The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1874, Page 6

“LABOR IN” ENGLAND, Great Meeting of 40,000 Miners | on Durham Race Course. Charles Bradlaugh Wishes a Reduction of the Wages of Queen Victoria. A GRAND PAGEANT. Interviews with Alex. Macdonald, Lloyd Jones and Charles Bradlaugh. A Workman M, P.’s Experiences of His First Parliamentary Session. Durwam, August 15, 1874, This quiet cathedral city has witnessed to-day the grandest and by far the most important polit- ical gathering ever held tn the northern counties | of England. Durham is not a large county, butit numbers 45,000 miners who are bound together in one compact organization, whose officers they obey with unswerving fidelity. The history oftheir | early straggies and of the severe vicissitudes they have all along encountered in their endeavors to unprove their condition reads like a sensational romance. It is not yet seventy years since the miners of Durham, having gone out on strike, | were hunted down by the military, and, in detauit of jail accommodation, huddled like so many wild animals in the episcopal stables at Durham Cathe- drai, the Bishop Of the diocese afterward receiv- ing the thanks of the coal owners county magnates for the accommodation he had so willingly furnished. whole period of the passing of the Reform bill of 1832, these Northumbrian and Durham moors were and | In 1830 and during the | NEW YORK HERALD, the music of lodge the town from all quarters, bands entered the city; the miners with their wives and families making togetier a crowd ot nearly 80,000 and dark biue rosettes, Two lodges appeared, headed by “German bands,” “requisitioned”? from the street, because ali the available English | valent had already been exhausted, These fair- hatred boys, fresh from the Fatherland, aud clad in rusty velveteen with faded tinset bands on their they had been leading a Turnverein in the atreets of New York, ‘They were suddenly called on to halt at a draper’s Store, While an enthusiastic miner «distributed blue rosettes among them, which were soon pinned to their jackets, Perhaps it was as a tribute to the genius of “International amity’ that these German boys so persistently kept play- ing airs ali day long trom the opera of a French composer—the “Madame Angot” of M. Lecocq. SPEECH BY MACDONALD, i ‘The rendezvous of this vast concourse of people was the trace track, a large area of beautiful green- sward by the banks of the River Wear, and almost underneath the shadow of the great rock whose | suminit ts crowned by the massive bulldings of the | gray old citadel and the venerable Cathedral of | Durham, At noon the crowds were addressed from two platforms by the more prominent of the feaders. Macdonald, Whose Parliamentary career has been subjected to much angry cavil, made a spiritetl vindication of the policy he had pursued since hts return for North Staf | ford, Afterwards he earnestly directed the miners | vo the advantages to be derived trom co-opera- | tion, He said that the highest point they had to ‘attain was that of co-operation, Union was good; arbitration and conciilation flowed from union; but co-operation was the suamum bonum | tobe gained by working men. (Cheers.) And why? Because they were then the capitalist. They | could not quarrel with themselves, They would be their own employers; they would have their | Own Collieries, and, that being so, there could be no more cause for contention, The cause of lower wages would disappear, and why? (He knew he Was traveiing on debatable ground, but he had greasy caps, marched as merrily along as if) eight o'clock the air was resonant with | hibited the devices and pictures to the hotel party. approaching j Most of these banners contamed pictures During the day Macdonald, M. P., and Cowen, M. P. for Newcastle. no leas than 130 bands of music aud 200 banners | Four of them had pictures of Bradlaugh, who of on one gorgeous silken banner was represented trampling the sceptre of England under foot while persons. They were remarkably orderly, clean, | he extends the right hand of welcome to a work- sober and weil dressed. All of them wore badges | man, who humbly doffs his Phrygian cap to the great agitator, There were pictures mnumerabie | of the “Good Samaritan” and of “Daniel in the Lion’s Den,” and of the traditional unity of the { bundle of sticks which a man is seen vainly en- | deavoring to break so long as they remain united. While the leaders of the movement were watching the return of the procession, which, by the way, | occupied several hours, your correspondent nad | interviews with Messrs, Macdonald, Bradiaugh and Lioyd Jones. INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER MACDONALD, The member for North Stafford was standing on the balcony of the County Hotel watching the vast | crowd hke another Xerxes contemplating the brevity of human life, He seemed in remarkably good health, despite the severity of his lovg at- tendance in the session of Parliament just con- cluded, CORRESPONDENT—Mr. Macdonald, since [ had the pleasure of interviewing you on your return tor Stafford you have nad the experience of a session in the House of Commons, and I believe, in the present critical condition of English affairs, it would be interesting to the readers of the New | York HERALD to hear sometning of the experi- | ences of the frst workman M, P. returned to the British Parliament. Mr. MACDONALD—I am glad to meet you again, and have to thank you for the accuracy and care with which you formerly reported my political views. Do you know, my friends in America: deluged me with copies of that particular HEkaLD containing our conversation. Have I not walked up to my programme ? CorRESPONDENT—Undoubtedly. you have gone beyond it. home rule, Mr. Macponatp (with a smile)—Yés, perhaps I | stated my opinion there to you with a little excess of caution; but my vote on this question was on | the right side. You will find, year by year, the ! votes in support of home rule steadily increasing. You know Tam an old home ruler, Twenty years ago an almost similar movement was started ta In one respect You have voted tor Scenes of disgraceful riotings and occastonaliy of | &V¢r held this opinion.) The Lancasuire manulac- | Scotland, under the name ot “The Scottish Rights fierce conflicts which fell littie short of open rebel- lion and civil war. The mea were in the most ab- ject serfdom; they were ignorant ana in some