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4 ee ECL ee ea ea eee een enema aa you bave a beam in your palace -THIERS. M. Jules Simon’s New Work on Thiers’ Government. BRILLIANT HISTORICAL PAGES. Revelations Coneerning Gambetta, Bismarck and the Bordeaux Provisionals. DESPOTISM DETHRONED. Vivid Pictures from Versailles—T he Down- fall of Napoleon IIL. We have received from Paris the advance sheets of M. Jules Simon’s interesting work, “Le Gouverne- ment de M. Thiers,” which 1s aunounced for publica tion im the eourse of the present monih, It may be emphatically stated, at the outset, that the book ia one of’ the literary events of the year, that it is worthy of the distinguished reputation of its author and worthy of its eminent subject. It imeludes ome of the most intensely interesting chapters ot modern history, embracing the lurid episode of the Paris Commune, and the long struggle of French parties to control the future organization of their country. The work is one ef # sories, form- ing a Sequel to the two volumes on the “Rise and Fall ef the Second Empire” and the ‘<ovornmeni of Nu- tional Defence,” pubilsbed uhder the collective title of “Souvenirs of the Fourth of September;”’ and it is so be presumed that it will be followed by similar ‘volumes on the “Septennate” of Marshal MacMahon, especially that portion of it trom Decemper 13, 1876, to May 16, 1877, .d¢" the author exercised tne fune- tions of Prime Mimster and stood in the “imminent feadly breach,” warding from France the menaced monarchical restoration. GREAT PRENCH STATESMEN, It ts fortunate ior France, \ortanate for Europe and fortunate for republican institutions that in the grave end difficult erisis resulting from the downfall of the Second Empire two such statesmen as <Adolpke ‘Yhiers ava Jules Simon, whose antecedents pointed in a different direction, cast in their lot with the cause which already counted upon the support ef Victor Hugo and Leon Gambetta, These tour names are those pt the four greatest Frenchmen of or time, Wuen, at bo remote period im the -natural course of events, the venerable bard Hugo sball nave re- joined the venerated statesman and historian, when Mignet and Duiaure shall b mingled their dust with tnatot Dupanleup in the sacred pre- Cincts of Pére la Chaise. Jules Simon and Leon Gam- Detta will divide the honors of primary in tue eyes of Prance and the world. M. Simon 1s to be congratu- Yate upon tne thrilling interest which inberes in the subject of the volumes before us. M. Thiers ia poe \bomeously fortunate in the high qualities of the his- Yorian of the crowning period of his great car yet the time is not remote ip the past when the ot Jukes Simon was a nominis umbra even to weil in- formed English and American readers, His name does Dot appear io the eigath edition (1872) of “Men of the Time,” and it will besougot in vain in most of the cyclopadias now competing for public favor. For ‘ow American scholars Jules Simon bas been kno: fora third of a century asthe learned professor of philosophy at the Ecole Normale and the Sorbonne, as the legislative champion of popular and higher education, of the freedom of the press and the rights of womaa, and as the 4dearned bistorian of the Alexandrian philosophy. ‘M. Simon has until recently been bevter known as B® philosepber than a statesman or historian, His own tastes would never have impelled him to leave bts chair of philosophy at the Sorboane but that nis dove of civic hiberty and devotion to repubitean in- stitutions forced nim to make common cause iu 1848 -With bis academic colleagues who were engaged in the tumulis of the Kevolution, Though ne was a @eputy in the Constituent Assembly of 1848 his first parliamentary reputation was gniued in the latter period of the Second Empire, wuen his attention was ebicfly occupied by questions of university retorm, Popalar education acd freedom of the press and aboli- tion of the death penalty, and few could suspect that he was destined to become of the prominent political figures of the time. By his antecedents of 1848 M. Bimon was widely separated from the little Mar- seiliais whose bistory be bas pew written, bat their Common hatred of despotism brought them together im the later years of the Empire, and their association @uring the “Government of Natienal Defence’ formed a prelude to an intimacy which was to end @uly with the life of the elder statesman, M. Simon bad been in the Cabinet of September 4, the “dele pate’’ in the Ministry of Public lostruction, Worship aad Fioe Arts, aod io @ tormer volume has given his reminiscenses of that government down to the Mghatore of the capitulation ef Paris, The first chap- fer of the present work is devoted to the election of tnat National Assembly whieh was to acquire so many and +o adverse tities to remembrance, There is no preiuce, Like a ekiltul literary artist, M. Simoa tol- Jows tbe Horatian muxim aud plunges in medias res, & lollows:— PARIS RISING FROM DESPAIR. Our narrative begias Jaguury 28, 187l—a cou: ou the morrow. Early on tue 28h, Jule @veaed to Versailies; but Count Moiike, a Wich Lhe terms of tue agreement, showed stte base; tbe stall suggested every moment some new ‘cilllcusy; it Was ten o'clock ut might When tue armistice was finally migued. M. Vavre could not rejoin bis colleagues until one o'clock lu tue woruing. ibe railway directors bad beeu sum- moved. 1s Was necessary Lrst of ali to provide for the Fe-vVictualling of Pur hat duty periormed, tne Council vid HOt Wisu Lo adjourn belurearrauging every $hiby Couneciou with Lue COuVLEAtION Of Lhe AssemuIy, Time ood authority Were wautng ior Grawing up ao oral uw. Lt was resolved to put ia force, wity me indispensivie mouifications, tue law of darch 5, 1549, Lhe last elec ioral saw of the Repubiie, which Muy Ve Lous epilamiged: VouNg by regisirauen, at he Cavlousl heauquarters, elector rigat be- [buing at Lwenly-oue years, eligibility ab twenty-five, WILDOUL ADY eXciusion [rom @isber electorate oF eligi biuity ior «ii Frenchmen not unger @eriminal sentence DF WOapacitaied by a judicial decision. Aba moment Whee Bo Wany CivVzeus bad aecepied public oflice Mrough Patriotism 1 seemed right to abolish mone ut Abe cases Of iaviigibiity jad down by the Jegisiator of 1549, aud cousequeotly to suspeud Lue application of SL Lo 9 Only the promibition to eleet pi © 6Ub-prefecis in the departments where th idea Was Mulutained. Tbe army Was suiumo, to vote a iw 154%, This measure wae wore boun owssary, wince ali abie-bouled Frencomen ranged under (he vatoual vauner, Tue oumber of deputies Was fixed at 754 lor Coutinentul Fravge, plus gie.gapotias for Aigeri® abd nine Lor tue colonies—in aii 768. BAPCULICAN BLKCTIONS WITH WISMARCK’S CONARNT, Pub decree, seed by (he Ursi rays of suaimuL, Was immediawiy iuaseries iu ihe Journal Oficiel aud placurded iu Paris some wours imer. The oruer to Birculate It in Lue Department w ‘en, WiLUOUL GO: Bit, Ube fact tbat such iraus, on