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4 THE SAVANS IN. PARIS. The Geographical Congress to Assemble in the French Capital. —_—_+—_— Progress of Science—What It Is To Be a Geographer. A Gorillz, a> Acrolith and a Brick from the Great Wall of China. Marshal MacMahon and the American Commissioner Panis, July US, 187: Mologist, Whicd he considered that no honest man could assume i these days. His iriends, he thought, went too far tm calling rist; he was content, Mimself, to be considered a searadeeist. So enormously has every science 4 veloped that the utmost a student, however stout- hearted, cam hope to achieve during a lvetime is she mastery Of s branch or a sub-division of facts, and the sublime dream of Bacon, “to make all knowileage bis province,” Is only realizable by hu- manity at jarge. And yet white facts ac- cumulate, and the infuite variety of na ture daily becomes more apparent, the lnterdepeadence of the sciere is also more clearly perceiv ana those ‘Who wonld acquire # compiete intimacy with any One section of tae earth’s phenomena Must Know much of irs relations tothe rest, Tne lives of Plants apd insects must be studied tm connection with each other, bor are the boundaries of the animal and vegetable kingdoms as yet clearly fnea, DEFINITIONS IN THE OLDEN DAYS. Indeed, the defaltivns of “auimal” ead ‘-veget- Abie” which contented our fathers are ali out of dave, for nothing is more clearly abiished than that nature bas no bard and (ast imes, but eon- sist# Of & graduating series of Organisms, cach jolued to each by connecting link will the dis- tand cousinship of man aud a sponge can be traced more precisely than any beraidic pedigree, FROM STRABO TO BLISKE RECLUS, Above ail, in geograpny, iu the study of the sur- face of our mosher earth, how wonderful has been the pregress made irom Strabo io Elisée Kecius, and pow infinitely extend.ng ts the range of facts very sligat reflection wil show. In the drst place to understand tue surface correctly wo Must know something of whas is beneath It, and geology leuds the way to paimontoiogy or inquiry into the life and babits of the unknown millions of Duman beings Whose remains are among the constituent parts of the very globe itself. To the study of geograpby must also be joimed the Knowledge of the nistory which it bas so largely shaped, as well as of philology, for the rarified air of mountains and the relaxing atmospuere of many plains Dave thelr powerful induence on tae Luman speech. THE DOUBTERS AND GROWLERS, There is a tendency among minds to be dissat- iofled with the achievements of science; to com- }iain that the world has lost more than tt has gained by the discoveries of Columbus and New- ton, and by & somewhat tilogical process to con- nect the faulty geography of tne sbie!d of Achilles with the beauty and freshness of the Romeris poems, If, however, we have no Homer now, tue Jault 1s not that of science, which sever opening | Wider reaims to the bulmso imagination, 1 maa cannot now propose To sail beyond the sunset, and the paths Or all the Western stars, beo@7n contemplate greater wonders than these and lose bimse!f in mazes of thought concerning other worlds and other suns, and ail of marvelious and beautiful they may contain. THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS of Geography, which wiil shortly assemble In the Satle des Etats of the Tuileries, under the presi- depcy of Admiral de la Roncitre le Noury, will Geal with every kindred science, the programme of its discussions embracing all things, witha supplemeatary discussion oa a few othera. THS GROUPS OF SUBJECTS. The simple enumeration of tne groups of sub- jects is an eloqueat commentary on the meaning of scientific knowledge in the nineteentn cen- vary. First Group—Geography, graphy. Stcond—Hyaropathy, maritime geogra Third—Geograpay, | paysi rology, geology, oo'anical grapay, general anthropology. mathematics, topo- phy. erat Fourth—tistorical geograpay and the history of geography, etonography, philology. Pifth—Lcenomic, statistical sud commercial geography. th—ieacking and difuaion of geographical knowiedge. Seventh--Exploration, voyages of discovery and Ol trade. TLE DISCUSSIONS WILL BE ILLUSTRATED aad rendered intelligibie to ordinary persons by @ general exuipition Of Objects of interest bearing on scientific research, Among these epparatus used in tue Isiaud of St. Pauwi for ob- serving the transit of Venus, GORILLAS ten feet high, an aerolite picked up in Sweden, a ‘orick from the great wall of China. NOT INPALLIBLE. The Congress is not, of course, authorized by the scientific worla to decide om any disputed questions, science being essentially democratic end never fettering ‘he spirit of free mquiry by cogmatism necessarily based on !mperfect knowl. edge, And yet the Congress would be rendering ® reai service to the cause of education if it | were to recommend certain principies of geographical instruction, especially ir it were to frame a comprenensive system of geographical nomenclature, Nothing for Instance can be more incorrect than the common Giviston of the Eastern Hemisphere into theconti- | nents named, for no intelligible reason, Karope, j Asia and A'rica, Thus, the north of Airica bears, geographically and ethnologicaliy,a greater re- semblance to the south of Europe than to Ventral Africa. Tae division, again, between Europe and Asia is perfectly abitrary, Siberia and Northern Russia in Hurope being more truly parts of ove continent than Siverta sud India. The word “continent” itself obviously requires definition. Would tt be SCIENTIFICALLY MORE* CONVENIENT to name tracts of land after the pecuilarities of soil or climate, or alter the races whick inbaolt them? Population, of course, is shifting; but, on the other hand, the soil will aiways in some meas- ure assimilate the dwellers on it to itself, Ger- many, though peopled by successive immigrations, produces mach thesame breed of men now asin tae days of Tacitus. The “sritannt hospitibus Jerv’ of Horace have been repiaced hy another race who scem to have lnherited their dislike of foreigners; and we in America have ceased in many respects to resembie our Puritan ancestors, “GBOGRAPHY MUST PRECEDE HISTORY,’ “wore the words of M. Durny, Minister of Educa- ton under poleon Ill, Indeed, tue beginnings ‘of bistory are unintelligible without it, and there seems reason to believe that tue origin of most superstitions and of @ good decal that is calied re- ligion ts to be found im the configuration of the eartn’s surface. Mr. Buckle, tn bis famous worr, pointed ous that the differcoce between