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has been ten degrees colder than for the fame month last winter. But an early winter Sind » rough beginning may give us an early bpring; and this is our expectation, Whe Amoricam Press and tho Prince of Walee—The Horald’s Enterprise and the Prowa of England. The London journals wonder at the enter= rise of the leading American press in report- {ng the progress of the Prince of Wales’ ill- Bess from the moment of its inception $@ the period of the commencement of his convalescence. Our transatlantic con- iporaries are astonished at the fact that @ condition of His Royal Highness at six "clock in the morning should be announced filly on this side of the ocean at the very parliest next succeeding hours of the forenoon the same day. They acknowledge that the ‘kooomplishment of this American enterprise fakes ‘‘one of the marvels of journal- " So it does. We are glad to that the London. papers class thé work as ‘‘one” of the “marvels of journalism.” It really makes “one” in the history of the American press professional wonders. The Heratp afforded a much more wonderful newspaper marvel by its vigilance, energy and cash outlay when it specially oon- yeyed the fact of the great triumph of the soldiers of His Royal Highness’ mother’s army at Magdala, in Abyssinia, from Africa to telegraphed the news from Alex- andria to London and from London to New York, published the report hero at day- break, having simultaneously announced, the great victory to Horse Guards and in the oie at a moment when the Commander- hief and the Orown were ex- ¢eedingly uneasy concerning the result ef the expedition against the warrior Theodorus. In this we relieved the trepida- lon of a European monarchy, just as we have lately consoled the paternal anxiety of the great potentate of Russia by our report of the safe arrival of his son, the Grand Duke Alexis, in the bay of New York. The erica people expressed very deep interest the case of the Prince of Wales—particu- larly after they had heard of Lord Chester- field’s death from fever—and we were bound to satisfy it. We rejoice that we have been bled to do so in a manner which is satis- factory to all parties, Arrgst o OnARLES CALLENDER.—Charles jallender, who has heretofore filled the office of Inspector or Examiner of Banks under the authority of the United States, was brought before Commissioner Oxborn yester- day to answer the grave charge of having ac- cepted bribes for the purpose of influencing his report in reference to the condition of the Ocean National Bank. The defendant’s Counsel stated that as soon as the accused heard there was an imputation thrown out against him he made efforts, which were in- effectual, for the purpose of surrendering Aimself to the custody of the Marshal. Bail for Callender was fixed at twenty thousand dollars, and immediately given. The ex- Qmination was set down for Friday, This Matter brings into prominence once more the affairs of the Ocean Bank, with which the public have been so recently made familiar, Pending the inquiry in regard to the charge alleged against the defendant we shall say nothing that can possibly prejudice his case. We merely express a hope that there x be a full, fair and searching investiga- Hon. Tae Tria o7 Mrs, Wiarton for murder, fhow going on at Annapolis, Maryland, is Jikely to develop one of the most remarkable pases of alleged homicide on record. The high social position of the parties invests the Base with peculiar interest, and the amount of solentific acumen brought out in the testimony C caiy equalled by the evidence given in the famous case of Professor Webster in Boston, who was tried, found guilty and executed for the murder of Dr. Parkman, a notable citizen, feveral years ago, We daily give full reports of the case from our own reporters. They will be found well worthy of perusal. ‘Toe Boston Post thinks that Senator Logan’s ‘‘pugnacity has at last found its ‘appropriate channel. He appears as tho fighting member of the anti-Grant party, and ff his blows are less deadly than those of rumbull, Schurz and Sumner, they make a rribly resounding thwack when he delivers them.” The period of grief must have arrived when Logan ‘‘bites his thumb” at the adminis- tration. Tue Groraia ReruBiicans, it seems, did let the late election for Governor go by de- fault, notwithstanding the apprehensions of the Atlanta Sun to the contrary. Now what will they do? Do they propose to contest the legality of the election, or do they expect to make trouble which will require the interfer- ence of the federal authorities? Georgia, like all the rest of her Southern sister States, wants peace, “BartrMoreE AHEAD OF PrunapEtrata,” is the title of an article in the Baltimore Ameri- can. What in? “Plug Uglies” or ‘Blood Tubs?” Personal Intelligence. George W. Miller, of Albany, Superintendent of the State Insurance Department, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel ©. K, Halliday, of Topeka, Kansas, is Btopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Samuel Hooper, of Boston, yester- day arrived at the Brevoort House. 