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4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY. JULY 7, 1874.—TRIPLE Would be published in the HERALD with his ex- THE CZAR AT EMS. ees Ne a learn his opinions more than to hear a few conven- tonal words, With this object 1 addressed myself Exemplary Eliquette as Prac- lised by the Sovereigns. pe oe An Interview with the Herald’s Special Correspondent. Uers are always etifer royalists than kings, and I came forthwith upon the innumerable aificultes Of etiquette, The case stood thus:—I had an ad- mitted righi to claim presentation to the Emperor of Russia at his own court; but I must thea be In- dor of my own country. That was the Urst answer I obtained. Well, 1 had been presented to Mis Majesty, and re-presented over and over again; $0 this obstacle was got over. NOTES ON THE EMPEROR. at Ems, His Majesty being known there simply as | Count Borodinski, and thus any gentieman could The Congress of Crowned | introduce another to him in strict accordance with the ordinary usages of good socie or I might Heads at Ems. deal with him as an old acquaintance and accost | him in about the same terms as the quidnune usea |-on his first interview with the captain of the Ark, | saying, “Hazy day, Master Noah!’’ afver which it would have been easy to turn to other subjects. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CZAR, Jt is, on the whole, as well, however, to show some self respect; and I am acquainted with no HOTEL GurrensenG, Ems, June 19, 1874. On the mornmg after my arrival at Ems I saw a tall, powerfully built man walking with an easy | stride towards the Kesselbrunuen, the strongest | of the mineral springs here. It was about hall- | Past seven o'clock A. M., and the gentleman 1D | potier way of doing so tian to pay honor where question was dressed tn a whity-brown summer | honor is due to others, I accompilshed my object, sult, evidently made by an English tallor. He wore | tnerejore, in another manner more in harmony a low crown straw hat, with a narrow biack rib. | bon round it. In one hand he carried a piain ‘ash stick and in the othera large red rose. He had no gloves, but on fingers we: eral massive | gold rings. He was followed by a laudsome biack English setter, and as he ed through the door leading to a rude stone hall where the water is | With the diplomatic customs which have been the udy of the best part of my life, and [ am now able to report the result of an interview with the Emperor of Russia of the utmost importance. PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER WAR. CoRRESPONDENT—It has been rumored that there is a prospect of another European war; and it given out he drew himself up with a certailm | \ouiq relieve much anxiety if Your Majesty should Knightly grace aud lifted his bat to the crowd, | exiress an opinion to the contrary. who respectiully made way for him. Thea | “pyseron 1 have heard nothing which could aman, who looked like a groom out of livery, | jeaq me tothe bellef that war is probable. 1 do with the sturdy proportions aud lair, handsome | 14+ understand how tt could happen at present. that serious difficul- face pecullar to tue peasantry about Moscow, ‘tl CORRBAPONDENTCIi is Bal charge of the dog, while the gentieman strode On. | ties might arise between Frauce and Italy and | that Germany might intervene. dowing again to the right and left with @ stately mien, He stood very upright as he drank his glas' | Emperon—I am not aware of anything at this ot water slowly, and faced the crowd once more. | ropean war. moment which could resuitin a E Afterwards he went out by another door, snapped | THE RASTERN QUESTION. huis fingers for the vlack dog, who bounded, romp- | Oonngeroxnent—The Eastern question is again ing, sowarda him, and went upon tis way into bed arousing considerable attention, and the recent open country with a martial step, as though Ne | ov onts in Central Asia have been much discussed, were marching to the clash of cymbals and the roll of drums. He was quire alone, and there wa: nothing but his majestic carriage to distinguisi him from any other stranger. When be bad gone a little distance I noticed that his head drooped, as if he were trying to remember a face which he had seen before, and he touched bis long mustache thoughtfully, halting tor an instant and leaning upon his slight stick. As he did sol EmperoR—The mission of Kussta in Central Asia | is one of civilization, We have no desire for con- quest, and have repeatedly neglected and refused opportunities of annexing territory. CORRESPONDENT—The condition of Turkey is not looked upon as satisfactory. EmprerokR—Many reforms have recently been made in the Ottoman Empire, and more are pro- Gould danark’ whee cavages: a few earsinadtmene: |1ecos heen tenses ahaa mene gen ares Le rh x the East. Russia is in friendly relations with all | in that magnificent physical organization since I countries last saw him, on a gala day, at a Court fes- tival. His face, which was then plump and fresh | colored, had now a pale, dreary aspect; and tne sad, Wondering eyes, which were always 50 mourn- Jul, had settled into a fixed expression of melan- choly. Still hedid not seem more than five-and- forty years of age, and he has probably along Ife | qeai of attention. I had the pleasure of seeing before him. tis news which wil be glad tidings | 97. ae Lesseps lately, and several new railways are to tens of millions; for the gentleman [have de- | in progress. seribed as ne appeared yesterday at the paths of). CorresrponpeNT—The Congress at Brussels has Ems is the present Emperor of Russia. attracted unusual notice, and it bas been sup- : IN CIVILIAN ATTIRE. posed that it is called together in consequence of A few years ago the Emperorof Russiahad | tne apprehension which is felt about the near never been seen by bis subjects out of uniform, | approach of war. and the first photograph ever made of himin plain | EwrpeRor—The object of that Congress is to RAILWAY ENTERPRISE. CORRESPONDENT—The subjects of most immedi- ate importance to the Russian Empire often arouse inquiry. Emperor—Rallways, and the general facilitating clothes created quite a Sstartlimg sensation from | mitigate the disasters of warfare. It has nothing | the Neva tothe Amoor. It was considered asa | to do with the probabilities of it. sign of the end of that stern military rule which | THE VISIT TO ENGLAND. existed under his father and as anearnest of al! | CorRrEsponDENT—It has been observed with sorts of l.beral reforms, Now he dresses habit- | yarious comments that Your Majesty did not pay ually in @ shooting jacket ora black coat when- | g visit to Pagis on your way to England. ever he has an opportunity, and I haa merely seen EMPEROR“ had ‘no reason to go to Paris. Paris him in his ordinary morning costume. He was | Very carefully got up and had that neatness and propriety avout his attire which usually dis. tinguish men of a handsome