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BISMARCK AND THE CATHOLICS, Result of the Attempted Assassination of the German Premier. Tne Catholic Societies of Berlin Closed. WAR AGAINST THE PAPACY. The Ultramontanes and the Social Democracy. FRANEFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, July 24, 1874. ‘The attempted assassination of Prince Bismarck 4s stil the chief topic of discussion in the press, and the “afterwoes" are just beginning to be felt. No one uving outsiae of Germany can possibly Imagine the amount of intemperate, angry lan- guage used by the oficial press of Germany against the ultramontanes. The German Catholics must lee) terribly bart and insulted by the accasations hurled indiscmminately at them. The Berlin oficial press has revealed 1s worst features, has insulted day after day millions of loyal German citizens, and is only just now beginning, appa- rently by orders trom bigher quarters, to back down from the high, virtuous pedestal it has Occupied for @ week, and to endeavor to calm the storm of angry passions it has naturaily aroused in the minds of men falsely accused of crime—of complicities in the affair of Kissingen. The language of the Kreuz-Zettung and of the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung has been intemperate, unfeeling, unjust and repulsive in the highest degree. The pietistic Kreuz-Zettung so far forgets itself as to see in the Kissingen affair not only “the finger of God in the saivation of Prince Bismarck's life, but also in the Permitting the deed to be attempted.” againthe Plous ultra Protestant sheet considers that ‘on the 13th of May the Divine seal was placed by God on the May ecclesiastical laws.” What the Nord- deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung has in mind when it considers the “gloomy day of Kissingen will bea glorious morning in the history of the world” Tam unable to say. The ultramontane and the SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES will certainly not mark this day with a white None in their annals; for tt has given the govern- ment the long wished tor opportunity of taking the offensive against them “on the whole line,” you will see further on in this tetter. The Ger- man press, a8 @ whole, is guilty of prejudging the ultramontanes, simply becayse a short-sighted, in- firm, harmless old priest accidentally got before the horses of the Prince’s carriage when Kullmann wook it upon himself to rid the world of one whom he considered a tyrant and a persecutor of the Oburch to which he belonged. ‘they began by SCARING UP A RELIGIOUS COMPLOT against the Chancellor’s life. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zettung fancied that “Germany, the pious narsery, bad been transformed into a Roman murderer's den; and a Frankfort paper, which gets its inspiration from Berlin, could say, without & biush, that “it had come to a pretty state of things when the old man of the mountain could sit in the Vatican, and from this throne command murder and assassination whenever he chose. An official of the Empire, who has drawn upon himself the dissatisfaction of the Pope, 1s no longer saie of his life even in the midst of Ger- Many, and cannot take the waters at a bathing place without being guarded by a military escort.” “The thought is s grand one,” answers the dem- ocratic Frankfort Zettung, “to 25,000,000 ‘fighters for civilization’ come about 14,000,000 ‘papal gen- darmes hangmen,’ waiting to execute the orders received irom the Vatican."? ACCUSATIONS OF THE BERLIN PRESS. Butifwe are to believe the Norddeuteche AU- gemeine Zeitung then the Jesuits are at the bot- tom Of the attempted assassiuation, as they have been, we suppose, at the root of every political murder since the development of the Order, Such, at least, is the popular logic. The first comparison of Kulimann by the Berlin papers was with Fran- gois Ravaillac, the murderer of King Henri IV., nd to support the comparison the Norddeutsche Aligemeine Zeitung brought an entire column of quotations from the works of celebrated Jesuit writers to prove that, according to the tencts held by them, assassination was in some cases justifia- ble and for the good of humanity. And undoubt- edly it was, as historians do not hesitate to say. Here, as everywhere, the figure of Hanthaler seems to have stood before the official vision like a@terrible nightmare as the leader of a diabolical plot concocted by the Catholic societies to which Kulimann belonged. The papers cried out day after day that the “INTELLECTUAL ORIGINATORS” OF THE PLOT should be sought out and brought to punishment, The Berlin Autographic Correspondence demanded as the “necessary consequence” of the Kissingen attempted assassination ‘that those perswns (re- ferring to leaders and speakers of the Catholic Union) who have stirred up the agitation should be subjected to the sharpest weapons which the law has placed in the hands of the government.” Yhe same journal made Kullmann to be the “rep- resentative of the rude, ignorant masses of the Catholic population, filled by persons of ecciesias. tical authority with a deadly hatred against the German Empire and its Chancellor.” This lan- guage, Which represents only too well the tone of the entire Berlin press, received sharp rebukes from some of the more temperate journals of the South. The Frankfort Journal declared it was lime ior an end to be made to the insane hue and cry against the ultramontane party. “Truly,” it said, “this is the same method witn which we charge the Jesuits, first insinuate the crime and then de- nounce the punishinent. The principle of the pun- | Jahable moral complicity of @ political party in the crime of ap individual or in a cowpiot is a logical absurdity. We demand that the guilty persons be sought out and punished; but we refuse to admit the principle of moral complicity on the basis of which a campaign of persecution can be opened @gainst an entire party.” HOUSE SEARCHING, Yet the very first step which the government | takes is to open an attack on the Catholic party. The residences of a number of prominent leaders of Catholic societies have been searched by the po- lice, Last Saturday the private dwelling of Chris- toph Joseph Cremer, the acting editor of the Ber- lin Germania, was searched by the police, who confiscated Jetters, manuscripts and some pam- phlets. The next visit of the police, seven in