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BISMARCK’S BOSWELL. | Further Glimpses of the Chan- cellor’s Character. GOOD LIVING IS INSPIRATION. 4 Liberal Religious Opinions and Acts. HATRED FOR HIS ENEMIES. We cull from Dr. Moritz Busch’s interesting work “Count Bismarek and His People,” some sdditional Anecdotes and cpigrammatie sayings, which will com- plete our already full abstract of this much discussed book. Bismarck's hollow pretencs of despising public opinion, as expressed through the daily press, has already been exposed in the extracts hitherto given. There probably never was a great statesman who busied himself as much manipulating the press down to its pettiest details as Bismarck, He was much pleased with the appearance of a Saxon regi ment, and 80 he says to Dr. Busch:—They seem to be quick, clever boys, and that ought to be set forth in the papers.” The least attractive part of these momoirs, though by no means occupying the smallest space, is that which refers to personal incident, pre- dilection or antipathy. The Prince’s conversa- tion is always personal, referring either to him- self or to others. ‘Nhe personal incidents recorded in the book are numberless. From his student days he has had noend of duels. He has beaten topers in beerhouses with such a glorious sense of manly ela- tion that he takes two pages to recount his victory twenty-five ‘years afterward. He has been, over and over again, in peril of his life, from the old Rus- sian days when a sentinel offered to shoot him, to the entry into Paris, where a fierce-looking Individual was disarmed by the Prince’s cooly ask- {ng him for alight. He has jumped over abysses in the Alps, with a fair burden in his arms; he walks about ulone at night in Versailles, revolver in pocket, ready to kill and die; aiid, to excel his neighbors in everything, does not scrupie to tell us that as he is the mos accomplished diplomatist of his age, so he can also challenge assem- bled humanity to outdo him in point of drink. So terrific are his achievements in the pote tory line that one dreadful day King William IV., happening to witness his libations, had recourse to his sovereign word of command to forbid further display. Bismarck thought General Steinmetz (the ‘‘slaugh- terer,” as he called him) excessively vain. In Parlia- ment Steinmetz, he related, always stood in some conspicuous position, near the President’s chair, 80 that everybody might have a good view of bin. Then Steinmetz also affected great attention to the proceedings, and always had @ paper before him on which he continuously jotted down his notes. “He thought the papers would take notice of ali this aud praise his zeal, and it turned out that he was not mistaken.”” At Mars la Tour an officer who hai tesn sitting on ® wayside stone was reported to have been killed by the French, At dinner there is a discussion whether he was shot or stabbed. Bismarck says that if he had to choose between the two modes of desth he would much rather be stabbed than shot. It may be remarked here that nearly ull of Bismarck’s conversa- fion occurred at the table. It required the inspira tion of a good dinner or the bottle to make him talk- ative. Bismarck gives an extraordinary reason for not wishing to destroy Paris when some of. his dinncr companions zealously advocate the ‘ruin of Babel.” He thinks that Paris should be preserved, be it only to save the property of the Germans, and especially of his countrymen from Cologne and Frankfort who had settled there. A PLEASANT FANCY NOT REALIZED. The Chancellor's fanciful idea of restoring the an- cient Burgundy as a barrier between France and Gere many is thus explained:—“My idea would be to establish a kind of German colony (out of the French conquered provinces), a State of eight or ten million inhabitants, where there should be no conscription, and whose taxes should flow inio Germany (how Pind!) after its own necessities were sutisfied, Thus France would lose the districts which provide her with her best soldiers, and would become harmless, and in the remainder of France we should see no Bour- bons, no Orleans, and perhaps not even Lulu or the fat or the ald Napoleon,” The fat (dicke) Napoleon was his way of speaking of Napoleon tho Great. Bis- marck is not ashamed of showing alittle grain of good nature in his iron hardness of character. “Night before last,” he says, “I asked the sentinel whether he had had anything to eat and he said not fortwenty- four hours. I then went into the kitchen, cut hima good hunk (einen tdchtigen Kunst) of bread and ca tied it out to him, which appeared to put him into a wery good humor.” Meeting some franc-tireurs who had been cap- tured he addressed them thus in French :—‘“You will all be hung. You are not soldiers; you are assas- sin: At this, Bismarck relates, one of them began 4% whimper. A CUR CHRISTENED BIsMAncr, Dr. Busch relates the following incident, which shows how contemptible and umnanly French war, riors could be in venting their impotent rage upon Bismarck :—During the first part of the campaign some French cuirassiors in Clermont eclebrated their antici- pated victory over the Germans by dressing up great car in a woman’s clothes, calling him Bis- marck, pinching his tail, and then ‘when he barked and whined, calling out, “That's Bismarck’s language.” The cuirassiers danced with the dog and then led him in festive procession through the place amid roars of laughter and shouts of applause, Two weeks after Bisinarck stood on the very spot on which they had sought to ridicule him by likening him to a cur us the victor and conqueror, Bismarck was often interrupted by people talking outside his door. “Ordinary noives don't disturb mro,’” he said; “music or the rumbling of wagons don’t interfere with me, but as soon as I hear people talk I have to stop, for Iwant to know what they are talking about, and lose the thread of my thoughts.” It is evident that Bismarck would not do for a newspaper editor or reporter, who has to write with s dozen peo- plo talking ronnd him, SHERIDAN TALKING IN HIS SLEEP. Bismarck oiten fad difficulty in finding shelter for the night during the war. Once be went with Gen- eral Sheridax: upon a search of this kind, First they came to a house which was burning. At the second bouse Buisarck was told it was full of wounded soldiers, aud the same answer was given at the third, When it was repeated at the fourth Bismarck became suspicious, went turough