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FRANCE. Political Programme of the Orleanist Party. THE COMTE DE PARIS IN SIGHT. Another Adjournment of the Review at Longchamps. A PROTEST FOR PARIS. Addresses of Confidence from the Departments. APPEAL OF M. COCHIN. Gambetta Offers His Services to the Repubiic. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALO. “Loxpon, June 25, 1871. The Observer of to-day says the programme of the Orieanists, In case the elections should show a mon- archical majority in the Assembiy, 1s to move the es tablishment of a constitution, and when it is adopted to offer the throne to the Count de Chambord, Should he find the proposition inconsistent with his dignity, the crown 1s to be tendered to the Count de Paris. RETURNED TO ENGLAND. The Duke de Chartres and Prince de Jomville re- turned to England yesterday. PARIS REPORTS, TELEGRAM TO Tic NEW YO3« HERALD. The Review Again Postponed—A Protest from faris—Adéresses of Confidence—Re- suming Busiucss—Appeal to the Farisians— Gambetta und the Kepublic—Not True. Panis, June 25, 1871. The review at Longchamps has been again ad- journea. A PROTEST. The Constitutionnel protests that the absence of the Assembly, which deprives Paris of its metropoli- tan character, justifies the Geiman view that the order of the capital is still disturbed, ADPRE:8E3 OF CONFIDENCE. The Oficial Journal publisnes addresses received from thirty-six of the Departments of France, ex- pressing confidence in the Assembly and Execative, RESUMING BUSINESS. The Bank of France wiil to-morrow recommence the receipt of de; osits, and will pay arrears of pen- Blons, &c., on the Ist of July. APPEAL TO THE PARISIANS, M, Cochin, Prefect of the Seine, appeals to the in- habitants to raliy 10 the support of the republic, their sole means of safety. D’AUMALE IN PARIS, The Duke D’Aumale ts in Paris. PRINCE MURAT. Prince Joachim Murat has returned to England, GAMBEITA AND THE RECUBLIC. M. Gambetta offers his services to the republic, NoT TRUE. The story which has obtained currency that Pras sia has made representations against the review to be held at Longchamps ts false. FRANCE AND THE POPE. The New Fronch Papal Guard—M. Favre De- clares Colonel Charette’s Troops to Be- long to the French Army. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. < FLORENCE, June 25, 1871, A despatch from M. Favre, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, reassures the Italian government concerning the enrollments made in France by Colo- nel Charette, the former commander of the Papal troops. The regime):ts under his command are ex- Plicitly declared to belong to the French army. ‘SPAIN. Marshal Serrano to Form the New Ministry— The Old Members Insist Upon Their Resig- nations—Serrano's Success Undoubted. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Manet, June 25, 1871. The Ministers have persisted so strenuously in ‘their resignations that the King has concluded to Sccept them. Marshal Serrano was called upon to-day by his Majesty to form a new Cabinet His success in creating one favorable to the pres- ent government Is considered sure. BRAZIL. The Tour of Dom Pedro and the Empress, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MapRip, June 25, 1871, The Emperor and Empress of Brazil will make visits to Bayonne, Paris, Germany, England and Italy, and return to Brazil in February next, Departure of the American Royalty for France. Lisson, June 25, 1871. The Emperor of Brazil will leave Lisbon to-mor- tow for France. Tho Emancipation of the Emperor’s Slaves— Debate in the Brazilian Chi ers. Rio Janerro, June bad Via Lisson, June 25, 1871. In the Brazilian Chambers a vote has been taken ‘upon the clause of the speech from the throne Felative tothe emancipation of the siaves belonging to the Crown, and resulted in a majority of twenty. eight for the government. The devate upon the emancipation bill itself has not yet commenced, BELGIUM. No Demonstration Among the Workingmen at Verviers, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BRUSSELS, June 25, 1871. Allis quiet at Verviers, and no demonstrations have been made by tne workingmen. TURKEY. Resignation of the G:eck Patriarch, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ConstaNnTINOPLE, June 25, 1871. The Porte has accepted the resignation of Gregory, Patriarch of the Greeks, and the Synod Assembly of the Greek Church bas eiected a provisional D& stlarch, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ENGLAND, The Cobden Banquet—Speech of Earl Granville Relative to the Washington Treaty—A Great and Good Work—High Praise of Our Government—The New Marquis of Ripon on the New Treaty. TELEGRAM TO THE WEW YORK HERALD. Lonpow, June 25, 1871. The annual banquet of the Cobden Club came off lastevening. The prominens speech of the occa- ,s10n was made by Earl Granvilie, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the course of his remarks Lord Granville said that, if definitive propcsa's in reference to the French treaty of commerce were made to her Majesty's government, they would be recelved with the most friendly consideration. Passing to the Treaty of Washington, Earl Gran- ville said that Mr. Cobden always desired that America and England snould be connected by tes of the warmest character. The speaker then praised the labors of the Marguts of Ripon and Prolessor Montagu Bernard in the High Commission, and spoke of the settlement of the Alabama ques- tion as a great and good work both tn its relations to the past and the future, showing how dissensions, which were, perhaps, tie