The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK ITERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY NERALD, Thee conts per copy un eur, or at a rate of one ds day in the year. Ten dollars per h for any period monthe, Sunday cluded. free of pos HERALD—One doilar per year, free of p TO SURSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on D dei n em these ic despatches must roperly sealed, tbe returned, » 12 SOUTH SIXTH W YORK HERALD— TRADA e. will be received and AMUSEMENT: BROADWAY THEATR LYCEUM THE! WINDSOR THEATRE. TIVOLE THEATR! EGYPTIAN HALL— ABERLE'S AMERICA BROAD HILADELPHIA~Hxss Overs. The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cold and partly cloudy or hazy, possibly with occasional light rains, followed by clearing. To-morrow it promises tobe slightly warmer and fair. ' cl ‘The stock mar- ket was fairly active and strong. Gold was steady all day at 1001g. were weak, States steady and railroads strong. Money on call was y 2 per cent. Tur Fretn / : heusebreakers seem to have things their own v ye Ts the Orrioy of the federal Supreme Court deealeomanie pictures are subject to duty as printed matter. Tne Westerns Rai.roaps have become tired of their little campaign. It has been short, sharp and decisive. Tue Paorestixg Caxpipates | before the County Canvassers have bad their labors all in yain. The Board would never do for Florida. ComMMISSIONER CAMPBELL and Comptroller Kelly buried the hatchet long enough yesterday te unite in opening proposals for some public work, Ir THe Practice of sending diamonds through the mailé continues the lite of a Post Office carrier will not, in all probability, be worth much. Ivy tHe Mayuartan Bask and the Stewart grave robbers were in prison the eulogy of the police in one ot the courts’ yesterday would tead a little better. AxoTMER of the sixty-four thousand dollar check forgers was placed on trial yesterday. The conviction of all of them would be wei- tome news to the bankers, Joux M. Waren has been found guilty of the murder of the boatman Ferron, and sen- tenced to State Prison for life. The evidence against him was pretty conclusive. Vesry axp Greenwich Streers were pretty well cleared last evening of the unsightly huck- i beoths. Their removal will be a great relief to those doing business in that section of the city. Fottowixe te Examrie of the bankers and broker, the leather merchants have started adowntown club. Itisto be hoped their beef+ steak will not be as tough as the artiele in which they deal. it Is Nor Exvecrep that the Marqnis of Lorne will arrive at Halifax before Sanday next. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived there yesterday. A very warm reception awaits the gew Governor General. Cextrat axp Sovtu American News this morning is not caleulated to eucourage emi- gration to that region. Earthquakes, grass- hoppers, voleances and revolutions seem to constitute its chief attractions, RAWLROAD Stock HoLpERS will be interested in & decision just given by the Supreme Court of the United States. Jt is held that in the ease of municipal aid to railroads the recital printed on bonds that the election required by law was duly held is sufficient in the hands of au inno- sent holder to estop the municipality from offer- ing to show that no such election took place. The Weatuer.—The low area that appeared in the Northwest on Sunday has advanced rap- idly eastward and now extends over the north- ern lake reg’ The pressure is above the mean in the central valley distrieta and the Southwest. It is still highest over the New England coast, but is falling rapidly. Another well marked depression has moved northwfrd into the Eastern Gulf, and seems likely to de- velop a centre of disturbance of considerable energy during the next few days. Rain has fallen in all the districts exeept the Lower Missouri aud Upper Mississippi valleys. Foga prevail over the lake regions, the central val The winds bave been from fresh to strong on the Middle Atlantic and New England coasts, fresh to brisk in the lake regions and the North- west aud generally light elsewhere. The tem- perature has risen in the central valley div ricts avd the Northeast. It bas fallen in the wher districts. It is very probable that the area that now overlies the north- rosters coasts will retard the progress of the Leyeenion Unat is over the lake regions, in Which coe the weather may become very severe in Sew Eugland, particularly ov the coast. ‘The weether ia Mew York and its vicinity today will & ould end partly cloudy or bazy, possibly with socasional light rains, followed by clear- Jomerrow it promises to be slightly ferme wed far, vig jug Government bonds | No Subsidies. The so-called Commercial Convention, | alias Reciprocity Convention, which was held in Chicago last week, was, notwith- | standing its aliases, a veritable body of sub- sidists packed in