The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD + BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR neni NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly elitions of the New York Hxratp will be sent free of postage. —_-+—_—_. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. JAMES All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. NO, 347 VOLUME XL. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway snd Fourteeuth street.—RUSE MICHEL, at 8 THEATRE COMIQUE. No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 81". M. 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Trars.— News. | dealers and the public throughout the States of | New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as | acell as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, | the South and Southwest, also along the lines | of the Hudson River, New York: Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their cone | nections, will be supplied with Tun Heraxp, Sree of postage. Extraordinary inducements Offered to newsdealers Wy sending their orders | direct to this office. Kinston, Jamaica, has had its dulness distarbed by a fire in yhich we are sorry to learn a newspaper office was destroyed. | Cyclones are the usual staple of excitement in that interesting island. Tar Canuists have a new commander-in- chief in the person of General Mogrovejo. As the dissensions in the ranks are said to continue, his first work will be to command order, and that is what little Alfonso wants to re-establish. Tr Is a Stonuricant Fact, showing the strength of the republicans in the French Assembly, that two of the present French Ministry having failed in the contesis of the past few days of being elected to the Senate have withdrawn their names. Tax Lirrtz Breeze about Nice and Savoy and the movement to reannex them to Italy is described in our Paris correspondence, and some lively anecdotes therein recalled by the death of M. Schneider show how Paris can laugh beside an open grave. Tae Latest Genman Booxs are reviewed in our Berlin letter. The sketch of Napo- leon at Tilsit, which is extracted from the diary of the Countess Von Voss, will be read with interest to-day. ‘The incarnation of success,” she said he looked, but, alas! for hero worshippers, this fine touch is marred by saying that he was ugly, puffy and podgy. ae Wise Tar Removan or Cumr Justice Denne, of Arizona, is said to be the first trumpet blast of the administration in its newly adopt- ed public schools’ fight. The ex-Chief Justice seems anxious to be a martyr to his opinions on that question, and the Attorney General appeats willing to accommodate him. Perhaps good and sufficient reasons existed to make his retention as a judicial officer unadvisable; but it is undoubtedly a bad precedent, if the man’s opinions about the schools are the main reason for his dismissal. | Until we know all the facts we are willing 20 believe that the Attorney General was led anto a little political clapt by the tewpt- sug veanest of Us, Dunne | except, of course, in so far as, if considerable | stability of the institution. | the State. | the institutions for savings that existed in NEW YOKK HERALD, MONDAY, DECE The Savings Banks. * In the number of modern contrivances effective in bettering the condition of the industrious poor none are capable of doing greater service than the half financial half philanthropic savings bank; and imagination cannot picture any source of poignant misery more fruitful than the abuse of popular con- fidence through one of these institutions. They are institutions, therefore, in which every community has a very lively interest, | derived equally from the advantages they | procure and the calamities they may cause. | By means of these institutions it is possible | for legislation to affect the character of the | people; for the law that guarantees the | security of the hoarded mite directly culti- | vates thrift. It gives a good reason for ab- stinence from a present indulgence and en- | courages the provision for fature safety. The economical effects of these banks are all | good. They secure the constant circulation of coin that would otherwise be buried in | cellars. and so utilize for public benefit | capital that would be unproductive; and they reduce largely the number of those who but for them would in old age or misfortune | become burdens upon public charity. Savings banks came into operation at about | the time tho world lost confidence in the tontine as a financial contrivance, and they may be regarded as the natural successors of | the older scheme, since the essential concep- | tion of each is the provision against a rainy | day—the advantage to accrue ultimately from the present deposit of an insignificant | sum. But the tontine deposit was made once for all ; the savings bank deposit, to be made | freely at any time and as often as need be— | thongh the extent of deposit is limited in | France and England—offered to every thrifty | person the attraction