the re- ligion of the Uindoos and the Greeks was to be @ccounted for by the influences of climate, The dweller on the banks of the Kephisos and tne Gweller on the banks of the Gangos were both offshoots from the same parent stem, as vbetr re- epective languages prove; but in the h Greek natare wears @ mild and gen’ aepecr, nnd the favorite deities of the Helenes were tho God of Light and the Goddess of Love, whose Cultus contat nothing of the terribie about tt. 7 IN INDIA, on the other hand, the Felizions instinct found on one another | be the | je of the | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. vent in the conception of hideous taols, represent- jivinicies possessea of the most revolting attributes, for nature there is calculated to tn- spire awe rather than admiration; im the violence of storms, im the vast extent of impenetrable ferest, in the witd beasts and serpents which con- stantly threaten the existence of man. If, how- ever, men’s Itvea are shaped by the infuences of climate and soil, it becomes evident that the old taeological pucales regarding FREB WILL @nd predestination may ultimately find thetr sotu- ion In the discoveries of science, and h.story it~ self may be proved to be an exact science, in which cause and effect can invariably be pre- dicted with unerring accuracy. MACMAHON AND AMBRICA. On the opening day of the Exhibition, yester- day, Marshal MacManon, President of the Repub- lie, arrived as three o'clock, and conversed some minutes with Dr. W.E. Jounstone, the United States Commissioner. THE GEOGRAPHICAL EXHIBITION OPENED BY MME, MACMAHON—WHAT IS TO BE SEEN IN THE HALL—RELICS OF PAST AGES. (Paria (July 15) corresponaence of tue London Telegraph.) The Geographical Exhibition was opened to-day by Marsal and Mme, MacMahon, It is held in the Plora Pavillon, that new portion of tne Tuil- eries where the Prince Imperial was to ave re- sided, and the contignous galieries of the Louvre, extending to a hall in size, shape and beight cor- responding with the Salle des Etats. | POR THB RELIZY OF THE SUFFERERS BY TOE FLOODS. The proceeds of this interesting exbibition will | 0 to the relief of victims of the Languedoc ivan- | dations. To-day admission was five franos, but taere will be lower rates and (ree days, A VERY EXTENSIVE SHOW THAT MAY BE SEEN, Avery good Catalogue is sold at the door. I learn from lt that thirty-eight rooms are taken up | with the exhibition, The objects exhivited are classed into seven groups. The third group is poor in retrospective tuverest, unless we regard it a8 @ kiad of old world history unconsciously writ. teu by foods and volcanic fires. It embraces | physical geograpny, general meteorology, general geology, Dotanical and geological geography and eel tnropology. There are some memorials Ol the fliut age, aod casts of skalis fouud in tue caverns ol the Lot aud near Mentune, THE FOURTH GROUP is the one which will best piease bookworms, it | being rica in @nclent treatises, printed and in | Manascript, on geographical sudjecis, fantasti- cally aesigned old maps, old instruments. ethno- raphie collections ana geographical dictionarie: Q my necessarily burried wlanes at these iter. | esting oojects 1 saw a chart of the worid drawn by sebastian Cabot tm 1544; Coaries tue Furh’s | map of bis dominions, “on whica the sun never with marginal notes written by him 1p Fiem- | ism; an eleventh century atias, compiled and iiu- minated by the monks of the Abbey of St. Séver, | in Languedoc; anotner of tae eighth century, showing where the Garden of Eden lay (which is ao! by @ picture of some cherubims witn | fuming swords guarding toe tree of fe), the desert inwo which the Womar of the Apocalypse fed, and the lands where the seven vials will probably de poured out, Each map tsa collection | O! Images like taose sidereal cuarts in which the cousteliatious are set in the bodies of the auimals | alter which they were named, } Before quitting | groap 4, | cannot heip speaking of De Mané de la | Bonrdouna)’s autograph map of the East Indian French colonies. it was drawn in the Bastile, | into which the author was thrown because of | Clive’s succesves in India. Prince de Kohan | Guéménée, the founder of POrient, got up a cabal | agatust aim at Versailles. He was turown into | the Iron Mask’s cell and deprived of writing | materiais, The governor had orders not to let him communicate with any one, and to see tuat he did uot speak to bis keepers in taking ble reguiation walk on the platform. But necessity 1s the mother of mvention. Dela Bourdonnal was as ingenious a8 be was brave. He saved his brandy rations (at the Basti:e the victuais were excelient when priscners did not belong to tne dungeon or basement category) to steep two white pocket-handkerchiefsin them. ‘Tus pre- pared they served as paper. The ink was made With grease and coffee grounds, and De ja bour- donnat drew and wrove with @ piece of wood. No less than twenty manuscript maps of Porsulan, the great Portuguese geographer of the end of | tue fiteenth or the early part of the sixveeath century, gure in this group. PASSING ON TO GROUP FIVE, we find ourselves in a region of statistics and of soclai, political and agricaitural economy. it is astonishing Wual maps cam be made to tell, es- pecially when drawn by Germans. Those | now refer to point out the Increase and decrease of population ia given periods, the progress of agri- cujture, trace the course of cholera, of typhoid and of smallpox, of grape disease aud cattle plague; show where schools flourish and where they do not; waere drunkenness, thieving and brigandage abound, and where industry, vir- tue aud prosperity go hand in band. The vreain of pine woods seems to affect the morals of a@country. Maine, the Siate of the Liquor ii is the pine wood State of America. Ine Vosges are the pine weod reg! of France, From Epipal to Remireniont, diagonally across ‘he country to Thanh, police are needed than im apy other part of France, though tae population is numerous. Anabaptsts have created terrestrial elysiums ior themselves in the clearings in the pine jorests by tne Meuse and Moselle. Across the Rhine Moraviaus and other pious sectailes are attracted to the Black For Coal smo jas a tendency to orutalize the wor! | ing classes, Wherever it blote out the bi hemot heaven the ees chances of wearing white gloves dimini “Boly Russia’ is fond of strong liquors; bat Teutonic geographers absolve her f.om the dark stain of criminality. FLOODS IN EUROPE. THE | HEAVY INUNDATIONS IN THE WEST OF ENG- LAND—FOUR DAYS OF RAIN AND A PARTIAL DELUGE—SERIOUS AND EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE CROPS AND OTHER PROPERTY—sEV- ERAL LIVES Lost. Lonvon, July 17, 1875. ‘The ‘tnundations caused by tne overflowing of the Garonne bave been followed by other disas- trous results of the recent geverai heavy rains, | Withia the last four days the western counties of | England nave veeu severely deluged and similar though !ess extended damage has been infictea persous have perished. | ‘THY MOST SERIOUS FATALITY | 1s the loss of thirteen lives at the town of Owm | aster was broaght about by the bursting of | reservoir used jor supplying the Monmoath Canal between tuts canal and the River Ebbw, the rest- dence of Mr. Bunt, the owner of a Welsh flannel | factory, was entirely wasned away and eight of | the ten inmates were swept down the river and Growned, as were three inmates of an adjoining cottage, THE FORCE OF THR WATERS Was stupendous, @ breach of 100 feet wide being made in the bank of the r ‘voir, and one of | lorty feet im a raised tarnpike road ruaniag acro: the western valley. Of two apprentices who were sleeping In the above mentioned manufac tory, one, a German boy, named George Kiein, | Was wasved away and seen no more, while bedfetlow saved himself by floating upon a w | ing machine, | THE MAIN STREET OF MoNMOUTE | | is inundated, and at Caenieon the retiway has been destroyed. THE cnors, Severe damage bas been sustained by ¢ bay Crops in the vicinity of Cardim, and horses, sheep and pigs carried away by the rivers Ted and Bly, The occupants of houses were compelied w ts their household efects to the upper stort to resort to boats and tubs jor tee purposes of locomotion, The land is under water tor seversi Miles, rendering the turapikes impassabie, aod | large viocks of portions of solidiy Ouilt stoue houses bare been huried down aud borne AT OTHER POINTS. Tn the counties of Som Devon aad Corn- wall great mischief bae Tee cies of Bath and Bristol have suered severely, ral new streets of the iatver piace having been de- Stroyed and ovhers turned ito rivers, Tanvards, brickyarvs and sineitiug Works have been seriously tnjared and we contents of sueps Wasoed luw the streets THK GROWING COPS have been rotned in many districts. The foods are the most destructive ever kaowa ia tue westeru count At Cardif the waters are substd Fly and Khymues revorning tv thelr mormal con. dition, ‘Ibe streyts of Contom, near Caraut, ave | Stl Mu passable to foot pacsengers, and trucks aud boats convey the puvlic siong the submerged thoroughfares. A} great many shops are ciored, | #ud the cellars lujlow lying distriows etii fied with water. ON THE BANKS OF THE WY. On the banks of Wye, in the neighborhood of Hereford, the COWS for w distan miles are covered with water, aud ti atrac lon of bay and growing corn is immense, The | Wednesday night, and outside it was thick with | ob property and growing crops, while several | carn, on the Monmouthshire Railway, which dis. | ball | bat it ts feared ab waters yosteraay were sobsiding. the on t mountains wer. During ‘atte, hur- nN down the stream. The water at flereford Briuge is t higher than has beea Koown lor maby ne flood at Bridgend is abating. Vb hody of an tronworker named Janes Thomas was washed ashore at that place yesterai ‘Tue de- ceased is belicved to belong to Aberdare, IN MID-SOMEASET, A telegram yesterday irom Yeovil says the heavy rain waicn bas fallen during the past lew Gays has caused deep Hoods in Mid-Somerset, ‘The extensive moorlands are deeply covered with Water aud bay is being Washed -away in large quantities, several of the rivers having ov-rfowna their banks. in Dorsetshire also a iarge tract of country 1s flooded, much damage being done to corn, a8 Weil as to the newly Mown gruss, A WIDESPREAD DISASTER, A visit to the scene of the disaster at Cwn Caro discloses (the fact that the damage sustained vy the Innabitanis of the district is much more wide- pread than at first expected. At Contymuster, three miles below the point, most of the houses were inundated, ana along the principal roadway the Waters were several wet aeep. Many oi the inhabitants here seem to keep pigs, and most of the animais were fora time taken up in the bed- rooms abd remained with tae family. Tae metal- ling Of the roadway for @ long distance 1s clean swept away and cut up ior at least eighteen imcnes, The fine weather of Friday induced the people to be busy in cleaning the dirt from their dwelling rooms, aud babitavle. It 4 above this Village, in Craigy cooper works, that & spring burss forte wud | scoured the null side to a great depth, ‘The Inmates Of @ farmhouse at tne foot of the bul escaped ALMOST MIRACULOUSLY. ‘The house stt!l scaads, put is Milled with soli even to the apper rooms. A cart and wagon, and about flity ducks and fowls are vuried veneaw wae débris. Mr. Wiliam Jobn Basalleg had £60 worth of hay swept into the Ebbw, and other farmers bave suifered similarly. On the other side of the val- ley the r way had sank into an old cual level, the existence of which was forgotien and tho danger ignured. THE DEAD. In the course of the day five other bodies nave been recovered—Mr. Joln Hunt, el Hunt, of the factory; Witium Cari sisters, Letitia and Elizabeth Weest servants, and George Kain, an apprenti the Cuerleon Incusirial School, All the vodies, except that of John Hunt, are mucao bruised; that of kizabeth Weeks has a large wound on tne chest. Hunt was a weil developed, muscular young man, but his strength was evidently no Qvall against the force of the water. The bodies ol Mary Jones, Of the factory of Howell Davies, | and her gon, are still missing, Excavations on the site he cottage Were going on during the day, in thefainmt hope that they may have buried there, but the labor bas been fruitiess. Tae eight bodies are now lying at the Cross Keys Inn awaiting the urquest, which will be opened | by Mr. Brewer, the coroner, on Saturday. Mr. Tovey, uadertaker of Newport, has prepared the necessary coffins. A large humber of persons have Visited the scene Of the calamity, aud so; ure prise is expressed that the emburkment should | so long have withstvod the pressure of such & body ol Water. AID FOR THE SUFF¢RERS. A subscription fund will be sturted by the Lord | Mayor of Loudon tor the relief o1 the suilerers, SEVEN ACRES OF WATER SWEEPING DOWN ON A DWELLING. (Cardim (July 16) correspondence of London Te!- egraph.