would be ium Poseivic oF difficult ior weverni daye. The eleeuw Were appointed Jor Wednesday, February 5; tue mee! the Assembly was to luke place at Bordeaux | os \ vater, Woeo Juies Favre announced these measures to Bismarck the first Words vt tue Cuau- Were, “ib 8 impossi bie!” eoulor it emed, in 1adt, impossible, aad yet it was done, More than two-thirds ol our Depurtmets were hela by the enemy and ruled by German prevects Lt Was neveseury to Couler the fuuctious ol prefuet upon the mayor Ul the chiel WWwu and procevd Lo the elec tions With (he assent oi the couqueror, Tue ober departments Were id commuuicaivn only witn M. Gombetta; and, i & 1 the raising Of Ub communications beween Paria und Bordo: dilflouit, periious. seu through by ihe Pruss: Jules Favro, January 30, some! betta Luving belegrapheu NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY; OCTOBER 14, 1878~TRIPLE SHEET. nounee the resalts ena send the registers te Bordeaux. The new Deputies, in order to arrive betumes at Bore deaux, had to start the vory hour tneir election was anoeunced. It was easy to amticipate thet many, foding the direct route closed, would have to make long clreults; that others, in their prisons in Ger- many, would at the same moment their candi- lection. Nothiog but embarrass- Wes could be seen in any direction, o already 80 je government ments At last, to bopeleasiy eutang conflict occurred between In bis corresponden: siege M. Gambetta had repeatedly expr opinion that it was necessary to exciude from the future pational Assemoiy the Ministers of the Em- pire, the senators, the councillors o! State, the pro- fects and the former official cundiaates. Even betore leaving Paris be had maintained this opmion in the councils of the government; it had not prevailed and Gambetta haa sea: bis colleagues, the decree sy which the new decree was y the copy in®a more legislative form. Jules Favre, during that long day which he passed at Versailles awaiting th Fatification ol treaty, bad asked himself whether ot the delegation (Gambetta) tun powers, to avert the conflict, 8, before consulting his colleagues, whose assent was pot to be doubted, be announced this determination in general terms by a@ despatch, which M. Bismarck un- dertook to trangmit, and which was rocetved at: Bor- deaux the 29h, The ehowee! the Council fell upon M. Jules Simon, Who belore the revolution of Sep- tember 4 was Deputy for Gironde ana member of the General Counch tor the city of Bordeaux, His ap- was made and bis instructions signed on wht of the 30th to the Slst of January, He set eut the following morning. SIMON AT BORDEAUX. The above extract gives aiair sample of the style of this valuable book, and will whet the appetite of the reader tor the ensuing pages ef the chaptor, which narrate the arrival of our author at Bor- deaux with a commission as the filth member of the delegation, and the special mission to offset Gambetta’s anticipated epposition to the eligibility of all French citizens. He oarriedin nis pocket a second decree of the government at Paris, only to be used in case of necessity, It was in these words :— 1p the uBforeseen contingency that the Delegation should refuse to execute tbe decrees aud orders ef the Government of National Delence M. Jules Simon duvested with the most absolute, full powers to enforce them. ‘The revelations now made by M. Simon cencerning the.struggie which ensued upon his arrival at Bor- deaux between himself and the four members of the delegation or provisienal government there established, consisting of Gambetta, Cremieux, Glais-Bizoin and Admiral F ouricbon, is of the highest interest and bis. torical value, and contains many revelations of the first importance, It will be remembered that Gam- betta ana bis colleagues issued, immediately upon eeipt ef the news of the convocation of the National Assembly, a decree dated January 81 excluding from eligidility m that body all the high tupetionaries of the Empire. M. Simon, as representative of the majority of the “Government of National Defence,” which Temained in Paris, bad to communicate and enforee this decree against the resolute devermination of the Bordeaux delegu- Von, then highly excited against that majority and against M. Simon personally on account of what they considered the disgraceful capitalation of Paris. It was @ difficult and a perilous undertaking, but M. Simen was equal to the emergency. Above all, Adolphe Thiers wasin Bordeaux. How the crisis was conjured this wholo chapter makes known for tho first time, A CONFLIOT AVERTED. It will bo a surprise to most readers to learn that there was an immivent peril of au armed confifct be- tween the two sections of the “Government of N: tional Defence”—the seven members who had been sbot up io Paris, and were best represonted by Jul Favre and Jules Simon, and the feur who composed the ‘*Delegation,” first at Tours, then at Bordeaux, who foliewed implicitly the leadership of Leon Gam- betta. Both parties had a great measuro of reason on thelr side. It was really s hard matter for Gam- betta to concur in the election of any of the satellit of tbe Empire to seats in the National Assembiy after the ruin and disgrace which the imperial régime baa wrought, and yet the Paris government was right, as the event proved, in insisting upon the engibility of all Frenchmen, That M, Simon does not depreciate the great services ot bis rival at this conjunction will be abundantly evident trom the tellowing extranet The ariaistice found M. G: etta at the very height of activity, ip the midst ot army of combutauca, It struck the arms from nis hands at a moment when he fojt bimeel! in Che best condifion for fguting, aud perhaps to conquer. It may be suid wiibout exuggera- ton that be bud done wonders. He had creuted arwies and geverals, wor baities, repaired detect:, provided for the most urgent means necos- sary to the walmtensuce of order, reassured the hesit: sg. excitea the courage ot othe: esidted the intrigues and the malevolence it Was Ml. Bismarck who replied. ie adnounced im | that reply that the desparcn of Gambetta would bo sedi to toe gentioman addressed “jor Lie tulofmas uu.” “The railways were in « deylorabe coud tion the ras taken up, the road bivcked up, wwe | Vridges broken, the follimg stock dispersed or Gestroyed, 1. wits oaly ifom the Slat that it Was por. Hibie to go from Paris wo Bordeaux vy raiway, Even teh the noe was iuterrupced for 81x kilometers souit live A. Mt 0) Urieans, The cram wore lett P, Fouuary 1 dia wot rowen Bora P.M. on Feuruary 1, Four WieFS, AU, CONsequentiy, 400,000 Vours, We ere it Ger 1 OF refigees in Swiigertand, MH bis Of War bad uiworgunizen the Manteipal eer ‘vice, The lists could not ve rec.ifou, Iu mauy offices they tind dikappear The Clerks were bot at Lweir It Was pecessury to periorm in a week eb Coudiiions Whit requires many mons ip Ofdinary mos, Lhe elections once made, it was Hevessary, Within four duys, to