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8 EUROPE, The Second Change of Base an Ad. vantage to the French Armies. IS NOT BOMBARDED, WHY PARIS Earl Russell on the Military Re- sources of Great Britain. DEFENCE NOT DEFIANCE. King William’s Address to the Armies of Germany. FATHER HYACINTHS ON THE WAR Qe Dexonnces It as the Sorest Calamity of Modern Times. ‘The steamship City of Brussels, of the Inman line, Captain Kennedy, from Liverpool, December 22, via Queenstown, December 2}. arrived at thts port yes- ferday evening. Sle brings the latest maui advices from Europe. A Vienna report says that apreiimioary special convention betweea Russia and the Porte will, itis expected, be published in a few days. The French prisoners in the province of Branden- burg, having lately evinced a mutinous disposition, sre placed under martial law. The Vierna Presse says that Prince Frederick Charles has complained of the Paris Treaty, dec’ar- ing it condemns Roumania to a separate existence and prevents the development of the State, The Krancs-tireurs of Elbwuf recently attacked sixty German horsemen near Havre, killing ten of them and wounding many otners. ‘The confiscation of the Voissiche Zeitung was due ‘to the hostile tone of its articles on the war. Austria has agreed to jotn Englana in recommend- dg the conclusion of the war to the government at Bordeaux, provided the same advice be addressed to Berlin. The London Times’ Berlin correspondent confirms the assertions of otuer writers that Parts has meat for two months yet, The fountain head of these re- ports appears to be the Russian military attaché, ‘Who has just quitted Parts. ‘The Kreuz Zeitung aenies that Prussia has any design on Luxembourg, and aifirms that the com- Plaints of a breach of neutrality and the claims of compensation are to be submitted to arbitration. The Berlin correspondent of the London Telegraph mays:—‘The arrest of the North German Deputies Was caused by the Brunswick manifesto. It could mot be accomplished during the session of the Reichstag on the ground of privilege.” It is authoritatively stated that the decision rela- ive to the neutrality of Luxembourg, which Bis- marck claims for Germany, referred only to such military operations a8 might be judged necessary during tne continuance of the war, and noi to auy political action. The London Fost asserts that negotiations are still in progress to bring about an armistice with a wiew to 8 congress and the termination of the war. ‘These negottations are approved of by the neutral Powers, and their success will altogether depend upon the disposition of the Prassian authorities at Versailles. Free speech is a myth in Germany. Gected upon the House of Hohenzollern, three depuues of the North German Parliament have | been arrested, and a paper which had the temerity to comment severely upon the conduct of the au- ‘thorities in making the arrests has been confiscated. The English Parliament meet on the 7th February. | One of the first works of the session will be the con- Sideration of estimates to be subiitted, with a view © an extensive increase and improvemens tu the army and navy. The discussion on the occasion is likely to include some bitter assauits apon the cheese-paring policy of the present government, GEPTING VEAREX TO PA’ Se Tbe Second Chauge of Base—Operations Near | Grleans—Pusbing Back the Prussians—Plenty of Stores for Paris=Le Mune a Good Posi- tioo—hiope for France Yet. Lr MANs, Dec. 16, 1870. ‘This is the second “change of base’ at which I Dave assisied, and though the operation affords no miore comfort to individual participants here in the west of France than it did in the swamps of the Chickmanominy, it, at all events, is far | plece of Birategy, since it obviously furthers the pur- poses of the campaign in bringing the fguting hearer to Paris. In the operations near Orleans the line f supply for vhe Army of the Loire was the railway from | Tours, and were was an immense depot of stores at Blois, Indeed the great accumulation of subsist- ence stores made for the revictuaiment of Paris was aciuaily al Bios and Orleans, and on the rail between th» two places during the fguting in trout of Orleans; and if tne Army of the Loire nad been siampeded in the sighting im front of Orleans Prussians would have captured a large part of a material. The fact that they did not get so much asasingle car loud of it is a suMicient answer to thetr claim to have routed the Army of the Loire in the fight at Patay. Indeed I have begun to believe the Prussians badly off for matter for nulletins since Efind them exaiting into nutable victorles conficts that are not even bailies, but mere coillisiens of out- poets and reconnoiring parties. But when Orieans was taken and the Prussians | menaced Blois from tue opposite side of the river, the left of the Loire army did not retreat upon ‘Tours, 28 seews Ww have been mistakenly supposed by chroniclers a some disiauce from the scene. [% is true that the innumerable army of stragglers, who have abiind instinct of strategy, turned their faces that way; so did wil the oid coliussary Wagons that bad Jost their coluums and hovdreds of wagens of officers’ baggage. in tue Gays, alse, when ihe Prus- siaus were Tecling t Way frou Biois down the jeil bauk of the river the regiments of te line thi had been housed in cons Tours were ioved thr All this imade it appear that phe army Was gh the city, but it had, quite aneiber way. it moved by the dank. The rendezvous given vo all the commissary trains Jeft Blois on the wight of (he evacuation was me; aud the ariiilery was directed to diter ent Villages on Ube \ine trom Mer w Vendome, some of it as far forward at Marchenuir. Tt might have easy to defend Tours trom the enemy, ai 1 do notsee but it would have been easy (0 have captured entirely any body o} the eu ay tut cured approach 1, since if must lave se rated liseif by at least sixty inves ireg bat it Was deemed Wiser to ao sommedt ‘retreating upon fact, turned Its face else, and bow parte of tue Army of the Love were thas com. | pletely ent loose (row Tours, ‘There is the sume facility for changes of base bere | tat General Gravt found on the seavourd of Virgl- | nia, In the movemenis Irem the Wilderness soul ward every rive Which a steamer conid go fur- nished the meaus ef bringing supplies Ko eur to the army thatthe Wagon line Was always very short. Abd bere We muy regard the duiferent consideratl cities of the west of France ¢ rded the heuds of th navigable Le Mans, for instance, i @s good tf that Ime becomes fe Aleoyon, Lise: Cven Will be a8 good ws s eYoin Le Mans the army can draw upou a ¢ ip supplies. und can drew alse by exhaustibie quan ali can be carried direeuy several posts in- dd I ing Wagous only for ine . Whea you consider, t jure, thal ad the tof the Prus- Blan success at Orleans over a | thousand men of Lhe Army of bhe Loire have simply moved gore filty miles worth of Wel’ former position, and there joined bands With a new army, you Will See that the Prussian succes’ 1s HOt Much vi 4 thing to boast of in bulletins, and you may xhfely reason tat \riny of the Loire 1¢ uot just yet. this some news from the otuer part of re play give cause LO reason stlli ¢ Same Eitect. t tis moment Fy ( ber many aruiles were under tue control of one soldier of capacity, if there were a Trochu outside of Pars, the day of deliverance wouid be pear; for there are new eooueh UI the Beld to craw the end of i 6 had an