The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1873, Page 7

FRANCK. PerWamentist Endorsement of the Republic— American Fraternity and Inter- national Good Will. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Oct. 26, 1873, ‘Thirty former Deputies of Alsace and Lorraine Rave signed an address to the Assembly in tavor of ‘the Repubilo. LIBERTY AND FRATERNITY. United States Minister Washburne, Consul Gen- eral Reade, Mr. D. D. Field, of New York; Mr, Frederic Passy, Secretary of the French Peace So- lety, and owners, met here to-day and discussed the propositions laid down at the Juridical Congress of Brussels. The conference was fojlowed bya dinner, at ‘which a toast to the friendship of France and the ‘Vnited States was enthusiastically received. SPAIN. ‘The Government Squadron Off Cartagena—Fire from the Forts—Battle with the Insurgent Fleet Expected. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, Oct. 26, 1873, The Spanish government fleet arrived off Car- ‘tagena on ‘Thursday last and formed in line of Dattle. ‘Ihe fort opened fire on it without effect. The insurgent vessels remained inside the harbor, An engagement was expected on the fol- lowing day. LOOKING OUT FOR THE SPOILS. The Jmparcial says the insurgent junta at Car- tagena demand a ransom of $10,000 each for four Spanish merchant vessels captured by their fees, ENGLAND. Popular Petition for Amnesty to the Fenian Convicts. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Oct. 26, 1873, Ameeting was held at Blackheath to-day, in favor of amnesty to the Fenian convicts, Six thousand persons were present. The affair passed off quietly. An Evangelical Alliance Delegate in the Home Pulpit. Lonpon, Oct. 27—6 A. M. Rey. Dr. Parker, one of the delegates to the ‘Evangelical Alliance at New Vork, has returned home. He preached at Exeter Hall last night, and spoke in the highest terms of the institutions, @esources and future of the United States. SWITZERLAND. ‘The New Departure in Roman Catholic Church Discipline. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALO. GENEVA, Oct. 26, 1863. Yhe threecurés, recently chosen by the Old Catholics of this city, were formally installed to, flay, WEATHER REPORT, OFFICE OF THE CilIRF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 27—1 A. M. Synopsis Jor the Past Twentyfour Hours, AM area of low barometer that was Saturday ‘ight in Missouri and Kansas has moved north- eastward over Lake Huron and has very rapidly developed into an extended disturbance. The barometer has fallen throughout the country east of the Mississippi River, and the temperature has very generally risen. South and southwest winds, with threatening weather or rain, are re- ported from the Ohio Valley, the Middle and East- ern States, lower lake region and St. Lawrence Valley; northwesterly winds, with cloudy weather, prevall over the upper lakes and the Northwest; south and southwest winds are reported in the Southern and Gulf States. Probabilities, The storm centre move down the St. Lawrence Valley. On Monday, for tlhe Gulf States, fresh and possibly brisk southwesterly winds, shifting to brisk northerly winds, with cloudy weather. For the South Atlantic States, southwesterly winds, with clouds and light rain. FOR THE MIDDLE AND EASTERN STATES, BRISK AND POSSIBLY HIGH SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS, CLOUDS AND RAIN. For the lower lake region, brisk west and south- West winds, with falling temperature and rain, For the upper lake region, fresh to brisk northwest winds, with cloudy weather. Cautionary signals continue at Grand Haven, Chicago and Milwaukee, and are ordered for Alpena, Detroit, Toledo, ‘Cleveland, Erle, Buifalo, yhester, Oswego, Eastport, Portiand, Boston, ‘00d’s Hole, New London, New Haven, New York and Cape May. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for tue past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ar, as indtcated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s macy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1872, 1873, +. 62 56 Wak DEPARTMENT, } 1873, 44° 3:30 P, " 43° 6 P.M. 45 9 P.M. 12 M... 62 12 P.M. ‘Average temperature yesterday. Average temperature for corresponding GALE INSE YEAT.....cceeececeveeseceeversenrs FOS ye ¥ YELLOW FEVER. The Pestilence Abating in Memphis and Elsewhere, Mempanis, Tenn., Oct, 26~10 P, M. Only ten new cases of yellow fever were reported to-day. Dr. Blount died to-day, also policeman Frankiio. The temperature is falling rapidly, The wind is changing to the north. There was a heavy rain all day, closing at night with the heaviest rainfall of the season, with occa- sional thunder and lightning, ‘There have been no definite reports from the headquarters of the relief committees, the absence of which leaves a favorable impression, z One of she leading "= ‘ertakers has no orders for tomorrow, Which has not been the case since the first outbreak of the scourge. i + There hye been twenty-two deaths from yellow ‘tovet and six from other causes since yesterday, ‘being a decrease of two deaths from yellow fever, SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 26, 1873, Reports