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4 NEW. YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 39, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. ~ AMERICANS ABROAD. Cisaflantic Students in the Medical Schools of Paris. Expenses of Undergraduates, Class Fees, and the Examina- tion for a Degree. The Embryo American Phys'cian During His Everyday Life in the french Capital Paris, Nov. 12, 1374 Gott very recently an American medical diploma was not cousidered equal in some re- specta (0 a French diploma, and this fact alone was saudicieot reason to induce the higher class of | American medical students to come vo Paris for | ¢400 a year, instroction, When they got bere they found that they Rad along and costly task before them, and that the period of probation which they were bound to pass was very fall of temptations and @iMeulties. To giaduate at the Medical School in Paris takes an average period of seven years. Moreover, tt ia necessary that the student should Sake his degree as Bachelor Of arts and Bachelor of Letters, titles which are to be ob- tained by diligent attendance at grinding schools, and there only. An important proviso mm the regu- Jation of the French scuools is cuat If an Ameri- can medical studeat bas a diploma from a good Schoo! in the United States the Faculty of Medi- cine of Parts will jump him over his bachelorate in arts and letters, aod will also absolve him irom sixteen tuscriptions, bringing him thus right up to the examination necessary tor the degree of doc- tor, Medical students in France who go through the regular course have to submit to all the pre- scribed routine. Alter presenting their diplomas &s Bachelors of Letters snd Bachelors of Arts they are required to pass three examinations, or one examination each year for three years, They Must aiso produce certidcates testi/ying that they have walked the hospitals for tiree years, and they have to pay for sixteen Inscriptions, the sum total of which expense is not much. To take an Inscription a medical student has simply to enter nis name at the Secretary's office in the Senool of Medicine and to pay a smail fee as a voucher for bis persona) attendance, THE EXAMINATIONS POR THE DEGREE of Doctor of Medicine at the Faculty of Paris are 8ix {0 number, and the order of examination is a& follows: 1, Anatomy. ne has In view, and he snould not allow nimseir to be persuaded to go anywhere else, It he ts igno- Tant of the ianguage his first care will naturally be to obtain a teacher; but he stiould aot on this account stay away trom the hospitals and lec- tures. He should follow these uy. from the day of his arrival, whether he under- word of them or mot, It is tue vest way to learn. If he wishes to graduate in the Frenc Once inscribe bis name at the Secretary of tbe faculty and must | show a title of Bachelor of Letters. Bachelor of Arts 1s now also demanded, but itmay | | be presented later on in the course of stuoy. | French school exacts tiree “end of the year’ @x- | amimations before the faculty, five separate ex- | amimations for the Doctorate and the Thesis, mak- | ing, 1m ail, nine examinations, also certificates of three years’ service 1n the hospitals, ali of wuich ut seven years’ siuay, although a few | Builer’s and sat in the r nt or Very brillant students accompilsh itin five years, The jees lor the whole course are | ognized, and the student King, commonly called * Pipe-eu-Bols," & Iriend of M, Gamvetta, invited them to dance in a quadrille. atand School be mu omce of thi requires al very dilige only about $250. who is already @ graduate of a bie school of medicine it ts } the recommeadation of the Minister of his counury, | all three ladies took part tn aquaarille wherein | to jump all the fret examtnauons and detais aud | | only submit him to the five examimations jor the | ante, whose projession may easily be divined. 'uesi8, Which usually consume | from @ year abd a had to three years. of Bachelor required may be obtained rapidly | law students, Doctorate and whe turough the aid of “STUFFING SCHOOLS,” Sorbonne, Students In the Latin Quarter annually rons iv is said that a few of the poorer Frenco students manage to live on $300 or How they do it is @ mystery. I should say that no foreign student ought to make | pr | the attempt on 4 less sum than Irom $500 to $1,000. the restaurants. LIGHT FROM OTHER SOURCES. | w The information I nave carefuily collected from | other sources now ites belore me in a large pile of papers, which bave formed the principal part of my iabor for some mouths, It may be thus sum- marized:—Medical students on arriving in Paris usually take up their atode in the neighborhood ©! the schools, on tue le!t bank of the Seine, are generally to be found in turnished rooms, for which they pay irom $10 to $12 a month, aud they o seidom or never board tn the house where they | yy, louge, The district in which they live 18 Well pro- vided with cueap eating houses, where the scudent finds suitable board at prices varying from $24 and | upWard per month, Here Lhe studeutin /aris wakes | bis meals. His morniugs are spent in visiting some fuspital, trom eight to eleven o'ciock, at Which latter hour he breakfasts. His aiteruoous ted to reading or attending ween SIX ald seven o'clock, ud then the American medicai student, pi taking Very much, a8 he does, Of the uature of tue tourist, lays hunseil out lor seeing sights. The American medical students wav come to Waris to pursue their 8.udies are, jor the Most par students at ailin tue ordinary sense of the © thut ts to say. they are nol inscribed as regular stuuents at the medicai school. Tuey are gener- ally young doctors, wuo have already taken their Gegree at 80meé Medical iNstituuion in the United States, and are o! (uat to spend one or two years are, ur should be, devi jeciures. He dines bt means enable tuem | abruad, botn in travel and study, Givide 'Sueir atiebtion pretty equally betweea Paris and Tuese eral scien 3. Practice of medicine, | fecting tilmself in 4. Surgery. oi medicine oF 6. Obstetrica | wise 6. Thests. These examinations are so severe that the Student Is obliged to give several montha to each of the divisions for the doctorate. The most dui- gent students rarely get througn tn less than a yearand ahalf, The Facuity have made it possi- ble for a s'udent to Obtain hia degree in four years ‘and a ball; but not one in twenty finds that the thing is to be done under seven years. There 1s po period fixed for a studeni to offer himseli for examination in the schools of Paris, ag there Is in other medical colleges, Whenever @& student thinks himself ready to take hia degree he goes to the Secretary and puts his name down jor exami- nation, The Faculty sits allthe year round, and students can be examined whenever they please by giving a \ew days’ notice. PERS PAID BY MEDICAL STUDENTS. The total sum required for going through the Medical schools of Paris amounts to 1,240 Irancs, or $248, including thesis, The examinations are very fair. There is no favoritism, lor the student isgeneratly € unknown to the Professor, and is usually examined by @ perfect