The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1878, Page 12

12 “WEST POINT. Annual Report of the Board of Visitors. High Encominms on the Administration of the Academy. : | WasuincTon, Nov, 1, 1878, The annual report of the West Point Board of Visi- jors to the secretary of War jor the year 1878 bas yeou received at the War Deparimeat Tne Board a jembied on tue Ist of June, aud organized by electing Mr. David A, Wells, of Connecticut, president; Cup, aio Samue! RK. Fravkiju, United States Navy, vice president, and Professor Cuaries 8. Venable, of Vir- finia, seoretary. All the members of the Board were M atiendance during the greater portion of the timo fevoted to ine imvestigation, and most of the members during the entire (ime of \ue examination of the first or graduating cls UTILITY OF THK BOARD, Of the utility of the Board of Visitors the report, Alter alluding to the fact that they are appointed to report (o the Secretary the resalis of their in- Vestizations into the condition and administration of the Acudemy for the information of Congress, jays As Congress, judging {rom the experience of ail former boards, uovs pot desire to draw Injormation | from such sources, and as there is no evidence that the recommendations of any previous board have eVer bad the siighiest iofluence in the evactment of apy luw by Congress allecting the administration, educutioual course or disbursements of tue Academy, the reduction of expenditures possibiy excepted, aad as there 13 evidence that the mere nod or Whim of @ secretary of war ora general 10 ciel bas more in- flucuce than the combined opinions of ail tue boards tuat have ever been uppoimied, the question of the wulity olan apouai Board of Visitors und tue desira- bility of its perpetuation naturally suggests itsell. UI What avail is 1k toexpend time and labor ia the preparation of & report Which, in common with most br all similir reports that bave precedes it, is certaiw to be regarded vy Cungress and the paviic ulike as of ho wecount, but to which, by force of general statutes, the doubtful compliment of public printing hus to by awarded? A REPORT WILCH MIGHT ANSWER, Or, If im respectiul comiormity Lo Lhe obligation of Feporting involved in the acceptance by the members of te board of (heir several appointments tor service, a formal document is 1o be submiitea, why not state \m the simplest phraseology thus the board assembied AL tbo Uwe and day designated ata small, incouveu- 1, but Well managed hotel, where no tutoxicating rages Whatever are sold, Which hotel, 1dispensa- tothe comiort of most persons oflicially visiting West Point, Cougress bas graciously allowed io be tt inthe main irom the proceeds of hoop poles, t in a long series of yeurs from the govern- ss Bent jands avjacent; tar the board was re- weived with marked courteey by the acacemy Ma; that the examination of the cadets were teguiarly attended; that the public butidings and jrounds, Win the commissury aud mess, were in- ipectea; that the discipiiue, course of tusiruction asa tue practice aud meihod of keeping accounts were in- QUired 1Mt0; that a particular investigation of the moral and religious coadition of the cadets was specially entrusied to such members of the board us have us their special mission the work of makicg men better, and tuat, fuding everything satistactory, the board, after some fourteen days’ continuous at- Jendance, avjourued, receiving in retura trom tbe paviic treasury a8 Compensation jor their services apa jor expeuses ol board and logging the sum of 36 per uay and eight cents per mile jor travelling by the shortest mail route from their respective homes to the ueademy and returp? Such u report wouid be tecu- ically jaWiul and ion compliance with form, whicn (us ail previous experieucs suggests) 18 all that the Board of Visitors’ report practically ever amounts to, Such a summary Of proceedings ought not to be ob- jectionavle to erther Cougress of the public. Wooden imuges Standing iM front of u shop to direct attention to (be busivess carried ou Wilniu are just as use!ul And a great deal cueaper tvan live meu employed io performing am equally mechanical auty. The Boara of Visitors at West Port for the year 1578 tevl, however, that tue sphere of ‘ser- Vice involved in the appointment of an annual Board of Visitors is much targer and far more impor tant (hen 1s embroced in the mere couturmity to stat- d tbat the usefuigess of such se: IY greut vo fully justify 18 original in- | vice is suificien stitution by Congress wud to also warrant its iutare continuance. THE EXAMINATIONS MADE, The report then at some length dilates upon the im- portance of mamiaining the high standard ot exeel- leney of military tone and discipline at the academy as u great auxiliary of peace, and quotes from the bis- tory of the country wherein graduates of the acanemy have periormed important service and showing vbat the Maibtepance or this institution bus beea @ source of economy to the ou tiov, The result of the investigation ay the Board of Visitors, both through special committees of the Boara, and the Board acting a8 a committee of the whole is believed (o bave been in every respect thorough, It bas led to this general aud witbal re- markable conciusion—uamely, that there is at jesse due public fustitation im the United States of whieh itcan be truly offlrmed that the more it Is investi. gated the better it appears, und for the direct a¢- Bitnistration and contro! of which no person ix be- lieved to hive been selected tor any other reason than fitness vo discharge the trust confided to him. | Ia face of no small part of the public and private record of the cuuutry ior the lust few years sucn a conciusion ought to be to the nation in the highest degree gratifying and considered as affording promise for a realization of euch au ideal of eflisency and ree form in other departmeuts of the federa) government ae has horeto appeared (o many altogether ideal and wisionsry. In saying this, however, the Boara Bot mean to be un ang or express. ing tbe opinion that the West Point Military Acagemy oes rstood aa enie: js in all respects perfect, but they are of the »pivion that bat litle of improvement remains to be | effected by those immediately in control of and re- | sponsible for its adminisiracion, and that any ehanges } tooking to its betterment or increased (uture efficiency will be im the direction of enlargement of the existiug Course of study, of in the natare of mechanical ac- | cessories, the provisions for both of wuict aro de- | | pendent upom Congressional iegisiation or money ap- propriation, STANDARD OF ADMIESION, As to the standard of admission to the academy the Board are invariably of the optnion that— the efficiency of the academy as a military educa. | tional insiramentality would be greatly increased by | raising (he standard of qualification at present re- | e pdidates for aumission, The