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aaa a ll, NEW YORK 6 EUROPEAN LIFE. Herald Correspondence from Exgland, France, | Germany and Italy prtnnreneer. een nae SOCIETY IN FRANCE. Marshal MacMahon Politieal Troubles. ee and His) way Concessions in France. given way, and the preas are (o have, Lunde stand, even greater privileges. NEW KNIGHT OF THE GARTER. The Dake of Buckingnam, who was Cotontal Sec- retary in Mr. Disracii’s last Cabinet, aud who is said to be very indignant at having been “ie.t out in the cold”? from the new government, is te be consoled by having the first vacant garter, | SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN FRANCE. Degradation of a French Officer—Rail- Panis, March 26, 1874. QUIZOT’Ss SON. Surely life is a bitrer thing tor those who throw stones at their neighbors, and peop.e whom even experieuce does not teach a wise charity, inial- libly get into somewhat laughable scrapes. Thus | M. Guizor, who isa very dignified oid gentleman, | has been scolding the Bonapartes and sco.ding M. Olivier foy saying civil things.o! the late Emperor in academic French. This made tne Bonapartes | angry, and they retwrtea by ouserving that | they had paid the debts of M. Guizov’s son, It was not, perhaps, @ jatr argument, but it was certaimly @ matural meaus of detence; tor, although they hud paid young Guizot’s debts, they may have nevertheless been indiderent rulers of France; and yet when attacked itis not surpris- img that they showed fignt in the oniy way wm THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF NEW ITALY. ALSACE AND LORRAINE. PRINCE BISMARCK AND HIS HEALTH. THE AMERICAN COLONY IN SAXONY | LONDON GOSSIP. which they coild nit their enemy a hara vlow. ghia The ujshot oi it all has been thas M, Loxvon, April 2, 1874, Guizot bas feit himself obhged to sell | some of his property, ana to pay back PARLIAMENT AT PLAY, ‘Things political are dull just now, for Parliament has risen jor the Easter to.idays, and will bot re. snewo: k anti the 18th of next month, Mr. An- dersou's quesuon regarding the Alabama, to which I previously aliuded, was to have been put on we jast day of the session, but has been postponed sine die, Mr. Whalley did not get much from the committee appointed to consider the conduct of the Lord Chief Justice in regard to Mr. Whaliey’s contempt of court in the Tichborne case. The committee, in effect, approved of Sir Alexander Cockburn’s proceedings, @mu there the matter ends, So laras excitemeut goes, it is evident that tiie session.of 1874 will be @ blank; jor the con- servatives, floating on the itl swing of the tide, will rest caumly on their Oars and pursue a do- nothing policy, While the liberals are su dis. couraged and disorganized by their de.eat that they know not whom to regard a8 their captain. | the money advanced to his sop, treaung wat advance us a loan bearing interest, and declaring that he knew nothing avout itor he would bave paid it back before. ine sum amouits to about $17,000, winch 18 a heavy ;aymeot ior M. Guizot, because he 1s uot and never has been rich, being less iortunate or more scrupulous thin Its cou- temporary and rival, M. Thers, Surely be might have leit the Bonapartes alone, instead of baving to quarre! with bis son about them, and then to re, fund this large lump of money. it 18°@ cruel world we live in, and not even vic tory now stems to satisiy the vengeance of con- querors. I have just wituessed a terribly painiul scene at the Military School here. 1t was THE DEGRADATION OF M. MATHUSZEWIOZ, formerly cvlouel vl che Tweatieta iederal legion, Matnuszewicz was condemued to death; but his sentence was subsequentiy commuted imto one of transportation tu @ fortress. He held’ the runk of Mr. Giadstone has bitherto remained we spokesinan of the party, seconding Mr. Dis- cap ‘ain in the reguiar army when tus sentence raeli’s proposal of thanks to tie Ashancee W288 pronounced against tun, and, thereiore, was arany, &e, but he will probably nor degraded with much pom) and circumstance, A be found in his place for some ttme ater the re- ey Utatton irom al! the troops of the Army-of and inthe meautime Paris was present at che ceremony. He bad been assembling of Parllument, tlie hberals are a¥ sheep without a stephera, aban device les bblnoe atlas Anan pine esas In An vld sergean!, grown gray in war.are, stripped the discussion On the army estimates one of the guerilla leaders, Sir Wired’ Lawson, temperance 0 the gold lace which marked his military rank, and peace-at-any-price man, moved tue reauction ‘tre the crosses. anu =meduls from his breast, and broke ms sword, The disgraced officer sovbed as if his heart would break, and next week ne will be sent off to New Caledonia. I wonder woen vhe republican government of France will think there bas been enougi, or per- baps more than enougi, O1 these lero‘ious punish- | ments, and now, Frenchmen having got as much as | uney ave every ukely to get ol “liberty” and “equality,” whether it 18 not high time to think a littie o! “fraternity.” AN OLD SCANDAL, Here now is a@ pretty business. M. Gabriel Hugetmunn, whe has played a considerable part in french potttical and iterary itfe, was brought up yesterday before the Higuth Correctional Cnamber upon divers charges o! iraud and swin- Gliag. He 18 accused 0} having done ali soris of evil thiugs ever since he was tweuty years vid, and he ig now iorty-seven. He says himsei that he made $30,000 a year, and nobody knows how, nor will he explain. [tis certain that oe lived at a great rate, and was abuut to purchase $7,000 worth 01 costiy yornituge lor one Of bis ustresses When he was arrested with just $2 1m his pussess.oo, and no ap- Oi the number oi men to be employed, but was de- feated bya large majority. It is not very likely that eugland will be involved in wariare even un- der the rule of the tory government, which is to resuscitate ucr lost prastige, but stil her small stauding army must not be reduced to a rluicuigus minimus. ASHANTEE HONORS AND REWARDS, There is a goud deul of gossip at the military clubs avout tae speedy manner in which the hon- ors and rewards have been dealt out to the Ashan- tee campaigners. Scarcely a week wad elapsed since their landing when they