The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1874, Page 15

SUMMER OCEAN TRAVEL, ‘The Places In the Old World Vistted by American Tourists. “What a Trip on the Continent Costs—Interesting Excursions Soon To Be Made Across the ‘Atlantio—The Drew Seminary Party Now in the Holy Lend—Enro- peans on Their Way to This Conntry for a Tour 0f 10,000 Miles, ‘Though recent disasters on the ocean have, for ‘the time being, retarded the booking of passen- ers for the usual ‘summer vacation” of American tourists on the Continent, the business, it 18 thought, will soon revive, and. those who have the leisure and wish to make the most of it in this ‘Way will throng the steamers tor achange from the routine and drudgery of the long winter and disagreeable spring. It 1s.a common affair nowa- days to make the voyage across the Atlantic and the fashionable tour that follows it—and certainly there never were such opportunities of travel, Such reduced fares and such accommodations pre- ented to the summer tourist ag are now existung— to thus recruit the wasted energies and lay ina Stock of vital joree fora renewal oi the campaign of toll, Already the exodus has begun, as in- -stanced in the long tists of departures in the steam- ers on Saturday last; and, as it 18 @ matter of in- terest to note the diferent places the majority of American excursionists visit when they arrive on the Connnent a brief space is devoted to the sub- Ject. STEAMSHIP LINES AND THEIR FARES, There are now plying between America and ®urope the several vessels belonging to the fol- dowing lines of steamers:—From New York to Liverpool, Canard, National, White Star, Inman and Guion; from New York to Glasgow, Anchor And State; irom Boston to Liverpool, Cunard; from Portland and Quebec to Liverpool and Glasgow, Allan; from Philadelphia to Liverpool, Penusyl- Vania, and, in addition, there ts the North German Lioyd's from New York to Bremenand from Bal- timore to Bremen; the Hamburg-American Packet Company, irom New York to Hambarg; the Eagle iine, from New York to Hamburg; the General fransatlantic Company, from New York to Havre, and the Red Star une from Philadelphia to Antwerp. Tae Cunard ine sends two vessels a ‘week {rom New York and one trom Boston, while the Anchor line despatches three a week from this port. The other lines send a steamer weekly, , PXcept the Red Star and State, their vessels leav- dng fortnightly. The State line is building three Dew boats, Which will enable the company to de- @patch weekly steamers to Glasgow after June. The rates of fare vary from $55, currency, to $130, gold, for outward tickets, and from $110, euprency, to $230, gold, for the return passage. It #8.a rule of each line to give its patrons tne ben- eft o! ten to fliteen per cent of established rates @8an inducement to take tickets both ways. The fares are regulated by the character of the steam- ers and their appointments, Some passengers ‘Prefer to pay $130, gotd, in order to take such ves- sels a8 the Scotia and Russia, Although tne aver- @gerate of passage by the Cunard line is $100, @old, yet there are staterooms on some of their yeasels that can be obtained for $80, gold. WHERE AMERICANS GO, The majority of Americans who go to Europe for the first time land at Queenstown, and make the vour to Cork, Killarney, Limerick, Galway, Dublin, Enniskillen, Londonderry, Giant's Causeway, Bel- fast; thence over to Glasgow, through the Scotcn Lakes of Lomond and Katrine, the trossachs to Edinvurgh, proceeding to London by way of Mel- Tose and Leeds. The popular tour, however, Jor those having but two or three months a; their isposal, ts irom London to Antwerp, Brussels, Co” logue, up the Rhine, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, through Switzerland, visiting such places as Lu- eerne, Interlachen and Geneva, returning by way of Paris to London and thence home. Such a tour a8 last Indicated could be made for $266 in gold by the White star ine, ‘Many who leave the United States in the early mouths of April and May proceed at once to Ltaly, by Liverpool, London, Paris, Mont Cems Tunnel, Turin, Milan, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Naples, Leguorn, Pisa, Simplon Pass to Chamouni {for Mont Blanc), Geneva, Lausanne, Berne, lnter- lachen, Lucerne, Baten-Baden, Heldeiberg, May- ence, down the Rnine to Cologne, Brussels, Lon- @on, Derby, Edinburgh, Stirling, inverness, Oban (or Staffa and fona, the Cave of Fingal), Glas- gow, Beliasr, Londonderry, Dublia, Killarney and Cork. A tour of this kind, say by the National line Of steamers, would be $231 in gold, drat class, all the way. The Anchor line has its steamers stop at Queenstown and at Londonderry. A tour can be made by one of its thursday or Saturday vessels as jollows:—Passengers landing at Londonderry, Proceeding to the Giant’s Cuuseway, Bellast, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Killarney, Miuord Haven, through Waies to London, Paris, Geneva, Lausanne, Berne, Interlachen, Lucerne, by the St. Gothard Pass to Milan, visiting lakes Magetore, Como and Lugano, and into Switzerland by the Spiugen Pass to Zurich, then to Basel, Baden. Baden, Heidelberg, down the Rhine to Cologne, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Edinburgh, Glassow and revurn to New York. fuis tour can be made, first class, as low as $264, goid. THE PLAN OF OLD TRAVELLERS. 1t is the opinion of the best iniormed old travel- ‘Yers that those tourists going to turope having their plans completely made as to what places they will visit, aud how and when they will see them, as o rule, have the most sutisactory and easant journey. ‘The system inaugurated neariy riy years ago by Mr. Tuomas Cook, che Kughsn excursionist, has greatly simplified Kuropean ‘travel, 80 that now the most unsuphisticated can travel through foreign countries as comiortabiy as fm their own lands. This business was commenced ata ume when tr only to congregate mumvoers of people tiat conces- sous could be Obtaioable irom railway companies 4n regaru to reduced iares. INTER: STING EXCURST Last year a special ship, the Victoria, of the Anchor hine, was chartered’ by this firm, of whion Mr. Cook is at the head, and 4 select party of pohool teachers, college professors, ministers, &c., was organized and taken trom New York to Lou- @onderry. Giant’s Causeway, through Scotland to London, Brussels, up the Rhine to Mayence, fo Vieuna and back through Switzerland, visiting all points of interest to the tourist and pleasure seeker; and thence to Geneva, Paris, London, Gias- Gow and home, ‘This party was composed of 148 per- gone, seventy-eight of whom weie ladies, and neariy ail alone and unprotected until they reached tne steamer, ‘hey came irom twedty-seven States, and the amount charged ior this exicn- pive (our, which exceeded nine weeks, was ‘put $400 in gold per capita, It was very success. Ju: in every respect, and so pleased the exoursion- sts that the tirm are orgamizing just such avother arty, and have chartered the new steamer Bo- itvra, of the Anchor line, jor the purpose, leaving here Tuesday, June 30, The avove quotation in- cluded hoteis, porters, guides, carriages, ees for ‘Bigut-seeing, omnibuses and