The New York Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1874, Page 6

6 BEYOND THE SEAS! The History of the Hour as Told by a the Herald Historians. —_.+—_—_—— A MAP OF LIFE IN EUROPE. Special Correspondence from Eng- land, Belgium, France, Ger- many, Italy and Turkey. Theatres, Musie, Literature, Fashion, Gossip, Adventure and Politics. ENGLAND. ge London Gossip-New Dramas and The- atrical Notes. Lonpon, March 27, 1874 TOM TAYLOR’S NEW DRAMA. The new drama called “Olancarty; or, Wedded and Wooed,” which was produced last night at the Olympte Theatre, ts by the long silent Tom Taylor, aud, though am undoubted suecess, will be mach petter when it is reduced about one-third, Mr. Taylor is terrivly verbose and covers reams of paper with unnecessary dialogue, unnecessary be- cause It neither is witty in itself nor does it help In his latest venture he has a suf- fictently interesting plot with one or two striking situations; but the piece lasted for nearly hours, and even in the second act the audience began to show signs of being wearted with the interminable the action. tour conversations ending in nothing. Lord Macaulay's history bas furnished the groundwork of the play, the action of which ig laid in the year 1696, at the time when the plot for the assassination of William the Third and the reimstatation of James was just ripe. Lord Ciauc arty, an Irish nobleman of falien fortane, who has been living as an ad- | herent of the ex-King at St. Germain, brings over to England an assortment of arms and ammanition; but scar cely has he set foot on shore when he quarrels with the party of Jacobites who were eéxpecting him—first, because some of them—in particular one scoundrel, calied “Scum” Goodman—offer insult to some ladies who find themselves benighted at the little Inn, and, second, becanse, though @ hearty opponent of “The Little Dutchman,” he is too brave.a soldier to enter into any seneme of assassination. Deter- mined to save the King’s life, he makes his way to Kensington Palace and has an interview, first With the Bar! of Portland and aiterwards with William himself, putting them on thelr guard against the treachery which is immediately to find vent. In so doing he sitpulates that the names of the plotters are not to ve mentioned and that he himself (he is under an assumed name) !s not to be watched or followed. In the palace he meets one of the ladies whom he had rescued the previous night, and with whom he lad, of course, fallen in love. To his astonishment he discovers that she 1s his wife, They had been married when boy and girl—a practice not uncommon at tne time of their nuptiais—and had never met smnee. He keeps his tncognito, but manages to say the softest things to the Jady and to awake a responsive Game in her breast, while representing himself as her husband’s greatest friend. Unfortunately Lady Clancarty’s brother, Lord Charles Spencer, is a stanch whig and @ dusperate opponent of atl Jacobites, More- over, Scum’? Goodman has also been to the palace to betray the plot, but, unlike Lord Clancarty, the scoundrel has given up all the names and Specially denounces Clancarty, whose inter- ference on the ladies’ behalf he had not forgotten. Alarge reward for the capture of the traitors, dead or alive, ts instantly offered, and in the next scene Clanecarty climbs into nis wife’s bedroom to escape the pursuit of the soldiers. Knowing him only as Captain Haseldine, she is very indignant, and or- ders him at once to leave. Then he confesses him- sel’, and while they are in cach ovher’s arms Lord fpencer enters, and, seeing in Olancarty only the lover of his slater, challenges him to fight at once, Lady Clancarty flings herself between them, avow- ing the unknown to be ner husbana; but Lord Spencer is stili more greatly incensed, and, send- ing for a guard, arrests Clancarty asa traitor. In the last act Lady Clancarty makes her way to the King’s closet, and, by informing William that it Was to her husband's generous instinct that the King really owed his life, she obtains his pardon. The piece was well acted throughout. Miss Ada Cavendish, as Lady Olancarty, played with her usual grace and fiaish and with far more fire ana vigor thanarensualin her, Mr. Neville, as Lord Clancarty, was spirited and chivalrous, a little bothered by an Irish accent, which he only re- membered atintervals. Miss Fowler, most beauti- fully dressed, played a subordinate part with genuine bumor and coquetry. Perhaps the most remarkable of all was Mr. Charles Neville, who, though quite a young man, ‘‘made up” for Wiliam the Third in a most marvellous manner, and played the part with a dignity and an earnestaess whica brought down thunders of applaiise. + THE OLD ST¥Le OF MELODRAMA, Mr. Chattertun (as inaugurated his management ofthe Adelphi by the revival of a wretched ola ¢Crama called “Busaveth; or, The Exiles of Siverta.” Mr, Chatterton probably intended to take advantage of the interest occasioned by the arrivalof the Russian Prineess, the Duchess of Edinburgh, bat a8 the piece is full of denunciations of Russian tyranny the compliment 1s, at least, equiv . It is # thoroughly nonsensical produc- tion, fall of stilted dialogue, interspersed with come songs, It ia pleasant to kmow that it was soundly hissed, and that 1¢ cannot possibly retain the boards, Am enormous restaurant called “The Criterion,” to which is attached a theatre, which was opened to tHe public on Saturday night, has been built close by Piccadilly Circus. “DHE CRITERION ie decidediy the pretciest theatre in London, and is decorated with the most periect taste im bine satin and goid. goes in tobe @ “swell nouse, as the greater portion of the aréa is given up to ‘alis, and the denizens of the pit are relegated to a very cramped and narrow space under the boxes, The dtop scene bas been painted by the Grieves, | &nd the appointments, both before and bentnd the curtain, are excellent. Mr. H. J. byron is t stage manager, and Mr, Hingston, so well known in America as having been with Ariemas Ward, is | te acting manager, FOUL PLAY, The irrepressible and eccentric Charles Reade, having Jost a certain sum of money in playing his own pieces at the Wucen’s Theatre, is now about to open Astiey’s, for the production of more Reade, including & Hew Version of “Foul Play.” MR, TOOLE. Mr, Toole bas arranged to open at Wailack’s on the 17th of August, GossIP. There hasbeen # quarrel between