were received ay the Queen, thunked by Pariiament and had a ga- zette 1uli of their promotions. One oi them who Waa preseaot at the Windsor review in tue cam- paigning uniferu, of pith helmet and hideous yel- Jowish brown stuff bas bad a strange ine. Cap. tain brabazan 1s a Man of good iamily, who soined the Guards some etgnt or ten years ago, when tne ete Marquis of Hastings was in his zenith, and wien the mania for “ptunging”— by which was meant desperately mgh bet- ting and card piayimg—was uviversai among the young men of iashion. Captain Bravazan did Parent Means of geting more. It comes asthe rest, floating fora sew years, but finaly Ut that be was in Dusiuess connection wita a gteat many highly placed oiticial going under, and having to eure from the army by the sale of bis comm.ssion, Broken down as he was, bis bonor and courage still remained, and on the first vutoreak of the Ashautee war ne of- Jered himself as a volunteer aud was accepted, by Sir Garnet Wolseley, wno determined to give aim @ chance. How he gota berth on buard the Sarmatian noone clearly kKnows?, for the quartermaster had 10 erders concerning him, and space was limited. However he dio arrive at the Guld Coast, and wnen there behaved Dimseli so pluckily aud weil that it has beea devided to present mim with another commiss.on, and he will probabiy be gazetted to the vacuncy in the Tenth Hussars, now in India, caused vy the promotion and transier of young Heary Wood, the despatch bearer, to tue Tweifta laneers, ~Brab’’ Is a general javorite im the army, @n\. ali are glad to near of his guod jortane, HEALTH AND SPIRITS OF THE QUEEN. People are talking everywhere of the wondrous change that seems to have come over the Queen. Ordinarily very solenm, not to say severe, sue Beems Oi late to have recovered her former elas- Uctty oO! spirita, and at the Wmdsor review, as on one or two other recent occasions, was smiling and bowing in the most affable manner. Some say persons, ‘hat fli-iat-ed Emperor Maxiatilian took him up and placed contidence in nim; 80, evi- dently, did Napoleon UL; 1e asserted that he fad cousiderable creait with M. Tniers; and he was, assuredly, in correspondence with the German Ambassador in London daring the war. He fuuuded nO iess thun five newspapers, ui) ot whiten en- joyea considerable repute—L’£parque, Le Nain Jaune, Le Drapeau Francais, La Situation, L’E.at— aud he was principal editor of the Journal de Madrid, La Situation was the avowed organ of the Bovapartists 1mimediately aiter the tuii of the Empire; bat Kugelmann says they gave tim no money. M. aher, however, subscribed fur a copy of the paper. M. Hogeimaun seems io have had talent and mdustry enough ior twenty men, but litte common sense and less honesty. He might have had the world at his ieet without muce trouble ti he had onty kept bts hands clean, bat dupes are not easity made in such au old and wary society a3 ours; and when they are- made they cannot be kept quiet, as M. Hugeimann wy tound ont. The Varisiuns will always be taking start ahead of other peoples, aud they have just been that this change has been occasioned by the Duch- “ime Sse again vy giving Presideut MacMaton a ess 01 Edinburgh, who, besiaes being bright and &780d/éte in their Bankruptey Court. One cannot lively, has po iear ol her stately mother-in-law, dite realize tne idea of such an eutertainment ‘Tne reiations between the Queen and the Princess *#*ing place anywhere but in Paris. The fibunat of Wales are most excellent, bat the ! Uvaimerce 1s the last place in tue world which Princess is of rather ® melancholy tem- %@% Numan being, mot @ Frenchman, would perament and labors under the disadvan. Dave bit upou as the scene tor a@ least; tdge of being slightly deat. It ts remarked YU & We Said above, Parisians Know nO scrupics W.en it becomes a question of hop, ing and carous- ing. They saw that tae Bankruptey Court waa Spacious, weil ordained, fair to look upon, and, by a touch of that magic wand called gola, they trang formed the Palace of Chicane and Bau Debts tuto u A PALACE OF PAIRYDOM, Nothing in truth cowid have been finer; nothing brignter, gayer, newer and grander could have that Her Majesty intends entering far more into public life tham she has done of late, and toat, on bis arrival among us next month, tne Czar will 6nd the hospitality of England administered by the Queen in person, and not by deputy, as has so long been the case. With this idea the Lord Mayor has invited Her Majesty to the grand banquet which he purposes giving to the Czar in the Guild- hall, but her decision hus not yet been communi- A ridiculous report has appeared that the question is to be submitted to a Cabines The Queen might as well be supposed to cated to him. Couneil. ask the decision of the Gabinet as to what should have lor dinner or wuat time she should re- ure to rest. THR CARD-SHARPING SCANDAL, been devised than the decoration ef tue Court Hooge as planued oy the chiel engineer of the city, M. Alpband. This M. Alpband is the officiai who acted as right hand man to Baron Haussmann during eighteen years, and laid out the puvifc walks, woods and gard®ns o! Paria as we see them now, | It was he who ordained all the sétes given to | foreign Visitors o1 distinction under the Second Mr. George Russell, an account of whose detec, tion in cheating at cards J sent you some time ago, has, it 18 said, demanded aa inquiry mto the cir- cumstane If it be true, as alleged, that he was found with two aces in his lap, such an inquiry is ot likely to do him much good. But it is urged on oy the Duke of Koxbargtie, hie father-in-law, and, Empire, and it was generally supposed that he could not excel the grand ball given to the Sov- ereigns of Russia and Prussia in 1867, Buthe did excell it on Monday at the Tribunal of Commerce, and pever Was seen such a bajirvoin as that which he contrived out of the large courtyard of the building. He covered in tai courtyard with it is said, by the Prince of Wales, who has always vellam, and gave the vellum tne took deen iriendly to hint and who hopes that some , of @ cupola sapported by a wide, loity good may come out of it, circle of lonic columns, imitating marble, with Radical Baronet Sir Charles Ditke, who has