count tue votes, wn | a dmirable, ond to make inepiniting speeches wien filled all tewith enthusiasm. He did not refuse to Convo! mb! On the coutrary, he bad tor g time demanded such convocation; but he made ope condition which be did not wish to alter, and this was that the imperialists should not enter ft. He would only cede power to resolute men like bimsaif to continue the war and found the republic. M. Simona relates very <ramaticaily his arrival at Bordeaux, the reprouches whien be had to bear trom bis colleagues in the deputation on account ef the capitulation of Paris, the passage atarms between himself and Gambetta upom the great question of eligibility, and the decided refusal of the four Dele- gates to al se their decree oi the preceding doy, He lays before us the plan of action agreed upen be- tweed himself und M. Thiers, which was to avert a conflict by summoning to Bordeaux taree of bis P. collengucs, 80 as to form & majority of votes, and th: to foree the withdrawal of M. Gambetta:— ty, @ t the moment was by oo belore taking & excuse of pecessity, and belore that to ba all otber recources. Admiral Fourichou was ai ed Only because of the fear ot civil war, M. Glais-Bizon declared he would submis to the majority uf a majority could ve found at Bordeaux. It would eufice, to obtain this majority, to call from Paris three new members of the government They could be at Bordeuux e@’clock on the moruing. of Fepruary 6. They time to telegraph in the pame of despatch haps twenty-iour bou that need not in ony jor the election. M, Thiers, atter refle@ion, approved this plao of campaizn. He recommended M, Jules Simon to write numerous letters to the dom partments, to prefects, newspapers, iriends aud for- mer colieagues, He counselled bim strongly to pr , though be believed that peace might . Simon told him that he bad the iwtention retiy couferring with the generals, some ivtiu- tial officers of the Nat Juard end some Of tue . preparation rupture, PROVIDING FOR WAR, M. Simon carried out his programme to the letter. That same night he despatched his {rieau M. Cocbory to Puris to oarry the jetter be could not trast to post, aud on the following morning another friend, M. Albert Lionviile, followed with the speeial mission hasten the arrival of the three memb government, Meanwhile M. Simon and his secretary, M. Lavertujoo, worked night and da ernment, printed the electo- & newspaver of Bordenux, which was seized belore distribution, and secured the support of one or two Geverals of the National 6 contingevcy of a rupture, He also filed outa blank decroe with the name ol Geo- erai Foltz as Minister of War, to be used oaly in cave he himself should bo deprived of the Itverty of ac- lion, aud took every uecessary measure to ev- sure sucee| of bis combinations, For- tana anger of a rapture was «averted arrived on the morning of tue 6.n, and y M. Gambetta resigued b' faheuoos a# a member of the yovernment. The necessary 0 at every Where by telegraph, and the elections were auiy made, We pass over the | Very interesting narrative of the first meeting of the Natiovual Assembly, Fevraary*l2, in the great theatre at Bordeuwx, aud, omittiog the detats of the election ofM, (hiers a8 “Chiet of the Executive Power, Fovtuary 16, give M. Simou’s appreciation of the hecosaity of that step i— 41d wot beritate to fomit th Mout imto the hands of M. Th it baa offy to follow the fnuieations from the country. Not owiy Was he elected Depury by twenty-six eul- Jeget, LEt he Had collected Impo-tog Minorities in sev @ral otkera, tho (otal number of Votes Cust for him ox. seeding two millions. mated Dep- uty from Parts tn 1863 his election was considered in Europe as a remarkable pt. He had simply al- lowed himself to be eiected. Seme ene said to him, “It wilt come to bea question, the Emperor er you.” In the mouth o: July, 1870, Lhe rhment, which made some outward display Of strength, though really it had commenced to tremble, begged bim \o-enter tho Council of Detence, Ho declared he woud not enter into reiations with that bocy except en the invitation of th ire Charaver, The whole Chamber thought, like the government, that it couid not afford to over- look him in this time of great peril, On September 4 ft requested bim to preside at its last siting, tne provisioval government in its turn bad recourse to It asked nim to be to the people and sovereigns te of France, He bad never sought popu- @ challenged it, Everybody, imends and evemies, kuew th was not ouly & statesman, but that bis pame was a protection for us—a moral foree, DOWNFALL OF NAPOLEONISM. The exciting scene of the declaration of the As- Bembly that the Napoleonic dynasty shoulda not be restored is vigorously tuld:— M. Bamberger, Deputy from Metz, was in the tribune te protest against the treuty of peace, “or what 1s worse’! egid be, ‘the ity of abame.’? “a single man bad been permitted to sign it,’? said M. Bamborger; “this is Napoleon 111.” ‘Napoleon ILL would never have signed a treaty of shame,” cried M. Gallon: In an instant the ball was in a state of inexpressibie confusion, Every member was on bis feer; all spoke or shouted ai the same lume. The public in the galleries shared the indig- nation of the members of the Assembly, interming!ing their cries, M. Conti siarted toward the tribuae:— ive way to him{ Let bim explain! Ley iim jus- tify the Emperor! Let nim dare defend those who have betrayed aud lost France|"? come te defend with earnestness,’ sald M. Conti, **a glorious past, a revered sovereign, whom France has prociaimed by four ipebiseiies, to Whom those Who abuse me have Laken the oath of allegiance like mysell, who bus givea the country fiteen years of peace and prosperity. If my protest is stifled bero 1 bepe, 1 um certain, it will be spread shroaguvut the entire country.” “Glorious past!” shouted M, Vitet; ‘say rather a shameful pasi—pledi force. Had not y What you- cail years of Peace! You have four times made wur France, Whon M. Thiers demanded the Mainienance of peace you dragged him from the tribune! You have lied soasto make war! You havo made # senseless war without alliances, without resources, without generals! You aro respousible for the blood of your soldiers, suerificed through your criminal folly; responsible for our humiliation, for our ruin; responsible for the dismemberment of France.” M, Gallon!, M. Gavini and M. Heentjens supported M. Conti, They alo ere with him. . Victor Hugo then arose and attempted to speak. The President did not try any longer to make himself beard, A member cried out, ‘itis o 'y to pro- ciaim the downlall,’? ‘Downfall’ own talll’? This word souuued all over the ball. It rolled like a peal of thunder, in the galleries, im the corridors, 1n the stuirways, among the great crowd which bad gathered in the Ptace de Tourny and the beighboring streets—ibe cntire army, under arms in the appreaches to tie ball, repeated it. Lhe Presideat suspended the ait- ting; it wag opened