| The most painful incident of the inundation, which all hope may now be referred to as @ thing of the past, is the fatal incident near Ab- | ercarne, There is little with respect to this to add to the already published accounts, Numbers of visitors went from Newport and Cardif to- day thinking to behold a waste of waters, which I need oot say tbey did not, A bursting reservoir is a swift messenger of death to all who linger in the path of tne loosened torrent. | Tne itelike countepances of the dead tndicaie | that their sufferings were mercifully bries, and witnesses told me that the calamity was awfully sudden and swiftly completea. It was late on rain and darkuess, Wacther the reservol which was known to be full, was operiy r lieved of its overflow or not will be & matter for the Coroner’s inqniry, and the condition of the embankment Willaiso be @ subject o1 inves- tigation. DWELLINGS WRECKED—THE CHILDREN SWEPT AWAY. What is certain ts tuat seven acres of water Swept down tue incline with a roar and leaped the high embankment waich interposed, wreck- ing Hunt's dwelling place and sweeping his litcie ones away. The foundations of tne house were left, but notning elise. Howeil Davies’ house, with its three inmates, was utterly swept away. Two men, named Bowen and Govier, occupied cottages iM the line of the torrent, and they Dad & miracdious escape; the water surged nearly five feet in the bedrooms, and the cuildren were hastily seized and placed on cupboard shelves ior | safety, while Govier made a breach in the wall | and swum away. At the moment when the water threatened to drown the littie ones the canai em- | bankment further down the stream was carried | away, and the released waters, with a sudden, sucking Sound, sunk out of the bedroom and out of the house, leaving a set of worthless furniture and @ tuick, wuddy sediment on the floors, THE LIST OF THK DEAD at Abercarne is:—Mrs. Hunt, wife of John Hunt, of the flannel factory; John Bunt, a son, about twenty-tiree years of age; Letitia Hunt, a ‘Qter, about twenty-one ones. of age; Eliza- vetn Hunt, nineteen years of age; James Hunt, eleven years o1 age; ade Jones, fiteen years of age, a facwory worker; Eilzabeth Wicks, seventeen years Of age, # jaciory worker; George Klein, lifteen years Of age, an apprentice; Howeil Davies, a colluer; Jonn Davies, son of Howell Davies; Margaret Davies, daughter of Howeu Davies. THE RESERVOIR | wae situated in @ most picturesqne spot, in a corner formed by tree bold mountains; bur tue | scene at preseni—houses overthrown, trees and | hedges Overiarned, gardens trampled on or o0- lite i—1s painiully desolate, Up vo eight o’clock this evening SIX BODIES, not eight, as previousiy stated, had been re- | covered—numeiy, those of Jobn, Letitia, James and Mrs, Huat, the servant girl aud the ap- | preatice Kiein, OVERFLOW OF THE FROME AT BRISTOL, {From the Liverpool Post, July 16.) From ao early hour yesterday worniag the Tiver Frome, on the eastern side ol Bristel, grad- | ually overfowed ita banks, and, tirst covering the low lying meadows abutting upon it, the food reached some hundreds of houses recently built there, ana rose in the lower appariments to | @ heignt of sour or five feet, Great Ge- struction of property ensued, several of she new sireets being turned into rivers, and Communication could only be kept up with the Innaditants by means of rafis and boats, and food had tobe conveyed to the distressed people by ladders raised to the bedroom winsiows, Most of the inbabitauts are poor peuple, and some who were beuridden had to be removed in cans, the | clergy of the district undertaking this work. io | the country districts around the city much | damage has been done to the hay aud growing crops. | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE RAINFALL, (from the London Times, July 17.) | Mr. G. J. Symons, of No. 62 Camden square, N. | W., writes to us under date last nign! The rain- jouthern half | | fati of the past three days over thi | of Bugiand aod Wales bas been so remarkable, in | many cases unprecedented, and generally so dls- estrous, saat l wave no duubl accurate jorma- | tom respecting it will be acceptable. This I hav j pleasure of submitung te you tn consideral detail, a# many of my correspondents have bee: promytin reporting their observations, while other cases | have received them in repiy to t | graphic requests. It may be well, howe’ | mention that the largest amounts have been re- | ported im tae Bandwriting of tue ouservers, who are (horougnly BKilled and are employing istru- ruction, cedure be maintalne ! init Th | Hoo is tmat A. M, daily and previous day. For (he eoorm fai; of rave oecurr wes Measured Oo the morning of the 16th, bat, in accordance with the above rule, was entered to tue previous day—toat en waico It reahy fell, Be- jore proceeding to state the quantity o/ rain which Ne to state buat the batf-pnec th Lyme Ke past ive A. M.; Newport, Monmouth, five to six M.; Bath, somerset, seven A. M.; Koss, Here- ford, seven A. M.; Worcester, eigut A. M.; Uheu- Giz, @even A. M., Londen, noon. TINTREN ABBEY. extraordinary amonut of 6.31 in, of rain oo between D a P, i ded was 2.40 in. of September 6, IVY TOWER, TENBY. 1 cor i 26 in. so ten P, M. @ art which with O68 @uri makes (he total for twat day 3.4) inches, rem. tins for me to poimtonut that the remarkabie features of ta tts exe It rammed very f tall Of 4.69 in the pight of tne j4ta Ib ouly appear to be twotoid—first, 4 secona.y the fact that rms, | and conspicuous spot in Engiand’s capital. | Was could not die, , but (like bh aul type nigh bappliy thau Gye incaes iM One day are ex- THE BYRON MEMORIAL England’s National Honor to the Mem- ory of the Poet. MEETING IN LONDON. Disraeli’s Tribute to the Author of “Childe Harold.” {From the London Times, July 17.) Yesterday afternoon @ large and influenvial meeting was held at Willis’ Rooms. to consider and determine what means should be taken to found a national memorial of Lord Byron, the il- lustrious poet, Mr. Disraeli was called to the chair, and among others present were the Ear! of Malmesbury, the Earl of Lovelace, the Earl of bradford, the Earl of Rosstyn, Earl Stanbope, Lord Houghton, Lord Claud Mamuton, M. P., Vis- count Sidmouth, General Sir Wiillam Codrington, Archdeacon Trollope, Str Walter Stirling, Sir Reginald Graham, Mr. Bailie Coenrane, M. P. Colonel Gourley, M. P., Mr. Edward Treiawney, Mr, Matthew Arnol4, General James Grant Wilson, of New York, Mr. Frederick Locker, ana many other persons of note, ‘The large hail of the building was crowded to excess, MR, DISRABLI'S SPRECH, Mr. Disraeli, on rising to open the proceedings, was loudly cheered. He said:—“Lodies and Gen- slemen—{ am bappy to meet for the first time the members of the committee who have before con- sulted on the subject which will engage our atten- Uon to-day. But, before we do so, | wish to take this opportunity of attempting to draw your minds to the contempiation of the real object which we bave before us. In the twelfth year of this century ® poem was published by a young man who instantly commanded the sympatutes of the natlo! here is nO instance In literary rec- ords Of @ success so sudden and o lasting. 