the® interest of the Texas | Pazitie Railroad. The Chicago delegates to the Convention are to be ex- | cepted from this deseription, since | they were fairly appointed by the Mayor of the city and represented the local senti- | ment of Chicago, which is sound on the | question of government aid to sturdy >| and scheming beggars. The assem- | bling of that subsidy Convention {under false colors just im ad- vance of the meeting of Congress isa symp- tom of an extensive conspiracy for robbing the Treasury, after the manner of the too famous Crédit Mobilier. All separate sets of | schemers that desire a grant of money from ; Congress, are to be organized into a gigan- | tie combination for operating in Washington during the approaching session. ‘The Texas Pacific would of course cheat its partners and cut their throats if it could thereby help forward its own project, but it will ac- cept their contributions for the support of a common lobby and promise its assist- ance in return for votes, None of the other schemers are in quite such resolute | earnest as this particular set of beggars, who are the soul of the movement ; but they can count upon allies enough to render them truly formidable. They are not at all discouraged by their conspicuous want of success xt the last session, The session which immediately precedes the election of a new Congress is usually more cautious, if not more virtuous, than the expiring session which next fol- lows. When members are about to appeal to their constituents for a re-election they can be kept under some restraint, but when elections have just been held the defeated members are made reckless by @ sense that they have nothing further to lose, and the successful members by a hope that their votes may be forgotten in the long interval before another election. There is no longer any inducement to the sham economy that is paraded for elec- tioneering purposes, and the motives for real economy are considerably weakened. Nobody so well understands this state of the situation as the lobbyists who were so unsuccessful last winter, and who even then were too well acquained with the real character of members to be discouraged by the heavy rebuff which they met early in the session. They were defeated rather by management and strategy and by the pre- occupation of Congress with the currency question than by any sincere opposition of the majority to their schemes. The broad anti-subsidy resolution whicli*was sprang upon the House at an early stage and car- ried by a coup de main made it awkward for members who had voted for it to “turn their backs upon themselves” when their rivals at home were conspiring te get their seats. ‘Ihe situation has changed since the elections, and the lobby will this winter find amore pliable material to work upon. It will require the most active vigilance and districts and the South Atluntic coast. | the most strenuous efforts on the part of the friends of honesty and economy to hold these grasping gentry in check. The two projects which are to be pressed with most vigor are a subsidy, under the guise of a loan, to the Texas Pacific Rail- road, and a subsidy, under the guise of compensation for carrying the mails, toa Brazilian line of steamships, We have no hostility to either of these enterprises if honestly prosecuted. We strongly approve of the opening of new channels of com- merce wherever they are needed if good jadges have sufficient confidence in them to embark their capital. What we object to is the plundering of the national Treasury to enrich greedy schemers and speculators. If the ‘Texas Pacific were the only rail- road company that would ever make such an application, and if a line of steamships to Brazil were the only line that would ever ask to be supported by a subsidy, we should still withstand them, because such ‘hppro- priations are wrong in principle and a vio- lation of the rights of taxpayers. But they are objectionable’ on the further ground that as soon as one such enterprise is sub- sidized the door is opened to numerons others, which will plead the precedent and insist on the equity of treating all alike. If Congress grants a subsidy under the name of a loan tothe Texas Pacitic, then “shrieks of locality’ will be raised for similar bounty to every Pacific road that has been or may be projected. And in the same manner, if a Brazilian line of ocean steamers is subsidized by the gov- ernment in the shape of an enormous cum- pensation for carrying the mails, there will be no logical stopping place and no method of resisting local cries until Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans and San Francisco have one or more subsidized lines connecting with European or South American or Australian ports, On what ground, or by what process of reasoning, or in pursuance of what prin- ciple of equity, can Congress refuse a sub- sidy to the