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WAR CL@¢DS IN BOROPE, The, Debate in the House of Lords. Lord Derby “Not Without Anxi- ety” About Peace. What Bismarck Proposed to Victor Emmanuel. WILL ITALY ATTACK FRANCE? The Debate in the House of Lerds. (From the London Times, May 6.) Barl Russell, who was heard but very indis- tinctly, rose to move for copies of any corre- @pondence relating to the maintenance of the peace of Europe with the governments of the Em- peror of Germany, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia and the French Republic, which can be commanicated without injury to the public service. The noble Earl was understood to say that his inquiries\had reference to the state of Barope and to the intentions of the gov- ernment on certain eventualities, The state of Europe five years ago was one of great apparent tranquillity, and there seemed, according W a statement of the then existing government, to be no danger of a rupture of that peace; yet people woo were well informed knew there was a deter- mination on the part of the States of Germany to have a confederation of Germany, and, on the other hand, ‘a aetermination on the part of the French to obtain what they wanted on the leit bank of the Ruine, FRANCE DETERMINED TO HAVE REVENGE, They were aware 1 the events which had since @ccurred, and what he now wished to know was whether the symptoms of agitation and nostility ‘which at present were perceived were the subsid- Wag waves of @ past storm or the omens of comthg tempest. They had it from @ great man, Field Marshal Moltke, in a statement made recently by him to the German Parliament, that what Germany had obtained in five months would require fiity Years to consolidate, So much for Germany. He had been told by people well informed that the whole of the French army, from the hest mar- shaldown to the lowest ensign, were determined to have their revenge for what they regarded as a Spoliation of the territory of France and the rupture of her integrity by the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine. The question, then, was whether the symptoms now perceived were | Shose of au approacuing storm, or | Whether, notwithstanding those symptoms, we might remain tor some years in peace and tran- uillity, i they were the signs of storms, and if ue peace of Europe was key to be disturbed, it ‘would be desirabie tu know whether Her Majeaty’s pA would be in that case prepared to ke measures to preserve the peace of Europe. For bis own part, he was convinced that such was the vast influence of England in the councils of Europe that it would be in her power to preserve the general peace. ENGLAND TO ALLY WITH GERMANY. He did not think any Power would ventare to | disturb it if there was @ strong alliance between Engiand and the other Powers to preserve the peace of surope. He imagined, in the first place, Jat they might rely on Her Mayesty’s government to adhere to ali the engagements and ail the trea- tues to which the Crown of Great Britain is bound heraties. But on this point ne hoped tiete | ‘would be no attempt to evade or shirk tnose posl- tive’ engagements which the Crown of this | country had entered into. He trusted that if there | Was any danger to the Lop of Bnrope the | whole infuence o! Great Britain would be ex- ercised tor the purpose of preserving that peace, There could be no disturbance o! the peace of Europe without the infliction o! great evils on this country. It was not only that trade wouia sufier, but also the social nappiness, the progress of bere, and the advance of arts aod civilization would be endangerea. A great man, who had great influence, aud ought to have great influence, im the councils of Germény, had declared that it | ‘was necessary forthe Empire to have a standing | a@riny of 400,000. «de did not require the nobie Ear! to give him any information which would be in- furious to the public service, but he thought the suject Was one of such interest vo Parliament and the country that any information the noobie Lari could give, and which would enable the country to 1orm an opinion, 60 a8 to prepare for coming events, would be very valuable at the present time. The noble Earl then moved Jor the papers. AGITATION IN EUROPE. The Earl of Derby said, on rising to reply— The nobie Earl asks me whether we are to regara the agitation which we now see in Envope as only @ result of past wars, a8 only the swell left vy storms that have passed, Or whether we are to ree | 1 48 an indication of new storms that are about Tage. My lords, ifl am to answer that ques tion, however generally, 1 can only ao so by dis tinguishing between the more immediate and the More remote. GROUNDS FOR ANXIETY. IfIlook tothe. more remote events—and events bated quickly in these days—I do not think it would | fair, or that it would be right or honest ior me, or anyone in my position, to deny that tn the present appearances there may be grounds lor Misapprehension and anxiety. 1 do not say that ; OD any peculiar or official tniormation, but | come to it ag a conclusion founded on :niormation com- mon to the whole world. We must all bear im our recoliections the events that hap- pened and results which followed tour ears ago. We know the feelings they have | {tin the minds of two great populations, and ; which, a8 those populations are human: beings, it ‘Was impossible but they should have left, ‘Hear, hear.) We know, again, that among the popula- tion of France there 18a very general and wide- spread desire to regain that territory which they have lost by the fortune of war; and, op the other, there ts an equally strong determination to retain that which has been acquired, Now, tiat is @ con- | dition of things which is known to ull, and in re- ferring to 1t am merely reminding your lordships of circumstances of which you are aware. ‘The | gubject is one Which Must occupy tue attention of those who have the care of foreign affairs. {t may be said there is ‘no use in trying to prevent, as that do what we may, war will come sooner or later. [ think It was Mr, Canning who, in reply to @ person Who made a similar remark to Lim, sata, “Weli, if it is come soouer or later, [ shouid preler that it should de rather later than sooner.” (A laugh and | “Heay””) NO DANGER OF IMMEDIATE WAR. Obviously there is the chance tuat with time feelings of agitation will subside in men’s minds, and that, therefore, there will be a greater chance of the preservation of peace. ] think, however, your lordships wii! be or ier that I would ve Going a very rash thing if i ventured to predict what m: happen in some years t@ come. But with ali that Jeeling of uncertainty | mvgt say that if 1 may judge trom all the information Ireceive— from the general tone and spirit of the communic: tions which reach me irom all parts of Europe—so Jar as immediate appearances go there is no se- rious cause for ty beget of any disturbance of Arar oe elke quent wire ee i, 4 ritR YJ Q estion, The noble Ear) asks, fr'the eat vr fhe dangers of war becoming thite imminent, what should we do to presérve the peace? Now, my lords, that is an inquiry which cannot be answered ip any very definite terms; but I think there cannot be any doubt that without embroiling ourselves in quarrel to which we were not @ party we should leave no reasonabie endeavor untried to preserve peace. The rovle Earl, asks whether we shall adhere