commencement of quartels, should be settled, leaving belund only friendship, peace and goodwill. Earl Graaville, in conunuation of his remarks, alluded to the United states as bviding a striking protectionist opinion, but declared his bellef that the people of that country were fast coming to the conclusion that it 1s unprofitable to continue the collection of enormous tariils. The Karl also spoke in high praise of the efforts of the United States to pay ofits debt, and, in conclusion, expressed the hope that the two countries would always be friends, which he maintained that the Treaty of Washington Was an equal contract between free neighbors. ST. DOMINGO. Defeat of Cabral—The Hayties General a Prisoner. Sr. Dominco, June 15, 1871. Cabral’s defeat is confirmed, tc had Haytien : diers and Baez had colored Americans, The Haytien General is a prisoner. HAYTi. Congress at Variance with the Ministry. Haytt, June 17, 1871. Affairs are gloomy here. Congress 18 at variance with the Ministry, especially on finance. THE PAC.FIC COAST. Governor Haight and the Riotous Miners— The Republican Nomination tor Governor The New Wheat Crop. SAN Francisco, June 25, 1871. A consultation between Governor Haight ana the riotous miners of Amados county last might re- suited in no arrangement of the diiiculties, the | miners being defiant and determined to prevent any work being done. ‘fhe Governor telegraphed to Sacramento for troops to march to Amados this Morning. it 1s believed, however, that the miners will disperse when the troops arrive, and that there Wiil be no bioodsned, Mayor seivy secured the entire San Francisco dele- gation to the Republican State Convention in the primaries yesterday, and the contest for the noml- nauon of Governor is now Iikel, to be very close between him and Howton Bouin, of Sacramento. The new wheat crop is two weeks beniud the usual Ume, and that reaped thus far is of anin- Terior quality. THE PRESIDENT AT LONG BRANCH. LONG Brancu, June 25, 1871, President Grant and family attended divine ser- vice this morning at the Methodist Episcopal church, the Rev, Mr. Dobbins, D. D., oficiating. Owlug to the fine weather large numbers attendea the ctiuich to-day. ‘The President wil leave for Washington during the week on official business, THE CROPS IN THE soUTH. CHARLESTON, S, C., June 25, 1571. The newspapers here publish the following ex- tracts, with reference to the growing crops, from letters received by one of the lactorage houses: GAINSVILLE, Fia., June 20, 1871, ‘There has been a very wet speli here iately, and there ls now any quanuity of grass, The cotiou'crop 1s not so 2ood as last year, never in stand nor size. ‘The ray season is certaiuiy upon us, and it de- pends very much oa the Ume 1 lasts Whether we wil make an average crop. It 1s considered that ‘we are a goud deal behind Last vear. UAMDEN, S. C., June 21, 1871, We have had enough rain to make ‘iiree crops, and [am sure thatif it has fallen everywhere as it has here upon our swamps there must be a falling off in the crops. THE CROPS IN THE NORTHWEST. CuicaGo, June 2, 1871. Reports from Eastern and Central Wisconsin, Eastera and Central lowa, Northern and Central In- diana, and all parts of Ihnois, indicate that the re- cent thunder storm and hurricane had no perceptible il effects upon the growing crops, Many of the despatches say the crop prospects were never better, In a few localities the wheat crop 1s suvering from rust. Keports from Western Wisconsin and the great wheat belt In Minnesota do not give so favor- abie a view. ‘The St. iaul Press says a recent trip over the section bordering the Mississippi river showed that the reported Mi condition of the wkeat crop was fully jusutied., The accounts from Minne- sota justify the beliet that the disaster has been gen- eral, and unat the yield will be far below the average, THE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM IN CHICAGO, CHICAGO, 11., June 25, 1871. The Warehouse bill passed by the lilmois Legisla- ture takes effect tne lstof July. Tue warehouse men of this city held a mecting a lew days ago, the proceedings of which have not been made public ; but itis understood the following are the leading points of the agreement entered into:— Warehousemen will reduce their charges for storage of sound grain to the following rates:—Two cents per bushel for the first twenty days or parts thereof; half a cent per bushel for cach succeeding ten days or part thereol, ‘the tariff fixed in the Warehouse bill 1s two cents for the first thirty days, half a cent 16r each subsequent fiteen days, This decision denotes that they will not take out licenses under the law, but will do the business as private Warehousemen, rece. ving grain only from those who may request them in writing to do soat the above rates of storage. It is understood that they lave legal advice that the bill recentiy passed by the Legislature 18 Unconstitutional ana that several of its provisions can not be enfor MURDER IN BUFFALO. A Rough Kicks a Negro into Drowns Him. Burra.o, June 25, 1871. About seven o'clock this morning Michael Meeney, &@ rough, kicked an unoffending negro named Kd Watkins in the head, knocking him into the canal, where he drowned before assistance could reach him, Mecney fled in @ small boat to Canada, Ser- geant McHenry, of the Buffalo police, followed with #@ squad of the harbor police and arrested Meency in a@saioon near the International ferry landing and brought him to this side. Meeney has served a term in Aubura Prison, TOM ALLEN WON'T FIGHT. Sr. Louis, June 25, 1871, Tom Ailen