evidence | led Ww this conclusion may be thus brielly present the educatioaal requirements tor | ciass (first year) of the academy are | low—jower than are requinite tur the of freshmen in any of the jeading un or colle ot the country, Chese | Fequirements are pot in any degree within the control ort ¢ mic rd, but are prescribed by stacut this jow standard is that | voxequences of the greater 1 of the time of the fires year 1s devoted to (pe learning of elementary branches of Knowledge, wiieh coud be wequited outside of the Academy o8 readily ax within it It Is also pertinent to this discussion 0 state that the present require. | ments for wimission to the academy are far below | bose for admisson into the military and polyteennic | ichools of France, wlieh ombrace in (he department | M mathematics more than is studied during the fest year at West Volut. For this and mony other reasons whieh the report Haborates at great length the Board unanimeusly | soied to rr commend to Congress that the standard of Hdweatioval qualifloavions for adminsion wo the Untied | States Military Academy bo raised at the earhest | practicavle moment, and they believe thas the | eMicency of the academy and the useluiness of the | graduates to the country will be greatly increased | thereby, As stich change will, Lowever, necessarily | Involve a revision to a greater or extent of the academic course of instruction, the proper | m to bo for Congress to refer the bject to a commission to report amendments | fo the existing statates and academic reguiations, Tite WATHR SUPPLY. | Im respect to the matter of water supply et West | Point, tho Board found that the present supply is Wholly inadequate to the Sanitary requirements of ho Cadets, officers and men there stationed, or to lurpieh proper facilities for tue protection of the public buildings aud other property in case of fire, and they recommend the purchase of a jake and tho necessary lands adjoining about four miles from the post, The sewerage of the aeademy aud grounde was also found detective and insufficient; but, a8 Congress has already made proviston for its pertection, the in- crease of the water supply is thus made doubly neces- sary. In regard to tho hospital, incrensed and better | Accommodations are needed, and the bailaing com. meneed jo 1874 ts cull undowbed and onetghtiy, and | 1h & Condition in which the work already done is con- | hua! deterivraiing, They necordingly recom Mond & {a ther appropriation of $80,000 to Hmisu the | siructure, THR FISCAL aYaTRM In regard to fisoul aflwirs (he report sayer Nothing about tbe United States Military Academy | the | uue, died yesterday, (the intelligence of bis death street, where ho resided, ior ia more satisfactory than its fiscal system and man- agement, The disbursements and appropriations are under the charge of Capsain RK. F, O'Bei and we spec'fic accounts of the academy and the cadets der Lieutevant 5. M. Malls, la regard to the annual cost the Academy the report says:— As before sbown, the cost of maintenance of the Academy, a8 at present conducted, is about $250,000 yer aunum, That 18 avout one-fourth the cost of a regiment of infantry and about equal to the cost of keeping a0 old siip-ol-the-ling oF a Hrst ¢lass armored naval Vessel in commission. In conclusion the Board say :— With the exception of raising the standard for ad- mivsiou Lo the Academy aud the revision of the sub- sequent Jour years’ Course Of insirugtion, there is, in the opinion of the Board, but little preseut demand vor a large Opportunity for improving the exisiing condi- ion of affairs at West Point, save through the grapting | Some additiouas appropriations by Congress, The Board tuliy recognize, however, that the fuavcial conuition of Lhe country aod the present temper of the public alike demand the pragjice of the most rigid economy 10 respect to all national expendiures, and that theretore !t would ve inexpedieat, Mf not useless, for them to ask for avy material departure from -uco policy © (bo part of Congrese in determining tbe beXt appropriation of the Academy, The Board have wecordivgly not recommended tue appropriation of a single dollar for the Academy over aud above the average amount Usually graoied, except with a view 0! economy conjoimtly with eiliciency. 4 fier alluding to efforts in some directions to excite unreasonable prejudices in the public mind against Luis institution, Lhe report closes as lollows:— Wost Point, iu plice of being im any degree an ob- ject of publié prejudice and suspicion, ought, on the covtrary, 10 be rather an object of pride 10 the whole nation, an institution of whose graduates it is no smalicompliment to say toat they neither steal nor tell lies. PERSONNEL OF THE BOARD. The report is sigaed, im accerdance with the vote of the Boura, by Mr, Wells, Captain Franklin and Protessor Venable. The Bourd consists of Brigadier General Christopher C, Augur, United States Army; Rey. James Lewis of Michigan; John ©, Ropes, ot Massuchusetts; Francis B, Wheeler, D. D., of New York, Senators Cameron and Morgan (on tho part of Senate); Representatives Fotr, Lynde and Manning (om the part of the House of Represepta- tives), and the three geatiemen elected officers of tbe Board BOYCE MURDER TRIAL, TUE ALLEGED MURDERER OF FREDERICK HAMM ACQUITTED. RocusstEr, Nov. 2, 1878. Tho trial of George Boyce, in this city, for the mur- der of Frederick Hamm, in the town of Clarkson, Monroe county, N. Y.,om the 23d of March last, bas been occupying the attention of the people in this vicinity for pearly two weeks, An account of the murder was published in the columns of the Henao ut the time, and will be remembered ag one of tue most atrocious and cola biooded ever recorded in tbe annals of crime inthe Gaited states. A very brief history of the case now, however, may not be amiss. Freuerick Hamm was a farmer living in Clarxsou, on the road which divides the counties of Monroe and Orleans, Oo Saturday n‘ght, the 23d of March last, be was Jeft alone in his bouse, bis wile being absent tn Roehester, and .is stepson, John Helmuth, and bis daugbter, Louisa Hamm, leaving the bous visit a neighbor a mile or two distant, between sx ana seven o'clock on the fatal evening. About an hour aiterwarda the reports of a double-barrelied gun were heard within an instant of one another, and a flash was seen in the direction of the rear of Mr, Hamm’s house. Wuen Miss Hamm and her slepbrother returned home between eleven und twelve o'cieck that might they und that Mr, Hamm had been spot and instantly killea by an assassin, Who bad fred through the kitchen window from tbe outside, Hamm’s skull hag becn literally torn to pieces by the two charges from the double-barrelied gun in the bands of the mur- derer. ihe arrest of George Boyce ana his browner- in-law, Nicholas Eugler, bowh young men and peigh- bors of Hamm, speedily followed, and ic 1® the trial ot the fol