The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1874, Page 7

_ =UROPE as Gana A General Review of Politics on the Continent. RUSSIA'S POWER IN THE EAST. Will Germany Remain an Imperial Unit?—-Signs and Omens. THE ARREST OF ARNIM. Society and the Drama in Paris— The Farewell of Dejazet. ALEXANDER AND DON CARLOS, The Old Catholic Movement in Germany—The “ Pilioque” Controversy. WILL THE) KING OF BAVARIA. ABDICATE ? Panis, Uct. 11, 1874. THE VISIBLE WORKING OF PROVIDENCE, ‘The firet step toward the unity of the Father- | Jond was indirect:y taken by Napoleon III. when he entered on the memorable crusade for the liberation of Italy from the foreign yoke. In 1859 the popular feeling throughout Prussia was atrong'y in fuvor of Austria; Germans could see Ro honesty of purpose in a Napoleonic invasion of territory belonging to a German prince. Had the Emperor Francis Joseph then treated with less haughtiness the overtures of the Cabinet of Berlin a Prussian army would have marched into France by its northeast frontier, which was completely rained of troops by the campaign in the south. France and Sardinia would have been no match for Austria and Prussia united, and the hope of na- tionalities would have been strangled in its birth. ‘The effect of this union between the two great German Powers would probably bave been to pre- vent the dissolution of the old Diet in 1866 and to Jeave Prussia no starting point for her aggression. When war did break our the sword of Napoleon, if thrown into the scale at its commencement in favor of Austria, would nave given her the victory, but luck (or Heaven) so willed it that Napoleon should wait till the contest had been decided in favor o1 Prus- ela, But if he haa even assailed the new North German Vonfederation in the autumn of that year before it was wellknit together and betore the alliance with tne Southern States .bad ‘been formed, his own Empire might never have been overthrown ut Sedan. As it was, Napoleon having threatened war if the Fortress of Mayence were not ceded to France in compensation for the recent acquisitions of Prussia—that is to say, hav- ing plainly shown,the new Power that he regardea it with suspicion—quietly put up with a relusa, and allowed the foe whom he had thus warned four years to consolidate his forces and prepare for the inevitable conflict. Never did the gods more plainly intatuate the man whom they wished to destroy. As M. Thiers bitterly exclaimed in the Legislative Assembly, turning to the Emperor's Ministers, “You bave filled up the measure of your viunders. There are positively no more mistakes left for you to commit.” In that eloquent :ament that other mations gnould be great side by side with France ; i sponse the voice of French chauvinism by the | mouth of @ man who well deserves to be called THE LAST OF THE FRENCH, as the term French has deen understood by the world for more than three hundred years. For Europe, at least, it has meant the most brilliant and the most aggressive civilization that was ever seen—a civilization wich has had the rare merit of never permanently conquering without also permanently conciliating. Flemings, Lorrainera, Burgundians, Bretons and Savoy- ards have all become Frencaumen by adop- tion and choice, ag well as the fate of arms. Yet Lorraine has been part of France for little more than a hundred years and Savoy for only fourteen. England, on the other naud, hs tatled after seven hundred years of dominion to reconcile Ireland to her yoke. Nor does it appear as though Russia were Iikely to have any better success with Poland, THE 'URE OF GERMAN Will Prussia be as successiul as France in con- solidating her acquisitions, or will the Empire which, unlike Rome, was butit ina day, also perish inaday? It has been well said that Ume respects nothing which it has not created; and there is another saying of some authority with Americans, if not with Germans, avout those who use the sword, The German Empire (which must not be coniounded with the German people) is a por- tentous birth. It is proud to own that it sprung from war. Such was not the policy of Frederic I1., who, when he liad been victorious, Was only too anxious to sneathe the sword and pose as 3 lover of peace. But it is in their treat- ment of religious questions that the difference between Frederic and his successors {s most strikingly shown. The great King nad no sooner obtained possession of Silesia than he hastened to confirm his new Catholic subjects in the full liberty to worship God according to their con- sience, As to attempting to define for Catholics what were and what were not Catholic dogmas, Frederic was too wise for such oa transparent violation of religious freedom. He knew that the peasantry of Silesia could pertectly well hold the belief in the Pope's infallbility, together with a very Arm conviction that their sovereign’s will was not to be disputed in the matter of the conscription and of the pay- ment of taxes. To paraphrase his own formula, they might believe what they pleased as long as they dia what he pleased. This pacific policy was resolutely adhered to by the three Frederic Wil- Hams who reigned after him, and the result was that Silesia became as thoroughly a par: of Prus- sia as Brandenburg. Travellers in the former prov- ince, during the spring of 1386, declared that the peopie were periectly terrified at the idea of pass- ing once more ander the domination of tne House of Hapsburg. Nor until lately had Prassian Po- land ever given the same trouble to its rulers as Austrian and Russian Poland. Now the great principle of RELIGIOUS EQUALITY, which was the peculiac glory of Prussia half a cen+ tury before the French Revolution and ninety years before the repeal of the Test act in England, is completely abandoned by the government of Berlin, and with it that “agreement to differ,’’ which, next to religious uuity, is the strongest bond of peace that can unite the various parties in a State, Here is one source of weakness in the hastily formed Contedermion of the German States, Its seriousness May be measured by she fact that out of a population of 40,000,000 living under the Empire about — 15,000,000 = are = Catholics. The remaining 25,000,000 are composed ot Protestants of all sects and Jews, the latter being an extremely numerous andj influential body. German Protestantism is not, indeed, split into so many sects as its American or English counter- parts; yet there i: tween Lutherans and “Evangelicals,” while both these sections in their turn present an infimte variety of shades of opinion, from the strictest Calvinism to the loonest rationalism. Hence tne ways the broad diviston be- | Catholics are @ compact body, while their adver- aries are merely a disorganized mass of confict- ing forces. Moreover, a!l who boldly profess the Catholic faith in this time of persecution may. be believed, while many of those who profess the orthodox Pretestant- ism