The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1875, Page 6

THE NAVY REGISTER. Becord of Changes, Promotions, Deaths, Resig- nations, Dismissals and Retirements. STATIONS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS. | ere List of Vessels of the United States Navy. The annual Navy Register ougat to be ready for publication in January, but the care and delibera- tion requiredin its compilation and correction usually delay its appearance until one or two months alter date. The edition for January 1, 1875, 18 nov even yet ready, Im ths mean- time the readers of the “HERALD are lur- nished with @ statement of all the important changes that the Register will show, including prominent promotions, deaths, resignations, dis- | missals, retirements, &c. To the stereotyped “List of Vessels of the United States Navy" we nave added, by way of variety and to make it more useful for reference, the date of the building or purchase of each craft, with its original tonnage, armament and class or rate, and aiso the original names of such vessels as have been subject to @ permanent change of Bomenciature. From this it wilt be seen thar, exclusive of tues, ‘there are sixty-one vessels In commission, watch are «distributed over the world as follows:— Station, $e. On the buropean staticn Astaile stati uth Pacitic st ri Pactile statton oU.b Atlantic statiel North atiantic stat 2 tour iron-clads lying aren On special servi IN Use as receiving yards, &e. + Returning home im wait at ; ii 1435 : 5,095 irigate Con: 140) 20,296 Vessels in ordi id up, 313] 39,528 Vessels on the never pleted ..... 4... Ves-els usciul'as old mat Yard tugs and torpedo boats Aagregate strength (and weakness) of] the ae cod PROMOTIONS AND CHANGES. In the line of the navy there is only one cur- | rent of promotion, which sets directly toward a | rear admiraiship, so that a midshipman on leaving | Annapolis may look forward, without any other | musgiving than the chance of death, dismissal or Premature retirement may suggest, to the ume, some forty-three or forty-four years ahead, when be will proudly hojst tne flag of a rear admtral, “rectangular, plain and blue,” to a salute of eleven guns; always supposing that the grade of rear admiral has notin the meantime been abolished. Im this respect he has the advantage over nis West Point brother, who finds himself in one of hali a dozen sluggish currents of promotion, Whica, accidents excepted, will eventually ad- Vance him toa coloneicy, alter which his chances of selection ior appointment to a vrigadier geveraiship—the military equivaient of a rear admiraiship—are slight in the extreme. Since the close of the war, when the list of admirals on the active list consisted of Vice Ad- miral D.G. Farragut, and Rear Admirais L, M. Goidsborough, Samuel F. Dupont, Charles H. Davis, dgobn A. Vahigren and David D. Porter, all of whom had received the thanks of Congrers, forty officers have been promoted to the rank of rear admiral, of whom twenty-six have been retired and two have died. Tne average tenure of office as rear admirals by these twenty-eight officers Was about twenty months, the maximum being five years (Sylvanus W. Gordoa) and the minimum two and one-half months (Theodorus Bailey). Twelve of them had scarcely got warm tn their bertns before they had to turn out under ibe in- exorabie law of retirement—viz., Theodorus Bailey, who was two and a ha!f months on the ac- tive list, as above stated; Henry H. Bell, nine months; Alfred Taylor, tour months; Samuel P. Lee, ten months; Onver S. Glisson, seven wouths; Melancton Smith, nine mouths; Charies 5. Boggs, SIX months; Henry Waike, nine months; James Alden, nine montns; George F. Emmons, nine months; Enoch G. Parrott, five montis, and Fabius Stanly, four months, Since the issue of the last register the list of REAR ADMIRALS bas been increased from eleven to twelve by the promotion of Napoleon Collins in the place of Jonn Rodgers, who, however, remains in command of the Mare Island Yard, having been the recipient of B vote of thanks, The duties of all tue other rear admirals have been changed. Admiral Unaries H. Davis, whose fifty-one and a halt years’ service, together with the thanks of Congress, make aim the seplor on the list, Was removed irom the Lignt- house Board to the more important position of Superintendent of the Naval Observatory, vice Sands, retired, Admiral Case, who retires in Feoruary next, will turn over the command ot the European station to Admiral Worden on the 2d prox. In view of the unsettled state of Europe the assignment of the hero uf the Monitor to that \mportant station may nave some significance. Admiral Pennock was snipped trom the North Pacific 'o the Asiatic station, vice Parrott, re- tired, and will lu bis turo give place to Aciniral Keynolds, under orders to relieve mim. Aamral Aluy leit the South Pacitic jor the North Paciile starion, vice Pennock. Commvouores William E. LeRoy, R. R. M. Muslany, C. RK. v. Roagers and Napoleon Co! were adacd to the List of admiruls and ussigued to duty asi lows:—LeRoy co the poutn Atiantic station, vice Stioug, piced on waiting orders; Mullany to the North Vacific, vice Scott, retired; », Roagers to tue Supermitendency of the Naval Acauemy, vice Worden; afu Collins to the south racific, vice Aimy. ‘Tne ust of COMMODORES has peen considerabiy modified. the Commodore Fabius Stanly was and shortly afterward retired. Melanesou Wooisey tell a victim Lo yellow lever att aud Louis C. Sartori and Wiliam Kon were retired [rom active service. Uni oO) June 23, 1874, Commodot eorge H. Prep advaueed trom tne foot of the list to the same Tejative pozition occupied by him jor thirty-one years until the promotions of 1866, which makes him oumber five in the line of promotion. (He was summarily dismissed Septemoer 20, 1862, lowiug the rebel cruiser Oreto or Florida t his blockading squadron and run into Movti Was witerwards reinsta‘ed.) ‘the changes among the commodores led to the Promotion of eigat CAPTAINS, Ronekengorit In addition to loss oy prowotion of tae jour above named aiso promoted, Be viz. :—Willlam (since retired), Aivert G. Clary, George H. Cooper, CU, H, B. Cala- weil, Jom C. Febiger, Viercs Crosvy and J. B. Creighton. ‘To compensate lor these promouons Bod vor tue retirement o1 Kichard T. Kenstaw ana the death of Thomas C. Harris, the list of captains ‘Was recruited py tae advancement of Commaud- ers Johu H. Russetl, Andrew W. Jonnson, Waiter Queen, Kalpa Chandler, Philip U. Johnson, K. Randoipn Breeze, Lewis A. Kimberly, wanciott Gherarat and Panel L. Braine, leaving Com- mander George K. Belknap entirled to promotion fice Harris, Who died on the 24th inst. OFUEK PROMOTIONS, &C. Fourteen Weutenant commaniers, thirty mase ters, thiity-two ensigns and twenty-seven uid suipmen Were advanced 4 step nearer the vice- admiraiship, 0 Which al! naval line oMicers us- we. NO oificer Of Bhe rank of heutenant baa hen promoted singe 1579, nor can any promotion be made until the number of hentevans com- Manders is reduced below eighty; at preseut there are 119 of tant grade. Ky an act of March 2. 