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8 EUROPE. Earl Granville’s Defence of» British Neutrality. Reply to the Bernstorff Circular-- “Why Not Address the United States?” Bazaine’s Journey from Mfetz and Reception by the People. French Proclamation on the War Crisis. EUGENIE’S VISIT TO LONDON. By the steamship Tarifa, Captain Murphy, at Boston, we received, yesterday morning, European journals of the 1st of November, two days later, Whe files reached us in @ very imperfect condition, consisting merely of a few miscellaneous English Papers. New regulations for accelerating the mopllization ofthe Russian army have been sanctioned by the Ozar. Of the 427,207 men who will be thus called In, 470,000 are from Poland and those provinces of mixed nationality which anciently beionged to that kingdom, The Constitutionnel, the Francats and the Gazette de France deprecate the strong terms of the procia- mation of M. Gambetta condemning Marshal Bazaine, and ask that judgment shouid be suspended until the facts are fully known, The Gazet‘e de Prance demands the tmmediate assembly of a coun- | cil of war for the trial of Bazaine and those whe should have relieved Metz and other besieged | towns, A letter from the Due @’Aumale to M. Bocher, ad- ministrator of tne property or the Orleans fainily, contradicts the ramor of the presence of the Orleans princes on French soil. A telegram from Copenhagen, dated on the Sist of October, says:— The North American Minister in Copenhagen, Mr. Yeaman, will be replaced by Mr. Cramer, Unived States Consul at Leipsic. ‘The London Odserver reports thus:— On Thursday the Empress Eugénie visited the Duchesse de Mouchy in Half Moen street. M. Rouher and M. de Persigny were present at the interview, at which the Empress reiterated in the most posi- tive terms her resolution not to eousent to the propo- sitions communicated to her through General Boyer, M. de Persigny, we understand, protested very strongly against this resolution, but without effect. The Manchester Zxaminer of the Bist of October Bays: Intelligence received tn Liverpool on Saturday leaves little room for doubt that a large ship has been lost, with ail hands, on a reef of rocks in St. Ive’s Bay, in Cornwall. Wo reported on Saturday that seine wreck, bearing the name Geneva, had been picked uP and this has been laentified as part oi @ vessel of that name belonging to Liverpool. She sailed on the 8th of October for St. John’s, N. 8, and had on board a crew of twenty-two men, of Whom no tidings have been heard. Telegrams from India, dated at Calcutta and Bom- bay on the 3ist of October, annonnce:— At Bombay—Piece goods quiet; Urtle inquiry. Seven pound shirtings, 4r. 14a, Cotton iv; four Dhollerah, ziér. Exchange on London. months’ bank bills, ls, 10%d. At Calcutta—Pit foods in fair demand, Seven pound shirtings, 4r. isa. Cot- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. and ¥ may here observe that, before returning those answers, bave taken exhaustive steps to test their accuracy, by obtaming independent information from the Customs officials, Irom the Board of ‘Trade, from the pdlice and from’ the Small Arms Depart ment of the War Office, 1 am not aware of the sources from which your Excellency’s information is derived. I do net, ef course, suppose thal importance weuld be attached by you to sane | given in return for pecuniary rew:! such as have been offered in newspaper advertisements; but f think it cannot be deuvted that the sources which I have above enumerated are likely to be more trust- worthy than those to which the able and active Con- suls of the North German Confederation have access. Your Excelleacy observes that, in your notes from the lstto the 9thef September you brought to my | notice a series of irrefutable facts. It must have es- caped your recollection that, in my answer of the 9th of that month J shewed that the majerity of those alleged facts were unfounded, Im your note, to whick | am now replying, you make two further specific statements, the truth of which I have also felt it to be my duty to investi. gate—that Fespecting the order supposed to have been given by Couns Paitkao W a fra in this coun- try, on the 28d of August, for 40,000 rifles, to be de- livered within a week, and that in which the num- ber of firearms shipped from this country to France between the svth of August and the sth inst. 13 cal. culated at from 120,000 to 160,000, As regards the former, While observing in passing that Count Palt- kao's statement, as reperted in the Journal Optcial, was merely that these arms had been ordered a Vétranger,” 1 have to state that no trace can be | discovered of the order ever having been received 1p this country, and it 13 certain that, if it was received, it’ was not executed; and, as regards the jatier, that the full returns now before me show, that the supply of arms drawn by Franco from this country between the two specified dates are less than those drawn by her from the United States, whence no exports have been made ap- roaching the figures mentioned by your Excellency. tts, indeed, understood that there Is now seme ac- tivity at Birmingham in the manufacture of fire- arma, owing to thegincreasing demand; but expert- enced persons are of opinion that, in ¢onsequence of the recent stagnation of the trade, its present producing power 1s very limited. I may here remark Unat her Majesty’s government has learned with some surprise that, while your Excellency has been instracted vo make such constant compiaints on the subject of the exports of munitions of war from this country, no such tnstructions had, up to a very recent date, been addressed to your colleague in the United States, who had only made personal rep- reseniattons to the Untted States government, al- though the latter have adhered in the same man- ner as her Majesty's government to the principle and practtwce of neutrals, and have consequently not interfered with the exports to which I have above reyerred. The President of the United States, in his proclamation of 22d August last, expressly states that “the laws of the United States, without interfering with the free expression of opinion and sympathy, or with the open manufacture or sale of arms or munitions of war, nevertheless impose upon all persons who may be within their territory and jurisdiction the duty of an impartial neutrality dur- ing the existence of the contest.’” 1 will next proceed to examine the fresh complaint preferred by you agalust her Majesty’s governmeat @f vislation of international and British law, of which I trust that I can briedy dispose. Your com- plaint reiers to the sale of the Bebe la and Norse- man to the French government to be used as store- ships. Previously to the receipt of your present note I had received ;but one communication trom you en this subject, that of the ivth of August, In reply to which I informed you ou the 29th of the same month that the attention of her Majesty’s gov- ernment had already been drawn by the.r own oml- cials to the circumstances of these sales, and that, on investigauion, 1% had been ascertained that in both cases the veasels were despatched from England be- fore the Foreign Entistment act of 1870 came into eration, and that, consequently, the owner: were not liable to penalties under the previous En- listment act, could not be successfully prosecuied under the provisionsof the new act, Having heard notuing fursher from your Excellency on te sub- ject I conciuded that you were satisfica with this explanation; bat, as Inow learn that you are dis- Salisiied o1 rtain points, I think it due to you that I should lain that the inforination tn possession of her Majesty’s government shows that the vessels: salied from England under the British Mag because the actual sale was effected at Cherbourg, at which por the vessels were handed ever to the purchasers efore the passing of the new act. I do not under- stand to what process your Excellency refers in stating \that,g “up to the 8th uitimo, the transfer of the property to the French owners had not been entered on the shtp’s books; the steps which the law requires were duly complied with by the vendors, the certificates of registry hav- ing beén given up tn the month of August te the proper oiicers with the notifications that the vea- aq peen sold abroad. To your Excelleucy’s re- therefore, that I “declined to proceed” against these vessels, i have only to reply that there was and is no ground whatsoever upon which a proseca- tion could be based. I wili not follow your Excel- ton, litue doing auring the week; hew. Exchange on London, a. Tien-tsin (China) advices by telegram of October 13 report:— . The foreign Ministers have rejected some of the proposals made by the Chinese government for the settlement of the Tien-tsin dimeculty. Mr. Wade has been insulted. Foretgners tn this city and in Pekin ets gg a whether to remain during the coming er. EARL GRANVILLE TO COUNT BERNSTORFF. British Defence of the Queen’s Neutrality— Why Does Not Prussia Address the United States?