stranger, who can bave no personal leeling in the matter. The mode of exavimation may be thus described :— Three examiners and three students meet to- Gether at a long table. The examiners are dressed in their doctors’ roves, and one of them sits directly opposite each student. Before each examiner 18 an hour glass contaiuing sand enough to run jor diteen minutes, which is the time given to questions and answers. The examiners never put catch questions, but they give out very dimeut probiems tosolve. When the quarter of an hour uas expired the examiners retire sllemtly to aconsulting room, and there vote the election or rejecti.n of the candidates who have presented ‘themselves for examination. Mf two out of the three examiners ceci.re they are satisfied the student takes his degree and receives his ¢l- ploma; but there are seven degrees of excellence, i F more tuan oue- Sod the Sighest bonors of the schools are not | the same time. often obtained, EPECIAL INFORMATION FOR AMERICANS. In order to make this letter of spectat value to American medical Students who purpose to gradu- ate in Paris, | addre a letter to Dr, Johnston, one of tue Most eminent physicians now im prac- tice here, and submitted the following questions w bin :— 1. Ts tt advisab for a young American to study aud if so, ior what reasons? suould be given him if he goes to cost of his degree as Doctor of he Faculty of i'aris? is the Value of a French degree when hat obtained? & What ts the peculiar excellence of the Pri School of Mediclue and its advantages over o @cL0Ois” 6, What ts the allowance necessary for the ereditavie maintenauce of an undergraduate walle studying medicine tn Paris? Dr. Johnston, to whose invariable courtesy, ripe experience and great learning | am under many ovligations, kindly aadressed to me tne following reply: The questions you bave done me the honor to ask me iu regard to medical education and medi- cal advantages at Paris are certainly interesting oues to tue American medical student, aud I wil ry to auewer them 4g clearly ind oriefly as possi- Die. The meaica) schools in the United States have Ainproved so much in late years, especially in the @djunction of clinical advantages, tiat the neces- sity of coming abroad is not so much felt; and, in Cay the number of American medical students as somewhat diminisied ratuer tuan creased in the iast Oiteen years. Nevertneless, Paris still maintains {ts superiority @s the seat of medical eaucation, because it has Sriple the number of bospital beds ol any otner city in the world, because lt# museums are more extended, Ita collections larger, and everytnin eriaining to the heading art more compiete, an ecause TO SER 1d THR GREAT DESIDERATUM. Medical knowledge is now so equally and 60 rapidly distributed over the world througn the medium of books and journals that aman need only git himsel! down tn one piace, there collect by reading aii the new ideas which are emitied | d then go to the hospitals and maseums to apply them, and to do this he wants the largest number o/ hospitals and museums. Certainly the war and the disappearance by death or oid age oO! the greatest number of the bril- ant m ni #0 much lustre to the Frenct School Guring the Grst bali of the ceptury have thrown a te ary shade over the achool and Sa sort of excuse for proclaiming lailen bend tue schools of Germany id and i# no longer what it once was. are § everal men in the school whose word 18 |aw in the profession, and there ia @ whole group of young and zeaious and intelligent | workers who are destined to be heard from at no distant day, So that if the French school were no more than the equal 01 others in the taient of the men who Girect it it is Still superior on account of what Can be seen With the eyes, Moreover, the Senool Of Paris is 4 school of pure science tn the largest Acceptation v! the word. It covers the whole feld Di science, and is free from coteries and hostill- 01 patients to access, and consi ities and lliberaliems 0: aii kinds, and has no | outside the healing art So, too, there | pinto! 6 no favoritism, the provessor does not know the | student, be is examined oiten and severely, and ees ne es the goed he Is pot only @ | © spetent physician but 4 learned man, So few, | 4! A puved,. Rauate in Fratce that there are attnia | Ler's, or outside snes establishment, where they are very iond of pai French iaw acadents are, geverally speaking, gen- @ medical students are not. A practice le in the United States, one toevery | exists at Builier’s, which 18 a pupular dancing bouth much patronized by students, of electing @ | jyaijing’s publisher, doseribes “RBINE DU CHARUT,"” or "Queen of the vance," at tue end of the eum. imped piunge at once | mer term, just Cater e Oe pe ee ahh Pe fi rter of the schools (the Boulevard St. | election tukes piace at the stuuente’ calé, whicl ' ta the Gea ap oe | ‘aié Racine, near tie Udéon; and | need ely say that the conditions of eligibility are 40 the obiect | Just the reverse of tho: ry pasts La THOUSAND PHYSICIANA, ne to best 2,400 inhabitants; whereas there I bel a y iohabltants, and there vUgit lo be at least ona ho every thou: itants even On & B01 80 exthy as t When the foreign Btudent arrives in Paris h iene, ‘Rue de Seine). There is no possibiiity of workin frorvUung there lends weriousiy in any other quarter, | waelt manulactories, by studeuts, THE PRINCL Vienna, great ceutres | edxe, with their numerous many advantages to 2 Physiology, chemistry, botany and the collat- | ready well grounded on the broad principles of | his projession, and Who is merely desirous of per- some particuiar surgery. They are like. valuable schovls jor meu Who have | pursued taeir previous studies in some small city, chiefly om account of the greater variety 01 cases always to ve found in populous towus, quently tne American medical student in Paris Tarely ever attends the jectures of the schools as @ regular course, but confines oimself to reading, Visiling the different hospitais aud giving especial Attention to operauons, of Which he 1s euabled to see 4 great number, : L ADVANTAGES OF PARIS a8 @ SCHOO! Of Medicine consist in the multiplicity yhow tue student finds an easy quenuy the many general surgi- Cai vperauions Which ue 1s permirted to witness. The Paris Medical school 1s more remarkavie for third is that which excites geueral medicine aud surgery tuan for speciaines 1D tuose brancnes, aud it ls not al present supe- rior iM any respect to Vieuna, Bern or London. Une great advantage obtained by tne American Medical student, Woo ues studied for a ume in drance and Germany, Sullicient amount of the French aud German lai | guages to enabie lim to read tae LeW puviications relating to his provession wuich are constanuy appearing in those couutries. ‘ifs advantage is Ol prime importance to all those who wish to fol- low ciosely the Marci Of medical science in Eu. Tope, as Many of the newest aud wWost meritorious pubications concerning Surgery aud iwedicine, which are printed in Germany and 1u France, are but tardiiy or Lever transiated into English. It is probaviy in this way only vbat tue