1874, Wilite Kilburn nas been restored to the service with tae rank of igh, at the loot of The class of i870, to whicn Le belonged when he resigned, July 18, 187). Master Alpert Koss, Who was retired December 1s71, a8 not being Tecommended jor prosotien account of puy sical disanihty, ns been assigned to duly ander au act of Apri li, 1874, ans if ound quaiified aver a tweivemonts’s eruise will be pro- moved to (he active list of hentenants next velow Bawin 5. Jacob. in the #(aff and marine corps the principal Changes are indicated ia the list of casualties. CASUALTIES AND HETIREMENTS. Kesuynations. Lieutenant Commander stepaen A. McCarty, Lieutenants Cyrus W. Breed (trom April 20, 1875). George A. baidy, Louis V, Housel and George J. Mitchell, Masters John B. Robinson, Hi, H. M. Richards edect May 23, 1875). i Alpert A. Crandail NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1875.—WI es Terrell, Nathaniel T. James | Midshipmen Charl and Edward ©, Fuller, Surgeon Frederick E, Potter, April 1, 157; Assis'an¢ Sarseon Edward Evers, Paymaster James F. Hamuton. Passed Assistant Sp ey Cleland Lindsly. Acting Boatswain Jono Bell. Actiog Gunoers Cuaries L. Duncan, Joun Riley. arpenter John L, Davis, Acting Carpeuter Edwira H. Hav. Mate A. I. Jobnson. Lieutenants Jobu H, Sherburne and Joba C, Morgan, Marine corps, Deaths. Rear Admirals Wilham B. Shubrick, Joseph Lanman, Commodores Wiliam Inman, T. Aloysius Dornin, Melaucton B. Woolsey, T. Darran § A Captains Samuel Pearce, Tuomas O, Harris, Commandera Joun Watrers, Austin Prendergast, William B, Cusming, Charies L. Frankun, Natuaniel Commanders ©. bryant. Lieutenant John McFarland, sius C. Kellogg, Edwin H, Miller, Lieutenants James K.P. Ragsdaie, William fT, Buck, Willlam -H. Brice, Horatio kk, Wilson, Abiel B. Cirter ana Jesse 6. Smirt Master Kichard A, Breck, Midshipmen Daniel #. Baker and Gilber: Fow- er. Medical Directors David S. Edwards and Isaac Brinket hom Surgeons Henry 8. Pitkin, John B. Ackley and Luther M. Lyon, Pay Director John B, Rittenhouse. Paymasters Wullau F. A. Torbert and George Plunkett. chief Engineer Isaac S. Finney. Assistant Eogincet Hanson Spear, aval Constructor thomas Davidson, Jr. Civil Engmeer Benjamin F, Chandler, Boatswain William Black, Gunners Wiliam Cope and William H. Rick- ards. Carpenter John Southwick. Saumaker Willlam Ryan. Mates Onarles Levin, A. J. Morehouse, cadet Miishipman Carsnena Waliace, Lieutenants, frederica P. Kia, Wuiiam B, Slack, | Proiessor Arsene N, Giranit. | to take effect | Wuliam P. McCann, Lighthouse Inspector. Janes H. Gillis, commanding Micnigan. Wiitam E, Fitanugh, Senior Ald, Navy Yard, | Mare Island. Lieutenant Commanders—110, ‘Tre sew seHlore ROT ite lopkins, comman: Sas. Henry F. Proxins Naval Reudeavous, New York. Frederick — commanding Despatch. Horace E, Mullan, waiting orders, Brooklyo Navy Yard. + Joho Weidman, waiting orders, Lebanon, Pa. John F. moGiensey, walting orders, n, Roanuke, Executive Oficor. waiting orders, James P. Rovertson, receiving stip Indepen- dence. Charles L, Huntingt Navy Yard, New York. Lieutenants—252, George R. Durand has been as the head of the ist of hieutenants since 1871, promottons of lieu- tenants not being in order, as already stated. Masters 100, Eusigns 43, Midshipmen 78. STAFF CORVS, Metical Directors—15. Joseph Beale, Cuief Bureau Medicine and Sur- gery. Willtam Grier, President Examining Boara. Samuel Jackson, Naval Hospital, Noriolk. James MeCleliand, Navy Yard, Philadeiphia. Thomas M. Potter, watring orders, Kingston, RI. Andrew A, Henderson, Naval Laboratory, New ‘ork. Lewis J, Williams, | Hospital, New York. Marius Dovall, under suspension. Joseph Wilson, Jr., Naval Hospital, Chelsea, ass. . Robert T. Maccoun, member of Board of In- spectors, : Henry O. Mayo, waiting orders at New York. Phiip Lansdale, Meet Surgeon, curopean sta- ton. Phineas J. Horwitz, spectal uty, Philade!phia, Charles Martin, Naval Hospital, Wasnington. Medical Inspectors, Francia M, Gunnell, irou-clad Koanoke. James Suddards, Fiect surgeon, North Atlantic station. Edward Shippen, Naval Hospital, Potladeiphia. Marive Corps. | Acting Passed Asmsiant Surgeon George B. | Toad. i | Acting Assistant Surgeon Brinton Stone. | Wholly Retired, | Lientenagt Commander Ricnard P. Leary. ' Assistant Paymascver Hnoca E. Lewis, | “Dismissed, Assistant Surgeon award BE. W. Corson. Passed Assistant Paymascer Frank Bissell. Assistant Engiweer William B, Silhey. Boa'tswains feory P. Grace, Jobn Quinn, Sailmaker Tuomas lt. McAvoy. opped. Lieutenant Commander Beatty P. Smttn, Samnel F. Cowes, Navy Y. Portsmouth. Jacoo S. Dungan, Navai Hospital, Mare Island. George Peck, member of Examining and Retiring Board. Jonn M. Browne, Fleet Surgeon, Norta Pacific station. ‘Thomas J. Turner, special duty, Washington. Jonn Y. Taylor, member Board of hxamine: Wiliam T. Hord, member soard of Examine albert L. Gihon, returning from European station, Foun R. Denby, Fleet Surgeon, South Atlantic station, Richard C. Dean, Congress. Painp 8. Wares, member Board of Examiners. Revoked. | The appointment of Acting Boatswain William | Winchester and the dismissal of Commander John | N. Quackenbush, ana tue latter's sentence com- mutes to furlough ior six years, | In addition to the above casualties eight cadet | i engineers ana oetween jurty and lity cadet mia- shipmen have relinquished thei appo.ntments, some