cases were of positively brutish disposition, and a long pent up sense of injury having at last broke forth, they acted with the tury and cruelty of de- | mons, The masters had always the constabulary: | the militia ana the military at their service, a cir- cumstance which greatly exasperated the miners and fostered a feeling o1 disloyalty which lingers | turer, when he could no longer spin cotton with profit, did not go on weaving, spinning and and weave | Defence Assoctation.” throwing uwuy money on that which | The promoters of that body wished home legislation by @ Scottish Parita- ment on all purely national questions, considering would yield no benetit, but he stopped his work | it necessary tor the eficient and economical ad- until be could get a price he thought sufficient jor | his capital; but if the miners were owners of their | movement 1s, of course, slightiy diferent, and is own collieries they could stop one, two or three | days if necessity required it, always maintaining | voted with the home rule party. My sympathies a fair return for their money and taking care that their interests would not injure the interests of ministration of the country’s affairs, The Irish more sweeping in character. Nevertheiess, I are certainly with them, CORRESPONDENT—I see, Mr. Macdonald, that one still throughout the whole coal districts of North- | "We entire community. Thus, he contenaed, was | journal has been seriously overhauling you for net ern England. Gradually, however, the right of | CO-OPeration the highest phase of life for Working | dividing the House on the annuity grant to Prince “combining” and of “striking” and of “meeting | "4, 4nd he trusted that he would see by next | Legpold. for the discussion Oo! social and political grievances on the moors and public lighways” has been con” | ceded to the miner and is cherished by him in ex- act proportion to the ‘earful @ght ne for years | waged to win it. 1 WORKINGMEN AS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. No body of ogeratives in this country have de- voted themselves so heartily to the cause of labor organization, They have been the first to pierce the a ocratic and middie class exclusivenes: which has hitherto shut out workingmen repri sentatives from the House of Commons. They | nave returned two members to the House from | their own order, whose early life-was spentin the | coal pit, and who owe their seats to the unwearied libors of their fellow miners at a time whena conservative reaction was everywhere wresting the seats irom the liberal party, it is this latter tact which invests with more than ordinary inter- | 8 meeting of miners which has | ea: Durham to-day. ‘Those who are watching England's contemporary political his- tory cannot disregard th well dritied move- ments of large masses of intelligent op- | eratives, The United Kingdom is at this moment in a ferment from one end | to the other with labor disputes, In the Scotch | counties of Fife and Clackmannan the miners are on strike. The eastern counties of England are sull suffering trom the disastrous consequences of a prolonged struggle between the agricultural Jaborers and theiremployers. Here, in Durham, | the men are threatened with a twenty per cent | should be—either directly or ind rectly, 0,000, aye, or £100,000 if they could, into co-oper- ative collieries, (Cbeers.) Iimust not omit to mention right here that al- ready one colliery has been purchased im York- shire, . BRADLAUGH ON LABOR. The speech of the day was made by Bradiaugh, | national. year the Durham men, not putting £15,000, but | ir, MACDONALD—They compliment me over- much in resting the whole weight of the interests of | the working classes exclusively on my shoulders, | and in finding no fault with such men as Peter Tay- lor and Sir Charles Dilke for this supposed neglect of working class interests, The truth is, this oppo- sition to the Leopold annuity is in no sense Out of the whole House of 650 natiouul whose political opinions seem precisely those of | representatives you could not bave obtained more the miners. He said that they had been told of the advantages of umion and the advantages 1 co-operation, It was his duty to submit to them another view of unionism and another view of co-operation, He was speaking to men the buik of Whom had to obey the laws and had no voice in | expressing auy opinion as to what those laws The men { | | | than five to go into the division lobby against tie grant. Mr. Peter Taylor himself spoke to me during tne discussion, and he believed that a di- vision would be only an unnecessary and unwise disclosure of weakness. We would have had a less division than on the previous grant to a mem- ber of the royal family. * CORRESPONDENS—Then England is as loyal to-day who submitted to legisiation which they couid not | as ever? | effectively discuss were dead men to the State to | They might | be profit winners lor others; they never could en-.| , cleutly share that profit for theyseives, | cally they were dead men. which they belonged. (Applause,) There was another view of the wage question. The amount of wage If the taxation were heavy, if the taxation were | unfairly distributed, then their wage was as much reduced as though forty or filty per cent were voldly taken away from them, thirty years while wealth had been growing—the | result of their labor—the resmit of their energy— | opinion of the mode of conducting business in the the taxmakess bad levied taxes upon the very labor which ought instead to have fallen upon | Mr. MacponNaLp—In that respect certainly she is, CORRESPONDENT—I presume that while the pro- eedings of the Royal Commission on the Labor Poitus | jaws, of which Her Majesty appointed you a mem- | ber, are pending, you do not care to speak of the | progress made there? | Was measured by what that wage would bring. | Mr. MacpoNaALp—This much I can venture to say, that the action of the Commission will be in favor Of the relaxation of the severe stringency of , these laws, To say anything iurther is not desira- During the last | pie at this time. CORRESPONDE® ‘—Thank you. May T ask your House of Cominons? Mr. MacpoNxaLp (emphatically) —Well, it is reduction on their wages, and it will whouy | their lands. (Applause.) During the last sixty | gitogether wrong. I cannot Jancy anything more depend upon the good sense and tact their delegates, and the forbearance of the | masters, whether we do not