to our Inter- national Treaty engagements. I do not think there will be much douot in‘the minds of your lJordships as to the answer which I shali teel it my duty to give to that question. If for any reason an ‘Ynteruatiooal Treaty or engagement becomes inapplicable to the time, it is certainly the ony of the government to state that to the other parties to the treaty; but if you accept the obligations of @ treaty and give the other parties reason to believe that you consider them vinding, you are bound in honor and good faith .o maintain them. (Hear, bear,’”’) It is well known that England has even of late entered into treaties, and 1 do not hesitate to that we regard them as binding in honor and good taith. (Hear, hear.”) As regards | the papers for which the nobie Earl has asked, I | have iooked through them, but | do not find ip the correspondence anything of such a character as to prevent them from deing latd on the tabie at the Present time, so far as the government of this country is concerned, We have no reason lor Withholding them, put there are the interests of + other governments to be regarded, and we are bound to respect the confidence which they re- pose in us. li there are any papers of a later date which the noble Ear! may require, and i! they can Public service, 1 suali be happy to produce thea, (Hear, hear,’) cb , Bismarck and Victor Emmanael. (from the Paris correspondence of the Times.) Paris, May 2, 1874. Some rather curious information has reached me | from 4 very confidential source with respect to a conversation between the King of Italy and Prince Bismarck 0a occasion of Victor Emmanuei’s visit | to Berlin last year. The first King of united Italy | and the restorer of the German Empire could | | Would at once have increased both his dominions | and even almost be jaid on the tabie without inconvenience to the leo | Was nothing further trom our tnougnts or suten- hardly meet without discussing certain grave political’ contingencies and possibili- | ues, and one topic of their discourse | was paturaly the late war. While on! | have signified by letter to both th thig, subject the German statesman appears 0 bave admitted that he made two great mis- takes, the first being that he had over estimated the military forces of France, and the second that he had under estimated her financial resources, He was perfectly informed of her military strength Under arms and Of its inferiority to that of Prussia and her allies, but he had reckoned that there would be agreat and formidavie uprising of the Ration after its first reverses—something re- sembitng, perhaps, the self-sacrifice and en- thustagm to which the King of Pruassia’s appeal tmuiated his people in 1813, ‘There was nothin, appt Mt. Under al the circumstances was @ mistake not to bave overrun the whole of France, to have gone to Toulon and Marseilles, to Bordeaux and Barone, and go have ies the whole country see and feel the power of Germany. As it ‘was, more than half the coustry never {eit the war. Some dep: ts even got rich upon it. Large profits were made tn various dis- tricta owing to the great demand for certain things for the new levies; in other places the prices of the necessaries of liie fell tn consequence of the ceeaauion of all demand for them from besicged Paris. In Prince Bismarck’s opinion the conse- quence of the lightness with which the confict pressed upon two-thirds of France will be @ readi- ‘ess to plunge again into war whenever she ais- covers. or fancies she discovers @ lavorable oppor- tunity. Mindful of past sufferings, the North and East might be disposed to abstain, but they will be driven jorward by the South. THE MISTAKES OF GERMANY, Had France been compietely overrun and a wholesome terror fenerally inspired, Germany might perhaps have m avle to dispense with the annexation of French territory, As it was, she had to take Alsace and Lorraine. A second mist: in the German Premier's eyes, is the not having in- sisted on an indemnity large enough to have crip- pled Fravce financially ior many years, Ten ABs milliards would have done this, it was, the Germans, ignorant of the vast hidden weatth of the country, askea only Jor @ sum which, huge though it wag, was almost immediately paid off, and France is now recover- ing herself, cicatrizing ner wounds, end; having & very fertile soit and fine climate, will soon again befarricher than the comparatively barren coun- wy which has carried away her milliarde, and already nearly run tirough them. In short, the conviction at Ber:in seems to be that the Orst war or serious difficulty in which Germany may be en- f oeiae will serve a8 a signal fur France to attack. the principal resuits Germany has derived trom the War, besides the military glory, the satisiac- ton ol revenge and of humiliating a former vic- torious rival, and the acquisition of a very reluc- tant and malcontent province, are an immense rise in prices, and the necessity which Moltke de- clared of maintaining, lor the next fifty years, a formidabie and costly military establishment, It ig not unnatural, especially if we consider nis,de- termined ‘and trenchant character, that Prince Bismarck, knowing and foreseeing these things, shouid desire to forestall his country’s future and certain assailant, and to repeat the biows which he deemed to have been in the firstinstance too lightly dealt. HOW VICKOR BMMANUBL WAS TO ATTACK FRANCE. But how was the fresh strife to be brought about? Germany, too, had greatly suffered and Was weary ol war, The campaign had been pro- longed far beyond anything that had been antici- pated. 1t hdd entailed immense misery on the victors as well as on the vanquished, It would not be easy to urge the former Into a contest of which they would not recognize the necessity. Neither the German Parliament, the press nor the people would be likely to approve whe project. In this case a former ally might be of service to re- move the difficulty. “Prince Bismarck was at no loss to expose to the King ot Italy the way in which this might be done. He knew, by his agenis in Nice ond Savoy, that it would not be diMicult to get up an anti-French cry in those countries—a cry tor a return to Italy. This done and made the most of by the usual machinery, Victor Emmanuel might say that he could not disregard the patriotic | wishes of his former subjects—ofs the cradle of his race and hmeage; he mught repeat the memorable words he spoke to the assembied Chambers in the Palazzo Madama, at Turin, on that weil remembered day in the spring of 1859, when he declared that he could no longer remain insensible “al grido di dolore che da tants part @ Itatta st leva verso di not.” The cry once raised the rest would quickly tollow. The excitaple Italians would be fired With a passionate enthusi- | asm lor the redemption of their alienated country- men; there would be a rush to arms, and once | more the old buttle cry of “Savotai’! would be heard in the van of batule. How could Prusata, for | very shame, allow her ola ally to engage in an un- equal strife? She would tee! all her chivairy em- barked in the cause of the people that fought by her side in 1866, It would be easy to foster and | encourage that feeling till tt overcame more selfish considerations, She Would strike in and drag Gor- Many with ber, France would again be humbiea and weakened, this time more thoroughly and durably than the last, and