number, was to the house of Le- gation Councillor von Kebler, of the Mayence Catholic Union, and their vooty was considerable, about eighty documents, letters, circulars, the names of the members of the society, On the same evening Herr von Kebler’s workroom in the Radziwill Palace was also searched, and again on the following morning, but without any grest results. The place of meeting of the Berlin Catholic Gesellenverein (union of journeymen), the house of Vicar Spiritual Councillor Miller (the jather of Catholic societies in Berlin) were searched, proving that the government suspects the existence of a conspiracy against the Empire, And these police inquisitions have been foliowed, quick as thunder alter lightning, by the temporary CLOSING OF THE CATHOLIC SOCIETIES OF BERLIN, The Reichsanzeiger of the 21st inst. contains the following ORDER. On the basis of paragraph 8, of the ordinance of the 11th of May, 1850, respecting the prevention of the Secretary | abuses of the right of assembiy and union, tending | to jeopardize legal (reedom and order, the jollow- ing societies are temporarily closed by the Police President of Bertin. First—The Catholic Society. of (Gesellenverein) of this city, with t societies tn Conpection with it: 1, The Academy of the Geasellenverein, 2. St. Canisius? Union of Young Master Workmen, %, St. Kduard’s Society of Masters, 4, Society ot Apprentices, All of Berlin. Second—The St. Bonit lowing sovietics in connection with it:— Journeymen he jollowing e Society, with the fol NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT, 1, Bontiace Students’ Union. 2 St. Boniface Union of Independent Catholics, > ces is Honor of the Holy Family. rin. Third—The Pius Soctety of Bern. It is hereby brought to public notice that the participation tn any of these societies will be punished by a fine of from five to fifty thalers, or imprisonment irom eight days to three months. ERLIN, July 21, 1874. THE HOB AND CrY. This 1s doubtless only the beginning of the chase. One authority states the numper of mem- bers of the Catholic Gesellen unions in Germany to be 80,000. Besides these there are hundreds of other societies, such as the Catholic adult socie- ties, the Catholic young men’s societies, university societies and societies of women and of children. The Prussian government is about to aim a severe biow at the organization of these socteties by al- most severing the connection one with the other, even tf 1t does not resort to other and extreme measures by issuing ordinances with legal force, which may later be /ormally adopted by the Land- tag. A paragraph in the Prussian constitution permits this mode of procedure in “case of need” (im Falleines Nothstandes). The rapidity with which the government has already gone to work goes far to prove that it was waiting only for such an opportunity as the present to search nearer into the nature of the Catholic societies; and in wns sense we can understand the pious thanks to heaven uttered by the Kreuz-Zeitwng (the Journal of the Cross) tor permitting Kulimann to attempt the assassination. The Frankfort Journal protests very energetically against an abusive application of the law regulat- ing societies, since the many millions of Catholic citizens should not, in any case, be held responsi- ble for the crime of a madman or even for the per- nicions agitation created by certain intemperate partisans of the Roman Curta against the German | Empire. WHO BEGAN iTt And in this agitation, keptup by intemperate partisans of the ultramontane party, Prussia has, perhaps, the greatest cause of complaint. We need Dot here search into the question, Who commencea the confict? Earnest hostilities against the Church were first commenced by Prince Bismarck. He drove the Jesuits out of Germany, and be thought he had good reasons for so doing. But herein he insulted the Catholic conscience, as has been done since by the imprisonment of priests and Dbisnops. Soin return Prince Bismarck has received. hard names. He bas been styled by the ultramontane press @ modern Diocletian, a Nero, a Caligula, the Beast of the Apocalypse, the Antichrist and a aozen other unpleasant cognomens, and his name has been received with groans and hisses in the meetings of the Catholic societies. Bismarck com- menced the conflict against the Catholic Church; he knew the power he had to combat, and the Germania does not hit wide of the mark when it says that “it is not strange when, filled with the conviction that Bismarck 1s the great persecutor of the Catholic Church, the sum of passion, hatred and rage should have been collected in certain in- dividuals, and finally break forth in the rudest re- bellion against the laws of God and humanity.” An Itallan paper says:—“The sermons of the clergy, the protests of the bishops, the manifesta- tions of the Catholic societies, must of course produce their effect. It is un- just to make the Church answerabie for the crime, but the leading astray of the conscience and the conviction tbat the course of events could be changed by a single life can only be con- sidered as the bitter fruit ofan imperfect educa- tion, which places moral culture im the back- ground.” THE ULTRAMONTANES AND THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, The Kissingen event has proved one thing very cleariy—that Bismarck, though popular with the majority, has a bitter minority against bhim—a minority which he treats in a very high-handed Manner. ‘The ultramontanes and the social dem- Ocrats sal] tor the present in one boat. The official Papers style them “die schwarzen” and “date rothen—the blacks and the reds—and charge them with inciting the people against the existing order of things. Two editorial leaders of these parties are at present undergoing impris- onment for publishing articles attacking the government. Majunke, the editor of the Berlin Germania, is in prison on the Plotzensee; Mr. Sonnemann, the editor of the democratic Frankfort Zeitung is incarcerated in the vicinity of this city. Dozens of cases occur every week in which social democratic assemblies are arbitrarily closed by the police. A working- men’s festival was pronibited at Branswick a fow days ago. Two meetings were saddenly closed in Berlin on the 14th and 15th inst. by the police. THERE IS NO APPEAL. The veto of an ignorant policeman, who fre- quently falis to grasp the meaning of the words. uttered, is