soon havea genera lockout over this northern district, with all its at! vendant hardships and perils. Einigration to Amer, ica, lormerly the panacea for the evils of an over- | crowded iabor mnarket, has now, for some reason or | of | years the landowners of England had in- creased thelr rents seventy millions per an | num. Why should not rents reduce as weil | as wages’ (Applause.) merce, if there was need tor giving and taking, why should all the giving be on one side and all | the tuking on the other? (Applause.) If it were other, gone out of tavor. Canada ts ata discount | ‘tf that labor should exact less in time of need it | becanse its ‘free lands” are alleged to have been | found by emigrants littie else than rocky | deserts, while the so-called demand tor skilied | labor is stated to be au exaggeration. The Agent General for Canada does not improve matters by writing triumphantiy to the Times that they have no poor law organ- ization in Canada, no unton relief system, no | workhouse and no poor rates, Your average | Englishman has come to regard these institdtuons in the light of a blessing to the Weak and the an- fortunate and as a necessary appanage o: every tully equipped State. So far as the United States are concerned, when that great asylum for the “poor of nations” is now mentioned to a struggling wistially, tisan, he shakes his head and says | ‘Ah! the panic has ruined that country. A SLANDER ON AMERICA, That unfortunate panic! You hear the unhappy word echoed all over the country, and even by ig- norant laborers, who cannot tell you whether the “panic” is fish, flesh or fowl 1 am sure some of them believe it to be a great green dragon with enormous teeth. ‘The greatest evil, however, which the pauic inflicts on this country arises from the number 0! idle, good-ior-notuing men who, having never doue anything in the States, and who while there were too proud to confess their fail- ure by returning to this country, have now made the “panic” the occasion of tueir home erimage to English shores, ruinea by the rapacity represen- tations of emigration These men are now to be found everywhere ck: balling the United States. This uidie tion of matters has done much to give force and effect to the new watchword of labor, “Home Colonization,” which means a re-parceiling English lands on what are supposed to enlightened principles of jurisprudence than those on which our feudal tenure is based. It was in view of obiaming a better elucidation of these principles that Charies Bradiau ivited to attend to-day, for the first tt a mass meeting of the nortuern miners. appearance here, where a iew ye ence would not have been tolerated, is in the highest sense significaat. No man is at this moment saying such hard things of the English monarchy @$ le, or daring to propound such revolutionary schemes for the adjustment of land and labor disputes. Among other leaders of the workingmen also here t0 address the miners 1s Mr, Macdonald, M. P., the President of the Miners’ Association and the first workman returned to the British Parliament. Lloyd Jones, the veteran reformer, a man much loved among the Englisn | juboring Classes, 18 also here, as well as several | prominent mining delegates trom different parts of the country, These “leaders” have assembled | in the County Hotel, from the baicony of which | they witness the “murch past” of the “Forty Thousaas.” of © more His rsago lis pres- | THE PROCESSION. A little after seven o’clock this morning the first mining lodge entered the town, bearing a lofty | crimson silk banner, which four men carried with difficulty, and on Which Was a fine full length portrait of Alexander Macdonald, M. P., with the motto underneath, “See, the Couquering Hero womes!” On the other side were various mottoes | suggestive of friendship, union and co-operation, sand in large letters the declarations, “If we obey } we have a tight to send our representatives to the House, tor we are the loyal citizens of old Eng- land,” and “Taxation without representation 13 wroog.” ‘They were accompanied by a band of dausie numbering twenty-seven veriormers, by | some reduction. was fair the laid should make some concession. (Cheers.) Men without political life were like sticks floating on the stream, driven by the cur- their struggles of country. tion, why did the royal jamily grow richer and richer every year in their accumulations ’ Was not even Queen Victoria the servant of the people | is only some | find it @ pleasant enough place and 1 shall be only | rent; those only were reai living men who took | too glad tu have you “interview” it the first holi- , their part in the | (Cheers) They had been told that trade needed | 1f trade required some reduc | spondent I next | Why did they never hear of a reduction of her an- | nual wage in times when the country wasaboring | under severe depression? of acres of jaud in England, Ireland, Scotland and Waies, whieh Why should those ing and wanted to till the soil require to go to New Zealand, Queensiand and to climates which they did not understand’ Last year he was a land that he hoped ina few weeks to visit again. the case here; and why, he would ask, should not a Man trom their own body climb \uto people who were ought to grow food and dtd not. | wiil- | calling for remedy than our absurd manner of legislating for a great country at mianight and when the members of the House have exhausted e ral “om. | themselves with other labors during the day or are If there was a fall in com- | {heme the equally exhausting work -of boll dining aud wining well. COKRESPONDENT—1 have been glad to read in the | papers, Mr. Macdonald, that you nave recently | purchased a fine Scottish estate, Mr. MACDONALD (with an air of assumed sad- s)—L could wish my estate were uli that the newspaper men has painted it, It fteen acres’ in extent, but you wiil day trip you can make to Scotland, INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES BRADLAUGH, Thanking the honorable member tor statford for the kind reception he invariably gives your corre- buttonholed “Mr. Bradiaugb, whom I found in @ third heayen of delight over the entousiasuc reception the Durham miners had given him. * CaRRESPONPENT—You have scored another vic- tory to-day, Mr. Bradiaugh, Mr. BRADLAVGH—Yes, 1 pave had to fight my way pere were 11,000,090 | through a deal of prejudice in order to speak from the platiorm I occupied to-day. Some of these mining