The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1870, Page 4

4 —- — EUROPE. The Empress Eugenio in Accord with the Government at Tours. THE FRENCH LOAN IN LONDON. Positions of the Prussian Besieg- ing Army Before Paris, Effect of the War on. English Commerce, The Cunard mail steamship Java, Captain Cook, from Liverpool the 29th and Queenstown the 30th of October, arrived at this port at an eariy hour yes- terday morning. The Java tanded our special Euro- pean correspondence and newspaper mail reports in detail of our cable news telegrams dated to her day of sailing from England, The Correspondence de Berlin of October 27 asserts that the Emperor Napoleon, whose state of health requires @ milder climate, may possibly, in the course of next month, change his present residence at WilhelmshGhe for the Island of Elba. The London Spectator of October 29 points out that the Hohenzollerns, by pushing their demands too far, are bringing upon themselves a new and a grave evil—the permanent, sleepless, unquenchable hostility of the cosmopolitan revolution. The full volume of the red hatred has begun to concentrate itself opon the aggrandized, self- willed, force-belleving, aristocratic German monarchy. That hatred has deepenea every aay by the historic sympathy of all true reds for France, and signifies much. It means that in every country of Europe for years, perhaps for generations to come, a party fanatically brave and determined, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. since the Mexican war, between Marshal Bazaine and the Empress, with whom be has never been a favorite, From auch an interview It is a long step, as will be seen, to that project of the Kmpress’ Journey tothe Prussian headquarters, and to the part she Was to be made to play in the negotiations for peace. Nodoubt the Empress eagerly desires to see the end of hostilities, but whatever tese reckless partisans, whose dangerous services she re- jects, may assert or allow to be supposed, and whatever ve the diplomatic intrigues of wluch M. Bismarck desires to make her an matrumeny it is ceriain that she does not dream of sacriicing an tuch of French territory or any part of the honor of the country to her dynastic interest. When Aisace and Lorraine shali be nd loager in question the Em- press will doubtless use every effort to put herself in agrecment with the country, with the view to ob- taining an honorable peace, but tli then she will av- stain with tue same dignity and resolution as here- totore, In view of a recent communication it 1s proper to add that family mirigues succeed no better with the Empress than thove which are hatched from beyond the Kine, What 1s known of the two tuteryiews between the Empress and her cousin, Prince Napo- leon, serves to suow her firmness and her just appre- clation of men as well as of circumstances, It ia well known, indeed, that the Emperor's cousin bas never been in any great odor of sanctity at the Tuil- eries, and that the Empress personally has taken little pains to conceal her prepossessioas againal one whom she has aiways considered the Emperor's ene- my. The political temperament of Prince Napoleon aud his ar aaepiioa and moral opinions were, ib is true, but little in accordance with those of the Empress, and the sad event of which France has been the yicum did not in any way tend to recon- cile views or fealings between which there has been no possible point of contact, Be that as it may, and not to push an inquiry into psychological peculiarl- ties, 1t 18 certain that the second and last visit of Prince Napoleon at Cluse!burst ended in an explosion, ‘The Prince may protest as much as he likes; that will not alter the facts, During this last visit Prince Napoleon, with his usual impulsiveness, allowed himself to express somewhat harshly his opinions touching the different Ministries of the last month of the empire, and he went so far as to call one of them a Ministry of idiets (cretins). Now, the sentl- ment of gratutude ts MA ag | with the Empress, and she made a reply to her illustrious cousin, of waich the following sentences convey the substance, UM not the precise words:—“I know not, Monseig- neur,” said the Empress, “what you mean by a Min- istry of idiots, but what I do know ts that down to the ast moment the Emperor was served by devoled and faithful friends, For the last eighteen years you havo op- posed the empire. You and those about you have never ceased to undermine it; and to-day, when the Emperor is fallen, you pursue him still, Had you been at Paris on the 4th of September you might have been able to give us good advice; but you were absent, a8 you have so often happened to be, at the moment of danger—of course, to your great regret, with high popularicy among the masses, sure of occasional glimpses of power, With more than haif the press of Europe in its hands, with an inOuence which is almost predominant among the Latin races, will for years postpone all smaller ends to the de- struction of the Prussian monarchy.’’ The Cork Examiner of the 29th of October ob- serves:— A notable clreumstance 1s the extraordinary suc- cess of the French loan in London. It has been ee eagerly taken up, and the lists have already closed, In fact £20,000,000 could have been ratsed as readily as £10,000,000, It is understood that extreme pro- Prussians raised an outcry against It on the score of illegality, but the avariclons speculators nad only to point to tue English law which makes no loan ille- galuniess raised in England for @ nation with which England is at war. An English journal alleges the following:— There ts a growing coolness between the Prussian officers and the Englishmen charged with the succor of the sick and wounded. The former have dis- played very bad temper on the head of Colonel Lind- say's mission to Paris. He divided the £40,000 en- trusted to iim between the bestegers and the be- sleged, while the Prussians wanted to get ihe whole of it for the former. Mr. Merriman, a London solicitor and republican, had an interview with M. Gambetta at Tours, and was entrusied with the negoliation of French De- partmental loans and the purchase of 100,000 pairs of shoes in England for the French army. Garibaldi expresses himself hopefully respecting the prospects of France. Ina tetter to a friend in England lie says Fraace is not nearly as inuch pros- trated as is generally supposed. He trusts “that Englishmen will ald the French republic,” which, s one of the pillars of Nberty.” | merick (Ireland) fair large purchases of | horses were inade for the German and Belgian ar- | miles, a8 well as for the British army. Her Britannic Majesty’s ship Herevles has had another narrow escape from destruction, After trials at Portsmouth to test her stability, which were satisfactory, @ cask of varnish took fire and the flames spread. Captain Lord Walter Kerr and Lieutenant Fitzgeraid descended into the body of the ship, and were for a time overpowered by the smoke; five seamen also sulfered seriously from the same cause, Eventually the fre was got under. A telegram dated in Bombay, Iadia, on the 27th of October, and published in London on tie morning of the 29th, reports:— Advices from Hong Kong state thataday for a massacre of foreigners at almost every treaty port, Canton included, has been predic: The massing of treops continues, and the evidence of the intended resistance to foreigners bas been strengthened. The Canton community had called the attention of the | Consuls to te Insvlence displayed by the Chinese, aud had declared that they expected protection, EUGE AND BISMARCK, Alleged Political Intrigues of the Ex-Empress, The Loudon News publisies the following impor- tant statement regarding the relations of the ex- Empress Eugenie with polit rtics in France during her sojourn at Chi A document, of which what follows is tion, has been laced in our hands for p: » in laying it efore our ders in the character in which it reaches us, that of an authenuc statement of facts and of tle v $8 and aims of the illustrious lady mainly concerned, we do not, it 1s searcely to inform an efui reader of the Daily 2 sociate our: 3 with the opinions as to pr policy whic <presses. Our object ford an opportunity for ‘ectitic of false im- pressions en very generally diffused.’ Since ber arrival in England the Empress Bugénto has not only remained a stranger to every intrigue, but bas repelled with energy and dignity everythlug which looked liked a Bonapartist conspiracy. It 13 not to be inferred that she has lost all hope of a res- toration, uor is her present silence to be construed to the prejudice of the future; but with a political Sagacity which misfortune has rendered more clear- sighted than ever, she has perceived that the mo- | ment for dynast peculation 13 not yet arrived and that too great ha: Ould infallibiy prove latal to her hopes. At thi noment her anxicties are of another kind. With the same fidelity as if she were still in France and nof the power which the disaster of d, her thoughts are occupied solely wi ational defence. pon that point her as are in complete accord with | ernment at Tours the reinsat of all of territory. idence of this may be found in her answer to the first enrissary, sent to her by M. Bismarck on of last month, Ww been only & few days in England, and when the events that had wht about her exile were at perhaps have been e lirsi opportunity of e: russia at that time was ready to t she ny peace. of Setau were enough for her glory. Public opinion | in Germany had not then been embittered by the continuance ol a war which the surrender of the | Emperor promised at first to terminate, aud the | j Chancellor of the North German Confederation did not then feel himself obliged to oifer to a country ex- hausted by the struggle any considerable territortal compensation. Accordingly he proposed to the Em- ress to conclude a peace on the basis of the surren- | vor of Strasbourg, the key of the house, as he calls that French city, with a portion of the Depariment of the Bas-Rhin, including but 250,000 inhabitants, and with a war indemnity of 2,000,0.0,000 of francs. The Empress, rejecting long before the provisional rovernment, the tdea of territorial cession, refused this proposition, which has remained so completely unknown that Views are to-day imputed to her which would ve wholly inconsistent with her past cts and as hostile to her interests as to those of nce. No doubt conversations take place at Onislehurst between the Empress and her house- hold. ‘The chances of restoration and the means to bo employed when the bour shall strike may well be discus: uch Views are private, and have remained pi te; nor has any ind etlon—a tulng in itseif improbable—given to anybody the right to state them in a them in an oficial character, To form aw juster estimate of the various narra- tives that liave been published it needs oniy to be kept in mind the intrigue in wiiich General Bour- bakit became an fnveluntary tool, or that famous manifesto impured to the prisouer of Wiihelmshihe. Jt is known today bow eutiveily ignorant was the Empress of those two matters, and what a@ surprise to her was the arrival of the con- fidant of Marshal Bazaine. It ought to be equaliy ; weil Kvown that her desire to take part Jn none of the intrigues of which it was sougat to make Jhiselburst the centre has beon formaily expressed. Empress lives In the most aosoluic vetizement, rounded by @ {9 persona whose devotion is kuown, coming but seldom te Londen, and divid- ing her Lopes between France aud herson, The ar. rival of General Boyer Was ag unexpected as that of General Lourbak!, “Jt-was only natural that the en- voy sent by Marshal Bazaine to the Prussian head- quarters showld have thonght{t a duty, when his intasion was serch to pay bis respects to the Empress at Chiselhurst aud to apprise her of what was passing in Metz Evorytuing beyond this was pure imagination, Thore was ny question of @ military revolution in ths interview of Saturday at Chiselhurst, but solely of the possibility of con- {inved resistance. To suppose that the discussions povween, “the press . 4 Geueral Boyer had ny other ond {1s to hold lignt the military a8 to Con- enor of the defender of Metz, as well existing, ignorance of the relations Tile victories of Welssenburg, of Forbach and | % positive form, muck less t0 give | as 1 do not doubt.” Upon this Prince Napoleon tar- ried no longer. He took up his hat and left the room, EUGENIE’S TOILET. How Her Majesty Dresses in Exile. A lady who visited the Empress Engénte at Chi- Selhurst writes thus on the subject of the toilet:— Her Majesty was dressed in @ brown walking cos- tume of a most lovely shade, ‘The petticoat was of brown silk, trimmed with three tlounces of velvet, over which she wore a tunio and jacket of brown merino of the finest texture. The tunic was trimmed with flounces ef silk of the same shade; the jacket, like the petticoat, was trimmed wita velvet. It was @ simple little jacket, fitting her lovely shoulders most perfectly, slashed at the sides and back and trimmed ali round with one row of velvet ribbon an inch and a half wie. At the wrists were deep pointed cuffs, with little gold buttons extending from the bottom of the sleeve to the point of the cull, and at the neck a small velvet collar. The tunic was very full, and was looped up most gracetully. Around her throat she wore a white tie with a large bow infront. It was trimmed with Brussels ace, Her gloves were silk, very long at the wrists, of a light buff color, Her sun umbrella was of the same shade of buff, Ined with green silk, She wore a smali black straw hat, bound around the brim with biack silk, The brim was narrow and drooping. On the left side was a large black bow. Her veil was of black thread lace, In her right hand she carried a substantial brown ren cane, of which she made good use as a walking stick, She wore no jewelry of any kind. Thave heard much o! the beauty and grace of the Empress, but I was not prepared ‘to see a person of such perfect lovenness. she did not look more than and-twenty, Her complexion was pale without ing pallid, for her lips were beautifully red. Her eyes are the most striking feature of her face; they are deep blue, almond shaped, the outer corners | drooping, the lashes thick and long, of the same | color as her hair, which is a mingling of amber and garnet. In fact, she is all my fancy painied her; she | 1s lovely, almost divine, PRINCE NAPOLEON. A letter, of which the following is @ translation, has been forwarded to the London News for pubii- catton;— Lonpon, Oct. 26, 1870. Sir—I read an article in your number of the 20th, in which you mention my name, ascribing quite in- correct eonduct to me, to which I give, as far as I arm concerned, @ formal contradiction. I have come to England on private business; I have not seen General Lourbaki, who left before my arrival; I have not seen Genera! Boyer, whose mission J heard of through the newspapers. As to my relations with Chiselnurst, the facts are these:—On my arrival I went to pay Dy respects to my cousin and her son; Treturned there summoned by a telegraph despatch, As to what passed with the Empress, permit me to say nothing io the public; those who know me know that my opinions lave always been as loyal as they are liberal. [nave the highest esteem jor Marshal Bazatne, for his glorious ariny, 80 devoted to France, as well as to its oath, and for the preservation of which, it scemed to me, everything ought to be at- tempted. I regret that your articic, authorized L know not by whom, compels me to break a silence I should have wished to maintain. Lam, &e NAPOLEON (JEROME), THE FRENCH LOAN. The Proposals as Issucd in London. {From the London Times (city article) Oct. 2! Annexed are the