ever possible ex- ‘pense that the tourist could naturally incur, ‘They uave anuther party sailing by tie Egypt, of ‘the Nationul line, May 9, The programme bantear Mined upon ts from New York to Liverpool, Lon- don, Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Tudloa, Nice, Mon- Aco, Genoa, Florence, Rome, Naples, Pom- etl, Vesuviia, Surrenti, Pisa, Venice, Verona, ian, Vienna, Geneva, Berne, Baden-Baden, Heidelverg, Worms, Wiesbaden, down the Rhine, Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Aimstervam, the Hague, London, Liverpool, New York. The time to he consumed is 100 ie and the price $650 in old, Which wit include first class railway travel- ing, hotels, provisions, carriages, ponies lor Vesu- vius, goudolas at Venice, wagonetics for Chats- worth and Haddam Hail, in Hngiand, &e. The ex- @ursioaists Will be accompanied by @ conductor, ‘who Wall act as interpreter, guide and manager. ROUND THE WORLD. A ticket can be issued around the world as low Ms $850 iD yold, from New York back to New York, while $1,000 in ,old will buy a ticket from— New York to San Urnncisco, by ratitond, San Franciw:0 to Yohohana, y Vacine mail steamer. na lo Shanghae, through Luland sea of Japan, ine wall steamer. hae to Hong Kong, by Peninsula end Oriental AMCs wont Kong to Singapore, Penang and Ceylon. Yoint de Galle (Weyton) to Madras and Calcutta, by Pemnsula and Onental stenmers Culcutta to Benares, Allahabad, Jubbulpore and Bom- , by raliway bay Ae w ‘Kaen and Suez, by Peninsnia and Oriental Gtetien to Alexandria, direct or by Cairo, by raliway, ‘emineula and Oriental Alexandria to Brindisi, by steamer. ‘Brindtst'to Parts, by railway via Naples, Rome, Florence d turin. “Yaris t0 London, oy,eny radwayand, eay,Chagnel Fopoudon to Liverpool (OF Gtaaow), by railway. NEW YORK. HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1874.-QUINTUPLE_ SHEET. Taverpoot Ginegow) to New Vork, by any line of (Stem e wal pee Tickets are issued also by way o! Australia for $1,000 im gold, the route being trom— lew York to Bn Francisco, by raliway. sa See haar weet in Fra 0 to Sanawic! cint * stenmer. Zeaand Melbourne to i Point de Galle to Calcutta, Fointde Honvbay, acrows fade, by railway, Bomoav to vez, by steamer, Suez to Alexandria, via Outro, by rathway. pirendee ean cis ra tear mice 2 Puri to London, any rouse, Dy rallway and steamer. to Liverpool (or Giasgow), by railway. London 10 tor ciasgow) to Rew York, by ie versa. Any of these tickets allow the passenger to stop and visit the interior o: dapan, india, &¢c., While he can extenu his journey trough Palestine and mane the journey up the Nile, IN THE LANDS OF THR BIBLE. Many Americans go 10 Palestine and the Nile, both 0) which countries are ly covered by the traveling arrangements ol the firm above aliuded to, The steamers on the Nile, between Cairo and Assouan (the first cataract), aithouga owned by the Viceroy of Egypt, are under ther countro!, while in Palestine they own Lorses, mules, tents ang camp equivage, ahd are prepared to carry through the latter country tn carava: y number of people, 1rom two to two hundred at Oue time, They have had in Palestine the ig winter upwards of .wo hundred persons, i of Whom Were Americans. Une large und im- portant purty, under charge of the Rev. Dr. Strong, ol Drew Seminary, Madison, Rev. Dr. Ridgeway, of Hariem, Y., lett New York On the zOth of Decemver last, by the City of Montreal, of the Inman line, and these gen- men are now taking, perhaps, the most extensive tour ever made b) travellers, as thew contract was for nearly nine months irom point oj departure to Marseilles, 1urin, Rome, Na- les, Kyypt, the Nile, across the Sinai Desert, the nd of Moab, Petria, Keralt, Smyrna, Coustanti- nople, Greece, Germany, switz-rland, Holland, Belgium, England, Scutiaud and Ireland. Dr. Strong's caravan leit Suez for binal on the 8th of Marcu last, and was composed o1 forty-three camels, which were required .o carry the immense amount of provisions 107 the party of twelve gen- temen, TURNING THE TIDE OF TRAVEL. Arrangeweuts for tourists are being extended to the United states by Messrs. Cook & Son, They ate now negotiatiag with the various railroads in this Couutry, Wheveoy they Will ve ubie to induce Luiopeans to visit this couutry, thereby turning, to some extent, the tide of travel. Mr. Cook, tt 18 understood, 18 UOW On LIS Way Irom Loudon to New York with a party of bnglish ladies and gen- Uemen woo ace tu tuake the tour fom this city to Phuaaelphia, thence to Baltimore, Washington, Harper's Ferry, Wyero’ Cave, siaunton, Kichmond, Lyncaburg, Natural Bridge, White sulpuur Springs, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Loaisvule, Kausas City, Denver, Sait Lake, Yosemite, san Francisco, Omaba, Chicago, Vetroit, Niagara balls, ronle, Moncreal, Quevec, Portland, Boston, Albany and the Hudson saver, COS! OF TRAVEL IN THE UNITED STATES. While We can boast 01a great tourist region, combining the Yosemite and Col rado, the prices jor excursion tickets to the Pacctte coast are stil 80 nigh they repel travell-ra. in this counection une following iacts have been learued. A late work of Culilornia, regurded as the standard in this particnlar, gives hese rates:— New York to San Fi of sieeping cars Salt Luke and ret 5 Sau Joge and return, 10 Geyser and return. ‘ 26 “Bug crees," Yosemite and return. 38 Making a totai of .... In regard to the fare to “Big Trees” and Yose- |. mite and return, that given as $38 should be $60, Which makes a total expense O1 $391—the absolute cost Of the travelling iare to Cailormia from New York and back, EUROPEAN RATES MUCH LESS, A ucket irom New York can oe issued by a first class steamer, like those vf the Cunard, Auchor or White Star jines, to Liverpool, Loadon, Paris, Turin, by Mount Cenis tunnel, Genoa, Fiorence, Rome, Napies, back to Rome, Pisa, Florence, Bo.ogna, Venice, Verona, Milan; thence turough Bwitzerianad, by either tne St. Gothard or Splugen pastes to Basie; trom wasle, by way o! baden Baden; theuce to Heidelberg down the Khine, brussels, Antwerp, to London, Liverpool and New York, tor $258.1n gold, which, adding premium, say $37 50, Will make $295 50, making a differe.ce Of $85 50 in fuvor of the European tour, This 18 one reason why Americans preier visiting the Continent before they see their own country, stil greater dufer- ence 18 showa In the cost of hotels, waich will av- erage at least $3 per day in gold tor Caiuornia, as against $2in gold tor Europe, ana a trp of fitty duys ere is an additional saving of $60 in this respect. Another potnt of interest to Americans 1s the completion of the new Midland Railway, trom Liv- erpvol to London, which now run their trains from the new Central station in Liverpool to the St. Pancras station. tn Loudon. This line is the only one m £urope which has had the progressive spirit of the age sutticiently developed to intro- duce the Fulunan cars. An American going to Liverpool can now find the same accommodation in regard to luxurious travelling that he is accus- tomed to at home, WATERING PLACE NOTES, Belmont Hall, Schooley’s Mountain, has been purchased, and will be opened in June, by D. P. Carrique, an experienced hotel man, ‘The