The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1874, Page 8

VON ARNIM. —-+——_ “Bismarck and Von Arnim and | Their Contest. —o— Ts Bismarck Right or Wrong? —_-__——_ WHAT GERMANY THINKS, —_—_>+—__—— | A Court Intrigue Against | Bismarck. An Inside Glimpse of the Royal Family. THE STORY OF THE ARREST. The Grim Chancellor and HLis Humors. AENIM’S SIDE OF THE STORY The Rise and Fall of the Am- bassador. BERLIN, Oct. 16, 1874. In the dispute between Prince Bismarck nd Count Arnim, so far as human eyes pa- | tiently bent on this subject can discern Prince Bismarck is in the right—in the right’ but with reservations. He 1s in ‘he right from the clearest point of view belonging to purely Prussian politics; and inasmuch as he, this grim Prince Bismarck, is @ rough practical poil- ticlan who does not pretend to be a philosopher— he, feeling that he really is in the right, nas deter- mined to do his business with Count Arum in the most expeditious manner. He has a stiong case; he will urge it to the uttermost, or, rather, he will do nothing, which is much the same thing. Prince Hohenlohe has raised the discussion; the clerks in the Prussian Foreign Office will renderthe ques- tion at issue unintelligible, then the’ law courts can deal (a8 usual) with the inexplicable Law is supreme at Berlin, and incormptible— unless there are great inducements ‘to take a one-sided view of things. Couat Arnim 1s said to be needy, Prince Bismarck 1as com- mand of the national purse, also of the confiscatea revenues of the King of Hanover, and readers, or meed render, account to no auditor. Possibly a Prince Bismarck may venture to take leg#l outlets from a difficulty under these conditions, taving at this moment some 20,000,000 thalers, or more, at command for state or other purpose, How far a minister may be in the right is a question for the casuists. Patriotism, thatis to say, s deter- mined will to push the interests of one country Over those of other countries im spite of all con- | siderations of justice or morality—tha; is the truest idea of patriotism now current. A word given by God and for which the devil has found a meaning. As 4 matter of fact patriotism hitherto has generally signified private interest. some day there may be a higher kind of it, which may include the interests of mankind. To drive women and children headiong in cabs through the streets of Berlin, pale, fevered and without hope or appetute; to shut up @ middle-aged gentleman of good manners and blamelets character in a madhouse and call that patriotism 1s a new mean- ing of the word, inspired by some very clever devil indeed. Prince Bismarck has played at diplomacy, and he has won tne game. Was it worth the winning? Count Arnim has lost tt. ‘Was it worth the losing? Troublesome questions, PUBLIC OPINION IN GERMANY. Solid sense in Berlin and elsewhere, looking | Europe.” NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1874—QUINTUPLE SHEET.. calture, although he be a second William the Con- queror, to reign over the German Empire. Cannot he be guided a littie by culture and romance? Empreas Queen longs for quiet in Court regious, and is in fact, heartily sick of the perpetual rade noises and explosions going on around the Chancelior. She, an Empress Queen, would abate him by wifely methods, were that possible; but, alas! she does not see much o! an uncultured husband, who thinks her a dread- ful blue-stocking and remains extremely deaf to the harmony of nature; being merely a solid, re- spectable old gentleman full of common sense and having & sound judgment, besides being given over to Bismarck, Stili an Empress Queen can try something. Ali the world is looking toward Paris tor news of how Europe is te be governed during the next twenty years or so; and there sits Am- bassador Arnim, a brilliant, witty nobleman, who would make an admirable Vhancelior could the thing be managed. Perhaps it may. Second—A Crown Princess of quick bright ways, and steady eyes which look through a Court at- mosphere up to something higher. Imperial Royal Highness, very hot against the Roman Catholics— having been educated by English bishops, sapona- ceous Samuel of Oxford among the number— but, nevertheless, having a deep womanly resept- ment against Prince Bismarck. “Did not he nt to shut up my husband, and actually got an order for his arrest signed by the King? (Order never executed, but remaining one o/ the facts of history.) Resentment of a Crown Princess not to be appeased, and whieh has been restless to vent itselfin action for years past, She, too, is of opinion that there are possibilities in a Count Arnim; and, after all, could not he deal with those shocking Roman Catholica as well as a hatefal Chancelior now supreme over everyvody, Crown Prineess included ? Thérad—A Crown Prince of a somewhat vacillat- ing and doubt/ul character, apt to do one thing and say another. Has become ostensibly recon- oiled to Prince Bismarck for prudential reasons, but is not indisposed to make him feel that we are a Crown Prince, who could not be sbut up without danger to the State. Thinks generally with his wile and follows her lead. A ORACKEE GOES OFF IN PARIS and makes a loud noise in this dense dtmosphere. Ambassador Arnim ‘‘cannot view witnout conster- nation the progress of republican institutions in Wants to upset M. Thiers and make the Count of Chambord French King. Does help to overturn M. Thiers and a conservative republic, most agreeable just then to Prince Bismarck, who is engaged in disputes with the Pope. Prince Bismarck answers, “You are a tool, Herr Graf, and I am a fool for not having found you out long ago. What do | care for the spread of republican opin- ions? Don’t you see, you dunderhead, that I am fighting a desperate battle with the Roman Catholics, who are aiready too strong for me (indeed the Chancellor has had to give ground several times lately), and if those legitimist blockneads get into power they will im- mediately strengthen my enemies.” Ambassador Arnim pays no attention to these unmannerly scoldings; will not even reply to them, and be- haves as though there were no Chancellor at Ber- lin; feeling secure of support trom Romance and Culture. ‘Come home; you are recalled. Come home and be ——,”’ roars the Chancellor upon foolscap; despatch unhappily numbered and part of the archives of an imperial embassy. “Wait awonile, Your Excellency,” responds the Ambas- sador ; ‘I have to pack my trunks and take leave ofmy military friend MacMahon, who will restore French kingship if he can.’ Ambassador Arnim lingers in Parts, corresponding briskly with Berlin and culture. A FLY ON THE WHEEL of Count Arnim’s state coach begins to drive it and him at this juncture. Fly of the attaché sort, or small diplomatic species, a kind well known to Prince Bismarck. The fly bazzes loudly as he drives, but ke@ps out of sight as usual. Secret reports are sent off every day, twice a day, three times a day to Berlin. A fy very busy with private letter writing and cipher correspondence, till the Chancellor becomes convinced that there is a plot intended to ‘confer upon him the blessings of repose and retirement from the cares of State. “Come home, Your Excellency Arnim, you shall be Ambassador at Constantinople,” says the Chan- cellor again upon foolscap, this time with effect; and Arnim comes home, but finds no embassy at Constantinople or elsewhere ready forbim. On the contrary interrogaturies oi an unpieasant nature are submitted to him. Questions arise about his salary and allowances, which are not paid and “cannot be paid. Where are Your Ex- cellency’s vouchers? What was your authority for incurring this expense and that of public money?”’ carelessiy at this fight between a minister and an ambassador, which apparentiy does not mach concern “Commercial interests’'—short-sightea things—begins by saying this:— First— Prince Bismarck is a great man, commer- cial interests being fond of undisputed truths, Second—A great man would not enter upon a quarrel without he was sure of having the best of it. Third—Then it draws one of those conclusions which peiong in a peculiar manner to common sense. There is more than meets the eye in this busi- Qess. THE GRAND SECRET. Tne Empress Queen, the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess of Germany wanted to abate Prince Bismarck, who is a noisy impolite man, and to put Count Arnim over him. Prince Bis- marck got wind of this project through an attaché devoted to his cause in the German Embassy in Paris. Therefore, he recalled Count Arnim, and then instituted legal proceedings in due form, as- sisted by the Crown lawyers, politics being rather a grim game just now. ‘he tharges against Count Arnim are probably fabricated—no real crimi- nality in them, A master may always bring alle- gations against bis servant If displeased with him, | and the Crown lawyers are elastic creatures, with consciences to maten. Here are the charges, not yet known to a curi- | ous public: . First—Count Arnim is @ traitor, because (always easy to find a ‘‘because’’) he played into the bands of the French legitimists and helped to put out M. Thiers, whereas the Germaa government, repre- sented by Prince Bismarck, Wanted to keep M. Thiers in power and to thwart the legitimists, who might help the Pope, with whom Prince Bismarck (fearing neither God nor man) is at war. Second—Count Arnim has stolen certain oficial papers, all numbered, which beiong to the German government, although i (Prince sismarck) admit that three of them, aiso numbered, were not of cial, and do not belong to the German government but to Count Arnim. I want to make @ charge against Count Arnim, and mean to do it without beeding contradiction from myself or other people, Third—In short, Count Arnim did not obey my orders, and wanted to put me out of power. PRINCE BISMARCK’S BLUNDER, The thing should have been arranged privately; might have been arranged im this manner, had not @ Chancellor, accustomed to have bis own ‘Way, become too impatient of the slow process of friendly intervention. For, you see, the very housemaid soul is now afflicted by it. There is not @ maid of all work In Berlin who can reconcile her soul to the fact of a Vount in jail. Quidnane, too, the well-to-do Noboay, who dines at his table @note, under tue lime trees, is startled a)most out of bis appetite. He never takes a newspaper in to dinner, because it would seem uncourtiy vo the other guests at mine nosv’s tabie, who might reasonably wish for conversation at meal time, and would not be content with a neighbor buried in “the latest intelligence.” Yet on the day of Count Arnim’s arrest newspapers were first seen at a table a’hOve dinner in Berlin, and there were Pras. | sian gentiemen (some military men) behind them, ‘The traditions of the German people have been shocked. They do not look at the justice or injus- | tice of the thing. They only marvel at it, ARNIM VERSUS BISMARCK. Here are some of the elements which began to | by them; | who, it seems, is liable to criminal procedure, and Small clerks in great number arise and worry Excellency Arnim. He is peremptorily required to “give accounts of nis proceedings” and other mat- ters, “Malversation of public moneys,’ whisper the clerks. ‘Losses on the English tur!,” bint some of them. Evidently Excellency Arnim has got into difficulties with ofMicial people, who are never scrupulous in their assertions. Romance @nd Culture begin to faildumb. “Explain these things, Your Exceilency, and then we will see.” It would not be prudent to see now, thinks Ro- mance and Culture. Will not see, in short. Prince Hohenivhe, the new Ambassador in Paris, inno- cergly writes at this crisis to ask where are certain oficial papers—(“You are a fooi, comé home and be——”)—all numbered, which are wanting from his archives. A Prince Hohenljne who does not like responsibilities and finds his papers missing. More interrogatories are addressed to Excellency Arnim on this subject. ‘Give up the public docu- ments which you have abstracted,” says Prince Bismarck caurtly. Excellency Arnim explains. “Oh, you won’t, won’t you‘ replies Prince Bis- marck, this time through his clerks; “then bring me my boots.” And he sets off to consult the law officers of the Crown. Very dangerous creatures these, and Excellency Arnim is at once