ied a § Issued thls (26th) noon by Messrs. J. S. Morgan & Oo. for the F loan. ‘The nominal amount is £10,000,000 in bonds bearing 81x per cent Interest from the first inst., and the subscription price is to be 85, payable in instal. ments extending to the ist of February next. Keckoning the accrued interest and the discount allowed for prepayment the actual price will be 84, at whick the return yielded will be seven and one- eighth per cent, irrespective of any advantage from thi payinent of tie bonds at par in thirty-seven A very large portion of the amount will be ing for supplies of articles of necessity from this other countries of Europe, as well as from Au a, and any disturbance of the mone; marke’ be proportionably lessened, although some distinct effect must still he expected to be pro- duced, According to impressions m the Stock Ex- change the entire sum is likely to be promptly ap- plied for, owing tu the strong faith entertained that whatever may be the severity of her present trial France will soon regein her natural prosperity. FRENCH GOVERNMENT SIX PER CENT LOAN, ‘Ten million pounds in redeemable six per cent bonds, of £20, £10), £500 and 31,900 each. “Payable, interest. and prin- cipai, in London in ponnds sterling; or in France, at the ex- change of 25f, at the option of the holders, Price of issue, £66 per #100.’ Mossrs.J.8. Morgan & Co. are duly autho: rized by the French government for the national defence to offer the above Joan for public subscription. ‘The loan will eed in England and France, It will be represented by. jonds to Learer, im amounts of £20, £100, £500 and £1, (and the equivalent in France at 20f. per pound sterling). The bonds will carry Interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, from the Lt of October, 1870, payable half-yeariy (on the Is) of April and the Ist of October), at the option of {ho holders, ip London ut the counting hotise of Messrs. J. §. Morgan ¢ Co.) in sterling, or in Franco (at the Treasury in Paris, and at the Treeorfers Payeurs | ments) at the exchange of 25 ‘The government reserve the right to redeem the bonds by | paying off the loan at par at any timo during its currency on | giving six months’ previous notlca, such notice to expire on Cae of the days xed tor the payment of the half-yearly in- at coupon. If the government do not exercise the abova pion, aud until they do so, the loan will be + in thirty-four years from April, 1878, by king fund. ‘The drawings for redomp! ; nuary, 157%,) will take place annually, iy Soadon, at the counting house of Messrs. Mor- gan & Co, ju the presence of a representative of the French fovernincht. Notico of the numbers of the bonds drawn for Feimbuarsemont will be advertised in Kngitsh and French jour. nals, before paymenh aud the drawn, bonds will be paid off Ib of April following, “The subscription price pounda per 100 pounds, payable by instalments, Five pee ceot on application, itteen per cent on Generaux in the Depart- allotment, twenty pet cont on the lst of December, 1870; | twenty per cont Sn the 2d of January, 1871, and twenty-tivs por cout on thegat of February, 18/I—total, eighty-tive per tent, Payments in auticipation of unpaid instalments may ‘be made on allotment, or on elther of the abovo dates, under discount at the rate of four per cent per annum. ‘Bonds signed by @ delegate duly empowered by the French govern- ment for the national defence will be provided with all poxsi- ble despatch. ‘the general bond (to which 1s annexed the origingl powers conferring on the government delegate speck thority to make tho loan) will be deposited by jeasra J. 8, Morgan & Co. 1n the Bank of England, 22 OLD LROAD STREET, LONDON, E. C., Uct. 25, 1670, Power of France for Recuperation. (From the London ‘times, Oct, 28.] The English money market-has been moved this week by a new sensation, A Frencii war loan for the noininal amount of £10,000,000 has been oifered to invesiors in this country on terms which seem to combine all the inducements attractive to specu- Jators 1n foreign stocks, The prospectus was Issued on Monday afternoon; on Tuesday and yesterday the Stock bxcbange could scarcely think of anything else, and the subscription list was closed for London lost night with favorabie prospects, The confidence which shrewd men of business have thus shown in the recuperative powers of France, in the stability of ber public credit and in the financial iniogrity of the nation and of those who at any time may rule her, assuredly remarkable. To all appearance France lies prostrate and helpless at ¢ fect of a conquering Power; after tremendous exertions and appalling sacrifices sho has failed in shaking off for an instant the grasp of the jnovader, and there is hardly a single chance remaining of her esoape, even ai tie Lest, from the crusbing penalty of an immense pecuniary indemnity. After all that she has had to pay and provide already, after the impoverishment of ali her resources, and’ even con- sidering the gigantic burden which wil be laid upon her as ce of e, the English money market takes up the loan France asks for with unexampled avidity. ‘There is surety a good omen tn this for the stricken nation. No Gcrman can complain of Eng. lish partiality, for our speculators in foreign stocks are more neutral in their shrewd scrutiny of invest- ments than the most scrupulous bearers of the red cross, ‘Their approval testtiics to the strong bolier all unprejudiced observers hold that ler present misiortnnes"have left untouched the real strength Ol Fragee, aud that peace will quickly restore all that war has ruiued and swept away, Eagland as a Loan Taker. The London Leonomist of October 20 predicts that, “Directly or indirectly England shall from this time forth be lending for a considerable period, and lena- ing largely, to both belligerents. ven if the loans of either are taken up at first in the country tiself, if they be very large they produce an effect on the money market here and tend to draw money from us. The French loan ttseif has been reaaily sub- scribed, and that readiness is quite justified. Con- sidering the ready manner in which the capital of the country nas been lent to and (we fear) wasted by such countries as Turkey and Baypt, which are hardly to be called civilized, aad which only pay ‘the interest on old loans by borrewing new money, we cannot wonder that the money wanted for such country as France, which is at the centro of ctvilization, and which has paid interest through 80 mauy revo- lutions, should have been obtained very quickly. There are, of course, ebjections to it; but one can- not conceive any probability that any succeeding French government will question the power of the pronenk government to bind the nation; and though ice will be in need of much economy and great change of policy her resources are enormous. She has thirty-six millions of the most careful, savin and Renmin industrious people who ever existed. It 18 trifling with public credit to suppose that such @ country will not pay its debts, As to the effect of the loan on the money market, it js not easy to pre- dict its precise amount; but it is plain that such a loan, and others—not only of France, but of other countries—which are likely to come out, will most likely raise the value of money, and at any rate keep it from sinking lewer, as it otherwise would.” PARIS. Positions of the Prussian Besioging Army. The positions of the German army around Paris Were as follows on the 20th of October:— firth corps and Landwehr of the Guard, about Versailles and opposite Fort Vaierein; half the Elev- euth corps, opposite Fort Issy; Second Bavarian corps, opposite forts Vanves and Montrouge; Sixth corps, opposite forts Bicetre and Ivry; thence up to the Canal de ’Ourcq at the northeast of Parts the Wurtemberg division and half bh irteenth cor] both under the command of t rand Duke Mecklenburg; opposite