which is in fasiion at court are BOWING THEIR HEADS IN THE HOUSE OF RIMMON, and paying homage to Cwsar rather than to any Digher authority. Hence the Catholics may be considered the largest religious community, in the Empire. AS a political organization they have this further advantage, that they are ior the most Part concentrated in the southern provinces. If, therejore, the persecution of the Catholics is con- tinued there seems to be a prospect of the South renouncing its allegiance at the first favorable opportunity. A secession of the Catholic States, headed by the House of Bavaria, could not be put down like our own rebellion. HOW THE DANES SUFFER IN SCHLESWIG. The case of the Danes o1 North Schieswig is an especially hard one. They are retained in subjec- tion by Prussia in open contempt of the treaty of 1864, and alter ten years of Prussian rule they are as obstinately attached as ever to their old nationality. The Prussian government ts treating them with extraordinary harshness, appointing | German clergymen to ecclestastical benefices and interfering in a number of vexatious ways with the ordinary life of the people, They have, for instance, put down some very harmless lo.teries that were held in connection with certain catule fairs, and it was believed by the Danes that the object of the promibition was reaily to put down the cattle fairs, perhaps under the impression that they were a cover for political meetings. The Danes naturally resort to chi- canery—the usual dejence of the weak against force—and, as it were, wriggle out of Prussian regulations with such dexterity as tn them lies. Their Deputies in the Diet maintain an attitude of sulky obstruction, Indeea, passive resistance 18 perhaps the safest kind of opposition, for Prussian oMctaltsm ts apt to deal roughly with arguments which tt 1s not easy to wnswer. A Prussian subal- tern’s notion of a happy retort is to administer a vigorous Kick to his antagonist, and therein he only symbolizes the rule of his auguse sovereign. The Danes of North Schleswig being discontented, Prince Bismarck has suggested the most original of remedies—namely, the redaction to vassalage of the whole of Denmark, ‘Ihen the | Schleswigers can no longer complain that they are separated irom the rest of the'r countrymen, ‘The Prince 1s satd to love a joke, but this is a very old one—to advise & man who has the toothache to cut off his head. Itis even reported that formal proposals have been made to the Miniaters of Christian I[X., and that they have been coldly re- jectec. ‘This really terminates the matter, for force is out of the question. It 1s doubtful whether Kusala would have permitted the peaceful acquisi- tion of a seaboard which practically shut her up in the Baltic, ‘THE OZAR HIMSELF might not be unwilling to come to an arrange- ment which would give Denmark to Pruasia and abandon Sweden and Norway to the mercies of Kussia. + The suggestion has been made before now In one of those imaginary maps of Europe which student politicians love to trace, but the sense of the German people would be strongly against permitting & Protestaut and Teutonic people to be absorbed into a Sclavonic empire. Moreover the next Emperor of Russia has sym- pathies quite alien to those of his iatner. He re- fused to drink the health of the km- peror William at a public banquet; he bas married a Danish wile, and would probably prefer a French to a German alliance, Russia ts yearly increasing in wealth and popula- tion. Her trade and commerce’ are constantly developing, and it 1s a noticeable fact that the cut- | lery manufactured at Kiev is said to be rivalling that of Birmingnam. Alexander Ill. will be second in power to no monarch of his time, and witn France waiting her opportunity and Austria jeatous, it will rest with him whether Germany shall be allowed to pursue ber career of conquest or whether she shall not be compelled to disgorge @ portion of her fil-gotten spoil. The Religious Question in Germany. FRANKFORT, Oct. 12, 1874. ‘The attention of the religious world was di- rected, a few days ago, to Bonn, on the Rhine. A number of eminent theologians, of all Christian contessions except the Rowan, had assembled trom all lands to discnss with a number of the Old Catholics, headed by Dr. Ddilinger, who have con- stituted themselves a “union for the promotion of Christian unity,” and to endeavor to bring avout what Dr. Dillinger terms Christian intercommu- nion. These eminent theologians, some forty or filty in number, have met and separated, and doubtless entertain the fond idea that they are about to accomplish something or other. They did nothing at Bonn, however, worth recording, ex- cept discuss the dogma of the Trinity. Ineed not give youacomplete ist of the persons present at the Congress. ‘They hailed trom Russia, Greece, Denmark, England, Germany and the United States, From America were the Bishop of Pittsburg and some other clergy, as well as W. Chauncey Lang- don, “Rector of Emanuel Church at Geneva,” and the Rev, Mr. Nevin, of the ‘American Church at Rome.” Both these latter gentiemen are, | be- lieve, members of the Episcopal Church, and gen- erally manage to spresd themselves at the Old Catholic congresses as representatives of Ameri- can Protestantism. THK CONFERENCES AT BONN were conducted with closed doors—tuat is to say, reporters and correspondents were not admi.ted. ‘rns, however, 18 @ stall loss to the Christian world, 1 suppose, since nearly all the minor cier- ical gentlemen wao roam about Europe at this season, and Whose white chukers admitied them mto the Bonn sanctum, carry pens, ink and paper | unthe.r handvags, and have, doubtiess, sent o1f | OL all his science. enthusiastic reports to ail parts of Christendom. Dullunger thinks that these ecclesiastical discus- sions should not be treated by the dauy press; they are of toosacred a nature lor secular writers to flounder about in. We can omy agree with him, Sucn efforts are an anachronism, and, to use the words of a German contemporary, a num- ber of clerical tendencies, which we had sapposed dead, are reawakened and look upon us with oall- opened, dreamy eyes, astonished and creating as- tonishment in the strange surrounding which they find about them. VIRCHOW ON MIRACLE Professor Virchow has been denying the possi- bility of miracies, and has expressed his views in an address before the Congress of German Natu- ralists and Physicians, held in tue past week at Breslau, AS a text he took the case of Louise Lateau, the Belgian silgmatizea girl, whose his- tory may be briefly narrated:—She was burn in 1950, in the Walioon district of Belgium, and passed through Various lorms Of disease uncil 1863, when the marks of stigmatization appeared. On Fri- day, the 21st of April, 1868, just as she had finished ber period of noviceship for the sisterhood of the Order of St. Francis of Assisi, appeared on her the phenomenon of the