Italy would regain whut never ought to have been taken from her. HOW VICTOR EMANUEL FEARED BANKRUPTCY. The plan was plausible enough, and not unate | tractive toan ambitious sovereign, who thereby and his popuiarity. But Victor Emanuel |s a wary prince, and mindiul of his people’s true in- terests. He showed no disposition for tresh mull- tary ventures. ‘Ihe consequences might be too serious. The financial position of Italy had to be | considered. Her embarrassments were great, her | funds depressed, there was a beavy annuai delicit, aud the exchange was nearly tweaty per cent against her. This Was not a favorable combination of circumstances under which to go to war. Indispen- sable economy had compelled large reductions of mulitary lorces-—reductions which had seemed, moreover, to be justified in the case of Italy by her friendly understanding with most o: the European Powers ana by the improbability that France would be moved, even by Tegret for !ost influences and by sympathy with the Pope, to risk an aggresston. Were Italy rashly to commence a war she would run the danger of an- ; other Custozza, and nothing that Germany could | do for her wouid repair the ill effect of that. More- over, the very first consequence of a war would be to send her junds down, perhaps even lower than they were in 1866 and after Mentana,-and to depreciate still further her paper currency, | aiteady at so great a discount. In ahort, a na- tional bankruptcy would be highly probable and hardly avoidabie. Of all these dangers the Kin, of Italy was very well aware, and they suppiie him with excellent reasons for letting weil alone | and for Pecbning prorered advantages which could not: be real without encountering them. If in former years he showed himself venturesome, olhardy, many Vicisstiudes and advancing age have taught nim prudence, And so he turned a deaf ear to the voice of the Berlin charmer. If, upon she contrary, he had taken the bait and been tempted to acquiesce, there would robably have been War again in Europe within a few weeks O! the date of the interview. “THR WOLF AND THE LAMB.”? Since then we know how often reports have been current of @ renewal of the conflict between France and Germany—a wolf and lamo quarrel, to be picked by the latter, That the will existson the artof at least One man is highly probable. But it is necessary to put forward a pretext suificiently valid to justify the aggressor in the eyes of Europe, and to render popular with the Germans a war tor which they certainly have no wis. To find such a pretext may be dificult, since no real grounds of quarrel exist; the French press has moderated its tone and the French Foreign Office shows itself eminently conciliatory. And it is a difficult, as 1% Would be a mean, thing for @ gigantc military power hike Germany toattack @ neighbor whose lorces have been so impairea by reverses still quite recent that tt could not possibly offer effectual re- atance, aud would have no choice, at the present | time, but to open her gates and bid her troops stand aside while the invading torrent fowed in. AMERICAN HONOR ABROAD. The Great American Duel in Paris, That ~ Never Took Place. {From the Paris American Register.) Paris, April 28, 1874. Srr—In answer to ‘many vague reports, which cannot be contra licted in any other way, we re- quest you to publish the following document, which We presented to the seconds of Mr. Francis Riggs. ALFRED D, WITHERS, THOMAS E. DAVIS, Jr. We withdraw Mr. William Paime from any fur- ther participation in this quarrel, for the foliowing reasons:— 1. The character of the insult charged js not, in our opinion, of sufficient gravity to warrant more continuous efforts ior the effusion of blocd. - 2, Before any demand had been made, an apology, our opinion suficient, had been tendered to rh ges. $8Wo nave already shown, on the part of Mr Paine, his willingness to afford Mr. Riggs tue satis- faction he demanded, We agreed w take our principal to Brussels, where, it Was anderstood, a private property would be placed at our disposal; and it was only on our arrival at the rariway station in Paris, a few minutes vefore the train started, that we were informed the place of destination had been changed to Maubeuge, in France, We accepted this change without question, sec. onding in every way the desire of Mr. Riggs’ friends, and showing our own willingness to ac- commodate. Accompanying Mr. Riggs’ iriends to the place of their own selection, a place unknown to us, in Belgium, we were arrested by the police guthorities and turned back. 4. The same power which cansed ont arrest in Feiua would procure the same result elsewhere, 6, We know of n0 rule by which one party may be heid at thé dispusition oF another tor an indedi- nite period, ALFRED D. WITHERS. ‘THOMAS E. DAVIS, JR. Panis, Apri! 24, 1874, On the presentation to Messrs. Riggs and d’Er- » Tazu of the above document they stated that there were expressions contained therein reflecting upon them personally. We desire to say that there tions in writing the above than to refect upon these gentlemen, and we desire to exonerate them | from why complicity in the result of tnis affuir, THOMAS £, DAVIs, Jr The above was delivered to Messrs. W. and Gaspar d’irrazu without my signatu my williogaess to add ay Biguature . Dayis. ALFRED D. WILHERS. | THE GENEVA ARBITRATION. English Lissatisfaction with the Result. How England Was Dishonored and Over- Teached by Americans. The Speech of Lord Russet. Tn the House of Lords, May 4, Earl Russell said he iad given notice to move for any former in- structions given to Her Majesty’s Envoy to the Unitea States of America explanatory of the treaty of 1846, relating to the Oregon boundary; and also an account o! all compensations receive: Jor the injuries to person. and property inflicted by Fenians from the United States upon her nee esty’s subjects in Cauada. In the Fenian rai Jarms were burnt, and the lives of the farmers and their families were put in danger, but when compensation was asked the answer returned ‘was that the United States government had given its representatives no instructions to answer thas demand. Lord Lyons thought that the question between this country and America ought to have been allowed to rest, and that was bis opinion also; but an arbitration had been entered into, and the characier of England had been discredited by the treaty of Washington, At the last general election the people of Engiand showed that to be their opinion of the treaty; and that being the case he jelt it was unnecessary to move for the papers. He hoped that what was done on the making of the treaty would neyer be repeated. We ought to risk everything in fature negotia- tiona rather than that England should not stand on equal terms with any other country in the world, and the government of England ought at @jl riaks to uphoid her honor, A Disereditable Transaction. (From the London Standard.) His protest against the Washington Treaty Is Welcome, though tardy, It is something to find pne of the most experienced statesmen of the Mberal party proclaiming the truth about tnat dis- creditabie transaction in language of unequivocal condemnation. Lord Russeil concurs with Lord Lyona in the opinion that alter the repudiation of the settlement arrived at by the government of late Lord Derby the question shonld never have been revived by this country. He considers that England was overreached both in the Wash- ington Treaty and in the Geneva and Berlin arbi- trations. Standing by Earl Granville, he declared his entire concurrence in the judgment of Baron Brunuow, that ‘in these negotiations the national honor of Engiand has been tarnished, the national character o! England has been lowered and the international interests of England have been sacrificed.” But why has the expression of this Judgment besn withheld until now? “Misconceived and Worse-Executed.” {From the London ‘Times.) We have heard many interpretations of the ver- ict of the constituencies, but this is the first time that we have heard it spoken of as an expression of resentment at the Washington Convention. Not that we doubt that this misconceived and worse- executed ‘'reaty was an element which centributed with other causes to turn the bdalance of public opinion against the late Ministry. 