Court of Uyer and Terminer which has no Urieans county rince tne 22d of Octuber. HE THIAL. James L. Angle was tne presidi! oner was defended by Mr. George Ra Deun, of Brockport, and tne case for tne people conducted by District Atturuey Fenner, Only deuce of a very circumstantial nature was adduced against tue prisoner iso) who Was tried alove, ihe principal evidence may be summed up to havo beeu ubout as followa:—First, a line of foo prints cro: n Hamm’s house and Boyce’: ext south, going aire! the latier; Dd, the fact that 4 double-varrelied guu was fouud iu tbe possession of Eugler, wuo lived with Boyce; third, the discovery tuattne paper wadding biown into the bead of tho murdered mao had ea it German words, which were found to have been printed in 4 Buflaio German pa- per, « tort portion of whicu was ound ia Boyce’s bouse; /ourth, the fact that Boyce showed a somewhat strange iaiflerence Lo the ate of oie neighbor, never going uesrihe Hawm place until the Monday worn- ing lolioWing, Loough tbe Whole neigubornood was in an uproar ol excitemens over it the whole of the tu- terveuing Sund fifth, that the shot fouud in Hamin’s bead was of mixed while (he shot founu in Bugler’s poucn was aiso have been of Al east (wosizes. ue Very Clever dissection of tuis evidence by the counsel ior the deience has placed the matter jn such a light that the mystery surround- ing (he murder remains almost a& impenetrable us it Wasia Murch iast, The prosecution have signally tailed to show (bat Boyce had any motive for com- mitting tue deed, anu tue defence bave centrived to throw a doubt upon almost every item of eircum- stantial evidence that the prosecution adduced. the jury re Verdict of acquittal alter being Out ouly ove hour tuis aliernoon, crly im this aod NEWS ITEMS, The police arrosted 1,313 persons last week. The Departinent of Pavlic Works last week col- Jecied $56,435 17 for crown rents, The HeRaLD bas received $1 for Mrs. Jane Roache, of Nu, 10 Kiage street, from “J, PB ihe International Dairy Fair will open on Decem- ber 2 at (he American Lustituce butiding. Marsbal Jone Tyler Kelly, of the Mayor' ihe steamship Erin, of the National tine, whieh sailed for Liverpool yesterday, carried out acventy head of catiie, Four hundred and fifty deaths, 615 birth: 192 mi riuges aud Us till bitihs Were reported at the Bareau 01 Vital Siacistics Inst week. Tbe Board of Excise granted nine lice last week and receive $605. They granted 250 licenses during the monta of Uctober aud were paid $11,680, The Comptrolier yestorday sold to Messrs, Samuel J, & Joba J. Levy ‘or $25, (ne right, title ana inter. erest of the city of New York in fourt lots of land jo 1081 and odin sircets and Toird avenue, Mary dioward, the colored Woman who was shot in tho head on Wednesday morning by while in ber room at Elelty-tic Howard \ Michael Wali, whose extradition to Germany was demanded on a Charge of forgery, sailed Bremen on board tue steamer Neck: companied to the Bt committed to the Goarge of the ‘The 1ollowivg is the total amount of taxes on per- | sonal property, baok stock aud real estate received jase week by tbe Receiver of Taxes ; Ovtover 25, $1,105 $1,208,404 15; October go, $1,047, $1,420,007 54. Total, $8,802,026 U4, Officer Huston, of the mounted squad, arrested a woman, Who gave ber name as Mary Biake, ona charge ‘ot intoxication on Friday evening. When about to Ue taken to court yesierduy morning it w discovered that ber jog Was broken, aud she bad to ent to the Ninety-orech Sor are unable to state how shew The vody of the man who commitied suicide on Friday Jast by hanging bimselt toa ratter to a at No. 6/1 Wogt Ihirty-tuird street was yesterday jdentiliea at (be Morgue as that Of Jobu M, sve of No. 116 West Houston street, Me was fity- years 0. age, and @ soomuker by trade, but ha fome mouths past been out of employment, John Conover, deckbaud on the lerryboat Jay Gould, whe crossing the North River yesterday, accidentally fell [rom one Of the rails into Lue water and was drowned The boat was stopped, but bis body could not be found. The deceased war twenty. two yours ot and yesterday was bis birthday, When ached No, 128 Perry bis [riends were making L ‘thday party, Which waste bave eat, SUBURBAN NOTES, ‘The receipts of Tax Collector Tapner, Brooklyn, from Decomver 1, 1577, to Ustover B1, 1575, were $6, 002,51 Charies Clyne, a podier, residing at No. 478 Presi. dent street, Brookiyn, Was arrested runing over aod severely tojart ten yours 01 age, of No. 191 Douglass ihe recent storm will long be remembered on the south couse of New Jersey. Several men are re- ported missing, and human bodies have veen washed asvore., Ou Thursday o homan hand and arm were lownu on the bank Of (he Couausey River, Kaithot, of Union i lerduy moroing N. J, wi by the report ot @ pistol, On turning toward Ler busbaud she discov- ered he had shot himeet if the torepead, Kaithoif lived but a few minutes alter the shooting, moo who was ron over in (he Berton cut of the yivania Kaiiroud on Weduesiay died vosterday Michael's Hospitsl, Newark, Who he was ts Koown, Yul te & 1 1S Dame i Charles siere, of anal aire Deowrsed was about ¥ years of ge, «od bad dark brown bare aud @ smooth lace. The vody Is held tor iden udeation, | brings to his task a large amount of spec: LITERATURE. SOMETHING ABOUT DOGA, The author of “The Management and Diseases ofthe Dog,” John Wooaruft Hill (Albers Cogswell), ts a Fel low of the Ruyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and experience, His !avors veterinary surgeon buve been abun- dant and successiul, and his essays on various sub- Jeets connected with bis profession, such as **Parturi- ent Apoplexy in the Cow,” “Some of the Diseases of Farm Stock,” “Diseased Meat as au Article of Food,’? and on “Canine Distemper,” have secured for him a widespread repuation, Iu his preface Mr. Hill very wisely remarks that the fold om whieb ho has entered im treating of the ‘Management and Diseases of the Dog’ its a large one, and one which bitherto, much to the diseredis of the profession (o which he belongs, has b imexcusabiy neglected. It is only recently, through the labors of such men Biaine, as Youatt, as Mayhew, henge’’ and otners, that men of scieoce have given attention to the diseases irom which man’s best friend among the lower animal Mable to suffer. Mr. Hill’s avowed object 18 to enlighten the public and to alleviate the sufferings of the canine race. In @ series of well-condensed chapters all the ciseases from which the dog is known to suffer are minutely described, and instructions are given a8 to the course of treatment which shouid be foliowed, The chap- ters on diseases of the skin, on rabies, on distemper, ou accidents and opera- tions are at once interesting and instruc. uy In the chapter aevoted to rabies some curious tacts are given as to the effect of milk taken from animais which had been bitten by dogs suflering from