stigmata—tnat 16, bleeding wounds on those parts of the body where Christ suffered daring His agony, the soles of the feet, the palms of tne hand, tne brow, and the side, and which are cousidered to be living remembrances of tne sacrificial death of the Saviour The best known example of tho stigmata was St. Francis of Assisi, The first wound revealed on Louise Lateau was on the lett side; then came others on the soles of the feet, then on the palms or the hand, and finally on the brow, which showed marks of blood as if irom a crown of thorns. This is Louise's his- tory a8 it is known to us from a pamphiet written by a Dr. Roling, who considers the phenomenon on her to be a true miracle. He sent his book to Pro- fessor Virchow, and the Germania demanied that the celebrated scientist should visit the stigmatized girl and convince himself that the case Was a miracle in spite Virchow retused to go, on the ground that he could not properly examine the case there, and it required tue observation and attendance of more than one person; Jor, be- sides the phenomenon of stigmatization, others had appeared. She became at times ecstatic, she slept not, and, Sante: e lived on without any otoer pourtahment than & simple wafer and a few spoonfuls of water every day. Hither miracle or de- ception | says Virchow. ‘Now,’ says he, ‘‘a miracle is considered to be a negation of natural laws; but where has such a reault been observed?” Now, Virchow ts evidently _» wicked man of sctence and wishes to leave the Church without any miraci whatever. There may be exceptions to natural laws, he sya admits, vA which these miracles cun ‘be produced tor the benefit of the Church; “but, in ordinary times, if@ saint or the Virgin 16 seen in the air, he 18 of the opinion that the rson of phenomenon must be upheld bya higher power that must be measured, like as if we drew up a weight witha crane. He (Virchow) does hot believe that we have to do with @ natural flow of blood at all, He hints that there is a decep- tion abroad, and he suspects that Louise Lateau ts the tool of clerical impostors. The Arrest of Arnim. BERLIN, Oct. 10, 1874, The arrest and imprisonment of Count Harry Arnim, @ prominent member of the (eudal aria. tocracy, and not long ago one of the first dignita- Ties of the German Empire and representative of the Kaiser, has cauved @ deep sensation ail over Germany, ‘The tacts of the arrest are these:— A few days ago the Count went to his Nassen- heide estate, near Grambow, in Pomerania, in | order to spend his birtnday im the midst of hts family. On the morning of that eventtul day, | however, he was surprised by the arrival of the | Berlin Criminal Commissionaire Pick and six as- | sistante, who demanded the return of seven let- | ters which Prince Bismarck nad officially | addressed to the Count while the latter filied the | position of German Ambassador at Paris. Tne ab- | sence of these letters from the official archives of | the embassy at Paris bad only been lately discov- | erec, and it appears that Prince Bismarck bad i mage repeated attempts to have them returned, | butin vain, Count Arnim refused to give up the desired despatches or to tell the place where they | could be found, The two officials then proceeded | to search the house, and, their efforts proving fruitless, they declared the Count under arrest | and took him to Berlin, wuere he was imprisoned in the Stadtvogtei. The officials took possession | of books containing copies of letters written by the Count to the Emperor relating to these letters and others written to bis attorney. ‘The Countess Aroim accompanted her husvand to Berlin, but has no intercourse with him. His servant is no longer permitted to see nim. Searches for the letters were subsequently made in the house of the mother of the Count, on the Parestr Platz, and in the apartments of his son, an officer in a cavalry regiment, with the same Tesult as at Nassenheide, THE NATURE OF THE LOST DESPATOHES is of course not made public, but it is generally believed they are such as would greatly compro- mise the Prince if made public. And Count Aruim, | sinew bis recall from Paris, has repeatedly ex- pressed hia determination to take revenge, at the proper time, for the diplomatic disgrace re- ceived at Bismarck’s hands. The latter was doubtless jearing the pubdiication of some- thing like La Marmora’s ‘More Light,” and that this “More Light,” would be lkely to reveal some state secrets which were better kept irom the world. The Frankfort Gazette says:—The play was enacted behind the curtains unill the patience of the one actor was exhausted. Tue Vount was in possession of documents which were of a nature very serious to the fame of the Chancellor, All attempts to recover the letters seem to have been !ruitless, Why these attempts were iruitiess may later be revealed. We imagine that Count Harry, having the power to take re- venge if he wished, demanded a kind of rehabill- tation, which Bismarck could not grant without injuring bis own position and revealing weak | points in’ his policy. Thus the;matter had to be brought to an ena, and the Count, who was about to commence the dance, was started with the music of “a full orchestra.” Arnim now | asserts that these letters. are of a pri- vate nature, having been addressed to him in bis non-official capacity; on toe other hand, Bismarck declares them to be oficial documents, ani the arrest of the Count is based on paragraphs | 133 and 348 of the penal code, which says:— “Whoever destroys, conceals or damages a docu- ment, register or act, or other object which has been placed for oMictal preservation ina certain | place, or whigh has been given over officially to an | official tor preservation, shall be punished with imprisonment, An oficial wno shall destroy, con- ceal, damage or falsity a document officially in- trusted to him, shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than one month.” Alexander and Don Carlos. FRANKFORT, Oct. 12, 1874, The note which the Czar is supposed to have written to Don Carlos is still the subject of weary- tng outpourings in the German press, But as no two papers seem to have the same opinion about Kalser Alexanaer’s intentions it is difficult to give you the views entertained on the subject in Germany. The Vienna journals are more out- spoken than the German or Prussian, The Neue Freie Presse considers the note to have a de- cided tendency of breaking up the entente cordiale which the world was taught to consider assured at the meeting of the three emperors at Berlin. It is an unequivocal demonstration against the policy of Austria and Germany in the Spanish question, and, considered in the best possible light, as a diplomatic move of the most critical kind. The News Freie Presse ad- vises Russia to look before she leaps, Jor the road 18 dangerous whereon she hasentered. The Pesther Lloyd, the organ of Count Andrassy, expresses itself more