of a tontine popular- | ized, made more accessible, more readily re- alizable and more certain of advantageous results. In the tontine there was also the | gambling element of the benefit to the sur- | vivor—the increase of each subscriber's in- | terest upon the death of any other subscriber. | Logically this element exists in the savings | banks also in the form of ‘‘unclaimed de- | posits,” which have sometimes become for- midable sums ; but in no case, so far as we | are aware, have these ever been looked upon | as held in the interest of other depositors, in amount, they afford a guarantee for the In France these, after thirty years, become the property of In this city they should be funded for the benefit of the city poor. Priscilla Wakefield organized at Totten- ham, England, in 1798, the first savings bank identical in character with the institu- tion as now known to us, and thus proved that no particular “rights” under the law are necessary to enable a good woman to affect the world with one philanthropic thought. Priscilla was the great granddaughter of | Robert Barclay, of Ury, the ‘“‘Governor of East Jersey, in America,” the famous author of the ‘Apology for the Quakers.” She came | legitimately, therefore, by philanthropic im- pulses. This lady travelled in England, | Asia, Africa and America, She even wrote a book about us (‘Excursions in North America, 1806”), Her grandson, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, wrote ‘England and | America: a Comparison of the Social and Political State of Both Nations,” and , founded the New Zealand colony. In her travels Mrs. Wakefield probably observed there is any failure in the administration of a law it matters little how good the law may be. Few people take much interest in noting who is put at the head of the various administrative departments of the State government, and would not raise a finger to change the appointment from one name to another, be- cause they regard this as a point of polities outside their reach. Yet on such an appoint- ment may turn the safety or the loss of all the little hoard to gain which they have risen at daylight in the winter mornings year in and yearout. An instance is exhibited in the recent failure of the Bank Department to enforce the law with regard to the Third Ave- nue Savings Bank. By statute it is made the specific duty of the department to stop banks in the condition that bank was in last January, and if this had been done every dol- lar deposited since that time would have been saved to the owners. It has been shown in court that the statement then made of the condition of the bank was false, and also that in March the Bank Department was in pos- session of the fact that the statement was false. Yet with this knowledge the department permitted that bank to accept deposits—that is to take the money of the people on false pretences—for seven months. Is this official purity? But there is worse than this to be said; for when it was neces- sary to close the doors the Superintendent of Banks put in charge one of the officers that he knew was guilty of returning a false state- ment of the condition of the bank; and the just removal of that person by a judge of the Supreme Court is the only fact that has made possible any effort to save the depositors. It is to be hoped that the Court is to be better trusted with the people's rights. In honoring Mr. Stanley the Italian Geo- graphical Society does honor to Young Italy. The land that gave birth to Columbus can well afford to pay a meed of praise to the adventurous spirit, the tenacity of purpose amid discouragements, of one who hails from the land tha great Genoese discovered, When Deputy Caperio addressed his high compliment to the Hxnaxp for its enterprise in sending Stanley forth, the thought of at least one change which four centuries have wrought must have risen in his mind. Then the munificence of a king alone could give the man who wanted to fill up the map of the world the means to carry out his project; mow a news- paper, in fulfilment of its duty, enacts the part of Ferdinand. There is a certain amount of power always present in the world, and from the simple comparison above we may judge whither it is tending. It is waning on the side of kings and waxing on the side of the peoples. The accretion of popular power is typified in the growing power of the press, for the true journal is the reflector of the wants, the aspirations and the majesty of the people. It comes fresher from them than the most maiden legislature, because it is renewed in the people's | confidence and recharged with the people’s mission daily. Hence, when Deputy Caperio wished that Italy pos- sessed a Heratp, while acknowledging the direct compliment, we are fain to believe that he meant it in a broader sense than the desire for a journal which would assume the paternity of an exploring expedition, no matter how important. He, doubtless, Switzerland and Hamburg, and adapted | from them whatever elements they