The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1875, Page 4

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Ware tee Prince or Waxes is junketing in India the Princess will spend the holidays with her children at Copenhagen. All this is well, for even royal personages ought to have some pleasure. Lorp Dexpy, who is in Edinburgh to de- liver the address as Rector of the University, is received with great honor. If his career continues he will inherit his father's repu- tation as well as his name. Tur Murtiverns of the Lennie are to be taken from France to England for trial and punishment. Mutiny and murder on ship- board have become so frequent of late that the sternest measures of repression are nec- essary, Tur Recatx of the Khedive's expedition to Zanzibar is confirmed. All Europe will be alarmed at this new evidence of the value of the Suez Canal purchase and the increas- + ing influence of England. Tae Dynamite Disaster was even more terrible than at first reported, the whole pumber of killed and wounded being esti- Jmated at two hundred. It is almost impos- fible to conceive of a crime so terrible as Thompson's, but there seems no escape from the conelnsion that it was calmly and ratcly planned, | religious current setting in that direction. | odist Church, | dent men who govern it cannot fail to see | know that the mind of Bishop Haven is | The root of the trouble between the Vatican | the evil will be widespread and fatal. ready the Methodist denomination, one of | the most powerful and most respected in | advantage would be limited to a few Metho- i | evil would fall upon the Methodist Church | | war cry and a knowledge of claptrap oratory, | tion to pray for the renomination of Presi- | dent Grant. | wise | military adventurer. | soldiers about him like Babeock and priests | | his triumph. WEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1875.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Grant's Keligious Urusade—rne Upen- ing of the Campaign for the Presi- dency. Notwithstanding the repeated denials and explanations of Bishop Haven and his friends of the Methodist Church, in reference to the recent Boston nomination of President Grant for a third term upon the platform of ‘true Christianity,” we cannot fail to see a strong This current takes its source from the Meth- It is natural that conscien- tious Methodists and those who respect the dignity and purity of the Church would | shrink from anything that would look like attaching their organization to the fortunes of any political party or leader. The pru- | that any success in politics would be small | compared with the evil that would fall upon it from such an alliance. We do not calculated to search deeply into the histori- cal relations between churches and govern- ments ; but unless the character of Bishop Simpson is misunderstood he must have seen | frequent instances in history warning him from the policy that would place his Church under obligations to any party or party leader. We cannot recall an instance in his- tory when an alliance of politics with relig- | ion, and especially the dependence of religion upon the State, did not in the long run | bring disaster to religion. Observing men in the Catholic communion see the effect of this relation between Church and State in the persecutions which have | fallen upon their faith in Italy and Germany. and the German government lies in the fact that the Roman clergy insist upon a direct connection with the government. If they had maintained their independence they would never have invited persecution. The government accepted the old relation partly because an established Church is the rule in the larger countries of Europe and partly be- cause of the belief that it would enable the tulers of the State to influence the Church, Now, whatever advantage may accrue to Methodism as a religion or to Methodists personally from the re-election of President Grant, or the election of any other member of the Church to the Presidency, in the end Al- this country, has fallen into scandal because of the preference shown to its bishops and priests by the President. The fact that any denomination, Methodist or not, becomes the favorite of the dispenser of political power unites against it every other denomination. Other churches see with envy what has been done for their brethren. They feel that every | attention shown to another Church by the authorities isa slight. Therefore if Presi- dent Grant were to succeed in winning the White House as the direct result of this | nomination of Bishop Haven the immediate | dists who might be in his graces, but the and last for many generations. It may be that these considerations have | | led to the explanations and denials which have attended the Convention in Boston, The practical fact stands out unchallenged | that this Convention has opened the canvass | for the Presidency by the nomination of President