hitherto shown his love jor the working classes only by his abuse of the Queen, made his first sensitie motion in the House last night. Under the present laws the poliing booths are closed at four o’clock im the afternoon, an hour at which the laboring classes are still hard at work. The only Opportunity tor them to record their votes is, then, during the hour irom twelve titi one, which is allowed them for dinner. Sometimes not #0 jong arciaxation as this ts given, and in any case the present rule is bard and unjust. Sir Charles Dilke proposed that the booths should not be closed until eight P. M., which, seeing that most labor is goid chapisters. The walis were draped and fes- tooned with satin, cherry and white and red vel- vet, looped up with long trailing cords of gold and flural devices; and the seats were arranged in four sewt-c'rcular amphitheatres, rising tier upon ter, with bowers of follage scenery and flowers at the four corners, Running right round the court yard and above it was a gallery, whence those who pleased could gaze down on tue dancers below, and the whole scene was lit by 7,000 wax tepers fixed in candlesticks held by the hands of Mural statues, stundjag Mke dumb divinities between the columns, glittering in the eighteen golden chandelers of 200 tapers each, which over at six, would give Workingmen ampie time. hung irom the ceiling. The vellum wi Kut the proposition was opposed by the govern- furthermore illummated by six globes ‘of ment, notably by Home Secretary Cross, aud was electric lucht, intendea to give it the effect defeated by a majority of 75, During the discus- of transparency; and electric globes also tion mach fun was made of the “conservative workingmen,” by whom the late election is de- clared by their own party to have been carried, end Mr, Roebuce (“Tear ‘em’’) made a decidedly anti-liberal speech. THE REPORTERS’ GALLERY. There has been a quarrel between the Sergeant. at-arms, who has the control of the reporters’ gal levy, and the members of the press. Bestdes their reporters the principal London daily Joarnals send @ leader writer to the press gailery of the House, who writes his editorial while the debate 1s in progress. This session Lora Charies Russell, who fe Sergeant-at-Arms, retused these leader writers the privilege of entrée, and there was a great row. anounced in all the vestipuses and sapper rooms. One is irce to own thatthe supper Was notona level with the rest of the arrangements, But this | Was rather owing to the headtong voracioasness of | the guests than to the lack of enterprise and hos- pitality. There were 10,000 guests present, and the meat and drink provided for them seemed to Vaulsh somehow in twinkling, There were Supposed to ve 4,000 bottles of champagne, 2,000 of Burgundy and 2,000 of wordeaux, to say nothing of liqueurs, which made on the whole almost @ bottle of liquid per head, Yet there is no wisi tanding the thirst of a raging multituce of Parisians, and by three o'clock in the murniag there was nota | drov of anytuing save water to be nad. However. HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1874—QUINTUPLE SHEET. all that, and the President, who was present with | ail bis ministers, seemed almost dazea by the | beauty of it, He has probably arrived at the coo- clusion that uf Paris can still give suchfeasts as this she is still tne Empire City, after all, NEW ITALY The Organization of # Constitutional Government—The Legislature in Rome— Selita and Ratazel—Prospects of the New Cabinet—Finances and the Charch. Roms, March 27, 1874. Another means has been adopted for, in some degree, abating the dificulties arising irom slack attendance of memvers of the Chul- ber, It must be explained that the law, which requires the number of Deputies competent to de- cide the passing or rejection of any law to be half the entire house plus on*, supposes that those Deputies who are absent by leave, reguiarly asked and ovtaived, are first deducted from the entire number, Thus the complete Italian Chamver, consisting of 508 memvers, i forty, say, are absent on leave, the hall of the remainder, after these have been deducted, wili be 254, and that number, therefore, pius one—i, ¢., 285— will be the levul quorum, A practice, therefore, wus adopted of considering an obstinate abseutee to have asked and to have obtained leave, {lus the number required by law to ve present was re- duced. Bat, despite this and every other measure that couid be adopted, business remained sus- pended day after day, and’ the outery in the coun- ur) was very great, It was said that tie evil re- sults of the removal of the capital to Rome were now showing theaselves; tiat many members could not or Would not subject themselves to the heavy expenses of housekeeping ju Roine; that honorable gentlemen were afraid of Romau lever, or, perhaps, te pu: the matier more presentably, were afraid to expose their families to the chances ofit, Certainly it was true that the ailticulty of ge'ting together a suMicient namber of members to make a House had never betore been so great Nevertheless | am disposed to believe that ie state of things which a year ago was making every friend of Italy anxious and discontented, was, in @ great Measure, aue to causes ofa different nature, the statement of which will afford an explanation | of the marked change which the present session has witnessed, and will also tend'to the right un- derstanding of the present situation. THE PALL OF THE SELLA CABINET. ‘The tact :s, that during the whole of the last ses sion the cabinet of Sigior Sila, which Anally tell at the close o1 it, Was supported by the votes of a majority which was not really in favor of that min- ister’s policy or measures. Why, then, did they vore for him? They voted for him because they féared that his fail and retirement trom ofice would cause the advent to power of one whom the Majority ieared’ and dishked yet more than they did Sella. ‘The dividual whose advent to power Was tius dreaded was Ur2ano Rat‘azzi. Had the Setia ministry iallen while Kattazzi was yet alive the King would unquestionably have entrusted to bim the tormation of a new cabinet, And this was what the majority were determined to avoid at any cost. For sume time