The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1875, Page 10

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Tae Bercure Casr.—The prose as well as | the poetry of the Beecher trial is expressed and illustrated in our columns to-day. The review we give of the surprises of the case tnd the strong points of Mr. Fullerton’s cross- examination of the defendant will be found | profitable and interesting reading. Tae Lovisuana Lectstatone has adjourned without taking any decisive action in respect vo the State government and withont passing | spy important measures. The Senate post- | poned the resolution suspending Anditor | Dlinton. This absence of action may perhaps be the best thing for the tranquillity of that | jong distracted State. Cortainly the Legis- jatare had better do too little than attempt | yoo much. A Goop But.—The Assembly has passed a bill providing for the repaving of streets in New York by a general assessment, but limit- tag the amount to be expended in any single year. This remedies a serious defect in the sharter, for ceriainly no city ought to be | without the power to repave its streets and | pat them in a proper condition for traffic. Bome of the streets of New York are not only fisgraceful, but actually dangerous, and in Yome instances impassabie. Even the cross- walks are left in a miserable condition. The | Senate should promptly pass the bill, to | which, with the limilation provision incor- porated, there can be no sound objection. Prorectine THe ‘Taxes, —Whenever the | Legislature is in session we are certain to hear a great deal about Comptroller Green's Kesire to protect the taxpayers of the city and © curtail the expenses of the government. When the bills he sends to Albany for those illeged purposes are examined they are inva- tiably found to conceal jobs to increase the powers or to decrease the accountability of the Finance Department. Mr. Green engages the services of lobbyists to secure the passage sf such bills, and yonerally pays the expense, 1 in the notorious case of the Hawkins bill, aw of the public treasury. Half a dozen eh jobs are now afloat in the Legislature. {he Assembly should take care that none of them are suffered to become laws. Dr Kenesly—The Tichhorne Case in Parliament. In the House of Commons there are four hundred and thirty-three for the British Lion against one for Dr. Kenealy, and that one, of course, is Kenealy himself; but this fact, which would settle and determine almost any topic that ordinarily comes up in the political bodies, will not settle the great Tichborne topic. No majority in Parhament can con- jure such an evil. On the contrary, the more overwhelmingly the House decides against any inquiry the more easily may the feeders and supporters of this agitation convince their followers that there is a denial of justice ; and that which would still the tumult if it had a rational origin will only aggravate its fury, as its origin is in so great a degree irra- tioval. All the gentlemen are for keeping the butcher out of the property, whether it is his ornot. This is the conviction of the exceed- ingly large number which sympathizes with the butcher in his disaster and admires him'as the hero of the greatest and most vital of modern romances; a true knight errant of their own sort, who tilted gallantly for a great estate and only lost it after an encounter in which he commended himself to the popular heart by the exhibition of all sorts of game qualities. Now, the fact that four hundred and thirty-three gentlemen in Parliament decided against the Tichborne inquiry only deepens this popular impression. It does not convince these people that they are wrong in their sym- | pathies, but that they are right in their im- pression that the dominant class will not “do justice where there is » powerful interest against it in their own order. It is in the naturo of the case that the rejection of the Kenealy appeal should feed the agitation upon the wave of which this ingrained mischief-maker has been tossed into Parliament, and. we sup- pose it was equally in the nature of the case that the proposition for a commission of in- quiry should be rejected as it was. but why was this latter in the nature of the case? And is not the very fact that the lines are s0 harshly drawn that no one in England could for a moment suppose that Parliament would favorably respond to Kenealy’s demand? Is not the circumstance that by common recog- nition the case was there prejudged—deter- | mined before it was stated—do not these facts | indicate that the perceptions outside the | vague sense of oppression or injustice are not | altogether the wild imaginings of the un- washed? Certainly there is the verdict of the | jury that must be respected; for is not | the trial by jury one of the pillars of | freedom? And then there is the dignity | | memorable midnight when a household were of the ermine, which must be protected. But if an institution like the trial by jury | cannot be inquired into, and if the judicial dignity may not be touched by common fin- | gers, are not