8.8. Ellsworth, of Peun Yan, is sojourning at the Everett House, M. de Clermont Is registered from Paris at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. General John FE. Mulford, of Richmond, quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Colonel George Richardson, of Washington, yes- terday arrived at the Sturtevant House. Colonel H. 8. McCoinb, of Delaware, ts among the recent arrivals at the Brevoort House. General T. Kinginan, of Tennessee, 1s among the sojourners at the Grand Central Hotel, William H, Seward, Jr, yesterday arrived from Auburn at the St. Nicholas Hotel. J, D. Cameron, of Harrisburg, 1s residing at the Brovoort House. Governor Hoffman came to the city last evening, He proceeded to his usual apartments at the Claren- don Hotel, J. L. .horndyke, of Pera, who is stopping at the Metropolitan Lotel, 1s @ bustiess connection of Henry 1. Meiggs, the Yankee who ts the motor that Keeps ihe South American republics up to whe de- mands of the ume in the maiter of internal im. provements, Upon Mr, Thornayke is devolved much Of the labor necessary to carry out the great rall- Toad vroiects of ar, Melg has NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DYCEMBER 21, 1871—TKIPLE SHEET. |MEXICO. SPAIN. Premfer Malcampo’s Resignation and a Ministerial Crisis. Political Party Division and Port- folios of Office Refused. Maleampo os a Statesman and Sailor— History of His Cabinet. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD MapriD, Dee. 20, 1871, ‘The members of the Malcampo Ministry have ten- dered their resignations to the King. It was first reported that Sefior Zorilia would un- dertake the formation of a new Ministry, but it is now known that the task has been entrusted to Sefior Sagasta, ‘The latter had not up to noon to-day succeeded in completing the Cabinet. He offered four portiolios to Zorilla and his supporters, but ‘they were re- fused, ‘The crisis continues, The Malcampe Ministry As It Was at Its Formation—The Sailor-Statesman and the Parties Opposed to Him. Admiral Malcampo succeeded to his late Premier- ship in Spain on October 6 in the present year, ‘Tne Ministerial vacanoy was caused by the sudden fall of the Zorilla Cabinet, It was filled by Malcampo amid a storm of party clamor, the bitter spirit of which has been rarely equalled even in Madrid—a fact which in ‘itself expresses the very intensity of the essence of political party strife. The Cariist and Alionso press was ju- bDilant, believing that every successful impediment in the way of # liberal government was a step to- ‘wards the success of their respeotive tdeas, The re- Publican press regretted that the only Ministry ‘which to their eyes meant progress, composed of men prees to treat them with consideration, should ve come to grief, His aaaty the King was in & monarchical quandary, as he has been fre- luently, irom the same cause, since his accession. ‘ne King sent for Sagasta. Sagasta refused the first Portfollo of State. His excuse was ihat he aid not wish to create a fresh contest for the chair of the Presidency of the Cortes, tHe urged the recail of Zorilia, The latter declined. He then advised the oifer to Espartero, Espartero declined also, Ho next advised another effort with Zorilla, pledging to strengthen bis hands by the votes he controlled. Again did Zorilla ‘scorn’? the offer. He then suggested Zorilla’s Minister of War, General Cordova. The latter was not to be “tempted.” Allthese resources failing there was left no alternative but to advise His Majesty to try and form a Ministry out of his own (Zorilla’s) parti- sans, naming Vice Admiral Malcampo as a likely Party to possess Influence enougtyto succeed. Mal- campo wes startled = at ti summons, for he never figured in_ politics, though Senator, His protession belies the idea that he is any more of an orator or politician than Ad- miral Topete, and he rarely speaks in the Logisla- lature. A bold and a brave sailor, he has served his country ou the clement to which he has been trained, especially durmg the Cuban insurrection, He seconded Topete as commander ol the Zaragoza on the day of the rising of tue fleet in Cadiz, in Sep- tember, 186%, The new Ministry was formed as follows:— Vice Admiral Malcampo—President of the Council and Minister of Marine, also pro tem of State, Seflor Balaguer—Muister of Ultramar (Colonies), Senor Candao—Minister of Gubernacion, Seilor angulo— Minister of Finance, Seior Montejo—Minister of Fomento. Senor Colmenares—Minisier