past the feeling of the country has been becoming iess and less friendly towurd France. The general causes oi this are too Well known for it to be necessary to explain them , in detan here. Suffice it to say that tue a'titude | of France toward the Papacy and its ciaims, sv an- | tagontstic to the attitude of Italy toward that | Power and its claims, Was, and, indeed, ic mast be said, 1s, tue chief and most enduring of those causes. Now, Rattazz: bad always been favorable to France and the poiiey im Italy which habitually looked’ (o France us its guiding star. [t nad always been feared that the leelings and prociivities 0: the King pomted in tae same direction. And it was lurtuer supposed that Rattazzi would be little lukely asa Miuister to act a3 any check on the royal wishes or tendencies, It may be added, tur- ther, that Ratiazzi, despite his commanding tal- ents and undeniabl> patriotism, was ueepiy mis- trusied by the Chamber a8 an unsa‘e man; aman likely to embark ou risky and adventurous courses; a man ol wiom, as the common suying gues, you could not tell what he migutbe at next. For these reasons a majority of the Chamber gave grudging votes to the Ministry, and onty jus’ a suMcient allowance of them to prevent their being driven irom office, When the deatn of Ruttazzi occurred, it was scen at once thar tiat event would be iatal to tie Cabinet vy removing the cause whicn had nitherto prevented a large portion of the Chamber irom voting against them. Tne result svon made itsel/ manifest, After a short struggie the Ministry resigued, and Signor Mingnetti was intrusted by the King with the tormation oj a new Cabinet. THE NEW CABINET. Tae task proved a dificult one, for the political ion was far irom clear and weli definea. Signor Minghettl was @ member «f the “Right,” tne same side of the Chamber as the Ministers be- longed to who had just failen, The “Left” declared joudly that thia was contrary to all the rules of the coustitucioual game, that their votes mainly had unseated the tate Ministry, and that a leader oa their side Of the House ought therefore to have been caled by the King to tue task of rorming a government. Signer Minghetti recornized the justice and reasovableness of these cliims so far as to commence mis efforts of forming a Caoinet by attempting @ iusion (aco mubio, & marriage, as it Was then the fashion to cali it) wits the leading members of the Left, The latier did not reject these overtures, Tney negotiated. And those Whose duties for one reason or another Yetained . them in Rome til] such negotiations shuuld be con” cluded will not easily forget tie tediousness of them. It was midsummer, and the Rowan sun was each day flercer thin the day before, How everybody abused the idleness and truancy of the Champher, which, with ts long hohday at Carnival thme, and again ut Easter, and its joss of day after day by no: making | “a House,” baad pushed. matters on till now we were in the midst of a minister crisis im the dog days! People did nt consider that what in reality would lave been ueeded to rescue us from the former situation at an earlier period Was that poor Rattazzi should nave died a month or twoeariier! And, after all, the negotations for a susion came to nothing, The too much (what they specially insisted on was that one of their men should have the portfolio of the Interior) or the * ster would concede tio little. Afer some .. days’ wrangiing in. the sweltering hear of a Roman Juy it vecame clear that nothing could be done, and Signor Minghettl at last succeeded in forming a Cabinet irom awong the memvers of the “Ki ut Centre.” Onl we were atl so glad to near that the matrer was at: last settled somehow and that we might all | run away from the ‘fumum et opes strepttumque Rome” a8 ast as the cars could carry us! Even the disappointed ones wepe giad at l-ast that the business was done and over. We all went “every one in lis vwn way” till the new Ministry met the Chamber in November, Ps WHAT OF THE FUTURE, Then the interesting question was, What course would the new Cabinet tak: {or rather, what course would Signor Minghetti take (ivr le Cabinet C'est tut!) —ior the obtaining of a working majority of the Chamber? he had taken bis colleagues from tbe “Right,” but it was clear that he could not find his majority there also; ior of course the failen Ministry had @ toliowing of triends wno all belonged to the “fight,” and who would neces rarily be hostile to the Ministry which had re- Placed themselves and their friends, Wowd Signor Minghetti then lean on the “Leit?” and to what degree would he do so? and 11 ne did go, If he introduced measures which might be expected to meet with @ fair proportion of support trom the members of the “Leit,”” would that section of the Chamber forget and pardon the “spreue injuria forme,” condone the offences that had veen offered to it in the formation of the Ministry and tender @ generous and patriotic support to the new government? We have now got moro than half through the session, and the answers to the adove questions | may be definitively given, Let me say at once that these answers are highly satisfactory and creditable to the political capacities o! the young nation, The new Premier has in a great measure leant upon the “Left,”.and that heretofore some- | what impracticabie section of the Chumver has which has done honor to their generosity aad pas soive the Diet; unless the latter body come te the | triotiem, Nor have-the friends of the late Ministry support ofthe imperial policy. The great question shown themselves to be—as, perhaps, might have, at issue just now is that relating to the peace foot- been expected—quand méme antagonists of the ing o/ the army. The government demands 401.000 present Vavine On one-point of policy, and that men, the liberal party is determined to accede only perhaps, the most’ imvortant one that is nowen- toa standing army of 380,000 tor a limited term of gaging the attention of the country—the act for years. Moitke, the Emperor himself and Prince | the regulation o! the privileges of the bauk, and Bismarck insist. on the full complement, and itis the paper currency—tne late and the present Min- apparently certaim that either the Diet must give istry are diametricaily opposed. Signor Minghetti | in or a serious confer will ensue, Tue interview has carried his measure on’ this subject, very | With Bismarck is published in the Spener Zeitung, greatly limiting the power and privileges enjoyed | and reads as follows:— by the bank, by the help of the “Lett,” A@ INTERVIEW WITH THE SICK PREMIER, A BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR ITALY. Two conservative members o1 the Keichstag, Dietze and Lucius, had an audience with the |in- Upon the whole, the present session bas exhib- | periat Onincelior.’ They paid a vistt to the Prin- ited the statesmen aud the political world of Italy | Cess in ordet fo ask af er tne health of the Prem er in @ favorable light. Whether or no honorable aod to evince their mr npesby. They had no in , tention o1 visiting the’ Prince’ mmsell, but the late | members became alarmed at the very general * p —_——— Iv 1s, Rowever, now settled, Lord Charles has the ball was agrandiose and unrivalled affair for | given him an ungrudging and. intelligent seppors, | better ne Wil sera IM his own resignation or at “Mancnester Cliffs,” an admirable bit of rock and sea paintings Davia Johnsun's ‘iim; se of Mouns Lafayette,” a pleasing landscape, strong in-coion and very low in toue, Tiffany’s “Morning: at Sorrento” deserves something more than & passing notice, It is a strong picture. with Plenty of daylight, admiravie in sen iment and composition, Jarvis Moiintee bas a quiet autumnal landscape, full of browns and grays, exceedingly harmonious in tone and pleasing ia treatment. Turning to anotner ciass of picture we are arrested by the strength and brilliancy of Jacomin’s “Testing the Sword,” a work fuil of character, Escosura is represenied by a care- iuily Anished picture representing a group in an inn, The figures are wonderiully painted, with the most minute detail. Lavini’s “Leah, the Forsaken,” 18 a well drawn! outery which their conduct during last year’s ses- sion occasioned, or whether it be that they ind themselves more favorably situated for the satis- | factory transaction of business than when they ter, oecoming aware ol, ther presence, reqneated figure, in the midst of some very green and very that they be shown io his room. Tuey touud him | juxuriant vegetanon, It lacks, however, dramatic muen better thaa tuey nad expected aiter'reading | Mu ee the uewspaper and oillclal reports. On the other | POWer, and, though im other respects cleverly: hand toe Prince snowed himsed very discunvented | painted, it 19 not satisfactory. A email cabinet with the progress of parilamentary affuirs. Among | piciure by Marchetti deserves attention from its ‘Lew? asked | | otuer things he remarked, ‘I sald in’ 1807, | i " were supporting a Minister whom they did not | on: hut py ntl ito’ the sadaie; sie | excellent method, The figure is freely drawn and’ approve for the sake of keeping out of power | wil know how to ride. 1 tear’ that | the whole picture painted in a remarkably low key. another whom they feared, certain it is that they | map he renee nae ae Sanosiicg | ars as 1 would jurniso th, have worked assiduously during the present 8 | root that Germany cannot Tide, The. ielcnstax sion, and have done soto good purpose. They does not unuerstuid: the situation. Promiment abstained irom taking any hohday at Carnival Snetlarestcrens ain er Be pe by sos S er. The: jeve, lor this | time, and have got through @ creditably large rexson, that they cannot do what motontary cite | amount of business. The Ministry have for the cumstances demand asimperative, I nave ulways most part carried thefr measares, and things are bine Peg gy aye Sigal sak have siweye en- Ns came Lo 8 ina very different position from what they were thereny that | was compelled to cortéot an, pe 2 2 jor | piace the Fatherland at The difficulties ahead-are still main!y—I may Say, all tlmes above my ‘own. person. Tae orposite | indeed, wholly—these two: finance and the rela” course oi condact 18'to me. per eetly incompreuen- | tions of the country with the Courch, Something sible. I hive nov hesitated a moment 10 sacrifice | has been done and more will be done this session to improve the prospects of the couutry inthe Reichstag a number o1 these geutiemen Who were former matter; and I propose in A iuture letter to elected exvressivy on my name, of whom their explain what has been and witl’be the course of | ¢!ectors wish that they slau support the German or to sub ect my own subjective opinion when the | Wellare o. tie whole demanced if. But bere in tie Ampertal polioy; Laat they snail support iMfe agaist T hope aiso to Ls Lane n, HE ih the government on tnis question, our common foes; tlese gentlemen colsider lay before tne readers of the HeraLp a statement themseives be aetag in withdrawing from ‘ Uns mission just beciuse they mixut theres ol (xe circumstances which have led to bape present fore come inte apparent conilict with relative attitude 0} the State and the Churchin§ gome word or other, expressed’ in some this country—so lately Cathollo par excellence— place and at some time, but under totally | different circuuistanées, | caunot snbintt to tus and some account of the present position of the Goydion o. tags. I cannot sucrifive my Euro- latter, especially with regard tothe conclave for pean iame. 50 svon as bam able to use the peu I the election of a new Pontiff, which; in the cours® | shail request iny demisston. Pertaps there can | of nature, cannot be iar off how to secure a majority a Tellaiie smajoriey.. Ta | 2 hive iad diffoulwes enou a coavercome realy. | AMERICA IN GERMANY. Twas told inscorn, with reierence to tue constuct | of single liberais anu of the party of progress m | The German Book eede-sAutoriean | tin you, tein ior supports, Bush A CONAILION OF | Students m Germany—American Agri- | thin 2 ilo injures the highest interests or the | ais hy ste sible. and Ior this end there. are only two meals Lerrsto, March-16, 1874, | Site. 0 mn Tetpsio has now become the most important | felenstag com OF tHe dis#olusion: of the commercial town in Germany next to Hamvuurg. un x Oi Tie population has increased more rapidly than ALSACE AND LORRAINE, that o1 almust any other city in Europe. In 1814 the number