Northern Pacific Railroad after having granted a heavy one to the Texas Pacific? And so of all other transconti- nental roads and of the equal claims of all our principal seaports to be treated in the same manner as the most favored locality. ‘There are no resources of taxation which such rapacity would not exhaust if prece- dents are set which would open the door to claims founded on the principle of equal rights and the impartial treatment of com- peting localities. The enormous loan of public money to the already completed line to the Pacific, including the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, continues, even to this day, to exert a demoralizing effect, although the infamous Crédit Mobilier, which rained so many public men, had a great influence in dis- crediting the precedent, ‘Those heavy } grants cf money called loans were not needed for building the road; they went, by means of the Crédit | Mobilier, into the pockets of o set of graceless and grasping speculators, The exposure brought disgrace upon the authors and abettors of the scheme, but they were never made to disgorge the money. Up tothis day the Pacifie roads have persistently fought against all at tempts of the government to collect interest on the loans, and if they do not evade -pay- ment ofthe principal it will not be trom any lack of effort or ingennity. The Texas Pacific jobbers aspire to emulate that ex- ample. It they once get the expected sub- sidy, under the plausible name -of a loan, they will be as unserupalous as the existing roads in evading the payment of both interest and principal, and will make common cause with them in corrupting or perverting Congress and defeating compul- sory legislation. If a subsidy is granted to the Texas Pacific one will also be given to the Northern Pacific and to the Atchison, Topeka and Kansas, which is also to be con- tinued to the Pacifia. If the existing road istoo powerful for the control of Congress what will be the case when it is reinforced | by three othets as greedy and unscrupulous | as itself -and haying a common interest | in refusing to pay back. or account for | the millions of public money which they | had filched from the Treasury under the | pretence ofa loan? The only safety liea in | a root-and-branch opposition by the press and the people to every subsidy scheme, whether for railroads or steamships, If Congress comes near enough to this mael- strom to circle around its edges it will :in- | evitably be drawn, and the Treasury with it, into the immense and devouring vortex. This is a subject on which the efforts of the lobby and the action of Congress.should be watched with the keenest vigilance during the coming session. Alleged Sugar Frauds. It is vexatious to honorable men to be ac- cused of wrong doing; and we cannot blame Mr. Theodore Havemeyer, of the eminent sugar refining firm of Havemeyers & Elder, for a pointed remonstrance he has made, in | @ letter to the New York press, against the anonymous slanders which have been for some time flung at the body of sugar refiners in this city. He says, very truly, that as to frauds upon the revenues, the laws, which are very stringent, and even needlessly so, are enforced by the gov- ernment with all the vigilance of its officers and all the power in its possession; ‘and to assert that frauds are, nevertheless, committed is to say not only that mer- chants having vast capital invested in one of the most imporiant industries in the country would hazard their means, as well astheir good name, by committing frauds, but that the government is not able to prevent or detect them if they did, which isabsurd. The charge that American re- finers adulterate their sugars, Mr. Have- meyer not only denies, but offers that the refiners will open their works to exam- iners to be sent by the press, who shall watch all the stages of the refining process and report the-result. Wodo not think this either necessary or advisable. The fact is well known to all who care to know it that American sugar refiners carry on their business nowadays with better machinery and methods ‘than are used in other countries; their success is based upon the superior ability and intetli- gence with which they conduct their busi- ness, and also upon tha possession of abundant capital, which is necessary to its successful prosecution. -If any one charges fraud or aduiteration against the sugar re- finers it is his duty to doit publicly, and to prove the accusation true. If he does not do this he isno more to be regarded ‘by the public, and will receive no more attention than any other slanderer. ‘fhe business of sugar refining is now eonducted with such perfection in this country that Messrs, Havemeyers & Elder— to,take them as an example—probably re- fine sugar at less cost than any European establishment; and if the present laws fixing sugar duties and drawbacks