arrested on bis birthday, too. An Excellency five years’ imprisonment. “Gullty of high treason,” say the Crown lawyers, and hurry him away by their tipstaves to @ common jail. A sick Count Arnim, my Prince Uhancelior; has the “zucker krankhbeit,” your thrice redouvtavle magnaninity. “Hm !! grunts redouotable magnanimity, through the Crown lawyers. ‘Then let bim be taken to the State Hospital for the Desticute, ana kept in solitary confinement there.” Appeal for treedom twice rejected by the jaw courts, having to deal with an Excellency who 1s to be punished before trial, A man of grim humor the terrible Chancellor, who has thus contrived to shut up bis enemy with the destitute and insane, opposite a hospital for sick dogs which he can see from hia prison window. He can see little else, and has disconsoiate outlooks altogether. DOCTOR FIET. “I am the family physician of Count arniw. I gave the certificate on which the law courts re- jected his appeal to be setat large. The Count is ill; very ill, He has the ‘sugar sickness’ (which we call diabetes), but he is in no immediate dan- ger. I could not give a stronger certificate. It would have been against my conscience. Prince Bismarck 18 a patriot Minister. I do not think he would have instituted these proceedings without a cause, Perhaps Count Arnim had too much am- bition. His head may have been turned by great place. He basa remarkable belief in himself. it may be justified. 1 snall not pronounce » 4 opinion, baving many patients and being a doctor in good practice; also a patriot.” Evidentiy a Dr. Fiet not to be relied upon to render one an easy service, which might perhaps be best for all parties just now; arespectable man; a man of perhaps an over nice integrity, dificult to persuade, and hav. ing his own opinions —not always the rignt ones. Hard to see what is right. COUNT ARNIM’S PRISON | is a bare sad building in one of the least beautifal of the suburbs of Berlin, It looks like @ barracks or an almshouse, save for some lean trees now shedding their leaves in the autamu wind, The Count may walk in about half an acre of desolation grow sulphurous in Paris and Berlin a year ago, foreboding storm in high court regions :— First—an Empress Queen, regarding culture and romance as the chief things to be desired in this world, looking down, even, if that may be, upon ‘an Emperor King without culture. Plainly, thinks Her Majesty, an altogether inexplicable freak of destiny to have put an Emoeror wing without when inclined to take exercise which is necessary lor Nis health; and there he can see that miserable looking asyinm for mad dogs opposite, with two sentinals to guard him from numan speecd and Sympatiy. The kinsmen of the imprisoned Ambas- Sador assembied at Berlin on the first news of his arrest and held @ family council. They deciared they Would throw up ail their aovoimtments unless he ‘was liberated, and retire in a body from the public service. Then they thought betier of it; and ad- vised the Count to give up the papers and docu- ments in dispute, Probably he will do 80, He is indeea ready to surrender them into the hands of the Court of Competency. EXCELLBNCY ARNIM MAKES A STATEMENT, “Phe ‘antagonism’ (shali we translate rivairy ?) between me and Prince Bismarck began in 1872. Before the month of May in that year we were the best of friends, It had beem determined that I was to be ‘Adlatus’ (& sort of cloak-lining or coad- jutor) of the Imperial Chancellor in the Foreign Ofice of Berlin, 1 was sent on an important mis sion to Rome, and it was I who advisea the rupture with the Pope. All my suggestions were adopted. I inaugurated the policy which has been pursued toward the Roman Catholics, I rec- ommended the appointment of Cardinal Hohen- Whe as Ambassador to Rome, In a word, I and Kis- marck were intimate political friends, It was in September (1872) that we first differed in opinion on some points of small importance (as | thought). But I found that Prince Bismarck suddenly summoned me irom Paris to Berlin to give me instructions; and then, in a diplo- matically unheard of manner, retused tosee me- The truth is that, after having waited four days in Berlin to see the Chancellor, I heard upon the fifth that he was gone to Varzin, without leaving even a@ message for me. J then returned to Paris, much affected by this affront, which seomed meant vo induce me to resign my office as Ambassador. Prince Bismarck's hostility to me notably in- creased after this event. “It began to be rumored that I was favoring 2 legitimist or Orleanist restoration, There is not One word of truth im this,'’’ (Alas! Your Exccl- lency.) “But did write privately to say that M, Thiers had alhed himself to Gambetta, and that this coalition was contrary to German interests; also that republican principles were spreading everywhere in a remarkable manner. I thought Spanish affairs were in & bad way, and wished to resist republics generally. Some weeks aiter- wards King Amadeus, indeed, was forced to abdi- cate, and my proplecies were realized. It was surely a painful event, deserving of consideration, that so large a part of Europe should have become Tepublican, ana I thought that it would be an ad- mirable thing if kingship were restored in France, at least during the German occupation. I did not wish the French indemnity to be paid 80 soon, I wished to delay it.” (Better have left this untold, Your Excellency.) “I wished to puta curb on France, and Thiers was impattent of it, &c. (Diplomactes of the intricate sort best forgotten now.) ‘With regard to the allegation that I bave abstracted official papers irom the German Em- bassy in Paris, I have only taken private docu- ments which belonged to me, and I have insti- tuted a civil suit to establish my right of posses- sion. The statement that I tniended to publish any of them is utterly groundiess, Their contents must now be known; but that isin no sense my fault.” A PRIVATE OPINION OF PRINCE BISMAROK, “I believe that Arnim was a tool in the bands ot the French Jesuits without knowing it, His head was altogether turned in Paris. I could do no- thing with him. I gave him a hint to ask for his recall, and would have let him down easily, but he would not or could not understand, and then 1 sent for him home. If ne has got into a scrape with the Foreign Office and the law courts that is not my business. Let nim get out of it as he can, He has written several times to the King, who gave me his letters. The law must take its course. 