declines O' Bald win’s challenge, HAVANA MARKETS, HAVANA, June 24, 1871, sugar exported during t 85,00 boxes and. 2,000 he hogsheada were for the United States; stock jar rema‘niog in warehouses at Havana and Matanzas, 449,000 boxes and 6,000 bhda.; the exportation of sugar to France bas recommenced. M Gul. Bacon declining; sales nt 1840. steady at 4 reals, ‘Flour quiet at 1. American salted, 15c, @ 920.; lirm; key, 160.5 tins, 18390. — {quoted at #8. Tallow tmoyant ; Cooperage unsalable, Freights— ‘captains demand higher rates to tI ugar to Northern and Southern porte in per ton to Falmouth and orders, 20s. a fs. Tobacco ia arrivin; Sowly and ja in great demant, Ha: vana retailers have p' lote ol Rico tobaoce for manulaciure © Canal ond Sugar closed quiet and stead wecik (rom Taruns and ‘The Marquis of Ripon made a brief speech, in | WASHINGTON. The Health of Vice Presi- dent Colfax. Aggregate of the Alabama Claims. THE NEW CANCER REMEDY. WASHINGTON, June 25, 1871. The Health of Wr. Colfisix. A letter just received from Vice President Colfax, dated South Bend, says the doctors aliow him to write two or three jetters a day, instead of twenty or thirty. He adds:—‘*Am living here the laziest life possible, and, looking back at the last dozen years, 1 wonder now that the blow did not fall ear- her. Every biennial Congressional canvass I made from seventy to 110 speeches, and the interim be- | tween them was filled with public life, with all its exacting duties, lecturing, &c, My journeys across | the Continent and to the Rocky Mountains, tne only relaxation of the last half dozen years postpoued | 1 am going to follow your | the evil day for me, counsel and taat of other friends hereafter, so that Ican enjoy with my family the health that Provi- dence Is so kindly giving back to me.” Generel Shermau’s Experience in the South, General Sherman mentions In conversation with friends that everywhere he went on his recent tour of inspection he met with warm receptions from the People, especially in Louisiana and Texas. The Governors of those States informed him that the peace snd order therein would favorably contrast | He found | with any period previous to the late war. the army in good condition and speaks in praise of the oficers, ‘ihe Details and Aggregates of the Alabama i Claims. Charles C. Beaman, Jr., of New York, has recently been employed by the Department of State to arrange the voluminous papers now on flie tn rela- tion to the Alabama ciaims for presentation to the Tribunal of Arbitration under tne Treaty of Wash- ington, Pending the session of the Joint dign Com- mission Mr. Beaman publishedfa volume entitled “The National and Private Alabama Claims and Their Final and Amicable Settlement,” in which he gave from the records of the Department of State a list of seventy vessels captured by the Alabama, unirty-six by the Florida and nine by the Georgta, thirty-six by the Shenandoah, thirty-four by their tenders, eighteen by the Sumter, twenty-nine by the ‘Tallahassee and two by the Nashville. Tables gtv- ing the claims filed by United States cis zens for the losses of these vessels and their cargoes by the four vessels first named amount to $12,830,000. The claims for losses by other vessels and other claims tnat have not yet been filed will probably bring the gross amount claimed for the property destroyed to At least $13,000,090, Government Finances, The subscriptions to the new loan Saturday were $35,000, The internal revenue receipts Saturday were $337,940 and for the fiscal year to date, $143,122,569, Fracitonal currency received from the printers for the week ending Saturday, $631,500. The shipments were—Notes, $925,000; currency, $1,021,800, The Treasurer holds in trust for the national banks as security for circulation $359,437,550 and for de- posits of public moneys $15,860,500, National bank notes In circulacion at this date, $319,140,534. The balance in the Treasury at the close Satur- day was as follows:—Currency, $4,406,000; coin, $02,249,000; certificates, $16,928,000. National Banks of New York City. The following 18 tne anstract of the reports of the national banks of New York city, showing the con- dition of the banks at the close of business on June 10, 1871, as forwarded to the Comptroller of the Cur- rency:— Resources, Loans and discounts. United States nonds, Due trom banks.... os Exchanges for Clearing House 78,7 ie. 15,001, 422 43,631,836 Clearing House ceruticares, 17,515,000 Turee per cenis., 4,155,009 Capital, on 73,235,0 0 Profits = . 523,535 Hank notes outstanding. 8 9,900 Deposits 0.0 eeseeeeeeee seeeeeees 208,860,780 Aggregate resources and liabiliues, $445,137,763; number of banks, fifty-four. Bowews Hops. A petition addressed to the President is in circula- tion asking the pardon of C. C. Bowen, recently cun- victed of bigamy. It has been signed by persons irrespective of politics. No Army Changes. There is no present intention to make changes of the department and division commanders of the army, the published statements to chat effect being without foundation. Army Orders. Assistant Surgeon John D. tall ts relieved from duty in the Department of Arizona and ordered to report to the Commanding General of the Depart- ment of Dakota, The New Cancer Remedy. The State Department has received large numbers of letters from parties in different parts of the coun- try asking to be supphed with some of the cunde- rango, the recently discovered cancer remedy brought to the attention of the government by the FKeuadorian Minister. ‘nese applicants are an- swered by a circular as