Vuluntarily, oluers on compulsion, ketired. Rear Admirals Benjamin F. Sands, Gustavus H. | & Scott, Enoco ti, Parrott, Fadius Stanly, H Commodvres William Ronckendorif, Louis ¢, | Sartori. | Captain Richard T. Renshaw. | Commanéer George U. Morn. | Lieutenant Jerome OP. Masters Edwara M. Day, Horace A. Blancnard. Ensign Guvert Morton. MidsuipMen Auson b. Millinan, George A, Vail. Assistant Surgeon William M. Nickerson, Ovret Enginee 3 Willtam H. Rathertord, George | J. Barry. ) sed Assistant Engineers Wilson K, Purse, | nder V. Fraser. ssistant Engineers Howard D. Potts, James A. | Denren James G, Litug, Jabez Burchard, M. H. | Plunkett. j Naval Constractor William L, Hanscom, swoatswain Thomas Smita, Sailmakers George T. Lozier, John J. Stanford, Lieuten, George M. Welis, Marine Corps, | joine REGISTER OF OFFICERS shows the numvex ot cach ciass of Officers, with | the names aha station oy duty of all the aumirais, | commodores, captains, senior commauders and Heutenans commanders and the principal stuf | ofticers. | Admiral Davia D. Porter, spectal duty, Wasnizgton. Vice Admiral Stephen ©, Rowan, Cowmandant Navy Yara | and stauon, New York. | Rear Admtrats—12, | Charles H. Davis, Superintendent Naval Obser- | vatory. Jolin Rodgers, Commandant Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal. ha Augustus L. Case, commanding European sta- ou. Alexander M. Pennock, commanding Asiatic | station. | donn L. Worden, ordered to command European station. | tu | ree (cem-orar, | | atlantic station, Jobu J, Almy, commanaing North Pacific sta- | tion. James H. Strong, waiting orders, William Reynolus, Chlet Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. William K. Le Koy, commanding South Atlantic stauvn. J. R. Madison Mallany, commanding North At- lanuc station. c, KR. T, Rodgers, Superintendent Naval Acad- emy. * Napoicon Coilins, commanding South Pacific stae on. Commodores—25, Reed Werden, leave of absence. Stepnen D. Trenchard, Lighthouse Inspector. Alexeuder Murray, member Liguthouss Board, Edward Donalcson, waiting orders, Baltimore, George H. Preble, Commandant Nuvy Yard, Philadelpina, | ‘Thomas H. Patterson, Commandant Navy Yard, Wasning'on, Jonn C. Howell, Chief of Buareaa of Yards and Docks. Daniel Ammen, Chief of Bureau of Navigatton, baward 7, Nicools, Commandant Navy Yara, Boston. pevere H. Wyman, in charge of Hydrographic ice. tad B. Balch, Governor Naval Asylum, Phila- jelpala. pi rag H. Stevens, Commandant Navy Yard, Norfvik. Foxoall A. Parker, Chiet Signal Omcer. Jonn Guest, senior member Board of Inspect- | Passed ora, John M, B. Clitz, iting orders, Brooklyn N. Y. Andrew Brysun, Commandant Navy Yara, Purts- mouth, N. H. Donald McN, Fairfax, commanding Naval Sta- | tion, New London. | val consiructors, 7. The senior 13 Isa! Jaincs Hi. Spotts, walting orders, 2 com, clef of Bureau of Construction and 4. W. A. NicholsuD, member Board of Examine: epairs, Albert G. ¢ ry Weave of absence, Europe. i eed naval constructors, 7; civil engin- fa. Cooper, © N i eers, 9. t tr pe ommundsut Navy Yard, » wandaxt orricens, Charies H. #, Caldwell, memoer Examiningand | | Boatswains, 57. Senior, Robert Dixon, thirty- Reuring Board. | three yeais’ servic. Jonn ©. Feviger, member Board of Examiners, | Gunners, 61. Senior, George Sirtan, thirty- Pierce Crosoy, waiting orders. | Seven years’ service. J. Blake.ey Creiguton, waiting orders, Carpenters, Senior, Henry P. Lesile, forty- vaptains—s, Aaron K. Hughes, commanding Pensacola. Eumuna KR. © jnoun, commanding Ricumond, Charles H. Baldwin, on Jeave of avsence, Eu- rope. ylobert W. Shufeldt, Captain of Navy Yard, New | ork. A ander C, Rhind, waiting orae | George M. Ransom, commanding | Witham F. Spicer, waiting orders, | Somerville N.cholsou, waiting orders, George- fopkins, commanding senicta. Paui Soiriey San Francisco, tison, commanding receiving ship | effers, Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. | mopson, ln Charge ol vwrpedo station. | temy.e, on leave ta Europe, | P. Carter, commanding Alaska, } ‘ homas 5S. Pheips, Captain of Navy Yard, Mare sand. Edward Barrett, commanding Canandaigua. Homer C. biake, Commanuing nayvai rendezvous, New York. one HM. Wells, Captain Navy Yard, Philadel- phia, S. P. Quackenbush, commanding recelvin, New Hawpsnire, Cari Loglish, commanding Congress. Ket Lowy, juriou.ned. Wiiam W, Low, ordered to command Tennes- 1B ship ni. Upshur, Naval Station, New London. neis A. Rue, commanding Lancaster. James s. T.orston, commending Monongancia, Jono ©, Beanmont, member BKuard os Inspectors. samoei Ke Praaklt tmmauding Fraukiin. Wilham D. Woiting, commanding Worcester. Haward . MeCaniey, commanding Lackawanna, J.C. . De Kratt, commanutng Hartiord, ar (, Badger, Vaptuin Navy Lard, Washing- ton, Stephen §. Luce, Captain Navy Yard, Boston, dJoun Lee D meuiber ot Lightuouse Board, munes, Captain Navy Yard, Pen- Wiuam J, fraxton, commanding Brooklyn. Jonathan Young, commanding Navy Yard, Portsmouth. William K. Mayo, waiting orders, James st, commanding Powhatan, ¥. scott Pivebrown, Captain Navy Yard, Norfoik, Jonn H. 4, commanding PLymouth. Anurew W. Johnson, cominundng Roanoke, Walter W, Queen, commanding Saranac, Kaipa Chandier, commanding Swatata. Pulp ¢. Jounson, commanding Omaha. K. Kandoiph Bre Juspector ot Hydrography, Lewis A, Kunberly, on leave tll March 10, 1875, Kancroit Gerhara!, waiting orders, Daniel lL. Braiue, revuraing from*Baropean sta- ton. Vacancy, vice Harris, deceased, Commanders—90, The ten senior commanders are :— George b. Belknap, commanding receiving ship Onto, vayid B. Harmony, commanding Kearsarge, AE. K. Benham, Lighthouse Inspector, tempo- rarily. Join Irwin, commanding receiving sip Sabine, James A. Greer, member Board of Inspectors, Kuas K, owen, tng orders, Aarun W, Weaver, caarge Nitre Depot, Maiden, ) Mase, ” | Albert C. Gorgas, Naval Hogtal, Annapolis, Surgeons, 49; pa-sed assistint surgeous, 23; as- sistant surgeons. 