the Louse aud found three apty Dedsteads with tolerably clean straw mat- tresvés, and there they went to bed—Bismarck, his cousin, Count Bismarck-Boblen, and Sheridun. ' Bis- marck-Bohlen su! ently narrated ut diuner that Sheridan wrupt himself up completely in the linen, and that he must have dreamt of Bismarck, tor he heard him several tunes murmur in his sleep, “0, deur Count!” Geueral Sheridan had expressed the idea to Bis- querck thut the more the Vrench suffered the better tor the Germans, for the eooner thoy wonld be ready for peace, Bismarck relished this notion hugely. Homeboy remarked that the poor people suffered more than the rich, and Pismarck thought that was qitite right, for there were more poor than rieh, and the more Frenchmen had to suffer the tuore eager would they ve for peace, uo matter what the German conditions were, ‘ Ou tho way to Busancy, Bismarck varrates :—"The wile day Lhave had uothing but back bread and At last we yot five or six og The others wauted to cook them, but I like them raw, and tracked them with the hilt of my sword. When it dawned I got something wari, utter thirty-six hours—some pea soup (with ssusuge chips in it)— whieh Geuveal Giben sout rae, aud it tasted splen- idly!" Later on he got @ roast chicken, “whose touy made hie best tooth despair.” Bismarck hod paid for it, and fu addition presented the sutler trom, whoin he bought it with «raw chicken which @ wikior had given uim, “It we meet again during the bain pa oe pene Prony, argu aire pest to we covked, , you mi make up for it when Wwe got back to Barliin,”” mi ABOCT DEVITS, One night Le hed cramps in his 8, aud he found jolie by walking up and down on his bare fect. In ing #0 he caught cold, This was Bamarck’s way NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1878.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. of narrating the incident:—‘One devil drove away the other; the cramps went away and then the cold came on,” He repeatedly asket Busch to denounce in the press the eruelty 9? Preneh warfitre, ‘The French had violated the Ger Convention, “which, to ve | sure, it was imposs! your,” and hat shot wpon envoys and trumpeters with the white flag “They have aliowad the mob in Metz to multrext Ger- man prisoners," he said. ‘Gave them nothing to eat and locked them up in cellars. Well, we necd not wonder at it. They lave barbarians for their com- rades, and their wars in Algiers, China and Mexico have made them barbarians too.”” In inspecting an of French prisoners he found a priest who was said to have th upon the German soldiers. “When { questioned him,” Bismarck says, “he denied it, ‘Now tnke care,’ said to him, ‘tor if it be proven you'll be surely hanged.” To begin with, | T told them to take off his priest's robe.” During the negotiations for the capitulation which suecoeded the surronder of Napoleon at Douchery Bismarck gave a striking example of the sharpness of | his tongue, which so often exceeded the bounds of the most or.linary courtesy. General Castelueau, who found the German conditions too hard, told Bismarck that the Emperor had only surrendered his sword the day before because he thought the French army would be allowed to capitulate in a manner honorable to them. Bismarck caught him yp sharply and asked, “Whose sword was it--that of France or of the Emperor?” ‘Only that of the Emperer,”’ Castelncau had io reply then we cannot grant better con- | ditivns,” Moltke broke in, with great satisfaction, GENEROUS WITH HIS CLGaRS, On one occasion Hisanarck had received « present of 606 cigars and ordered Dr. Busch to distribute then among the wounded soldiers. Dr. Busch was going to leave the French wounded out in the cold, but they made such pitiful faces as he passed them by, and their German hospital comrades ayked him so earn- estly to give the Frenchmen a few cigars, too, that Busch diverted s portion of the Chancellor's cigars to satisfy the wounded enemies, King Willivm detailed General Boyen to accompany the captive, Napoleon, to Wilhelmshihe. “Boyeu is an excellent man for this sort of thing,” Bismarck remarked, ‘‘he can be very rude (grob) in the politest fashion.” Bismarck heartily despised the German patriotic clamor for Alsace, upon union of race and language. This was fer too sentimental for the iron Chancellor, He wanted Alsace for its military ad- vantages, not because it had once been a part of Fatherland. ‘Metz and Strasburg is what we want— the fortresses. As to Alsace, that’s the idea of the Professors.” One can casily imagine the con- fempinons emphasis which he laid upon the lust word, 4 HIGHLY HONORAULE. Bisinarck’s notion of treating the French peasantry who bad run away with their cattle from their yillages in tear of the German soldiery was this:—"it 1 were commander,” he said, ‘I should treat those who had remained behind with every con- sideration, but I should regard the property of those who had run away as being without owners, and act accordingly. And if 1 cap tured them I should take away their cows and ove! thing else they had with them on the pretence that they hud stolen it all and on that account had run away to hide in the woods. (What beautiful doctrine of morality for # faithtal Christian that Bismarck claimed to be!) However, they won’t run away xo auch when they find that the various sauces with which we are supposed to eat up French children are all inventions.” The following wae a characteristic question of Bis- marck. He asked about the Prince ot Hohenzollern (whose pretensions to the Spanish throne were the andirect cause of the war and who served in the Ger- man army) in this wise :-—*Well, is he a good soldier Ud tices be’ content tainslde with betas & prince? General Ducrot, who was out on parole, having ran away, Bismarck got very mad, and said;—“If such scoundreis break their word und escape ({ don’t blame others for running away if they can), and we capture them, we should hang them up in their red trousers and write ‘Parjure’ upon the one leg and “Unfame’ wpon the other, Meanwhile this ought to be well written up in the papers.” “If you take off a Gaul’s white szin you'll ind # Turco” he said on another occasion, in speaking of the cruelty of French warfare. AT ROTHSCHILD’S PALACE, At Rothachild’s summer palace, where Bismarck lodged tor two weeks, and threatened to have the steward thrashed because the latter would give no wine, Dr. Busch mentioned the swarm of pheasants in the park, and suggested that