4cool prison is the pest place fora hot heaa.’’ Twice Count Arnim has appealed against impris- onment without @ trial, which 1s, in fact, con- demning a man betore he is Judged. The courts answered once and twice that, “inasmuch as his guilt was uncertain, he could not be set at large.” Yet these are the sam® courts that upheld the famous Milier’s cause (Miller kuown to history) sgainst Frederick IL Courts generally supposed to be incorruptible. ‘Are they incor- ruptibiet” ask Wmispering Doubt. Prince Bismarck has unlimited secret service money; also those nineteen millions of the King of Hanover; likewise much patronage, so that le can make or mend or mar a judge not overpaid im the ordinary course of events. Are they incorruptible, therefore? Doubt whispers, “Perhaps,” not too confidently, OPINION OF SELRCT SOCIETY, Bismarck is a brute, a man without polit>ness, @ horrid creature except when he is pleased, and nobody can please him. Nobody can live with nim. Now he has got into a row with Count Ar- nim, Yesterday he was in arow with gome one else, and to-morrow there will be another riot. Perhaps he has put a nail in bis own comn. THE ARNIMS ARE RICH AND POWERFUL; they may get the best of him; but we (select society) cannot be sure of this, and, therefore, prefer to speak 1n whispers, Herr von Savigny, indeed, one of Arnim’s connections by marriage, wili not speak at aj], and asks, with surprise :— “Who is that Count Arnim mentioned in the news- papers? My relative? Ah, indeed, Surely!’ I nave said that Prince Bismarck is legally in the right. He had a dispute with Count Arnim—a duel for life and death perhaps—so when his pistol missed fire he Knocked down the Count with the but-end of it, Well, politics is a rough game, and those who lose the stakes must expect to get hurt. The fight between Arnim and Bismarck was a fair fight up to a certain point. It ceased to be @iair fight when Prince Bismarck took to legal quibbles and countenanced charges against nis adversary’s character. It became a cruel and dis- creditable persecution when the Chancellor in- sulted his adversary’s wife and son. Yesterday the poor lady had a domiciliary visit from the police; both she and her son are watched. THE COUNTESS ARNIM 1sone of the most beautiful women in Europe, fair, tall and stately, with the gracious manners of @ lady moss noble, most lovely, though in a plight so pitiful. She cannot believe that her hus- band has ever done anything wrong, and would share his prison ifin mercy allowed to sufer with nim. Mercy now denied. [ could not luok upon her anguish unmoved, though she bore it so bravely. I had last seen her as queen of the revels in the gayest capital of the world, and now, a8 she spoke to me and tried to smile, 1 saw that sbe was wringing her shapely hands till the pure, wifely biood was like to start beneath her rings. “alas, we know not who are our friends!’ ‘The home of the Arnims, In the Pariser platz, 1s very gad and dark without its master. The prisoner’s son is @ handsome iad in the twenues, a lieutenant of dragoons, who has taken off his uniform. Dutifully devoted to an im- prisoned father and very anxious just now, not discouraged, but keeping & stiff upper lip; helpful in @ thousand ways, or desiring to be so, and thinking, poor boy, that business should be much has been constantly ruaning about luther and thither for the laet tnree weeks; finally writing to the newspapers a manly and proper letter, denying that his father was in any way connected with a catch-perny pamphiet or ita coucoctor, A hard case, my Prince Chancelior, which deals unkindly with ladies and young lads. RISB AND FALL OF COUNT ARNIM, Forty years ago there was a small boy without a penny or a pocket handkerchief, He was oj goou, or rather “goodish,”’ family, bis name being Arnim, and there are Arnims rich and poor, some very poor, some Hot Lo be mentioned here. This boy’s kinsman, Count Henry Arnim, « Minis- ter, educated him; gave him also, it may be sup- posed, the name of ‘‘Harry,”’ a burlesque of his own, The boy was a bright boy, tnliot wit and spirits, and grew up to be the most brilliant man in Prussia. Very early he got tt into his head that he would be a diplomatist, and though his guar- dian smiled somewhat awry Wien this notion was mentioned to him, he helped the boy upwards, Put him astride a diplomatic foolscap and left him there, Left iim nothing else, But the boy prospered ina way, and having done what he could without money—which was not much—con- trived to make @ rich marriage, and then another rich and noble Marriage, finding good wives twice over.eThen the truth of the old proverb asserted itse!f, “Win at love, lose at play.’ A ROMANCE OF DIPLOMACY. Scrabby little girt standing in the market piace of Berlin more than half a ceutury ago—Jewish Uttle girl, with a desire for garlic every day at twelve o'clock, or perhaps before; girl darkeyed, full ioped. lithe af ith snd wit @ enicn whica belonged centuries since to some sweet singer of Israel, She had po name—no name known to biographical dictionaries, Perhaps her name was Happiness, So she stood iu the market place of Berlin, when Berlin was but an awkward sort of struggling village, half a century ago, This scrabby little girl, all keen, sharp life and lovell- ness; and as she stood there seliing what she had to sell, came by—lis sword upon his tip—a prince and a soldier, It was His Royal Highness, Augus- tus, cousin of Frederick William III., father of the present Emperor, King of Germany, and son of Augustus Ferdinand, brother of Frederick the Great, considered the richest man in Prussia— before the ssock-jobbing era, He fell quite sud- denly in love wich the scrabby little girl, educated her, married her (morganatically), begot two daughters and one son by her, and left her all be could leave