Mr. W. Ss, Gil- bert, the dramatist, and Miss Hodson, the man- agcress of the Royaity Theatre. The dramatist sued the lady for an account; the lady replied by an acjion tor slander. The matter hus now been we\ tied by arbitration. The “Blue Legged Lady,” an absardity founded n the old notion of “The Rehearsal,” “The Crivio,” 4¢., of enacting @ rehearsal before the Budience, is @ fullare, Mr, Giibert’s “Charity” finishes this week at the Haymarket, It has been the least successful of any Of his pieces. Mr. Barry Sullivan is reported to be doing im- meee bus: “8 On lis provincial tour, Mra. Boucicault was at Nottingham Inst week. 1t evidently | She ie now in Mult, The “Long Strike,” “Cotteet Bawn/? “Arral-na-Pogoo,” &c., find gréat favor etl. BELGIUM. New Emigrant Law—Antwerp— The Cunard Linue=The Emigration Question Generally. Brussers, Mare? 15, 1874 Ihave to thank the American Minister at Bras- sels for the 1ollowmg drait of a ditt for the better protéction of emigrants, which will shortly pass into the laws of Beigium:— ARTICLE 1.—No person will henceforth be al- lowe? to make engagements with emigrants in Belgiam of to ship emigrants from Bel; ports bs Ont Adthoriy tvom the Minister for Foreign. irs, Akt, 2.-——This authority will be only exyanes condition that sumctent guarantecs are offered for the exact fulfilment of alt obligations meurred towards the said emigrants, and upon payment of premiums of iusurance upon the vessels intended to convey them to ttetr destination. Arr. 3.—Emigration agents will be required to insuve at their own expense, and im the interests ol the emigrants, all possible loss and damage which may arise trom their faiture to periorm their contracts or to «eposit @ sum equivatent to the amount of such igsirance. Ant, 4.—Certain fixed administrative rules will be published determining— First—the conditions under which the authority frou the Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs will be granted to emigration agents, ‘ ‘the cases in Which stch authority will be cancelled, Third—The amount of the guarantee required, and the manner to which it must be given, Fourth—The uianner in which inspections and examinations into everything Which concerns eumtgration will be conducted, Fifth—The accommodation and provisions neces- wr ewtgrant vessels. ih—Phe space reserved tor eaeh Ls arom er and the Jactiitles ior thetr embarkation and landing. Seventh—The ov'igations incumbent upon agents duly anthorizea and upon captains of emigrant Bhi ‘Bghtn—The conditions of insurance and the amount Of the deposit required to replace such in- surance, Ninih—The manner in which emigrant ships will be inspected before their departure. In the case of Belgian vessels this will be settled in the inanner already preseribed by the ‘“vode of Com- merce. renth—The manner in which certificates will be delivered-deciaring that all the provisions of the law have been complied with, ART, 5,—Emigranis prevented from embarking by reason of aly serious oF contagious maindy properly certitied are entitled to receive back the price paid for their passage. The price of the grr erret he also returned to every member of the igrant’s (amily who re- mains belinda with him. Ant. 6.—Hf an emigrant vessel does not clear out of port upon the day fixed vy contract the emigra- tion agents must pay an indematty to eael emi- grant ior every day's delay, to meet his expe:ses on storé; the said indemnity to be fixed by a publie administrative regulation, if the delay should exceed ten days and if the emigration ageht has not in the meanume pro vided any other means of transport under the same conditions a3 those already fixed by contract the emigraut may annul thé contract by a simple declaration, made before the Maritine Commis. sioner, and obtain the restitution of the price paid for iis passage, without prejudice to his claim for damages. Nevertheless, if the emigrant vesselis delayed by armed force, duly certified by the Maritime Com- missioner, the é@migrant may not annal his con. tract nor require the restitution oJ the price puid for Ms passage nor make any claim for damages, provided he ts boarded and lodged at the expense | of tue emigration agent. All stipulations aid agreements contrary to tite tenor of this article are null and veid in law. Arr, 7.—Emigration agents are responsible for the transport Of emigrants to the place of their destination, as Axed by contract. Emigrants must be conveyed to the place of their destination by the most direct route, unless a suipdlation is made with: them to the cou- tra dir case of any voluntary or inyoluntary delay noon the voyage emigrants must be lodged and provided ou ooard the ship, or indemnified for the cost of their board and lodging ashore, In case of shipwreck or other disaster at sea, which may prevent the ship from continuing her voyage, the emigration agent is vouad to provide, at bis own expense, for the transport of the emi- grants to the place of their destination, Arr. 8,—In every case Where emigration agents bave not lulfilled their engagements toward eti- grants the (Beigian) Minister for Foreign Affairs or bis deputy will pay the indemnities claimed out Of the caution money, or guarantees deposited by the agents, subject vo appeal, ip cases of dispute, to the competent legal tribunal. ArT. 9.—Every iniraction of articles 1 and 3, of the present jaw, wil be punishable by a fine of not | less than fifty francs nor more than 5,000 franca, Every infraction of the rutes laid down by the public administration charged with the execution 1 the present law wiil be punished by a fine o! pot less’ than tweoty-five francs or more than 600 franes. Upon each conviction for a secona offence the maximum of these fines will be doubled, Ant, 10.