follows:— Srr—In compliance with your wishes I enclose a copy of the correspondence which haa passed be- tween this Department, the Minister of Ecuador accredited to the United States and the Minister of the United States ut Quito, relative to the discovery of the vegetable called cunderango. The limited supply of the vegetaple with which this Department ‘Was turnished las been exhausted. Personal Intelligence. G, A. Washington, of Tennessee, is sojourning at the New York Hotel. Theophilus C, Callicot, ex-Speaker of the New York Assembly, and at present editor of an Albany evening paper, is at the Filth Avenue, General William Mahone, of Virginia, ia quartered at the St. Nicholas, 8. H. Hammond, Assistant Attorney General of this State, is residing at the Hoffman Honse. W. A. Burleigh, of Dakota, 1s stopping at tae St, Nicholas, Personal Noten. Hon. Keuben E, Fenton ts in Buffalo. Jowa contains a venerable couple who were mar- ried in 1795, and who are nearly two nundred and five years old collectively. Since the death of Edwin Croswell, the only sur- viving members of the old Albany Regency are Azariah 0. Flagg and John A. Dix. Hon, Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, has appointed Charles ¥. Tower, of Hyde Park, a cadet to West Pojgt Military Academy for class of 1872. » John Dyott, the well-known actor, and who was for many years one of the favorite actors of the old vark theatre in this city, and later days of the Broadway, Barton and Wailack’s theatres, 1s a resi- dent of New Rocheile, in Westchester county. Mr. Dyott retired from the stage a few years ago. He Is over sixty years of age, and looks as hale and hearty as he did years ayo, EUROPEAN EXCURSIONISTS. Paris will shortly be as gay and attractive as ever. ‘The soveral railways leading to the capital arc again in order, and travellers have the opportunity of visiting the scenes of the recent bloody blattleflelas of France. We may therefore expect a rush tothe popular French steamers for Havre, as this line has resumed its rogular trips, and will be well patron- ized, as heretofore, by our first viass families, who invariably resort to the splendid steamers of .the General Traneatiantic Company, which only carry cabin passengers, and whose accommodations can- not be excelled. Tar LAW AND SPIRITUALISM.—The charge of Judge Reed to the jury in the trial of @ case against @ spiricual doctor at Plymouth, Mass., on the 2186 inst., 18 said to have been & model exposition of the danger to which persons who employ such prac- Woners expose themseives, ‘The jury thought @o, evidently, and gave a Verdict (or the delendants LITERATURE. Critlvisms of New Books, A COMPENDIUM OF THE MoD: Roman Law, FOUNDED UroN THe TReaTises OF Pecurer, VON VAUGEROW, ARNDIS, MOC TILER AND THR CorPus Juris Civitis. By Frederic J. Tomkins, ksq, Docior of Civil Laws, ae t Heary D. Joncken, Esq. Bartister, London: Butterworths, 1870, ‘The profound utterance of d’aguesseau, that “the grand destinies of Rome are not yet accomplished; she reigns throughout the world by her reason, after having ceased to reign by authority,” has received its strongest endorsement from the history of the jurispradence oi Europe for ihe last ball century. Led on by the enlightened and distinguished Sa- vigny, @ class of profound scholars on the Continent have applied theinselves to the scientific study of the Roman civil law, and as the result of their as vet uninisned | labora they lave already contributed to the libraries of the world more than @ hundred volumes upon that subject. Nor has this ardent revival of the stidy of this branch of the law, surpassed only at the period immediately succeeding the discovery of | the Pandects at Amalfl in the Continent of Europe. It has penetrated Rnge land and awakened there an interest which Is best illustrated in the individual labors of Mr. Tomkins, who, within an incredibly short space of time, has written the “institutes of the Roman Law,” trans- lated the “Conimentaries of Gaius,” aad jointly con- tripated to the work now belore ua, The subject of the Roman law, if regarded In no other light than as the never-f ig fountain for the soution Of Muny of the numerous unprecedented legal problems which are daily presenied to our courts, is 80 important to the community at large that we regret being conflaed in our present obser. vations by the necessarily narrow limits of a news , Paper critique; for anything approaching a thorough and attractive review of the grounds covered by this bovk would require more space than the crowded columns of the HBRALD can afford, Yet as vhis book 18 the first “complete systematic treatise’? in the English language on the modern civil law we shall endeavor to present such @ statement as may tend to awakea tho imterest of at least the legal community, and indace them to read the work and to consider carefully tue able and emphatic argument of its editors in favor of the systematic | teaching ot the Roman civil law in those countries Where the common law prevails m the absence of statutory regulation, The jurisprudence of Rome presents three dis- tinguished cras. The first of these, embracing the long stretch of ume between the reign of its founder and the adoption of the “Twelve Pables,”” has generally been denominated its ancient period, The history of tne formation and adoption of these celebrated “fables,’? by which the Roman law was tor the first time reduced to definite rules, is weil known. Alter goveraing the people Jor a long time they graduaily fell into disuse and were soon lost | sightof altogether. By