energe: Por having | Opposed the continuance of the war, and re- | tier asa | LuBLY exceedingly rich | actrele around the forces that have drawn their | tireurs, and rode for our lives, bat we dtd not meet circle around Paris, But the great ian why | les mess c's alter all. We were iad enough af last declarei be would fear more an army of sheep com- | to reach Avtkiren, with ourselves ant our Gorses in manded by a lon than an army of Lons commanded Dy aaneep might have spoken of France at this hour, for taere is a Wonderfa'ly mutton like timidity an all military councils and in the leadership a Lesi- tation that augurs iil for 1mmediate results, Before this, for mstance. we should have swept around the rignt wing of the Germaus and doubl up the Duke of Mecklenburg but he has again got the start of us, aud on Wednesday night be occu- pied Frevtevat, tn front of Venddme, and though he ‘Was easily driven out of it yesterday he obtained all the information he needed, and we shail have pre= sentiy a large force in our front, WHY PAR'S IS NCT BOM Difticulties in the Way—Ammunition for the Heavy Guns Wanted—Accumulating a Supe ply—Weariness mo Armies, 8, Dec, 16, 1870, Since I wrote you the day before yesterday on the subject of the siege guns, they have begun to arrive 1 Ligny, and works are being prepared for them as speedily as possible, The works, however, are not near enough Paris to bombard the cit¥, and can only be meant to atcack the forts, Although the guns are arrivmg, they are without ammunition, and, considering that for the heavy guns about eight charges make a ton weight, 12 is impossible that operations against the forts can commence tor two weeks at least, When they do beg.n it will be impossinie to Keep up the suppiy of ammunition fora sieady fre, and as the Prussian oilicers say to the English correspondents, “we don’t mean to bogin and have to .eave of for Want of am- munition, as you did iu the Crimea,’ it 18 to be inierred that they dou’t propose to fire on the forts until hey have accumulated a sapply ef a.amun.tion puch to conuunue th: fire for some days at least. ‘Vne troops are grumbling sure, en and oMlcers are tired of the slow rate at which the reduction of Paris proceeds, aud since it has become pretty generally known that Paris has food tor two months yet, the murmurs are getting leud enongh to reach head. quarters. Bence the new born activity in geting guns to the front. The Saxons were so wear.ed and disheartened during the late sortue that there can be no doubt a renewed attempt on the part of the French would have been successful—say on the dd. ‘The foris are still s.lent, brs musketry fire is active from various parts of tue line upon passing iravel- lers, the red cross, even when in plain sight, afford- ing no protection. ¢ VisIT TO BELFORT, On the Road to Beliort—License to Shoot Ubfans an Expensive Luxury-A Market s SceneSeliort—Fighting Before the ALTKIRCH-BALB, Dec. 16, 1870, ‘This small town, as you may remember, showed a strong and noi unreasonable desire to be ieft in Peace, but such is not to be the lot of any place, in these parts, just now. lcame here on my way to Beifort and made halt, while looking about for means to approach *hat fortress. The whole or nearly the whole of the Haut-Rhin (to use its un- fashionable, old name) is n Prussian hands, Rail- ways are as if they were not for the ordinary travel- ler; one Would tiink the whole country, instead of certain fortified places in it, was in a@ state of siege; 80 thatI found some little diMculty In pushing on tothe scene of action. This place 1s interesting, however, and repays @ visit, especially just now. The people all seemed quite unable to forget the boots which the commander of Mulhouse has ordered them to send. Their style of conversation is @ continual apropos des doves, A similar de- mand having been made of thetr neighbor Gopwil- lers for 470 pairs of boots and 2,000 pairs of soles, re- minded them oaly too plainly and forcibly of their own misiortanes, Another of their great troubles ‘was that, in spite of their own purely pacific inten- tons, & warlike youth mamed Fran ;ois Martin took ashot ata uhian aud killed hts horse. “Ah, sir,’ sail my host, & man who in these troublous times is slowly but surety passing from the appearance of a Falstaff to the appearance of a phantom; “Ah, str, figure to yourself that this young fellow, who does not belong to us, and who has now lett this place to join the army, should have brought down al: this misfortune upon us, That General Treskow’? ; (having lowered his voice confidentialiy) “1s Teaily ® terrible feliow. Just fancy his making us pay a fine of 7,000 nes, besides ever so Mach for tue horse and things the man said he bad jvst on the saddic !" It appears that | a license to shoot uhlans isa very expensive lux- ury in these parts, A TRANSFORMATION SCENE IX THE MARKET PLACE. The market place of Alckirch ts exceedin gly pretty { and pleturesque, and the market women, in their caps and bright petticoats, were more 80; in trutii, | ces dames when you approach them are a lit: | Ue disappomung—betng apt to be somewhat weather-beaten io the lace and crueily thick in the aucle—butim the distance they make a charming picture, chattering over their siores. I saw an | amusing scene among them last market day. The piace was Very full, anunated and bright; the sun Was shining—an unusual ihing that, lately—buyera and sellers were chattering, gesticulating aud endeavoring with ail their migiit and main to take each other in, All at once a vioient j claiteriag made Itqeif heara ,and a market cart, | driven ala most breakneck pace, appeared, one man | im, standing up, fogging his horse and’ shouting “Les unlans, i€8 ulians was all that one could | hear. It Was enough. The tidings that the uhlaus | were coming fl discordant exe! | ensued a scene of indescri | eggs were sinasted in the mad haste of tne own | to store them away; butter and bandboxes, cal "5, Sova, apples and ribbons were tossed pell- J no the baskets near; flocks and herds meited with eal swiltnese; ducks and fowls hey were poked into came “near, w.thout the thar feeimgs. I myseir miere doing her best to stuth » the pocket of ber dress, vouy | Through it all | eise and advising or ab extent that “confusion Was comoundcd” {| weak word to express tue row. At last there reguiar stampede and they fled i all direc | rying, esp y te women, more ba ‘ays, | Kegs and barrels than I should have thought hu.ian | mature could have supported at once. But belore | they were fairly eif the measured tread of the mil | lary became tible, and there appeared, not | ublams, imdeed, but a vody of some four aundved ; landwehr mien, in proud procession | tough the now deserved market. A inore com- pleve or striklag trausiormauion scene Was never | beneld. | The landwenr @id not remain in this town, but | marched out ou to the roads, There, | understand, | they stopped a good musny of the country peopié leaving the town, and made a good many peasants | avcompany them pack to Bellort, to the poor fel- | lows’ great horror, They have employed a geod | many Quwiiling Freocl wands in weir works be.ore Beliort, xclaimlng or depioring to such isa BELFORT. It seomed at first almost impossible to get near Belfort at ai, but | had visited this place some littie time ago, at tue beginning of the siege, and had pro- tited by some letters of introduction to an olticer of cistinction there, I was now