10 use his owo words, he “awoke oue moroimg and found himself famous.” From that time for twelve years poured ont a series of complete inventions, which are not equalied for their number and their consistency of purpose in the literature of any country, an- cient or modern, (Cheers.) Admirable for many qualities, for their picvuresqueness, their wit, their passion—they are most disu guished by their power of expression and by the sublime energy of their imagination. (Cheers.) And theo, alter these twelve years, he died, He aied, | say, iu the fulness of bis fame, having en- Joyed in his lifetime @ degree of celebrity which has never fallea to the lot of any other literary mMan—not only admired in his own country, but reverenced and ador in Europe, (Caeers.) How is it, then, that, alter balf a century has od, wi met here forthe Orst Cre in pub- reason for (his Strange eter of this p paviic ove, Wh nee private cuaracter 1s ol enlus. (Chcers.) ch may be said tuat it was and thas of it litle ts riy known; and there is no man in this room—aye, I would say even in this coun'ry—tbat upon that subject can presume to give @ definite and precise opinion. (Loud cneers.) But theu it Was said, as another ex- cuse, that 618 works were deficient io morality, and that he tudulgea im too frequent pecuiations On tuose subjects which the bumad mind can mever penetrate, but which it 1s orgamically Jormed to reverence. And yet it must be remembered that he was born in an age of contracted sympatuies and re- s ricted thought, and that muon which he then questioned bas since been surrendered. (Cheers.) it he fell, which he undounvtediy did, into many erroneous conclusions upon divine sudjects it May be urged jor him that be was very young, I | rememoer once Lord Lyndhurst discussiag the character and ca:eer of Mr. Canning, and then asking some one who Was present What Was tne precise age at Which Mr. Canaing died. He was void that ne died at the age of fifty-six. “Wuat,’’ said Lord Lyndaurst, then advanced in lite, but yet in the faluess of bis complete capacity, “only fity-six? Woy, Wasa mere voy.” (A laugu.) | Bat we must re that wheo Byron died | be was twenty years younger than Mr. Canning, aud ib apy syeculations upon hia character and | I say that we @ ie OL One Who, like those | ods love, died young. (Uneers.) Dur- | ifty years that have e! nd dur ing these D ing which nO public meeting bas ever been called to recoguize Dis meriis, @ chorus of | poetasters have unceasingly worked to decry bis | abilities id ltimately even todeny nis gewius. | (Cheer: No one Who bas traveiied im Greece | Can ever question for a mo: (the piace 0: Byron | a8 & poet Of we nighest class. Md hig mind on that country mor who has existed since Homer, is DOL 4 Cape, @ Promontory, oF # COluwmu that be bas not touche: sweetness of nis song. Italian residence, you wiil find that timiy was bo him @ source Of scarcely inferior inspiration. But the last snd greatest of bis works @oes not de- | pend upon local interest. It will remain, as it is how recognized, @D ubexawpied picture of buman nature and a triumphant edort of the En; tongue. (Cheers.) We are met here, theu, Gay at last to do some justice to one of the xi est of England’s sons, (Cheers.) Wnat (orm your jeelings should Lake it will be for you to decide, You know, and you will know more as trese ings Continue, what has been attempted, tedly apoiogize for not paving takea any part im the previous proceedings. My ile is w busy and ao urgent one, and! couldonly lend to the committee (Cheers.) But when isawin the movemeus fr specting & tablet that it was Sanctioned by the (sogate and the agtive tuterposition of one who ad the nearest and proudest ciaim to interpose in such & vusiness—I mean the son-in-law of Lord Byron (cheers), who more than forty years ago Was my companion in that Alvania which Byron celevrated—t feit that It was under the infuence of indly and able counsels, For myself, taough LTpresime not to dictate to this assembly what form their feelings should (Loud cheers.) BAKL STANUOPE’S SPEECH. language,” Earl Stanhope, upon whom the Chairman called, ve Said that In moving the resvlution which m placed in his hands he was sure be ony ed the unanimous feelings ol every ove prea ent when he said that they were extremely grate- fal to tue Prime Minister for having so kindly joined them upon that most mteresting occasion, fiat he showd bave withdrawa bimsell for » brief ‘val [rom the anxious cares Of Sta! oe 5 of Commons was in itse!f no sight tribute to the genius of Byron, though no less a tribute coud have been expected irom the brilliant author of “Venetia.” (Oheers,) The resolution which Was asked to submit é meeting ran thus: ‘That an appeal be made to the public for funds to assist ih carrying out the proposal of the Byron Memorial Committee to erect a siatue to the memory of tie post im some conspicuou: ein the Wetropolis. ineved that proposition would express the of tiem all,and that they migut 4 details to the judgment ana of the committee, in the hope, a Nettously said, t pviore jong ‘a semoiance of that great spirit’ might be seeu in some ge @ hoped they would be unanimous in tvat proposal. The Orst idea, which had now been withdrawn, fund for toe erection of a national memorii the poet in Hucknall Torkard churen, where he jay buried. He thought that is had not been suMficiently borne in mind that there *iready 00d & e 4 in that church & monument to Lord by- r erected by the Hon, Mrs. Leign, his 1 " and he believed he was right in Saying that no two Monuments to the same person ever juuad place in the same church. Kesides, no monu- menos id @ remove aud smal village church could ve Bipropriately described as Da- | tional memorial of the poet. (Cheers.) Taey desired that @ statae of Lord Byron sbould be raised in some conspicuous place in the metropolis to arrest the attention and excite the reverence of all who passed by, and such a memo- rial would, he thought, be tne best suiied to t object they had in view. In Byrun’s own words, in “The Giaour,” it migot be said herealter— There points thy Muse to stranger's eye ‘Tue graves of those that cannot die! ) Though the grave contained ali thas (t of the