circum. spectly, itiegrets the iact of the letter, and \uinks there i# always ground for uneasiness when the divergence of one cabinet is made so prominently public; but it does not think the mat- ter 18 worth toe attention that has been given it. The probiem 0. Spain's iuture 13 not a diplomatic one. It is to be solved only by the strength and the patriotism of the Spanish people, Hurope’s Tecognition was of no use in consolidating the constitutional ceptor of King Amadeus, and so far the present recogniti jon has peither diminisued the cnauces of Don Carlos nor (ahd bounds to the civil war. The Loyd beueves that the triendship ol tne three empires, Russia, Germany and Austro- Hungary, is based on a foundation more solid than to be destroyed by an incident of such subjective consideration. The Nord-Deutsche Zeitung (Prince Bismarck’s organ) spoke of the subject ac firsc in serious language, bat has recently adopted a more pacific tone. And 80, before this letter reaches you, it 18 possible that the whole subject will have passed out of the range of discussion, and nobody will be hurt except Prince Bismarck, Whose policy has received a not over gentle shock from an unexpected quarter. | One thing is certain—that Russia intends taat her voice shall be neard in Europe in spite of the Brussels flasco, The possibilities of war are very small indeed. The King of Bavaria’s Abdication. FRANKFORT, Oct. 11, 1874. The last sensational article published against the reigning king is In Newes Fremdendlatt, in which | we are told that the oMcers of the Munich garrison are very discontented with the state of things in Bavaria, ‘bey say that the King has a decided antipathy to the military; that he dislikes to mingle with his oficera, and in other ways does not permit them to bask in tho sunshine of his appreciation. The discontent arises, it ap- pears, from the fact of the mancuvresin Bavaria having taken place without the King troubling himself about them, while it bad been hinted to Berlin that “Our Fritz’? would not be required any further south than the Palatinate. I will quote a Part of the article headed ‘HE KING AND THE SOLDIERS.’ The Crown Prince did not attend the manw@uvres 1o Lower Bavaria; nor did the King, of course. Prince Luipold (cousin to the King) represented the Emperor and the King of Bavaria. ‘he manauyres went of splendidly; but, unfortu- nately, the newspapers took no notice of them, wot long telegrams and = correspond- ences wee printed about the manguvres im the Palatinate, in Hesse, in Hanover and other places. Now tne soldier who feels himseif neglected by the King and ignored b; the press begins to ieel that he is not appreci- fated. Especially do the officers feel the present state oftiuings to be unbearable and yearn for other times. By the treaty with Prussia King Ludwig relinquishes his army in times of war to the command of the Emperor. Ludwig is only tne commander of his army in times of peace. The peculiar relationship in which the Ba- varlan troops stand to the imperial army could | be made more popular if the King—as is the case in S@xony—took an active interest fo his troops, and endeavored to bring about an accommodation between the interest of | the land and that of the Empire. But no one is Jess suitable for this than Ludwig Il., whose peice views of the royal dignity prevent him ‘om seeing the man in the soldier, and since he has no love for the soldier it ts natural that the relation at present existing between King and army grows or tho latter more and more wunbearadie. The ajority of the m: officers wish to come. directly under the Empire, while the soldier does not care to conceal his de- gite “for another king.” Characteristic of the | feeling of the ar: is the rumor connected with the journey of Prince Leopold vo Berlin—to the effect that tue son-in-law of Francis Joseph had [ar to the Berlin court in order to procure the jeposal of the present King. The fact canno: be overlooked that King Ludwig’s deposal is a thing earnestly looked forward to and prayed for by the uitramontane party in Bavaria. The present King is the only liberal-minded Catholic prince of the family, In case of deposition his successor would be—his brother Otto having been affitcted with insanity— Prince Luitpuld, the present King’s unele, a son of King Ludwig L, born on the 12th of March, 1821, It Is generally assumed, however, that Prince Luitpold would not accept the royal dignity, and _NEW ‘YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1874.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Leopold, married Francis Josepn’s only daughter, Gisela. In case of change Austrian influence would be paramount at the Munich Court. But | them the present King is not yet deposed, nor do | I think he will be, in spite of ultramontane and Austrian influences, Should the military take it into their heads to “demonstrate” King Ludwig bas only to beckon to Berlin and he would receive ample support. But the majority of the people of Munich and of the Bavarian Hignlandsare in favor | of the present King, and! think he is safe enough on his throne unless he gets disgusted with affairs and voluntarily abdicates himself. The present King was born at least a century too soon. He is too much a lover of the beautiul; the present is | the age of Krupp’s cannon and the needle-gun. Dejazet’s Farewell to the Stage. Panis, Oct, 12, 1874, The theatrical season has now recommenced In | earnest, and the great event of the day is the grand per ormance tn honor of Déjazet. The most famous of living French actresses is now seventy- | eight years old, and she has at last felt’it necessary to retire from the stuge. All the actors and ac- tresses in Paris assembled to bid her farewell. The play bill contained the first act of “M. Garat,” a | vaudeville by Victorien Sardou, who, of course, gave up his rights of authorship, while Gil Perez, Pasia Marié, Susanne Lagier, Van Gehl, Judic, Schneider, Marie Cabel, Rousseil Dica Petit, Henri Monnuer, Fréderic Lemaftre anda score ol actresses gave their services for nothing. Then followed the third act of Molitre’s comedy of “Tartuffe,”” performed by Got, Delaunay, Mme. Favart ana Mme. Provost Tonsin, under like conditions, This was succeeded by the trio im the second act of Ressini’s opera of “William Tell,” sung by Tam- berlik, Faure and Belval, and that was followed by the duo in the fourth act of Meyerbeer’s opera of “The Huguenots,” of which Scribe wrote the libretto. 