of agreat fortune. He also gave her the name of Priliwitz (Baroness Prillwitz), and one of her daughters became Count Armin’s first wife, thereby bringing lim imto connection with tue Prussian royal family, THE ARNIM FORTUNE. ‘The dower of Frauiein Prillwitz was consider- ablé, It included the house now tenantea by the Engtish Embassy, and the house in the Pariser platz (No. 4), at present-ocenpied by Count Harry Arnim, the ex-Ambassador at Paris, Value at least 30,000f, yearly. There must have been money, too, though the lands probably went to the boy, Herr vou Priliwitz, commoniy accounted a very rich man when he grew up. This Countess Arnim died young, and tt 18 said that some of her property returoed to her mother’s family. Theo Harry Arnum, by this time going upwardin al- plomacy, married Countess Arnim-Bortzenburg, who also brought hima great fortune, so that he was made @ count by royal patent, But, says rumor, aod we bave no concern with what rumor says on this subject, uniting stories of the English turf with its own suppositious, mostly baseless, “When power wants to ruin a man tt 1s 90 smooth @ course to say that black 1s white.’” YOUTHFUL FORTUNE SEEKERS, Two Boston Boys Decide to “Go West.” Yesterday aiternoon the Tombs Police Court was the scene of @ very interesting case, which had its origin in Boston, The principals were two young Men, or more properly boys, wuose minds had become—judging from the indications—dis- eased by dime novel literature, Frequent and earnest perusals of this nitro-giycerme school of rhetoric had engendered in the youthful minds of George W. Robinson and William Crossman a love Jor the wild West, and they decided to go and see the same. How to do this was for some days a subject of much and deep meditation. They had no money, and without it they could not travel; so they formed a resolution to raise the money Bs best they could. George was only thirteen years of age and Willlam twelve, so they had no credit im the money market, and found it quite hard to obtain the money they required for the proper execution of their plans. At @ consultation held—where it does not appear—they decided to draw on the excheq- uers of their respective paternal relatives, and did so on Wednesday night. Whenthe “pas” of the young gentlemen had gone to bed and ola Somnus was fanning them with his poppy fan, George and William, under cover of darkness, telt forand examined their ‘governors’ pants.” Al- though they lived quite a distance from each other, it appears that the “investigations” occurred synchronously, from the fact that they met at a rendezvous previously decided upon at the same hour, each reporting that he had succeeded in “drawing on father.’? They did not wait to count their money, but when on the train they compared notes, and it was found that William had drawn his money in specie and George his in United States legal tend- ers. They did a little brokerage business on the way, and arrived here on Friday at about noon, They had read some little things about New York—such squiba as the Boston papers publish occasionally— and they decided to see someting of New York, which from their reading they bad been led to re- gard asa sort of hali-way house between Boston and the rest of America. bile they were enjoy- ing themselves Ofticer Skeliton, from Boston, who had tracked them to New York, went to the Third precinct station house and asked ior an officer to assist him ib capturing the young runaways. Officer Dwyer was detailed, and yesterday aiter- noon the young men were caugit sauntering down Broadway quite teisurely. When brought to the ‘Tombs Judge Morgay became quite interested in them and finally handed them over to the custody of Officer Skellion, with wuom they went to Bos- ton on an afternoon train. Young Robinson bad in his possession $62 in specie, $5 70 in currency and a bate ticket for Den- ver, Col. Crossman hac $175 in bills, $5 15 in specie, a sheath koe, @ revolver and a half ticket jor Denver, Col. ST, STEPHEN'S LADIES’ FAIR, ‘The ladies’ fair in progress in the basement hall of St. Stephen's church. East Twenty-eighth street, is a model of its kind, well worthy of pubiic pa- tronage. While the ladies in charge are tull of zeal and “winning ways,” they do not tease the visitor with importunities nor disturb him in the enjoyment of a promenade through tne tastefully decorated hall. Table No. 1is well stocked with articles of vertuand utility. It is in charge of Mrs. McTeigue, who is ably assisted by Mrs, Mc- Laughlin, the Misses Bramson, Miss McGowan and the Misses Brady. Mrs. St. Jonn Eckel, authoress of the great lit- erary sensation, “Maria Monk’s Daughter," pre- sides at St, Stephen’s Children’s Home tables, Nos, 2and 3, Mrs, B. F. Hunt, Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Warden Brennan, Misses Maloney, Ring, Brady, Murphy, Johnson and Keegan are Mrs, Eckel’s efficient aids. The stock of goods at these tables is large and eile-’ gant, There may be seen beautiful wax flowers, handsome bronze figures and busts, choice oll paintings, a valuable Japanese jewel case, gold watch and bracelet, silver tea sets, costly dressing gowns and slippers, a superb set of vestments in moire and gold, copies of “Maria Monk’s Daughter” and numerous other useful and ornamental articles, admirably arranged beneath @ large and life-like crayon painting of Dr. Mc- Glynn. Many of the articies are sold at less than wholesale prices, Wile the cost 01 a “chance” is merely nominal. The priestess of the floral temple is Mra; Badger, assisted by the Misses Myers and Miss Dupignac. Table No. 6 is 1n charge of Miss McGlynn, the Misses Brady and Miss Mullany. At table No.6 Mrs. Stevens, Mra, Moore, Misses Crane, Flynn, Dean, Brogan, Price and Lachey are kept busy supplying customers and registering “chances.” Table No. 7 ig especially worthy Of attention. On it are arran; with much taste @ neatly wrought set of silver, a magnificent oil Fb 2 ot the immaculate Conception, a richly ornamented eigut-day clock, relics from the Hoiy Land, sets of china, elegantly framed por- traits of Dr. McGlynn and his predecessor, pr. Cummings; beautilul dolis, wax