u few might be shot. “Well,” Bismarck replied, ‘it's forbidden to shoot in the park, Iknow; but suppose I go out and get a few—what couid they do about it? They can’t lock me up, because then they’d have nobody to con- clade ‘their peace.” When he was a young man, he proudly related, he was such a goog shot that he conld hit a. sheet of paper at a hundred paces and shoot the heads off tho ducks as they. were swipuning in the ponds. What now follows belongs to a sub- ject—good eating—on which Bisimurck has a grest deal to say. ‘Io work well,” he says, ‘I must feed well. I can't conclude an advantageous peace if they don’t give me good things to eatand to drink. That belongs to my business.” His opinion of Roths- child’s | luxury was not favorable. “Every- thing here is very costly,” he says, “but very little is beautitul and still less comfortable. Such a ready made, finished property would never, satisfy me. Some things about it are very pleasant, of course, but I should miss the joy of creating and © everythi of my own will, And then it is quite different whether you have to consider the cost of this or that improvement, whether it will cost five thousand or ten thousand thalers, or whether you need not regard the cost of anything. To huve always cnough and more thun enough becomes at last tire- some.” RIGHT AND WRONG. ‘The momentous yucstion of right and wrong is in- cidentally treated by the Prince, lt may be remem- bered that after the French Emperor was taken pris- oner at Sedan the republicau party in Germany pleaded for the immediate conclusion of «peace. Upon this Gencral Vogel caused the well kuown Dr. Jacoby, who had spoken londest, td be arrestea on the ground that to advocate peace while the country was at war might imperil the safety of the nation, The republican party being thoroughly in- significant, the influence attributed to Dr. Jacoby's eloquence was clearly a pretext for hitting aman detested by the conservatives and the butt even of liberals for his many eccentricities. The arrest created & great sensation, the right of the rn. ment to resort to such forcible measures. being pretty unanimously denied by liberal opinion. The case was freely discussed in the camp, when one of the Chancellor’s companions expressed his intense delight at “the old gossip being cooped up.” But Prince Bismarck was otherwise minded ;— Tam not at all delighted. Not in the least. t not to enter into polities. A politician ought not co exercive revenge. The only question for a politician in maltreating an adversary ix whether it is expedient. A few days later he reverted to the same subject :— Party spite Vogel has acted y ly upon the whole. But Seoby's urrost ie w grisvous mistake, and will cunse uw to postpone tho meeting of -Partiann oath. He. Would not even set him at liberty reqtient, Te ho had cut lin up wud broiled hun Yor his dinner, it would huve been all one to me; but to arrost him—what good iy that old dried-up Jaw tous? It will be noticed that the question which then agitated all Germany, whether a general intrusted with the command of a border province was entitled to arrest a public speaker advocating peace, is not so much ws touched upon by the Prince, A MXETER OP EXVEDIENCY. But if the mau of blood, iron und expediency— for the lutter epithet must clearly be added to the accepted pirase—does not eave to notice the law, and altogether has no taste for codes and courts, his strong points—sagacity and tact—are brought prominently forward where diplomacy is in its right pluce,. ‘The comparatively independent position ac- corded to the South German States in the empire is thus ably accounted for by him :— 2am afraid the newspapers will attack me for ing the bonds of unity tighter. The f too, if of thy ordinary stump, will call me a fo fied with Tite might have had more asking. He bo right, 1 might possibly hi more, But whut £ cured for waxthat the other contracting partion should be as sativied with their share in the bargain What are tran ADDY Ui what they got. trouty eouc more lasting for its defects, It ts one of most inportant transactions we have been engaged Ii te regards the Imperial title, [ ns by telling theur palatable for them to concede a ing the lust few yents. J jnaile it acceptable to the t 1 must be eanlor aud ion 0 ir Rre'king of Prise The consummate wisdom in these words is evi- deut. Haughty. self-upplauding und one sided as we bave noticed the Pri to be, when talking upon men and things not immediately touching his in- terests, the momen he speaks to or of a man who can make or mar 6 pending transaction, he is Aehi- tophel himeelf, Acute perception and temperate judgment then combine with that rarest of tacni- ties—the realizing the situution of the opposing ty and looking upon the case from an adyersary's point of view. THE LAFAMY OF SPECULATION, The connection between politics and the Stock Ex- change is a topic Ou which Priuce Bismarck’s opinion | is worth having: wlacin ty make quote in theee divin 1. One inity 2. The Prone Com: nul), it iat, alse bue with’ tis mist woze out hy died a Minister of Fore tion in this way varions legutions to acco with dospate Ket. cul tolegrai thirty ates are gained account vit Change, fast the bust: oss in the inter 1 se who huve acted iin th q s integrity has never been doubted. A n of strict honor in all lie personal relations, he isa yuod husband, a loving father, @ friend to ‘his frieuds, though perhaps 4 flercer enemy to his ¢ emis than ts quite compatible with avowed cony tions, Herr Busch tells us be lies awake av night re- volving and cesenting injuri vod. THK BISMARC! EATERS, More wbout cating, Bietharck’s favorite topi “We are all big caters in our tamily,”” be sa there were many of out eating capacity in the coun- try the State could not exist, [should have to emigrate.” As between Prince Metternich (the father of the present diplomatist) and Rothsehikl, the Prince would seem to have been the bigger “Jew” of the two, if a story told by Bistnarck may be believed. Metternich had been on a visit at Rothachild's, and. upon leaving Rothschild gave Lian. six bot- tles of Johannisberger Schloss. When Metternich got to Johaymisbery (the Metternich family’s pre erty) he took ont the xix bo which had roma mndpened and called the superintendent of his vine- yards, whom he avked what (his wine was wow seld at. “Twelve guidens,” wax the reply. Metternich then told him that when Rothschild sent the next or- der for Johanuisberger to send him along these six bottles, but to charge him fifteen giieos, because the wine would be older by that time “Silly lie!" is what Bismarck. wroteon the margin of ureport which stated that what he and King Will- iam feared most of all was the influence of a French Republic upon Germany. WHISTLING ON TRY Bisnwrek thought that the tyrants—every pastor wanted deioste the Eni and American id bath. “It isa frightful tyranny,” member the first time [ came to England and landed at Hull {whistled on the street. An Englishman, whose acquaintance I had made on board, said to me, ‘Pray, sir, don’t whistle.’ 