suMcient. Many arrests of democratic leaders and house-searcbes have recently taken place. When the workmen revolted a few weeks ago at Quednan, near KUnigsberg, the official papers chargea the social democrats with having incited the people thereto. At the trial of tuirteen workmen, however, it was found that the low State of education aud morais was the only cause ofthe uproar. And so on throughout Germany, discontent among the workingmen, discontent and insulted feeling ‘among the ultramontanes. Thus could Kullmann say, with some truth, that “hundreds of people were ready to take his place if he sell.” Thus is it that among the THREATENING LETTERS which Bismarck has received since the attempt on his Iife, tae social democratic and ultramon- tane partiee—that is, some ignorant members of these parties—express the hatrea that certainly exists among them. I have copies of three such letters before me. One ts from Hanover, without date, and reads as follows:— Our Magistrate and Schitzen-Collegium have sent you an address of congratulation that the bullet did not strike you; but that you may not believe this to be the true feeling ol the people I say to you that thousanas wish the bullet had been better aimed, on account of the many crimes you have committed, ONE FUR MANY AND SOCIAL DEMOCRAT. Another letter, with the postmark Salzburg and dated the 15th of June, reads :— BIsMARCK:—We Catholics have just read that you had been struck by a bullet; but, unfortu- nately, it did not do you much harm, a fact which Is regretted very much by the Catholic clergy; and we want to tell you beforehand that if # war were to break out you would be the first for whom a bullet would cast, for we Catholics have to thank you that, sooner or later, war and revolt will ‘wake place among the people. You are not Worthy to occupy the high position you do in the Reichstag. Take care, tor you are hated by high and low. One for all, ROMAN CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN, Another threatening letter begins— Born of horror and cruelty, Prince Count von Bismarck, pity the bullet failed; but we have a better. Please see tiat By, friend the artist and Neutenant (out of service), Herr von Zastrow, be treed irom prison; then you, too, shall be free. LV. B, GW. B. V. ITZ, WHO THEY ARE, This 18 evidently the work of an insane man. Zastrow was sentenced, many years ago, to a long term of imprisonment for unmentionable crimes, On the other hand, the Prince has received evt+ aences of SYMPATHY AND scirone FROM ALL PARTS OF GER- ANY, from the Emperors of Russia and Austria, from cities and corporations, from Emperor and peas- ant, thousands of whom would lay down their lives for the Chancellor if need be, THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY sent Bismarck a very fattering telegram. One mark of sympathy, or, rather, loyalty to Germany, comes Irom a source which few dreamedof. Dom- herr Dulinski, of Gnesen, proposes tn the Posener Zeitung that prayers should be ordained in all Catholic churches, by order of the diocesan bishops, “asking God to illumine the hearts of all believers, and to teach them how dangerous such misdeeds as that committed by Kullmann are to the wellbeing of the Church Then tn all classes of the Oatholic population the con- viction will be planted that Kullmann has done more harm tothe Catholic Church than its bitterest enemy could ever have done.” In this tho reverend gentleman ts correct. It will be seen, from what | have sald above, that the government has shown itself only too glad to get such an op- portunity to look closer into the nature of ul. tramontane and social democratic societies. And the resuit must naturatly be an Increase of hatred against the government. The Frankiort Journal urges the government to Pause before persecuting the ultramontane party further; to seek to remedy the abnormal con- dition of things by moral rather than physical remedies, and to let the schoolmaster and the men Of science take the piace of the police and the State attorney. “Even the sharpest weapons,” Says the Journal, “are of but little service here; they only increase the evil and the hatred of the Pevple feeling themselves oppressed, instead of producing @ higher moral consciousness and vol- untary subjection to the laws.” PFABRER HANTHALER, Vicar of Walsehsee, T'yrol, has been set at liberty by the police, and bas returned to his mountain Dome a wiser, if @ sadder man. Poor Hanthaier! We pity the good, harmless, short-sighted priest, now in his sixty-tnird year, whose curiosity to see the great persecutor of the German Charch led him into such unpleasantnesses. We are almost inoliped to laugh when we hear the old vicar told by the police he is at liberty to go, saying, “There are your papers and your photographic views of Kissingen.” “Nay,” repiied the old man: “the photographs you can keep. 1 have enough to re- member Kissingen by—enough for my whole life. 1 do not need any more.” “In all Tyrol there is not a better, kinder- hearted, simpler priest than Sigmund Hanthaler,”” says a Kufstein correspondent. ‘He reads but two weekly papers, never troubles himself about poli- tics, and reads trom one year to the other the ancient classics and is the publisher of a ‘Moral Philosophy.’ And yet what did the Berlin press and “eye witnesses” in Kissingen make out of the old gentleman—the “intellectual head” of the oomplot? That he had been in constant inter- course with Kulimann; yea, some imaginative people bad seen the venerable vicar In the depths | of a neighboring wood with Kullmann engaged at ‘target practice with Kulimann’s ola rusty pistol. One man saw him making signs to Kullmann to | get his pistol ready because the Prince's wagon Was coming; another had seen him stop directly im front of the carriage and hold the horsea’ heads while Kullmann fred. A Vienna correspond- ent told his readers that when Hanthaler was searched a number of vials of poison were found on his person. AND WHAT WAS THE TRUTH? Pastor Hanthaler had a desire to see Bismarck. He was in Schweinfurth, and not having much money, yet bent on seeing the Chancellor before returning home, he paid a flying visit to Kissin- gen. He arrived there at early morning, ana since Bismarck does not drive out untill one o'clock he had some hours to spare, which he spent in walxing up and down the pavement in front of the Prince’s house, In his perambulations he