The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1874, Page 4

4 | thirsted for rest, would, a3 usual, have ratified the FRENCH POLITICS. | “accomplished tact.” Such were the Bonapartist designs, but they were frustrated by the vigilance of THE DUKR DE BROGLIR, Aims and Intrigues of the! whonada plan of hisown., The Duke de Brogile j 19.40 Orleanist and his ambition was to return the Political Parties. Count of Paris by coustitutiqnal mpans, To this end he purposed to carry through the Asse@bly & need set of bills which would have organized the Sep- NO REPUBLIC ? | tennate on the model of a constitutional monarchy, REPUBLIC OR ‘The first of these bil.s provided for THE MUTILATION OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. weet The age of electors would bave been raised ‘. ‘, | from twenty-one to twenty-five, and a three years’ A New Storm in the Air—Prospects of, residential qualification wouid have been required, a Dissolution. | This would have struck some 2,000,000 electors off the roll, disfranchised most of the workmen in large cities and all the “adventurous” classes who Irequently change their residences, and it would PARIs, June 25, 1874, LONDON GOSSIP. Disracli’s Address to the Tailors 1 aud the Peers, SOCIETY, ART AND DIPLOMACY. No Sympathy for “Poor Jack’’—The ‘Boene at Ascot on Race Day—Mr. Beflow's* Death and Funeral. Lonpon, June 27, 1 1 take up my pen to explain to the readers of | have virtually given over the electoral power The Merchant Tallors’ Company, one of the to tho Naw York H&RALD what is the political situa- | the middie class, who dislike Owsarism and dreaa | Wealthiest and most hospitable of the great trade | on of France at the present moment, We are | tne radicals, Furthermore the number of Deputies guilds of the city of London, on Wednesday last entertained the Ministers at a grand banquet, at | is probable that the truth lies between these some- what extreme poles, ] understand that Mrs. Crawford, the wife of the Dat! v' re ident in Paris, has accepted ALE SEE ie lecture io America, and that Gn ¢ she may be shortly expected, THEATRICAL GOSSTP, The London theatres are, just now, London deserts, where old plays are Sauntered through | and no one dreams of producing any novelty. ‘Tue elaatio Mr Boncienult has sxacioned i noe of Foy Cg joa at present, and will pro! assunie thé Aaa direction’ of the Princess’ ‘Theatre, as representative of Mr. Hollingshead, who | 1s akout to take § [peg rom Mr, Chatterton, Mr. Boucieaylt hag: dulgu id ney play intended for the opening of Booth's, gee tyom the sketcu which he bas given me of plot i venture to | predict for tt an enormous success, though tn | certain portions it will be just a question of touch and go With the audience, The Lyceum cioses next week, after a fairly suc- cessiul season. It is understood that Mr. Irving will play Hamlet next season, with Mr. Clayton as Polonius and Mr, Coghlan, of the Prince of Wales, #8 the Ghost. ROYAL Ascor. T.Was out of town lately, for if the representa- tive’o! the HERALD does not follow the fashion and do as the people do, of what use is he? And last week, ac Ording to usual custom, London was de- once more, a8 we all believe, on the eve of a crisis. | in the lower house would have been reduced to That crisis may lead to nothing, or it may bring | 350, and the acts of this body would have been about important events which will seal the fate of controlled py a France for some years to come. There is abso- | GRAND COUNCIL, lately no predicting at this moment whether the | or upper house, half of whose members would crisis will burst upon us ina day, a week ora | lave been appointed by the government, while | month; we cannot see how it will come nor how | the otner half would have been elected by a it wil terminate. All we know is that the air | quorum of notables, high ofMcials and Councillors | around us is heavy with storm; and lest some General in each department. It 1s evident that tempest should break out and be reported | this Grand Council would have been composed | to you by telegraph before these lines can } mainly of moderate royalists, and a proviso in the j be read in New York I purpose here to give you a | bill enacted that the President of the body should summary account of the condition of parties, their | be Vice President of the Republic and succeed ad | Fecent doings aad future hopes. If the constitu- | ‘*erim to Marsnal MacMahon if the latter re- tional battle snail have been fought before my let- | Signed ordied, Within three months of the Mar- ter is printed the summary will at least serve as a | Shal’s death or resignation new Chief of the Ex. | light by which to read the significance of the events ecutive would have been elected by the two houses that will have happenea. voting together; and it would have been lawful ior The reader knows that when M. Thiers was over- | the majority to give to the Chief of the Executive thrown on the 24h of May, 1873, what title they pleased. Now it ts easy to see f MARSHAL MAOMAHON whither all these provisions tended. If the Duke was appointed Chief of the Executive in his stead, | 4¢ Broglie could have passed nis constitutional ‘The Marshal's electors were the three monarchical | Dilis be would have appointed ifactions—legitimist, Orleanist and Bonapartist. | THE DUKE D’AUMALE They had dismiased M. Thiers because the latter | to the Presidency o! the Grand Council, and on the wishea to foun¢ the Republic; and, having thus | death of Marszal MacMahon (or on his willing re- ‘won what they took to be @ great victory, they in- | tirement beiore his seven years’ term was ended) , | @iven to those tconoclasts, their which there was the usual amount of post-prandial oratory. Mr, Disraeli, Lord Derby and Lord Salis- bury, all “orated,” but im neither case is the result looked upcn as satisiactory. The merest tyro in theological politics knows well enough | Mat the Established Churcn is torn by internal dis- Sension and that the Archbishop of Oanterbury’s | bul has only made worse what was very bad; and yet Mr, Disraeli went out of his way to proclaim that the “Church was tn no danger.” Lord Salis- bury, with a certain amount of bitterness, lamented that ‘those whose mission is not to destroy, but to uphold, can hardly hope for the same attention to follow their proceedings or the same acclaim to crown their career’ as had been predecessors, Lord Derby, too, was very decorous and very dull, but he made one polot when he said that the | peace of Europe was a secondary consideration to the honor of England, Men looxed round at each other and seemed to understand that marriage alliances, wedding festivities and Emperor's visits would weigh nothing with the present government, | if liberties were taken or boundaries iniringed, NO SYMPATHY POR THE SAILOR, Mr. Plimsall, the member for Derby, who, both | in and out of Parliament, has devoted his energies stalled the Duke would have succeeded to the Presidency A REACTIONARY CABINET, | until