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EUROPE. The Zorrilla Ministry Remodelling the Government of Amadeus. POLITICAL EVILS OF SPANISH LIFE Continuation of the Labors of ihe Interna- tional Prison Congress, CRIINALS OF VARIOUS DEGREZS, The Fete Day of Sultan Abdul Aziz in Constantinople. eamethas wie ee TRAVELS IN IRELAND. ‘The following interesting budget of European news ls gleaned from late mails of the HeBaup cor- vespondents in some of the principal capitals abroad. SPAIN. BAS Ln AS ose ae Bhe Radical Ministry Remodelling the Government, and the King More Firm- ly Seated Upon the Thronc—Political Evils of Spanish Life—Thirty Thousand OMce-holders Turned into tho Streets— The United States and Cuba, Mapnip, June 22, 1872, The crisis here has degenerated into a calm. His- tory may be brewing, but there is none to record. Amadeus has ridden the storm and sits upon the throne stronger than ever. Madrid has settled into Placid ways again, and the new Ministry is busy with “the work of reform.’’ The weather may have something to do with this universal and unusual peace, for we have now entered the season which the Jocal proverb says reminds you of Tophet. I can well understand the force of the Mlustration, We have the wide, pitiless sky, without a cloud, the blueness intensified and clarified by the thin, rarifled air; the builiings mainly of a whitish gray, which dazzles the eye; the sea so far off that no tempering winds come to break the fury of the sun, and tie suowy ranges of the Guadaramas as helpless as though they were pictured mountains bordering a stony and pic- tured plain. Our days here are days of silence and seclusion. In the early morning Madrid hurrtes to inevitable business and desires; towards noon slops close, travel suspends, labor is arrested, and from thence until the eventide the capital scethes and bakes under the blazing sun. In the coo! evening the city pours forfh to the Prado, with its foun- tains, the gardens on the Paseo des Recollestos, the Buen Retiro and the two or three square miles of greenery which Charles III, under half a dozen names, set apart for Madrid, and in which the city, from King to peasant, on foot or horseback, in eqnipages with gorgeous livery, in donkey tarts, where the children climb and prat- tle aud shout, turns night into o carnival. The grave, sober citizen slowly paces, and as he smokes the inefiicient cigarette discourses crown and country with his neighbor. Madame trips at his side, ample and inviting, and {fully decorated, and all the fire of the South bgrning in wide black eyes, and just beyond children romp and Swing, or cling with satisfied wonder to the bosoms of the nurses, who minister to their wants In the open air, and gossip with Andalagian comrades similarly employed. You could scarcely fancy a more quiet city. As to the revolution which was In the air yesterday, there is no more sign of it than in New York. But in Spain no man to-day ran tell, or can even fancy, what to-morrow will bring. WHAT THR KING'S FATHER ADVISED TIM TO DO. It is now published that last week, in the heart pf the crisis which I described to you, ‘thg courage of the young King failed him. You will remember that the occasion of it was a demand upon the part of Serrano that he and his Ministry should have power to suspend the constitution and all the guarantecs of law and order, and that Serrano should take upon hinselfa virtual dictatorship. Serrano had returned from the Carlist wars, not with too much glory, and had been put at the head of a ministry whieh had been disgraced by the manwuvres or Minister Sagasta with the public funds, When Serrano, therefore, asked for these extreine powers, having behind him @ majority of the Cort the King was troubled. He had alienated the raficals, to whom he owed his crown—had sent Zorrilla, the leader of the party, into a retirement which was simply @ pretude to insurrection, and had practi- cally iorced the radicals to become the ailies of tie republicans and the enemies of his dynasty, All that remained was a miuistry he could not trust, and which might even then be in the pay of the Isabella people and Montpensier, and a Cortes that had no hold upon Spain, Before him was Spain a3 tt came to him from the revoiution. Any view of the crisis seemed to be abdication, with ‘even worse than abdication—civil war, and perhaps he himself called to answer to Spain for the war, after the manner of Charles L, Louis XVI. and Maximilian, It wasa provlem which seemed to have an inevitable solution, and in his perplex- ity Amadeus sent a trusty friend to his fatuer, the King of Italy, tor advice. Would he accept the counsel of Scrrano and put himself in the hands of @ powerful and distrusted party, or remain true to his oath and trust the people and recall the radicals whom he had driven away? The answer of the old King Victor Emmanuel 1s said to have been that the traditions of the House of Savoy recoznized the law as the master of the Crown; that Amadeus had sworn an oath and must keep it, and to com- mit perjary upon no account whatever, If he cond not reign according to the conditions upon which he accepted the crown, then let biin retarn home as plain Duke of Aosta, Whether he wore the crown or not, he shoud be worthy of his dynasty. Whether this advice really came from Rome or not, it is certainly the course waich the King adopted, and will do him great honor whether he succeeds in establishing his dynasty or not. REMODELLING THE GOVERNMENT. ‘The process of remodelling the government con- tinnes. Zorrillais busy at the work of “taking ofiice.” And to give an idca of what “a change in the ministry” means in this strange old coun- try, and why so much emotion {s occasioned by an event like that of the retirement of Serrano, you must remember that in Madrid alone there are thirty thousand office-holders, and that when a iministry falls these men, “qli with it. What you sce pa eriga every fqnr yyards sometimes pot for eight years, is séen her? toa larger extent when- ever a ministry pheneee, ere have been seven ‘changes of ministry in less than two years, While in America there is some limit to the power of removal, and a poving public opinion continues to impose additional Hmitations, in Spaiu the changes are thorou; Tn the first place the arm. fa “reorganized.” Every general in command is retired upon half iy, OF upon what we cail “waiting ordors.” Every ofliecr above a certain rank {3 retired. These officers are sup- posed to have political sympathics and aMiiations unfriendly to the new Ministry and are put out of the way of mischief. Then come the governors of the provinces, who, also, are all removed. Then goime the statls of the different bureaus and depart- ry , All are swept Bvay) moniottTaee pines the porters wc “lt at the gates. ‘This ex. treme refinement of power, however, was frst used by Sagasta. As ]t is, whend Mipistry tall Madrid learns that employed cluzeny, wiih Families, aro suddenly thrown ay or As ay oY read earning. who want cuiplo: Mt Be the trail of the new Ministers, Ube i aT fined stories of the diligence with which these new Minis- ters are followed by office seekers; how they are compelicd to go in hiding, to deny themsclvés, to take their meals in the seciusion of thelr depart- ments, and steal