1 asked, ‘Why not? Is it forbidden here to whistle?’ ‘No.’ he replied, ‘but this is the Capa ."" That annoyed me so that I took at once a ticket or another steamer that was | going to Edinburgh, for I did not like to stay in o place in which I couldn't whistle when I wanted to.” Before his departure, howevér, he learned something | new in Englan} that mollified hima little—it is ul- | most needless to say, in the “eating line.” He made | the acquaintance of toasted cheese (Welsh rarebit) aud heartily approved of it. . On nis retigioux belief he draws aside the veil, by most men jealously guarded :—- I cannot conceive how a mun can live without a belief in a revelation, in a God who orders all things for the bes, in a Supreme Judge from whom there is no appeal and in» future life. If I were not Christian I should uot remain At any post for as sivgle hour. If I did not rely ua God Almighty, I shoald not put my trust in princes. Ihave enough tollve on, aud am. sufietently Kontool and distin- guished without the Chancellor's office. Why should Igo on working indefatigably, incurring trouble and annoyance, unloss convinced that God bus ordained me to fulfil these datiesy If were uot persuaded that this German pation of ours. in the divinely appointed order of things, is dostinod to be something great and good, I should throw up the diplomat! moment. Orders and ti 0 mn tho show mbating all munnor of absurditi y derived from faith, Take awa, ‘ou ns atriotism, But for my strict and liseral Detter in the hs of Christianity, but tor my acceptance of the miraculous groundwork of religion, you would not have lived to see the sort of Chancellor I am. Find mo a suceessor as firm a believer as myself and I will rosign at onee. But I live in @ geueration ‘anu. I have no de- sire to make proxelytes, but a: ined to confess my faith. If thore is among us any self-denial and devotion to king und conutey, it isu remnant of religious belief un- consciously clinging to our people from the days of thoir sires, For my own part | prefer rural life to any other. Rob me of the fuith that wnites na and I return to Varzin todevote myself industriously to the production of | rye and oats, In Ap ie with his nightly study is the Prince’s ayowal of his observance of days and dates. He objects to sitting down thirteen to dinner. He will con- clnde no treaties on Fridays, convinced that they will not prosper. He will not even negotiate on the anniversary of the battles of Hochkirch and Jena, it being a black day in the Prussian calendar, He insists “that no Pomeranian nobleman created a count has ever seon his progeny thrive. He confesses haying objected to his own elevation on this score, and is not quite at his ease even now. He knows the year of his death, deeming it a number of mystic import in his family. After these robust gnperstitions, we must no be startled at heaving the | Prince descant upon the pervicions effect of having one’s hair cut when the moon is on the wane. To judge from the Prince’s tonsure, following the op- posite practice is no panaces either. Alittle superstition Bismarck exhibited when he refused to negotiate with General Boyer, First Adju- tant of Bazaine, because it was October 14, the aeni- yersary of Jenu and Horhkireh, two battles so disus- trous to Prussia. ° EATING, RATING, EATING. More about cating. Bismarck is very fond of hard- boiled eggs, and rucfully confesses that while in former days he could manage eleven, he now could not cat more than three. Bismarck did not share thé general veneration for William Tell. “From my boyhood,” said he, “I never could bear him--first because he shot at his son, and then because he murdered Gessler in such a cowardly fashion. It would have been more natural as well as nobler had he, mstead of shooting at his son—whom the best marksman might have hit in place of the spple—shot Goasler dend at once. | hey ‘That would have been just wrath for such acruel | demand. I do not like the hidfhg and lying-in-wait, it does not become heroes—no, not even frane- tireurs.”” A representative of Gambetta called upon Bismarck and asked him whether the German government would recognize the French Republic. ‘I told him certainly; not only a republic but even a Gambetta dynasty, as long as it secured us an advantageous and permanent peace.” Once, at dessert, he related how much he had eaten that day—two and a half beefsteaks and two pheasants. “That is a good deal for my dinner, but, after all, that is generally my only neal. My breakfust only consists of tea without milk and a couple of eggs. Then I eat nothing tillevening.. If I then eat too much Iam like a boa constrictor and cannot pees Even as @ child I was accustomed never to go to bed until mid- night. I then generally fall asleep at once, but wake atone or half-past one, and then everything that wants doing occurs to me, particularly in what I have been wronged. Then I write letters and despatche: of course without getting up and only in my mind, Before I became Minister I used to get up and write it all out, but when I read it over [ generally found it to be confused, trivial stuff, nothing but platitudes and not good for anything.” THE CHANCELLOR'S ENEMIES AT COURT ACCRED- ITED WITH INCITING THE PUBLICATION OF THE BOOK. {From the Paris Temps, Nov. 19.] *Oneis the less astonished at the free manner in which M, de Bismarck speaks of France and her most respected statesmen when one sees that at moments when he seems, as it were, inebri- ated by a sense of his power and his successes, he speaks, if possible, with still less respect of his compatriots of the highest ranks, Even’ the representatives of the sex in high circles find no mercy from his ungallant spirit, Thus he hap- pened one day to call ladies of very high Position turchons (Schiirzen). ‘This word, it a correspondence in the Vienna