summer resorts are already beginning to make known their rival claims, and some of them offer sensations indeed. At Rye they promise the arrival and proper reception of no less a subma- Tine monster than the new Atlantic cable. At the White Mountains, that ride by rail unrivalled this side of tue Pacific, up and down the Conway intervale, will be extended with the spring open- ing to old Crawford's, Dr. Bemis’ and the Willey House, The Fenimore House-is the name of a new hotel (lately built) to be opened thia season at Coopers- town. At the close of the coming season the Lelands will fold their wardrobe and qutetly steal away from the Ocean Hotel, Long Branch, A rivalry has sprung up among the proprietors of Long Branch hotels, and bets are being made as to which will secure the clerk with the largest diamond. R. H. Southgate’s beautiiul little steamer was launched at saratoga Lake last Saturday. An ini- tial trip was made with the Juiia, and. she was found to work like a charm. “Long Branch promises to be the most prosper- ous resort of the year. Saratoga will be the most lively, New London the most exciusive, and New- port the most noted for titled persons,” writed a prophetic pen, It is believed that the frequency of ocean disas- vers will deter thousands from crossing the At- lantic, and consequently add to the attractions at the eummer hotels along the coast. Hotel proprietors whv would make the season a success financially shonid bear in mind that one of the first requisites is civility at the nands of the hotel clerk, and then clean, airy rooms, a truce to the system of perquisites to servants, a reduction of rates, even if they have to provide plainer fare, and, lastly, a careful scrutiny against the ad- mission to their hops Of adventurers and adven- turesses, The managers of the Grand Hotel, Saratoga; Paitgade Moantain House, Engiewood; Laurelton Hall, Cold Spring Harbor, and Parry House, West Point, are not yet decided upon, Pashionavle 10lk affect Richfeld, and heads of families sensibly select Schooley’s Mountain, The new United States Hotel will be the sensa- tion at Saratoga next summer. Dr. J. Marton sims, of Madison avenue, and Gen- eral W. Scott Hancock have rented cottages at Newport ior the summer. From a hotel point of view Newport will not have a brilliant season in 1874, while cottage life fourishes luxurtantly. Sev- eral parties are now in Newport in search for ¢um- mer quarters. All the agents have furnished cot- tages on hand and rents are moderate, Jonn E. Bradford, of Providence, is to keep the Continental Hotel at Narragansett Pier another season. ‘The Glen House, White Mountains, has been re- Javenated, gas introduced and other needed addi- tions made, W. & C. R. Milliken, of Portiana, will manage It. , A delightful summer retreat, ombracing many features which attract tne tourist seeking pieas- ure, or the family having comtort and quiet in view, can be found at the Ocean View House at Pigeon Cove, Mass. This house, which was built by the Messrs, Babson in 1871, has been purchased by Mr. J, Harvey Pierce, who formerly had charge of the office of the Profile House in New Hamp- shire, A large force of workmen is now employed on the Gregory House, t. e cottages, and the Oarpen- tr House, at Lake Mahopac, N. Y., getting them in readiness for the opening. The season at Lake Mahopac, 80 conventent to New York, promises to be very brilliant. Among those who have engaged rooms at the Gregory House lor the coming sum- merare Mr. Oharies Lord and family, No. 6 East Forty-first street; Mr. Edmund A, Smitn and family, No, 226 Madison avenue; Dr. Charles H. Batley, No. 112 East Twenty-seventh street, and Mr. J. Q, Hoyt, Vice President of the New York and Montreal Raulway, and tamile BATHS FOR THE PEOPLE. Official Apathy and Tired Toilers’ Eagerness, Last Year's Experiment and How It Resulted— The Bill Before the Legislature for Four New Baths—Who the Bathers Are and ‘Where They Come From—Tenement House Pistures—Comparisons trom English Cities — Laundries. With the approach of the summer the health of the city becomes again @ sudject of tye most serious importance, ana needé the earnest atten- tion of ail city officials who are responsible for the wellbeing and comtort of the people. Tue expe- rience of former years has long veen proof con- clusive that New York has been far benina every. other great city in the world in the facilities afforded the people for bathing, No excuse coula Wipe out the deserved censure which the authori- ties have received for the neglect they exhibited in this matter. - Futile eftorts were made last year to supply the deficiency complained of; but nothing was done that could be considered at al) Two public baths fora etty of a miilion of inhabi- tants was the greatest advance made, and these two baths only demonstrated THEIR UTTER INEFPICENCY to meet thedemand made upon tiem. With the example of other great cities before them, New York legislators ventured upon an experiment, as if to test the accuracy of the judgmenta pronounced upon puvlic baths in other countries— the parsimony displayed im this matter being capable of explanation in no other manner than by the supposition of an expermment. It required @ good deal of howling betore even the two baths were granted, and years o/ invoeation had to be passed before the country officiais or the Albany legislators became convinced that the working classes needed achance to bathe thelr exhaustea bodies, A bill being now before the Legislature to increase the number of public baths to aix, it is hoped by all classes that there is not even @remote probability of its being defeated.. The bill has passed the House and is now betore the Senate, and Commissioner Van Nort ts anxiously waiting for it to become a law, in o1der that work on the new baths may be begun atonce, It ts the intention of Commissioner Van Nort to locate the new baths, one at some point above Charies street, where the bath on the west side now stands, and one below that point on the west side; one above Filth street, where the secona bath stands, on the east side, and one below that point, thus placing three baths on each side of the city. If the bill passes tie Legislature, and there can scarcely be Any doubt about that, the city will enjoy this sum- mer the greatest luxury it has been favored with for a long time, and the santtary condition of the poorer classes will doubtless thereby be vastly im- proved, Upon’this latter point no question can be Taised, for the , TESTIMONY OF THE ABLEST MEDICAL MEN has been given abundantly to show that bathing isa ‘powerful preventive against disease, not to speak of evident advantages which personal cleanliness must necessarily bring to tenement houses. The need there is for an increase iu the number of the ee baths appeared conclusively last summer. it was found impossible to supply room tor the numbers of applicants who preseuted themselves, @ud ihese, too, were irom the very classes ior whom the baths were intended. Tne two baths were filled to their fuilest capacity every morning and every evening, the workingwen U-ing thea betore going to work and atter the day’s labor was over. Crowds of men