these excellent things already | | half tyrannies ? And what does it matter to | the people whether the oppression they feel, | or fancy they feel, comes in the old forms | orin a new form; whether it is undisguised or assumes the form of an institution they | have been taught to honor? Ifthe foot is put on them in the name of the royal prerogative, orin the name of a judicial dignity which they know to be a sham, what is the differ- | ence? { | Perhaps it was not worth while to insult the Lord Chief Justice or the Tichborne jury by authorizing an inquiry into the case they had | | decided; and undoubtedly they are abun- | | dandy capable of judging in Parliament | whether the agitation has such gravity as to justify ary consideration of it whatever. But | from this distance it seems a pity that the course taken in the House of Commons was | such as directly tends to sapply Kenealy with | mew capital. Now there is spread in the minds of perhaps half the people in England the notion that, not only | were Judge and jury and society in league | against the claimant, but that Parliament itself is in the conspiracy. But if, in that | spirit of “gay wisdom’’ which Mr. Disraeli | seems to admire, the government had ac- cepted the proposition for an inquiry, what would have been the result? Kenealy would seem to bave triumphed, but there might be | no great harm in that; while the report of the royal commission might bave been a very Itburiel’s spear.in its exposure of the ugly toads of this agitation. In the report of such commission the case would have been made clear and the government would have practically given its pledge to the people that the trial had been a fair one. It might not be | wise to make such a precedent in a way in | which it could be applied to ordinary criminal | trials ; but this case was one without a paral- lel, extraordinary in every aspect; and recog- | nizing this it might have been judicious to | adopt a course calculated to terminate a mis- | chievous agitation rather than one that will directly increase the agitation. How intelligent persons can doubt that | the man imprisoned is Orton and not Tich- borne—an imposter and not the true heir—is | more than we can comprehend, but we know very well that intelligent persons do doubt it, and intelligent persons by the thousand, more- over. Few things can be clearer to our mind than that the great trial in London was the | result of a conspiracy calmly laid by sharp solicitors in Australia for getting possession of great estates in England by the personation of the heir, a conspiracy of which Orton was first the tool and then the victim, and of which Lady Tichborne, ani- | mated by family antipathies, was a willing and eager dupe. But of all those who read the re- | ports of this trial daily in England not one- half were convinced of the claimant's roguery, but firmly believed him to be the man he pre- tended to be. And, in addition, thousands | | who perhaps paid little attention to the trial | now shout for the claimant because he has, in popular estimation, assumed the character of one kept out of his property wrongfully and | imprisoned by his relatives for family reasons. And, for all this, it is not the irrationality or unreason of the mob that is to blame; it is the very organization of English society. ‘Things are wrong in any country in which such a trinl is possible as that in which the claimant sought to seize the Tichborne prop- erty. Here is a case in whieh # man jumps ont of a clond as it were, makes a claim to certain property and compels the owners of that property to spend upward of a million dollars to simply retain possession of their own. With the enormous body of law framed in England to secure the rights of property that is the condition of property at this moment, and it would be more philoso- | That history would be incomplete were the | | part, by describing the moral and political | and make plain where the truest friendship | | may be found—in the only name of Jesus. | as a trade is handed down from sire to son. | course, will not be any tne less courteous and phical to regard this Kenealy agitation as a popular revolt at a tyranny of lawyers in vir- tue of which no man can_know what is right or just—and no one can tell him with cer- tainty—than to regard itas mere ignorant noise to be deprecated and suppressed. Another feature of the case allied to this concerns the conduct of Sir Alexander Cock- burn, the Lord Chief Justice. This Judge's course in the trial furnishes to the agitation the one grain of sound reason there is in it. His demeanor was such, day after day, as would have been pronounced outrageous if society could have separated itself from its prejudices and contemplated the trial from a standpoint of that severe neutrality which jus- tice is supposed to hold between the law and the accused person who is not yet proved guilty. But society was all one way, and the press was muzzled, for the infliction of severe penalties for contempt of court was constantly held up against any expression of opinion as to the