the north and northwest of the capital, the Guards, the Saxons (the Twelfth corps) and the Fourth corps, which last communi- cates on its right with the left of the fifth corps, This total iorce is equal to eight corps, or about 200,000 men, being a deduction of about twenty per cent made from the full war strength. The investing force is drawn up in three main lines, the first being subdivided iato sentries, pickets and grand guaras, ‘There are telegraph lines run from the most ad- vanced line of seniries to. the rear, so that a force suflicient eventually to contest the ground with an; force the French have yet sent out of Paris 1s col- lected within @ very short Ume after whe first alarm, The Siege Train. Mr. Russell went over the German prsilers park before Paris on Tuesday, October 25, with two officers, in the midst of a rainstorm which turned the soil of the plateau into deep, slippery, but tena- cious mud, aud he described it as foliows:—“It is a powertul park, but on the whole I would say more remarkable as an exhibition of penetrating and far- reaching ordnance than as a display of potency in vertical fire, There aro rifled guns which look like fleid pieces and shoot like rifles, These are the guns which did their work at Toul and Strasbourg, and which are known as 24-pounders, throwing & shell of nearly eighty pounds (i, ¢, 75 pounds) weight, and there are the snraller pieces to which have alluded. There are short, smooth-bored iron guns for shell—a kind of howitzer, something like an old 56-cwt. gun. Ihnen there are rifled bronze ‘uns, and, finally, mortars of the old fashion, throw- ng 50-lp, shell. One feature of the park is the variety of types presented in the glee matériel, Prussia cannot have contemplated great sieges, at all events, for here I find mortars of @ very ancient pattern from Voblenz, with dates indicating that they were cast a hutidred years and more ago; one, indeed, goes back for its birth to the seventeenth century. But mortars of all ordnance are the least improved, and seem to be least susceptible of Im: provement. The ranges of the more powerful rifled guns here are 7,500 schritt (the schritt being an En- glish pace), of the smaller 5,000 schritt—and 10,000 schritt make one German mile—equal to a little more than four anda half English miles.” GERMAN UNION. In announcing that the leadjng Ministers of the South German States have (October 28) repaired to Versailles to concert the terms o! their joining the North German Band, the London 7imes’ correspona- ent in Berlin says:— I should not be astonisied were the important transaction, which fuifils tne dreams of 80 many pre ceding gencrailons, to be completed in a few days, Since the beginning of the war the reunion of North- ern and Southern Germany has been regarded as inevitable, even by those Southern Ministers who formerly opposed it most strenuously. The Southern armies, strongly in favor of jomlnog Prussia since the great events of 1566, absolutely demanded 1 after the victories conjoinuy achieved over France, Among the Southern populations, who have been muchdivided on the question, the unity men like- wise obtained a decided majority amid the national enthusiasm of the war, and forced the Ultramon- tanes and republicans, their adversaries, to beat a retreat. Count Bismarck has not asked the South- ern States to join. The Southern dynasties and gov- ernments, though they will have to renounce some of their present prerogatives, have, by the nature of things, been themselves moved to apply for adinis- sion. ENGLAND’S TRADE. Effect of the War on Commerce—Trade Re- lations with America. [From the London Globe, Oct. 29.) The trade and navigation accounts for the months of August and September indicate what bas been the effect upon English trade of the war between France and Prussia, to a greater extent than the re- turns upon which we commented a month since, As regards articles imported free of duty, our food sup- pues are of the utmost importance, and these jgurea show that during the month of August our imports of live stock were much greater than in previous years; they included 22,372 oxen, bulls and COWS, 2,609 calves, 53,487 sheep, 234 lambs and 12,301 swine and hogs. On the other hand, our imporis of wheat have declined and the trade exhibis con- siderable fluctuations; since, while our imports from Russia, which amounted in August to 646,643 hundred weight, are much larger than last year, we are receiving but Mttle from Denmark and next to nothing from Prussia. and the the trade with the Hanse Towns was wholly stopped. Our corn trade with France is always a very variable one and in August we received 60,042 hundred weight, or three- fourths of the total imports during the year. The trade with the countries in the south of Europe also SDOWS a great falling off. As to the raw material for our manufacturing dis- tricts, our total import of cotton 13 on the increase. The United States sent us in August 140,461 cwt. The receipts from Turkey, Which have this year been Much smalier than last year, Were almost suspended last mouth. It is a matter of regret that British India, which is in the manufacturing districts re- garded as of the highest importance, should be send- Ing us much less than in either of the previous years. This 1s, however, counteracted by the fact that from miscellaneous sources we are in receipt of augmented supplies, Russia is sending us large quantities of flax; Jast month we received 226,737 cwt., and from other countries we are obtaining quantties larger than last year. Our import of raw sik shows a recovery from last year (when there was @ considerable decrease); in this article, British India, from which we last month received 18,667 pounds, is making up for the decrease in cotton; from other Eastern countries our importation greatly fell off last month, but is, looking to the total ol the year, very much in advance of 1869, In wool also there 18 a great increase, ‘the tron trade 1s evidently improving through the war, for the exports of iron and unwrought steel last month were worth £1,903,305, as against £1,748,622 in September last year and £1,618,742 in the preceding year, For the last nine months the exports were valued at one and three-fourtns mil- lions more than last year. This included 64,324 tons of pig and puddled fron; 29,628 of bar, angle and rod iron, and 103,985 of railroad iron—a large increase, Oc all sorts of wrought tron there were 12,350 tons exported; of copper and brass, 41,180 ewt. (about half the quantity of last year); of un- wrought tin, 10,584 cwt.; of tin plates, 160,339 owt, and of lead, 2,880 tons (about haif of that last year). Less salt than usual was exported last month, and the export of linen manuiactures was £533,924 in valne, a3 compared with £568,455 in September last year. As to machinery, steam engines to the value of £147,683 were exported last month, and other sorts to the value of £525,633. In drugs and cheml- cals and In earthenware a decline was exhibited, It isamusing, when one considers the noise there has been made a3 to our supplying French snips with coal, to find that we have been actually shipping less coal during the war thanin the two preceding Yeara. Thus it uppears that only 953,887 tons of coal were exported last month as compared with 1,010,060 1n September last year, and 993,308 In Sep- tember, 1868. The export of firearms does not ap- pear to be anything like so great us has been pre- vended. TURKEY AND RU ssi The chief aim of the policy of Turkey just now, October 29 (according to the Eastern Budget) is to conciliate Russia. She has raised the camp at Sut torina, on the Montenegran frontier; removed, at the request of Russia's protegé, the Prince of Montene- negro, the somewhat too e1 commandant at Ecutari, and has paid 130,000 florins to the ie | compensation for the disputed districts of Vert Malo bras. ‘fhe proposal to provide the whole ry the able-bodied male population of Albania 4 arms has alzo been abandoned by the Turkish gov- erninent, for tear of arousing the susceptibilities of Russia, MURDER OF AN EMINENT GEOGRAPHER. Sir Roderick Murchison writes as follows:— It is my painful duty to announce that the distin- guisied traveller, Mr. corres Hayward, to whom the Founders? Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society was awaftied at the last anniversary of that body, Was assassinated and his property plundered about the beginning of last August by the followers of the Chief Meer Wate Khan of Yassim. The de- tatis of this lamentable catastrophe will be laid before the Royal Geographical Society at its first meeting (on the 15th of November), when I will endcavor to do all justice to the memory of so enter- prising and accomplished an explorer of wild eastern mountains, and whose brilliant ana hitherto suc- cessful career was mphaney terminated when he was on the point of reaching the lofty Pamir Steppe, which he had engaged to visit and describe. MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS. Fears of a famine in Persia are reported from Teheran, Miss Rye, with thirty-five children, left London en route for America October 26. Grea: damage has been done near Derry, Ireland, by the overflowing of a watercourse. ‘I'wo persons have been drowned. It 1s noticed that the Prussian government has not renewed its contracts for provisioning the army, which expired ou the 20th of October. Lord William Lennox gave a lecture, ‘Personal Reminiscences of Wellington,” In Loudon, in aid of the funds of the Mechantos’ Institute. The British gun vessel Marple is, with one or two vessels of the same class, about to be placed in com- mission for special service in the survey of the rivers in India, According to the Levant Herald the Turkish goy- ernment nid aaleeciad a elpordry loan of £1,200,000 with the Société Générale at twelve per cent interest per annum. In the London Court of Bankruptcy an udica- tion of bankruptcy was made against Lord de Mau- ley, of Grosvenor square, London. The amount of his abilities was stated at £400,000. The Belgian trade report for the first seven months of 1870 shows in the imports an increase of seven per cent and in the exports an {poreaso of twelve per cent over the same months of » An exhibition of poultry, pigeons and pheasants isto be held at the Crystal Palace, London, in De- cember, during the time of the cattle show. There are nearly forty cups, and the prizes amount to be- tween £600 and £700, The Scotsman states that the Marquis of Bute has had a large bell made in Dublin which he intends to Beene to the Catholtc Cathedral church of Cape ‘o’ Africa. The casting weighs about 22 cwt., and including the fittings, 30 cwt As the Papal States now form part of tne king- dom of Italy, British correspondence addressed to places in those States will henceforward be subject to the same rates of postage and conditions of trans- mission as correspondence for Italy. Of the 20,000 horses captured at Sedan ana else- where in France the best have been picked out and supplied to the German artillery and cavalry. Those include many capital Norman horses for the cavalry and heavy animals for the artillery. Areport made by the visiting Magistrates ef tho Manchester (England) County Jail shows that while, in 1866, the number of committals for drunkenness was 2634 per cent of the whole number committed, in she. year ending September 29, 1870, it was 37 per cen’ ‘The toss of the Cambria spread deep gloom over the whole province of Ulster, Ireland. The list of the passengers contains the names of many natives of Londonderry and other towns in the north, some of whom, having realized a modest competence in America, were returning to enjoy their gains, London numbers among its population a class of habicual paupers, ranging from 130,000 to 180,000, Of these rather more than 1,600 are vagrants, A re- turn of the vagrants relieved on the 1st of January, 1865, throughout England and Wales, gave a total of 3,339; in the metropolitan district, 589, A similar report for 1869 placed the corresponding totals at 7,029 and 1,882, According to the London Chamber of Agriculture Journal hop growers have reasen to congratulate themselves on the results of the picking this:‘season, 80 lar as the amount of produce 15 concerned; but, on the other hand, @ large proportion of the new hops were more or less damaged, partly by thaheavy winds and still more by the hasty and imperfect manner in which they were cured. Captain Gillespie’s bravery in rescuing McGart- land, who, it 1s almost certain, is the sole survivor of the passengers and crew of the Cambria, has been rewarded in a very gratifying, though unosten- tatious manner. He, says the Londonderry Journal happened to visit the shop of a watchmaker au Jeweller in Derry on business, and a gentleman who was present, on learning who he was, purchased and prevented tum with @ massive and ‘valuable signet ing. The London Standard, referring to an account of the glories of the Campbells, remarks that “if every- thing that was ever done by any man of the name of Campbell is to be credited to the house of Argyll one Can scarcely wonder that its catalogue of illus- trious and distinguished individuals is greater than that of any other house. There is, in fact, only one other house in great Britain which, on this footing, can pretend to challenge @ comparison with the Camphelis. One need hardly say this is the noble house or Smith. There 1s certainly one English duke and one viscount to be reckoned of the clan Smith.”? P.RSONAL TL His Highness the Rajah of Kolhapore and suite left Dubiin for Hagland. His Grace the Duke of Abercorn and suite lett Dublin tor Whiteford, county Meath, The Prince of Wales has appointed the Earl of Leicester keeper of tne privy seal to his Royal High- ness. Queen Victoria has appointed Henry David Erskine, Esq., of Cardroass, groom of the robes, vice Marquis of Hertford, resigned, The Right Hon, Edward Cardwell has succeeded the Right Hon, W. E, Forster as Minister in attend- ance upon her Majesty Queen Victoria at Balmoral. , The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, who have returned to London from Homburg, will shortiy leave for Portumna Castle, the family seat in Ireland. A'fgranite monument has been placed over the grave of the late Bishop of Bath and Wells in the palace churchyard, adjoining Wells Cathedral, Eng- Jand. A marriage has been arranged between Lady Flo- rence Cole, second daughter of the Karl of Suniskil- Jen, and Viscount Cricuton, M. I’, eidest sou of the Karl of Erne, K. Py The Crown Princess of Prussia was expected to arrive at Berlin with her children in a lew days after October 29. Her Royal Highness will then ae up her permanent residence iu tue Prussian capita The London Army and Navy Gazetle says there is no wuth ip the report that his Royal Highness tie Duke of Edtuburg is to resign the command of his Majesty's ship Galatea, and to revurn to England in her Majesty’s ship Challenger, The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone has returned to London from attending the wedding of his niece, Edith Ellen, daughter of the late Captain J. N. Glad- stone, Royal Navy, member of Parilament, at Bow- den Hill, Gloucestershire, with Mr W. A. Duma- resque, The marriage of Earl Cowper with the Hon. Miss Compton, daughter of Lord William Compton, took place October 25 at All Saints’ church, Kensington, London, in the presence of a very fashionable assembly, A grand dcjeuner was subsequently given at the residence o1 the bride’s father, and in the afternoon the happy pair left town en route for the Continent, List of Americans registered at the offices of Messr3. Robert Thode & Co., American bankers, Dresden, up to October, 22:—A. J. Booth, San Francisco; Mrs. Camman