Were each morning and evening turned away, for waut of room to accom modate them. In ‘THE RECO! kept of the numbers who used the baths it appears that from June 17, the day on which the baths Were thrown open to the public, to the end of that month, the number of bathers was 184,243; in Joly the number was 214,700; in August, 181,861; in Septeuber, up to the Ott, the day on Which the batus were closed, 43,904, These num- bers, 10 was admitted, would have been largely increased had not thousands 6f persons become aware of the limited accommodations, the rush there was for admission and the consequent dis- comforta from overcrowding. It the six baths are in working order this summer it will be jound that e¢ach of them will be fully required to accommodate the applicants, and experience tu other cles has shown that each succeeding year only adda to tie number of bathers, the beneficial results making the bain an ordinary and habitual resort, ins:ead o1 an occa- gional luxury, to the sons of toll, There is even some diiiculty in unuerstanding how it has happened that in a city like this, so favored with the rivers around It, bath buuses have not been so long i operation as to be now of everyuay use for everybody in the summer. With such terrivie heat as New York generally experiences in sam- mer the wonder is tshe has not gone alicad of every other cityin tae world in bath houses and in the iacilities for the general public for bathing. Instead of this ° THE EMPIRE CITY IS BEMINDIAND, and has had to be ariven by sheer force of public outcry to supply alew baths for the thousands of peopie who are choking wita toul air and suifo- cated with the heat in their sour aud six story tenement bouses. Im other large citres such ac- commodations ior dwelling purposes as are to be found here are, fortunately, unknown. Bat still, with their thermometers ranging many degrees lower than ours acany period of the summer, these cities are suppited with bathing establishments ior the people on a splendid ecale, inviting co the laborer, reireshing to whole tamiltes and targely conducive to sound minds and bodies. Anybody who is sceptical as to the absolute necessity fur a fulland generous supply of public batas in New York need only make a short tour among THE TRNEMENT HOUSES, in which dwell the laborers and mechanics of this city, and vhere will be found such acondition of things as will create an appalling uread of epidemic disedses. Huddied together unuke hu- wan beings; stowed away into nooks of rooms, with scarcely space euough to turn round in; with dark and unventilated rooms to eat, drink and sieep in; im the broil oi @ temperature untempered by a breath oi pure air, men are supposed to rest and grow refreshed alter a hard day’s labor, and to preserve their healtn unshattered to win bread Jor their families. it is from houses like these tuat men start at sunrise for the pubdlic”bath to cool and fresien themselves, and from which children, wearing tast from the noisome air, gladly rush away to wash off the fever coating (rom their skin, Such tenemens houses as New York has are vot the commua residences of the working classes in the great cities of Europe, and yet im European ofties the batu is a common resort of the laboring classes. IN LONDON there is. @ full supply of public baths, surrounded, poo, with many conveniences lor tie pooxer peo- ple, wuich have caused the bath houses to become permanent institutions, affording great relief apart ‘irom the imvigorating lufluences of the bathing. In the other large cities o England and tm thé smaller ones also the pubite bath has be- come & necessary part of the people’s ile, and city officials have come to believe thatitisaduty to provide jor the people this refreshing and innocu. ong stimulant, In Connection with the English paths ave wash houses and laundries, tuese being of the vel greatest help to tue poorer classes, who cannot atford to live im houses Laving “modern improvements,” For avery small sum, poor Women can go to these washuouses and Jaundries, do their work, leave their apparel! alter them to be attended te and thus avoid a world of vexatious annoyances in the Darrow limits of their homes, ‘These: tactiities have been so largely availed of by the :amiles of tue working people that the wash houses and iaun- dries have become permanent institutions in all vhe principal cities of Kngland, Li & has been there jound that such instiiativns are of great pubic benefit, highiy conducive to the cleanliness and the comfort of poor people’s homes, what canbe said as to the still greater udvantages Which would accrue to TUE POOR PEOPLE'S MOMES. IN NEW YORK were this city to be supplied with houses affording such accommodations? in New York six story tenement houses, with four families on every floor, the grying appurtenances are located on the.roofs In distiicts where the foul air ts rendered touler Bull by the contiguity of a rear tenement house, the wind drics the clothing of tront and rear houses in the space between the two, an extraor- dinary system: of ropes between the windows being arranged tor the purpose. ‘Bhe house- wiie must wash in her two narrow rooms, with an army of youthiul Americans around the red hotstove. Itis piain that were the English sys tem to be introduced in this city an incalowlable amount of unnecessary lubor would be spareds Mr cepa homes would be made less un- leassnt and the uomestic cleantiness which the Boara of Health has been 80 long besecohing for tn vain might reasonably be exyected to lolow in some degree a8 a consequence, But with CITY OFFICIALS VERY DULL« to the call of poor men's wants, and with legisia- tors who care much more for @ Iittie political notortety than for the quiet comiert of working eople, there is very little chance of procuring his year public laundries and wash houses jor New York. ‘To judge irom the apatny of former legislators and city officials in regard to Pie baths, it may be salcly concluaed now that if New York gets the tour new bathe this summer it will be about ag much #3 Bhe can expect. Yet all these Improvements have got to come, and the time cannot be far. distant when tne ople them- selves Will demand them, White Engi i has been cited nere a8 an example jor New York fo toliow, there mixht be added the pames o! commensurate with the needs of this great city. | almost every city of importance in the Old World, No enumerauon, however, of «| progress in Europe would uave mucn weight at y during the last ten or tweive days ot the Legislative ses- sion, so that the bill belore the Senate must stand pon the one serious thing in favor of tte pas- sago—namely, that the Senate would be ashawed to throw it out. Under these ciroumscances, tt ts UNNECESSARY TO INSTRUCT ALL OBJECTORS to public baths in this city by an historical account of bow the legisiators of ancient Rome watched over the sanitary condition of the er folks of that time, and of how grand vem: were erected witnin which the sanctity of the human body, in all 168 periections, was preserved and the health aud coufort ol the peopie generally guarded by bat It 18 equaliy unnecessary to draw de- ductions from Ruasian or ‘Turkish vaths or irom