Grant. Counsellors like Bishop Simpson are not the men to sway the passions of aChurch. A fiery, reckless, unthinking prelate like Bishop Haven, with a popular could do more to carry with him the opin- ions of the Church than any moderate, well- intentioned, patient leader like Bishop | Simpson. The Methodists showed in their | Bishop Haven; the Cromwell is General | tions of the three negroes in the Tombs yes- | reporter, ‘‘was given in the most impressive | | granted the writ of error and stay of pro- | | tricks, then we have no justice in New York. Convention in Boston that, however the cooler heads might dissent from any attempt | to introduce polities into the Church, it was | a strong emotion with the Bishop. He and | | his friends meant to follow it as they would | an article of their faith. To use his own words in the Tribune, he desired the Conven- This is the sentiment which grew up in England when Cromwell be- came the Lord Protector. There were and pious men in that time who deplored the attempt to use the Church of God for the elevation of a But Cromwell had | like Haven. Behind these soldiersand these | priests were powerful parties—a compact body of supporters, whose interest was in It was the custom of his time to underrate Cromwell as a weak man, to libel him as eruel and false, to paint him as a tyrant, butcher and hypocrite. It is now the fashion to paint General Grant as a stolid, dark-minded, stupid accident, blown | into the Presidency by whiffs of cannon shot | and seeking re-election by pandering to religious enthusiasm. This picture of Grant does him as much injustice as the contem- porary pictures of Cromwell did the great Protector, The President is a strong man in any point of view. Asa politician he has shown a courage and patience and foresight which throws into the shade all of his rivals | for the leadership of the republican party. Although he may be criticised severely by cold republicans and opposing democrats, he | is to-day, without exception, the strongest man in his party. We question if he is not the strongest man in the nation. When we have, therefore, this strong, reso- lute man, strong by his intellectual capacity and his unrivalled claims upon the people | for his service during the war, forcing | his ambition upon the country, what can | be the result, and especially when we have | behind him the most powerful Church in the country, a Church whose discipline fits it | admirably for missionary and proselyting | work, a Church which represents more than any other the progress of the American Re- public and the public opinion of the Ameri- can people? It is in vain to suppose that a political programme inspired by such a man as Grant, supported by the regular army of the party and by the enthusiasm of the | Methodist Church, can be destroyed by the | vague resolutions of a House of Repre- | sentatives. It is not the republicans | who ran away from the floor on | Wednesday, who took Mr. Blaine’s example and hid in the cloak rooms in the presence of the third term emergency who | classes, and even a great advocate like Mr. represent the rank and file of that party. Grant does not need their support. He is strong in spite of them. They took him as their leader reluctantly. They have followed him without any sincere respect. They have given his administration an irritating sup- port. They would gladly see him sink out of sight. When the campaign unfolds itself they will follow his banner with the servile adulation they showed in the past. The campaign for the Presidency thus far is nothing more than a religious crusade. The. popular cry is ‘Free Schools and No Popery.” The Praise-God-Barebones is Grant. Thus far he holds the field, with no one to antagonize him but a raw, badly trained group of Bourbons, who now control the House of Representatives. Has Justice Departed from New York? The dreary, wretched story of the execu- terday usurps a space in to-day's paper which we grudge. It belongs to the news of the day, and cannot be abridged or omitted. Into the details of this story it is not our purpose to enter, except to deprecate the bungling manner in which the sentence was executed, and to say that the terrible fate which was awarded them by the law was just. But while we congratulate the administration of justice upon the pun- ishment of the murder of the pedler, what are we to say of the case of Dolan? If there ever was a murder in New York characterized by atrocity it was that of Mr. Noe, merchant, who was killed in his own store when defending his property by a rob- ber who came there to take away his property. This robber was arrested, tried and con- demned. We believe that no one doubts that he is the person who is now under sen- tence of death. This was the opinion formed by the jury who condemned him, by the Judge who senf®nced him, by the District Attorney who prosecuted him, by the Gov- ernor who refused to respite him, by the private