Presse of November 11 is to be believed, caused a great emotion in the Court of Berlin. Among those ladies of high position one or the other seems to have carried a complaint to the Prince Imperial, and to have weked that she and her family should be pro+ tected against the irreverent attacks of tho Chan- cellor. Ii seems almost impossible not to sce in this news tho echo of reports ut least exaggerated, and one can hardly credit that “the Empress and Princess Imperial need to be protected against the Chancellor.” It must evidently be sup- posed that the momory of the Sccrciury has ut times involuntarily" betrayed the thought of the Chancellor, and that the enemics whom M. de Bismarck hes created at the Court do not fail to turn against aim not only his uctual intemperate language, but all the inaccurate details, which may have slipped into the journal of M. Busch. It is for the same reason that we receive with even mure re- serye another report contained in the same letter and according to which it seems impossible that the Chancellor should hold his position in tho face of the emotion caused by the revelations of his secretary. “It seems, however, beyond doubt that these revelations have crouted 4 profound irritation in more than one circle, We have seen that the family of M. de Goltz proposes to take legal proceedings ayainst M. Busch, and it seems ad- misai le that the Chancellor, as the correspondent of the Prease of Vienns announces, has felt the neceasity of asking an audience with the Prince Imperial tor the purpose of snaking explanations ty bis. A news- paper subject to influence of M. de Bismarck, the fost of Berlin, declared, moreover, the other day that the Chancellor would hayo liked to prevent the publication of the book, | ‘in which the intermediate phrases, which softened or explained certain striking words, have been put aside to give place to these words alone. ‘the Post added that the Chancellor was obliged “to make an appeal to the intelligence of the reader, who is brought fuce to face with declarations deprived of their natural connection.” In its desire | to excuse Chancellor, the erlin four- nal has gone, perhaps, a little too far in affirming that M. de Biemarck regrets the publication of the memoirs of his secretary. Indeed, M. Busch relates ‘au fueident in his second volume proving that this publication was not altogether an unexpected vccurrence for the Chancellor, — “Councillor Abeken one evening made the observation that I was writing very exuct momvirs, and added ‘It will one day be # source of information for history.’ *Yes,’ 1 auswored, ‘certainly it will be @ source worthy of confidence—in thirty Ronen pee ».' ‘The | ‘chief’ smiled, and said, ‘You, and tr i will be suid, € Buschat, chapter 3, page 20. From ail thix it seems to result that the memoirs of M. Busch deserve contidence as # whole, but that the Chancellor may and ba gl indeed, to regret that cer- tain words prononneed by him fe tuken in tho journal a more aggressive character than they had in conversation, the journal uot having noted all the transitions. HEBREW FREE SCHOOLS. ‘The annual mecting of the Hebrow Free School As- soviation was held yosterday at its schoolhouse, No. 96 Bowery, A. Octtinger, prerideat, in the chuiv, Tho report ot the president was ws follows in operation. No, 1 at 42 avenue Cy Ne, irty-wixth street; No. wt thi Bow: ery, N. x i] lat Lo vost F Men's ed at ewwiaber | wud halt No pupii was ad attendant at a public The average age of pupils ie wwhool. eleht yours a two months. The attendance aud discipline is vory Being less than one per cent of absoutoes from tr stud to i Biblivn' vty ry. composition tn lebrew. ‘umpetitive and public aud private examinations ¢ evideuer of great prey ecelpts, OL expenses, 1 gisou Dilitign, $2,900; per ‘prey cont pi durlng the 75. IF mow se! will sho: A tly ve opened on the she city, between Fortioth wntl Sixty-afth sty THE GOOCH CASE, 3 English critics delight in pronouncing melodious, but unsavory. forela, the TESTIMONY OF Lapy GoocE's MAID --4 bocron : jail for the Se een Rae peta tiga OL Sy tito eacni owdle nunter of the Watkins family ou duly WHO COULD NOY BE BOUGHE--THE 14TiLE ‘and now that the aman has been duly FOUNDING. hung and buried it appeara for the first time, {From the London Standard.) ‘The proceedings at Marlborough Street Police Court, before Mr. Newton, against Lady Annie Louisa Gooch and Mrs. Walker, for conspiring to palm off upon Sir F. Gooch a child which was not his own, were resumed on November 21, at half-past two o'clock. Mr. G. Lewis, Jv. appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Clarke for the defencants and Mr. Poland watched | the case for one of the roversioners. ‘Lhe cross-examination of Miss Garrod was resumed. She said Lady Gooch had stated that she was in the family way to several tenants’ wives to whom she spoke. Witness became housekeeper to the prose- }cutor in April, 1877, aud became companion to the defendant in the following August. Sir Francis came to London in October last to bis mother's, four duys hofore witness and Lady Gooch, Refore he left Sir Francis said he heard such very dvea.lfal things against his wife that he could not live with her again, aud he should not return to Beuacve Hall, On coming to towh witness inquired tor him at his club: and learned that he had gone to | Brighton. On secing him later in St. George's | square he told her that he had been to Brighton. Witness did not know with whom he went there, but she subsequently learned that it was a Mrs. or Miss Sheppey, who lived at the. house in St. George's sqnare where the prosecutor was staying. Miss Shepyey had been staying af Benacre Hall during the past week. The summons waa served upon Lady Gooch on the 30th of October, and the same afternoon, when witness was seeing Sir, Francis at St. George's square, Miss Sheppey came into the room. hat lady had been staying at Bensere three times. De- tectives had been employed to watch Lady Gooc! Sir Francis told witness. On October 30 witucss re- ceived a telegram from Sir Francis at Benacre. She did not communicate the contents to the defendants. It camo just before the summons was served, Wit- ness had no other telegraim, except one a week before from Mr. Smith, the steward. She might have told the defendants thut she had received a telegram from Sir Francis in these words Tt kuow all; you will receive instructions from Mr. Lewis.”” I did not say, “Let it