noole poet, his was a tame teat ud eeding ages would ouly add and increase it. He true ie chairman would pardon nim if he expressed bope that Her Majesty's governinent would a the very the metropolis for the Byron Memo- (Cheers.) It was, be added, not meant by those proceedings to aeny that the character of Byron bad many faults, and that his poems cou- tained many blemishes, but after the lapse of 80 Many years tose blemisles ana faults receded to the far distance, leaving only bis virtuer and bis merits conspicuous. (Cheers) He had great picasure tn moving the resolution. MR. G. A, SALA’S SPERCH, Mr. G. A. Sala 8: pad no desire to take up valua time, or by maltiplying words to darkeo Counsel. but ba wiahad 8 Pricey 23 Dussinle Lo | tue wriuings or otuer atierances @i nen past mid- | ale age we can reauily t.ace how much they ha | been affected by what they bave read before With tue fire of sacTusea with the | tley Were five-ana-twenty, and how little Ii you follow mim to nis | What i | aitference or distate, the depth of my srmpathy. | dirom | bis arduous and continuous jabors in the House | Mr. Disraetife- vinaieate the adoption by the committee u they had pow cheerfully abandoned. gory the commirtee g Ad vout or the ‘orid fs classes, bat be mite tou ye list the names of some dignified clergymen of tne Church of Eugiand, and those names acem to him a a) ee testimony of eee Cre poy nk pee of that indo end ry which consigned to oblivion the faults and irailties m4 only their genius and ik eg CE er ‘Pre committee sins posed to lay dow marble siub in thy ‘arch over the tomb, with tne word “Byron”? on 1, to indicate lace to tI pilgrims who weuid visic thi te ere was D the slightest intention on their part, as had b seid, to put up a Rew tomb witn a pompous Tiption uvon it, He added that Lord stannepe haa fallen into an error, for tn Stratford there were two wre ee Shak par me thin, done to preserve (he tomb at Harrow called “Byron's tomo.’ ‘The Earl of Malmesbury briefly moved @ vote of thanks to Mr. Disraeli tor presiding. SPEBCH BY BYRON’S SON-IN-LAW. Tne Earl of Loveiace (Lord Syron’é son-tn- law), Who Was indistinctly heard, said, in second. ing the resolution, he could not fnd words to ex- press the deep gratification with which he had uusvened to all that bad ocourred that day. his great iriend and comtemporary Sir Walte: Scott nad accompiishea fer tie Highlands and Lowlands of Scotiand by that descriptive i tlon which he had diffused throughous bis writings, tue author of “Childe Haro!d,” by bia inspired poetry, by energies and vy the prem: ture Sacrifice of life, nad effected for the moi Ciassic lands of the south, He had invested with an additional charm that Greek and Roman story in which many there that day Were couversunt, hut only by ois oriliiant versification, but oy his spirited allusions to generations of men long xone by. The fire, spirit amd iufuence which he breathed Into the two nations of the Peninsula, ul tiy read, ana only understood by Meuns of inadequate transiations, ne was ielt by the people to be oue o! mselves, both in heart and aspiration. Where thi ngio-Saxon tongue was spoken—in England’s colonies and depoodencies and in the Nor'h American Siates— his works and writings were aimost popular as in his own na! Lor felt that toe success of the scheme which nad been adopted by the meeting Was insured in @ great measure by tle presence of the Prime Minister. He, like Lord Byron, owed his success ro literature; and while buth were memabers of tne Legislature, tae one devoted himself exclusively to the muses from which they derived s0 much of their enjoy- mentand charm, and the other had caused the rising generation to forget the author tno ft! Statesman. (Cheers.) He was confident that tho sympathy shown tn that room woald be more thao responded 10 by the public out of doors, and that the result would not only be gratifylog to the family and relations of Lora Byron and commea- surate With the objects the meeting had in view, but worthy of the country which had produced the poet and which still caerished the creations of bis genius, (Cheers.) The Vote of thanks to the chairman was carried With enthasiasm, and Mr. Disraen, in reply, said he thanked them {for the great honor they bad done nim, AID FROM AMERICA AND FROM GREECB. General J, Grant Wilson, of New York, whom the Cilairman introduced to tue meeuing, said be and his countrymen claimed a share in Byron, | fod, therelore, @ rignt to contribute very consid~ erably toward tue expenses of the proposed statue, He wag told tie memorial would cost £2,000, but, Whatever it was, he pledged his f low countrymen to subscribe one-quarter of the amount. (Uheers,) M. Neooles G. Mussabint, a Greek, expressed the interest he took in the scheme, and mentionea that the Greeks, under the leaaersiiip of M. Trt- coupl, the Prime Minister, had subscribed £800 toward the erection of a staiae of Lord Byron at Missolongnt. Mr. Disraeli announced that subscriptions might be paid in to Messrs. Drummonds to toe credit oi the Byron Memorial Fund. With that the proc which bad bees very eninusiastic, cade Ww @ close. COMMENT BY THE PRESS. {From the London Times, July 17.) Mr. Disraeli has found time, at the busiest period of the session, to take the chair at a meet- ing cailedto devise @ national memorial o/ Lord Byron. The occasion was inspiriting, the audi- ence was large ana sympathetic, the speaker had @ natural inclination to bis subject, ana the speech was animated and effective. Mr. Disraeli grew up to manhood during the full blaze of that marvel- lous reputation which now, after a lapse of fity years, still adects bt& imagination, As a clever boy he must have read toe most famous works of the poet as they came forth irom the press; mast remember the astonishment of the world at the third and fourth cantos of niide Harold,” the storm of criticism raised by “von Juan,” the pitter discussions relative to the poet’s domestic affairs, whi ere as much talked about as the pattie or W. He had felt tue thrill whick Byron's cull to sae liberation of Greece sent tnrough Euro- | pean society, and, like the rest of bis coutempo- , be mourned over the poet's untimely One oi Mr. Disraeli’s early novels con- ideal portrait of hin Whe was the hero of taat generation, and the ech of yesterday bears Witness that 015 admiration bas mot veca diminisied by time. ludecd, the literary attach- ments of youth are almost always abiding. In by eeu sudsequeamtiy produced. A: a certain period they cease to receive mew in- Mueuces in general jiteravure. If they are men 8 of business, they