51, PAY CORPS, aot Direciors—is, Horace M. Helskell, Navy Yard. Ppiladeiphia. Geoige F, Cutter, ray Oflice, New York. oni H. Watmough, Bureau of Provisions and jotiung. John 0. Bradford, Chief of Bureau of Provisions, Josepn C. Eldridge, Inspector of Provisions, Navy Yard, New York. John 5. Gulick, Iuspector Provisions, Navy Yard, Washington, Thomas H. Looker, settling accounts, Caleo’ J. ery, Inspector Provisions, Navy Yard, Bosto: Unaries . Apbot, Purchasing Paymaster, de J Cunningham, waiting orders, Washing: jackson, Pay OMcer at Baltimore, nark, Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pay Inspectors—18, James D. Murray, Fleet Paymaster, European Station. genes Fulton, Inspector Provisions, Mare Island ard. James N, Carpenter, Navy Yard, Pensacola. Alexunder W. Russel, pay office at George Leouard Davis, Fieet Payin: ve of absence, Europe. av ollice, San Francisco, Cuhbert P. Wallach, Nuvy Yard, New York. Caspar Schenck, Navy Yard, Mare Isiand, Charles H. Eldridge, pay office at Portsmouth. Gilbert EK, ‘fnorn.on, pay office at Washington, Wiliam W. Willams, Fleet Paymas:er, North Edward Fosier, Inspector Provisions. Noriolk. Paymaster: , 60; passed Assistant Pay masters, 30; Assistant Paymasters, 20, KNGINBER CORP, Chief Engineers (Captains)—10. William W. Woou, Vole! Bureau Steam Engineer- ohn | station. Augustus H. Gilman, i Kurus C. Spaulding, ing. senjamin F. Isherwood, special duty. George Sewell, Navy Yard, New York. William H. Shoca, special duty, New York, since 862. James W. King, Geucral Inspector of Engineer- ing Works. ‘theodore Zeller, special duty since July 8, 1869. Elbrioge Lawton, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Robert Danoy, tn charge of stores, New York. Benjainio F. Garvin, League Isiand Navyl sta. jon. Henry H. Stewart, Navy Yard Boston. Chief Engineers (Commanders) —15, Harman Newell, inspector Machinery Afloat, &c., Navy Yard, rhiladelphis. Eamund 5. ve Luce, Fleet Engineer, North | Atlanic station. L Eawin Fithian, Navy Yard, Washington, Montgomery Fietcuer, waiting orderr. Cnaries H. Loring, special duty since October, | 1871. Alexander Henderson, Navy Yard, New York. Stephen DV. Hidvert, Fieet Engineer, South Pa- | cific station. ‘ Francis C, Dade, Navy Yard, Norfolk, charge engineer stu ea, David RK. Macomb, Inspector machinery afoat, Portsmouth. Edward D. Robie, inspector Navy Yard. Nortoik. Tnoro Williamson, F.eet Engineer, South Atian- tic station, ‘ William 8, Stamm, President Boara of Exam. | ners. Wiliam J. Lamdin, Ficet Engtneer, North Pacific | atation.- George R. Jobnson, special auty, Wilmington, Pe a B. Brooks, Fleet Engineer, European Station. cmef Engineers (lieutenant commanders), 45; Assistant Engineers, 92; Aysistaut Engi- 44; Cadet Engineers, 10, HAPLAINS, PROFESSORS, &C, Chaplains, 24; Pro.essors of Mathematics, 12; Sec- Tetaries, 2. wnavan CONSTRUCTORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS, neers, two years’ service, Sailmakers, 40. Senior, David Bruce, thirty | Years’ service. Mates, 54. All appointed since 1861, MARINE CORPS. Commandant—wrigadier General Jacob Zellin. Quartermaster—Major Wiliam B. Slack, Adjuiaut and Inspector—Major Augustus 8. Nicholson, Paymasrer—Major John C. Cash, Colouel—Matthew R. Zintzing, Ptiladelphia Marine barracks. Lieutenant Colonels—James H. Jones, Boston commanding naval rendezvous, | Marine barracks; Charles G. McCawley, Washing- | ton Marine barracas, LIST OF VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. VESSELS IN COMMISSION. Nameant Rate. |&| Preent Station or Condition. ; wom naues| | ee ° ionat Rate. 46 togsht olorato. -|46\#lagship, North Atlantic. Fraulin w\| Flagship; Luropeane | Lancaster. -|4] Ordered home from Sonth Atlantic. brooalyn..« -[20) Flagship, sou.h Atlantic. Pensneota... +l Fingship, North Pacific. Hartiord. 18) Vlayship, Astatic. Ru ‘ 14) Fa hip, South Pacific. a tie. ice, Europe and return, Omaha.” *Pivmouh. 0.) Lackaw | t european. North Atlantic, “Decutl service—transit of Venus, Asiatic. surveyin, sorveyin Asiatic. Nsiatic. North Atlantic. Asiatic. Sorth Atlantic. matic, Jn the lakes. Jumiata. ‘Ussipec.. service in North Pi service In North SF kK. Saco ‘ ‘ Shawmut gy Special service. care Atlantic. tic. special service. League isiund. Kecorving ship at Norfolk, wecelving siiip at Boston. rie Vermont f ‘eccr¥ing ship at New York. Tard Be Indeper 21| Receiving ship at Maro Istana, Potomac ving shin at Philadeipnia, daning tsmoutn, Santen Academy. Portsmouth. ... 4 Saratona 4\Ordnance service near Annapolis x In use at League tala instr ship, Navi J. Winthrop Taylor, Naval Rendezvous, Boston. ik C Edward ©. Loran, in charge of stores, Honolulu, | Present Station or Condition. Nume and Rate, TRON- CLAD: ‘ | pene git een ictator, North Atlantic. | Moanoke 6|Port Admural’s flagship, New York. ror | *Ajax..... At Pensacola, in commission. | Genonica o} Be enacts +] 21At Pensacola, in commission. 2/At Pensacola, in commission. 2/At Peusacola, in commission. Torpedo boat, New York. Torpede boat, Washington. Special service, Yard tug, New Yor! Cohasset. Yurd tug, Boston merald ‘orryboat, Portsmouth yard. | Fortune ecial surveving service, Gult. | Giance —|Yard wg, Leazue Island. Joan —|¥ard tug, Nortolx: | Leyden y Mayltlower.. 2 | Monterey = | Moo "4 2 Vhiox —|In use at Annapolis, | Diigrim 42 Yard tug at Philadelphia, Pina orth Atlantic. Kescue Fire wg at Washingion. Rocket Yard tug, New Yorn, 0-0. ° van ins Pen: Snowirop.. Yard tug, | Sorret. . ‘Yard tug, Speed well fortamouth yard, sptandist Yard tng, Sorioik ran rob ti, nB*OM. Wyandank, Store huik, Naval academy. SCHOOLSIIIPS. 16|choolshtp for California. +” 16) sehoolshlp for New York. BUILDING, REBUILDING, FITTING OUT, £0. | SCREW STRAMERS, Second Rate. oes tat New York to be flag- | Seen 23) Fite eae station, vice lal Jord. a | New stoop [12] Buliding at New Yors. Hi Third de | Quinnebaug 8\Rebuilt at Philadeiphia, | Vanduti ilHebutlt at oston.” t tt * lehuilt at Hoe ¥ Marton." ees 3|Kebuuits receiviug machinery at hoston. | Not named, wood) 8/Nearly rendy for Iauuching; built by contract, 5|Nearly ready for launching. 5|Launehed; said to be nained Doxet Not namea, wood named, wood | Not named, wood] 5|Nearly ready for jaunc! | Not , tron. .{ 5]Neariy ready tor la IN i 5i Nearly reuay tor la id 1 5) Nearly ready tor taunch 4. | Nohtenn s{Rebuit at Mare Island. | Nipsic.. s{kobuilt at Washingion, | VADDLEWHEEL, Tallapooss........]—| Repairing at Baltimore. i} ino! } Mianton: Repairing st N. Y. for Key West. Hs Repalring at Mare Jeland. Repairing. Re rit t Philadelphia. AtisagueIsiand.