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JAPAN. Attempt to Make the Government Sub- servient to English Interests. BRITISH TAOTIOS. How the Japanese Designate For- eign Kings and Queens. SIR HARRY PARKES PROTESTS. Tokio, Jeddo, Oct, 2, 1875. A fine httle diplomatic flurry has just been created here by the exposure of an attempt, on rather a broader scale than usual, to make the Japanese gov- trument, as wellasan influential class of the ‘peopte, buce more subservient to the peremptory will of the British Minister. That these attempts are so frequent in their occurrence as to be almost uninterrupted, is fact well known to all foreign residents, That they are pften, if not generally, successful, is also too well Known to require particule demonstration, They are not always brought to light, for the reason that Eng. lishmen who become officially acquainted with them feel, in the rst place, thas they are not very credit- able to the fame of their Legation, and that if they should gain any wide notoriety the reaction, even in England itself, against the system of interference thay prevails would be swift and serious; and, again, the Japanese and their few outside supporters are some. what ashamed of the ready pliancy with which the high-handed demands of Sir Harry Parkes are acceded to. On both sides there are motives for silence. It is petting to be very generally understood that if the British Envoy’s methods of dealing were \horoughly laid open, his habits of persona violence, his fist-shakings in the presence of the highest native dignitaries, his intemperate Yhreats of armed occupation of the public highways, his persistent refusals to abide by tho established usages of diplomatic intercourse, and the like, uot only his own position would be shaken, but the influence of his country would be imperilied. On the other hand, 4t has to be admitted that the failure of the Japanese to confront him boldly, and hold him to strict account for his outrages, places them ina not very dignified light. They know well enough that the time for timorous weakness has long gone by, but they cannot get OUT OF THE OLD GROOVE of unresisting compliance. Many a full grown man has tonfessed to a sense of uncomfortable awe on eneoun- tering the schoolmaster who thrashed him when a boy; and the Japanese, though in many respects emanci- pated from the foreign thraldom of ten years ago, still appear incapable of asserting their independence with downright resolation. Possibly they feel that it would only be a half-way business to make a stand now while, in some of their unquestionable rights’ they are so fettered by unjust treaties that they cannot positively declare themselves a truly free ation. At any rate, such is the fact. The only thing approaching a policy of resistance that they attempt is a species of Fabian opposition, in which, on the whole, they are rather successful, By certain devices of skil- ful retreat, they often bring their co-operating ene- mies into a position so utterly and shamefully talse that they are forced to abandon it of their own accord But this is not the frank and bold treatment of affairs Yhat Japan ought to adopt, and which she might well adopt with the certainty of instantly winning the ap- proval of every one of the foreign governments which bow remain in ignorance of the secret dealings of their representatives, ENGLISH TACTICS, Occasionally it happeus, however, that some English- man’s sense of justice revolts too utterly at what is go- ing on, and a revelation flashes out that sets the rommunity in a flutter. The present instance a case in point. It became known within % certain ‘circle that the British Minister had been exercising pressure upon the government to se- | sure the issue of an order requiring a particular title to be applied to all European monarchs. In point of fact, Le did succeed in his attempt, The various public offi- cials and the newspapers as well were notified that they | must use one term and only one iu speaking of eover- tigns of other powers. There was no question of pro- priety, justice or reason in the measure. It wag done | xclusively at the demand of Sir Harry Parkes. The panese government knew that they were wrong in doing i. They knew also that they were making them- selves ridiculous. What is still more they believed to 4 man, as does every impartial observer here, that Sir Harry Parkes knew that be likewise was wrong in every step of the transaction and that he acted only upon his Varying principle of constant agitation without cause In order to keep the power of England, as wielded by Lis restless hand, perpetually before the eyes of the Japanese rulers That is his theory. He thinks that if the pressure is relaxed for a moment his grasp will be loosened forever. Whether there is any | reasouing by which his present action can be sustained Teaders ata distance may determine for themselves. The Japanese Emperor in official usage is kaown by tho title of Ko Tei, two words the exact signification of which is difficult to be conveyed in English, but in re- spect to which it is only necessary to say that it is rather simple than otherwise, and is certainly far less fantastic than many of the names applied to European rulers, The uame is of Chinese origin, and the char- acters used in writing it are identical with those which designate the Chinese Emperor, though they are dif- ferently spoken. [t is understood by all educated Japanese to be title specially applicable by custom | ‘nd preceaent to the sovereign of this country, pre- cisely a8 Queen is applied in England, Emperor | tn Brazil, Kaiser in Germany and so following. It has bo signification, and cannot possibly have any, beyond the limits of the land in which dwells the monarch to whom it is given, In making reference to rulers of oluer countries, it has always been the custom to | employ words which us nearly as possible convey the | meaning of the original. For example, the literal word for “King” is “0,’? as any Japanese dictionary will thow. It happens, however, that gender does not exist in the Japanese language, and, iu order to be as precise as possible, Whenever it has become necessary jo speak of tho female sovereign of any country in which the male ruler would be called “King,” the words “nv 0,” bave been used, which mean, absolutely and exactly, “female kiog.” Sir Harry Parkes, scenting the: air | with bis customary avidity, smelt blood in this. He at | duce protestea. And upon what ground do you sup- | | you cannot force us to return to siavery, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. it pretty well to himself, notwithstanding the unex- pected exposure by one of Lis countrymen; but if he does send it forth into space it is alinost too certain to resolve itself into a boomerang aud come whirling back With @ directness that even his practised agility cannot evade. It is not precisely the Japanese form or princi- ple of self-destruction, but it may nevertheless take its place in diplomatic history as Parkes’ hari kari. It will be interesting to you to know that certain let- ters from the correspondent of the Hmratp in St. Petersburg, dated May 26 and June 29, have bee ed and republished by the newspapers of this cit y intelligent discussions, 'b especially relates to the recent rela- ussia and Japan, is spoken of with purticular jon, although the views upon the single point respecting the strategical value of the La Perouse Straits are disputed by writers who ussert that they speak from personal observation, The matter is sug- gestive