the direction of Justinian the entire body of the Romaa law, which had beea accumulating for fourteen centuries, and which was contained 1m more than two thousand volumes, was collected into @ systematic cude and calied the “Corpus Jurts Civilis’—the whole embodying a mass of projound reasoning upon almost every con- ceivable legal topic, and sirongly indicating the high moral and inteilectua! condition of the Rumans at varlous periods ia their history. There*were no more systems o1 Jaw instituted alter this, and tt was not long ere a government which had existed amid such vicissitudes for so many centuries tottered and fell, Suddealy sinking out of sight it left the world 1n darkness, ignorance and despair. More than five hundred years afterward, at Amald, in the smoke and confusion of battle,the mowentous dis- covery was made that the brightest ornameat of tne Roman empire had survived tts destruction, and the dry flelds of jurisprudence were again wavered with the copious wisdom of the “Pandects.’? From that time tae Roman law graduaily and silently intused inself into the laws of most of the States of Europe, and now tt 1s difficuit to flud a judictal system in ; any country making pretcnsions to civilization that {8 not more or less governed by its principles. In Germany, 88 we have intimated, it has been made a special branch of legal study, and the pro- found treatises of Von Vauyerow and others, which we hope to see before long translated into English, ave taken as a basis for the work of Messrs. ‘Tom- Kins and Jencken—the former of whom was a pupil of Vou Vaugerow, and tibibed his enthusiasm for the suvdject trom the lips of that eloqueat teache , By the term “modern civil law’’ 13 meant the sys- tematic extubition of the Roman Justuuan jaw, as it acuually exists on the European Continent, fil- tered through the experience and retined by the progress of the ages wnich have intervened since its discovery at Amaifl, ‘Hence in lectures on the Pandects itis not the theory of pure Roman law that is given, but the Roman law as applied at tae present time.” The inquiry here arises as to what the present generation can have to do, except a3 an interesting historical question, with a system of laws estabiished so lar back in antiquity and under the auspices of a government so arbitrary and tyran- nical in many of its features ay that of Justinian? This can be easily and satisfactorily ans wered. ‘The “Corpus Juris Ulvilis” 18 a collection of the wisdom of ages. [t contatus legal principles which were first examined by the most skiliul masters in the science of casuistry, and then tested and ap- proved in the fires of actual experience. As the editors of the Compendium say in their introduc. tioa:—“The Roman law has beea adopted into the legal systems of European and other nations, not by means of external force, but because the princle ples of the Roman jurisprudence have been found to be readily suitable in every age to the require- ments of an advancing civilization.” Savea by mere acciuent from tne beleaguered city of Amal, where it had been probably kicked aside more than once as worthiess by soldiers intent upon obtaining only substantial plunder, iis leaves had hardly been opened ere its resplendent wisdom, after having been shut out from human eyes for ages, beamed forth with renewed force and guided men in their reciprocal duties, There is no portion ot the law that has not been pervaded and enriched by its m- fluence. In the highly important cases frequently arising under equity and admiralty jurisdiction it applies with particular force, Even the law regu. lating real estate, which comes to us en masse from the feudal system of Engiand, is greatiy indebted to the Roman law, The law of servitudes and easements and the rules for the descent of property in cases of collateral relationship are prominert examples. Ina word, in every branch and depait- ment of the law we are using the reason of ancieat Rome, only under garhs adapted to a different con- dition of society. Blackstone defines the common law of Engiand to bea collection of unwrit.cn usages and customs, adopted by tacit and universal consent and proevall- ing aslaw. Forming a very considerable portion of that law, he tells us, is the Roman civil law, which nas at different times been adopted into the laws of England. Therefore, when the learned editurs of the book which we are reviewing press upon the profession and universities the necessity of a syste- matic study of the “modern Roman law,’ they ask for nothing more than the methodicai teaching of laws which govern and control our everyday ac- tions, and as such if is @ moderate and reasonable reqnest, The study of the Roman law opens to the student a scientific knowledge of the principles which underlie the gregt body of jurispradence, and without which he cannot pursue his profession ereditably to himself or beneficially to his country. Lord Mansfield was @ constant worshipper at tue shrine of the Roman law, and very early in his j udi- clal career began to apply the reasoning of the Civilians to the cases that came before him, incor. porating much of it into his decisions, which are now justly regarded as the foundation and basis of the existing mercantile code of this country and England. This “Compendium of the Modern Roman Law” ‘we should wish to see in the hands of all profes- sional men, It is a work which, although moderate in size, has required great labor to prepare. That it has been well executed ts apparent almost at a glance. The introduction—tnough short, the lengthiest