chie/s would rather not have hed me here to day, but they dare not oppose my presence—the n are so Clamorous for me. t have many jambs” among the colliers, although they are angely enougs Scattered. Some oi the pits are wholly with mé, others ive a majority for me; | while there are certain pits where as yet I have Ministries ¢ | | Why should the Granvilles, and Hartingtons, and | fere with the length Of my stay in your country. Uf Cavendishes, and Clintons have a monopoly of the | government of the country? (Cheers.) But the struggle of this country was to be a land struggie. Relerring to the rights ol property, he argued that the man holding land had no right in it the mo- ment his right conflicted wita the rights and hap- piness of those around him. They had no right when tt drove people away to Canada to be frozen to death, or New Zealand and otper places, He Was not against an aristocracy, but he would have an aristocracy of brain, of endeavor, of courage, and not @ tinselled, givger (cneers)—like the Duke of Neweastle, who iived in debt in Clumber Castle, or Earl Yarborough, tor whom a £20 reward was offered when he ran away alter the races. (Great laugliter.) Mr, Bradiaugh further complained that while all the subjects of the realm could, by payment oi one shilling, Inspect the will of a deceased citizen, a most iniquitous law had exempted the sovereign trom its provisions, Why should the sovereign be ehavied to conceal iis or her wealth trom the na- tony He was tired of seeing the way in Which working class legisiation was treated by memvers of the House of Commons, wi » so prolific in jibes and jeers when House, after having ell “Some day, per- they came down to t) diped and oiten well wined.’”? haps, Some representative of yours shall ask the their taunts 100,000. of t suffrage for you trom them, and meet and their mocking lips by pointing to your number assembled in Palace Yard.” (Grea cheering again and again renewed.) He closed paying @ high compliment to American institu. tions where, he said, no obsiacie retarded the workingman rising to the chair of State save t superior energy and ability he might legittinate encounter in his neighbor. The vast crowd before the platform presented the most closely packed mass of heads | eve® wit- nessed, At the conclusion of the addresses Brad- laugh, in response to calls, came again to the front and recited with wild, telling energy Snel- ley’s long suppressed poein of the “Masque of Anarchy.” THE REVIEW. immediately after these addresses had been de- | livered the speakers adjourned to the County Hotel, from the balcony of which a sort of informal review of the mining lodges took place, The | pageant had quite a military aspect, the men treading with a firm soldier-like step to the music of thelr respective bands. As each banner arrived | front of the ote ts bearers stovoed aud ex read arisiocracy— | | no percepuble intluence at all. CORKESPONDENT—Are We to have you soon again Theve no barriers existed as was | in the United states ? Mr. BrapLavaH—Yes. Towards the end of Sep- tember I pope to open in Boston. My prospects at the Jorthcoming Northampton election imay iater- 1am elected member of Parliament for Northamp- ton { wi!l be unable to travel west of the Rocky Mountains, as my presence will be mecessary at the opening of Parliament. CORRESPONDENT—Are your prospects of a return for Northampton good ¥ Mr, BRADLAU (enthusiastically) —No candidate could wish for beiter reports of ‘the voters than those L am getting. I addressed a meeting there | two nights ago, und their enthusiasm surpassed anything I have hitherto witnessed in that town. INTERVIEW WITH LLOYD JONES. Your correspondent had the ivilowing conversa- tion with Mr. Lioyd Jones, one of the oldest and most respected of ihe old Knyglish reformers :— CORRESPONDENT—MT. Jones. shail we have a re- public in England, think yoo, within the next lorty years? Lioyp Jones—No; unless, indeed, affairs should take a very happy turn iu France and Spain. Lean iancy that were Spain and France both flourishing republics England could not long resist 1ollowing suit. Lam afraid, however, we cannot 100k tor any such desiraple change in the condition o. these coun'rie. Repubitcanism has much to contend with in Europe. France will, | believe, be at the neck of Germany betore jong; andit is not at all impossible that such a step may wipe Prance irom the map of Europe, ORRESPONDENT—Is It true, Mr. there are already symptoms throughout Uns Uury of a liberal reaction? Luoyp JonEs—1 have not encountered anfsuch signs of a reaction irom conservatism, No one would Welcome them more heartily than 1 wouid, but as yet 1 tail to see them, move with startling rapidity in this country, and the “unexpected,” you know, olten, it it does not always, happens. CORRESPONDENT—I8_ the free thought party mak- ing progress in England * Luoyp Joxés—They are not. England is more religious to-day than she Was twenty years ago. Look at the churches England is erecting, wht the seculartsts cannot even build a little schoo We did more in @ few years in Robert Owens time than the free thought tolks have done im all 8 0! thelr existence. You cali them the free thought party—wil you tei me what their “thomgnt’ is? Negauion and destruction do not constitute thought. You must have something Lloyd Jones, that un However, events | | substantial if you would have a foundation wiereon to build an enduring party. CORRESPONDENT—What are Bradlangh’s — chances for the representation of Northampton ¥ Lioyp dones—They are nfl. His religious opinions are too Obnoxious to the Enguish people to permit of his ever having @ seat in the English House of Commons, At this moment Mr. Crawford, the agent of the Dorham miners, interposed, and assured Mr. | Jones that so far as the north of Englana was con- | cerned no such desponding view of Mr, Brad- Jaugh’s prospects was entertained, | At the concinsion of these interviews your cor- responden’ visited, by special request, the “Dur- bam Miners’ Hail,’ a magnificent structure, now nearly completed, This capacious and handsome Duilding 18 to itself an evidence of the prosperity and jncreasing power of the largest operative as- cain w be jound in any single Buglisa county, LONDON GOSSIP. The Ministers and Members of Parlia- ment Hurrying Into the Country. A Royal Residence in Ireland Contemplated. THEATRES AND THE CLUBS. Lonvon, August 14, 1874. Just at this time of