—Lufractions of the present law may be cerufed— In Belgium, by the maritime commissioners and by all officers of the judicial police. In foreign ports, on board Belgian vessels by the resident Belgian Consul. The transport of emigrants under the Belgian flag has hitherto been regulated only by a few royay ordinances and ministerial instructions publishea ft various periods; and, notwithstanding all the care taken by the Belgian government for tne protection of emigrants, experience has amply demonstrated the necessity for some more per- manent and complete law afecting their interests. A’ commission was therefote appointed some time ago to Inquire minutely into the subject; and this commission bas now terminated its labors, The government has thus been enabled to take Up the question, and the result has been that Count D’Aspremont-Lynden, Minister tor Foreigu Affairs, has presented the above law to the Belgian Loegisiature, with all the support which it can de- Tive irom the party in power. Its provisions are very simple and in perfect. conformity with the laws already ¢xisting in other countries, The Belgian government has justly considered that the transport of emigrants is not np ordinary branch of trade which couid be entirely abandoned to private enterprise, and, moved by considerations of justice and humanity, it has re- quired that henceforth all dealings with emigrants should be placed under State supervision. Emt- gration agents will be obliged to turni#h substan- tial guarantees 4 to deposit caution money for | the fulfiiment of their engagements beforo they Will be granted authority to carry on their busi- ness, Onthe other hand the emigrants will be saved from loss and harm, as well ds from Ill-treat- | ent and want, whieh have been so oiten inflicted on them by greedy and unscrupulous people, This law will Immediately receive the r.yal assent, and probably do a great deal to increase the present active emigration from Antwerp. The port of Antwerp is about to be much en- larged and improved, for it has become one of the principal channels through which the great Teu- tonic flood 13 ever flowing to the United States. About ten per cent of the German emigrant trade is now taken up at Antwerp, The following statement, complied from oMcial returns for 1872, which are the latest accessible up to the present time, show the exact number of emigrants who embarked for the United States under tae Belgian ftag during that year:— } Germans. 007,989 Belgians... 654 | Duten 7 Luxemburge' 359 | Ataltans. + 280 Austrians. 146 Swisa, « 126 Frenne. ...sesee. 16 Nationality unknown TORR .0a sevens e | Of these emigrants 8,072 were males and 1,579 | females, Phey ail went either to New York or New Orleans, The establishment of the new Red Star line to Philadelphia wil give additional impetus to tie | emigration movement-at Antwerp, because eml- | grants can be sent om West by the Pennsylvania | Central Ratlway with such ase, ahd at rates 80 | Much below those whieh have been demanded | heretofore, that great saving is made by tho emi- grants who take this méané Of transport. Tne price of a passage trom Antwerp to Philadelphia having been now reduced to 130 fraucs, the first RIX voyages made by the Red Star lime secared | over 1,672 passengers, or, say, 260 per voyage. | The vessels of this line run every three weeks. THE WHITH CROSS LINR, too, has combined with the Baltic Lloyd's, from Stettio to callat Antwerp, aad bosh compautes now run in conuection, ‘They have steamers e' ten days, Now, ag every emigrant represents @ money value, and possibly a good cttizen to the | | United States, Autwerp has become @ place of ever, continues to compete successfully with the Belgiau steamers, even at Antwerp. SANITARY CONDITION OF EMIGRANTS. Dr. 8. Lewis has recently addressed an interest- ing letter te Messrs, Mclver, giving some valuabic information as ta the sanitary state of the emt- grauts who have been onder hiecharge. From the statement of Dr, Lewis it appears that out of 5,343 emigrants who have lately embarked tor the | Tnited States, in fifty-eight vessels, no fewer than | 5,203 made the voyage im perfect health, 80 met with various acchicnts or fell ill, 78 were cured and only 2 dted. Nevertheless, great complaints are made that some of the ship doetors are unable to compre- hend the language of their patients, especially that of the Poles aud Italians, and there is a loud demand for competent interpreters, Emigration from the port of Antwerp to the United States is decidedly on the increase, and, notwithstanding the obstacles now opposed to the movement by the government, many Germans find their way thither, attracted by the cheapness of the new lines of steamers ard the facilities of water carriage. ‘The nuutber of emigrants shipped from Antwerp direct to the United States daring the year 1873 was, according to private information, as follows:— To New York.... . 6,046 In ‘connection with these fgures it is to be ob- served that the number of emigrauts who now em- bark for the United States from Bremen is de- creasing. Thus 5¢2 emigrants embarked during the month of January last In ten vessels bound direct tor New York, and 59 emigrants in two shins bound for Baltimore, and 64 emigrants in one ship bound for New Orleans, whereas in 1878 824 emi- grants embarked in six ships direot from bremen to New York, 113 in one ship bound direct for bal timore and 137 in two vessels bound direct jor New Orleans, EMIGRATION AGENTS, Serious complaints, not always unfounded, con- tinue tobe made against the emigration agents who do business on tie Continent of Kurope. It is said that they habitually practise many of the arts of the recruiting sergeant, and are often unscrupu- lous, There is such sharp competition on the vari- ous lines now running that all methods of jurther- .| ing thetr interests are apt to seem good to their representative; and it {s difficult to control agents who are pursuing their culling in the interior of Saxony and Bohemia and other places distant from the seaports, These facts have been eagerly seized on by the imperial government of Germany a8 @ pretext for interierence, and M. Ajlardt, Emi- gration Agent for the State of Michigan, has been subjected to considerable annoyance by the Saxon police, acting evidently under orders from Berlin. 