were modified so as to give to this important branch of industry, which employs some thousands of workmen, a fair chance, we should probably before very long sell re- fined sugar toalarge part of the world, with great advantage to our foreign com- merce and our home industry. Why Not: Few crimes have ever been committed in New York that have excited greater indig- nation in the community than that of the outrage on Mr. Stewart's grave. It is one of those revolting acts which, like the steal- ing of poor little Charley Ross, makes the entire people feel like resolving themselves into a body of detectives and hunting the criminals down. Everybody sympathizes with the family and friends of the deceased gentleman, and there would be a general rejoicing if one of the many wild stories set afloat in regard to the success of the search should unexpectedly prove trae and the fact should become known that the remains were recovered and the malefactors lodged securely in prison, But if the efforts of the police to discover the guilty parties should fail what is to be the next step? Onght any reward to be paid to the men who have committed the crime for the restoration of the remains? It would of course be a painful trial for the late Mr. Stewart's relatives and friends to abandon the thought of recovering the body, but woald not even that be prefera- ble to rewarding the wretches who have been guilty of the revolting act? Why should not the robbers of the grave be made to understand at once that even if the remains are to rest forever in the place to which they have consigned them not dollar will, under any cir- cumstances, be paid for their res- toration unless accompanied by the arrest of the guilty parties? Malice and rage can work no harm to the dead, and the most severe punishment that can be inflicted on the miserable creatures who have committed this outrage is to convince them that they can never realize a profit from their crime. ‘The offer of a reward for the discovery of the remains, coupled with the arrest of the criminals, has been crit- icised in some quarters, but we believe that a proper course has been pursued. Let it be positively known that no reward will under any circumstances now or hereafter be allowed to go into the pockets of the robbers of the grave, even if all thought of the recovery of the remains has to be abandoned, and the single consideration that holds the thieves together and induces silence will be removed. EW YORK ‘HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER. 19, 1878--TRIPLE SHEET The Circle of King Killers. The attack upon King Humbert in the streets of Naples acquires alarming im- portance in view of the announce- ment by our special correspondent that di- rect evidence has been secured con- necting the assassin with the secret organi- zation known as the International. If, 1s now seems probable, there is a widespread plot to take the lives of the leading sovereigns of Europe, the hour for ignoring the work- ings of the secret societies is past. The insidious machinations of the king killers) must be met with all the energy of desperation. A spirit of as- sassination is abroad. Its agents work in secret, Itussia has felt their power ; Ger- many is in a condition verging on terror. The archives of the Spanish police may show that the same power is known in the Peninsula. If Moncasi was connected with the International Canovas del Castillo is too politic to disclose the fact and give the organization public recognition in Spain. Difference in name among the societies means little, if they have a common pur- puse ; .and whether the hatred of the peo- ple for monarchy be called Nihil- ism, Socialism or Internationalism, it seems pretty clear that one of its objects is to rid the world of kings. Con- nect the cities of Leipsic, Dresden, Tarra- gona and Naples, and wo have the circle. of king killers complete. With two would-be regicides recently put out of the way in. Germany, and with another in such relations with justice in Spain that his life is likely to be very short, it might be thought that Giovanni Passa- nahte, who ‘‘does not like kings,” must havy been in a very desperate mood to choose the particular way he did to make an exhibition cf that dislike, as an attempt to kill the King is treason in all countries that have kings ; and as treason is punish- able with death, and the sort of sentiment that sometimes remits that penalty is not in fashion in Europe this year, this ‘poorly clad” Neapolitan has given his own life in order to indulge his dislike for kings by slightly seratching nn amiable member of the fraternity. But though the disproportion between the purpose and its danger sug- ‘gests a desperate mood the’ comparative harmlessness of the assassin’s assauit gives altogether another impression. Indeed, if we imagine this pitiful creature poking at the King