mere acqaisi- | ton of tudse lauguages Would be of any practical beuefit to an American physician; for the Frencn eWigrauts and residents In the United States are not humerous enough to make their language of mucu Lupurtance to @ physician a3 a means of communicaung with paueuts, The importance of tue Frencn janguage to Americans generally may be estimated When it is known tuat up to is7i the Frenco enugrants to tue United Staies Were only 249,512 i bumoer, Wille tue German emigrants numbered 2,305,453, and not more than one-twellth of the loreign trade of the United cates Was Carried on with France. CHEMISTRY. There ts no regularly organized School of Uhem- istry ln Paris, aU BO Gegiees 1b that science are ever comlerred m Frauce. The princtpai jabora- tories are (hose belonging to the great indusinial There are aiso smali lavoratories such a8 that Which is attached to tue Mining School, but they are more used by professors than The jaboratory Of tue Sorboune would scarcely accommodate more thau hali a dozeu students; and probably there are never third of that Dumber Working there it not umrequeutly happens | that Freucu students who intend to pursde tue practice oF meaiciwe enter Jor a Cime at an tudus- triai laboratory, in order to acquire the necessary knowledge ol ciemistry 0 enavie them to pass tue examination ior a degree. FREE LECTURES. The lectures of tue Paris Medical School are free. assiduously he utle of | other by boasting tn tive presents, Both For the foreign student respecta- the bavit, oo thundering chorus of de Frambuisy, to his dying the saying 01 France, Lot m— ‘lass Whose time and They seein to Berlin und London. ol scientific knowl. hospitals, oer the student Who 18 ale mind, who will not orauch Couse- attention. It 18 on bodies sophical thinkers is the acquisition of a The only expeuses incurred by tue studeut are for going over It comprised in tue lees paid for his inscriptions and EXauUNaioys. Ob Wwese ies there Is @ tax, WHICH y the Student On taking Out his inscrip- vacergoing lis eXaminauons. ent go velore Bis examiners msumcieutly prepared and (ail he would in that case forfeit nis exauiluatiun tax, and have to pay it once more ob presenting bimsell again ior eXauination on the same Subject a Wiel be broke uown, TIM. A very able friend of mine, who has devoted Much attention to the subject of French medical educauion, has expressed some Qoubts wheter the jength of cme 1s pala tious 0 the at time of Ve.pea quenty the iniux of joreiguers desirous 0] study- | Ing medicine in Parw is Dot at present large. in- deed, a8 fur as | can learn, there are but two Amer- {cau medical students reguiariy inscilbed in the wy, Hayden, 18 School, Mr. Mr. = Wortuington, ably neither of to take @ French degree, buc wiil be content to 4 the carry back to the United States with them # “Cer- tificate of Study,” statuog whe length o1 time in which they have followed the usuai course in the French scnoul. Tne whole number of American medical students in Paris at anyone time isnever jn per Buppused to Lave exceeded fiteen, LAW. tng 18 the portion of the volume tains some ietiers of brovner, Sir Wiliam Tempie. very cllarming, jw! of lie and cheery humor, of slirewd tits when measures and of men, and of unutfected enjoy- bative and restorative enjoyment Jemporarily ‘out ot office,’ be tt 4, for when the tories came in, im 1841, it was 80 manifestly a temporary triumph thal There are, I these gcntiemen believe, no stucents in Fiance, studying with tie inten- tion Of taking degiees in French Jaw schools, gud but very jew, i] auy, Who are studying Frenco jaws in France @t ail, law School would bé of no practical value to & lawyer in the United States, A certain knowledge Of French iaw might, however, be of Much use (0 toe lawyer practising in New Orieans, but as the But should required by tue present the student. He Is i ment amusing appendix Trognon’s Amélie, Reine des ulty of Medicine pas of Boston, and or = Cincinnat. Prob- Intend Engiish cision of her fate discrowned English journais, American law A degree irom @ French ment of the Of “out of remember rec’ er Tost important part of the itgation Which jorg paimerston pad takes piace sieme| the sear in” Louisiana tune affairs, or 1s to oring it before the United states Courts, Where yy man the cases Would be decided according to Amerivah the and Engiiah jaws, it would scarcely be worth the wulle OL aX American law student to study fora devree in 4 French law school, even sitnough ne intended to practise his proiession in Louisiana. rhen é at ° There are but two Americaa lawyers practising 10 | 01 {t When ® man ts more than # politician, How. Paria, and Wey are peruaps toe oniy American advocates { all France. Merrill ana Mr, Harriss, I should add that tue | length of time necessary to obtain @ degree in French jaw is three years, The total cost of all examinations 18 $200, THE ASPECTS OF 8TUDRNT LIFE IN PARIS are very curious, There isa permanent feud be- ween toe Jaw students and the medical svudenta, nd the tWo parties often come to blows at bul- concerns mari- of such & nature 88 to the pest better jaunty Their names are Mr. | with even immec ing their evenings, ‘Tne | health and. ao been hardly begun. rate pains which these sketches, The mi whica would wia aporo- pation In 8 decent drawing room, Yet the stn- | pi dents usually give the prize to the dancer wo Joots it most gracefully; tney do notlike “dowgery’”’ or uproariously tndelicate dancing. students of law and the students of medicine met together during this election; but they had 40 much diffcuity tn agreeing about their candidates thateach sect now elect a queen of their own. The prize given by the students on this occasion | to their queen 1s @ goid Watch and chain, and the two ladies take great pams to hum! uperiority of their respec- ni '# o} students are a trouble- Tho | Boe folk. Ome night m December, 18¢8, PHINCKSS METTRENICH, THEN AUSTRIAN AMBASSA- DRE: Countess Pourtales, one the Seeond Empire, and the Marchioness de Gall'- fet, & (amous beauty of the same period, came to soment gallery, hop- en; but they were rec= Formerly the of the great ladies of ing to see without delug Une fourth lagy waa Marte la Blanchisseuse “tudt- c | This young lady was then Keine du Chahut, tue de | The utles | (a Loi; that is to say, she nad been elected by the Immediately aiter tie quadrilie | was over the three nob.e ladies decamped; but c | the affair made a@ loud scandal, and Prince Metter- | which prepare dim for the EXawiuing Boardat the | nich, who, with two gentiemen had accompanied | bis whe, Was obliged to husn it up, When Pipe- The sums of money spent by the majority of | en-Bois was subsequently sentenced to death ior participating iu the Commune the students uuani- mousy drew up a petition for his pardon, and kind-nearted M. Thiers commuted | Into one Of exile. He 18 now at Brussels, Fired ree of great bes ig Ore yo } risters and doctors, men not older than five and | SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR, | lorty, have danced at Buillter’s, There is not, to my knowleuge, hali a dozen | boarding houses