1 have heard nothing but good of this yentieman; bat the Saxon authorities allege that he was con- cerned in persuading a coiony of several thousand Saxons to emtgrate to Lake Superior county, whica was represented as good farming land. When they got there they wrote hime to complain that they had been deceived, The real trath, how- ever, ia that the German government, finding that its best recruits for the army—young men of nerve and simew—are more and more disposed to emi- grate, is determined to put as many obstacies as possible in their way. Now, a8 Prince Bismarck cannot coerce the United States he is obliged to carry out his,object by coercing the smaller Ger- man governments. Moreover, the trath about emigration to the Tnited States has for some time past veen system: atically suppressed in Germany. ‘Thus the latest news received {rom America, published at Lelpsic up to the 25th of Fepruary, was a brief telegram announcing the death of Professor Agassiz. In- deed, the German papers have been warned not to print any favorable accounts of the United States; but any Intelligence of an unsatisfactory character respeciing an epidemic or a commercial crisis may ve’ disclosed without fear of conse- quences, whether it 1s true or fase, An odd report, circulated not long ago, was traced to official sources. Tne Prussian peasantry were given to understand that the American crown had been offered to Prineé Frederick Charles. This was rather a damper to their spirits, for a8 most emigrants have very decided ideas about military service, they felt that the laws of King Frederick Charles were likely to be at least as stringent im that respect a8 those of Kaiser Wil- helm. “It is all very well to spread snen reports,” said @ Berlin protessor to me arly, “but the first post which comes in from New York lets our peas- ants into the secret of their meaning. There is no such thing as succesafal underhaad government nowadays.”? FRANCE. American Life in Paris—Dramatic and Social News—Quarrel Between Victor Hugo and Gambetta. Panis, March 20, 1874. Mr, Wasiburne, the Americano Minister in Paris, 1s absent just now at Arcachon in consequence of tines in bis family. Bnt although the many per- sons to whom tis kindness and courtesy have ren- dered service, must regret the occasion of his absence, the traditional hospitalities of the Amer can legation have not suffered by it. Colonel Hoffman, Secretary to the Mission, and his charming and accomplished wife enter- tamed this week at dinner the Miuister for Foreign Affairs, and the Duchess Decazes, Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador; the Chevalier Nigra, who representa the King of Italy, and ® distinguished party of Americans at present in the french capital. Nothing could have gone off better than Mrs. Hoffman's recep- tion, It was managed with a act and grace which may fairly rank Mra. Hoffman with Lady Cowley, for the winning charm of her manner, and Lam inclined to think very near to Princess Lieven and Baroness Brununow, in her young days, as a diplomatiat, I have said Lady Cowley, for Lord Cowley did not shine as a host, and when he Was made an earl there wasa joke about it, ana the club wits said, “It was odd to give five balls to @ man who never gave one dinner,” five being the Buaiber of ornamental knobs on an earl’s coronet. Lord Palmerston used to say, however, that “dining 1s the life and soul of diplomacy,” and certainly persons who are not immediately mixed up with public affairs are not aware of the valuable sum of business which can be done by bright witted diplomatists over the dinuer table. It would be cert#nly much better if they were aware of it, because then the salaries of for- eign representatives would be more in accordance with the demands made upon tiem. No public Money is really put out to better advantage than that paid in the shape of salary to a hospitavie and genial gentleman like Colonel Hoffman, Indeed, | he derives the least of the benefit which comes from it. His house is@ meeting place where his countrymen have the only possible opportunity they could find, as strangers in a great city, of knowing personally the most colebrated Politicians and men of Jeiters at the Re public or Court to which he is accredited, and this iso small advantage to an observant | traveller, whether his business be science, commerce or pleasure. The salary of a dipio- Mmatilst, after all, goes back into the pockets of his own people, often to their great improvement in: experience and information, It is expensive to entertain travellers indiscriminately, ae ministers and secretaries know to their cost; but Colonel Hofman probably considers the respect and good wishes of his feliow citizens as @ satisfactory re- turn for his money, and, theretore, he Is in one sense amply repaid, There has been no more pop- ular Secretary of the United States Legation in Paris than Colonel Hofman, who 18 not only kind and hospitable, but a rising statesman of a rare Oraer—sensivie, straightiorward and thoroughly Up to bis work; 60 that ire wili make, and deserves to make, his mark in the dipiomatic service. ‘The Count and Countess of Paria have been also giving @ series of evening parties. They reveive twice @ week, and, although some of the more obstinate legitimists held aloof from them at first, latterly invitations have been begged with a per- tinacity almost amusing. Thus at tne latest soirée some importance, Tam well assured that the accommonation, both | upon the “Red Star line” and the “White Cross | lune,” is extremely good, The Cunard line, Rowe | given by the Countess of Paris ail the noble Fau- bourg mustered round her, aud even the Duchess of Chevreuse was thore, Alter Easter we are to have private theatricals | and the taste for comedies and proverbs will be developed tn society, Marshal MacMahon and the | Duchess of Magenta 40 not come ott very bril- | hantly im these festivities, the Marshal beng rather @ heavy-witted gentleman, and the | Duchess too restless’ and uneasy for an agres- | able hostess. M, Buffet receives well, and so do M. and Mine, Thiers; bat perhaps the Duo d’Au- male’s hunting parties at Chantilly are just now the best things going on in France. After alt 18 said that can be satd there is a gad iaiting off from the piping times of the Empire, and surely the milliners and jewellers who réeently joincd the demonstration at Chiselnurst were sincere in | their wishes for thé restoration of the Bonapartes. | since the establishment of the Repuvits is that everybody 18 afraid of parting with his ready money for fear of having te run away and pass & few months abroad m case of another outvreak. Still we are now doing the best we can, and Mrs. Hoffman has, at least, set a good example to the Jadies of the Diplomatic Corps, who are more or less superior to revolutions here. Among iniscellaneous items of intelligence I may mention that the Duke of Padua has been sus- | pended irom his fanctions as Mayor of Courson-l’- Aulnay, because he went to celebrate the majority of the Prinee Imperial. The Punishment will not 3 | break bis heart, and it is the fashion to make | merry over such expressions