Pos- | sessed that could be advantageous in her Tot- | tenham scheme. Her scheme was taken up | by Henry Duncan, a Scotchman, who wrote | | on the subject and organized a bank, and | this seed of charitable labor germinated so | rapidly that already in 1817 the deposits in | savings banks in Great Britain were seventy- two million dollars. Parliament encouraged the growth by various enactments aimed to prevent abuses and to secure the depositors against the possibility of loss, } In 1818 savings banks were organized in | Paris, and thence rapidly spread to the prin- cipal cities of France, and in 1819 the | Chambers Street Savings Bank was organized in this city. Within but little more than twenty years from 1798, the date of the last | tontine organized by a national government, the modern system of hoarding small econo- | mies in financial reservoirs had spread into | all the fully civilized countries. Great | Britain, France, Germany and the United States are the countries in which the system | is most effectively and most extensively car- ried ont, simply because these are the coun- tries in which the people know their own interest, and in which legislation can be af- fected to develop and protect that interest. In France the government assumes in the beginning the control of these institutions, | which is characteristic, for there everything, | from a bank to a playbill, begins or ends | with the government. But this generally | guarantees protection and security; for, if the government sometimes fails. itself, it | never permits any one else to fail. Thus, | although the revolution of 1848 involved a | catastrophe for the banks, that was brt one | | | H calamity ; while, if free from government | | guidance, as with us, there would probably | have been several such calamities within | | that period, The worst feature of the sys- ! tem of guarantee by government is that the government refases to assume too large a re- | sponsibility and thns restrains depositors. ;In France the limit of deposit for any one person is two hundred dollars; in England the limit is seven hundred and fifty dollars, and the total of deposits is overwhelmingly larger, though of the two nations the English people are the less thrifty. In England the excellent idea | has been successfully carried out of associ- ating savings with the postal administration. In our own country the people seem likely to learn very painfully through their ex- perience with savings banks the great danger of their neglect of what they regard as polities. It is only through their indifference to the administration of the various public | departments that they can ever be plundered | by sharpers who organize savings banks | with the same purpose with which other sharpers organize faro “banks.” Recent events have shown that the sharpers have | made « bold move to seize upon this source | | | of capital; but our laws on this subject are good, and if honestly administered there is | cerity,” | He is. meant also to express his desire that the spirit of personal independence which sup- ports the Hxenatp here existed throughout the length and breadth of the Italian penin- sula. Then anew Columbus would not be forced to Spain or elsewhere for his King | Ferdinand, and then a new Galileo could have his diagrams printed on the pages of his Roman newspaper without retracting be- fore the Inquisition what he is said to have reaffirmed ina dramatic phrase a moment afterward, Yesterday's Sermons. The good words which our preachers sowed among their congregations yesterday, and which we reproduce to-day for a wider con- gregation still, will be found well worthy perusal. When Mr. Frothingham said that | “nothing can be substituted for sin- and when he adjured all} men to speak the truth that was in them without juggling with words, he inculeated a lesson which even those can | accept who are not prepared to go as far on the road of liberalism as himself. Mr. Hep- worth’s plea for a moral life is unexception- able, andas he believes the best physical or- ganization is led up to by the highest mo- rality we hope that those who read may be induced to be good if they wish to be strong. Mr. Beecher will be seen to labor in his endeavor to show how hard it is to understand God—to analyze, as a chemist would, the great Being that moves the universe, Out of this difficulty he draws the lesson that we must do our best to serve Him without being too inquisitive as to what Mr. Talmage is still warm on the Bible in the public schools, and as it appears that his house has been on fire he thinks | it right to attribute that fact to the ene mies who would like to crowd the Bible “to the verge of the world and then fling it into the blackness of darkness.” Hé might, we think, find another cause ; for if he left a verbatifa copy of his previous Sunday's sermon round loose it might have originated what he views as an anti-Bible arson, The Catholics yesterday dedicated a new church for the Bohemians of this city, and we