sulphur or tan baths, these being comparatively iuxuries, Hich people who are supplied with basis in their residences, hot and cold and tepid, be- come 80 accustomed to they no move disturb the poor people's epiderints than they go about the latter's boots and shoes, *These wealthy toik, too, hie away to summer resorts in the bot season, and do the washing o1 themseives in the Ocean. Middie classes patronize the baths im the city which are the property o1 private inv: viduals, abd Which are erected a8 matters of pri- vate speculation, the admission price to them being generally a quarter of a di , a daily ex- penditure to # workingman rather too much. if the SIX public baths are im working order this summer, it 18 said vy those who took great interest in the two batis Opened last year that the public appreciation of them will show that a still farther increase Will be needed in 1875. CREMATION. Undertakers’ Rights. New York, April 23, 1874, To THE EpITOR or THE HERALD:—~ Muy I ask 1 undertakers have no rights that the cremationists are under any obligation to re- spect? Iam not myself an undertaker, but I have airiend who is, and { am exceedingly pained to notice the growing tendency of our defunct tellow citizens to prefer incandescence to the ttme-hon- ored method ot allowing thetr mortal remains to have decent Christian burial, These things are not pieasant—they are not even funny—from an undertaker’s point of view, at all events, and I would respectiully ask you to raise your edtiorial voice iN iitercession for the undertakers, Who, a3 @ Cluss, are barder worked ‘and poorer paid than @uy ovher Class of men who are not harder worked or more poorly paid than they are, J put itin this way to avoid pote “picked up" by anybody ; for if there is anything Lutterly Uetest More than any other one thing, it is to have my Statements Lot only denied, but actually proved to be jalse. For my part I caunot understand how any sane Man can preier being burned up to a quiet rest in the grave “alter lue’s fit.ul iever.” Among the ancleut heataen and the fire worshippers tis @bpormal custom, at once so shocking and revolt ing to sensitive natures, may have well found favor; but with us, who live in a more advanced age, and have all the advantages 01 free schvois, lager beer, the proposed Brooklyn Bridge, the Committee of Fifty, tue Grange movement, currency inflation, the temperance Women, the arkansas muddie, the Tichborne claimant, the Freuch Re- public wud other truly beneficent blessings, I Should say that the man who could deliverately offer his corpus a willing sacrifice to the blistering Hames must be an undoubted exemplification ot the truth of the Darwinian theory. Must the undervaiers atarve? Yours grievously, EPHRAIM MUGGINS, A Cremator Criticised. New Yor. April 23, 1874, To THE Epiror oF THE RERALD:— I noticed in a recent issue of a elty paper a let- ter upon cremation, written evidently by a woman, in which she advocates the cause of those eccentric creatures who, to vindicate civilization, woujd re- turn to the characteristic practice of barbarism, It is not my intention either to commend or to dis- parage the system of treating the dead that ob- tatned among the nations of antiquity; my purpose in writing this letter is to consider the arguments advanced by anserous moderns in favor of cremation. Impartial; disposed to adopt @uy plan consistent with morality and conducive to the most beneficial result, I do not attack a theory when I criticise the ignorant absurdities of its advocates. Men who considera knowledge of their native language more important than inane Speculations, will concur. with me in advising the enemies of inhumation to acquire the elements of grammar beiore they enter upon the discussion of a@subject which tuvolves profoundly philosophical questions, and which can only be coniused by their Jatuous clamor. Whut the lady introduced by “Urn” and men- tloned above meant to say when she indulged in sensalional refiectious on the “dank of tne pit’? must remain @ recondite mystery to English Speaking people until she volunteers a transiavion, It is true we possess an adjective ‘*dank,” signily- ing damp, Wet, bumid, moist, dark, &c., but tie substantive form of the word is @ crea- tion of whe lady's imagination. She con- tinues:—‘‘to the cultured mind the idea of inhumation becomes especially horrible when its even current” (the even current of what?— “the cultured mind” or “the idea of imbuma- tion?’’) “has been turned aside and its percep- ons” the perceptions of What—the ‘umind" or the “idear’) “dimmed and 1enaered morbid throagh griei.” Now, i this lady, whose “mind, we are to un- jerstand, is cultured, had concerned herseif with the principies o/ lauguage belore she assailed the custom of Christian burial the responsibility of having composed such @ sentence as the Joregoin; might have been avoided. We are nex entertained by a vivid description of the nocturnat horrors experienced by this un- happy person. “Racks,” “ancouth tmages,”’ “ghastly spectacies,” “busy denizens,” “dead Mon’s bones,” and “uuclean birds batienmyg on dead masses" infest the menial vision of our cultured crematiouist. Here let me observe that the word empioyed by this lady to express the idea. of “iatlening” jorcivly reminds me of a line tn Snakespeare, which may be applied. with singa- lar propriety to the victim of lamentavle hallucinations to wh.ch i bave alluded, ‘“Boow your Junction,’’ says the great poet, an iojunction Which, being explained, means “confine yourself. to the legitimave sphere ol your usefulness and eschew cremation.” Now I confldentiy challenge any man or woman vo comprehend the jollowang specimen of lucid Knglish upon the first readimg of it:—From ont of tne dark depths o/ griei, more bitter than the gioow of death, the mourner may question infini- tude of the departed spirit, assuciated with none: but peaceiul thoughts, Knowing that the dead lie where ‘the winds of heaven’ cannot ‘visit them, too roughly.’” This kind of writing js absolutely. ‘uninteiugible, and assertions made in such a styie cannot ve retuted, because they cannot be un- derstood. What is meant by ‘questioning infinitude of the Geparted spirit?” Does the ciatise: ‘associated With Bene {no one?) but peaceiuk thougnts,” refer. to tne “mourner,” to inflnitude or to “the departed spirit?’ inis entire senvence is in a state of hopeless confusion, and il all crema- Wonisis promulgates their peculiar opipions inan THE LABOR QUESTION. The Handmaid of Capital Watoh- ing Her Rights. Waiting for the 4th of May—Aggrossive Action of the Workingmen es to the Eight Hour Law. The relations between labor and capital are at Present in & more disturbed ana anomslous cond ton than at any previous time since the close of our late war, Employers want to reduce the price Of mechanics’ and laborers’ wages and to lengthen their hours of toil, contrary to the provisions of jaw made and provided tnere anent, while house rent, clothing, 1o0d—nearly every requisite for the Poor man’s subsistence—remain about as high as when the country had @ million of mon under arms, Inflationists say that a paper dollar is as 00d a8 wheat, bat the working man, who receives his: wages in @ promise to pay, duds out, to his Cost, thet IT WILL NOT BUY QUITE 80 MUCH PLOTR 98 & metallic hundred cent piece would. The lot of the working classes of New York is particularly hard," The laborer who earns $1 75 a day-works, on an average, about nine anda belf months in the year, aud gains something more than $450 wherewith to support himseif and perbaps a family. And yet the contractor wants him to work ten hours @ day iu place of the statutory eight that are laid down by luw, The mechanic is somewhat better off than the laborer, He earns, say $3 a day, for about nine anda half months, This will give him a yearly income of nearly $800. He can afford to indulge in more of the com/orts of life than HIS LESS FORTUNATE YOKEFELLOW IN TOLL, the day laborer. The cry of the laboring classes is that the rich are rapidly becoming richer and the poor poorer, ‘They say that unacrupylons contractors want to grow too suddenly wealthy, and care not how or where the means come from. Society is in a chaotic state. There is no confidence tn the ad- Ininistyators of the law or in those connected with financial aftairs of the city, Stave or federal gov- ernment, Ovrruption, fraud and bribery stalk bold and unblushingly through the land, There is @ vicious emuiation-on the part of ambitious poor People to: imitate the ways ot the wealthy, aud of the latter to copy their models from peraicious systems of acknowledgedly effete aristocracies, STOCK GAMBLING AND POLITICS seem to be alone wortly of men’s attention. The reason of all this originates in an unhealthy as unwise race for riches, The almiguty dollar is in evergbody’s mouth, and whichever way the struggle for lucre tends, the working classes are certain to be pushed to the wall. To demonstrate how great an evil could result froma fall in false Anances it 18 enough to state that thousands of in- dustrious families were ariven—for want of em- ployment—to beggary or the soup house. Many of these good people, not having courage to bear up against THEIR CONFESSEDLY GREAT MISFORTUNES, have become utterly demoralized, and theirgse- fulness 1s lost to society. “Why,” said an iotelll- gent mechanic to a HeRALD reporter, “did not the seading men,of the city—the municipal govern- ment—give the suffering poor ven cents worth of work tustead of ten cents worth of soup Y” Our chmate requires us to bave both summer and winter ciotuing; We have excessively high rents, high rates of living, high transportation (the Klevated Raliroad, to wit), bigh ideas and high everything, excepting lager beer and Jersey nghtoing, both of which commodities orm tne staple ol what New York can offer to mtending emigrants by way of inducement for them to settle among us here and help to build up this great Western metropolis, The curse of the country has been and ts the ‘Anotnanng standard of money value. A paper doilar will buy one quantity of goods to-day and a different amount in a week aiter. The tax on property, on account of our bad system oi city gov- ernment, 1s already high, with every chance ol @ steady Increase in tte 1uture. Add to these con- siderations tne fact that last year’s panic invoived large numbers of people who wére prepared = to risk tho investment of Capital in city improvements, which would have employed thousands who were otherwise cast adrilt iu tue long, dreary montus of winter. The fears of an unwholesome inflation of our already depreciated paper money Was anotuer obstacle which barred the way of industrial enter- prises, People couid not tell what to expecc, and were unwilling to part with a aollar. The ap- proach of summer brings with it some buoyancy of rit, and moneyed men are beginning to look abroad ior profitable investment, hey are like people who huve suifered A CYCLONE OF BUSINESS REVERSES, and now, Jor the first time, venture a peep out of doors to see i! the storm 1s abated, A very important question connected with the growth and inaterial prosperity of our city is the bight Hour law. The agitation of this problem, more than other obstacle just now, tends to cripple important building terests. The exhuming of ts bone of contention between Master mechanics and their workmen wiil speedily RESULT IN VERY DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES to-both parties concerned. The late action of the Mechanios and Jraders’ Exchango, whereby that body of master mechanics deciared that ten hours should be a day’s work, and not eight, as laid down by act of Congress, and: pledged themselves to employ no may alter the sh of next month un- Jess be conlormed to this rule, jell like fire in the ranks vl the laboring Classes. Ihe adoption of ‘tds resolution Was a challenge to the society men in the ctty and suburbs, ana they have resolutely joined issue with the bosses. The men have held mectings in diderent piaces and adopted resolu- uons condemnatory of the masters, while these have listened to the gathering storm in sullen silence, And Heard, uumeved, the rumble of the distant tuunder. THE FOURTH, DAY OF MAY NEXT 13 to tell the tale of dubious strife vecween em.- loyers and employe. The trades most concerned hh tne direct issue ure the stonemasons and stone- cutters, the biicklayers, plasterers, carpenters and iron workers, Last week @ meeting of the New York Benevo- lent Society of Operitive Masons was held in De- mut Hall, corner of Twenty-third street and Third avenue. itis & large and mfuential society, vav- ing 600 members tu good standing—tbat 18, pay- ing twenty-flye cents @ month dues. ‘ihe Presi- dent, Mr. Jonn Tuomy, ta conversation with a HERALD reportey, stated that trade is bad, and has been’ so ever Bince last summer, There was hardly anything aone all winter, and there is but little on hand how. The men heard with indigna- equally perspicuvus manner their efforts. would not only be deVold Of Conviction, but would. acca sion positive agony. in the minds of those who ad- mire and cherish the purity and the grace and the strength of the English language, Spectial ‘THE, FAMINE IN INDIA. + — Conflicting Accounts of the Condition of the Stricken Populetion {From the Gaicutta Englisnman, Marcia 13,) ‘The accounts trom the famine districts. are much more favorable and. tend to show that distress will be confined to North Tirhut and Ueigalpur. In its yesterday’s number the #riend of India out- Herods Herod, Not only does our comtemporary dciend his-statement of laat week that 2,000,000 of-) people were beginning tolook to the government lor tueir 100d, but he projesses tO leur that it erred on te side of moderation, Yet all he suceeeds in showing iS that, sup- posing the entire population of Madhubaui to be eventuahly thrown on their bands, there are nearly & wllion and & quarter of people in Bhagal- pur and ‘tyehat, for whom, sooner or Jater, the government must expect to wave to provide, His Inoue O1 wating tuis is eharacteristic. ‘La one corner only,’’ he says, “a million and a quarter human beings are being provided for.” ‘Tnree- jourths OF tuose Who read this sentence will proba- biy undeystand by if tauat poecnmant is. already leeding tuat pamber, instead o/, a5 is actualiy the case, &out @ quarter Of a