again in about ball ap hour, when M. Grévy read tne text of an order of the day which bad been placed upon his desk. Tre National As- semoly takes uivantage of the incident, and in she unbappy events passing over France, in the face of d ubexpected reservations, confirms the IL ‘dynasty, uiready end decisres him the Republicy have Fesponsibie tor th berment of Franc: BONAPARTISM. M. Simon’s considorations upon the almost in- credible fact that Bonapartism soon recovered from its utter discredit aba became an important power in ‘this very Assembly afe deserving of attention: — After such a session and the effect it produced in the country Bonapartisin might be. supposed to be jewmably vauquisl The repud- lon than the con- Vitet, ordinarily 60 maining during the sbune, iu the micst of the most groups. Their friends. would hardly counteuance, them. ‘This. coodem akty—acattered, dishovorea a, Bollea vote fort Thtch all she other. parties. without ex ception had taken part—reduced 19 six members io the Assembly, aud oaving jor speakers only M. Conti (who died’ shortly atier), M. Guvini apd M, Gal- Joni, of Jstria, was uevertheiess destined to become, in time, the most influential party in the Assembly. It at Hirst got itsel! tolerated. by the monarchists as a ipcessags fights against the Republic and republicans; then it became ® pecessury bulanee, Carrying victory to whichever side it leaned; Bow it profits by the iruit Campeigos of the Or- omed to iuvite defeat, jocipai director of the of tne Right and their eveatual bene- mav@ave fictury. THE COMMUNE. Passing over the interesting account of the “pre- him naries of peace,” which ecoupies af. Simon’s third fecome to the fourth, “Paris before the nth of March,” which is chiefly devoted to the antecedents of the Commune auu its, leaders, “The insurrection of the Comin which triumphed On the 18th of March,’ says M. Simon, ‘did not be- gin on that day. The same actors are found pursuing the same objects in all the insurrections which dis- turbea Paris in February and March, 1871; they were concerned in the movement of October 31 aud Jannu- ary 22, It would be am exaggeration to sey that they took a principal part in the revolution of Septem~ ber 4. That was tho work of the entire people, a multitude in which all parties were included, and swayed by an irrepressible indignation, which ovor- threw she imperial goveroment without asking in tho Orst instance what they would set up in ite place, But the fuiuro organizers of tho Commune were there. ‘They alone perhaps bad definite intentions and an orgabizatien. They were the first to penetrate Into the Assembly. They marched to the Hotel de Ville, ‘with the purpose of seizing upon the wer. They had formed their government in advance, witn Bianqui apd Deleacluze as prineipal chiets, and they were already throwing thoir lists througn the win- dows of the St Jean Hall, when Jules Favre, ap- Pearing on the baicony, was greeted by acclamations whieh made ali competition impossible. With a bitter regret, which they did not attempt to conces!, they submitied to the oreation of the goverument of National Defence, im- Provised on the spot by the 600,000 men who filled the Place de ja Concorde, the Pisce 4e Bour- Gogne, the quays, the Piace de |’Hotel de Vile and the Hotel de Viile itself, and which, with one yolce, to avoid hesitation and delay, laid that burden upon the deputies for Paria, Deetmated alter the coup d’élat of the 2d of December, by the proscriptions which were the resuit, they bad leit the liberal republicans and the conservatives to wage by themselves the struggle against the Kmpire. They took no part, either as orators or as cundidates, in the elections of 1857, of 1858 and 1863, They had for tne (rst time a candi- dave of their own in the partial elections of 1864." RISE OF THE INTERNATIONALS M. Simon proceeds to trace the rise of the Interna- tional Society from the sixty work! , Kelected nious, Who Were seut at tho expense Fument to the London Exposition of 1862, and who maintamed for two years alter their return to Paris a sort of permanent representation of the workingmen, At the partial election of 1864 they Published a socialistic manifesto and cast 495 votes for their eand\date, M, Tolaio, It was then that Proudhon published his book on the ‘Political Capa- city of the Working Classes,”’ and in the same year M. Tolain, @ very intelligent man and skilful poll- tician, went to London with two colleagues, and was Present at the great meeting in St. Martin’s Hall, September 26, 1464, when the ba: of the Interna- tional Association of Workingmon were adopted On his returo be established ao office for the French section, inthe Rue des Gravilliers, and took care to send th ‘totes of the association to the Minister of the Interior and to the Pretect of Police, M. Tolain represented the Freneh section at the succossive Congresses of the Intermational, held at London in 1865, ab Goneva in 1866, at Luusanno in 1967, at Bru in 1869, M, Simon pro- ceed: The demand of political rights for workingmen would bave had no appropriatevess tor French citi- if we take the demand nobody dreameu of de- their political rights the elections the same it was bho rigot to havea Girect und specint representation in Pariiamen' of workinginen 1m the Corps Legistau there was a bene of bishops iu the Senate, This was Fealiy # sovtal Question, lof if tue Workingman ts @ieoted by Virtue of iiecommon right, b equality wud if D1 lected because bo ti MG, wd OO the pretext that workinymen have exceptional right to send wome ol their body to the Parlaineut, he represents unly the atriie bewween jor and capital, Ip 1867, atter t ation o| November 2, ying. was Ot the right of rauning otner Citizens Revolutiouary Vommuase of the Works 19” HOW THR COMMEN® COLLAPSED, ‘We shall revert to the narrative of the rise, prog- Fess aud fall of the Gommune, which tormean im- portant portion of M. Simon's work, but ononot ouvit to give ero at Wome length the eoqueut apostrophe which forms the ciose of the whole work and exbibite the poiiti@nt doctrines of tho eminent author: Ob ye monarchista, WhO seo in your brotl to 1870—the Terror, ig not forget witb singular changes of dynaaty, jacement of one Presi: ‘y re the power of the Pri is very rigorously circumser Evon in the epochs when ibe monarchical principle was above all com- petition and discussion, when the bolaest toought they could change kings byt pot get aloog without a king, the trapsitiov irom one r to apoiber almost always brought profound disturbances. The miuority Ol % monarch Wis a national calamity, To-day, alter #80 many revolations within so short a time, however robust may be your confdence, you could vot con- nt state of mind and of afsirs ft 2 revolution 2 of reign which sbould mot be at least of dynasty, Do not try to persuade us that Oility ight beilt the defonders of menai 1774, From that date how many legitim: have mounted the thrope without olution ? Two only in more than 4 hundred years, eir names . were and Charies X.1 And what has been since the dodth of Louis XVI, the duration of a dynasty? Fifteen years, or, to speak more accurately, ve years!