secretary of the Governor and Judge of the Court of Appeals who declined to re- gard the after-discovered ‘‘evidence” as worthy of consideration. But instead of justice falling upon Dolan he escapes tho gallows by a technicality of the law and by what we are bound to consider an undue in- terference with the course of justice by Judge | Donohue. In the proceedings of the Supreme Court we find that Mr. Beach appeared before Judge | Donohue and gave his “honor as a lawyer that he had thoroughly examined the points raised, and that he considered them such as ought to be passed upon by the Court of Ap- peals.” This assurance, according to one | manner;” and, thereupon, Judge Donohue | ceedings. We are disposed to think, with one of the negroes who died yesterday, that there is one law in New York for the colored man and one for the white man. If Dolan lives then these negroes were unjustly executed. The murder of Noe was much more atrocious in | every aspect than the murder of the pedler at West Farms. Why should Mr. Beach or any lawyer have it in his power to go before a Judge, and by his *«word of honor as a lawyer” arrest the opera- | tion of the law? Is the ‘‘honor” of Mr. Beach of more consequence than that of Governor Tilden, Mr. Stebbins, Mr. Phelps or Judge Barrett, all lawyers who tried this case, not to speak of the twelve jurymen who condemned this man to death? If law is to be governed by these dramatic personal considerations, by the influence of counsel | over the Bench, by these expedients and | This whole Dolan business, from beginning to end, has been unsatisfactory. This man, condemned, we believe justly, for a cowardly assassination, is made a hero. Reporters | surround him. The Tombs shyster lawyers hurry to do his bidding in the hope of ob- taining a little notoriety among the criminal | Beach flies hither, thither, and finally goes to some easy judge and asks that justice be arrested as a compliment to his ‘‘personal honor.” Our criminal law needs revision. In every aspect of the case these recent convictions for capital punishment, as well as the virtual ac- quittal of Stokes and Macfarland and Scan- | nel and King, all go to show that we have no | | law in New York; that our laws, instead of | protecting human life, give criminals the op- | portunity of making themselves heroes. For | this deplorable condition of affairs no one | is more responsible than Judge Donohue. | His course yesterday is not justified by any | statute, by any legal precedent, by any claim of public justice or morality. It is one of those wanton acts of interfering with justice which in the past brought dishonor upon the Bench and ruin upon some of the judges who | indulged in it. Att Reporrs in regard to a disagreement between the President and his Cabinet touch- | ing the prosecution of the Whiskey Ring are pronounced unfounded by the Washington special despatch to the Heratp; and it is asserted that General Grant has interposed | no obstacle in the way of the prosecution of | General Babcock. From St. Louis we have | | information that Babcock is expected to plead | to-day. The case is one which must continue | to attract universal attention, and the Presi- dent’s co-operation with the prosecution is the best sign that we have yet had that there isto be no favoritism in the disposition of the charges against his private secretary. Peruvian Bonps are now formally added to the list of securities on which no interest is paid. It will be seen from our special despatch by cable this morning that the Pall Mall Gazette calls upon English bondholders | to form an association for their own protec- tion; but it is to be feared that they will find they have locked the stable door after the horse was stolen. Tue Evexts 1x France yesterday were the election of General Cissey, the Minister of War, to the Senate and the persistent deter- mination of M. Leon Say, the Minister of Finance, to resign. M. Say has never been thoroughly in sympathy with the MacMahon government, and has frequently offered his | resignation. This time he seems determined | to retires | offences. LL ‘The Case of Mr. O’Conor, For many days Mr. O'Conor has been re- garded as in a dying condition, and his friends and the public had so fully accepted what seemed the inevitable consequence of his state that his recovery now would be less like the restoration of an invalid than hike the resurrection of one already dead; yet this result is suddenly contdmplated as a possibility. It is not well in cases of this nature to be too sanguine over hopeful signs, which are frequently delusive. Indeed, it is a common clinical experience that in many fatal maladies a deceptive rally of the vital faculties is the immediate precursor of the end. Itis not yet certain that the better appearances chronicled in Mr. O'Conor’s case may not be of this melancholy nature; but it may surely be said, however, that they pre- sent a different aspect. They