very determined to re. turn and present myself to him again. Another per- son of my persuasion turning up at Altkirch, we re- solved to ¢ e the journey. “We shall very likely | be arresie sald, “when we get near the place; | was befure; but that does not much matter, they soon let you out again.” So thus philosophically minaad We made our adventurous journey in spite of ahians or Frances-tireurs. Belfort, as{ before noticed to you, is a very siroug aud very important piace, the key of the monntains and the termination ef the tree railways. Besides the great fortress on tne Heche de Beifort it has the forts of La Miotte and La Justice, and iis great in- trenched camp. There ate very determined people inside, and iv gives the \ermans a great deai of trouble. “However, we stmil have it by aad by,’? my General said, when, after infinite difficulties, we | hadatiength got to ‘Treskaw's headquarters. | “It | is troublesome, Of course: but we are skilful dentists and can extract @ lurye double toeth as well | asa smalisingie one, [tis trae that the Faubourg | Fournean i the oniy part that has sufercd much | yet, But the rest wil! follow. FIGUTING BEFORE BrLORT. ‘There was @ hot ight the daywe visited Belfort, the l4ti, the Gertmans attacking the wood of Ber- mont-Grand Bow and the Villeye of Audeinaus. These, as the telegram will Baye iMormed yo after sorae trouble, Evervbody i humnor on account of these successes up at ué Wat night. “I wonder whiyt M. Grosjean wili say to this," said my General. i. the prefect of the Haut-Rhin; he 1s xow shut up in | Belfort, where, after the manner of prefects, he | publishes patrietic proclamations to encourage the inhabitadts, “M. Grosjean will know better tian | to believe 6 General Treskow; “he wil know | better than we do on the subject. You know te old | Brover, “C'est gros Jean qui en remoutre a soi cure.” vur stay at Fontaine was necessarily @ short ) @ne, and we lad to work oor wa: ‘kK, hear- thundering of the bombardment all the . The deience and attack of Beliert are botn cwried on most energetic ily; sort are very | frequent, we were told, though Selfort is tess tavora- | bly sitoated for tiem’ than for steady resistance | within the fortifications. The whole situation seems | wiuch as it was when I came, some five weeks ago, | The bombardment has produced littl tat pre- | sent, and It Was evident io me (rom the | words of tie oMcers with whom I conversed that | they were not expecting a speedy success. ‘They ail were quite sure that the place would fall in time, | however, and seemed quite content to wait ill have all Bermont-G xe Our Cbs unis year,” ¢ | Chrastmnas-fime'to look forward te, poor wretches | | We Wished fo stay and see some or the siege works and more cf the Operativas at Belfort. This, how: ever, we found Im practical) Our way back h | was foreed througt roads & edibly muddy that sant the mind Of nap retuwes to recognize inoin ws roads at ail, Alone weriod we had an slave of brance. Was jostling ever;vouy | jean 16 | nauner and | such u state that you could not tell which was which tor mud, PERE WYAC.NTHE ON THE WAR. The War the Sorest Calamity of Modern ‘Times—Not a War of Races—Not a War of Religious—The Unity of Germany—Franco Not Opposed to It—The Mission of tho Cbhurch—New France—Foolish Policy of Germany= France Will Be Restored. On the afternoon of the 21st ult. the largest of the Hanover square concert rooms was filled to its ut- most extent wita a fashionable audience to hear from Pere Hyacinthe an address on the war between France and Germany. Judging from the numbers that thronged the entrance even at three o’clock, for which hour the address ‘was announced, many must have been unable to ob- tain access to the room, The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and one of his Grace’s daughters had seats in frout of the platform. PERE HYACINTHE’S APPEARANCE. Pere Hyacinthe entered the reom about @ quarter- part three, and was received with some applause. He was dressed in a biack frock coat and sult, and Wore nothing to indicate that le belonged to any special order im the Church, or was, mdeed, @ minister of the Church at all. He is rather under the middle size and of middie age, with regalar and bharmomous features, dark and pene: trang eyes and a charming sinie. Standing belore an audience as an orator he has all the per- sonal qualit.es tnat are cal ed ts prepossess,and his gestures, When he has encered Into his discourse, are 1uil of movement and meaning. He spe especially with hs eyes in the more emotional paris, while ihe arms and the mfections of the voice give acventuation to the stronger passages of the ad- dress. He stood erect and stient for some moments before his desk without uttering a word, while his eyes seemed to take Im the entire audience, THE SOREST CALAMITY OF MODERN TIMES, He began by opserving that Europe had, for the last five months, been a witness of one of the sorest calamities of modern times, and every true friend of humanity, ail sincere discipies of the Gospel, have been asking each other wilh anxiety what could be done to put ap end to it, and to hasten the returu of ace. PROT A WAR OF RACES, NOR A WAR OF CHURCHES. It was saul nat Unis Was a war ot races—a war between tue German and the Latin races, a war between two distinct peoples; it was said, moreover, that it was a war beuween two churcnes-—a war be- ween Protestantism and Catuolicisua—that it would be a thirty years’ War, and would extend © beyond that.” The orator proceeded to combat this view, and to mamtain that neither politicaily nor religiousiy was tuere any solid foundation for the necessity of a lasting conflict beiween france aad Germany, Politically it was sald tat this was a war of races. He did not deny the doctrine of races, or that particular moues of puysic 1 and morai life of mun were determined by biood and language. Race was the jatily age grandized, and however much the word had been abused tbere was historical evidence of an aluance between God aad particuiar races of Manctnd, Buc there were two cunceptions of tie idea—the Pagan ooniception and the Curistiam couception. ‘The an- tique idea was one O/ isolation and separation, Que race regarded itsell as superivr and others as in ferior, aud the sentiment resuited in the elevation of one people, and the desiruction or enslavement of the others. But Christianity introduced another conception of race, and now peopie view each other, Not as enemies, or even as strangers, but as members of the same buwan Jaimtiy—ihe famuy of Adam and of Jesus Christ. Having but oue rather, Who was in heaven, the diferent races of man were destined to ‘consider themseives as fraternal branches of the same family, and to come near to each otver in the observation of the same laws, Whether the human race was absolutely oue in its origin was in fois respect of no moment, If, as was wlieged, there had been severai sources, he miglit not believe ii; but he did not fear it, 1 man- Kind had not sprung from the heart of a single Adam, they had certainly sprang from tne heart of the One Father, Let us hear no more, then, of the aniagonism of races. FRANCE NOT OP/OSED TO THE UNITY OF GERMANY. But there were persons in France, and some of them men of eminence, Wno considered that the unity of Germany Would be. numiitation or a menace ior France. 