from the circumstance that an article written in the capital of Russia and published in New York should thus become the theme of debate in the press of the cupital of Japan. THE BARBAROUS TURK. TEXT OF THE INSURGENT MEMORANDUM HANDED TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMIT- TEE—A TOUCHING APPEAL TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD—HORRORS OF ISLAMISM. ‘The Herzegovinian insurgents bave mace known their griefs against the Turkish government from Met- kovitch in a memorandum submitted to the Inter. national Commission. It is a significant document and reads as follows :— Hoxoxanty Rerresentatives or Evrore:— For four centuries the Christians of the Herzegovina, the miserable pitiable rayabs, bave been plunged into mourning and alflictiou. Unable to louger endure the barbarism, the rod of the persecutor, the violence, the Turkish system of oppression, the rayahs have this year risen in revolt in order to prove that, in this nine- teenth contury, and in the face of enlightenment and civilization in burous ‘turk to garrove the unfortunate Sclave popula- tion of Herzegovina, and continue to keep it in | ignorance, Gentlemen, we understand that the great | Powers have sent you to give an account of our condi- tion and of the motive which bas led us to take up arms, These, then, are the true reasons :— 1 To commence ‘with the aya (jandiord). The un- fortunate sinall farmer who takes ® piece of land to cultivate is compelled to give atleast one-bast of all proceeds to the aga. If the aga comes to visit the farmer, which happens three or four umes a year, he brings all Lis relatives, and the farmer has either to keep the aga, his friends, their horses, or be beaten and thrown into prison. 2 In the Turkish empire they only demand a tenth, but the farmers concert with the State oificials in or- der to exuct from the peasant ten times more than is prescribed by law, The rayabs must pay; if they complain they are held to account in the courts. %& The rayabs are bound also to pay customs duties, the personal and foncier dutes and military tax. 4. From our earliest recollections the system of counting cattle has been infamous. Turks do the counting; they excuse their co-religionisis, but they count thirty against 4 poor Christian when he bas but ten, inorder that the Christians may furnish the whole tax tothe aga lor the district, Before whom shall the Christians complain’ A Turkish justice? 6. If a Christian brings a Turk imto court, or ifthe Christian is broagat into court by a Turk, the Chris- tian loses his case unless he has two Turkish witnesses, and in any case he is nearly sure to be put in prison. 6 The Turks employ violence to overcome our wives and daughters and force them to accept the doctrines of Islamism, 7. If a Christian has the mis‘ortune to win a case made the subject of Jum tions of That days, e'rhe ‘Turks bold in contempt our priests, our and abuse them publicly, 9%, We pay taxes to the Sultan and support the nume- Tous officials placed among us; but in return we are not given any education, We have uo schouls, and if any one among us were to ask for them, he would be cast mto prison and pay for his audacity with his head. 10. In case of acurvée, the rayah is compelled to ab- gent himself five or six’ days’ distance irom his house, and to work without food or pay tor eight days, The ‘Turks, on the coutrary, are exonerated. 11. If horses are needed for transporting the families and, goods of Turkish troops, the zaptris or gendarmes swarm the villages, seize men abd horses and take them off on journeys lasting fifteen or twenty days without paying them either in goods or money. 12 How could we obtuin full justice trom Tur- kisn tribunals while they are cotuposed of a large majority of Turks, with only two Christians amoug the death warrants of the most honest Curistians, 13. If a Christian is requested to lend his horse aud himself to the goverument cuse that his work will not Permit him to go away, or that he has sickness in comes immediately, beats him, often leaving bim haif dead and often maltreating him go badly that death speedily ensues, 14, Ita Turk makes a complaint before a court for debt the judgment is soon rendered, Ifa Christian mukes a complaint, on the other hand, and commences | could buy the judge’s decision tor ten times the value of the claim for which he sues, 15. No security under the Turkish government. 16. Ifthe aga comes to gee you, he continues to curse and blaspheme the cross, saints, altar and eburch. 17. When the Turks give themsgives to acts of vio- lence they know no moderation. For instance, Ismail- ‘Aga-Saharicz, who is a judge at Stolatz, recently com- pelle the rayahs to drain the Lake of Kuzat tor him, je made a report to the effect that the rayahs were at work on the public highways and never gave 4 cent to the laborers. But not he alone—all the Turks do the sume. 18. The Turkish government exhibits no fairness; their employés receive poor pay, aud necessity impels them to all kinds of iilegal acts and violence 19. The Turks should no longer possess the power to illegally condemn the rayahs. The cases are conducted in the Turkish language, which the rayahs do not un- derstand, and the Turks act and decide according to their good pleasure. | 19. A large swamp near Varda-Glavica and Glavica- | Kozarica belonged to the peasants of these districts. They dramed it, then cultivated it, Down came the | Turks—Mui-Aga-Ménémetbasic, Maula-al Mehemet- Dasie, Agi-Aga-Méhémetbasic, Derwish-Aga-Grebo, Agi- Beg-Besanic, Memis-Aga-Ciber and Mébemet-Uskoviteh, and took tt trom thea, They had sown the whole ol this land, about 1,000 acres, Gentlemen, Europe bas accomplished many revolu- tions betore now, She has precipitated kings tro their thrones, and princes -and emperors, animated With noble and Christian sentiment, and yet to this day, in this century of boasted civilization, you hold the barbarous Turk in bigh esteem, Gentlemen, we cannot and will not longer endure the Turkish lash. We are men, not beasts, If you cannot bring us relief What we Want is liberty, true, tu!l and permanent, Alive we shail never fall again into the hands of the Turks. Merkovitcn, Sept, 13, 1875, COMMODORE GOODENOUGH. LETTER FROM MR. PERRY GIVING AN ACCOUNT oF THE MURDER, The Birmingham Daily Post of October 18 publishes a letter from Mr. Perry, the secretary to Commoaore Goodenough, giving some additional details of the set Why, upon we ground that he would not suffer er Majesty of Gred® Britain and Ireland to be described | oy any other name than that bestowed upon the Em | peror of Japan—to wit, Ko Tei, He demanded that tho official who was responsible for the use of the other words iu & particular translation should be forced to apologize and acknowledge that he had committed an | oifence, The ustounded clerk declared, in the strongest | Manner, his iunocence of any such intention, and en- | deavored to show that he had used the only term prop- erly at bis command. This was contumacy, according to the view of the British Legation, and a new demand was put forward that the recalcitrant clerk s be fegraded and dismissed from his position. 