bardiy read @t ali; ti they are | drawo to some intellectual pursuit, they attach tvuemselves more and more closely to it, sinking deeper into their groove year by year, until they come to regard tne new literary types with in- | By virtue of this tenaency as Wellas nis own mental qualities, Mr. Disraeli | 1s especially Ntted to stand fortn as the represent- ative of Byron, We knew, as, indeed, we shonid | guess from bis Character, wnat he is an entnu- Kisstic AGmirer Of tho poet, and we find, what is equaily inveligibie, tnat ne has not been moved to much sympathy wi gg writers of ve who = bave ® reputation | 10 our own time. raell belongs to the old generation; bus though | this May, ID the Opiaioa of some, disqualiiy tim | for sitting 19 Judgment on men who were unborn | when he took delignt in a new volume of poems, | 1tonly makes him the more fit to be the exponent | of Byron's claims, since be cam bear persoual wit- ness to the ascendency which the poes exercised ever his Contemporaries and the influence: Which be transmitted to younger mea, The proposal which now huds favor is to erect a atatne of Lord Byron Londen by public sun- @ natio: Memoriai. It was origt- d Le pluce a monument over lisgrave or Ip the church Waere be was buried; but objec tions tO this project were entertained by some members of the poet's family, also by of bis admirers, ‘wno thought | Wishes on the sub- recorded Ht and monuments should be | respected. Tue present design is satisiaccory to | | Byron's ae. we may judge from the pres- ence of Lord Lovelace at the meeting. The pud- | lic, we think, will be equally gratified by tne | change, * © We have now only to judge ther we will Support a proposal to honor tue Minent poe cic genius which this country h | Produced during she present or the preceding cen- | | tary, That this rank will be conceded te Byron can | now hardly ve a matter of doubt. | | which 80 often fol) x and which the pecullar character of Byron's poetry terded to euuauce, has done its worst and | jug AWAY. Successive barus have been ex- | Ve Bis (hroue by critics and their cove. | versified philosepay of Wordsworth Lore | eWay Up to 4 lew years since, and now we bave | | equal laudations of sometning which one would | | Mever kuow to be vers | printed tn lino | the beginning fach—sometsing aucow | aed — ovscure, without | melody, chor M ‘have u abilities, and | | g ” Bat the work Dad on tweir first w ne broad popue | larity which \oe most certain indioation of | | permanent Jame; and it is remarkavle toat in | Americh Byron is stili more tn the ascoudant. If | @ certain nollowness or thinness of id whiten betrays lise f 1th aod Vigor of diction unsurpast poet, by pussion, te: | cn thout waica ail ovners are a OXquisite verification, eivod when it hatlea bim as the “greatest living poet’ by @ spontaneous | homage more thi Wx'y years ago, and we are | DOW asked Co give this celebrity @ material form, HIS DELIGHT IN HUMAN PRERDOM, (From the London News, July 17.) Mr, Matinew Arnoid, in a poem of deep feeling, has described Heine as 4 living embodiment of the ironical smile of the Zeit the time. Byron was in the #: wi Davion Of Its passionate delight in ire: ancient liberty ol Greece ual ke ith whien d at the comprom is OWN age of Shaky ret deca sincere and eloquent passion when tarned im thought to the memory of the old republics, “Parough hi Lord Lovelace traly said, through the fire and energy of his appeal to the natives of the two peninsulas have those nations, after long centuries of oppres The world was not S! 810n and suD)ection, emerged into that ireedo! and regained that liverty of watch was the precursor ainong them.” , This was % Tactical result of Byron’s work, and tnia rel almost the jast side of nia influence to strike Engiana. Byron's powersul appeal ta Of that romania achool of Ute | the case Was adjoar: | bighshire, one of the a im way Which fostered tne movement thatla spired 2H In Greece Byron's pracuca! tadu, by the erection minds of Greeks efforts to r yes of Buglisnmen, Byron seemed the vaigar Don Juan of bi hers 10 Moore. Unlike the pot ol ‘Tennyson, he did not give us of bi of all that was in him $0 give, His revolt again society, his disbelief, his reckiessness and bitte neas have been $00 well remembered, wittle the essenoe of his poetic gent cry individuality and strength Dave been forgotten after the Orst Ausa Of bis popularity passed away. TO ! made to him—to gi Lhe poet a piace in Poets Corner; and rememoe' ing the seandaious circumsta vce of Thorwalisen’s aiue of Byrou lying for years in a ng case at the Custom House until shelter w: ‘at law? found tor it in & eollege at Camoridge. tt would certainly ve wiser to allow these melancholy fomes to be bygones indeed. A modern Dean may be more liberal, & modern capitular body more tolerant, than ti¢ir predecessors of hall & century since; Lut, sceing that we have Dub yeb quite made up our minds as to whether Over Cromwell sbail bi ® statue in Westminster Hall, the time mi ot yet be fully ripe to de- mand that George Lord Byron should have’ a Statue in Westminster Avbey, What tue true ad- vocates of the Memortal snould wisn for i» “Peace,” that peace which the poet 80 pas- BionaL rhed for, but which be never found ide of the grave, No one can quarrel jue set up in one of London's iy jt calef places; and iew will cavil at the splenu- did recognition of enius of an iiustrious Englishman wateh yesterday’s meeting has vir- tually secured. ARB H13 CENSORS FREB FROM STAIN? {From the Loodon Sandard, July 17.) Charges of immorality have been treely au- vanced against Byron, abd even against Byron's writings. Butitill vecomes the present age to reas whis reproach, Tue novels of our circu- ating libraries contain much more perilous stul tuan the reprehensiole passages, and those pas- ges are Lut few, la Byron’s works. But tt is quite certain that every educated person, of either sex, reads Byron’s poems at some time of life, and all the appreciative retain @ tasting im- ression of them. li every Mnglishman or Ehgianwoman who has felt the charm of his genius were to contwibute but @ mite, to hia Monument, it would exceed in grandeur that ever erected to mortal, Thus, While we trust that the opulent will not withhold such contribu. tions as become them, wo likewise hope that no one will think iself too bamble or too poor in means to participate in the subscription wiics has been opened fer the purpose. An American gentleman who addressed a few words to the maceting ventured to affirm that his countrymen would gladly co-operate With us in this nebie