- lottes forcing him away from this “lovely seat” to palatial imprisonment and, at last, to merciless judgment and the guillotine at Paris—the student's memory sweeps through an unbroken series of dramatic episodes, some grand and imposing ; others touching and pathetic; all fall of deop historic interéat. It was in the great hall of this palace that Louis Quatorze’ received the Turkish and Persian Ambassa- dors, amid such a blaze of wax lights, colored chandeliers, illuminated paintings, polished. statuary, sparkling fountains and transparent vases of exotics that filled the air with perfume ; such a dazzling array of gorgeous uniforms and of feminine loveliness glittering with pearls and diamonds, that the astonished Orientals wrote to their masters in the East that they had indeed beheld the King of all the Genii in his favorite abode, since, assuredly, no mere mortal could work such wonders unless he bore about him the all- compelling signet of Solomon the Great. It was in this same hall that the treaty was signed with the Genoese Republic in 1685, and with Austria in 1766; and there, ‘too, that the ever memorable document which guaranteed our American Independence was closed in 1788; and it was there that on May 5, 1789, the States General of France opened those stormy sessions which led, so soon, to the downfall of the monarchy and the overthrow of the feudal system. The money wrung from suffering generations and spent on this superb retreat in the succes- sive ages that made up its story of 800 years, would ransom an empire, and the labor lavished upon it would have built @ handsome city for the comfort of the poor. The gardens alone absorbed the toil of 36,000 men and 5,500 horses in different years, and the grand park, with its vast circumference of nearly a day's journey, is a principality in the wealth it contains of forest and flold; fruit and vine; live stock and game, inits many larger and emaller enclosures. Minor boscages and groves, Swiss and English cottages, tiny orna- monte! takes aud ighety are dottet through