was 44,800; im 1849, 62,400; in 1984, | 4 Herald Correspondent Converses with 85,400, and the town now counts 108,000 inhabi- the Bishop of Strashourg—The Fature tants, The trade of Leipsic hus assumed impor- of Alsace and of France. tant cimensions ever siuce 3axony jomed the FRANKPORTON-THE-MAIN; March 24, 1874. Zolverein, or German Customs Union, in 1833. Yesterday I met Andreas Raess, Bishop of Serase THE JUBILATE AND MICHAELMAS FAIRS bourg, who wus returning irom the Reichstag to his are attended by a vast concourse of merchants. | Alsatian aiocese—returminy, deed, to find ball nis | On these occasions the town 1s thronged by !rom ock and half the priestnood of ms land | 80,000 to 40,000 traders irom all parts of Europe yeady wo condemn him jor the ceurse he. ‘The most important of the staple commodities at | yaa taken as Deputy in Berlin, where le had those fairs are inrs, of which nearly $5,000,000 vyenwured to oppose the demugogic utterances of worth change hands here annually. The next in Deputy D, Teu sch and other Alsatian representa value are leather, cloth, woollen wares, giass and’ tives oy considering the treaty made between linen. The total vaine of the sales elfected atthe France and Germany at fraukiort a8 a sacred, in- fairs averages $50,000,000 ainually. Leipsic also pion es treaty, which wast be opserved until | circumstance suali enavie 1.8 destr ction, | STRASBOURG AND ALSACK. | I had along aud interesting conversation with the Bishop. He spoke ireely O18 views and opine 10us, and seemed pleased to Know that lia audi euce Was Nut of tae race Germanic, 1 direcied the conversusion toward Alsatian matters, The venerable man’s eves lighted up as ue spoke o1 bs b -auciiu), surrowing laud, ! continues to be the centre of the German book | trade. The attendance from America at the Leipsic fairs: is not now so large as in tormer times. American’ merchants find it more to their advantage to give ume oO! the ‘optou.’ Peopie do net like to leave therr homes, and ta.xe wud .emain hope that the future may vriug with it brighter days and a re- turn to their olu auegiwnce, Some vi our people have emigrated to America, The Germans them. orders and to purchase tarough a commission agent, thus having always on the spot somebody We spoke uf Strasvonrg. “Yes,” he said, “Stras- to act between themselves and the manufacturers; bed piety sae HeaeasuT ee -. eiore ta 3 e reat Chunges since to watch the loca! markets and vo look gen- thens gur aud 1s Sul Under military rule, and the erally alter their interests, besides saviag (the ena has not come yet.” He spoke beauuiui Ger- expense and fatigae of a long journey. Manutao- ben ee a phe Tone least turers, also, find it rather risky to prepare stocks | gaymahg, NUN Tee A#stlans would ever become | for the Ame-ican markets, where styles and “No, tuat is impossivie. Two hund ed years 0} fashions are so irequeutly changing. French trang could not be obliterated tor gen- MERIOAN MARKETS. erations to come,’ “ a “tven Bismack adits this,” 1 replied. “He Since the close of the Franco-German war new behets Germany uas not fee ot lg get a life and energy have been given to the olty of Joothold among the peowie, and Moltke thinks = that Germauy must keep up her large stanuing Leipsic. Its growth and prosperity have been grimy ior a spuce 0: liliy yeurs tn urder 40 keep the rapid and sabstautial, New markets have been provinces wuich she bee ay . | opened by tne annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, “fue abnexason 18 a sail accompli,” answered the (isnon;: “out these provinces will be tne apple and by the closing o! the French markets during 9, contention over wuich the two countries ie the war. Many articles long considered to be peed ge Jater, quarrel leer As soon us a 7 ‘rench boy can speak he 18 taught to beneve that monopolized by the French are now s.avht for ALEAOR WAS STULEN FROM FRANOB. Germany, and the makers of white goods, irmge? ne French peopie love Alsace; they feel the laces and flowers nave secared a trade, which they be emis 4 ot bats 4 it, pasts wad vecome a part of ‘will endeavor to keep. themselves. They would sooner have paid two " Mildurds of francs more tudemoity than save | ‘There are more American students now in Leip: given up Alsace.” Auu he sald (somewhat eXult- | ste than ever belore. The majority of them are ingly) “there is no other nado in Burope that | studying masic in the Conservatorium, The Unt- ph apt oe ingemanty witas | versity of Letp-ic has increased ity membership PRUSSIA’S INGVITABLR NECESSITY. | till tt now stands among the first of the German | ‘ “Germany,” a the Bisiup, wou Dot have ta- rt en Aisace i she had not really oeeded un. Her own universities, and itis extremely well conducted. Soi 18 40 Unproducuive thut her peuple were cum- Tne price of living, however, has imcreased here yeied 10 seek subsistence in other countries, ‘Ley asinother parts of Germany, and nousehold ex- needed our Uae foe e - and our prosperous, in- gustriois valleys, ite Norti German soi is un- penses are larger than in France. Kngiand or Italy. eooicrive, aid even bere. cumpared witw our ‘This ts a fact which should be known to Americans | Ajgace, we are passiug though adesert. Do sou about to take up their residence in Germany for net know tile proverb wh.ch has been applied irom educational or other purposes, ume nmemorial to Alsucer— | AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY IN GERMANY, aise chores or icevery Sueronyard, Until a very recent dite Messrs. Ransom & Sting, TES take excton ta, eacd Noel ay %y | ese lias Alsuce every Where, Weer, Sarr eae! meemeerunre of Oe “Berlin hears but one side ol Alsatian pubiic | cultaral machinery, monopolized nearly au the | opinion. The Protesiant party mdeed chink it a | trade of the Eurorean © ntinent. Now American = great thing to oe annexed to Germany because ene . n now a grect Power. ‘Lhey wisn it because rus. Seu aint rhe SEBS Bieter MADDEN OF sia18 a Protestant jand, But ths peopie of Alsace agricultural machinery from America into Ger- go not tiuink so—omy there where tne Protestant many commenced about seven years ago, and the clergy Ib hg ee ph to ee tueir views on . the ,eople. ‘ihe people of A.sace dv not tank so. wusthess thee baa has fapidiy developed into an | piey ire Frencn in thvagnt and, leeling. A uun- important branch of commerce. 