appears to have got into conversation with Kullmann, who, too, said he was desirous of seeing the Prince. There was thus a bond of sympatuy between them, and they talked together at intervals, At last, at one o'clock, the crowd grew larger, and Bismarck’s carriage was expected every moment. Kullmann stood on the pavement opposite Bismarck’s house. Pastor Hanthaler found bimself in what he thought @ bad position on the other side of the street. The wagon of the Prince drove out of the yard. Hanthaler, thinking he had not a moment to lose, and beimg exceedingly short-sighted, ran across the road, was slightly tripped up in the middle of the road by bis long coat, and the Prince’s coach- man had to rein up suddenly to prevent an acci- dent. At this moment the shot was fired. Han- thaler knew by intuition in what a critical post. tion he haa placea himself, and therefore his desire to get away as quickly as possible. This I believe to be the true starement respecting Han- thaler. And yet, what value can be placed on the testimony of eye witnesses who swore against | him, too ready to say anything against a priest tobe silent? Itis but acharacteristic of the spirit of the times, however, to see in every priest a Jesuit, and in every Jesuit the devil. When Hanthaler left the Court the Justice accompanied him as far as the railroad depot, in order to prove to the outside world the old man’s innovence, Yes, good old Pfarrer Hanthaler, you have certainly memo- ries enough of Kissingen to last you your liletime, even without the aid of the photographs, KISSINGEN POETRY AND NUSIC. Anumber of Dortmund gentlemen offer a prize of 1,000 thalers Jor the best musical composition, with or without words, on the Chancellor. The competitors are to send in their works beiore the 24 of September next. We would suggest to the composers to make an opera at once. It could be entitled “Pfarrer Hanthaler; or, The Priest Assas- ain,” or some other romantic title, and be played gratis once a week in all German cities. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. For ONE BOOK of Agnes Strickland’s which is re- membered, says the Athenwum, three or four are forgotten. Her ambition to be a historical writer Was out of all propertion to her ability, Dx. PRIESTLEY Was & man of multitudinous books. A bibliography of his writings, prepared at the Library of Congress, tor the centennial of chemistry celebration, numbers more than 300 published books and pamphlets. Priestley wrote | voluminously upon ghistory, theology, chemistry, metaphysics, politics, ecclesiastical history, phys- ics and many other subjects. He was one of the foremost controversialisis of his day, but his works are now almost forgotten. “My TIME aND WHat |’vE Done WITH IT—An Autobiography,” by F.C. Burnand, is a pleasant summer book. Mr. R. B. WARDEN threatens the public with second volume, entitled “A Lesser Life of Chief sustice Chase.” Insatiate Warden—-would not one suffice? STILL ANOTHER REPRINT in fac-simile of the first folio of Shakespeare, 1623, 1s being issued in the | style of photographic engraving knowa as “Dallas- type.” The book will be in small octavo, and the | Price three guineas, | THE New EDITION of the “Encyclopedia Brit- annica” will contain more than nalf new matter. The first volume will be out this fall, when the | reading world will have a chance to compare it | with the new reissue of the “American Envyclo- padia,” which bas reached its eighth volume. THE CuRIOUs CHILD MuxpERS of Pomeroy, the Boston boy, bring to mind this verse of an old Scotch ballad :— She set him on a golden chair, Aud gave him sugar sweet; Laid him on a golden chest of drawers, Stab-bed him like a sheep. AT Last ENGLISHMEN can read Macaulay and | Sydney Smith without contributing a heavy sum | toenrich the publishers. Sydney Smith's essays | are published complete at half a crown (about } sixty cents), and Macauley’s complete essays can | be had for seventy-five cents, M. JULES StMon has’ brought out a volume, | called “Souvenirs du 4 Septembre, Origine et | Chut dn Second Empire.” This work contains some vigorous writing, and deserves to be | studied. ADMIRERS OF THE SCHOOL OF FREE THOUGHT will be glad to hear that three essays on religion, | entitled “Nature; The Utility of Religion and Theism,” by the late John Stuart Mill, will be pub- lished in October. THE GOVERNMENT OF PARIS has suppressed the | Nouvellisie, just purchased by M. Portalis, the | editor ot the Avenir National and ovher suppressed journais, on the ground that the change of the proprietor and editor was not authorized. Asan | effort the Nouveliiste was intended 10 be an organ | of Priace Napoleon. A CHARMING BOOK Of travel is Miss Bush's “Tne Valleys of Tyrol; their Traditions and Customs and How to Visit Them.” A PLAN ts nnoder consideration at Copenhagen to erect in Iceland @ monument inscribed in Runto characters to the great collector of the Eddas, Suarre Sturlesson, who was at once the most learned, ambitious and influential man of his age and country, Tae Waiters for the new “Encyclopedia Britan- nica” include many names of note tu the scientiflo world. A list of about filty contributors to the | first volume (or letter A) is publisned, It includes Professor Huxley, on amphibia and the animal | kingdom; Dr. kK. B. ‘Tylor, on anthropology; Mr. | Glaisher, on agronautics; Professor Balfour, on | arboriculture; Mr, Street, on architecture; Mr. Palgrave, on Arabia; Dr. Dantel Wiison, of Canada, on archwlogy; Professor Nichol, on American i | dington, | fern and orac | erait, gayly painted and literature, and Dr. Samuel Davidson, Principal Sullock and others, on Biblical topics, i | nestling among AMERICAN TRAVEL IN ENGLAND, Pleasure Trips to Famous Places—No. 1. Windsor, Maidenhead and the Thames— The Scenery and Surroundings. How the People Enjoy Themselves and What It Costs. Lonpon, July 25, 1874. One of the frst excursions from London to be undertaken by American visitors will probably be to Windsor Castle, a spot which nas been familiar- ized to them by frequently reproduced illustrations and which, perhaps, with the exception of the Tower of London, possesses more historical inter- est than any other building in Britain. It was | originally built by Wiliam the onqueror, and has been the frequent residence of the sovereigns of England, up to the present time, though, nnder the auspices of George IV. it was so