1 to way that the government yielded. The official was re ved because he called a queen @ queen instead of ving her the tite which belongs to the sovereigu of his own country, Now, in more recent days of expanding Japanese journalism, it has again seemed natural and proper to puble writers to call the sovereigns of Europe what they actually are, and, probably not knowing of the fate of the unlucky translator, they went on speaking of kings ag kings and queens a8 queens uatil somebody wid Sir Harry of it. Of course the Briush Minister was up in arms tga. He dushed to | Foren Ottice as before, and this time | juired that the whole press of the nation should be nade subject to his arbitrary will, And it was done. Che jouruals were all instructed that for the future Ko Tei and nothing else must be used to designate ail | monarchs. In addition to this the following notitica- lion was circulated throughout the official classes of the Empire:— “fhe titles of the sovereigns of the countries allied tu Japan are ditereut in the original languages, but hereby establisued as a rule that in official docu- ments in Japanese they shall ail be styled Ko Tei, irre- | tive ol what the title may bein the original, In | case, however, of Republics, such az America, Franee or Peru, the term Dai To Kio sould be used,”? Now, let us see what Sir Harry Parkes has done. He has brought about precisely the anomaly that would be produced if @ powerful Miniter in Russia had succeeded sn compelling the application of “Czar” to all the sove- feigns of Europe; or, in the Ottoman domimions, of | Sultan or ite exact Turkist equivaieut. Fancy anybody | rulling the ruler of Engiand, setting aside the question of sex, which makes it even wore ridiculous, a Sultan | or @ Czar or a Kaiser or even an Emperor. There is NO LIMIT TO THE AMsUKDITIES involved. The Shah of Persia, 4 beleve, insists on ways being addressed by a ion Witles, one of which is “Elder Browuer of the Vianet jatur Imagine the emotions of an honest Briton at searing his well-beluved sovereign spoken of ax an elder mother or sister of that ringed wud belted jamiuary’ The ad absurdum is what Mr. Dieraei would call ‘vast and violent,’ but it ig strictly logical, If the ihing je right and judicious in Japan it cannot \ Wrong and preposterous in any country wih England holds relations, Sir Harry has certain\y jablished a precedent, No one will dispute its orig ty. It is his own creation, and, in fact, uo pers: familiar with the Kast would fora moment doubt its wigin, It ts too like its father, But as au act of state: wat itis likely to stand alone, It will represent a tow aud hitherto unknown fact in politics, a precedent which leads the way to nothing, and only shows “how hot to do in” Ih \@ possible shat Sit Harry may yet contrive to keep ig list of supplementary lamentable incident at Santa Cruz which resulted in the death of the Commodore and two of hiscrew. Mr, Perry writes:—‘‘We reached Carlisle Bay, in the Crag Islands, on the morning of the 12th, and my chief and | myself landed in a whaleboat, opposite a small village, followed by two other boats, in which a few officers came ou shore, The uatives, who were all armed with bows and arrows, came down to the boat, and we managed to open what we supposed to be a friendly with our savage brethren willing to barter | the few things they had brought down to the beach. We therefore landed among them and went to their Village, We remained in the village one-half hour, and theu @ man beckoned us away to follow bim around to anotber village, We went some distance, but, finding the second village far dway and not altogether liking the looks of our guide,» first suspicion crossed our minds, though none expressed it We tarned back, having no weapons whatever, and the Commodore being satisded with the apparently friendly feeling that had been established, gave the order to prepare to embark. They all went down to the bea and wero im or =near the bouts — except the Commodore, our Lioutenant of Marines and myself. We three remained at the corner of the Village, Suddenly a man, who was standing three or four yards from the Commodore, fired an arrow, which struck my dear chief tn the left side, abd as we turned to the boats where our arms were several fligtits of ar. rows followed us, The men i the boats were not pre. pared tor this sudden uwttuck, and hud not their rifles at immediate command, and, cousequentiy, the urrows kept dropping among whd around us until'a few snots from our revolvers and rifies instantly stopped the bringing down two natives and dispersing the rest in the jungle, The Commodore was again wounded in the ‘head and five men in the byats arrow wounds in various parts of their % The only punishment which tt was thought desirable to inflict on these wretches was the burning of their village, and my chief hamanely regretted that avy of the natives had been kille: i luck fol- lowed me on that day, and | eseaped without a scratch, I was therefore able to pass the time while going off wo the ship in sucking the Commodore's wornds, for it is the custom of these barbarians to poison their weapons. ‘This vossibility still exists, and ou it depends the lives oi the patients, although their wounds now appear light This sore anxiety is the ouly one which las turned us southward again, 80 that tetanus, if it does — take place, may at least have the covler climate to Withstand it.’ THE BRITISH ARMY RIFLE. A ‘Field Officer” Times of the 20th ult. writes as follows to the London In @ letter which you did me the favor to insert on | the 12th inst. | intended to convey no reflection on the members of the Martiui Henry Committee, I consider hat the army aud public generally are indebted to Shose gentiomen Whe devoted themselves te tho diff Europe, it 18 ashame to permit the bar- | againsta Turk, he is sure to be killed within three | churches, our bells, our images of saints—they insult | them, the latter themselves being compelled to sign | and makes an ex- | is house, the gendarme | suit he might wait tili doomsday at leust, unless hé | intercourse | cult and thankless task of pronouncing on the compara tive merits of numerous rival inventors, It ts possible, as Lord Elcho suggests in his interest- ing letter, that the defects in the lock action to which I reterred may be due to the manufacture. The War Oilice 18 not open to me for the purpose of inquiry as to the correctness of his surmise on these and other points; but I am disinclined to credit the statement that the Horse Guards authorities have been prejudiced against the sword bayonet by its cumbrous appearance when tixed to the rifle. I would suggest, howeve! that Mr. Hardy should pay to the Martini-Henry C | mittee the compliment of asking the members ssemble and take e as to the failures iu tl mechanism of the lock. They could also elicit the t history of the committee which condemned their sword-bayonet, the reason why our infantry ix now | armed with a weapon imsuflicient at close quarters, and | several more interesting scraps of information ‘con- nected with this subject, I think Lord Eleho would find that the length of the now rifle is less by at least five inches than the Snider, Sir, [have reason to ad- here to my opinion that, with the exception of the shooting power of the Henry barrel, the arin ueeds 1m- provement, and ig, on the Whole, inferior to tue Ger- man rifle a8 4 military weapon, THE ENGLISH FLOODS. RAVAGES OF THE STORM IN THE WEST. [From the Western Morning News, Oct. 20.) Exeter has been comparatively free from floods this season, but last might (Tuesday) it bas exper enced such & one as will reckon among the most re- markuble that have occurred for many years. About six o'clock a thunder storm broke in the neighborhood, but although the lightning was very brilliant the thunder peals were not particularly yolent. Thestorm had not continued long, however, before the rain be- | gan to fall in