million, The same tone of exafcgeration and the same perversion of the ordingry meaning of language pervades tue whole ok Or Contemporary’s amine paragrapus. HOW GERRIT SMITH RULVED A MAN, {From the Worcester Gazette,] A large proportion of men never can or will accumulate or keep capital. The best illustration Oi. this ‘act that I have ever mot is that of Gerrit Smitn and his schoolmate. The latter, on the death of his father, came into possession ofa farm, witt house, furniitre, stock, implements and all things vecessury to u comfortable home and pay: tog ousiness; but he sould, lost by the sale, sold bis bext home, and his next, always’ losing, until he was tandiess and very poor. His old solool- mate, wno was giving awiy his large patrimony in atall parcels 10 1andiess men, gave him a houge and jot, but took the precaution to deed it to his chidren, Fora white tae reatless man was very happy in his new home, but soon grew. tired or it and Wanted to sell out. When he found that it was not in his power to render himeeu and nis Jamily homeless once more hte exclaimed, in great bitcer- ness:—" There! Gerrit Smith has ruined me!” He ton of the resoiutien passed by the master me- chanics, and have resaived, cost what it may, to resist a return to the od and now unlawiul ten- hour rule ol labor, “God knows,” said he, “eignt hours are enough for any Christian man to work of a -hot summer day, and in the winter there is nothung at all tor us. The bosses are crying out for ten hours, while they wil not alow the men to work eignt. The large contractors who have work don’t say any- thing against the law; iv 18 only a number of the small r¥—08 18 ust the case—Who have littic or nothing tc do themseives and want to embarrass trade, that are making all the trouble. Mr. Wiison, tue extensive Master brown stone cuiter, wid 2 committee appointed to wait upon him that he did not sign the resgiution puviisned by the master mechanics. The petty bosses of the iron workera, ana carpenters’ trades are making more trouvie than others. It is probable that property owners have entered into, a combination among themselves. and the buuding contraciors, having for irs Object that of compeliing a recurn to the ten hours’ rule. ‘There are many thousands of un- employed men about the city whom urgent neces- sity might oblige to accept terms otierwise inad- missible. Peuding tue settlement of ‘this. question littie will be done in the building trade, The hours Of labor were once irom “sun to sun.” A great outcry Wag set up by emptoyers when the ten hour rule came to be establisned; but, nevertheless, it was ouserved . OUSTOM GAVE IT THE CHARACTER OF LAW. The question is one of supply and demand, which must adjust itself accurding to mevitaple nd weil Known laws. s The bookkeeper oi Messrs. Sebastian & Saal, Wagon manuiacturers, Third avenue, says that ail the hands. employed in their factories work ten hours. They always lave done so, and there never Was any ftronble about te time of labor. The workmen are all Germans. Blacksmith $3 60 wnd wheelwrigits $3 per day on an aver: Painters are paid ali the way trom $5 down to ‘The men don’t belong to any of the trades union societies, aud say tuey don’t Want to. = * Ten hours, the vookkeeper thinks, 1s the most Natural time for a man to work. He should begin at seven in the morning, leave of at six in the evening, and have an hour lor dinner, A man who cannot work five hours ata stretch I$ NUT WORTH HIS SALT. The diMculties caused by the strikes impede pecgrest, No contractor will accept a joo without jeaving a large margin to secure himseif from loss in-the event 01 @ strike; and property holuers are ub willing, under this state of things, to make im- provements until the jabor law is set at rest, thas enabling contractors to suvmit closer and lower estimates for work, If employers pay a day's wages lor eight hours’ work it is evident that tliey must, in order to secure themselves from losa, twenty-five per cent to the prices of the contr: The evident loss has to be made up somewhere, and the proprietors, contractets, hor men, are neither ol them willing to suffer it. As the CAPITALISTS G4N HUTTON UP. THEIR POCKETS Delieved this and never forgave the man who had prevented that trade iWon would surdly nave Made his fortune if contractors putia margin to their estimates, it 1s ‘cleat Was the Workiugmun, Whose bread depends = S2en un Tore, must go to the wall and pa of ia the well known tron foundry of the Mess Jackson & Brother, Tren yan ar of the Meiarg eo. ond avenue, & eonsideravie Number of society mem are emploréd. The em; are firm in their prices, The ea Touaaes men mployed of “piecework, aud mouiders em. 8 Work on day's: wages, Mecoanics ran eS Fo! sw. ‘The i dition, because Of flatness tn the |, pent. coy Gecasionally the employers helped vsotue of hed hands wio were out of work, out sevensighths of the tradesmen employed in the Joundry belong to trades unions of one Kind of another, fron monde Skiiul at their Bots 4 who are trade are rether exacting in their deman wages. Wood workers are not so hard 7 treated with, Upon the subject of wages, Mr, Jackson says that, col ag, the times and we price of living, WORKMEN ARE PAID VERY MODERATELY. Although business prospects have brightened greatly within the last couple of months, still, con. sidering the patural increase of trade that might be expected from the augmentation of population ana larger demands on the bul le, there ts not hall the number o! plans for buildings now be- fore the Superintendent of the department that Was submitted in the same space of tue Jast season. The Eight-Hour law has a damaging effect upon trade. People are airs to undertake anything for fear ot strikes, belleving that they wight be deserted by tradesmen and their places leit “scarce half made w These strikes accomplish nothing. The whole matter depends on the state of the labor market, [i the demand We urgent bosses will comply with any reasonable Conditions of the men; it trade ts dull and the labor market glutted operatives only prejudice their own interests 10 useless attempts to loyce terms upon their employers. Now, at this june ture, the market is overstocked with labor, the demand smai, and hence muster mechanics hasten to profit by the (to poaiey lucky contin- ency and inflict @ death blow on the iabor law. etter ior tkem—they think—to lose a few slack Weeks this spring in the setuement of the dispute, than, perhaps, have it come up aguin woen Lhe) could teast attord to grapple with it. After all, the men would be obliged to ‘knock under,” and 0 back Lo the old teu-hour rule, Another thing, aiso, 1s to be considered. Prop- erty owners see that that is a duwnward tendency in prices generally, ‘the cost of labor and ma- terials, they argue, muat keep pace with every. thing else, and toerefore it is to be presumed thas owners are amptiy justified in waiting fora year or two more belore entering upon contemplated improvements in their holdings. Master mechanics gay that the strikes will eventually drive other industries away from this City, a8 the saipbuilding interests have already: been driven out, Mouldings, doors, sashes and’ such like material