the disease. A long series of experiments made by Baumgarten, Valentin and otners failed to prove Uhat any unpleasant or injurious effects followed tho use of milk or butter obtuined from cows actually suffering from rabies On the er hand, there are many positive statements on record to the effect that tho very worst consequences have sometimes foliowed the use of milk taken {rom d,seased animals, To all who have domestic puts iu the shupe of dogs— to every one, indeed, who is in any way directly in- terested in the canine race—we heartily commend this most useful handbook, THE DINNER YEAR BOOK, The getter-up of a new dinner ts ” greater bencfac- tor of the human race than the founder of a new party; for, while the former does good to all con- cerned, the latter is sure te make some people worse than they were before. The lady who writes ander the nom de plume of “Marion Hurland’? has already placed poorly-fed humanity under obligations by pre- paring two manuals of cookery which possessed the merits of suggestiveness and accuracy ; but ber latest work, just published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, and entitled “fhe Dinner Year Book,’ will strike most bousekeepers »8 more valuable than apy ober cookery books, What to eat 1s a serious question in many families where the cooking is well done, and the housekeeper who can devise a weekly bill of fare im which nothing is to be duplicated is generally envied of all her acquaintanees, But Marion Harland has not only achieved this success, but done is fitty times over, for her new book contains dinner menus for forty-eight weeks of the year and twelve pany” dinners beside, though most of thos ri d tor quiet home consumption are better ¢! the generality of social dinners given and received. Among her dishes, the methods of preparing all of which are so minutely dotailed that a child of twelve years can comprehend them, are nearly three hundred different soups, vhree hundred forms of m: many formulas tor vegetables, nearly three hundred varie- ties of pastry, cake, confection, &c., thirty sauces and forty salads. A strange and delightful fact about all this is (hat pone of the d to be made irom material ether costly or difficult to obtain, and. that most ot the remains of each feast can be utilized tastefully in some subsequent meal, No family to whom tbe roast or boiled joint, fish or fow! is now the basis of the noonday meal need tear the incurring of extra cost by the use of this book. Some colored plates enhance the attractiveness of the work, both pictorially aud by A NEW QUARTERLY, The Orst number of a new quarterly, entitled The Oriental Church Magazine, is received. This muga- wine 18 under the apie editorship of the Rev. Nichol: Bjerring, pastor of the Greek Church ia tuis city, is devoted to religion, science, literature and art. As stated in the prospectus, the primary motive which inspiros this puvileation is a desire to lay be- fore English speaking readers a candid and aati tative statemeut of the constitution, tenets and prog- r of the Oriental Churen, The conteuts of this first number reflects credit upon its editorial manage- ment aod is as varied ag it is interesting. Russia is at this time an object of ereat interests to ail tye world, and America is not bebind Europe in a desire to know everything relating to that heretofore little known country. Her roligion and her literature alike com mand our attention, and it is not surprising that a magazine devoted to both should have begun its career under such favorable circumstauces as we aro assured has this one, The articles which will perhaps attract the most general attention are “Russia Newly Discovered,” by a Russiap; avswer to Granvilie Murray’s “Russia of ‘Toeday ;? “Modern Greece,” vy D. N. Botussi, Con- sul General of Greece in New York; “The March of Kussian Schools and Colleges,” by Lenaky, aud “A Russian Novelist and an American Translator,” by tbe editor, reterr: to Eugeuc Schuyler’s traasia- tion of Toistoy’s “Cosacks.”” POEMS OF MAITHEW ARNOLD, Macmillan & Uo, bave published a new ana complete edition of the poems of Matthew Arnold ia one vol- ume, This is nut 80 much a Dew book as an old book with wiace. Since 1854 readers of poetry hayo been more or less tamitiar with tne name of Matthew Arnold, As tar back 8 1848 be published the “strayed Reveiler and Other Poems.” Later, in 1863, he published ‘“Empedocies on Etow and Oiner Pooms.”” Ia neither of those instances, however, was the authorship revealed. In 1854 be puolished, under hisown name, a volume of poems which con of selections irom the two previous volumes and of some new pieces. This wus followed not jong atter- ward by a second When the first two volumes, wach appeared without bis bame, were withdrawn {rom publication, The pr ous much that is now, 18 valuavle by gives us what the mature Judgment of the able and expericnceu critic approves of bis own work im tbe line of pootry. There is much in this volume whieh tends to pro. duce jn our mind the couviction that Matthew Arnold would have boen greater aud more successful asa poet if he bad veen less of a critic Tue eritieal faculty in him 18 mofo pronounced than the poetic, As a critic he has certainly won some distinetion and done some good, and over his own ciass—tuat highly cultured Class whom he represents aud for whom and to whom he speaks—bis tufluence is powerful, Tout influence might, indeed, have been greater but tor bis restless disposition and bis speculative tura of thought. poet we dare not say Le has boon withs out success; but juccess Would undoubtedly h 2 more marked and more iriumpbant if bis tastes had be jos ject, his viatiorm of thought less ele- vated and bis sympathies more in harmony with those questions whieh fill the minds and agitate tho breasts of the masses of the people. lo this latest collection of his poetical works discover many of the avthor’s exceliencies and not a teow of his deflect There is out the volume evidence of ‘The classic model is evor Lelore us; and altuough there is not 1a the buok what une would be justifed 1h Calling @ rounded, perfect whole, there sre some magnificent iraginents conceived and executed ac- cording to the purest style atd in harmony with the joltieet principles of the poetic art, In “Sonrab and Rustam,’ io “Balder Deud,” in “irisirom and Iscult,” and others of the ionger pieces, there are passages which, for sublimity of thought and combined purity and grandeur of diction, aro not to be sarpassed anywhere cise in tho lungas Some of the smaller pieces, too, are exquisite; and they charm us in proportion as they deat with things that are vear, with (he commoner ways and the com, moner feolings of lile. After all, however, it is a book for the thinkiNng few, not for the toiling and lemutes less many, The standpoint of ihe poot is too lolty He lives and moves and hast s being in am atmos. phere which is too @ for ordinary mortaia, His charactors belong to the dim and mystic past or toa | 100x58 inches, with a soal NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1878.