—No “Benevolence” in Absolate Neutrality. Ihe following is the compilet@ text of the reply of fhe English Cabinet to the Prussian circular of Count | Bernstorf on the subject of British neutrality in the war. Itisavery impudent document, not only to the Powers of Europe, but also to the government of the United States:-— EARL GRANVILLE TO COUNT BERNSTOFF:— FOREIGN OFFICE, Oct. 21, 1870. M. LW AMBASSADEUR—I have ‘he honor to acknow- ledye the receipt of your Exceliency’s note of tac $ib instant. The friendly sptritof your reply to the obs rva- tions which | addressed to you on the 15th ultimo, on the subject of the attitude of this country as a meutral, and the attention which you have evi- dently given te the arguinents and explanations which | piaced before you, encourage her Majesiy’s vernment in the belief that the calm discussion yy the two governments of the difficult question of the Claims of belligerents upon nentrals Is calcu- lated to remove present misundersiandings and gsidly to pave the way for an eventual solution. have aiso tothank your Excellency for having pointed out certain apparent breaches In the chain of practace which [ have descrived as forming an unbrogen precedent for the course now adopted, and thus affording me an opportunity for giv- ing soch further explanations as will es- tablish beyond a doubt its consistency. The policy of her Majesty’s government and the grounds on which it 1s based were so fully ex- plained in my former note that I need not again advert to the subject farther than to observe that. your Excellency is wrong in supposing that at any Ume a change took place in that policy. From the date of the outbreak of the war the Cabinet has wever hesitated as to the course which should be pursued. The views of the House of Commons were clearly manifested when, on the 4th of August, an amendment, by which it proposed to insert in the Foreign Enlistment act, then uuder discussion, @ clause prohibiting the exportation to belligerents of arms or munitions of war, was rejected by a large majority, and the same opinions were shown to be held in the House of Loras in the debate of 8th of August on the same bill, in which the Lord Chancel- lor, the Lord Privy Seai and Lord Cairns took part. I myself, in answer to a question addressed to me in the House of Lords by the Marquis of Clanricarde on the 22d July, went so fur as to express some aoubts wheiver a policy of prohibition was ad- visable even in sel!-defence, and in the con- stant conversations on the subject which I nave had with your Excellency since the commencement of the war I have invariably explained w you that the new Foreign Enlistment act neither diminished nor added to the powers of the government as re- jarded the exportation of munitions of war, and fare ‘Was our intention to adhere, on that point, to the usual practice of this country, which practice we believe to be In conformity wita the established rincipies of public law. 1 had supposed that, trom hese various sources of information, your Hxcel- lency would have been in a position fully to acquaint the North German governiueat with the attitude which this country might be expected to maintain; and it is therefore with surprise that I have learned shat, previously to the receipt of my note of the 15th ult, you had doubts upom the subject. 1 can tind nothing in my earlier notes to whica you refer which couid lead ty the inference that there was any hesi- tation ou the pes Of her Majesty’s government; those notes, written in reply to speciiic statements made by your Wxcellency respecting alleged. exp or- tations of muniitons of war, contaimed merely the Kknowledgments which were due to your Excel- cy ak @ Inatter of courtesy, promises of inquiry into facts and brief reports of the results of investi- gations. Your £xcellency appears to take exceptionto my ving mstituted Inquiries at ail; but upen this point lency through the passages ef your note in which | you show that her Majesty’s government have the 0" to prohibit the export of arms, a fact which have constantly stated to you; nor do I think it ary to refer to the passage in which you quote noch lawjof 14th July, 1060, further than to ob- » Who | serve that the clauses Nat law are, like those poa- seased by the British cutive, merely permissive, \ and that a system of bouds is necessarily open to the objection that tumerely serves to enhance the price of arms, a matter of little account when their aequisition 18 of national importance. 1 may reier incideatally te your Excellency’s remark that you do net find in the printed report of the Neutrality Laws Cemmissioners any confirmation of my state- ment that the opinion of those Commissioners was that to promibit the export of munitions of war wag impracticable and impolitic. It 1s true that that opinion was not emboated in their report; but it is noue the jess true that the subject was discussed by the Commission, and that the opinion pronounced upon it was that which [ have recorded, as 1s snown by the report not containing any recommendation of the alteration of the law in this respect. I now come to the points in your Excellency’s note which appear to me to demand a full expiana- tion. Ihad stated in my note of the 1éth that the practice of Great Britain as @ neutral had always been that which she now follows. Your Excellexcy disputes this position, and in support of your argu- Menis you adduce two documents—a letter from the Duke of Wellington to Mr. Canning, dated 30th Auguat, 1825, and an instruction from the Board of Treasury to the Customs, dated zd June, 1843, I have not fatied to examine most carefully the in- stances which you specify, and the following is the result of the exammation, A laborious search has fatled to discover any trace of a letter from the Duke of Wellington, of the 30th oF August, 18 buta paper has been found, dated August 3, 1823, which Contains the passage qe by you. This paper is a minute written by the uke of Wellington upon a draft despatch addressed by Mr. Secretary Canning to Mr. Stratford Canning, then British Ambassador at Constantinople, at the time of the war between Turkey and Greece, in which, with reference toa rumor that arms were being sent from England for the purpose of equip- ping abroad vessels to be commanded by Lord Cochrane, in the service of Greece, Mr. Canning stated that such @ proceeding was not contrary to law, and could not be prevented by her Majesty’s government. To the latter part of this statement the Duke of Wellington demurred, referring to the fact that when Spain was at war witn her colonies England had prohipited exports to both belligereats and making use of the words quoted by your