in the Latin Quarter, Nearly al | the students hire rooms by the month and eat 14 | part in poliucs, and the Odéon ‘Theatre may be | bot improperly called their Paruament House. they wuo first fought Napoleon [Il with the | terrible weapon of ridicule, and made a mock at | Lis marriage Which was echoed ali over France. Shortly aiter tis wedding the Emperor, unluckily, went to the Odéon, and immediatey ne appeared io the imperial vox the students buret out with & ms sentence POLITICS AFTER CLASS, The medical aud law students takely a lively “AVAIT PRIS FEMME, LB SIRE DE FRAMBOISY.” They likewise gave him the names of *\Lampert” They | and of “Badinguet.” He was known as the ‘Sire "as “Lambert” and ag ‘“Badinguet? ys Lmust couctude this letter with n American s'atesman now in Paris. ne duy e met with a young telluw countryman told him that he Was coming to stuay law in “Weill, then,” repiied the great man, drily, “you had better go home.” LITERATURE. Latest English Book: Lonvon, Nov. 10, 1874 MILL ON RELIGION. After the “Greville Memoirs,” which are being Tead with much imcreased avidity since it has transpired that the Queen strongly dislikes their publication and bas remonstrated against the publication of the succeeding volumes, the most talked about book of the day 1s the posthumous volume, containing three essays on religion, by John Stuart Mill, This book, like ols authobio- graphy, 18 edited by his step-daughter, Miss Helen Taylor, who is a Jady of an economical turn of have anything which the sake of appear- this characteristic costs money done for ances, and the result of is that this book is as distinguisned jor its exter- nal shabbiness as was the autobiography. three essays, which are extremely interesting, are exciting @ good deal of surprise and controversy among Mr, Mili’s disciples, and they indicate that his mind had made an unsuspected progress trom the dreary negation displayed in the autobiog- raphy to religious realism, Of an arbitrary and self-arranged kind no doubt, but still to a state | | which might have led to Christianity at last. Orst essay, on “Nature,” 18 the most powerful of the three. The author works out with great force bis objections to the stoical system. and it em- most of the difficulties which philo- encounter, the apparent contradiction between the world as its exists and the theory of a Creator, at once infinitely powerful and absolutely good. novel, either in its method or in its conclusions, but it leaves an impression on our minds that Mr. Mill had come to doubt ‘the family secret,’’ t.e., that there is no God, and to regard the exist- ence of a Divine Person something more than a “first cause,” as more provable than not. LORD PALMERSTON. The so-called “Life of Lord Palmerston,” by Lord Daliing, better known as Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, is only a fragment alter all. died before his important task was completed, and the “‘memoir” takes leave of its subject before his career as a statesman had well begun, therefore, not @ biography of Lord Paimerston— of our Lord Palmerston, the sagacious old man who managed to keep things going in a groove, which, since nis death, has became wildly impos- Bible—but it is a valuable contribution to listory which. has only just ceased to be contemporary, and it lets in a number of side lights on the events = s)r Samuel nas subjugated. In style this work is ofthe Melbourne administration and the foreign relations of Engiand during the early years of the Queen’s reign, when foreign affairs “had asig- nificance which they have now Jost, and diplo- matic myster.es commanaed a credulous respect.” The second vo.ome is very pleasant reading, though it deais at anexorbitant and unneces- peopie and contemplation of such disgustiug nq sweden. The book will appear next spring. sary length with the more than “sbady” tran- saction of the “Spanish marriages.” just emerged from the discussion of this supject, awakened oy M. Guizot’s death; and we don’t care Lord Dalling We had only Certain letters of Marte schemers who won (!) aiso lucky that Isabel Il. does not solace herself the struggle. Very much Spirlt, of kind, duration of bis holiday and advantage, gentleman era in Our political and social history. the story oF bis pleasant ile at Broadinnds charm- ingly, and we only regret that there ig not more ever much he may be tne latter, | supplementing it witn a volume, or, Lt may be, the politician in interest, in the long run—b ey @ posterity, | SIR ROBERT PEEL, We learn by a preiatory uore to Lord Dalling’s “Historical sketch of Sir Kobery Peel that Unis Was the last work he complet: Several others, indeed, he s bitious motives of the pos: | the historical and biographical branches of lsera- ture which would lave needed very good immensely to realize. His sketch of | Aimished even to the preface, while one of ihe character aud career 01 Lajayette ts jound to have Mr. George Beutiey, Lord in @ eulogistic | style hig Method Of working, and details the elavo- | getyi he took in the preparation of moir of Peel is tne comple- poh! ved Dailing’s estimate oi Canning, He | very interesting paraiie) is drawn between the dence, Mr. Nordnoff, We lives of the two men. Sir Robert Peel had, tn Lord bey ‘ Be Oe eae Ontmente seenion. “the talents (OF giving & DLs | easily compressed,even though with alarger theme Bossuet and Von Weber have done tt, This book | | ms to have had am- bilities of a career in | {ts pith, It 18 @ complete system of political | Sir Rovert veel A | us, Of reconsideration, | eWanctpation 19 the cause under consideration.) | “Mr, Canning bad the genius which makes a cause | | popular, Tne one had the courage to auvocate an | opinion belore 1t was ripe for realization ; the other | the Jortitude, When the advantage and tue possi- Diity of @ measure became apparent, to make unheésitatingly every personal sacrifice lor tne puolic'wellare, # ° * * ‘The one resembied a | jreek in the most glorious times o/ Athens; the | other reminded you of a Roman tn the nobles cpoch of the city of Romulus," The sketch is rather | made to fit this definition than the defimition to ot | the object of the sketch. It is diMcult to feel & hearty esteem for Sir Robert Peel’s polincal career, It neeas excuse at tne best, though his tergiversations resulted im immense benefit to the country, The sketch 19 iliantiy | written, much more so than the “Lie of Palmerston, and conveys a far more pro- found impression of personal feeling on the part of the writer, ord Dalling conciudes Waat 13 really to be fairly cescrived Os @ panexyric, by nta were | dy mpulng to Sir Robert Peel higher scuolariy @0 noisy that they were obliged to consent, and | Sttainiments than he is generally believed to have | possessed, He says of Sir Rovert Peei 1e Was | a scholar im the highest sease of the term; nor did | the attention he could give to the details of | business damp his sympathy lor the elegunces of | literature or his appreciauion of Waat was beau- tulul, Whether in painting or scuipture, Ip snort, without Drersialng to raise bim above the defects and iittienesses of human natares, 