of Grace and Justice, Genera) Bassols—Minister of War. These men all made part of the majority who Voted for Sagasta. MALCAMPO'S PLATFORM, The members of the new ministry appeared in the Cortes the same day, when the President of tue Council addressed the members, He satd:— SENoRES Dipurapos—Known to all of you ts the result of the session of ‘Tuesuay, through which the Cabinet of Sefor Ruiz Zorilla believed theniselves under the obliga‘lon to present their resignations. I have not, therefore, to occupy myself upon an eyent within the cognizance of all I limit myself to explain my presence on this bench. The crisis im the Cabinet being de- clared, His Majesty the King, faitnful observer of the constitution, consulted tue presidents of both Chauibers, and as a consequeuce of this consulta- tion 1 was sent for by the King, and invited to form a Cabinet. Great was my surprise ou seeing my- self, I, the least in signiticance of all the represen- tatives of the country, called to occupy pbost of such high honor, to which iny aspirations never ag et 0 arrive, for 1 know my incompetence for so responsible and weighty a charge, for Which there are needed knowledge, political practice, and special gifts superior, ita- Mensely superior to those which I possess All ti presented itself to me in my {magination at the Moment, but above ali there arose a volve in my heart whicn said, ‘Thou owest to thy country, thou owest to the King whom that country has elected, thou owest to thy party, thou owest to the cause of Mberty, for which that party has so much struggicd, that thou shouldst serve them how and asin what- ever post they call thee to.” Then | hesitated no longer. My answer to the King was tlis—“Seior, under any other circumstances, considering tne want of conditions I recognize in myself to discharge, a3 ougnt to he discharged, the high post with which Your Majesty desires to honor me, I should have manifested two Your Majesty my impossibyity to accept it; but at this moment, when I see my party ex- posed to be fractionized, and that from this division might result a danger to the liverty it has so much struggled for—I accept.” Great has been my bold- ness on accepting, in my Utdeness, a post so high, but it has not been the boldness of prile or im- modest presumption. it has been the boldness given by the consciousness of duty, the boldness patriot- ism inspires it the heart, The same sentiment has also beca the only motive to my worthy companions, ‘Whose names are welt known in the ‘party Proge- sista-Democratico, to which they haveever belonged, to impel them to accept these ofices. * * * In the patriotle work belore us the government couut onthe support of the Chamber, trom whose en- lghtenment and direct instinct they hope they wil not be judged before their acts are seen. There now wins to me to speak of our provinces of Ul- (Cheers aud taughter.) Malcampo's Cabinet has been reorganized at dif- ferent times since its first commission, and may even now return to power, FRANCE. The Communist Trials and Work and Be- cord of the Courts, Religious Equality aud Freedom of Conscience, TELEGRANS 10 THE MEW YORK HERALD Pants, Deo. 20, 1871. The work of trying the Communist prisoners is progressing as fast as possible, and additional courts are to be created the more rapidly to dispose of the remaining cases, To the present aay 14,378 persons have been tried for Communist offences ; of these 2,022 have been convicted aud sentenced, and 12,356 have been dis- charged. THIERS AND THE THEOLOGIANS. A deputation of French Protestants had an Inter- view to-day with President Thiers, who received them with affability and promised that religious equality should be matutained. BELGIUM. Court News and Joy in the Family. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Brussers, Dec. 20, 1871. The Queen of the Belgians is pronounced en ceinte. THE SUCCESSION TO THE BELGIAN THRONE. The King ot Belgium has two daughters, He ex- perienced deep grief by the death of his only son, the Prince Royal, Leopola, Duke of Brabant, who expired on the 22d of January, 1869, after a linger- ing illness, in the tenth year of his age. The heir presumptive to the throne at this moment is Philip, Count of Flanders, brother to the King, so that the present condition of Her Majesty the Queen ts made doubly interesting, both to the Belgian people and thelr monarch; the nation expecting the birth of a male heir and the guarantee of a direct sovereign succession to the throne, provided the child should live, THE PRINCE OF WALES’ HEALTH. Tis Progress as a Convalescent Satisfactory to the Physicians. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonvon, Dec. 20—Noon. Tne bulletin from Sandringham this morning States that the Prince of Wales had a very quiet night. ‘The céurse of his recovery is uninterrupted, ana his condition ts quite satis!actory to his physicians. After to-day the morning and evening bulletins of the Prince’s health will be discontinued, and only one bulletin will be published each day at noon. French Congratulation to Queen Victoria. Lonpon, Dec, 20, 1871. Queen Victoria has receivea the congratulations of the President of the French republic on the re- covery of the Prince of Wales from his dangerous illness, American Press Enterprise During the Prince’s IIness. Lonpon, Dec. 20, 1871. The London journals express admiration at the Manner in which the American preas has been supplied from day to day and hour to hour with news of tho illness of the Prince of Wales. The English news Pavers notice that bulletins issued at Sandringham at five and six o'clock in the morning are pub- lished in the morning editions of the American papers, printed before daylight, and that the noon and six o'clock P. M. medical bulletins appear in the early editions of the evening papers in America, All the British writers concur in the opinion that the rapidity with which these despatches are for- warded, their general accuracy and the complete history they give of the Prince’s illness make aito- gether one of the marvels of journalism. ENGLAND. Minister Schenck’s Case and a Portuguese Parallel. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Dec. 20, 1871. The English journals, while expressing no opinion as to the merits of the case, regret the dificulty into which the American Minister, Mr. Schenck, has fallen, and cite as precedents the cases of other Ambassadors, notably that of the Duke of Saidanha, who, while Minister of Portugal to a foreign Power, ‘was permitted to engage in private speculations, THE COTTON SUPPLY. Four thousand nine hunared and five bales of American cotton were landed at Liverpool to-day, THE GENEVA CONFERENCE. Return of the American Arbitrator and British Counsel. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Dec. 20, 1871. Charles Francis Adams, member of the Board of Arbitration for the United States, and Lord Tonter- den, counsel for Great Britain before tue Board, have returnea to England from Geneva, ELEMENTS OF WINIER, The Weather Intensely Cold in the North— Traffic on the Hudson River Susapended— Icebont Ruces at Foughkeepsie—The Ohio River Blocked with Ice—The Snow and Wind at Annapolis. TORONTO, Dec. 20, 1871. This was the coldest day of the seayon. The ther+ mometer 1s four degrees below zero, and 1s falling, BUFFALO, Dec, 20, 1871, This was the coldest day ol the season. Tho ther- mometer was zero. Povenkeersrer, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1871. The Poughkeepsie steamers have ceased running. The river here is blocked with heavy ice, and the weather is extremely cold, Active preparaiions are under way for a series of important iceboat races, Cincinnati, Dec. 20, 1871. The river is blocked with ice, The steamer Amer- ica, from Memphis to Cincinnati, heavily laden, ts ice bound near the Kentucky shore, near tnis city. ‘yhe mercury tn the thermometer at one P, M. was two degrees below zero. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec, 20, 1871, The blinding snow storm of yesterday was suc- ceeried this A. M. by aclear sky, @ bitter cold atmos- phere and a furious gale irom offthe bay that drove the newly fallen snow In biinding clouds through the atrects of this ancient cliy, making out-ol-door locomotion an extremely difmicalt undertaking. THE WEATHER REPORT, War DEPARTMENT, | OFFICE OF THE CH1EF SIGNAL OvvtcRR, WasHINGTON, D. U., Dec. 21, 1871. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The area of lowest barometer bas movea South and Eastward, over Ntorhern New England, and the pressure 1s now rising throughout the Atlantic States, with clear weather and cild north. west winds, which have iucreased to a moderate gale at stations on the Middle States and on Lake Ontario. The area of high baro- meter has extended eastward from the Mississippi Valley = to. the Blue Ridge, and the temperature has fallen in the Southern and gulf States; the falling, with south westerly winds at the Rocky Mountain stations, exe tends, apparently, to Kansas, and rain 13 still reported at Utah. No reports are recelved from the California coast. Probabilities. The temperature will probably continue to fall on Thursday in the Atlantic States, with olear weather, the area or greatest cold passing over New York and Pennsylvania, The northwest winds veer to north in the Middle States and northeast in the Gulf States. A falling barometer and rising temperature prevail in the Mississippi Valley and westward, Supplementary Weather Report. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—7 P. M. Snow fell last night at Grand Haven, Mich. ; Knox- ville, Tenn.; Nashville, Tenn.; Mount Washington, N. H.; New London, Conn.; Oswego, N. Y., and Pittsburg, Pa. It was sieeting at Cheyenne and clearing up after a snow storm at Louisville, Ky, Light rain felf in Corinne, Utah, A heavy rain storm was reported from San Francisco; despatches received from thence on the night of the 17th inst, Teported light rain, with the wind blowing very iresh from the southwest; from the morn- ing of the 18th up to last might heavy rain was reported, with southwesterly winds blowing at an average velocity of twenty mules an hour; the temperature has been sixty-one degrees for the past day. A severe norther was reported from Gaives- ton, Texas; Shreveport, La., and Vicksburg, Miss. the fall tn the temperature tn the last two cities w: twenty degrees, and the wind blew a gale from the north reaching a velocity of forty-one miles au hour. It was snowing this atte in Boston, Mass.; Grand Haven, Mich.; Oswego, N. Y,; Pittsburg an Toledo. A heavy rain feil In Corinne, Utan, and the weather was clearing up after rain in Augusta, Ga, Fog was reported from Louisville, Ky. The norther im the Gulf States was still felt, with diminished winds but greater cold. The temperature at Chicago was 7 degrees below zero; at Cleveland, Ohio, 2 degrees below; at Du- luth, Minu., 8 degrees below; at Milwaukee, Wis., 12 degrees below, and at St, Paul, Minn., 3 degrees be- low zero, Snow was reported this evening trom Os- wego, N, Y. Rain fell in Corinne, Utah, The norther almost ceased at Galveston, Tex: Shreveport, La., and Vicksburg, Miss., but the we: ther remained extremely cold for that section of the country. The temperature in this city 1s now down to 9 degrees above zero. The lowest the thermom- eter feli here last winter was 6 degrees above zero, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the chaaget in the temperature for the past twenty-four noirs, 12 comparison With tbe corresponding day of last year, a3 indicated oy the thermometer at Hudnuvs Pharmacy, beans 7 Building, corner of Ann street: 70, 1871, 1870, 1871. 2a 8 6 15 22 OP. ~ 4 20 OP, M. + 43 8 uM +46 18 120. M. % 6 Average temperature yesterday eae LOK Average temperature for corresponding date IASUVGAT seer eeseensnenereeneeeeerernrenenees ee eA Herald Special Report from Matamoros. American Intervention Asked and Anticipated, CORTINA PLAYING THE TRAITOR. A Pronunciamento Against Juarez Immi- nent in Matamoros. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALD. The Heratp correspondent in Matamoros has forwarded us the following special des- patch:— Matamoros, Mexico, Dec. 20, Via BrownsviLLe, Tex., Dec. 20, 1871. In this city and in Brownsville, American intervention is confidently anticipated. The representatives of Texas in Congress are Tequested by the people of Brownsville and the adjacent parts to favor it, on the ground that the lives and property of United States citizens along the Mexican frontier are endan- gered by the unscrupulous warfare of the con- tending parties, bands of marauders having violated the frontier and committed depreda- tions on American territory. CORTINA TEMPORIZING. The insurgent General Quieroga is at Ce- ralvo threatening the town of Mier. General Cortina, the commander of the government forces, has had a consultation with his col- league, General Palaccos, with whom he is ostensibly in accord, though the contrary is said to be the case by many, who assert that Cortina {s intriguing with the revolutionists, Cortina is now moving toward Mier with 400 ‘men, which are all the available forces of the government, to meet the revolutionists under General Quieroga, who has a larger force at his disposal. But General Cortina’s allegiance to Juarez is 80 doubtful that he is quite as likely to unite with the forces of Quieroza as to fight them. General Martinez is marching on San Luis and General Navanjo on the small town of Bacatras, ANOTHER PRONUNOIAMENTO AGAINST JUAREZ. Valdez, heading a small force, has recently pronounced against the government at San Carlos, in this State. He has started toward Monterey. This is a very significant event, because Valdez is a creature of Governor Canales. A government steamer, with funds to pay the troops, is_ hourly expected to arrive here from Tampico. Unless the money arrives s00n & pronunciamento by the military of this gtr against the government is imminent, Es CARD FROM MR. BELMONT, New York, Dec. 20, 1871. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Sm—Keturning to town after an absence of seve- ral days, L#ee for the first time the articles in the New York 7imes of the 13th, 14th and 20th instant, under such captions as “Mr. Belmont and the Ring,” &c., &c. All the charges, accusations, insinuations and in- uuendoes therein contained of my complicity with corrapt transactions or corrupt men are false snd caiamnious, Your obedient servant, AUGUST BELMONT. LI{ERARY CHIT-CHAT. THERE WILL soon be published a volume of the novelist Balzac’s correspondence, never before printed, to embrace his “Letters to Louise,” sister of the illustrious writer. In Lonpoy they are about starting a new journal, devoted exclusively to recording pirths, marriages and deaths, THE ENGLISH Post Ofice authorities have put a stop to the circulation through the mails of te Nasty books of quacks on sexual physiology and nosology. ‘This is done by classing such works as distinctly “obscene,” under act of Parliament. Heretolore they were considered as medical works, Tue Saturday Review, in a notice of recent American literature, says that although “there is no department of Itverature or science in which Americans themselves would question the supe- miority of Engiand,” yet “the public documents of the States are of far more varied and general value aud interest than our own.” It goes on to extol American thoroughness and mastery in geographi- cal science, upon which, it says, our authors “ave written much and carefuliy.”’ A Swiss Epiror in the canton of Uri was re- cently prosecuted ‘for advocating woman's rights, but was acquitted, Max VON SCHLAGEL Is the name of the new Ger- man novelist, whose siories are pronouaced full of imaginative power. SOME INDIGNANT buyer of books at the recent sale in Boston of what was advertised as “ihe library of the late William 4, Prescott,” has written to the Cincinnatt Gazetles—“Why did the heirs of Mr. Prescott take out the book plates, mutilate the bind- ings and scissor the title pages, 1n order to obliterate all evidence as to their former ownership? How miiny and what books were taken out of Mr, Pres- cotts library before this catalogue was made up? We submit that it the catalogue had read thus:— “The remainders (in @ mutated condition) of the library of the late Mr, Prescott, with some addi- tions,’ the true state of the collectioa would have been expressed.”” The complaint 13 just, though the very low prices brought by the major part of the collection suMciently attested the. appreciation by the public of the devices referred to. Vicron HvuGo and his two sons, it is said, have invested ali their untéed fortunes In the daily Parts journal, the Rappel, “Tn LONDON Spectator has high praise for Mrs, Edwards’ last novel, “Ought We to Visit Her?” which, it says, ‘is jull of sparkle and point and sub- acid humor, It ends happily, yet originally, and its air throughout 1s fresh and pure.’ AN Exact fac-simile reprint of Hariots “Brief and True Report of the New-found-land of Virginia,” one of the rarest of books relating to America, will soon be issued by J, Sabin & Sons, of Nassau street. GEORGE Extor’s new novel will bo called “A Story of Provincial Engilsh Life,” and it will appear in eight monthly parts in London, also in Harper's Weekly. THE DICTIONARY OF Wonrps, their history and derivation, by Dr, F, Ebouer and E. M. Greenway, of Baltimore, now being Issued tn numbers, 1s spoken of by the Saturday Review as @ work promising to be “of great importance, as it is one of high pretensions and uudoubtedly of enormous labor.”" LITERATUR(&. CRITICISMS OF NEW BOOKS. LIFE AND Letrers oF CATHARINE M, SEDGWIOK. Edtted by Mary E, Dewey. New York: Harper & Brothers, i2mo., pp. 446. Three plates, This {3 the record of a useful and well spent iife. A woman of rare natural endowments, fine education, warm human sympathies and the ioftlest aims, Miss Sedgwick became no less distinguished in literature than beloved and revered 1n domestic aud social life, Born in 1789 and dying at the rpe old age of seventy-cight, in 1967, she survived all the brothers and sistersof a family of uncommon talent ani worth. Her father, Theodore Sedgwick, was @ Massachusetts Member of Congress when Washington was President, and a lawyer and judge of distinguished reputation. The Ife of Catharine was passed chiefly at Lenox and Stockbridge, tn Berkshire county, amid that charm- ing scenery of the Housatonic Valley, of which the book before us contains so many graphic touches. Eminently social and hospitable, and higniy attrac- tive in person, manners and disposition, she alone of her sisters preferred to remain single, and drew around her through life a wide circle of attached and appreciative friends. In 1822 appeared her first work—“A New England Tale’—which had marked success and led to the Production of “Hope Leslie,” “The Linwoods,” “Clarence,” “Married and Single,” and other works of fiction, besiues two volumes of European travels and a series of smalier sketches, which became more widéiy read than any of these, under the utles of “Live and Let Live,” “The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man” and “Means and Ends, or Self Training.” For the copyright of ‘Ctnrence” Miss Sedgwick recetved $1,200, which was a very large sum for any book forty years ago. These works are ali marked by freshness and purity of style, and, although not often road nowadays, they con- tributed much to the elevation of taste and manners im the earlier generation for whom they were written. Miss sedgwick early acquired a disrelisn for the Calvinistic theology which so strangely per- vaded New England from the days of the Puritans. An excelient aunt, who was very fond of her, said ne day, as they were parting, @after Miss Sedgwick had become an avowed Unitarian, “Come and see me as often as you can, dear, for you know, after this world, wo: shall never meet again.” She tells this story of Rev. Dr. Bellamy, a famous divine:—One of his parishioners, who was was a notorious scamp, came to him, say- ing, in the parlance of the divinity that most pre- Vailed in those aays, “I feel that [ have obtained a hope.” The Doctor looked surprised. “I realize that Iam the chiet of sinners,” continued tne hypo- crite. “Your neighbors have long been of that opin- ton,’ rejoined the Doctor. More cant foliowed until the man capped the climax with, “I feel willing to be damned for the glory of God.” “Well, my friend,” said the Doctor, tmpatiently, “I don’t Know anybody who has the slightest objection.” We get occasional glimpses of famous people in the letters of Miss Sedgwick—Dantel Webster, Dr. Chan- ning, Kossuth, Miss Martineau, Fanny Kemble, &c. She mects Louis Napoleon in 1837, and describes him as “the young man whom I have recently secn, and who is unpretending, sensible and indeserivably ugly.” Fenimore Cooper she characterized as a strong and unceasing talker, belligerent, out good- humored, and a “perfect Johu Bullin shape, dimen- siuns, action, even to che growl” She visits Vir- ginta and the Wiite Sulphur Springs in 1833, and writes thus ot her impressions :— We tound a delightful breakfast awaiting us and One venison steaks, Venison ts the staple meat of this Res of the country, and is not like the dry, half-fattened, uncooked meat that our epicureans feast upon. ‘The country taverns of Virginia are the beau téeai of inns, shaded, quiet and clean, With the greatest abundance of the prime luxurtes of life, and, above all, attendants good and plentiful. This 1s one good of this horrid blight of slavec y, which seems to me far worse since [ have seen it. The Virginians resemble strikingly our platn coun- try New England pevple. ey are better man- neréd, more [rank and cheerful. QUESTIONS OF THE Day, ECONOMIC AND SocraL, By William Elder. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1871. 8VO0., pp. 307. This isnot a buok to be disinissed with a hasty reading. The ripe fruit of a long life of reading and reflection and discussing In @ thoughtful and sug- gestive manner the leading questions of political economy, Dr. Elder’s book does credit to nts indus- try and conscientiousness, if not in all respects to his sagacity. In his mudest preface the author tells us how he was deterred from calling his volume a “Political Ecouomy”’ (though tt is nothing more nor less than that) by the fear ol frightening away read. ers and by the dispute into waiich the writers on that subject have fallen, In like manner ne could not persuade himself to call it “Causes of the Wealth of Nations,” though that is What he understands himself to have treated, but by an amiable weakness he fell upon the more gene- ral and, as we twink, questionable title which heads this notice, Dr. Elder ts a Philadelphiun, of ripe ex- perience instatistical and economic science, having veea for years at the head of the Statistical Bureau of the Treasury Department. During hls recent years of retirement from oficial station he has veen engaged im elaborating lis views on the topics here skilfully handled, He acknowledges ms great obil- gations to Henry ©. Carey (whom he virtually calls his master), to Frederick List and to Stepnen Col- well, When he adds that he is largely in- debted “to Horace Greeley and to the domesuc and foreign correspondents of the Tribune,” for valuable information, it 13 plain to see what drift his discussions take. That his book is a strong plea for protection to home indnatry 1s a conclusion which results from the very liberal praise bestowed upon these, lis American high priests and cham. pions. But Dr, Elder has not confined himself to a defence of the protective doctrine, although it dominates his system. He discusses at length the question of population and its laws of increase, wages, sources of wealth, money and exchanges, commerce, domestic and foreign, guarantyism and co-operation. He has even @ chapter on “gecret socicues,” which gives many facts that will be