iask, Their co-operation wilt be st Welcome, am We only trust that while they generously compete with us they nos pass us in she race. it would be a Gisgrace to this country i It cowid be Said that the eutousiasm which Byron’s memory fatled to cited om the other side of the Atlantic. The grateful Greeks have Taised # handsome sum only very recently Jor the Same pious object, and we believe taat a moou- ment to Byron 1s to be erected at Venice by tifose Italians Wao remember that be was arvent ta their cause even im the deepest night of their de- jection. It is Byron’® own couatry, Byron’s ows countrymen who alone have nitherto bed back. We are couvinced that their inaction sprini from no indifference on their part, but simply from the want oJ ieaders and for want of the sub- ject being brought distinctly to their notice, That excuse no longer exisia, ‘The committee could wish for no better name to conjure with t teat of Byron and no magician to wield the wand moré skilial than Mr. Disraeli. BLUNDERING ENGLISH MAGISTRATES, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN IMPRISONED IN ENG- LAND—AN ACTION AT LAW AND HEAVY DAMAGES IN REDRESS. {From tne Liverpool Mercury, July 15.) The case of Ors Foulkes and others wat heard to-day before a special jury. Messrs. G'fard, Q. C., and Swetenham appeared for the plaintiff, and Messrs, Mcintyre, Q. C., and Higgins for the defendants, This was an action brought to recover damages for wrongfui tm- prisonment. The plaintiff, Mr, Jacob Day Otis, 1 @ citizen of the United States, and the defencants are Mr. J. H. Foulkes and Captain Griffiths, Justices of the peace for Denbighshire, and Mr: Bradshaw, aeputy constable of the same county, It appeared that the plaintiff! was formerly a part- nerin tne firm of Messrs, Le Grave & Co., New York, @ house in the silk trage, but ceased to be a principal and afterward occupied the position of buyer to the firm. In April, 1872, ne obtained payment of salary and commission due, with the devermination of coming over to England. He left New York in May, in company with Mr. Le Grave, and sailed to Londonderry in the Ailao steamship Nestorian, On arrival there they were met upom the tenger by @ Mr. Fraser, wio w connected with the firm of Me: McDonald & o., of New York, with which bot Mr. Le Grave nad done dDusiuéss; aod tis Mr. Fraser intimated that he bad a charge of fraud to prefer against bia, The piaintif went to Dubite and the south of Ireland. and afterward to Great Malvern, waere he was injormed bis uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs, Mulligan, resided. On arrival at Malvern, ne wae told tuat the Biuliigane were lodgimg at Kossett, Denbighsuire, He went to that piace, and was arrested om the same night by Mr. Bradshaw, who confronted fit with a Mr. Cameron, whom he had known in New York, aud wo also locked him up in Wrexnam without making @ charge against him, The plaintit was brought ap next morning beiore Mr. Foulkes and Captain Griffichs on the cuarge of absconéing from New York wita prop- erty vaiued at £4,000 formerly velouging to Mr. Le Grave, Who was alleged to bea dank- rupt, in bis possession, The object of vring- jog the plainuid up was suid to be the igitiauion of preceedings under tne extradiuon treaty. A’ter a remand of eight days Mr. Sweten- ham, who appeared jor the plaintid, urged that there Was mo extradition treaty between ihe two countries for such an offence, and the plainud was discharged. His luggage Was still detained, and he Was s»on aiterward reapprenended on & Warrant, which Was granted on the applicauoa of Mr. Pugh, tne solieitor to the prosecution, for an offence said to be committed iu this country, but which turned out to be on & charge of fraud within the jurisdiction o1 the Cours of coger hy ey] Tue the purpose o' Henry at Bow street extradition to the United States; out alter bein: vences. Posing Mane beiore Sir Thom: jourt, im order to bia detained at the Bow street police. station anti evening, Mr, Bradshaw came to him, said ne (Brads! ) bad been his trend, and conducted Lim to @ carriage, in which all luggage was acked, and tuid bim to go to the Salutation ovel, Westminster, as there would be no charge preierrea against him the morning. The plain? went to the police court, next morning, and was tola that he was iberty, and there would ve no farther charge against nim, In bis cross-exXamination the plaintiff denied positively that he optained goods to the value 01 £00 om account of the firm o/ Messrs, Le Grave & Co., knowing it Was luso.vent, or that oe knew now Messrs, Le Grave’s stock liad been dis- posed of. His bip pointed out that it was clearly a mistake On the part of tue defence to cro: amine the plainsi@ in the way they were, an 0 toat if he was iu the position of tue gentiem«n ve would apologize instead, Tue turtuer heariug of A VERDIOT YOR THE PLAINTIFF. For the defeuce in case ol Ous Foulkes apd ovlers, Waieh was partially heard oa Tues. day, Mr. Mradshaw, deputy chief constable of Den- endants, Was examined, He said he arrested the complainant at the insti gaven of Mr, Cameron, When the plaintid was brought up before Mr, Foulkes and Captain Grif. fths (the otner deiendauts), om the secona oo casion, & letter trom the American Consul at Bel- fast was read, Tue letier asked (hat the prisoner sidered Bow street, the piaintiil was disom had received nv imdemaity, but £20 was bim jor expenses. In cross-examination iat ivea wo Bis Wil- oun was mot discharged tho ken to London, aud that tho instance of Mr. Young, of , Roberts aad Jones, so- licitors, St, Mildred’s court, Londou. the dra of ‘Toe solicitor i jence here handed a docu- lites Lerasnip supp! had made previously coudemnatory of the prac ented some remarks he 4 nia, Uniorvunately you may uot know it in Wales, DUE there Das been ny fatification Oo nas treaty of 1870." Sir Phomus alse said that oe state t pected ti sorry for tue magistraces ia Wales (laugnier), that (he joatter bad been veiore the Home Jy aud the Uniteu states Minisver. Judge said @ verdict for ti plaintif waa table irom the drat, The magistrates had any bute Pedy mete yh ‘but they de Mistake. They should bave beea ated with the law ol the extradition treaty, could not understand their mixing thet- ainerican 6 for bim io y that there were persona benina the ofendants endeavoring to blacken the plaintifs over, DUS 1% was for tle jury to say Wheinet the course the deiendants had pursued had not aggravated the Se Werk wrong by going inte mut ters whion bad no Dearing apon the case, | tually @ verdict w: £400 A against and £50 awaioat Mt, Bradapaw,