Exvellency. ‘Mr, Canning, however, insisted on his view, stat- ing in his rejoinder, “Ihe lawfdoes permit the ex- portation ef arms as merchandise, and { must au- thorize Stratford so to say tf he is to state the case of his country truly.” The Duke gave way, and no order in Council probibittag the export of arms was issued by the government. Ivis also mcidentally important to observe that the precedent for such & proluibition to which refe- rence was made py the Duke was one in which Great Britain had no option in the matter. She had bound herself by article three Of the a@ditional articles, signed at Madrid, on August 28, 1514, to the treaty With Spain of 5th July of the same year, to “take the most effectual measures for preventing her sub- jects from furnishing arms, ammunition or any other warlike article to the revolted in America,” aud being thus compelled when Spatn was at war witi her colonies to prohibit the exportation of arms to the laiter she subsequently extended the prohibi- tion to Spain herself, in order to avoid the imputa- tion of favoring one belligerent to the exclusion of the other. ‘The second ‘apparent instance adduced by your Excellency of departure from whai 1 have stated to be the erdinary praetice of Great Britain 1s the issue of orders to the Customs officials on the 2d of June, 1848, instructing them to prevent the exportation of arms for the purpose of being employed in hostili- tes against the Danish government. I shall have no difticuity in showing shat there were exceptional causes which made the issue of these instractions imperative on her Majesty’s government, On the 25th May, 1848, the Danish Minister in Lon- don drew attention to the fact that preparations we.e being made in this country for sending cannon to Hamburg, and cailed on her Majesty’s govern- ment, in accordance with the stipulations of the treaty between Great Britain and Denmark of 1670, to prevent these shipments being made. ‘The treaty appealed to was signed at Copenhagen on the 1ltu of July, 1670, was supplemented by an explanatory article on July 4, 1780, and was contirmed by the of the treaty signed at Kiel on the léth of January, 1914; it provided that “the foresaid Kings for themselves, their heirs and successors, mutually do undertake and promise that gthey will not aid or furnish the enemies of either party that shall be aggressors with any provisions Of war, a3 soldiers, arins, engines, guns, ships or other neces- most respectfally diter. Whatever view may be saken of the principie on which the government has wcted, it is right that the facts should be correcily ascertained, Wild rumors have been in circulation ‘fas to the extent to which arms are being supplied ‘by this country to France; bitter artieles founded on these rumors, have been inserted in the German newspapers; your Excellency based upon them fre- quent and strong represeniations, and her Majesty’s government might, in my opinion, fairly be accused of supineness aud neglect If, at the meeting ef Par- lament, they sbould be so ill-informed as to be un- able to supply any infermation upon this point. 1t ‘Was possi < oreover, that the shipments of arms might hav mn Of Such a nature as to bring them within the operation of the Foreign Enlistment act, forbidding the de- spat ot storeships or the fitung ont of military or maval expeditions. It was for these reasons that | felt it to be my duty to investigate any statements brought to my notice byyour Excel- Jeney, and not to allow them, if unsupported, to pass unchallenged. The necessivy for this inquiry will be the more obvious when the compiamts made from time to time by your Bxceilency are eompared mikb the Angwere Which 1 bayerctuxned Yo Wem ‘ saries for the use of war, or suffer any to be fur- nished by their subjects.”’ It is clear that, uoder the provisions of this stipulation, her Majesty's gov- ernment had no alternative but to issue tie orderg to wich your Excellency has drawn attention, T have thus shown that the practice of Great Bri- tain has not been different from that which I origl- nally siated it to be, and that, on the contrary, two cases Of apparent divergence, on being examinea, prove that the departure from the usual practice, when it existed, was dictated by exceptional causes, and thus indirectly confirm the accuracy of my statement that the course now adopted is founded on unbroken precedent. In conclusion I should wish to make a few gene- ral remarks. Your Excellency will, I think, admit that, though her Majesty's government are not prepared to change the practice of the country in regard to neu- trality, they bave been yigilant in watching and checking any symptoms of violation by British sub- jects of extating law. Some weeks before your Bx cellenoy drew attention to the cases of the Hypatia aud Norseman the proper authorities of this country had been engaged investigating them, and the Talghiupnsss. less been the reason that no attempt has been nade to sell or despatch vessels in contravention of the Foreign Enilstment act. report which had reached her Majesty's Were being wade to enlist Irishmen for military ser- vice tn ce was acted upon with the greatest Promptitude by the authorities of the Home Oilice, even at a time when, as It apy Trom the note which you addressed to me on the Lith inst., it did not appear to you that much importance was to be attached to the rumor, I can assure your Excellenc: that no _ effort shall hereafter be spai to deal promptly with any actual or complicated infractions of the law. Tam glad to flud that yeur Excellency now not only does not insist upon but disclaims the doc- trine of benevolent neutrality, which appeared to her Majesty’s government, ‘after @ most careful ex- amination of your memorandum ef the 30th of August, to be the principal basis on which your representations were founded. Thatsuch a doctrine is untenable will now be universally admitted; while it must be as generally admitted that it would bea real departure from neutrality for a neutral to change, without general consent, its practice—a practice, be 1 eeserved, in conformity with the views of all writers on international law, because such practice ht incidentally be more or less. favorable to one of two belligerents, Good offices may be penevolent, but neutrality, hike arbitration, cannot be go, it would bea serious violation of neutrality ita neutral nation guided itself by any principle or rule of conduct, however just or meritorious in itself, which had not been previously recognized aud sanctioned by the usage of nations. I minoeraly eupice that Prussia, who, as a neutral has always been @ strenuous bo eee ls of the rights of neutrals, now, as your Excellency points out, shows a desire to ‘n to every progress in the field of increasing the active freedom’ of commer- clal interests in time of war, though I cannot but observe that the special point which your Excele lency adduces as evidence of this desire is a ques- tion which may be viewed differently by independent, Powers in proportion to their maritime strength, Her Majesty’s government, at the outset of a war which they deplored, and after an appeal to the betligerents, to act in accordance with the twenty- fourth protocol of the treaty of Paris had been re- fused by them, declared their neutrality, in the earnest desire to maintain friendly relations with botn, It was their wish to exercise all friendly oilices compatible with perfect impartiality. They further expressed their determination to exercise their duties aud maintain their Tignts as neutrals. It gave me great satis- faction when your Excellency was good enough to inform me in cenversation that you Knew of no other subject but the one under discussion on which Ger- many had any foundation for complaining of the attitude of this country as a@ neutral, It 1s not for the first time that 1 inform