1 a0 nut know where to point to any one who united | such calents ior public ‘business with such ‘ qualities im private Ife? “Tars ts bigh, specific and empuatic praise, and though tt may ve that posterity wil not indorse 1b ail, | the testimony of @ man of Lord Datling's judg. ment and experience of men to the character of one whom be knew 80 intimately, Will always Com- mand respect, BULWER’S SPEECHES, It pours politica! biography. so to speak, In ad- | dition to the Paimersion, Peel aud Greville me- moirs, We have two thick volumes of tue late Lord Lytton’s “Parliamentary speeches," which, a4 volumes, Will probably be very iiuue read, out which, taken speech by speech, separately and at intervals, will be found interesting and useful. They serve to refresh one’s Memory concerning the events of receiit llstury in @ Way that is absolutely needim in this epoch of “dissolv- ing views,” when the oid inteilecrual measuie- ment of ume 18 a8 much ont of date as the old hysical when “vhases’” are as passing as fasnious, Lora Lytton was not @ political, aby more than he was a literary genius in the highest sense of the term; but he was always @ )Ust-minded man and a polished gentie- man, the sterling metal shone turough the small affectations which overlaid it. THE SHAH’S DIARY. The “Shah’s Diary" proves, as we were told it | Would prove by persons who had an opportunity of gauging the intellectual Capacity oO. the “De- scendant of cyrus’ (who, vy tue by, in claiming ; Buch a descent, proves that he knows noining of | tue history ol fersia and Greece), a tawialy ; aud silly production, whicn reads like @ child's “book, written by & erson not much wiser then a chiid. 13 Majesty perpetually records that “he sat upon a c.air,’’ and any one who, ike the present writer, ovserved tie imperial expression of 1ace and restiessuess of hmv on the occasion of tae Aibert Hall entertain- ment to our Persian guest, When ne sat upon a chair, “gilt and splendia indeed, like Mr. Ross’ ‘parier,’” as described by Rawdou Crawley in “Vanity Fair,” but awlully uncomiortabie, wi!l be o1@ LO Understand the iwportauce which he attaches to the fact. ‘he ‘Diary’ confirms all the stories Which were afloat at tie time of bis stay in England respecting his huge de- ligut witn the juggiery and —_ acrobatic feats at the Crystal Palace and the waxen wonders at Mwe, Tussaud’s, He gives &® luany account Of his visit to 5t. Paul’s, in which he says:—"fne head priest was lu, and Was re- placed by his heurenant.” On the whvie the diary is hardly Worth reading, and considering the lit- erary rank of Persia among Oriental nations we were justified in expecting something better irom the Shahean-shan, We are inaevied to the Acad- emy tor tne perusal of the diary, One ot their cor- respondents has transiated it at Teheran, and aiso expiained the dryoess and ungraceluine-s o: the imperial writer's style. It appears that he 1s a tyro in Persian speech, having spoken nothing but Turkish untii his eighteenth yeor. His subjects do not iike lis book any better than they ikea nis Journej. ARCTIO EXPLORATIONS. An account of the German Arctic expedition of 1809-70 has just been puolished. It is an ex- tremely interesting volume, taough it 1s only a joretaste of the detailed and ciassified account which 13 about touppear in two sections—tue one narration, the other scientitic—and to which seve- rai of the officers of the expedition are contrivuuing. Simuitaneously with the puoite ition of the larger work 1n Vicona af Eng isi transiation will be issued here, in the meantime, Captain Kaldeverz gives us a timely and adinirably written narrative Of the results of the generous dnd patriotic enter- prise which Was undertaken at the expense oi tne Merchants oj Bremen, and seconded vy the puvlic with extraordinary Zeal. I) 18 carious to read the account of the way in which suvscrip- tions flowed im trom Germaos far away irom Fatherland in south America, Cuina, the East Indies, Honoiulu and Taviti, The book bas the exciting and pathetic element which distinguishes ali Darratives 0 Arctic Voyages Which are at all | Weill written, and the scientific resu ts are ad- muably summarized. Pubic Opinion 10 this country, Wi.cn has iong been in favor of another Arctic’ expeaition trom Engiand, and wutca aid not go with the contrary determination o: Mr. Gladstone’s Ministry, wili be strenatueued by tuis book, and the spiritsof the naval officers and scientilic personages who have long veen urging the expediency o: such an undertaking iu vain are perceprioly Tisiny, a8 the press goes With them more und more strongly, und the spirit of emula- tion 1s aroused by the Austrian success, SIR SAMUEL BAKER'S Ismalia—so-callec (rom te name he has bestowea, as a compliment to tie Khedive, on tie territory over which he bas hoisted ine fag of Ismail—is a very big book, With @ number ol very coarse Jilu tratious, whica represent, for the most part, some Veiy Uuple sant scenes in the history of the expe- Gition and in the lives of the savage tribes which insertor to Sir Samuel's euruer writings—no doubt his late mode of iiie 18 singulariy uniavorable to literary culture—and he enters into many detatis which. are not necessary to his narrative and are entirey out of place ina buok tmtended and destined to ve- come popuar reading. ‘The finer percepuons are not kept in astion by contact with suci errivle scenes a3 those among whom and which his duues have brought hin; butt he might have wodited or omitted a good deal ol What he has detailed Without tnjury to tue record of the method o1 Ns proceedings, wich have been atreudeu with much, if not ak, of the success which Was so eloquently it 18 anticipated in alter dinner speecnes and olataut certainly amusing lo trace the way in which the sanctimonious humbug Gutzot, ana the huckster- ing rogue, Louis Philippe, serenely and comiort- ably cheated the British government, who had the collective Weakness to believe that the King who had never toid truth in his live when anything was to be gained by a lie, and the Minister who never took the distinction between the two things into account any more than Louis XI. or Charles I. meant to keep their promises. Mr. Evelyn Ashley, system Of granting degrees adds mucn to Who has done the editing of tae knowledge 01 disposed to tuink—ana many tuougat corse the opinion—that 4 suorter time, With a bet- ter system of jectures, Would work mucn better, in M, Students frequently compiain that to obtain any real beweflt irom the lectures as they are at pres- ent delivered they would lave to spend trom twelve bo Gitteen years im waiting jor tuew. 1s is uot my business, however, to attempt a reform Oi Medical education in France. I have merely to State the facts 01 Whe case as they Stand for the in- iormation of Americans. THE PRODUCTS. Is is my duty, thereiore, to observe that an idea prevalis that the Paris Fac produced so very distinguished Men since the newspaper paragrapas, [t 18, peri.aps, fastidious to dweilon the taste of a work which records suci Satisiactory facts, but the faults of the former intrude upon the iuterest of the latter. ‘The