and David M. Clarkson New York; E. B. Crocker, California; Dr. and Mrs: W. A. M, Culbeck, Frank R. Culbeck, E. M. Deusen* and Professor Edwin Emerson, New York; Dr. H: W. Harkness, California; Edward J. Hoffman and John W. Hoffman, Philadelphia; Thomas Hogg, J. H. Rushupid and Charies R, Shepard, New York; William E. Silsbee, Boston; Richard West, Cam- bridge; Mrs. H. J. Winslow and Richard Winslow, New York. List of Americans resiaing at the Hotel Bellevue, Belgium, for a lengthenes period and on October 26:—W. H. Ashurst and family, United States; Miss Alice Brannin, Louisville; Mrs. J, A. Brown and C, D.Cobb, New York; Henry T. Cullen, Brooklyn; Miss M, Dater, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Dickey, Miss Dickey and 0. Dunliver, United States; Robert Mc- Murray, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Malé, New York; E. J. and Mrs. Miler, Miss L, 8. Miller and G, M. Miller, United States; Mrs. J. F, Herriman and Miss Herri- man, Brooklyn; Hamilton Hoppin and family, New York; Miss Judith Johnson, Louisville; Miss Polhe- mus and Miss G. Polhemus, Brooklyn; C. and Mra, Ritchie and Miss Ritchte, United States; Thomas P, Ruad, Louisville; C. D. and Mrs, Tows, New York, List of Americans registered at the offices of Messrs. S. & A. Blumenthal, American bankers, Venice, during the week ending October 22:—Gen- eral Robert Anderson, U. 8, A.; Mrs. Anderson and oe of New York; General J, G. Barnard, U. 8, A.; William Coleman Burns, Walter H, burns, Miss Mary Clark and Lester Clark, of New York; Miss Davenport, of Boston; Mr. and Mrs, D. Cady Eaton and Miss Alice Foster, of New York; Dr. W. A. Hamilton and Miss K. Hamil- ton, of Baltimore; Charles Hoyle, of St. Louis; Miss E. G. King, J.'G, King and F. W, La Forge, o! New York; John R. and Mrs, Larus and John R, Larus, Jr., of Baitimore; Johu R. Livingston, Miss a oe F. W. Lockwood and Joseph BK. Lord, of New York; Colonel P. E, Michie, United States Army; Mra. W. H. Pierson and Rev. John H. Rogers, of New York; Mrs. L. F. Small, of Baltimore; Edgar A. Turrell, of New York; Miss E. M. Ward and Miss J. E. Ward, of Boston; J, S. and Mrs, Ward, of Brooklyn; General H. G. Wright, United States Army; Masou Young, of New York AN ITALIAN BRIGAND, Li'e, Career and Death of a Neapolitan Outlaw— His Birth, Services and First Fail—Ro- manos of Crime—The Hero of the Vozu- vius—Twelve Murders~—Betrayal, Ar- rest, a Death Struggle and Death— Piety, Passion and Relics, po {Florence (Oct. 19) correspondence of the London Times, | ‘The Neapolitan papers are just now full of detatla and interesting particulars about tiie capture of the notorious brigand Pilone, once the terror of the country surrounding Mount Vesuvius, who was ar- rested and kilted at Naples on the idth inst. As everything which concerns the life and death of this celebrated capo-brigante is in the highest degree characteristic of brigands and brigand life in italy im general, and this man in particular, I will just give you a short résumé of the eventful biography of this illustrious personage, now no more, Antonio Cozzolino—this is the real name of Pilone:-was born at Kesina tn 1825, and tollowed tne traae of a stonecutter until he attained the age of bts ang when he was called upon to enter the Neapolitan army. He was still serving in the Royal artillery at the time when General Fant! conceived the unlucky idea of sending Francesco II.’s dis- banded s:ldiers home. On tI ur Bone agai called to service Pilone and m: others besides took flight and turned professed brigands, PRE-EMINENCB IN ORIME. His superior energy and intelligeuce very soon gave him chief command over all the robbers infest: ing the country, and he has been nearly the only one among them who has invariably succeeded dur- ing the last ten years in escaping the search aud eluding the pursuit of the Italian army and police. He pny Roger had the temerity to venture even as far as precincts of the capital itself, He it was who captured and detained as prisoner the Deputy Avital ot that time director of the Neapolitan Bank. He went, moreover, twice to Rome; once, it 1s said (but of course we are at liberty to believe as much of thig on-dit as we please), al the express command of Francesco II., Who is said to have be- stowed on him a decoration; the second time by order of the Pope, who wished to imprigon him, aud key there for several months. : 4 BLY) RUBDERS any ceeae CORRS TION, le has been condemn leath no less than times, which is not too fa when We pe eS ber the innumerable murders he has committed oe ae lifetime twelve, at least, have been judi- cially brought home to him, The most conspicuous among these crimes is, pe! }, his assassination of the sergeant carabinieri, De Gas} who was coura- geous enough to attempt to arrest nim alone and un- assisted. What with the terror he inspired and the sympathy he often succeeded in exciting—especiall by his proverbial generosity and notorious piety (for, whetner feigned or ponaine, he, at any rate, gave himself out for a fervent devotee) he has always lenty of people to cenceal him, and even en- ie saintly Sppellation or surname of Cavaliere Antonio, Nevertheless, since the administra- tion of the new Prefect of Naples, Marchese d’amiitto, Pilone had vegun to feel less at eage. Almost all his nceniaites and manutengolt in the ordinary thea- tre of exploits had been successively captured, and people on whom even the va guest suspicion ot complicity or 1rendentp wine him rested were liable to arrest. So he thought it more prudent to draw near Naples and contrive to make sure of some safe places of refuge both in the town itself and in the immediate suburbs, ASSOCIATES AND DEFIANCE OF THE LAW. He was the compare (godfather) of balf the popu- lation between Oltaiano and le, and as the title of compare 1s far more respected in that part of the world than that of father or. brother he met with the most extraordinary discretion and fidelity among his allies, the inhabitants of the viliages around Naples and of the city itself. He was quently to be seen in town, and upon one occasion ® certain Marchese R., when waiking across the Piazza Keale, observed a servant of his speaking with an ill-favored, repulsive-looking fellow, and on questioning him the man, trembling, confessed that it was the notorious Pilone. The brigaud, imagining himself now to be in perfect safety, and finding him- self, moreover, short of cash, took to organizing a system of. ricatt, as they are called in Italy,.or forc- ing wealthy§people to give him large sums of money by threatening letters; and, as they had considera- bly more fear of him than confidence tn the police, they never dared to denounce the man, who was meanwhile plundering them in private at his ease, Since Cavaliere Colmeyer, however, bas been at the head of the police at Naples Pilone had enjoyed less and less tranquillity, a very severe surveillance hav- ing been established over the quarters he was most in the habit of frequenting, such az Forio, Mercato and the lower parts of the city, AN OFFICER SPECIALLY ON HIS TRACK. Among the officers employed in tracking him was a certain Petrillo, who reminds me forcibly of the sergent de police bent on taking Jean Valjean, in Victor Hugo’s “Misérabies.”” This man seems to have taken up his profession from vocation, and to exercise It artistically. He possesses the feu sacré, the disinterestedness, the indefatigable zeal of the man who is determined upon accomplishing his end. Now Petrillo, tt seems, had made the capture of this famous brigante the one atm of his life, and after numerous fruitless attempts finally succeeded on Friday last. Here the different accounts cease to agree. According to some it was a friend of the Cavaliere Sant’ Antonio, some treacherous accom- plice of the brigante, or some intended benefactor of his country, Who gave information to the police to the