1 deny both positiuns. i the government of France Bud abstained irom interiering in the mternai auairs ol Germany—if tt had adandoned the iklea of acquiring what it cailed its natural fronticrs, there would have been no fear of aggression or invasion. We had no interest, no rigut in preventing the unity of Germany. ‘ihe speaker here procecded to show that the unity Germany was promoted by the policy of the empire tu advocatiug the unity of laly, and he rendered justice to it for what 11 bad done in this respect. The unity of Germany and the unity of italy were results that existed m the force of things, aud could not be resisted. But dy- nastic miluences and the internal stale of the empire forced the Emperor to yield to the prejudices of certain statesmen and publicists, aud to the passions of the peopie. On the otuer hand, as lite interest or rignt had Germany in opposing the greatness of France as Frauce in opposing tne unity of Germany. THE BLIND POLICY OF GERMANY. Yet Germany woula seem to have adopted towards France, after the disaster of Sedan, a policy as biiud and as criminai as that which France pracused towards Germany. Even the annihilation of Franc would be bit temporary. France would rise from her misfortunes like Prassia herseir after Jena, A NEW FRANCE WOULD STAR FROM SEDAN, _ and were Paris even in ashes it would have ven- geance for 11s soul aud aspiration, and the end of the century wouid beaold eveu more bioody scenes than its beginning, Germany was in the centre of Europe, a source of-intetligence and civilization; but there was danger that if it gave itself up to warlise traditions tie French empire of the za of December would be followed by the German empire of the loth of December. As to THE POSSESSION OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE, He regarded wnat asa secondary ques. ie did not thiuk the possession of oné or two provinces more necessury to tie greatue s of France, though he did Lot wish they should be lost to France, Some Of bis countrymen tad gone Ke 1 Aisace aud Lorraine were lost scend to the rank of a pnd-raie or third-rate Power. So ihonght England whea she lost Caials; but wiat Eugusiian now regretted that Calais jormed a portion of France? THe REAL between France aud sion of One or two prov aillance of the two peoples the Latin race Was used up. FOR PRACR Was nol the posses. ta siucere ana loyal Jt nad been said that That was not 30, ‘The id rise agaim.. AS to Hyacuthe main- ssary antagonism in the question of religion as in poliues. ‘Tue time of religious wars had happily passed away. A war of religion woud be aa anchronism and an impossibility. It was rather a time of approacninent and fusion; 1t was uot a period of reiigious indifference, but, as the Abbé de Lamen- nais had stated, of great sinceriiy aud deep religious feeling. He did not deny that there was doubi, real, sincere, profound, but it was not the doubt that laughed and jested as in the time of Voltaire, but a doubt that reason:d and inquired. The trae principie of the mutual advances of the enlghiened members of the dinerent churches towards each other Was not indifference, nor yet was it the desire of re- dacing ail uuder tar me form of doctrine and organization. Was the conviction that no single church had attained io an adequate expression of the whole trath. IN FORMER TIMES EVERY CHURCH ALIKE— the churches of their Protestant fathers aud of his Catholic tathers —pelieved that every jormu.a, every organization which they respectively possessed, was precisely the same as that which had existed in the Apostolic age, This iiusion had now almost uni- sed away from the elucated members of equally. They had learned that there was an objecuve truth larger than the sub- jective trutu in all or in ‘h chureh— that there was a God more vast than the sanctuary which enshrin Him. From the Ume that in the tenth ceniury the great schism of the East and West proauced face to lace two great churches, hot Catholle, both orthodox, both uncient—still more from the time that in the six- teenth century the advent of the Reformation pre- duced the yet further schism in the West itself—from. that ume ithas been quite evident ihat even the great Roman Catholic Church itset!, which he valued and to whica he belonged, from its tradiuons and 1ts great Capacities tor the Juture, was not the whole ‘hureh, but ts a part.cular Church, the greatest if you will, but one Church amongst many. Fran it Was said, represents Catholicism; but France Was not ail Catholic. France produced Calvin, and Calvinism represented perhaps the most character- isuc form of Protestantism. France produced Bossuet, the Gali Descartes, the philosopher, and the Portroyalists. Neither was Germany wholly Protestant, It had many Catholics, and sowe of the eminent and courageous members of the late ined came from that country. “As for myself (se1d Pore Hyacinthe), notwithstanding the triais of recent days and the scandals of the recent Councll, e od @ Catholic, but on the condition of ting between the real principles of Catho- the abuses Of ths Roman system." A TVENDENCY TOWAKDS UNION was, therefore. the character of our time, and of luis ne had seen an iustration during a recent visit to Heideiverg, where Protestants and Catholics Worsitipped under tae same roof, separated not by a Wall Of stone, but only by @ Wood partition, ‘The spirit of enlightened and liberal Catholicity was represented im tac ie of the tiustrious and Jearned Dolinger, With regard te the results of the war he believed that they would be three. Germany would have a political organization, a body eorre- sponding to is intellectual and moral soul; she would be a powerful focus of civilization in the heart of Europe, pacttic and liberal. FRANCK WOULD BE RESTORED TO the legitimate promises of her great revolution ac- complished, and the reiga of sopuisis and courtesans atoushed, Tn my conferences at Nowe Dame, in the Advent of 1867, long before the war, | said:— “But L Wi Dabove all thiags to expose evils Which people are anxious to couceul. Yes, while IwXury is eat- ing into the entrails of the nation, wile in tbe midst of Uus growing di courtesans are lite ing weir proud heads like worms on the corpse (Wit 13 nourishing them, another hive of cormuption and death Is grewivg up, whien is attacking Bot the heart, but (be brain--eevlusts, jg iu Laun race had falle religious the HERSELY, JANUARY 4. 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. once the corruptors ef the public reason, and lan- guage, which is its organ.” And further, I suid, “The enemy af our gates, our fonor isu ted, our independence menaced—if this be requisie to force us from those whe are ruining us, God wil aecom- plish this, because He loves a4 aud wishes to in spite of ourselves. Come forth from the sword of the Lord, and of France," £ con. 0 thy work, do it quickly, aud do It com. There were YHREE GOOD RESULTS which the hand of God might d:aw from this wicked war—a powerlul centre of civiization in Germany, which would be pacific and liberal; Franee rearore to herself, and the legiiimate prowiuses o& ber grand revolution accomplished; the third result retated to another country, which was equully tus—not ihe country of his irth, bat the country of his sonl— Italy. “Rome was now free, Tue tomporal power of the Pope—useiul, he freely acknowledzed, tn its own age, aud for particular stages of European so- clety—had long outiived its tune Thrice had he visited Rome; thrice had he seen that power cl se at hand; thrice had he labored to respect: but he saw