home like thieves in the night; to avoid the theatre, their clubs, and even that much soved cyening stroll on the Prado, which 1s the iden hour in each Spaniard's daily existence. is 1s the first penalty of honor to the newly honored gentlemen in Spain. It is bad enough tn America, but this renowned and venerable ‘Kin 7 dom exhibits a proficiency which the young repu! lic has not achieved, The men whogo out of wer, the thirty thousand, many of whom will not know this month where to find the bread they earned so comfortably last month, have noth! to do but to swarm around the caiéa and imbibe the cheap and abundant tippies peculiar to Spain and become conspirators, THE POL 1. AND SOCIAL BVILS OF SPAIN, “Taking office’ 8, therefore, the employment of the new Ministry. The King has suspended the vortes. It wiil remain in suspension until the changes in the government are perfected. What is taking place ja Madrid may be seen in every part of the Kingdom. And in this you have the prime evil of Spanish politics. What can you do with a nation whieh recognizes oMccholders dnd bandits a8 estab- lished classes—‘‘political evils,” perhaps something Uke what we call “socal evils’—but classes that exist without any apjurent industry. No Spanish gen- Weman will work. No Spanish gentioman will de- cline to hold office, So when he cannot hold ggice Congre: | would, before its separation, direst its attention to ie turesyue country iting. the most Bur ope, yearning for industry and energy, em! ing the resources of bandoned to an empire, and bandits and begzars eg ahnost hold and priests. All good men believ.din the revolution. It was a blessing to Spain, and hath io its womb, we trust, other blessings to come. it it is hard to believe that a revolution went below the surface which failed to distu:b the existing conditions of society. ‘The extle of Isabella was meiely one fam- ily less, The revolution brought an Italian Jnaaily in her place. As for the country, stands where ft did. The same pride, the same ig- norance, the same absolute contentment with igno- rance, 2 people dependent won the State, and all industries immersed and covered ag with Dead Sea slime by the desire for ofice. This is what we see here, and, over all, @ young man presiding—a young veh oh pty bY. a" ould make a good captain ‘OOns, an “services are worth” a million and a half dollars a year, "~~ i SPAIN 4 Pay ‘BR yown an 1 8 & consequence, therefor i Many re- spects a pauper Power. he rake her mational duties by constafit appeals to the forbearance of other nations. She owes England a sum of money ald to certain bandits to release English citizens rom capture and death. But she has no idea of pay’ ing it, and all that ngland = can gbtafn ts if Fie of iplomatic notes promising itten Matter. She drives commerce from her porta by the most absurd and wicked quaranting laws. Her customs reculations would fill Mr. Grevley’s soul with ex- juisite joy, for they almost debar the adi ‘on of foreign goods. very ntation that is made—repregentations from Ministers individually and Ministers in a body—the only replies are elabo- rate requests for time and ent les to consider the situation of Spain, her domestic complications and necessities, and appeals for patience. So this proud, pauper Power stands in the path of progress and civilization, too indolent to move on, and when you press her to her du leading her indolence and incapacity as her ouly excuse. SPAIN’S TREATMENT OF CUBA. Take asa ai age and homelike ifustration the case of Cuba. The treatment which the United States have received from Spatn on the questions arising out of the insurrection ia incredible. If any English Ministry had submitte to what” our vernmeut hag submitted it would not have lasted a ny Ever since the rebellion in that teland began Spain has prac- tically rerarded the United States asin a state of siege, The administration, following out the cus- toms of England and of Franco, and regardini Spain asacountry in distress and to be treate With courtesy au tience, has submitted to indig- nity, slight, impatience, violation of treaties and laws end of all public comity. ‘The rulers of Spain have pleaded the nation’s weaknessand domestic embarrassments as an excuse. But tothe people and the press, who see no weakness and believe in no embarrassmente, the conviction is general that the United States are afraid of Spain, and that, under thus Foaling of terror, we permit the govern- ment to do with Cuba as it pleases. This, however, opens oR a subject that would carry me beyond all reasonable scope. In dealing with the Houerd case our government has shown & proper sense of its dignity and its resolution to have ,ustice. And I think I am not saying too much when tees that the case of Houard is but the first chapter of & Lew policy with Spain; that we have lost patience wirh the course of the Spanish government, and that President Grant means to have a definite and responsible acttlement, ‘This is what I meant when I said that Grant meant to tight one battle of his Presidential campaign in Madrid. ENGLAND. E SOE TS Fifth and Sixth Day’s Session of the Inter= national Prison Congress=-Treatment of Dischargea Prisoners=Criminal Capit- alists—Corporal Punisument—Imprison= ment—Prisoners Before Conviction—In- dastrial Schools for Children—The Grand Soiree of the Philanthropists at the Middlc Temple Hall. Lonpoy, July 11, 1872. On Tuesday the fifth meeting of the Congress was held in the hall of the Middle Temple, Mr. Daniel Haines (New Jersey) inthe chair, Before the regu- lar business of the day was proceeded with Dr. Wines read a series of twenty-five propositions, which he laid before the Executive Committee, and which he desired to lay before the Congress, not for discussion, but for the opinions of the members, These propositions were to be referred back to the Executive Committee, who would take such action upon them as they deemed best. The propositions were to be printed and circulated among the mem- bers, AID TO DISCHARGED PRISONERS. Mr. Murray Browne then opened the regular busi- ness of the day by reading a paper on “‘What is the Best Modeof Giving Aid to Discharged Prisoners ?”” There were thirty-four Prisoners’ Aid Socteties in this country, and the total number of prisoners who were yearly aided by them was about five thousand five hundred. These associations were voluntary, but they were recog- nized by the State and received aid from public fands. The boys on leaving prison were sent to sca, or employment found for them in the neighborhood of their homes. Emigration was not resorted to as a means of aiding dis- charged prisoners on account of its expense. With regard to female prisoners he thought it necessary to place them in a refuge for some time in the first instance. Mr. A. M, PowELL (New York) was of opinion that it was necessary to find co-operative employ- ment for prisoners on their discharge, if they were to be kept from relapsing into crime. Mr. ALINGE (Saxony) said that prisoners’ aid societies had been founded by King Jobn in Sax- ony; they were worked by ladies and gentleman, aud were productive of much good. M. RoBIN FRANKE wished to convey to the Con- gress the sympathy of the French Protestant Synod now fitting in Paris. He considered that moral in- struction and