effect that Pilone was expected on the 14th under the bridge of the Arenaccia, where he was to receive a ricatto he had imposed on & proprietor of basco tre case living at Naples. Others mainiain that the victim himself denounced to the authort- ties the Intended spoliation, and was ordered, in consequence, to follow up the business. DESPERATE STRUGGLE AND DEATH. However this may be, Pilone was in town as soon ‘as the 10th inst., and the policemen coming acroas him several times had ample opportunity to note his features and dress, 80 a8 not to be liable to mis- take his identity on the appointed day. So last Friday, when the man who was to pay the ricatto alighted from the omnibus near tho Orto Botanico, he found his brigand faitntul to the ren- dezvyous, He would have been easy to recognize by a slight limp of the left foot, even had he not been clothed in his habitual costume—a white flat hat, violet cravat, black velvet jacket, black waistcoat and striped trousers. He carried a rough stick in his hand, wore blue spectacles on his nose, had cut off his beard and only retained his black whis- kers, already tinged with gray. While the rwattdto was counting out the money Petrillo pounced upon Pilone and seized him, whild sev- eral police agents in plain clothes approached. ‘The herculean strength of this oiticer, however, was not a match for tie terrible heroof the Vesu- vius, who succeeded in freeing himself trom the iron grasp of his enemy, and almost knocked him down with his stick. He then threw himnseif be- tween the legs of his assailant, saying, repeatedly, “Sono tradito, sono traditto !”’ (L am betrayed), un- sheathed his dagger, dealing wounds recklessly on all sides with it, and disiributed sundry kicks ‘with his feet, In the struggle he recelved a stab from a dagger belonging to one of the agents in his right side, and again lell to the ground, this time to rise no more. VIEWING THE CORPSE. The corpse was laid on a bier and carried in tri- umph to the questura. All the town rushed out to see il terrore della Montagna, and all that day and vhe next following people continued assem- bling beforo the Palazza San Giacomo. — It became necessary to place sentinels at the gates in order to prevent the multitude trom lavading the house. A deputation of the lower Classes actually came to Cavaliere Colmeyer, and requested that the dead body might be publicly exposed; but he wisely reiused. In the evening, however, it was brought to the Campo Santo Vec- chio, whither the mob proceeded, Many carriages were to be seen there, for there was scarcely a Nea- ladles who did not wy to catch a glimpse of tho jody; one touched it with his stick, another put his hand into the wound, all more or less insulted the corpse, 50 that once lore a guard was required to protect the dead man, He is described as robust, without corpulency, and his complexion is said to be remarkably fair. His features had a calm, almost dignified, expression, and were regular and agreeable. His hands and feet were exceedingly small—aristocratic, as an eye- witness of his capture expresses himself; the whole appearance of the body, in short, placid and attrac. vive. MEMENTOS—CONTRADICTIONS OF LIFE. On him the police found several objects, which I enumerate, as they are eloquently demonstrative of the strange mental condition of the man and the singular contradiction between his conduct and alleged, perhaps upfelgned, faith, There was a cominon little portfolio, with a great many letters bearing different addresses, according to the numer- ous feigned names which the bdriganie was wont to assume, On one side of the porifolio were written in his own rough handwriting several verses di- rected to the Saviour—“O cuore di Ces quello é tico posso fata” (in Italian—"O cuore di Gesit, quel ch’ 10 dico possa far tw), This was not the only token of his fervent piety, for he wore a litle armlet with the image of St. Ciro round his neck and carried in his pocket @ little brass reliquatre, containing frag- ments of the bones of Santa Francesca, San Colombo, San Glattino, and a bit of the Holy Virgin's veil; besides an image of Santa Maria deile Paladi, a meditation on the passion of our Saviour, a paper with the words, “Antonio Cazzolino, | am the son of Mary addotorata, for in the heaven is the Lord, and nobody is more master than He.” Further we found a half sheet of the Gazetta del Popolo of the 20th of May; an elementary alphabet with the catechism, which seems to have served him the poe ofa yee book; a White cambric handkerchief of the flnest texture, with two P.’s and a crown embroidered in the corner of it, and an- other common red and white neckerchief; forty francs in paper money and a few sous; a photograph of his own estimable person; a letter which has not been shown; his long dagger, and, a still more dan- gerous weapon, & matchbox. Jn order to strike ter- Tor ito the heurts of his victims he used to say to them, “You must either pay ie so much orI shall set fire to your house,” showing the matchbox, and, indeed, he more than once executed his threat, Tho inexhaustible pockets of this sancti- fled brigand contained a great many more articles; for instance, a small linen pag, wherein wore figures of saints, among others, that of the Virgin, St. Joseph and the Bambino, with the words ‘Gesil, Gtuseppe, Marta—Vi dono il cuore eVanina mia;” an image of Notre Dame de Salette, and several others besides. But the crown of ail was a Host, I cannot tell whether consecrated or not, wrapt ina paper, Loth wafer and paper red with blood, wine or the dye of the red flannel he wore. By all this you Taay ace that the legend did not err concerning him, a eee ee a Here Sant! Antonio, having always carried about him relies of the Sai ¥ y * neoratod in the pent our Saviour ‘duly con- proved false, aad th By Fat broved a better ‘dvtonce. ead io. Moat lsel , Ke ue been periorated tn the middie by the mor for he had hia tegend to vin alas effect: —Car ost,” was invulnerable id Intver point the eee f, A FAMOUS LONDON THIEF. eee EN His Career, Capture and friends Abroad. In the report of the Commisstoner of Police for London we find tie following account of a London thief, The Commissioner says:— Iconsider the capture and conviction of Simpson eaiias Miles Ambler, allas Black hirer Willlam Green the most important apprehension made by the metropolitan police for many years, Black Mitea 1s @ Yorkshireman, well Known ‘in his neighhoriood for thirty years a3 a receiver of property, In the spi 1864 he was connec! with ® ‘gang of thieves, Who commitied a series of very extensive robberies, One was the robbery of over £1,000 worth of stamps from the Stamp Oimee at Huddersfeld, When followed a rovbery of several hundred pounds’ worth of silks, sat- ins, &c., from a house at Bradford, the whole ot which property was found concealed in the pulpit of a chapel about two miles from the premises broken into. Shortly after the same ane broke into @ cloth warehouse at Kirkheaton and stole cloth to tne value of £400. Allthe gang were apprehended and convicted except Black Miles, from that time (the spring of 1864) he evaded detection, until ap- pepeutied a few months since by Ham and anges, Wo of the metropolitan detectives, While Miles Green were in custody and awaiting their examina- tion before a magistrate Sergeant Ham received a letter, in consequence of which he was tnstructed to roceed to a certain rendezvous indicated, and there found one Richards, who, after a little conversa- tion, made an offer of hig sovereigns to Ranger and Ham on condition of ir gel Miles and Green discharged. Ra: and Ham, under direo- tions, took the money, which was placed in Richards’ hands by the Brixton receiver, and both these men, Richards and the receiver. were for this offence sentenced to two years’ hard labor. The man who thus offered the money had been known ag a weal- He