attitude of the court. Sir Alexander Cockburn went to Geneva to occupy a place on the Bench in a solemn arbitration between two governments, and so far forgot his rela- tions to the case as to become the viclent ad- yocate of one government and the virulent as- sailant of the other; and he repeated that fact in a smaller local trial. There, also, he forgot that he was a judge and not the holder ofa fee tor one side. This fact, extensively recognized then and now in England,‘supplies an immediate and personal interest to the agi- | tation that has rallied the House to the sup- port of the Judge as against Kenealy, and has led it, we believe, to give an insufficient con- sideration to the other elements of the case, Pulpit Topics To-Day- Science and theology, law and worship, friendship and affection, ecclesiastical wor- ship and history, Romanism and salvation, ; form a variety of topics that should give spiritual or intellectual food to the congrega- tions which shall assemble in their respective churches to-day. Mr. Newton will present the significance and probable issue of the Church’s dogmatic teaching in its conflict with science, being the first of a series ot ser- mons on ‘Science and Theology.’’ Theim- mutability of God's law and the panting of the human soul after God will be brought into the foreground by Mr. Hawthorne, while Mr. Hepworth will show us the cure for human depravity, and paint | the scene in the prison in Philippi, on that | baptized and became converts to the new | faith of Paul and Silas, The internal and ex- | ternal form of the worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church will receive careful con- | sideration at the hands of Dr. Ewer, while Mr. Pendleton will give his Baptist hearers a | history of the Church, from which they may | learn something of its structure and aspects. } Reformation left out, and hence Dr. Thomp- | him. If devoted men and women pro- son will guard against such an omission, in and social condition of England before that event. Life’s lessons are many and varied, and a preacher who undertakes to map them all out before his congregation will have a task before him. But Mr. Thomas deems himself equal to the task, and this evening he will take Lot as an illustration of the worldly life. But hfe without friendships would be a desert Waste, and hence we have | some examples of true friendship handed down to us in sacred and profane history. It | | is Mr. Alger’s purpose to-day to take the | | friendship of David and Jonathan and place it beside a modern parallel, and then show us what the true purpose of man’s life is; and it | will be Mr. Kennard’s pleasure to indicate | Mr. Saunders will give us the true motive | for love to Christ, and Mr. Cameron will show ns the only way of salvation. Mr. Pullman will take up the central | truth of the Gospel, and cause it to cast a shadow over the sin-sick and sorrowing like | that of a great rock in a weary land. Dr. | Deems will introduce Christ to-day to the | legal protession. He has been among the | politicians and moneyed men before, and has had a favorabie reception. The legalists, of affable. Mr. Terry has set himself o task that may give him as great notoriety in one direc- | tion as Father Walker has attained in an- other. The former has undertaken to-day to prove that Romanism is America’s dangerous enemy, and Edith O’Gorman in another place will give her religious experience in the | same line. So that, among all these varied topics, the pulpit to-day indicates industry commensurate with the season and the busi- | ness prosperity. The Death of the Marquis De Caux. | Wherever modern opera has been heard, | wherever Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Weber and Bellini are known, the sudden and sad death of the Marquis de Caux will be the subject of | comment and regret. This is not because the Marquis himself did anything more for music | than to marry a prima donna. Of his history | and his personal merit scarcely anything is understood; and, in fact, ali that is yet known | of his unexpected death is that he was shot | ina duel at St. Petersburg. We believe he was rich, that he inherited a distinguished | title, but of his personality nothing is known. | Bat he married Adelina Patti, one of the most famous singers of this generation, | and that fact alone is sufficient to make his | death in a duel an historical event in musical annals, As the husband of Adelina Patti he is better known than as the Marquis de | Caux. In the opera of “Don Giovanni’ there is one character which has always scemed a | dramatic superfiuity, however important it | may be in the trios and quartets. This is the charming but very prudent Don Ottavio, the tenor, who throughout the play attends upon Donna Anna like a page, and, while he is of | great asvistance in the concerted pieces, is utterly usetess to the plot. It is impos- sible not to recall this agreenble operatio | nonentity when considering the death of the Marquis de Caux. The Marquis was | noboc He had never played on the real or | the min »; he had