year the passion of envy, at other times unknown to me, gets possession of iy soul, and the object of that worst of human frailties is my confrere of the HExaLp in Paris, For though his city and mtne are equally deserted, although all Parisians are aux eaux, while all Londoners are at the seaside, something is always turning up in the shape of journalistic straws to aid him in the man- ufacture of his hebdomadal brick. With us no fat marshal of sixty years of age lightly swings him- self down a knotted rope and escapes over fright- ful rocks into the raging sea; no people are per- petually fighting against other people, and {ntend- ing some speedy way to culminate in a grand Cmeute ; no pretender to the throne is waiting & few hundred miles off. Every one of these move- ments must be watched and recorded, All here is dead and flat, stale and unprofitable, save to the hotel keepers and louging letters, who must be doing very well with the provincial visitors and excursionists, who seem to have taken London by storm. They are to be met with at every corner; some, stalwart, burly fellows, browned by the sun and tanned by exposure to weather, in thick, course clothes and heavy clodhopping boots. These are from the agricultural neignborhoods, farm laborers and such like, who seem so stunnéd with the novelty of what they are looking at as never to be able to thoroughly comprehend it, but walk about with mouths agape and hands buried deep in their pockets, staring hard at everything and quite unable to steer themselves through the crowded streets. A very different c’ass is that which comes up from the manufacturing districts— pale, earnest men, Whom nothing astonishes, who jook about them at the usual “show” sights with perfect calmness and some contempt, but who spend their holidays at the Industrial Exhi- bition among tae new looms and carding ma- chines and other ingenious inventions there dis- played, and who never seem able to shake off the hold that their monotonous existence has upon them or to “go in’ fora genuine holiday. Well- known faces are now scarcely ever to be met with in thé streets, but if you come across one you are sure to find it under a “pot-hat” and at the top of a sult of travelling or seaside’ clothes, the owner being only “passing through town” on his way from one watering place, or one country house, to another. FLIGHT OF THE MINISTRY. The Ministry fled 80 soon as the doors of the House of Lords creaked on their hinges. Mr. Disraeli ru-iett down to Longhurst, the seat of the Marquis of Bath; the Lord Chanceilor Cairns is off alter the grouse to Scotiand; Lord Salisbury, with his wile and those pretty children she used to race up and down Rotten Row, has taken a chateau tor the bathing season at Dieppe; Lord Derby is at bis principal seat of Knowsley and Mr. Cross is in his Lancashire home of Eccles Rigg. The leaders of the opposition are likewise scattered to the ends | of the civilized earth, Mr. Gladstone being at his favorite Welsh watering place, Pen-maen-maur, a little village with a few lodging houses, nestling at the foot of some high mountains and just tacing the Iste of Anglesey, He 1s close in the neighbor- hood of what ts now Mr. Giadstone’s own pro- erty—Hawarden Castle. MOVEMENTS OF THR COURT. The Queen is still at Osborue, her stay at her marine residence being longer than usual this year on account of the presence in the Isle of Wight of her eldest daughter, the Crown Princess of Prussia, But she goes, next week, to her be- loved Balmoral, and then the British public, with the exception of the Secretaries of State (one of whom has constantly to be im attendance) and afew Highland — gillies, will lose all sight of Her Majesty until November next. Those poor Secretaries of State, what a wretched time they must have of it! Compelied to give up their other amusements in the snort period of reiaxation, to leave their fam. | ilies and to take it in turn to go un for a month to a castle in the remote Highlands, where there is no sign of amusement; where the stiffest and most forma! etiquette prevails, and where the whoie | air is impregnated with the Srooding memory of adead mau! ‘The Prince of Wales, whea he goes | to scotiand, sees as little of Balmoral as possible, but carefully holds revel in bis own tittle castle of Abergeidie, which is some iew miles away trom tie maternal residence. The Prince 1s not going north just yet though. He lias been into the west, to open the new Guildhall at Plymouth, a butlding which has cost between £60,000 and £70,900, He | intended to arrive there im his yacht, but the weather was very boisterous, 80 he came by land, and tad a splendid reception, The whole town was en féle, the whole population in the streets. There were banquets and fireworks, illuminations | ana general feasting, and, of course, plenty of speechmaking, In which the Prince seems to have borne his part Jar better than usual. He is Lord High Steward of the town, and when he stood up to make his formal address he bore in his hana the state wand of his oflice, and he seems to have tickled the worthy people of Plymouth very highiy, The Princess would have accompanied him, but she is gone north to see her iather, | THE KING OF DENMARK, | who is expected in Scotland on a fying visit. The Prince wiil not ieave Devonshire for some days; | he has to visit Coionel Luttreli who has promised His Royal Highness some sport among the wid red deer on Exmoor, and lie has some other sboot- ing appoinunents to keep, The Duke of Con- naught is with his regiment at Norwich, and nas been greatly feted bythe inhabitants: | By the way, itis rumored that the question of a ROYAL RESIDENCE IN [IRELAND 18 again under consideration, and that the princi- pipal object of Mt. Disraeli, in a visit whieh he is about to pay to the buke of Abercorn, in Dublin, is to look around him and discuss the matter with the Lord Lievtenant. This visit will not be very agreeable to the Premier, who has always spoken disdainially of Ireland and the frist, nor can one see What good will come of it. Wao will inhabit the royal residence’ Not tie Queen, you may be sure. The Prince of Wal& would tind it good shooting and huatiny quarters during some por- tion of the year. ny idea is, tat If suck residence is procured the Duke of Connanght will be its chiet resident. That such a mea- sure will have any effect on tne bulk of the | Irish people it is impossible to believe. Ten