the royalist majority in the two Chambers which pledged itself, under the Duke de Brogile’s should have offered the crown to the Count of guidance, to rule on conservative principles. In a | Paris, There is no doubt whatever that things few weeks ail wo1ked prosperousiy. Republican | prefects, ambassadors, collegiate professors, pub- Me prosecutors and garrison commanders were | through the Assembly as he desired. Unfor- ‘urned away and their posts given to.monarchists. | tunately both the legitimists and the Bonapartists The Cavinet introduced and passed a bill with- | perceived his aim and defeated it. The legiti- drawing from the municipalities the right to elect | mists had no wish to see Henri V. so unceremoni- their own mayors, the said right being transferred | ously left out of the reckoning,and the Bonapartists to the government; and to the end that these were naturally hostile to ascaeme which would Measures might not ‘be too violently criticised re- | have adjourned the prospects of an imperial publican newspapers were either suppressed or | restoration to the Greek caleads. So, when the threatened so pointedly that they iapsed cautious. | orders or the day for the constitutional bills were When the summer session of 1873 closed the mo- | laid before tne House, fifty-three legitimists and narchical factions separated hopefully, each mem. | the thirty Bonapartists coalesced with the repubit- ber being conviaced that Mberalism had been | cans and turned the Duke de Brogite out of office. checkmaied, But soon this conviction gotdamped | Marshal MacMahon then appealed successively to aad | the most prominent members of the Orleanist party to form a Cabinet, but they declined, feeling | all of them unequal to the charge of managing the Assembly. In consequence the Marshal sum- moned General de Cissey, an old brother-in-arms of his, and between them the two oid soldiers made up the Duke de Broglie could have carried his bills TROUBLES BEGAN. The three monarchical factions had been united enough so tar as concerned the question of up- setting M. Thiers and establishing a@ provisional government to keep republicans in subjection; but | they were by no means agreed as to what should be done next. The legttimists, some 150 strong, were for getting the Count de Chambord restored aa absolute tnonarch, either by a vote of the Assem- bly or by a coup d’<tat on the part ef MacMabon, whose wife was notoriously legitimist, and would, A TAME CABINET, | which is in existence at the present writing. Bnt what an existence! No sooner was the Duke de | Broglie overthrown than a number of tormer Or- | leanists, feeling that all hope for their cause was | so they reckoned, use her influence on their be- | gone, went over to the republican side, {impelled || equal if not the superior of any similar establish- | fel thereto, tt issaid, by the Orleans Princes them- selves, who would, of course, soonsr live in France to yote for Henri V., provided the latter would be | under a republic than be driven into exile again reconciied to niscousin, accept the tricolor fag by « third Empire. Within a fortnigat of the Dake and awear to govern constitutionally. The ooject | de Broglie’s fall the most vital clause in his Ma- of the Bonapartists (a batch ofthirty in the Assem- | nicipal Suffrage bill, that which raised the age of bly, but very active and powerful out of doors), was | the electors from twenty-one to twenty-five, was to keep MacMahon in office until the majority of | thrown out. The new Ministers had resolv ed to the Prince Imperial, on the 16th March, 1874, and | carry on the constitutional bills, and they ali voted half, The Orieanists, 200 in number, wanted to restore tne Count of Paris, or they were prepared to bettering the condition of the common sailor | and to do away with the crying disgrace, now very | Prevalent, of endangering men’s lives by sending | pointment on Tuesday. His bill for improving our | shipping laws was rejected, in a House of 343 | members, by the narrow majority of 3, Mr. Plim- | sall, no doubt, will persevere and bring forward | bis measure next session, In the meantime he may congratulate himself on the fact that since he | has raised this disturbance the Board of Trade has issued more stringent regulations, the re- | sultof which has been that casualties at sea have greatly diminished. NEW LIBERAL CLUBS, The liberal party ts by no means so dead or even so somnolent as its opponents would wish one to | believe. On the contrary, the tremendous whip- | ping tt received at the last election is veginning to have beneticial results and the reaction is now setting in. laissez aller negligence and a desire to let things | slide brought avout the defeat of last February } | Steps to prevent the recurrence of such a catas- | trophe. A liberal ciub has been established in the | city, backed by tne Rothscnilds ana combining tne | Strength of all the liberal commercial magnates. | A similar clab is now being organized for the West End, on @ scale which will render it the ment, It is estimated that altogetner tt will cost £200,000 ($1,000,000), and it 1s proposed to raise three-fourths of this sum by redeemable | debentures of £500 each, bearing a yearly interest of five per cent. The entrance fee will be thirty guineas and the annual subscription ten guineas, | There will be some difficulty in finding a site jor a building of the size and architectural proportions contemplated, When the idea was first promul- Want of union and organization, a | and the chiefs of the party are now taking active then to induce the Marshal to decree aplebiscitum | 1n the minority—notwithstanding which they aid | gated more than @year ago the liberals were in Considering that a great many of the new prefects | not resign. A few days later, however, came a | omice, anda half promise was obtained from the and mayors were imperialists, the Bonapartistg | yet more crushing defeat. M. Casimir-Périer, hav- | government that Buckingham House, which stands had every confidence that the influence of these | ing lodged a motion to the effect that republican- | in st. James’ Park, with Its entrance in Pail Mall, officials over their constituencies would be strong | ism should pe deciared the deflnite form of govern | and is now used as the War Office, should be given enough to get Napoleon 1V. restored by @ nand- | mentin France, a division was taken on the ques- | yp jor the purpose. It1s pot to be expected, how- some majority. Accordingly tion as to whether it was “urgent”? to reter that- | THE RECESS WAS SPENT IN AGITATION AND rN- | Dill at once to committee. The Ministers, the | to their adversaries, and lunderstand thatan at- TRIGUES. | legitimists, the Bonapartists and the mass of the | tempt will be made to secure the stie of Northum- Each party set to work, the Marshal standing by Orieanists voted “No;!? but the Orleantst seces- | periand House, facing Tratalgar square, which is indifferently the while, and soon @ rumor got | sionists, in alliance with the republicans, were | to pe pulled down to make way for a new ap- about that a fusion bad taken place between the | enough to form a majority, and by 345 votes to 341 | proach from Charing Cross to the Thames Embank- Houses of Orleans and Bourvon. This was to a | M. PERIER'S MOTION | ment. certain extent true. The Count of Paris had pald | was carried. This was the most important vote | DIPLOMATIC RUMORS, a visit to the Count of Chambord and done homage | ever taken in the present Assemply, for never } The Journal de St. Petersvoury, which is gen- to him as chief of the “House of France,” at the peiore had a majority declared for the Republic. | erally supposed to be officially inspired, recently same time waiving all his own claims to succeed | The inveterate monarchists of all shades were | announced that Queen Victoria would visit the tothe throne except as Henry V.’s heir. The Count | qyea with dismay; the Bonapartista especially | Russian capital in September. A direct con- of Chambord, on his side was understood to prom- | were aghast, M. Périer’s motion bas now been | tradiction to tis statement, also doubtless ise that he would govern constitutionally and re- | forwarded to tne Committee of Thirty, who will | officially inspired, has appeared in the London nounee the white Nag—aeclarations which assured | report upon it before long. When thetr report is journais, So you see “doctors differ,” though no him some 360 votes In the Assembly and made his | jogged the grand battle will take place onthe | one who has any knowledge of the state of the restoration pretty nearly safe. But just as the | question of | Queen's heaith would for a moment have believed “tused'’ royalists were rejoiciug Over this happy | | in ner quitting her beloved Scotland in the REPUBLIC OR NO REPUBLIC, ever, that the conservatives would be so generous | and unexpected obliteration of differences the Count of Chambord launched a sensational mani. festo, averring that he hat been misunderstood, that he would never renounce the white flag, and | that ne considered himselt king by divine right, whetner the Assembly accepted him or not. Hereat THE ROYALIST HOPES COLLAPSED. By mustering every royalist vote and corrupting some wavering Centrists, who were 4s willing to | acclaim a constitutional royalty as a conservative republic, it would have been possible to get Henri | V. elected & national sovereign; but to get him | elected oa bearer of the white flag and reviver of | despotism was out of the question. On the other hand, the moderate royalists or Orleanists, who were faithful to the tricolor, were unabie to re- store the Count of Paris as they would have liked todo. In the first piace, the Count of Paris, hav- ing done homage to the Count of Chambord, re- fused to iet bimseif be nominated; and in the next place,even had-he come forward aa a pre- tender, the 150 legitimists would have declined to | vote for him during Heuri V.’s ifetime. So by common consent it was resolved among the monarchists to prolong Marshal MacMahon’s | and it is in expectation of that battle that all | Frenchmen are now going about excitedly and | inquiring of one another which party will win. As autumn to undertake so long a journey. The visit of the Prince and Princess of Rou- mania to the Isle of Wight, which will take place next month, while the Crown Prince and Princess | | of Germany are sojourning in the island, ts iooked | Upon as having some connection with the forth- coming independence of the Danubian provinces, Mr. Layard has arrived in Londou trom his em- bassy at Madrid, the cause of his summons being, I said at starting, there 1s no predicting this just yet; bat one can judge by the relative forces of the parties how steady is the progress which the republican “idea" has made of late. The National | Assembly counts 750 members, and there are at present ten seats vacant. The SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY SITTING MEMBERS may be classed as follows:—Legitimists, 160; mod- | erate royalists, 170; Bonapartists, 30, and repub- licans of ali shades, 36). Tuere remain then about thirty centrists, who, oscillating to one side or the other, can turn the scale, Now when parties are 80 equally balanced as this it may be difficult to | nizing the Spanish Republic, a point which is being | Strongly pressed by Spain. GOODBY, LITTLE BENJAMIN! I am sure that President Grant has donee Kindly and @ wise action in promoting Mr. Ben- jamin Moran, but we are by no means grate.ul to the President ior taking our friend irom us. There is no more popular man in London than Mr. he is always accessibie and lor whom he is always doing something, but in English society, which ie | 10 is Baid, the discussion of the propriety of recog- | Moran, not only among tls countrymen, to whom | serted, for every one who could afford the time and the mon’y took care to show him or herself at | the races on’ Ascot Heatn. True ‘this could be | gone withouc’ #yen & temporary change of resi- | dence, for the falway takes ypu from Waterloo station and deposits you iinmen ii y behind the grand stand; vut it is @ long joarney, Dearly thirty miles, and the trains ave 8 Jpcon. cuse yeniently huddied, anal 70d cam get for @ week’s quiet and fresh air my earnest adVice to | you Js to take it at all hazards, All the upper teu, the haute volée, the salt of the earth, do so. The Prince of Wales invariably takes some house in the neighborhood of the course and entertains a large party. Usually he has secured Titness Hall, but this year he was established at Armitage Hill House, There 13 A VERY STRONG FERLING. On these occuastuns the proper place for the Prince of Wales’ headquarters is Windsor Castle, which is within three mues of the course. it has always been the custom of the reigning Sovereign to attend the two principal days of the race meet- ing (tuesday and Thursday) “in state’’—s formal procession, attended by specially appointed of- ficials, conducts them to the ground, They are received in the Royal stand, the horses about to run are paraded beiore them, and the whole affair has a kiud of oficial carnival about it. Since tue death of her husband Queen Victoria has re- linguished this, in common with all other State pageants and duties, and at the time of Ascot Races she 15 invarlably to be found at her beloved Bal- moral. But she does not take Windsor Castle with her! That magnificent historic pile, one of the most | princely residences in the world, remains in statu quo, superbly fitted and appointed and meet for the reception of the most fitustrious guests, 2 | Her Majesty declines to yteld up even temporary | possession of her palace to her eldest son, and so | the Prince has to hire a house for a week like any Would have come smoothly to pass in this way if | rotten, leaky ships to sea, met with @ sad disap- | private gentleman. The Duke and Duchess of | Teck and the Duke of Cambridge are staying with | Prince and Princess