1t was sung by Mme. Gueymard-Lauters and M. Villaret. Next came the trio, arranged for | the plano, organ and violin, from the mass of Ver- | di, played by Ritter, Garcin and Cohen. Mme. Judic sung @ chansonnette afterwards, and this was followed by the second act of “Coppéla” a | ballet composed by Nuitter and St. Léon, music by Léo Delibes; tt was danced by Mile. Beaugrard, Mile. Eugénie Fiocre, M. Cornet and fifteen pair of the best legs im Paris. ‘this was succeeded by “Les Jnrons de Cadillac,’”’ a comedy in one act, by Berton, 1t was beautifully played by Landrol and | Mule. Céline Montaland, Aiterwards came the gem of the evening, LA “LISETTE”’ DE BERENGER, sung by Mile. Déjazet herself, surrounded by all who are gtfted and famous in the French dramatic corps. Croizette, the star which has lately msen over the Comédie Francaise; Sarah Bernhardt, who is @ fixed planet there; Pasca, who had come expressly from St. Petersburg; Léonide Leblanc; Pierson, the pride of the {gymnase; Céline Chau- mont, the best actress of the Variétés; Peschard and Théo, of the Bouffes; Thérésa, the Queen of the Gatté, all were there; and the performance closed with @ grand chorus In praise of Déjazet’s |. last Song ever to be sung before the public, and a procession composed of deputations from every theatre in Paris saluted the retiring actress. Then the band played the overture of Auber’s opera of “La Muette de Portici.”’ and the curtain dropped. Alter nearly fourscore years spent in the service of the most play-going people in the world DEJAZET WAS UITERLY DESTITUTE a@ few days ago, and it was uot easy to provide for’ her. A generous, open-nanded woman this. whose fixed determination it has been through life to give away all she had. It was well known, there- fore, that if she came into receipt of asum of money she would hasten to get rid of 1s so com- pletely that in a few weeks, or per- haps in @ few days, she might be starving. The sum just realized by her benefit has tneretore been placed in the hands of trustees, and a com- Jortable annuity will be secured for her during her last years. The results of her farewell benefit are more splendid than any before known in France. The receipts aione exceeded $12,000, and to them must be aaded the money taken at a fancy fair which was got up for her, making altogether $25,500, which have been tnvested—as they weil might be at her age—im such a manner ag to produce about $5,000 ayear. She can hardly live very long, though she is still sprightly, and sang her song without a false note from beginning toend. Surely the ufe of such a woman utterly retutes the nonsense which 1s perpetually poured into our ears about early hours and plain diet, Here is a woman who has attained to extreme old age in good health and spirits, and whose days bave been passed in one continual revel. It ison record that from the year 1811, when she was fif- teen years old, till yesterday, when she was nearly seventy-eight, she can scarcely have ever gone to ded till two or three o’clock in the morn- ing. It washer custom to sup long after mid- night with the gayest men and women of succeed- img generations, and she has herself expressed an opinion that nothing but Burgundy and champagne were fit todrink. She would take a quantity of those heady liquors which would drown the intel- lect of many a strong man, though she was herself apparently but a frail little body. Even twenty years ago, when she was bordering upon sixty, she had the enviable or unenviable reputation of a habitual toper, and was invariably under the influence of stimulants while she was playing her parts. So the moral of her Ife, after careful examination, comes to this—that sobriety bas, in some cases at least, no influence on the duration of human existence, and that all the fine things we have been told about moderation and abstin- ence are not one whit truer than much else which we have been told. Déjazet seems to have enjoyed or abused all that the world could offer her, and yet she could still sing and caper upon the stage after three-score and eighteen years spent in joility. Perhaps we should not like to hold up sucha model to our children. Theatrical Noveltics in Paris. Panis, Oct. 13, 1874, Paris has quite a wealth of novelties in the theatrical way for the coming season. In the first place the Ambigu-Comique, so long degraded into dirt and dreariness by the parsimony of M. Billion, has passed under a new management, and has beer. fitted up with such extraordinary splendor that its decorations will eclipse those of the new Opera House, which ts to be opened next year. The success of the first performances which have been held there 1s prodigious, the theatre having -| been reopened by “LJOFFICIER DE FORTUNE,” @ drama im five acts and ten tableaux, written by M. Jules Adenis and M. Jules Rostaing. It is founded on the well known story of Baron Trenck, and the authors have made the most of his wonderful adventures, The chief thing to be noticed, however, about the Am- bign Theatre is that managers cannot spend too much money on public entertainments it they look for profits. Jt seems as if we had all ofus to unlearn the old moralities. “A penny saved is twopence gained” has been one of the | yast which kept its hold on the minds of cautious people. M. Billion, the late manager of the Am- | bigu, was quite @ pattern of economy. He split all his cents into four slices, and never paid away ope of them if he could help it, He got actors and actresses cheap by watching bis opportunity and making shrewd bargains with them, He found ont authors and scene painters who were in want, and gave them em- ployment in the dull season of the year when they could not find it elsewhere, He was a clever manager, too, and had a keen judgment tn select+ ing plays Which were likely to please the public. He made several tremendous hits, such “L’Article 45; and he formed Mme. Rousseil, w: ig now tne best tragic actress at the Francais; but, alter all, his economy only conducted him into total failure, Here are some of the new pieces at the French theatres this season :— “LA FAMILLE TROULLLAT,"* ap operetta in three acts, by MM. Hector Orémteux and Ernest Blum; music by M. Vasseur. The oid idea of @ French operetta was represented by a sparkling little piece, in one act, like the “Ohien du Colonel,” which was performed on the rising of the curtain, and was meant to put people im good humor beiore the commencement of the princtpal performance o! the evening. MM. Hector Urémieux and Ernest Blum, however, assisted by M. Vasseur, appear to think that there need be no difference between an operetta and a comic opera. that his oldest son, Prince Ludwig, would occupy the throne. Both Luitpold and Ludwig are excessively ultra: montane tn their sentiments. Ludwig married an Austrian Archduchess. while his younger brother, At all events they have produced a most agreeable trifle in this shape, though it is ratner dificult to ut the subject of their piece into conventional Mile. Perven which has been compromised b; an mous Parisien. ving, as they believed, this object, they sing a song more re- markable ior the lively character of its music than for its literary beauty. It has, in fact, «o amall 9 iaeihaune inden that the song appears 18 choros, which seven times at the cl eran, pontaine only the tullowing lin C'est Iapothi Set AR ie