industrial training should be made the bagis of reformation, and that the training should commence in prison. ip GUILLAUME (Switzerland) expressed a similar view. Mr. RANKEN, Honorary Secretary to the Dis- charged Prisoners’ Aid Society, said that his society had, since its foundation in 1857, aided 7,111 pris- oners, of whom 6,528 were males and 623 females, (Hear.) They had received good accounts f.om the aided prisoners, espectally from the females. The good, they did had been recognized by Captain ane, THE REHABILITATION OF DISCHARGED PRISONERS. The next question dealt with by the Congress was:—“What are the best means of securing the rehabilitation of discharged prisoners?” This ques- tion was raised by M. STEVENS (Belgium), who stated that, in his opinion, rehabilitation must be moral and legal. In the prisons of Pelginm instruc- tion was given to prisoners by clerzymen of the same religion as the prisoner, which he believed was not the case in England. When prisoners were discharged they should be entirely free’ from the supervision of the panes. In dealing with persons out of prisons wi i jonld deal with. their own sex and females with theirs, Mr. Hastixas remarked that Roman Catholic tae were no longer obliged to receive the re- Nuke instraction of Protestant clergymen or none ab all. Sir J. PAKINoTON, M. P., observed that the law of England was at present py bal but there was a bill before Parliament for making it obligatory to sppeine Roman Catholic chaplains to prisons. That bill had } sees the House of Lords, 1 when it Ce bag fore the House of Commons he should sup- out Its if Sir W. Crorron sald that alter sixtcen years* ex- pearance of police supervision in freland he never found it to operate may, He never found it to operate to the prejudice of the prisoner, Mrs. JoLIA WARD Hows, of New York, said tint when she saw criminals being conveyed to prison she considered them as society’s failures, and ic would be very muca for the good of the prisoners if Lean recognized the fact. With regard to the rehabilitation of her own sex she would say but one word, and that was that she could wish the teclini- cal and unjust phrase, ‘fallen woman,” should be struck out of the deliberations of such a body as the Congress, All who had sinned might be considered “allen,” but she must beg them to remember that, gvery Woman who was so stigmatized and spoken of ‘as gsseciated with and represented anotier ae 08, orn, Wi rm ag, Who Was an accomplice, but who pay i 1) ube was, lable to be neld up to human scorn, i em ay Baron Mackay (Hollan«). Wines (New York) also at hohe N OF CRIMINAL CAPT Ci, REPRESSION r. E. Hint introduced the read Mr. Baker and Dr, ‘caged the Congress M “What are the best rated repre: crimp: capitalists?’ He sald that crimé on a large scal had become a@ craft, in which capital and labor layed their respective parts, Were it not for cer- til “eriminal capitalists” the active depredatora would be unable to carry on their criminal prac- tices. He therefore advocated the principle of compelling the withdrawal of the supporting capital, . ir, Sergeant Cox said he dealt with this matter on the bench by giving the receiver of stolen ec y vy aie the punishment which he gave the thief mself. Colonel Rarciirr doubted the eMficacy of the mode cf dealing with the question suggested by in le Mr. ASPINALL (Liverpool) hoped the 83 the keepers of bad houses. @ receivers of stolen property were bad enough and he had nothing to say on their behalf, but they were innocent in com. mes with those vilo eon who trafficked in he souls and bodies of their sisters and whose re- eee houses were visited by the most respect- able portion of soclety. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, Mr, Tong (HOUABA) fire T8r! the sublect= x OKK..MEKALD, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. alt mt to exclude all kinds oC aa pete mec aes ae & mos' brutal state of {rtrd with barba id corporal guiigknent tay : rous an mts; but as the punishments had been made milder society a'so became safer and better, Sir W. Crorron denied that they were in Engiand advocates of the doctrine of corporal punishinent generally. They wished to retain the power in order that they might not have reason to exercise it, He did not use the lash himself for two xe re that he superintended a prison, but how was to know that the knowledge that he ged the power wes not the reason which prevented the necessity of having recourse to it? e gover- nors of jails had no power to infilct corporal pun- ishment unless ordered by the judge’s sentence, It was a ve! excep tio Al to flog ® man in Eng- a, and then only in it resort. _ sys Neral PILSsoRY Was not an advocate for flogging, ing, pos after a long experienco he belicved that a owledge of the ssion of the power of infict- fing comprar punisiment deterred from crime, onel RATCLIVF remarked that garroting in London was found to have almost ceased when {ic Lesisewine gave the power of corporal pun- Ree rr ota cet ry coul ie ice of the soning, which \aterred,’ hem de reduction of oneal crimes, that a knowledge of the possession of the power to fog was the cause of it. : MAXIMUM OF IMPRISONMENT, The next question—''What ought to be the max- imum of !mprisonment, cellular or otherwise, for terms Ics than life f’—was openea by Professor Marguardsen. Sir w. Crofton, Dr. Frey (Austria), Baron Meckay (Holland) and others art in the discussion, It appeared that the time of cellu- lar imprisonment was different in different coun- tries, TREATMENT OF PRISONERS BEFORE CONVICTION, The Count de Foresta italy) introduced the question, ‘What should be t! reatment of pris- oners before conviction? and said that he was wholly in favor of the aystem adopted in Ireland. He opposed to solitary cellular confinement be- fore conviction. He gave examples of its evil effects on the health. M, Stevens (Belgium), Mr. H. Pownall and M. Vaucher-Cremieux discussed the subject, after which the Congress adjourned, Atong those present during the were Lord Leigh, representing Warwickshire, Sir J, Bowring, Sir J. Packington, M. P., &c. Proceedings of the Sixth Day's Session. Yesterday two mec: of this Congress were held in the Middle Temple Halli, th: informal meeting for the tnterchange of informa- tion with regard to the work: of reforma- tories, industrial schools and homes for criminal and non-criminal children; the second being the sccond general meeting of tue Congress. The first meeting was presided over by the Rev. C. L. Bracé, and while he was himself reating & paper Sir Wal- ter Crofton, C. B., took his place. The CuaiRMAN In opening the proceedings asked that the papers should be read tirst, so that the dis- cussion should follow on the whole subject in place of on each separate paper, ENGLISH REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. Miss CARPENTER, the founder and manager of the Red Lodge Girls’ Reformatory, Bristol, read a very long and interesting paper on the principles and results of English reiormatory and certified indus- trial schools. Sle first defined the difference which ought to exist between the reformatory treatment of adults and of childyen, the former having ima- tured powers and faculties, with experience in life, the latter being immature, undeveloped, ana with- ont such