presence. It is only the ugly, who are slovens, and a mean toitet is but the outward covering of a mean nature. One cannot fancy Aristippus with a crumpled robe at the worst of bis iortuncs, HIS LIFE AT BMS, He lives in the same way as other visitors to a Watering place and derives no advantage from his rank and station. He is very punctilious im re- turning salutes, and does not bow @ militacy fashion by a were movement of the hand, but takes his straw hat quite of his head. He seems to have an immense capacity for being bored and taking trouble. He rises at seven, walks till nine, takes him to take rest and food. Indeed he is obliged to @ plain breakfast of a beefsteak, batnes at eleven, go so, in strict accordance with the advice of nis and dines at two. He pays visits in the aiternoon physicians and the imperative demands of nature, or goes ior a ride, and appears at a concert or a | because the Ems waters, innocent as they seem, theatrical entertainment from seven to nine P. M., | get into the head and produce such an absolute stopping to the last to applaud the actors a8 incapacity for mental exertion that some pro- they go out. He takes tea about tem and | fessors irom German universities who are here, goes to bed at eleven, fis travelling estab- | engagea in the compilation of books upon Greek lishment consists of twelve servants and five | particles, are quite in despair at their enforced horses; his favorite hack is a mottled gray, with | jaleneas. plenty of bone and sinew. There is no state or | Parade whatever about him or his surroundings. H He is, however, treated with immense respect, and, as an instance of the existing ETIQUETTE AMONG THE SOVEREIGNS, was not in my line of route. see my daughter. of America would be gratified if 1 were permitted to convey to them the assurance of Your Majesty’s friendship and good will. | Emprror—Certainiy; Ihave always felt a great | esteem for the American people. | Were closed the interview of your special cor- respondent with the Emperor of Russia in so tar as the right of publication is concerned, and I may add, for my own part, that it is quite clear the Emperor cannot be engaged, for the moment, in any deep political design, for he passes his entire day and evening in public, living, so to say, in the streets, except during the few hours necessary for KAISER WILHELM AT EMS. Iam not at all so sure about the proceedings ot William the Conqueror. Ever since his arrival at Ems vassal, kings and minor potentates nave been coming over to pay him homage. The King it 1s worth mention that the Emperor William al- of Saxony, indeed, avoided discussion as to the ‘Ways yields piecedence to the Czar as the guest further annihilation of bis kingship and his king- of Germany. Also, when the King of Holland ar- | dow by going promptly away as soon as the advent rived at Ems the two Emperors, though of higher | of his superior Sovereign was announced, not feei- rank than the King, went to meet him at the sta- | ng, perhaps, equal to an argument with the re- tion; and then the Czar drove away first with the | spectable monarch who is supplied with such excel- King of Holland, the Emperor of Germany follow- | jent reasons for appropriating his neighbor's pos ing. Moreover, the King of Holland occupied the | sessions. But there were a whole host of otoer piace of honor in the Czar’s carriage. | magnates eager to show their feaity. The King of The Emperor of Russia seemed to take an espe- | Holland came to see if Belgium could be got back, cial pleasure in going about unattended during | or whether he could do a stroke of business on his ‘his stay at Ems, and roamed 80 faraway from the own account, for Kaiser Wilhelm keeps his plighted town that he must often have been addressed by word, aud a promise to respect the independence strangérs and probably met with some adven- of the Dutch would be worth having in case of ‘ures as amusing as those of Hdroun al Raschid. | European complications. I remarked, however, He seemed to put himself purposely im the way of | that between the Kaiser and the Ozar there was such things. He spoke to every one who had claim | some apparent coolness alter their first public on his notice, aud was evidently gratified when meeting, as though the latter had not been ready accosted, for probably he had few opportunities of | enough to enter into plans prepared for his con- talking to other people upon equai terms; andit | sideration. I should think that a more absolutely fnust be reireshing for him to get rid of ceremony honest man than the present Emperor of Germany in this out of the way country place and its neigh- | never sat upon a throne, but he gave me the idea borhood. He bellaved much like a large janded | of being perplexed vy too much counsel. proprietor in the midst of his estates, who has a now, however, in very robust health, and is as natural right to feel at home. Sometimes ue active as though he were twenty years younger. stopped to gossip with abevy of young girls, and fms seems a famous place for invalid sovereigns, gave the rose winch he carried in lis hand to the and tne Czar says that he only complains of two prettiest of them, for he is a correct jndge things—‘keen appetite and sound sleep.” of beauty, and, no doubt, every leaf ot the rose he There is to be a meeting of the Russian imperial gave with such @ winning smile and such gracious family at Ingenheim, and what is, in fact, a pri. words will be treagured up for years to come a8 yute party has been magnified into a ‘‘Congress;” ‘things of a value ‘far above rubies.” Sometimes put {am credibly informed that only family affairs he talked with old gentlemen or ladies, and sat would be aiscussed at this assembiy—such as mar- down beside them tll their faces were radiant riage portions, settlements aod the appanages of with “the grace that doth hedge a king.” Once I the princes and princesses of the imperial house— saw him meet a humpbacked man, who made him | go that the public is in no sense concerned with it, a profound, morose bow, and was sidling off side- and it certainly forbodes no new changes in the Ways ina fright, when the Emperor beckoned to map ot Europe, him, ana laid his hand kindly ou the bampbacked | SKETCH OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. man’s shoulder; then they walked on together, | Ttave known tie present Emperor of all the He even slackened that mighty stride of his for the — Russias for nearly forty years, aud I have seen as bumpbacked man,-and I observed that be was much of him and his belongings as @ subject is siways particularly gentle with the afflicted and the infirm. When he had walked for @ while he returned to drink aga@in at the springs, } | | foreign court. My first clear recollection of the Emperor is and mingled faminarly with the crowd when he went upon a visit to Naples. I was around tue Kursaal, conducting himself in every walking one day on the fine promenade respect a8 a private