are, indeed, not simply better appearances of the case, but favorable symptoms of the restored activity of the digestive organs, the failure of which was the original source of trouble. People who hear that their friends are ill make, naturally, that first inquiry, ‘With what disease?” And in the case of a distin- guished public man, whose friends are the whole community, this curiosity is only the more extensively indulged. There seems some satisfaction to the thought when people learn the disease. They can picture the man’s condition to themselves, for they have all seen cases of all ordinary maladies. But the name, ‘follicular atrophy” that has been put forth as a response to the common inquiry in this case does not add to the gen- eral knowledge, as it goes beyond the popu- lar acquaintance with medical terminology. “Follicular atrophy,” or atrophy of the mu- cous membrane of the stomach, is a patho- logical condition that has been associated with certain symptoms only since the mi- croscope has been freely used in medical investigation. Older doctors might have given the disease some such vague designa- tion as consumption of the stomach, which would have sufficiently indicated that the stomach was the offending organ, and that death was threatened by a wasting process from the failure of nutrition. In this disease the formidable, practical fact is that the process of digestion stops in proportion to the severity of the case in so far as digestion is performed in the stomach. For general comprehension the mucous membrane of the stomach may be compared toa thin layer of sponge lining the organ ; but the little orifices that are seen in the sponge must be supposed for accuracy to be of microscopic proportions. In these minute tube-like perforations or ‘‘follicles” is elab- orated the peculiar principle which gives the gastric juice its digestive capacity. If the circulation is deranged their operation is dis- turbed; if the nerves under the influence of | which they perform their function are disor- dered the gastric juice Toses its character in some degree, and digestion is inefficiently or irregularly carried on. If the derange- ment of the circulation is greater, orif there is any considerable loss of nervous power, such as comes with the debility of age, then these little organs not only fail to perform their functions, but may fail to get even the nutri- tion that is necessary to keep them in al healthy condition, and they waste away— , that is, they become atrophied. This, in the indefinite knowledge we get, may be supposed to be what has hap- | pened in Mr. O’Conor’s case. Fortunately, | digestion is not all done in the stomach, and there is a range of nutritious substances that | may be got into the system at other points of the digestive tract. ‘This, at least, gives time for recovery; and if the atrophy of the folli- cles depends upon any cause less permanent than the loss of power due to age, if it is | only consequent upon some temporary de- rangement of the spine due to fever or ma- | laria, the trouble may pass away and the | stomach recover its normal condition. It is announced that Mr. O’Conor has experi- enced, within the last forty-eight hours, an appetite for animal food, and this is an indi- cation, even if slight, that is hopeful on pre- cisely the right point. * Insurance and Murder. Insurance on ships threatens to become a premium for murder on a terribly extensive scale. There is no reason to believe that in the case of the Mosel and the fiend Thomp- son we are done with a crime that contem- | plates two hundred lives as trivial obstacles to a great gain. It is known that many ships have been successfully sent to the bottom for the sake of the insurance. that a scheme precisely like this, planned against a passenger steamer some years ago, | failed only through the timely remorse of a | party to the projected crime, It is not known, unfortunately, what was the precise fate of several magnificent steamers that sailed on Atlantic voyages and never reached port, and on which, presumably, the insur- ance was regularly paid; but in the light of this Mosel story one more painful conjecture has to be added to the many attempts to penetrate the mystery of the catastrophes in which they went down. It isin accordance with the operations of the human mind that the indication of a new crime develops crim- | | inal readiness as extensively as imitation is developed by the indication of any other new direction of human activity. That a | new series of acts is criminal not only does not | | deter from their pursuit but with many adds | a charm to it; while if they are seen to be the | possible source of great gain they will be | practised with the same diligent accuracy that is given to any other nefarious oceupa- _ tion. With many men life is as much war in a condition of civilization as it ever was in a “state of nature,” and they contemplate as fair any means that