your Excellency that her Majesty’s government have no Jealousy of German unity, They believe it to be a great and worthy ob- ject for Germany to endeavor, with the consent of ‘ail its members, to consolidate its vast moral, intel- lectual and physical powers. An ardent desire that not only the governments but the people of Great Britatn and Germany should be in the most friendly relations laduces me to repeat my belief that so just and thoughtful nation as yours will not Leap 4 entertain feelings of rancor against England, or, might add, the United States, for adhering as neu- trals to the practice wialch they bad always adopted, and which, up to the outbreak of the present war, has been the theory and practice of both the belliger- ents. Ihave, &c., GRANVILLE, THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. Tours, Oct. 30, 1870, FRENCHMEN—Exalt your souls and resolutions to the height of the terrible perils which are crushing us down, The country depends upon us to weary out bad fortune, and to suow to the universe that it is a great poopie Who will not perish, and whose courage rises in the midst even of catastrophes. Meiz bas capitulated. A general upon whom France relied, even after Mexico, has just deprived the coun- try, When ia danger, @! more than 100,000 of Its ae- fenders. Marshal Bazaine has committed treason. He bas made himself the agentof the Man of Sedan and the accomplice of the invader, and, disregard- ing the honor of the army of which he had charge, he surrendered, without even attempting to make @ supreme effort, 125,000 combatants, 20,000 wounded, Tiles, guns, flags and the strongest citadel of France— Metz. Such a crime 1s beyond even the chastisements of justice, Aud now, Frenchmen, measure the depth of the abyss into which you have been hurled by ihe empire, For twenty years France has submitted to this corrupting power, which exhausted all her sources of greatness and Iife, The army of France, deprived of its national character and un- knowingly become the instrument of a reign of ser- vitude, has been engulfed, despite the heroism of its soldiers, by the treason of its chiefs in the dis ters of the country. in less than two montis men have been delivered up to the enemy. epilogue of the mutaty coup Wétat of De ‘The time has come for us citizeas to draw closer together, and under the wgis of the republic, Which we are resolved not io aliow to capitulate, whether at heme or abroad, to derive from the very extremity of our misfortunes the restoraiion ot our morality ,and of our poittical i Yes, whatever may be the ex- sfound us struck neither hesitation. We are pre- of ver with constve pared to make the last sacrifice, and in fac enemies whoin everything favors let us swear ni to surrender so long as an inch of our sacred terri- tory shall remain under onr foot. Let us firmly hold the glorious flag of revolution. Frenchmen ! Our cause 1s that of justice ana right. #urope sees it and feels it, Witnessing 80 many un- deserved misfortunes without having received from us either invitation or adhesion, she ts spontane- ously moved and agitated, No tilusions, Let us not permit ourselves to languish or become ener- vated, but let us prove by deeds (that we will aud are able by our own resources to maintain our honor, "independence and integrity—all that makes @ country free and proud. Prance and the thirteenth article | republic, one and indivisible! rr ‘A. GLAIS-BIZOIN. BAZAINE’S JOURNEY FROM METZ. An English Report of Greetings by the Way. The following details of the capitulation of Metz are supplied In a telegram from the special corre- spondent of the London News with the German army wnich invested that fortress, It 1s dated Metz, October 30, and supplies a few facts additional to those which were embraced in the HERALD special telegram, already publishea:— The London News correspondent says:—At four o’cleck in the afternoon the French companies which still meunted guard at the various gates in the city, and at the depots and arsenals, were re- lieved by the Prussians, two regiments of infantry and one of cavairy ‘having entered mto the town. The German military governor, General von Zas- trow, Commander of the Seventh corps, took pos- session of the government of the city and fortress, where he telis me he expects to find the portrait of one of his ancestors, Who was at some early period alsou military governor of Metz. ‘The tragedy was Se but its saddest side remains to be re- corded. According to the statement of General von Zas- tow, who held the Bois de Vaux on the morning of the 19th of August, Bazaine could then have avoided being shut up in Metz, After he was there ne could, Soopralng to Metz statements, have readily made a sertic and rejoined MacMajion far more easily than MacMahon could have rejoimed bim, After most of his cavalry and artillery liorses had been eaten this, of course, was more diitlc But still his move- ments are said to have lacked determination, and even to have been frivolous in the last two sorties. ‘These facts are put down to the account of a com- plot with the Regency, accerding to which his army ‘Was to try to remain in statu quo until the conclu- slonof the war in Western France, and then be- come available, with Prussian consent, for Bona- Ppartist purposes, Bazaine himself expecting in that case to be the governor of the Teiperial Prince gnd the virtual Regent. Nearly all the people of Metz seem to believe this, aud many of the most influential have to me. During the whole of the investment Bazaine has never been seen in the camp except on extraordinary occasions; never at all in the ambulances, which are partly constructed 1m numerots railroad carriages on the Place Royale, and nardly ever in the city. The civil authorities had to find bm atSt, Martin. Ho would not ence appear at tne Mairie. He rarely, if ever, said a word to encourage the troops. Canrobvert sometimes cheer- ed their patience a little, and then they would cry “Vive Oanrobert |? ‘Abas »azalne |? ‘Towards the last he durst not, it is said, for fear of assassination, show himselt to his own men. For the last flve weeks the amputations have been perforined without chioroform or ether, and the Wounds dressed without carbolic acid. There are More than 19,090 sick and wounded, and 36,000 per- sons have died in the town alone during the siege, the greater part from lack of proper care. The pre- Valling diseases ure variole, spotted typhus and dysentery. Scurvy has not prevailed, though even the sick have for more than three weeks received their horse steaks and horse brotis without salt. The reported discovery of a saline springsat St. Julien. Was @ hoax, got ap by putting salt to a spring, to encourage the army. When the surrender became known the people were furious. The National Guard refused to lay down their arms, and on the z9vh, in the aiternoon, a dragoon captain appeared at the head of a body of troops, Who swore they would sooner die than yield; while Albert Colilgaon, editor of an ultra- democratic paper, the Journal de Metz, rode about ‘on a white horse iiring a pistol, and exhorting them WAR HARES ORCANIONE DAA AOA to sally out and seek death or victory, to escape the Impenaing shame. He was followed by a lady sing ing [the g“siarselliaise,” which produced terribie excitement, The doors of the cathedral were burst open, and the tocsia and funeral bell rung nearly all night. When General Cofiniere appeared to pacify them, three pistol shots were fired at him. Finally, By, the aid of two line regiments, he quiet! alspersed the mop. grief, indignation and terror were kept up. Respec- lable women ran about the streets tearing their hair, overnment that attempts ‘Legislature of But all night the sounds of and flinging their bonnets and laces under their feet, wildly crying aloud, ‘What will become of our chiuidren?’