never served in the war or in civil affairs; he might have beena man of decided merit, but the world was | ignorant of the truth; he had a title, he was supposed to have wealth, and that was a | end of his personal story. But he had mar- ried Adelina Patti, and that has made his name celebrated, Itis am echo to the im- | in an equal degree to the keepers and the | good men fall sometimes mnder the pressure | in a common cell—the one surprised that he | ability. | excite our pity for the criminal by proving | beyond all peradventure that inflammation ot mortal music of her silvery voice, He is the Don Ottavio of this little drama of life, and is made historical in musical history by a genius greater than his own. We are yet to learn the facts of the quarrel which resulted in his death, but whatever they may be the real interest depends upon the great artist and singer more than upon the unfortunate noble- man. Genius is, after all, dearer to the world than mere titles of nobility. Religion and Crime. The proper conduct of penal institutions has always been a vexed question with the philan- thropist as well asthe student of political economy. That prisoners should be governed by a rigid discipline, and thus made to feel the gravity of their offence, is easily con- ceded; and that all possible” reformatory in- fluences should be interwoven with this dis- cipline no right-minded man will deny. While a prison should never be mistaken for a comfortable hotel, to which one has been banished for a few months or years, it need not be a place of unmitigated torment. If we do not put a sign over the iron-barred door to the effect that within entertainment will be found for man and benst, we need not, on the other hand, embody a revengeful spirit in the words, ‘‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here,’’ The first object of o prison is the confine- ment of a man who has lost his right to be at large. He has become a dangerous and in- cendiary element, and must needs be forcibly separated from the rest of mankind. To put a granite wall between thé criminal and society, not in the way of malice, but in the spirit of self-protection, and to make the change of life so great to the criminal that others will be deterred from a similar course of life, is to answer the chief ends of justice. Pardon of crime is impossible in a well regu- lated socicty. Punishment following close on the heels of guilt is the bulwark of social order. Prisons must be the universal de- termination to discourage vice, put into the concrete and visible shape of granite cells and hard work, They must have the gloom and grimness of Egyptian architecture in their methods. Nevertheless, when a man is enduring the penalty of confinement we need | not forget that he is a human being and that we belong toa Christian community. What- ever reformatory influences may be at our command ought tobe brought to bear on fess to see the image of Cwsar on the corroded coin, and are willing to labor to bring back the almost destroyed out- lines, they will receive no discouragement even from those who would make the prison an expression of the public intolerance of crime. The old days when daily tragedies were enacted behind the jail gate are gone torever. We have learned that the various tortures which were applied to the refractory were not only an injury to the prisoner, but public. A great and important step has been taken during the last few years toward a better state of things. The pena theology of the Puritans has given way to a practical Christianity, and this has perhaps done more than anything else to introduce human- | izing methods into our prisons. We have learned that even criminals are not neces- , sarily implacable brutes, on whom mercy is wasted. We recognize the sad fact that even of agreat temptation. If a man has committed a misdeed it does not follow that we should join forces to torment him and to make it utterly impossible for him ever to recover | himself. Criminals are not o particular stratum of society that perpetuates itself from age to age, The prisons of this State contain, many start- ling surprises to the investigator. They are | peopled not only by those whom we have always expected to end their careers in con- finement, but also, and more largely than we | think, by those concerning whom we could never, by any possibility, have prophesied such a fate. We are almost inclined to say that there is no dangerous class, but that all classes have elements of danger in them. Men who have occupied high positions and those who have never occupied any position meet was not caught before and the other that he was caught at all. Now, we are not inclined to the exercise of a maudlin sympathy toward these men. We If Mr. Huxley were here he might | the cellular tissue of the brain was the root of the difficulty; that his molecular forces were consequently disturbed, and that | | alittle electricity or a strong dose of pare- | gotic would make a virtuous man of him. | | Since this renowned scientist is not here, however, we are constrained to