4, eu thousund of our peope jel. the couniry at the The chiel depots of American agricultural ma- ohinery are Bremen, Hamburg anu Stettin. The principal articies sold are mowers and reapers, Lawn mowers are the largest item. Pitchiorks . se.ves emigrate tuitner by many thousands comeime xt, rch! Mttle has a yet been comet’) cy ory years We ure wonbiea” in -korepe threshing machines, by wars and rumors of wars, and the In 1873 about 6,000 American mowers and reapers people themselves wish for peace. “The Treaty of frankfort,” ne sala, “was a treaty made between tie appoluted represeatatives of iW. Civilized dations, ald a8 such He Gould only cou. sider it as binding on the syguatory parties; vet he regretted it. ie annexation o1 the two provinces Was a disgraceiul act. People were turoed over from one owner to another, lke @ flock of sheep. buch ap event as tive ,iving over oi Aisace-Lor- | rane shouid never have Leen permitted by che civilized ations oi Kurope, We were treaied like slaves—given Over in the lutfiiment of & bargain, We were bot asked, We were received as siuves, and are now taxed and oppressed ani given over to the mercies OF a Wiltary dictatorship aud our livers1es suppressed.” We spoke 0: tne young Napoleon—Napoleon IV. as some people like tu style him, He did not thu that tee young ian (or ts wotner, more properly speaking) had any chance of getting to che throne of Fiance. The memories of Napuleon Ill. were too humillating lor France eusily to forget. ine Frencn sation couia not ,orger the aisgrace he had ; brought upon them. 1o surrender with an army were sold on the European Continent. During the present year it is estimated that there will be orders for at least 12,000 mowers and Peapers, which will represent a sum of $1,200,000, or there. abouts, payable to the United States as a net resait | of these transactions, : The firms at present doing the largest business @re:— Messrs. Adriance, Platt & Co., of New York; D. M. Usborne & Co,, Auburn, N. Y¥.3 W. A. Wood & Co., Hoosick Falls, N. Y. The German manutacturers cannot turn out good agricultural machinery. Man: attempis have beeu made by vhem to copy American workmanship, but none have been satisfactory. Buyers on the European Contine’ thougn bard to convince, are now agreed that AMERICAN CAST IRON 18 TH® STRONORST IN THE | Of 40,000 men was a disgrace lor the WORLD. | Bonaparte fainily which could never vo It bas an aavantage of cwenty-five per cent over CUaved. It 1 impossivle for Napoleon iV. to become Emperor 0) France, The store rests with | Coant Chambord, whe alone wields influence and power iu the hearrs of Catnolic France. He spoke of ithe new jorts which the Germans are making at Strasvourg, and considered 11 Ws AN OMINOUS Sizu that two of Chem had already falien in, “Do you remember the bombardment | of Strasbourg?’ he asked, “From my residence at Moisneim, four hours distant trom the city, | saw the Library burned to asies, and Knew that with it perisied docum nts which were in no other libraries of the world, I saw the Catuedral burn, and then wien a1 was over and I wandered among the ruins of toe cliy and saw the damage done to the saered edifice 1 wondered if barburians bad | done the work or civilized people.” CHANGING CARS—ADIEU! Mayence the Golden! But we had no more time for conversation, and the venerable Bisnop began | to co llect Nis rogs and wrappers toe ner, for he | had to change cars. “Tey told me in Berlin,” he said, “ihat | had not to change at alt from there | German cast tron in strength, and is nearly six- teen per cent atronzer than English cast tron, So the expo t of agricultural machinery to the European Continent hag become a prominent fea- ture of American trade, and is susceptible of a still farther development. ; Wherever the emr ‘ation movement ts active a | | large number of agricultural machiues ar alwaya | salable. In the neignborhood o1 Breslau especially, where estates are large and tarm laborers con- stantly becoming fewer, there 13 a promising mar- ket, which hus already yielded good returns, and ts | likely to do #0 Jor @ long time tw come. The loss of | hands in Germany during the French war, and the fact that the \andiords have much money and few workmen, shouid induce American manu acturers Of agriculvaral machinery to direct their attention | tO my destination, [have ulready changed twice; | to Germany with @ careiul and attentive eye, The | pls makes the third timo, but—tuat ia all they | profits of business here are satistuctory and pay- — ment generally promot, or easily enforced, so taat ART MATTERS, there is the smallest possible risk of bad dents. PRINCE BISMARCK. A pleasing collection of art works belonging to His Health, Labors and Opportunities. j Mr. Snedecor is on exiibition at the Somerville BBRLIN, March 31, 1874, | Gallery. For the most part the paintings are Prince Bismarck, though exccedingly sick, takes | trom the eageis of men favorably known to the fe mterest in the pariiumentary proceedings of public, and though among the 300 works which the Relohstag. “He vexes and scoids,” said the compose the collection there are few of great Cologne Gazelte recently, “ergo he isiaetimprov- value the general merit is above the nsuai | ing.” The Hrince has just been interviewed on standard im such collections, Native and foreign | his sick bed by two promiment conservative mem. art have received cqual recognition, and we aro j bers of the Reicistaz, and rhe result of the Pr Glad to meet with many American works 01 con- | Mier’s communication ta that a4 soon aahagets | aderabie merit, Among them A. T. Britcher’s ‘The Snedecor Collection of Paintings at the Somerville Gallery. Gérome’s “Desolation of War,” a strong, but soutes what gloomy picture, contrasts strongsy with the: lignter productions of our American cvaractur pater, J.G. Brown, whose “Draw Hard’ and “Draw Easy’ are excellent sketches of incidents’ in gamin fe in New York. The two most import. ant works in the collection are a valuable Ver- boeckhoven and a remarkable Diatz, whose: beat, works seluom find their way to thta country. Iny addiuon to the oil paintings the exhibition 1s en- riched by @ very fair coliection of water colors. The whole will be offered sor sale during next week at the Somerville Gallery. The collection will remain open to the public uniil Wednesday evening. * LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mar. Grorse Borrow’s new dictionary of tho Engiish gypsy language, under the tile of “Romano. Lavo-il,’? 