from Bainbridge state that the excite- Ment about the yellow fever there is dying out and the panic is over, There nave been no fatal cases to-day. NEW HAVEN NEWS, A Steamer Burned—Captare of Burglars— Fatal Casualties, New HAveEN, Conn., Oct. 26, 1873. The excursion steamer Isaac P. Smith was burned to the water's edge on Saturday night while lying at her dock, near the mouth of West River, Loss, $30,000; insurance, $15,000, D. W. Beach, @ boy living in Kast Haven, fell from a chestnut tree on Saturday afternoon and dashed out his brains, Four Rann bag Beat g who came to this city on Friday morning from New York, with mil kits of tools, were captured on Saturday alternoon before they had accomplished hem Ute Richard Flaherty died yester om injuries received on Friday, when he was run over by a ‘heavy wagon. THE SENATORIAL OOMMITTER ON TRANS. PORTATION, CINcENNATT, Ohio, Oct, 26, 18%, Senators Windham, Sherman, Conklin, Norwood and Davis, the Senatorial Committee On Frans Wagener aa Ge a Cease nia, and will go ore le and thagce to! St. Lous” am NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1873,—-TRIPLE SHEET. DISRAELI. The Conservative Reaction in Europe. A MONOGRAPH OF THE TORY LEADER, —_+—_——_ Salient Features of His Publio and Private Life. Lonpon, Oct. 12, 1878, Numerous electoral defeats which the English liberals have been suffering leave small doubt that the conservatives will shortly re-enter Downing street, and as this time they will take office with a majority Mr. Disracii may, probably, count on those three years of power—not merely of place— which have been the steady onject of his ambition. Hitherto, indeed, Mr, Disraeli has been three times Minister, but he has never held power. Since the tory party broke up in 1846, after Sir Robert Peel’s free-trade secession, conservative statesmen have occupied the Treasury Bench only on _ sufferance, and their policy has been, perforce, that which their opponents dictated. Such a position leant little dignity to the party in general, and it exposed the leaders in particular to the obloquy, and even the ridicule, which must always assail men struggling to maintain a semblance of au- thority and yet too weak to carry out their wills, By the many-mouthed clamour of liberalism—a noisy thing in England as elsewhere—conservatism was pronounced effete and Mr. Disraeli, its most conspicuous advocate, an adventurer devoid of scruples and convictions. But just as the man who strives to keep his footing amid quickstands offers ® different picture to the one who feels the ground firm under him, so it may prove that Mr. Disraeli holding oMce under the dominance of a turbulent opposition and Mr. Disraeli governing with astrong majority @$ his back are by no means the same men, He has himself said, “GIVE ME THREE YBARS OF POWER and England will not regret it.” The elder Pitt held power four years, in his best known administration, and during that time he contrived to establish his reputation as the greatest of English statesmen and to earn those enthusiastic rhapsodies we have all read in Mr. Carlyle’s works. Whether some future Carlyle will ever be justified in plac- ing Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Chatham ona levelis a point beyond present divination; but in speculating as to what @ map may do it is Jair to cousider what he has already done, therefore this is the moment for recalling another of Mr. Disraeli’s sayings, uttered now ix and thirty years ago, “{ HAVE BEGUN MANY TIMES SEVERAL THINGS AND HAVE ALWAYS SUCCEEDED AT LAST,” The boast was true atthe time it was spoken, and it would be equally so if repeated to-day, for Mr, Disraelt’s ascent to eminence has been effected in spite of obstacles which nothing but the most stubborn patience and unswerving resolution could surmount—obstacles of birth, race, educa- tion and connections—obstacles of pride and prejudice, in short, such as, in an aristocratical state, look at first sight insuperable. Wolsey, the son ofa butcher; Cromwell, the uncouth Puritan; Canning, who was born of poor parents in the middle-class, were not more remarkable in their rise than Disraeli, for Wolsey was sent to Uxford and then entered the Church, which leads to every- thing; Cromwell was favored by war and revolu- tion; while Canning, thanks to an uncle’s generosity, Obtained through an Eton education the passport to all British honors. But Disraeli enjoyed none of these advantages. The son of Isaac Disraeli, who was descended from a family of Spanish Jews driven by persecution to Venice in the fifteenth century and settled in England since 1748, Benjamin Disraeli was born in 1805 in @ small house 'to the eastor London. His father was in every respect @ book-worm—a man who had written the ‘Curiosities and Amenities of Literature,” who had speut most of his days at the British Museum grubbing up facts for historical essays, and “in whom,” says his son, “even mar- riage produced no change, for he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books and at night his lamp was ever lit withm the same walls.” Young Benjamin, whose mind took a pre cocious development, was early inoculated