torrents, and it inereased in violence until it appeared to come down in sheets with a uoise that almost drowned the reports of the elec tric discharges. Those who are familiar with the locality of Exeter will know that such rain must produce an inundation of the low-lying parts of the city. The streets of St. Thomas were under water very quickly in two or three different places, This was not caused by the overflowing of the river, but by the accu- mulation of surface water, which the drains were werless to carry olf The people of St. Thomus are powever, accustomed to this sort of thing aud not much notice was taken of it, But when at length it was rumored that houses had beem washed down in so elevated a part of city a8 Lomgbrook street the re- port was hardly credited, Such, however, proved to be the fact, Longbrook street, though a higher part of the city, dips down imto a kina of basin, into which in @ time of violent rain the surtace’ water from Pennsylvania hill, Old Tiverton road, Barrack | road, and part of St. Sidwell’s flows. When the storm Was At its height the roads in the localities. mentioned were miniature torrents. No system of drainage could tuke off the unmense quantity of storm water brought down, and within an hour from the commencement of the storm Longvrook street was covered with a sheet of water six and seven feet deep at the lowest points. HOUSES FLOODED, ‘The ghole of the houses in Eldon place, occupied by respe Mie people, were tlouded, Im the parlors and kitchens of these houses the water was folir feet deep, and us there was uo opportunity to remove the furai- ture before the food rose groat damage was occasioned. Next to Eldon place is a narrow thoroughfare | called Park road. Here the water was ponded back for a time by a low cob wall which fenced off the backs of some cotiages situated in Barrack road. This wall suddenly gave way. and the volume of water poured with a great rush against the Barrack road houses, which suffered all the more from being situated on a lower level than Park road, The wave rushed through | the houses, carrying away the front doors and parts of the walls,’ flooded the Barrack road aud went on into Waterloo piace—a row of houses parallel with the Southwestern Railway—which also was under | water, The inmates of ‘the houses all escaped, bat some of them had to be taken away upon window shutters. A row of cottages facing Longbrook street suflered a worse fate, their back walls being | completely carricd away from basement to roof. Half | a dozen families are thus rendered homeless, besides | which they lose a good deal in the shape of injury to furniture. Messrs. Greensiade, Murray, Knight and | Burnett are among the sufferers, {he Southwestern | Ratiway irom Lion’s Holt to the Queen street station | was covered with two or three feet of er, which ran with great velocity at the height of the storm, ALSt, David's station and for some distance east the line is under water, and the trafic has been greatly delayed, ‘The neighborhood of Exeter has also suffered. At | Red Cow village, near the St. David’s station, part of the house of ‘Mr. Sheppard, dairyman, has been washed away. At Exwick the ‘villagers have had the water in their houses. At Lioi jolt a long brick wall was washed down, and in the Old Tiverton road, one of the highest parts of the city, peo- je ‘had to wade through the water up to’ their knees to get to their houses, many of which were flooded. On Pennsylvania hill large, new houses had their cel In Union road, which con- | nects Pennsylvaaia and Old Tiverton roads, the water | was running with such violence ag to overturn a horse and cab, and the driver was compelled to unbarness the animal and leave the cab to its fate, The vehicle lies in | the road, half buried under the mud and stone. The | roadways generally are fearfully cut up, and in some | places the deposits make them almost impassable to pedestrians. MR. PLIMSOLL AND SHIPPING. VISITING THE BLACK SEA PORTS—EFFORTS TO SECURE THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE RECENT SHIPPING ACT. Mr. Willian Hall bas received the following letter from the junior member for Derby :— Osterobs aM-Hakrz, Hanoy Oct. 12, 1875. of my annual address be possible for me to visit any of the Black Sea ports und to be in England this month, 1 learnt in the North that the Board of Trade had sent our consuls a notifica- tion of last session's enactinent against loading grain cargoes in bulk, but had not instructed or authorized the consuls to employ any outdoor assistance to see | that the act was carried into offect, and the fear expressed to me was that without such Supervision the act would only be parually observed, as the consuls | have not power to & | thority to do so. This being so I cannot return to Eng- | land comfortably without visiting some, at least, of the | Black Sea ports, to inquire whether the consuls there are any better instructed, and, if not, devising some ns to supply the needed supervision. The late speech of the Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade abundantly proves at least this much, that. I was entirey justified in stating that the Marine Departinent were determined that nothing should be done in the way of re- form if they could prevent 11; and, indeed, be even stigmatized 43 “nostrum” this very provision against | a most real and easily and cheaply preventable peril— | a peril to which a large number of and a still larger number of valuable lives, hi | every winter hitherto, For two winters now no grain- | Jaden vessel has been lost from either Canadian or | American ports, and this of such vessels, aod the Chancellor of the kx- | chequer hirnself stated that whereas before the chango took place in Californian ports the rate of insurance ou such cargoes and ships had been five guineas per a t had ialen during the subsequent year to fort five shillings, Now Ido not expect that this wintel losses from the Baltic and Black Sea ports will disap- | pear, or fali so low as from the American ports, because the transatlantic regulations go to the point of seeing that the ships are not overloaded; and our act of lust sessiou absurdly leaves the determination of a load line to the owner of the ship, who (in perhaps 4 majority of cages) knows no more how to tix it than a railway shareholder knows how to determine the propor weight or speed of atrain, both being capitalists wit! out special knowledge; but even an overieaded grain | Vexse: will have an intensely better chance of weath- ering a storm and passage if her catgo ts secured from shifting; and, therefore, it is that 1 have determi not to return home until I have done ali that I can, at any rate, to prevent this most saiutary enactment trom | becoming @ dead letter, like so many positive acts of Parliament have already become under the Board of trade, * * * Lam, my dear sir, yours very truly, | SAMUEL PLIMSOLL, | RELICS FROM GHENT, | CURIOUS FLEMISH CARVING OF THR SIXTEENTH CENTURY, At the Metropolitan Museum on Fourteenth street | there are at present on exhibition @ most curious and interesting collection of old Flemish carvings im oak, said to be from an ancient monastic chapel in Ghent ‘The quaint figures aud panels are 300 years old, and comprise many interesting studies, On one of the panels a female samt is regarding with rapt adoral & crucifix whieh she holds in her haud. Her person 1s surrounded with a wreath of exquisitely carved leaves. ot Linportant gures and groupings of the collee- are in alto-relieve, On another panel a stream of heavenly