The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1871, Page 5

» & « RRANOR, tery am and Logitimist ‘Disapprovel of Princely Leaders. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paxis, Deo. 25, 1871, ‘TRO'momoers of the Right Centre in the Nattoral Assombly having made overtures to the Legi for 4 coalition, the latter,.im reply, say they ' usually coalesce, but, & the same time, will weir nce, Tho Legitimist merabera also announce nett Is approval of the Orieantst Princes \edcyaia ie Government Resolution Hegiiding the Miltary System in Cuba—The Parliamentary ‘Assemblage Postponed. ws TELEGRAM TO. THE NEW. YORK HERALD. Mapnxip, Dec, 25, 1871, Admirat Topete, Minister of the Colonies, has an- nounced his intention’ of making a reform tn the volunteer organization in Havana. Reinforcements continue ‘to go forward to Cuba to aid’ in the suppression of the tnsarrection in that isiand, ‘PARLIAMBNTARY POSTPONEMENT. ‘The meeting of the Cortes Nas been postponed uatil the 20tn of January, THE FOG ON THE RIVER LAST MGaT, Navigation on the North and East Rivers was for several aours last night rendered extremely dimcult by the thick, ove fog. There was the ustal ‘by bells and whistles, which filled. the alr with their discordant noise, The ferrymen were extremely cautious, and napptly no accidents ocourted, To tue holiday people who were on pleasure. bent, on either aide of » the river,’ and to those who hed more’ im. portant missions, the. delay in the crossing of thé boats wag. no alight inconvemence. So ctoudy # close to so brilifant a day did no further barm than to excite the nervous fears of the easily alarmed, aud to afford aa opportunity to the braver hearted to play a huge game of “blind man’s bua” In search of their {rieuds, The dense tog that sot- tled over the city yesterday afternoon throw @ gen- eral gloom over the festivities of the evening. the light of the street jamps aud the reficc- tions from the windows of the stores Bf ad were tulok darkness everywhere prevailed, Wt impossibie to fatecera. more than a few Tanda be me hie The cisitte, 3 4 ‘ing treo canes ore thickly enveloped iu the smoky element than tobe in t the central partof the city, een he constant noise caused by the steam whistles on the ferryupats ade it evi ‘ent. thal AviRMioN. Was more dificult than usnal, The street cars, in many Inavameed, rae ints enot other, fosuimg the pussen- ors, bus causing no further pose tiny renee Serre rivers on way. to exer ug incregsed peu, ton to pervert @, collision, to ‘accidents , vers caused by’ tne fog. BAIN. AND STORM AN CALIFORNIA, Damege to Shipnieg and Floeding of Tale Lande. SAN FRANCIBCO; ‘DEC. 28, 1871, A severe iain storm, with a southwest gale, set in last night and continues unabated. The rain fall to cate ia 15 39-100 inches, Which 181 20-109 moré'thaa last year, Feare are entertained at @, general flood should'the storm continue, The ship Windward was iigpnaseett in a galeat the Mouth of the Coiwnbia River. The steamer U. 8, Grant'was driven ashore near Astoria, and is, a, total loss, Much other damage ‘was done to the shipping on the Northern const. It a now (certain that the bark Live Yankee and | schooner Amada Ager are lost wiih all on board. The Tule country, opposite Sacramento, ts being fooded from the Sacramento Kiver, Malt. of Stock: ton, Guroy and San José ure flooded. : Tho Storm Over. SAN FRANCISOO, Lec. 24, 1871. The storm has subsided, The reviamation levecs and dumps ip the Tule lands of San Joquin ana Sacrametito Rivers have withstood the storm suc- cessfully, ‘Tbe reclamation entcrprise has received much new favor. Mulions of dollars wif! be spent tn the Tule reclamation project this season. United States Senator elect A. A, Sargent has left for Washington overland. Trains now arrive at Sacramento from the East regularly. , ‘TERRIBLE GALE AT SARATOGA, ‘Saratooa Bramvod, N. ¥., Doo, 26, 1871, There Was A terrible guile of wind on Satorday aight, which carried off the newly erected stceple of the Methodist church, und unroofed other build. tongs, SNOW STORM IN IOWA. Blocking the Railroads ana Breaking tho Telegraph Wires. * Dusugve, Towa, Deo, 25, 1871. Tho recent snow atorm was very severe in Nortu- erm Jows, blocking ait the roads, With one excep. tion there tiaye been no traitis from’ tho Wést tnto Dubuque since Friday ist until thisevening. The The snow Is effectually blocking tho rohds And breaking the telegraph wires in every direction. feitherseys/urniat meanest THE PAOIFIO ‘RAILBOAD’ TRAINS “Siow BOUND; Oman, Deo. 26, 1871. Rawlins, Station reports that no trains have passed either way since the 2ist, and no prospect of avy passing. within two or three days. Laramie Station reporis that no trains have passed there sioce Saturday, CMeyenne reports three trains lying toey for the West, THS WEATHER REPORT, WAR DEPART MEANT, Orrfes or THe Caine Stenal OrricRn, | WASHINGTON, D, ©,, Deo, 26—7 B.-A. Synopsts for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer has changed Out little since Sup- Gay a(vernoon in the Southern and Gulf States, and partially oloudy and clear weather has very gener. ally prevailed, with fog, on the coasts during the night. Tne low barometer-whtch was in Western Jiltnols has moved northeastward "to Maine, {ue pressure liad fallen in the Middle States, Fog and cloud have prevatied from New Jersey to Maine and westward to « Michigan. Northerly winds | and show ate reported ‘on ‘the southern extrentity of Laké Ere and Michigan. The pressufe has risen durlig the day, with feling temperature (rom, Wisconsin to. New York. This afternoon's reports from San Franotsco are not re- coived, out the storm of Sunday is probably entirely cleared away. : Proba nities. The barometer will probably fise very generally on Tucgday cast of the Dilssissipp! River, and ciear weather prevail, with low temperature north and west of the Obto Valley; mild und fogzy weather tn tho Southeru and Gulf Sfates, clondy weather con- Unue tn the lower lakes, with falling temperature: fog on he Middle and East Atlantic coasts to-night, _. followed by clearing weather on Tuesaay. Dangerous winds are hot anucipated for this evouing, Tee Weather in This Uity Yesterday. The following record wil! show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-our hours to com- parison with thé corresponding day of last year, ae tndicatéd by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmaoy, /ARRALD Building, corner of Ano sireot: 1670, 1871, Ww 66 4670, 1871, a 8PM. KEROSENE AND ne AGAIN, NASUTILER TALh, Deo, 96, 1871. Mrs, Stardovant, wife of the Supermeendent of the Insuitube for Bind, lost her Inve jast iiig he ‘by the ex- coal oll lamp. here: me ae «| ma end @s bogatlnl oa Mav. JUDGE LYNCH IN OHIO, MeGehow, Lately Acquitted of Marder, in Dan- ger of Boing Summarily Hanged. A Firebrand Handbili-A Public Meeting as 8 Cover to a Vigilance Committee—The Resolu- tfons—MeGehan Driven from His Home. Omncinnati, Dec, 25, 1871. News of @ startling character from Hamilton is brought by late trains to-night, It appears that MoGeban, lately a for murder and so unexpect- edly bt von on Sat , arrived at his homé in Hamilton this morning, an ary wisely kept tae house ail day, for he felt thas public inaig- nation kindled against him, HUNDREDS OF HIS FRIENDS. called to congratulate him upon bis escape from the. clutches of the law, and he held @ sort of levee all day. Inthe atternoonan inflammatory handbill was. circulated by the hundred bearing these ‘words:— Corrupt rin ud. ungern) juries a aunt courte conte Mireles 7 Thomas, MeGehan, a notorious person, liberated ! When the a the Court. fatl society must pro- tect itself. people are invited to meet tor deliberation ae the Court House this (Monday) even- ing, at.seven o'clock. Come met fnigtg Come and let us reason together. December 2, 1871, When your reporter left on the last train a crowded lndignation mecting was in progress, and. @ comynittee was out drafting resolutions, It was believed oy many that THB MEETING WAS ONLY. A.COVER ora ruse to.draw of the friends of MoGeban, in order to. facilitate the operations of a, vigilance commutiee determined to take MoGeban from nis house.and hang him. ‘Telegrams are looked for by ratirogd line, Later. CINCINNATI, Deo. 26—11:35 P. M. ‘The meeting at the Vourt House was attended by the best and most prominent citizens of Hamilton, and Waa orgatized by calling Dr. J, R. Mickel to tne “chatr, The committee on resolutions ‘was composed of men of, wealth, standing and infiuence, and included two’ ‘medical doctots, two lawyers and several capitalists of the Place. Their report was brief, as follows:— / Whereas Thomas McGehan has been acauitted 1m the faee Of tncontrovertible evidence of Dis com- pa, or actual perpetration of the murder of 4. Myers on the 24tu December, 1870; tnere- Resolved, Mm view of the verdict cf acquittal mn the cage of the State against Thomas Hote we feel that the courls of justice, 80-call jure po a GC a a ry objec! pon feed Convention, sata Resolved, That a8 @ Community we conalder that wonare fiant wocemand thar the mike whe tee garde@ almost una.mously as the jeader ae the riehitt tonrder cena Bh one . year’ gO tH our midst ‘should no joni remain and we the ot ton uemada tharne shall week a residence ‘else where. This report was adopted unanimously with a ahout of ‘aseent thas shook the Windows in thé court room, after which the dense crowd quletly dis- persed, muttering low words expressive of pent-up wrath. A reconnoitering party, armed to the teeth, had already cailed at McGebau’s Bia Lea it was soon ascertained thas ‘TE “BIRD HAD FLOWN, ‘and now the news comes that McQauan fled at dusk and ina swi{t-conveyanes, canght an Eastern bound twain of tne Atlantic and Great Western Railway, ‘which be boarded at a way station, and is now far away from 'Hamiiton aod Judge Lynch's: now halve, THE PACIFIC GOAST. Sentence en a Ten-Vollar Murderer. BAN Feancisvo, Deo. 28, 1871. Wham Donovan, the farm laborer who mardered bis employer Mitouell,-tn Contra Costa, ine atspute over $20, ‘has been sentenced to be hanged héie on February 19, > *sRTER AN ALLEGED DEPAULTER: C.D, May, Secretary of Stato of Oregon, i4 a gup- Posed defaulter to the amount of $24,002. An oMcer fas been despatohed to Salt Lake City to arrest him. A CHRISTMAS CAROUSAL, Terrible Razor Attack in Newark=A White “Bull” Nearly | Minughtered ‘by Black, siban me a re Agnday morning tragedy of Newark, fn which omy Burglar’! “Tigtired as chief charaover, even to his death, was supplemented yeateraay morning by a terrible street effray between anumber Of negroes and & wiilte man named Samuel Bull, re- siding at 404 Mank street, it appears Ball, m the ec- ‘stacy of his desire to honor the dawn of Christmas according to his peculiar notions, amiuatea with five or six colored.mea and joined them in a gen- eral Caronsat. 2ocial mascegeniste visited nuin- berless drinxing saloons, amd became fighting drunk. While dling along Academy street bull ap- pears to have TIRED OF His COMPANY, and, it Is probable, began, to abuse hits dusky fellow drunkards tothe same extent that he had previ. ously heen fondiing them, Finaliy Bull, as is stated, grossly insulted the blacks by calling them niggers, With prefatory expletives Of a most impolite, as well as impolltic, character, Intensely sensitive to the truth, the colored, chevaliérs. toreat Bull with the, ferocity of bears, They knocked him dowa, and then one of the blacks belabored WHIPPED OUT & BASOR and slashed the helpless white in @ torribie manner, Onaily leaving him for dead on the street. The police soon appeared and removed the bleeding Bull to the station house, where the police snegeon visited him and dressed his wounds. These ;roved to be quite serious, ee that bal recovery ts mot Cente hs hone " oe Was insensibie a! yesterday aud comttuned: 80 upto a tate hout ast night. The wounds are all tong, dlean gasnes, ft'Was ot til! Halt-past eignt o'clock, pans morning that any dee Dok Jaco canto Geo 0 rte (ue, ® Rove hae oan, Omen en: man, #0: nite france. one of the Fail Ri Boats) ‘and Joseplt Germain (a Waiter in Ben eee piace, in Cedur street), all colored. Boas wey discharged subsequently (it epyeart not implicated), Monti +“ was ba: oan rtrd others held. rmain rs on him siowing that he was a aotee aes cony c trom the Lastern Peuitenuary, tu Pauacelplte, BLACK BORDER RUPFIANS, Br. Lois, Dec, 25, 1871, ‘A despatch from Memplis says reports from Chicos county, Arkansas, state that thé negrovs sul] hold the town aud are pressing tm horses and supplies, and had made prisoners of many white men, featihg the whites will arm pud drive them trom the county, Tmey are Ueing reinforced Almost dally, THE KNIGHTSTOWM | SOLDIERS! BURNED, Cincinatti, Deo. 26, 1871. A special despatch from Dayton reports that the Soldier's Home at Koigntatown, Ind., was. vurnea this morning. Tho immates wit be tranaterred to the Dayton Soldier's Home, “The joes or insarande on the building not stated, THE PRESIDENT'S PATHEB, “Cixoiswatt, Dec, 3, 1871. Jesse R. Grant's condition nas changed but litue sinoe Saturday. He can talk more distinetiy but 19 quite feebie, anu his mind Ccontindes to wan- der, His recovery is considered very doubttul. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS. Ten init te wit ened band ra Ne cn rat aoe telde yeucrany © euntia Wy feireat ibe? ee eae U1 rr RRL Ie uaa teat oH ey Steesbargh of Mallorg, Darchear evant, wae ta ‘eam mlning se since nanke ant ayant is 2 nome he ell whe Wato xideteu and B. B oan rey EE EEE EOE eee ‘peaate New YorR; | gS SETH MC Ee | RAILROAD DISASTER IN 10WA. A Pessenger Train Precipitated Twenty-five Feet Into the Shell Rock River. The Engineer, Fireman and Brakeman Instantly Killed—The ‘‘Accifient’” Caused by Breaking Through a Bridge. DusvQue, fowa, Dec, 25, 1871, On Saturday night a passenger train oound north on the Burlington, Ceuar Rapids and Minnesota Rallroad broke through the bridge over Sheil Rock River at Rockford station, lowa, precipitating the engine, caboose, baggage car and one coach down twenty-five féet.. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. James Judd, the etiginéer, Bartlett, a brakeman, and Robert White, the fireman, were instantly killed; the baggage master had nis ‘leg broken, and the express agent was seriously though not dangerously injured. MEDICAL RELIEF. Surgeons Were st once sent from ‘Cedar Rapids to their relief, and returned to that place on Sunday ‘with the SO este ss and wounded. MUSIC “AND. TH THE DRAMA. “Julius Croras) at Booth’s Theatre. ‘The dimeulties in the way or placing a piece like ‘Jailus Cesar” upon ‘tne stage in a pér- feotly satisfactory maaner aro almost insur- mountable, Individual passion may find ft- time expression on the scene; but whon it ts inciaentally necessary to convey some idea of the uprising of a populace the means at the Gteposal of the theatrical manager fall go far short ‘Ot\the occasion that we always feel regret that they donot imitate those great painters who, feeling thee art unequal to the expression of @ome intense passion, content themselves with draping the head of their hero, and leave the Imagination free to image the features, ‘Julius Cesar” bas over appeared to us a8 one oO the greatest, If not the grandest, Of all of Shaxspeare’s works, and | most worthy to charm and instract)an audience. In’ no other play have we presented a nobler pictare of human passions or an essemblage of worthier characters, Tuese considerations make its presentation desirable, but the very excellence ‘of the play throws obstacles in the way of Its wor- thy preaentation. We know no company that could Mit the different parts to the satisfaction of even an indulgent critic. The public, however, are more. in- duigent, and are content to forget the short- comings for the sake of whatever merits thoy may find, The performauce last night of ‘Julius Casar’ was certainly not wanUng in many points which deserve tavorable mention, The scenery was Well studied and appropriate, the costumes correct and the general mise en scene such as lett little to be desired. It 18 true some of the most, pathetic Darts were rather tnterfered with by. the Presence of a number of. supernumeraries wno were euppoged ta raprosant {he Hopae populace, but, who 1 nothing fmore than a small number of howling “eupes,” with —— “stent ee ves Roman about . thei Diauce of costume, vie were Bot eaOngD of then to Goat, oe into sored belief that they Were a crowd; Spa thet Sauomte a, destroyed the dignity ofthe aitual jon. tao t ore. ‘Sotors pon whom the tmerest of the perfor! ign 3 was concentrated Were Mr. Booth aud Mr. has Brutus was certainly not without -inaca ‘of she igs ity that we look for, an he character of that pure friend of Ubertys but t actor seems uuvable to ree himself from & lett te Lp which wil! force nett forward ab th seasonable nig 5 Yorke? ‘irene et in ifaited malaralgea oll nore ‘Fe think the sore iif tb in ‘actor errs, Du! pose fore ia Woe ga Whate pee tO to ne Me th’, R ray ing careiu Steotiy aut Meuadrind: of the speech, “Romans, countrymen aud Jovers,’’ was wanting in Papbon. 1 And Seger bore traces of stant Mi r. theatrl Mr. Bar- rete seized the spirit of Uassine, Perera 1g ae Character, pamucd Gr the choteric intense «i Z perinee, 3 | a shade ale a Sua nonulty ot ot the old Romana, but Ts an e stugy, though ei in the biel aan a y tne same Tales tet Me ho Hooth's efforis, re noue ware crowde a by No meaus enthusiastic audieace, by an ‘enccaniahhe but by Mise Kolloag im Cratoric, Steinway Hall was fairly jamoied fast night by an gathustastic eo dra wy v her by unlaile ing attraction ‘tha: greatest t musical works, “Tne Méagsian,” and the announcement of tne ap- pearance of the Casta Diva of America, Miss Clara Lovise Kellogg. The choras was selected from tho Mendelssofin Union, with Mr, A. Relff, Jr., a3 ccn- ductor. The mighty choruses of tne work wero given im admirable style, and *ven the small orenestta, With the exception of beimg occaslonally ont of tune #3 far as the strings. were concerned, was better than what 1s generally heard in oratorio in this olty. Much credit is due to the cbhductor for this Brautzing result. Misa Keuoay pr Lape ee ence by and as accom- yee Poors rape the patramere aye YI Grea Hu fhm he at are the Tooth and mt know. that Fema se erties diveth’? with a breadin of siyie, ere? aaa declamation warmth wun mere which woicn showed an intimate acquaintance RAL e vee 20d C4 musie that surprised even her Sriumpls on the operatic mae. Stier v rereassuly to mostc ts certamiy yemark- one as ey did mm bn Mel evince tne sightest teudcacy waite operatic s aan her singing last evening, tm vy @ stranger as an artist who aes oratorio ifs le study, fn niusic, Nox} to Miss Kellogg we lave to recort the ‘grind — success of Mins Sterling, Whose noble contralto voice was never heard to beter ad je. Ht would bo diflicult to point out anoiher cou.ralto in America who bas Feacned sob a high standard as a thorougn Artist, @nd the appearauce of miss Sterling in covcert. or oratorio must always be jooked upon with profoand interest, Lotb of these ladies, vy their ariisuc ren- dering of Handel's inusio, forined a pieasing cou trast Lo iheirammediate predecessors in oratorio at she same ball. ‘Lhe successoi the two gentlemen Who unidertovk the tenor and bass solos, Messrs. cRomega-and ‘Reaimertz, was in ad inverse ratio to that of the artis have just mentioned,’ More desirable expense 9 of oratorio could certainly be found tn this city. ‘There are two new theatres in course of erection “Bt Milani Both wilt be ere lohg com pleted. ‘The subject of the London Sitaad buriesque by Mr. Burnand now ta rehearsal is ‘Arion and the Dok pun.” MM. Saint-Saens 1s engaged to play his pianoforte concertoyin @ munor, and te play on the grand organ Of the Cercle ui Bordcadx. Eight performances of Richard Wagner's “Lohen- grin’ at Bol brougat 4,000 francs; a large sum for am italtan A rich amateur, of, Asantchewsk!, who has studied music in Letpate en artist, ts appointed director of the Conserva ‘one of St. Petersburg. Hugo Keiger, the emineut iyrical tenor, died re- cenly in Berun, iurty two years old. Lis real aame was Baron von Gilera; his virtnplace, Bresiau, Mile. Teresa Carreng, says the Monesirel, one of the most gifted of young indy pranists, and adniirea both in Loudon and Paris tor her bewuty wad talent, ts fald. to possess u fue vowe and contemplates stuuyide for the 1yniea! stage. A. Kobinstein has beem elected dtrector of the Con- servatorium of Vienna, The frst reception of this it Russian artist, eek aun composer ay tue Fiiinarmonie concer, sass ® correspondent, was Gam 2 °és)c 'e, DUE AL (He Termanacion of the pertorm- ance the mew Maestro Was eathastascteally ap» planded—are prrarabie ovation, ‘The Loudon, Sacted Harmourc Society performed Nendelssolio’s muse (0 iiacine’s sacted drama of “Atha, anc Beethuven's 'houut of Olives,” ab Exever Ltall, Decomber 9. The piinciyal vocalists were Ame. Cora de Wilhorst, Miss Vinta, Mile, ere it Vernon digvy and Mr. Lewis Thomas, ur Wwholls read the illustrative verses to SAIN nates a Micuael Costa coadaciag. During a grand Light renearsal of a new ballet, “Un panto internale,” by Signor Pratest, at tne Tea:to Apullo, Kowe, one O1 tue ReneS CHUZL fire. Luckily tne Dre wi fe extinguished, thanks to the coarage and preseace of mind of one of tne car- enters, Out Bob HEiore suMe ol the vorps de bavet Nad jaaed Away, ON. the spot, and Olhers Bad ran away (Oa negoboring cal’. ‘A company of very fourta rate singers are giving some i iT eble performances of “Il yd tore’? at ce Peairo Pontieams, Muan, Oue can only wonder at che gout Mianese Futlering such gu ex pion, .but they are very Capricious, these Hanese, And often tint pay their money chgerlwily in order to tough at some miserable cutertainment They divert hemseives ab one Of these eutertain: ‘ments in a tanner entirely tetr own, 2 oe a dehght m completely drownitige the you singers Pa oronestra by taikt ree ae the rowing shell whistles, stamping, coukmnog troaical anplause, YAd I A HERALD, TUBSPAY, DECEMBER 26, 1871, $f €7 OY WUT Lt LITERATURE. REVIEWS oF ew BOOKS. Lorp Same 4 satire, By the “G@inx’s Baby.” Gedrge Ko ledge & Sons, New ¥ Ore vis We have now before us the complete editionor this latest product of Engiish political anxiety, born of the uncertainty of the present, Abouta week since we gave @ number of extracts from the advance sheets furnished courteously by the pab- lushera. The recurrence of these botd anatomtzings ‘of the Engiish body politio is not the least signifl- cant among the evidences springing up on every side of the dangers Which eacompass the ture, not merely of ‘the monarohy tn England, but of the patrician class, which, while 1 upholds: the great Goll of royaity, takes shelter under ws purple mantle, The writer of the “Battle, of. Dorking” iverted attention from the regions of polttoo-social Philosophy to bring al! England face to face ‘with the possibility of national humiliation through ‘an invasion by a foreiga foo, and thereby evoked a passionate outburst of that sedtiment, patriousm, which rises, for the ume being, supreme above all Mere domestic questions, social or potitical, In- tended, pernaps, honestly a5 4 Warning of England's | Weakness in a vital point, or, perbaps, as asserted by the whig organs, @ piede Of tory sttategy to point out the sbortconiings of the Giadstune gov- ernment, it certainly had the effect of calling forth Cry throughout Great Britain, remindiag one of the time, at the beginning of the present century, when the ‘Corsican tiger” was gathering his forces at Boulozne, as all ‘Albion thought, for a descent upon ner white-cliffed shores, when Campbell sang, reasguringly, tha tantita needs no Ag by bo) 6 towers ej the steep; jhe mountain wave, is on the Pe But the people found in vhis Inst excitement, to thetr Burprise, odd as it may seem, that, tiey had only been (rightened by @ phantom, ana if the Lords. of the Admiralty set abovt manutacturing ‘ torpe- Goeg the matter ended there, while the Briushor set about his everlasting. grumble as determinedly as ever, It was about this time that the author of “Ginx's Baby" put forth his first brochure, and recalled Attention to the problem of poverty, which, demon- @trated by muscles t0 rags became more and more insoluble to wealth aria caste represented by brains’ in broaaeloth, BSpiritea In trearmeut ond frank in statement, ‘Ginx’s Baby” laid bare the.in- adequacy of thé prevent system vw meet the exigencies of the problem of the hour, The grotesquenéas Of the various sects and parties quarreling 10r the possession of the Iuckless thirteenth Child of the “‘nayvy,” io the course or which the Baby itself was allowed, hu- manly speaking, to “ran “to ‘seed, ” while the | aoe underlying quesifon ot Wat to do with the millions lice him was uegtected allogetner, made up a aatire ofthe'most powerful kind. As if in satire, too, of tne general plindness to a remedy, the author: con- tented himself with leaving the ptoblem mpsolved, even theoretically. He stripped the raga of poverty and the thick bandages oF prejudice from the social soreand left the State doctors gud the party quacks vo prescribe tf thoy fele'inclined, The literaty merit GPthe book’ and its pregnant miatter gecured for it ‘the attontion of the nation, and I¢is but natural that the announcement of the same author publish- ing a second Work on, another branch of the same question should create cohsiderable curiosity, Lord Bantam to his In‘ancy is, as we already re- marked, thé social antithesis of Ginx’s Baby. We ave noied the splendor ‘wich surrounded his oradie, the notices 1n the papers which heralded his birth, the tit bits of scandal which sniggered and frowned duprecatingly In the satons of the moaern Babylon over the sao that the Countess of ifuwle- mere ‘had not experfenoed the pride uf renewed Materaity during nincleem years, We have seen him vaccinated ‘with tymph taken from tne ohilu of Broadbent, tne “inddel Chartist,” aud have smiled St thc mother’s misgivings on the subject. The Bari himsel(—a saving, wily, mé-serving prig Cabi- net Minister—we noticed, aad the enormous wealth aggregated m his.and afew other's hands, stopping UP the ‘healthy flow of commercial Iite-blocd ‘tn the Ration by Making themselves the heart inte, which ite richness.ran, ‘to bloat and swell them only, wale the remainms ‘d-working members of the boay were deplorably impoyerisned. Stepping aside from the story:proper, we ure given the: headiong, downward career of the Earl's first son, tne tien Lord Rantam,”ouly ‘to. tlustrate the depravity im rich men’s sons) witch 16 permitted—nay, encour- aged—by the defects in the system of University education, with is extravagance, profligacy, vulgar compuny aud roady credit at usurious Interest—all leading to turf-gembllng, @ mesauiance with @ fast woman, physioa! rum and an early and dishonored grave. ‘its fad tts deep lesson, but to introduce tt the ‘Author “t6 compelled to give rise to. the scandal .and fortuitous. complica, tions of the first ohapters,. which, . though thoy are piquant enough, reveal plainiy big subteriuge. The young aristocrat, whose pas. cent troudies have veen eo. graphically sketched, 19 now herr to the earldom, aud @ diierent course of trataing 1s decided on to prepare him for the Ual- versity and for the battle of life, in which be ts ex- pected to take @ commander's part, He dges not go to & pubjic school like hus brorner, put 13 taught by tutors ab home. He trave!s anil writes a book ut the age of thirteen, and a) Hften goes to the Unt- versity of Oxbridge, which, 1s, of course, a pseu- donym for Oxiord, In religion up to this mene has been reared in the Anglican faith, By the aid of a learned Seotch tutor, who takes him to Congregalionalist meetings, and preaches @ religious hvefalism, combined with a certain — Cassandra-likxe warning on _ the rotten state of Englisn socleyy and politics, hia faith in the Episcopal Church 1$ shaken, w.thout other result Lhan Jaylng te foundation of a radical- ism strangely oul of keeping with the mental tone of the'her to “an eatidom and several hundred thousands a year,” At Oxoridge he fin’s the Radish Clb, to still further unsettie tue political, and the Essenes, to had uprool the religious, ideas whicli Wiwaatber ha Ab anxious to tmpress upon nim, “Accor ia ly, when he leit we University “he saw in propérty @ robbery of the commanity by a seiish inugividual; he saw in Church and Dogma @ tyrauny over ibe individual by the community.’ Has rank Communism 48 met with patience by mia mower aba a quiet cynic by iis father, Who felies on the saving virtue of haif a miliom @ year, On Ms coming of age, ‘when the great sete ts taking place at ShuMestraw Casue, a body of proletarian from the neighboring town of Ffowlsmere, headed by Broadvent, break upon the scene with au address, Calling on Lim ww divide his property, waen he gets it, with his feilow ciuzens. He addresses them in a socialistic strain, to the horror Of Irs aristocratic {rienas, atid ia Mb. erally berated thereiur by the Loudoa press, Next he makes economic notes frum the vast property of hig jather, and draws deductions thcrélrom in sup- port ot his soglal theory. The horrors of the evic~ tion law are foreivly touched on fo an incident which happens in the course Of a deer-stalking party in Scotland, evidently recaiing the case of a well kKdown Svtch nobie, Who, With bis i clan, whs forced to emigrite to vanad’ some yeara since. We are pext treated to a highly spiced «account of the modus operandi of English elections. The young lord ts desired by tg farher to sit in Parliament, and the sketen of the party “whip" and the carefal but unscrupnioas etectton agents, will be recognized as sketches irom. the life, Taken as true (and who that is fatutier with the way ta wineh “seats” ae dispensed, OF elecuons carried on in the Engitsh county towna cam deny it?) it does nor give a high eatinate of Khgtish pubic virtue, independence or | incorrapibility. Lord Bantam 18 cleveated, and uls father, “Wk @ dozen borougna in nts hands,” Bas him returtied from one of untém “without oppost- tion.” la Parliament he takes his place “below the gangway,” of coarse inelining to the Prigs, of Whom the author says:—“Thelr the. ories atid processions are in many pots most liberal, but they arg tne moat miggardly of politioal benefactors, A Prig 19 @ Pogey (Vory) without prin- oipis Aad @ radical without practice.” He makes specokes agatust “tne government, of whieh his father i) a) «memotr, nd, fn cotse- quence Of..e Coalifon between tho Tories ant Uhe Lave; Me Diliand Me méniswy are Mirown oui, ‘This, doubtiess, rofora W the session Of 146% Lord WHA Enough has been shown im this résumé book, which is all that our apace will permit, convoy the jateresting nature of iis contoeta, is ts not so sprightly an “Ginx,’’ but ts mich more ‘em. batious and of milntvely greater scope and feport-. ance; and yet, while awakening attemtion Crying evils that beset society in Bagiand, only aii almost, patent mora that the cannot be the teaders of the people to land distribution or the other wrongs of the arftyes at practically the same conctuston for nis hero-—tne impasss of ‘title, wealth and caste, With all its. brilliant light on the sulyeot, Lord Bantam only proves a sortior( the case of Louhair,” But Our author, while facing thts stern fact of the incapability of the actatocracy to \ead the masses to (he inevitable which is coming, handiés the proletariat unsparingiy, and, with che rest of his class, hangs by the olesome hope of “solvent legisiation.”” He deplores the incruness and the ignorance of the tollers in terms of real Tegret, but the leaders of their own Class are treated ‘witn characteristic ridicale, He gives tae picture ofthe strongly intrenched though small army of aristocracy beleaguered by the army of labor, aad shuts off his narrative without more than # hiat at the d‘noucment,¢ Tho ridiculous extremes brought Femorselessly together without any regard tor average reality we excuse, because ne clatme (he license of the satirist, yet the fact is evident (hat, like the drama of @ madman, the plot has become so clouded and the aotion so’ Impossivté “that, th utter despair of & reasonable Anale, the Ourtain Ie lowered, leaving the sword of the avenger still over the head of ‘the tyrant. Tae moral, as he Outlines At, 19 that the aristocracy cannot, from taelr very po- sition, solve the problem; that the mide classes, induiferent or yenal, will not, and that if tt ts selvea at, all it must be by, the very, proletemans, lor whom the author does not seek to conceal his com tempt, while admitting their occasional “talent,” the undeveloped power at their back and the bioody Peril of their using tt. It will strike’ many that Lora Bantam t# a per. sonal satire used (ore general purpose. Bradiaugy, the amitacor, ts censured as a vendor of shaliow pro- fanity, and Oarlyle ts made ¢o pronounce’ a apeech under the titie of a propnet, Hoe reverently styies Dim the Bogie Jerouian: | We would ask, too, is the herd intehued to bo an exaggerated skoicn Tounded ou the Ufe of Viscount Asameriey, in whuse personal history and that of his father’s (awily, the Ruszells,, aro to bé fou many points of resem- blance with Lord Bantam? The,.vook te bkely to Command # heavy sale: LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mas, Saran J, Hata, now inher eighty-foarta yent, fa Atill at Work writing for Godes’s Lady's Book, to whicit she has been, @ conteivutor durtag its whole existence of forty-four years, ‘The Morning Advertiser, one of the six great Lon- Gon dally papera, wos founded im 1704, by an associ- ‘ation -of Loudon publicans known ag the “In- Corporated Society of ‘Licensed Victtaibra,” Ite basis was simply the subsoription ol a guinea and an agreomont t “take iu’? the Advertiser daily by each memper of the association. Each puolican subdcriomg was also made a shareholder in the pro- fils, and eatitied to an annual allowance ta cane lie ‘became unsuccess ul in business, The same princk ple of management: prevatis: now, after eighty-tive years’ prosperous existence of the paper, It is owned. by tho London Victuallers’: Sooiety, ‘num oering over sixteen Iundred propristors, and oon- toiled by @ managing committe, who eloct an editor-in-chief, The annual profits aro trom £10,000 to £15,000. Tne circolattion has risen from 6,000 copies. in 1860 to about double that figure in 1871. Tux Memorxs of William Harness, lately issued in London, among much interesting matter relating to England’s literary men of the last naif century, as @ review or the Lord and Lady Byron controversy, written by Mr. Harness, who kaow both, shortly Uelore his decease,’ It presents a leas favorable funpression of (he lady than the one most current. He writes:—“Miss Ulbank’s manner was stiff and formal, aad gave One the ies of her being seif- willed and self-opinionated. She was almost the only foung, pretty, well-dressei girl we ever saw who carried no chverfulneds along with her” fosrer’s “Life of Dickens,’.#'ts eatd, will make four octavo volumes. The ‘fire volame, from his dirth tortie age. of forty, willbe! issued, witit por- traits gud-other illustrations, shorty. Mr. MATIN, the hastorian of the press in France, Ostlimates the total number of newspapers in the World at 12,500, and tae average number of sheets iasned daily at 12,000.00. Europe has about seven ‘thousand journals, America 6,900 and the remain. ing 500ure divided bevween Asia, Australia, Africa and other outlying regions on the outskirts of civuli- zauione Tux Penny Cye'opesia, published oy Uharies Knight, cost in the iterary labor alone performed upon it £38,000. ‘Tne sums pati to writers and re- visers Of the last eattion (the olghth) of the Bacycio- pedin Briiannica amounted to over £29,009, fue GexBALoer of Elder Jona Strong, published at Albafy, makes two bilky volumes of 1,200 pages, Isn't taat cOutIng out pretty strong for pedigréet Tuk Parke of the ‘largest cireutation tn Loatlon, the Daily Telvormph, had an average daily sale of 190,885 copies during tho, latwer halfoss97a 4618 publisned.aeene penny. Pimiar RuPORtERS are Detsons of AOme’ {influence has been demonstrated ih the fact that wey have sborceued tie miglt sessions of the British Parlia- ment. The principal London journats, a3 ts well known, havo relays of reporters to take down the debates, changing, on the average, once in every fifteen minutes, and ‘each writmg out and seading iu bis scopy’? 0 the compositora, By a tacit under. standing among the gentlemen of the gailery, alt speectics delivered tacer than two O'clock tm the moroing are very sparingly reported. This was quickly uolced vy the right nonorabie gentiemen, and @ genera! reluctance to take the floor at a late hour has resulied, until, from “ell night’ sesaiona of Parhament, which used to be of frequent occur- Tenice. it 1s very rare that the sessions (which begin at six o'clock P, BM.) ousiast the hoar of two A. M. Tus Rev. T, Dewsrt LALMADGE las 12 press &. book under the sensational title of “fhe Avomtna- Mons.” ‘ne publishers, in aa advertiseveat to match, style it & “remarkable volume,’ tartling presentation of soctal curses,"" &c, GARIBALDI'S AUTOSIOIRARHY, Upea Which Ne 19 now engaged, will not be poolisned until afier his decease—an instance of the modesty of author. ship which ts rire nowadays OHARLES DICKENS 10) 1885 became for the Brat time attached tothe (ally press as one di the par- lamentary roporterso! the Morning Ohrontol, av waiary ot five guineas & Wook. Te was thon twenty- two. Tus Sheotator reviews Mrs. George Lunt’s ‘ Be- had the Bars," a work om the private-tnsane neg. lum of the Untied States, and saye:-—-“The book is a clevér one—10t oaly fall of warm comm sora ton and indignant sympathy for fellow sufferers, in Which We. neartiy share, but of quisk observasion, disoriming:ion and tact” THe LAaST Faw YRARS have witnessed @ slugulae mortality ai@ong some of the oldes} And sppyarently yest estabiished Londoa newspapers, Tae Morning Hera a oxpitedon the last day ef, 1860, having beon published ug a datty uinety years’ Tke Aforning Oty aiéeio, estadhshed in 1779, lived meariy along, Du declined aud fell adows 1960; Tue sur, whieh first rose in tho year 1792, socforthe tast time on the @3rh of February, 1871, Tho Morning Siar, es- tabliswed iu: 2556, aad an Organ of free. trade after | the Manchester or Opdden school, Was @iscontinued | im 1870,-aitor havmgeaak over eighty thousand pounds for us hovefvl bus unlucky progrietors, Wasummoron, Deo: 25, 1811. A Quiet Day and Volight(al Weather. No Dusnegs war transacted in any Of th puDtis departments to«iay. Christmas was observed by ail classes, The weather was clear and the order throughont the city waa better thaw heretotare 08 ach cecasions, Prepoved New Canal Reate from the Miasis- ppl te the Nea. A Memorial ia Deee preseated to Conmress trop Gio Goong Lagistavare Praying the Unised States. to devote ten milliom® to the constractim of acanat | tO connect the Mississippi with the Atiantic. & Chamnel can be obtained through ueotgia by con- Beoting the waters of the Tennessee aad Coose Rivers and the Goose and Vomulgee Rivest hy canal. The benef to be derived from the work, when compicied, woult be, it claims, enjoyed equally by the Restern and Wentern States of the Uniow, eed that, ta cas of « hostile invasion, {8 Would ve avelueble (@ (ue governmemt as ad im terior means of communication by whicu supplies, im large quantitios, coutd be cheaply and wafely trans- Ported rrom ine West tothe East, end thas, for these Teasoaa, | may jusly aod preperty be considered a ational Work. The impoverished condition of tne South, it adds, precludes the hope that this wors Can be successfully prosecuted, either ag @ State Work or by private enterprise, for many years, jw frecuom ‘roi ton all the your round ts pointed out, Sud the absence of a necessity for (ramauaipment or marine insurance. It says (hat the graia regions of the Northwest femaud an outiet which will be Cheaper and aborter (han the existing ones to make Corn raising femunorative. This route would meet both ends, it avers, saving 262 miles from St. Lous to the sea, via Georgia, and 644 miles to the Georgia 8a ports instead of to New York by ne takes and the rio Canal. !t saya ireighs co@id be transported by ‘he new line from St, Louls vo bavannah at $4560 ton, and corn at twoive couts @ bushel, It would take the grant ottuer ia a donation of iand or by &- loan of the oredit of tue government, Tho Resignation of Asustani Attoruey Gene ral Hrietew Accepted. we C anhinaton (Deo, 24) conretpondenes af the Benen jo the President over # week ugo, ser ugh one: accep red, when it became Understood chat Mr. koran was to the Caanet there re many ire who Colone: Bristuw would be Tied. to alt the cae piace, and his name was ely mentions Connection with it This! was ail witnowk Derensnon,; ee and ho had Pe per ne a pirauens tor wie aopolanmens ‘mitted Be. effort to be made oa hts benall. py e hia tient Hn. reaignation t entirely tor reasons Kg a personal. uature, of which no explanation to tee public, 16 Was uot occasioned us omcial ue- Dieasaniness Or diMculty whatever. one Bris~ low wiil at once return to sages L8 eae ais pagtnership tn ihe Geaeral Harlan, who was the ropauucen canataase for Governor in the lust cloction carn, he a @ilive whieb he vacates tras veen offeren vo Distri Attorney Nodlo, of Missouri, Whose record of aa officer canses him to be hed in high exieem by the authorities bere, FIRE 18 THIRTY-FOURTH STREET. About one o’clock )osterday morning ®. fire oc- Curred in the dwelllog house 243 Kass Tatréy-fourtn atreot, In consequence of tue ecetdens to the gas- Works the residents of that portion of the clly were | obliged to resort to other meaasof tiumunation, and the occupants of the abeve residence supplied Vhomacives with kerosene lamps, one of which, while srs, Wolds (arally (osoupying the lower. part a the, bring genr cen and some frienis were tegen wem eereure AE ALY pee 37 he by twe but, beyond wine womewiat no nares was done. Tho voli soon on band and rendered mticien the exortement s boarder tn i ‘Sch 239 Kast Thirty-fourth street, had aust kaa irom 618 pocket. Tnree Stspicion of being the ne gmeres, ht but they om ‘be idontified aud were di DEYTRUCTIVE PIKE IN KANSAS. Leaverworrn, Kan. Dec. 25, 1671. ‘A Bpécial despatch from Salina, Kan., to the Times, saya that twelve vuudings were burned te that place yosterday, inciuding one livery stabdie, harness and saddlery store, one drug store, two gtocertes, one hardware store, two saloons and tnl- Hard rooms, Wetts, Fargo's & Co.'s expreas ofice and Geis & Co.'s bank, The loss te trom $60,000 te $75,000, ‘The in#tirauce is small. 87, LOUIS HAS WO SMALLPOX, Sr, Lowrs, Dec, 26, 1871. The Chicago Tribune ts mistaken when if states. that smallpox ts prevailing here asepidemic. The mortality list here last week was only seventy -nine, and there was not & single Cave of smallpox ree ported. MAILS FOR EURO?E Tne steamstip Cimoria will leave this port em Tuesday for Piymuuth and Mambarg. ‘The matis for Rurope wit! cusp at the Post Omics at At ‘o'clock A. M. WK New York JBRALV—Kdition for Befope— il bespeds As helt “past nine o'clock ia the mera- ng. 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