18 neariy ready in London, MR, JosgPu TAYLOR has a ilvely book in Harper's: press, eutitied “A Fast Life onthe Modern High- way; Being a Glance at the Railroad World irom a lew Point ol View.’? Mr. R, H.Sropparp is to take chargeof the: humorous department of S:ridner’y Monthty, AN ELAvoraTE “Dictionary of Heraldry and Her- aldic Mottoes’’ is prepariug by Robert McCoy, the Masvaic publisher, audit wlll have much curious historical matter, BERTHOLD AUERBACH’S novel, ‘Waldiried,”’ trans- lated by Simoa A. stern, is in the press of Henry Holt & Oo, : Situ, ENanisH & Co., of Philadelphia, will print a@ keen review of Dr. Strauss’ “Oid Falth and the dew,” trom the German of Dr. Hormana Uirich Toe same publishers have nearly ready “Solar Hieroglyphics,” a treatise on the emblematic ilus- tranons of the tri-persona! Goduead which are seen in the solar ight, kev. BH, F. Tozer has published some very read- able “Lectares on the Geography of Greece.” ‘Tus Lats EUGENE O’CurRyY’s “Manners and. Customs of the Ancient Irish,” has appeared im three volumes. Ivembraces aneagly complete aur: vey df the social, civil and political life of the ancient Irisn, far more authentic and detailed than has ever heretolore appeared. ME. WEL¥ORD writes in the Bookbuyer:—“Bidite- mania seems dying outas & pursuit, for want of the material to gratity It, and the multipiicrty of permanent libraries established every year readers the quuntity of bouks within reach of ordinary buyers less and jess, Engravings rise ia the same proportion,” A NEw “DICTIONARY OF Music,” by Mr. George Grove, will suon appear in two volumes irom the press of Macmiilan &Co. This 1s a much needed work, there being ne modera, dictionary of mume im the Englisn taneuage except J. W. Moore's **En- cyctopedia of Music,” which appeared in 1554, THE LONDON Atheneum 18 severe upon Miss Dickens’ novei, **The Mul Wheel,” and recommends: tothe author a course of graminar and Engliat reading. It says the book abuunds in slang, rhap- sody and vulgarity. GeorGe ELioT has in press a volume of her poems, Toat MucH PRINTED boux, Boswell’s “Life of Johnson,” is to come forth in a vew turee volume edition, edited by Percy Fitzzerald, mr, Croker’s liberties With the text and eno:mous scaffold.ng of notes wil be abandoned, and the origival read- ings restored us Bosweil wrote them, CHEMISTS SAY thal no matter isever lost. Print- ers deny It; but tt’s no matter, Dr. Cuke.es Mackay 1s preparing for the press @ work ¢ntitied “Tne Gaelic Etymology of the Langusges of Western Europe,” aid more espe claLy of the English and Lowiand Scotch, ana thesr cant, slang and colloquial dialects. THE HIsToRY OF LEICEsTER SQUAKR, On Which Mr. Shiriey brooks was engaged, will be compieted by mis successor mm Puneh’s eiitoral cuair—Mr, ‘Tom Tayjor, Mr, G, A. Saia succeeds Mr. Shirley Brooks ty the Engilsh editorsmip of ihe Anglo-In- dian paper, the Home News, ‘THE Fre cu Journal of Printing and Booksen- ing gives the produéiion of the press in France in 1878 at 11,58) books. But this estimate reckons every pamphiet and periodiva! as a book, UNDER THE TITLE OF “Birth of Chemistry Mr, G. F. Rodwell has condensed a good deal of infor. matiou into a book which Macmillan & Co, have published. A PLEASANT NEW Book of stories 1s “The Polke Lere of Rome,” collected by word of mouth from the people vy K. F. Busn. AN ENTERTAINING ADDITION to the already rich stores 01 gossip on the ages of Louis XIV, aod Louis XV. hus appeared in London under the title ol “Reminiscences 0: @ Canvuess,” selected (rom @ diary hitherto unpubiisned, THE Glas,ow Citizen says that Mr. R. W. Emer- son has consented to be nominated for tue oMee of Lord Rector of the University o! that city, in Buce cession Lo Mr. Disruelt. ink Saturday Keview, in a caustic article on “Parliamentary Night-Birds,” denounces te sys- tem by which the House o; Commons is Kept situng nine huurs—from four o'clock in the aiternoon to one next morning—in order to watch the nignt- birds “who prey during its slumbering hours,” MONSIEUR HEIGELMANN, & Freach journalist who lived sumptuous.y while blowing the trumpet of Napoleon 11. and started a Bonapartist paper In London ater the fail oj the Empire, has been tried and sentenced for iraudulent bankruptey and gen- eral dishonesty ip Paris, THE Saturday Review opens a notice of two as- \ronomical works by the starting declaration, “The moon has been sadly negiected of lute years,” We think not. Witness the piles of su-calied poetry with waich modern lunatics the press, WATERING PhLavé NOLES, The Grand Hotel, Saratoga, yoes begging for ® proprietor, for the ensuimg seuson, Wu0 has a plethuric purse. A.J, Drexel and family, of Philadelphia, have securcd 4 summer home at the United States Hotel, saratoga. W. B. Gage and Mr. Jauvrin, of this city, nave purchased @ quarter interest in the United States Hotel, Saratuga. Saratoga hotels will all openin June. ‘the new United States will be the finest and most cowplete hotei in the country. Proprietors of the Delaware Water Gap hoteie announce that they will be bappy, &., on anu alter the 1st oi June, One 01 the prettiest summer resorts in the Deigh. borhoud o1 the city 1s Laurelton, L. L, where were isan excellent hotel. Palace-Car Pullman bas bought a jot near the President's house at Long Branch, and is er @ $60,000 house thereon, ai All the hotels at Sharon and Richfeid are being cleaned and renovated. Ibe season at theae places: always commences early. A spring higniy impregnated with iron and 9 phur has burs: out on the farm of Joun Wucox, at Quaker Springs, Saruioga, On the Ist of June Congress Hall, Sarutoga, wilt Open, under the sume management as that of wast yeat—Hathorn & Southgate, The voper Huuse, at Vooperstown, N. Y., Wit Open ior the season June 24, wader the mamage- Meat of Coleman & Maxwell