Cnristian, whose residence, | Frogmore, 1s close by. The Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne, who are generally supposed to be snubbed, were,not at the meeting. Ascot Is a little village on the borders of Berkshire and | Buckinghamshire, and the place where the races | are held is an open heath, standing high, and sur- | rounded by a MAGNIFICENT PANORAMA, All the approaches to it are very pretty, but per- haps the prettiest of all is the way by whichI cume, For 1 had taken up my quarters at a com- Jortable little inn on the borders of the Thames, in the village o! Staines, a little inn underneath whose windows the bright river runs, an inn fre- quented by brothers of the rod and line, who spend the whole day in huge broad-bottomed punts, skipping the water,and who think themselves amply rewarded if they bring back with them in the evening @ dozen tiny fish. ‘The Swan,” for s0 my hosteiry 18 called, ig a very unpretending bird, but very cican and hospitable. He can produce champagne if you wish tt, and sherry, but he is best with his frizzied bacon and poached eggs, his butter also, his pigeon pies and his toothsome cold lamb, Of these viands we take a huge bam- er, hut we bring our own “fizz,” and when all | Is duly packed in the landau we set forth, a pleas- | ast party of four, Past Statne’s Bridge (where the | “Merry Wives of Windsor" soused Sir Joln Falstait by turning him into the river out of the buck | basket) through the village of Egham (not the | far famous Ruunymede where the barons forced | ats Joun to sign the Mugna Charta), over Engie- Green,. aud then, with @ dip, past the lodge | gate and into the sylvan haunts of | WINDSOR FOREST, Not quite the forest primeval, but one of the love- | lest places in the world. Huge oaks and elms, cen- | tures old, stretching wide vheir boughs, here and there are thickly ciustered together. Beneath these trees jovial Henry the Eighth held his revels, | life out of many a belated wight. some of the | oldest trees are in their pristine beauty, but man, of them have their trunks rent and split, and, with their semi-bald tops and straggling, leafess branches, stand in the midst of the greenery of | the more’ recent plantations by which they are surrounded, like elderly gentlemen who have un- consziously strayed into @ barroom ora youthful revel, and who ic¢el and look horribly out of place, Everywhere there is an enormous growth of tern aud anderwood; now and again, as we drive, we come upon delicious peeps of Virginia Water. The | road through the park extends for some miles, and | When we emerge we are close to tne Heath, and | tall into the procession of vehicles toiling thither, ON THE COURSE. By lock we have obtuined for our carriage a good place, just opposite the royal stand, aud, the | Dorses taken out, we drink first our glase | of sherry and descend to look avout us, Those very well dressed women and men, forming quite a crowd, have taken up their positions tosee | the coaches come in, The road extends rignt and | left, and justin front of us is a small, open gate, | the aperture only just large enough to let an | ordinary sized drag get clear through. Most of | the coachmansuip is good and drivers excellent. | Down one side, up the other, they come at full | gallop or sharp trot, and just as they near the | gate the ridbons are gathered up, there is a dex- | tervus turn of the wrist, and round sweep the four splendid horses, dragging the coach alter | them and leaving a quarter of an inch to spare be- | tween gate post and wheel box. There are more Ct here than I have ever seen before, and both the Coaching lub and its elder Four-in-Hand Cinb are largely represented. How splendidly these drags are horse, and how periect is the whole turnout, the boot fitted up entirely for luncheon purposes, with glass racks and ice pails, and what store of provisions—iowls, iruits, lobster salad, pies, patés, creams, cakes, &c.—i8 there in the well packed impertalon the roof. Here are in the neighbor- hood carriages of every description (private, be it understood), for on Cup Day you must pay two | sovereigns entrance money to this enclosure, while the more humble vehicles take places tur- ther away, and there is a marvellous display of beauty and rich costume. I am staring hard at a | lady who, in her alternating stripes of black and | yellow, looks considerably like a wasp, when a | Commotion in the crowd warns me that the brother the ROYAL PROCRSSION is approaching, Ihusten to see it. The first person | to put man appearance ts the Earl of Hardwick, who, in his official capacity of ‘Master of th Buckhounds,”’ is the chie! director of the sparts at foresee how any particular division may ter- | Knows thoroughly, and in which for many years | A8COt. He wears a green cutaway coat, backskins minate; bat it 1s evident that acompact party of | his hasbeen @ imost weicome lace. Ever since | cheatant nunters for Lord: Hardwick yea hace some 360 members, having the majority of the ae sd hak practioaty em Morn of Be i pau and wants something strong Moe him, Hi nation at their backs, must prevail over a dis- | therty very popular among his own sot, and Is receive " D Moran, who yet las managed not fierely | ai'roand with nods and smiles as he rides into the Jointed majority who can only keep together by to dine out every night, but, elore | Gren space vefore the royal pavilion. Then come retiring to rest, to enter in & book She names of nis noct and fellow guests and the pith of what was said aucing and after the meal. ree a that Mr. Moratl bcd ag bee in the cream of diplomatic, fashionable and literary society, that Look will be perpetual compromises. M. Casimir-Périer's md , tion may be defeated, but what then? Legisia- , tion has come to @ standstill, The monarchical majority are unable to carry a single bill of im- | world unul alter its compiler’s deatn, | worth reading; but it 13 not to be given to the | so that | powers. The Bonapartists, who had broken away which is reinforced now by the Bonapartists, now from the royatiste during the intrigues of the re the centrists, Moreover, at every fresn elec- recess, entered into the siliance again to uphold | on the constituencies return republicans, aud if MacMahon, and consequently on the 201 of De- | | 1s Continues jor a few months more the repud- in party will be abie to outvote all the mouarch- cember, 1873, the Marshal was appointed unived, “In face of such a state of aaire there PRESIDENT OF TOE REPUBLIC FOR SRVRN YRARs, a i$ nothing for it but @ dissolution, and we may Tely that before long such will be the — Now, in thus eppolating bim, each of the mon- | upsnot of our dimiegities, | Only there are two archist factions had their own ends in view. | ways o! distol ving. The Assembly may, with more Or less noise, decree 1tg OWN demise, or the Mar- shal may violentiy jaterfere, disperse the House ag the Bonapartes did in 1799 apd 1861, and sppeal to the nation to renew his own wers by ® per- Sonal plébiscitum