absolutely that it rested only on the Dayoneis f France, and when they were withdrawn i would crumble to pieces, It had crumbled away; aod he thanked Goi for an event that would minister to the unity of Italy, to the regeneration of the Latin races, and above all, to the reform of the Churea always dear to him—the Catholic Church of Kome, The reverend father was frequen’ ly interrupted in the course of hig address, the procevds of which Will be applied to the relief the French peasantry who have suffered by the war, EARL RUSSOLIS FEARS. The Military iesources of Great Britain— That Notorious Cruiser trom Biikeniead= Eevy and Hostility Doyeing the Steps of England—Whnt Should Be Doue—D tence, Not Deflance. The following letter had been addressed by Earl Russell to the London 7imes:— I share in your anxiety respecting our armed forces, and it seems to me that during the tive or six weeks before Parliameut meets ihe puolic mind could bot be more usefully employed thaa a con- sidering our defclencies, aud, when @ couviusion 1s reached, in askin government to supply our wants by armaments neither superiiuous nor inadequate, We are, unfortunately, A MARK FOR NATIONAL ANIMOSITY on many sides, During the South American revolu- ton the United States checked the building and salting of cruisers to lutercept and plunder the trade of Spain and Portagal according to theic own views of their obligations. When remonsiraied with for net domg more they answered that they would aliow no interference with their domestic measures, When notorious crujser escaped trom Jirken- head, during the American clyil war, and our goy- ernment copled the auswer of Mr, Secretary Adams, we We) immediately told that our repression was desianedly and wiiiully madequate, ARMS IMPORTED FROM ENGLAND INTO FRANCE, In the same spirit, when arms are, during the present war, imported into France from Engiaad, but if much larger quantities from the United States, in coniormity in both mstances with the law of nations, the Prussixn Ministers, Ambussadors, oMcers and solliers—through whose country sup- plies of arms were carried to Russia dung the Crimean war, aud used by Russian soldiers vo Kill Jvilisb troops engaged in a Nuropean cause—these + ime Prussians inveigh agaimst us as enewues and the Americans as bameless irlends. From two insta: Tiater that the ENVY AND HOSTILITY. which have pursued every wealthy commercial nation im anctent and modern umes are now dog- jug Our steps, and will, One of these days, burst out ato open aggression. The faciity with wuieh Priace Gortchakof and Conat Bismarck threw off THE TRAMMELS OF TREATIES n their own cause, and upon their own testimony, shows but too clearly how easy it will be to dod a pretext for attacking, first, an ally of England, such as Holland or Austria, and then England herselt. We have been sndject since 18:5 to occasional panics, often causeless and goserall excessive, But if we have been afiected in former days with unrea- sonable fear, that is no reason why we should now be buoyed up by extravagant hope, Fear's elder brother, not so sad; Tue merrier fool of the two, but quite as mad. IS THE BRITISH CHANNEL IMPASSABLE TO BBIPS? Why should we suppose the Britisa Channel im- passable to the ships and boats of an enemy? Is it lppossible that @ fleet may be uired to relieve from danger our fellow subjects in Jamatea while an expedition is preparing ta the Texel for the inva- sion of England? Couid we seud a pari of our army to assist an ally while we have so smali a iorce of regalar troops and so few thousands of embodied militia? Why not raise, by ballot if necessary, and EBMBODY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILITIAY In six months they would be admirable troops. Captain Sherard Osborn holds that a tleet equipped in the Scheldt against us ought to inspire no appre- hensions, and at the same line advises us to line our eastand north coasts with ships of war, His practical advice proves that he does not feel the security he affects, LORD DERBY WARNS US against ‘an essentially retrograde step,’ and at the same time assumes that we mint pospibly be called upon to repel an invasion of 100,000 men. Kven were I not an Englisnman { should feel what many Germans, Many Frenchmen, many citizens oi the United States feel—adm_ration and’ reverence for a nation which, since 1641, has given her best biood in the cause of liberty, and stnce 1688 has funisned a model, often :mproved and purified, of a State in tue enjoyment o! civil and religious freedom, FEARS FOR TURKEY. Being a member of that Staie 1 lee! responsible, as one of the pubite, to Europe and to the worid jor its preservation, I coinpare it with we great over- whelming autocracy, or rather stratocracy of Rus- sia, where, asl read im your telegraw of to-day, “the Moscow Town Council having, in their cou gratulatory address on the Black Sea question, pe- tuoned the Czar to ada liberty of the press, wie- Trance of all religions and other reforms to the blessings he has conferred upon lis subjects. their address has been returned with a reprimand.” £ | See here what sort of government is prepared for the Turkish provinces now striving 10 obtain freeduin from tueir own Sultan. £ compare vur condidon again with the efforts which, since 1789, France has imade in vain to combine lwerty and order. [com- pare it with the state of Germany, and 1 ardenily wish success to her new institutions, while i have some fear that her liberty may be st fled by a sur- plus of kings, priaces, lords and squires, DEFENCE, NOT DBSIANCE, In the midst of these exaniples | wish to sce Eng- land made impregnabie, with the motto of onr yol- unicers—*Deience, not Defiance. Your obedient servent, LUSSELL, DECEMBER 19, BING WILLE) GE\ERAL ORDER, Full Text of the King Prussia’s General Order to the German Armies. SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERATE GERMAN ARMIES:— We have again ved at a crisis of the war. When Iiast addressed you the last of the hostile armies which, at the commencement of the cain- pagan corfronted us, had, by the capitulation of ietz, heen destroyed. Tne enemy has since, by ex- traordinary exertions, opposed to us newly-formed troops, anda large portion of the inhubiitanis of France have forsaken their peaceful, and by us unhindered, vocations in order to take up arms, The enemy Was trequenily superior to us i num- bers, but you have nevertheless again defeated him; for valor and discipline and conflience in a righteous cause are worth more than numerteal preponderance. All aitempts of the enemy to break through the investment lines of Paris have been irmly repulsed, often, indeed, with inauy biocdy sacrisces, as at Champigny and at Le vourget, but with @ heroism such as you have everywhere displayed towards nim, ‘The armies of the enemy, which were advancing from every direction to the relief of Paris, have ail been deieated, Our troops, sume of whom only afew weeks ago, 8.00d before Metz and Strasbourg, have to-day advanced as jar as Rouen, Orleans, and Dijon, and, among many smaller victorious engagements, two new impor- tant baities—those of Auiicns and the several days’ fight at Orleans—have been added to our former triumphs. Several fortresses have been conquered, and much war material has beentaken have rea- son, therefore, for the greatest satisfaction, and itis to me agratification and a duty to express this to you. I thank you ali, from the general tu the com- Mon