person in searen of harmiess | which overlooks the bay upon the one amusement. There were never any policemen hand and Mount Vesuvius on the other, and my near him nor any one Of lis household; no iriend — companion was Sir William Temple, Lord Palmer- of whom he made a constant companion, Sothat gton’s brother, at that time Minister at the court acommercial traveller with the requisite effron- | of the most powertul of the Italian Bourpon: tery might have gone straight up to him and namely, “King Gomba,’? who was a very wor offered his patterns for the inspection of the | man, though he had a bad character from tne 1d Mightiest sovereign upon earth, would have got an order, for th certainly not fiequent upon the Czar’s lips, might, theretore, have made him my best sajut introduced myself and set to Work cross-question. ing him at my convenience. But there seemea to be something unbecoming in a newspaper corre. spondent taking suddenly to bandy words with the Northern Cesar, andl knew (hat, however poiiie and good natured be might be, he would remem- ber his station and mine, and that { should get are say he | ,ondon journals, which were, for the most part, profoundly unknown to him and he tothem, It was just. before dinner at the hospitable Minister’s house, Which used tove open to everybody; ana Sir William was telling one of those odd stories, which he narrated with such @ quaint cuarm, when a tall young genticman stopped and made us rather a formal salnte. I saw by the profound bow word “no” tg I tarn, and by @ certain characteristic twitching of his eyebrows that the young gentleman was a nothing worth having by an act of indecorum, but | persouage of stupendous importance, and only see the amazed look come back more plainly | when he had walked on I heard that he than ever into those mourniul eyes of his, ; Was the hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, 1 What | wanted Was a formal interview, in which | watched tim with the keen look of observation the Emperor snould know that his conversation | Press permission to publish it; and I desired to | toone of His Impertal Majesty’s suite; but cour- | troduced, in the customary form, by the Ambassa- | ‘Then itappeared there was no Emperor o! Russia | | of the means of communication engage a great , I went to England to | COBRESPONDENT.—Tne people of the United States | He ts | ever likely to see of a foreign sovereign or a | which the representative of England made in re- | under the circumstances, and f thought he seemed rather shy and embarrassed; but presently he drew near to an urchin some five or six years old and began to play with the child, This urcnin (son of Russian noble, who then counted his property | by the numver of his serfs) was sulky at first, but ) the Grand Duke won him over, and then they went away together band in hand fast friends, a nursery governess following, with her eyes demurely cast upon the ground. Now, here we are together again after the lapse of more years than I care to remember, living the same life and shut up in a | little German town in a narrow valley, Where we must of necessity meet each other at least half a / dozen times a day. Lhave, therefore, thought whether it might not be possible for me to give a portrait of this great and good monarch which should have some per- manent value ior students of history. Having nothing to hope or to fear from him, Ican bring an impartial mind to the task, and I will try to show him as he is, without flattery and without unjust blame. Alexander IT., the son of Nicholas, was born on the 29tn (17th) April, 1818, and succeeded his farher | on the 2d of March (18th of February), 15 He was very carefully taught, ‘and speaks E: German, French, Italiar 1 Greek, besides his own language, which twenty years ago was a rare attainment indeed among the higher orders in Russia, He ts a good horseman, a good shot and possesses all tie usual accomplishments of a gentleman. He was married on the 28th (16th) of April, 1841, to Maria Alexandrowna—otherwise | Maximiliana Wilhelmina Augusta Sophia Maria— daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig the Second of Hesse. His domestic relations have been tranquil and undisturbed, the Empress being aptous, amia- ble lady, generally beloved, and he has six chil- dren. He is now filty-six years of age, hale and strong, with no signs of mental or bodily decay. The PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE EMPEROR is very pleasing. He has a good, shapely head, well set upon his shoulders and indicating tair mental capacities, though a superficial observer might run some risk of underrating them, because he is a slow and cautious thinker, whose ideas do | | not ow readily into words, and his voice is harsh ‘and hesitating when he first begins to talk. His forehead is frank and open, his eyes grave and somewhat troubled in their look—they are sunk very deep in his head—and at times there seem | tobe awful! meanings to them. They are eyes of the very sorrowful sort, not unfamiliar with tears; | and in color they are of that uncertain bine which | denotes a melancholy temperament. Uccasionaily, | but very rarely, they have a gieam of solemn au- thority, half fearful, half touching, as thongh he | | had a painful consciousness of the tremendous re- | sponsibilities which weigh upon supreme power. The lower part of the Emperor's face is well | bred, the nose fine and delicately chiselled, the | mouth large, but firm, affectionate and full of pleasant words. He is almost bald with the con- | stant fretting of the military helmet which he wore habitually in early ilfe, and the little hair he ‘has left is of that undecided neutral tint which is soon to become gray. He is very tall and large limbed, riding perhaps seventeen | stone in the saddle; but shere is no awkwardness | 1p his gait or manner. His disposition is gentle and good humored. He treats his intimates with an easy familiarity very rare in @ sovereign, and | be has a determined—almost a dogged—unwilling- | negs to take o‘fence. He 1s 8o brave, magnanimous | and forgiving that he goes about alone and unat- tended, though many foolish attempts have been made to assassinate him, and he has repeatedly | pardoned incorrigible rebels who would have found | hi | mo grace betore any other tribunal than ‘his own merciful judgment. It is safer to | offer him an affront than to displease the | best of his servants. On one occasion tt is known | that he warned a Polish nobleman against whom | an order tor arrest had been issued to run away | and privately sent him means of support while he remained in exile. any of his revolted subjects in 1853-34 that he was called ‘the Chief of the Polish rebellion; and he | has shown a chivalrous generosity to these who | endeavored so resolutely to shake off his authority, A literary man who had interpreted the new laws | upon the ilberty of the press ratner too freely and was threatened with imprisonment