The composer for his part does not seem to have trouoled bis head to inquire whether this literary work had good musical points im it. He bas merely composed ail sorts 01 airs, according to his humor, and put them to the words he iound, not of every verse, contains caring whether they fitted or uot, and he has | taken much of bis iuspiration irom M. Ceaes and M. Offenbach. M. Vasseur ia &@ young man, and perhaps he ay live | long enough to compose music of nis own. The- résa, Who has grown fatter and jollier than she was last year, and whose voice has linproved ina gurprising manner, insured the success of the jece and contrived, somehow or other, to look ike & Borman. peasany girlof twenty, though she ig rather an old stager now. “LE TREIZIEME COUP DE MINUIT,” three acts, words by MM. Clairville and Gaston | Marot, music by M. de billemont. This piece is cailed a lyrical legend in the play bills; but it is algo an opera disguised under that name by the Manager of the Tuéatre du Chateau d’Kau. It has an overture, an introduction, choruses, cava- tinas, duos, trios and finales, it 1s, moreover, & leg piece, ull of ballets, transiormation nes, mechanical wonders, Bengal fire and the sound of thunder, The scene of the opera 18 __ placed in janate the Bi of Transylvania, and at ‘“‘Temeswar,”’ which 1s said to be the Capital of that country. it @ppears that “Temeswar” 18 the chosen residence oi vampires, uscogues and other supernatural beings, who were known to Charles Nodier half a century ago, and who went through adventures which caused the hair of our grandmothers to stand upon end, M. Ciatrville, wliose ideas of history are pe- cular, declares that ‘Iransyivania is governed by @ Hospogar, who answers to the Parisian cockney name of Baudruchard ; and he, energetically aided by his collaborators, has heaped up blunders and anachrouisms in such @ mass that it ts impossible to see one’s way through them. The Tran: nian army are Greased im Spanish costumes, and the Trapayivanian girls are made to dance a Scotch reel. The grand mystery oi the opera is the strange conduct of a church ciock which has strack thirteen at midnight. No Transylvanian hero ig boid enough to climb the steepie or the chureh and ascertain what is the matter with this clock; becau,e all persons in Transylvania are aware that certain ghosts are accustomed to in- teriere With the movements of the best clock- Work. At last, however, George Brown hears of the clock’s misdoings, and observes that he has no Jear of ghoste, in music which was composed many years ago by Boleldieu, although M. de Billemont has now called it bis own. George Brown 1s rewarded for his valor by meeting @ith sn interesting young lady by the name oi Léondye, who 18 @ daughter of Baudruchard and also 4 sorceress. Sue reveals these facts in music com- posed by Bofelateu tor “La Dame Blanche.” Having thus shown her good taste, she relates that she has just reached her eighteenth birthday, which is the period at which a sorceress her majority; and that she has been transported through the air by witches in order that she may strike thirteen on the vil- lage clock as a signal for the opening Of an infer- nal Sabbath. George Brown falls in love with the sorceress, and they go to the Sabbath together. ‘The two lovers are received by a devil, who sings some lively tunes and tells them that Léonore will be disenchanted on the day that she goes with her lover into the midst of @ field of mandrakes in biossom. She does 80, ana, after the flowers have sung to her in chorus, she is married, and lives happily ever aiterward., Notwithstanding its faults and its plagtarisms, there is a good deal of color and wild romance in the piece. M. Capel, who takes the leading part in it, 1s an excellent tenor, and @ young débutante named Mile. Bres- Sault Was periectiy charming. Tue piece is ad- mirably put on the stage. and some of the trans. formation scenes are marvellous examples of What can now be done by mechanism. MUSICAL COMPETITION AT THE GAITE, : M. Offenbach has offered a prize jor the best Freach composer of legitimate comic opera, which 33, Moreover, to be played at his theatre. The prize will only consist of asum of 1,000f., or $200, im money; but the successiul work will be per- tormed three times at tue literary and musical mornings at the Gafté; and this is, of course, a great honor. French composers only who desire to compete for the prize must submit their operas to the management of the Gaité beiore the 15th of October. Each opera must comprise a melody with a chorus | and accompaniment for the piano, a melody with wn orchestra! accompaniment and a grand piece of purely instrumental music. The resuit will be puolished on the 15th of November, and the suc- cessful opera will be put on the stage in 1875, the 1st of April having, oddly enough, been selected ior the night of performance. M, Offenbach nas also offered a prize to the best French author of a comeay or drama in one act to be written in verse. This literary prize will likewise consist of $200 in Money, together with three honorary periorm- ances at the Gafté, and the right of representation at tne Odéon, which 1s the second of the French national theatres in Par! Authors are to send in their works under sealed envelopes marked with initials, ‘Tne jury will publish their decision on the ist of January, 1875, and the successful work will be represented on the 1st of March. “LA HAINE,” In fiveacts and eight tableaux, by A. Victorien Sardou. On the 26th ult, the most popular of French dramatists read his new plece, waich has been written jor the Gaité, aud wa.ch appears to be destined to great success, Six hundred cos- tumes have been designed for it by si. Thomas, and a religious procession of extraordinary mag- nificence will be part of the spectacle. Sardou had done reading his piece the actors and actresses present insisted upon kissing him. The expense of putting ‘La Hamme’ upon the stage 18 estimated at $150,000, MLLE, BLANCHE D’ANTIGNY’S PROPERTY SALE. ‘rhe property leit oy the best known of French actresses in {airy pieces has just been sold by auc- tion to pay her debts, whicn amounted to $10,000. She leit no money behind her, thougo the diamonds which she brought home from Russia were tie talk of the town here, and she had many opportunities of becoming rich. She was, how- ever, very open-handed, and wasted her money wantonly. Her creditors could never be paid walle she lived, because she lad no sources of in- come which could be seized, and her salary as an actress for three months hardly amounted to the cost of one of those amazing yellow wigs which she wore. She could nave seidom spent less than $30,000 « year, for she had carriages, horses and fine clothes to her heart’s content. The only mystery was how she got her money. She was @ Coarse, lat woman, whose only charm seems to have becn a sort of rough good nature, great impudence and the