—five years of calm preceded by Ave years o! agitation to establish tho reizn, and followed by five years of agitation to overthrow it, Thisis an experiment which we have made four times in three-fourths of a century. Aud mind tbat you ure not destined again to see these happy shores, Not oue of the monarchists who at this moment are tempting France would dare to prom- ize a duration of three years, 3 MONARCHY DEFINED. A monarchy ig a bypothesis which can be cherished whuilo it is actually 1 existence and 18 rendering use- ful services, but. which vo human force can revive when it bua beon suppressed, uiscussed, replaced, compared, Tho Committee of Nine, presided over by Geveral Changarvier, or a Committee of Ways and Means, managed by M. Rouher, might recall a pre- tender; @ Feactionary and monarchical Chamber like that of 1871 might crown bim; it might, with fa certain pamber ot mulilons, rebuild the Taiteries and Oll shem with» Coamberiaing from basement it might display a white flag ornamented JSleur de lys, or tuck for the third time an of our tri-colored flag. But w: ae! e restored in France i# the mogarchical faitb—that kind of religion for which men will lay ir lives, and which personifies the father. dina man, ‘As to the prestige of the Napoleons, letany one fud a trace of tat this time! The adven- turer hus killed the hero. {n the land of universal suffrage, in the world of common sense there is no room Jor dreamers. Apower strange objection to the Republic is that it would condemn us to isolation in the great European family. The very sacred majosties do not want tv bo elbowed by thetnajesty of the people, It would be a boo ude Ae tid the majesties; they yee too clearly for that. ‘fe would ba forgetfuin Of history tomvoke ‘an ancient ‘name against a new trath. There is no more’ “great Huropedn family; the Empire blown it down. There is notning leit but conquest and self-interest,’ Europe wi-hes to know’ whether we are wise or tiokle, for every axit amotig us 0} Earo: note of ourstrength and of our w area rich country, at once tnanstri tural, warlike, with 38,000,000 of inbabttants, placed between Kugland and Germany at the head of all the great routes of commer and which, in spite of all that may ve said, has Dot tallen from its primacy In the world of thought. ‘THE REPUBLIO MEANS PEACE, But Europe cares not whether we be an etsolute monarchy like Russia or a parliamentury monarchy Ike EBugiand, Spain or Ltaly, or a federation like Ger- many or’ a fepublie, if that form governinent plea For Etro: x be of French government best to our ideas and whith, consequently, chances of ‘durability. Europe monarchy needs war aud @& Trepublio Peace, No President of Republic will suy, ‘lt is my war; 1 need it.” Such sayings ure the sports of ‘princes, France koows their price, baving puid it twice within a ball ceutury. She respects the tranquillity o: na- tions and the institutions they bave chosen, Her foreign policy consists im ‘this—to preserve peace at bome Let the Repobhe be calm aud prosperous within ‘and will be respected aud. powertal abroad, [his pretended impossibility of maintaiuing order and law, theve periodical crises with are menaced, this fancied isolation, are ull disproved by tn ut Not ff these partisan arguments hi any tnfluende oD the masses, who be! what they see, and who see peace for seven years past, But, 10 order to troubie them, to frighten thi two phan toms‘have been conjured up, ‘There was ouly Now there are two—the aud the Communes OoMMUNISM-18 SOCIAL WAR. Terror and tue Commune “re uot the Republie, As to the Commane, it was Vanquished by the «epublic, and 1t 18 not proven that a monarchy would Dave suc- ceeded im retaking Pare, * * * Eacy party bas its viopuy annals, which itis wrong to recall uonece: ng. to stir up bi Ls ta ubiicans responsipie far | olics for (be Saint Bartholomew, |, We do Dot hesitate to declare, like our evemies, that the great burden and obstacle of the Republic 1s neither the couljiien of the monarch- nor the clerical hatred, but the Terror aad the Commune. It w ‘Terror and tbe Commune with which we aro charged, ‘Ibis 18 upjust, tuis 1s absurd, this 18 contrary to common sense and to all evidence; but wis afacl The Commune, woich we have over- thrown, which we have crushed; the Commuoe, which no longer bag.@ butiet, a sword, a frane, or a parti- san Who dares to sbow bis bead; the Commune, which no longer exists, nevertheless combats us vay by day, thanks to the pe. Laud envenomed calum- erepubile. Let us show on by our words, by our acts, that we are implacable onemiesof disorder; the fi ds, t of the law; the friends and ol the family, ty, and of liberty conscience, whicd is the highest and mostabsolute form of religious liverty. A BE REPUCLICANS, We may still bear M. Tuiers abnouncing to the Chamber, ‘he victory will be to the wisest,”? aod particularly to the republicans, ‘You cannot perish except by your own tauit, You republicans are con- servatives. Say so, simply, but firmly, since it ts true, since it ts often denied, since it ts well, if pot for you. who think your: avove Suspicion, at least, for, our cause, 1 the world shouid Know the trutb, Advanced republicans bave to overcome much repugnunce belore they avow themselves conservatives. They do not like a of which their enem! en before. But eis your property. You must claim {t, for Those who now desire'either tne Empire are the real revuiuiion- iste; you yourselves are the conservatives. Was tiie Empire more careful to coger and the tam- ily than you buve been? Would you renew tye reign of money ebaogers and titled courtezans? Are not commercial honesty «nd domestic purity virtues esseptially republican? You are proving ven yeurs by your acts that you are ves; display then your flag, since you be- Jong to the regiment, late! coneilial orezreer conretence, rec- ognizing uo other empire (han that of tho jaws and no other sovereignty than that of reuson! When we have suck, a programme at heart we shall accustom Ourselves to have ever on our lips, Happy tue parties which iuprove oo nequaintance, which ask for woth- og but common sense and whose gause is identical ‘with the demands of justice. LITERATUR “youn LUCK’s IN YOUR HAND; oR, SCIENCE OF MODZEN PALMISTRY.” ‘Tho science of pulm'stry has gained a new interest of lute, so that the volume before us—*Yoar Luck’s in Yoor Hand; or, the Science of Modern Paimistry” (Scribner & Welford)—will, doubtless, fod mavy Peaders, The bast books on (nls science have been written in the French or Gertnan language, 80 that one made up irom the best of those and published in English cannot fail to altract general attention, There is no doubt—however we may despise the mud- ern degradation of the science