of the disapprobation of authority. In this case the merriment 18 heart- ier because the Prince Mayor has been suspended by the Duke de Broglie, who is extremely unpop- ular. If anything were wanted just now to make the confusion of Frenoh politics worse contounded it might be sought in the fact thet M, Paul de Cas- sagnac, the champion fire eater of the imperial- ists, disapproves the new programme of M. Rouher and the Napoleons of Cinselhurst, aud is rather in- clined to side with Plon-Plon, who has set up an opposition establishment in Paris. Moreover, M. Vivtor Hugo, the apostie of the radicals, has had a quarrel about his new book with M. Guabetta, the popular tribune, Marshal MacMahon declares that he cannot hold power withont the Duke de Broglie, and the Duke Decazes, who is the best man in the Cabinet, looks somewhat coolly on his overbearing colleague. M, Guizot and M. Olivier are sayiug unkind things to ech other, even in the peaceful precincts of the Academy, and Frohsdorf ts sulking with St, Germains, There is, nevertheless, some harmony ia the midst of at all; and ft 1s truly @ relief to be able to | conclude this letter with an account of the inau- guration of a new organ at the American Episco- | pal chapel. 2 send you herewith a programme of the concert given last evening (March 19) at the American church in honor of this event. The per- formance commeuced at nine P. M. and everything went off nicely. The churelt was filled with the élite of the American colony. All the music com- posing the programme was well executed, and it would be difticnit to say which piece was the suc- cess of the evening. Too much praise, nowever, could not be bestowed upon Miss Montagte, whose singing was fresh and delightful as the carol of a bird:— OL OLE LOOE LORE RELOLODO ROLE DODIDE LO LELOIELEOTLE HEED: AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHAPAL i THE HOLY TRINITY, Rey, Jonx B. Monaax, Rector. INAUGURATION DU GRAND ORGUE le Jendi, 19 Mars 1874, a hult heures et demi du soir. PROGRAMME. i Morceau pour grand -A, Chauvet 1. | Prere, pour ‘eagroie ij G cam Executes par Med, W. Crane, orvai elise. 2. Patera. Dur de St. Vincent de Paul ‘Chante par M. mpaghe par auteur, A & (manuseriy) -Auber 3 Chante par Mile, A. Montague. {Erlares Ob: Mf Orgue et violon..... E. Chaine 4 Execute par auteur. 5. “Blessed is He who cometh’’.,.. 6. J. Barnby Ch. Widor organiste des grands julpice. Chante par Mile. A. Aonta, Morceau d’orgue . ro 3 3 3 3 z 3 z 3 3 3 g Sixeante pur M. Oh. Widor, H orgues a StS 7. Cruetfix.... 3 Duo—Chan 3 3 g g i premier tenor de la Madeli J. Faure an fears al i a cagpass svewAs Durand cule par Pawlet xe . “But the Lord ts mindful of his own” (St. Pan). . . -Mendelssohn 8. Morceau d’orgue . 9 ante “Pieta, Signore” Chant . Sanctus, orgue... Execute par M. Widor. 327 Rue de la Procession, & Paris (eleve et ex-contre: Qmaiive des ateliers de Mr. C. Barker), et possedt Salx-huit jeux complets, repartis sur deux claviers. & $mains de cinquante-huit touches, et un clavier de pe- digas separes de trente notes. -Stradetla n. Cherndini 12, Les Rameaux. sibeih de 3. Baty Chante par 4. 7, Rovin 13, Sortie, grand chwur pour orgue, Nota.—Cet orgue sort des atellers de M. Paul Ferat, Il renterme 916 tuyaux. ORES LONE LIIE IIE REO DONEDD LE SLSODOLEOE LE LE DERE: ITALY. The Troubles of the New Kingdom—The Progress of Unity and Free Govern- ment—The King and the Papacy. Rome, March 17, 1874, This time teat year there was a general shaking of heads among the nations, who are, with more or less kindly interest, warching the experiment which is being mate tn Italy. The experiment is, in truth, one of nosmal! momen} to the civilized world. Given a nation which, for over 800 years, has been subjected to every sort of misgovernment that can be conceived most calculated to degrade & people, to demoralize them and to unfit them for the duties and advantages of being free citizens, and, above all, for the duties and privileges of self. government, which, indeed, has never been a na- tion at all, but a mere bundie of little, despotically Tuled States, a mere geographical expression, a3 Metternich sald; let @ series of circumstances, fall. ing out in the most extraordinary manner, enable that people to make themselves, for the firat time, @ nation, to get rid of the some half dozen little tyrants who oppressed them, and to start on the career of 4 constitutional and self- governing State; let them nave a free stage and ho favors for the experiment, and then let us see whether it be possible for them to succeed in their attempt; whether these slaves for so many generations can, by siniply knocking off their fettera, be changed into a nation of free men— these subjects of half a dvzcn different princelings be welded into one political body, The achieve- ment i question ie a more arduous one, probably, than the citizens of a country which has never known any social condition but one of freedom are able readily to Pealize. And itis one the attempt at which demands the most indulgent and forbear- ing consideration on the part of all those happier Bations who are looking on the efforts this young sister is making to join their company, Perhaps ‘we are all of us—we looKers on at tis interesting | experiment—somewhat too much in a hurry for the result, We look back to the great events which decided the political union of the Peninsula and calculate that Italy ougit, within the time that has elapsed, to have satisiactorily consolidated t union and trimmed the vessel of the State Gefinitively for @ prosperous voyage. But Italy claims that the expect: us based on these dates ought to be very materially modified, asserting that the time at which she was fairly started on her voyage can only properly be counted {from the date of her occnpation of her naturat capital she urges, moreover—and this, at Teast, is beyond ail doubt abundantly trae—that the circumstances under which this taking possession of her capital was effected have enormously aggravated the diMcuities of her sub- sequent course, 1 may again revert to the consider- | ation of these @iMcuities, for the pressure which they exercise on every portion of the social and political life of the nation, and tne nature of tho efforts which have been and are being made to pple with them, constitute perbaps the moss Curious and pecaliar phase of the present situation Of the country. But It will be best fist to give a shors skeichof the poittical situation as it exis: &@t the present moment, ‘This time last year, as I have said, thore was a general shaking of heads and muttering of sinls- ter prophecies as to the uon-competency of tits people tor Parliamentary inatitutions and event. wal fatture 1m the attempt to work them. Day alter day the skeleton of the Chamber met, oniy to have it declared by the much-enduring President, Signor Bianoheri, that, the number of members required by the law not being present, no business could be done. The Itaiian Jaw in this respect bas been baked more on the constitution of the United | States than on that of England, save that the | Italian law makes go provision enabliug any pox \ One of the reasons which have made Paris so dull | | sorrow to the grave, NEW. YORK. HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1874.