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4 LITERATURE @kstein on How Germany Treats Her Writers. "YOGELWEIDE’S BIRTHPLAOE. A Specimen Number of the ‘‘ Deutsche | Rundschau.” BRITISH CELEBRITIES Anecdotes on Kings and Queens of England. FRANKFORT, Uct. 21, 187 It 1s rarely that we finda German writer sp tng openly about the iow state of literary appre- ciation in Germany. A well known feulletonist ana poet, Ernst Eckstein,jwho spent many years away from his fatherland, in Italy, ia Spain and in other Soutnern lands, returned tome not long ago to find all the grand eas he had of German literary appreciation, which had grown in his sell- exile, to be terrible illusions, He returned home with the idea that allGerman authors became quickly rien; that the demand tor new publications was so creat that tae public had fairly to fight about the booksellers’ svores for the possession of anew favorite, Where he got these fancies Irom I cannot say; probably from the same sources where most of us gather our first ideas about Ger- man iife, and virtue, and honesty! Says Eck stein:—“l began my literary career aproad. Whenever I suw the name Gustave Freytag 1 imagined tie celebrated author a3 the possessor oi 8 wonderiu! palace, Im the lobbies of which 200 German pu lishers trod on each others’ heels, in their desire to get the right to publish the author's last romance, * * * I had an especially brilliant idea about the verman middie classes. I tancied that tne German merchant, after spending about eight hours a day in his busmess, was accustomed, on reaching home, to read all the newest publications, And that bis library was to him even a greater object of his pride than his prosperous business,” And so forth. THE LAND OF INTELLECTUAL CULTURE. Poor Eckstein! He found himself terrioly mis- taken, He visited Lelpsic and made the acquaint- ance of a dashing, rich gentleman who plays a great role in Leipsic society. Sata gentieman spends no end of money in horses and in “sport,” but when he wished, a few days ago, to purchase a volume of the “Ilustrated Gazette” did not blush to take a dirty second-hand copy at antiqua- Tian prices. Eckstein likewise made the acquaint- ance of @ very intellectual Baroness P., who in- vited him vo dinner. In the course of the conver- gation the Baroness expressed unitmited admira- Uon Of the author’s works, and at the same time her deep regret that she bad not been able to obtain his latest work, notwithstanding that she had sent her servant to nearly all the circulating libraries im the city, put had been ‘anable to procure it. Laughingly the author asked her why she had not sent to the next bookstore and purchased it outright ? Over the face of the baroness sped a glow of surprise. “That ts true! What a pity tt is 1 did not think of tbat before. I should have saved myseif much trouble and an- moyance.” So it ts. In Germany a publusner ‘thinks he 1s doing well if he can dispose of AN EDITION IN THRER YEARS. Ernst Eckstein proposes some new methods of making the newest productions in the reaim of literature known to German ladies, He wishes, ironically of course, to transform the literary in- terests inio a toilet question; then the German author, he thinks, will grow rich, like other people. Leaving ridicule, however, M. Eckstein 18 serious about the mat- ter. “The most disgusting about the | whole thing is,” he says, “that the German still consideres himself to be the privileged guar- dian of the heavenly fire. With an unfrozennesa which is ‘ov naive tu be called brutal he continues to proclaim aloud Germany ts the only true home oi intellecruai life, and to gaze with proud disdain upon the beeriess and sauerkrautiless bar- barians, A literary interest existed at the com- mencement of the present century, but since then it has rapidly declined. Tuough the French may bein acondition of political dissolution we G mans have no cause to show any aristocratic sym- pathy for them. The process of shallowing is go- img uninter-uptedly on in our social circles. In certain classes, indeed, it 1s considered old fash- toned to speax o! literary matters at all—tne thea- tre alone excites interest. Tne circie of those ap- preciative o/ literature 1s very <mall; the members are in the minority, ana minorities do not con- tribute much to the characterization of a nation.” CHARACTER OF GERMAN PUBLICATIONS. Eckstein tells a great truth in the above words. Germany is by no means the land of Mterature as it is generally praised and thought to be by per- Sons Who bave never iived here. A few scholars, projessors and such like are, it is true, very pro- ductive authors, and these have secured Ger- many’s literary ‘ame; but few o/ them can boast of having bad great pecuniary successes with their ‘works. Over 4,000 new books in all departments are published annually in Germany. The num- ber exceeds the publications both of England and of America. But @ vast bumber of these are mere pamphlets; and { am inclined to the view that If the number of printed pages were counted and comparison made with Engiand and America the German production ‘Would be seen first in ics proper dimensions. As for comparison of sales this is out of the question. German book buyers are few and far between. One reason is spoken of by Eckstein; another ts the dearness of German books, @ result of smail sales; anvuther the siip-sod condition in which they are issued, in undress paper covers, the sheets loosely stitched, the leaves uncut. Alter purchasing your book you must have it bound before you can use it with ary degree of comfort. ‘True, bound books are becoming more and more mt; but in the matrer of bvok pubiisning Germany still lags half a century bebind England end America. WALTHER YON DER VOGELWEIDR. A ry interesting ceremony tovk place tn the Tyrol ou the 3d inst. Some German sayans have atiast found out the birthplace of Walther von der Vogeiweide (born 1165-1170), one of the nobles* of the German Minnesingers, and the day adove Mentioued was appointed to place on the ry house of bis birth @ marole tablet commem- orative of thatevent. li seven cities of antiquity contested for the honor of producing Homer, no less than nine iands or districts claimed at one time the honor ef having given birth to Walther von der Vogelweide—nameiy, Suabia, Switzer- jand, the Koineiand, Bavaria, Meissen, Bo- hemia, Austria, Franconia and Tyrol. As late a8 a year ago Professor Lexer, in @ lecture ~ delivered at Wurzburg, said that the place of Waither’s birth was still un- known, although Pleifer, who had first of all con- | by ' of his contemporaries | friend dered Wurzvurg to be the birth as well as the | r Buriat place of tie singer, pointed our ten years ago that he elt sure that the birthpiace must Le Sought ior in the Tyrol. He claimed Tyrol not frou any documentary evidence, but irom the im- pressions Produced upon wim by Waltuer’ songs, and, tuking into consideration ti aie which Tyrol occup! rman culture and J ther must bave spent his childhood in some forest politude interrupted only by the song of birds, oo there, in intercourse With the feathered cre: 100, whether in the parental house or in the sur- ‘ounding woous, the love of song may have frst Been S@wakened in his childish heart.” 