gains for them the final victory of a great fortune. Thompson is only a savage of modern life, ready to kill all who stand to him in the light of enemies; and all are enemies who come between him and his scheme. templated as one of the possibilities of the time that there will be an epidemic of these How shall we guard against it? How shall we do what we may to make safe the lives of passengers? They must be sep- arated from insured freight. It is the insur- ance that tempts to the crime, and that temptation must be taken out of any ship in which passengers are sent to sea. It will, we fear, be found indispensably necessary in all the commercial countries to provide by law that no vassengors suati be taken on anvship . It is known | It is therefore to be con- | that carries insured freight. Passenger ships and freight-bearing ships must be separate, or if freight is carried on passenger ships its association with the vast cargo of human life must be regarded as the sole guarantee of its safety. Mr. Harrison’s Amendment, The reply of Mr. Harrison, of Illinois, to our remarks on his proposed amendment to the constitution does not satisfy us of the wisdom of its characteristic feature. It is not, indeed, quite so objectionable as the telegraphic summary made it, for it does not Propose to confer on our ex-Presidents the full powers of Senators of the United States, It would give each of them the seat and salary of a Senator and allow them to partici- pate in the debates, but not permit them to vote ; that is to say, it would give them the same standing in the Senate which the Ter- ritorial Delegates have in the House, but allowing them to attend or not at their pleasure, without affecting their claim to compensation. But even in this form we think it unwise and inadmissible. In the first place it handicaps a reform of vital importance by tacking to ita trivial and fantastic measure calculated to obstruct its success. There are many citizens who desire an amendment limiting the President toasingle term who would strongly object to changing the composition of the Senate or creating a privileged class. The one term amendment should not be entangled with any accessary which has not an obvious tendency to smooth the way for its ratification. In the next place, the chief purpose and only prac- tical effect of Mr. Harrison’s scheme would be to pension our ex-Presidents, and an amendment of the constitution is not neces- sary for this purpose. If the people should at any future time think it just or expedient to confer a pension on an ex-President it is already within the power of Congress to grant such a pension. It would be unnecessary in the case of General Grant, who possesses a competent private estate, and the salary of the President is now so liberal that public senti- ment would not consent to -his receiving a pepsion o% his | retirement, As t to the value of his services a8 @ non-voting Senator, that seems quite fantastical, There is not an ex- President living, and General Grant, who | will be the first to occupy that position, would make a dumb Senator, to whom the seat would be 80 irksome that he would never occupy it. We give Mr. Harrison the hearing he desires, but we think his scheme “whimsical and indefensible. Merchandise in the Mails. Bangs to the Postmaster General relates to a subject which comes more nearly home toa greater multitude of people than any other within the province of the government. To comprehend the bearing of Mr. Bangs’ recom- mendations the reader must bear in mind the distinction between the several classes of mail matter. The first class comprises letters and postal cards, and no change is recommended in the rates of postage on these. The second class includes news- papers and other periodicals regularly sent to subscribers from the office of publication, and Mr. Bangs recommends no change in the present rates on mail matter of this class, The third class is miscellaneous, but Mr. Bangs arranges it in two sub-divisions, one | including transient newspapers, periodicals | | and unsealed circulars, on which he thinks small articles of merchandise, but without any change in the present high rates of postage. Mr. Bangs furnishes an amusing mem- Letter Office, which shows some of the curi- ous things which pass through the mails, in- cluding live rattlesnakes in perforated boxes, young alligators, potato bugs, stuffed birds, billiard balls, gambling implements, gold watches, sets of false teeth, bowie knives, | | American flags, telescopes, with many other odd and amusing things. To people living at places to which the express lines do not reach | the ability to send small articles by mail is a | great convenience; but they should be willing to pay for such a service, and there is no | justice in throwing the expense of it on those who use the mails for mere correspondence and periodicals. The New Tactics of Plymouth Church. | We dare say average readers