hope they will attend it. Tae Ixprcrm full elsewhere. party to or Bancock is given in It charges him with being the conspiracy to de- fraud the government. It now re- mains to be seen with what vigor the prosecution will be pushed. While anxious that nothing but justice should be done, the country will note keenly whether the government side is presented in all its strength, a Tux Evu. Ixrivexce of a political society which, like Tammany, hides away its nefarious workings in the darkness of secrecy and which binds its members to each other by ties of no ordinary character, is such as to make all classes of honest citizens desirous of its extinction. In another column the secret rules and bylaws of Tam- very little opyortunity for robbery, But if | many are published, | perial station by the aid of soldiers like Bab- The Religious Aspects of the Third Term. The announcement of the Republican National Committee that it will hold a meet- ing in Washington in a few weeks to arrange for the holding of a convention to nominate a candidate for the Presidency does not come a moment too soon. In fact, the apathy of the leaders of this once proud and powerful party shows that it has fallen into such an abject condition that unless something is done to revive and strengthen it there will be no party at all when the votes come to be counted. In the meantime, while the repub- licans have been hovering about the ques- tion, not knowing whatto do, we have had the formal opening of the campaign from the Methodists, represented in a Convention of their laymen and ministers, presided over by Bishop Haven, and practically indorsed by Bishop Simpson, a prelate of great learning and virtue, whose family has had from this administration the best tokens of Presidential favor. This Boston Convention of about three hundred layman and priests is a much more respectable andimportant body of men than any of the great political parties will succeed in bringing together unless they do better than has been their custom, And we cannot but look upon it as the opening of the campaign. It is the first gun. It is none too soon for Senator Morgan and his committee to fire the second gun. According to Bishop Haven we are to have President Grant as the candidate of true Christianity and as the saviour of the coun- try—as, in fact, the only man whocan ‘‘pro- tect” the people. Now, if this is necessary for a third term, why not for a fourth and a fifth, and so on without any interregnum? If the Presidency has become a matter of ‘‘protec- tion” of the country where is it to stop? And of what use are our other forms of gov- ernment if we cannot ‘‘protect” ourselves, but must of necessity fall back upon a Pres- ident who a few years ago would have been glad to fill the humblest function? We might call the attention of the Bishop to the fact that is now almost historical— namely, that we have lived as a nation for a hundred years, mainly without the aid or “protection” of Grant. We do not mean for a moment to underrate those services which have given General Grant so just a claim to the gratitude and respect of our people. But, atthe same time, the people have re- paid Grant with even a higher measure ef re- ward than was given to the peerless Wash- ington, as much of a ‘‘protector” in his time as our present Ulysses. If, on the other hand, we are all wrong, and the Bishops Simpson and Haven are right, then what is to be done? Clearly this. If we are about to havea “‘protectorate” as necessary to our peace and safety, if it is a “saviour” we want and not a constitutional magistrate, let us begin in the right spirit and go through with the busi- ness. Let us make this indispensable Presi- dent our ‘Lord Protector of the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of America.” We believe the title of Cromwell, after he had been raised to the supreme and almost im- | cock and Ingalls and of priests like Simpson and Haven, was something like this. Why should we not give it to Grant? He has raised the banner of religious dis- sension even as Cromwell did. He has appealed to the friendship of a sect like Cromwell. He has all the elements of Cromwell’s strength ; and, more than all, he has around him a political party anxious to do his bidding—a disciplined, compact, and audacious party, which sees in him the source of con- tinued power. Against him he does not have the old nobility who gloried in sup- porting Charles, but a party whose leaders are governed by selfish ambitions and not by the best interests of the country—a party of fossils and Bourbons, who will be sure to do all they can to give their enemies the oppor- tunity of retaining power. In this new “Protectorate,” with Grant as our Cromwell, there will be no trouble in finding a place for Haven and the military and religious retinue who are now embarked in the crusade for a third term. The Bishop will be the Praise-God-Barebones of the new régime, and he will share with Simp- son the clerical honors and duties. Bab- cock, Logan, Conkling, Chandler and the rest will be the Iretons, the Harrisons and the Ludlows. There is the still further prospect, not unworthy of thought, that when it pleases God to summon ‘Protector Ulysses to eternal peace he will leave a son to inherit his honors as capable, from all we can learn, as the son of Cromwell. Wuo 1s Gnant's Successon?