The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1876, Page 5

LONDON LOOMINGS. x The Sweep of ths Great Storm ’ Over Europe. “|TS RAVAGES. IN. ENGLAND. Partisan. Rancor Over the New Imperial Title. FROM APPROVAL TO OPPOSITION. _ Disheartened Liberals Making Odi- ous Comparisons. “THE AMERICAN HORSES IN ENGLAND. British Riflemen Still Sulking Over the Team Question. THE WALT WHITMAN CONTROVERSY Finances in a Fog—An Avalanche of Failures. ‘ A GOOD WORD FOR AMERICA The Thunderer Has Faith in the Nation, but Not in Our Public Departments. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE. ] ‘ Lonpon, March 18, 1876, The present week has been the stormiest which has been experienced in England during the past “hundred years. There have been terrible gales, Storms and floods in England, France, Germany and Belgium. H DAMAGE IN THE METROPOLIS. In London many barges were sunk in the Thames. _ Dn Sunday last a number of houses were unroofed and many persons injured by the falling material. IN THE COUNTRY. A large portion of the country districts is under water. AN UNFORTUNATE 'BUSMAN. A remarkable accident occurred on Sunday. A telegraph wire was broken by the force of the wind, and in its retraction almost severéd the head of an mnibus driver from his body. A FEARFUL ACCIDENT. A fearful accident occurred at Caub, a small town of Northern Germany, on the Rhme. A mountain which overhangs the town threatened a land slip some weeks ago. A wall, thirty feet high, had been “built for the protection of the town. Last Sunday an earthfall from the mountain occurred, breaking flown the wall and burying a portion of the town ander the earth. Iwenty-nine of the inhabitants of Caub and many cattle were killed. : GOVERNMENT ALD, _ Troops were despatched to the scene of disaster to help to extricate the sulferers and assist the miners in searching for the dead. Six mangled bodies have been recovered so far, and 280 persons have been temporarily accommodated with shelter and food, GOVERNMENTAL NEGLECT. ‘The German government is greatly blamed, as the inhabitants of Caub years ago petitioned the au- thorities for the removal of the threatening rocks, RAVAGES BY THE STORM IN WESTERN EUROPE. Your Berlin correspondent telegraphs that the gale extended over the whole of the West of Europe. It blew in circular form; from the north in France, ‘snd from the south in Belgium, Jn Germany the storm caused terrible inundations; houses were unroofed, the steeples of churches blown down, telegraphs prostrated and railroad tracks washed away. EARTHQUAKE. In several places earthquake shocks were felt dur- ing the prevalence of the storm. SULPWRECK. There have been several shipwrecks, LOSS OF LIFE. ‘The loss of life by the visitation is comparatively moall. CROPS DESTROYED. ‘The inundations consequent on the storm have mjured the young crops, and a new sowing will be necessary in many places. HOMELESS. . Many persons in Berlin have been rendered home- leas. WN THE AUSTRIAN TERRITORY WIDE SPREAD RUIN. Your Vienna correspondent telegraphs that in Bohemia and Hungary enormous tracts of country and above a hundred townships have been flooded during the past twenty days. In the neighborhood of Vienna the losses in house property, railways and agriculture amount to $1,250,000. IN HUNGARY, In Hungary the total loss, as foreseen, will amount to $10,000,000, of which one-half falls on the agricul- tural interests. Sixteen hundred thousand acres of ‘rable land in Hungary are still inundated. bag LOSS OF HOUSE PEOPEKTY. ‘The loss of house property 1s incalculable. Whole villages have almost disappeared; others are in ruins. At Buda-l’esth 100 houses have already col- lapsed and it is feared that whole blocks will fall, THE KISH IN THE DANUBE. Within twenty-four days the Danube, which rose twenty-four feet above the low water level, has only fallen eighteen inches. CARE POR TILA PEOPLE. ‘The action of the authorities is praiseworthy. ‘The actual loss of life in Hangary and tria is below forty, but many persons have died from ex- posure and illness, 5 DISEASE AND DISTRESS. Fever is spreading and great distress prevails among the people along the river from Comorn to ‘Sclavonia. EMURESS OF INDIA. ‘The question whether or not Queen Victoria shail add to her style and title the sonorous syllables “Empress of India” is settled. The division on the second reading of the Royal Titles bill ended the struggle ogainst it. The third reading is a matter of course, and the House of Lords will pass it without question. The royal assent will then rapidly make It a law of the land, DISRAELI'S VICTORY. The Parliamentary opposition is much disheart- gmed at the overwhelming majority by which the bill Was voted, a majority which was attained rather ~ wy wie aswistance or tne Dberals from their places in the House of Commons than by tory predominance. COURT INFLUENCE. ‘The tmfuence of the Court, which was actively used in behalf of the ministerial measure, con- tributed to crush the opposition, THE DEDATE. ‘The debate on the Royal Titles bill was long drawn out, but mot very brilliant. Sir Vernon Harcourt ridic- ulously likened the addition of the title of Empress to that of Queen to the placing the gaudy Brighton pavilion in juxtaposition with Westminster Abbey. Lords Hartington and Granville, themselves not ab- solutely unsusceptible of Court influence, now aban- doned further resistance, having fought the last pitched parliamentary battle on this subject. WHAT THE PRESS SAYS. The journalistic antagonism to the new title is noteworthy when compared with the first greeting which the press