made his way to the Emperor, who had a great liking for | him, and His Majesty, on hearing that the literary man had got into trouble, quashed the proceedings against him, observing “that he had better abuse him (the Emperor) another time, and take to writ- | ing nothing against people who might hurt him.” He is so constant in his friendships and so open- handed with ls friends that it is said some of | them owe all their fortune to his munificence; and | | it is on record that once upon a time, when a man | | he loved was in straita the Emperor sat down to | Play cards with him~and did not win the stakes, | There was, perhaps, a3 much deiicate generosity in the act as in any which is related of Napoleon | IL. HIS PLACE IN HISTORY. Let us see what this man with the sad eyes and | awful sense of responsibility has done for his | country, and we shall find that the page of history on which nis name is inscribed is the brightest in Russian annais. Until the year 1855, when he | rather unexpectedly succeeded his father—who | was still in the prime of life—the present Emperor of Russia had taken no part in politics, He re+ fused to lead the opposition which went on in the | drawing rooms of St. Petersburg more or less openly, and never gave an opinion upon public | affairs. He lived a blameless life with his family, being an affectionate husband and an in- duigent father, given over entirely to the domesticities, But directly he attained to supreme power he showed a remarkable aptitude for the government of a great people. He began by removing nearly all the re- strictions upon learning; and education through- Out Russia, which was at a very low ebb, improved with surprising rapidity. Then he granted some- thing like freedom of the press. He conceded large privileges to commerce, founded steam navi- gation companies, established new means of com- munication between the most distant parts of his Empire, aad he removed those disabilities which | weighed most heavily upon the Jews. An American may be disposed to say, “Well, he had only to let things take their course to do that. Education, trade, printing and bankers will always thrive if they are let alone.’ But this answer Would not meet the case, | THE POWER OF THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR is in theory unlimited. He is very readily admitted vo be the most powerfal man in the world, high priest and vlespot over eighty millions of subjects. There are, nevertheless, in limitations to his authority; that is to say, he is advised or controlled (which amounts to the same thing) by rl mperial Privy Counc. 2 Jommission of Petiuons | 8. The Counetl of the Empire, | 4. The Imperial Chancery, | 5 The Senate. | 6 fhe High Court of Appeal. 7. The Holy Synod, which make short work of his spiritual anthority. 8, The Committee of Ministers, commonly called the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. % The Ministry of tue imperial House. When he has taken the advice of all the great | officers of State composing these bodies $0 much power remains to a Rasstan Emperor that an or- der under the imperial sign manual has some- times not been found worth the paper it is writ ten upon, and the real government of Russia is the same aa that of almost every other State now existing, It is practically a tyranny of small clerks, against which all the worth and intel- ligence of the country may be and often jg opposed in vain, These clerks are content to leave their monarch the shadow of a gigantic power, while they hide behind it and purloin the substance, | Official personages are the world, and possibly the President of the United States knows a ‘ew of them over whom even his authority is father apparent than real It, has been shown that the Hmperor could manage to get a journalist out of a scrape; but it 18 probable that the man had not offended any vindictive “T'chinownik” past forgiveness, ot | his sovereign would have been the last person | Who conld have helped him effectually. Even if ne | had been released in deference to the impertal commands he would have been shut up again in prison before @ week had passed, Such are the administrative diMiculties against 0 { which probably most boys would have shown | rgiish, | He was so unwilling to punish | same all over the | which this Emperor has had to contena, ana yee | he has not only accomplished so Many reforms, | buc he has liberated the Russian serfs, in spite of the frantic resistance of the dominant bureau- cracy Of Rs nobility and his most intimate asso- ciate’, Who thought that they were about to be ruined by this measure; indeed, some of them were ruined, In order to estimate the importance of the liberation of the serfs—many millions of human beings—it must be remembered that they were degraded to the condition of brutes, The seris belonging to the great landowners were happy enough. They were often ailowed to amass property, and when they were too idie and thriftiess to do so they were cared for in sickness and old age; but the position of small numbers of serfs belonging to the poorer, uneducated boyards, living in remote hamlets, was something horrible. One old lady insisted on hay- ing @ serf gonstantiy by her side to strike the hours because she was hard of hearing and the only clock in her house was a loug way from her sitting room, A peevish invalid, who resided near Kherson, caused a serf to be chained and riveted | to his bedpost that tne serf might always be within call; and there were hundreds, if not thousands, of similar instances, The immorality encouraged by thoughtless young men among their serfs was shocking, and the cruelties sometimes practised upon them were of ahideous character, It is doubtful if their emanct- pation could have been long delayed, for they had risen against their lords im many places, and in several instances had burned them alive. But, nevertheless, the courage and firmness which were required to free them can only be estimated by those who, like the present writer, lived in Russia atthe time of the emancipation, and who wit- nessed the desperate opposition which was made to this necessary measure. The position of Russia during the late reign was that of a country frozen and congealed by ignor- ance, All the patriotism of the land was in fetters or in exile, and deep down in the iron bound minds of men was sullen discontent and black despair, Now art, learning and commerce have revived, and the whole country blooms like agarden. What- ever praise is due to a monarch who has made his people prosperous, happy and free belongs to the | present Emperor of Russia, His beneficent rule has been like the spring after the winter, the dawn alter the night. ART NOTES. M. Cabanel’s three pictures, two portraits and “‘Premiére Exjase de St. Jean-Baptiste,” are among the finest paintings in the Paris salon, Corot, so long the “Pere Corot’ of the generous youth of France, having now attained his jubilee } as a painter, a