with ao dagger fastened to a pole, while Minister Cairoli en- deayors to “snatch him baldheaded,” and partly succeeds, and the royal Humbert thumps his dull pate with a drawn sword till a captain of cuirassiers seizes him by the throat and drags him away, we have a picture of a quaint tragedy in which the tables are farcieally turned on the man who supposed he was playing the great star part of atyrannicide. _Humtert, it is clear by the chronicle, narrowly eseaped the acqui- sition of a peculiar fame that would have been all his own. He might have been the first king, in modern times certainly, to slay with his own hand in the open streets the man who came to slay him. Such an end of the attempt would have given the story a refreshing variety. It would not hurt the character of a king to have it recognized that the sword he wears even on state occasions is not a bauble, but a real, edged tool,, Royalty, in view Of the frequency of the attempts at regicide, bids fair to acquire a new function which may balance, in the scale of changes -several of those it hos lost in the progress of the en- croachments made by the parliamen- tary system. If kings are to become the targets at which are to be aimed all the blows excited by popular discontents, and by the sense of wrong that every shallow- witted fellow feels some time or another, then at least kingship will once more ac- quire some of the dignity that belonged to it in the days when it was a dangerous office to be the first man in the State. In some of the good old times there was a the- ory of kingship not unlike that which pre- yails with the Passanantes and Moncasis and Hédels of these times. For several years, together at one period in the Scandi- navian history the harvests failed and the fisheries failed, and the wars went wrongly, and things generally were at sixes and. sevens. ‘Those pious people im- mediately .. recognized that the na- tion had sinned in some Aareadfal way. and thot it must make expiation. But how? Lepresentatively, of course. And who s0 fit to represent it on a@ great oocasion as its King? So they caught His Majesty and made a great fire and roasted him. Next year the harvests were all right. Perhaps an unconscious reminiscence of that theory lingers in the thoughts of the people, and crops out here and there as the troubles are felt. If this isthe explanation of Hidel, Moncasi, Passanante and the rest it will be well for majesty tiot to permit itself to drop into periunctory calm. It must keep a terribly sharp lookout to pre- vent all sorts of abuses, and especially not to let the people be cheated. It mnst not let them be poor either, and if there are any who ‘‘don’t like kings” they must be reasoned with nnd convinced. If kings do not care to perform functions of this nature they must resign. bi Cleansing the Synagogue. Word comes from New Jersey that the pastor of a congregation in that decorous State has considered it necessary to rededi- cate his church to heaven, it having been desecrated to a greater or less extent by some portions of an entertainment lately given in it for the benefit of a religious body which has no church of its own, Aside trom the unfraternal slap which is given by implication to the offending society the zealous pastor seems to have been guilty of on old and blundering notion, still too prevalent, that whatever is amusing is also utterly out of keeping with things pure and holy, and is quite likely to be sinful. This peculiar idea has in differ. ent ages done a great deal toward making religion unattractive and even hateful to many who really needed all the help that the Church could give them, which seems somewhat different from the purpose for which organized religious bodies » There ore but few church buildings in which entertainments of some sort have not been given for the benefit of religious enterprises, and the more amusing these were the better they suited the demands of the managers and the patrons; and no one imagined anything dreadful had happened. A great .deal of pleasing entertainment is offered daily just now in New York's great Cathedral, but noone has imagined that the sacret intent of the building is compro- mised thereby, The New Jersey pastor might be just as devout and far more useful ; to humanity if he were to admit to himself the fact that the Being who devised the mental nature of man created the humor- ous faculty as well as that of devotion, and that it has a large and honorable part to play in the drama of life. When he has a church purifying fit upon him let the preacher inveigh against the members of his flock who carry impure thoughts and dishonest imaginings into the house of the Lord, as some members of nearly every con- gregation do at times; compared with these the most trifling f{un-makers aro angels of light. Electric Light. Mr. Edison’s hopes and promises regard- ing