—OUINTUPLE SHEKT. absentees; and for want of such an émaé seemed, this timé last year, a4 if the whole busi- ness of the country must come to ® standstill, In- deed, it did come to » standstill ior weeks to gether, or very nearly 60. Honorable members, euuld not be indueed to come to Rome. Day aiter day the issue of the jarce-lke meeting of thé Chamber was the same, save for the mcreasing urgency of poor Signor Btancheri’s expostulations and lamentations, “He lamented to announce,” &o., &c, “He had again tne grea griet of deciar- ing,” &c., &e, “It was with feelings of sorrow and humiliation that be once again had the paintul task,” &¢., &c. And the days went on, and it seemed probable that the bushy trou-gray wnis- kers of Signor Biancherl would be broughs with ‘The matter was becoming very serious, and atl sorts of remedies were dis- cussed in political circles and in tne. public press, Adopt the English pian, and reduce the legal quo- rum to forty, or some other comparatively smail number? A chorus of dieapprovation arose on all sides, and the similarity of the objections used by either political party were very anusing. ‘“Impossivie! If such a handinl could transact business there would be no end to the tricks of those villains of the Right! or “We should have the world turned topsy tarvy by the surprises of those scamps of tne Lert,’ ac- cording t@ the aMuities of the speaker. On al) sides the mistrust and fear of being tricked, so eminently ebaracteristic of Italy when it was pro- posed to enact thatagiven number of absences without regularly asked and obtained leave should ~pso facto vacate the seat, But to this it was re- plied time the vacated seats would have to be filled by new members, whose condudt in the mat- ter of attendance would be no whit vetter than that of those they replaced. it was urged, in fact, that Italy in the present phase of its social condition does not and cannot supply a sufficient number of men capable of serving their country tn Parliament with assiduity and gratuitously. (Tne reader Is provably aware that tne Italian Deputies receive nowsalary.) A very large pruportion o1 the members are professional men, who are dependent for the support of themselves and their families on professional work, And how te this to be made compatible with @ residence in Rome for some seven or eight months of the year? The diMculty “ig met, 80 far as is practicanie, by giving the mem, bers of the Legislature the privilege of unitmited gratuitous travelling on the raiways and steam- boats throughout the country. This enables mem- bers to dash up to Rome, vote in the Chamver and rush back again, oiten withont even sleeping in the capital. Votes are thus obtained; but tt can hardly be supposed that the business of leguslation gains much by the contributions of these migra tory legislatora to its wisdom; and, on the other hand, a strong opinion is growing up in the coun- try that this privilege of gratuitous travelling will have to be suppressed, It is evident, indeed, that if on the one hand this privilege makes it possible for members to sit and vote, aiter a taéiion, who would otherwise find it altogetuer impos- sible to do so, it om the other hand en- courages those who might do their duty by their constituents and by the coun- try to neglect it in reliance on tho possibility of scampering up to Rome to give @ vote on a press- ing Occasion. As things are at present honorable members lead the life of railway expressmen—the cars are a sort of lobby to. the Chamber, and the likeliest place to form a shrewd opinion as to the probabiitties of a coming vote is the railway station on the morning preceding the division. Otner considerations are not wanting—which are deemed to point to the same conciusion—as to the privilege of gratuitous travelling. Frauds are con- tinuailly committed and scandals frequently arise from the improper and illegitimate use of their tree tickets by these “Onorevoli,’”’ as the deputies are popularly called, not without @. spice of ma- licious meaning in the use Of the word. Italian hapits aud ways of thinking do not lead men here to look very closely or severely into such matters, and perhaps it is not too much to say that these practices bave been to @ great extent winked at There was #n amusing story current some Ite time since illustrative of this subject, which I cannot refrain from telling, because it is highly cfraracter- istic of Italian ways and manners. Nothing fur- ther need be premised, I think, to make it per- fectly intelligible to those who do not speak Italian than to mention that the word, “gattina’— “kitten’—is used as a term of endearment, ap- plied, of course, to individuals of the softer sex. Now there is or was @ deputy whose name ts Petrncelli della Gattina, and upon one occasion he ‘was Induced—so it was said, at least—to lend his railway ticket to a lady, who was not Mme, Petrucelll, but one in whom the honorable deputy felt @ special interest. Atacertain station, how- ever, on the production of the ticket, an ungallant station master objected tnat the individual presenting 1t was not Sig- flor Petrucelll. ‘Pooh, pooh! what would you have?” said a bystander, who had the pleasure of the lady’s acquaintance; “If it Is not Petruceili delia Gattina, it is la gattina ai Petru- ceui! It is all the same thing, man!” And go the lady and the incident passed, for Italy is stil} very much in such matters what it was in the days of Horace—“Solvuntur risu tabula!” A joke Is permitted to temper the austerities of justice! Many