solder. Should the enemy persist in a further Prosecution of the war, | know you wlll continue to show that exertion of all your powers to which we owe our great success hitherto, until we wring from hin) an houorable peace, worthy of the great sacri- fives of blood and life which have been offered up. W.LLLAM, HEADQUARTERS, VERSAILLES, Dec. 6, 1870. THE ATTEMPT Doe ASSASSINATION OF KING WILL'AN, La Liberté reproduces, from the Avenir du Guerres, tue followings account, appending to it an editorial note, stating that the Prussian government has denied the circumstances in question, but that the account is so circumstantial, and bas gained so much credence throughout France, that Le Liverté repro- | duces it, but wit ail reserve:— the King of Prussia, desiriag sumptuously to celebrate tne anniversary of the birth ot the Princess of Wales, had given the day before the 1st of December, at Versailles, some splendid teres and @ gala bunquet at the Prefectare, to which eighty persons had been mviied, Public bails had taken place, and midtary bands had been playing until eleven o'clock at Light. The fountains played in the presence of the whole court, including the King, the Crown Prince and the Prince of Wurtemburg and Baden Baden, General Moltke and twenty otuer generals with their full staf, The day after these Jestivities the King was walking through the pic- turesque scenery between Louvesiennes a.d Bous aval, surrounded by a small escort. Sud- Lie @ detonation wash |, and # builet whistled past the ear of the King, who be- came giddy, and leaned on the arm of one of the escorts. Meantime the attendants ran in the direction from Whence the shot came and maica strict search, and a few minutes later brought to the King’s feeta Bavarian soldier with a counte- mance sull defant, and holding i bis band a gun stul warm. ‘Tae King looked at him, and, without addressing him a single word, made a sign. ‘two minutes afterwards, and av a few yards from vue syOl, [he Lavarlan Was shot throvgn the head, TABLE TALK WITH COUNT BISMARCK Tn the Villa Mansion of the Crown Prince on the Ontskirts of Versailles, Apzerrance of the Coun:—An Honorable Peace— Revictualling of Paris— Approaching Meeting of the Reichstag—Regret for the War— Napoleon and the Unification of Ger- many—Austria—United Germany— Central Europe — Balloons— Ballooners as Spies. From the advance sheets of a publication with which we have been favored we are enabled to pre- sent our readers with an interesting conversation Which took place in the villa mansion of the Crown Prince, who is Comman¢er-in-Chief of the army of the investment on the souther.: side of Paris. The writer was the guest of his Royal Highness, and during dinner and after it a conversation ensued, from which we give the following extracts:— APPEARANCE OF BISMARCK. Ifound it diuicuit to believe that the tall, large, blud man, in @ colonei’s unuorm, on my lelt—not over ulty, certainiy, perhaps nearer forty-five; well Mustacued, but considerably bald; with nose straight and rather short; with countenance litte expressive im repose, but bightenimg quickly in conversation; With complexion a sort of pale torid; oi-hand aud easy; whom { saould never have taken for anji ning else or more than a roguish colonel of cavairy, @ la d riding, trenchant suoreur, the point ot whose sword } should have expected to Mod mach sharper (nan of pen or tongue—was Bismarck, tne subtle and profound diplomanst. whese name at this day awakens the very loudest eche of ail in urope and beyond it. AN HONORABLE AND DURABLE PEACE, Imme.iateiy alter ainner the guest had an oppor- tunity of conversing with the Lron Count upou the subject of @ letter addressed some tlme since to Count de- (right nand intiuiate of Bismarck). ‘Dus letter, says the wr.ter, embodied what | thought @ strong line Oj argument 10 lavor of a sectlement of the pending issue petween France and Germany, with & view to recoucillation and a peace really durable, on terms reciprocally honorable, but very auuterent trom the present Prussian conditions, ‘[ Well knew tuat my favorite solution stood no chance of acceptance at their hands at this moment, though uot sure that ihe day might net soon come when it mignt possivly be otherwise. lt was not for me to presume to raise such & question, the more so as it 19 1 arguing wiih Uasar at the head of his legions, ‘The converwation iaver in the evening turned on THE REVIUTUALLING OF PARIS, “How was it possible for us to allow,the revictual- ling of Paris during the armistice? How unit the quantity?” “but could you not have measured the quantity of meat and other things admitted through your lines according to the known existing rates of con- sumptiony Now tis tavle is @ much more abuudant one inan what 1 have been jately ac- customed (0 in Paris, No oue was allowed to buy from the butchers more than sixty grammes (one- elgnth of a pound) per head according to the nam- ber of moutus in his family. 1t does not seem duit. cult wo calculate fairly tor two millions of population the numbers of cattle, sheep, &c., wiich would Make the equivalent of the daily consumpuon, so that at the end of the armistice they would be at the same point of approvisionnement ax that at which it d “put they would not be in the same position. We have to feed ourselves at great expense. Our flesh armies trom Me.2 wonld have been arrested for three or four weeks in ail their operations, Tne French, both in and out of Paris, would have had all that ume to coliect and organize their new levies, ‘They say they ara going to bring up 600,000 mon agains) ur 1 to get supplies of arms, both by munulact and by importation. How could we be expevied to allow the revictualling of Paris be- sides? Aud they say Paris can hold out for three mouths jonger. Would it not be so much gaia tor them to have the effnsion of bivod suspended for three or four weeks, and their foolisn waste of tuelr powder here rem their sorts? And for the mere election of an Assembly, I ouered every facility for that, And I think that their elections, held in the departments we occupy, would have been the iveest elections that have been beid in France for a long time.” I could not but think that M. de Bismarck’s argn- Ment on this point was unanswerable. I only re- marked thai I Was sorry that tne negotiations had broken down; I had hoped that they would have Jed to an armistice. I asked whether it was settled tat the RRICHSTAG WAS TO MEET AT VERSAILLES, Thad been told on good awthority that it was— and, possibly, in the Church of Notre Dame, as the ouly adequate building. “We had thougnt of it,” he said, “becanse it was very desirable that hie Majesty should meet the Parlia.vent, and it was nnportant for the public busiuess that I should attend its meeting. Tuere are, and tuere are liable to arise, too many diplo- matic matters to make it proper for me to ab- went myseil Irom his Majesty. But there are a great many dulticulties. The disiance ts so great aud the travel 80 Jatiguing for so imany deputies, and some of the. don’t like the idea; and at least ten days, important for business, appropriauons, &c., Would be wasted.” d, “Ltake it lor granted that Louis XIV. can- not have got turough ais purgatory yet, and if his guost stil naonis Versailles it would lave been a cruel addition to bis pangs to see your German Par- Hawmeut as Weil as your armies, assembled nere."