of palmistry as wo it practised by the wandering, black eyod kypsies to gain a few coppers—that 1t was anciently cultivated by philosophers of high nume, Among them wore Pluto and Aristotie, Galen, Piolomy, Alvert the Groat, Antiocbus, Tiberius aud others, who have transmitied works On the sabject. In ite primitive form we find this science recorded as having a piace among cient Sayptinns, and for some four thousand it has beem practised more or less by trivos me name. Iho editor of the volume—a, —tas taken most of bis (ucts from D’Arpentiguy and Derbarrolies, fe has gone into ubject exhanstiv od giyes ull the rales for reading (ue hand, The planets, it seems, have sume. thing todo with this science, The pollex of thumb, betog the frst, greuiext und strongest, is dedicated to the Dext, the index tin, te 80 called as used im pointing to anything, und is dedicated to Jupiter; the middie fvger to Saturn; the rivog flvger 18 dedicated to the sun, and the Milo finger is dedicated to Mercery, © In» thuny lines of the hand five particulars must be arefully noted—their quantity as to length, bread and depid, also crookedness and straight thelr qaulity fo Color and figure in teierevee to shape and complexion; (heir action im rolerence to other lines, as Louching OF cutting them; their passion im relation to otber lines as being touched or cut by inem}; their place oF position, There are seven principal lives or parts Of toe hand:—1. Tho table line, of ine ot tore tune, 2, ihe middie vatural line, 3 The line of lie orof the beart, 4 The line of the liver or the stom- ach, 5, The sister line of the tine of lile, percussion of the band, % Too wrist. The new re. formed foitb of psimistry emyraces seven distings ar- THE aig, Me each defluing « particular form of band, wich 18 denominated as iuliows The band elementary or baow with a large pam. 2 he hand 8. ibe Qand artistic or con. twad 6 tho Pointed band. ¥. Tne mixed band, As thosmooth Dngers proceed by inspiration and the double kuotted Apgers by calculation, reason, deduction and proba- bilities, the hand with emooth Angers will especially exeel in the locomotive arte and the applied sciences iu which spontaneous dexterity and gening prevail over combination, In War, says this author, the square Goger w ever COD- spicuous, In the Crimea the appointments of the French commissariet were the cuvy of the poor British soldiera, Every man seemed to carry bis kit ip a cocoanut abell, and everyehing seemed to bo there, All their military arrangements Fest upon model ideas, and when these are all ap- plied no douvt great advantage 1s derived. But areater beneilt often ensues from the application of Some more practical cousiderations tn war as well as in peace. The English ought to, have been beaten at Waterloo, according to, Napoleon’a ideas of battio; but the Duke had other views, spatule-fingered on: and tho equares were obliged to give way, D’Arpen- tgny, Who 18.4 French soldier apd patriot as well as & palmiet, does vot seem to have much sympathy with the English tendencies of M. Guizot. Ho says:— “The band of M. Gujzotis Jong, with thick knots and large, square phalanges. Ho is one of those retro- spective minds, whose lamp ouly throws its rays bo- hind, who ask) from the dead the secrets of the liv- ing, ond from whow the past conceals the present. ’? Arigid attontion te mengure being the necessary condition of musical rhythm. it 1s amoug the square fingers that are found the most correct and skilled musicians, Instrumentation bolongs especially to the spatuled fingers, and song to the pointed, 2 hana of the eminent pianist, Lisat, being very large, it 08 by Guisb;, bis flugers very knotty, it is by pro- cision; his phalanges very spatuied; it is by power, that he rajsea the admiration of bis audience, His and i not only that ofan instrumentulist, It 1s also thatof a mathematician, of a mechanician, and vy extension that Of a metapbysician—that is to say of man more reflective than impulsive, more skiiful than impassioned, more head than heart, The hinds of lyric poets and sentimental novelists, as George Sand, Lecomte, dd1’islo, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Do Vigny, Lamaratine hayo the phalanges more or lesa conical Grammariana, critics, physicians, law- yeors, ometricans bave phalanges square and also epatuled, The thumb ig propounced the test between the wise manand the fool. Attherootof tho thumb wits the sign of tne reasoning will, the intensity of which you will measure by the length and thickness of that root. In general, says this palmist, a smal, thumb announces an irresolute disposition, vacillatiog in such matters as result from reason and not from seotiment or irom instinct. People with small thumbs are governed by the heart, Poople with large thumps are governed by the head, They breathe more freely in an atmesphere of thought than in that ofsentiment. Thoy see better with the eyo of refluc- sion than tbatot the moment, ‘ne following are a few rules adopted trom the ancient palmis' “The persous whose fingers tend to bend backward through suppleness and elasticity are endowed with wagacity, curiosity and address. Those whose fingers, badly placed, all differ in form toward the exterior phalange, are wanting in mental stamina, The chiro- mants devote them to misery and frivolity. Your hand, raised before a light, shows neither light por transparency, your fleshy Angers keep jn their exact parallelisms—it is a sign of avarice, The flogors very sbort and thick indicate cruelty, Fingers Jong and. straggling are those of the in- triguing and . impostera, cheats aud sharpers. ‘Ao inclination to steal ts indicated by the exterior phalanges blunt and flat. Curiosity and indigcretion are tho properties of persons with smooth, travs- parent fingers. It is a sigo of talkativeness and Jevity of mind when the fingers are smooth and coni- ‘eal. It 18 a mark of prudence and capacity to haye strong and kno@ea Mogers, Waile waiking, to move rms and hold the hands firm, is a mark of Promtitude and impetuosity, The habit of holdiog the thumb concealed in the other fingors indicates a covetous and sordid disposition.’