5, THE BIRTHPLACE POUND, The Tyrol o1 to-day is not the Tyrol of 600 years pgo. In the Miacle Ages Tyroi was in a remar. abiy favorable situation; {t was directly on the ro from Germany to Italy, and the Urusaaes, the on! sete Sed campaigns of the German em) ero: the con imual intercourse of tue Germans south, exercised on the feudal lords liv- on eituer of the Brenner the greatest uence, and ‘the Elsack, with the three im- ortant points, Brixen, >eben and Trient, v-came he veins of @ rich, pulsating life.” Feudal lie, with itaromance and its poetry, prospered, as tha ruins offts iresco-decorated casties tell us to this day, The /eudai lords offered @ generous welcome to the wandering singers o1 love, who frequentiy Temaineu lor years at the castles of their hosts, Tt i strange that no recor ould have been found in Waither's own poems Or in the songs the place of his birth, tts ellow re always admitted him to singel be taeir leader, as does Gottiried 0: Strassburg, in his wonder! of “Trista: 8- sors they gae him pred! designation equal to “sir” or “‘koight,”? while the minnesingers of lower de- scent were styled ‘‘meistern” or “masters,” ‘This 1act Jed Pfeifer yo the Conclusion, that WALTHRK Was OF NOBLE ENT, but that his parents were poor and belonged to what was called tne Diensiadel, or serviary no- jon of his family, thought from which he received his surname, we been a very modest one, as he umes, (rom the name Vogelweide (Aviarium) ere was a villa or larger piace, witn this pame known, thouzh districts, such as Vorel- ho! ana Vogelgarten, were known. Pieifler came to the idea that tt must be a simple farm,,and twat this farm must have existed in the fyrol, he be- Neved, trom a study of the songs of Walther von Metze and Rubio and Leutoid von Seven, three Tyrol minnesiogers trom the Eisack district, who Must have had considerable intercourse with the singer of tue “Vogelweide.” Pieifier was for- tngat® enough to ond in the Vienna Imperial Lidrary an old manuscript referring toa “Vogel- weide” between Mitrewaide and scuelienverg, and an Augustine monk, Mairhofer, of Brixen, hearing of the discovery began to mike researches on the southern deciivity of the Brenner. in the communal o/ Telies, an hour's distupce westward ol Sterzing, he found a lorest divided into two parts, tiie one called the Vorder Vogelweide, tne other the Hinter Vogelweide; but neither farm nor Lut couid be found. Plefler, not at all dis- couraged, still asserted that Vogelweide’s home must be nearer Seven (a day’s journey irom Telles). Priest Johann Haider, in Layen, hearin; of the Vogeiweide discussions, called attention to two Vogelweide-Hdle, or firms, existing in the Laye*er Nied, and the heighvborbood correspond- ing Co Many poetic descriptions leit by Walther of iis youth, the savans 01 the Tyrol came to the concinsion that they were AV LAST ON THM PROPER TRACK. One of these jarms, the luner-Vogelwelde-Hof, was found to bave been earlier attached to a feudal possession, Itis one of the videst estates o! the victnity, and up to the year i 48 Ausser Ried bad to pay tw» parts of the tithes to the Inuer- Vogelweide-Hot, The Inner-Vogelweide-Ho! 1s romantically situated. Below tt, on the western declivity, fows the bhisack, which bere, enlarged by the rapid Groedner Bach, flows to the south, Whose murwuring recalls one of Walther’s lines of his youth—"Jen hirt ein Wasser tosen’—while Seven, where Leutold sang, lies only a few wiles | distant, in the same valley. The Tyrol savang becume unanimous that they had found Waither’s birthplace in tuis Inner-Vo- eiweide-Hof, aud the Germaa scholars seem to ave acquiesced in the discovery. So it was ar- ranged that oa the 3d o! Octover a marble tadlet Tecording Waither’s birth should be placed on the old house in the Layeuer Nied, and a few days ago the interesting ceremony connected witn its in- auguration took piace. Early on the morning of the 3d the guests assembled at the ratiroad depot ot Waldbruck ; thence they proceeded over the new Groeduer road to the Inner-\ogelweide-Hol, Where they assembied near the house. The Brixen Liegertaiel anu the Botzen singers joined in ren- dering one OT Vogelweiae’s puems, entitied ‘Ger- mania’s raise,’ set to music by Herbeck, Tuen jollowed an address of welcome Proiessor Zingerle, of Innsbruck, and more singing the testal speecn was delivered by Prote: Schrott, of Munich, which was mainly @ characteristic of the mivne singers’ poem. ‘hen @ chorus from Walther’s “ay Joys,” composed by Herveck, was sunz, followed by music and song and a banquet at | Kiausen and an excursion to the Monastery of Seven (Seeben or Seven). It was an interesting ceremony, apparentiy. The marble table contaius the simple imscriptio! ONE ROLOIO ROLE REDE DEDE DOE DE DCT DE DONE NRE LORE HE Ht oF) To the memory ot FY z WALTHER OF iHR VOGELWEIDE, 3 2 “Her Waither von der Vogelweide, 3 ry Swer des vergaeze, der tuet mir leice.”” 3 H. vy. TRUNBURG. 3 PO LCRO RINNE DENEDIOOLE NS DONE DEODDE TERE DE Mt 2 NOON THE NBW GERMAN RKVIEW. The long expectea rman Hevue des Deux Mondes, the Deutsche Rund.chau, edit d by Julius Rodenberg, has made its appearance. It resem- bies mm jorm and contents its French modei and 13 printed in good readable type, which is 80 rarely the case with German puviicatious. ‘he first bumber has several interesting contributions, it is opened with @ noveiette by Bertuvold Auerba-h, “On Guard,” and @ very attractive, warm toned and geulal story itis of Prussian social military lie. Gabriele, the beau:iul daughter of General von Kronwacnter, the commandant of the fort- reas, loves Lieutenant Hauenstein, who, through his good heartedness, 18 pis.ed before a military court martial. His compauy has duty at the fort- ress im which @ number of political pris- oners are confined. An aged political Jenuer has received information that his wile is dying. He secures the ear and sympathy o; Von Hauenstein, who grants him per- mission to leave his cnains in orger to visit his aying Wile in the neignboring city, on bis solemn promise to returi beiore the guard should be re- leaseu if the morning. The pris ner finds his wife asicep; he dares uot wake her, but waits patiently bofr a ter hour seated on the bedside, until at List She opens her eyes, recognizes her husband aad dies in his arms, In the meantime, however, Hauenstein is \ PLACED UNDER ARREST and to all appearances must be sentenced, ac- cording to the rigorous military law, to death. Gaoriele saves him. She 1s to become one of the queen's jadies in waiting. ‘ine monarch 1s pleased with her photograph aud requests to read une of her letters written to her aunt, in order to see the “igner photograph o1 ber inuer sell.” Gabriele takes the opporiunity of narrating in the letter the story of the aged prisoner, lis dying wie and Hauens €in’s disgrace, and the result ts tuat the aged prisoner is pardoned, Haueastein nas to sufler a umited arrest, and then be is murried to Gaoriee von Krouwachter, Auerbach philusophizes pleasantly here and there, and Makes some Characteristic remarks avout the daughters of oficers—Prussian 0! course. “Had the Greeks of antiquity known the daugater of ihe soldier,” he says, “tuey would certuinly pave created a type therefrom, lor taere is &@ peculiarity about the soldiers’ daughters ~hicn 18 not easily denned. Tuis peculiarity does not cousist oniy in militery carriage ana easy movements, but there is a certain sureness in eXpression avd COUdUCt, a form oi irmness which has agai. something 0: com- radesii) anu ‘velougingness,’ all 0; Which appears neW aud strane to the civilian.’ These peculi- arities evidently arise, Auerbacd goes on vo say, irouw the soctai security aud positiveness which they cau assert in society, just like that which in Prussia the military assert among Otuer ranks of society. OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS. The other contrivutions tn the first number are a poem by Anastasius Gran, an essay on “ine Kirst Pivision oO; £oland,”’ by Projessor \on sybei; “ne March to Sedan,” by Du Vernvis; “o\anical Proviems,” by Protessor Conn, of Bresiau; 4 uov- elerte, “Waldwinkel,” by Iheodore Sturm, and an exceeuinyly interesting correspondence between Kauiback and one oj his most intimate Iiriends. Cuiei Post Councillor Scatiiler, of Berlin. The “Literary Review” 18 by Kreyssig, the Beriin (theatre) chronicle Cari Frenzel, tne Vienna (musical) chronicle by Hausiick. Louis Enlert, one of the latest converts to Wagnerianism, writes a deeply appreciative article on the recent “Tristan aud Isoide” periormances in Weimar. He com- pares tue power which Wagner exerts over tne souls of men to the Runic magic of an ancient le- gend, whicb, bali terrifying, ball enticing, siuil en- Chabts us With its mysterious wouders, The Kaulbach le:ters io Schilier give us deep insight into the iile of the deceased artist. We are somewhat surprised, however, to find him writing occasionally in easy flowing verse with happy rhymes and still nappier words—verses which the editor thinks would do honor to an ancient Greek. Ot his Shakespeare pictures he Wrote in 1853:—“Since Christwas I have been over head and ears in Shakespeare, and swim in an ocean of joy; earlier 1 never beileved that I could appreciate him; | was terrified be ore the giant aud did not believe myself capavie ot follow- ing him, In spi'e of my enthusiasm I do not know even now whether my pictures are successiul or not; but I work on in the hope of living luto the Spirit of the work.” Kauibacn’s last letter to his is dated 1864. The whole corre- spondence will oe exceedingly useful for the biographer of the great painter. Proiessor Sybel’s article on the first division of Poland is an interesting historical essay. Sybei, like Dollinger. attributes tne (all of Poland to the undermimng influences oj Jesuitism. He endeavors to place the acis of Austria, Prussia | and Kussia in as favoraole a light as possible. This Wil give you an idea of the first number of the new review. “Ihe March to Sedan’ could nave been omitted to advantage. The subject is grow- ing stale. In its tendencies tie Rundschau is More German than international. In the next humber we are promised cvntrinutions irom Emanuel Geibel, Paul Heyse, Lasker, Max Maria von Weber, Statistician, Schwabe, Biuno Meyer, Rudolph Lindau and Juiius Oppenheim. { think Rodenberg would do weil to avoid giving the review a predominafin: tristic Character. The present numver differs but little trom the Salon, @ lighter journal which Rodenberg formerly edited. ENGLISH LITERATURE. Anecdotes of British Kings, Qa and Celebritios—The Greville Memoirs, Journal of the Reigns of King George the Fourth and King William the Fourth. Lonpon, Oct, 23, 1874, Mr, Henry Reeve, the editor 0! the Edinburgh Review, has just given to the world in three volumes @ book called ‘The Greville Memoirs," of which everybody is taiking, and which contain more piquant anecdotes of royal and distinguished personuges living at the commencement of this century than have ever before been published. Mr. Greville, whose diary is here reproduced, was @ man ol birth and education, who for forty years held the position of Clerk of the Counci! in Ordi- hary, and being besides in excellent society nad Opportunities of seeing and hearing all that His diary commences in 1816, and Gustav zu Putlitg, | pelle. | NEW YORK HEKALD, SATUKDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1874.—TRIP is continued to the year of his death, 1865; but the three volumes now published do not extend beyond 1830, Mr. Reeve professes some little reticence im regard to the pubi!cation of comments on our own times; but from the tone of his preface one may infer that tt will not be long before the later volumes see the light. Meantime we ought to be grateiul to him for those already issued, It is not proposed tu review them, but simply to pick Out some of the most striking ' and amusing passag GEORGE FOURTH. His Majesty keeps everybudy at agreat distance from him, and all about bim are a:rald of him, though he taiks to his 8 with more openness and familiarity than anybody, Radiord (who 18 aying) 18 DOt 1D such favor as ne was, (hough he is alwaysthere. Of OReilly, the surgeon, who secs the King every day and carries him al. the gossip he can pick op Bachelor speaks with very li!tie ceremony, The King told them the otber day that “O'Reilly was the damnedest liar in the worid,’” and it seems he is of.en in the habit of discussing people in this way to his valets de chambre. Ol Sir William Knighton, who kept the King’s purse and managed bis affairs, we are told :— His (the Ktog’s) language about Knighton is Sometimes of the must uumeasured violence— Wishes he was dead, and one day, when the door Was open so that the puge could hear, he sata, wish to cd Kuighton.” In this way he always speaks of him and uses him. His greatest delight is to make tnose who have business to transact with him or to lay papers beiore him, wait in bis anteroom while he 1s lounging with Mount Charles or any- body, talking of horses or any trivial matter; and when he is told, “Sir, there ts Watson waiting,’ &c., he replies, “Damn Watson; let him wait.’ He des 1t op purpuse and likes it. This account corres»onds wita ii | have beiore heard, and con- firms the opmivn | have iong nad tnat a more con- tempuble, cowardly, seltisn, unfeeling dog does not exist than this King. on whom such flattery is constantly lavished, g00d Dalure, arising, however, ont of no good principle .r good .eeuns, bub which 18 0! use to him, as it Cancels in a Momedt and at small cost a long score of mt:conduct. Princes have only to cehave with common decency and prudence aud they ar: sure to be popular, lor there is a great and general disposition to pay court to them. I ao not know anybody who is prooi against their seductions when they think Mt to use them in the shape of civility and condescension, The great cousoiation in all this 18 the prooi that, 80 tar from deriving happimess ‘rom their grandeur, they are the most miseravie of all mankind, THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK. The Duke of York was brother of King George | the Fourtn and Commanier-in-Chief of the army. Mr. Greville went to stay with him at Oatlands House, and thus writes of it:— Tuere are almost always the same people, sometimes more, sometimes less, We dine at eigut, and sit at table cil eleven, In about a quarter of an hour alter we leave (he dining room, the Dake sits down to piay.at witst, and never surs [rom the tabie as long as anybody will play with him. Whe anyboly gives a hint oi being tired he will leave off; but if he sees any signs of weariness in others he will never stop ninself, The Duchess generally plays also at null-crown whist. The Duchess seldom goes to bed, ori! 80 she does only ior an hour or two. Sne sleeps dressed upon a couch, sometimes in one room, sometimes in anotuer. She irequently waiks out very late at night, or ratver early in the morning, and she alwayssieeps with open windows, AN APROPOS STORY. Acertain bishop in the House of Lords rose to speak, and announced tuat he should divide what he had tv say into twelve parts, when the Duke of W .arton interrupted him ana oegged he mignt be indulged in 4 few minutes, as he had @ story to tet which he could only introduce at that moment. “A drunken fellow was pussing by St. Paul’s at night aud heard the clock slowly chim. ing twelve. He counted the strokes and when it nad finisued looked toward the clock and said, ‘Damn you, why couldn’t yeu give us that allat | once?’ ’? There was an end of the bishop's story. POPULARITY OF GEORGE Iv. The King went tothe play ‘ast night for the first time, the Dukes o: York and Clarence anda ~ great suite with tim, He was-received with im- mense acclamation, the whole pit standing up, hurrahing and waving thetr hats. Lord Hertiurd dropped one of the candies as be was lighting the King in and made a great confusion in the box. A iew people cailed, “Ine Queen 1” but very ‘ew. A man in tue gallery called out, ““Where’s your wile, Georgier” | TH“ DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND GEORGE Iv. | | When the Duke was at Brighton in the winter he and the King liad @ dispute avout the army. It began by tue King’s saying that tue Russians or the Prussians, 1 iorget which, were the best iniantry in the world. The Duke satd, “Except Your Majesty’s.”” ‘ihe King then said the Eugiish cavairy were the best, wiicu the Duke deuied. Then that an interior numver of French regiments would always veat a superior Dumver of English, anu, 10 short, that they were not nal 60 effective. ihe King was very angry, tbe dixpute waxed warm and eroed by His Majesty rising irom the table and sayiag, “Well, it 18 not fur me 10 dispute on such @ subject with Your Grace.” aT COURT. I was lodged in the Pavuion and dined with j the King. The gaudy splendor of tne piace ; amused me for a little and then bored me, The dinner was cold and the evening dull beyond all | auiness. ‘they say th King ts anxious that form apd ceremony should ve banished, and if soit only proves iow impossible it 1s that form and ceremony sould not aiways inhabit @ palace. The rooms are not furnished fur society, and, in fact, society cannvt flourish without ease, and who can jeel at eae who ts under the eterual con- straint which et quette and respect impose, The King was in good 100Ks and good spirits, and atter dinner cut his jokes wit all (he coarse Merriment which 13 characteristic. Lord Wellesley did not seem to like it, but of course he bowed and smiied like the rest. I was curious to see tue Pavilion and the Iile they lead there, and I now only hope I may never go there again, jor tue novelty is passed ana I should be exposed to the whole weight Of the bore of it without the stimulus of curiosity. WELLINGTON WOUNDED. The Duke said he had been struck down bya musket suot whe reconnoitring tne enemy as they were retreating in (he Pyrenees. Ihe peopie round him thought he was killed, but he got up directly. He 1s of opinion tiat Massena was the ee enanee general to whom he was ever op- posed. ROYAL MUNIFICENCE, McGregor told me the other’day that not one of the piiysiciaus aud tne surgeons who attenaed the Duke Oi Yo:k through ois long and paimtul Miuess had ever received the smailesi remunera- tou, although their names and services had been juid beiore tue King. He told me th addition that during sixteen years that he attended the Duke aud nis whole faintly he never received anything by Way of jee or any payment whatever. GHOKGE IV, ON HIMSELF, One day he was talking oi the iate King, and asse ted that George Lil. had said to uimself:— “1 all the men | have ever known, you are the one on whom I have the greatest dependence, @od you are the most periect gentleman.” An- other day he said that ie recollected oid Lord Chesterfield, wuo once said to nim ‘oir, you are the iourth Prince of Wa.es I have known, and [ must give your Royal Highness one piece of advice, ‘stick to your ather! As long a8 you adhere’ to your father you will oe @ great and happy man; but il you separate yourseli from nim you will be nothing and an unbappy one. And, by God,” added the King, “I never forgot that uavice, and acted upon it all my lie.” “We ail,” said tue Duke, “looked at each other with astonishment.” MISS FANNY KEMBLE BUTLER. w Miss Fanny Kemble jor the first time on and was disappointed. She is short, ill mae, with large hands and teet and expressive countenance, thougn not hanusome; fine eyes, teeth and hair; not devoid of grace, and with great energy and spirit; her voice goud, though she has @ iittle of the drawi ol her family, | TOMMY MOORE. Moore sang in the eee and was very agree- able the whole day. He said that Byron thought that Crabbe and Coleridge had the most genius and feeling of any living poet. How dangerous it 1 to be @ story teller, however agreeavie the meaning or amusing the budget, tor Muore to-day told a story which Le told here last week. How- ever, they all laughed just the same, except me, and I moralized upon it thus, | WASHIN He 1s lively and unassuming, rather vulgar, very goud humorea. He Wan.s sprigitiiness am more redned manvers, He was in spain four years, at Madrid, Sevilie and Granada. When he returned to France be was utterly uninformed of What was passing in Europe while ve was io Z in, and he says he now constantly hearseveats iuded to of which he knows notuing. BEAU BRUMMEL, | Detained at Calais tillseven; nowever, I had a long conversation with Brummel about his coun- seilorship, and was moved by his account of Dis Own distress to write to the Dake of Wellington and ask him what le could do tor him. Liound him in his old lodging, dressing. some pretty pieces of | Old furniture ig the room, an entire toilet 0} stiver, | and alarge green macaw perched on the back of | a catiered sik chair With faded gilding, iuil of gayety, impudence and misery, WORDSWORTH. Wordsworth may be bordering on sixty; hi featured, vrown, wrinkled, with prominent te and a iew scattered gray hair: not @ disagreeable countenance ; jul, merry, courteous aod talkative, much more 40 thao | should bave expected trom the grave and didactic Character 0) his writing, He held fortn | On poetry, painting, politics and metaphysics with | @ good deal of e1uqnence; he is more cunversabie and with @ greater flow of animal spirits than Southey. He mentioned toat he never wrote down as he composed, but composed watking, riding or in bed, and wrote down alter; that southey com- poses at his desk. KING WILLIAM Iv, | The King’s good nature, simplicity and affa- bility to all about him are certainly very striking, and in his elevation he does not orget any of MIs old friends and companions. He was tn no hurry to take Upon himseli the dignity of King, nor to throw off the havits and manners of a country gentieman., He says be aves not want luxury and Maxnificeuce, has slept in a cot and nas dismissed the King's