- To be Gulshed and made formidab\e. i WOODEN SAILING | ! Constitution... 6|Repairing at Philadephia for Cen- tenmia! | IN ORDINARY, LAID UP, CONDEMNED, &C. | SCREW STEAMERS, Firat Rates, Minnerota | aiagara Wabast | Brenud Hates 46)Tn ordinary at Now York. 1t|Condemned at Boston. Caid up at Boston. New London. Condemned st Boston. at Mure island +13 ain X York. 1\In ordinary at New Yo ndet ied at Now York. ‘don. Shenani jew Lonton: machinery bad. Team Dismauted ut rortemouth. et nird Baten, Weghaseié SUR damtoclon i | Wyomin T}Laid up at Wasi 7/Gondemsed at H §|condemned at Mare island. | VESSELS. : | Conateliation Laid up at Norfolk. Macedonian {n orajnary at Norfolk. Savannah In ortinary at Norioik. Pt Ww Vondemned at roi. In ordinary at Mure {sland. uaid up at Now York. Lali up atNew ork. |—|!n ordinary at Wesh'ngton. In ordinary at Portsmouth, ‘orpedo boat, laid up at New York. id up et Mare isiand, | my | Rk Reaty for service, New Yorx. | sJason . Keaay tor service, Philadelphia. | Lehigh. Ready tor service, Annapolis Ready for service, New York. decady tor service, League Isiand. Ready ior service, Philadeiph, Ready tor service, Philadeipiia. ‘ady for service, League Jeland. ON THE STOCKS. Monta’ setonc reece: t9s, Not worth completing, Not worth completing. Not worth compieting, Not worth compl Not worwh cumpl Not worth comple AVA... *\ew Yor 4 *Pennsylv: Not worth co 1KON-CLAI 2 : *Colossus 1 Not worth completing. | *Massachusetia...| 4f sot worth completing. a. 4)Not worth comploung. | Ore: 4|Not worth completing. Condemned at Leazne Ia Condemned at Washingto ondomned at League Island, Condemned at League Isiund. demned at Leazsue Island. demned at League Island. Condemned at League Istaud. Convemned at League I tondemned at League J: sn tomued at League Is oP: Vondemnod at Washington. Suncook Broken up. | _ VESSELS WHOSE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED. | Present Name, Original Nae | frorent Masse Oriqnal Nume, | sau | Cohoe: ax. Manayunk. 0TH a indo. ebrasKa. Atm phitri wanda. |New York. henicia.......Ai New Hamp- Cathornia....Minnetonka. | Congr ‘Pushinata, "| Nic 088. Connecticut. . Co ossus Despaten. Plymouth . Delaware tuqua. | Penusylvania. Kewaydin, Fro ic. ‘Advance. [Piscataqua....Chimo, Florida. Panoag.! everu........Mosholu, Guard . ‘Tduard| lennessee Hero. ree Agamepticus | Tow w kmma Henry Jangainou, orc janitou, | Masud sae una-|Wyanvoite ...-1iPpecanoe. in. Ge ‘nd Pinto carry howitzers. VE:S8ELS8 SOLD, jevada, second rate steamer; Idaho, third rate wooden iris, Kewaydin, Winnebago, Yazoo *ihe Michi | grim, Trian N | sailing vessel, and Chickasaw, Keah, Klamath, Shawnee, Umpqaa, Wassuc, | and Yuma, all light draught monitors, ttysburg, Palos, Frolic, Nina, Pil- | YACHTING NOTES. ‘The schooner Comet, William H. Langley, N.Y. Y.C., will be overhauled at an early day. It ts the intention of her owner to get on another race with the Magic for the schooner cnallunge cup of the club, and to this end preparations are | already being mace. Among other changes and | additions the Comet will be supplied with new | | | rigging and new sails complete, the Jatter having been under way in the hands of Mr, John M. Saw- yer for sume time past. ‘The transfer of the schooner Madeleine, B.Y.C., from the hands of ex-Commodore Voorhis to those | of Commodore Dickerson was legally effectes eariy | last week. Her late owner will build or purchase Q sinaller schooner. The schooner Ariel, Commodore W, L. Swan, S.Y.C., 16 undergoing extensive alterations at Northport, L. 1, She is being lengthened forward, and otherwise changed to correspond with the Clio—a sister vessel when lannched—the latter being greatly improved by radical chang alter construction, Commodore Swan hi | hopes that the Ariel will develop iair speed the coming season. Atthe next regular monthly meeting of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, 24th inst, the prizes won at the regattas of theclub last season will be pres- ented, This occasion is earnestiy looked forward | to by the members, as it 1s always a social reunion of great interest. The sloop Sadie, B.Y.C., is at Greenport, L. I., and will be thor- | oughly overhauled belore the opening o/ the yacht- | Ing season, Tne sloop White Wing, A. Perry Biiven, B.Y.C., | will be partly rebuilt by Lennox, of Brookiyn. Her cabin is to be enlarged and new joiner work fitred throughout. Daring the cruise o1 the Brook. jyo Ciud last summer ihe White Wing showea ter | hee.# to many crack yacnts. |. Pme catter yacht aps at the yard of Mr. Force, Keyport, N. J., or Mr. PF. W. J. Hurst, is | planked ana in shape. Yachtsmen generiliy de- | sire to note her actions when first under sail. The severe weatier v! the past fortnight or more | has greatly retarded work ou the large schovuer | yacht builatng by Mr. Joseph B. Van Deusen, foot of Noren seventh street, Williamsburg, for Vice Com- modore Garner, N.Y.Y.c.. Her irame, however, is nearly up, and much Work tas been uone indvo.#, Which Will enabic rhe builder as soon as fine weather comes to make rapid progress. The whole yachting world is inveres! to a certain tin the construction of this iuuiense picas- he Sindy of Oyster Bay, L. L, will have another Corinthian race bext season. ‘There are enrorted on the bouxs Ot the ciud nearly forty yachts, a Number that is regaraea as an em- poatic imuorsement of its success under the lead- | erspip of Comimouore Swan, At the recent anoual mecting of the Eastern | Yacht Ulab, Boston, Mass, the following oficers were elected tor the ensuing year: —Commodore, Joun ™,. Forves; Vice Commodore, John Jeftries, dr.; Rear Commodore, Kaward purders; secie- tary, Henry B. Jackson; Treasurer, Vatrick Ty | Jackson; Measurer, Frank D. Onild; Regatta Com- | mittee, John Heard, W. M. Whitney, B. Joy Jencies, | Stanton Whitney, R, H. stevenson. ‘Tiere are 45 | yachts m tue feet of the cla; of these 27 are | Senvooners, 16 sloops and 2 steamers. J Rear Commodore Davidson, | TH SUPPLEMENT. THE RELIGIOUS STRUGGLE. The Life of Bossuet—His Forecast. of the Conflict. Bossvger aND His Coyremronanies. By the author of A pomiages Artist,” &c, New York: Pott, Young & Co, No one can read the life of the great Bishop Bossuet without getting a glimpse at one of the most romautic and corrupt periods of history. Not only was tne Reformation under full headway, bit ail the nations of Europe were ina transition state, the progress of which has a peculiar tn- terent tor every scholar. Bossuet not only lived in the midst of these changes, but was also no tn- Significant part of them. He was on iriendiy or intimate terms with nearly all those eoclesiastical and political giants wno were the power benind a very weak tnrone, and in the midst of a court Wrose corruption was almost unparalleled he was & central (gure—critical, daring, plainspoken and powerlu', It does not decrease our interest to know that Louis XIV., by his dissipations, ex- cesses and totrigues, begun that process of | disgusting the popmar ming with royaity whico | culminated in the days of Louis XVI. in the guillo- fine and the Reign of ‘terror. 