? BISMARCK’S HEALTH. To some observation made upon his apparent Tobust health, notwithstanding the unfavoranle Teports Wilch had existed about it, M. de Bismarck said that he needed a great deal ol active exercise, whic it Was often Impossible for hin to get, as it certainly Was at Uns time, aud that he suiferea trom @ sedentary life. REGRET FOR “Few peopl*.”’ he said, “know how much I[ have regretted this war, For the past four years I have n iaboring hard to prevent it. But they would have it, and we have n Kept under the constant junineace of it. OF cours®wehad to keep as ready for iv when it should come as we could, and our miil- lary system is such as to make ail the nation at all times more or less ready when Germany is forced into the field.” Now once in it, we inust go through With 1% and protect ourselves agaist a luture re- newal of it by making it difficult for them two attack us aan.” NAPOLEON AND THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY. “Well,” I observed, “the Emperor haa at least done yoa one great service for the consummation of your great idea @f the uniication of Germany, by bringing the Southern States into the Confederation duch sooner than could otherwise have been the Perry rHE WAR. ‘vertainly, The French never do understand Germany, and they litile expecied wo find such a degree Of unanimity among us.” “Yes,” Lauswered, “the Emperor, with the Duke de Gramont and the rest of nis war adviser: into it under the iligsion that the Sot Staies would not st by Prussia heartily in tt; tnat ‘the same would be the case wiih Hanover aud some Oi the northern duchies, and that Austria would at least place @ large army on her frontiers, even if she did not go further tor revenge for Sadowa. T..ey fancied they would have to tight about halt the Prussian army, the other hal! being paralyzed by the necessity of keeping the rest of Germany te order, besides that of guarding your coast and erin.” To all this he assented, and repeated that the French never have understood Germany and the German people. Perbaps they might now begin to do sv a little. THE GERMAN PROVINCES OF AUSTRIA. “And I take it for granted,” I ventured to remark, “that it Will not be possible very long to keep the German provinces of Austria trom gravitating into the great consolidated body of Pan-Germany “Ah, thatis anether matter,” he answered; “I do not know what time may hereafier bring forth. rape certainly shall not do anythmg te promote a UNITED GERMANY—CENTRAL KUROPE. “Of course not,” L sald, **but ihe Jorce of gravita- tion mu-t sooner or later work it out in its own way, and one united Germany, covering Central Europe, wil: then give @ great deal of assurance of peace, ag she will be too strong to be attacked and too pacitic in her temper and ways of live for you to become an tee hation against your ‘neigh- bors of other language and nationality.” “Certainly,” was lus reply to tuis rather euphe- mistic way of putting it, a8 J must confess it to lave , been. BALLOONS AND BALLOONERS. “And how imorccoyanis these French are,” he weut on to say. “Look at their balloons, so charac. teristic of them, which they send of without seem- ing vo take into account how many of tiem may fail into our hands.” “You have captured two, [ understand.” “Yes; and another to-day.” “The depouilienent of alt the correspondence Must be sometimes rather amusing to you.” (A simile, and something which I do not feel at liberty to ‘repeat.) “Some people are found compro- mised fy their contents who little sngpect tt. ‘There was one day a gentleman named Miranda who called on Me here, connected in some way with the Spanish Legation, As 1 was going to dinner I asked him ‘to stay, which he did. Well, he Was a little surprised to tind himself the next morning on his way to Gerinany as a prisoner. 1 ventured to put iu @ word for the poor aeronauts: captured with the bailoons, saying that | had been told they were neld in the light or spies, but that L hoped it would not be #0, “Why, certainly they are spies,” he answered quickly, ‘ander all military law. Persons going through beieaguering jines to bear tateliigence to the enemy are sples, and in this case they are of a most injurious sort, not only carrying voluminous corre- spondence, but observing all they sail over.’” Lremarked that it seemed to be somewhat forcing violenter) the definition of spies to apply it to bal- looners. ‘28 it not rather @ novel sort of postal ser- Vice, never thougnt of when (hose dednitions of tor- mer times were framed? L hope anyvow they will Hot be shot as spies, J think it would produce a Painful eect on the general sentiment of Kurope.”’ “Anyhow,’? he waded, “they wilt have a fair 7 wu. The house in which Henry Ciay was born, near Asniand, tanover county, Va, war destroyed by Gre last Friday, Ji Waa mare SUAD p CAALULY Olde NEW YEAR’S. Celebration of Ladiew tuy~-rhe Charming Creatures on Their Visits. According to a beneficent law of compensation the ladies, who participate in the trials and triumphs of New Year's receptious, are allowed the following day to meet their sympathizing sisters and talk over the weighty events of the preceding ceremoniais, Mra, Finesse, who had 150 callers, settles hevself,cosily at the table of her little friend wh» only received twenty-five, and while she reigns ty eat pickled lobster and sips now and then a drop or two of fragrant tea tortures her amiable hostess with a iu.l description of her “List,” referring skilfully to the LAVENDER GLOVES AND WAXED MUSTACHES of certain exquisites, whow sue Knows sald hostess would give her largest diamout t» have the chance of receiving, Aud, ijudeed, what would be the use of having one’s pauence and one's dvor bell worn out by troops of young vrigands who only go calling “for tae iun of i? if ove couidu't yet revenge the next day? However, there is a orguer side, and this is seen whea Aramuiaaud oer sweet friend May, eacn if @ bewilci.ny suit and ravishing gypsy hai, Compare Dules Over a Cuy of chocolae and tind they are eXacily “even,’ Ladies’ day 18 not 80 Important as its predecessor, yeu it bas 1t4 laterest, and such of the sudeiing sex as are gol quite worn out with New Years duvies Huu it a convenient tume to PAY OFF TAEIR YEARLY DEBTS. Yesterday @ goodly Mumver ui preuy women, In the pretest Of costumes, uriguieued the streets With thelr presence, going lout vue elegant house to another WiD Coshuend.uie perseverance. The air was ciear and braclug, tue 8.0 was gloriously brignt, tue mud was elighuy ceduced, gether the day and 1s evens auspiciously taperea olf the ceremouies that New Year's 30 pleasantly begun. THE SHAKSP2AK2 MONUMENT, Description of Mr. Warc’s Cast—Probable speedy Completion o' the Work. Yne long talked of monument to be erected in Central Park m honor of the greatest name tn. English Mterature has, at length, advanced another slage, and there are quite promising indications that @ few more months will bring round its formal imauguration. Mr. J, A. Ward, alter elghteen monihs of thoughtful, if not continuous, labor, has completed the plaster casi, aud nothiag now re- mains bat to mould it into browse. For a few days, while the plaster hardeus, the cast 1s on exhibition ai Mr, Ward’s studioia Forty-nia b street; but it will not be allowed to stay idie long, as the bronze igure 1s, If possible, to be fin.shed by April. The figure is of colussai provoruvss, Tt 1s chiefly based, so far as the Contour vf tue Luc. 1s concerned, vpon What 13 known 2s tue Sirit.crd bust—the bust placed almost