habitual use of strong language. Her credi- tors will now be paid about iour and a balf per cent on their claims, For those who wish to know the sort of property which a French actress col- | lects around her, and the value of vat property, it may be said that blanche d’Antigny having *‘trav- elled away witn death,’ left baggage behind her which was thus composed :—Twelve pillow cases, tuimmed with lace, and embroidered with her cipher. They were sold for $23, chemises, which were sold tor $60. A Jan, which was sold for $8 75. The poems of Alired de Mus- set, edited by Charpentier, and beautilully bound, which sold for $34. The fables of La Fontaine, jllustrated by Doré, which sold for $15 75. One theatrical costume, complete and new, which sold jor $60. ‘That was all. “GILBERTE,”” @ comedy, in four acts, by MM. Raymond Des- landes and Edmund Goudinet. The admirable management of the Gymnase Theatre has chosen this piece for the reappearance of Mile. de la Porte, @ charming French actress, who has retucned to the Parisian publicalter a successiul career of ten years in Russia. Gtiberte de Verdieres 1s @ young lady who has been brought up in an old castie of Poitou and has never left her home. ‘he reason of her seciu- sion is that Mme. de Verdiéres, her mother, has taken a second husband, named M. de Rhuys, who is a diplomatist ot bad character, and hag aban- doned her to run aiter adventures at Stock- holm, where he leads @ dissipated and worth- less iif, Mme. de Rhuys, im her forlorn condition devotes her energies solely to the education of her only daughter, and Giiberte has wnaccountably reiused some very brilliant offers of marriage which have been made to her. At last, however, a fortunate jover Dresenta himself in the person of the Baron de juerches, Who isa gentleman of good tamily and about thirty years old, He has done with the follies of youth, and has just broken off a con. nection with @ certain Marquise d’urbeccha, one of the celebrities of the Parisian hall-world, Hay- ing run away from the capital to avoid her ane re- cover his liberty, he sees Giiberte, loves her and asks for her hand, At first she refuses him, as she has refused everybody else; but M. de Guerches is not unknown to her and had made some iinpression upon her heart at a former meet- ing, when they came together by accident, To him, therefore, she confides—not Without an un dercurrent of thought—the reason which has hitherto induced her to remain single. The truth is that Mme. de Rhuys has no money. The fortune which she still enjoys belongs wholly to her daughter and the terms of ® marriage settlement wonld reveal to her the sad state of her affairs, though she is now mappa, ignorant of her ruin, Gilberte as determined never to bring upon her such a row; and the Baron de Guerches approves this resolution so heartily that he proposes to marry her without & settlement, and to reside perma- nently with Mme. de Rhuys. Under these circum- stances the marriage takes place; but betore the honeymoon 1s well over M. de Guerches is obliged to absent himself from his home in order to per- form the last duties he owes to a dying relative. being aware of her pecuniary le no position takes advantage of the opportunity to | @ for him ia Paris, snes of opinion Tornisn @ hi that ® man of fashion like M. de Guerches will be bored to death if condemned to remain always at Poitou, and that ti bapeees of Gilverte renders It necessary ¢ @ should take his place in that orilliant society which they would both adorn. She thinks, therefore, that she has made @ wise bargain in purchasing the sumptuous and fantastic turoiture of the Mar- quise a’Orbeccha, and buys the lease of that lady's house. When the Baron de Guerches returns home he finds himselt surrounded by @ thousand objects which recall the memory of his former mistress, and Gilberte, observing the trouble of ngiish. The Trouillat family are people who come trom Honfeur in @ wagon to this metropolis im order to make for the honor of his mind, grows suspicious and believes that he has deceived her, The Marquis d’Orbeccha confirms these sus- A lot of cambric | | picions by informivg her that his wife | at the news of Gilberte’s marriage friena, M. de Guerches. Further to complicate this situa: tion, Mme, de Rhuys gives & ball, and she knows | 80 little of the scandalous chronides of Parts that | she invites the Marquise d’Orbecchy to be present atit. ‘the jealousy of Gilberte 18 ral, Se Marquise writes to ber old lovetto say ‘that 3 3 B 5 3 g g ; . lenged by the Marquis d’Orbeccaa, ever, is untrue, | termined to punish one M. Robien, am impuyne young fellow who has presumed to addret This, Wow. M. de Guerches has mvrel) qe. audacious deciaration to Mme. de Ruuys (Frei women never grow old), and Giberte, on he; that M. de Guerche has risked bis tlie In defence her mother’s honor, throws herself into his arm: The husband and wife then retura to Poitou an live happy ever aiterwaid, while Mme. de Rauys, who has been suddeniy’ enlightened as to her Geationce condition, resolves to lorgive her objec- ble husband and res! i apStdektolm, le with him hence.orth e character of Gilberte was excellently played by Mile, de la Porte, wno seems to be an yaa in Voice, Manners and appearance as she Was twenty yeirs ago. She marked all the points of her pars with exquisite tact, and showed a grace upon the Sage eiice is seldom seen anywhere but in Paris. M. Ravel was exqaiaisaly Tunny, and though, when off the stage, he looks old enougn to ve a 7 grandiather, he might easily be mistaken 5 a Man in the prime of life bebind the tootiights, “LES ECOLIBRS D'AMOUR"! & comedy in one act, in verse, by M. Pierre Elzéar. “LE VIGNOBLE DE MME. VEUVE PICHOIS;” @ comedy in four avts, in prose, by MM. Bisson and André Sylvane. These are the titles of two new pieces which were selected for the openiog of the Tnéaire Scribe. The first I gallantly rbymed, but it bas no plot worth tice. tutor, his pupil, & young officer, a barber of the type and some guitars and pretty dresses are the materials out of which Elzéar has made ‘8 delightiuil half hour’s amusement. has given @ bint worthy t’ playwrights and managers, because @ good many of our entertainments are a little too heavy; whereas Scribe said long ago that netther wit nor talent was really want ed to write piays. Itis only necessary that a play should be playable. “LB VIGNOBLE DB MME. VEUVE PICHOIS”? ia a comedy taken from the life of the French bourgeoisie, and ts ridiculous enough to make one laugh, so that at all events it attains one of the legitimate objects of comedy. It shows us how tne Coulandon family would be perfectly happy uf the widow Pichois—the traditional mother-in- law—would be so good as to allow the young couple to make love to each other undisturbed; but sue will never leave them alone, and poor M. Coulanaon does not know what the dickens he should do next, when Damotseau, ® friend