other cases have arisen, however, wiich have been felt to be beyond a joke! GERMANY, Anregican Life in Sazony—A Catholic Court and a Protestant People—Educa- tion and Society, Drespex, March 19, 1874. To go to Dresden from Berlin is like going out Of @ schoolroom into a garden. Dresden te per- haps the pleasantest place in Germany; pleasanter tuan Hamburg, gayer than Frankfort. All Bux- ony, Indeed, shows the influence which a jolly series of Monarchs May have upon national char- acter, No doubt the Prassians arc a greater and ® wiser people than the Saxons. ‘their stern, brave, parsimoniéus sovereigns lave drilled and taught them admirably, but they are not an agree- able people; whereas the Saxons are a kindly, amusing, easy living folk, who have been made merry by such kings as Augustus the Strong, and— well, let us say others of a more recent date, not to be personal. Social relations between Saxona and foreigners are cordial; intermarriages are not unfrequent, Living in Saxony is cheap; it id not so cheap as it | used to be a few years ago, but there is a notable difference between the expenses of a houschold at Dresden and at Berlin. For these reasons and many others equally intel- ligible @ large American colony has gradually settled at Dresden. About 800 Americans are now | living there, and among them are @ considerable | number of ladies, Some of these ladies are extremely beautiful, and they are frank, outspoken, accustomed to a Without abusing it abroad. They have, however, naturally attracted a good deal of attention among the Germans, whose manners are more reserved and who keep their daughters more secluded; so | that some queer stories have been citculated, and an opinion prevailed, as generally aa errors of that sort when once in existence will prevail, that Dresden was colonized by Americans holding thé Goctrines of free love, lasked Mr. Brentano, American Consul at Dres- Gen, Wether there was any truth in this report, and, if 80, how much or veracity it contained, The Consul, who is @ very sensible and experienced gentleman, not without a spice of dry humor in him, replied that very iikoly the report I had mens | toned to him was as true 4@ moat other reporte; and that as far a8 he was concerned he’ did not Know of asingle instaace in which. an American Indy in Dresden had occasioned the smallest ‘scan- dal. THe added that he would give me the meaus of judging the American colony for myself, aud he did 80 forthwith, Ho went with me to the American Club in the Victoriastrasse, and the Secretary of the club at Once courteously invited me to frequent it during my stay in Dresden. 1am bound here to express my thanks for tue extreme kinduess and hospitality lreceived from the American Club at Dresden, and the seunalatonces 1 formed there will be tion of ether Rouse to compel the attendance of | it rational freedom at home and using their liberty | henestwth page the most delightful recotlee: tious my life. No fterary to @eed, could have felt it @emati Ronor to nave beer admitted te a society which ovuld eount such. mey. as Jahan Hawthorne, sow of te author of the ‘Soariet Letter,” and others of equal distinction, but with whose names f was less fantiliar. Americans witl be giad to learn that Mr. Julian flawthorne, wio has already made his mark to literature, tg just about to publish a new book, and the title of Mr. Hawtnorne’s book is “fdotatry.* There was something tn the handsome and gifted young man who weirs £0 worthily the name of hts iilustrions father which attracted me at once, ana te he paid me the highest vompliment he Soule ave paid me by permitting me to read a few pages of his bay lished manuscript. It bad yt bo ordinary attention thee 2 consi wor! which within a few weeks will be presenta to the public, wnose ear ie still flied with the enchant ent of the mighvy magician who has passed away. I weighed pny Word as F rear an found that each one contained evidence of nd toil patiently continwved, is, therefore, na idle prediction to aseert that Mr. Julian thorne’s new book will pass permanently into our language as a masterpiece of exquiaite ing and finish, It is a book which no En; could have written. The scene of the story and the story itself are American, and there iw so thing new and iresh in it and trae and gran altogether different from the thoughts and agery of European writers, ‘nig digression has carried me far away from the; merry wives oi Dresden; but, to say the truth, F had ‘forgotten the whole improper story about them be ore Lhad ican Club, It was soon recalled to my memory, however, for, according to the kindly America cuetom, J waa introduced to every gentleman pres eut, and bewre long got into conversation with r. N.S. Jenkins, tne celebrated dentist, whose Dame is known throughout Germany as a sctentifia man of the highest attainments. I knew that he had been established jor sometime in Dresden, and nad @ large practice there, so T thought thad he would he the best possible authority to confirm ne ial lg story in Clreulatiom or to explode is Tr. “Tam gory to take my afternoon drive for fresh aur,” said Dr. Jenkins cheerfully, “Come with me. J will show you a pretty neighborhood shout Pa as We can say it we have to say on the y “You seo,” continued Dr. Jenkins, in answer ta some leading questions of mine, as we were site ting behind an American trotting horge he had just hnported—“you see our American girls are alto. gether too beautiiul. It ought not for girls to be 80 beautiful as some of them are, They seem to strike the Germans all of a Behe One when they see so much beauty walking abou alone, of ready to talk merrily in society, the: can’t make it out, When you ask me it there anything LAPORTE going on among them I can ga ely tell you that lam sure there ia not, I know every American lady here, and there is not @ si! doubtful one in the place. Oh, yes! there are ows and grasa widows enough. They come here mostly to educate their children, and there Seve been stories ubout the children sometimes, of the schools here object to receive Ameri children because they are too much accustome: to have thelr own way and get too mush pock money. That i¢ about all you will find out, think.” He turned apatr of brignt, Cah 3 upon ine as he spoke, an4 I felt quite satisied t: Thad heard the truth. ‘The american Consul gave a large party to cele+ brate Washington’s birthday while I was in