gave to Disraeli’s annoancement of {tin the Royal Message. PROX DULCET 10 THUNDER TONES. The Times, of February 9, credited Premier Dis- raeli with a happy idea, and spoke of the imperial title as in apecullarly happy way signalizing the Prince of Wales’ Indian journey. Reversing its engines, as is often its wont, the Times, of March 11, says the addition of the title of Empress to that of Queen is “un-English,” and advises the Ministry to retire from the false position which it has assumed in reference to it. The Telegraph, of February 9, spoke of the title as Mr. Disraeli’s “judicious anrouncement.” The Telegraph, of March 10, speaks of it as an ominous and distasteful change. Indeed the condemnation is now almost as universal as the approval a month ago was unanimous, A JEWEL CONTROVERSY. “Consistency, thou art a jewel,” a3 you may im- agine, is not a favorite quotation with the papers that have blown hot and cold on this proposition of making the Kohinoor a gem for the imperial diadem. ‘The best explanation of this change of front is that the discussion from a series of pretty apostrophes to the new imperial bauble has degenerated into a rancorous party question, CONTINENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PHULADELPHIA, The steamer Dorian, of the Anchor line, has left the port of Florence—having culled at Genoa, Leg- horn, Naples, Messina and Palermo—for Philadelphia, with 1,440 packages and 200 tons weight of Italian products of art and industry for the Centennial Ex- hibition. THE DRAMA, There is nothing of dramatic importance. Miss Genevieve Ward repeated her triumphs during the week as follows:—The title rdle in the “Antigone” of Sophocles, Bianca in Dean Milman’s “Fazio,” and to-day as Mrs. Haller in Kotzebue’s “Stranger.” THE LENNIE MUTISEERS. ‘The trial of the Lennie matineers is becoming a topic of absorbing interest, the members of the aris- tocracy attending in large numbers. WALT WHITMAN'S CASE. ‘The weeklies and dailies of the press are engaged in controversy on the subject of Walt Whitman's al- leged destitution, Robert Buchanan abuses America generally for her neglect of the claims of “this dis- carded and insulted poet to literary immortality.” The Saturday Review calls Buchanan’s letter an insulting appeal to Bbylistnen on behalf of the apos- te of beastliness gypan.gay trick.’ : “AN EXITED BISUOP MOVING. ‘The Bishop of Paderborn has left Holland for Eng- land in consequence of Prussian reclamations for his surrender to Germany. AMERICAN PERSONALS, Mr. Eugene Schuyler arrived in London to-day én route for Constantinople. Mr. Gratiot Washburne has resigned the Secre- taryship of the American Legation in St. Petersburg. THE AMERICAN HORSES. Littlefield has been very busy with Preakness, Bay Final and the Mate. On Monday the horses were out on cantering exercise. On Tuesday and Wednesday they galloped two miles ‘and a quarter; on Thursday two miles. Mate and Bay Final are wanted at Epsom a month hence and Preakness at Newmarket,a week later. If they win it will astonish English trainers, who declare they cannot get ready in time. The health of the horses is very good. BAY EAGLE, The Derby horse Bay Eagle is not doing much. ‘The odds are 100 to 1 against him. Bay Final is con- sidered to have the best chance at an immediate meeting. THE RACING SEASON—HEAVY BETTING. The legitimate racing season commences at Lin- coln on Monday. The betting on the principal handi caps is very heavy. Several horses are backed to win $250,000. THE FAVORITES, Kaiser and Woodlands are the favorites. The for- mer has been sold and will go abroad. THE NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. The grand national steeplechase race will come off on Friday. THE UNIVERSITIES’ BOAT RACE. The Oxford and Cambridge Universities’ boat crews have arrived at Putney. THE IRIS RUPLEMEN FOR AMERICA, By request of the Irish Rifle Association Major Leech is to organize an Irish rife team for Philadel- phia. ‘The deputation of the Irish Rife Association which interviewed Major Leech in regard to the organiza- tion of an Irish team by that gentleman included nearly ali of the 1875 international team, THE BRITISH RIFLE ASSOCIATION RAVRESENTATION. Captain Mildmay, Secretary of the National Rifle Association, thinks the action of the Lrish team has definitely settled in the negative the question of the British Association's representation, though Sir Henry Halford has not yet received a reply from Colonel Gildersiveve to his communication asking that no team should be acgredited unless under the auspices of the National Ride Association. SCOTCH RIFLEMEN ANXIOUS TO SHOOT IN AMERICA. Captain MacDonald, of the Scotch rife teain, writes to the Volunteer Sercloe,Gazette that six mem- bers of last year’s Scotch Elcho Shield team—all who are able to go to America to participate in the Centeanial matchos—intend to shoot for places in this team, dud at least nine other first class shots are ready to compete. No shot, a resilient of Scotiand, who caa go, has held back. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. ; A financial cloud hangs over the market, and thus far nothing has occurred to dispel it, Twenty-two failures are reported for the weck. Trae, many of them are small and unimportant, bat such a result in the same period las not been recorded since the panic here of 1870, Undoubtedly the cause is a fail + in the price of ail speculative foreign securities. A RALSDOW OF PROMISE, . At the moment, however, there is a better feeling, | had reached the Foreign Office of the action of the | between veterinary science and the tendency of prices indicates an early recov- ery. American government bonds are steadily held, and the fluctuations are unimportant. American | railway bonds are likewise the subject of eulogtum in several financial papers, and those which have not suffered default are recommended for purchase. It must be confessed, however, that the ficld of prof- itable investment is gradually being contracted, be- cause buyers, in their fear, show a lack of discrimi- nation between possibly good and practically bad in- Vestments. Some of the former are low and well calculated to invite purchase because of their su- Pperior merit; yet it is dificult at this distance to make @ judicious choice. AN EDITORIAL COMMENT. An editorial in the London Times to-day on the Subject of American credit says that the growing interest of England in the development of American prosperity must not be retarded or in any way Weakened by the recent disclosures of facts con- cerning oficial corruption; that while the American people are strangely tolerant in the face of loose dealings with the public money and the disposition of public patronage, they nevertheless are jealously watchful of any change which affects i THE PUBLIC CREDIT. It is also observed that the agricultural, industrial and commercial classes are too shrewd to be de- ceived by every wind of currency doctrine, and that ever since the war the victorious majority have | upheld the public credit as a vast monument of national self-sacrifice. In brief, that Americans | have shown not only a commendable patriotic reso- lution, but a wonderful capacity in encountering and bearing their financial burdens, such as no other people in history can match. The Times believes that there is MORE NOISE THAN RRAL PERIL in the political situation at Washington; that while individuals may be corrupt, the nation is not endan- gered, and hence suggests that the holders of Amer- ican securities need not be frightened, inasmuch as the financial policy of the government is discon- | nected with the corruption which confessedly exists in the public departinents. THE CASE OF EDWARD O’MEAGHER CONDON IN PARLIAMENT—HAS HE BEEN HANDCUFFED | AND CHAINED ?—‘‘LAUGHTER” IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS—RITUALISTIC AND RINKUALIS- TIC NOTES—LONDON STATUES—GREAT JEWEL ROBBERIES—STARVING SEAMSTRESSES. Loxvox, March 2, 1876, It will be remembered by the readers of the Hxkatp that on the February 28, 1874, a petition was sub- mitted to the House of Representatives by Mr. Ban- ning, member from Ohio, with refereuce to the case of EDWARD O’MEAGHER CONDON, and that on the 3d of April a resolution of the House of Representatives was passed, requesting the Presi- dent to cause a representation to be made to Her | Majesty’s government favoring the release of the con- vict. The resolution was referred to the Senate Com- mittee on Foreign Relations, where it remained till March?2, 1875, On that day the chairman of the com- mittee brought it before the Senate, and asked w be discharged Yom the further consideration of it That request was agreed to, and the resolution of the House of Representatives was thus disposed of, It was not, however, disposed of in the House of Commons, for last Monday Mr. Parnell rose in bis place and asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Attuirs whether the government had any information respecting instructions sent by the United Statos House of Representatives to their Foreign Atlairs Com mittee to inquire into the circumstances of the con- viction of Eaward O’Meagher Condon, an American citizen, and to report whether the United States should interfere by a demand for his release or an appeal to British clemency, and whether the government would lay before the House information as to the charge upon which Condon was convicted, his sentence aud present place of imprisonment, In reply to these inquiries Mr. Bourke, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, etated that information United States House of Representatives in the matter, and that he had seen by the papers that another reso- lution of the same kind nad beea passed recently by the House of Representatives, | un odd effects Neither 1s the likeness good. Looking | trom King street With regard to the second part of th equestion, as to the conviction of Condon, Mr, Bourke stated that the Foreign Office had no supervision whatever, Mr. Parnell then asked the Home Secretary whether Edward U’Meagher Condot, an American citizen, was now a prisoner in Spike Island Convict Priscn, and, if so, whether he had been bandenfled or chained in his cell during any portion of his imprisonment; and, if so, how often and for how Jong a period and for what reasons such punishment had been tiflicted. To which Mr. Cross, the Homme Secretary, replied that he “thought the honorable member (Mr. Parnell) must have been misled by some information he had re- ceived. Condon is not in Spike Island Convict Prison and never has been there, (Laughter.) He has never been handcufled and has never been chained.” (Laughter.) All very funny, no doubt, for every ono concerned, except Edward O’Mengher Condon, RITUALIS. The ritualists make a good fight of i. Mr. C, I. Rids- dale, the ritualistic parson of Folkestone, who was recently defeated in the action brought against him on account of bis High Church practices, bas now made application to Lord Penzance, the Judge under the Pablic Worship Regulation act, that his seatence shall | be suspended pending an appeal & the Queen in Coun. | cil upon four points. ‘The four points in question, upon every one