—The Presi- dent’s phraseology in the sentence, ‘This will be the last annual Message which I shall have the honor of transmitting to Congress before my successor is chosen,” is claimed by his friends to be a distinct disclaimer of any intention to be @ candidate for a third term. As we have said, it binds him to nothing. The question is, what meaning he attaches to “successor.” Some analogy can be found in the manner in which General Grant's salary was raised—a change for- bidden by the constitution during the period for which a President is elected. Now, Grant's salary was raised by Congress in the period after he had been elected in 1872 and before he had been inaugurated in 1873. This was legally justified on the argument that the increased salary was not given to Grant personally, but to the President ab- stractly for the term beginning in March, | 1873. When he speaks of a ‘‘successor” now | does he use the word as it was meant then? We think that he does. ‘‘Successor” is sim- ply the next President, whoever he may be. ‘Tae Exprosion or Dynamrre at Bremer- | haven on Saturday last takes, according ty | our special despatches, an aspect more di- | abolical than we were willing to allow our- selves to picture. It is asserted from Berlin | that the case was intended by the wretch who | had it prepared for shipment to have been | exploded at sea, This horrifying plot, for which we can imagine no origin in the ordi- | nary depravity of mankind, demands the | | most signal punishment if the facts are estab- lished. ‘Sixty-eight persons killed outright and thirty-five wounded” is a fearful result, | but if the explosion had taken place at sea the fatalities would have been numbered by MBEK 13, 1875—WI1TH SUPPLEMENT. Scanner eee cen ‘ wu0 nunt down Ifberals, priests and journal- |° ists so successfully, have now a task more. worthy of their acumen before them; one in which the whole civilized world would only be too glad to aid them. {s Martin Farquhar Tupper a Pla- giarist? We printed the other day aremarkable letter @ correspondent, accusing Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper of plagiarism, and furnish- ing thedocumentary evidence. Thechargeis founded upon the resemblance of Mr. Tup- per's new play of “Washington,” extracts from which Colonel John W. Forney recently sent to this country, to a play also called “Washington,” written by Mr. David Sin- clair, of Boston, The world-wide reputation of Mr. Tupper, the fact that he intended his drama as a compliment to the United States, and the announcement that he is coming to this country to superintend its production at the Centennial celebration, all make this charge startling and important. It is partic- ularly important to Mr. Sinclair, who is a dramatic author of extensive experience— although we believe none of his plays have ever been produced—if the fruits of his genius have actually been appropriated by the great English poet. So far as we know them we will lay the facts fully before the public. Had we both the plays of ‘‘Washington” before us judgment on this important question would be easier, but Mr. Tup- per’s play is unpublished, and we only know it by the description and extracts given by Colonel Forney, who is one of the few men whom the poct admitted to his confidence. Mr. Sinclair's drama, however, we have complete, as pub- lished by ©. W. Calkins & Co., printers, No, 136 Washington street, Boston, Candor compels us to say that after reading his drama in the light of Mr. Tupper's effort the strong resemblance upon which our cor- respondent insists must beadmitted. In the first place we have the resemblance of name, and that, although it might easily be a coin- cidence, is significant. Secondly, the same characters are used in both the dramas. We find, besides Washington, that both Mr. Tupper and Mr. Sinclair introduce Frank- lin, Adams, Arnold, Mrs. Washington, while there are other characters different in name, but substantially alike. It is singular that in each play Washington's negro body servant should appear, and it is idle to object that Mr. Tupper calls him Bishop and Mr. Sinclair William. The comic element in both cases seems to depend upon these Ethiopians and upon a Yankee, whom Tup- per calls Nathan, a low comedy Quaker, and Mr. Sinclair Nazalhead. All of Tupper's dramatic personages do not appear in the quotations ; but if, inaddition to those of Mr. Sinclair which we have cited, he should also have Lord Howe, Generals Lee, Gates, Greene, Sullivan and others, the resemblance would be still more striking. Their treat- ment of the subject is also similar. Mr. Tupper ends his play with the execution of André, and