Dres- den, and at his house I met most of the Saxon litical celebrities. From them [learned that the Saxons in general are not reconciled tothe ex. . tinction 0: their independence by Prussia, bore the commercial classes se2 some advantages tn it. The Saxon Court is Catholic, the peepee Protes- tant, AS a necessary result the royal farmitly, sna expectaliy Prince Geovge of Saxony, take part wi the persecuted bishops in the réligious struggie now going on in Germany, while the Saxon Lo are melined to side with Prince Bismarck. ‘The King, who ig a biulf, easy man, keeps ratner ont- side the whole question, and none of tts pecrie temonstrate a vivid interest init, The prin of the Catholic Church In Saxony also are acting with consummate prudence, - TURKEY, Russtan and British Influence in Ture - key—Opening of a College of Medicine. CONSTANTINOPLE, Mareh 13, 1874, Every new Grand Vizier on his first coming to power seems to consider it Ins primary and imper- ative duty to dismiss all the dismiasable oMcers of the State under him and to make fresh appotht+ ments, When, as at present, the other Ministers are too well supported tobe unseated, Gis High- ness does not waste nis time on them, but dill- gently goes to work at once on the minor ofictals, the Ottoman Ministers abroad and the provin} cial governors, There follows a thorough shifting of al} these doomed officials; some condemned to* temporary retirement, others transierred—etther to jnferior or superior posts, as chance and duskenis? may decide it—and all for no better reason than to arrive at the highly de- sirable end of having accomplished a complete change—2 result whicn is supposed to establish at, once the character of the new Grand Vizier as ® man possessed of great energy and #,thorough knowledge ofadministration. Hussetn Aont Pacha is too good @ Turk to have acted differently from his predecessors, and having devoted the fray ten daysof his Grand Vizierate to making fresh appoint ments, the Constuntinople folk have a right to hope that he may now find time to display his talents to some better purpose. ~ Hussein Aoni Pacha ts, as [ Dave before said, an honest’. and well meaning man; but he has not sufficient brains to master the tangled web of Turkish politics, financial diMcuities and the intricacies of the home maleadminis< tration, In the honest ignorance of his heart he: believes in the existence of Turkish prestige an in hie ability to maintain. it. This is about the only interpretation which can pe pnt on the absurd way he has allowed the little diMcuity, which had: almost been gettled, between England and Turkey, on the subject of Lahej, near Aden, to be revived. Tae present point in dispute is as foliows:—In the ‘course of their invasion of Lahej the Turkish troops had captured a near relative of the Sultan of that couatry, who has ever since remained @ prisoner in the hands of the Ottomans. kngland, bound to protect its dependent, the Sultan of Labej, had demanded at the time the immetlate withdrawal of the Ottoman troops from Lane}, and the then Grand Vizier at once acquiesced and gent orders to that effect. But the Turks in Arabia retained possession of their captive, and England has now demanded through her Am- bassador at Coustantinople the release of this Prince. So jar, nowever, Hussein Aont hae gyiueva no readiness to comply with the British Tequest In the thidst of so munch that bread and discouraging it is pieasing to find now an: then some little gleam of good, I refer,-in this case, tothe opening of a newly estabiisued Im- pertal Civil College of Meuictge, to which ts at~ tached @ clinica! hospital. At the official inauga- Tation Of this institution, Prince lezedin, the Sultan’s elde-t son, presded in person, ‘The Grand Vizier, Sheik-wlIsiam (High Pri and the Oab- inet Ministers had arrived at an eariier hour and were ready to receive the Imperial Prince at the gate and conduct him to the apartments pre- jared for Min, the professors and pupils of the Ccol- lege, to the number of 160, forming @ line on each side o: the way. Alter partaking Of some slight roireshment the Prince, attended by the whole pathy entered upon the pusiness of the day. ‘ervent prayers were offered up by the pee Atiacued 10 the college, and en address of thanks to the Sultan was read, to which the Prince replied ina short, well delivered speech. 1t is to be regretted that all the incidents relat- ing to this youog Prince should not be of #0 creditabie @ nature. Some circumstances have come to my knowledge which betray in him the existence of sa id cruel Instincts. The story runs as follows:—A government guard, attached to the department of the tobacco regie, chanced to discover, im the execution of nis duties, @ lot of tobacco concealed on the person of a soldier. The soldier reiuged to part with his contraband gouds aud drew his sword on the guard, The lar j ter drew nis yatagian in self-deience, | Steel met and in the course 0! the struggle the soidier was wounded i the arm. More soidiers arrived on the spot by thia time, and the guard was seized hold of, beaten, knocked down, trodden under foot and finally carried of to the muitar headquarters in Stamboul. Here it was dacide (ie 'd, although @ civil servant of the gover! nt, BROUId be arraigned before a milk itary tribunal. The enlightened judges presiding Beta the Coart mounced him guilty of Ee aie oP et ‘f as itriking a soldiér—one of t ‘onlidren’—and by expres command cs Prince I#aédin, who is Commander-in-Chiet of the jai Guard, condemned him to death, The heads Of the regie department had great dite culty In procuring & commMuUiation Of this most une Just sentence to fiiteen years’ penal servitude, with bard labor. Comment on such a monstrous va Baaopes inte e e at we had done with snow ice this year, but last week tie snow storm ‘eos Upon Us again With redoubed Vioience, So great nd coptinuCUs a sHOWfall nad not been Knows r sixteen yours, and fora week Constantinople Jay shrouded in @ thick covering of snow and ice. The snow had accumulated in such quantities ‘that the task of removing it when the thaw set Im became & very surions One, ‘The poorer classes have suffered severely trom whe erect of this un- usally rigorous season. A Jew, Wno Went anont yo at that Constantinopie would be visited oY forty days of auow and suosequentiy by aqreut fortes Ueeu thrown into vrivon by Order oF the been ten minutes in the Amer= .