experience to work on The child, she held, must be trained and educated in & well-reguiated school—never in a prison. England was behind many countries in Europe and the United States in accepting this principle; but im 18°4 the first Reformatory act was passed, which enabled the Secretary of State to certify as fit and proper institutions, established and man- aged by voluutary effurt, to Which magistrates aud judges might commit young persons under sixteen for a term of years, after a brief imprison- ment; and there was a provision that parents should be compelled, if possible, to coutribute to the expense—a provision which checked parental neglect, The ‘samily system’ had been adopted ia most Engiish Protestant reformatories and certt- fled industrial schools, and the licensing system had beea aconted with great advantage before the discharge 0: the iumates, ‘'wenty years! experience in the working of tuese schools had satisiied the mublic of the soundness of the principles on which these schools were established, for the gangs of juvenile c:iminals who previously infested the country were now no longer to be found; the reguiar training of young. thicves had ceased; young culprits who had no prope: parental guardianship s°idom reached more than & second conviction, while formerly six or cight were not uncommon; the public co-operated in the worl ‘and the well conducted inuates of these institu. tions were received on discharge into the labor market. The speaker alluded to the increasi necessity of a “Patronage Society,” for the supervi- sion of thes? young persons after discharge, when they were beyond the reach of their former guar- dians. She also urged that there was a great neces- sity of measures being vey a to trainand educate negiccted and destitute children, before their crim- inality put the country to the expense of maintain- “ them for a number of years in boarding institu- jons. r INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS OF NEW YORE, The Rev. Mr. BRaceread a paper on the operation of industrial schoois in New york. ile exp!ainea at some lenith the management of the schools, stated that aiter the children had been instructed in the schools employment was readily found for them. The particular institution of which he spoke had sent out 2,200 children to honest employment in families in the West, converting the children to the ranks of industry, and rescuing them from the ranks of viciousness, idleness and crime, Sir F. Buxton, M. P., after referring to Mr. Brace’s Speech, sald he desired to ask some questions, He understood that the time during witch the children were retained in the New York institution was about six months—a term which was much shorter than that during which children were detained in English institutions, the time in this country bet seldom less than twelve or eightcen months. this information as to the six months was correct, he desired to know if the shorter time of detention was owing to the circumstances of the American population rendering it easier than in this country bo a child out. ne CHAIRMAN said that Sir Fowell Buxton had correctly understood the operation of the industrial school system in New York, and he stated that the children there were not criminal, but simply ne- pre children, and it was not held necessary to ‘eep the children long in school, It was peen- liatly favorable to the itstitution that io the West there were great demands ‘or youthful labor. The homes there were not luxurious, but, though platn, | there were no better homes in the worid, and the children grew up into the usefal yeoman class, INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS OF OHIO. Mr. Howr. of Olio, made a very lengthy but ive teresting statement, describing the treatment of boys in a reformatory and industrial inetitution in that State, and he spoke of kindly and trusting vweatment huving had the happiest eects, and he especially remarked on the powerful influence of giving boys gardens to cultivate. Mr. BAKER spoke of his twenty-three years’ ex- perience as an Fogiish country squire in refor tory labors, and he was followed by Mr. Foors, 0! Ohio, who spoke long and well in explanation of the satisfactory progress of reformatory and industrial school work ia America. He aiso paid the highest tribute to the labors of an Englishinan, Mr. Robert. Waterton, in America, and declared, amid from his American brethren, that Mr, had done more for tiie poor in America than Pca- body had done for the English poor. COMPULSORY EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. Baron Von Howr/RNvonrr urged that there scemed be wanting in England a system of com. pulsory education for children before they came to the verge of crime. ‘The law of erm was that no child couid core before the magisirate for crime until above the age of twelve, byt pll cases of crime under that age were reported to the achooimastet who pun’ The cases of crime over twelve ani under eiitecn years of age were committed te. Petsmstones wiere they were detalned until the on (of Wisconsin), Dr. Guillaume, Sir John Bowring and others addressed the meet- ing. fir, ASPTNALL, & Liverpool magistrate, thought that the industrial school question waa a most rofitable one to discuss, a4 trom his view it was better to “strengthen those who stand” by means of industrial schools than to have to lit up by re- formatories those who had iellen, He said, amid loud cheers, that enough credit was never given to those who had originated reformatorics aud tretus- trial schools, and deeply regretied that we could not sufilciently 0: get our imperial Parliament to make social questions like thes», aflecting the whole of the inner iife of the country, imperial ones. Session aftor sesston, le seid, was taken up with party dgits, wlleh were not of such moment to the governed a5 to the governing classes, and he earnestly prayed for the ftmac when the social con- | dition of the people would be thought more worthy of the consi on of the Legislature than many of the guest.ons which now oceupied their thane. It was all very well, li d, for our foreign visitors to be taken to see the fine places about the country, but thore were other places vgich, if wonlkt make Englishmen ashamed to think how little, after all, was done for the peopning. millions, the care of whom should be the first consideration of a Christian commut- ity. He went on to state wijat had been done in his bediiny chicfy by voluntary effort—the estab- Ishment of industrial schoo! reformatory schoo! and the schools now Reine | stablished, in whi compulsory education 1s to be enforeed, and he then deadribed the workhonse aciools, Another part of the sitting was occupied in taking up the question ri i. “home” oF “con ze ited” system Wi maidered the uvtttr, fatord supported the former, The a} opinion was decided to be io favor of the “home” eit Huestion was started by irs, Meredith as to what i me of the children of prisoners in other countries, and it was answered that in Germany the children ef prisonors without friends were taken care of by the State, just as if their parents were not living, A similar course was described as being the law in ‘other Continental States. In America it was stated that the system was to make the children of prisoners “wards of the State,” anda Spent when the sentence had been served, could not have the child omy by order of the Court. The children so taken were put out in families, ana there was ao visiting agency to re- port . hem from time to time, Mr. Forp and other speakers addressed the meet- i The afternoon meeting was presided over by ing. Baron Mac! and reports on all discussions of the two dave wets Broun pp by the gentlemen who first being an | sech, | wad Noon commissioned to report upon the different 1 The Congress then adjourned. Grand Soiree at the Middle Temple Hall. On last Tuesday night a soirve of the members of the International Prison Congress was held in the noble hall of the Middle Temple, which was appro- Ppriately decorated for the occasion. On the walls hung ancient armor and arms, while shrubs and flowers were arranged along the ground, The no- tifteation that the Prince of Wales would be present at the soirée gave additional interest to the event, although, owing (doubtless to good management, the hall was at no time crowded or inconvenient. ‘The visitors, ladies and gentlemen, arrived early as it was expected the Prince would. It was hal if past ten, however, before he Vv accom. nied ly Lord Sumeld and Major-General ‘obyn. small crowd had assembled outside the hall, who gave His pore) Highness a hear! cheer, He was received Mr, ice, the Home Secretary; Mr. Hasth the Chairman of the Exe- cutive Committee; Mr. T, Chambers, Member of gy Sob and several of the foreign members of the Congress. Among the company wo noticed Archbishop Manning / ir. bet , Member of Par- ry Mament ; » J. Pal mber of Parlia- ment; fur Bowrl 1, Barou Mackay, ir. Mowatt, Dr. Bed . . M. Stevens, Dr. Guillaume, Baron Solichub, General Pilsbury, Mr. D. Haines, and, in- deed, most of the prominent members of the Inter- national Prison ‘ess, including Mrs. Howe and Miss Carpenter, His yey Highness walked down the hall, accompanied Home Secretary on the one side an on the other, In the middle of the hall they stopped, when the foreign members of the Executive mittee were sonaWy introduced to the Bre who received them very gractot shaking hands and convers ing with seve) mnter was one of the ral. Cal last to whom he was introduced, and he seemed highly pleased to have made her acquaintance, He was understood to express his regret at the ab- gence of the Princess of Wales, His Royal High- ness then went to an off-room, where refreshments. had been provided for him and a select pert on his reappearance the Prince was again heartily re- ceived, and drove off amidst loud cheers, He looked in what might be termed rude health. One side of the hall was devoted to the refreshment de- artment, The gallery was occupied by a small Yolunteecr band, which played some loyal airs. TURKEY. SEGRE Saltan Abdul Axis’s Fete—An Oriental Holiday—Constantinople Dluminated— Scenes on the Bosphorus—Arrival of Egypt's Viceroy=George Boker Atloat— A Romance of the Day. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 28, 1872, Summer on the Bosphorus is a monotonous sea- son; the mechanism of affairs is dismounted and the springs and wheels, spread abroad, are lying in idleness on either bank of the channel which makes Constantinople the most delightful of sum- mer lounges. This monotony was scarcely broken by the Sultan’syéfe day on Tuesday. The ceremo- nies were languid and tame; the spectators thronged the shores of the Bosphorus from mom till evening; but there was no bustle or excitement, The hares disgorged their contents upon the qnays of the villages, and on those quays the veiled hanoums, with their slaves and offspring, sat from the hour the first salute was fired till the last glimmer of the illuminations faded into dark- ness. The day’s programme began with an official reception at the palace of Dolma Baghiché, at- tended by all the diplomats, the Ottoman ministers and the State employs of inferior grade. Majesty, balked in his project of the su was more than usually stolid and dull; not a fell from him, and the uniformed fancttonarics passed before him in solemn silence and gladly re- gained their steamers and caiques to rewrn io the places whence they came. Jn the cveniig there was a dinner of 142 covers at the Grand Vizier’s, which passed off as coldly a3 the reception. The Khedive was expecte® to have been presout, and his arrival was looked for as incident, because the old question of picvedence would have at least furnished matter for momenta’y sensation. But His Higuness, with that shrewdness which distinguishes him, so timed his arrival as to Ge just too late for the dinner, reach- ing the Golden Horn at half-past six o'clock and having only just time to pay a ceremonial visit to the Sultan, At sundoWn the itluminations began, ‘They were tame on tie wh compared with pre- vious years, although the Yatiof the Grand Vizier and also that of Kiame! Pacha were marvellously beautiful. These two villas, with hanging gardens running up inte the clouds behind them, were a mass of scintillation; every tree held a swarm of lights and every open space was filled with some 5 land ; scarcely a bit of ttllage. 1 got out of the rati- | way train at Kileock, and taking post car drove over to Summerhill, a distance of six miles, The country #=ag the way looked utterly deserted. During the trip from Kilcock I met but-#ix persons, No one was working in the flelds, so far as I could see, and the absence of trayellers on the road, either in vehicles or on foot, was enough to strike apy observer with astonishment, An English Sov- ereign, during the penat times, was informed that there was nothing left to rule over in Ireland but ashes and carcasses. Indeed there 1s nothing lett here now but the old and the young—the flower of the popniation has gone away. Labor is scarce and dear, but farmers who hold large tracts of land are, by grazing, making immense sums of money. Nevertheless they grumble at the advanced prices they have to pay for agricultural work, and .many of them express wishes that some of the Irish would return from the United States, settle down in the Old Country once again, and thns enable thoae who have a dil culty in procuring labor to find it and pay @ reason- able rate of compensation. It would be didicult to Say what chance there is of sucha return of the Trish to their own country; but it is manifest that there isa GREAT SCARCITY OF LABOR in Ireland, arising from the excessive cinigration, which is thinning out the population day after day and hour after hour. One result of this emigration is to convert the land into a sheepwalk. Lord Car-~ Msic, @ former Lord Lieutenant, who had a taste for cattle breeding and literature, once said, fa one of his public speeches, that Ireland is the mother of flocks and herds, and he were alive to-day he would any ee numerous flocks and he! grazing on the fattest of land, and, in the pursuit of food walking over the very laces where once had stood the huts and the mes of the peasantry. In the village of SUMMBRHILL many of the houses are vacant and others have been pulled down, while on the top of the neigh- boring hill, overlooking @ prospect of rare beauty, stands an immense mansion, the residence of Lord Langford, who owns quite a tract of the adjacent soil. If one is to judge from the appearance