of which | the Judge came down heavily on Mr, Ridsdale at the trial, are:—First, the eastward position of the minister at the communion; second, the vestments to be worn; | third, the form of bread to be used, and fourth, tho exhibition of a crucifix in churches. Lord Penzance went through the several points, and, observing that it was the “duty of Mr. Ridsdale to obey the Jaw,’ retused to suspend the sentence of munition which had been passed. | Of course the church was crammed on the next Sunday (the 27th) to hear what Mr, Ridsdale bad to say from the puipit upon his tresh defeat He stated be- fore commencing the sermon that he Lad been under the impression that in celebrating the communion be might, without prejudice as regarded the points ap- pealed fror:, continue the practices referred to in those points until the appeal was heard or the application tor the suspension of the sentence made, Having found, | however, that this was not the case, he expressed his regret that he bad not known it earlier, as he bad uo wish to precipitate matters pending the appeal. ‘The question now ia, of course, whether Mr. Rida. | dale will “obey the law” and forego the ritualism in which he bas so freely indulged or whether his cou- science will forbid him to surrender, but impel him to go over at once to the Church of Rome. Mr Cook, of Bristol, you know, resigned his living rather than “obey the law’’ by administering the communion to a man who didu’t believe in a personal devil, Will Mr. Ridsdale stand by his convictions as stoutiy? It would seem from a recent editorial in the Morning Post that be will not, for that journal says:— Perhaps the most satistactory feature of the appeal is that by it Mr, Ridsdale, and we presume those who act with him and advise tim, expresses his willingness to admit the jaridiction of the court The retusai w do this was the rock oa which many of the best friends of the Church Wave feared that the rituahsts would wreck themselves; but it seem they koow how to avond it, and we cannot bat hope that it mudicates on a juster vrew of the situation than seemed to prevail Lut 4 lew weeks ago, “RINKUALIN ON THE RkaL THING. | ‘The mania for skating’ which now pervades al! | classes of English society bas set the scientists ay wors. Skating on real ice ia now the ery; let us have Foal skates on « frozen suriace! One John Gamgec, erawwaile a “professor of vetermary science,” has undertaken to supply the demand, The connection and rink skating is pot, at first sight, very clear; but Mr. Gamgee’s researches os to the poswiihty of keeping meat tres when jinported in pice’, imeteat of importing the | auimals ihemeelves, aodertaken at the Ume when the = rluderpest = iret ged, = have led to | the construction of an actual ice rink ia London, near | | several newspapers. | they undoubtedly still enjoy 1a molding and guiding | meals and rcom receives an equivalent of 10s, a week, | which i more than what is paid to an agricultural | | ever, the upshot i that any -atarved sear | stress who will fead this crude letter of mine 6 diligent inquiries will tad that 1 am right NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1876.-QUADRUPLE SHEET, — Battersea Bridge. The rink is not yet finished, but a | small surface, prepared for experiment, has been in | use since the beginning of the year, and been fouad } completely succese{ul according to the testimony of the members of the London Skating Club, Mut a higher authority even than they testifies to the same effect in the person of Mr, Robert ©. Austin, the champion skater of the United States, who, according to the | Standard, ‘is now fulfliling an engagement as a roller | skater ai the Philharmonic.” His opinion was as de- cisive in regard to the meryt of the ice surface as that of the gentlemen of the London Skating Club, After ap exhibition of some feats of marvellous skill he de- clared that the skating surface was as good as one of his native rivers with the thermometer at zero, His verdict in regard to roller and ice skating will probably be indorsed by all who are well qualified to torm an opinion of the merits of the two—that roller were | child’s play after real skates, and that no one who could use an ice rink would be likely to patronize asphalt, i It ts stated that 500 members bave subscribed £10 | { | i each to secure Mr, Gamgeo’s Rink, aud as there bids | fair to be acomplete revolution tu “rinkualism’? in consequence of his discovery, it may be well to state that the precess of ice making is to add ether to glycerine | $0 as to reduce the latter to a temperature of 40 dog. i | velow zero, The glycerine so treated is ted by pipes underneath and through three inches depth of water, the water being transformed into a sheet of ico by the process, LONDON STATURS, Perhaps next to the climate and atmosphere of Lon- don there is nothing which the foreign sojousner in the metropolis criticises so freely as the works of art (?) | which (thank Heaven!) are scattered fow and far be- tween in its streets and open places, The arch ab” surdity of London, the thing with the cocked hat on the arch at Hyde Park corner, of course gives the coup de grace \o the sight seer, and, should he wot bave al- ready visited Parliament Square, which is the present theatre of operations for the sculptors, be will not have much inclination to proloug his sufferings by do- ing so, Your telegraphic columns conta!ned a deserip- Mon of the unceremonious unveiling of Lord Palmer- Ston’s statue, and cut from this week’s World the following comical description of it:— Lord Palmerston suggests the own valet