altered and modernized that {tis only at its western ex- tremity that one can trace out the remains of the castle of the thirteenth century. There are two ratlway routes to Windsor from London; one by the South Western, irom Waterloo; but the easier and pleasanter i by the Great Western, from Pad- @ short run of half-an-bour through lovely cuuntry, the terminus being immediately beneath the castle wall, As to see the Castle and Park will take up the. best part of a long day it ts advisable to order dinner beforehand at either the Winte Hart, or the Castle, in the town. Both are good and both are sufficiently dear, but the White Hart is the one to which { am most accustome, and I would strongly recommend my transatlantic iriends to try Mr. Jonnson’s sparkling Moselle, which is not to be improved upon. The dinner order given and a glass of dry sherry and a bis- cult—just something to walk upon—being disposed of, you can sally iorth and “DO THE CASTLE” at your ease. You enter by a gateway built by Henry VIIL. and named after him. The long line of low houses on your right belong to the Military Knights, meritorious old oMicers of the army, who enjoy this retreat and a smal! pension in their declining days. Here, right and left, are the Winchester, Salisbury and Garter towers, and opposite the gateway is St. George's chapel, one of the tinest existing examples of perpendic- ular architecture. The greater portion of this chapel was built in the reign of Edward 1V,, and it was completely finished by Henry VIL, The greatest lion of the chapel is the choir, where the ricnness of the architecture and the splendor of the dark carved oak is increased by the effect of the swords, helmets, banners and mantles of the Knights of the Garter suspendea over the stalls. Here the installation ceremonies of the Order nave been periormea ever since their first celebration, on St. George’s Day, 1349. stalls of the sovereign and the princes of the blood are under the organ; next come those of foreign sovereigns. Underneath a stone, in the centre of the choir, is the royal vault. Here were buried Henry VII. and his Queen, Jane Seymour, and Charles L, after his exe- cution. Charles’ coftin was opened in 1813, when there were seen suMcient remains of the face and the divided vertebra of the neck to fur, nish complete proof of identification. George III, George 1V. and William IV, are all buried here and here laid the body of the Prince Consort unul it ‘Was removed to the mausoleum at Frogmore. The marriage of thé Prince andthe Princess of Wales took place in St. George’s chapel in 1863, THE STATE APARTMENTS are very much on the same pattern as all State Tooms in all show places, but the Vandyke room 1s worthy of notice as containing more (twenty- two) and finer examples of the master than an} otber gullery in the world. The Terrace, whic! surrounds the upper ward of the Castie on three The | interest, Pangbourne, the reso! anglers and artists; a roe =e Maple Durham, celebrated by Pope as the esidence of Theresa and Martha Blount; Caversham, where Charles tne First was defeated and imprisoned: Shiplake, in whose church Alfred Tennyson was married, Henley, where the great regatta annually takes piace; Medmenham, in whose abbey Sir Francis ash wood and his sham Cistercian monks, of whom Jobn Wiikes was one, carried on their orgies in the middie of the last century, having for their motto “Fay ce que voudras,” and by all accounts quite ting | up to it; Bisham, which was given by Henry Vill. to Anne of Cieves; Great Mar- low, where Shelley lived and wrote his “Revoit of Islam,” and Dropmore. with its marveilous pleasure grounds, which are 600 acres in extent, Tl cost of @ boat for such an excursion as this would not be above three or four pounds, and the riverside inns are comfortable, clean and cheap. There is no better way for a stranger to make himselt well | acquainted; with the beauties of English scenery, | A PEDESTRIAN TOUR. Two Sons of President Grant and other Young Gentlemen Doing the Alleghen- fes On Foot—A Walk of Two Hundred Miles—Description of the Journey. PITTSBURG, August 7, 1874, This afternoon there arrived in Pittsburg Ulysses Grant, Jr., and Jesse Grant, sons of the President, Lieutenant Harry Otis and andason of Thomas Murphy, ex-Collector of the port of New York. ‘The young gentlemen were on a pedestrian tour, having walked all tne way from Huntingdon, Pa., a distance of two hundred miles, and the manner in which they footed the distance entitles them to the rapk of first class pedestrians. They were unen- | cumbered by bagaage, having had their trunks ex- pressed to this city from Huntingdon, retaining just sumMcient to fill a moderate sized satchel. On their first day out they accomplished twenty-one miles of their journey without a morsel of jood from its commencement, vwing to the mountain roads traversed and the consequent scatcity of farm houses. The next and subsequent days of their | journey they got over a great deal of ground with- out feeling much satigued, and on their arrival at tuis city ne mgs themsetves as being able to ac- | complish the distance again in much less time than on the first occasion. They were VERY BROWN AND DUSTY, but, nevertheless. very jolly, and thought the grandeur 0: the scenery of the Allegheny Moun- tains surpassingly beautiful, amply repaying them for their long journey. Aiter a change of clothing and rest of some hours here, they boarded the cars tor Washington, Pa., for tne purpose ot visiting Mr. Smith, a nephew of President Grant, who resides at this place. Here a GRAND COON HUNT is to take place next week, in which the distin- guished party will participate. Ulysses, Jr., is in the twentieth year of his age, | and recently graduated irom Marvard University. Lieutenant Otis graduated trom West Point last fall. Murphy and Jesse are tne youngest of the pedestrians, but on this long journey proved them- selves to be mach tougher than their older com- panions, ART NOTES, “The San Joaquin River” and “Hunter's Gap,” two landscapes painted by Mr. R. Hanington, were purchased by Mr. Charles Girdler, of Brookiyn. Mr. Hanington has just received an order irom Mr, Kilmer to paint a view of his grounas at Saratoga. ‘The committee of army officers appointed to select the model of an equestrian statue of General George H, Thomas have agreed upon that designed by L. Q. Ward, and will have the statue