years ago a visit from the Queen, coupled with the knowl edge that she took un interest in the Green Isie and Was going to have @ house there, would have had more effect in creating loyalty ana crushing Fenianism and making the people contented than all the disestablighment acts or land acts or any other Parliamentary proceedings. But Padvy ts Not SO Sott-hearted as he used to be; he is not so easily gotten over by biandishments and aliure- | ments, and it 18 probable that the great “royal residence trick,” even if it be carriedvout, will fall flat and have no em ‘The Corporation of London, who make a mess of nearly everything they touch, bave made a mess | of | Monday, but severai of their number were out of | TRMPLE BAR, inasmuch a8 that they have come to no decision as to the fate of the old barrier, which stands shored up with huge timber beams like an old gen- tieman propped up with his cratches, The Corpora. tion were to have met and settled the matter last town and did not consider the matter of sufficient emergency to return, Meanwhile the Bar ts lef in a most unsightly and, as some maintain, in a very unsafe condition, The proximate cause o the evil is the new law courts, which, at the Greek{ Kalends or some equally tadistiuct perivd, arte to | mated” { ing first. | Wood, \ | that she had te NDAY, AUGUSY 39, 1874.—QUADRUPLE SHEET, ie tnkseaseestere ~ be erected jnst on the west side of the Bar, The excavations for the foundations of the buildings first caused the keystoues of the arch to “settle,” while the passage throngn the Bar of enormously laden carts taking off the soil which had been dug outshook the old arch to its centre and left it tm its present wretched state. Various places have been suggested as sites on which Temple Bar should be re-ereoted, but common sense seems to take the view that when It has once been pulied down nothing more should be done with it. Th connection with the subject of metropolitan improvements, I will remark that the LONDON SUMMER AND WINTER GARDEN AND AQUA- RIUM, the prospectus of which has recently been so ex- tensively advertised, does not seem likely to be- come an accomplished fact, This prospectus was very cleverly concocted, It promised ‘a freehold site which might fairly be termed unrivalled,” on which a buge glass and iron building was to be erected for “the organization of some of the most exclusive and fashionable fetes, fancy bazaars and conversaziones of the season of 1875,” “the most complete and instructive aquarium in tre world,’ and a long list of committee men, “whose names are a guarantee that the undertaking will be car- ried out on sound principles, and that the aqua- rium will become one of the most fashionable re- sorts in the metropolis,” This read very charm- ingly, and the paragraph about “exclusiveness” was especially tickling to the snobs and to all who did not know that the promoter was a shrewd fel- low, wao had already “promoted” two theatres and a newspaper, aud who looked for ward toclear- ing about £30,000 \or his services in promoting this exclusivg fish sow. According to the latest re- ports, however, the Metropolitan Board of Works and other autnorities irom whom the “unrivalled site’ (really a reclaimed portion of the river shore) was to be purchased, have declined to rat- ily the contract, and so the scheme falis through. By the way, one of our most favorite and popular places of resort, THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS have recently given newspaper writers a theme for discussion, In tront of the dens of the car- nivora runs an iron bar some four feet high, A little boy, playing abont, crept under this barrier and approached so near the cages vhat a leopara, making a dash at him with his paw through the bars of the cage, Was enabled to stick his claws into the child’s shoulder and dragged him toward him, lacerating him terribly, The gentiemau who missed the child heard his cries, and, rushing to the den, thrust his umbrelia down the leopard’s throat, and by working it to and [ro caused the animal such agony as to induce him to let go his grip ofthe child, Some argument has been used to attempt to prove negligence against the keeper tor not being in the way; but the rea! fault lies in the ease with which the second barrier can be passed, Leopards and lions, however well fed, will still have natural pinings for the plump Sesh of chubby children who venture within their reach, and the barrier must be rendered impassa- ble, Ali visitors to the Gardens (which contain, beyond question, te finest collection of animals, birds and reptiles in the world) speak im the nigh- est terms Of the attention, civility and humanity ofthe keepers. THE NEW CABLE One great desideratum which United States Cable Company” 1s expected to supply, nainely—cueap telegrapliy, 18 said to be in jeopardy. There is an ugly rumor ol an amalgamation with other cable companies, a process which was expressly guarded against in the articies of association, Shareholders and the general public are alike interested in seeing that these ar‘icies are not intringed in the slightest de gree, for if any coticession 18 made the ‘‘amailga- companies will coutinue tie monopoly and we shall be at their mercy, as we so long have been. The Newfoundland Colonial Legislature 1s aiso said to be playing into the hands of the Angto- American Cable Company and everything is veing done by which (he use of the direct cable ts likely to be cramped and fettered. Petty opposition of this kind, though much to be deplored, was to be expected and can only be de‘eated by energy on the part of the directors of the new company, backed by the good will of the pubhe, Two curio dutl roatine of THE POLICE CouRTs. In one of them, & young man, son of George Odger, the notorious republican shoemaker, was brought up, rged with creating a disturbance at amusic ha It appears that a vocalist named MeDermott sin a song called «The Scamp,” in which re/erence not very flattering ts made to Odger pcre, ‘The son resented this, and distributed bills blackguarding tne singer. Was against the proprietor of the Westminster Gazette, a Roman Catholic newspaper, for abuse of the “Direct | Nr. Jonn Herbert, R. A., the celebrated artist, who is himseif a Catholic. The real motive power or the newspaper was proved to be supplied by that, extraordinary creaiure, Mr. Welby Pugin, the architect, who visited New York about this time last