? Soldiers, drank and gober, tumbled hither and thither in irregular groups, with their caps of and thelr sabres broken, crying, sobbing and weeping like children. “Oh, poor Metz! once the proudest of cities! What a misfortune! What an unheard of catastrophe! We BANS REGRAGI%, AUN Fmt Ab URAL a yrithy Fs so on, The civil functionaries asked each other across the streets, “Who will be our master? Who will govern us? ere shall we go that we may not see the ruin that has come upon the nation” Yesterday | was closeted with the Mairie and City Council for two hours, while they detained me as the first stranger Who had entered the town. The: asked me all manuer of questions, some really chilk Sh, in their agitation, uncertainty and terror. At four yesterday afternoon Bazuime passed through Ars, on his way to Wilhelmshihe, in a closed carriage, marked with bis name, and escorted by several oilicers of his staif on horseback. The women of the village had heard of his arrival, and awaited him with exclamations of ‘Traitor |? “coward!” “sneak!” thief!’ &c. “Whure are our husbands whom you have betrayed? Give us back our cliidren whom you have sold!" ey even attacked the carr and broke the windows with their fists, and would nave lynched higs r<i for the intervention of the Prussian gendarmes, THE WRECK OF THE CAMBRIA. The Glasgow Herald of October 29 says:—'‘Large quantities of the wreckage of the steamship Cain- bria are still being washed ashore on Gigha, and all along the Kintyre coast. Our Campbelltown corre- spondent telegraphs tnat yesterday the lid of a trunk marked ‘per steamship Cambria, Miss O'Neill, Lon- donderry, Ireland; and a number of barrels con- taining flour, apples and paraffin oil were dis- covered, All wreckage as 1t comes ashore 13 care- ott stored by Mr, Dickson, Liloyd’s agent at Camp- elltown, *‘A more minute description of the body found at Taychreman, 1m Killean parish, Argylishire, has been furnished us, in the hope that the deceased may be identified, Deceased was a very stout woman, apparently from tw fifty-ve years of age, and five feet eignt inches in height, with double chin, gray hair, round face, nose straight but small. On the third finger of her tert hand she wore a gold ring with a red Cornelian swivelied stone, futed all round outside and plain inside, and also a mar- riage ring, marked eighteen carats, and bearing the initials ‘iS. J.’ The only clothing on the body was & flannel petticoat and night dress,” PARIS FASHIONS. Dress Fashions Reported by Balloon. The Tribune de Bordeaux, of October 30, publishes a letter on the fashions of the season at Paris, It begins as follows:—"I send you my letter on the fashions by balloon post. I hope tt will reach you, and that, in spite of William and lus innumerable and disgraceful escort, the heroic city of Paris will not cease to dictate to the whole world the supreme jaws ol elegauce and good taste. Some slight changes have been introduced into the present fashions. ‘There is especially a perceptible ehange in the mode of aressing the hair, Taking advan- vantage of the fight of certain personages who had gray, thin, or red hair, and who inflicted on fashion their indispensable faise hair, our Parisian ladies Dave at once re- stored to liberty their own locks, so long hid under the despotic artificial chignon, Brown plaits care- fully sinoothed down; light ringlets, at once grace- ful 2nd natural, have alone adorned for some days the delicate and prety heads of our young ladies, who are delighted to haye their most beautiful adornment restored to them.’? ‘the writer then pro- cecds to describe at great length the costumes of the season, sialing, among other tings, that volans, ruches, and bouillonnés begin to disappear with tournure a la pompadour and japes superposées & la Marie Antoinette, Quiet colors are in favor, and there is great sobriety in the use of jewels. “This,” says the writer, in conciusicn, ‘is a kind of delicate homage rendered to the mourning and grief of the mothers, tae Wives, the sisters and the orphans who have now to deplore the loss of those dear to them who have fallen victims to the cruel vanity of the tyrants of France and Prussia.” MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS, Earl Fitzwilliam purposes hunting the Burton, England, country the ensuing season. ‘The serters of letters at the General Post office in London receive six shillings sterling a week, A greater tonnage of iron ships is now in course of consiruction om the Humber that at any pervious time in the history of iron shipbuilding, The value of the 448 houses in ruins in Strasbourg is estimated at 16,600,000f. and the damage occa- sioned Co the others at irom 8,000,000f. to 4,000,000f, The shortest name on the roll of the newly elected New Mexico is Alphonso Ferdinand Senay Garcla Francisco Antonio Cortes Maria Gon- salvo Diego Juarez Mestes. The German soldiers want to go home, Chris:mas is coming, and to Germans Clristmas ts @ mere ten- der ue of sympatay tian to any other nation be- iween fricnds and relations, The colonel of @ Bavarian light cavalry regiment recently sald:—“Daring the whole of this war my regiment has not made a singie useless march, 60 excciienuy is everything Joreseen and so exacuy guided."” The British Admiralty is considering a@ proposal to raise the Ingate Capiain, Atall events they will probably try to ascertain the position of the wreck, the nature of the bottom, and the depth of the water at the point where she is lying. ‘Two most admiral e specimens of Irish manufac- turing taste have been produced in Dublin. They consist of oak caskeis—one presented to the wife of Mr, Disraeli, Member of Paritament, aud the other togthe Lord Chanceilor of Ireland. A question regarding the export of coal from Bom- bay to Mahe having been refecred to the Briush gov- ernment an answer nas been returned to India to the effect that it 18 unnecessary to prohibit the eaport 01 coal to this little French settlement. At the last regular meeting of Masonic lodge Rising Star of Western India, held at Lahore, in the Punjaub, 2 sum of 300 rupees was contributed in aid of the sufferers by the war. Half the amount was remitted to the Grand Lodge of Prussia and the other nalf to that of France. ‘The Crown Prince ef Prussia, after a combat before Paris, reviewed lus victorious Bavarians, one of | whom eyed him with a broad sunie, “What 1s up, comrade?” asked the Prince. ‘Why, is it not jolly,” ‘was the good humored reply, “to see your Royal Highness just as bespattcred with dirt as we are 1”? A tap on the shoulder was all the rebuke he got. Famine, September 21, is threatening the south- ern aud southwestern districts of Persia. ‘The rains during the spring were very scanty, and the crops have been utterly burnt up. As early as June last there were grain riets at Bushire, which gave cause for considerable alarm to the British subjects at that port, and such a hesille feeling was evinced toward intending exporters, that the central government had to lay an embarge on the shipment of corn. since then there have been disturbances in Ispahan and other towns of the neighborhood. Bread is three times its ordinary price, and there are but small stores of grain 1a;the merchants’ hands, TROUS FIRE IN BUFFALO, Destruction of the New York Central Transe fer House and Two Mundred and Sixty Seven Freight and Stock Cars—Twenty Cars of Lumber Consumed—Loss One Mundred and Seventy Thousand Doilars. {From the Buffalo Courler of November 11.] In yesterday’s Courier we gave our readers a brief ACCOUDE of Lie destruction of the New York Central Company’s transfer house, at East Buffalo, and the incidental loss of a large number of freight and stock cars. The lateness of the hour at which we wrote precluded the possibility of giving the full particu. lars of the disaster, When tie alarm was sounded from the box at the