movement bas commenced among the lovers of art, 80 sudden, universal and spon- taneous a8 to appear an inspiration, to present him with a grande médaille a’honneur and a wreath of fifty laurels, typical of the number of years which have passed since he began to exer- cise the art in which he has become illustrious, ‘The chief attractions of this year’s salon are M. Gérome’s pictures. “Rex Tibicen” makes every | one smile. All must admire tne intensity of the design and the humor of the artist, who has stown King Frederick of Prussia in his cabinet working away ata flute, for the love of which he has thrown aside fatigue as well as business. He stands, with propped the music sheet, and = clutching the magic tube with the -finger-tips of both hands he sets his meagre lips to | the orifice, to produce, one would imagine, a harsh, unmelodious music, for he will blow, it seems, too hard, and his lean cheeks try to compel the sweetness they cannot utter; as it is, up go huis eyebrows, and the eyebails are uncovered in gerness, while the queue of his wig quaintly qr 82 the stiff cojlar of his coat. So thirsty for Imelody is thé soul Of the King that he has not stayed to take off his dirty boots. Just returned froin hunting, he has stepped into the Cabinet, fol- Jowed by the dogs, whose muddy feet have left marks on the polished floor and rich carpets; but | before each Weary animal could throw himself down to rest—one in the King’s own chair, the others on the ground—Frederick bas torn open, read and crumpled up the despatches that waited his coming, cast them on _ the floor,; and grasped thé intractable instru. ment. What will Mr. Carlyfé, whose soul enters not with zest into the enjoyment Of such | frivolity as Rute music, say to M. Gérome tor thus | mocking his model conqueror? Above the desk is perched a smirking bust of Voltaire. The ridicule of thé picture 1s not the less pungent because it is keen enough to penetrate the thickest skin with- out giving an excuse for blustering. this jest an excuse for war. The execution of the picture 15, aS usual, rather metallic, but the lignt- ing ot the interior 1s exquisitely true and the mod- elling of every part is pertect; stili the painting lacks concentration of its elements. itis perfect; a3 a satire, one of the best modern examples, Mr. Kuskin has declined to accept the gold medal of the Institute of British Architects, probably Jeeling that, as he is not an architect, it ought not to have been offered to him, and that he cannot honestly accept it. A Iresh cargo of antiquities from Ephesus has | arrived at the British Museum and they are now unpacked. Among them are @ lion’s head from the cornice of the last temple; two lions’ heads, more ancient, from former temples; a boar’a head; more iragments of the archatc Irieze; a large | fragment of one of the large acroteria from one of sculptured drums and coluins, &c. THE SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE, {From the Atlanta Herald.} The radical party ean very consistently go to the country and ask the people to seai the iate of the Republic by perpetuating the power of the Presi- dent. That step would be a fitting complement to | the steady driit towards imperialisin that has char- | \ | Beterized that party’s policy jor the past ten years. | It has robbed the States of their sovereign rights; it has consolidated all the rights and privileges of the government; it has given to one man the com- plete control of the currency, and made na- | tional bankruptcy the possible result of one man's whim; 1) has made it so that the President, by a telegram, can make or unmake the govern- ment Ol a State. What then more fitting than that it should climax its resolution by an attempt that, if successiul, will perpetuate its power and con- | vert the Republic, as if by magic, into an Empire. A SUMMER QUESTION. [From the Indianapolis Sentine!.] Grant is at Long Branch, What are the wild | Waves saying on the third term question? MOSBY AND GRANT, (From the Raleigh Crescent,] Mosby would, no doubt, hold tue stirrups for Grant to mount his horse tor the third term. THE TWO-CENT STABBING AFFAIR, Death of the Victim. Vincenzo Biangamane, the Ttalian, late of No. 40 Mulberry street, who on Friday atlternoon last ‘was, it is alleged, stabbed in the chest with a knife by Joseph Baciore, alias Pape, also an Italtan, during a quarrel between them in the room of the latter concerning the insignificant sum of two cents, died yesterday morning in the Park Hos- pital irom the effects of the wound he received. Biangamane claimed that Pape owed cents, while the latter contended the indebted- hess on bis part was only two cents, As an amicabie settiement could not be reached they quarrelied about the two cents, with the resuit Stated above. The body was yesterday afternoon removed to the Morgue, where Deputy Coroner Leo will make @ post-mortem examination, To- day Coroner Kessier will empanei a jury, and aiter viewing the remains an inquest will be heid as speediiy as possible. Captain Kennedy, of the h precinct, has secured ali the important wit- 3M the case. CORONERS) CASES, The body of an unknown man was yesterday found floating near the main landing on Goy- ernor’s Island and made fast, The military autnor- ities of Fort Columbus notified Coroner Woltman to hold an inquest over the remaing, which have been sent to the Morgue. At half-past five o'clock yesterday morning the | body of a man, about forty-five years of age, was found in the dock foot of Thirteenth street, East River, and sent to the Morgue to await an inquest before Coroner Woltman. | six inches in height, had smootn face, hazel eyes, brown hair, aud wore dark pants, no vest or stockings, White musin shirt and elastic galters, Officer Stanton, of the Twentieth precinct, yea terday appeared before Coroner Woltman, at the | Coroners’ ofice, and made an affidavit touching the case of Jov Frenzel, whom he found lying on & truck in Thirty-fiitu street, near Tenth avenue, on the 1st inst. The man, being helpless, was removed to the station house tn a cart and trom thence to Bellevue Hospital, where he subsequently died. Deceased had the appearance of being a ‘bum- mer,” a3 bis clothes were all beameared with dirt; and, after death, some bruises were found on his body, which may have been received | by failing while intoxicated. OfMcer Stan- ton says he did not use his clab on deceased, a8 he tad no occasion to do 80, Deceased had but re- cently returned from a ent tence on the Island, | and bis iriends expressed no res at his death, bent Knees, before an escritofre, on which he has | The irritable | captor of Silesia himself could hardly have made | AS adesign, | the pediments; one or two more fragments of | him four | Deceased was five ieet | SHEET. THE BROOKLYN SORROW. | Another View of the Beecher and Tilton Affair. THE TESTIMONY OF A FRIEND. Professor Van Buren Denslow writes as follows in the Chicago Christian advocate | _ These three persons, whose names are now as- ; Sociated in the crowning scandal of this age, by & coincidence more logical than many will admit, ure ali or have been Presidents oi the National Woman's fughts Associations, ‘They have all en- tertained or advocated certain advanced notions of woman’s freedom, very like those advocated nearly a century ago by Mary Wolstonecraft and Charles Fourter, and more recently by Joan Stuart Mill, How remarkable the outcroppings o! un- cleanliness in the record of these reformers! Mary Wolstonecratt teaches her sex to abhor marriage a3 a form of slavery; and not until her third il- legitimate child brings upon the domicile of herself and = paramour the indigna- | tion of a British mob does she consent toconvert her lover ito @ husband—not for the | sake of decency, but that she might obtain for him | the protection of the law. Fourler in one sentence deifies lust 1m a manner that would have pleased | the crude devotees or Isis and Osiris, and in the next teaches that the secret of the iuture progress lies tu so enlarging the ireedom of man and woman vhar the lact of chastity shali disappear and the thought of it become ridiculou: a) disciple of Fourier, Robert Dale Owen, procures, as amember | of the Indiana Legislature, the passage of the “eusiest” divorce law yet enacted, except in Wis- consin, Tiltoa advocates the Wisconsin law whereby | the bond of marriage may be severed by the mere consent of the parties who make it, Mrs. Woodhull scorns marriage and procures a divorce from the husband she professes to love, in order that she may live with two divorced husbands under the same roof in that freer relation which Fourter advocates, called the harmonial or com- tex marriage. Beecher marries the wife of | MeFariand to the dying body of her legal seducer, | the man who ventured to address her as “my darijng wife”? while she was still living with her | lawful husband, as if the mummery of the marriage ceremony could cleanse their guilt, John Stuart | Mill, the foremost apostie of woman's freedom, | takes to himself the wife of another, who had not | even been accused of unkindness toward her, for | no other reason than that she in her “woman's | Ireedom” preferred @ metaphysical seducer to a Christian husband, Doubtless there are thousands of well meaning ladies in the woman’s rights movement who con- scientiously aaoy that it has auy affinity with li- centiousness. It may tend, perhaps, to correct this error, when they observe the three publicly elected exponents of the woman's rights move- ment cowering under the burden of a common shame, the legitimate result of an erroneous con- viction as to the relation of the sexes to each other, Whoever has read Tilton’s pamphlet life of Mrs. Woodhull, wherein he extols that unblushing whiteness of whose character” was above encomium, must have become satisfied that | however silly @ man must be to write in praise | of the purity of one who advocates strum- | peey in the name of freedom, yet ‘Tilton, with all | so silly. He could oniy have done so with any sin- | cerity by adopting & new definition of purity, This new definition Mrs. Woodhuli’s lectures, Tilton’s articles on divorce and Beecher’s example in mar- rying Mrs. McFarland to the dying Richardson, all | furnish, it is that that weman is chaste whose re- | Jations never violate the course of her free inclina- | tion, either by continuing with one of whom she | is tired or by failing to goto one of whom she 1s | newly enamored, Accepting this as the new defint- | tlon of chastity, Mr. Tilton’s praise, Mr. Beecher’s | liberality and Mrs, Woodhull’s “chastity” are allke | accounted for, But with these convictions what is likely to pe | their practice ? In all this exposure, let not Mr. Tilton for one moment suppose he is tobe vindi- cated, Avenged he may be. No more. He would never have placed it in the power of | Mrs. Woodhull to so employ an equivocal and darkly hinted scandal as deeply to affect the repu- ; tation of his own wiie had not his own relations | With his revelator been as unguarded as his life of | Mrs. Woodhull and Mrs. Woodhull’s tale of scandal | combined, compel us to believe. ‘There this drama | of perdition begins. He has so often taught that if | Cesar’s wife must be above suspicion, s0 also must Cornelia’s husband that he need feel no surprise | if the world is slow to sympathize with him when | the adventuress whom he has publiciy commended | to the world as of “stainless purity” charges the wife | whom he Knows to be s0, with dishonor. Again, Mr. ‘Tilton as an advocate of “Ireedom for woman” in its most odious sense, has been too sincere to ieel and too 1ogical to express that just indignation which one. not professedly a free- | Jover, { i, lasting an Son ag this would have been | to on aus believed in the religious nes of | marriage 4s 4 arvne ordinance. A conservative man of honor would have prouably shot Beecher; certainly would have cowhided and exposed nim. But Mr. Tiiton, as an apostie of ‘free love’ and woman’s riguts, was logically bound to regard the so-called “crime” as an appeal to his wile’s sov- ereign rights over her own person in the exercise of his pastor’s sovereign right to believe and prac- tice what Tiiton taught, viz.: the purity of periect ireedom, Hence the secret written apology of peeaee and the long and “chivalrous” Hienes of ‘Tilton. Apart from the weak and corrupt views enter- tained by all these parties concerning the mar- | riage relation, its divine sanction and its perpetu- | ity, how has this scandal come about ? | Eight years ago Theodore Tilton had the finest position and reputation, for a young map, in this country orage. te is an orator of first ciass | power, & hag of real merit, an editor of various ; talent, He {s handsome, socially proud and the | husband o! a lovely petite, modest, accomplished is brilliant powers, had shown himself to de just | apostle of prostitution as a woman the spotless | mitted but the single error of adopting the theory that the reciprocal relations of men and women can be adjusted on the basis of equality and right, whereas nature intended them to rest on a basis of mutual inequality, inter- dependence and affection, In the very act of at- tempting to prove ‘hat boiling pitch is a very clean substance, suowy whtte and pure, he fell into the cauldron, If his catastrophe shall enable any to see in time that there is no ‘spotless white- ness” in those who would emancinate man or wo- man from that just subjection which is implied tn Christtan murriage as distinguished from Fou- riertstic infidelity, that inter-sexual love, to ba chaste, must be exclusive, that its so called “free- dom” is its desolation and ruin, Ris martyrdom will not have been in vain. Henry Ward Beecher and His Ministry, {From the Brooklyn Eagle.