year, and who is very excitable. He appeare: in court and created a great sensation, but even- tually apologized, aud was aliowed to go lis way, FAREW 1, DINNER TO STANLEY. A farewell dinner was given on Thursday to Mr. Staniey, previous to his departure for Afr which many wel! Known literary men attended, and where the success of the traveller and the en- lerprise of t HERALD were made the subject of enthusiastically received toasts. THEATRICAL. It seems that there is no regular theatrical enter- prise in Calcutta, and that the residents, pining | \ | | heavy man into the rolling boat. | Maid tor her Voyage, | rest. How the Metz Marshal Left Ste. Marguerite. A DROP OF EIGHTY FEET. The Accounts of Madame and 3 Her Husband. The Marshal Tells How He Left Ste. Maz~ gucrite. {From the Cologne Gazette, August 16. AS will be seen by the following account of a per- sonal interview with Marshal Bazame during hit visit to Cologne the dougnhty soldier still main- tains the original story of his escape by means of & knotted rope :— i From his sitting room the prisoner was obliged, in order to arrive at the terrace (his promenade), to pass a bridge and t@ descend some steps at the end of it, The briage was enclosed by walls on both sides, on one of which stood the guard. A tent roof was spread over the bridge to keep of the rays of the sun, which algo concealed from those standing at the foot of the steps the persons on the bridge. Ou the southeastern point of the island, which has a steep descent into the sea, the Marshal had arranged a little kitchen garden, in which ne worked much and watered his beans. There his flight was to be elfected, On a far projecting part of this garden the Marshal discovered one day thatan old gutter for carrying of the rain water which poured through the rock was filled c* iraginents of wali and rubbie, Every day the Marshal worked to open it gradu- ally, aud had to conceal with stones and grass what he was doing irom the eyes of spies, At last the opening was completed. If inside the gut (wo strong iron bars were placed across the rock. and if to the bars a strong rope ending with an iron ring and penetrating turough the other side ol the gutter was attached, a rope ladder could be fastened to it stroug enough to carry even so corpulent a man as the Marshal, ‘In the gutter there was room enough to hide the rope ladder and ropes till the decisive day. ‘The most difficult part was to arrive unnoticed at the gut- ter. Every evening Marchi (ine jailer) aecom- panied the prisoner on his requrn from the. terrace across the bridge to his rooms, Then the door waa closed by the warders and escape rendered impos- sible. The Marshal resolved to trast to a happy chance and to expect tie day agreed on with nis wife for the daring act. The night irom last Sanday to Monday was chosen. Wien at ten o’clock the Marshal arrived with Marchi at the flighvof steps, he asked him not to take any more trouble, as the way to the rooms was now Very short. Marchi let Inmiseli be persuaded. The Marshat mounted alone, crossed tiie bridge, the tent roof of which gon- cealed bim for a moment irom those outside, feigned to open and shut the door, which waa closed later by the unsuspecting warders, leaped across tne wali at the left of the bridge, went softly along the outer wall aad reached the gutter, having now passed the first danger, A thick rope, provided with many knots and at the end witu a strong iron hook, was (astened (o the ring, and the descent, eighty feet deep, began with the danger of being smashed against the projecting clits or of jalling into the sea, lashed by a furious mistral. vhne Marshal, who had gained muelr strength during his captivity, had also put on @ strong, tghtly-ftting beit, with an irom hook in front, so that he could fasten himself to & knot of the rope whenever be required a short Arrived at the middle of the rope, he per- celved @ feeble light beneath him. He knew now that his wife Was there. e replied vy the signal agreed on, lighting a matco,. sliowin, thus suspended, is hands swelled aud bied, the cits hurt nim everywhere—thick cloth trousers, stil damp irom the sea water, are covered allover with holes, and show what the daring man must have sulfered, Bevog. reached the end of the rope, but not the strand, he let himself drop into the sea and swam toward the boat in which were his taithful wile and her courageous nephew. Be- fore reaching it his strength lett tim, and Alvarea de Rull, his youthful deliverer, had to lift the After one hour's rowing they reached the peninsnia of Croisette. At some distance the barge of the steamer Baron Ricaxoll, lired by Mme. Bazaine for a pretended pleasure trip, waited for them and brougut them toward ope im the morning on board the steamer. The captain did not know the name of his gues! Mme. Bazaine, when going on land with the barge, had announced that she Would engage @ valet and perhaps a chamber- The Marshat was introduced as the newly engaged valet, ana went at once to = | lis cabin, which ne did not leave again betore the ses have this week enlivened the | ‘the Marshal and Mme. Bazaine ate most explicitiy that they have had no accom- plices, and began una executed the work alone. ‘The same paper, speaking of Marshal Bazaine’s sojourn at Cologne, says:— Young and beautiful, with luxuriant black hair aud biack eyes, of a charming figure and bewitch- ing loveliness, Mme, Bazaiue bad passed the days andiu Genoa. | of splendor at the side of her husband, embeilished The other case | for the enjoyment of the drama, have formed them- | selves into a committee, with the hope of import- | artists from England, A deputation from tui¥ committer, now in London, endeavored in vain to enlist Mr. Bancrog and the Prince of Wi company, and carry them off bodily in the #utiumn, offering very high remuneration, Failing in this, they e made overtures to Mrs, Join She has the matter under consideration, Mr. t man’s Lyceum company is having a ver; great success at (he Standard, where Mr, Irving's trag'¢ impersonations seem to have thoroughiy de. at Enders, ade concerts at Covent Garden, un- 4 direction, are crammed every night. re isa rumor (hat “Led Astray’ will shortiy lighted the E ‘The prome er M. Hery 1 | disappear from the Gaiety programine, On Monday the Haymarket willopen for an extra season with Mine. Sestri will be performed a new version of the ¢ translated by Mr. Campbell Clarke, the Par! expondent