—QUINTUPLE SHEET, world of which mankind generaliy nave no knowledge. Sorrow be sometimes rings out in wailing numbers, and hope he clothes in the beauseous voams of the Pisin, 0, But bis sorrow is pot our sorrow, bis hope is not our hops Mr. Arnold bas a perfect right to choose his audience; he bas a right, too, to be satisfied if that ence ts pleased with what he has 49 say ; but, for the reasons above given, his poems are but little Hikely to take # strong or permanent hold of eral Eoglish reading public. As it iv—and has been maue—this book treasure. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Dr. Hoiland’s summer residence is painted olive green and Indian red, Jouquio Miller pow appears about town with short air aud in an unpoetic ulster He aiill clings to the slouch hat, however, William Winter's sketches of Eagland will appear in November, Rand, MoNally & Co, have just issued a new railroad and county map of the United states and Canada, re- ceived through Alexander A, Grant. The map is ofan inch to thirty-two miles, 1618 the first map on a geometrical projection issued since tne war, and sbows clearly every town of the smallest size, every raliroad and county line, and is the most complete map ever issued by this tirm. 1t was made ata cost of nearly $20,000, Artand Society is the name of a new periodical which describes itseifas ‘‘a weekly jeuroal for the beau-monde.”? “Six Months in Ascension” ts the titleof an un, scientific acnount of a succesaiul scieatidc expedition, written by Mrs. Gill, who accompanied her husband Jast year on his travels, Protessor Seeley’s ‘“uife of Stein’? will soon appear. It treats ot German history between the death of Frederick the Great and the French Revolution of 1830, Mr. Gallearea is in England, engaged upon a work on Pope Pins IX. and King Victor Emmanuel, entitled “Phe Pope and the King.’? . F. Leyholat, of the Publisher's Weekly, has com, ed his “American Catalogue,” which brings into juxtaposition tor the Orat time the works and editions of authors whose books were proviously to bo found only by tiresome bunting through muny catalogues. The main volume covers 900 pages aud includes 70,000 entries, making # Valuable reicrence book, There are filty-five Browns entored as authors, of wnom six are simple Johns, distinguished by place; but there are two Joba Browns, of Edinburgh, the M. D. id the vy. D, Alice seems to be the favorite name in fiction, fitty-seven titles beginping with that word, Over sixty editions er adaptations of Bunyan’s “iigrim’s Progress” are entered, with trai ns in eight lan- guages, and over fifty of De Foe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe.” of Dickens’ works there are mo less than twenty-four editions, besides those of bis individual books, The chair ot Greek in Queen’s College, Belfast, is vacant by the resignation of Dr. McDonall, who re- tres through failing health, “Legends of the Morrow’? iq the title of a new vol- ume of poems by Dr. T. G. Hake. Three of Mr. Smiles’ books are to be published in Hindustani. Messrs. Chapman & Hall’s Coristmas Annual in- cludes among ite contributors F.C. Burnaud, Joho Hollingshead, Sir Houry Pottinger, Hawley Smart and Violet Fane, An English edition of the Duc De Brogho work, ‘Io Seeret du Roi,” which embraces the secret correspondence of Louis XV. with bis various diplo- matic agents, will be issued shortly by Messrs, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, “The Dramatte List; a Record of the Performances of Living Actors aud Actresses of the British Stage,” by C. A. Pascoe, is announced in London by Messrs: Hardwicke & Bogue. Theodore Cuyler’s ‘Pointed Pap for the Chris- tian Life’ will be published by Holder & Stoughton, London. Professor Muller, of TObingen, has in pr. of Moltke, 1800-1878." R. Worthington, of this city, has recently published “Parrots avd Monkeys,” a book tor the young. Henry Holt & Co. have published “The Studio Arts,”? by Elizabeth W. Jehnson, as one of their hand booke. It 1s intended asa help to those who wish an outside knowledge of art and is an introduction, nota system. Mrs. Augosta J. Evans Wilson, the author of “Beulab’’ is vow in this city on a visit to her iriend, Mrs, Commodore Vanderbilt, Mrs, Wilson is one of the writers to whom | ‘ature is remunerative, She has been paid $100,000 by her publisher, George W. Carleton. A tortheoming book on Greece, by Lewis Sergeant 1s in Casseli’s press, wonder the title of ‘New Greece; Political, Social aud vomestic,”” Pott, Young & Co., New York, bave in press “Tne Koran; lis Composition ana Teachings,” edited by be eminent Urientalist, Sir Edmond Muir. Under the bead of ‘‘Pablisners’ Priory Claims’’ the New York Publishers’ Weekly reprints trom wwe Commercial Advertiser many aupouncements of Eng- lish reprints proposed to be issued by American pub- lishers. It is difficult to see what ‘priority’? can thus be secured, in absence of ail copyright what- ever, und especially when, as often bappens, several rival publishers announce the same book me tim: ‘Tbe librarian of the State Library at Albany makes a Vigorous proicst sgainst Gothic and other fantastic forms ol jettering books on the back, which make it @ pozzie and consumption of time to decipher them, Mr. Smiiés has a new book In pr entitled “Life of a Scetch Geologist,” being that of Robert D. Baker, A little less than one million dollars’ worth of books wero exported from Great Britain in 1877, ‘¢ now about sixty histories of England, but adus to the number, Among others, the in press Mr. Spencer Wailpoie’s *+His- id from the Conclusion of the War of a “Life tory of E 1815."” Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butlet Jortheoming book, “Records of My Girlhood,” is announced by Bentley, of Lonaon, The Eoghsh transiation of Professor Duncker’s History of Antiquity has reached the second volume. “Travels in Syria,” by Dr. and Mme. Helter, translated from the German, is a book tull of interest and attraction, At the late conference of the British Library Asso- Giation the members grappled with tbe question of a eral cabal: of Evgiish literature, but nothing practical as to methods of carrying out this grand scheme was evolved. Mr. Galinoyat, a lively Ita who bas written much avout Ituly, bas in press a book on Pope Pius IX. aod Victor Emmanuel, entitied “The Pope and tho King.” A ‘life ot General Moltke, from 1800 to 1878, by Proieseor Miler, of Tubingen, will soon be published in Gorman aud Koglisb, M, Baudrillart ja publishing in Paris a “History of Luxury,’ private and public, from antiquity to mod- ern limes. ‘The batile of the monetary standards still agitates France, The last word on the subject is H. Dubo'’s “Théorie et Pian d'un Etalan luvariable do Valeur.” Emile