chapter in it—is a rare and valuable con- tribution to legal literature, There have been many essays written upen the subject of the Roman civil law. ‘Twoor the ablest are that of Gibbon, in his celebrated forty-fourtn chapter of “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” and (hat of the la mented and highly gitted Chancellor Kent, The vrefatory Sagay of the Compendium is diderent from ‘ 1137, been peculiar to | either of these, giving what they do not give—an inferesting detailed history of the introduction and graduai growth of the Roman law in the various legal systems of Europe, and thus unistakably showing the utter imposszbility of organizing any substantial legal code without the aid of the wisdom of the “Corpus Juris Civilis."” The Compendium 18 divided into seven books, each book containing about as much reading matter 8 oue chapter of an ordinary legal work, These books are subdivided into short and compact sec- tions. The first book treats of “Law in the Onjec- fave Sense.” in which 1s succinoily lald down the origin of States, the nature of laws, &c, Every sen- tence of these books seems a legal axiom; and whenever any argumeat or explanation appears the same conciseness characterizes is statement. For the frst time in our experience it gratifles us to say Of alaw book, as we can say of this, that it 19 free trom redundancies and superflulties, The best illustration of this compactness of expresston 13 con- tained in the flith section of book first. We quote it. Itis entitled “Appiication of Legal Pri ies in Respect of Persons,” and is as follows: ‘ne laws of @ State are applicable to all persons residing withio its Limits (territor.al principle), Hence aliens are held amenable to the law. The regent or gove- reign 1s also, in his private capacity, subject to the law of the land.” Here in a few lines are prin- ciples of law upon: which libraries of books have been written. Nor is this section to be commended merely for its brevity, for it also contains the sc Ufic reason ior tts principles, The authors ave not confined themselves strictly to the treatises upon which their work is founded, bat they have amplified the text with many rich and important suggestions, and almost every page oilers a note ex- planatovy of ambiguous or contested questions, together with a fair amount of references to outside authorities, The chapters upon “Guardianship,’’ “Testamentary Succession” aad “Patria Pot are noticeably full and interesung. Here more than anywhere else in the book we see how much modern Jegislators and juiges have wantonly plagiarized from the reason and method of the Roman law, Nothing that we met with in reading the Compen- dium gave us such compiete satisfaction as the definition of equity found in the first book. What equity 1s has always been the incomprenensivle feature of the law to all persons outside of the pro- fession, and, indeed, to many in It. Those in search of justice looked only to see that their facts fitted the existing law, eliner legislative or judicial. ‘quity was an anomaly whl sh they could not under stand, In vatn the clear and learned pen of Grotius informed them that it was “that wherein the law, by reason of its universality, 1s deficient,” or that the greatest of legal lexicograpners, Sir William Blackstone, defined it to be “the soul and spirit of all law—rational law is made of it, and positive law construed by it.’? T ey still could not understand that their “rules of action” might be tested by anything else than law. Nor could a “code of procedure” eradicate a disitnetion settled, notin the mere form, but in the very marrow of juriapradence, aud make clear this nico puzzle; tor that was a mere command to drop® name and re- tain the substance. Coats were aliowed to be worn, but they were not to be called such; jet antiquity furnishes the Gordian knot definition which solves the mysterious riddle. “Equity 1s based upon tho principie that in order to meet the exigencies of a concrete case the judge may exceed the strict limits of ordinary rignt.”” Individuals are not, tt will thus: be seen, only governed by one rule—law; in extra- ordinary cases the judge, in order to work manifest Justice, goes outside of its rigid principles, For the nonce he ungears the harness of precedent, and steps out, free and unencumbered, on the broad ficlds of pure individual justice. Aguinst the systematic teaching of the ‘modern civi! law,’ in the manner advocated by the Ger- man civilians of the nineteenth century, Chancellor Kent bas recorded nis opinion, te thought that the works of Bynkershoeck, Hetneccius, Pothier, Voet and a few others, written prior to this century, | furnished enough matter for the student, who, at the same time, wished to become a master of his | profession, and thas the importance of the German schools was much exaggerated. Sv rapid has been the progress of the study, that, since the opinion above referred vo was expressed (in a smail note In his commentaries), the “labors of the great jurists Germany, pursuing the histortcal method by a careful study at the very source and of law, have evolved a systein which, in less time than the books mentioned, opens to the Jawyer a thorough and comprenensive view of these magutficent temples of reason upon which tae ancients have carved their claims to the gratitude and veneration of a civilized posterity, Already Gidvon’s superb eulogy has been verticd that “tt vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust, but the name of the legislator 1s inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument.” LTRY Boox.