? Now look at your hands and sec how they bear the tests of these rules. THE CERAMIC ART. ‘Harper & Brothers have isaued in elaborate style a new volume on “The Ceramic Art,” by Jeune J. Young, The stady of the ceramic art is just now ex- coodingly fashionable, and one’s education is not con- sidered finished unless be or she can talk learnedly of Spode, old Bow and Capo di Monte. The author says in her pretace that her object has been to answer terscly aud tucidly as possiviethe more importunt questions in connection with the history and manu- facture of pottery and poreeluin, and to bring the, resulta of recent research to bear upon some of the unsolvea problems of the sclence of ceramics, Sho bas not attempted to make an original work; but hus borrowed largely from the best authorities. Perhaps the most valuablo part of the book is that whicn treats of American pottery, “That there is a brilliaut-future in store for tne ceramic art of America,” gaye this writ be inferred from the rapiaity with which it has been pushed torward to the stage it has airvady reached. Wich a limitioss wealth of material at bis command, aod gifted with enterprise, liberality and taste, the American artist can look confidently forward to ‘aking bis place beside the best the world bi produced.” Mrs. Youug mentions the tariff as one of the difflculties in the way Of rearing up something wortby o! being called American art, There is no complaint made against the American market, Foreign artists send their works to it a re of a welcome, “Competition by a native superior,” s: this writer, ‘ts thereby mado difficult; by an equa: almost impossible; by an infertor, anabsurdity. The foreign conipetitor comes branded as a genius, and home critics hesitate about issuing a verdict in favor of a countryman. They appear to hnve a lack of con- fidence in their own judgment, and would rather in- dorse or modily another's opinion than take the re- sponsibility of issuing an independent one of their own, Under such conditions 1% ts difficult for an art to struggle into existence, French art is to a Frenoh- man the fines and best the world ever saw, English- men s0pport Knglish art because it Is their own, American art may be good, even equal to the besi; butanfortunately it is American.” It is necessary for American potters to put the royals of England on their wares if thoy want the deniers to bay them, It 18 the same with poreelain. Specimens are given of different American makers which testity to the truth of Mes, Young’s statements. LITERARY CHIT CHAT, As & companion volume to his ‘*Irue Women of America’ the Rev Bernard O’iellly has publisned Men as We Need Them” —e book of instruction for men of the world. In bis introductory chapter the reverend author treats of the ideal of true m hoo 9 the next the ideal, of the true man’s home, very phase of home iife is treated with sonsibio views, and those who by the teachings of this volume will bave ideal homes, The book ts dodi- cated to 1 MeCloskey and is published vy Peter ¥, Collier, The Journal of the Ameri Chief Justice Daly, Prosia Guographioal Society, journal contains 4 public meetings tn Obickeriog Hull, the meat interesting jea- ture of the book 18 @ full and graphic account of the reception given to Dom Pedro a’Aicantara, Emperor of Brazil, with the addresses made on the ocousion by His Majesty; the lato lamented Dr. Augustus Peer. mano, of Gotha; Chief Justice Daly, Bayard Taylor and De, 1, 1, Bayes, The work has been edited and prepured by Mr, Robert Curren, and the contents are arrauged in @ Very atirachye mann A casual glance through ite pages reveals @ varied and interest inz collection of articles ranging from “A Boat Jour- ney ta Lapiagd’’ to **Iwo Mouths 19 Burman.’? Tho Japanese and the Western Powors” is tho title of an article to appear in the next number of te North American Review, by a Japanese gentleman residing im Tokio. Lt will contain a very plain stave- Ment of Japanese opinions of the dealings o: Europe and America with Japan, anu it is sald that st comes with the bighest Japanese tndorsements, “A Night with Buisou’? will be doserived in Sorib- ner for November, by Mr. W. H. Bishop, author of “Detmoid.”” The biography of the poet Longfellow has been writteu for the November scrumer by the poet Stod- dard, With a portran by Wyatt Butow Protessor D. J. Hill, of Lew & University, the author of two 1ext books om rheterio, bas just wader taken the preparation of & series of brie! biogruph: of our great American authors, sueh a6 Irving, Poo, Hawihor: Prescott, Bryant, Cooper aad oibors, 1. dusidon & Vo, are she publenora, FINE ARTS. A MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF PICTURES READY FOR THE OPENING OF THE LOAN EXHIBITION, Inthe large south gallery ot the Nationa! Academy of Design there was hung yesterday a most striking and valuable eollcetion of pictures, wuich have been loaned by thew owners for the secoud exbibition of the Society of Decorative Art, The pictures are chiefly loreign, and form a muca more important col- lection than thas which was exhibited last year. ‘The American pictures are few, and there are but turee or four important examples. The position of henor—ihe centre of the south all—has been most appropriately given to Mr. John Wolte’s masterpiece of P, A, Cot, *springtime,”” that delicious idyl of the dawn ot love which is well known through engraving. In the centre of the lino on the east wall is Bouguereau’s charming “I'he Little Marauder,” loaned by M. Kuoedler ‘& Co,*The same position on the west wall is oceupied by thoir large Andreas Achenbach, “fhe Approachipg Storm,”” Abovo this bungs J. F. Herriug’s “Stirrup Cup,’ sout by sir, Roo. Stuart. In tho southwest coruer is George H, Boughton’s in- teresting “New Year’s Day in New Amsterdam,” above which hangs Maurice Poirson’s breeay “I'he Vier at Trouville,” loaned by M, Knoudler & a, Pags- thg to the north corneryon this side of the room, wa have that tine example of Bouguoreau, “After the Bath,” tho property of Mr. John W. Bell, This same gentioman’s stroug and pathetic “fhe Slave,” by Louts Leloir, tills the northeast corner of the gallery, Above is Schaua & Co,’a “Grandmother's Birthuay,” by Tiddemanp, ‘Turnipg to the left, on entering the gallery from the corridor, wo have first on the line Mr. J. L. bows “On Guard,” by Berne Bellecour, above which hings adainty Adrien Moreau. Next is Goubdie’s amusing “Going to Market,” sent by Mr. 8. P. Avery. Wo then note a Detatlle belonging to Mr, James A, Raynor, “A Freoch Dragoon.” On either side of Andreas Achenbach’s large “Market Morning, Na- ples,” full of life and color, und which 18 owned by Knoedlor & Co,, aro Mr, 'T. R. Butier’s characteristie compaulon pictures of Irist lite, Erskine Nicol, ‘“Coilwcuox His Tnoughis’” aud “Yours 10 Com- mand.’?, Above the first is Mr, Cornelius Vanuerbiivte exceedingly fue Meyer von Bremen, “What Has Mosuer Brought?” uad above the second @ rohickipg monk siory, ‘At His Devotions,” buleuging to Me s.P. Avery. Further ulou, we have “Country,” a fine little head by Knaus, aud Mr. Jordau L. sotwe steriing “foe Pumcer Rest,” vy J. G. Vivers On the [ues above ure a liste siudy 01 @ girl by Alden Weir, aod Koiers’ pleasing *‘i'ne Confdents,”’ alsa seat by Mr. avery, Oa the hue a either side Of tho Bouguereau, on the oust wall, are air. J. a. Hurpor’s striking and 1y example of Van Marcke, *Cuttic Comiug ”? and his gorgeous gotden Ziem, “fae Puviie Gurdeusol Veuice.” Hunging ubove tue’ latter 1s. oue ol, not ibe vest Charisse Jacques in, the ovuuiry, “Sbeep Coming to Water,” seus by Mr, Jordan L, Mott. “Qo this satre wall is J. 0. Meara’s Griefilus, “Beothoven and His Friends.” R iu the southeust corner is bung a little collection composed of Kavedier & Uo."s dainty, “he Gouyorsa tion,” by Boidiat; Mr. J. L, atow’s litthe De New ville; Mr. J.