narrative recorus in very brisk and reauavle style the annexation of the Nile Basin and the submission Of Gondokoro (henceforth Ismalia) to the Viceroy’s rule, the noisiung of the flag and tue solemn! whica awed the aaked and ginvering crowd. ‘The result is a happy one, aud itis to be hoped tt may be successiul, and taat tue new régime may not take tu siave dealing on its own account; bat, remembering certain reve.ations *respecting coolie labor and the Nile (wibin its Egyptian banks) @ little apprehensioa on that exceedingly ill, would have ound some very point ss not upjustifiacie, a little incredulity is uot foot-note material Marie | bearing on tnis characteristically discreditapie in the history of the Guizot administration and burne, written “In Memory of barry Cornwau” on the “Monarchy of July.’”” Amélie to Queen Victoria are especially edifying. | They were, o! course, written under the instruc- perhaps equalled, but did not excel, these in tions of Louis Philippe, and they make one specu- late upon the trial to the royal rogue’s patience | here, are largely advertising & new “ilistory of which his wife’s simplicity must have been. | Trousseau aod Nélaton; couse- never dared to trust her with the full extent of his trickery, and it was hard work to prevent | her irom biundering over the portion which he | forced to confide to her, easely relying upon her not seeing through it thoroughly. It would | American history couid better be taught in a ew Manual of anturopology, fully illustrated by have been well for the poor little Queen of Spain schemers harsn or rash. FICTION. In fiction there ts nothing new or remarkable, and the magazines for November otfer no extraor- dinary attractions, except tm one instance. The Fortnightly Keview contains @ poem by Mr. Swine the nignt ol the old poet's death (October 5), and sent direct by him to Mrs, Procter, whicn ts ex- quisitely beautiul, His lines to Savaze Lanuor true iyrical power and pathos ssrs, Cassell, the well KuoWwn publishers over the United states.” Politics for Young Beginners. Pouitics FoR YOUNG AMERICANS.—By Charles Nordhof, New York: Harper & Brotuers. Gurs has always been the faith thac clementary — aimple tasuion—the letvers of aa oid man ‘to @ | young one—than in Bancrott’s ambitious or the French iidreth’s more modest but arid rhetoric. John mankind. It 18 Wilson Croker, if we mistake not, did this for English, and Sir Waiter Scott certainly did it for - t- Scottish, story. No one needs a better narrative which con. Lord Palmersion to bis ot Caledonia’s doings than the letters which that genial grandfather wrote to poor ijame Hugh Littiejonn, But, thinking tans, tt never entered our imaginings that the same simple process, the game labors of love, couid be applied to political science, Mr. Nordhot’s charming little volume shows that tt can, and so complete is the suc | | cess that we think no one, mature as he may be, | and conversant with tne famiiar or reconaite principies which these letters to an actual son are meant to illustrate, will put duwn this book tll he has read every Wurd o! it. It 18 a book that should | be in the hana of every American boy and girl, | and Mr. Nordhoff could not do oetter work than by series of Volumes, on American history, The nar- rative, even of our ew centuries, cannot be so | of Mr. Nordbom’s migit ve learned by heart. Each | Word has its value, Each enumerated section has ‘ sclence, economical and other, a8 ap. | | plied to our American system, We find | beerally no one from which we can dissent, | Itis far from belog an easy book to review, and \ we shall not attempt ti, simply contenting our | with calling the author's atiention to | or two matters very minute, worthy, it seems ‘0 | We suggest them with | tog what ne 1s writing about, “You will discovers”? Tous Issie COB popaler cause.” (That of Catho- | says he, at p. 166, “that thi instrument—the con- siitution—creates @ government of Hmited powers, but of unlimited aucnority within tte province, For instance, the President cannot appoint any State oflcer or Issue a command to him, not even a justice of the peace or a constable ofa township; but he may drafe or compel halfa million of ciuuzens into the army in case of war.” On this we pause, and, without discussing the power of Congress ‘to order @ conscrip- tion, sure are we there i# error here, if Mr. Nordhof 1s to be understood in the widest sense of the language be has used, He means, we presume, to state the power o1 the President as Commander-in-Chlef when the States have put the militia under bis controt. That, however, !3 a derivative power, and ought to be go stated, Again, at page 53, we read:—"The States cannot, however, give the franchise of citizenship indiscriminately, for the federal government has the exciusive authority to declare who shall be citizens, Thus no State could allow Chinese to vote, because these people are not capable under the laws of the federal govern- ment of becoming cttizens.” Why not, we ask, tf they become naturalize! and there be no incapa- city from race or color? Mr. Nordhoff is not as clear a3 usual in stating (page 168) that “the Pres- ident does not act against States as he may against citizens,” unless he means, as he may, to | adopt Judge Black’s view In 1861, We must incline to take issue as to the single Presidential term @nd compulsory education, “not in a school, but in the public school; but these are doctrinal questions we have no time or {nclina- tion to discuss. Far more agreeable would 1% be, did our limits permit, to point the reader’s attention to certain bright spots on | these very modest pages—as, for instance, the chapters on the Usury law, where the soundest doctrine ts asserted in language so perfectly trans- Parent that any one can see to the bottom of tt, and on the legal tenders, summing the last up in these two sentences:—‘The government issues promises to pay on the plea that it has no money, and itmakes them a legal tender because they are not good, Foril they were good tt would not need to force us to accept them, which is the only object of the legal tender ciauge, and if the government had money it could have no excuse or occa- sion for issuing them,” it may be with relerence to this very law tnier-alia that Mr. Nordhoff says (p. 19):—“It was noticed once by ap eminent English writer that aimost all! modern reforms in Europe have been made, not by enaciing new laws, but oy repealing a great mass of old ones,” We venture, in conclusion, on but one other citation which the present sad state of tuingy in the pro- “ected iron regions makes verified prophecy :— 287. For the workmen do not benefit by the tariy, but only the capitalists, It is not pretended that the high duty obliges or causes che 1ron masters to Day their laborers wages above the average stan- Gard of wages in the country: the protectionists only clas that the high duty enadies the payinent of wages in the protected industries equal to those paid in the unprotected,. But those now engaged in the furnaces and factories, where they are crowded together, and rendered less intelligent, lesa ingenious, less