erected in Wash- ington if Congress or the District ot Columbia will make the necessary appropriation to erect the pedestal. Mr. Adams’ medallion of John Wesley, which is about to be placed in Westminster Abbey, is now very nearly completed. Under the profile of the great reformer there will be a representation in bas-relief of Wesley preaching on his father’s grave. The fund to defray the expeuse has chiefly been raised by Dr. Jovson, the’ eminent Wesleyan minister, The Dean of Westminster bas taken great interest in the matter. ‘The famons cartoon by Kaulbach, representing the Inquisitor Arbues, Whom Pius LX. has canon. ized as the new St. Peter, in the act of condemn- ing a herette family to death by fire, is now to be seen, along with other works by Kaulbach and valuabie paintings by other noted German masters, at the Munich Gallery, No. 48 Great Murloorough street, Regent street, Longon, Among the recent publications of the Holbein Society 18 @ set of fac simile reprints of the curious old woodcuts by Hans Burgmair, entitled the “Yriumphs of the Emperor Maximilian I.” Burg- matr was a painter and engraver on wood, living in the fliteenth and sixteenth centuries. In the early pars of bis life he was the contemporary of Albert Durer, and it has sometimes been said that sides, shoul dit is Bu id ae tne * anest Ani of the kind in he was @ pupil of that great artist, but this ap- existence and commands beautitul views | pears to be voubttul. Ot the Park, the Thawes and the Eton. By the way, during the cursion should made to jook at College, which, since its foundation in BT has held the first position among the public schools of England. he hall and chapel are fine buildings; but the prettiest sight of ail is the playing fleids—broad, green meadows, extend: ing along the banks of the river, and shaded by noole elm trees. Here you will find 600 or 600 boys, some playing at cricket and various games, others skilfully Mauaging the boats with which the river js covered or diving from the bank and disporting in the water. Eton lads are all first rate water dogs, as no boy is allowed to get intoa boat until he can prove bis proficiency in swimming. A splendid straight roaa, three miles iu length, and having an avenue of magnificent elm trees on either side, is known as THE LONG WALK, and traverses the Great Park from the Castle gates toa Spot where there is an equestrian statue of George Ill, These eims are knee deep in , Couchant in waich or galioping over tne velvet turf are herds of tallow deer. Pursuing the road past the statue you come to Virginia Water, a remarkably pretty, arti- ficial lake, with verdant banks and charming shrubberies and shady walks. Hero is a Chinese fishing temple, the property of tle royal family, and & very good artificial ruinof a Grecian temple, with iragments of porphyry, granite and murvie strewn around. Virginia Water Javorite spot jor picnic parties, and its charms are rather en- hanced by the fact that there is a very good inn— the Wheatsheaf—in the immediate neighborhood. SUNDAY ON THE RIVER. In an excursion of any kind. however, the river ; Thames offers the greatest charms, and it 13 en- joved by ail the thousand and one varieties of the | great world of London. vockney apprentices and shopmen may be found, after working hours, pull- tng in Wherries iu the neighborhood of Lambeth and Vauxhall, Middle class athletics go further atield and tempt the tide at Richmond and T'wick- enham; while jor the upper ten the pleasant | Waters at Maidenhead and happy idleness un- der the green woods at Cliefden form an irr sistible attraction, Sunday is the great day for this kind of outing, and the Paddington Station at 2:30 P. M. is @ curious signt, ‘There are to be seen any number oi men well known in West Ena circles, dressed in light suits or suits of blue serge, and having in all instances discarded the high stove-pipe for the comiortabie low pot-hat. Ladies, too, are numerous, in light cotton or muslin dresses, and with pretty hats fitted to shade them from the sun’s piercing rays, ALL THESE PEOPLE start off by the 2:30 P, M. train (popularly known as the “Sabbath breakers’ express”), getting out at low Station and driving to the Orkney Arms, @ river side hotel, which, under the man- agement of @ family named’ Skindie, since retired, attained vast celebrity, Next to the hotel h ig the Guards’ country club all around are innumerabie standing in gardens, the lawns sloping to the river and very natty boats moored at their marge. The men hurry into the hotel and’ to the club to change tueir attire for the orthodox white flannels of rowing costume. Coming out they get afloat in the punts and skiffs chainea up in the iront of the club, Punting is the favorite method with the lady voyagers, they are en- abled to lie at lengtu on the broad, blue cushion at the bottom ofthe punt under the shade of their large parasois and talk laztiy to the punter as he moves to and iro, fhe steam launches are to be found just below Maidenhead Bridge, very pretty it, the cabins shaded With golt silk cushions. Most of the people adoat are more or less known to one another, and though you see that the disposition 1s strongly to indulge a solitude & denx, the deux bein; made up of male and female, yet, durin; the passage of the locks the conversation 18 geheral, Many of the voyagers preter to stop under the genial shade of Che(den Woods, the lovely 8 of the Duke of Sutherland, where tue river 18 at its broadest, with a long stretch of soit ia meadow on one side and the many tinted bank of trees on the other. Others go up higher, past the pretty fishing cottage and the Duke's littie feet of beh boats to Cookham Lock, Where, at the Ferry Hotel, there is tea tor the ludies and iced drinks for the men, The com- ing back 18 perhaps the pleasantest part of the day, a8 the boats fuat down with the stream, and U any one Is tired he can always get a tow back Troma steam launch. ‘Then there is dinner with some friendly host, or at the club or the hotel, and then the 10:30 P. M. train back to London, in which every one is comfortably tired and happily sleepy. To those who wish to sce THE THAMES IN ITS ENTIRETY— and for quiet, rustic beauty there is no lovelier river in the Worid—I would recommend their trav elling to Oxiord by rail, spending a couple ot days in that “mass of Monuments, Gothic and Greek churches, colleges, quadrangles, porticos, all