illumination by means of electricity | have led many people to suppose that the electric light is an entirely new idea, but a Washington letter which we publish to-day shows that other men besides the genius of Menlo Park have long been at work in the same direction, A third of a century ago a patent was granted in England for a method of illumination by electricity, the inventor being an American whose application for letters patent was rejected by the United States on the ground that it claimed nothing new. In England both science and capital were captured by the yeung inventor, the great Faraday being de- lighted with the invention, while George Peabody, the famous banker, promised money enough to place the device upon a practical footing. ‘he inventor died sud- denly, apparentiy of overjoy at his promise of success, and with him disappeared what- ever plans he had devised for overcoming the known difficulties in the way of separating and diffusing the light. Another electrician, Mr. J. B. Fuller, has at present before the examiners of our Patent Office some claims on important points relative to electric light- ing, the divisibility of the light being among them. It{is known also that many other electricians have been and still are experi- menting in the same direction, so that even ifsome of Mr. Edison's hopes come to naught there will be no good reason for gas com- panies to roll themselves up in‘ their own stock and-rest in fancied security instead of endeavoring to supply the best possible light at the smallest remunerative price, The Banks and the Silver Men. There is a disposition in some parts of the West and South to find fault with. the course of the New York banks in giving notice that they will receive silver dollars, after the 1st of January only as a special de- posit to be returned in kind. Some of the silver demagogues are telling the people that silver being o legal tender the banks ought, therefore, to receive it just as they do greenbacks, or as they will gold after January 1. The fact is that the banks propose to treat the currency of all kinds precisely as the government does. After the Ist of January the Treasury will redeem the greenbacks in gold, and it will pay out in- differently gold and greenbacks. But it will not redeem the silver dollars in either gold or greenbacks. The holder of a thou- sand silver dollars will not be able to go to the Treasury and get greenbacks for them. Why should the banks do what the Treasury will not do? If Congress, as soon as it meets, will pass a law directing the Treasury to redeem the silver dollars in gold or greenbacks on pre- sentation in sums of a hundred or a thou- sand dollars, and the fractional silver in sums of twenty-five or fifty dollars, the banks will, without the least doubt, at once take silver on deposit on the same terms with gold and greenbacks. More- over, such a law as thiewill open the way for a very large circulation of silver—for all that can be coined in the next year or two. Instend of grumbling at the banks for de- clining to do what the Treasury will not do the silver people ought to urge Con- gress to adopt at once such a law as we have suggested. If they mean business they will do so, but if they only mean demagoging around the country of course they will not. . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Agnes Ethel is on her way to Egypt. Senator Sargent is rapidly re ering. Ex-Senator Jo Lane is still « farmer in Oregon, Inspector General Marcy has entirely recovered his health. . A panorama of New York is going through Con- necticut. “Hans Breitmen’” Leland has steady employment on the London preas. Sir Henry Thompson will not take a patient who will not sign the pledge. Senator Ambrose E. Burnside, of Rhode Island, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator Bayard and Senator Edmunds live next door to each other in Washington, Associate Justice Samucl F, Miller, of the United States Supreme Conrt, is at the Park Avenue Hotel. Secretary Sehurz arrived at St, Louis yesterday ona brief visit to friends. He will leave for Washington to-night. ‘The St. Louis Republican thinks Hayes is a good temperance man in everything, because he takes water 80 casily. Mr. Bancroft recently presented the lady who reada the proof of his work with $50 for discovering an error in a Latin quotation. A prominent New York physician says that St. Louis stands next to New York in facilities for ob; taining a good medical education, bas Private Dalzell says that Hayes in the purest and best man, except Lincoln, who ever set in the White House, and thinks that Conkling is the coming man. Kearney says that after remaining in California & while he will return Mast ond have a greater recep- tion m Boston than Columbus bad when he landed’ there, Acable despatch has been received from Colonel ‘Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, stating that his health is very mach improved, ‘The editor of the Hackensack Republican went to call on his girl, when he saw on the front steps # sign which said, “Beware of the paint.” He went away sighing, ‘I never before knew that she painted.” A medical professor says of tobacco :—"It is killing more people thau whiskey. Particularly the smoking of cigarettes is baneful, The arteries become excited and ruptured by it, and they often snap in the brain.”’ OBITUARY. CHARLES SUMMERS, European muil advices record the death at Neuilly, near Paris, ahoutthe 2d inst., of Mr. Charles Summers, # distinguished English sculptor, long resident at Rome, at the age of fifty years. He was born in Somersetshire’ in’ 1828, studied art at the Royal Academy, taking several prizes, one of them being a silver medal for modelling, He emigrated with hit father to Australia, and worked some time in the gold mines without profit, though his partner, King, seon afterward ‘struck — it rich” ‘in the same claim, and simtwsed one of the largest fortunes ever made by gold digging in Australia, Mr. Summers devoted himself for some eticn of his art at Melhourne, and exe- lossal bronze group of the explorers and Wills, founding it himself, though with- dence in that line, Mr. Summers settled In Rone in 1866, escaped from Paris at the beginning of the siege by the Germans in September, 1870, and reached Rome in time to be presept at the con- summation of @ waited Italy. Duzing the last nine yours he wax one of the most industrious urtists in Rome, doing nearly all his work with his own hands aud osteblishing 4 reputation which would soon have been one of the most brilliant. One of his chief 1, complete shortly before his death, consisted portrait statues of en Victoria, hc Prince and the Princess of Wales, ibvary at Melbpuruc, Australia, said to be among the Lappicst representations of the British royal family ever made. His ideal figures were remarkable for beautiful simplicity ond #weet- ness. Among them was the sleeping figure of a lady, new placed a a monument! er the remains of Lady Macleay, in Godstone Chi Surrey; @ group of “Lynceus and Hypermnestr d colossal “Guar- dian Angel,” for the cemetery at Melbourne. It was his intention to have gone t) Melbourne this year to pe cada a the setting up of the above mentioned statues. COUNT FERDINAND DE LASTEYRIE, FRENCH INSTILUTE, Count Ferdinand Cherles Leonde: Laseyrie, of the French Institute, diel in ¥ramee near the, close of October, He was @ aon of the distinguished philan- thropist of the same name, bis, mother being aniece of Mirabeau, of Revolutionary renown. Ho was born June 15, 1910, studied at the Sehool of Mines 1827-30, acted as aide-de-camp to bis relative, General Lafay- ette during the revolution of 1830, held appoiutmenta under the government of Louis Philippe in the engi- OF THE necring profession, was elected @ Deputy in 1842, acted with the republican party in meny of the “reform banqucts’’ whi ted the rev- olntion of 1448, was elected tor Pm e Constituent and Legislative Assemblies in which he bore a promi- nent part, wea amember of the Municipal Council, of the General Council of the Seine and of the Provis. ional Council of State, joined in a formal test against the coup d'état of December, 1851, and lived in political retirement until 1557 when he was de- feated in a candidacy for the Corps Législatif. Elected & member of the Academy of Inscriptions April, 1860, in place of Moumerqué, he took an active part in that body as well as in the Society of Antiquaries and other learned societies, and was a member of the jury on Works of Art at the Exponition of the present year. He was author of many works upon arc! logy and artistic criticism, among which were “A History of Painting on Gless uccording to French Monuments” (2 volx., 1837-46.) which was “crowned” by the Institute, “A Report on the Manufactures of Sévres and Gobelins’ (1850), “The Theory of Painting on Glass” (1863), “The Cathedral of Aosta’ (1854), “The Flectrum of the Ancients” (1858) and ‘Painting at the Universsl Exhibition” (1863). KENNETH MACLEAY, PAINTER. ‘The death is announced by mail, in his seventy sixth year, at Edinburgh, of Kenncth Macleay, one of the oldest and most esteemed members of the Royal Scottish Academy. He was born at Oban, on the 4th of July, 1802, his father being a physician and his mother a Miss Macdonald of the Kippoch family, who are said to have traced their descentfrom King Robert the Bruce; EAwcated at Crieff, young Macleay went to Edinburgh in 1820, and enteren the art classes of the the of Manufactures, Here, on his first at- tendance, he astontshed the moster and his fellow pupils by ethibiting a fine mnfitatuey On, ivory of his grandfather. Ho finally adopted this ‘branch of art, and was very snecessful. | He was one of the thir- tecn artists who founded the