1ts history was @ painful illustration of want of prescience and of want Of strength, but the nation as a whole Wisely | held that the mischief had been done, and more- over, the present Ministry were by no means free from compitcity tn the policy and in the negotia- tion of the Treaty. Mf any of us are inclined to think that Lord Rvssell also might well have allowed this subject to lie untouched, we may re- Member that when the terms of the Treaty were first made Known he alone, whether in the House of Lords or in the House of Commons, raised his voice against It, and ne 19 entitled to be distin- guished from that numerous body who hailed it with periect approval when submitted for ratifica- tion, and then turned round to denounce it a year soo late. In this as in his review o1 Europe Lord Russell shows his honesty, his independence and his courage. Whether negotiating with the United States or struggling to uphold the reign of law and of peace on the Continent, he is mindful o: what ts due to his couniry.. Remembering the past and having confidence in the future, be finds it impos. ble to be unfaithful to the present, It ts for this tion, A generation addicted to evasive soitness May be reminded that their country is great be- cause their sires were not slow to endure triais and to face difficulties, and that evil days must be in store for us when it shall be possible to look round and gay that the courage and spirit of our Qncestors are no longer to be seen in high places, “Lowered the Character of the Country.” {From the Morning Post.) ff England is to retain her place among nations the fear of war cannot justify her statesmen in concluding & treaty disparaging 10 ner honor, and which, as Lord Russell observed, leit her Canadian subjects without redress for the Fenian invasion, while it gave upward of £3,000,000 to compensate the sufferers from the Alabama and her congorts for mach greater losses than they actually sus- tained. The late government should not have al- lowed the possibility of war, in the event of its re- jecting the Alabama Claims, to have auy weight 1m its councils, 1t had to do wiat was right, and when it went further and appeased a real or fice titious hostility by submitting to an enormous fine, it lowered the character of the country aud pure chased peace at a dishonorable price. THE COMING CANVASS. | Recantation of Senator Brownlow—He will not Support the Civil Rights Bill. Senator Brownlow has written a long political address to the people of Tennessee, in response to certain resolutions passed by the Nashville Con- vention of colored men, charging him with be- traying the interests of that race. These are the pregnant paragraphs of the uddress:— I have done all these things for the colored race, without owing my election to itor having the re- motest idea of ever being @ candidate jor its votes or support. I have acted irom a sense of duty and because of sincere and unselfish desire to ame- orate its condition. I do not reier to my services to the colored people by way of apology ior my op- position to mixed schvuols. My position on this question is the restlt of mature deliberation. it hag the approval of my jadgment and consctence, aud sooner than apologize tor it or recede trom it Iwould see every political orvanization tn the land “go the way of Ward's ducks,” and every politician buried without hope of resurrection. “THB WHITE MAN NO RIGHTS WHICH A NEGRO I3 BOUND TO KESPECT.”? So far from betraying the colored people or vio- lating any pledges to them, as insviently and lalsely charged by delegates in this Nashville Con- vention, Who seem to have reversed Taney’s de- cision and proclaimed, in_ substance, that a white - Man has no rights which @ negro is ‘ound to re- | Bpect, 1 have, since attaining power as Governor | and Senator, done far more for the colored race than | was ever committed or piedged to do, and More than they had a right to demand tn view of the igsues of the Canvass Upog which | went into office, ~— BASE INGRATITUDE OF THE NEGROES, And now, because | adbere to principies of prae- tical utility, instead of running wild alter abstrac- tions, lum denounced as reckeant to duty and pledges. If the members of the late colored Gon- vention can afford to present to the world such evidences of base ingratitude to myself, who have done more ior them than any other Tennesseean, | I can well afford to be indifferent to their abuse and despise thetr threats. It will not injure me, nor does it afford me any sojicitude, except in so far the bad biood engendered between the faces by such conduct and such a epirit as charac: terized the proceedings of that Uonvention will tend to their injury, the destruction of the com- mop school system and the detriment of society and good goVernuient. ~~ REPUBLICANS CAN DO WITHOUT THE NEGROES. ‘True, it may be said, the republican party in Tennessee cannot get along without the support ff the colored voters. - To this I reply, i! it had not een for the republican pany there would be no colored voters. Second, the republican party can get along without the colored voters as well | ig the colored voters can get @long without the republican party. And third, the 25,000 white republican voters of East Tennessee have resolved to get along without the cvlored voters sooner than submit to this sum of villanics and quiutes~ sence Of abommation, known as the ‘‘co-education of the races,’ SEPARATE SCHOOLS, My onty hope for the future prosperity of the colored people Of Tennessee consists in the belies u the mass of them will repudiate tne abomin- able pr imme 8 insolently pat forth at Nash- le, Let them remember that they now have, in separate schools, equal educational facilities with the whites, Let vhem remember that the taxcs with qn, these schools are supported are con- tributéd almost exciusively by the waite people of the State—that the money dues not come from the vernment at Washington. Let tem re- that thousands of the broperty holders of the State, of the potitical party to which they are in opposition, have aided in establishing our pres- ent school system, and without the support of tis class, in co-operation with their white political associates, 1% could not have been established. Let them also remember that it 1s not a question {| as to whether we will have mixed schools, but whether we shall have any system of public i. struction at ali, For it iy not in the power of forty Congresses to establish this mixed school system in Tennessee, THE