carrying his master’s paletot, explaining to the railway porter that his master has got both tickets, Better might have been expected from the graceiui Woolner. The little round disc on Which the statesman 1s perched hus ere is a view of amuzing shoulders with @ lady's waist, or extraordinarily developed ‘Ro- man tal On approaching Parliawent square one of j the legs, the farthest, tkes the bandiest of curves. On the next “order” we suould suggest making trial, | Jor once and away, of a French or « German sculptor, | who knows something of putting sentiment into | bronze. ‘The outy etligy in London endowed with this redeeming virtue is that of Siduey Herbert at the War | Olfice; the most forlorn and grotesque is surely that of | poor Lord Holland, who sits in-a bronze armchair, alone and abandoned, in a large feld at Kensington, GREAT JRWELKY RouBERUKS, The astounding audacity of the robbers who took from beneath the foot of Lady Dudley's maid at a rail- Way station a whole case full of valuable jewelry is fresh in the minds o! Londoners, Now a perfect plague of burglars has burst upon the country around London, Aweek ago the residence of Sir J. M. Wilson, at Chariton, near Woolwich, was entered and £700 worth of valuables carried off? On Monday night a very similar robbery occurred at the residence of Lord Teynham, in the same locality, perpetrated, no douvt, by the same gang. Apparently pericctly acquainted with the domestic life of the family, the burglars waited autil the household was engaged at evening prayers, and then got into Lady Teynham’s dressing room by means of a ladder, A third theft, of plate, in the same neighborhood, was also reported on Monday to the police, who are | touch exercised in their minds about this alarming burglarious epidemic, LADY AUGUSTA STANLEY, The protracted sufferiugs of tho Queen’s greatest friend, Lady Augusta Stanley, wife of Dean Stanley, have at last been relieved by death. She expired on Wednesday evening. It will be remembered how Her Majesty forbade the bells of Westiminster to ring, as is | the immemorial eustom at the opening of Parliament, | for fear of disturbing her sick trend who lay dying | ard by iu the Deanery, The bells will now ring, but } it will be a knell for the departed soul of one whose ill- ness caused such solicitude in the royal lady’s breast, Lady Augusta was second daughter of Thomas, Seventh Earl of Elgin, She was formerly iady in waiting to the Duchess of Kent, mother of the present Queen, and nursed her with unremitting care during ner last illness, She was married to Dean Stanley on Decem- ber 16, 186%, THY WORLD AND The THUNDERER, | deaa That lively paper the World, which recently was on the “bull” side of Egyptian finance, and suddeniy turned “bear,” continues indulging in a series of arti- cles depreciating the Suez Canal transaction. In its | last number it descants as follows upon the influence of | the London press upon political questions: ‘The metropoti.an press, we are told, indorsed the ac- tion of Ministers with respect to Egypt, and theretore ithas the approval of the nation. “This corollary by | no means follows, What is the metropolitan press? 1¢ | 1s the opinion of about half a dozen individuals, | neither more wise nor more fovlish than any other atoms of the community. About twenty years ago the Times reigned supreme, To all intents and purposes it was the fourth estate, lis | circulation was about ton times that of any other news- paper. Not only m London, but in all’ parts of the country, persons derived their opinions from its lead- ing articles, because they had no opinions of their own, and because they never read avy confutation of those which it’ put forward. This | wutocracy Was destroyed by the penny metropolitan press. Instead of reading one newspaper people reud | A second revolution has now tuken place, Provincial papers are as ably edited as | London papers. Each great town or district bas its own organs; their circulation is great, and within the | area of that erreulation their authority is considerably | greater than thatot the metropolitan newspapers. ‘The liberal press out of London never joined in the ulsive burst of applause which welcomed Mr. Dis- | i's grand political idea; the idea itself was eriti- crsed and the manner ip which it was carried out found no advocates. It 18 well that this tact should be taken into consideration, and that halt a dozen courtly gen- tleinen in London should not run away with the no- tion that they are the sole exponents of public opinion, The “halt @ dozen courtly gentlemen,” however, probably leaned back in their armehuirs and smiled at the above paragraph, conscious in the supremacy which, the World to tif contrary notwithstanding, public opimon, “VYUT YOURSELF IN HER PLACK. '? Chares Reade seuds a communication to the Tele. | graph headed “Starvation Ketusing Pleuty,”? in which | Jeavors to show that all the half starved sea coud better their positions by tuk- ing positions us Servants in well-to-do fatuilies, M has observed that “the world 1s full of live counterparts,’ by which he means “people that stand | 1m heed OF other people, Who stand equally m need of them, only these tao hive pe parts of the sucial ‘ed; and at q lding out plenty in both | hands, and that plenty rejected with scora by young women of very httle merit, or, if not reyectol, ac: cepted only under vexatious and galling condivions 1m posed by the persons to be beneited, Mr, Reade here touches the servant question and en deavors to prove Lo starving seamstresses that by ac. | | block away those who bad witnessed the fire break out | proceeded tuither and notified Captaur Garland, who |. promptly telegraphed the sigual, and within # ‘short cepting a menial situation they can exchange their | present abodes “where they pig with their relations” aud hunger and gloom for “clean, healthy lodging and | no rept to pay, butcher's meat twice a day, food at all hours, tea, beer, and from $60 to $75 a year pocket money, in return for a few hours healthy service per | day."’ Mr, Reade thinks seamstres: are prevented | from accepting,meniai situations by entertaining a de. | lusive view of the two words “liberty”? and “wages,” | thinking that “a female servant bas no ‘liberty’ and | that her principal remuneration ts her ‘wages.’ ” | Mr. Reade calculates that a servant in getting her | laborer, who bas to support a wite and six or seven | children, Mr, Reade continues :— But, besides this, she gets a shilling a week for beer, | and Irom a suilling to eighteenpence ior washing, from twelve to eighteen pounds iu hurd cash, with occa- | gional presents of money aud dress, The wages of ber | class have been raed when they ought have been lowered. The mechanic's wages are justly raised, be | cause the value of money depends upon the value of the necessaries of Iie, These have rise fore nioncy has sunk, But that rise dues a female sorvante, aud it does ai them like lighting cocks, - A droiler pices of logic ‘than the fie of fed servants’ pocket | becuuse unfed servants’ wages are never encountered even in Avgio-Saxony. servants are trampling too Whe are caled (heitmasters and 3,000 humes are open to a H woman who can prove that she is not a tb | eilering nyt only plemiy, but replouion, | et money to boot, The pay of a house. | mistresses, aud ii maid, in rent, fire, food, washing, beer and money, is about £70 ($490) a your, aud this weket- angry soamtresses can obtain ifthey will set about it, and .Without any loss of dignity; for, as @ rule, servants howadays hold their Leads as high or a little higher than their mistresses vo. Quite an interesting statement, but apparently quite Mlogical; tor, if Mr, Reade deprives us of seamstresses and places them allas housemaids, he displaces au equal number of girls of lower education, who have (o either become seamstresses or, what is more probable, some- thing worse, If Mr, Reade wishes to do any good to tho suifering, balt-starved girls for whom he pleads he shou! start an agitation for in- creasing the payment to scamstresses or induce some rich philanthropist to build model homes tor them. Mr. Reade’s letter was no doubt suggested by the fol- lowing paimiul case, reported in the columns of the Daily Telegraph :— A most deplorable illustration of a sociable grievance for which there really seems to be no delinitive remody Was made puble at an inquiry held belore Mr. St. Clare Beulord, on Weduesday, at the St Marvia’s Hail, respecting the death of Ada File, a dilewoman, Fro the evidence of Eima File, her sister, it ap- peured that the deceased had occupied @ room in | Chandos street, and that since the death of their mother the (wo women had earned a wretchedly pre- curious pittance—it would be gross exaggeration to term it & livelihood—by needlework. Last Saturday Ada File sat up all night plying her needle and thread, About live o'clock in the morning, while still at work, she awoke ber sister by uttering piercing shrieks. Almost immediately afterward she sank on the toor ‘The medical evidence went to show that the body was feartuily emaciated, the stomach being completely empty. All the internal organs had become enteebled; and the proximate cause of dissolution was failure Of the action of the heart, re- sulting frou the physical condition of the deceused. | Emus File, being recalled, added to her evidence tho Significant stutement that on the Friday preceding Ada’s deuth the only sustenance partaken of by her and her sister had been @ cup of tea; that is to say, they had swallowed a nervous stimulant, but had had no actual bodily nourishment at all. ‘The Coroner made some humane remarks on the distressing nature of tue case, and “the Jury returned a verdict in ace cordance with the medical evidence,” They could hot, of course, do otherwise; still 1 is possible, we believe, to add Won oceasion a’ rider to a verdict, and such 4 suppiement might be conceived us being vouched thus:—*We find that Ada File died of starvation and overwork find, moreover, that although she slaved at her ‘b: nout the hvelong night— and how many pights and di before God knows— she and her sister could not get enough to cat; and We find, in conclusion, that this wretched woman died of inanition on the estate of a great nobleman, ia the centre of a Wealthy parish, and im the midst of the richest und—ostensibly so—the most philanthropic city in the world.” Of course 1t was nobody's tault that Adu File worked her lingers to the vone and suc- cumbed at last to want, Why did she not appeal to the Charity Organizauion Society? Why did not she or her sister apply to the parish for outdoor reliet— Bay u couple of loaves and two shillings a week ¥ Why | did they not go “into tne house ??? So fur as the dead | neediewoman is concerned it may be vain to ask such | questions now. purview of parishes and charity organizers. should be put, seeing that Emma File, not quite, but nearly starved, still hv that ' there are thou- the” “investigations” ng all day and all night in London the Mug- niticent. It is impossible to read the above without thinking of Hood’s pathetic verses :— Ob, men, with sisters dear! Uh, men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you’re wearing out, But human creatures’ lives! Stitch—stitch—stiteh, In poverty, hunger'and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud ag Well as a shirt, But why do | talk of death? ‘That phantom of grisly bone; I hardly tear its terrible shape, It seoms so like my own, It seems so like my own, Because of the tasts | keep, Ob, God! that bread should be so dear And tlesh and blood so cheap! THE FLOODS IN GERMANY. DETAILS OF THE RUIN PRODUCED BY THE OVER- FLOW O¥ THE ELBE—DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND LOSS OF LIFE AT POINTS WIDELY APART. [From the Geneva (Swiss) Chronicle, Feb. 29.