lived in le at thy receiver for years. Brixton and was the owner a et @ num of houses. He was the companion ot d_very inti- mate with Black Milea, and both had baffled the fata for years, nla Brixton man ath hi bet ed iverpoo} in and sentenced, with his wite, yan yeas) Rist ‘trvitnde tor & bank nove. fob. bery, The wife died in prison, At that time he wi worth £1,000, but when apprehended by Ham aa Ranger he was found to have money and house Rio perty to the amount of £12,000, Therefore, in his capacity of receiver, he had accumulated not lesa than £11,000 since he came to London. He 1s connected with first class thieves ali over the world and advanced money to them to go to forelgu countries to commit robberies. Numerous papers rela! to transactions with thieves in 108, Spain, Germany und America, and to the stolen pro- perty sent to and received from these countries, were found upon him, EXCITING ECENE ON A FE2R YDOAT. An Losulted Wife Attempis to Throw Horself into the River. Between two and three o'clock yesterday after- noon the Williamsburg ferryboat Warren was the scene of an exciting drama. Among the passengers on the boat were a husband and wife, on their way from New York to their home in Williamsburg, be- tween whom there appeared to exist some difficulty. The huspand, evidently uwwfMamed with liquor, fre- quently used harsh expressions toward his wife in the presence of the passengers, while she, a lady of fine presence and evident respectability, used soothing and gentle language in return. Her kind words, however, produced no good effect on her husband, who finally rushed upon ,her with the fury of a beast of prey, and felled her to the deck of the boat by a powerful blow with his fist, This was too mucn for THE OUTRAGED WIFE. She gogained, her fvet quickly, and, with flashit eyes and burning caeeks boldly looked her brutal husband in the face without uttering a word, After a moment’s hesitation she slipped out of her cloak, and with a shriek that could only be uttered by a broken-hearted woman ran to the bow of the voat, threw up her arms, and was about precipitating herself into the river, and, perhaps, eternity, When she was selzed by a strong hand aad saved. THE INCIDENT caused intense excitement among the passengers, who, but for the persuasive powers ol prominent citizen who happened to be present, would undouby- edly have thrown into the river the miserable wretch who took the leading part in it. On landing at t toot of Broadway, Wiiillamsburg, the unhappy coup! landed side by side and walked together in silence to a car, followed by several of thor fellow passen- gers. Not until they reached the car did a word pass between them; but when they were about to enter It the wretch again turned upon his unfortu- nate wife, wnv was then bathed in tears and sob. bing hysterically, and abused her so loudly and so pata a that citizens took him in hand. Then, nding that he had more than a woman to contend with, he sneaked, like a true coward, into a depart- ing car and disappeared, his wife following sorrow- fully. d THE SHIPOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION. Rending of Reports—Increased Vigilance Agaiost River Thicves-Tho Decline of American Shipping. ‘The Shipowners’ Association met yesterday after- noon at three o’clock, at 52 Pine street. There were seven members present. Mr. G. A, Brett, president of the association, called the meeting to order, and the secretary, Mr. S. O. Cornish, then read the min- utes of the last meeting, which were adopted. The committee appointed to ascertain what steps should be taken to obtain the conspicuous number. ing of Whitehall beats, to facilitate their identifica. tion in case of need, recommended thata letier be prepared by the secretary and forwarded to the Police Commissioners, calling their attention to the necessity of increased vigilance to prevent depredations in the harbor, through the agency of boats, and also suggesting that ag existing laws empower them to adopt and enforce all the neces- sary reguiations in the premises, a more distinctive mode of lettering and numbering of boats might be advantageously employed to facilitate their detec- tion in case of Metts. ‘nis proposition of tie com- mittee was unanimously accepted. On motion it was further resolved that a com- mittee of five be appointed by the chair to take into consideration the subject of the decline of American shipping and to report at the next meeting some plan of action to be recommended to the considera- tion of Congress. The appointment ot the commut- tee was reserved until'the next meeiing. Mr. G. A. Brett then offered his resignation as president of the association, saying that some otier member who would create a greater interest should take his position, Captain snow stated that the re- tirement of Mr. Brett would injure the interests of the association, and begged he would reconsider his resolution, upon which Mr. Brett withdrew his offer toresign. The meeting then adjourned. A PRETTY DESCRIPTION OF A GO0D PLACE. The New York Juvenile Asylum on Waste inston Heights. [From the Milwaukee Wisconsin, Nov. 5.] The dear little boys and girls who read this col- umn of the Wisconsin by the bright warmth of home firesides, with loving papas and mammas close at hand, ought to think sometimes of the homeless little ones in great cities. Other people sometimes think of them. Nineteen years ago twenty-four good men in New York set about establishing a home for them; and now more than 700 little unfor- tunates are gutnered into the home every eee and made clean and comfortable and happy. ‘ney are taught in large sunshiy schoolrooms, and fed in a dining room that heats the Newhall for size. They have a gymnasium, a croquet ground, all kinds of tovls for carpentering garaening, shoe- mending, and bathing takus so large thdt a dozen boys can go swimming in them at one time, In the course Of six or eight months, or as fast as suitable homes can be found, they are sent away, and their ele retilied by another seven hundred from the streets. A lady, who has lately visited this asylum, says something very beautifai aout the little giris’ dor- mitory, Which she visited just after they had gone tobed. whe great room had more than a hundred litle white beds in it, and in every bed was a little girl. They were softly bidding ¢ach other “Good- night,” or shyly reaching to clasp hapds from one bed to the other. By and by the matron made a signal and ont went the hundred whispering voices as if a candle had been blown out. You could have heard a pin fall. “Now, cnildren,’’ she said, “itis timo for us to go. If you wish you may chant before you go to sleep.” Instantly every pair of hands was crossed and every child lay motionless, We moved toward the door and listened. It was beautiful. More than @ hundred childish Vvotces chanting the Lord’s Prayer. As the last notes of the “Amen’? died away, we could just distinguish the children's forms im the twilight, A soit breeze came in through the win- dows, the last faint flood faded from the September sy, and the night closed softly and tenderly about hem. 5 A few hours later we went in again. There they lay sleeping tn the moonlight! I cannot descrips the picture. It is a vision of young eyelids beauti- ful with peace; of plump little cheeks pressed against unconscious pillows; of white arms thrown carelessiy over restful heads; of tumbied hair catch- ie sudden lights from moonlit windows. “Angels of little children I whispered, I was thinking of Little Nell, Moonlight never seemed so tender to me before. It came in like mother love, with its proud lights and gentle shadows, making the ore est beautiful and the beautiful angelic | Not home- less wanderers now, nor idle vagrants, nor crucl- born bables, hunted into ways of sin, but Nat children far oi in dreamiand, taking with them holy aud helpful lessons of the day: