The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1872, Page 4

= “DR. LIVINGSTONE. Views of the English Press on the New York Herald’s Expedition. BRITISH HONOR AT STAKE, How the Private Enterprise of Foreigners is Regarded, SCIENTIFIC MEN IN COUNCIL. The Royal Geographical Society's Liv- ingstone Search Expedition. NECESSITY OF PROMPT ACTION. Lonpon, Jan. 6, 1872, Teena you by this mail a number of letters and extracts from the English newspapers regarding NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. eo June last may beset down in these: few words:—Livingstone had been sven alive at Ujijt an uncertain pumber of months vefore, and might be found there stilla montniater. Subse- quent: intelligence, ‘er which we are indebted to the Secretary of the Royal G phical cusis a grave doubt on the fuitiiment ft the hone with which the co‘respondent closes; for in September last. the American expedition be- came lnvolved im native tronbies, and suffered such Galamitics as to make it very unceriain whether Ujijt would ever be reached. Apart from the pro- Dabluty tuat the English ition Will the: the work of actual comm! on with Laviageto! don 8 yet to be urely our. national honor ts at Stake in the ver, When we see the privaic enterprise Of foreigners, daring and suifering in a cause that 18 primarily our own, we should be put to the blush it Englishmen did not answer the appeal oi the Royal Geographical Soc.ety, by coming freely forward with help for the new “Livingscont Seareh and Reet Expediuon.” No matter whether the tilustrious traveller be.detained by sheer devo- tion to Hi8 task OF solving the secret of Africa, by sickness, by the jealous hostility of the natives, or Jack of supplies—no matter tnough Engiand should have only a few waitened bones to claim back from the wilderness—it_is our duty to spare no elfort in search of the long-lost wanderer, from whom, during two and @ half years, no scrap of writing has come. The time tg short—for the expedition satis in leas than a month; but, if the ple be once aroused to help Livingstone, the shortness of the time will not impair the amount of the fund. The London Standard of the same date takes up the matter as follows:— It 1s impossible to feel any surprise at the prompt and characteristic negative with which the govern- Ment have met the reques! of the members of the Geographical Society to accord them some measure Ol assistance i the expedition that is about to be equipped in search of Livingstume. Recognition of those quaitties—of the courage, the perseverance, thé seil-sacriticing dariug—of which we ure, asa bation, with such good cause proud 1s the lasy thing that we were warranted in expecting Irom an ad- the impression created here on the receipt of the | ministration which has persistently trampled upon files of the HERALD containing an account of the travels and adventures of the HERALD commis. sioner sent out in search of Dr. Livingstone in the wilds of Africa, The letters and comments speak for themselves, and 1 therefore give them without further reference :— THE ROYAL GEOORAPAICAL SOCIETY AND THE HERALD EXPEDITION. To THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TELEGRAPH:— Terence, or neglected popular sentiments and sympathies, and Which, by the resuits of the Black Sea Con- has shown how highly it esteems tue triumphs so ays won by the expenditure of ie" endurance, English lives and t Had Mr. Lowe Uvn of the Geographical Socie! ersistent display of English ‘acceded | to the applica. he woulu have per- formed an act whieh would have at once com- manded the national approval. All orders of Englishmen would have seen in it an appropriate tribute to consummate bravery, patience apd pluck, claim the utle of hero, had obtained at tne hands of S1kR—Enclosed is a copy ‘of the advertisement we | ®ud would have rejoiced that @ man who may fairly Paton oe the sesh any relating to oA mn our sociel rap! organizing = spatoh to Hast ‘Africa for the search and relief of Dr. | Livingstone. Judgiag from antecedents we believe you will take up the subject warmly, as being of Natiunal interest, and {, therefore, enclose for your use Urief statement of recent {acts regarding Liv- ingstone. I ought also to add, with reference to Mr. Stanley’s American expedition (the HERALD ex- pedition), of which you give an account. to-day, that we have subsequent news from our Consul at Zanzibar of calamities having befallen Mr. Stanley in September jast, through being involved in native disturban Which disposes us to think that he Will not reach Lake Tanganyika. Thus the ti mg expedition doesnot run much risk of being fore- stalled, Our jeader will probatly be an Bnglish officer of ability and experience in East Africa, but the choioe is not yet tully complete. I am, sir, ours sincerely, H. W. BATES, OYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SocigTy, No, 1 SAVILE Row, BURLINGTON GARDENS, W., Jan. 5, 1872, THE LIVINGSTONE SEARCH AND RELIEF EXPEDITION. The following 1s the advertisement alluded to above, from which it will be seen that the Royal Geographical Society, with commendabie alacrity, has at length, in view of the private enterprise of foreigners, become alive to the necessity of im- ‘meditate action to ald the great African explorer. ‘The advertisement reads:— ‘The Royal Geographical Socicty, having been identified for the last twenty years with the explo- rations of Dr, Livingsione in Southero and Eastern Altica, recognize it a8 a duty which they owe both to the great travel.er himself and to the public at large, to: make every effort to penetrate the datk- ness in which fis later movements and his present condition sre involved, and, if tong] to restore him to his anxious country. It is now two years and seven months since @ scrap of writing has Teacheu the coast irom Dr. Livingstone, ugh he 18 believed to be residing at the distance a Jew hundred miles in the interior. He may be de- tained in captivity, or he may be prostrated by sick- ness, the recent altempt (o convey supplies to him having tailed to produce any direct news from the tr ler nunself.. The suspense in which mis friends have veen kept with regard tu him has, on these ac- counts, become intolerable, and requires to be ter- minated at all costs and hazards. The Council of the Royat Geographical Society, therefore, having learned that @ lavorable opportunity unexpectedly occurs of communicating with Zarzivar by a steamer which is to saul direct for that island, via the Suez Canal, at the end of this month, intend to despatch an expedition by her if suflicient funds can be col- lected in time, and, if not, by the next opportu- nity. The expedition will have instiuctions to ed at once into the interior, aiter consuita- tion with Dr. Kirk, Her. Majesty’s Consul at Zanzi- bar, as 10 the precise route most advisable at the ume when it arrives, and to make its way to Lake ‘Yanganyika and ascertain an the spot the truvh or falsehood of the rumors -which have reachea the Coast with regard to Dr. Livingstone’s residence at Manyema, TI pen mt at Zanzibar will be instructed by Her Majesty’s government to ailord every assistance to the expedition; and, a3 ‘une party will be started in the most gflotent gyate, it ig hoped that the whole work may be accom: piusned and fn grees ewployed may re- urn to England Within thé year. The pubilc js in- vited‘to co-operate with the society in subsc.ibin; to the fund ior the Livingstone Search and Kelle! Expedition. Subscriptions will be received Messrs. Cocks, Biudulph & Co., bankers, 43 Charing Cross; Mesars. Coutts & Uo., Strand: - trand; Messrs. tom, Bouverie & Co,, No. 1 Pall Mall east, and the Accountant of the Society, No. 1 Saville row, W. Royal Geographical Society, £500, STATEMENT OF FACTS ABOUT DR. LIVINGSTONE, The London Telegraph gives the aunexed con- cerning the great traveller:— The fast latter received from Dr. Livingtone Js dated May 80, 1869, from Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika. in tne speaks of the unwillingness of the Arab Waders to take charge of his letiers to Zanzibar. He writes for fresh stares and men, and says that in the meantime he may explore the Manyema country and the lakes west o! Tanganyika. June, 1370, Her Majesty’s government granved £1,000 tu supnly fresh stores and meu to Livingstone—not by means of a reliet expedition sent from England, but by par- ties of natives sent by the Consul from Zanzibar to the interior. Que only of these native parties, with ® portion of the stores, bas succeeded in attaining @ point within reaci Of Livingstone at Manyema; but neither letters from Livingstone nor proof of the stores having reached him have reached Zanzibar, _ fhe native in charge of tue stores simply states that he had received a letter from Livingstone, dated Octover 15, 1870, which letter he has not transm lited to Zanzibar, lt is doubted, therefore, whether the travelier bas been provided with the means either of continuing his explorations or feturning to the coast; and it is probable he 1s detained against his will, and in @ position Irom which only ah expedi- tion such as is now proposed, headed by @ resolute — competent Europoan traveller, can extricate CONFERENCE OF SCIENTIFIC MEN. We understand, says the London 7eiegraph, that @ conference of scientific gentlemen interested in the safety of Dr. Livingstone and members of the Geographical Society was aunounced to take place on Monday afternoon, January 8,in London, The meeting wili decide what course the proposed Liy- ingstone expedition shall be instructed to pursue in order, in the best and quickest manner, to rescue the devoted traveller from his supposed present dangerous detention among the tribes on the bauks of the newly-discovered African lakes. The New YORK HERALD, in a recent issue, publishes the fole lowing letter, wnica may be taken jor what it is worth—which is perhaps not much, -considering ‘what shameless liars the uatives are:— {Here follows the letter of tne HERALD corre- spondent, dated Kwibara, district of Unyanyembe, duly 4, 1871,) 4 COMMENTS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE HERALD EXPEDITION, The London Zelegraph of January 6 thus refers to the matter:— We to-day Pid an appeal which the Royal Ge- ographical ciety has addressed to the English people ior pecuniary help in fitting out an expe. dition, to siart at the end of the month, In quest of Dr. Livingstone; and it so hay Ya that just at this moment We have reports of efforts to reach that in- trepid explorer whioh, If anything could, ought to stimulate all in whose power it lies to send their aid liberally and quickly. Englishmen must have read with strangely mingled teelings the account which we published yesterday of the New Yor MERALD’S expedition, That Secnarat party had ached @ point more than five hundred miles from anzibar, and ess than four hundred from fiji, where the chronicler of the expedition expected to find Dr. Livingstone; and the ee leave the searchers there about the middie of last year. Several uati had been met who de- Bcribed “a little, fat, old man, with a long white 7 a8 having encountered sundry adventures and accidents far .up country, as having been at Uji, or as hy crossed Lake Tanganyika, on which jace ig situated, gone towards another lake called ema, lying “fifteen camps from the in @ south-southwest direction,” and ‘on his way back to Ujiji, In tact, if we any woigte to fy Sp greg tel cal they oon! © im) Fosslon at Living. ope hed made that place kis jeadquarters and ne UPON & series Of excursions into the region pt ee ika- Of itself the journey to ant find an exit tor ema might suggest an attempt to waters great central latean of equatorial Africa in the direction of the the of the his country the meed of public hoor and acknowl. ment. Nay, we may even venture to say that by this single concession Mr. Lowe would have gone far towards correcting the intenge antipathy ‘Which the entire course of his policy has excited in athe national mind, and that the government of which Mr Lowe 18 @n important member in showing itsel: capable of appreciating a career and a character which have @ strong interest and charm for all of us, would have left on record at least one administrative exploit which the whole country would view with lear and undivided satisfaction, But with Mr. Vernon Rarcourt’s stings ing criticism on the expenditure of the Ministry, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has felt bouud to tudalye his instincts of misplaced parsimony, and has hence announced to the Geographical Society a decision which will be generally received with some- thing very like disgust. Englishmen cannot be biind.to the reasons which might well have infla- enced Mr, Lowe to arrive at a contrary determina tion, The national gain which accures to England from the labors and the explorations Of men like Livingstone 18 something more than purely moral, It 1s not merely that the spectacie of their un- @unted fortitude and theif indeiatigabie enterprise heightens everywhere the respect that Is elt for the English name; but there ts, sv to speak, & more dedluite and ble State task which they accom- plish, It is exploration which renders colonisation possible, and it is colonisation which has formed the corner stone of the imperial prestige of England. It is somewhat humiliating to Know that the con- siderations which bave weighed noting with England’s government have been recognized and acted upon in @ quarter in which exclusive regard 18 generally supposed to be paid to calculit- uuons of the most gossly material description, An American newspaper—tho NEw YoRK HERALD— resolved, it appears, some two years ago to send out @n expeuition of its own for the purpose of dis- covering the whereabouts of Livingstone. Onl; now has news from that expedition arrived, and such as it 1s, scanty as it must be, and not in- significant as are the reservations with which it must be Feoeived there seems to be a reasonable { round of hope uhat the reat, traveller still lives, ts joing well, nay, that ere long we may greet his re- turn to our own sores, ‘The correspondent of the New YORE HBRALD mentiona that he has already met two or three different natives who have seen Livingstone at a comparatively recent date. By one he was told that ‘the musunga (which appears to be. Centrat African for white wan) who tame up trom the Nayassa a long time ago visited Ujiji last year, and was then about to pi to Unuma,”’ ‘Which is higher rt By another that ‘the musunga has met with a accident, having shot bimsel in the thigh while out buffalo hunting, an that he 18 expected to return to Uji when he gets well,” All the accounts—and they ate, it must be remembered, periectly inde- pendent of each other—pomt to the anticipated arrival of Dr. Livingstone at Ujijt. One rumor in- deed states that Livingstone is dead, but there 13 no Treason to place any credence In it, and the burden of testimony, such as it is, is very greatly in favor of the specdy arrival of Livingstone ut fie town Already mentioned, Assuming, us we are justitied in assuming, that br. Livingstone is alive, it 1s un- doubted that he Js now kd the borders of great Laka capgenriks, and eXploring the mysteries Of those ighty waters. Ithas been all along the object of Livingstone to ascertain whether this lake 1s dis charged through the Nile into the Mediter- ranean, or beh the Congo into the Atlantic. Dr. Livingstone has always inciined to the tormer of these theories, aud he certainly will not return Ull ne has elther established or refuted it, Should the galiant traveller be correct in his conjecture, nd should, indeed, the Lake Tanganyika empty itself through the Great Albert N’Yanza into the sacred siream of pt, then Livingstone, pursuing the urack of his inquiries, will emerge into the world of African civilization after having pene- trated right through tne wild African Continent. It 18, We are disposed to think, most likely that when the New YORK HERALD correspondent arrives at Ujiji he will near that Livingstone has gone further north, and it is by no means improbable that Living. stone himself may join the expedition of Ismail Pacha sent out unver Sir Samuel Baker for ihe pure pose of annexing the whole valley of the Nile, in- cing its great lakes, to the Viceroyalty of Egypt. if Livingstone comes back to us With the tidings that the Lake Tanganyika mingles its waters with those of the Nile, then this river, having some six or seve handred miles adued to its ascertained course, Will surpass in length any stream in the worid, As tothe other results with which Living- stone may return—the knowledge of @ World that unknown—they are such “that the imagimation can- not forecast them, Belore the present years out the advent among us of the great African explorer may compel us to construct anew the map of that Vast Continent; and as we have said, there is enough to make us believe that the tale of 1872 will not have been -Loid beiore Liviagstone is present here to relate some of the Wonders that it has CY to light. .We wish the Geographicat Society all success in the labor that they we undertaking. The work will, indeed, invoive a very heavy expenditure; but lor such an enterprise Juads are not likely to be wanting. Private gen- erosity Will not deny what State. parsimony has re- fused, and the subscription list once opened will be rapidiy fillea. Two things we would urge upon those’ With wnom rests the main responsibility of organizing this expedition, In tno first piace, it 1s to be ho} that not a minute will be lost in equip- ing and sending it forth, In the second place, 1t is maispensadle that it should be of auequate strength, and abie to grapple successfully with any of tne dimculties which it may have to encounter. An ex- pedition that fell short in these respects would most certainly do more harm than good; for it woula ereate amongst the natives a notion of inferiority on tie part of England, and would go no small way toward imperilling the national pete the strong sense of which, even in Ceatral Airica, has already done so much toward protecting Livingstone fom mortal injury and outrage. The Sourge of tne ie ies Ghrenock, Scotland, Jan, 6, i872, To TH Ebitonr or rue HERALD:— Sin—Having read with much interest your re- ports from the Livingstone Expedition, I enclose you a cutting from a tocal paper, which you may find to be interesting in connection with the re- searches DOW belng carried out under - your auspices. * * * 40, L In view of the anticipated rety Dr. Livingstone, and the expected narrative ot his iscoveries, 1t may be interesting to note ihe fol- lowing extracts from an ancieat book in the Green- ock Library, entitied, “A Report onthe Kingdom of Congo, &c., drawn out of the discours and writings of Gdoardo Lopez, by Pilipo Vigaiete translated by Abraham Hartwell: London” 15747 An interesting and instructive task wili ve that ‘of making comparisons between the forincomin, revolations and those made almost three wundres years ago in reference to the same subject and tract ol country, and to ovserve how far the anticipations contained in the Doctor's letters of 30th May, 1569, goncar with prior discoveries. The extracts are but they are olemy, for he, that there are two lakes, “4 a gaie ge 4 yo, thane of you, places his paralieis from wi these are sitaated from the pa to the north, Were in a dfrect line, with the distance of about four huh miles between them. Some that inhabit these countries hold an opinion that the Nile, after it Is issued oni of the drat lake, hides ftself pacerercand and afterwarus rises again but others that itis so. Signor Odoardo justined t to th of the matter fs that the Nile doth nut bide ground, but rune through monstrone and desert valleys, without any settled channel, and where no belind live; and #0 they say it sinks into the bottom of the From this first Uakicy indeed, the ttle degree! vcard the Antrati Poly ‘vault wi exceeding bi mountali ire called Catates, upon the east, an mond, and th ‘True it is, 11 mtuated in plac as it bath id Bol Nitra- Jaatly with Jongo, and since the explorer 1d pot as easily other mountal River Nile Gescena that river as the N. tte hat tbe | Tune for the space of four hundred miles dire ‘solution lay that way, iia relat to ON ould brobe fie pambypes Hon ene into aruba: Test lane wich & ably ha be regarded as a sign Of failure. But, | conti in breadth and lies under the equinoctial line. as we inted, ey teed topographical details sarom thi eco pa Le as, Get mile inenouns cag habrealy | tetera eae ek nC tn teh da tu tory, fo ‘kingdom of Tok fo creaiyo-p formerly ‘ogreaty as or pafeag (hen toe Atsassue ervation, aud fhe sum of the searching parly’s results down Pevlare of a black complésion and flere. countenance, am they usually mark themselves above the livs twvon thelr Wiccan. ‘apes ve a custom cit oyclide ‘beckwarda "so that (be skin bern: shang the whites 088 in ir faces, frost ‘dreadfal and dovitih rageierenet, baat: mi deformed, and living like beeets ia tae Bold aad foosing upon man's flesh, and in battle they: are extremely cour: horrible. shouts and c, ageous and utter most ‘These Agagi dwell at the entrance of the river Nile, w runs aorthwards out of the lake, upon both the banks of the river, til it comes to» in limit wherein the: bounded, and then west all over the bank of the said Nile, even to the second -lake. Between the confines of the Moonemug! and Prester John, there are several other petty lords aud people that are of a white color and yield obedience somotimes tu one of these two princes, sometimes to the other, and they are men of a far greater stature. ATLANTIC CABLE TELEGRAPRY. Necessity of Greater Facilities and a Lower Tariff Between England and the United States, Ls (From the London Daily News, Jan. 6.] It is high time the interests of tne sence pablic were considered in connection with the telegraphic commuaication between this country and the United States, Greater facilities and a much lower tariff are sorely needed, There seems to be no valid rea- son for maintaiming the present rates for messages, and there is an enormous public on both sides of the Atlantic to whom the question isone of Gy a vital interest that we may expect an agitation for treuting the whole subject upon an imperial basis, Already there are portenis of what is sure tocome, An advertisement has appeared, inviting those imterested to consider the nety ol laying another submarine cable, and 4 been followed by a sort of warning (doubtless from some disinterested person) to une effect that no such pro- ject can pay, The truth is the period has arrived when the interests of the Britisn and American public must receive frst consideration, ‘The Atlantic cable has been taot- these 3 je has @n estabtished ve yours; the original shareholders in the venture of 1806 have hud the whole oi their capital back in dividends, and it sayors of anacbromsm and absurdity that our telegraphic communication between the two worlds should depend upon three lines of cable, one of which is constantly out of order, and another of which contains a flaw. Mr. Cyrus Field, the great advocate for Atlantic telegraphy, 1s now jn Kurope, and 1s busily engaged im laymg down the principles upon which the nations of the earth should agree to tight out their quarrels so far as \elegrapns are concerned. We venture to suggest to him another brauch of the sub- Ject. to which he nas given so much of his peculiar energy and talent, as one which may enuble him to add considerably to bis fame tor disimterestedness and public spirit, Let him advocate the laying of half @ dozen new Atiantic cables, aad the reduction Of the tariff from iour shiliings to sixpence a word, ‘The cost of sencing @ 10 eto America has been reduced within the last lew months. The different boards interested have doubtless conterred, ‘and meditated, and discussed, and nave finally, im the plenitude of their public spirit, determined on ad- Mnitung their fellow citizens and cousins to a closer participation in those national behefita which tele. graphic communication beyween England and America undoubtedly coniers. Accordingly, the taruf has been considerably reduced. ‘Little more than halt what it was about three months ago,’ re- marked the clerk In charge Of one of the buatest metropolitan telegraph stations yesterday, “for 10's ouly two pounds for ten words and four snillings tor every word additional, We charge every word, imoluding the addresses of . sender and the feceiver, $0 that gives on an aver- pounds, or six shillings and cightpeuce a word tor the first six and four shillings a word afterwards, It used to be, before this last Marche er three pounds for the ten words, incla ding the addresses, and six pounds for twenty words.” ‘This, then, is what five years of unbroken success has brought to Us. 1t1s doubtless true of Tirms in the habit of tele- raphing itequently, that a couple of words, or even fees may sudice for each address. But the men or ‘women Who have to telegraph in an emergency and who are as anxious to piace their identity and ad- dress 1or reply beyond the possivility of mistake, as to convey the message itself—how do they fair under the rule which charges for cvery word in each address and allows only ten words for torty shillings? ‘Thres parts of the assigned limit are, 1n many cases, absorbed without one word of mes- sage; and it sounds like a mockery upon the fine promises held ous to us that the blessings of inter- Dationat communication should be thus circum- scribed and curtatied, ‘Io outsiders it does not ap- pear that the working expenses of a submarine cable ought to be heavy; and those who have Watched the proveedings at recent shareholders’ meetings, will have remarked tnat in pos have the chairman and directors of some of the largest submarine lines been more consistently attacked than forthe heavy items revurned for expen: and for what a not uniniluential section of investors con- sider the neediess multiplication of boards of manage- ment, Time alter time we are told that these directors ale above all sordid considerations as to fees; and time after time does the pertinacious representa- Uve shareholder retort, “Then, why don’t you re- duce their amount and save our money, b; ae Mating under one management lines i with different sections and cumteregt naines, are pract- the tiuth ts, cally’ one? — But neither the share- holders nor the gefieral public Know much abou the commercial conditions which govera submarine telegrapny. That information in surpritiogly few hands. It is within the bounds of possibiiity that two pounds for ten words may be, as we make no doubt, the Atlantic Cable airectors mainvain it 1s, a fair and reasonable charge. It may be that they are right in upholding the system of many boards, with the same gentlemen or many of the same gentlemen sitting at each It requires special Knowledge to say why a-cabl which les quiely at the boitom of the sea, ant which can be worked by @ handiul of cierks at each ena of it—shoula absorb as large a sum for man- agement as would support a siud of horses, or pro- vide a goodly portion of railway plant; justas it ree quires speciai knowledge to account for the enor- mous sums sti.l cha: for messages between this country and America. What does it really costto make a cable? How much can one be laid tor’ ‘There have no doubt been many improvements in manufacture, and much and varied experience has been acquired gince 1866; and what it would be Teally satisfactory to know is, for how Uttle could the public be put in possession of as many cables as would make low prices a tnin: ot coursey Let existing rights be respectca by all means, but only so far as they do not clash wth that higher right which the two nations share, dnd which 18 being sacrificed every day that the present prohibitive tariff is permuted to continue unas- sailed, We Dave no doubt that excellent reasons may be advanced for maintaining things as they are—as excellent as were put iorward to demon- strate the impossibility of laying an Atiantic cabio at all, ‘The present tari! is not founda irk- some. There is enough Work at existing prices, and few complaints are heard. There 18 a proba- bility of the government stepping, in, and as all calculations for purchase will be based upon ip- come as well as cost 1t would be im the highest degree imexpedient to risk experiments im tari now. Ii ever the cables are handed over to the crown, some comprehensive scheme of the penny postage character Inay be devised and carried out, but for the present bo further concession can be made. Two pounds for ten words 1s little enougit in ali conscieuce, and it was against the advice of many men of sound Aodatient that the tariff has been made so low.” We seem to hear these things advanced py shareholders and directors with minds warned dividendwards, and admit, withopt hesita- uon, that muck may be urged in support of their view. Bu! this only proves the necessity for a full and unbiased inquiry before any bargain is struck between the government and the owners of the existing .cabies, The suvject 18 eminently one lor a committee, before which the evidence of yarious authorities should be taken, and by which @n approximate estimate oi the ‘cost of manulac- turing and la) pag mes Atlantic cables might be Tmade, it would interesting to have Mr. Cyrus Field’s opinion, for example, Bho the vast ana in- estumabie eighty to jollow upon the estan: ment ob Ee $9) Neation betw his country and eet its abi Setainy of . {ew tariff being in the end far more remunerative than abigh one. The hitch which arose between the American authorities and the concessionaires of os is vig and 18 apa Atlantic cable, though wag made ap In & great past owne: 1 fy Mactibate, whe we brtsatier be Reaild guarded against by some arrangement for reci- procity; and rew things would more fod len the reat body of merchants and others who telegraph tween England and the United States than the news that @ on digs A competition was impending, or that the crown had determined, aiter paying reasonable compensation, upon laying cables of its own. This is certam, thé past five years have not broaght England and America 1n{0 the close and constant communication which the people of the two countries had a right to expect; and we trust to hear of the whole subject being referred as suggested, soon alter the meeting of Parliameut, There mi be better routes than the existing ones. ere may be cheaper methods of making submarine canes, There may be advantages of transmission which have not been tried. In the face of the “two pounds for ten words,” the telegrapiimg and the reading public, eyery man or woman with a parent, a child or a friend, separated from them by the Atlantic, will look eagerly for improvement; and it’ 19 @ matter of comparatively small moment to them from what quarter It comes. But the subject 18 Of Mmperial importance, and ought to be lifted out of the region of ‘promouions, ‘premumns’’ and “royalties,” These have had their turn, and those with faith have not done badly. But England and America United have a right to ask for something more; and as any Capable people believe that messages might be flashed under the Atlantio Jor as many abilllt ~ they now poonem and be made to yield a = profit besides, itis not too much to ask that the whole ppestion should be mquired into and pro- oom Upon by competent and unimpeachabie a hority, Whose report suall determing and ve fol- lowed by detinite action, HUNTERS POINT BIBLE WAR. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The article in to-day’s HeRaLp, headed “The Hunter’s Point Bible War,” tg totally incorrect so far ‘a8 it relates to any distur! » day morning. ‘Tuere cry veo paniae sea tar sew age ated gt and sherman @s aay Debs aes im 1" W. HJ. BERG, Principal Hunver’ Saw Yous, 0a ieee unter's Pout School. age about six words of mes-age for the two | A CITY DISAPPEARED. The Destruction of Oran by Karthqueke— The City a Confused Heap of Ruins—Forty Distinct Shocks— Disappearance of the Whole Town in Ten Seconds—All the Tahabitants Houseless—Twe Persons Killed. ‘he Buenos Ayres Slandard of 30th Novembér gives farther intelligence than that reported by tel- egraph of the late disastrous earthquake at Salta. On the, 22d of October, at eleven o'clock P. M., when moat of the inhabitants of the doomed town of Oran had retired to their houses, the first shock was felt. The greatest terror at once prevatled, and tho people rushed madly into the streets; few had gone to bed, as for hours before a aull, rumbling noise had been heard in the distance, and all feared thas it portended some unusual catastrophe. Tho shocks continued at intervals for nearly nine hours, during which time forty distinct movements of the earth were felt. The pavement of the streets was split open—now here, now there—and the housed feil in confused heaps of ruins, There is only one death to record, that of Sr. Reyes, and some contu- sions to other persons. Most of the inhabitants rushed out to the camp after tho first shock and 60 saved their Kves, but the town of Oran may be con- sidered as totaly destroyed. ‘The following is the official despatch from the Lieutenant Governor to the government of Salta, announcing the dreadiul catastropne:— ORAN, Oct, 28-8 :80 P, M. Sin—I write in sorrow and alarm to request that you will intorm his Excellency the Governor of the Province that the town of Oran has disappeared, nothing remaining of it but ruins. The earthquake shocks commenced at eleven o'clock this morning, Jast night, and continued until eight o'clock ‘Thirty-eigut or forty shocks were felt in alland it is feared that more will follow. ‘The unfortunate inhabitants are on their knees impioring the mercy of ighty. ‘and injuries to not yet known Gratton Maye Bedtime yh atte naan Ce beneath them. "His ‘Excellency: the Goveraor munt excuse me not sending him a longer report, as lam busy aiding the sufferers, and nave only time for this short note. God pre- serve you. HILARION GARASCO. ‘To the Secretary-General of the Povinclal Government, P. §,—It is now known to a certainty that only one person has’ been killed, a son of the late Don Miguel Reyes, ai few others slightly injured, all the rest of tie inhabitants boing saved as if by a miracle, Private letters from Don Julio Aguirre to his father, of thesame date as Mr. Carasco’s, state that the whole town disap) in ten seconds, not a stone Temaining on a stone, The inhabitants were hud- died together without anything to shelter them from the burning rays of the sun, and apprehensive of fresh shocks every moment, There were two ersons killed, Don Aguirre had only left bis welling @ few seconds when it tumbled like a honse of cards. News has been received from Juy to the effect thap'the earthquake was felt there wi fearful violence, and that. a volcano has burst forth in eruption and It is feared that subterranean move- ments may be expected along the whole line of the Andes. ‘The people of Satta are making the noplest efforts to relieve the sufferers, Some coniusion seems to exist as to the where- abouts of the place at which this great calamity as taken place, occasioned chiefly by the town called Oran being situated in Jujuy, on the Bolivian border, and not in Salta, the province immediately south of it. Oran is, or rather was, a small place on the Vermeja, close to the borders of Bolivia, within which, indeed, it 18 placed by some authorities, the boundaries of tne South American repablics ee extremely unsettied. The cnief trade was wit! Bolivia, and the land about the town is beautifully latd out and watered. The chief produce 1s cocoa. CARE FOR THE AGED. Ladies of the Union Aid Society of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church-Anpnual Meeting Reports and Addresses. In the year 1860 @ few ladies, who felt the neces- sity for some systematic effort to care for aged and infirm female members of the Methodist Church, or- ganized a society under the style of the ‘Ladies’ Union Aid Society,” and hired and afterwards pur- chased @ small house in which they carea for a few helpless and:aged ones for more than six years. A donation: of two tots of land was then made,to the Soolety by Mr. Willlam S, Seaman, and the ladies purchased a third lot and bulit thereon, in 1857, the beautiful and convenient ‘Home’ in which they min- ister to the minds and bodjes of more than four- score aged Christians whose sands of life are nearly Tun, and who, ag they enter the valley and shadow of death are cheered by kindly words and sympathizing deeds, When the edifice was completed there re- mained on it a debt of $23,000, which in the suc- ceeding seven years was reduced to $8,000, and in 1864 this was completely wiped out through the per- severing efforts af ihe late Schaurman Halstead, and a balance of $2,000 romained, with which the “Home” was put in thorough repair. During the last four years the instituiton nas re- ceived from the State and city an annual,appropria- tion of $5,000, and for the two years preceding these $4,000 annually, The outcry raised last winter against SECTARIAN APPROPRIATIONS, BY THE LEGISLATURE and the municipality of New York has deterred the managers from asking such aid, <A plot of ground in Lexington avenue, which had been donated to the society, has not been either accepted or refused, because of the opposition made to its acceptance by the Preachers’ Association. The question of raising the necessary funds to carry on the good work of the society without asking for or receiving State or city aid was referred to that body some months ago. They appointed 8 committee to consult with the ladies aud to devise some plan of annual subscriptions, but nothing tangible has yet come from that com- muttee, The preachers deem it betver to let the ladies devise their own plans, and the ministers will then adopt and push it forward, Meantime the managers have to depend upon fairs and testivais und donation visits, together with a few anoual subscriptions for their funds. ‘These gatherings iast year were very successiul, and gave the ladies $9,456 27, which, with @ balance of $4,567 31 that remained in the treasury January 1, 1870, made a total of $14,023 68 From this sam was paid out for current expenses durimg the year $11,086 63, which left a balance tu the treasury at the beginning of the present year of $2,936 95. At the commencement of the last year there were 53 old ladies in the Home; 13 were received during the year and 9 died. Their ages ranged from 61 to 85 years respectively,and they hau enjoyed the hospitalities of the tmstitution jor periods ranging from four weeks lo Jourteen years. The average number of BENEFICIARIES IN THE “HOME"? all the year round Was eighty-tive, aud the actuai cost Of _maintaiving them in the tustitution was a iraction Jess than $2 57 per head per week. This includes not merely table expenses, but fuel ana light aud everything necessary ior their comiort, and, as the matron, Mrs. Adams, pitully remarked, she believed her family could not be boarded in the Astor House for any suchsum. The Pa of ex- twavagance cannot be laid at the door Uf this Home for tie aged. The younger members of the Board of Managers have organized a Reading Committee, which at stated times visit the inmates and read and sing to them, and strive to brighten and cheer the waning hours of life. They ask for donations of hooks and Magazines forthe library. The house physician, Dr. Fetter, reported that (he heaith of the inmates ott ome Was remarkably good; but to avoid the contagion of s#malipox he had vaccinated the enti family. The building 1s always clean, well veati- lated and comfortal I, heated, and, in his opinion, everything is done for the care and comiort of the aged. that can be doue by the worthy matron. Three managers—Mra. Betty, Mra. William B, Gorning nq Mrs, John Crouch—died during tue fear. All these facts appeared in the seVeral reports whi ere read Rtg! at the TWENTY-F1) INUAL MEBTING OF THE SOCIETY, at which ir J. ©, Nortl presided. A choir of young friends present sang very sweetly several pieces appropriate jor the in their outlook towards heaven, and interesting remarks and ad- dresses were made by the chairman and Rev. J, & Willis and Rev. Mr. Asien. Mr. North expressed bis deep interest in the progress of the institution, which has now attained 1ts majority, and said that the first $5 he ever gave away was to the Five Points Mission and the first $100 was to the “Oid Ladies’ Home.”’ He referred to the gratification which the Managers to-day must have witnin them- selves as they review the progress of the institution for twenty-one years, and think of the many weary Jeet which used to tread its halis, but which now tread the golden streets above, Mr. Willis spoke avout the retroactive and reactive Influences of be- evolence, by which they who do good to others receive good themselves, Mr, Asten’s remarks were equally pape and after a few words from otner fricuds present and the election of officers the society adjourned, F FATAL AFFRAY IN A LAGER BEER SALOON. Information reached Coroner Herrman yesterday morning at the City Hall that Victor Ciemens, a German, twenty-six years of age, had died in Belle- vue Hospital from the effects of violence. Oh tne night of the 80th ult, deceased, with @ iriend or two, was in the lager beer saloon 824 East Twenty- eighth street, and while there @ difficulty oc curred with three or four other men who en- tered the place, one of whom, it is alleged, struck Clemens on the head with @ lager beer glass, thus causing fracture of the skull or a jon of the brain, altin h evidences of such @ result did not immediat ap) » . The jolence and e man Charged with inficting the fatal vi two in his company were arrested soon ai occurrence, ana liberated on ball by the magistrate fore Whom they were bitpoen Deceased w: pabwonuently removed to the hospital, ‘and died as fey tro oat tle pS ath a tod yy the Trenty-aret precinct sault, were arrest police and held to await the result of Coroner Herr- inquisition. iCHISELHURBST. A New Year Luneheon at Camden House. NAPOLEON AND EUGENIE. All the Money Required Can Be Raised in tke United States. THE EMPEROR'S OPINION OF AMERICANS, Sentiment in St. Petersburg and Berlin. LITTLE LOUIS. Gareral Review of the Situa- tion in France. . CHISELHURST, Jan, 1, 1872, “A large and distinguisned party,’ asa profes- sional reporter would say, assembled this morpiag, at eleven A,M.,, in the dining room of Camden House, to partake, after having paid the usual New Year compliments to tne ex-imperial couple, of a sub- stantial if not a very recherché luncheon. The party numbered thirty persons altogether, and the chief figures of the festival were the ex-Empress, just returned from Spam, the Duchess of Mouchy (anna Murat), just arrived to welcome her imperial mistress, and @ pheasant-and-tramies pie just sent over from Windsor with Queen Victoria’s best “compliments of the seagon;’? while Alde-de-Camp General Pajol, just returned from a Bonapartist- political tour to Germany and Ruasia, concentrated in bimgself the political interest of the occasion. 4 THE LUNCHEON was on the whole the first merry entertainment that ever took place in Camden House since that country seat became the world-famous flace it is now, THE IMPERIAL COUPLE. The Emperor is more tender toward his wife than he ever was. A separation of aconple of months seems to have made him forget the unpleasant sides of her temper, and during the whole morning he was looking at her with the eyes of al- most a@ young man fresh from the wedding cere- mony, asking several of his guests whether they did not find that the Empress has remarkably changed for the better. Of course, the answer was invaria- bly in the aMirmative though every one of those present could not fail seeing that Her ex-Majesty re- turned much stouter, much older and with a much greater quantity of gray hair to be noticed on her head, notwithstanding all the pains she takes to dye them into the color. of their past years, As. regards her disposition, however, she seems to have decidedly gained, though she avowed to her friend = ‘‘Anna” (Duchess of Mouchy) that it was with something very near disgust that she came back again to “this dull Chiselnurst.” Still, at the luncheon at least, the Empress seemed quite jolly and turned cross against her husband only once, consequent on his trying to know too much of what the Empress had been doing at her mother’s, It would seom that, Her Majesty does not care much about giving “full particulars” of her sojourn in Spain, and that the husband, having now no courtiers or secret police to report on such; matters, is constantly trying to pump his information out of the Empreas herself by inducing her to speak of the friends she saw and the pleasures she enjoyed, So it was (uring the lunch, too. The Emperor, speaking..of the enjoy- ment of, her health, made her some question of par- ticulara, which the Empress rebuked by a brief, “I told you already that I have en général very much enjoyed myseli.” ‘The inquisitive nusoand was thus at once cut down, and every one, including him- self, speedily passed to the appreciation of the quall- ties of QUEEN VICTORIA'S PIR, and @ very goou and very large pie it was, Every one ate @ big plece of it; but every one did his best, too, to make little jokes at tne respectable and do- mesticated old lady who sent it. Tne general im- Pression seems to have been that @ pie, however excellent, was not exactly a thing to be madea present of bya Queen to an Empress om a New Year’s Day combined with a happy returo from a long journey. Some lengthy comments were made, by-the-py, on the custom prevailing in England of making presents of eatables and drinks, while the volatile Princess Anna amused herself by picking out tramMes and giving each of them a surname of those of the members of Queen Victoria’s faroily ana household who, according to her supposition, were engaged in the peeling of the truffies and 1a the general preparation of the ple, Stil more hilarity was exctted by two vourriches (or band baskets) of GAME, elaborately adorned with fresh camelias and roses, and sent in by some imperialist milord of the neighborhvod. The baskets were exhibited in the dining room as a curious specimen of that strange taste that makes @ nation decorate dead animals with living flowers and bright, variegated ribbons. All the wit and laughter did not make Napoleon | himself, however, eat in any way more than usual. He was always reputed to be a very small eater, and this morning he added only by courtesy a | small piece of tne pie to his usual two bolied eggs. LUNCHEON OVER. The luncheon being over the whole company went to the petic salon to sip their coffee, and ail sorts of subjects began then to be treated alter- nately. Princess Anna having found something wrong with one of the Empresa earrings (the weil known diamanis noirs), began to adjust it, and the talk naturally went about jewelry, the Empress confessing her great regret that Countess «le Clary bad included in the stock ol ner jewelry that was sold & short time ago THE MAGNIFICENT SAPPHIRES presented to her by the sultan. Tne siones were of sorare a nature that Her wajesty wishing @ lew years ago some trifling audition to the payure could nowhere find a stone to match, and was compelled to oruer a false one, The set having been sold the mpress Now lamented avout it, and the enamoured usvand at once oilered to buy we parure back again if she wished it. m , NAPOLEQN’S COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS. He said it Would be Very éaay to nim, for a British amateur of curiosity offered him 15,006,000 francs for his collection of autographs, which he would at once Gispose off should the Empress realiy wish to have her sapphires back. The great vaiue of the cele~ brated Napoleon collection of autographs, wnich in- cludes the rarest specimens of writing, incluaing a letter of Chrisiopner Columbus, is only too weil known, But I leave it to you to judge whether sucn an offer could really have been made, or whether the Emperor attempted by telling the story to make @ bit of aiter}uncneon fun at the extravagance of Englishmen. MONEY TALK having always the tendency to run on, some more conversation about financial matters 'took piace, and caused the Emperor to make the statement that at the present moment he had, together wit his wife, 48 @ matter of quite secave income, 800,000 francs @ year; while the Prince Imperial had @ fortune of 22,000,000 franca, invested 10 several Ways and at variousra‘es of interest. Some further remarks were made by His ex-Majesty conceruing Lie conenaa proposals of money that are made to THE OFFER OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. It would appear that an American citizen had Proposed to tue Emperor a country residence on ihe eage of London, bat the Emperor had declined the Oller on account of bis not wishing to accept a ‘present irom a gentleman belonging to another na- Uonality, and to whom he, therefore, would never be abie to repay the courtesy. «“] should have been Fx to take the lease of it,” added Napoleon, ‘but had already made my arrangements for Camden House.” He spoke also (this not quite go loudly, and addressing ouly those who were seated more Closely to Lita) of A MONEY PROPOSAL to the amount of 40,000,000 francs that had been made to him by a party of bankers, chiedy American citie zens—in offer that has been also declined ‘for the me As the di tion of the whole com- pany was rather @ lively one, some one ventured to remark that the Emperor, in Fopeang, that, may have refused “Un aus pour avoir un dew.” The pate smnilea Of th Farm — oa tN may ni untrue nolo, ure that if ine time fhould come wheh he would really want money he had mo doubt he would get ten times that amount ' America, With tue citi- Zenp of Which country he bad aiways and Bopet be ‘Would aiways preserve the best relauions. NAPOLEON'S OPINION OF AMERLOANS. to recapitulate the mot on th ‘always met on the part of tbe courtiers aud the pubitc om the subject ote ms inviting § “‘cotlon =m to vhe Court. Hesaid-he was-the man at the Tutleries who did not care about tities which he was himself bestowing, and that he knew that the numerous Americans who enjoyed his hospitality did well remeuber it. -*They are a “madre sort of aig i wanes bp eal oe a they come to you with some sort.of proposal or offer they are sure to ask you, by the way, tor say only for a line, which may serve them on some future occasion, But, nevertheless, on the whole I think they ae the best peo ie om my with, and Fe sure they are those lor my Own par’ CONGRATULATIONS. ‘The new year, a3 a Matter of courge, brought ot only hundreds of congratula' let to Uhisel- hurst, but @ good many visitors, whose “mere sence caused a considerable increase of poli a0 lvity, and this ime of @ very curlous—1 shoud almost say important—characters, But letter dy too long to speak to-day of wave ‘ in thls peanenee You shall hear of it to-morrow, —— New Year’s Day at Chiselhurst—The Empe, ror’s View of tho Situation—News from St. Petersburg and Berlin=Little Loute-Hiter ‘ Progress in Knowledge and Other Things. CuIsELBURST, Jan. 2, 1872 Giving you yesterday a description of our New Year’s luncheon, 1 told you that the most tnterest~ ing figure among the guests was, politically speak- ing, General Alde-de-Camp Pajol, who has recentiy returned from a long journey to Russia and Ger- many. The General was always a favorite of the ex-Emperor, though ie never had any particularly important command, He was -at the beginning of the war a géndrat de-division avtached to the person of the Emperor, and J saw him at Metz wiumphantly arrivingat she Préfécture, triumphantly going to the “baptism of fire” gt Suarbrioken, qud-timtay dying, few days later, to Pont-&-Mousson, on @ dark and rainy evening, in the-suite of his master. The Gen- eral is now on the, reserve list, and, therefore, at leisure to undertake any Continental tour’ hd likes. He seems to have been directed to take advantage of this letsure and pay some incognito visita tothe Emperor Alexander and Prince Bismarck, with a view to investigate tne state of feelings and thoughts with reference. to the eventuailty of a restoration of his master, GOOD NEWS FROM RUSSIA. What were the exact answers he brought haa not yet completely transpired; but it begins to transpire, at least partly. Thus, for in- stance, if the General does rot speak oC »what: the Emperor ot Russia told him, he sald quite openly during the lunch that the heir-apparent of the Russian throne distinctly expressed himself ‘in the sense that, whatever may be the policy of ‘his father, he will alwazs consider it. to’ be Russia's im terest to support France and. to restore her Rhine frontiers, provided France gives up the policy #& pursued towards Russia at tne outbreak of thd Crimean war. If the General had the satisfaction of thus bringing, at least partly, gool news from Russia, he owas that he had something much lesa pleasant to listen to at Berlin. BAD NEWS FROM GERMANY. He did not say whether Prince Bismarck was or ‘Was not in favor of 'a Bonapartist restoration, bus whatseems to be quite certain Is that the Chancellor 1s greatly displeased with the present state of afaira in France. In analyzing the possible issues of home politics of that country, he drew a very ‘gloomy picture indeed, and said that it Frenchmen would persist jn creating havoc at home and thereby Jessen the chance of European tranquility as weil as thé security for the payment of their debts, he would not only extend the occupation: of their. territory, but take advantage of the first. opportunity, of a collision, cut away the whole of the border land to the line of the Sane, give back to Victor Emmanuel Savoy and Nice ana constitute France ® * Jederative republic as tae Communists. ‘wished: (tte “They will then be able to cut each others, shroat as much as they please,’ satd the Uhancellor, “and without troubling anyone outside.” The declara- tion of the General did not seem, however, to trouble elther the inhabitants or the guests) of Camden House. HOW THE EMPEROR FEELS ON THE-SUBJECT, In fact, the Emperor seems to be more convinced of his. return than ever, and apparently thinks that, before doing what he says he will do, Prince sis- marck will furnish him every facility for a return, And thts is by no means unlikely. The dread of federalism and republics 18 too great 1n Germany, England and Russia to admit the idea that Prince Bismarck will be allowed to create so big a federat- ive republic as France would be, even without Savoy, Nice and that part of the Burgandy vine- yards of the products of which the German Onan- cellor is so fond. The governments of . THS THREE GREAT MONARCHIES know that at present the republic in France is no republic. It isa monarchy of the best stamp, only without @ king. Censors, police, passports, ‘mill- tary executions—everything that is implied by the word monarchy flourishes in France as well as'can be wished for, and’ a republic of this sort 1s will- ingly tolerated; but mo othersort wil) be allowea, and the Chancellor, however successfal be might prove, will, nevertheless, be stopped if he goes a single step beyond M. Thiers, or a monardiy with the Bourvons or one with the Bonaparies, Now, the ANTIPATRY OF BISMARCK TO THE BOURBONS, senior as well as junior, 1s only too well known. Besides, they do not offer any security whatéevér, either for the preservation of peace and order or for the payment of the indemnity. Iv is, therefore, clear that the Chancellor’s oniy way 1s to support M. Thiers as long ashe can, and when the old nig- torian dies or finds himself thrown out of the Presi- denual Chair, to push iorward eitner the old or the oung Chiselhurst refugee. Napoleou’s own view s clearly stated iu the tollowing sentence, twice re peated On New Years’ Day “| GIVE M. THIERS ANOTHER THREE MONTHS, By thattime Gambetta will haye taken his piace, Of unis T am pertectly sare, and this 1 consider to be the best thing that can happen as far as we are concerned,” ow, You must kaow Dy, felegraph. that Gambetta has already reappeared in the South ; that’ he is to go'‘in & few days to Bordeaux, and by the time this Jewer reaches you yuu will know how . far the oj Chiscihurat politician was right im his anticipations, All I can atid here o: my part is that ail forms Of Paristan politica: theories are gaimmg considerable ground in the southern departments of France, and that new members Of the Juternational Society are dally recruited tiere in large numbers, aA ans LEADING INTERNATION ALIOTS of London ana 9; » Indeed, sworn enemies ot | Gambetta, AeA: & me has 88 ot hel récruits still @ great prestige, and should the term appointed by Napoleon turn out to be correct the central au- thorities of the International will Cand have time to inculcate into the heads of their new fellow mem. bers that Gambetta aud socialism have nothing in common, aud that, therefore, he is not a man fit to be President of a repubuque dénocratique el sociale, So that he has atau chance of getlmg again at a dictatorship 1f M. Thiers aces not fud some means for locking bim up be/ore he has vecome danger- ous, pike SNES eter Ft _ NAPOLEON'S COMMUNICATIONS WITH BISMAR wandahe le more than one way. Thus, for Tnneaitoe, he loretoid a long time ago that the Chancellor in- tended giving up the Frencu ianguage in diplo- mauc correspondence, as he has done, And the ex- imperial father, who has been lately particularly anxious about Louis’ learning the German tongue, seemed quite proud thaton the day the news of Bismarck’s decision on that subject reached Lon- don his son was able finently to talk German with those who knew it among the guests. ‘there were but few persons present who were able to. speak. that langue barovare, but ail Who could do 80 were asked to give a trial to the boy, it must be sata, by the by, that the YOUNG LOUIS looks as if he were to be a very invelilgent sort of Youth, At all events, he Is very mucn so for his age (now nearly sixteen), makes remarkable pi in everything he studies, aud poring. the absence of his mother wrote her constantly in Spanish and English, notwithstanding ner m- digerent knowledge 01 the latter, Sut the mother offered him thus a sort of exercise. The only thing a stranger may consiier It rather early for Loals ta make progress ‘in 1s the manner in whet he some- times looks at and speaks Lo ladies, especially to la chere Duchesse Anna; but then she Js such @ great friend of mamma, THE EMPRESS’ VISIT TO SPAIN, By the way, 1 think 1 have jorgotten to tell you that the Empress’ voyage to Spain turns out to nave had some additional motive to those of mere pieasure, change of air aud the setuement of money Matters with her mother aod a couple of Spanish baukers. The Empress had to give an account or the fortune of the two Duchesses d’Aine, her nieces, to whom she had been appointed trustee at the time of the death of her sister. Ine Empress settled that business to the general satisiaction of all those Concerned; but les méchantes langues whisper someting about inis having been d not without # disbursement on the part of the Pind enamored husband, At ail events it is known that the bankers, Devaux & Co., placed In the hands of ror, in the beginning of December, some- thing = seventy milion francs, raised (rom various sources, and of that amount a great deal seems Lo have been spent up to New Year's Day— ‘that ts to say, in barely @ month's time. Those wha an not very iond of the Empress say she took muoh ime to settle the aforesaid accounts, while het arty ways that the money has been lavishly and Toousnly thrown: Ua iruliless intrigues,