go on.” Witness had, however, seen Mr. Lewis the day before. Mrs. Walker had reproached witness, and ssid she ought to have gone to Mrs. Mayne's (where the buby was arranged for). Mrs. Walker did not say, ‘How could you, &@ women of fifty-three, ellow this young thing to get into trouble in this way 2’ Witness had done all she could to save Lady Gooch, and she believed she would be able to, stop her projects and prevent the matter becoming a scan- dal, She understood it wus desirable that the baly should bea boy, although she knew nothing of the family settlemcuts when she first went to the institu- tion at Great Coram street. However, Tady Gooch told Mrs. Palmer that it did not matter whether the child she had was a boy or girl. On the second visit she told Mrs, Palmer she wanted a boy. Lady Gooch went first to the foundling asylum about August and witness was with her there. Sho was referred’to the institution in Great Coram street. Mars, Walker's re- proach was addressed to witness after the summons had been served, Lady Gooch at the same time called witness very ba:l names. A DOCTOR OF INtKGRITY. Mr. J. Worthington, surgeoa, said he practised at Lowestoft, and had attended as medical man at Ben- acre Hull, Ou the &th October Lady Gooch called upon him. Witness had previously received a letter from Miss Gurrod. The defendant consulted witness about newralyia. She then said she was in distress about a friend who had married a man of consider- uble property and title, and there were no children, | which had given rise to much trouble. In the ab- sence of a child the estates would yo to another family. She asked if witness conld suggest any nce, and he said he could not. He asked if she wes speaking of herself, and she said yes. Up to within five or six months, she said, she believed her- self to be in the family way, but subsequently she had reason to think it was noi so, and she was airaid to. tell Sir Francis. Her appearance wa: that of » woman near her confinement, and s! suggested that witness should attend her at Benacre in @ fictitious confinement. He said it could not be done, and endeavored to disanade ‘her from enter- taining the idea, for such a plan would be sure to re- sult in her disgrace and probable punishment. She said a child could be procured in London, and wit- nese said the thing was quite impracticable. He asked why she should not adopt achild. Her reply was that that would not do, as it would not prevent a reversion of the property.’ She had told some of the tenantry und many of her fricnds that she was about to be contincd. Witness declined to make a per- sonal examination, and asked permission to cominu- nicate with Sir Francis, which she would: not give. She called ayain the next day, and asked if witness . would attend her at Benacre. He said he would at-. tend to any case of illness, but he cautioned her not to send for hin in connection with such a scheme us she had broached, for it she did he must tell sir Francis. i: Cross-examined—Witness went to Benacre Hall first in September, 1877, but he had seen members of the family at Lowestoft for several years, He did not amy from Lady Gooch that her husband had’ be- ved more kindly to her when he thought she was in the family way. Her reason for not allowing wit- ness to communicate with Sir Francis was that sho was sfraid of un) wntnens and of a separation. She was also afraid of her husband's disappointment when he learned she was not enceinte, and she laid great stress upon this point. Witners belicved ho acl persuaded her at the second interview to teil Sir Francis what her state was, aud in that belief he te- lied to Miss Garrod's letter. In the course of that letter he told her to tell her mistrévs: that she need not expect any assistance from him, and that she was not pregnant, and he should not in any way hide the fact trom her husband. WHERE THE CHILD WAS PROCURED, Mrs. Palmer said she was matron of an infants’ home at Great Coram street. Mrs. Harper was ee pal. ‘The ened was in one habit of letting c! ow opted and wregister of such cases was kept, Lady Gooch obtained a inale child at the home in October, but it was brooght there for the purpose and wes not a child belonging to the home. The institution was alxo one for distressed mothers, avd the girls went away to be confined and came back to the home after- ward, This was a private case. The baby came from Peckham and there was no recetpt taken for the baby, nor sny entry made of the transaction in the books of the institution. Any child was adinitted who was brought to ‘the home with Mrs. Mayno’s permission. Some one from Peckham brought the child, not the mother, but wituess did not know who it was nor what was its name. Lady Geoch came several times to the insiitution with Miss Garrod, On hey first call in August sho asked for # little child | to be adoptel by a lady who was travelling in th north of Seotlaad, Witness usked whether it shoul be a bey or girl, and the answer was that it did not matter which, it would have a good home. They called again in October. Witness had told them on the previous interview that thero would be a baby available, but that that child had now been adopted by # lady and gentieman. A BABY BESPOKE. In answer to further inquiries witness told the de- fendant that she thought there would be a private case at Pockham. The child was not then born, but it would be likely to be for adoption. Witness re- ferred her for further information to Mrs, Mayne. it was in the afternoon of October 28 that Lady Gooch came again. + ‘the baby had arrived shortly. before. Tt was ebout a fortnight or three weeks old. Witness did not know who brought it, but it was some person who knew the mother. Witness had seen the mothor, ‘but did not kuow her. At this time Mrs. Mayne was in the home, Mys. Walker was with Lady Gooch. When the babies wero taken from the young woman, on the latter going to service, Mrs. Mayne put tho babics out to nurse, and Mrs. Walker was one of the persons who received the infants. Lady Gooch and Airs. Walker took sway the child, and up to that time witness did not know either the name of Lady Gooch or that of the baby, Witnes« had known Mrs, Walker for three yeurs, wud Tutchod ber om this afternvon at Mrs, Mayhe's requost. Cross-examincd—Mre, Walker was at the time nyrs- ing a baby that had met with an accident somewhere near the huston station. She was the wife of a mason, and had several children of her