DANGER TO EDUCATION, If the Civil Rights put shonid pass without the mixed School feature being stricken out, the whole schoo! Jabric in Tennessee will at once ground, as it will deserve to do, Then the ex- penses of the eauvation of their children, Mu they are educated at Su wut a borne by poate es und not by the white peo; as they now are, P Pre ae @. BROWNLOW, that his example deserves to be heid up for im:ta- | pe, ‘rail to the | THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REGATTA, How Wesleyan University is Pre- paring for the Great Event. HER RACING CREWS. How the “farmer Boys” Look—Their Diet, | Exercise and Condition. MippLerown, Conn., May 15, 1874 Sixteen miles below Hartford, on tne placid Con- Necticut, ts situated this peacetul and pretty place. Its inhabitants are industrious, economical and ‘nriity, and while the habits and nsages of some are simple and unaffected, und whose existence here is as smooth as it was in the Arcadia of Long- fellow, the other portion daily visit the outside world and know as much of its tumults and troubies and foibles as the members of any fashion- able circles in large cities, Wide streets, exceed- ingly handsome houses and deliciously neat lawns abound back of the matn street, and here and there mighty trees that seem coeval with the hills around and about grow in the rich soil and raise their gigantic heads, In this retired spot, at one extremity of the town, 1s located Wesleyan Uni- Versity, and its numerous buildings look down from the summit of High street like a grim senti- ne! that has in charge the unsophisticated people below. At times her sons are met on the business street, which winds sinuoualy along the Connecti- cut, a8 thick as blackberries in a field, and you are astonished when told that Wesleyan is their Alma Mater, as there is @ look of the country about them, a roughness that tells. of the woods and fields, rather than the quietness and elegance of the usnally accepted college student, who carries about nim in some way or other remnants of the last Greck tiesia, But directed to these country looking boys and speculating on their every move ment that reaches their ears, are the boating elnbs of the combined American seats of learning which willsend their trained representatives to Saratoga in July next, and there compete for the champion colors that will fall to the winning six- oared shell. 1 say the eyes of all these men are directed to these aturdy Wesleyan boys, and well they may be; for if this college could last year send to Springfela their FIRST UNIVERSITY CREW, and that with rowing but twelve months old at the institution, and in the terrible race that fol- lowed, land at the line second of the competing | boats, why its men are worth watching and needs | Must attract attention in the boating world, | ORGANIZATION AND PROPERTY. Each of the several classes in the college havea crew in training, with & view of testing their res | Spective skill in the spring and fall regattas, given | by the students on the Connecticut. Formerly, if | | a class crew would go on the river three times | during a term they were thought to be doing well enough, and that the men were in quite good | | enough trim to make @ fair show daring the aquatic reunions, But now this is ail changed and | the several class crews in the college are on the ; river every fair evening, and oitentimes in the morning, {n order not to fal: behind in practice, The Wesieyan University Boat Ciuo, organized in | 1872, has for its officers this year the jollowing:— | President, Emory H, Talvot, 14, ot Providence, R. 1.3 Vice President, George 4. Warren, '76, of Deer | Island, Me.; Recording Secretary, Henry Sewell, | '76, of Baltimore, Md.; Corresponding ‘Secretary, | Charles E. Davis, 176, of Webster, Mass. ; Treasurer, | Marry C. Heermans, of Corning. N. Y.3_ Cap- | tain, John E, Eustis, 74, of Hammond, Me, Num- ber of members, ninety-three—more than fifty per | cent of the whole number o! students, The prop- ; erty of the club and of the several ciasses is :— | Sheed shell (old), 49 ft, by 10 1n.; built by 1 ahr. | Stx-oared shell, 60 ft. 6 in. by 22in.; built by Aron. Six-oared shell, 60 ft. by 1834 in. Lapstreak gig, 42 ft. by 85 in.; built by McKay. Double scuil, 27 ft, by 25 in, Singles (three), owned by Heermans, '75; | | Plaisted, 76; and Adams, 74 and Andrews an Adame, $75, So much for Wesleyan’s boating in+ terests in general, and now to matters in detail, PREPARING FOR ’74, At the commencement of studies, after the sum- mer vacation last year, it was found that but one man of the excelient crew of '73 was leit from | which to build up this year’s six, and, for a time. this bad @ very disheartening effect. Lyon and | Neale had graduated, Snow gone irom the college, Dorchester and Nash resigned for various reasons, and so there was but Yet, i | wasn’t so bad after all, as the man that stuck | was a host of himself, and at once measures | were instituted to get together a number from whom to select a six that would satisfy all concerned. Immediate and careful examination | Of the candidates for admission to the boat was held, all being subjected to practical tests tending | to develop their qualiications Jor the position to which they aspired. Six additional men were finally selected, these being Downs, Wattney, Warren, mg Marsh and Heermans, making j Seven in all, the latter named a substutute, So | soon Or an organization was effected they went | diligedtly to work in te gymnasium, toat the migit in the coming ‘race be able to eclipse their Jast very satisfactory performance. During the spring they have worked like Trojans severai b living abste- jours daily not devoted to stuay, miously the winlc, and at the first favorable | Moment, the last’ week In april, went Into | their shell and commenced the all important ; work of practice tor positions. Each day, when the weather would permit, they would be on the stream at night and take a lony or shurt apeed, as | thought best by Eustis, at first there was some dimicuityin getting the men to utilize thelr sliding seats, but overy allowance was made for this, their | maiden essay ih training ior a great contest, and | Suortly there was considerable improvement in every respect, THE WESLETAY, DIBTARY, Meanwhile when they could not get into their shell the men Were given long walks in the morn- ing, which are continued to this tume and will not | be neglected until the end of the great event. Their dietary regimen is strict, but not so severe ; 88 that pursued last year, Then the crew were | compelled to do much up-hill work and / | take off the superfluous avoirdupois in | hot weather, which had the effect of re- | ducing the men so fast that {t materially ; Weakened them, or such is the explauation of ; Eustts. Now, while they do not indulge in ale or any liquor, they are yet allowed a little butter, | plenty of beef and mutton, fowl occasionally, eggs, Oatmeal and such like articles, It is not desired | to cuttbem down ‘“‘allin a hurry,” but soon the | butter and some other esteemed luxuries will be | prohibited and coarser 1ood provided in every in- siance, Smoking is, of course, not tolerated, and the men don’t drink much water, THE UNIVERSITY CREW. Last evening, after services in the chapel, the ; Men went down to the river for their customary pull, and I accompanied them. The boathouse is within i seven minutes’ walk of the Una f efe Js ag Aeon eed Neen crew. avik ‘Fiver | has been “high lately owing to the melvin, | of the snow and ice in the North, an | at the time was several feet above the | usual bigs water mark, which necessisated the crew launching their ehell a short distance | above their house. They got it afloat in good shape without delay, and EKustiadeeming it bet- ; ter togo down the stream set out on the journey ; at about twenty-eight strokes to the minute, AS long aa the eye could fallow them this was main- tained, and though “powder” may have been put, into their work before the return, Eustis is too old & general to allow the world to be benefited by any Wesleyan “wrinkle” at this carly day, I may say the “time’’ was very good and the leather volerably uniform, THE MEN | 8 they gat in the boat, without doudt will ap- | AS atthe starting point on lake Saratoga the | 16th of July next, or at least such is Eustis’s im- pression at present. Their men are as follows: Bow—Walter H. Downs, 175, of South Berwick, Me. ; age, 21; heignt. 