can just as well come irom New’ Orleans or the Kennebec River as ve manuiac- tured ln New York or vicinity, In other parts of the Union men do pot crumble to work teu hours, while here they are sticklers for eight, THESB TWO HOURS’ DIFFERENCB IN A DAY’A WORK make an advance ol! twenty-five per ceat neces- sary On the master’s ,estimates compured to what, the same job can be done tor in New Orleans or Maine, and this, too, while the {reigntJrom tue fur- ther away of the two named piacesia only about $6. per ton, To this plausible argument tne work. men reply that the rapid growth ot New York, which is the commercial centre aud metropolis af America, demauds a speedy increase o4 build aud other beanches of iuprovemeut; that, al though in distant parts of the couutry men may be got towork a long day’s labor, at jow rates of compensation, they are not available for setting up bricks and mortar, plastering wails or hanging Qoors of houses which must needs go up in Male hattan, In Mancnester, Preston,’ Newcastle, Bir- mingham and other manuiactdring centres of. England trade strikes are of trequent occurrence; x trade 1s not driven away from those localities. Why, then, suould they have different effect ine New York? The removal of their factories and turnaces 18 Rot the only threat which empioyers hoid over the heads of the employed, They say that iron work- aud other materials can just as weil be anepeg trom Europe, at lower figures for some articles, than they can be made for here. Why should net tron fronts, machinery and everything we want be imported from Europe, in the same A 4 as cashmere, silk, broadclotis aud laces are? Why, indeed, not allow Europeans to make everythi from @ needie to an anchor Jor us. and cease to les” Americans have any manufacturing industries at allf All that is needed for this is tue Western panacea to heal every American commercial evil—free trad’. This, indeed, would give our master mechanics, tradesmen and operatives long neat, and settle forever the questions between them by OBLIGING THEM TO ‘GO WEST” OR STARVE. An intelligent member of the Iron Moulders? International Union tvld & HERALD reporter that the membera of this association (which embraces the trade in the United States and Canada and Publishes @ monthly newspaper) do not care avout. eniorcing the eight howr law. Nearly all the meme bers of the society work by the piece, and wish to make all the hours they can, They have nothing to Complain of, want no Change and desire to be let alone. A toierably {air workman can make op an average $4 a day. In case of a general strike the iron moulders would assist the strikers, athough they are not obliged to do so, but it 18 & custom among tradesmen to help each other when. they can. On principle the masons, plas! rs and carpenters, a6 Well as other tradesmen, should dg ail in their power tu keep up @n observaace oi the labor jaw. The piasterers have committees ont with In- Structions to wait upon the bosses and procure a flual understanding upon the important question in dispute. Tue committees nave not yet reported, It is reported that tue mechanics, as well as their employers, are going to test the point in a compe- tent court ofiaw. The builders and others employed on the Di Dock Company's edifice, corner of Bowery ani Third street, are wor eight hours, The con- tractor who has the works in charge does not seek arevurn tothe teunour ruie. Ons of the work. men said, “It ts only petty jobbers and sub-con~ tractors who want to grind the poor man dust. ‘fen hours, indeed! Why, there is not for half that time. What is the use of improve- ments 42 machinery and ali kinds of labor-aaying * apparatus if men are to remain the siaves of lon hours now as lormerly? If men ure to work- as hard and be paid as poorly all along tt were better that no mventions had been made, for in that case there would be more than enough for every one todo. The condition of the working Man does not improve with the spirit of the age, a8 it sould do,. aiue ol property increases | at an astonishin, e and the power of modera inventions 1s vrought to bear in improving it, but. the ‘noblest work of God! is neglected, Haffed an’ cuff'd and disrespected, left to his own shifts, and, when of no further ser: vice Lo the Capitalist, whose toel he has been, cast, aside like a broken reed.’? LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mr. SWINRURNE’s “Bothwell” is complete. [t wilt be long, and will exceed the limits ofa stage piece. THE ARTICLE In B recent number of the Cornhill, which took the “side of the maida,” and norrificd BO Many of the mistresses, is {rom the pon of the author of “Joshua Davidson,” Ir 18 Rumorep that the new statutes which the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, prepared for themselves and sent up for approval by the Queen in Council, have been returned without re, ceiving consideration on thetr merity, upon the ground that the late government gave an assur~ ance to an eminent member of the then oppesia tion that nothing should be done in the why of reform at elther university until the commission had reported, This assurance is, we are fold, con. sidered binding by the present government, TuE Hon, A. 8. CANNING, grandson of the first Lord Garvagh, and @ relative of tue cclebraied Prime Minister, has a volume inthe press on the subject Of “Christian Toleration.”* Messks. J. GrirFin & Co,, of the Hard, Ports. mouth, are abont to publish the essay on naval tactics, by Lieutenant @, H. Noel, R. N., to whom was awarded the prize of filay guineas offered by the Juntor Naval Professional Association for the best easay on the subject. AN EXTENSION of the Edinburgh University butid- ings 18 contemplated, at an estimated cost of £100,000, Half of this sum has already been col- lected, and an appeal to the public {s about to be made, which, with an expected ,overnment grant, will, it 1s believed, make up the desired sum. M&. KINGLA&KE’s publishers Intend to issue a new edition of the first two volumes of his “1 vasion of the Crimea,” which havo for some time been out of print. Proressorn VON RANKE Is engaged In re-cditing his “History of the Popes,” with reference to she relations between Pio Nono and the German Em- pire, The Professor is now more than soventy~ five years old, but is as-active as ever. Mr. FORNIVALL says that “Edward the Third” is on the list of works to be issued by the “New Shakespeare Society; but that the doubis enter- tained regarding the propriety of ascribing the play to Shakespeare and the oxistence of an edi- tion published by Professor De!lus have caused the society to pause, before proceeding to bring out an edition of its own. ON His Recent VorAcr to tho “Filipinas” Sefior Hipolito Fernandez landed at Ceylon, where, in tha temple of Buddha, he accidently discovered @ manu- script in acharacter to him unknown, The form Of the manuscript is peculiar, consisting of abont mxty palm leaves, insorived on both sides. with characters resembiing the cunelform, The leaves are carefully preserved by & covering of wood, tm admirable préservation, Photographic copies are to be taken for the purpose of bowne transmiteed to England and Germany.