of his, recommends nim to marry his mocher-to-law to one I'rumeiet, the father ol a young lady with whom Damoiseau bimself is love. The widow Pichois is not insenaibie. she has @ heart and a vineyard much desired by the Burgundian squires in her neighbornood, and she 4g not unwilling to change her condition. M. ‘Trumelet 1s not her only suitor, but there is also @ M. Bonnardeau, a hali-pay captain in the army, who is a dangerous rival. om. Trumelet has only one advantage, which consists in the fact that he grows excellent melons, and that the widow has a weakness for that sortol fruit. Butsbe ts also Tomantic, and it 1s Not until she recognizes tn the person of Trameiet the hero of an adventure, which placed her late husband’s honor in consi erable peril, that she decides on marrying him. Damoiseau then marries Mile. Trumeiet. T whole thing is a farrago of nonsense; but it is wonderful sort of fvoling—gay, light and chee! ing. To sit in a stage box and see the merry actors who play in itis like drinkiug iced cham: pagne of a good vintage—it passes an evenin Sereeanly, and sends one home to bed with a ligh! eart, GERMAN RULE IN SO0HLESWIG. {From the Irish (Dublin) Times, Oct. 1.] ‘The North German Gazette protests against the conclusions that have been drawn by vhe European press from the expulsion of Danes from Schleswig. It appears that only four persons have been ex- pelled, and that this measure was a mere act of the police, intended to free the province from the presence of @ few troublesome individuals. I¢ adds that this proceeding was quite approved by the German population in Denmark—a statement wack does not seem very pertinent to tae case in and, THE CITY OF VERA CRUZ. Cebeaea Successful Launch of a Steamship De- signed for the Havana Service—Hez Dimensions and Machinery. ‘There was successfully launched from the yard of Messrs, John Englis & Son, Greenpoint, L. L, yesterday morning, the steamship City of Vera Cruz, designed for service hence to Havana, in the line of Messrs. F. Alexandre & Son, by whom the vessel is owned. In the enclosure, and pershea on convenient piles of lumber, were about 2,000 Persons, many of them ladies, who were highly pleased with the event, This steamship is 240 feet on the keel, 260 feet on water line, 280 feet on deck, 36 feet breadth of beam, 26 teet depth of hoid, 19 feet draft of water (loaded) and of about 1,800 tons burden, Her hull is constructed in the oest possible manner, white oak, chestnut and hackmatack being usea, while her fastent are 1 iron, Copper and treenails, Immediately alter launching the City of Vera | cruz was towed to the Quintard Iron Works, foot of Thirteenth street, East River, where ner ma- chinery is being constructed. This is tn @ ver: forward state and will be placed in the vessel within six weeks. The engiae is of the vertical direct acting description, having one cylinder 48 imehes in diameter by 6 feet stroke of piston, Her propeller, of iron, is 15 feet 61nches in diameter and has a pitch of 23 feet. Steam will be furnished by two vertical tubular oollers, placed fore and aft the vessel, and cach of which 1s 20 teet nigh and 13 feet in diameter. This department of the steamship will be fitted 10 the most liberal manner and every possible effort made to render the se- curity and provisions against fire first class. The City of Vera Cruz will be among the finest vessels leaving our port in the Havana service, Accommodations will be jurnished for nearly 100 cabin passengers, be of the roomiest imaginabl placed afton the main deck. The signed ta be one of the Jeatures of the vessel. This will be forward of the machinery, on the main deck, extending nearly its entire width, ana will eda olntments of the most luxurious charac- ter. the finished work will b2 of hard wood. Beside the usual lounging and smoking rooms which all large ocean Steamers are provided with the City of Vera Cruz will contain @ social hall, where meals will be served when required. The first trip ofthe new steamer will be made In the latter part of becember next, THE PARTHIA-ADRIATIC COLLISION. Yesterday afternoon an informal examination of Pilot Timothy Tewell, who was on board the White Star steamer Adriauc on Saturday after- noon last when she collided with the Cunard steamer Parthia of the Narrows, was commenced by Pilot Commissioner G. W. Blunt. The pilot submitted for consideration a written report, of which a copy was published in Monday's HERALD, | with this difference, however, thi is Was signed merely by the pilot and the Adriatic’s chief oMcer. Mr. Blunt was unable to say when a formal exam- ination of Tewell would take place, it depend- ing upon any complaint being made against him, In conversation with Mr. Miller the office of the New Jersey Sandy Hook pilots, ‘hat gentieman said that Mr. fall, the RS of the Parthia, belonged to the pilot boat jegus, and bore a very high character for steadt- ness, and had never had avy trouble or collision before. After leaving the Parthia he had joined his boat and gone oi7 on a cruise, and might be back in this city within a couple of days or not for three weeks. Mr. Miller, in conclusion, said none of their pilots had borne @ higher record than Hall. The case of the collision woald be in- vestigated by the New Jersey Pilot Commissioners upon his return from sea. The pilot in question had duly received his piiotage voucner from Oap- tain Watson, of the Parthia, which was @ ‘. antee that he was satisfied with Hall’s pilo be ‘The ofMicers of the Cunard line had not recetved any communication trom the cap- tain of the Parthia touching the collision, They believed, from the report Re lished in the HERALD, that the Parthia had the right of way. On the 4th of May, 1972, the tl-futed Atlantic ran into the Batavia, which had also the right of way, in going to vhe Narrows, and crushed the Batavia’s anchor into her bow, causing her to be delayed for several hours, There is no doubt but that the Adriatio ts very seriously injured, and will, undoubtedly, have to go into dry dock when she reaches Live The repairs at present are merely to keep out water, a8 @ Ia) number of her braces shattered by the conision. balschy THE TILTON-BEEOHER SUIT ON THE CALENDAR, At last the great scandal case is assuming tan- giole legal form. The case of Tilton vs. Beecher hag taken @ position of numerical dignity upon tha calendar for the month of November of the Brook~, lyn City Court, It is set down as No, 128, which, in the ordinary allowance for the disposal of the calendar, will. bring it pefore the Court about Friday next. Judge Netlson had not up to esterday rendered his decision on the motion of ral ‘itacy, counsel ior Rev. Henr, Wi Beecher, for ® bili of particulars “specifying the time and places at which the alleged criminal acts Were committed between the defendant and the wife of the piainuf.” The decision will be ren: dered the latter part of the current week, £