of the village his lordship does net do much, if anything at all, to make it neat and handsome tn. Sppearance Hi but he certainly has done consiterable in the way of improving his own residence and demesne, which had bean Bed owing to a long and costly Chan- cery sult brought about by the recklessness of a member of his family, to fallinto an almost irre- trievabie state of ruin, He has given employment. to a large number of workmen, and it is spoken of nere as a somewhat remarkable thing that he in- creased the pay of laborers from ten to fiiteen pence aday. To that extent Lord Langford ta a benefactor; but the great want is a resident geatry who would take a deep interest in the affairs of the tenantry and peasants, or, if that cannot ve Drought about, a compulsory aw that would oblige the absentees to part with their estates for a rea- sonable consideration and enable a properly constituted government tribunal to divide the land into farms, the rent of which might be taken, say for fifteen or twenty years as purchase money. This would save the country people from extermination and exile; aud it is manijest to any one who has the slightest Knowledge of loca! aifairs that tn districts where twelve or fourteen years ago there had been dense popuiations there sre now few persons left except the extremely old and the very young, the healthy, active portion of the peopie having emigrated to Austra.ia or America, LAND-GRABBERS AND BEAST WORSHIPPERS. I write this letter almost in sight of Dangan tle, which is now in ruins, This castic the birthplace of the Duke of Wellington. land around it ts rieh and productive, but the weaith it yields go ato the possession of ahandiul of monopolizing zters, Who are wallowing in money; you migit say smothered in the fat ot the beef that they raise in such la quantities, Closo by this village relatives of Fininence Cardinal Culien, of Dublin, own estat they are peopie of property and money, and the | fact that they are connected by family ties with the Papal Legate docs not make them better or worse landlords than others, They are, 1 believe, con- | stantly on t e lookout for land when it drops out | of ocenpation, from persons who, from want of | means, ate unable to work it; and the moment a | farm is to be let or sold the land-grabbers are alter it with hot haste, especially if it be a grazing farm, To auch an extent has cattle raising gone tn Ireland that it has become almost a worship with landlords and graziers—u beast worship; while from these classes we seldom hear a word of regret at the frightful circumstances that have compelled the Irish people to expatriate themselves in thousands, Now, what would the exterminated people have done if they had not had the United States of America to goto? The im- tery: on the mind of the Irish enigrant is that, e can pick up gold on the streets of New York—if he believed that he could pick up dirt by the hand- ful and cartful he would be nearer the truth; but this truth does not appear to have ever shumed the Corporation of the Empire City (now fast ssanming the position of the most enterprising commercial city in the worid) imto an honest effort to keep thoroughfares free from filth. ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS, But quitting this point about the condition of the device m colored lamps, The dark background was not visible, and the effect was that of a lofty network of flre suspended in mid-air without support. Apart from these two efforts at festivity the other illumina- tions were of a tame and perfunctory character, and however great may liave been the enthusiasm of the dwellers on the Bosphorus it was obviously restrained by the desire of econoimizing oll, To this, however, the Khedive's Yali at Emirghtan was an exception. His Highness went manfully into oil, and his house front blazed with a row of cres- cents and stars which, a8 an expression of loyalty, was not to be surpassed, Opposite his Yan and that of the Grand Vizier showers of rockets streamed upwards till midnight ‘rom floating stages anchored in the stream; the iion-clads were brave in their tracery of light, and it was nearly midnight before the cold hal/moon assumed its supremacy and the dazzled and wearied hanoums toddied off in their papooshes to seek repose on the many-cushtoned divans of their respective harems, Thus without | color or excitement has passed of the eleventh an- | niversary of the accession of Sultan Abdul Aziz, to which we had all looked forward as the occasion for the coup Wetat by which the imperial suc was to have been changed. THE AMERICAN KEPRES a Neither in politics nor in fina is there a shred of news to tell; it may be satisfactory, however, to | your readers to know that George Boker is btooin- ing and lwoked first rate rowing down the Bos- | phorus in his ten-oared caique to put in an appear- ance on behalf of the United States at the Sultan's reception. If any one wishes to know how Mrs, Geol Boker looks he has only to come and apend a week at Therapla; and the New Yor HeeALD may pacely, guarantee any such enterpris- ing individual that it will not be lost tine. ‘A ROMANCE, Now for a story whish is not warranted to inter- ¢ but the ladies, and them only hecause Count P—.,, an attaché of ihe Russian Embassy, was fair to see, manly withal, studious and devout after the manner of the orthodox, Count ¥—— was not a papition of Pera society, but he becaine enamored of Miss M., and, like a true knight, before he disclosed his passion to its object he went diserectly, told mamina all about it and asked permission vy preter his guilt, Replies ma- dame, ‘Monsieur Je Comte, you are of far bigher rank thari we; { respect your conduct; but before T consent I must kn f that your plots supports your suit, for a rebuff in that quarter wé could not brook.” A few weeks afterwards arrives in Pera P—, the young man’s father, and on his behalf demands the hand of Miss M, in marriage. The proposals were accepted, and it was begged that the marriage might be celebrated at Paris by Mon- { seigneur Popo, the Greek Archbishop in London. Away to Paris travel mamina and mademolselle; the trousseau was prepared; the day was fixed, On the evening before the day appointed for the mar- riage Count P—, in tragic accents, thos addresses mademoiselle ——, Llove you; love you to mad- ness; but in imarrying me you marty a corpse. (Terribie agitation.) Yes, acorpse, 1 am threat- ened with paralysis at any hour, and you may find yourself the nurse of @ crippte for the remainder of ATIY) your existence.” “Be it so, Count. Ihave pledged myself to you, and whate may be the vonse- quences of that pledge, f accept them and am prepared to fulll it. Intense joy | and gratitude on the pi t of the Count; tableat and au revoir demain, Bul tosaorrow came, and the bridal dress was donned, and the mar- riage party assembied, but tie Count was not; and the day passed and he did not come, and the police | searched for him and found him not; and to this day (these events occurred three weeks ago in | Paris) he is not to be discovered. And the sorrow: | stricken bride has sped back to the Levant, and arrived on Tuesday at a Greek conyent in the | island of Tinos, Where she declares she will hide away her sorsow from the world. Wer sister has | left for