say that the | good of society demands that whatever medi- cine may be administered should be adminis- tered inside the walls of a prison. Still, we | most cheerfully commend any project which aims at the moral improvement of the crimi- nals of America. If any influence can be | brought to bear on a prisoner which will act as a deterrent when he is released, and if any successful effort can be made to keep him in | | the path of rectitude and to give him a chance to recover the past when bis term ex- pires, they will have the approval and sym- pathy of the whole community. In this con- nection we have noticed with pleasure the work in which # great many philanthropic | | ladies of New York are engaged, and espe- emily that of Miss Linda Gilbert, who has won and deserved the name of ‘the prisoner's friend,’ and whose letter will be found in another column. Her object is two- fold, and she is to be commended in her | double work. She desires to place | a library in every city and county jail, where prisoners have literally nothing to do but to | ! think of past crimes and eoncoct new ones, and to raise sufficient means to afford relief and succor to those who come from prison friendless, suspected and utterly unable to find employment. ‘The first object will be ensily attaincd. The books that may be needed can be had almost for the asking. It is an object, too, which at once claims our respect. The second and more important branch of labor is, however, attended by grave difficulties. Still if a brave and determined woman has | taken the matter in hand we have no right to desnair of success. The svirit of the age is in | the most disappeinti NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1875—QUINTUPLE SHEET. her favor, and the obstacies will, perhaps, only/prove » spur to her resolution. She has the good will of the whole community, and she has our earnest hope that she may be able to solve this enigma of political eeonomy by proving that criminal can leave his old life behind and strike ont into the paths of virtue and honesty, The Cardin: The rumors of the illness of Cardinal Manning—an illness which we regret to say causes alarm to his friends—will give a painful interest to the celebration of Tues- doy. It is arranged that the ceremonies of imposing the berretta will take place on that day in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Special ar- rangements have been made to accommodate all the prelates and priests in the country, and there will be an unusual gathering in attend- ance. The disposition to accept in its most gracious sense theact of the Pope in thus hon- oring Cardinal McCloskey will bring to New York the largest assemblage of priests and pre!- ates ever seen in New York. Tho committee are making arrangements to have the cere- monies of the most imposing character. As there are about a hundred thousand applicants for admission and not more than three thou- sand seats the labors of the committee may be imagined. The police arrangements will, we trust, be of the most perfect character. The least hitch or break or heedlessness in the police management may lead to the most de- plorable results. There should be allowed no crowd around the doors or passages of the Cathedral or even in the streets around it, Of course the committee would gladly accommo- date a hundred thousand auditors if it were possible, But since it is not possible there must be the firmest rules about preserving order. The ceremony of imposing the berretta upon Cardinal McCloskey is not simply a religious event in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. Itis not alone that the Pope has honored an American prelate, but it is the first time that the rank has been be- stowed upon an American. So the act hasa political value. Heretofore the policy of the Romsn See has been to regard America as a missionary country, where the Church was an experiment, and under missionary control, like Chili, or Paraguay or Japan, and not like Germany or France. Whenever there has been a demand on the part of Catholics in America for such a recognition as the crea- tion of the cardinalate would imply the answer has always been that the time had not come; that the country had not attained its growth ; that the pear was not ripe. This is no longer true. conferring the berrefta upon an American prel- ate that he recognizes America as worthy ot | his recognition in the largest sense. Of course it does not matter to us in what esti- mation we may be held by a venerable Italian priest, who is simply a spiritual ruler in the Vatican. But, on the other hand, even the most rigid critic of the Roman faith cannot be insensible to the courtesy paid to the na- tion and implied in the elevation of Cardinal McCloskey. ‘The ceremony of Tuesday is not merely'a religious event. | lesser, but in the larger sense. It shows, we think, the broadening of the Roman policy in dealing with other nations. The tradition that the Church should depend upon the princes and the royal system has taded. Pins IX. remembers the lesson which another Pius learned