independent than the average of their countrymen, would, if there had been no iron Jurnaces at ail, have been engaged in other and more healthiul occupanons, and they are thus | imjured by the protective duty by being lured into the {urnaces, aud 10 the end are left without em- ployment by & commercial crisis in their trade, Galised vy over-production, brought about entirely by the stimulant of bounty or “protection.” The high duty on iron tempted Capitalists by the pros- pect of extraordinary profits, and thus caused an Unnaturally rapid expansion Of this business, with tne result, sure from the first, of a general paraly- sis, involving 1088 Of capital, which 1s an indirect but certain loss Lo the mass of laborers; but also, and directly, bringing suflering to the lavorers engaged in the production of iron and to their families, Literary Chit-Chat. The most astounding fact (if 1t is a fact) re- corded in Mr. Greville’s memoirs, 18 that Macaulay told him that he had read Richardson’s novel “Sir Charies,Grandison” through fifteen tithes, D. Appleton & Co. announce for repuolication the anonymous and provoking book on “‘Super- natural Religion” which has ees the critics by the ears in London. The new “Life of Dr. Thomas Fuller, with Notices of His Books, His Kinsmen and His | Friends,” by J. E. Bayley, is full of agreeaole | reading for those who are tond of gossip about oid books, old writers and old places in England. Mr. Edward Eggieston’s “Circuit Rider” 1s ap- pearing in the Revue des Deux Mondes under the | title of “Le Prédicateur Ambulant; Récits des Temps Héroiques de l'Ouest Américain.” American authors cau Dow obtain copyright in Engiand by observing two conditions:—First, the | work mus? first be published in Great Britain; and second, the author must be at the time of pubiica- tion within the British dominions. J. B. vord & Co, wili publish “The Man in the Moon, and Other People,’? by Rossiter W. Ray- mond, of Brooklyn, Harper & Brothers advertise for publication | “Lituke’s Great Encyclopxdia of Classical An- tquity,” the jourth edition, revised and enlarged, Mr. Du Chaillu is next to astonish the world with a book on “Ihe Land of the Midnight Sun,” which will relate his recent travels in Norway D. Appleton & Co. advertise for republication “Van Ruyn’s Biographical Dictionary of Self- Taught Men in All Ages and Countries.”” No less than four American publishers have ad- vertised that they will reprint Grevilie’s “Jour- nal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV." Who wants an international copy- rignt ? Projessor J, M. Hart will edit several volumes of “German Classics for American Students,” one of which will be devoted to Goethe, one to Schiller, &c. ‘That capital story by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, | “Hans Brinker,’ bas been traduced into French, With filustrations by a Parisian artist, A recent Treasury decision decides that journal- ists may import books {for their professional libraries (ree of duty, under the general principle that books relating to public policy and pending national and general questions come within the law of exemption, while books of poetry and of fiction wouid not be incinded. Mr. obert B, Roosevelt, late member of Con- gress from New York, and the witty author of “Five Acres Too Much,’ has in press the auto- biography of & married man under the title of “Progressive Petticoats; or, Dressed to Death.” That fertile writer, Mr. E. A. Freeman, will de- liver six lectures on the “History and Use of the English Language,” before the London Institu- tion. lar. E. B. Tylor, the ethnologist, will publish a engravings (rom photograpns of actual (not ideal) persons belonging toeach race and division of Afiew edition (the twelfth) of Brockhanus’ well known “Conversatuions-Lexikon” is now being pubitshed at Leipzig. The great abundance of American invalids wil make a demand for Dr. Joseph W. Howe’s new book, which the Putnams will pobiish, “Winter Homes for invalids: A Complete Account of the Various Localities in America and Europe Suitavle for Consumptives and Invalids During we Winter Months." ‘Tbe next translation of the Eickmann-Chatrian noveis to be issued by Seribner will be “Tue Col- lege Life of Maitre Naplou” Mark Twain's very funny “Encounter with an Interviewer" will appear in the book of “Lotos Leaves,’ which will be issued shortiy. Anew “Dictionary of Religious Knowledge for Popular and Professional Use" {8 in the press of the Harpers, edited by Rev. Lyman Abbott and Rey, br. Conant, All the theological dictionaries now in circulation are very much benina the age in the informaiton conveyed, and tus new book will supply @ want widely eit, “The Romance of an Honest Woman,” by Victor Cherbuliez, will be published in @ translation, by Gill & Co., of Boston, Henry Hoit & Co., of New York, will soon com- mence issuing a library of biography, in small vol- umes, to embrace a select list of noted statesmen, | soldiers, artists, philosophers, inventors, discuver- ers, historians, poets, preachers, lawyers, physi | be abandoned, out that the siave trade could be cians, ko. ‘The American Tract Society, which has nowex. | 'hat muc's money cores irom Cuba jor Don {sted within six months of half a century, has MURDER IN JERSEY CITY. A Respectable Citizen Attacked and Killed by Rowdies. THE OHIEF PERPETRATOR ESOAPES. A More cool-blooded, deliberate and unprovoked Murder than that perpetrated tn Jersey City yea terday morning te not contained tn the criminal recoras of New Jersey. Acareful perusal of the circumstances will show that a peaceful dispost- tion and 8 respectable Standing im soctety const. tute no protection against the hell-hounds whe prowl through the streets at night tn search of prey, although tn justice tt ghould be stated that Jersey City has hitherto COMPARED VERY FAVORABLY with other cities of equal population tn this re+ spect, At No, 352 Fifth street, Jersey Gity, lived Mr. William Livingstone for a long time past. He was @ mason and bricklayer, and moved mostly tn that circle of mechanics who either through a iucky stroke of fortune or through stern perseverance make their mark in the world, He worked chiefly for bis brother-in-law, Mr. Whyte, who has long been @ prominent contractor and builder, Ltv- | ingstone was of medium height, good looking, with red hatr, mustache and side whiskers, and was just in the | FULL FLUSH OF EXISTRNCE, being only thirty-flve years of age. Those who knew him best bear testimony to his gental mane ners and agzeeable disposition. To put itin the | Words of a weil known citizen, “He would be THE LasT MAN in the city to provoke’a quarrel.” This would seem to be the strongest reason why a gang of roughs would make him their sport and their | target | During Saturday evening Livingstone and a | Companion named James Bennets were QUIETLY ENJOYING THEMSELVES over & game of caras, in a respectable liquor store on Grove street, When the night waxed late and the store was to be closed, the two started out om thelr way home. Seeing McFeeley’s oyster saioon, at No, 221 Grove street, still open, they went in | to