- QO. Kunkie’s poetic ‘Peasant Woman of Calvados,” by J. F. dililet; the same genotieman’s ile. lously well painted Goubie’ te; Mr. J. A. Harper's littie repicca, by Heotor Leroux, vf bis “Vestal luccia;” Mrs. B Averys neat Firm@au-Girard ‘1n tne Garuen;” a boys end by William $. Chase; another deep and rich tone by William M. Huut, and schaus & Co,’ excele Joust bead of wartul “Artadue,” vy Merie. Qu turoiug to the south wall we come upon that Hutte masterpiece, by Detailie, A Freucn Hussar,” a poriran of tne Dac Ge Unurtros, loaned by Mr. 8, BP. Avery Wu0 also bas & Paul Viry on the hue avove. im the upper row is 4 pleasing study of m young girl reading in the woous, by J Aluen Weir, Returving to the line Mr, J. L. Moti’s pleasing god homelike, wud fue Kmile Acan, “fue Daucing Lesson,” is seen; above is bis good little Van Marche abd next Dis two-ugure Gérdme, & delicious bit Oo} color, admirable in timbre, “Luterior of a Porsiun lun,” A very charming alvares, belonging. 40 dir, Corhelius Vaudervilt, bangs neas, us does james A. Stevbins’ picture by Bouguerena, “Hesitanog Bi tween Love aud Ricaes,’? sy this 18 u K ot Evouurd Ricuter’s Eastern scoues, “tue Dance,” owned by Mr. Henry Hilton. Oa the ine above Scuaus’ “The Beloved One,” by Fiorem: Witl- ems, isa lie wime beau by Jacquet of bs Guuraiog model and called ‘*axpociuuey,’’ which is seut by Mr. Joraau L. Mott. Mr. Therou R. busier’s exceiious example of J. G. Vivert’s, “Le Nouveau Commits,” UeX4 Cascnes tue eye, as does & large diulier, louned by air, Marshall VU, Koverts Pussing, much uguins ohe’s will, Cot’s charming “springume,” with ics gracetul figures of tne two young lovers swinging the ba away, We bow Aima Tadema’s perene, cal siudy, “Queen Clothilue, Wife of Cl King of France, instructing ber Chikdr which belongs to Air, James H, Stebvins, and to bis great piciure vy Gé&idwe, weil Kuown tbrougu the Adiuiravle engraviug, Louis X1V. and Monére.”” On tue second line are Bouguereuu’s “Ihe Secret,” bee louging to. Sir, obert L. otuar,; Juage Hilton's At Breakiast,’? by Muudrazo, and My, J, Avuer Harper's powerful and dramatic Waniberg, “Sunset ou tho Baltic.’ Below these on tue line baugs one of the best pictures in the collectiva, excelieus in cuarac- ter aud groupiug and fuli o ite, “foe Spanish Daveer,” vy J. Worms, loaned by Mr. Hiltou. We now Come to a iile size portran by Forsuny of lue wife of @ Spanish secremry of tegation at Rome, Gwoeu by Mra Stevvina, und interesting irowy-ihe fact (hat it is said to be tue only on ever painted, ‘tue very Spanwh fave is aduirubly rendered, By tho Fortuuy to the ngot are a Jacques, loaned by Judge Hilton, dud Couren’s “Mouut Desert.” Au Mpportaut lite ase figure by Jules Brévou, @ fue work, seut by Mr. Jouu Wolle, is on tho. line, a8 se a sparkilug, large, though somewnat skeichy, Dupré, fent by alr. Hitdc— w laudscupe add sueep. Above hung a femule tigure, good in cvior, by B. C. Porte Samuel Goimun as repr trututul Lugano Cro Miss S. N. witehcock loans Re Swain Giffura’s sultry, “+A Luay Day ion Egypi," which bangs ob this wail, There a also a |. 5. Cooper, sent by air, R, L. Stuark Joon Latarge is represented vy a strong siqdy of a femal figure aod # decorauvo little “Sketch at Newport. “4 Cabaret,” by Seitz, owned vy Mr. Lucius fuck- erman, hangs on the north wall, as dove @ neat hittie Fortuny, sent vy Mr, Avery; Whittredge’s very gouvd example, tuilof light, Hunting Grounds,” owned Ly Mr. James W. 2. aud Wi iuol’s ileresting aud stroug nude y fon is Leon y Kao sura’s **Waiting tor the Quees,” sent by Mr. J, AL r; 5. K. Gilord’s “uunter Mouutaia,’? aod M, large example of G6érOu “Kgyptian Pi Crossing the Desert.” A pei trait of @ banusome boy, seat by Mr Avram & Hewitt and painted vy 53. W. Rowse, is rikiug work. Finally, whon we have seca Mr. L. C. Tucker- revs Scene,” by monugus, aud Mr. Jordan in tue Woods,’ vy William 2. Bienards, Lhe tour of the room 18 ended, In the corridor on ach side of tho door of entry to the gallery i@ nang a vingie figure by Hans Makart, his piciuresque “turkey Woman of Catto,” owned vy Mr. Avery, aud Mr. Juha Woille’s very adwiravie gyptian Girl Holding au Idol”? Three pictures by Wiliam 5, Chase also uang bere—bis two studies of Mumich Larseacn Ti four puintings, which are imsured ior over huif a million of doilars, ‘The prevures were bi by Messrs. Joun Wolte and J. Hopkiusow Smith, The committee cousiees of Mr James W. Pincuot, chairman; Mr. J. Hopkioson Smito, secretary; Mesdaines William E, Douge, Jr Morris K. Je: ps aod Jonathan Sturges, and Messra, Parke Goawin, Jobu Woile, J. H. sauna, J. H, Sted- bias, Rovors L, Cutting, Corneius Vanderbilt, Jobo * Latarge and W. Whittredge. Vbe articies are ail in pi 4 @ in the other gal- are nearly arrang be given to-day prow to-morrow night The space between the stairs k affair, corridor will pe filled with flowers, anu there wi mosic, There wil ve ho season tickets, The bition wili be open daily from nine A. M. vo 81x P. Me, and [rom hall-past seven P, M. tu ton P.M, Lie dure ton Will be dix Wee! STUDIO NorTEs. Stanley @. Middloton bas brought back with him from Europe a humber of laudScape studies from tho Isle of Wignt and trom Frauce, aud somo In bis treatment of landscape the artist mi ts good in light and suade, and is extremely earofal and faithful iu bis drawing or outline, We nove a rainy duy on tho Isle of Wight, with sheep on @ bill side, and some excellent interiors, with Oguros and good arrangements of Iignt, A study of cobbler af work is very effective, aa ts an old peasant womar kniteing by AWindow. Mr, Middleton has started ¢ large canvas tof tue Brooklyn Acadomy whieh prom Ises Well, Along heug dure CoMmiug fluck of sheep ; large UF #0 to the leit aud a covagi to tue tyne Rovert U, Minor bas brought with him trom the country some sceues bear Brooklyn, Cons, There is one, ® Charming View ou the Mull River, wuieb would Work up wei, A sifong mooullgnt ts carefully studied and freak A pleasing new picture ie & a twilight of troam, With @ poplar, very selical given, to th 1) otuer tr across We stream, om ‘whieh 1s # boat with fNgures, aud goo refleetio Lay bas beeu at work on bis contri vation Artists’ Fond, which prow ry evessiui works, A young g by the porch of an old counury bous gare so /ar 18 excellent ated; aud the pose aad thoughtfal expression she looks out, with bor Bead leaning ob oer band, are good. Tue paie bait Lodiau suk, aud delicate in color, Tue tore ground is in shadow, aud the sunlight strikes past the house of the paliows of & fonce Which separates the yard iro u field of corn. There 18 periect repose & delicious sentiment in the picvur Cunton Ogilvie bas a number of sketches made about Eligawethtown, im the Adirond e is good suDiigut over U Oxceligut wad curoful study, 1h whieh thw terial for « provure, is & view of a briage Over quot River,