own. She was # hard working and respectable woman, | Mrs, Walker ob- jovted to leave the lady she wax with, with whom she had promised to stay longer, but wituess induced her to yo to the home to see Mrs, Mayne. Miss Garrod did not tell witness that the taking out of » baby by Lady Gooch would bring her into trouble, as her hns- band knew nothing of it. The child was brought back to the home trom the Grosvenor Hotel on ‘Tues- day, November 5, It had bon awuy eight days. At this stage the case was adjourned, THE BLACKHEATH Gi CONVICTION OF CHARLES PEACE, THE ARISTO- CRATIC BURGLAR —A PARSiMONTOUS JUDG, (Wrom the London Telegraph.) John Word, alive Charles Peace, was found guilty at the Central Criminal Court on November W of feloniously shooting at and wounding « constable named Edward Robinson, and was sentenved to penat servitude for the rest of his natural life. ‘The eonviet being sixty yours of ago, itis hardly to be supposed that he will ever enjoy freedom again, and society hus reason to rejoice at the arrangement. For there can be little doubt that in this miscreant the law bas at last caught aud scanrely caged one of tho erate ruffians that ever during the preseut uttempted to combine the parts of Jack ard and Bill Sikes. ‘The merit of having ‘ot him belongs iuinly to the policemau Robin ‘hom he attempted to murder, and whoee in- pid devotion to duty received @ merited ack wowl- edymment from the judge and the jury, as well asasub- stantial pecnniary recompense, Lhe jury expressed theit adimivation of the constable’s conduct, aud Mr. dastice Hawkins, after the trial was concluded, ad- TLEMAN, dressed him in well chosen terms of eulogy, sayluy that the country owed hima debt of gratitude, an that the force to which he bolonyed would be justly proud of Lit, at tie same time ordering that the sunt of £25 ($171!) should be paid to hin. Waiting for the Echo of the First Gun. A GOVERNMENT BOMB The Latest Light on the Operatic Stage. AN EXECUTIONER’S LEVEE. -_——_--—— ROUSBY YS. BANDMANN. 2 An Unrehearsed Farce Produced in a Court Room. LL. TE Lowpon, Nov.,21, 1878. This is the day which will see the crossing of the existing northwestern frontier of India in search of &niore scientific boundary by the British troops, and everybody has yous in for one of Lord Selisbury’s “large maps 4 supply of pins with little red and blue flags. Alréady the news has come of the capture of the first of the enemy's forts, The garri- son consisted of three children, who were probably glad to get something to eat, and the triumphant Koorum column continues its advance. Of course no one can find the capiuwed tort on the map, and 50 the pin with the red flag has to stop at “Thull.” ‘The state paper published to-day in the London jour- nals has created w great impression, and it is sdmitted that the government in giving it to the pubiic on the yory day which hears the advance sounded has done asmart thing and taken the wind out of the sails of their adversaries. THE AYGHAN STATE PAPER. The Pall Mall Gazeite, in an article entitled “Our Laurentian Misfortunes,”” considers that, ‘on the assumption, which may be safely made, thut the de- spatch just issued from tho India Qftics correctly summarizes the contents of the papers shortly to be published, the defence of the government against the main accusation levelled at them by their adversaries is completely established. Lord Cranbrook’s state- ment disposes finally of the notion that the aim and object of British policy in Afghanistan has undergone any change whateyer since Lord Beaconsfield’s acces- sion to office. If tho question is asked why English soldiers are entering the Khyber Pass to-day to cocrce an enemy whom we might once have induced by peaceful suasion to become our friend, the answer is to be found. in the uinth paragraph of the despatch before us. Those which precede it may be passed by almost without remark. They contain the history of a period during which the policy of ‘masterly in- activity,’ though open to much criticism and objec- tion, had not yct manifestly revealed itself as the policy of ‘dangerous supineness.’” ‘The Gazelte then goes on to review che policy of the Viceroys. The policy and theories of Lord Lawrence foll forever with the fall of Khiva. Alarmed at that event, the Ameer sent a special envoy to the Viceroy of India to express his! feurs and to suggest that measures for the protection of his territory—much the same thing as the protection of British territory— should be taken. The Ameer, in fact, wanted to come to # definite understanding with one or the other of the two Powers whose collision threatened to crush THE POLICY OF PROCRASTINATION. ‘What was Lord Northbrook’s reply? “Her Majes- ty’s government did not share His Highness’ appre- hension, and the discussion of the question would be best postponed to u more convenient season.’”’ ‘THE TURNING POINT. “From the moment,” continues the Gasetfe, “when the Ameer found that though we professed to desire his friendship we were too canny or too cowardly to offer any price for it whatever, he ceased to be a friend aud became an enemy. Such he was when the pres- ent government ent upon office, aud such, in spite of all their efforts to conciliate him, be has re- mained. That the attempt to win over the Ameer was made earnestly and in good faith by them there is abundant evidence in this despatch; that it failed is no tault of theirs, but of the government who, hay- ing mado the task impossible, left. the impossibility as @ legacy to their successors.” The troubles in which we are now involved date from that decisive act of moral cowardice, A A SHAMEFUL STORY. No story more pitiful or shameful, haa yet boen re- corded in the history of English government, and none more exasperating when we consider that it is told all too late. The only satisfaction wo have got is that we know all about it. We may all seo at last how bere iif stupid (later writers will say how criminally dull) those personages were who, under the namo of Ministers and Governors, have heaped about the empire every element of confusion and er. The Garelle thea denounces the stupidity of tlic press which ably supported the stupidity of the government by peoh-poo: Russophobis and rais- ing crics of alartnist and bugbear, drowning the voice of common sense and cheering drcamers like Glad- stone and incapables like Northbrook. But the Pu'l Mall concludes this remarkable hitting-all-round arti- cle by arraigning