by the paternal example, and, both at school, where he worked little, and in the attorney's ofice, where, as an articled pupil, he worked still less, his chief predilection was authorship. Biographers have persistently declared that at the age of twenty-one he started, in conjunction with Mr, Murray, the publisher, @ tory paper called the Represenative, which ran five months, and some have gone the length of describing minutely the sumptuous furni- ture wherewith Mr. Murray stocked the editorial room, in order that lords and ladies who called on young Mr. Disraeli might feel at home. But Mr. Disraeli, not very long ago, disclaimed all con- nection with the Representative. And it seems that his first contributions to the press were ‘eattered among a variety otf newspapers, mostly obscure. However that may be, the contributions were certainly 004, for, if Disraeli had at school left undone many things which he ought to have done, he had on the other hand done many things which his masters said he ought not to have done, such as read up books of poetry and romance, old world chronicles and lives of literary men. There was also in him plenty of health, physical and mental, aready wit and an impulsive disposition rather Italian than English, He loved to talk of men who had leaped to fame at one bound and set the world on fire. He cared little for boy’s sports; but he liked to see a comrade plant his fist fat cn the nose of a dull bully, and this romantico-combative nature showed itself early in his writings, which were hot and impetuous as whiffs of steam. His father had the good sense to see that such a one was not fashioned for a lawyer's office. After all, the lad had printer's ink in his very blood, and for his father to have lectured him on the pertls of lit- erature would have been @ strange thing iu- deed. So Benjaminwas allowed to follow his own inclination, and after seribbing, perhaps, & gross of essays and leaders—whieb obtained insertion primarily for his father’s sake, but by and by for their own merits—he applied himself to write novel, and in 1828 producea “VIVIAN GREY,’ It was a radical book, Of politioal adventure, paint- ing tne caree? of yStig ian who was ambitious of political celebrity and resolved to acquire it by ae or the reverse, Mr, Disraeti’s ad- ¢efaarles take’ S grha pledbire it dasorting to tnis day tin “Vivian Grey the author meant to foreshadow his own life; ana the thing is not im- probable, for a youth of warm fancies sets light store by those hedges and ditches called “expe- diency,'’ “opinions,” “traditions,” &c., which check the steeplechase to renown, Seeing older men dodge at these obstacles but invariably end by scrambling through them at last, ind te of all their first jibbing and shying, he thinks it much simpler to clear them at once without any fuss; and if this mode of proceeding looks cynical when sketched on paper as a deliberate plan, what shall be sald of those who practice it witn a sancti- monious affectation of being earnest ana disinter- ested all the while? The great difference between Disraelt and many of hia liberal censors is that he wrote “Vivian Grey” while they enacted it; he showed how @ man coull rise oy recanting all his original convictivus, vnd ‘hey after putting these moral lessons ivto praciice have turned round In ptous horror and exclaimed, “Only to think that a man could be so unserupu- lous as to dream such things!" But let that pass. “Vivian Grey” was a great success, and the young Anthor gained at one stroke the privilege of hear {ng press and public ask— “WHO 18 THIS BENJAMIN DISRARLT ‘Tho better to answer the question by proving that he was not a literary hack, Whose views of life were derived wholly from London printing offices, Disract set off on a two years’ foreign tour, during which he wrote a coupie of new novels aa good as the first and as radical—"Contarint Piewing” aad a ~ the “Young Duke.” Back to London (1831), at @ time when the Reform bill agitation was at its ) height, he began by launching a little pamphlet entitled “What is He #’—(the words being those which Lord Grey had used on hearing that “Vivian Grey” wished to enter Pariament)—and in this cfusion he showed what breadth of ex- |.persnce and what generous liberal ardor he had actuired auring hig travels, He had, in fact, seen France and Germany, Italy and thé East; and as ‘he revolutionary wind of 1830 was then everywhere raging he had grown enthu- siastic—as young men will—in the cause of Iib- erty, anti-Jesuitism and universal brotherhood. O'Connell was struck by his chalourous utterances and so was Hume, Between them they put him up as radical candidate for Wycombe, and though Disraeli was defeated here},as he was again in 1833 for Marylebone, yet there’was that in his ap- Pearance, voice, gestures and manner which classed himas a being apart, and made people say that he wag an extraordinary young man, who would certainly make his day. He was at that time a daintily-dressed, but decidedly Jewish young gentleman, with black corkscrew ringlets. His voice was well pitched, but his delivery was too pompous, and the philosophical notions he had