—Iilustrated. Ist. Burnuam’s New Pov New York: American News Compaay. 1zmo., pp. 342. Mr. George P. Burnham, the author of this treatise on the selection, housing and breeding of fowls and raising poultry and eggs for the market, brings to his work the fruit of thirty yeara’ expert- ence. His book, Itberally illustrated, furnishes practical directions for raising domestic fowls on a large or limited scale. There is probably no busl- ness which pays so large @ profit on the capital in- vested. We are surprised to learn that the cash vaiue of the powtry and eggs consumed in the United States annualty is estimated at $17,000,000. It must be remembered, however, that albumen is largely used ta the arcs and manufactures, and that no artificial substitute for white of egzs has yet been discoverei, We should judge that Mr. Burn- ham’s hanusoine book is timely and likely to meet With a large sale. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. M. MICHELET, the French author, was seriously ill at last accounts, Dr. Newman 1s engaged in preparing a new edition of his “History of Arianism.’ The book is sald to be almost re-written. Rev. Henry WAnv BrEcnEn'’s “Life of Jesus Chrisv’ wiil be issued by J. B. Ford & Co. in the month of August. The publishers wil begin cau- vassing for 1t next month. M. DE SAULCY, wiose wife was a lady in waiting of the Empress Engénie, and who is, we believe, now at Chiselhurst with the imperiat family, 13 pre- paring a “Numismatique de la Terre Sainte” and a History of the Maccabees. Hurp & Hovucnton announce the puoplication of the “Riverside” edition ot the works of ‘J. Fennt- more Cooper, illustrated by F. 0. C. Darley. Li will comprise thirty-two volumes, and will be soid only in complete sets, by subscription. CHARLES B. STUART, the well Known civil engl- neer, and author of several vgiuable scientific works, lias written a new book, entitled “Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers of America,” which will be ready abont Jaly 1. A perusal of the advance sheets enables us to.promounce it a work of decided merit. Tne Day has not only gone by when Englishmen can ask, With @ sneer, “Who reads American books ?” but the day has.come when English writers steal American literary work and claim tt as their own, The Pall Mall Budget detects and exposes a deliberate Mterary thelt on the part of some con- tributor to the Broadway—an English magazine—in which appears as original W. D. Howell’s poem, “No Love Lost,” which appeared either in Harper's or in the ANantic Monthly—we think tn the latter, “Ip 1s not only stolen, but mutiated,” says the Budget, “the Americanisms being worked out by the snbsu. tution of the third personal pronoun for the Orst, aad vice versa,” pesides suppressing Whole lines, Tie LONDON ATHENA&UM, In & brief notica of “Overland Through Asia,” charges the author with plagiarism. it begins ta this style:—* ‘The iwestra- tions have been made from photographs and pencil aketohes,’ says the author of ‘Overland Through Asia’ in his preface, Haviog found it useful to refer to Mr, Michie’s ‘Siverian Overland Route’ while re~ viewing Mr. Whyte’s ‘Land Journey,’ we thought it might be as well to consult it again in reference to Mr. Knox’s ‘Pictures,’ several of whieh secmed to be old friends, The result was that we soon identified three of Mr. Knox's full page ulus- trations as ‘borrowed goods.’ That which figures wnder the title of ‘Nankow Pass! will be tound at page 63 of Mr, Michte’s book, and that which is called ‘Crossing the Tolla’ at page 367 of Mr, Knox's 1% the ‘Fording the Tolla’ of page 147 ot Mr. Michie’s. The view of Ekaterineburg given by Mr, Knox at page 568 will ajso be found at page 507 of Mr, Michie's book."” AN AMERIOAN Port of decided gentus, but evi- dently @ Guaky Of the, firs; order, has made Bis { Phreaological examination, at Wy a appearance in London. His name is Joaqaima Miller, and he is from California, Several of the English critics have reviewed a boo® of his poemm entitled “Songs of the Sierras,” and have praised it highly, a'though recognizing its crudities. In hit preiace the author says:—"The city of Mexico was my , and San Francisco, to me, a marvel of magnificence and civilization. This last summer FE crossed the Rocky Mountains and for the firet time saw New York—a great place for cheap books and @ big den of smali thieves.” altogetner Mr. Milier leaves it to be inferred that he never knew what “oagnificence and civilization’? were until he got to Londoa, As for his opinion concerning New York, it 13 Worth very little, Mr. Milier probably got into the second hand book stores and second clase concert saloons when he reached this metropolis. New Publications Received. From D. Appleton & © ‘Reminiscences of Fifty Years,'’ by Mark Boyd; “Marquis and Mer- chant,” @ novel, by Mortimer Collins. “Pickwiek Papers.” This is the first volume of a new, cheap edition of Dickens’ works, handsomely bound tm limp cloth. From J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia:—“The Quiet Miss Godotphin,” by Miss Garrett; and “A Chance Child,’ by Edward Garrett. Both these tales are contained in one neatly bound volume, and are illustrated, From A. Stephen Holbrook, Newark:—‘Newark City and Business Directory." “Industrial Progress of New South Wales,” Aus tralla, YACHTING. First Annanl Regatta of the Oceanle Yacht Club—Entrivs, Prizes and Courses to be Suited. The first annual regatta of the Oceantc Yacht Club, of Jersey City, will take place to-day. This aquatic association is yet in its infancy, but