from as great a master as Napoleon—that the Church cannot depend upon the princes. So long as the Holy See served the royal and imperial systems all was well ; but whenever the rise of liberalism men- aced in any way the peace of the throne then the Holy See was abandoned. Corsequently, | as Archbishop Bayley aptly remarked to our reporter in Baltimore the other day, the Pope in bis latest allocution did not, as had been | his habit, pray for the princes, but for the | people. Not long since the Pope extended | certain privileges to the President ot Perua— the same as those accorded to the kings of Spain. The one Power in Europe which is in harmony with the Roman See is France, a Republic, and in republican America we | have the assurance of His Holiness that the Church has unexampled as Mr. ODhsrneli sees to be surely | coming, the influenco of the Catholic Church | | as anally of republicanism cannot be over- rated. Let the Pope once declare that the | | dogma of divine right is a ficti that tl | have old-fashioned notions about account- | reget tks ar cae a true divine right is the voice of the people ; that in the eyes of the Church all men are | free and equal; that, political privileges | should be as free to mankind as the sacra- | ments, and there will be an end of the illu- | sions upon which monarchy uneasily rests. Therefore the ceremony of Tuesday be- | comes, in some respects, a national event. It will of course be imposing and memorable. There will be all that wealth of color, melody, decoration and eloquence with which the Roman Church knows so well how to clothe its solemnities. We shall have the largest | body of ecclesiastics of the Catholic denomi- | nation ever assembled in New York. This | coming together of these learned, venerable and gifted men will have a social value that is always pleasant in the busy life of our mod- | ern world; and the circumstance that a rare and high honor, for which kings in times past have vainly sought, will be voluntarily be. | stowed upon a native and citizen of the United States, as a reward for piety and virtue, will be grateful to ali classes, without distinction of nationality or creed. The Last Snow of Spring. The faith which Americans repose in spring is to a very large extent derived from the English poets, who, in their turn, obtained it from the singing birds of a milder climate. Spring to us is the worst season of the year. It is the most coquettish, the most inviting, It begins with the most delicions bi the tenderest colors of fresh foliage on the trees, and justas we begin to enjoy it and throw off overcoats put away umbrellas there comes a snow storm which recalls winter with all its shivery and shuddery in- Gum shoes again become ne- an conveniences. | cessities, and coughs and coids postpone the classic hymns which the model American yonth would sing to the season of re- viving joy. The young ladies disappear from Broadway, like butterflies who have been born too soon from the silken web and seek too early the opening and frost-bit- The Pope indicates by his | It is political, not in the | freedom. In | | the great crisis which as keen a critic es, the sunniest skies and | ———-——— Or ten bud, The snow falls upon the justand the unjust, and as May begins we almost mis take her for December. But this disguise and masquerade of the season cannot long endure, It is only the sweet deception of Nature to make us the more delight in tho sudden disclosure of her perennial youth. Spring will soon in- dicate her office, which is, after all, only to introduce summer. In America we only know spring as the snowflake that preludes the frae grant white rose of June. Patriotism in the Religious Press. The enthusiasm manifested a few days ago at Lexington and Concord is echoed this week in the religious press conducted by sons of New England. The Christian Union thinks centennial associations all over the country will pattern after Concord, but will so in- crease their display that the distinctively American spirit of emulation will, by Inde- pendence Day of next year, have blazed more fiercely than the patriotic fires ever did in the bosoms of our ancestors, The Union suggesta that the nation rekindle the flame of patriotism and roligion at the altar of pure sentiment and free speech, The Boston Pilot says Lexington and Concord were lew sons to all peoples in search of liberty. The moral and the physical force were admirably blended in the old Revolutionary times. The Observer emphasizes the idea that to-day, as well as one hundred years ago, our depend ence for life, progress and power is on God and ourselves, This hation, says the Observer, was born in the fear of God, and it hopes that July 4, 1876, may be distinctly marked by religious worship of the God to whom the nation owes its existence. This is an excele lent suggestion and one well worthy the atten- tion of the churches. The Hebrew Leader thinks Lexington and Concord were bul the sequel to the acts of independence which had more than a century before bees illustrated on British soil in the person ot