before another Spaniber is elected. Considering that @ new Cha ber elected At this juncture would contain an overWhelmin; majority of radicals, I have some thoughts tha’ the Marshal will have recourse to the latter mode of seutiement. If he does not he will be more of & ee than his antecedents gtve one to due republicans who are most admired in Paris Sapnot count upon friendly teelings everywhere. Thus Henri Rocheiort, who has fust reached the The legitimiste appear to have trusted to the chapter of accidents. Being numericaily strong in the Assembly they hoped to control legislation in auch wise that the hands of the clergy would be strengthened and that the republicans would be able to achieve no electoral triumphs in country districts where the influence of bishops and | priests preponderates. In the meantime they would so work on the Marshal by occult social in- fucnee that he might incline to the notion of snddenly resigning his powers and wink at the restoration of Henry V. by a coup de main. The Bonapartists bad a plan more simple. They would, by allying themseives now with the repub- sulky crowd awaiting him. He was accompanied from the steamboat quay to tue hotel by this mob, Who uttered yeils of execration aud cried “Down | licans, now with the royalists, obstruct all legisia- | With the muruerer of the Archbishop!” He was | terribly unmanned and only owed his safety from | tion of @ too clerical or too radical character; | an impending ducking to the fact that ne had a | they would Keep up 4 violent piebiscitary agita- | jady on bis arm. A strong boay of poiice escorted | tion out of doors, and some day, when parties bad | him to the railway station en route ior Dublin, and old imperiat generals to weigh upon the | Serve some good end. Marshal and prevail upon him to decree | Few piigritaages are announced for this year | that much wished for plebiscitum, ‘Tiere wag | 8M those lew will take place under dificuities, | |v ov hi trated agi | every chance in thelr eyes that this game would | ne Italian government has remoostrated against succeed, for, gick as he would become at last of party wrangles and ever-recurring crises, nothir Was more probabie than thas the Marshal end by deciding to consult nation a8 tolisovn destinies. Moreover, it scems that the Bonapart- ints fad some idea of iomenting @ military pro- nufelamento, A bold scheme was formed for bring- ing over the Prince Imperial privately to France on the words used in the canicle of the Sacred Heart, “Save Rome and Frauce,” and the French government, which has very serious reasons tor uotgiving umbrage to Itaiy just now, has sent in- structions to the clergy to the effect that in the present excited state of the country it will be weil Ul pligrimages should not be made processionaliy Five and forty prefects have reported to govern- Ment that their departments are quite beyond ‘heir control; that the peasants know nothing of MacMahon and swear only by Thiers or the Em- beror. It ts believed that if elections took place the 16th of May and introducing him to several regi- | 4\ this jnocture the whole of the rural constitu. ments of soldiers who should have been convoked th ays ween eect red radicals or Bonapartists, ‘3 be tend ‘ | The big towns would, of course, return radicals, in the QOhamps de Mars by friendly generals, | 4114 the majority of the new Chamber would con | ostensibly to be reviewed, The old soldiers and seyuentiy be radical, | oMcers would have acclaimed the young Prine . i Fille de Madame Angot" has been revived at ho Would have ridden through the streets of the | {RC Koules Prat kguee with, the seme aecounding Genlad OF Gels Mood, wud The COUMINY, Whig | flok ruu OL 420 UL lili® | portance against the compact republican phalanx, | hospitable shores of Britain, found an extremely | | every one will hope the day of its publication will be long deferred: BR. BELLSW's DEATH. Many of your readers wil! hear with sorrow that Mr. Bellew died on Friday motning, the loth inst. it was in all senses @ “happy rele. ail r he suf- fered acutely from shortness of brea! hing cone sequent on heart disease, 0 acutely tuat he could not assume @ recumbent position and had not lett | the big chair in which he died for weeks. His | lower limbs, too, were much swollen with dropsy, though his face and body were so attennated that one could hardly recognize in him the handsome, poruly man who, in Jaouary, 1473, received so | Warm a tribute of admiration from the audience in | Steinway Hall. He died in his sleep, very peace- fully and withoat # pang. The calamity is too recént for me to write about it at leugth, for my intimacy With him of thirteen years never knew @ cloud, and up to the last I saw him daily. | But I may say that he was a man who was singa- | larly misjudged by the general public, and that a kinder, more tender hearted being never breathed. He might have been his own enemy; | assuredly he never did narm to any one else, The remains of Mr. Bellew were interred on Thursday, in the Roman Catuolic portion of the ceme elery of Kensal Green, in the presence of a lar; | number of persons, Most or Whom had been old parishoners oi the deceased gentleman, in the happy days when he had been in Protestant orders. Among the immediate mourners were his widow, his eldest sou and two daughters, Mr. Frith, RAC, | My. Wilkie Collins and Mr. Edmand Yates, “The funeral was particularly plain and unostentations: | The amount collected by the committee tor the re- | lie! of Mr. Beliew’s immediate necessities was | small, hot exceeding £00, LITRRARY TALK, The fand for Mr, Shiriey Brooks’ family amonnta | to about £700, Mr. R. H. Horne, ue author of | “Orion,” Dow iD bis seventieth year, las just re- ived & pension Oo! £100 a year. Mr. Archibald Forbes, the special commissioner of the Daily News, who has been engaged inquire ing into the progress of the famine in India, ar- | rived in London on Wednesday night. Mr. Forbes, | Who isin excellent health, had several incrative | some outriders in glistening uniforms of velvet and | gold, riding two and two, and then the frst royal | oe) Ley aga Princess beet Frince of ‘ales, et ake Of Kdinburgh; the i footmen riding with thee oe wal the Tokses, Thep come the Duke and Duchess of Teck, with | ravine the Naha of (rege dks td un me ranville apd gome ladies, while v last carriag? Is et the Pesetn: 4 Ving oe | Lord Charies Beresford, who rd Aylesford, i ford Carrington and some other of the Prince's in- | Ha oe for his companions. The carriages draw | into thé é closutg and a out of sight under the ; archway, but within a few minutes the royal party warm acclamations. The Princess has on a pale erg costame with a pale biue bonnet; the uchess has a ptnk bonnet, but as to her costume, lean say nothing, as she is entirely wrapped u ip @ vast Indian snawi, for the day is suniess an the northeast wind is blowing pretty freely, THR RACING. It 18 long since 1 took any pecuniary interest in the tur!, and now, to talk to