picked up abroad and which time and refiection had not allowed him sufiiciently to digest, made him talk clean over the heads of hts hearers. English electors were accustomed to be addressed in language more familiar and in terms practical, notabstract, They would have liked bim)betrer had he been a blufler man—one who was known to eat beef and who could roar chaff from the hust- ings as Cobbett did. It was a serious blemish upon @ man in the year 1833 to be called un-English, and young Disraeli must have felt that the popular judgment passed on him—‘‘Chat Jew boy isa rum 'un’’—had more of tacit homage than of actual promise in it. BENJAMIN DISRABLIS CONVERSION. Two years now elapsed, ana when next the “Jew boy” solicited the public suffrage it was as the author of a laudatory pamphlet on the British constitution and as a tory upholder of Church and Queen principles. A great change, truly. But what had led to it? Well, simply meditation, said Mr. Disraeli; but O'Connell and the Jew boy’s radi- cal patrons of course protested that it was ambition of tbe most sordid kind, and that “Vivian Grey” was beginning to practice with un- Paralleled effrontery the Machiavellic maxims which he had preached. There is no reason why we should believe O'Connell more than the new con- vert, for if some budding conservative—say Mr. Gladstone, who was then sitting in Parliament for Newark, as the bluest of blue tories—had deserted his principles to embrace the Irish agitator’s it May be doubted whether that consistent man would have taxed him with effrontery. Disraeli had much more to gain by remaining a radical than by turning conservative, and this he must have well known. Aman who shouts untiringly in the popular cause may be screamed at and even pummelled at starting, but his yells bring him place and emoluments in the end; and if, there- fore, Disraeli changed his opinions it probably was because a little thought had convinced him that English radicalism was a hollow thing, rather preju- dicial to liberty than serviceable to it, This he declared to O'Connell, in the famous letter where he wrote, “We shall meet again at Philippi,” and he explained to the electors of Taunton, where he was canvassing, that his conservatism had nothing in common with the autocratical theories of foreign conservatives; it was merely the desire to conserve English freedom and English Protestant- ism as opposed to Popish despotism on the one hand and democratical anarchy (which also means despotism) on the other. The radicals asked for the abolition of the House of Lords, the suppression of the Established Church, and manhood suffrage ; but they forgot that if the House of Lords were done away with its own members, being great landowners, would flood the House of Commons and hold the suffrage of uneducated country electors absolutely in their hands, whilethe Es- tablished Church, being no longer present to keep back Romish encroachments, the Catholic priest- hoad wand identify thvls cause with that of the tories, which would lead to a state of things identi- cal to that in continental States where conserva- tism and Popery ride abreast over tiberals, Protestants and free-thinkers promiscuously. English liberals derided these notions, because it is @ common foible among Englishmen to look upon their country as specially dispensed by Providence from the evils which afilict other States. Just as certain progressive young Dutch- men might poke fun at the dykes which the prudence of thelr forefathers built to avert the floods, so go-ahead Englishmen think it knowing to knock down one by one all the barriers erected in times past to guarantee public freedom and order. Young Mr. Disraeli took the liberty to warn them that they would repent of this some day when it was too late, and he @mphat- ieally repeated that he had renounced the Char- tist programme, not because he had ceased to be @ ‘liberal, but because he wished to remain one. The electors of Taunton refused to be con- vinced; but in 1837 those of Maidstone accepted Benjamin Disraeli at bis own valuation, and he took his seat in the House as @ conservative be- side Lord George Bentinck and behind Sir Robert Peel, who had not yet surrendered protection. Soon alter taking the oaths he delivered his maid- en speech, which was too elaborately prepared to be a good one. His friends had cautioned him to wait, but, panting to distingcish himself, he sprung to his legs, and the liberals seized upon this occa- sion of paying off old scores by hooting him to the echo. Surprised at first he endeavored to sur- mount the tumult by speaking louder, but, per- ceiving that his opponents were resolved to laugh and shout Lim down, he paused and uttered his now well-realized prophecy—“I have begun many times several things and have always succeeded at last. I shall sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.” MR. DISRAELI’S MARRIAGE, Genius, eloquence, a firm will and much industry are fine elements of success, but to complete them alla politician should have a good wife, and this greatest of blessings Mr. Disraeli found in 1839 in the person of Mrs. Wyndham-Lewis, the widow of his parliamentary colleague for Maidstone. Mrs. Lewis was rich, and her fortune enabled her hysband to contract those valuable social relations which are bred of pleasant dinners and frequent “at homes.’ But, in addition to her fortune, Mrs. Lewis brought het husband a dowry of love, wor- ship and devotion such as itis given to fewmen nee thann andathivee « 4 me rag unve-gy bre § was his helpmate, watchful adviser, teitder and ini- defatigable ally. She schemed for him, extollod him on all sides and passed her days and nights in planning how she might make him friends and ad- vance his prospects. It is well known that driving down to the House of Commons with him ong night when he was going to speak she een he¥ ‘finger in the door, but concealed the pain she felt, and forbore éven to speak of the accident lest her husband should be unnerved by {t, Her conduct towards him was ever of a piece with this one episode. She was not @ favorite with people who were opposed to her husband or who ventured even in jest to question his merits; for she hada quick tongue and made no hesitation about using it, But to her husband's supporters she was grace itself, though there was always in her affability a certain tone of conde- scension which implied that, in following her hus- band’s lead, conservatives were doing no more than was natural and clearly suited to their best interests. Mrs. Disraeli’s belief in her husband ‘was, in truth, the most touching of womanly idola- tries, and tt should not be forgotten that Mr. Dts- Tacli requited her devetedness with an affection both chivalrous and sincere. When, on leaving office in 1868, he accepted for his wife the title of Viscountess Beaconsfield, he intended to mark how much the honors of his publio life were due to her co-operation, and the liberal papers who spoke uncourteously of this act would have shown & better taste by generously acquiescing in It, “piazy."” Of Mr. Disraeli’s gradual improvement in pariia- mentary rhetoric, of his brilliant and cutting on- slaught on the “renegade” Peel, of his promotion to the leadership of the conservatives in the Lower House after the death of Lord George Bentinck, in 1848, and of his consummate strategy during his ~ Doria is almost needless to speak, for these matters »."° familiar to all students of contemporary history. But it is well worth noting that Mr. Disraelt has gota nickname, which is a seldom 1ailing sign of popularity, and that peopie cull him “Dizzy.” The Daily Telegraph sought hard to put the name of “People’s William” on Mr. Gladstone, but that label wouldn’t stick. Nobody who is acquainted with Mr. Gladstone's solemn countenance and still Dlore solemn ways would venture to call him “Bill” or “Gladdy ;” but workingmen say ‘Ben’! and “Dizzy” indiscriminately, and they have a rough sort of liking for the bearer of these soubri- quets, as if he were one of their set who had scrambled his way up to high regions by dint of pluck, cheek and bunkum, For, as noticed already, the fact of Mr. Disraeli's having been forced into passing measures which he disliked in order to ward off others which he would have disliked yet more has impressed the popular mind with the conviction that he is a sort of “old hand’—one who knows how to catch all sorts of birds, young and old, with chaff, Other statesmen bave passed through two-thirds of their career with this fallactous reputation and have been none the worse for it in the end, nor proba- bly will Mr. Disraeli be, That he is @ most accom- plished and agreeable man in social intercourse and a vety polished, humorous antagonist in de- bate noteven his enemies care to deny, and the task of judging his reputation will more properly belong to posterity than to the present genera- tion. It should be mentioned that Mr. Disraelt isthe one member of the House of Commons who always sits bareheaded during the debates, and furthermore, that he is in favor of conferring the suffrage on widows and tax-paying spinsters, though he has not yet “educated” his party up to this idea. In religion he is, of course, an Angli- can; but there has always been something very bold and generous in his advocacy of Jewish rights, He has never shown himself ashamed of the faith to which his fathers belonged, On the contrary, he has missed no occasion of extolling the glories and the constancy under persecution of the Israel- itish race, exhibiting in this @ happy contrast. to certain ennobled but weak-kneed religtonists who having obtained peerages, have lost no time in discarding the unfashionable faith of Mr. Spurgeon and taking up with aristocratical ritualism. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. “THaT MEN AND WOMEN are mentally allke,’’ saya Herbert Spencer in a recent essay, “is as untrue as that they are alike bodily. Just as certainly as they have physical differences, which are related to the respective parts they play in the maintenance of the race, so certainly have they physical differ- ences similarly related to their respectives shares in the rearing and protection of offspring. To sup- pose that along with the uulikeness between their Parental activities there do not go unlikenesses of mental faculties is to suppose that here, alone in all nature, there 1s no adjustment of special powers to special functions.”” Mr. MAUNSELL B. FIELD, of this city, has a book in Harper & Brothers’ press entitled ‘Memories of Many Men; being Personal Recollections of Em- perors, Kings, Presidents, Statesmen, Authors and Artists, at Home and Abroad, During the Last Thirty Years.” THomPsoNn Cooper's new Biographical Diction- aryis a great advance on any of the small, com- pact, one-volume dictionaries of biography yet pub- lished, THE wipow of the French dramatist Eugene Scribe still lives at the age of seventy. Her hus- band left her a large fortune, for he was the happy author who has made more Frenchmen laugh in in the Jast fifty yeara than Molitre or Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, or Victor Hugo. Da, EpwArD A. CLARKE has written, and Osgood & Co, will publish, “Sex in Education; or, a Fair Chance for the Girls.’ The fair sex seem, on the whole, likely to get a fair chance, if being continu- ally written up will contribute to that end, Don ANTONIO TRULBA has in the press a volume of verse, entitled “El Paraiso Moderno” (“The Mod- ern Paradise”). The Madrid wits ask to be di- rected to this paradise, and suggest that it must be out of Spain. PorTER & UoatTs will publish ‘In the Days of My Youth,” by Amelia B, Edwards, and “Lord Derby’s Version of the lliad, witn a BiograpLical Sketch of Lordy Derby,’’ by R. Chelton Mackenzie, TuE MESSRS. APPLETON will collect and publish im one volume the extremely interesting papers on “French Home Life,’ which have appeared in Blackwood, Awmona ForTacomMINe Books in local history is Mr. James E. Quinlan’s “History of Sullivan County, New York.” A New Work may soon be expected from the penof Sir Henry Maine. It is called “The Early History of Institutions,” more particularly as illus- trated by the Irish Brehon law. | OBITUARY. John ©, Heenan. A telegram {0m Salt Lake City under date of Yesterday, 26th 108t., Conveys the following infor- mation to the Hernan :—Jonn C, Heenan, the prize fighter, died on Saturday morning near Rawlins, on the Union Pacific Ratiroad, while on the way to San Francisco, He was a victim of consumption. His body was brought to Ogden, wheres casket has been sent from this city for the conveyance ofit to New York. The name of the deceased will be long remembered by the American people on ac- count of his prize ring battles with John Morrissey and the late Tom Sayers, the champion of England, Heenan was born in Troy, N. Y., where his father was employed in au iron foundry. The young man worked for ® time in the same establishment, but ultimately threw up the sledge hammer of iron for the sledge hammer fistic practice of the “manly art.’ He obtained considerable notoriety tm this line during a few years, and then engaged Mor- rissey on the Canadian border line, but was defeated by the tatter before & dozen of rounds were fought. Heenan sus- tained an accident during the fight, to which his backers attributed his ill luck, The great pluck and endurance which he displayed daring his encoun- ter with Sayers—when a stranger in a foreign land—commended him to the eronus sentiment of the British people, with whom he haa since re- mained popular. Some years ago Heenan sus- tained a very serious injury, by reason of an acct- dent which occurred when on one of the English railways, and for which the company compensated him ky paying @ heavy bill of damages without going into court. His physical system never com- pletely recovered from the effects of the shock which it then received. So, after lingering with more or less hope since, John ©. Heenan bas just now passed away from life. Cyrus Wakefield. Cyrus Wakefleld, a well known citizen of Eastern Massachusetts, dropped dead at his residence, in the town of Wakefield, yesterday, the 26th inst. He was @ man of considerable prominence, and had served in both branches of the Legislature and other places of trust and honor. He was im- mensely wealthy, and a few years ago gave the town a costly public hall and library in recognition of the honor of having the place named after him. He was one of the directors of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and was the only manufacturer of of rattan goods in New England, and also a heavy importer of East India goods. He wasone of the founders and the principal stockholder of the Bos- ton Daily Globe, There were rumors of his failure in business a few days ago; but we are assured that he always ae 100 cents on a dollar up to the moment of his decease. Mr. Wakefield re- turned home on Saturday night in his usual healh and good spirits and slept undisturbed till morning. He took his usual bath and dressed for breakfast, descending to the sitting room, while his wile followed to the dining room adjoining, Returning immediately she found him sitting before the open fire, witn a perer in his hand, dead. He was born in Roxbury, . H., in 1811, He commenced life poor, but early in life became one of the largest importers in Bos- ton. His manufactory at Wakefield gives steady employment to some 1,300 