Chevalier is writing tor Lévy’s **Library of Fiction Series ef Dramas of North Ameri of which is entitied ‘La Fille au Pirace,”? Thomas Carlyle is now very busy on bis autobi- ‘apby. ‘Oanada Under the Administration of Lerd Dut. in?’ 18 @ book in preparation by Mr. George Stewart, a Canadian writer, Professor Moses Coit Taylor has been so overcome by the quantity of material that the fret part of his “History of American Literatare,” embracing the colonial period, will be issued by the Puta: in two volumes instead of one, The ancient and honorable “United states Di satory’ is to huve a rivalin a “National Dispensatory” by Des, Allred Suié and Joho M, Maison, which will be « big book of 1,400 pages. Protessor R. D, Hivchcock will publish through A, D. F, Randoi,h tis new book on socialism, Professor KRawlinson’s “History of Ancieut Egypt” is in prese in London in two volumes, THE ROE DiVOKOE OASE, Tho aivorce sult of Mrs, Mary & Roe, ot Newburg, against her basvand, w ain before Judge Dyk. man, at White Piatos, yesterday, The motion was to have the alimony for the plaiuiiff fixed at $3,000 per m for herself and ber two children; aiso $500 wanes for COUUE! leer, It being CloIMed thut the dejendant ba pioine of $4,000 Ber year, On the part of the defenunn! it was elasmed that his come does not HO per annum, Judge Dyk. man look the papers and reserved Lis decision, GLADSTONE, THE FAMOUS PAMPHLETEER ANSWERS ABBE MARTIN. In the October number of we Contemporary Review the Right Hon, W. E. Gladstone puviishes a paper ia auswer to ove by the Abbé Martin in the August bumber of (hat magazine entitled, “What Hinders the Ritualists from Becoming Roman Catholics,” Mrs Giadstoue’s article is 4 study on the Reformation, and is entitled “The Sixteenth Century Arraigned Before the Nineteenth,” and covers twenty-seven of the Contemporary’s broad pages. Of course the Eng- Msn bial h priest, and, as everything thas Mr, Gladstone Says 1s entitled to respect, us tt certainly receives cons Sideration, we quote some of the most striking pas- sages. He begins by saying:—"fbe fraction of Roman Catholics io the population of this country, as com- puted from the yearly retarns of marriages, has tor Ageneration past been between five and sour per cent; and, out of this small portion, by far the larger part, probably nos legs than five-sixths, ure of Irish birth, The slight variation observable bas, on the whole, been rather dowowurd than upward, The fraction itself, which approached five per cent in 1854, now rises little above jour, There is, in short, no sign that an impression has been made on the mass of the British pation, This is especially remark- abie on two grounds, First, thata new lodgment has really been effected in the body of ihe aristocracy, Now, bigh station is in this country 4 capital element of attractive power. Fuily bait a score of peers or heirs apparent to pecrages have, within forty years, joined the Latin commanion, and have carried thither in several cases tue weight of high character, im one or twe that of noted abiti- ties or accomplishmouts, But, secondly, these years bave, beyoud all question, effected an euor_ mous augmentation in the arguing and teaching capacity of tbe Anglo-Roman body. 1 do not speak of merely mechunical appliances, as butidings. [tis probable that the secessions bave muitiplied at least fiveiold the stock of educated ability and learning available for ail ils purposes, Ibe aggregite addiien might perhaps claim to be equivalent in turce to the entire body of honor-meh at Oxtord or Cambridge for eral yeu The zeai of the ceders bas been even more conspicuous than their taients, Yet this great afllux of missionary energy bas entirely tailed to mark the work of propagardisw either by an in Crease of relative numbers, or, as every observer must admit, by an augmeutation of civil, political, or social force,'” He compares the Abbé and hia friends to men stand- 1pg under a tree whose branches bend unger a weight ot guiden fruit; they shake the tree with all their might, but the apples do pot fall, Tne general prop owition announced by the Abvé in his article seems to have been that a portion of the English Church re- sembles the Latin Church in ritual, usage and doc- trine, and he is there/ore astonished that iney do not become one, Mr. Gladstone urgues that tne Eustern Cuurcn is even nearer in form una ceremony, but Says that nothing is 60 rare as @ theological or ecclesi- astical conversion {rom amoug them to tov Latin communion, ‘What the Abbé does not understand,” ‘s Dir, Gladstone, “18 the lack pr ea rudely, but substantially, by the statistics 1 have cited; the incompatibility, be 1t for good or ve it for evil, of the English mind with the Roman claims and the system which those claims introduce. New to this sys- tem, whether under the name of Rome or ot ritual, or whatever other name, I hold tt pertectly certuim that this vation will, at least until it has undergone an extensive moral as well as theological transformation, decline te submit, And yet noton the ground which the Abbé Martin, exoibiing herein @ Want ol acquaintance with the State Of Opinion aud teehug among Us, appears Lo im- agine, He tuinks thatthe peuple oi iois country in general suppose the Roman Catholic religion to ve ‘a Ussue of errorand iaiquity.’ lu tii ideal be. lieve be does them great injustice. Among the ouly bie Wituesses—namely, men thougbttul and |—the great Lavin Churen ag often perhaps re- More tuap justice as less No country,” coa- *has produced more temperate reasouers Engiand it true, indeed, that we so 610 «this «day a seciion ot almost fanatical combatants against the Cuuren of Rome, and everything 19 which they can trace @ resemblance to il, Bet their pro- ductious are supposed Lo pues with unusual de<paich ADto the Waste paper ousket, and it may truly be Kad of that Cuurcn that, in this coantry at lest, she even more hippy in ber extremest mM 1m ber Iriends, * * Beheving th prise of Roman propagandism to be hop turougn- out Great Britain, | nevertvelesscun also believe ihai, beiween tue bold and Coulluent assumptions of tue Latin Church, the shock given to many minds Ubrough the sceptical movement, and the real fuulis and shor(com ings easy evough to’ be discerued in ibe Cuurch reforined alter the Augiican fashiou as Well as in every otver Cburch, the Roman fsbermen will irom time to time gather a handful of fish into their net. the matter of those juults aud = snoricomings =«requires a anu: detailed notice in ome vrunch. Abuses properly sv called—that is to say, corrupt deflectiong irom tue a knowledged standard, bave in ne Chureh veeu more rile and rank thun they were ia tue Charch of Eug- land jor several generations, But these are 1n a great degree things of tue past; iuey are geueratly und strongly renounced, at any rate, by the clergy, in spite of Whom they exist, so far as they exist at all, Bus the deiecis, other than mere abuses, huve a deeper seat.” During the last twenty years, be says, @ reaction has arisen under the force of which a crowd Oi Provesiants, and © mavy who deem tuem-elves io by the cream of Protestantism, nave Adopted ideas of trial and purgation beyond tne grave, Which Vasily exceed im jutitude apyihing ever luugul vy the Cuurch of Rote. Mr. Giudstone warns the Abbe Martin inat be not on all bunds receive the beueit of such admis: he makes 10 this article. “L waive, thefetore,” he suys, ‘much au- Vaniage, andsatner desire to make every possible admission.’ Me however limits timsell to the Ko- mau Cbureh in Englaod, though he retersto it in otner countries, He considers that our coutroversies would bo id we see plainly im which of 1s our religion dealt with its foes “At the present mom udeed, benel im the revelation of the auseen is Undergoing, here 48 elsewuere, a shock which iy without parahe!, at least in the bistory o: this country, ior the activily of 118 manifestations, ana is suflering ® sharp retrivation jor wil Lhe errors of ail Us professors, But iv remains to be seen whetner What We Wiibess 18 4 siruciural change, like tuoso Whict lll (he recora of geviogic time, or Whether it is Lue Wave of ucyclone, Which Wastes und suvmerges and is then itsel! reabsurbed, * * * Weouserveim the Roman Church a most powerful organiz. anda #reat faculty of action upon all those Who do not in- vorieusiy th iF lurgely Contribate to auppry mun. Kind With iis sv0Ck 01 Lhoughi; bur We “bserve also, when we look to the Countries of her unbroken ao- ininien, au apparent want Of Capacity to meet the ha- MAO Mind 1M 1s Quesioning attitude; sO OAL 1 Das simply broken away irom ber coutroi, aud the com- MuLidalions between Lue Lwoare like the Voices of side und on that oy a broad and deep siream that neither of tbem can cross, The -belleving guerillas are busy iu Lhe Heid o logy, Of lunguuge, of historic facts, of Epeculative plilosopuy, vf bvivi aud all archaic crivenmm, lo 'y he Ol (bese they ct e Curse tans to the fight. Waat, withia the last tuirty years, the current generat deflance bas bee u—during which the trumpet of souvding 1D her eurs—nuve buis Vast clergy and Church elfeciea in auswer to the challenge? And why are riiuaitsts, or anybody else, to bein a hurry to surreuder their Coristianity to a body that sbows 60 small capacity Lo deteud a terri. tory, WuIGh, BeVeriueless, It claims exclusively bo oc eupy.’ “Among the Presbyterians of Scotland and the non- conformisis of Haglund,’ says Mr, Gladstone, in con- Clusiou, “extremes Of vocirine bave veen greatly mjligated; but tueology is on the rise und culture is Heidt inineroased esteem. No douvt the priuciples called Anglican, Which fave aiso greatly auvanced in positiveness aud In practical Vilaltty, exbivIL nota ble distinctions irom the Provesiant system, as it exists outside the Courch of the land, Bat both this eVangelical Provestuatism an © Avg have crossed the oceans and sprang up With Vigorous 01 nd urgent, and #0 many of tue assauia @ is Ho despoudency as to the issue. But tt ts felt chat the time 18 come when discussion bas to be substituted for anathema as the main in- strumont of deteace, If the Latin Charen will gird herseli for that discus: and show that sue surpass § Anglicans and Nou-coniormists, erans aud Reformed, io vindicating the watuority gion abd estabiisuing its harineDy with tho nt demunds of the human reason, then only secure fof herself the spolia opima to the best of causes, she w suredly, do more to bring about the ultimate triumph ot her own particular claim than by wondering, while admitting, (hat ail Protestants are not rationalists or that wil ritunhsts do Hot leave a cuureh which 18 said ut (Le same time, as a true Ghured, to Command their allegiance, aud, us ‘the living embouimeut of every bigh and holy th to warm their heart.’ OCONVICL all the more NOUNCED. The stonecuttors of tue United States and Canada, in convention at No, 1,207 Broadway, yosterday, adopted resolatioas denouncing the ‘pr Of contract conviet labor,” aud asking Workingmen 10 Vote only Jor iis Opponents, One clause o| the reso- Havens rents as 1010Ws:— Resolved, That the power utven to Lous D, Xow Lurk state, to coutrack opt qummat itty cents per dey be idd, and Hf bu be vome away With @ Passeu by the Legrataty t paid tor each conviet Aba thenee not 1d Paid Gatsidy lor saeh Pillsbury, ot or ud that a law bo 4 work, and alse that the Mark Of the state trison shail be stamped on each article, Witlf the name of the coutractur, man tukes the epposite ground from the | PANICS IN THEATRES. THE USE OF HAND RAILINGS AND IMPROVE MENIS IN PUBLIC STAIRS. 134 Deansaate, Maxcuester, Oct, 18, 1878, To tHe Evrroa mae Heraup:— A churacteristic feature of such pavics as the recent One at Liverpool ts that the fatal resulis almost invae riably arise in consequence of the rush coming from the upper or galiery portion of the building. Now, little reflection will convince any one that itis utterly impossivie tor 4 crowd of papio stricken people to scumper down a public stairway of the present con- struction without some of their number stumbling forward, and thus causing a block or obstraction either in the passages or landing. Aad this will al ways be tue cuse, even supposing the external door. wuy were a Wide ag the Dutiding itself; the catasiro ple is therefore a feregone conclusiou, because tho mischiet 18 done before the street doorway is reached, But the hubiiity to disaster is increased wnen the outlet at the 1acite doorways leading om 10 the staire way 18 capucious, and this applies espevially to tho gallery or avy upper story. Any one who has ex- perieuced the Aunoyauces of personal pressure beuind when descending a public stairway will conceive what I mean, Uucer-such circumstances there ig danger in the merest touch, jor, like a row of dominos set on edge, the full of one causes tbe “kaoeking over” of those in front, The outlet of the 1aside doorways ot the gallery should, theretore, be ¢ pablo of being nar rowed und the atreet doors widened; this woula re- duce the number of people on the stairway toa sale minimum and the straggte would take place near the inner doorways, where the only danger would bea crush such asthe British playgoer is used to, thus giving Lime Jor Lnose On tue Stairs to descend Ifeely, HAND KAILINGS. But the most imperative requirement 1m public stuirways 18 4 liberal supply of uandratls, the wiato vetweeu each of Which sLouid bo about & yard, A avairway ol two Yarus wide ought to have & central Hanuruil in addition to those at the By toe assistunce of hundrails a crowd may nd ‘muon mure easily aud reply than when, as BOW, the ven- {ral idividuals of Lhe deacending mass have no other sopport for their vodies than their feet anu the muscles below the knee. ‘the pusu of w child agatust the Biropgest man wiunding at bbe edge of 4 sbuir and taken Uvawares