of the Daily Telegraph. MORE MALPRAOTICE. A German Girl Nearty Dead After Be: ded by « “Doctoress*—Her v Takes Her to Jersey to Div Coroner Croker was yesterday summoned (o visit the louse of Carl Haubord, No. 206 Willam {, where a young German girl, named Mary r, had been attended on Thursday last by nis, of, Market street, who pronounced her < company, by whom | und eased to him the days of misiortune, und has now boldly braved the waves and the other dangers of an escape, and brought it about with the help of ayouthiul and resolute nephew. But the Marshal has also shown no lack of courage. When his two deliverers gave him the signal at ten o'clock in the evening he let namself resolutely and quickly down by the repe, which tore his hands und stuns, | He has shown us himself his swolien and black aud biue hands and the wound on his right shin. ‘Yhree or four times a high spouting wave seiz him and turew bim against the rock, but the boat was reached and no further abstacie opposed the completion of the fight. Now he stays on Ger- man sotl, to which a short time ago he was a dan- gerous and bioody loe. Mme. Bazainets Version of the Escape. ‘vhe following ts the fall text of the letter ad- dressed by Mme. Bazaine, trom Spa, to the French Minister of the Intertor:— On my arrival here [ find by the newspapers that there have peen several arrests in consequence of lhe Marshal's escape. It bad previously been my intention to write to you om the matter, and it has now become iny duty. seek for no accomplices, for there ure none, My nephew, M. Alvarez de Ruli, and | are those who effected everytning. On seeing that no alteration would be made in the treatinént of the captive Marsial, and that his lie threatened to be shortened, I determined to per- suade iu to escape, 1 accordingly begged my hiepliegy to help we, Which his independent post- ton enabied him to do, and we pledged each other to do everything ourselves in order ‘o compro- wis¢ nolody. [ now communicate to you the exact detatis of what occurred. hoping to Clear up the truta and to prevent imnoceat persons trom languishing any longer in dungeons. I leit spa on the 29th of July, accompanied by my nephew, whose devotion has stood every tesi. We repaired to Genoa, where we arrived on the 6th of August, On ‘Thursday, the 6th, we went to the Peirano Dano- varo Company for the purpose of hiring a pleasure steamer, under the pretext of wishing to make a trip in the Mediterranean and on condition that the vessel should be entirely at our disposal. About five in the morning of Saturday, the sinh, we lett Genow harbor, and arrived in tue course of tue morniog at Port Maurice, where the bad weather forced us to stop tor the night. On the next day, the 9tn, We wenc to Sun Keno and spent the day there, About eight we directed the cap- tain to proceed to Jouan Bay, tellung him we wished to fetch a man servant trom @ villa situate on the coast, for the captain knew noching of our planus. ‘The Marshal had been imiormed by words which T had written in my letters with sympa- | thetic ink that he was to make preparations to leave the island by night, immediately atter the arrival of a steamer in Jouan Bay. The captain, wishing to proceed tn order to have hus pa wit fold him we were going to a Villa in the neigh- horkood to fetch &@ man servant, and, perhaps ‘also a maid servant, and should then towar suffering from the consequences of malpractice, | Dy, Prandis had notified the Board of Health of the | occu ce aad the Coroner's oMce was then com- municated with in the usual way. When Coroner Oroker arrived at the house in William street he jound that the girl Dietzer had lett there on Thurs- day Jast. From the statement of Dr. Prandis it seems that Mary had been only three months preg- | nant, when, i( is alleged, that the abortion Was pro- cured. The doctor was called in by Mrs, Haubor who had noticed Maria's sickness. Marla ad- itted to Mrs. Hanbord and to another domestic nh to see a “doctoress* in Kast Broadway, from whom she had got some medicine to whom she patd $20. Mrs, Haubord recom. mended her to go to the house in Kast Broad. way and remain there util her recovery. The “doctoress,”” however, refused to receive the girl at the first request, but subsequently on Thursday she sent Word to Mrs, Haubord’s that she would receive her, Maria went there, and remained until yesterday afternoon, when abe was turned out. Alter being ejected she calied on Mrs. Haabord, in inpany With her supposed seducer, and said that the latver was taking her to friend's Brunswick, N.J. ‘Tne girl was ia a most pI condition, suffering the most intense pains and said she was going away to die. Coroner Croker has the case still In his bands, and will take all necessary action to develope the circumstances Lueliyer up the gility, whoever they tay be, back to Nice. We left the ship its boats about hall-past seven, and landed in the neighvorhood of La Croisette, in order hot to compromise the crew of the ship. We went theuce to La Croisette, where we hired a boat for a trip on the sea. The sea was very rough. Neither of us hardly knew how to row, so that we did not reach the foot of the fort Vheese Jouan till between hali-past nine and ten. We there saw the Marsnal descending by @ rope, and to give hin asiva wnere the boat was we lighted @ match. ‘The Marshal immediately answered by lighting a match to direct us to the spot where he bad chmbed down, A littie later he jumped into tue sea in order to reach the boat, My nephew had to assist hit into it, ior he had received"contus ons, and bis strength was exhausted. All three of us then tried to reach the steamer, which was to watt for us at the spot where we had leit tt. With night turn in one ol | much dimiculty we ound it, wet on board, and lelt one of the satlors to take the boat back to the coast. As soon as We were on board my nephew and T directed the captain, it bemg already one A, M., to start immediately for, Genoa, where we landed on the 10th of August, about eleven A, M. ‘Bnis, sir, 8 the truth, and I have the honor to salute you. CITY TREASURY, — Comptroller Green reports the following disburse ments aud receipts of the treasury :— DISHONSEMENTS. Claims paié (number ot warrants 59 amounting Weees “ ys f 19,208 ‘Vial paid (vunber of warrants 78) amounting to $96,298 RECHIPTS, f taxes, assesainents and interest... $7.79) Of ASSONETHE NLS ADU INTEFESst ‘9013 Ws and fees. +4