3 Jacques Renique Bossuet was born at Dijon, No, | 10 Piace Sr, Jean, on the might of S:pcember 27-3 | 1627, He wasearly left to tae care of his uncle, , Claude Bogsuct, who was a man of refined and | iterary tastes, and from whom Jacques Benique | received the bias which deciaed tne work of his | tite. He was,» hright, eager boy, and gave es- | i pecial satistaction to his relatives by his rapid ac- | quirement o: the Latin and Greek tongues. He | became in very ecariy acnolar in the classics, and revelled in the litera- ture of the Academy and the Lycsum, At this | thane be came across the Biole by accident—an | event which had such an immediate and lasting | effect on hin that his biograpner dwelly on the in- | cident with marked emphasis, He was, of course, | perfectly familiar with passages and somewhat | lengthy quotations; bat ne had never seen the whole book until one day he came upon it in his uncle’s room, when he plunged into its mysteries with an eagerness which, perhaps unfortunately, the printing press has rendered impossibie toa later age. ‘This was the first meeting,” says one of the Bishop’s devoied students, “between Isaiah and Bossuet, und it worked a very revolu- ! tlon in the soul of the arJent, impressionable child.” After that incident, to the end of life, his motto was the familiar words of St. Jerome, “Let tunis sacred Dook never leave your handa,”” When Bossuet stood on the threshold of his career Descartes was beginning to be famous, and | was getting an influence over the French mind Which was not altogether agreeable to a devoted | ecclestastic. Bossuet studied the philosopher | profoundly and correctly divinec the tuture, “I | foresee,’ he wrote, “a great warfare now rising | up against the Churen under the name of ‘Philo. | sophie Cartésienne.’”” We atudiea the system with great care, and got ready to rebut its Jatal criors | whenever occasion should offer. He seems to | have been not only a faithful student but a very | Mbverai and fair critic. He did not care to wina | point at the expense of injustice to an adversary. Jndeed ali throngh bis jong itle, if we except his ) Telations with Fénélon, he maimtained a spiritual composure which won the respect of his worst enemies. s At this time Voltaire was also on the stage, an illustration o1 bigoted hypercriticism and s:eer- ing illiveraitty im strange contrast with Bossuet, Voitaire flung his innuendves tn every cirection aud spared no one, He Was a sort of animated lemun, sqaeezing himself over every pubdlic man’s le. He vad nothing kinaly tu say of any one, while he sprinkled tae muddy water Ot his sux picion on every man, woman, word and deed that came in his way, Ou Uctuber 17, 164%, Bossuet entered Paris tor the first time, and, curiously enough, on that same day Cardinai Richelieu—oace the proud and imperious ruier of France, out now feeole, nelp- Jess and almost dying—was carried ina litter to his palace, ‘I'nis litter Was notuig iess than a small sized room, with chairs aud a table, at waich the Cardinal’s secretary sat writlog at the dictation oi his master. | Stant relay of eighteen of the Cardiual’s guards, | bareneadca, ‘The people, indignant yet awe- | struck, flocked t» eee the great Minister who by | stamping his loot could make tne Continent trem- | and among them was Bossuet.- Our young | Jacque Benique was also present, a littie ‘later, | Woen the boay of tne terribic Minister was borne | to the Unureb of the Sorvonne, and he listeued | | atrentively to vhe luneral oration pronounced in | | AOtre Dame, Dis nasterly treatment o: certain subjects, and by | Dis moderation and tis steadiast adherence to the | | truth had won the respect, if not the admiration, } Of ecciesiastics and wlso of certam important court | personages The Queen, who had heard o. 1s woudrons eloquence, expressed a desire to | " | hear him. Frangors Sossuet nad a chapel in the | church velunging tu the Feuleilan: 1d it Was ar ranged that bis kinsman snoukt gratiily Her Mujesty. Jt is more thau gratilying to note taat | this immense popularity, somewhat suddenly ac- | quired, did not affect, to auy alarming degree, | Bossuvt’s steadiness of purpose. He lived while |*1m Pacis 10 @ plain and simple jashion, which en- | abled bim to nurt Wis anathemas with all the more | force against tne generul corruption. While he | Felused to make use vi the course and blunt ex- | pressions with which John Knox attacked royalty, | ne at the samme time ieiused 10 make use ui that | flattery waicn is thought to be the shoriest road | Sucu words as these must have | | sounded strangely in the ears of Anne of Austria, | | toa bishopric. and jet the dignity with whicn they were uitered | Rave toem a terrinie weight :— This it 18, madame, which should constrain Your Majesty, when alone | worthless 10 His sight, and, lying there, to steep | yoursel! in the voly shame of penitence.” That 18 wholesome language fur any one to hear, and Anne o1 Austria scems to have had sense enougn not to live Deen displeased, lor two years iter soe went Lo hear the same sermon again and took with her the young Queen, Murie Therese, aiter | which the royal persons never neglected an op- portuaity to hear the eloquent preacuer. | _ In alter years, when tais same Aune of Austria Was about to «ie, aiticted by the logering pain- Juiness of cancer, she sent for Bossuct, and du: | Ing her terrivie illness he afforded her great com- | fort and spirituai consolation. ‘This Princess, of | whom Voltaire says that “her whole careor in France wad been one of sorrow,” had always dreaded tuis particalar form of disease, and it re- qui all her moral courage to mect lier tat She di bearing her pain with “heroie patience and th Imue-8 of heavenly resignation.” | Jt Was the sortune o; Bussuet to be present also | atthe death of Henrievte d’Angleterre., In ‘ner ; Jast ness sbe called Jor the cruciix ot Anne of Austita, On receiving tt she cried ont, “U my God, wy have I not aiways put ail my trust in ‘Kuee?’ Bussuet was sent ior, but did not arrive, A second and third messenger were sent, and at last ne areived, A®’he came to her bedside she od, “An! Monsieur, [have sought salvation ! The Bishop's tears Were juiling last as he auswered, “Hope, madame, hope.” By nls gentleness and his rectial of the promises ne soothed tne troubled spirit, and it went out in | peace and resigaation, “Boksuet’s genius had been conspicious in nis funeral oration over the Queen of England,” says Cardinal de Bousset, “but he put forth all the whore tenderness o1 his soul In that spokeo ver her daugnter,” and even Voltaire aamiis that it had “the greatest and Tarest Oi successes, that of making the Court weep.’ Eyerybody remembers and pities poor Louise de Jn Valliére. She maimtained her purity until it was aftacxea by the King, and to him she yielded, She Joved the royal iiberune with # love o1 which he | Was not wortby. Many tines she had been tound On repentant knees, deteimined to give up her life of shame, but in every mstance the fascinating presence of Lows XIV, had spoiled her or her reso- tution. Most mistresses Of Kiugs nave been gresay or the em Inments o1 office, and have not only accepted presen'a out held their little nands oat Jor more, La Valli¢re was not made in that mouid, So jong as Mtimacy witn toe King Was quiet | and unobserved sue quieted her conscience by a kind of casulsiry whica Was very prevalent in tne Court, but when he insisted on creating her puctesse de Vaujour, ner public shame was too mucn for her to vear, ana she fled to the convent at Chaillot. There js iittie douot that mucn of this poignancy of suifering was caused vy the Searcnlug, stirring eioquence of preacher. Atany rate he went to the convent to see her, and wrote to a friend saying, ‘sue 1s ver well disposed, and I hupe will act ascordingly.”” He waiched over her with studious care and kept ae firm to the end, She died Jane 6, Kossuet found a much more dificult task in nis dealings with Mine, ae Moutespan. ‘This time tne King’s conscience was troubled, and Madame re- velved orders to leave the Court, Bossuct visited her every evening, but sound a very different na- ture to Work upon Irom that of La Vainere, The lady became jurious with the Bishop, and man. ‘ulate Certain Uupleasant stories about were, however, proved to be uatrue. Madame partially succeeded in regaining | the King’s affections, but they were at last wholly estranged tirough the tuverierense of a danger- ous rival—Mile, de Fontanges. in 16356 ane en- rely disappeared from Court iife, It is Not becessary to 1ollow Bussuet through tne Aetatis of his eveniial ire. In March, 1637, how- | ever, ne deitvered the iuneral oration over the | great Condé, who had expressed prophetic ad- MARTINEAU ON MATERIALISM | life an almost profound | it was carried by @ cou- | Bossuet had already made a name for himself by | | with God, to strip of your royal magnificeuce, so | the great | miravion of him in bis youtn and who bad bees | life long friend. _ | @ only violence of action or words which j Bossuet exhibits isin connection with Fénélon. He reached that pomt in his opposition when a Man knows not how to stop, aad ne loduced Louls XIV. to write a letter to the Pope pleading for and almost demandiug the Arcnvishop’s condem- Ration. He alse p2rauaded Louis to strike Féné- Jon’s Dame from off the young Prince's housenoid, taking away his title of preceptor, and ten bis Vengeance was complete. As nis biographer says:—''The shadow cast over a life spent to God’s | glory and the Church’s service is his bitter, uare- | lenting persecution of Fénéiou,” carly in 1703 Bossuet wave evidence of his ap- | proaching end, March 14, he said to De Tourne- Jort, “Do not deceive me. God's wtilbe done. I am weil aware how weak Iam.” During Faster week he was a@ itttie better, but when the Avbé | de St. André arrived he said, “I feel the machine i guing to pteces. Let us say the Lord’s Prayer, | &nd pause particularly on the words ‘fat voluntas | tua? On toe wight of April 10-li St André | found his pulse tast ane and at half-past tour | he heaved two or three slight sighs and passed | peacelully from tnis ilfe, fis friena’s words were appropriate, “Truly a great light is gone ont | he spare is @ oright torch toe less in God's ; Church, We must not fall to sey that the book is pub lished in a convenient form tor the student and 16 @ credit to the house ftom whose press it- comes. RELIGION aND MATERIALISM. Martineau. @. P Putnam’s Sons, This is a weleome book to the close and careiub student. James Martineau is an authority any. where, He 1s probably one of the first ten think. ers of the. age. Careful, patient, candid, tmpar- tlal, we llaten to his utterances, which are uevet deciamatory, but always golden, with the con- sciousness that the speaker never guesses and never speaks for effect. He deals with tho ten dencies of modern thought with a sharpnest Which will probaviy become a casus belli with the materialists, and deals with Tyndall and Huxley With a familiarity of admonition which will at icast awaken a ripple of surprise in their august and autocratic minds. Their assertion that religion isanevrotion éntirely narmiess, and resembling | homeopathic pill, which netther kills nor cures, | opens tho floodgates of Mr. Martineau’s sarcasm | Aad indignation, He saya:— Better at once to own our occupation gone than to linger on sentimental auderance and accept the induigent assyurauce that though there js uu jon. | ger any truth 10 reugion there ts some nice feeling 1 it, and that