Mr. Sinclair with the capture of Trenton, and both deal with Arnold’s treason. “He opens,” says Colonel Forney of Tupper, ‘with Arnold’s violent patriotism, as if to | show that extreme men are always to be dis- | trusted.” So does Mr, Sinclair, who, in his first scene, makes Arnold proclaim his patriotism in the presence of Washington and describe the treachery of men who allow espair, Di The child of blackest hell, to goad them on To seek the fellowship of fancied friends, And feel the bitterness of that deceit They bore to others, Colonel Forney also refers to Tupper’s excel- | lent pictures of Franklin and Washington. | Similar portraits are drawn by Sinclair. It is, indeed, when we compare the style of dialogue and soliloquy of the two poets that | the accusation of plagiarism seems strongest. It would be unjust to condemn Mr. Tup- per hastily. He has been accused of plagia- rism before, but it was generally ironically, as in the comparison of his poems with “Mother Goose,” ‘Nursery Rhymes,” &c. | But here we find him charged with taking | his subject, characters and ideas from an American dramatist whose play was pub- lished more than a year before his ‘‘Wash- ington” was heard of. It is certainly a mat- ter which demands an explanation from Mr. Tupper before he can produce his play in this country. It would never do to have at the Centennial two ‘‘Washingtons,” as like as two peas, produced simultaneously at two theatres, and this we now see is a calamity | which might easily occur. Our Avenue, The bright and invigorating weather, | which has lingered beyond its period, shows us the disadvantages under which we labor in the present condition of Fifth avenue. This avenue is to New York what'the avenue of the Champs Elysées is to Paris, It is alike the avenue of the rich and the poor, Here the man of fashion and society goes for his morning drive or his evening stroll. Here the poor man with his wife and children goes for his Sunday afternoon's saunter, to see the world and the great houses, and the multi- tudinous throng which @ sunny day, cold or warm, is sure to attract to the avenue. It is also the way to the Park, our great pleasure ground—the heart and lungs of the city. In the decadence that has fallen upon New York, since the downfall of our old Ring no part has suffered more than the avenue. It has fallen into decay and is no longer what it was as the glory of New York. What we want is | athorough repaving of the avenue, so that it may be to us really what the avenue of the Champs Elysées is to Paris. This is as much the duty of the city as the opening of the parks or the repair of the public buildings, It should be done also without delay. In doing so we should be governed by the best wisdom of our engineers and those who have studied the building of roads. We have had our share of experiments in the making of fanciful roads of plaster and tar and wood. The Ring taught us amid all of its follies and waste that the only way to secure a good road was to build one that would last. We can learn this from the Romans. But it was necessary that the lesson should come home in a more emphatic manner before we could be entirely weaned from our wooden pave- ment and tar and gravel fancies. New York and Brooklyn, Washington and Chicago | show us the foliy and unhealthfulness of | these experiments in street building. Take nues in Brooklyn, or Pennsylvania avenue in Washington, as an evidence of what our modern tinkers have done in the way of ‘‘im- proving” a city compared with the old Romans. What we want is a pavement that represents the best efforts of the modern engineers and builders. his is seen in the macadamizing process. A macadamizod pavement shows the effect of wear and tear less than any other. It is when well made almost as near as we can come to an ever- lasting pavement. It will satisfy the wants ofall. It will be an economy in the best sense, beeause we shall not be compelled to make an appropriation every season to repair or replace it. It suits our climate better than any other. In the renewal of New York, which is now the main duty of our people, we should adopt it and make our avenue worthy of the city and of the best interests of all classes. The Inter-University Rowing Chal- lenge. Simultaneously with their reception abroad we lay before our readers this morn- ing the text of the challenges to the Univer- sity boat clubs of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, and of the invitation to Mr. Thomas Hughes to stand as referee in the Inter-Uni- versity race of 1876. In so promptly adopt- ing our suggestion in the Henan of the 29th ult., and seizing upon far the fittest occasion which this country will see for bringing the famous Universities of both countries to- gether on this side of the Atlantic, our students have shown to as good advantage as they have in the manly letters now pub- lished. The only terms asked are so reason- able, and, beside those accorded Oxford before her memorable meeting with Har- vard