cook. Altogether he seems @ kind hearted, well meaning, not stupid, burlesque, | busting old felow: and U he dues not go mad ard th and very cheer- somebody would assassinate | le has a sort of capricious | Dut nevertheless — may make a very decent king; but he exhivits oddities, QUEEN ADELAIDE. | The Queen came to Laay Batharst’s to see ti review, and held @ sort of drawiug room, when the Ministers’ wives were presented to her. She 1s very ugly, with @ horrid complexion, but hag good manners and did all this, which soe hates very well, She said the part as if she were acting | and wanted the green curtuin to drop. MUSEMENTS. ‘AL A} The King (William EV.) continues very active, has immense dinners every day and the same people two or three days running, He has dis- meye d the late King’s band aud employs the band ol the Guards every night, who are ready to die = of it, lor they get no pay and are prevented } gasoline, money eisewhere. The other night {the King had a party, and at eleven o’clock he dismissed them thus gentiemen, | wish you good night; | will not de- tain you any longer from your amusement, and shall go to ‘my own, which is to go to bed; 80 come along my Queen.” Yesterday morning, or | the evening before, he announved to the Duke of Wellington that he should dine with him. Accord. mgiy the Duke was obuged in the middle of his preparations to get a dinner ready for nim. the morning he tovk the King of Wurtemburg to Windsor, and just at the hour when the Duke ex- ected him to dinner he was driving through yde Park back from Windsor, three Larouches | aud sour horses dead knocked DP in tne front, the two Kings, Jersey and somebody els | all covered with dust, the whole mob of cai riages and horsemen assembled near Apsiey Heuse to see nim pass and to await till he re- | turned, The Duke, on learing he was there, rushed out without his bat and stood in his gate | tn the midst of servants, mob, &c. | The talk of the town has been about the King and the toasts he gave at the great dinner at St. | James’ the other day. He nad ninety guests, all | his Ministers, ali the great people and all the for- eign amoassadors. Alter dinner he made a loug, rambling speech in French, and ending by giving | us a “sentiment,” as he called it, The Land we Live in.” This was beiore the ladies left the room. Alter they were gone he made another speech in French, and ended with a very coarse toast and the words, “Honi soit qui mal y pense.” Sefton, who toid it me, said he never leit so ashamed Lord Grey was reauy to sink into the earth. Everybody laughed, of course, and Seton, who = ‘Now, ladies and gat next to Talleyrand, said to him, “#h bien, que | pensez vous de cela?” with hig unmoved, immov bie face, Me answered only, '*C’est bien remarqua- | ble 2” MACAULAY. It. was not until Macauiay stood up that I was aware o! all the vulgarity aod ungainliness of his | Appearance ; not a ray of intellect beams trom bis countenauce; # lum) of more ordinary Clay never onaineee @ more poweriul mind and lovely imagi- nation. but it was not assuming, unembarrassed yet not | easy, unpolished yet not coarse; there was no | kindof usurpaiion o1 the conversation, no tenacity ag to opinion or facts, no assumption of superiority ; 800D apparent, ior whatever subject was touched upon he evinced the utmost familiarity with it; quotation, iliustration or anecdote seemed ready | in nis band for every topic.” PALMERSTON, Madame De Lieven told me it was impossible to descrive the contempt, ag well as the dislike, | which the Corps Diploinatique iad tor Palmerston. ‘Tuey have the meanest opinion of his capacity and his manners, reverse 0! conciliatory. not imagine how his colleagues bear with him, and Lord Grey supports him vehementiy. His unpopularity in his own office is quite us great as itis among the forelcn ministe:s, and he does nothing, 80 that they do not make up in respect for wnat they want in inclination. George Vil- liers complains that for above three months he has not received a singie line ‘rom him, and he is @ young minister, unpracticed in the profession, to whom is committed the most delicate and aiffi- cult mission in Europe. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S COURAGE. Peel wrote # tewer to Hume demanding an explanation of certain offensive expressions he had made use of in the House of Commons and got an answer which was sufticient, though not very ctvii. it was ratuer unnecessary that he should take any notice of what Hume said, but Peel 18 @ man Of very high and prompt courage and seeins to have made arule to himself never to apiter impertimence from any quarter to pass unchecked. It is certainly of great service to a pubic man, and it largely increases the estima- oe in which he 18 held to establisa such a char- acter. THE KING’S RUDENESS TO THE DUCHESS OF KENT. ‘The Duchess sat on one side of the King and | the Princess Victoria opposite. A'ter dinner, by the Queen’s desire, ‘His Majesty's healtn” was | given As soon as it was drunk he made a very long | Speech, im tne course of which be poured forth the following extraordinary and Jo me tirade:—‘I trust in God that my Iile may ve spared for nine months longer, after which period, in the event of my death, no regency would take place. I should tnen have the satisfac‘ion of leaving the royal authority of the personal exercise of that young lady (pointing to the Princess), the heircss presumptive of the Crown, and notin the hands ofa person now near me, who is surrounded by evil advisers, and who 1s herself incompetent to act with propriety in the station in which she would be placed. I have no hesitation in saying that I nave been insulted—grossiy and continuail insulted—by that person; but 1 am determined to endure no longer @ course of benavior so disre- spectiul tome. Among many other things I have particularly to compiain of the manner in which that young lady has been kept away from my Court, She nas been repeatedly kept from my drawing rooms, at which she ought always to have been present; but | am fully resolved that this shall not happen again. I would have her know that Iam King, and I am determined to make my suthoriiy respected, and for tn future I shall insist and command that the Prin- cess (lo upon all occasions appear at my Court, as itis her duty to dv.” He terminated his speech by an allusion to the Princess and her future reign in a tone of paternal interest and aitection, which was excellent in its way. This awiul philip- pic (with @ great deal more which | forget) was . uttered with @ loud voice and excited manner. The Queen looked in deep distress, the Princess burst into tears and the whole company were aghast. The Duchess of Kent said not a word. Immediately after they rose and retired and a terrible scene ensued. The Ducness announced | her immediate departure and ordered her car- riage, but asort ol reconciliation was patched up | she was prevailed upon to stay untii the next day. The foiiowing morning, when the King saw Fooespl dog be asked nim what peopie said to nis speeco. He rep.ied that they thought the Duchess o1 Kent merited his rebuke, but that it ought not | to have been given there; that he ought to have | sent for her into hiscioset and have said ail that he telt and thought there, but not at table betore @ hundred peuple. He