crosses, en- gravings, &c. Miss Lizzie Harrigan, the iady in charge, 18 ably assisted A the Misses Sheridan, Hattan, Archer, Whalen, Masterson and Byrnes, ‘Tale No. 8 1s well managed by Miss Maggie Baun and her associates, Misses Carr and Costeilo. Table No. 9 18 under the eflicient care of Miss Elien Flood, Ciaffey, E. Horne and Y, E. Con. ‘Tables Nos. 10 and 11 are attended by Mrs. Kirvy, Mrs. Hoyt, Misses Morse and McMeency. The post- mistress, Miss Hattie Mater, 18 @ model oiicial. Postmaster James would do well to send all his employés to take lessons from Miss Maher in courtesy and ability to manage the mails. There are several small tables in care of amiable mem- bers of St. Stephen's congregation. The refresh- ment tabie 18 well worthy of patronage. It is in charge of Mra. Tramor and a numerous corps of assistants. Those who are too busy to visit the fair might profit by the example of @ candidate jor As. sembly, who has senta check tor $300 to Dr. McGiyau in ald of the object jor which the jair 1s hela. 8T, PETER'S FAIR, Owing to the great success which has attended the Jair in connection with St. Peter's church, it has been decided by the ladies’ committee to con- tinue the fair for another week. A number of valuable ‘additions have been made to the fair during the past week, embracing fine china and porcelain goods, parian and bronze statuary, and rich dinner and tea services in china and queensware. There 16 also beautiful em- browdery and tapestry work, pictures in Berlin wool, paintings, chromos and fine steel en- gravings. A grand art entertainment, consisting Of & number of illuminated of! paintings, some twenty feet square, and piorgrepns. of Irish scenery. The entertainment will be accompanied by a descriptive lecture, followed by @ concert of vocal and instrumental music, which will be tne chief attraction of the week. The above, added w ny attractions of the jair, cannot fail to rove interesting, and there will, doubiess, during he present week, be @large attcudance of mem- bers of the Catholic Total Abstinence Benevolent societies, to waom the iair offers features of pecu- har intereate LITERATURE IN ENGLAND. General Review of Late Eng- lish Works. PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. Tennyson — Palmerston —Crema- tion—Art. BRASSEY’S LIFE AND LABORS. Lonpon, Oct. 20, 1874. Science is having its innings just now in the double form of congresses and books, While there is & general complaint of the dearth of other literatore—noveis only are realiy plenviful—all the “ologies” are being ventilated in talk and print as fully as all the “isms.” A scientific congress dis- cusses Oriental lore in London, while @ relt- gious congress tries to persuade Christians to hate one another a little leas bitterly at Bonn, We have from the pen of Mr. William Chappell, F. 8. A., a member of the frm of musical instrument makers, @ volume on the “History of Music,’ which ought ‘oO popularize an abstruse subject, while it is quite deep and exact enough to satisfy students of the science and artiste. It has excited a good deal of discussion among tne learned in such matters, and especially archwologists, because Mr. Chappell maintains the derivation of Greek music, to which he devotes a most interesting section of the work, trom Egypt. A brisk polemicon this point 1s at present being carried on by some ,of the very learned journals, but it has little general interest, whereas the book which has given rise to it bas much. The latest publication by the Hakluyt Society is 4 of unusual interest. Itis @ translation by Rich- ard Henry Major of the much disputed Zeno nar- rative, under the title of “Voyages of the Vene- tian Brothers, Nicolo and Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the Fourteenth Century.” The narrative was published in 1558, at a time when no map including the outline of Greenland existed, 80 lar as we know, though there is an improved assertion by the Danish hyarographer, Admiral Zahartmann (who denies the authenticity of the Zeno narrative), that an old manuscript map, which sets down the Greenland names in coniorm- ity with the Venetian geographer, is among the treasures of tne University Library of Copen- hagen; and the Admiral argues that Nicolo Zeno the younger consulted this map and fabricated the narrative and map which he asserted to be derived from manuscripts and drawings by his distinguished ancestor of the fourteenth century. The preface to Mr. Major’s admirable translation contains @ very interesting account of the re- searches which have been made by the officials of the Copenhagen University Library, results which were procured by tke zealous exertions of Mr. Major—who is keeper of the Department of Maps st the British Museum—with a view to discover- ing the map, or, at least, tracing its existence, In both they have utterly fatied, and thus the chief element in Admiral Zahartmann’s charge 1s exploded; but that successful result 13 not held to dispose entirely of the question of the genuimeness of the narrative. Mr. Major holds it to be true, and he defends his faith with ingenuity and learning which might win adherance to @ much weaker cause. The transiation, although characteristically quaint, is exceedingly clear and easy to follow; and the ap- pendix is very interesting, especially when read in connection with recent works on the Shetland Islands. Mr, Major’s dimcult and important un- dertaking has had an indirectly interesting result in baving elicited from M. Gabriel Gravier, the well known French geographer and archeologist, two treatises on the independent tracts, chiefly Norman and Breton, of Western ocean discovery, before Columbus, M. Gravier wrote his work in conseqnence of the inquiries addressed tv him by Mr. Major while the latter was executing his translation of the Zeno narrative. The most interesting announcement among forthcoming books of travel is that of Mr. Ash- ton Dilke’s “Uaucasian and Central Asian Ex- periences,” an instalment appears in the Fort- nightly Review for Octoper. Mr. Dilke has pur- chased that able and influential periodical. The proceedings of the Oongress of Urientalists have