hands. Rev. Samuel B. Babcock, D. D, Rey. Samuel Braze Babcock, D. D., died at the Evars House, Boston, on Saturday afternoon, 25th inst. Dr. Babcock was born in Boston in 1808, and was a son of Samuel H. Babcock, a leading dry goods merchant, After receiving a thorough col- legiate education at Harvard he graduated in 1830in the class of Hon. Charles Sumner, Hon. G. Washington Warren, Jonathan Wheeler beemis, Nathaniel Austin and.Isaac Appleton Jewett. Hav- ing elected to follow the ministry, he studied with Bishop Hopkins, of New Hampshire, and in 1832 went to Dedham, where he became rector of the St. Paul's Society, and for forty-one years labored faithfully. About @ week ago, while at- tending a meeting at the rooms of the Episcopal Association, he was stricken with paralysis, and although the physicians gave hopes of his rallying, the shock was too severe for his enfeebled condition, and about three o'clock on Saturday aiternoon he quietly Reese away. One of nis last ministerial acts waa taking part at the burial of Bishop Randall. Ww. G. Lapham. A telegram from Syracuse, N. ¥., under date of 26th inst., reports to the HERALD as follows :—Wil- liam G. Lapham, Superintendent of the Middle Di- vision of the New York Central Ratiroad, died yes- terday, in the fifty-seventh year of hisage. The deceased was the civil engineer in the construc- tion of the old Auburn and Rochester Railroad ; also built the Elmira and Canandaigua Railroad, and was for several years its Superintendent. Twelve years ago he was appointed Superintendent of the Middie Division of the Central, continuing so, under the administrations of Dean Richmond, Henry Keep and Mr. Vanderbilt, untii his death. General C. Craufurd Hay. The death is announced, from London, of Lieu- tenant General C. Craufurd Hay, Colonel or the Ninety-third (Sutherland Higtanders) regiment of British infantry, which took place at Freshwater, Isle of Wignt, where he had gone with a view of benefiting his health, having returned recently Mn. E, B, Dz FoubLANQUE is preparing a memoir of Albany Foublanque. Along with it will be printed the contributions of the deceased to the Braméner, and other writings by him. Mr. Murray is preparing an addition to his well-known Handbook, in the shape of a “Eu- ropean Handbook for Travellers: a Condensed Guide to the Chief Routes and Most Important Places on the Continent.’ It will be in one vol- ume. BENTLEY promises a translation, by Mr. J. B. Brockley, of M, Villemain’s “Life of Gregory the Seventh.” This is the posthumous book the manu- script of which so remarkably twice escaped de- struction at the hands of the Commune, THE GLasGow News is the title of a new con- servative daily paper which has been started un- der the editorship of R. H. Patterson, a gentleman formerly well known on the London press, Ir Is ASSERTED at Berlin that Field Marshal Count Wrangel—“Papa Wrangel,” as he is popu- larly called—is engaged in the task of writing his autobiography. The book promises to be amus- ing. Unfortunately, however, it is not to be pub- Ushed, but will be reserved for private circulation only among the Field Marshal's friends. THE PUBLICATION i8 expected shortly of M. Charles de Flandre’s translation of Professor Petit’s “History of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots,” The work was begun some twelve years ago, under the auspices of the Empress Eugénie, and has been wrongly attributed to he: NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, Froiti !, is, Lippincott & Co., Philadeiphia:—“A Creat Novel,” @ romance, from the German of Van Duvall; “Hone and Gail,” poems, by Francia &. Salters; Prescott’s “Ferdinand and, Isabella the Catholic’ (volume 8 of new edition). From Harper & Brothers:—‘Sub-Tropical Ram- bles, Personal Experiences and Adventures in the Mauritius,” by Nicholas Pike. From Lee, Shepard & Dillingham :—“‘His Marriage Vow,” by Mrs. Caroline Fairfeld Corbin, From E. J. Hale & Son:—"Sea Gift,” a novel, by Edwin W. Fuller. LIFE INSURANCE; Cogdition of the St. Louis Mutual Com- pany. Sr. Louis, Oct. 26, 1873, At @ meeting of the board of directors of the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company last night the report on the condition of the affairs of that company up to October 1, which bas just been prepared by Edwin W. Bryant, Actuary of the Life Association of America; Emory McClintock, Actuary of the Northwestern Life, of Milwaukee, and J. H, Kellogg, Actuary of the Insurance De- partment of the State of Illinois, was presented and adopted. ‘This report gives the total assets of the company at tte! ; total liabilities and reserves, at four and a-half per cent, $6,360,279, Excess of Mabilities on this basis, $411,389. There is, however, an excess of assets over the abilities, and a six cent reserve of $741,753, and as the company lowed to do business in some States on the six cent reserve, it is claimed id the boar that the company is perfectly solvent. An address by the board taking this ground has been issued and will be sent to all the policy holders, The suits against the aheok by BE. A. itcomb: and the suit against Whitcomb by the company have