Junction of Seneca aud Swan strects 1t was twenty-five minutes past one o'clock, and at this time the fire in the trang. fer house had gained such headway as to defy any resistance that could be offered under the most favorable circumstances. A iresh breeze was blow- ing at the time, and the flames spread with wonder- ful rapidity; indeed, so hurried and irresistible was the sweep of the ames that one can very readily imagine the building to have been fired in several places simultaneously, although the heaviest volume Of flame arose from the centre of the building. On what is known as the north tracks, runuiug alon; the line of the building, were four immense lines o! freight cars, and the utter destruction of these was threatened. ‘Tie intense heat of the burning buila- ing, aud the mynad flaming brands that tilled the air, repelled, for toe time, ali hepe of extricating the cars from their ba send posidon, A portion of the tire department got upon the ground as speedily as possible, and, with the ald of the men ewployed in the vicinity, managed to prevent the Names from communicating with the stock yard. Division Superintendent Torrance reached the scene of the disuster with @ number of locomo+ tives as soon as It was possibie for him to get there, aud, by promptness and weil directed energy, suc- ceeded in saving seventy cars filled with freight and 100 stock cars, Which must needs have been de- stroyed had it not been for the timely action of him- seif aud lus men. The relentless fames, however, did not subside till they had made a complete ruin of the transfer heuse and had swallowed up 267 freight and stock cars aud twenty cars that were loaded with lumber. Whe spectacie was well worth the seeing. Ithad nothing suggestive of the magnifl- cent ubout it, but was rakish and viciously wicked. ‘The lew butiding, 1,500 feet long, burned brilliantly from one end to the other, while the cars smoked or burat out into flames by its side, and the feeling the whole scene excited was one of regret rather than higher emotion. z bap es was no freight in the transfer house, the Duliding not having been in use for some time past, and the frelght and stock cars burned were ‘all empty. The loss may be estimated as follows:— ‘Transfer house....++.+4+++- $30,000 267 cars, Valued ut $450 each. ‘twenty cars with lumber.. TOTAL... ececeeeeeeeeeeeeee oo esee ee $167,825 itis enureiy safe to say that $170,000 will cover the loss, the Whele ef which falls on the New York Central Company. The Central insures its own pro- perty, and the exact less to the company, under these circumstances, we shall not undertake to estl- mate. ‘The building itseif had ceased to be of practical value, the through freight lines having rendeved ita use unnecessary, and the same will not be replaced, ‘Tracks will be laid over the burned territory, and no embarrassment whatever will result from tho ante the origin of the fire nothing is pcsitively BOOTR, MOXE Wag DAL AL WAR the BAAOURIEG YORK of the incendiary. The walls being of brick and the roof slate one, no spark from a passing locomotive couid have done the work. ‘The flames were first noticed under the butiding near the centre, but their rapid spread would Indicate that the torch nad been applied in more places than one. The matter is now undergoing careiul scrutiny, and it 13 possible that some clue may be found that wiil lead to the capture of the incendiary, OSITUAR®Y. Robert H. Long, Lato of the Navy. On Wednesday last, in the city of Philadelphia, died Robert H. Long, at the age of forty-five years. The news of his decease will carry sorrow to the hearts of his many comrades in the United States Navy, in which he served for more than four- teen years as an engineer. He was born in England, and entered the navy as assistant engineer Janu- ary 11, 1849, After serving in various ships and gradually raising himself 1n the line of promo- tion he was made chief engineer in June, 1856, and thenceforth became one of the leading scientific officers in the service. He was chief engineer of the frigate Niagara at the beginning of the war, and unti) his resignation In 1864 he ‘was engaged on special duty in supervising tho construction of marine engines for the navy, for which he was pecu- Marly well qualified, both trom experience and theo- retical knowledge, While im the nayy he made many inventions connected with steam en- ineering, one of which was the celebrated trument well known as Long’s salinometer, em- plored to test the density of waters in boilers while ‘under steam at sea. This invention was 80 success- ful that the government adopted it, and every boiler in the navy has one of these instruments atlixed to 4, and it is very generally found in use in the mer- cantile marine. Subsequent to his resignation, which was very reluctantly accepted by the Navy Department, which desired te make Mr. Long Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, he in- vented @ dummy engine for railroad Ln ee and a mining engine generally adopted throughout the United States, In his spectal department he had no superior, He was the acknowledged peer of the first’ men in his — oo in thorough sclentifle atiainments and practical know- ledge of every detail of his profession. His retire- ment [rom the service, occasioned by private rea- sons, Was a loss to the country, Since that period he has been at the head of two yreat engineering es- tabliahments, one in Trenton, N. J., and one in Phila- delphia, where he had made a name for himself, As @ shipmate and companion he was highly esteemed by all who were fortunate enough to sail with him, irom his amiable and genial manners, which endeared him to all. As a marine engineer his loss will be greatly felt, and a3 a social com- panion his demise will awaken very general regret @mong all the older oficers of the navy. HILDISE BUND. The bent of this society may be inferred from the roots of the word, “Hilf dir Selost,” three German words, which mean help yourself. Last evening the quarterly Convention of the Bund was held at the Germania Assembly Rooms, at which delegates from the various sectiens dispersed throughout the United States assisted, A report baving been cireu- lated that some of the members composing the exe- cutive had acted too much in conformity with the motto of the association, and aad too plentifully helped themselves trom the funds of the Buna, a@ spirited session was expected. Each delegate read from @ memorandum which he carried about him the observations he had to make on be- half of his constituency againet the executive; to which the President, J. H. Bieby, answered by ex- hibiting exactly balanced accounts. ‘there were some delegates who demanded to know the whole general account of the Bund, but as the returns of a Jarge number of sections had been but lately given in their demand was overruled by the majority as being untimely. A tull report will be sent to the diferent sections after the next monthly meeting of the sections of New York. In addition to economy in obtaining a policy from @ life insurance company—the Lrst object of the Bund--another very useful and charitable purpose has been iptreduced ito the associauion, which 1s relieving the members disabled through sickness or unforeseen causes. In August last a re- lief fund was organized, since which $50) has been paid out to sick Inembers. For the preseat every sick member receives seven dollars per week frou the relief fund, which now amounts to $5,000 in bank. It was voted on last evening that a member disabled shall receive the weekly allowance while confined to his bed, aiter which he stall recelve $200 from the relief fund as acapital to pegin a smail business with. During the séance Mr. Kaufman resented a work entitied “Annals of the Hildise und? He stated that the work had merely by its advertisements paid its publication; ater