replied that he did not care where he said it or be‘ore whom; that ‘By God, he had been insulted by her in a measure that passed ali endurance, and he wouid not stand | it any longer!” | THE YOUNG QUEEN (VICTORIA). TheKing died at twenty minutes after two yes- | terday morning ; the youug Queen met the Council at Kensington Palace at eleven. Never was any- thing like the first impression she produced, or | the chorus of praise-and admiration which is raised about her manner and behavior—and cer- tainly not without jastice. lt was very extra- ordivary, and something far beyond what was looked for. Her extreme youth and inexperience, and ignorance of the world concerning her, natur- | ally excited intense curiosity to see how she would | act on this trying occasion. ‘The doors were | thrown open and the Queen entered, accompanied | by her two uncles, who advanced to meet her. She bowed to the lords, took her seat and then | read her speech in a clear, distinct and audible voice ana without any appearance of fear or em- | barrassment. She was quite plainly dressed and | in mourning. After she had read her speech the Vrivy Councillors were sworn, the two royal aukes first, by themselves; and as these two old men, her | uncles, knelt before her, swearing allegiance and | kissing her hand, I saw her biush up to the eyes, as if she felt the contrast between their civil and their natural relations, and this was tne only sign | of emotion which she evinced. Her manner was | very graceful and engaging. She kissed them both, ana rose from her chairand moved toward the Duke of Sussex, who was farthest irom her and too infirm to reach her. I particularly watched her when Melvourne and the Ministers | her. She went through the whole cere! His manner struck me as not pleasing, | but the variety anu extent of nis iniormation was | She’ can- | | from attendance at the session of the Permanent | wealthy proprietor, and, wnat few French noble- and the Duke of Wellington and Peel approacied | LE SHEET, FRANCE, No Quarter to the Bo- napartists. The Real Danger of the Orenoque. SPAIN BULLYING FRANCE. The Prince of Wales Serenaded by Donkeys. Paris, Oct, 23, 1874. MacMahon’s government continues to pursae steadily the policy of isolating itself from ail the definite parties in the State. This week Bona- partist and legitimist are equally loud tn taetr complaints ofits action. The former are indig- | Dant at the dismissal of the Duke de Padoue trom | the post of Mavor of Courson-l’Aunay for some | too pronounced imperialist utterances, and the | latter, MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE, | bewail the recall of the Orénoque frigate from | Civita Vecchia, His Holinesa made not the slight- est difficnity about the matter and his relations with the French Cabinet are of the most cordial nature. The only persons who haa arigntto | grumble were the officers and crew of the Oré- nogue, that vessel being of such doubtiul soundness | | a8 to render her departure trom the harbor of | Ctvita Vecchia, and still more her arrival at Tou- | | jon, during the late stormy weather, extremely | problematical. The Duke Decazes merits the gratitude of Italy. The last sign of hostility to her untty and absolute freedom in reguiating her own ailairs is at length | removed, Since the palmy days ofthe Itahan Republica she has never enjoyed so many of the elements of prosperity. She has nothing to fear from France, or trom the hated Tedesco, from her | own princes, or from the ecclesias'ical powers, | | ‘that she 18 not prosperous will soon be nobody's fault but her own. In return for the friendly | action of the French government, Signor Visconti Venosta ia reported to have addressed a remon- strance to M. Thiers on the language he is allow- ing himself to use about Marshal MacMahon’s Ministry during his tour through the north of | Italy. Assuredly | THIERS’ LANGUAGE WAS UNJUSTIFIABLE, if the Monitore di Bologna gives a correct account of the interview between the ex-President and one of its reporters. “You must expect.’ said | Thers, “on the part of the present government | the eects of an tll-disguised resentment, on ac- count of the influences which the French ultra- montane partyymay from time to time exercise on the presi istry, which, in my opinion, is very weak.’ | No Fren ad aright to utter these words | ' fn public Own government to foreigners, | and addressing {Mem to a reporter who was sure | to publish what he heard was the same thing. The statement had not even the merit of being | | true, and came with an especially il! grace from | the lips of Thiers, who never had the courage to recall the Orénoque from Civita Vecchia, who, . throughout his career, bitterly opposed a liberal foreign policy on the part of France and won | much claptrap popularity under the second Em- pire by thundering against Louis Napoleon for putting ao end to the anarchy in which Italy lay previously to 1859, and tor acquiescing in the for- mation of tne North German Contederation. On this point the | OPINION OF HEINE is worth quoting. | “Tne most flourishing period of the parliamen- tary epoch”—such are nis words—‘was under the | Cabinet of théist of March, 1840, and for the first few years of the Cabinet of the 29th of November, 1840 (that of the late. M. Guizot), The first of these administrations ought to have @ singular interest for Germans, for it was then that the President of the Council, M. Thiers, by his vigorous tattoo, | awoke poor old Germany !rom her letnargic sleep and compelled her to enter into the political life of | Europe. M. Thiers beat the drum so loudly that we could not sleep and since then we have sat up. If ever we become a people M. Thiers may fairly ciaim vo have helped us, and German history wil not fatl to recognize the debt.” In the sitting of the Permanent Committee last | Thursday, M. de la Bouillerie put a question to the Foreign Minister in regard to the Madrid note. The Spanish Ambassador has formally complained to the French government of its NEGLIGENCE ON THE PYRENEAN FRONTIER, whereby the Carlists are kept constantly supplied with arms and ammunition. The despatch of the Marquis Vega di Armijo, which is almost bullying im tone, has given a terrible blow to the self- respect of the French people, and M, Thiers’ con- duct is the less excusable in seeking to lower the dignity of government at the present moment, when by so doing he impairs the prestige of the country, which is, certainly, fallen very low. “But yesterday and France might have stood against the world, Now, none so poor as todo her reverence.” Of course, every one here believes that Bismarck has really dictated the note, and it ig more than probable that he has promised to back up any remonstrances of Marshal Serrano’s envoy on the suvject. The Duke Decazes did not attempt to conceal from the committee that the despatch was unpleasantly worded. He could only ad that there was nothing in its language which could be absolutely considered as an affront. The Duke de la Rocheioucauld excused himself Committee, of which he is a member, on the score | of having to receive the PRINCE OF WALES AT ESCLIMON’ his grace’s country seat. The Duke is a very men can boast of, dwells in @ castle which bis ancestors held in the days of Francis lL Be- tween thirty and forty servants in the ducal livery were drawn up at the gate of the castle as a kind of guard in honor of the Prince, and about an equal number of pure legitimists with long pedigrees and the prejudices of the nintn century occasionally looking at Melbourne for imstraction: when she had any doubt what to do, which hardly ever occurred, and with perfect calmness and self- possession, put at the same time with perfect modesty and propri particularly interesting and ingratiating. Th {une Queen, who might well be eitner dismayed or confounded with the grandeur and novelty of her situation, seemed either the one nor the other, and benaved with a decorum and propriety beyond her years, and with ail the sedateness and diznity, the want of which Was so conspicuous in her uncle. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Queen Victoria has twenty-three living grand- children. Lee & Shephera have in press a new book by Professor Townsend with the soul-harrowing title, “Forever Lost.” The St. Petersburg Golos says:—‘Kurope will not permit the Baltic to be closed by the transfer of Denmark to German domimation.” Europe, io | tois case, means Russia. It is proposed now to remove Temple Bar, in , London, to a point of the city limits ona street jess important to daily traMc than Fleet street and thus to get tt out of the way and keep up the tradition of its character by making royal entries into the city by the street where the bar may be iaced. Hurd & Houghton, New York, the Riverside Press, Cambridge, announces ‘A Rebel’s Recollec- tion,” by George Cary Eggleston, who was a pri- vate in the Confederate army, aud a keen ob- server, with humorous turn of mind; also “His Two Wives,” @ novel, by Mrs, Mary Clemmer Ames, the well known Washington correspondent and editor of the writings of the Cary sisters, and, finally, @n octavo volume entitied, “Pnblic Health,” being valuable papers on tuat topic by eminent sanitary students uoder the editorsaip of | be. Bitehe Harris. My | Were invited to meet His Royal Highness at | dinner. Among them were the Comte de Bre- | teull, @ name which figures in the Anglo-Norman | history of seven hundred years ago ; Prince Edmond de Polignac, cousin of the illstarred minister of Charles X.; General de Charette, the commander of the famous Pontifical Zouaves; the | Duke de la Trémoutile, the head of an old Provestant house, a daughter of which in the seventeenth century married one of the Earls of Derby, and is still remembered for her defence of Lattrom House against tne forces of the Parlia- ment. There was also present the Duke of Chartres, who is about as much ot young hero ag it lies in an Orleans prince to be. The list had | been daly submitt to the Prince of Wales tor his approv: The Duke de la Rochefo ucaula has SOME FINE DONERYS, who, presumably recognizing congenial spirits among the assembled guests, resolved to give them aserenade, The Prince had hardly revired to rest on the night o1 his arrival when the don- keys vegan to bray in chorus; the neighboring cattle took up the dismal chant, and the whole country aroun! was filled with the mourntul sound, The Duke hastened to despatch servants, who drove the donkeys tar away into the woos, and so enabled His Royal Highness to sleep in eace. But many republican journals will bray ouder at the heir apparent of Hagland accepting the hospitality of @ man who i notorio' hostile to sham Repuviics and who actually moved in the | Assembly the restoration of Henry V. THE ELECTIONS, The elections of Sunday have resulted thus far ‘in the return of three more repunii members vo the Assembly. In the Pasade Ualai Bonapart- ist 18 at the head of the poti, but has not ovtained an avsolute majority of tne votes recorded, A fresh election wiil, therefore, take place on the 1st ol November. Jt is noteworthy that none of tie candidates prociaimed themaeives legiimists or | even Orleanita, ‘Uhe diMcnity o1 making mere | | his popularity might be o! ' of the heroes of adnerence to the provisional. govor: ing cry was also ilivacrated by the deieat two septennailsts in the Alpes Maritumes. THE NATIONAL INCOME, The revenue returns for the first nine months of the present sear are, it must be allowed, an amole Justification of Marshal MacMabon’s statement @ Jew weeks ago that the fact of bis powers being only temporary ip uo way interfered sh the | agen Asi ofthe country. The direct taxes, which it wus calculated would bring 10 $38,835,200, » ive realized $97,737,800, being a surplus of $5,852,600, On the other hand, the productiveness of the indirect taxes has fallen below the estimate ; but of the net deficiency of $6,431,200, $5,346,400 accrued in the first six months of the Year, $1,132,800 in July and $414,000 in August, while September exhibited a reaction, the revenue for that month exceeding the estimate by $462,0.0, Ii tt continues to augment at the present ratio during the remainder of the year, and tf the ex- Penditure has been kept within proper bounds— vhat rarest of events tn French flnance—a surpl may help to materially raise the reputation of t existing government. Without being much con- cerned in the stability of the President's rale, one cannot rejoice too greatly at the prospect of France being able at iength to emerge triumph- antly {rom pecuniary difficulties which seemed three years ago to be overwhelming. Not onl Frenchmen, but all who nave the well being bot! moral and material of mankind at heart, may well be pleased. The ominous word repudiation has been for some time past in the mout extreme radicals of and & perpetual deficit would end by making even serious statesmen look wistiully to this very sim- le means of escape irom fiscal embarrassments. et the bankruptcy of France would entail wide- spread misery on the French peopie and on the civilized world at large. The French debt amounts roughly to $4,000,000,000, and has absorbed in great measure the savings of this thrtitiest ot nations. ft is not too much to say that every family in the country woul! feel the calamity, for every family saves. Moreover eared pd FRANCE woul e fatal to the financial honesty of othet States, Spain and Turkey would be are to cllow in her wake, nor is it likely that Austria or Italy Liv tong te restrained bya mare of shame (rom relieving themselves in 80 expeditious from the ‘dimicuities entuled by a paren ot honesty. A general whitewashing of ‘gov- ernments would be followed by & untversal aralysis of industry, ‘the financial honor of vance concerns everybody, Whether tt will still be preserved intact 18 matter of painiul uncer- tainty. Tue very idea of retrenchment in na- tional expenditure seems axen to the minds of Politictans who look closeiy enough into their domestic affairs. “No economies,” exclaimed, in the Assembly, M. Thiers, whose wife, even while he was Chief 0! the state, wrangled gaily wth her cook over the price of vegetables and pouitry, Local finances seem to be managed in the same reckless manner as the national budget. THE PREFECT OF THE ALLIER has just suspended the Mun.cinal Council of Montlucon, and replaced it by a Commission. The motives assi:cned for this mesure are a systee matic opposition to the Mayor, caluminous ac- cusations against that functionary and refusal to vote a credil for enlarging the varracks, in delauit