have some oysters, Little did poor Livingstone | tuink that when he was pianting his foot on ; the threshola of that oyster saloon he was standing on the OUTWARD THRESHOLD OF LIFE Within the saloon was a company of young men who were acting in @ boisterous Manner, some of ; them being too plainly under the influence of Uquor. This company included Phil Reilly, A NOTORIOUS PRIZE FIGHTER, James Hunt and three or four others, When men | Of this stamp are benton mischief tt Is only @ | trifling matter to orizinate a quarrel, ‘The pre- | text in this case was that Livingstone had taken | @ cigar to which he was not entitled, He repelled | the charge indignantly, and It was again repeated. The aspect of the case was too menacing at this point to be comiortable. As the “bruisers” have it, shey were “CROWDING”? ON HIM, or, perhaps more properly, trying to ‘corner’? him. The clock told half-past one. Livingstone | moved to the door, and the gang moved too. ‘They were not going to let him off ao easily. With a long stride he passed beyond the doorstep to | the sidewalk, and that stride was THE STEP INTO ETERNITY, With a terrific rush Reilly was at his side, and, swinging bisarm to give force to the attack, he ' dealt the untortunate Livingstone a tremendous blow on the left side of the face that “PELLED HIM LIKE AN OX,’ | asa bystander remarked, his head striking the curb With such violence that he never alterwards moved nor spoke a word. Whether any ol the gang kicked him while prostrate is not yet made Clear, but the back of his head was fearfully bate | ered. The murderous brute ran around the cor- | ner, followed by Hunt, and they are STILL AT LARGE, Officers, Lee, Doyie and Niciolas were soon on | hand. They raised the prostrate jorm, but the last breath had gone iorth. Gilligan and Bennets | were held as witnesses, but they were discharged | on bail last evening by Coroner Lynch. The body was taken to Brady's Morgue, where it now ltea, Tne County Physician made a preliminary examil- | nation, and postponed the post-mortem till to-day. The face bears evidence of THE FRIGHTFUL BLOW that was sufficient to stun him. The lips are shat tered, as wel ag the lids of the left eye, and the space between is a contused and black collection | of skin and flesh, The skull was fractured at the ack. | The excitement and indignation throughout the | city over this horribie affair are TOO INTENSE | to be exaggerated. Tue most strenuous efforta are to be put forth to secure the capture of the fue itives, Coroner Lyoca will hold the inquest on Wednesday. Livingstone leaves a wile and three or jour children. He had been married a second ume. Itis probable that a reward will be offered by Governor Parker for the arrest of Reilly and | his accomplice. SHAKESPEARIAN READINGS. A course of five lectures on the historical plays | Of Shakespeare will be given by George Vanden- | hoff at Association Hall, beginning on Monday evesing, November 30, They will inclnde “Mac- | beth,” ‘‘King John,” “Richard LL,” “Ricnard ML | and “Henry VIL" These lectures are given in response to a aoe made of Mr. Vandenhof 0, | @ number of iadies, and will begin at bal!-past eleven A. M, each day. Rev. John Weiss wil deliver a course of lectures ‘onthe “Women of Siakespeare” at the Union League Theatre, commenciug on the 8tn of De- | cember. Mr, Weiss has been invited to deliver these lectures by George Wiliam Curtus, Joseph H. Choate. sydney Howard Gay, Wullam C. Hol- brook, Horace Russell, F, 0. French, Alpert @. Browne, Jr., O. B. Frothingham, Charles A. Joy. Danie. Roliins, Jr,, James C, Carter, Alfred Carroll, Thomas H. Hartwell, Joon H, Platt, ; Thompkins Westervelt, Allred K. Hillis, M. D., Elliot C, Cowdin, 8, H. Waies, J. M. Bundy, G, P. Putnam’s Sons, William Culien Bryant, William M. | Evarts, Edwards Pierrepont, F. A. P, Barnard, Howara Crosby, Richard Grant White, H. R. Stod- | aard, Ogden Rood, H, Drisier, Benjamin K, | Phelps, Edmund OU, Stedman, J. H. Morse, Rdward B. Merrill, H. Knapp, M. George Ripley, W. | Lidman, Clinton Wagner, M. D., H. W. Bellows, De _D., David G. Francis, E. Maumburg. DON CARLOS ON SLAVERY, The Pretenders’? Opinion of the Institue | tion in the Spanish Antilles. | {Madria (Nov. 7) correspondence of the London | Echo.) Apropos of Don Carlos must give you anim. | portant piece of information, The Captain Gea- eral of Cuba has sent tor 12,000 men, of which he 18 IN great need, to recruit the army of that island and without whom he cannot undertake any new operations, These 12,000 men are not orthcoming on account of the reiuctance mant- fested by both soldiers and civilians as to enlist- lug for Cuba, notwithstanding the in- ducements held out by the government organs, the high pay — promised, the { bounty, &o, In view of tnis circumstance | the " Junta-Hispano-Americano of Madrid, representing the Havana Cas no and volunteers— all, of course, slaveholders—seat » commission to Don Carlos to propose to him, a3 a measure for preserving Cuba to the nation, that all prisoners ; taken on both sides should be sent to Cuvate serve inthe army there; this measure would be productive of double benetit; it would contribute to the preservation of Cuba and save the expense of maintaining tue prisoners, The cummission- ! ers, who found in the Carist Ministers old triends aud companions, were received vy them with the greatest cordiality, and Don Carloa was very polite to them. He not only accepted, as far a was concerned, the proposition as to the prisoners, but he was also kind enough to mantles? bis opin- Jon with regard to Uuva. ACCORDING TO DON CARLOS, ana his entourage, “all the troubles of Cuba date | trom the moment when the circulation of pews- papers advocating reforms, aboiition, &c.. was permitted.” He recalied the tact that previousiy no One areamed of such things in Cua, and that even a garrison Was unnecessary there, In the | coloutes, he continued, even laws were unneces- sary, the opinion Of & Captain generai lett at ibe. erty to decide ali questions according to circums | stances being amply suflcient. With regard to 6lavery he said that it Was ausard to chink Of sup. | pressing it, and he made 8 doid as to say that the Enylish had heartily repenied of having avol- jséd slavery im their Colouies, which they had thereby ruimed. The negro, of course, in his Opinion was born to be & siave, and would much ratuer have a white master wno treats nim well than one of his own countrymen, Who wouid in the end cut his throat. THE COMMISSIONERS returned highty deliguted with toelr interview | and with having heard bis “Catholic Majesty"? dig- course 80 Wisely, and they have pronounced him & “most intelligent and highly educated youth,” With regard to sending une PRISONERS TO CUBA the Cabinet ts divided, The Cuban voluntee and, indeed, allAhe slavery men of Cuba, are Care lists, because they Know that, Don 10s tre | umphant, nolvonly would all thoughts of abolition | revived Wiga impunity, the government kn los, and 4t 18 afraid of contributing directly tcw- ard the, inere: of the Garlist element ty the published something over one thousand voiames, | tsland.