the ladies, to watch the crowd, and then, to speak honestly, cat my luncheon, amuses me much more than to look after the racing. But I may note one fact, that the gold vase, the chief prize of the meeting, was won by the French horse Bolard, who won the Grand Prix in Paris, in 1873, beating Doncaster, winner of the Derby, in 1873, Flageolet, bota of whom he encountered at Ascot this year, and defeated by consqje the Frencimen for Trent’s victory in the Grand Prix, At these, as at all other race meetings, the gypetes are present in great numbers to tell tor- uues, &c. Toward the evening | saw one of these iris examining the palm of a gentleman, and ecard her tell him that “he was fond of the ladies, Dut yet love would never break his heart, for he had @ roving ¢ye and would not be content with eo.” 1d know how true this may be, rnor Jewell could teil, for the entleman in question was none other than Mr. Eugene Schuyler, Secretary of Legation at St Petersburg. ROBBING A COACH. On Tuesday morning Mra, Anua Meyer, of Edgewater, Staten Island, took @ carriage on Broadway to do some shopping. On offers of editorship Witile in India, and it is not improbable that some day he may again bend his steps there. ‘The translation of Victor Hugo's ‘Ninety-three’ | which 18 appearing in tue Grape 18, 48 was to be | Smith, of No. 78 Forsyth street, passed by, saw expected, a dead talinre, | It is to be succeeded by | the valise, seized it, and entered a Broadway # uew novel trom Mr. Wilkie Collins, woich will | stage going up. Snuth, however, was not quick commence in Seprember, | enough jor Oticer Metlaie, woo does duty on that | The new journal, the World, of which 1 wrote you | corner, He saw the manduvre, promptly stopped last week, is sald, in some cirvies, to be the prop- | the stage and took Smith in charge. Mra, Meyer erty of Lord Salisbury, and to have Lady Salisbury | appeared belore Jude Murray yesterday and pro- | for ita editor, Others all it 2 Une jerred @ charge of grand larceny. South Was held rt aud uaage poe ducckwih vf Mu, Stqwhem lake, iy | stopping at Fourteenth street to enter a store she left the carriage door open, and several bundies and @ valise on the seat, Wilham I B2000 WY AMATO and the mystic Herne the Hunter irghtened the | ¢ | South, State rights, untversal amnesty, the aboli- tw | are acen in the balcony of the stand, and receive | running @ dead heat for second place, This shouid , NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY ¥Y, 1874.—rRIPLE SHEET, THE THIRD TERM. Southern Politicians Exercised Over the Probable ‘No, 3.” |THE VIRGINIA VISIT. “Popular and Brilliant” Ideas on, the Subject. ’ RicuMonp, Va., July 6, 1874~ The letter of Gavernor Kemper, vindicating him-~ self against the charges made in certain of the State newspapers that he had sold out the con- servative party to Grant, that he was in favor ofa third term for Grant, and that he was ambitions enough to aspire to the second place on the national ticket with Grant in ’76, bas given rise to & great deal of public discussion here. As early as the beginning of '73, during the State campaign, the Teaders of the HERALD will recollect that the re- doubtable Colonel John T. Mosby annownced him- self in favor of a third term for President Grant. That was the first gun for a third term in the en- tire country, and the intimate relations of Mosby with Grant gave it a rather startling significance atthe time, This, then, taken in connection with the fact that Mosby isa fast friend of Kemper; that he arranged the visit of the latter to Grant In Feb- ruery last, when, according to the Governor, the President and himself had @ “square and manly talk,” leads many here to the inierence that there 19 some sort of a political un- derstanding as to the future between all three, However that may be and whatever the nature of it I find the letter has had one very dangerous effect in this State and ‘perhaps in the whole South, It has, in a very unmistakable Manner, familiarized the people with the Mosby idea of a third term for Grant. That 1s talked of now with as Much unconcern and with as much proba- bility as his election in 1872 was spoken of, when & great number of the old Bourbon democrats voted jor him in preierence to Horace Greeley, There is no disguising what ia daily and hourly becoming 8o apparent. GRANT'S POPULARITY IN THE SOUTH is steadily on the tacrease. While his early course towards the South met not only with universal disapproval here, and oiten bitter denunciation, most of his recent acts which concerned this sec- tion have been conservative in their tendency and have won him the good opinion of the masses. His kindness to the Confederate soldiers at the close of the war has never been forgotten; he has appointed quite @ numberof ox-Contederates to office, regardless of politics, and only the other day he won foiden laurels by the appointment of Colonel H. D. Whitcomb, late Chiet Engineer of the Chesapeake and Onio Railroad, on the survey of the mouth of the Mississippi River. There is something of the will and determination of Old Hickory Jackson about him, too, that gains bim whe admiration of the Southern people, and, however unwillingly it may be acknowledged, there is some magnetic influence at work paving the politieal way, with the certainty of tate, to a third term. If a better evidence of how easily the people hére regard the prospect of a third term were Wanted read tne following extract from the Richmond Dispatch:— ‘The ‘third term” is a terrible apparition to sundry Northern Presidents in embryo. It comes betore them like the ghost of Banqu i excites their “special won- der.” We have not consulted General Grant yet, and | cannot tell what we shall do. Meantime let ‘them “possess their souls in patience” and know that there are worse things in this country than the “third term ” It was only this morning I beard a very prom- iment Virginian discussing the “third term’ say— “The country is safe with Grant, 1 do uot know any man in his party 1 would preier to him, and tu fact there are very few men in the political arena | would trust with the Presidential reins at this par- ticular era in our country’s history. By all means let_us have Grant before either Butier, Morton, Logan, Conkling or any of that set. ‘Better to BKAR THE ILLS WE HAVE than fly to those we know not of.’"’ This seems to be the general sentiment, demoralizing and un- satisfactory though 14t be, and in prooi taat the Southern people are gradually preparing for over- tures from Grant to make them unanimous in his support ior @ third term or for @ succession of terms I quote again trom the Dispatch of to-day :— We tell them all this, that there is a question of the weltare of the country that will override ail their litte | schemes. A people ‘who have been trodden into the dust, » country that has been pillaged and oppressed by arty and personal strataxems and rovberies ot public easure may Well hail with joy @ man who rises above party and devotes his will und influence ‘to the Kood of hig country. If such & man appears in the political arena the South will most heartily vote for him tor many terms, and trom its experiefice will dread a change Which may give them a bad ruler. The risk is too great. Nes, itt extended to his coutinuation in ofice during is life. There is @ great deal to be apprehended from Such expressions as the above, and if General ,; Grant will respond by planting himself squarely | on the side of honesty, relorm and yood govern- Ment in the States South—waich are now ruled by tue negroes and their corrupt leaders—this section | wilt be a unit for his third or tenth term. That he | has ior bis object the conciliation of the Southern | people and tue cultivation of both political and ‘riendly social relations with them can easily be in- | Jerred from his recent visit to his relatives in West | Virginia, in the capital of which State he received | @ grand ovation. Atthe Whive Sulphur Springs he | was most cordially welcomed, and, 1 understand, the piomise was exacted trom him (not very re- luctantly, perhaps) that he would revisit that famous | RENDEZVOUS OF THR SOUTHERN POLITICIANS | in August, when the season will be at its height. At the same time, no doubt, Bob Toombs and little | Aleck Stephens, and, pernaps, Ben Hill, of Georgia, , Will opportunely be there. Semmes, from Ala- bama, may accidentally drop in, witn Henry A. | Wise, Kemper and Mosby, from Virginia, Beaare- | gard, probably Joe Johnston and nearly all of the | ex-Confederate officers always muster there, and | among these he will meet several of his oid West Point associates, when a general political and | social hobnobbing can take place without the | fear of being intruded upon by any of. the numerous Nortiern or Western Presl- | | dential aspirants now spoken of, Such a@ meeting | | would not be new tothe White Sulphur, for there | | Presidential campaigns and _ political revolu- | tions have been planued and moulded frequently | | before. It would, therelore, be no matter of sur- prise ifthe Southern political nabobs met there again with General Grant to agree upon a move- mentall along the line for a third term, the over- | throw of the rotten negro governments in the | | ton of test vaths, and thus cousummate the great- est political revolution of the age. | A Third Term “More Popular and Gril feng” [From the Graphte.) The toterest if the third term discussion does | Not subside. The attempts to ridicule tne subject only fan it into tresher Iie. The papers discuss | the question because the people think about it. | It interests the public, snd this shows that tt has something more than a tactitious and ephemeral i yitality. But in all the discussion on the subject thus far Ho one has asserted that President Grant really desires @ re-election. He has shown his | | good sense by declining even to intimate to his ; friends that he wishes another term or would ac- cept @ nomination were tt thrust upon him, Ifhe | wanted the office the fact would have be- | trayed itseif by some word or significant | token before this, On the other hand, | it is well known that the President is not covetous of oficcs and honors, His appetite | for such thimgs 18 not voracious and is already ap- peased. The Presidency is not a sinecure. Its | Siar —. welfare unmistakably seemed wo require it, It i easy toimagine the circumstances under which he might take the office another term. If i¢ should appear that he is the only really available man for the office the republican party can bring forward in 1876—the only man who has @ national reputation and the public confidence strong enough to hold tue party together and Secure its continuance in power—be might Possibly be induced to accept @ nom- ination rather, than see its defeat and a» consequent revolution in the government. Them it 18 easy to imagine @ condition of public affairs, especially in the South, which would seem to re- quire bis continuance in office four years longer to complete the work of recgnstruction he bas car- ried on, He has top Very great degree the confie dence of the Seuthera people, and, baving con- quered their territory, is fast conquering their hearts. At any rate, should he be elected tor amother term it would be by the free act of the . werican people; and, backed by their confidence, and. with all the experience acquired by two event- fuland ®UCcessful terms in office, bis third term might poss Diy be more popular and brilliant than the other two. % pana A Rock Upon® Which Wy Might Be Wrecked. [From the Doy¢stown Democrat.f ‘To elect Grant for a third term is equivalent te giving him the Presidential office for life— and we cannot say that hereaiter he and his friends may not think it necessary to dispense with the form of an election every four years, The condition of things is not such as to make it necessary that he, above all other men, should fill the Presidential office. There are not only as good, but better mem in the two great parties of the country, those whe are much better fitted to administer the civ adairs of the country. We hope never to see the day when our country tries the dangerous experi- ment of electing the same man to the Presidency lor three terms, {[t would, most probably, prove to be @ rock on which our ship mignt be wrecked. Let us stand by the precedents of the past and re- fuse to take new departures that may lead to fatal Political results, No Third Terms. [From the Indianapolis People.) We want no third terms. Grant declared, or his friends for him, that he did not even want a Ores term; but it would seem as if he rather liked it and 18 now rather loth to leave the White House. If he has aspirations for athird term as President they shouid be nipped in the bud. All good men, of all parties, should discourage the ambition of a President working tor a third term. We kaow the people will not countenance the movement, and, when the proper time comes, will give tt their hearty condemnation, The Coming Canv: {From the Brooklyn Argus.) Gnashing of the teeth and secret animositres there are, butopen hostility there 1s but little. Speaker Blaine lost his temper in the chatr last winter, and closed the diplomatic gallery against the families of Representatives in favor of his own household and has forfeited many triends, Sena- torial jealousy divides the influence sought to be controlled by Morton and Conkling. Sumner is dead, who, had he lived, migat have become the democratic candidate, nomination would ve backed Grant om tne course on notice. There is, im reality, but one really strong can- didate in the republican party agatnst Grant to- day, and he is & mao wilose name has not yet been mentioned. It 1s General William Tecumsel Sherman, the hero of the grand march to the — the commander of the armies of the Unit States. General Sherman has wisely abstained irom meddling with politics, and has bided his time. He is aman independent enough to com- mand tue respect of the democrats, the conf- dence of the great middle class and the devotion of the soldiers, aud he 1s republican enough te defy the macaoinations of partisans within is own party. Political Hydrophobia. Boston, July 6, 1874. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— Why waste so much space and printers’ ink in your paper? I think you know Grant will runa third time; so will Havemeyer, if he gets haifa chance, and then people will say, “It’s the real old Knickerbocker ‘characteristic.’ 1 don’t care what they call it. 1 call it the “political bydre- phobia,’ for there has never been @ cure found lor it thus far. Grant, Havemeyer, Charlick and Gardner—they all have it, Now, call in Bergn, with bis apparatus, and let him suow no favor, bus take all the dogs he can flad. A DAILY READER. THE INTERNATIONAL CODE. A Conference in the Interest of Univers sal Equity and Perpetual Peace. At a meeting of the International Code Commit- tee, held at the house of ex-President Woolsey, of Yale Coliege, New Havea, a few days since, it was agreed to despatch at once the Rev. Dr. James B, Miles, American Secretary of the association, to Europe to forward the necessary arrangements for the approaching conference io be held in Geneva, Switzerland, to the last part of August. Hon. J. ©. Bancroft Davis, our recentiy appointed Minister to Berlin, has accepted a place upon the committee, which is noW constituted as follows:—Theodore D. Woolsey, Mark Hopkins, William A, Stearns, Chancellor Howard Crosby, Emory Washburn, Charles Fran- cis Adams, David D. Field, William Beach Law- rence, Reveray Johnson, Howard Maicom, George H. stuart, Alfred H. Love, Daniel Hill, William Hubbard, John G. Whittier, Wiliam A. Bucki ham, William C, Bryant, Thomas A. Morris, Jose; A. Dugaaie, Hlihu Burritt, G. Washington Warren, . Brown, James B. Miles, 0. W. Goddara, Homer B. Sprague, A. 8S. Chapin, Edward 8. Tobey, Noah Porter, J. V. L. Pruyn, Amasa Walker, J. O. Bancroft Davis, Eaward E. Haie, Samuel Osgood, S. J. Prime, Judge Charies A, Peabody, of this city; Rev. S. Irenwus Prime, editor of the New York Observer; Robert C. Winthrop, Charles A, Peabody, are; Cyrus W. F Projessor KE, A. Lawrence, Rev. G. F. Magown, George Bemis, William G. Hub- bard and Protessor F, A. Waiker. The Conterence, which last year held ita first sea- sion at Brussels, proposes the jormation o! a fuil code ot international law, regulating the relations or nations with each otner and with subjects ana citizens of other nations, as well as the rights and duties of citizens and subjects of different nations with and towards each other in time of peace and the Prescribing of rales to govern the conduct of = 3 for tha prevention of thoge | Inisun derstand x8 Wiiich Pere ae ve tem of international arbitration, It has the heart; | approbation of such eminent publicists as Count | Sclopis, of the late Geneva Court of Arvitration; Drouyd de Liuyd and others of highest authority in Europe and America, Tt® deiiber Jone are looked lorward to With high interest by ali the aa- vocates of universal peace and by all who recog. nize in the national progress of this country the rapid agproach of the era of the (ederation of the civilized world, A.SON OF DIRIGO ABROAD, A gaunt, lumberman like specimen of Maine ha- manity entered the Mayor's office yesterday, and addressing Mr. Halloran, the Mayor's messenger, accosted him thus:—‘Waal, friend, I’m a stranger in these parts, I heard you have got the desk here that General Washington wrote his last message to Congress at, and I came to see it. Could you show it to me, friend?’ he asked, with an appealing look. Colonel Halloran was unable to resist thas look. Thinking it would bea pity to dispel the beautiful patriotic illusion of the gentleman from cares and perpXities and restraints and respon- Bibilities are exceedingly Wearing, and tt is well , known that General Grant tires of them and has | expressed @ wish to escape out of the burden and blaze of office and pubitcity into the congenial scones and interests of private life. Another term | would add nothing to bis honors, of which he has | already had @ surieit, but would protract labors and vexations of which he is tired, and from which , he would gladly retire to attend to hia private ; @ffairs and enjoy the pleasures o/ home and friendly intercourse. It 18 well Known that General | seek the Presidency in the first pl The Presi- dency sought him. His. election was not only | natural and proper, but inevitable. He was re- | nominated at Puiladelphia two years ago because he was really the only available man tue party | conld bring forward, and his acceptance of the | | nomination seemed to be called for by public con siderations he was bound to heed. He is President | to-day by no act or solicitation of his own, It is enough fo say respecting a third term that he will rant did not not be Itkely to seek it, especially so long as the precedents of our history are against it. Ho fs | hot @ rash innovator, and would be the Jast | | man to break @ rule to which usage las given the sanction and force of law, unless compelled | to do so by the public good, Reasoning trom what is known of his feelings, wishes and char- acter, itis safe to conciuée that he would not be LUKOLY 0 ACcoMt w PenOMIMatign Unless (ke guile | Feverentiy took ol nis hat, | Was shown how the maniiold worked, | hiro, and which he caretuily folded ap an Maine, he pointed toa rather ancient looking desk, and said:—‘“Certainly, sir. There it ts.” The Maine man approached the desk indicated, and With eyes filled with patriotic tire, and face beaming with admi- ration, he closely examine every part of the desk, pulling out the drawers and eagerly examining their contents, He was told the desk was exactly as left by the Father of his Country, ana thts increased his admiration and happiness, if that were possible. In one of th drawers lie found a couple of manifolding boot used by tue reporters. Tuese excited his curiosity, and it was explained to him that General Wasi ington wrote all Lis messages in duplicate, and he He begged ven pus piousiy away: in the inside pocket of his vest. Taansing all around for their attention and ex- pressing gratitude at being permitted to see the desk Washington Wrote his last message at, he lets an extremely happy man, CELESTIALS VS, CELTS, John Le Sing on Tuesday evening called to see his friend Laurentio At Ching, of No. 231 West Twenty-sixth str After conversing together some time they entered the apartments of Peter Dear, in the same house, Dear’s iamily and some «a lew sheets of the maniiold, which were other friends were there at the time, Alter par- taking o1 some drinks together in an apparently sociable manner Dear imagined that the Obina- men had insulted his spouse, A fight av once en sued, during waich the two Chinese beat Peter | Dear severely about the head and neck with pokera. Oflcer Campbell arrosted the two Celea- tala and Judge Murray held Sogn to awit Ghe rex Sul, OL Dot's ininiisy, ’