loyal Scottish Academy. In addition to his miniatures ho occy- sioitatly painted in water colors, & portrait in this mediam of Helen Faucit being owned by the Academy,’ Landscapes and Highland genre also gave subjects to his brush. Attracting, in 1863," by his works in a Scotch cxhibition the attention of the Princess Royal of Prussia, he soon received many commissions from the Queen. One of these was to paint specimens of the Highland clans in costume. This series was pub- Metted in a volume under royal peironaee, He exe- cuted from life miniatures of neari the royal family and cabinet sized portrait of the late Prince Consort from busts and other authorities. Mr. Mac- leay, who wae married to o daughter of #ir A. Camp. bell, Bart., of Aldegloes, who predeceased him, was of & most genial disposition and a great favorite. He leaves a son and four dsughters. PAULIN GILLON, FRENCH DEPUTY. ‘M. Paulin Gillon, late a member of the National Assembly for the Meuse, died in that department No- vember 2, aged eighty-four years. He was born at Nubévourt (Meuse), in 1/94, of a family noted in:lib- eral politics; studied Jaw, became an advorate at Bar- le-Duc and Mayor of that town, and distinguished himself during the of ‘Louis Philippe by the warmth of his oppositi 4 A tein cted tothe Constituent and Legislative assemblies of 1848 hie acted with the Right, but was bitterly bl to the Empire and took no active part in polities durt its continuance. He was chosen to the National fed sembly February 8, 1871, acted with the legliimis‘s of Jerical type, and wae defeated at the elections of yy a decided majority. IRENEE JULES BIENAYME, OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE, ‘M. Irenée Bienayané, lute Inspector General of Finances in France and a “free member", of the Academy of Sciences. died on October 21.° He wa@ born at Paris August 28, 1796, educated at the Poly- technic School, ent the Financial Department in 1816, shertly after the restoration, and rose to the highest rank during a service prolonged for ly century. He was author of a treatise on * Duration of Life Since the * WILLIAM R. BROWN, Brigadier General William R. Brown died at New. burg, N. Y., yesterday. Deceased was o veteran militia and volunteer officer. The Nineteenth rogiinent New York Militia and the 168th Now York V. served w him during the rebellion, > nine months. In the waa sen to command the ity-second Lie gg National Guard, and cont 10 do wo until the brigade was consolidated with others in the reorganization of the State militia two or three years since, when he was placed on the au merary list. In personal a pearance General resembled General Winfi Scott. Ho was fifty-mine years of age. ‘ LADY MARCIA, MARCHIONESS OF CHOLMONDELEY, ‘The Marchioness of Cholmondeley, aged seventy-four, died on Sunday morning, the 3d ivst., at Hyde Park ‘street, London, after a gradual declension of health for several months. Tady Cholmondeley was the ftw est hter of the late Right Hon. Charles Arbuth- not, married, 2th February, 1825, William Henry Hugh, third oie ied of Cholmondeley, by whom she leaves 8 iving issae an only son, Lord Henry Vere Cholmo: y, and two daughters—Lady Charlotte Soria married to the Rey. E. Glalwyn Arnold, and Lady Marcia Susan Cholmondeley, unmarried. GENERAL DAVID BIBRELL, BENGAL INFANTRY, General David Birrell, one of the oldest and best known officers of the East India Company's service, died late in October, at the age of seventy-cight years. ‘He was born in 1800, entered the East Indian Army a® eusign in 1418, served in the Burmese Wer of Soetetcaie with the Army of the Indus in the mem- rabl jan cam of 1899-40, and in the b orale Ate ia TPA ON De baring, © hots Kile under him at the battle of Fero: and com. poeple le at the battle of Sobraon. He retired rom upon a pension several years since. REV. ALEXANDER R&ED, D. D. A privaje telegram received at Philadelphia yosters day, announces the death of the Rev. Alexander Reed, . D., Denver, Col, where he had gone for hig Pooti. Ad the former ‘paator of the Central Presbye terian Church of Phil jphia, he was well known, He was connected with rome of the prominent Boards of the Presbyteriaw denomination. PRINCE VICTOR VASSILTCHTKOFF, RUSSIAN GENe ERAL, Prince Victor Vaskiltchikof, who was chief of the staff of the garrison of Sebastopol during the Crimea war, died about the ist inst. In 1868 he was named Assistant Minister of War, from which post he retired owing to failing health, NICHOLAS COWENHAVEN, Nicholas Cowenhaven, anjold and respeceed citisem of New Brinswick, N. J., died suddenly yesterday morning of heart disease, at his home, No. 147 George street, The deceased was father of Judge “ewen- haven, at present prosecutor of the Pleas. VISCOUNT ‘VITATN, A cable despatch from Brussels announces that Charles Ghislain Vilain (Viscount Vilain XIV.), the Belgian statesman, is 5