while, ior all we have to teach, we | might shut up to-morrow, we may harmlessly keep gree stillada sursery of emotion, I trust that when emotion proves empty we shall stamp it out and get rid of it. That ia a Mine sentence and quite worthy of the facile pen and delicate analysis of Mr. Martineau. | He further characterizes the relation between science and religion in this wit 4t is needless to say that the new “Book of | Genests,’’ Whica resorts to Lucretius tor its ‘‘firss | beginnings,” to protoplasm ior its filth aay, to | “nacural selection” ior its Adam aud Kve, and to | evolution for all the rest, contradicts the old book at beng Bose and inasmuch as it dissipates the ; Gream Of Paradise and removes the tragedy of the | fail, canceis at once the scheme of redemption, and so leaves the historical churches 01 Europe crumbling away from their very loundations. After this strong and pangent statement of the | work which modern scientists have undertaken | and which they still have on hand—for it is by no means completed as yet—the author treads over | the ground of debate like a colossus, and at every | step gives you the impression of an honest thinker and a true conse;vative. The book 1s | only a duodecimo of 68 pages, but it 1s full of sug | gestions und stimulus, | NATURE aND CULTURE, By Harvey Rice. Boston: | Lee & Shepara. | Here isa book, without preface or dedication, | containing 200 pages of honest common sense. | It is not a great book, for it neither displays the | erudition of the author nor startles the reader. by its dashing rnetoric and trenchant logic. It is, ; Rowever, a good and wholesome book, in that it | contains a plata man’s thought ol the times in | which he-lives, The author very evidently iilus- | trates thissverse of his own poetry, and is to be | respected accordingly :— Gr i ne a man with an al WwW Ver tuat aim may bi Whether 12's wealth, or whether it’s (am It matters not to me. Let hitn waik in the path of right, And keep bis aim in wight And work and pray iu taith alway, With his eye on the glittering height, His criticism on educational institutions is at once generous and pungent, The time wilicome when better heed will be given to such sentiments as these, and when the tussil methods of our time will give way to something better. “Jn most American colleges, a8 well as in the universitics of Europe, a definite course of study 1s prescribed and made a fixed fact—a kind of Procrustean bed which every lad is stretched or abridged to fit; | and this is done, as scholastics tell us, for the Purpose of disciplining the mind.” The essay on “Woman and Her Sphere” is per- | haps more characteristic of the pecultarities of Mr. Rice as an author. He says:—‘An old writer Temarks that in order to make an entirely beau- tliul woman it would be necessary to take the | head from Greece, the bust from Austria, the feet from Hindostan, the shoulders irom Italy, the walk irom Spain and the complexion from Eng- land, At that rate she would be a mosaic in her composition, and the man who married her might well bs id t6 have ‘taken up a cole lection.’ ” He criticises the madness of match-making with becoming severity, and predicts the evils which must necessarily befall our country 1f matrimony shall long continue to be a simple matter of money. Instead ofits being an affair of the heart it is really a very different affair—nothing but a hasty trausaction in fancy stocks; and if the of- ficiating clergyman were to employ an appro priate formula of words in celebrating tno Duptiais he would addtess the parties thus :— “Romeo, wilt thou have this delicate constitu. tion, this Gundis o1 silks and Satins, this crock of gold, tor thy wedded wite? ‘I wail.?? «Juliet. wilt thou have this false pretence, this profligate in broadcloth, tol Jor 6ay wedded husban4?’; The happy pair are tn a Witz, And what is the resuic? A ortef career of dissipation, a splendid misery, a reduction to pov- | erty, domestic dissension, separation and floaiy a divorce. ‘This may be somewhat severe, but itis not en- tirely unjust, meitier is it wholly unde: a. The other essays are on “Nature and Her Lessons,’* “America ana Her Future,” and “Life and Ita Ase Pirations.”” LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Henry Holt & Co. will soon bring out Jones’ “Compilation on Airican Adventure aud Discov- ery.” Mr. Horace Scudder, formerly editor of the Riverside Magazine, and latterly of the firm of H. 0. Houghton & Co., is about to devote himecit entirely to writing. Mr. Scudder h already written some of the prettiest stories that have been published in this country. R. Worthington & Co. will publish ‘Proctor’s Transits of Venus’ in this c.untry. The London Academy bas only just published @ review o! Hardy’s ‘Far from the Madding Crowd.” “rhe Inner Liie of Syria; or, Benoni, the Child of My Sorrow” a book in relation to the man- ners and customs of the harem, bas just been written by Mrs. Richard Burton, but has not been published yet. The past year has been an important one io the history of French literature. It 1s saia jhat Longfellow finds the greater num. ber of his adnurers in Engi nd and Tennyson in America. A Dew quarterly 1s started in London, unaer the singular title of Mind. lt 18 devoted to psychological science, Another new comic and satirical paper, entitied Gog and Magog, bas appeared in London, chieny devoted to city men and city things, Mr. George H, Lewes’ “Proolems of Life ana | Mind” has reached ite second volume, watch ts devoted chiefly to logical processes, We are to have # iife of Lord Shelbourne, the Minister of George IIL, which will contain muck new matter as to the peace negotiations between America and England which occurred during Shelbourne’s Ministry, The first volume inciudea the years 1737-65, Mr. Philip G. Hamerton has added a boys’ book, | entitled “Harry Blount,” to his list of pleasaut | works. The story is as varied as it 1s amusing, | ronounced man and The article on Airica in the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was written by A, Koita Jonnston, Li... Thackeray looked upon Charles Bernard as the most thoroughly representative French writer of | fiction, ranking bim above Dumas, Soullé or Bab zac,