Tinos, in the hope of dissuading her from this suicidal course, ana ull Pera ts on stretch | of anxiety to learn the result of migsion, | It ts believed (hat Count P-—— has thrown uel into the Seine, believing himself unfit for marriage, the victim of a mere hallucination for which no founda- tion existed. The event has created an immense sensation, for both the Count and the young lady Were Huy esteemed in the ¢ireles fn which they | moyed. + sie ee, at oe IRELAND. The Cothty Meath—Deserted Homem Scarcity of Lahor=The People Fiee— Only the Young and Old Remaining— Land-Grabbers a Beast Worship- pers—Good Advice to Intending Emi- grants. SUMMERHILL, county Meath, June 22, 1572. Yesterday I started from Dublin for this village, | which is situated In one of the most beautiful parts of Meath. Iwas going to add “fertile,” but that | word would be almost out of plave, for scarcely anything grows in this county but grass. You see streets of New York, let me say that the Irish make | a big mistake in sticking so closely as abe do to the Atia.tic cities of America, where they do not find id on the streets. They would find prosperity and independence if, following the agricultural and pas- toral life to which they haye been brought up at home, they went out to the West, where, by in- dustry and exertion, they must soon become the occupters and owners of their own farms. Such @ life as this would be far better and nobler for them than settling down in the low wards and buck slums of New York as mere hodcarriers or day laborers, or rumsellers in the interest of a vile gang of Tammany rowdies, who would scruple at no perjury or fraud to make poor Paddy a citizen before his time, merely for the purpose of keeping in. power a base and plundering set of oMcinis. There are influential Irishmen in New York who could have diverted the Irish emigrant into the beneficial channel} bare yonved out, but they hesitated to do 80 because if they said it would be for the benent of the emigrant who had made New York city his abode to go ont West aud become, not a loafer ora Tumseller, but a farmer and a respectable member of society, the chance of a large Irish vote being “rolled up” for Tammany would be very consider- ably diminished. 1 haye not, during my Mgieny in Ireland, missed an opportunity of stating the fact thet the conduct of Tammany, in so far as it re lated to Irishmen, brought degradation upon Tre- land, Tammany, in putting forward for official po- sition the worst Irishinen they could find in New York, merely for the reason that they had litical influence among tie “boys,’? led Americans to suppose that no such thing as a decent, well-conducted man had ever come from ‘the old sod.” It is well that rotten ‘Tammany has been overthrown; and ii the Emigra- tion Commissioners now fearlessly do their duty, irrespective of political considerations, and urge the emigvants not to stick in the slums, but ad- vance to the possession of land out West, a great good will be accomplished. A CUURCH COLLECTION FOR CAPTAIN NOLAN, To-morrow, in the Catholic chapel of Dangan, a collection will be taken up in aid of the funds now being raised throughout the country for the pay- ment of Captain Nolan’s expenses in the matter of the Galway election petition. BROOKLYN AFFAIRS. Yesterday Mayor Powell signed $80,000 worth of Kent avenue basin bonds. They are payable Janu- ary J, 1882. Contagious Diseases. During the past week the contagious diseases re- ported at the Health OMice were as follows :—Small fos 14: scarlet fever, 11; diphtheria, 2, and cere- »ro-spinal meningitis, 5. Kerosene Exploston. On Sunday night @ Kerosene lamp expioded in the grocery store of Thomas Carey, 584 Third ave- nue, and before the flames were extinguished a damage of $200 was done. A Fatal Fall. Diedvick Tinken, residing at 52 Gold street and employed at Harbeck’s Stores, feli from the fifth | story window yesterday afternoon to the sidewalk, | on Furman street, and was instantly killed. The Forgery. John Miller, the ex-government oficial charged | with forging a number of checks and passing them upon storekeepers, was to have had a preliminary hearing yesterday, but as all the Justices were out of town he was taken tothe Raymond street jail A host of lis victims identified him, Bold Robhery. Irving Sweeny and John Waish were arrosted and locked up yesterday ona charge of robbing Mr. William Stackpole, at his residence, 150 Hamilton avenue, at alate hour on Sanday night. The prts- oners, as alleged, went to the house, broke open the door, di ed Mr. Stackpole to the hallway, nocked ins fo aad robbed him of bis watch a ¢' . 7 Sp tl, A Qatet Prize Fight. Two individuals named Grace and Lynch, and who pride themseives on their pngilistic abilities, got {nto @ quarrel on a picnic on the Fourth of July, and determined to settle the matter by punching cach other's heads in accordance Wye the rigs which govern the prize ring. ely ends be geen nt got together and made up a | ‘we Of $100, probably to pay the surgeons for dressing their wounds, The fight took place at five o'clock on Sunday morning, in lumber yard at the foos of Washington Street, and a quict time was had. They » we youone vast expanse of waving meadow fought an hour and fifteen minutes, when the friends of Lynch threw up the sponge. AFTER THE LONG STRIKE, The Haunts of the Trades Unionists Deserted~ The Feeling of the Men of the Movement— The Martyrs of the Oause—The Hope for the Future—Thore Who Work Eight Hours and Thoee Who Work Ten. A visit paid yesterday to the haunts of the work- ingmen when the long strike was in progress showed how utterly buried in the past is every ves tige of the great labor movement. The places the trades untonists frequented, and where, a few Weeks ago, swart mechanics thronged, are empty, save in the presence of such beer drinkers and casuals as happen im and linger for a few moments over a newspaper or in @ conversation. Teutonia Hall, where nearly a thousand workmen attended datiy meetings, is silent as a tomb, and the Germania Rooms, in thé Bowery, are frequented only by their old customers and the members of the National Guard, who drill there, The mimor places of meeting are equally empty, and their proprietors wear a vacant and puzzled sort of expression when asked any question relative to the strike. The nine weeks that the re- volt lasted were golden ones to them, and yet they seem to have almost faded from thelr memories, ~ The traces of the straggle will not be so readily effaced in the homes of the unfortunate men wha participated in the action, Nine weeks of idleness made the return of labor more onereus, and debte were accumulated that stare them in the face now; dissipating many pleasant hopes of winter com- fort, and invoking dismal Pictares of privation to be endured in’ the inclement weather,’ by and by, when it will be most unendurable. To the unsuccessful stricers, in a far greater degree than to the manuficturers, was the Movement disastrous, and it is no stretch of imagination to follow its effects through want and eickness in many a poor family to destitution and death, ‘ And underneath the surface all this time, and notwithstanding this defeat, the leaven of future revolt is fomenting, stirred by busy brains and in- dustrious hands. The men of the