which the convention adjourned amid prolonged applause to take refreshments. Nothing ef importance was twansacted after the resuming of business, THE CALL ORNIA TRAGEDY. Death of Hon. A. P. Crittenden. {From the Alta California, Nov. 6.] At six o'clock last evening Hon, Alex. Parker Crittenden, who was assassinated ‘Thursday evening on the Uakland boat El Capitaa, by Mrs. urance Fatr, breathed his last. The mortal wound inilcted by the bullet caused the most intense agony and suf- fering, and the patient, during the forty-eight hours of excruciating pain, was mest of the time in a state of consciousness, At intervals he would revive and utter a few words. Me recognized, up to the moment he expired, ihe members oF iis family and intimate friends. All that surgical aid, a loving family and dear triends could possibly do was rendered to alle- viate his pains and make him comfortable, and, if possible, save huis life. But the shot from the pistol of the assassin was a fatal one, and Mr. Crittenden died in terrible agony, surrounded by his family, intimate friends and tne clergy. Mr. Crittenden was born in Lexington, Ken- tucky, on the 14th of January, 1s1¢. He was the gon of Hon. Theo, T. Crittenden, tne distinguished lawyer, Who was appointed Chaacellor of the Clan- cery Court, created for the city of Loulsville by the State Legislature in 1825-6, and served for sev- eral years with disunction. He was also a nephew of the celebrated statesman John J, Crittenden, During the residential campaign of 1829 Mr. Crittenden, then a youta, Was an Andrew Jackson boy, while all the other members of his family were wigs. Svon aiter Jackson was inducted 1nto oitice he jearned that Crittenden, then a boy of fifteen or sixteen years of age, had been loud in his exclamations jor him, and for this mark of es- teem young Crittenden received an appoimtment ag cadet to West Point. He wds an exemplary scholar, and graduated with high nonors in the class with Sherman, McDowell, Beauregard and otuers, He remained in the army for several years, being attached to the Hagineer corps. At the age of twenty-two he Was married in the state of Virginia, From there he went to fexas, and studied law wiih Judge Robinson, and after a successful examination was admitted to the bar. He next weut to Frank- fort, Ky., where he remained a year or two, and in 1849 he came to Calliornia, settling at Los Angeles, He was elected from tiat county to the first session of the Legislature of California, and was selected as the chairman of the Judiciary Comumitiee. He occu- pled @ prominent position as a member of that body, and was reinarkable for his industry and talents, und compiled most of the laws enact during that session. Next he went to San José; and in 1852 he settlea in San Francisco, and has since resided here most of the tline. In 1862 he as- sociated himself with ‘Tod Robinson, and in 1844 he formed a partnersitp with Co,onel 8. W. Inge, then District Attorney. After that he became & member of the firm of Crockett & Baldwin, and on the latter gentieman being elected to the Supreme bench the firm was changed to Crockett & Uritien- den. In 1863 Mr. Crittenden went to Virginia City, Nevada, and remained there till 1865, During the mining excitement raging at that time he was en- gaged in a number of large miaing suits involving Uhousands of dollars. He returned to this city and in 1866-7 associated himself with 6. M. Wilson, Esq. He remained a member of the firm up to the day ho Was assassinated. Tis firm has doue one of the most lucrative businesses ef any engaged in the prac: tice of the law. ‘They were the legal advisers of several banking, insurance ana other wealthy corporations, r. Crittenden in politics has always been & stauneh democrat. He possessed high legal and literary attainments, and was considered one of the ablest members ot the baron this coast, and was looked upon as one of its shining lights. Genial and social in his intercourse, true as @ friend, he gained the respect and confidence of ali who came An contact with lim, fe was honored aud respected by the judiciary for his learning and manly deport ment; by the bar for the friendly manner in which he conducted himseif in trying causes, aiways cool and deliberate; and by his clients for the careful firmness wiih which he watched their tteresta, Nothing could sway him from his path of duty and what he conceived to be the right. He leaves a family, consisting of a wife and seven children— four sons and three daughters—tae eldest son a practising lawyer in New York. mn o’clock, from Trinity che AN OLD INDIAN Fiamrer.—An old Indian fighter, hunter, trapper aud plainsman, bamcd John Korbi. his home in Georgia; from which he fas been ab- sent ior twenty-seven years, He is now fifty-three ears old, is as straight as an arrow; Walks with the fect planted ou a direct ine with Ube body, as ail Indians do; hasn’t a gray strand in exiher beard or hair, which are very tick and flowing; swears like @ trooper; drinks when he feels like hews aud smokes In contradistinction to the traditional good oid man who inbabiis some Eastern Utopla; has lad @ house 1ull of Indian wives and @ ten acre lot of children; lives now im Arizona; thinks Andrew Jackson the ne plus uitra of the Ainerican race; has been wounded seven times—three times by arrows and four times by bullets; 13 poor and has @ ranch; believes in solitude and reticence, wud will return ag soon as he “seus where they have buried the old man and woman,” meaning his fatner and mother. Snch is Mr. John’ Forbisher a3 he appeared to our reporter yesterday afternoon at the Norti Missouri Rallroad depot, waiting for the train to start, and the observed of all vers. He was clad tn a compiete suit of {ringed buckskin, wore moccasins, and nad a red sash abous lis Walst.— 4) es the Kan sag City Times. The futeral will take place on Monday, at ten | sher, passed turough the city yesterday en route to | ART NOTES, Artist’ Studios. ‘We continue, as far as we are able by thelr re to the city, a review of the artista and’ th werks;— artists, have been the scene of Mr, Hart's wanderd ings and studies this summer, From the man varied and excellent reminiscences brought bac! each year one can scarcely wonder atthe ¢harnt which draws them thither. Nature there, in hem own power and cloquence, unaided and unimprove by the arts and devices of civilization, holds sway. So near, and yet so far; go easy of yet so widely separated and different from our’: thickly settled parts, one cannot wondér that should attract so many to whom time and study are alike precious and indispensable. Thig time Mr. Hart has made this part of the country the subject of one of his most successful and charming efor “THE ADIRONDACKS IN WINTER,!? As one advances along the Keene Pass, narro and with thickly-wooded mountain sides rising either hand, every now and then there opens som grand vista, stretching away for miles. The eyq wanders over the scene with a feeling some akin to the freed prisoner. The gaze is almost bounded. On either side the view extends till it lost im the distance. Such @ scene Mr, Hart pre sents in this painting, The standpoint 1s a declivity from which the road winds down the hill side till it course 1s lostin the shadows of the valley. In thd distance before the spectator Hurricane Mountaig bounds the view. The intervenlog space taxes in vast stretch of woodland and vale, with the! masses of varied color. It is winter. Far ang the scene It veil, which softens but The naked branches of the trees form @ thou fantastic shapes. Groups of dark evergreens, witli white tracery of snow and frost, relieve the gene! denudation. To takea scene, hackneyed as and invest it with new interest, new treatment, ani even novelty itself, shows the power of no ordinary) artist, There isnone of that chalky, ghastly mono~: tony one is apt