Hampden and his associates; it was a natu ral consequence of the landing on Plymouth Rock. The Leader suggests that the Centen- nial celebration next year will be the political jubilee of all mankind. The Independent in timates that the part which New York took in the early struggles of our Revolutionary days ought to be properly observed, and it sug» gests that as Cambridge has her Commemorae tion Hall and Boston her Faneuil Hall, New York might have some similar memento of the patriotic days of yore, and our Historical So ciety gives us a basis for such a memorial hall. The ‘Methodist says that Bunker Hill will be re membered in June, and the battles and publie mectings sand demonstrations which suc ceeded that conflict, until the whole seven years’ history will have been made familiar again. It will be a good time, the Methodisi thinks, to consider the defects as well as the merits of our government and weigh them against each other, as we have never been able | asa people to do before, The Evangelist, commenting on the address of Dr. Storre before the New York Historical Society last week, says that gentleman did not do full justice to his theme, inasmuch as he left out | the religious features of the Revolution, | whereas the resistance of the colonies to the | claims of Great Britain was essentially a | religious movement, and without the religious | element it would never have been successfully | achieved. | Pav Boyytoy.—Ot the famous attempt of | the great American. swimmer, Paul Boynton, | to cross the English Channel in bis life-saving dress, the Hxzratp has already published | special accounts by cable, fully illustrated by | maps. To-day our special correspondent at Boulogne furnishes us a full description of the details of this remarkable voyage, which will be read with interest throughout the United States. It evidently was not Mr, Boynton’s fault that he failed to reach the French coast. ‘Tue Roya Mretrxc.—How the Emperor of Austria and the King of Italy met im Venice, the ceremonies of the royal encounter and the features of the festival are picturesquely de- seribed in our letter from the Queen of the | Adriatic to-day. The political importance attached to this meeting of the crowned heads of European nations is not without apprecia. tion here. The mstability of peaee in Europe is too well comprehended by Americans to make the formal mectings of monarchs now seem | mere unmeaning courtesies. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘Theresa is apotbeosized as “the slang muse.” If Poe’s monument is to have a marble Raves will it be a white o1e ? Captain E. i. Moody, of the steamship Bothnia is quartered at the New York Hotel. State Senator F. W. Tovey, of Port Henry, N. ¥., laying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator George 8S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, | {s sojourning at the Fitth Avenue Flotel. Six thousand pictures have been sent in for the exhibition of the British Royal Academy. Ex-State Prison Inspector solomon Scheu, of Butaio, visited Sing Sing Prison yesterday, Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at the Grand Central Hotel yesterday from Boston. Speaker Jeremiah McGuire arrived irom Albany last evening, and Js at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Nicolas de Voigt, Russian Coargé d’Affaire at Washington, has apartments at the Hofmaa House. The Prince of Wales dined at the Café Angiaig, in Paris, the other day witn Count Zichy and Gus- tave Doré. Mr. George B. McCartee, chief of the printing division of the Treasury Department, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Secretary Bristow arrived in this city yesterday from Wasnington, and is residing with his friend, Mr. Edwin W. Stoughton, at No. 03 Filth avenue, If the “Late of Christ” bas gone higher than a kite, aua the Northern Pacific Railroad higner than the “Life of Christ,” whereabouts is Sam Wilkeson? Apparently the Russian project that was to transiorm war into an exchange of mutual be nevoience has peen badiy hurs by England’s ob- jections, ana may be given up. Charivart pictures the thimble-rigger playing his cups. One of the cups is iabeliead “Universal Suffrage,” and that litre joker the Republic per. sistentiy turns up under the cup. In @ recent sermon on the relations of religion, science and literature Dean Stanley classed Gal- tleo, Calvin aud Shakespeare as the personal representatives of his conceptions of the three, ‘The average income of the French government from the tax upon successions to property ts 9,000,000 franes; bat for this last year it ts 12,009,900, 80 muca busier than usual has death been among | the rich. AS Prussia withdraws supplies from the Roman priesthood the congregations are preparing to pay the pastors from their own means, and the governs | nent organs call this “levying a war tax.” When Alsace Made a gilt to the Pope the Prassian Premier was of opinion that be had not taxed shat | provines heavily enough, as it still had means to spare; and these present collections may provowe | jar thought, ‘ | |