given an impulse to philological literature which ‘will probabiy lead to the publication of many vaiu- able works. The printing of the ancient inscnip- uuons is going on rapidly, and by Christmas the results of ali the researches which have been made in Eastern countries, so far as the records of their architectural monuments are concerned, will be placed in @ cheap and convenient form within reach of the public, CREMATION. The Rev. H. R. Hawes, whose vague and rather blatant theology has been much too fashionable of lace, has in the press @ volume which he calls a “Cremation Prelude.” Strange to say, this oddly named production is a touching love story, in the course of which the conversations take a charnel- house turn, and the hero telis things marvellous and dreadful concerning the state of English churchyards, exceedingly impressive and urgent on the subject of over-crowding, merciless to the abuses of management and absolutely plain speak- ing thyoughout, ‘he volume contains some touches of horror which go beyond the limits of any permitted sensationalism, and, if 1t does not produce disgust strong enough to condemn it to ostracism and oblivion, wil support Sir Henry ‘Thompson's argument in favor of cremation with quite unpleasant force. Apropos of this subject, an indiscreet friend of the late Lady Amberley, Earl Russell’s daughter-in-law, has written a memoir of ner ladyship, which has given no littie scandai to the unadavanced female community. This triend is Mrs, Rose Mary Crayshay, who some time ago recommended the putting to death of sickly and deformed infants, lunatics and 01d people, and who algo strenuously advocated the right of humanity to euthanasia as a substi- tute for the ordinary methods by which this mortal coll is shuffled off. She exalts the virtues and talents of Lady Amberley to the highest de- gree, and then tells how she was buried in the shrubbery of her couniry house at the foot of some larch trees, in the immediate vicinity of her favor- ite dog, in a rough coffin, made by a village care Penter, and that the oniy incompleteness about the performance was that she could not oe cree mated and her ashes scattered over the flower beds to increase the beauty and fragrance of the flowers she loved so well. We may come to this sort of thing in time. Things look as if we should come to it within a snort time; but at present it is voted rather atartiing, TENNYSON’S WORK. The Poet Laureate is now hard at work on his “Idyl of the Time of Boadicea.”’ He is, however, 8o fastidious that we may have to wait several months yet for its appearance. He paid a brief visit to bis former home at Freshwater last week and was looking very well, but, as usual when he is working, completely distrait ana uncounscious of surrounding things. Contrary to the general ex- pectation, Mr. Lrowning's new dramatic poem has not yet been announced, art, Among contributions to the literatare of art, Mr. George Audsiey’s ‘Notes on Japanese Art” is remarkable, It purports to be only an analytical catalogue of the Oriental exhibition of the Liver- pool Art Club, held in 1872, and its materials are, ag a matter of fact, taken from that splendid show; but it 18, im reality, much more. It is a highly interesting dissertation on Japanese art, in which we learn why the objects which we in- SUnctively admire commend themselves to our taste, and to what subtle secrets of art they really respond. The splendid collection from which Mr. Audsiey has made his studies was, for the most part, formed by the contributions of Mr. end Mra, Bowea, or Karnard Qastic, who tw queathed their art treasures to the town of Bar. nard Castle, Their coliection included a greas | umber of enamels; indesd, it ts sald to be un- rivalled in this department of art specimens, and with respect to the Japanese objects undoubtedly i980, Tits work gives us @ more exalted and ad- miring notion of Japanese art than even the beautiful and curious objects whion we all recog- nize as entirely different from the workmanship of any other nation, and infinitely superior to that of the Chinese, Mr. Audsley tells us of the few and simple tools with which the Japanese artista produce their beautiful work; of their characteristic correctness of eye and dex- terity of taste; also of the time and tabor which they cheerfully expend to attain the periection which charms all beholders. The book is highly entertaining, the subject beiug rendered after a most picturesque fashion and singularly free from technicality. The author accounts for the sudden appearance in European art collections of choice’ pieces of cloisonné enamel, hitherto; only heard of ‘and believed in, but never geen, by the break up of the feudal system in Japan and the mania for change, of the most radical kind, which has seized upon the Daimios. They are selling, om the, con. tents of their fortress palaces, scattering far ana wide the beautiful art objects made exclusively for them, formerly consecrated tu their order vy sumptuary laws, aud a8 precious as the two swords and the dragon standard to the hearts of their fore/athers, NOVELS. ‘The novel season is commencing, but nothing of’ mark has yet appeared. A transiation from the Swedish, under the title “Elvira, Lady Castleton,” is tolerably interesting, and has @ claim on atten- ton as the first Swedish novel which has reached us since the death of Frederika Bremer. Mr, Wilkie Collins’ novel, “The Law and the Lady," hag commenced in the Graphic, It begins in his usual architectural style, and is very well illustrated. The latest work of the famous French colladorateurs, Erckmanun-Chat- rian, “L’Histolre du Pilébiscite,” has been tranglated into English, It is uninteresting and intemperate, being a virulent attack upon the late Emperor of the French, and itis deficient tn tne quaint freshness hitherto characteristic of the twin writers, The acene is laid, as usual, in Al ace, but the actors are not the honest, ir nard and hatrow, people of the unhappy province—the ool laborateuirs always inculcate, as much as they de- scribe, a narrow seif-interest—but thoroughly iow and sordid persons, especially the women, whe are most