International, who suffered least, are hard at work, deftly handling in speech and writing those questions which lle at the base of the present social sys tem, and the disarrangement of which threatens its upheaval. The defeat has been bitter, but is not hopeless. Winter will come on with an cffect. of terror it never inspired before; but the first warm care of spring will germinate a strike more formidable in its proportions than the one that has been crushed out. On every hand this is the feeling of the men, and it will be kept alive by the very action on the part of the employers whicti is relied upon to smotherit, NO STRIKERS NERD APTLY. The manufacturers, who have also tasted somes thing of bitterness in the struggle, resolved from the first not to re-employ any of the leadors in the late movement, ‘The officers of the different unio: and all such as became at all prominent among the members found when the moment for disvandin; thelr organizations and returning to work arrive that there was no door open in the factories and workshops of the citv for them. ‘There were numbers of these men thus debarred from any ceca of earning bread by working at their trades in this city, and most of these men had families, Among the metal workers was one who now supports hig wife and children by singing at the mectings of temperance soctetica and in a far uptown concert hall, Another procured eimploy- ment at one of the politierl headquarters. lo ironworker in New York would give either ot them work. ‘There are others wlio have been compelled to pay the sanie penalty for their action who liave not exporienced a like good fortune in finding at hand some new method of support. Allof these men are regarded by their late fellow workmen as martyrs, and they exert the fntluence of martyrs, Their victsitudes. of living are daily commented upon in every foundry on the island, and an interest attuches to them, and they inspire a feeling of devotion which under no other circumstances would have had birth, Had they deen allowed to return with their fellows they would have sunk to their level in sharing their fate. As it is they have a power which they assert the) will use, when the proper time arrives, in oppoal- tion to every interest of the capitalists. THOSE WHO WORK FIGHT HOURS. In all the building trades eight hours has not ceased to be the established day of labor. The car- pent rs, with @ solid organization, support the Many who cennot find employment at the terns their Union dictates, and, with a world of unction in their tones, they swear they will never work on the old terms, When tie painters were notified that they would have to work ten hours they dropped thelr brushes and refused to recede from their po- sition, Atleast this is what they ciatm to have been their action, but some of the employers say thelr men are now working ten hours a day. THOSE WIt0 WORK TEN HOURS A DAY. Tn all the metal trades and among tle many branches of wood working, aside fromm carpenter work, the men are working ten hours a day. ‘Tho. pianomakers, coaclt- makers and vpholsterers reiutned to sabor on the old basis of time and wares. The sugar refiners—more to be piticd than upy of the others—went into the sugar houses again When the heat was most intense, And so, as all the trades settied down on an in- secure gnarantee of eight hours, or “picked up their burdens of life again” to labor ten, the barbers wheeled out, with a sanguin: ary air, and carried an eariy-closing movement by storm, making merry the while as they gossipped and shaved. There was a ludicrous vein in their victory, a8 marked as the sad episodes of the me- chanics and sugar men’s defcat. The curtain has been rung down on the drawa of the long strike with its gay and gloomy scenes, its laughter and tears, and its experience is cven now half forgot- tent. So runs the world away. THE SWISS NATIONAL FESTIVAL. <nitarthinenpetellll The Second Dsy=The Athletic Sportam The Dance of the Alps and the Swiss Marriage of the Seventeenth Centary. At nine o'clock yesterday morning crowds of curious people might be seen congregated in front of the Teutonia Assembly Rooms, in Third avenue, anxiously awaiting the appearance of the Swiss soctetics trom within, ‘They were attracted here by the announcement made in yesterday's grap that twenty-two young ladies and gentlemen, in full Swiss costume, would be in the procession, In | dune time they came out and forthwith marched to the boat at the foot of Eighth street in the order published, COLUMBIA AND HELVETIA. Arriving at the wood they marched through the wood with Helvetia—Miss Meyer—and Coium- bia—Miss Doru—at their head. Helvetia was dressed in a white silk dress, with red bodice and white cross on breast, and a wreath of laurels and alpine roses. Columbia was dressed in a red, white and bine satin and clock-spangled dress, with bias blue sash and Liberty’s cap on her head. The pro- cession then marched to the pavilion, where Mr. Molo, the president of the festival, delivered a short address. He said he was most happy to see that the Swiss societies had at last becn united, and he hoped that they would ever continue to be go, and that he extended, on the part of the united Swiss socicties, a most cordial welcome to all present and hoped that they would Ive to wit- ness many occasions like the present. He then made speeches to the same effect in German, French and Itailan, all of which were recetved with much applause by the assembled clans. nthe Swiss national hyma, “Rufst du mein Vv nd,” was sung by ail present with great effect, after which the dance of the Alps—a mix- ture of waitz, polka and jig—was periormed by twenty-two young ladies and genilemen, all in costume, representing. the twenty-two can- tons of Switzerland, he most interesting itera on the programme—an filnstration of a Swiss marriage in the seventeenth century—was next im order. The ceremony was performed by Conract Lohbauer, who personated the Burgermaister. The young frau Cevina Tenger was the bride pra tem., and Herr Henry Landert the groom ditto. When the ceremony was concluded the forty-four dancers, who were the nuptial party, sang “toh Ken en Winedershones Land, "after which the Tessin Volunteer band played several aire, The dancin Degan at two o'clock, when Mr. Mole danced wit Miss Doru—Colnmbia—by way of Llustratng Switzerland’s respect for America. Tue ATooriy. conducted, consisted which were very poor ming of wrestling, and were devoid of any in- terest, except that several of the ladies were hor- rified at seeing several of the contestants leave the arena with bioody faces. In another part of the wood the prize shooting—which was kept up from the — until dark— was held, and much credit is ‘due ir, Gasser for the quiet and orderly man- ner in which he conducted the affair. The Swiss boys had a bow and arrow contest during the af- ternoon, in which many of them displayed great skitlin manipolating the weapon so dexterousiy used by, their forefathers, The vities concluded with a grand display of fireworks. Thomas Barclay, the conductor, who last weell was arrested for stealing $130, is not the Thomag relay who conductor on the Beit Railway. LS a cal oto Judge Cox in Waar quired very much troubied abont the unenviable Bovere which had been given to bis name,