the Spirit that has thus far moved it has suMcrent vitality to inerease its usefulness and give it that postion among sister clubs that will in time conduce to the mutual benefit of all, In this regatta tae officers have decided to divide the yachts into three classes, comprising cain boats for the first class, those of twenty-eight feet for tne second and those of twenty- two feet for the third class, ‘The prizes are quite unique, two for each class, besides a club cup, Valued at $300, that will be pra- sented to the Grst boat home, without allowance of ume, The course to be sailed over is as follows:—For cabin and first class sloops, from a stakcboat off the tral Dock, Jersey City, passing between Ellis and Bedioe’a Islands, thence to buoy No. 9, round- ina It from westward to eastward, and return, For third class boats, from the same stakeboat off Cen- tral Dock, passing between Ells and Bedloe’s Islands, toa stakeboat of Bay Ridge, thence to a stakeboat at lighthouse and home; the course to be sailed twice over, ‘The jucges appotnted for the regatta are Commo- dore Milland Vice Commodore Sinith, of the Jersey City Yacnt Club, who will act in conjunction with Mr. Joun Haight, The entries toa late hour Saturday embraced the foilowing:— First Class Cabin Yachts—Oceanic and Sailus. Second Cass, Trornty-eight Feet hoats—Geerge Be erman, Oriental, Jessie. Queen and Z TAU a8% THC Y= WO Be! Bod!s— Motley, Ee alka, Corsair, Idle flour, Comet, Lill Lackey, ‘The oMcers of the Oceanic Yacht Club are noted below:— coinmodore—George E. Sherman, Vice Commodor. —P. H. Keonaa. H. N. Andrews, Rear Commodc Sverelary—B, Byrol Treasurey—Joun Newman, Sailing Mast r—William Chester. Measurer—Jonn Keele. Time Allowance—The Sloons Addie aud Vixen. Broox.yn, June 25, 1871, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Having read a communication in to-day’s HERALB on time allowance for sloops as calculated m the New York Yacht Club signed “Owner of Yacht Vixen,” I would like to state that we have made up the allowance of time for the Brooklyn regatta of Tuesday next (schooners aad first ciass sloops sail- ing under the same rule), and that the difierence of tine between ine Addie aad Vixea will be sevem minutes and two seconds in favor of Vixen, J. M. SAWYER, Measurer, Brooklyn Yacht Club, KILLED HIS BROTHER. Augustus Dohner, who was struck on the hea& with the hilt of @ sergeant’s sword by his. brother at 175 Forsyth street, on Sunday olght last, died ag his resiience last night, Chariea Dohner, the assail- ant, was arrested Jast night vy an oificer of the ‘Tenth precinct, and will be held to await the action ol the Corouer’s jury. MAILS ¥OR EUROPE. The steamship Silesia will leave this port om Tuesday for Piymouth and Hamburg, The mails for Europe wil close at the Pest office at half-past eleven o'clock A. M. Tuk New York HekaLp—Kdition for Europe will be ready at hall-past nine o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers for mailing, six cents. Died. Boarrt.—On Sunday, June 25, ALEXANDER Heme. HILL, infant son of Charles H. and Sarak J. Bogery aged 9 mouths, ‘Nosice of funeral hereafter. HamrTos.—On Friday, June 23, after a ee illness, MARY HAM: TUN, Only daughter of ork and Margaiet Hampton. ‘The (riends and rela‘ives of the family are invited to aitend the the funeral, from the resuteuce of her parents, 2.7 West Eiguteenth street, tus (Moudays afternoon, at one o’ciock. (For other Deaths see Third Page.) A Report of Henry Ward Beecher’s Case. If the remarkable case of Mr. Beecher {s reported in the London Medical and Surgteal Journal itis but a confirma- tion of what bas been pubsisted in the journals of this coun- ment lowards the coniirmation of Dr. f treatment. Rupture i a mortityioy disheartening aftiction, from the fact that the medic ty generally xive it but little attentioa, and con able to do more than ad ‘pains weilng Dr ‘Sher. reshadowing If Mr. Beecher was ve that this stige of rupture was about to come tupon him we do not woo er that Lis mind was carried astray, and that as his only remedy he wrote Dr. Sherman so bly as he did to apply one of hiv trusses. A drowni and so Mr, Heecher in wed condition ecwught the flea of applying = ‘A wuss put on Mr, Beecher aa he detailed in is letter to) 6r, Sherman would ie increased Mr. Heecher’s misery and ausmeated hile Tupture. Poor man! how be mistook the remedy best sulted to bis condition. But ovher great men have done the same. Our tate lamented Daniel 8. Dickineon thought a teuss would but, lo and behold, with his truss applied, nim latedy ant be died! Gibbon,” the so died irom strangulated rapture, perhaps, was admouished by theie fate 4 "Sherman tg be the most distinguished skilful in the pecially ot treating rupture, wrote to him, ‘The sequel proves Mr. Beecher was right, Dr, Siseman looked foto bis case, and took hold of it with bis cbaracterinie energy, not, however, by putting oma truss but by adopting an invention of his own tar better than s truss, We here ind the readerthat Dr, Sherman uses 90 trusses im of treating rupture. It consias of big appuance which is now pronounced the must. eco- jent ayatem extant. Every poor man has appre for fan catches at A nuAW, ust aa much allinity to jife as Mr. Heechor has, is just am sensitive of pain and suffering from rupsure, and if ti would be rebeved and cured showid, hke Mx Beecher, tht elve in that business but Dr. Saer. aders ko consuit hia at his ollie, 6 row Way j or send 10 cen’ for bis ook om Rupture, which is sald tobe very interesting. 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