looked with weariness and disgust through the two or three columns we had to publish yesterday giving the proceedings at the Plymouth church business meeting on Thursday even- ing. That church has taken steps for sub- mitting its affairs to a new investigation by an ecclesiastical tribunal chosen by itself. The public, in the interest of peace and de- cency, protests against any further stirring | up of this scandal to poison the social atmos- phere, and, above all, against a one-sided, | whitewashing investigation. This is a cun- ning trick to parry the effect of the mutual council called for by Mrs. Moul- ton. Plymouth church refuses to sub- mit to the mutual council any other question than the merely technical one relating to its right to drop Mrs. Moul- ton from the roll of members for non-attend- ance at public worship. They want an ex- euse for narrowing the investigation before a body in which both sides will be repre- | sented to that single point, and the excuse they have devised is to refer all general mat- ters toa council of their own selection, before which no adverse party can have a hearing, Such a one-sided affair will be regarded by the public as an elaborate piece of white- washing. As nobody will be permitted to participate in it except ministers known to | be friendly to Mr. Beecher its foreseen re- sult will have no moral weight, however em- phatically it may exculpate the Plymouth | pastor. Things have reached such a pass that the only way for Plymouth church to deal with the scandal hereafter is to try to live it down. Tux News rrom CoLrompia anp Sovra Amenica, by way of Panama, is not of special interest. President Perez's resolution to con- demn the action of General Camargo, at Panama, in the case of Sefor Arosemena, produced a degree of agitation in the public mind, but the feeling was calming down, The elaborate report of Superintendent | that the present rates are too high and ought | to be reduced to the old figures, and the | other, including books, seeds and various | which he | thinks the mails should continue to carry, | orandum of articles he found in the Dead | The financial situation in Peru was of a very Bloomy character. A riot, which was origi- nated by the Presidential canvass politicians of Peru, produced very fatal consequences. The rival parties came into conflict in the town of Huanta. The conflict raged during @ space of twelve hours. Twenty persons were killed and a very large number wounded. A New Oce: Highway. Arctic exploration and discovery have again resulted in achievements as valuable as they are remarkable. It has long been the fashion to regard the waters about the North Pole as impenetrable, and the theory of an open Polar Sea, in spite of all the proofs of its ex- istence, is even now regarded as little more than adream. Still the subject is one which has always excited the liveliest interest, and nearly every expedition which has been despatched to the North has returned with the news of important discoveries. The latest of these stories we print this morning, and the results of the expedition which are recounted in our columns to-day will be found to give promise of something more lasting and beneficial than the wildest imagi- nation could have conceived. Professor Nordenskiéld is a Russian savan, who under- took a part in the Polar exploration which is now universally recognized as a scientific necessity. Sailing through the Kara Sea, long regarded as the ice cellar of the North, but which had been cruised year after year by Norwegian fishermen, he reached the mouth of the Yenisei and re- vealed a new ocean route between Europe and Siberia. The importance of this dis- covery cannot be overestimated. If it should be found as practicable as it is believed to be by Dr. Petermann and other eminent geog- raphers, it will give commerce a new high- way and open up a vast and important country to trade. What both Europe and Asia have needed is a waterway from the Northern European ports to the grand river system: of the Asiatic continent. Until now this has scarcely been hoped for, and so great a discovery was certainly not expected. Such, however, is the mean- ing of Professor Nordenskivld’s explora- tions if his assumptions are found to be cor- rect, and, fortunately, his assumptions hava passed beyond mere theory. Ho has accom- plished a journey which gives the world a highway between the West and the East as important as that which was per- fected by the Suez Canal. We can only + hope that subsequent expeditions will verify the importance of Professor Nordenskiéld’s discoveries, and that the highway he has dis- covered may be found to be an open path way between Europe and Asia. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. a Ta ‘Tho French eat 85,000,000 rabbits every year. “Nomination by prayer” is good. Suppose we elect him by doxology ? ‘A Western man says that figures won ‘ele unless they happen to be on a gas meter. J.W. P. wants to know “whether a horn of apple brandy will intoxicate,” Yes, it will, cornucopiously. It is estimated that there are about 1,400 young men from the United States pursuing their studies at the universities and colleges of Germany. Chicago Inter-Ocean:—‘‘It is stated that William M. Evarts will go upon the stage. This prejudice against | street cars is taking a wide hold upon our public men,” Blondin walked on a rope from mast to mast ofa ship, the distance being 431 feet, and several times he | was compelled to siand Still while the waves rocked the vessel. Blaine said to John Y. Foster as Richeliou said to bis | follower: --Joseph—heb !"? poking him in the ribs, “IT will make you a bishop.’’ And then, like Richeliea again, he made a fool of him. Few remember that Uliver Wendell Holmes began life as a law student, and not many more care to know that Lowell did the same thing and was actually | admitted to the Bar and opened an office in Boston, G. W. Curtis says:—~‘There are wise critics who | think they have disposed of Dickens by calling him a seutimentalist. What isthe Sermon on the Mount, what is the soul of ail religion, what is morality itself, but sentiment.” At Ann Arbor University, Michigan, the studenta have hired a shorthand writer to take down the lee- tures, Querv—Whether the taking down by the stu- dents themselves is not an exercise of mind not to be dispensed with ? General Francis A. Walker, Professor in the SheMield Scientific School, Yale College, has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Awards of the Centennial Exhib- ition, The appointment of Dr. Pepper as Medical Di- rector of the Exhibition was confirmed by the Execu- tive Committee yesterday morning. The daughter of M. Benoist, a Vandeean school- master, has passed a brilliant examination for the de- gree of bachelor of letters at the University of Poi- tiers, in France, and, the other day, the Birkbeck Insti- tution, of London, a large and old college, distributed | the first prizes in modern languages and “advanced mathematics’? to three women. Mr. Disraeli was dining with Baron Rothschild when atelegram from Paris was brought to the Baron an- nouncing that the Khedive had offered his shares in the Suez Canal for sale to the French government, and thut the parties were at that moment baggling about the price. Mr. Disraeli suddenly raised his head and said:—‘What is the price?’ The Baron immediately telegraphed for the desired information to Paris, and the answer came back in a few minutes, ‘Four millions steriing.” ‘We will take them,” said Mr. Disraeli, without a moment’s hesitation, and from thence the matter became one merely of detail, And now Brown is to be written up, not John Brown of Harper’s Ferry, but the magniticent Isaac H. Brown, | of Grace church, whose tales, anecdotes and gossip | about fashionable life will no doubt make a most at- tractive volume, Colonel Frank Moore has” undor- taken to write “Brown's Reminiscenses,’’ and itis rumored they will comprise lively sketches of parties, public meetings and receptions, weddings and funerals, | in which the great B. participated. | The Sultan of Turkey, who is effeminate and hasa high temper, has quarrelled with Valides, his mother, and with his Grand Vizier, Public opinion in Constan- tinople is excited against the Sultan, who, on account of his weak licentiousness, seems to be less respected than bis family or bis Ministers, He, asa ruler, haa done nothing much more than to demand money, which was refused to him, but which he forcibly took, Even the Turks, narrow: in their ideas of government and civilization, re t tho idea of a Sultan serving himself with money when the country needs it, The Sultan may be deposed, The January number of the Catholic World contains a remarkable article upon President Grant’s speech at Des Moines, lowa, at the Convention of the Army of the Tennessee, on September 29, It professes to find that all Grant said of the relations of Church and State and | of the contest which he predicted might occur between | ‘patriotism and intelligence on the one side and super- stition, ambition and ignorance on the other,’ 1@ im perfect accord with the teachings of Catholicism, “The epecch expresses,” says the Catholic World, “etter than many imagine, the common sentimenta of the American people,” and of Grant It declares, “all must admit that he is @ true American, formed and moulded by the events In which be has moved, and truly representing the country aud the times.” It allirms that if Grant's recommendations in the speech ‘are adopted the Church will be content, The article is sory ably written, and the process of reasoning, by which the President is made to appear the champion | of the Roman Catholic theory of the common schoot system, !s exceedingly ingenious, But whether the | President will accept this argument as the true inter~ | pretation of bis sveech is an interesting ayastion,