was brought about, so easy, that, especially when the widespread interest in the occasion is considered, there can hardly be much doubt that one if not all of tho three institutions named will not gladly em- brace so rare a chance to enlarge their re- nown and make it truly international. The English crews row their annual eight-oared match in the early spring, and so will have ample time and pitty of relays for the six- oared American contest, while the encourage- ment they held ont to Commodore Ferguson, when he visited them last year in Centennial interests, was hardly less than that of the Dublin men, who, with true Irish pluck, are practically certain to be on hand. Captain Rees, in the letter of generous welcome which accompanies each challenge, but echoes the warm heart-beat of all Young America toward Young England and Ireland, and from a private source we learn that our* visitors will find our youth even better than their promises, and at strengthening friendly intercourse perhaps ahead of all theit seniors, Nor need there be any fear that Mr. Hughes will not appreciate the exceedingly flattering testimonial tendered him prac- tically by the young men of the whole land. No Englishman, or American either, ever before got such a compliment from them. He has not written often, bat by his penand life he has already so gotton hold of them as to have done more to stamp out the bad from their lives, and stamp in the good, than prob- ably any other man who breathes, Cheer after cheer went up from the Music Hall in 1870, when Boston, young and old, packed it to welcome him, and he must come again and find whether ‘‘Tom Brown” and “Scud East” are not still loved, not only in appre ciative Boston, but in all America as well. Pur an Exp To Ir.—There is some dis- cussion as to the representations now adver- tised at one of our theatres, under the saper- vision of Matt Morgan. These pretend to give real life portraitures of some of the pice tures of Gérome and other free French mas- | ters. Their essential point is that they pre- sent the female form naked, or with closely fitting flesh-tinted garments, and in such a manner as to violate all sense of propriety. To be sure, Matt Morgan calls the female thus displayed Diana or Cleopatra or some such name, and speaks of the exposure as “classic art.” ‘But it is the kind of classic art which by the laws of New York is under the surveillance of the police, and is apt to end in its exhibitor going up to the Island. We do not suggest any such hard measure for Matt Morgan, because he may feel that he is worshipping art all the time. But the District Attorney, however much he may re- spect Matt Morgan’s enthusiasm, owes a | duty to the people, and that is to suppress an obscene, indecent, improper entertain- ment. This is the truth ina nutshell. Matt Morgan's show is a disgrace to our stage ; and if he does not withdraw it himself it should be withdrawn by the police. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. —— Mr. Gladstone receives forty-two letters per day, Sir Hugh Allan, of Montreal, is residing temporarily at the Brevoort House. The Emprees Eugénie’s diamonds have, according ta the Times of India, been sold to the Maharajah of Pat- tall, Hon. John Hillyard Cameron and Hon. Alexander Campbell, of Toronto, Out., are sojourning at the Wind. sor Hotel. The number of insane people in San Francisco thie year, it is said, is twenty-tive per cent larger than it was last yoar. Mr. Guilford Onslow, writing to the London Morning Advertiser, says:—‘1 hope, before many hours pase away, I shall receive from Australia the intelligence that evidence is forthcoming that will settle the Tich- borne case, and releave the unfortunate claimant.” Next to oysters, Parisians like lobsters and crayfish— the latter possessing the advantage of being in season all the year rqund. The chief supply of lobsters comes from Rosco, in the department of Finistére. Alter Paris, Belgium, Russia, and Gormany are the best cus- tomers. General George B. Williams, formerly of the United States Treasury Department, but now a prominent offi- cer in the Japanese civil service, arrived at the Wind sor Hotel yesterday from San Francisco, He witl sail in the steamship Java on Wednesday for Europe, ona special mission from the Japanese government, It ig said that about 15,000 bunches of violets ara sold per day in Paris. Their sale amounts to 600, 000fr, a year. They are not insomuch fnvor nowas thoy were during the Empire, for the violet is looked upoo as an imperial flower, It is, therefore, # political flower, and some people fear to be thought imperialista if they wear a violet in their button hole, On the panel of a desk in the Merchants’ Exchange, in San Francisco, the grain in the wood, which is bird's eye walnut, aclose revemblance to a chaotic sea of fame, in the midst of which a shaggy head appears, ‘The features are thoge of a middle-aged man, and be a look of despair. 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