} That Mr. Beecher has consistently preached this faith since the morning of Sunday, May 16, 1847, when he first preached Christ in Brooklyn to the present time, none but bigots and sectarian quib- blers willdeny. To the Gospel as preached by him not Brooklyn only, but the voice of American civilization and Anglo-Saxon Christendom has said amen. “My parish,’’ he once said,” ‘is the United States,” and in his ministration to so vast a fold he has approved himself “a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” That clerical jackals have snarled around him, jealous of his mighty influence, was but the inevitable conse of ‘human nature. Tie homes which his words have made {fragrant with the inspirations of a higher life; the hearts Whose wounds he has assuaged with the oil and wine of Gospel hope; the minds he has allured from the barren sands of unbelief to the intelec- tual light of sincere religion; the impetus he hag given to our public institutions of charity, of edu- cation and of liberty; the constant suasion tor gvod which he has exercised for more than twenty- seven yeurs Over the public sentiment of our ever growing city—these are his witneases before the eople, and may well be his ‘crown of rejoicing efore God. He leaves us for awhile as he came to ‘us at first, in all “the iuliness of the blessings of the gospel of Christ.” if there be one characteristic of Mr. Beecher’s mind which 18 more conspicuous than any other it is is capacity to take large and generous views and to see all sides of a question. And if there be one feature which more than any other has been prominent in his ministry, tt bas been his catholic iistincts, his freedom trom narrowness, his per- ception of the good and true tn all our systems, which are but “broken lights" of God. Those who | looked for curses from his lips have been disap- | pointed, jor “lo, he has blessed them altogetber,” “I do not believe,” he says, “that I have ever writ- ten a line against any other denomination, except a few letters in an obscure evening paper in Cincinnati many years ago, against the Catholic denomination.” Polemics are natu- ral to the theological neophyte, but all will remember the collection taken up in Plymouth church for Catholic charities, and the Christian terms in which Mr. Beecher has always spoken In Brooklyn of that Church and of its head, If Mr. Beecher has not preached Calvin- ism it is because he saw that Calvinism narrowed the broad teachings of Christ and limited His free salvation. Perceiving that it was but another name for fatalism, and led inevitably to natred and persecution, he outgrew it, if indeed it had ever been taught him. ‘The relations between Mr. Beecher and his peo- ple are such as oniy death can sever, Many wha now sleep peacetully iu Greenwood will. rise ap and call him blessed tn that day of universal reck- oning, when ‘we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appeirance together,” and, whether absent or present, we in Brooklyn owe bis name 6 debt of grateful reverence. Good Wishes Go with Him. {From the Brooklyn Union.) But Mr, Beecher remains silent in respect to the matter. It is clear cnough that he will not depart from his resolution not to open his lips on tho sub- ject unless compelled by 4 legal process, which there is no likelinood of being issued. His inci- dental remark that it might possibly be the last tume he would be heard there was not su; | posed to signify any intention on his part of with- wouki have felt upon being made the victim | drawing from the church, but only to refer to the Possible changes which all men are subject to, He goes and makes no sign, and the good wishes of his People go with him G@ORDON'S MARCH IN EGYPT. The Catro correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing on the 6th of June, says:— Colonel Gordon arrived at Gondokoro on the 15th Of Apri, his voyage from Khartoom having been somewhat retarded by lack of fuel. The climate between Khartoom and Gondokoro is noxious tn the extreme, especially at night, and mosquitoes abound, which, unlike their milder brethren of Lower Egypt, Make themselves felt even by the uatives, who, uy elfdefence, being unprovided with clothing, ey their bodies with wood . ashes i of theif tiny foes. He ‘stayed a week at Fic phate; , and during this time he received and entertaine | toom, | atn of wife, Mrs. Tilton 18 highly and most honorably | connected—her father, the revered Judge N. B. , Morse, of the Supreme Court, conservative on all moral and religious questions, and who was, we be- lieve, a brother to the eminent Sidney FE. Morse and Professor 5. F. B. Morse, Their children are of & } Style Of beauty at once spiritual, striking and rare. Whoever in those years had the pleasing fortune to accept the hospitality of this brilliant man and of | nis beantiful wie must have retained torever the | delightful image cf that home. All that could con- duce to make home lovely was there. Reputation, converse with noble minds such as fame draws around the hearthstone of its fortunate possessor, a charming companion whose very soul knelt each moment in pure worship of her adiired husband, | children whose smiles were like the radiance of | angels’ eyes when turned toward the throne of God and the rustle of Whose garments were graceiul as the silent movements of forest birds when bathing in the holy Sabbath dawn, what more could Theodore Tilton bave sought or wished ? | _ Yet, in his profound egotism, he sought martyr- dom. ‘Tne martyrs only were truiy great; he | woulda link his naine with some cause to-day odious, the crown—as did Garrison, Wilberiorce, Howard, and the rest. He advocated miscegenation, but nobody mobbed bim. He boasted in every speech of having been mobbed in anti-slavery days. Few remenibered that mob, Now, if he could but ren- der himsel! odions by atvacking the magriage re- lation, by striking @ stalwart blow for woman’s ireedom, somebody, he sincerely hoped, wonld persecuce him “and he would be im- mortal!, This was his ambition. And now his martyrdom’ has come, all he but of a character far more logical than he ex- pected, the inexorable penaity due to a jalse doc- trine, the eternal cross that bears no crown save | one of thorns. During those years the writer, on one occasion, by @ chance question turned the | conversation upon Bi | the daily visitors at Mr. Tilton’s iouse, “Is Mr. Beecher’s inward life that which tt seems to those who hear him? I have been at loss to conceive how one whose conscience is so sensitive as Mr. Beecher’s seems should boast himself to be the happiest man living. Deep moral sensitiveness | More often makes men sad.” ra Tilton answered, greatly to the writer's sar- | prise crimination on moral questions, but he is person- ally an epicure, a voluptuary, though of the most | refined sort, who does nothing—not even his | preaching and praying—from a sense ot duty, but only tor the pleasure it affords him, It happens to make him happier to preach than to race horses; | butif it made him nappier to jollow any other form of amusement he would pursue tt. Doubt- | less at the moment when you heard him declare limself the happiest man’ living, he felt so, but Scores of times has he come to his house as toa | den of refage, thrown himself down on that sola ‘and groaned iu misery. You would have thougut him the veriest wretch alive.” “Indeed, what was the cause of his trouble ?”” “Tt is chiefly domestic.’