to sce in such scenes. The pletw 3s varied in color, harmonious and dreamy. Fort absolute truth, there 1s, perhaps, almost too little off the practical reality of winter. It is @ poetic coi ception of the scene, with enough truth, withal, build the pretty story on. ‘The snow serves ig asa harmonious element to blend and soften tl various colors than as @ stern, simple symbol oft winter. The masses of light and shade are well sus< tained and broad. One might occasionally tak@ some slight exception at tne surface being too broken, though ® 1s too well harmonized throughs out to be “spotty.” Nothing could be mord@ masterly and thoroughly artistic than the entire treatment of the road, with its crooked, plcturesqud, fence, not obtruding itself, but forming @ pleasing; line, and the rich colors of the earth haif hidden un¢ der the snow. In only avery few portions of tha painting has the white been used in its fall valu yet no force has been lost. The lines of the pictur@ are fully as agreeable as the admirable color, and if both subject and treatment, ieeling aad power, we. regard it as a most valuable coutrivution 10 the in! terest of American art. “A Storm in Harvest Time” is another excellen' recent work of this artist, aud is a Well finished an pleasing work, JAMES FATRMAN, Mr. Fairman has passed his summer partly int Jetierson, N. H., and aoa: at Manchester Beach Mass. Many of his earlier works oetray rather too heavy) and frequent draughts on te purely amaginary./ ‘There ts sclence in art, we do not doubt, just ag there is art in science; but the great ib as te couceal it, and to give the eifect without letting ong see too mucii of the causes, A novice who has some pains accomplished something las, perhaps, pardouable pride in showing his iabors; bub the! master, who realizes the importance of the end and values the means chiefly as such, conceals them,' } as hampering his work, feeling assured thaé it will lose none of its value thereby’ to the real appreciauor of art. It may be a little of this pardonanle vanity we see at times peeping out in this patnter’s work. In his later pice tures tuere 15 less of it; im the sketehes to which we, refer scarcely any. His studies of rocks and @ view, of the beach at Manchester are ver ditable ani improved sketches. ‘The latter es; jaily 1s well drawn, and the incoming wave is well studied true. ; He has, as usual, one or two sunsets, and which* possess the objection of which we nave spoken. They seem pedantic. The manuer 1s too conven. | tional. No doubt the yellow anu blue so well als anced and well modulated would be most agreeabl and natural, but they are given too much unpor: tance, and the necessity of a judicious balance of color is 3. simple principle too weil known, even 1 not always acted up to, to be so prominently thrust Torward. F. AUGERS, F] Amid the bewildering variety of figure and land. Scape painters this artist stands torta, faithful to the’ Uime-hallowed province of earlier urt and still work: ; lu the fold consecrated by so many filustriot names of the past and so very few of the nt Jn his works we seem to have something of thi spirit, the glow and the feeling of the land go fame by art and nature of which.this artist 1s @ son; t spirit to which we owe so inuch in art, as Well ag it science and literature; the glow which warms thi whole land, for which partial Nature has lavishet such treasure; the throb from the full, great puls of a generous, warm-hearted people. “CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN” 1 is his last work, and one full of deep feeling and pure vreatment. There 13 less of that enthusiasm, that al sorption in the subject we migiit with reason requil in such @ work and which seems to have di away years ago and left Iftile in its place but a cer. tain cold manverism which can never satisiy, Thera) is in the work, however, a charming grace of action and a simplicity which to a degree atone for the want. The treatment 1s broad und tender, i | 4s much calmdignity in the Christ, and all the beaut | and grace with whieh Christian Art in her humble, faithiul love has always invested Him. The figures are drawn and grouped well, ‘fhe chiidren, especially, are sotullof grace and life that one cannot bat r gret that thelr supply is somewhat scanty. In ng cnepery, Mr. Augers always shows that he hag, studied and with profit. It 1s always easy and grace« ful, It subserves its own true object, the coverin: and decoration of the figure instead of simply affords ing the painter another opportunity of display. GEORGE H. SMILLIE, : ‘This gentleman has recently returned from a pro« tracted stay in the Adirondacks, woere he seems ta have made really good use of his time in the accu. mulation of 8 number of very excellent sketche: Many of his views present quite a different phase} from: that with which we are rather more famillar—; of shaliow babbling brooks, moss-grown stones, an narrow forest paths with tangled bush and dens branching trees overhead. His sketches do infinit credit to nim in their careful, finished execution anc in the understanaing of the subject. They are nic in tueir precision and care, He has taken studies ol the grander, wilder nature, as seep in some of thos lakes, bordered with mountaius, whose rugged, rock, ribbed sides rise abruptly trom the glassy surlace of the water, and whose crests are hung with ragge clouds, A certain refinement runs through all thid arust’s works, no matter what be the subject. I enhances the charm of his more quivt scenes an reflective Nature, and modifles without losing th character of bolder, wilder views. It is Nature see through that of the artist. He translates her wit! his own feeling, His sketches in detail show a cal ful study, which form most promising and valuabl means for important works. One ef these, meng! scarcely more than mapped out and draped wich gracelul lmagination of the painter, we saw on th easel. It will give every scope for the grace an {feeling of the artist. MRS, JULIE 1. BEERS. From Conway this artist has brought back much, honest, well studied material for winter work, Nature has taught from her wondrous book, an the artist has learned imuch., Her sketches shu’ wider comprehension, broader and freer treatmen‘< ‘They are of a character to have more general thay individual or special importance, but show mui good will and decided improvement, We have se! by this artist, when not i 4 certain symbolic mod, } Which is far more popalar than novel or meritoriot works which prove both good taste and ability, an show that she can really do much better than paaty pretty weak allegorical originalg for inlesiop chromo- lithographs. HOLBERTON. , This artist 1s engaged ou some capital grouys o! birds and animals, which snow that he has fer faithfully studied and acquired a thogougt: ant sympathetic knowledge of lis subjeets, They animated and sprigaily. dey possess much o! th individuality of character and nature, whicn isone of the most Important elements, and forms on? 0! the chief charms of works of this kind, THE WEALTH OF THE BLAUVELT FAMILY, The committee appointed by the Blauvelt family, in New Jersey, to go to Holland to inquire abcut tha great estate alleged to have been left without 4 wit in that country, have written back that there !s ace tually such an estate in Holland awaiting the a All the Blauvelt family have now to do, they say, to trace up their genealogical record and prov themselves descendants of the old gentlemen’ whi left $o much property. Everybody by the name Biauvelt m Paterson 1s now putting On airs, and the young men outside have sudgenly me aware the attractiveness of the young marriageable Blaaq velt girls. In @ matrimoatal point of view the sen- sailoa will undoubtedly prove a great success, if nothing else, The proceedings for the securing 9 ‘ung CSUALE are Lo be Prosecuted tO WAG Chile ‘y