light is represented #8 pouring upou the 4 of & saint. In the clouds above are across and the Christian monogram, St Peter holding the keys is an aduurable piece of carved work, ‘The couutenance is ax expressive im wood as It could have been produced ju on or water colura. A bishop oF au archbishop, crowned with a mitre, 18 rev. | erently looking upward, Sull another, casting bis eye 1b wWard WWard angels and the cross, has a dove perched upon the collar of his robe. umns sey females, in we le Ou the finely cary the lines of beauty are arate confessional boxes oc- cu locations in Hig unique exhibition, Be: tween the small apartment where once waa seated the coufessor aud the kneeling penitent is @ slight screen of carved lattice work. This is covered by a small door, which was slut or opened at the pleasure of the confessor. | DINNER TO HON, HOSEA B. PERKINS. On Friday evening lust a dinner was given at Dart mouth College to the Hon, Hus Perkins, of this city, who had volunteered to deliver betore class a lecture upon the poet Burns. Before proceed ing with his poetic theme Mr. Ferkins eloquently Juded to his emotions on returning to the sce: of | boyhood’s onjoyments and labors | sbirty years, = ‘| fn the ranks of the clergy by younger sons, who, ele- Deak Mx. Hatt—Pleuse put off the announcement | October, as [ tnd it wil not | mploy any one without specific au- | period bas coincided © | exactly with the date from which in those countries | | supervision has been exercised over the loading | 0 sunior | al- | | THE LITERARY WORLD. | |Life in France During the 1 | Last Century. BOOK AND AUTHOR GOSSIP. i Tux Excurrenta Cxytony; Its Institutions, Customs | nd Costumes, France, 1700-1789. By Paul Lacrotx | (Bibliophite Jacob), Curator of the Eeeoiet Librar 2 the Arsenal at Paris, New York: D. Appleton Co, Say what you will to the contrary, there is a fascinay tion wbout France (for Paria is France) and French | ways that ig possessed by no other country on the globe. The above book shows us the heart history of France nearly two hundred years ago, and brings us in irect communication with the nobility and the people M. Lacroix's book does not deal in dry facts and thread- bare histories. He takes France trom 1700 to 1789, which year brought about a new order of things, and gives in this volume onsideration of manners, cus- toms, public and private, costume, arts, sciences and literature,” which characterized that period. The in- troduction 1s historical, and glances over the end of the reign of Louis XIV., the Regency, Louis XV. and Louis XVI. Each chapter is devoted to some one particular subject, with its diferent branches. Of course there is the greatest variety in the contents, kings and ballet dancers each having their due share of attention, The author does not enter into any discussions; his mission is to tell a plain, unvarnished tale, and he accomplishes it, only adding those graces of description and wit of expression which are a part of French writing, The chapters on tho bourgeoisie and the people are among the most interesting. ‘The divisions of French society were more positive in the eighteenth century than they are now, Strictly speaking, says M. Lacroix, the bourgeoisie, as a body—a body at ‘once powerful and jealous of its privileges—had ceased to exist at the beginning of the eighteenth century, or did not, at all events, exercise any direct intluence or play any active part in State affairs. Montesquieu did not even deign to mention the bourgeoisie by name when he enveloped it, so to speak, in the long robe; for in his “Lettres Persanes’? we read ‘There are three estates in France—the Church, the Sword ana the Gown. Each one of these three has @ sovereign contempt for the other two, and thus an individual who ought merely to be despised because he is a fool is often treated with contempt because he 1s a gowns- man.” The name bourgeoisie became almost a term of reproach. The decadence of the title, dated probably from Mvliére’s comedy “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.”’ ‘The bourgeoise who married « noble might expect to enjoy a fair amount of consideration, especially if she bore children to her husband, for these children would be noble notwithstanding the plebeian origin of their mother. But, upon the other band, the bourgeois who married a lady of noble birth met with nothing but contempt and slights, The upper bourgeoisie was not very different from the upper ranks of the nobility; they were more wealthy and took better care of their money; they regulated their expenditure according to their incomes. The bourgeoisie did not imitate the bad habits of the court and the nobility, but copied their fashions to the extent of bad taste. . They” urt and nobility com- plained about this and elain jon’ for sumptuary laws, which were promulgated for the last time on March 29, | 1700, This decree was partially revoked on February 28, 1702, when the wives and daughters of notaries, procureurs, registrars and merchants were allowed,to wear jewelry to the value of 2,000 livres, The people, like the bourgeoisie and nobility, were divided into several classes or categories, quite dis- | tinct from each other, viz,—the people of Paris, the | people of the provincial towns and the country | people. There was no affinity between the artisan and the husbandman, and they both looked down upon the domestic servant. In Paris the dangerous characters, beggars, vagabonds, thieves, swindlers of every de- | seription, formed perhaps a sixth of the people, who were witnesses of their misdeeds without imitating them, The chapter on the clergy deals with the constitution | of the clergy in France, their wealth and influence, religious quarrels, the Jansenists, the Unigenitus bull, expulsion of the Jesuists, the higher and lower clergy and the assembly of notables and clergy upon the eve of the Revolution, There is no country upon whose history the clergy bave had a greater influence than that of France. At the end of Louis XIV.'s reign the clergy held a stronger position in the State than ever belore. Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin had raised them to the first place, above even the old nobility. The nobility was strongly represented vated to the prelacy, took equal rank with their elder | brothers. But even though they sprang from the | bourgeoisie or the people their ecclesiastical titles put | them upon an equality with the most illustrious nobles. | With everything to favor them, the clergy naturally | | became a power in the land, and at the close of the | Seventeenth century the actual value of ecclesiastical | tithes may be estimated as equal to half the value of | the taxes paid by the nation to the Crown. To quote | from M, Lacroix’s book :—‘In 1763 the eighteen arch- | bishops at the head of the ecclesiastical provinces of | France had under them 109 bishops or suffragans, ex- Clusive of the bishops in partibus, who did not come | within their jurisdiction. In these archbisboprics and | bishoprics were 40,000 priests, 50,000 assistants, 27,000 priors or chaplains, 12,000 canons, 20,000 clerks and | | choristers, in addition to about 100,000 ecclesiastics en- | | gaged in the religious orders employed in the colleges, | the seminaries, the missions, the almshouses, or vot | | doing duty. The regular clergy comprised those who, | | | in fulflinent of the vows they had taken, lived either in or out of cloisters, under different monastic and con- ventional rules.’ The monks living in monasteries numbered 80,000. But for a century past the monkish | | influence had been decaying, especially in the mendi- | | cant orders. Upon the other hand, the number of | nuns went on inereasing, us also did tho new con Sregations and charitable institutions, Of nuns living in convents there were 100,000, In the early part of | the century the clergy were threatened by secret ene- mies, leagued together for the purpose of depriving } them of their power. Had they held together, they , would have triumphed, perhaps; but they split in their | own ranks on a question of dogma, and wore materially weakened. Of education im France at this period, it may be said that it depended more upon the scholars than the school. Great complaints were made of the colleges and seminaries, and all who could afford it employed tutors for their children; but even these were poor and | mot successful. Moro attention was paid to the educa- | Hon of the body than to that of the mind, and the Scions of noble families could dance and fence when they could barely read. The theatres represent the times, and in France, as well as everywhere else, they bold tho mirror up to na- ture, Thi © flourished @ that time, although after Lous XIV, married Mme. de Maintenon th noticeable falling off. The Thédtre Frangais has always | maintained its high rank, because it was the most ele- | vated and complete expression of dramatic art, and its | company has ever been composed of the best actors of | | both tragedy and comedy. Entitled to call themselves | comédiens ordinaires du Roi, they constituted, as in the tine of Moli¢re, an association which had the royal | suthorrention:vo ma jage the theatre itself, all questions ol general iuterest being decided by a majority of votes tp this wembly. These regulations lasted until 1789, The actors of the period, previous to the Revolution, were the victims of injustice and prejudice, being | looked upon from a social poiut of view as interior beings. Excommunicated by the Church and ex. cluded from society, they were also obliged to su. mit to any Lumiliations which the public might think fit to iniiet upon them when they were upon the stage; and | if they ventured to face the storm aud resent the in- | | sults levelled against them by the pit they were hauled | of to prison and confinea there until they had apologized to who had ill used them, Mile. | Clauiron withdrew from the stage in the zenith of her fae rather than submit to the insult of im- | prisonment, This actress and Lekain were the first to introduce historic accuracy in costumes. M. Lacroix, ina concluding paragraph in this chapter, says the drama bas never been so popular in France as it is now, All the chief provincial citios possessed theatres which were worthy to compare with those of Paris, as that built by Louis at Burdeaux was even larger and more Maguilcent than any in the capital. Pieces composed | | | vecibe Avenues of bie | by imbabitants of the district, OF oven of the town it self, wore produced at these theatres, aud there wore | to the accompaniment of wonderful suppers and din- | handicap; the distance one mile. | Clared out, with $500 added, of which $126 to the sec- | Vor any of the races two or more horses may bo cn- | each baving scored a victory over the other, | dolphe, Cyrille Dion, Joseph Dion, G, F, Slosson, Wil- | for the Delaney Emblem will be played in Tammany | Europe, but they will not arrive iu time for the tourna also, asin Molitre’s days, strolling companies which gave performances at small towns which had no theatre of ther own, ‘These companies were an excellent school for young artists who, after they had acquired a roving reputation, came to play at the Paris theatres, Every year, during the Easter fortnight, the café on the Rue des Boucheries was the general meeting place of actors in search of an engagemont, The theatres, as their numbers increased, found that the spectators, upon whom they were dependent for their success, had increased in like proportion. Just before the Revolu- tion all tho theatres were thronged, night after night, by the Parisians, who cared more for the theatro than any other form of amusement. ‘This teudency of the French mind was observable throughout the whole of the eighteenth century, and the origin of tho taste for the drama may, perhaps, be ascribed to the teaching of the Jesuits, who taught their pupils to play wagic and comic parts in representations, which naturally im: pressed them with a liking for the theatre. Mme. de Maintenon, even, had encouraged the taste by asking Racine to write @ tragedy for the Royal Institution at St Cyr, as also did the great noblemen and the mem- bers of the royal family. The chapter on society dwells at Jength upon that peculiarly French institution, the salon, At this epoch, says M. Lacroix, each salon had its special and dis- tinct characteristics; the encyclopedists and the philos- ophers, the artists, the musicians and the littérateurs, each frequented their favorite and particular salon, Conversation was the amusement at these gatherings nerssuch asthe French are famous for. It would be impossible to touch even upon the many interesting topics in this book. The typographical appearance of the volume is very fine and it {9 tllustrated with twenty-one chromo lithographs und 351 wood engray- ings after Watteau, Vanloo, Rigaud and other celebrated artists, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. ‘The Atheneum is greatly disappointed with the collec- tion of Wordsworth’s prose writings, edited by Rev A.B. Grosart, It says the editor’s work is slipshod, and the collection, especially of the correspondence, far from complete. Next we are to have a book on walking as a fine art, by Allred Barron, under the appropriate title of “Foot Notes,” which the Wallingford Printing Company, of Cincinnati, will issue. The memoirs of -that red republican, Camille Des- moulins, are to be translated by Mrs, ©. Hoey. Rev. Dr. Farrar, who wrote the most popular “Life of Christ” that has appeared in modern times, 18 at work in Italy on a new book to be called ‘Studies of the Early Dawn of Christianity.” We are to have an exhaustive treatise on Roman law by Professor Hunter, giving everything in Justinian and Gaius, with modern critical treatment, in one large octavo volume, The memoirs of the noted German Minister Von Hardeuberg are being prepared for tho press by Pro- fessor Von Ranke, Acopy of Whitaker’s “Richmondshire,” with Tur ner’s {llustrations, was sold at a late London auction for £54 10s, “Lundy’s Monumental Christianity” will be published, by J. W. Bouton on or about the Ist of November. I will be uniform in style and appearance with Mrs. Jameson’s and Lubkes art works. The book is the re- sult of twenty years of thoughtful labor, The first instalment of Bret Harte’s novel, “Gabrie; Conroy,” is begun in the November Scribner The hero is a simple, good-hearted, honest miner of a differ- ent type from that whicn Mr. Harte usually produces in his stories, A number of old friends turn up in this story, among them the irrepressible Colonel Starbottie, Mr, Asbton Dilke’s work on “The Russian Power" will be published by Macmillan & Co. this fall. Hunt & Blackett will shortly publish a yolumo of “Celebrities I have Known, with Episodes Political Social, Sporting and Theatrical,” by Lord William Len- nox, If the book is as attractive as the title it will cer- | tainly become popular, The fourth and concluding volume of Max Miller's “Chips from a German Workshop” is to be issued im- mediately by the Messrs. Longmans & Co. Jules Verne’s “Field of Ice and Adventures of Captain Hatteras” will be published in English by Routledge & Son. Frederic Mistral, the Provengal poet, author of ‘Mireio,’’ will soon publish a volume of poems entitled “Les Sabots d'Or." Mr. Frank R. Stockton has got more to tell us about that “Girl of Rudder Grange.” It was Mirabeau who first said, ‘War is the national industry of Prussia,” and whoever reads Professor Ranke’s “Neun Bacher der Preussischen Geschichte” will be apt to believe it.” AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB. ‘The racing at Jerome Park to-morrow will be the last at that place for the present year, and, should the | weather be favorable, a great assemblage of fashionable people will be there to witness the sport, ‘The first event will be a selling sweepstakes of $15 each, with $400 added, of which sum $100 will go to the second horse; the winner to be sold at auction. Horses entered to be sold tor $1,500 to carry Tibs, extra; if entered to be sold for $1,000 to carry weight for age; if for $750 allowed 3 Ibs. ; if for $500, 7 Ibs. ; if for $300, 12 \ba. To close and name at the course at four P. M. today, The distance three-quarters of a mile. The second event will be a free handicap sweepstakes of $25 cach, if not declared out, with $750 added, of which $200 to the second horse, Weights to appear attwo P. M and declara- tions to be made by four P, M. to-day. One mile and three-quarters, The third race will be for the Mem- | bers’ Cup, a free handicap sweepstakes of $25 each, it not declared out, with $500 added, of which $125 to the second horse. Members of the club to ride, Condi- tions as to weight and declaration same as precoding ‘The fourth race will | be a free handicap sweepstakes of $20 each, if not de- ond horse; the conditions as to weight and declaration CRUELTY TO THE INSANE. — THE FLATBUSH ASYLUM ABUSES—INSUFFICIEN? CLOTHING, BAD FOOD, NO RULES FOR GUID- ANCE OF ATTENDANTS. Yesterday afternoon the State Commissioner is Lunacy, Dr. John Ordronaux, and the committee ap pointed by the Mayor of Brooklyn to investigate the alleged abuses in tne Kings County Lunatic Asylum met in the office of the Fireman's Trust Insurance Com. pany, No. 201 Montague street, There were present beside the Commissioner, Messrs, John J, Van Nos trand, Dwight Johnson, ex-Judge Greenwood, Charlet ‘Townsend, Alderman Ropes, Commissioner of Charities Midas, Dr. Bartlett, and six or seven ladies, members of the committee of the State Aid Association. The proceedings were opened by the reading ofa statement prepared by Miss Dora Robinson, one of the humane lady members of the local Visiting Commities of the Kings County Lunatic Asylug, ‘The statement set forth that the witness bad seen a patient, Bessie Cooney, so tightly strapped in a comisole that she could not move her hands; had also seen a woman with no clothing on save a dress and a comisole; Mary Jagger, a patient in hall A, had been refused blankets in winter, because she tore the pair that had beer given her; knew a scamstress to be. pai¢ $5 for making a dress for a nurse; delicaciet which the former doctors gave to the sick were denied by the present physician, Dr. Blanchard; knew of seven men to have been discharged from the asylum for pilfering; the steward’s wife resided at the asylum, ‘ TESTIMONY OF MRS. STRIBING, Mrs. Mary Stribing, of Washington uvenue, testified that she 18 4 member of the Aid Association Commit tec, and visited the German patients at the asylum; had Leen going there since September, 1874; went there once or twice ® month; witness said she had seen Dr. Atwood when she first went the frequently ac- companied her through the hails; the present physi. cians she had found not very gentlemanly in their manner or bearing when she called; they did not rise when she entered, but sat smoking, leaning back in their chairs with their jeet on the table; there was a woman named Jagger there, who once told Witness that she had received a severe beating trom a nurse; the woman showed no marks of violence to witness; ud seen a poor old woman bleeding from a wound on the wrist, which had been intlicted by a nurse; Mrs, Legget was the name of this patient; the violence on that occasion was in excess of the neces- sity—the patient refused to be dressed; last Novem- ber, a year ago, witness noticed that in the lower hall there were thirty-eight very poorly clad patients; the patients were sullering trom the excessive cold; did uot mention i to Dr. Blanchard; the committee are not allowed to make complaints in the asylum of anything that they may see wrong; they must report through the chairman; once, however, witness told Dr. Atwood of Mrs, Leggot’s case; Dr. Macdonald, the for- mer physician, always went with the committee through the hall; had never met Dr, Blanchard in the halls; never met the matron, Mrs. Cunningham, in the wards; if the doctors went through the wards the nurses would not dare to be 80 CRUEL TO THE PATIENTS; the codfish and potatoes given the patients were not fit tor adog; the tea and milk were pretty good, but the sugar was like clay; bad been in the kitchen, but could not judge of its cleanliness or anything about it; the indications she found pointed to the tact that the asy- Jum was not well managed; for poor German men and woinen who come over here and lose their reason be- cause they are strangers to everybody, there should be German nurses with whom. they could speak; they should have a German doctor also; there are 204 Germans out of a total of 800 pa- tients; the German male hall is the best in the build- ing; the proportion of German nurses to those of other nationalities is now about half, MISS DORA ROBINSON, Miss Robinson, who was recalled, testified that om May 3, in hall No, 8, the steward came in with three men, whom he showed through the place; saw the sume official on another occasion going about 'the insti- tution with men; saw & patient compelled to exhibit himself as an animal; Mr, Backmeyer, a nurse, when spoken to about this, said, “Oh, that is nothing; he 18 @ monkey; Michael Brady, who was discharged for peculation, had been met by witness an the hall on equent occasions; knew of a man who kept a boarding house at Flatbush and who used the vegetables raised on the grounds of the institu tion; this man was discharged bi the Commissioners; never met Mrs, Cunningham in the wards; never heard the patients of vor of her; witness had not met the matron since last Januar; pafients us though she was intimate or acquainted with them; the seamstress who made the dress for the nurse for $5 was not discharged; the seamstress re- ceives $20 per month from county for her ser- vices; nurses are appointed without any regard to their fitness for the position, NARRATIVE OF 4 VETERAN NURSE. ‘Timothy G. Harley said he bad been an attendant in the Flatbush Asyluin; had been in several English asy- luns for lunatics; near London, at Chiselhurst, Manor House, at Hamilton and at Northumberland; in this country he had been in asylums in Ohio and in this State; more or less he had been twenty-four years an attendant upon the insane; he is a judge of the treat- ment of the insane; he left tue Flatbush Asylum of bis own accord; in May and June, 1874, he had heard pa- tients complain of the as unfit for u Dr. Macdonald left the institution 1m August, 1874; Dr, Blanchard took charge immediately after the removal of Mecdonald; Dr. Blanchard nevet inquired as to the condition of patients; knew him once to be absent from the ward in which witness was for nineteen days; he