dis- | tributed profusely, put must gracefully, tn quiet Streets, terminating in trees and meadows," and then wring @ large skiff from Salter’s and rowing | down stieam, stopping where themselves easil; King three days Lo arrive at twiek- they liked and tal | eniam. in such a trip you pass through a lovely uutry, always highly cultivated and lor the most part beautiully Madge hag With quaint little villages ie constantly remind you of the descriptions of the English pocls. Muiry places, buy, ase vi Distoric laying fields of ay, & little ex- Eton trees and scones which | An interesting exhibition of religious art has been offered at Lille. Init the specimens, whicn number over 3,000, are divided into ten sections, comprising missals, metal work, enamels, sculp- tures, tapestries, sacerdotai vestments, palntiogs and vartous other objects connected with religious worship, most classes being amply represented. A collection of pictures Was lately sold in Man- chester. England, which contained many rare ex- amples by well known masters. The following were the principal lots:—‘I'he Nativity,” by Rem- brandt, irom tue Castiedyke collection (tis pic- | ture—about z4 inches by 18—had been in the pos- session of Mr. Canter for many years; it was sold to Mr. Roberts for 1,100 guineas) ; “Diana,” a fine example by Greuze, 270 guineas (Roe) ; “The En- | tombment,"by Vanuyke, 269 guineas (Roe); “ihe | Syreus,” by Frost, R.A. 26 guineas (Museley) ; | “The Memnons,” «Moonlight on the Nile,” com- Panton, by W. Muller (pair), 484¢ guineas (Moseley) ; ‘The Heather Bell,” by KE. J. Cobbect, 23 guineas (Lloyd) ; “On the Rhine,’ by Old Vick- e18, 31 guineas (Lloyd); “Cattle Drinking,” by T. 8. Cooper, R. A., 40 guineas (Lioyd) ; Landscape,” | Companion (pair), by P. Naysmith, | (Roe) ; “In the Garden,” uy Lidderdaie, 16 guineas (Harding) “Interior with Cows and Figures, by t Dakes and Weekes, 2913 guineas (Koe] ; “Entrance | | to the Zuvder Zee, by C. Stanfield, R. A., 26 guineas | (Lloyd) ; ‘Entry of Charles II. into London,’ by A. | B. Clay, 20 guineas (Roe); “sheep on the sloors,” | by T.8, Cooper, R. A., 80 guineas (Rye) : “Cap- | tured by Brigands,” by William Muller, 60 guineas (Bryan) ; “ihe sheMeld Milk Laus (engraved), by | H. . Parker (water color), 21s guineas (Heigh- way). 87 guineas IDE AND COUNTRY. Mrs. A. G. Jerome and family are at Islip. Cape May is a failure; the hotels not near full. The ld Guard will rendezvous at Long Branch. Colonel F. A. Conkling and tamily are at Lake | George. Mr. J. W. Harper and family are at Martha’s Vineyard. A. T. Stewart's Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga is to be enlarged. The Green Mountains of Vermont are being ex- tensively climbed. General Eiijan Ward and family will spend this month at Newport. $ Mr. and Mrs, David Dudley Field have gone to Stockbridge, Mass, The Ocean House, Long Branch, is having heavy ) lists of arrivals daily. The Saratoga season is becoming more and more proatabie to hotel men. Governor Hendricks was last week at the Vir- ginta White Suiphur Springs. | Baron Schwarz-Senborn wil go to the Ocean House, Newport, in a few days. ‘The “grasshopper walk” has succeeded the “Bos- ton aip”’ at the seaside and springs. Jay Gouid 1s at the Memphremagog House, New- port, Vt., with his family. Edwards Pierrepont is also there, Loring Andrews, of Chicago, and Richard Wood and (amily, of New York, are at Lake Luzerne, War- ren county. i Thousands who in past years repaired to high- priced fashionable resorts have settled in Long Island towns. Indeed, Long Island, we may say, is alive with city folk, A correspondent of the Boston Journal reports summer travel in the White Mountains very light 80 far. The Profile House, Franconia Mountains, alone appears to be prosperous. On Saturday evening & musical and dramatic entertainment was given at the Pavilion, New Brighton, by the Ninth Regiment Band and attachés of the Fifth Avenue Theatre. The railway companies are gradually burrowing into the White Mountains and reducing stage travel. It 1s believed that next season the roads will extend clear through Crawford's Notch to the Twin Mountain connection, A writer in the Boston 7ranscript from the Sar- anac Lake region, New York, says:—‘‘l have stood with one foot each side a little pool and drank from water which on the right hand, to the south, flowed to the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, at New York city, and on the opposite side lent its waters to the Ausable River and the Guilt | of St. Lawrence. For picturesque beauty and | sylvan loveliness there ts no region to compare | with Uns great wilderness, To the sportsman it | hag been a paradise, and to the tourist it is des- 8 LONDON GOSSIP, The Prince of Wales’ Fancy Dress Ball. Municipal Honor to Literature and Art—Chit-Chat in the City. Lonpon, July 23, 1874. Last night the most brilliantly successful ball in the memory ot the present generation of London iuhabitants, was given by the Prince and Princes: of Wales at Marlborough House. It had been orig: inally intended that it should have been a bai masque, but owing to various disagreeable inci- dents and contretemps which took place at a dance of that description which was recently given by Lady Marian Alford, of which I sent you an ace count, great pressure from very high quarters wag brought to bear upon the Prince, who, aftera time, succumbed, and consented that the guests should be invited to appear in fancy dress, and without masks. In the eariy days of the Queen’s reign some costume balls were given at Buckingham Palace which were fair'y successiul, but that of Wednesday night entirely eclipsed them. This may be accounted for by the fact that the Princa of Wales did not rely upon his own unassisted go- nius, but took some of those whose knowledge and good taste in the matter of ancient costuma are universally allowed into his counsel. Cone spicuous among these were the artists Mr. F, Leighton, Mr. Val. Prinsep and the sculptor, Mr, Boehm. These gentlemen, with some others of the upper ten, with the Prince at their head, have, for the last month, labored indefati+ gably to make the affair a success, and the result of the nigh@s entertainment must have been highly gratifying to them. Guests were invited for aquarter t> ten, and by that time the large ball room on the garden front of Marlborough House, in which the principal quadrilles