54t. Qin.; weight, 148 los. Port Bow—John W. Whitney, '7 of Sprague’s Corner, N. Y.; age, 24; height, 610. 10 in.; weight, 146 Ibs, St Watst—George M. Warren, 75, of height, Sit. 7 in; Deer Island, Me.; tage, 24; weight, 156 los. Port Watst—Clarence A. Waldo, 'T5, of Gouver- pli N. Y.; age, 22; height, 5 fv. 73 tn.; weight, 3, Starboard, Siroke—Cyrus P. Marsh, '%7, of Weat | bitty Pad; age, 22; height, 6 ft. 8); in.; weight, Stroke—Jonn E, Eustis, '74, of Hammond, N. ¥.; age, 27; height, 5 ft. 11 10.; weight, 163 Ibs. Standing on the balcony of the boatuouse was Heermans, the substitute, and to make the list complete I give the annexed details Harry 0. Heermans, 76, of Corning, N. ¥.; age, 8, 22; height, @ (to; weight, 166 Ibs In condition it is tue design of Eustis to have nis boat’s crew ultimately average not far trom 160 lbs. The average of the men yesterday was | 15836 Ibs, WHAT THEY ARE To-day 1] again saw these men togettr, this time | at their dinner in the McDonough House, wnere | they have been boarding tor three weeks or more, | at a private table. One or two o! them forcibly res minced me of the Ward Brothers in some | particulars. They all look like self-made ersons, and to a stranger seem very little Hike students, Exteriorly they are rougher and more rugged by far than the Yale men; but this no donbt is owing to their previous lives, as 1 understand the majority of them are sons of farmers, and have done not a little work themselves in tilling the soil, Eustis, the stroke, | ia Gut out fora true aquatic dog, He has vim. ge | | | | Biality, persistency and courage in his face, anu an equate crew would {eei proud of his mag. Bificent physique. His solid, compact chest, broad shoulders and cleanly cut itmbs make him equal to the fabine hele 04 a Sioux and getting the better of the red warrior in a rough and tumble, in his dress there is an earvest of work, for this student of Wesleyan has been innocent of g shirt collar every time that I have seen him; bis hair haa been grpepea close a8 that of a pugilist in training, and his dingy gray coat 14 Just the thing for long morn- 1 f walks on the roads leadiug out from the town, With him rowing ts not a new thing, as, before his coilegiate days, he pulled a skiff on the St. Lawrence, und gays that be was then called “a fair | oarsman” by his companions. He 16 a dangerous custome: Marsh, who pulls starboard stroke, ia the quiet specimen of the lot, He has a fairer complexion than his companions, and i0oks as I the world had Det caused him to do 60 much hard work as they; but T have oniy his tace for judgment in this Sertion, His forehead is fair and broad, and seems to have a@ suiticiency of metal in his com- sition to stick gamely to his work and exert iinsent tO extraordinary things in @ race wheu all his physical powers are calied upon. His is the boyish face oi the crew, though one year older than Downs and of equal age with two others, and, possibly, he really possesses the quickness and agility which oiventimes go far to make up the suc- cessiul oarsman. Waldo, sitting at the port waist oar, is short, solid and sturdy in stature. He is but 5{t. 744 in, in height, bat yesterday tipped the scales at 175 Boats A great gymnast and a studious scholar, ie has the reputation of doing everything weil that | be attempts. Bustis counts on this man. He is certain of his staying powers, and claims that he | is @ rasper with vhe oar, In his dress Waldo has little more neatuess than some of his companions, | and his full face ha’ an expression of determina- tion, He has not, as yet, allowed any tonsorial | artist to defile nis thick biack hair with the shears, and doesn’t seem to think that such a freak is really essential in training. Waldo, however, in college slang, “carries his telescopes with him,’ which to the ordinary mind means that ie wears spectacies. Warren, who pulls the starboard waist oar, has the look of an ‘old salt’? avout nim, and I believe he has seen more or less of a sailor’s iile and knows its hardships. 01 bis muscular development there 1s but little iault that can be found. His frame 18 compact, and though no set of muscles stand ont | more prominently than the rest, all seem alike | clearly defined, Whitney and Downs, port bow and bow oars, | respectively, are of angular frames. Exposure to wind and weather bas slightly bronzed their faces, | and they look tough enough to juli in a race for a man’s jife, They, too, have followed the leadeér- stup of Eustis in having their hair fled close to the scalp, which does not add much to their appear- ance. Heermans, the substitute, 1s tall enough and big enough to make a good oarsman. His pleasant countenance bespeaks good humor and willingness | to abide by all promulgated orders. It would not | surprise me if he sat in the sheil during the race. | MIDDLETOWN WANTING CONFIDENCE. | With all the characteristics that Eustis’ crew | Possess lor successiul amateur oarsmen there is a ieeling Of sadness in the heart of Middietown, and | its citizens do not think they are as good as last year’s Wesleyan six, and they boldly hint that \ some of the stories of their peculiar aquatic abili- ties Savor somewhat of exaggeration, and look forward to the great regatta day at Saratoga with @ vague feeling of apprehension, ‘ THE RACING SHELL, Charies B, Elliott, of Greenpoint, ts building the crew a new racing shell, the dimensions of which | are 49 feet in Jengtn by 1934 inches wide. THE FRESHMEN CREW, If the Freshman class can see their way clear in | pecuniary matters they will also send & crew to | Saratoga and try to regain the supremacy so gal- lantly won in 1872, The six have been in training quite as long as the University crew, do about the game or nearly the same amount of walking and rowing as mer and Captain Whar! feels contldent that he has a body of oarsmen that can be relied upon in a terrible tug. ‘The men as they sit in their | practice sheil, together with their age, where | from, height and weight, are as lollow Bow—Wilham 8S. Winang, Jr., of Franklin, N. ¥.; age, 20; height, 5 {t. 6 in.; weight, 142 lbs, Port Bow—Walter E. Ward, of Dormansville, N. | ¥.j age, 20; height, 6 it. 61n.; weight, 140 lbs, Starboard Watst—Joun A. Bowler, of Nashua, N. H.; age, 21; height, 610. 