beon mutually withdrawn, and the suite against the company by W, Selby, late'State Super- intendent of Insurance, have been laid over by Judge Modell, of the Circuit Court, till General Biair, successor to William Selby, has been quall- fled and installed in office, when the case can be three tanmres or Office in 1662, 1868-9 and 1860-4 If, | takem uv om motion, from the Cape of Good Hope an tnvalld, aged sixty- one years. He entered the army as ensign in the Nineteenth regiment of foot tn June, 1824. He was appointed Commandant and Inspector General of Instruction of the School of Musketry, at Hythe, in April, 1854, which post he held till October, 1367. In February, 1868, he was appointed Lieutenant General Commanding the Forces and Lieutenant Governor at the Cape of Good Hope, in succession vo Lieutenant General Wynyard, o. BL He ob- tained his commissions as licutenant, captain and major in succession by purchase; ‘became lieu- tenant colonel, August 30, 1842; colonel, June 20, 1854; major general, October 26, 1858, and lieutenant general, January 20, 1867, He was an inted colonel of the Ninety-third Sutherland Hig! anders in August, 1868, Count de Strzclecki. Paul Edmund Count de Strzelecki, or, as he lately desired to be called, Sir Edmund Strzelecki, has died at his residence in Saville row, London, at the age of seventy-seven years. Count de Strze, leckt came from an old Polish family; but, like many others of his countrymen, owing to politi- cal circumstances, he sought an asylum in Eng- land. Early in life he was a great traveller, and on his way from China he happened to land at Sydney, and there met Sir George Gipps, the Governor, at whose suggestion Count de Strzelecki explored ® great portion of Australia, traversing dis- tricts which were then unknown to previous explorers, In his explorations he discovered specimens of gold. yo his arrival in_ Eng- land, after his travels in New South Wales, he received a welcome from the Colonial Secretary, and many who had learned of his eminent scientific knowledge and of his extensive traveis became his warmest friends, He was selected as one of the commissioners for the relief of the Irish famine in 1847-8, and it duribg the last-mentioned year that, while ‘alsehar ing. duties as one of the commissioners, he stricken by fever at Mayo. He recovered after a short but sharp attack, and assisted to promote the emigration of many im- verished families to Australls. The government, in consideration of his valuable services during the famine, nominated him in 148 a Companion (Civil) of the Order of the Bath, and further re. warded him in 1869 by creating tim a Knight Com- mander of St. Michael and St. George, an honor which he highly a He was clected a Fellow of the Royal ety in June, 1853; was a D. 0. L., and a member of several of our learned societies, POISONING A WIFE. A Pennsylvania Physician Suspected of Marder. Bavtimorg, Oct. 26, 1873, Jeremiah Hess, of Quincy, Franklin county, Pa., was arrested on Friday on the charge of poisoning his wife. He ts Ofty-three years of age, and had been married over twenty years, Recently he and his wife had been living unhappily, on account of his ill-treatment of her. He was reported to have itormed illicit connections with other women, and would boast of them to her face. Six weeks ago he said to acquaintances that she would die suddenly, and a week previous to her death he left her and went to board at another house in the village. On Monday he returned to her, and on Tuesday, a8 she was preparing breakfast, ste fell to the floor and almost immediately expired. On account of his bad character there were strong suspicions that he had caused her are. She was to have been buried on Thursday, but ve the morning of that day her sister made the usual Dr. afidavit ly da) Justice of the peace, and the was forbidden. one acting Coronersnmmoned a jury = hada xamination made, wh Ponte of the Stomach were taken aod giv charge of physicians to look for evidences of ‘The post-mortem revealed the fact that her ‘were sound, and there were no indi. atural death. Hexs was bailed to ult of farther exaruination. He had from the Dunst Church as 6 UN- - “Bautmtore, Oct. 26, 1878, Daniel R;-Watson, formeriy secretary of severak building associations of this city, was vania, and br yy by be Py o regattion Ries inne ments for forgery having been foun ainst him. The forgeries aré on city banks and said to amount. to ‘about $4,000. TELEGRAPHIO NEWS ITEMS Patrick Beran, aged fifty-eight, missing from Lowell, Mass., stuce the 20th inst, wad yesterday found dead in the cayal at the Merrimack atreeg depot, George ©. Megathin, mite of the schooner H,, Adelbert, from Alex.anérias for Boston, died af Lewes, Del., Saturday. There was alight fall af show at Omaha, Neb. yesterday morning. The Modocs passed Ogden yehiterday in a special train for Wyoming. ‘ Baldwin's expedition has digcoyered @ large and Valuable deposit of cinnabar in ‘No ‘thern Arizona. ec Sparen et eran Died. Notice of funeral hereafter. {For other Deaths see Eighth Pad *-1 The Weekly He contains all the news. 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