* “But I am curprised you speak of Beecher as a voluptuary. I had thought him too unseltisn and | laborious for that." | “No, Beecher has no unselfisiness. His tastes | afe esthetic and cultivated, and he is a busy man | because his capacities for joyous ‘Activity are various, He enjoys preaching, editing, art, | soctety, amusement, labor of certain kinds, and so on. But be 18 @ Voluptuary; he does everything | that he enjoys, and only because he enjoys it. | Greeley Is seif-sacrificing. I 1 need an article for the Independent Sratey will sacrifice his own ease to write it; not becaase It i8 anything he | Wants to say, but because |, his friend, need his | help. Beecher never writes on that principle. | He would promise the article, and if he sound | nothing else more agreeabie to do he would write Mb; Not otherwise,’ i ‘But Beecher is certainly industrious." “No! He ts lazy. He accomplishes a vast amount of what from many would reguire work. | But he does tt because in his case it only requires the Vigorous play of his versatile powers. He pre- pares for his sermons on sunday morning and | afternoon. It 1% not work to muse for an hour | over what One shali say for the next hour.’ “But ts he not charitable and generous ?”" “All in the epicurean sense. He enjoys doing | Good, and gives as giving yields him pleasure. ‘Mr, Tilton was then the warm and enthusiastic | friend of the great preacher whom he thus criticised. We believe he had never formed the | acquaintance of the weird sister Whose utterances | @re “inspired by Demosthenes.” He lad com- some chiefs, who haa come from King Mtesu (twen- | ty-elght days’ journey south of Gondokoro) with ivory and other presents for the Khédive; he then returped to Knartoom to superintend the em- barkation of uls provisions, making the return journey in eleven days, and arriving on the 3d of May. His personnel and baggage bad then arrived at Berber. He had to await their coming at Knar- where all arrived safe and well; and on the June, having distributed his followers and provisions in the several small steamers at his dis- posal, Coionel Gordon succeeded in starting & second time jor Gondokoro, which place he will Probably make the vase of his operations. 8T, BERNARD'S NEW BOMAN CATHOLIO OHUROS. St. Bernard’s new Catholic church, pleasantly located on Fourteenth street, near Ninth avenue, opposite the residence of Mayor Havemeyer, the corner stone of which was laid a little over @ year ago, is now rapidiy approaching completion. The new church will be capabie of accommodating probably 1,800 persons at one service, It is built alter the Gothic order of architecture, and the material used in its construction is the Belleville (N. J.) stone. The front is trimmed With Nova Scotia stone. Within are spacious gal- lertes, and the church 1s 80 arranged as to be well lighted and thorougnly ventilated, “There will be, in addition to the numerous smalier windows, three very large and attractive ones, one on either side of and one above the altar,on which are to be represented the mysteries of the nativity, cruci- fixion and resurrection of our Lord. On ‘the re- maining windows will be represented the most je saints of the Church, among them St. ernard, the patron saint. The basement, which | ig constructed of granite, will be completed very to-morrow glorified, and so alter the cross wear ; ever sought, and, directly by the means he used, | her, Who Was then among | “Mr. Beecher Nas a keen intellectual dis- | shortly, and is well arranged aud admirably adapted tor Sunday school and lecture purposes. The ground origibally cost the parish $43,500, and the church when tully completed wili cost about $120,000 more. THE SUICIDE OF MB, FOX. Coroner Kessler yesterday hela an inquest on the body of Mr. Jeffers Fox, the man who com- mitted suicide at the Sturtevant House, on Satur- day, by swallowing what Deputy Coroner Leo thinks to have been hydrate of chloral, Deceased at intervals had suffered {rom epileptic fits, which seemed to disturb his intellect and made him irritable and suspicions that some undue ad- ntage had been or would be taken of him. In his father’s will deceased had not shared equally with his brothers and sisters, which fact tended to render him unhappy, notwithstanding the other members of the family treated him With the utmost kindness and consid- eration, doing everything in their power to make him comfortable and happy. Their efforts tu this direction, however, Seemed not to bave been ap- preciated by deceased, Mr. Fox did not have ab- solute controi of the property left him by his de- ceased father, but at regulars intervals received irom Mr, Wallis, executor of the estate, money suficient to support him in luxurious ease. In their verdict the jury found that Mr. Fox was sul. fering trom temporary abberration of mind at the time o/ taking his own life, Deceased was tnirty- six years of age and was a native of Newark, N. 5. “THE IMMORTAL JACKSON.” {From the Chicago He ed Grant took of lis hat and gravely remarke “The mmortal Jackson," when the batd of the ol Stonewail Brigade serenaded him, the other day. He wouid have said the same thing several years sooner if he bad commanded the Army of the Poto- mac atany time prior to Chancellorsviile, If ne could be so moved by @ serenade trom the old Stonewall band we shudder to think what would have been his enthusiasm over one Of the sere- nades of the old brigade itself. GERMANY AND SPAIN. Bismarck’s Demand on the Republic in Madrid. A Madrid letter, of June 12, in the Messager tu ‘Midi, has the following :— The misston of M. de Hatzfeld has completely fatied. That Prussian Envoy is about to leave Madrid, little satisfled with the men and things, Now that all the noise made about his name is nearly dissipated [can adirm that I was well in- formed as to his intrigues, The diplomacy of that agent of Prince de Bismarck ts very bold but dis- creet, and at first gave rise to great excitement and & gumber of conjectures; bas when the voit behind which {t concealed itself was pierced and whe object he had in view—which, as | have alk ready said, Was @ treaty of alliance—had pecome known, & desire arose to be informed of the con- ditions of the proposed bargain. They were shame(ul for Spain. Prince de Bismarck de- manded, through his Envoy, the cession of the pT ied Islands, discovered by Magellan, and which since 1521—that is to say, since the reign of Pnilippe [l.—are one of the most flourishing col- onies of Spain, The absolute reinsal to treat with Prussia on such terms ts the chief reason for ¢ sudden departare ot M. de Hatafeld, mission is now at an end