6 in. ; weight, 166 lbs. Port ‘Waist—William ©, Sirong, of Andover, Conn. ; age, 20; height, 6 ft. 10in.; weight, 175 iba. | Starboard Siroke—William H. smitu, of Church. ; ville, Md.; age, Stroke—! 21; hetght, 6 {t.; weigut, 162 tbs. . H.W. Wharl, of Bangor, Me.; age, 23; height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 155 bs, Total weight, 929 tbs.; average, 1563 Ibs. HEADQUARTERS aT SARATOGA. The Wesieyan gentlemen are enthusiastic over the selection of Lake “Saratoga for the course, and the University crew will leave for that place at the earliest practicable moment; but, owing to the exigencies of Alma Mater—n_ stony- hearted stepmotner—they may not reach there until the ist of July, W. Abel's, on the same side of the lake as the grand stand and a short dis- tance above it, has been selected aa the traini quarters of the crew; but the hotel in the village a@t which the students and triends of the college will congregate, has not yet been decided upon. Wesleyan 18 debating the propriety of entering for the running or walking prizes, and will settle the question at an early day. \ THE CARVEBS AROUSED, Large and Important Meeting. About 400 carvers met yesterday morning at the Germania Assembly Rooms. Mr. Philip Reuter, the President of the Carvers’ Association, occu- | Pied the chair, He said the object of the meeting was to strengthen their organ.zation and to com- bine to compel the employers to yield to the just demanis of the carvers. » David Connoliy, the first speaker, said this or- ganization ought to be one of the largest in the city. He referred at some length to the struggle and final triumph of the stonecutters, plasterers | and painters. their success had been gained by | union, and this was what the carvers had met to strengthen. Dr. Rachel spoke in German. He said that the great distress which is the concomitant of every panic could not prevail to such an enormous degree if the workingmen were thoroughly unite: Alluding to the trades unions in Engiand te a some of them had more money at their disposal than the employers themselves, and have become | @ power which will take the lead in tue social | revolutions which are likely to occur in England within the next ten years, Mr. Lucien Saniel spoke in French tothe same purport as the two previous speakers. | mr. Drury, of Phuadelphia, was received with | applause. He said the very basis of society 1s n- | secure until justice shall have been done to labor. ‘The laborer of to-day is working for industrial | emancipation, as the laborer of the past struggled for political emancipation. Why do we, who | created all, enjoy the smallest portion of the wealth? Society at present is in an abnormal condition, which must be rectitled by the laborer. Three or four years ago the average wages for a | carver was $15 @ week; now only $12 & Week 18 paid. What is the reason of the reduction of wages? The stonecutters fought nobly for the eight hour movement. They suffered scorn and | ignominy. How were they secouded by you? The | Serica element wus tuo mean to contribute | $2 individuatly to the common cause. He gave his | views at considerable iength on the currency | question, monopolies and legislators. Alter the meeting only a few signed the roll. THE STAGE DRIVERS IN OOUNOLL A meeting was held yesterday at No. 214 Fast Forty-first street, ol stage driversin the employ of | the different stage lines of the city, to discuss the ; question of an increase of the present low standara 61 wagea of this class of men. The meeting was very large, Ativgj8 {rom ail the siage lines in the city, including tu ett aren ue; Fourth avenue, Twenty-third street, Fourrseu th cha and Madi- gon avenue lines being preset’ The (irivers | state that they, although compelled td work & a Hl average about sixteen hours a day, an ; Selves had no individual cognizance, | We can “HODGE” UNDECEIVED. An Incident in the English Agris cultural Lock-Out. A Herald Interview Exposes a Meam Trick of the Farmers, A PUBLIC READING AT EXNING. NEwMaR«er, England, May 1, 1874, The history of the great agricultural lock-out of 1834 has yet to be written. But when the Uprising of these serfs is chronicled, one of the most inter- esting episodes of the instructive story will be the narrative of how the New York HeRatp exploded the famous “Newmarket Placard.” Ever since these miserably underpaid tillers of the soll have been “locked out,” they have very naturally been turning their attention to the desirability of emi- gration, Agents {or all the British Colonies have been swarming among them. Canada has been puffed and lauded beyond measure by the aavo- cates of the Dominion, while New Zealand and Queensland have nad their praises celebrated in charmingly seductive doggerel, which recites that” in these territortes the honest laborer enjoys Eight hours’ work, Fivnt hours' play, Eight hours’ rest Eaght bob a day. The United States, uniortunately, alone have’ lacked advocates. Yet the Eastern counties laborer, dull of comprehension and almost weak of intellect though he has yet had a faint suspicion that somehow “aristocracy and land laws” have” had a good deal to d* with his present suffertugs, and he has turned kindly in thought towards the “great republic’ across the Atlantic, where there are NO LORDLY TITLES AND NO ENTAILED ESTATES. His master, the farmer, has not been siow to descry this transatlantic tendency; nor has he failed to see how speefily a depletion of the iabor market would necessitate @ rise of wages. So these bucolic gentiemen of the Eastern counties, in order to prevent Hodge becoming enamored of the prairies of the great West, three weeks ago caused posters to be placarded throughout New- market, the headquarters ofthe “locked out,” gravely announcing that 40,000 laborers were | OUT OF EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA AND WERE WAIT+ ING TO RETURN HOMB. To invest the placard with ali the solemnity ot an official manifesto they added:—*Apply to E. M. | archibald, Esq,, C, B., British Consul at New York.’ To an American reader, of course, such @ foolish poster could only strike him a3 a feeble and un- principled attempt at @ practical joke. At New- market, however, tt was taken au sdrieux by the agricultural laborers, They were unwilling to credit statements so derogatory to a great agricultural country, but there seemed for them na belp tor it, and tn vain did they wait for any au- thoritative denial of facts of whtch they them- Meanwhile the farmers believed that they had effectually closed at least one channei of emigration, and they took care to keep it closed. Hodge was afforded every assistance in their power to enable lim to spell out these mysterious posters., When the la borer couldn’t read, which was oftener the case than not, Farmer Jenes would SPELL OUT THE PLACARD FOR HIM, duiy emphasising the important words. He would add, witn an air of conddence, that the “worst wasn’t told on that ere bill, as there were State reasons for not telling ail the truth about the Americans.” This discreditable game was played with impunity until & HERALD correspondent ar- rived on the scene of action. He at once pro- nounced the placard 4 fabrication, declaring thas | it was impossible that the British Consul at New York could ever have authorized so misehievous false a document. The bill be at once telegraph to the HgRaLD’s London bureau, Thence it was cabled to New York and published the following aay, along with an