} Reports of heavy floods continue to reach us from all paris of Germany, Austria and Hangary. The waters of the Upper Elve have overfiown their banks and caused serious damage and loss of life at places so | widely apart as Dresden, Magdeburg and the frontiors of Bohemia, The river has even reached the ‘flood marks of 1698, of 1712 and of 1824, though not 1784 and 1845."" A correspondent, writing from ‘ DRESDES, describes the scene of tho inundation, as witnessed from a tower at Zcnachwitz, a few miles above the city, as wild and wondertul in the extreme. He says:— On the low lying land on the left bank of the river the waters extend almost as far as the eye can reach, thoy surge at the foot of the hills that boand the rignt bank, ‘The stxeam sweeps all before i1t—boats, timber, chests, trees, furniture, dead animals are whirled on- ward with resistiess force, The villages, so charming in summer with their vineyards, rose yardens and pieturesque cottages—Heiaenau, Zschicren, Toikewitz und Laubegast—stand deep in water; they look as if built on piles, Tull trees are submerged to their top- most branches, fields and meadows are turned into lakes. ‘Tho MOgiitz and Lockwitz have burst from their narrow beds aad inundated the dwellings on their Gross and Klem-Zschaobwitz alone have es- and stand out like oases in a wild waste of IN NIEDER AND UNTER-ZCOTEREN devastation and calamity have reached their extreme limits. The villagers have been compelled to tlee for their lives from their flooded aud falting cottages. Many have been compelled to sleep in thd open air under pelting rain, and so turbulent is the swollen stream that no boats can approach the abandoned dweilings. PILLNITS. The royal gondola house at the sammer Palace of Pill nitz has almost disappeared from sight, The flood has even reached the grand staircase of the royal dwelling, and the church at Wachuita is threatened with dy- struction. LOS8 OF LIPE. The flooded condition of the roads has rendered tho giving of help to the distressed a matter of great aiili- culty, and communication by water is extremely dan- gerous and almost impossible, young women as they attempted to step into a boat | were seized by the flood and, tn a moment, awept away beyond hope of rescue. In Dresden itself great inconvenience has been caused, and the fall of the RAILWAY HRIDGH AT RIMSA, where the line to Berlin crosses the Elve, is nothing less thau a public calamity. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. DESTROYED ON SECOND AVENUE—LOSSES ¥inTY THOUS. DOLLARS. Quite a destructive fire occurred yesterday evening in the large five story brick building at the northeast corner of Second avenue and Twenty-second street, ‘The total loss will approximate $50,000, Tho building | extends 100 feet on Second avenue and 200 tect on Twenty-second street, and is occupied bya number of firms engaged in manutacturing. The fire broke out on the ground floor No, 311 East Twenty-second Street, in the apartments occupied by the Lawrence Currycomb Company, and was caused by the explosion of a barrel of turpentine that was near a ed stove, Shortly before five I. M. the passers by were startled by aloud report, and almost immediately afterward ongues of fire were seen darting through the windows, ¢ Eighteenth preemet station hoase being but half a Ume a detachment of engines Were upon the scene. Tue flames in the meantime rapidly gained headway, and it soon became apparent that the uremen could not cope with the fire. A secondalarm was, theretore, sent out and reintorcements quickly came. A strong wind was prevailing, and fears were ontertainca that the entire block would be swept away. Chief Engincer Bates telegraphed @ third alarm, and soon the adjoii ing strects were crowded with engines. The work now began in carnest, Thousands of people crowded aroand to witness the scene, and Captain Garland, finding his force mauthe in’ numbers to keep the fire lines intact, sent tor ald to the Fifteenth and Seventeenth preciets. The reserves of those precincts responded to the call and rendered vaivable assistance, Alter an hour's hard work the flaines were got completely under control and soon extinguiehed, ‘The tollowing are the estimated losses:—Nos. 209 and 311 East Twenty-second street, first and second too oceupled by the Lawrence Currycomb Company, loss estimated at $25,000; Nos. 301 to 407, rst tloor occupied by Holmes & Griggs, sheet brass rollers, damage | $5,000; second floor of the same numbers, oceujned by Sergeant & Cullingworth. agents of the Machine Company, oss $3,000, insured by F. Ramicothe, manulacturer of piano strings, jose $4,000; same floor, by Thomas F. Pine, manufacwurer of piano bardwara; icss, $8,000. The upper floors were oceupied by about teu different man- Hydrautic ; third floor, ulacturing firms, whose loss is nomial, as the tire was | checked betore it had reached the fourth floor. ‘The building Is owned by the Hydraulic Machine Company and i damaged