never stopped to examine the patients; the uniform treatment, in former experience of witness, was an inspection of the patients twice @ day; witness had been in halls 9,7 and 2; it was ta hall 2 that witness noticed that DR, BLANCHARD AUSKNTED HIMSELF for nineteen days; in Flatbush the attendants could do just as they pleased; there were no printed rules or in- structions for the guidance of nurses; have known patients to be restrained by attendants every day; patients unquestionably suffer from want of restriction on the part of atteudants; the attendants had not keys to admit them to any part of the house, with the ex- ception of the engineers and mfechanics; these latter ‘can go mito ull the male wards and into the storehouse; witness’ own patients in the convaleycent ward did not suffer trom the want of cloth. ing; there are no thermometers at Flatbush; sometimes patients’ complaints are well founded; knew ofa nurse there to be discharged for cutting a paticnt’s head; as a rule it would not be safe to take the word of a ‘patient; there are exceptions; witness said he left the asylum in disgust, because of the gen- eral management and the manner in which he was treated; never saw any of the attendants under the in- fluence of liquor; the cook was one of THR BIGGEST RUPFIANS witness ever met; be was frequently drunk while pre- paring his food and used yie epithets; bad seen him drunk and quarrelling with « Woman early in the morn- ing; the cook had his relatives there; from cook te superintendent they all had their relatives, ewh ing and drinking there as bad asthey liked; beef tea and gruel were given out in the morning and the nurse had to make that do fur the whole day; Dr, Blanchard said, when the witness complained of this arrange ment, that “he could not help it, as that was the rule same as preceding handicap. The distance one mile, The fifth race will be a handicap steeplechase for a purse of $800, of which $200 to the second horse; en- trance free; the weights to appear to-day; three or more horses, the property of different owners, to start or no race; tobe ruuon the regular steeplechase course. tered by the same owner, at half-past one P. M. ENGLISH The first subscription list of the testimonial to be presented to George Fordbam, in compliment to his long and honorable career as a professional jockey, contains 212 names of gentlemen who have subscribed (533 guinoas, Mr. W. A. Lyndon, well known in racing circles as the owner of Frivolity, Arca Belle and other horses, was found dead in his bed on Saturday, 20th ult., at New Market, where he had been attending the second Octover meeting. The first race will take place TURF NOYES, | | | | On Wednesday, October 20, a rowing mateh for £50 aside came off on the Thames River, between Thomas and Griffiths, the distance being from Putney to Ham mersmith Bridge. The men had met twice previously, The present match was to decile which was best. Thomas wou by «trifle over a boat's length. ‘Timo, 9m. 408, BILLIARD NOTES, Atournament at the three bail game for $3,500 in prizes will commence iu Tammany Hall on Monday, November 16, and last during the week. There are seven contestants, Messrs, Maurice Daly, A. P. Ru- ham Sextou and Albert Garnier, ‘The match between Maurice Daly and Cyrille Dion Hall on the evening of Novetaber 23, ‘The game will be GON points. The Dion brothers are practising every evening, Cyrille 1s showing some tive billiards. Vignaux and his brother are expected shortly from ment, RIVER PIRATES AT WORK. ‘The stoamer North Point, lying at the wharf foot of Van Brunt street, South Brooklyn, was boarded atan early hour yesterday morning by three river thieves, The only persous on board at the time were John Joues, shipkeeper, and his wile, They were aroused from their slumbers by a loud rapping at the door of their staterootn, Jones opened the door, when he was | seized and bound by the three men. ‘The ruiflans then went thiougl the cabin and secured several articles of | yalue and $10 ib money, with which they departed, Nc oad Violence was offered to the slipkeopor or | visor Fisher, of the Cou there ;"’ food was, in the opinion of witness, wasted ; some had too much one day and not enough the next; witness never thought they had coffee; though what they were given went by that name; the bread was goou; Ceead, coffee and molasses wag the morning meal; butter was for the delicate patients; the pay patients Were all put into one ward without regard to classification; thu saved expense; the effect of putting refractory pa- tients among convalescents was to excite the latter aud do the former no good; Dr. Cory ordered this change; the usual question of the Visiting committee in going through the ward, “Are there any sick” they never ask about the condition of the mind; the effect of THE VISITS OF THESE LADY COMMITTRES is soothing and refining; the grade of the attene dants at Flatbush is lower than witness had ever met with im his twenty-four years’ experience in asylums for lunatics; lunatics were employed in the kitchen; sometime ago paid women were em- ployed in the taundry, but tor economy they were discharged and pauper females from the Almshouse were set to work jn ir stead; as a consequence the | clothes were turn to shreds, and no satisfaction waa given; witness had understood that the matron suid she would not de — gatistieds while he remamed, but that was not the only cause for his leaving; had never seen any cruelty, but be had seen ilitreatment; he never saw # more undignitied and incompetent stuf of medical men than are ut the asylum now; le went once to Dr, Whetley to get him to go and sce a man named John. sun about nine o'clock; the Doctor did not respond te the call till noonday; atyphoid fever patient bad been kept in a ward where there were twenty-six well pa- ents in the hot summer time; there was no infirin- ary of hospital in which’ to keop the sick; patients have died, im three cases to witness! knowledge, between nine at night and five in the morning; the witness gave them medicine and retired, and in the morning he found them dead; there was no night nurse; the assistant in all asylums, except in this institution, come around twice—in the morning aud Just before bedtime; the Flatbush Asylum staff do not | go around much at might; when a patient gets sick there he remaing until be dies; there are nb means of iwoluting & patient Noison McGee, who, it will be remembered, testified to ill treatment he bad received at the Flatbush Asylum betore the Board of Charity Commissioners in July last, then vestitied before the Commission, and the commitive adjourned to ineet again this atternoon, KINGS COUNTY SUPERVISORS, Yosterday afternoon the Kings county Board ot Supervisors met and passed a resolution authorizing the county Treasurer to borrow $200,000 to meet ma- tured payments and current expenses until the com firmation of the annual tax levy. The memorial signed by cleven members of the Beechor-Tilton jury praying for extra compensation for th services as jurors on that trial =~ was presented = by Super: nittee on Law and Finance, Two reporms were presented trom the Committee on Equalization of Assessed Valuatio The majority re. port Was in lavor of whe confirmation of the ¥ tons as already assessed, The mmority report recom: mended that the assessed valuation of Brooklyn be reduced $4,087,501, and thyt of the county tlowns—Flae busb, Flatiand, New Lots, New Utrecht and Gravesend au equal percents The reports were jad over. The pal budget, $1,587,606, Was also laid over for ome