tmimediately acer iue poet's death above Lis Loud, dud we ruily accepted by those Who Lad been bis .elloW payers aud us imends as AIBUTMFUL LAGE ot his personal appearauce. Au ive other pictures ANd CASiS 0. SMakopeadie eXbani, Wieder BUthEQUE or douvbtuily 50, OF aVvowediy purciy imagina- lve, save, however, beea Cyusulted, and when the geacrai agicement of ali of these works 1s constdered—oi aii, bast is, which truthfully OF Otherwise Cian LO Ve aviual Cugies O: the living mau —it seems prey ceria Wala fair, if nob an exact and phulograpiic, ukevess uf the noblest HBugiisa bard remains With us. arue, maay features And lines Must alWays Ve duudiui. Lf We elect to believe une paluting We iesigu vUrseives LO endur- ing cueeks of a puinyaess approacuiag sensuality, Walle another 1s aimost laniecu-jawes. Ln this oae the nose 18 Lin aid (Ms dustils Ueucaiely caiselied, and Mi that again tie orgaa Of siwei is @ buick, strong provuverauce, Wuuse ycossuess BeeMS 10 strangely wsiurb our idews of pvetic propriety. One bust has a smail, Puuuug wouts, tial would well becoine a maiden ot sevcniceu, Woxue apoiher has Hine, ihig, mb<iectual lips, Waose avaruless firmness and Caution Could scarcely dave beluaged to a man Of Shakspeare's MANVELLOUSLY SYMPATHETIC NATURE. But tiese are bui iriies, Waeu we remember greatly ali ine pictures aud vus.s reseuibie each other Ab their genera Chaiacter. du baacly ali the head and brow, though varyioy sligntiy iu breadchand height, are singularly Ake 1a Lie deucacy aud easy ow OF their jmesand ina cera vague vat palpable suggestion of inveilecuual power ai grace happily mingled. Tied, wo, lu Leary wu tue eyes are full and well rounded, the eyevrows decidedly arched, the nose slighlly ayUslne, Bud Lue Cain fr without being seusual. 1 erbaps iv is luruuuace for the pur- poses Of are WAL & Cecialn Vagueuess ani doubt and lueXactitude silould exisi im resacd to the res It is @ happy thing that We Kuoy su wach; itis ati happier that we do uot kuow wore. while the sub- stantial accuracy 0 tue sculptor’s or the artist's, work 18 assured, ® certaim ueilghdul lautade is stil allowed him, aad he can rise from the study of the man as he eXicts ior all time in his Works ag oue Of Lue 10st warveiously gilted of the fous of men, to shape wiih tke peucil or the chisel his IDEAL DREAM OF HIM whom some have named ‘divine.’ Without veaturing as yet upon a criucism of ar. Ward's work til: praise uiusi at ieast be at ouce awarded to it—that it shows wouderiul bomo- geneoushess Of conception. ‘Tie tace, the neck, the bo the limbs, even (we hauds seein, as the specta- tor al.ows Uluseil to be ADserved i Lue study of LHe figure, to grow msunct win ite, and te feels tat they are ail tarmunivus paris of a common wuoie, Periaps, inuced, ere Oue has yet takeu 1m the eatire iorm, the lauds and feet seem over large. But this is an unavoidable ust Linpression in a co- lossal ligure; not vecause tuey are In reality out of propyrtioa, but because, provably, in our first im- pressions Of the roc aud vbreeubg of our fellow creatures we Daiurally wouce ust the size of their gloves and tue lengiu of tue feet. And we apply the same process 0: examination -unconsciousiy, perhaps—io the “countered resemblance” of ihe Dumau tora, in Mr. ard s igure oue couid haraiy nagive a part of We body diuctently shaped, Aud the pose 1s SINGULARLY GRAGEPUL: the body firmly reatiug va one ivot, while the other 13 Ughuy raised; tae head sligaty bowed, as though broouing over BomMe hap) y Sugvesuon of gracelut Wisdou, and one ari urawn uy upon the breast, with the hand boldiag & lal-opened book, As to the face, there may, perhays, be a permis! divergence of Opimion, Some way tak the uppe lip Justa httle tov ioug aud proulinent—which Is, by the way, according to Lavater, a sign of a revo- lutionary disposivon, with which Siakspeare was certainly but tainty tated; but the genera. ex- Pression of the face aad Dead 13 admirable—tbought- ful yet not severe, proioundly Wise aud yet graceful and witty and sy.unpatiietic. Belore closing, @ few lines may be devoted to the firness of the mucabethiun garb lor arustic treat- ment. What @ hormble thiag a scatue. of Shaks- peare wouid be if it were distoried and smouered in modern attire! Bul the ciusiica doupiet and the trunk and sunalier silken hose, tie shapeless cloak, the buckled suves, the Joose, wide rowing collar and the ampie sieeves, seem exactiy to fii In with our notions of Vig plopriety, Shakepeare’s spirit ought, Indeed, tu be projouadly tuaukiul that it was “prisoned 10 the flesw? at au age Wuen men beuleved tat clotites were something more than an useful protection agaist the weather, uf, like us, it has seen the horrib e tailures tat every avlempt to :end dignity and grace to the figures ol men of our own te in the dress of the period has proved. iMY INTELLIGL CE, GENERAL ORDARS—NO. 128, WAR DEPARTMENT, } ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 1870. By direction of the Presideut, and under the pro- visions of section five of the act 0! C »ngress approved. July 15, 1870, the following vam.u officers are hereby retired from active service from tas dai First—On their own applivauon alter thirty years of service, in conformity with section four of the act of July 16, 1870:—Uolunel Kobert ©. BuchRnan, su- pernumerary; Licutenaut Colonel Charies P. Kaugs- bury, ordnance departinent. ‘Kor incapacity resulting from long and faithiul service, {rom wounds or injury received, from disease contracted trom exposure m tke hie of duty, in conlorimance Wikh sections sixteen and seventeen of the act of August 3, lotl:—Major Ly- man Bissell, Eleventh iofanuy; Captain Kdwin J. Conway, Fourth cavairy; Captain Geo, i. MeLough- lin, Second infantry; Uaptatn James A, Aearn, un- assigned; Captain William H. Merrell, unassigne Captain Wrgat Rives, anassigned; Captain Jacov C, De Greas, Ninth cavalry; Captain Gulvin DL. dic- haifey, First intantry; First Lieutenant Richard W. Ross, Sixth infantry; First Lieutenant Alexander McL. Crawford, unassigned; First Licutenant Janes M. Smith, unassigned; irst Lieuteaant Joseph H. dinys, unassigned; First Lieutenant Jona H. Smith, Second artillery; First Liculenant isaac N. Walter, Sixth cavalry; Lieutenant Witham P, Hogarty, un assigned; Second Lieuceuant Frauk Madden, unas- sigued; Secoud Lieutenant Michael Mangan, unas- signed; Second Lieutevaot Benjamin M, Phitt, un- laasienen Second Lieutenaut Samuel Walker, unas- signed. Thrd—Upon the full rans of the command held by them when wounded, in comlormity with sections 16 and 17 of the act of August 18ol, and section $2 of the acc of July 25, Lste, upep the fuil rank of major ‘genera! colonel Thomas W. Sherman, ‘tnurd artiiery, upon the {ull rank of lieutenant colonel; First Lieutenant Robert Avery, uuassigued; First Liew nant Robert C. deriy, unassigned, upom the tull rank of captain, mouuied; Firat Lieutenant G i) ill, Unassigned, upon Lue tui rank OF captail First Lieutenant Toomas B. ay, unassigned; se cond Lieusenant Douziass G. Kisley, unassigue Second Lieutenant Heury H. Kula, unassigned: Second Lieutenant Wullam D, Alwell, unaasizned, upon the full rank of first Heutenant; Second Lieu teaant Charies W. Keyes, unassigued. Fourth—Te oiticers above named whe are on duty Will, as 6000 us relieved, Fepair to thei pe spective homes, BY order o1 the SECRETARY OF War. 1. D. Townsend, Adjutant General, Nore.--This SQE 194M ig Whe inet Of Bores Of Genera} Orders