to the extent of $10,000; fully insared. The Sccond Presbyterian church in Paterson, N. J., a large frame building at tho corner of Ellison and Church streets, took fire at nine o'clock, last night from a defective heater, Tho mterior of the church was en- tirely gutied. No estimate of the los cum yet be given, The night was itenseiy cold and several tre- wen Were frosiwbitten, The church had just paid ite last instalment of debt. She is fur, very far, away from the | of | But the questions, nevertheless, | such us she and her dead kinsWoman sewing aud | In Laubegast two } | A LARGE MANUFACTURING BUILDING PARTIALLY | | PARISIAN FLICKERINGS, Dampening Effect of the Inundations om the Gay Capital. SESSA aRS BOATING IN THE CITY. Dramatie and Operatic Do« ings in Europe. GOUNOD'S CENTENNIAL HYMN. Engagements and Copyright Purchases for America. COURBET'S COMMUNISTIC BRUSH Billiards—American Personals~ Parisian Necrology. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE} HERALD BUREAU, 61 AVENUE DE L’OPeRA, Panis, March 18, 1876, The terrible inundations have effectually thrown cold water on French politics, and the noise of the storms has drowned for the moment the hum of the Legislature at Versailles. THE FLOODS. Almost all the French rivers have overflowed thet banks, and Paris is beginning to resemble Venice, boating parties being one of the necessities of tha hour, although “Ohé! le canot” is not the pleasant sound it used to be. There have been no such Succession of storms and floods in France since the breaking up of the winter in the ever memorable year of 1815. The damage to property has been enormous all over the country. RELIKP FOR THE SUFFERERS. ‘The newspapers are raising large subscriptions foB the relief of the sufferers, President MacMahon and his wife, Mme. la Maréchale, are personally indefatigable in visiting the points where ruin has been wrought, and aiding the sufferers from their own purses or directing the labors of the public functionaries engaged in of ganizing assistance, THE PARLIAMENT. As though convinced of the futility of matching their voices with those of Nature, the Senate and Assembly at Versailles are keeping quiet just now. AN OUTWARD GLANCE. A glance eastward shows Egypt annexing Abys sinia, although England’s late assumption of a right tointerfere there may prove a bar to the Khedive’s carrying his conquest so far as he desires, THE RAYAHS’ REVOLT. There are unmistakable symptoms of a growing weakness of the insurrection against Turkey. CASH HUNTING. ‘The two imperial Powers, Russia and Austria, arg at present in the market looking for money. A NEW PLAY, A new piece, entitled “L'Oncle aux Espérances,’. has been produced at the Gymnase Theatre. It hag not been successful, “AIDA” IN PARIS. The opera of “AYda” has been placed in rehearsal at the Italiens, Verdi, its composer, is daily ex pected in Paris, “L'ETRANGERE" FOR AMERICA, The right to produce in America Alexandre Dumas’ latest drama, “L’Etrangére,” has just been purchased for $5,000. BELOCCA COMING. Mile. Belocca, the prima donna, accompanied by Mr. Maurice Strakosch, will start for the United States on the 30th inst. GOUNOD'S CENTENNIAL HYMN. M. Gounod has composed a magnificent Centen. nial hymn for Mile. Belocca. It is called “Fair Land of Liberty.” MISS FECHTER. The début of the daughter of Fechter, the trage- dian, at the Grand Opera House, has been postponed until next year. MORE TOOKERISM. Harry Palmer, of Booth’s theatre, leaves Paris to- night for Italy, to make further engagements for the grand ballet to be introduced in “‘Sardanapalus.” FEMALE FIDDLERS. Four young ladies who play the violin are giving classical concerts in Paris. FASHIONABLE MUSIC. Paris must have its amusements even during Lént, and as balls are tabooed in the fashionable world musical soirées are given by the upper ten. POSTERS. ‘The Prefect of Police has issued a formidable de. cree cutting down the size of theatrical street pos® ers to eighteen inches by twelve. CHARLES Vit. At Milan the firat representation of “Charles VII" was a great success. ‘TRISTAN AND ISOLDA. ‘The first performance at Berlin of Wagner's Opera of “Tristan and Isolda,” takes place to-night, ADELINA PATTI. Mme. Adelina Patti makes her début to-morrow at Vienna as Valentine in the “Huguenots.” HELLBRON, Miss Heilbron has made a great hit in the Austrian capital as Violetta in “La Traviata.” THE LYRICAL LITIGANTS. The legal difficulty between Ullmann and Mile, Christine Nilsson is in course of settlement outside the courts, ROSSI. Signor Rossi is playing in Belgium, whence he goes to Holland. NEW PUBLICATIONS, M. Celestine’s new book, entitled “ Russta Sines the Abolition of Slavery,” is a work of great merit and well worthy of translation. La Reoue Scientifique has commenced an interest ing series of articles on the universities of Burope. STAGE AND CHISEL. Sarah Bernhardt, the actress-sculptress, sends te this year’s Salon a life-size group, Her sabject iss mother weeping over her dead infant. A PENAL BRUSH. A picture dealer was fined $20 yesterday for ex- hibiting In his window photographs of one of Cour vet's pictures. BILLIARDS. ‘The intérnational billiard contest for the Collender Cup between Sexton and Vignaux comes off in Paria on the 30th inst. PERSONAL. Mr. Birney, the new United States Minister to the Hague, has left Paris for his post. PANISIAN NECROLOGY, ‘That excellent artist, Melaine Reboux, is dead. Pierre-Gabrict Arthar Ponroy, the French poet and dramatist, has died here, ‘The death 1s also announced of Philippe Charles de Lariviere, the French historical painters.