of which the military authorities would be com- pelied to remove the garrison, to the great pre- judice of the trade of the locality. The Inst 1s, of course, the true reason, and gives one @ curious insight into the doings of petty authority intrusted with discretionary powers, THE PRINCE OF WALES continues his Rs a and is to-day the guest of Baron Rothschiid at his magnificent seat of Fer- rivres, where Napoleon III, feasted off gold plate, which tie Baron deviared should never azain be used. Perhaps he will make an exception in favor of the Prince. ‘To-morrow and Thursday wis Royal Highness will or the hospitality of the Duke or Aumale at Chantilly, and, if he were well advised, he would not leave France withous calling on MM. Gambetta, Grévy and Casimir Périer, to show that the representative oi the English peopte has no sympathy with any party, bat wishes well to all the talent and patriotism of France in the hour of her need. He would win golden opinions by so graceiul a step from the re- publicans, and, as he maybe kingat the same time that they are in power, the circumstance of Teal service to the British Cabinet in future dealings with the Repub- lic, which, sooner or later, must be a reality, witb | republicans at its head. A BRITISH PUZZLE. In attendance on the Prince 1s Colonel Teesdale, @ Dame trying to Frencn ki riers. Ihe Figaro first printed it as “Colone!: Leesdone,” but this morning it rectifies its error, and says it has found out that this oMcer’s real name i: ‘Tysdall,” Colon:i feesdaie, | may remind Americans, is one Kars. and worthy in every u be Groom of the Bedchamber to His Rovai High- ness, $o long a8 soldiers covet these peculiar dis- tinctions. THE VON -ARNIMS., Who They Are and Whence They Came. BERLIN, Oct. 22, 1874. Nearly halt a century before the then Duchy of Brandenburg had cloaked itself in the trappings of 9 full fedged kingdom we read of au Arnim in the service of the “Great Elector” Frederick Will- fam, who ruled contemporancously with the “Lord Protector” and the “Merry Monarch.’ There were then tn all likelihovd more than thid one Arnim. At all events, there are very many now—so many, indeeg, that the ‘struggle for ex- istence,” as the Darwinians say, does not permit them to disuatn a greater or less quantity in com: pensation fora poor day’s work. There are Are nims in nearly a!l walks of lite; some are at the top of the ladder and some at the vottom—some who cannot be put into the cells of a police station house witnout subjecting enterprising news papers like the H#RALD to enormous charges for despatches and some woo can be locked up with- out raising even @ ripple on the even tenor o! journalistic enterprise. The name of Von Arnim was not entirely un known to ‘ame beiore the present “unpleasant ness’ between the Count Harry Von Arnim and the “man of blood and iron” who wields the power of both the Prussian Kingdom and the German Empire. There was a Von Aruim engaged in the diplomatic service of the Holenzollern monarchy avout halfa century ago, whose record of travels | 18 still a model of clear and perspicuous German, / and his work upon the First Napoleon’s conduct toward Prussia, written by bim in English, shows that he was not altogether devoid of poittical insight. He was a courtly gallant, and, lke Sit Puillp Sydney, he aspired to ve all tings to all men and to make every department of knowledge his province, aud in consequence became tne au- thor of several rather indiferent poems and of ona thoroughiy execrabe piay wuich vas damned him to presumably not everiasting ridicule. Almost coutemporaneous'y with this Arnim of Many paris there flourished another Aroim, whose memory is no doubt dear to those of bh countrymen und women, whose youth was in itd prime @ quarter Of aceutury or more ago. His Tomances possess all tue grace and unreality of those of Balzac, With a flavor of naughtivess un- happily but too common in the literature of his country, and his wile, known as ‘*Kettina,’”’ whose correspondence with Goetne 1s about as agree- able reading as one can wish on & summer's day or winter's ifensy 3 has been made famous by her own Writings and by ner not altogether biamelesa connection with the greatest among the poets of the nineteenth century. Following him—he died in 1831—the next Arnim | of any prominence was the father of the Count who has ‘allen under the displeasure of Bismarck, He held various di;lomatic post'1ons in the Prus- sian service, and before the advent to power of Bismarck, in 1862, he performed the duties of Minister of Foreign Affairs to tue satisiaction of the Junker, or high tory. party. His pame will probably be but little rememoered ten yeara heuce; in fact, if it nad not been for mis son’s presert notoriety, the oblivion which had almost enshrouded him would never have been raised. He was & man of fair, but not great or orilitant abilities; @ man who, like your Secretaries Fish and Robeson, performs the routine of his duu satisfactorily enough, but who can neither con- | cetve nor execute enterprises o! great pith and moment, and who 18 set je {or some bolder, stouter and abler statesman as 5000 a8 Clouds ap- dear on. ue horizon and danger threatens the ship 01 State. ‘count Henry Von Arnim, who lately had the honor of occupying quarters in the Berlin police station. is now about fifty years of aye. He en- tered the diplomatic service, and after having heid @ number of minor posts abroad he was sent to Kome at the close of the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, It was geuerally believed that he was favorite of Bismarck, and considering that ‘was sent to Paris at & Most critical period it dor not require any very great stretc. of credulity to suppose that the Chancellor looked witu @ kindly eye upon him. He is @ man of line presence, @ fluent speaker and of considerable taient. Besides, he was and still i@ very popular at courtand in “gociety,”’ and Bismarck, gruff and self-suiicient as he 18, knows Well enouga that “society” sud the court have still considerable itufueace in shaping the course along whicu the State must travel, Self-interest, ii nothing mure generous, proval induced ‘him to win Von Aroim to his side. ‘The latter was, no doubt, to @ certain extent made conidant of the tormer’s plans, and, a3 always happens whes two intimate friends jail out, the present quarrel is exceedingly bitter, and Von Arnim’s cnanves tor turther political advancement are very slim in- deed, Itis true he 14 related by marriage to tne Toyal famuy, but that, strange as it may seein, will not help him much. Very many ot the Arnims are wealthy and occupy good ;ositions under (he government, but vhey are not golug to run thet hecks tNto 4 noose to serve an indisereet relation. ‘The name oi the ‘State’ ts a tower of streng(h im Prussia, and, as Bismarck nas invoked that name, in does not seem at ail provaole that tue late Ambassador at Paris will come outof the fgut otherwise than as a poiiticuily rumed man, His father-in-law, Count Arnim-Boitzenvurg, Governor of Alsace and Lorraine, came post hasce to Beran on learning Of his son-in-law’s arrest, but a day's Stay there convinced nim of tue advisability of re- turning to bis post aud tnaking no factier uss about the matter, [he can de nothing who of all the Arnims ia to de anvibing ¢