were to take place, as well as the library and dining room, wera tolerably well filled. At half-past ten all three rogms were crowded, and precisely at that hour, to the music of the Polonaise, the royal pro cession entered, preceded by Lord Colville, dressed as one of the chamberlains to Queen Elizabeth and bearing @ white wand or office ia his hand. The Veuetian Quadrille was immedk ately formed, at the head of it standing THE PRINCESS OF WALES, with her partner, Lord Hartington. The Princess wore a ruby velvet dress, with a blue (ront to the skirt, sewn with jewels und gold embroidery. Tne sleeves were puffed with blue satin, the ruff waa edged with gold, and the velvet cap was covered with rich jewels. THE PRINCE OF WALES led the Vandyke quadrille, dancing with the Duchess of Sutherland. Tne Prince was dressed in a light maroon velvet doublet and cloak of satin, embroidered in gold, trunk hose, large buf boots and a black felt hat, with a white feather. He wore also @ wig of fair hair, which prevented his easy recognition, and had his Star of the Gare ter on his breast, aud the badge hanging from @ blue ribbon round his neck. The Fairy Quadrille, in which all the characters were from children’ fairy talee, was headed by the DUKE OF CONNAUGHT, who, a8 the Beast, in ‘Beauty and the Beast,” wore a leopard’s head and skin, with gold claws, over a dress of ruby velvet and gray satin tights. There was a Card Quadrille, in which the Princess Christian was Queen of Clubs and the Princess Louise Queen of Hearts. There was also a quad- rille of Puritans and Cavaliers, in which some of the handsomest men and loveliest women in Eng< land were engaged. The officers of the various regiments present generally wore the former unt* forms of thetr corps, and the pages and servanta were all in antique livery. At half-past uwelve SUPPER ‘Was served in two large tents, which had been pitched in the garden. In the larger of these tents figures of men in armor, Venetian glasses ana ich tapestry (much of tt lent by the Queen, wha has a splendid collection) had been placed. The smaller marquee was hung with Indtan carpets, embroidered with gold and precious stones, which had been presented to the Prince by some Indian Tajahs, and which had been brought from their normal place in the smoking divan, and with gorge- ous baskets of scarlet geraniums. Alter supper there was more dancing, and the ball did not tere minate until nearly four o’clock. CIVIO HOSPITALITIES, On the previous night a very different enters tainment took place at the Mansion House, where the Lord Mayor entertained at dine ner some three hundrea of the princi pal representatives of literature, art and music, It was very amusing to hear all the fami- Nar names as they were roared ont by the ser vants, for every one alive who had ever done anys thing in the way of book writing, picture painung, fiddling or squalling seemed to be there. Adelina Patti (Marquise de Canx), radiantin diamonds, was seated on one side of the host, and the veteran Lord Houghton, who in his after dinner speech was quite epigrammatic in his reminiscences, was on the other. There were novelists, journaltats, pocts and playwrights by the score—wonderiul people that all had heard of but few had seen, Ains- worth, Tupper, Friswell, Charles Mackay were there. Anthony Trollope, who had not been heard of when “Rookwood” and ‘Jack Sheppard” were popular books, looked rather older than Ainsworth, who was his next neighbor, and Phelps ran away directly he was asked to respond tothe drama. Most ol the speaking was good, especially that of Mr. G. A. Sala, who returned thanks for English journatism, and of Mr. Sauer, London agent of the HERALD, who spoke for the American press. The mouthpiece of the actors was Mr, Alfred Wigan, who looked remarkably well and spoke with great readiness, good taste and prill- jancy. It was acknowledged on all hands that the affair was & great success, and Mr. Disraeli, wha on the next evening was a guest at the Mansion House, referred to itin his speech, complimented the Lord Mayor on having given such an enter- tainment, and hoped the good example would ve followed. ‘So say all of us!” RUMORS AND OBIT CHAT. The encampment of the volunteers at Wimbledon Common, which broke up last week, is understood to have been a quasi failure this year, principally owing to the vexatious rules enforced by the tional Rifle Association and the uncourteous and unoMceriike conduct of many of its employés. 1 hear jurther tnat the Crown Prince of Prussia, who was present the other day at a review at Aldershot, does not scruple to express his aston- ishment at the ignorance and apathy of some of the principal officers in command of the opera- tions, with whom he took an opportunity of con- versing. There are also ugiy rumors buzzing about the military service clubs to the effect that offictal news from the Gold Coast {s of such charac. ter that another expedition to Ashantee land is more than probable, THEATRICALS, What took Mr, Boucicault suddenly back to £o3y shores? We hoped to have him here, where e 18 certainly very muca wanted, for months, when suddenly and without warning he rushed off in last Saturday's Cunarder, Send bim back, piease! We have no dramatist like him, and at his worst he is better than our “epigrammatic” young gen- tlemen aé their best. Mr. John Clayton will not rejoin the Lyceum company until Christmas, having been engaged by Miss Bateman to accompany her in her provincial tour. Mr. Clayton will play Macbeth, Ingomar and the leading parts, Mr. Robert Buchanan's new pias “A Madcap jaymarket on Prince,” i8 to be produced at the the last night of the season. Why? Saturday week, Mrs, Koss Church (florence Marrvatt) will visit America next year lor the purpose oi giving read. ings, under the auspices of Mr. Howard Paul. THRIFTY AGITATION, {From the Wortd,) Alawyer named Hodnott, in Washington, who, durihg the District investigation, sided with the laboring men and held public meetings and issued one edition of a newspaper in their benali, has secured from them an agreement to pay nim for his services twenty five per cent of the ainouut due by the Board of Pablig Works, It ts estimated there is due this class of necessitons creaitors tined to be av untailing source of enjoyment and health-restoring pieasure,” $225,000, Ii the Commission allow him ty collect bis percentage be will make $56,000,