exhaustive interview betwixt ®& HERALD reporter and the Consul, whereto the latter indignantly REPUDIATED ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE PLACARD and stigmatized its contents as utterly false, ‘To-day the New York HERALD has arrived, and ; has casi read amid great rejvicing to the | assembled laborers at Exninug, near Newmarket, The farmers, who have also just read in the Daily Telegraph & report of tne HERALD interview, are | utterly disconcerted over their being caught by thetr men in such disreputable trickery Alsoa | Keen supporter of the farmers, au individual call- ing himselt " we and who claims to be irom Ohio, and whose doleful accounts of the widespread destitution of that State have created a sensation in this district, haa, Meantime, quietly withdrawn himself irom New. market. Woods indorsed the Archibald placard the moment he saw it, He was willing to bring over 20,000 laborers, all told, and each equally eager to vie with the other tn tilling British soil at the munificent wages of 148. a week. The HenaLp interview, however, has fallen like 4 BOMB AMONG THE FARMERS, and has made short work with them and with Woods and his extraordinary stories. Meantime the scene in iront of the “White Horse Inn’ at Exuing, at evening, when a laborer’s delegate stands on a chair in the square and, the New York Herap in hand, reads the Interview to @ crowd of comrades, 1s a picture scarcely less significant and mistorical than the frescoes in the House of Commons or tie ictures in the Capitol at Washington. ‘the rawny {ramed, ruddy faced fellows, in their threadbare corduroys, with biue cockades stuck in | hee old hats, are pressing around the dciegate’s chair, Their upturned countenances are by no means faces that strike you by the bnhiness of their intelligence. The sparkle of eager curtosity and the first symptoms of awaking intelligence, however, are there, and the dawning of their po- litical day one feeis 18 not far distant. | THE SCENIC SURROUNDINGS OF THR RURAL TABLEAU are singularly beautt(ul and harmonious. Numer- ous apple trees fill the neighboring yardens and are laden with snowy blossoms, Tne hedge rows are covered with the white and pink flowers of the may and the hawthorn. There is scarce @ cioud in the sky and the clear strong sunlight beats on the speaker and on the newspaper fut. tering in his hand, and on which, trom the windew, read the clear bola type, New York HERALD. These words, ittingly enongh, are the centre of the picture. Through its news facilities, the Atlantic cable has been placed at the service of these laborers to oring them authentic inior- mation on & subject which concerns their very lives, Among these laborers many a heavy heart beats lighter to-day, and hope and courage are carried to many a hearth which had otherwise been but @ dull and cheerless home this night. REFORMATION OF CRIMINALS. + What Jersey Proposes To Do with Jail Bird: as @ consequence must tuke their mea. away from their homes, are paid only $: @ day, of which sum any damage or bri j age happening to the stage while under thelr controh. ia pat for. On these wages they declare ; i their inability to subsist and serve their employers honestly. ‘The intention of the drivers, however, | they aver, 1s not turush madly into @ strike, a | Measure which they profess to ‘desire to avoid at | any sacrifice. ‘The meeting yesterday was called | in order to devise, if possibie, some peaceaole | means by which the desired object may be reacted, | and after considerable discussion & committee was at length appointed, composed of drivers irom each stage line, to wait upon the officers of the diferent compunies and put the request of thi rivers botore them fur an increase of their Wages to §3, an addition of filty cents to the pres. ent standard. Meanwhile no strike will be tnaug- urated, FIPTY-SEVENTH STREST POLICE COURT, Breaking Up Disorderly Houses. Before Justice Sherwood, On Saturday night, Captain Allaire, with a squad of men, visited two alleged disorderly houses in Lexington syompe and arrested eighteen persons in ali, found in both places. ‘Tne visit was the re- suit of @ complaint made by citizens of the veigh- borhood. The prisoners were arraigned yesterday, and Justice Sherwood held for triai the proprie- tresses, Mra, Scobie and Mra, Ackley. The otnera were fined $10 each. Felonious Assaults. Morrts Hall, of No. 68 West Forty-third street, was heid for trial in default of $1,000 bail for cutting a severe gash in one of Lizzie Turner's arms. Both work in a restaurant, No. 748 Sixth avenue, and on Saturday night they had a quarrel about a cer- tain chair Which each wished tO Occupy at the sup. per taple. Lizzie struck Morris, Who merely picked ‘up the carving knife and slashed at Lizzie right and leit, regurdiess vi consequencea, She is not dangerously wounded. Gustavas Hite, of No. 427 East Sixteenth street,and Charles Mupi of the same house, had a vit of a row on Savurday night, during which Hubf received, euch severe injuries at his antagonist’s nands that he 13 at present unabie to leave hits bed. Gustavus ; Was arraigned in Court yesterday and commitied { to await the result Of his victita’s injuries. | The following portion of the report addressed to the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Morris county, ° New Jersey, by the Workhouse Committee, will prove interesting to that class of crim nals who meditate a trip to New Jersey with the view of living at the public expense, The second paragraph ts evidently based on the recommendation of the State prison keeper in Trenton, who regrets he did not secure the ser. vices of the Water street missionary, Tommy Hadden, to hold spiritual converse with the con- Victs from the date of nis incarceration. Now is the acceptable time inthe State prison itself, for more than one-half of the convicts are unemployed. Your committee would further say that they have been compiained of by jusiices or we court tor the lenient manner in which prisoners have been treated ; that they Were sent there Ag) punished, but are sim of their liberty, red, clothed and warmed of the county, and go away with so favorabl of the accommodations ot the prison, at the end of their confinement, that in many cases they will esigned and deliberately commit the ot ages . wetting dri and a job ts made tor our petty officials to commit them to the charge of the county ior three months, und for the county to pay some th! odd jars to feed each of wate Mtucther sunested that muinnsrer of i is er suRTe! mm ve d. to hold fre- jail, and should be loved, of otherwise ol Guent and provracted Siscourass in tl that the Prisoners be, i ie as muich of their time as their health Mt adn! of; that the character of their ot rat aaa ‘our committee take this method of returning thanks to the Young Meus Christian Association for their visis wo during the past year, veo HOWBLE, 8H. ARNOLD, Workhouse Committee. Dated May 12, 1874 ABT IN FRANCE. tprom the Pall Mall Gasette.] A painter of eminence assured me that he had wished to paint M. Gambetta haranguing tne people of Tours at tha, news of the capituiation & Metz, but before commencing he sonaded one a Arts oMcisis to know whether the gov: ban Bls oald tolerate thie work. The auswet \d was that government conid only ve put before the people in ve shape,” by which he anderstou a eractrnmeted (o turn NM. Gambelta ibe Tidicule, !