unattractive, The book is in every re- spect a decided falling off, and quite unworthy to take its place among the romans nationaur. MEMOIRS OF PALMERSTON. The third volume of “The Life and Lettera of Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston,” is the meat important contribution of the month to biography. It is said that mach of the intended contents of this volume have been suppressed in deference to the wishes of the Queen, who desires that the Political matters in which the late Prince Consort was concerned should be explained in the memoir of the Prince, which is being (very leisurely) pre- pared, under the superintendence of Her Majesty, by Mr. Theodore Martin. The death of Lord Wal- ling, before his work was completed, has neces- Sitated the ealting of this third volume by another person. Mr. Evelyn Ashley has been intrusted with the task,@ands has done it weil. Is ‘was supposed at first that M. Guizot’s “History of France’) would have to be added to the list of works leit incomplete at the death of their authors, but this is not the case. The publishers, Messrs, Samp- son, Low & Co. announce the conclusion of the old statesman’s great book to be forthcoming shortly. It 18 a great work, no doubt, though it is dry, didactic and doctrinaire, and it is impressive in a way the author as little intended as he could have expected it to be; for the state of France at present ig as perfect an illustration of the 1utility of his schemes and the erroneousness of his calculations as could be offered by the bitterest irony of tate. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, An immense number of ulustrated books are in preparation for publication before Christmas. The St. James Mayaztne has changed hands and iw starting on a new career. It 1s intended to be the organ of colonial interests, and is very ably edited in that sense. Several new serial novela are an- nounced. Mrs. Edwards commences one next month in Temple Bar. The leading serial, begua this month, in AU the Year Round, is by Mr. Ed- mund Yates. Mrs. Oliphant is writing in Black. wood “The Story of Valentine and His Brother,” and the serial in Chambers’ Journal, called “The Blossoming of an Aloe,’ is by Mra. Cashel Hoey. Frazer ia very much brisked up under the auspices of Mr. Allingham, and the New Quarterly offers an attractive bill of fare, Brassey's Life and Labors. By Arthae Helps. The French Humorists. By Walter Besaur. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. We have received from Roberta Brotners two Notable books. Their external appearance 1s very attractive and their typography is the handiwork of the old firm of Jobn Wilson & Son, of Cam- bridge, Mass., which is a sufficient guarantee of excellence, The frst is entitled “Brassey's Life and Labors,’? and its author is Arthur Helps, who is 80 fayor- ably known tothe American public as a success- ful laborer in the field of biography. He had only the ordinary materials which almost any business man’s record would afford out of which to buila a readable lise; but he has handled them with sucn Skill and care that we are very much mistaken if his work does not have anextended sale. There are in this country many glorious instances of poor boys rising to eminence and wealth, and the book does not strike us as such a novelty as it must appear in Great Britain, where sudden ascents are rare; but for that very reason it will be usetul as a still further incentive to those wha come to town with the traditional bandana and the canonical ten cent scrip, Mr. Brassey was born in 1805 and died in 1870. When @ young man he came into intimate rela- tionship with George Stephenson, whose iriend- ship had a marked influence on his after life. He got his first contract when he was twenty-nine years old, and built ten miles of railroad so honestly and so well that from the nour of its com. pletion he had his hands full, In the course of his long life he was directly or indirectly engaged im building roadsin nearly every part of tne world. He had the contract for the Great Northern Rail- road of Canada, which is @ fair specimen of his work, He built the road from Paris to Rouen, which gained for him such favor that be was in- vited to the table of the Emperor at the Tuileries, ‘who, in 1856, conferred on him the Cross of the Legion of Honor, He afterwards built railroads in Austria and won the Cross of the Iron Crown. Altogether he took contracts for something over @ hundred railroads in England, France, Denmark, Austria, Italy, Cavada, Australia, Bombay and South America, He may well be called the railroad king of the world; and withai he seems to ha been @ man of sterling integrity; nov sordid, but generous, a true nobleman, of whom any country might well be proud, The volume should be reat as an incentive and an inspiration. The other work from the same firm is entitled “The French Humorists,” and its author, Walter Besaur, is not unknown to the scholars of this country, He has contributed articles on kindred subjects in the various English reviews, which have attracted attention, The book is gotten up in fine style, and is also from the press of Joun Wilson & Son. It carries us through pleasant fields of literature which are not very extensively Known. Although French is the fashionable lan- guage of the day, and no one has a right to con- sider himself with education who is not able to read it with ease, we doubt if one in ten has ever come into anything like intimacy with many of the humorists who have made France laugh for six centuries, We have long been familiar with a ew o! these writers, but the great majority n been strangers to us, and Mr. Besaur has done as good service in gathering together, evidently with great pains and faithful care, a series of portraits of those whose witicisms have been floating on the air tor ages, but whose lives were all unknown to us, His chapters on the “Romance of the Rose,'? on “Montaigne,” “Moligre” and «La Fontaine” are of especial interest, and altogether this volume oL 450 pages on the masters and masterpieces of French wit forms @ contribution to our currant literature thas will be gladiv weicomed.