Would suillce Lo precipitate bin headiong to the Dotiom if he pad BO ireudly hana Tull Lo grasp iu M18 descent, Ll, tuen, the Insiue duere ways ure Widened the importance vi handrails tw much wore eViuenl. G.ven a thousend people advancing toward stairway Of, say 125 steps (equal to about lorty yards Joa siraight hue), what Woulu be Lue ULmost UUM ber required to Uli tue siaicway irom top to bottom, reck- oulug loUr persons om euch stair, wud Lhe avewer 18 Now, the slowest of peaestrians, not enieebled by disease, could eusily Walk Jory yurds in one minute, wuich is at ihe rate of 4 littie over a mile ap hour. Kherelore we may toler that, with the uid of hund- Fatis, tne ci ; conimining 1,000 per. sons Would suppusiug tuey emerged the op i pace of o1 mile per hour. Lue avoveis the chgineering puase Of tue question, and 118 one Which Calis tor prompt upd decisive ucuon, jor | 4m quite sure that our pub- lic butidings are very poorly supplied with the 1udise peheubie vaouratl, ide us are the Blairways of the Froe fraue Halland other papic vuiluings iu Mune chester, 4 Culamily similar ty the one iu L.verpooi ia bo. ouly possivie, but Will some day as surely ap. pou, uuder like circumstances, as that a gun proper y joaded umd capped will go off woeu she trigger is paled, NOTICES TO TH AUDIENOKS. Another saieguurd would be to buve large piacaras Posted Up about Lheatre and Wordeu somewaat ue fol- Jows:—"Ou any alarm of tire the audience ure earn. @stiy requested to keep their seats, ‘ue tire brigade ts Close ut Dana, aud toe theatre cau be cleared in un orderly mauner in jour minutes. Lisorder and crush- log inay resuit iu great joss of ine, Olfeaders will be prosecuted with the utmost severity,” &c, If some of our worthy mug prosecutivg “Little Sievers’? or ov. uehcont ladies, were to divert their attention 10 evil¥ Olu lar greater Musghitude than inaginary oF real cuses ol Vagranc, even in iis direst Jorm, they would be entitled lusting gratiede of the commuuity, Who might ay, “We Wave to thank Mr, So mad so lor this? us wi justly suid of sir Rowland Kili, the futner of the penny post. Ihere are s:iil mouuments. in perspece tive for those Who deserve them, and warble Louurs just tor alltime. 1 nope tuese Jew stray ‘hougnis may be 4 step toward initiating @ reform iv ih ’se wat tere H. HOPWOOIK, OBITUARY. , — GENERAL SIR HiNBY BENTINOS, K. CG. B. General Sir Henry Bentinck, K. , colonel of the lwenty-eigath regiment, cied recently at bis house in Grosvenor street, Loudon, from congestion of the lungs, alter three days? tilne The deceased general was a membor of the ducal house of Portland, was born on the 8tn of September, 1796, and married on the 10th of March, 1829, Renira Antoinette, daughtér of the late Admiral Sir Jumes Hawktos Whitshed, G. C. B. The tate general entered the army us ensign tu the Second or Uolustream Gui in Murch, 111. Hie was ratner late in Iife when called upon to \uke active duty. He lett Eugiand with tne Guards in February, 1654, aud commanded the Drigaue uuring the Eusters cumpaiga unti Novem tucluding the Daities Of Alma, Baiakiava aud Lok man (Where he Was wounded’ in the arm), aud of Sebassopel, la command oi the Second uivision he Assisted At the repulse Of the sorue of Lhe 26th of Oo» tober. After tue fail Of Sebastopol he was appointed to the command of the Fourth division us successor to Sir George Cathcart, but was prevented bis wound and it bealtu from joining tt till the Las dum 1555, For hia services in ihe Crimea he was cre. od Koight Commanger of tne Order ot the Bat a Commaader of the Legion et Honor, of tne of Meujidié, and Wore the Sardinian aud furkish medals, PLOFESSOR GABRIEL DELAFOSSE, ACADEMI(IAN. Tho deatn of the veuerabic mineralogist, Gabriel Delaiosse, jor more than bail a century professor at the Facuity of Science of the Uuiversity of France and atthe Museum of Natural’ History, aud member of the Academy of Sviences of tho Institute of Erance, 6 announced by French periodicals ag hay ing Occurred ou the 14th inst, at the age of eighty. four years. Professor Delufosse was boro in 1794, entered the Norimal School in 1813, and received, avous 1618, the appointment of professur of min. eralogy, which he held until bis dewth, He waa decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1889, aua be. came an officer of that distinguished order in Au- genet, 1861, He was principally Kuown to the scien- till Worid by bis Very meritorious research crystalization, buving been bret Lo (in 1848) Lo (ho relations subsisting bi composition aaa crystaiue torm., He FRENCH mouvirs upon “Urysiailization Cou Poysical aud sous? ( upon “The Fi Mineral Spectes' (1801. He ais An wlementry Course of Natural History’ (3 vols. ), New Guurse of Min- eralogy” (3 Vols. 1808-62), a port ou the Prog. ress of mineralogy’? tor the Freneh Bxposition of 1867, and otner works, cuiefly schools books, on Yarivus branches of scienee, He wus ciectod to the AGademy oi 5: ces in L807. BARON ABRAHAM OPPENH«IM, GERMAN BANKER. Baron Abraham Oppenbeim, b of the great bank- ing house at Coiogue, died there Uctover 10, at the age of seventy-lour years. Ho was of Jewish parentage, born at Cologne May 23, 1804, and erited from bie fath vast banking business, which be had direowed, with his brother, for more than fiity years, The his tory Of thoir monctary transactions with tho various German and other governments forms an important ehapier of the annals of modern times, Baron Op- penheim, besides being a great banker, was a dist guished man in other respects, was an excellen' irieud, a good citi: dowed with great public spit. He was w ol numerous railways, Mavulacturiog panies; built at his own exp of Cologur, aud sucured Irom the Prussian goverus meal, im 1847, the emancipation of the Jews from tbe numerous civil bilities which Weighed upon taem, He rendered many financial aad other serviees tu the @ im Lhe title of baron, REY. PETER HOHNES, D, D. The Rev, Peter Hohnes, UV. D., died suddenly at Plymouth, Kogland, oa Sunday, October 13, at an advanced age, He was ordained in 1840 by the Bishop of Exeter, but devoted the greater part of his life to -scbolasuie work. Ho was a ripe theological scholar, and collected a fino library of 26,000 books. He wa assocmted with th Dr. tr les in critica? works on tho text of the New lestameut, JOUN THOMAS WOODHOUSE, ENGLISH ENGINEER, Mr, John Thomas Woodhouse, of Derby, England, founder and first president of the Midiand lnasitute of Mining, Civii and Mechanical Engineers, died at Dervy ubout the l2tn inst. Mr. Woodhouse wag wiueiy known in Connection with mining, Ho was ta his sixueth yeur, i decaatacn gmap STEAMTUGS Wu&ECKED, _ Detroit, Mich,, Nov, 2, 1878. A special despatch tothe sree Press (rom Sault Sto, ysi— The tugs Myst.e and BM. Pok w wrecked off Magnetic Shoals, oo the Canadian coast, ibey were sent to tue relief of ir Gook botn hh ond loo, Bolu the crews were saved,!?