new to most and mteresting toall, Whitle repeatedly and rationally denying to political economy, as taught in the books, the name or rank of a science, DF. Elder makes some strange asser- tions as to the true method of dealing with its doc- trines, Thus he boldly justifies Napoleon I. tn hts suppression of Say’s great work on political econo» my, because, forsooth, its doctrines were favorable to free commerce with foreign nations:— My other protector 13 Napoleon wonap arte, Adam Sinith’s “Wealth of Nations” was fairly afloat in 1784 In 1803 J. Be Say published his “Treatise on the Production, Distribution and Con. sumption of Weaith,” li which he metnodized the irregular mass of envious and original speculations. of Smith, and gave to the new-born science the form aud oraer Which has ever since governed the method of cultivating its schemes. When Napoleon subjected it to bis practical style of criticism he sald, “If anempire were made of adamant political economy would grind itto powder,” He prentoited 1g further publication in France for @ dozen years. He saw that the logic of the work was spectous, and he knew that it was pernicious; and, being too busy with the government of a nation to cuter the lista as @ aisputant, he interdicted the book. After this It 1s not strange to find our author de- fending the Berlin and Milan decrees, those violent last resorts of an inexorable tyranny, as sound po- litical measures, The national policy which begins with the violent suppression of scientific thought, and ends by confiscating the commerce of a whole continent, is incapable of defence; and we are sorry for the system of any American writer whose exigencies require not only the excusing but the defenaing of such lapses towards barbarism, RICHARD VANDERMAROK, A Novel, By Mrs. Sta- ney 8, Harris, author of “Rutledge,’? “st. Phil- lips,” &c, New York: ©. Scribner & Co., 1871, 12mo., pp. 330. ‘The writer of “Ratledge”’ is no sensation monger, but a dealer in veritable pictures of life, albeit im the guise of fiction. In her latest effort, “Richard Vandermarck,” wo have a story of character, drawn with a skill and 9 certain realism, though the book jacks, as a whole, that sustained power which would give it complete success as @ work of art. ‘The scene of the story 18 laid chiefly ia New York, and the characters are brought ous with strong Indivi- duality, There is little attempt at desoriptive writ- ing and no display whatever of the vice of flue lan- guage, which makes of 80 many novels of the pres ent day a sort of prose run mad, On tie contrary, the style 1s marked by a simplicity almost to pald- ness, But it ls Mowing and natural, while it Indicates tha anrhor’a raanect fae the canons of @ sovero 7 good taste. One word should be satd in deprecitie tion of the practice which has disfigured the fy leaves of this book (as of some others) with a ste- Treotyped advertisement of other works of the pub- ishers, headed in staring capitals, “for sale om ? iad cars.” As comparatively a small portion of the pr. Pile buy their Itterature on the rail tne bad taste of ath Placards in books which go into publio and private ,'Farles is manifest. 7 *YSICIAN, By John Darby, Phit- gh ° Ah), pineort ©o, 1871, 12m, Pp. 256. This {3 a healthy, wholes. ™¢ bool Of essays, more rambling thar systematic, yo! Written auitestly out of a philosophic temperament And a ripe ex- perience of life. “John Darvy {3 a’ pseudonyms Which masks the personality of the physician Whose book, written somewhere om the ba, tks of the Delaware, lies before us tx all the elegan’ typo- graphy of Lippincott’ press, The writer ‘t8 evt- dently enamored of two thinge—counsry tite and quiet stuttles, aitd his book ls just the moral sedative Which should be put into the Nand# of all over- worked or pleasure-jaded denizens of aur great Clites, where life 19 too stimulating to lastfewg. The Placid, reflective tone of all twese essays ta ma'ngied With acertain native sagacity” which follows Our Physician in his “odd nouss” of thought and mikes him an instructive as wet! as chammingscompaaon. With the single exception of ms occsstonal gen- dency to use “sesquipedaltan” wort (e. 9; ‘gamete anthropy,” “tonicity” and “condedon"), veean fairly mete out to his unpretending vaok a'tak meed of praise, SHORT STUDINS ON GREAT SitBrnor@,.. Seco 3% res. By nes Anthony Frowh:y New Yorks Chatles Scribuer & Co., 137). Tho graphic and thongnefal historia oF the Tudors hay here gathered into 4 volume J@3 contrl- butions to Frazir's Magazine, with sovse-addresses* before public assempues, ‘the essays dMplay the same acute criticism, wide reading and, tr@8h char of style a3 was conspicuous in the first .setles pub lished some two years ago. VIEWS OF THE PAST. 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