also the present Ministry, who are not cleared from vast responsibility in the muad- die by the publication of the State paper:—‘They are ready enough to tell us now that the steady ad- vance of Russia, the stealthy, persistent animosity of the ralers of that country was the main thing to be met, aud that they always kaew it. How, then, have they met aud dealt with it—from the ti say, when the difticulties of the last three yours began? What have they to say to the ‘policy’ which allowel Russia the enormous preponderance in Avia which sho plainly aimed ut from the first and which she. took under English sanction before the Congress of fate you id his buge: ge map joke an is bugVear ery ouly a your ego? Did thom worry utterances procecd eegn 96 aticere pind? And it from a vere, from % competent mind? These questions cannot be overlooked when we ask ourselves how wo are governed.” THE XEW sIXGER. ‘We have had & premiere at Hor Majesty's Theatre of unnsual interest and importa An African star of the first magnituds bas arisen upon the musical horiaon of London, in the person of Mile, Ambré, the gitted daughter of Moorish ents, 80 We are told, Dorn at Oran, in Alyiors, and eilucated at the Mar- acilles Conservatory of Music. She made her first wppearance at the Hague in 1874, amd at once became a tayorite, not only with the Hollunders in general, but with the gallant King in particular. veutly she sealed her triumph by ® snecesatul debut at the Salle Veutadour, in Paris, choosing there the sume chayacter—Violetta, im the “Travia” as she did here for her introduction, Whe début of Mile. Ambré was a complete and genuine success; the tact that she is an artist became evident very soon after she came on to the stuge, and betove the end of the first act her future carver in Logland was a matter removed from tho regions of uncertainty. But, of course, although generally assonting to this fact, the critics are at sixes: and si She inanifested no signe of nervous: jo NETVoUsHESS OC a first appear- was apparer ; “there ia a slight tendeney to trentolo here is, happily, no tremoto in any of Mlle. aud on, Of the tenor, tov, Who way t f the event “that rapidiy improving artist was a highly satixfactory Alfredo,” says one (free seat) erie; “one of the glooimicst, most lugubrious and wutunefal tenors ever seen Upon the stage at Her Majesty's,” says an- other (free list probably Clap ve gee iu bis case ‘hile some of the wiseacres, by their unhesitating use of the terme seena, brindisi, andantino, alleyro brill- jante, bravura and all the rest of it, frighten us into ackuowlodging at once the vastness of their critical acumen. A SOUL FOR MUSIC. For us, humble lovers of music, emotion and human nature, it was sufticient to realize tuat Mile. Ambre van sing, has a soul for music and brings before us What of povtry there was in Vivictta’s un- happy life. We forgot the fact that the metronome- ter was set to “andantino” in the feet that Violetta felt what it was to be ag loved. We confess to having become oblivious to the progress of a “scene bravura” when we saw Violetta recouquered, for the moment, by the spell of a gay life; nor even when the unfortunate porinaire is Cying and the Beloved one comes vet are We impressed by the fret that the conductor's hand was beating time “allegro.” AIL this was very ignorwnt, yon know, but ae we thor- oughly eajoyed the ‘formance it would have been folly fo be wiker. Mile. Ambre, although she.wears livery of the ‘nished sun that shines jand of her birth, if not darker than ure most real brunettes; her figure is tall and lithe and willowy; she is 8 musica Serah Bernhardt, and reminds ove strongly of that great artist iu her movements aud ways. As for her toilets, they are superb—Worth tn his happiest inspi- rations evidently—aud the diamonds she wore in the third act (rumor says sho possesses 1,000,000f, worth) would draw all feminine London to Mile, Amabré if she could not sing a note, Aida is one ot Mlle. Ambre's great ries, and there is much eu- riosity and auxiety to see her in a part so thor oughly adapted to her, wud in which Verdt himself avknowledgod her excellence., We live in hopes that Mr. Mapleson will cable over to put Afda in hand immediately. In all tis company here there ia not such @ singer as Mile. Ambré, and we should like to hear her 11 someting else Vesides the opera which the on the Lord Salisbury'to say about his | apparently so far as the general public ix aware, that there ie teach diasddlafastion’ onthe part of those who interested themselves in the prixoner’t bebalt at his trial and the break down of the defenca that had been prepared. The brief and other docu- ments afterward were forwarded to the Home Office, and an appeal based thereon for clemeney, ‘The most caxetul consideration Was given to the documents, but Baron Bramwell, on having been referred to, de- cidel that the law ought to take its course. ‘The facts of tho case were also laid before his Excel leney, the Marquis of Caraliglexia, Spanish Ao: x in London, who cofunmmicated with the Seortary of State, poiuting ont that the detence drafted for the prisoner had been sup- pressed, It is also stated that one of the visiting jus- tices of the county of Monmouth felt dissatisticd with Garcia's state of, mind that he paid a special visit to London and waited on Mr. Cross in the hope of obtaining a respite of the sentence until the mental condition of the prisoner might be inquired into, After every effort hud been put forth, and the most carctul consideration given, the decision was ad- verse to a reprieve, and the law consequently had to While iu prison the conduct of tha was strange. He protested ve- Ourse. man execution, © ly that if he make to his friends he must do so at once, he answered, “I have nothing to tell. You are : polng to kill me, for nothing. 1 never murdered any five people.” The Spanish Consul is of opinion that Garcia was an idiot and unaccountable for his actions, and the warders of the prison seem to have thought 80 too, ‘Any way, the man more dead than alive at the final scene was supported to the drop and hung »with ay cight-foot rope. HERO OF THE MOB. ore ghastly part of the busi- THY, But now comes ihe ness, When Marwvod, the executioner, left Usk atter hanging the murderer, he was escorted to the station by an iimuense crowd, who choeved him londly at the station, He held # levee im the wait. ing room, Many shook hands with him, and one’ of the crowd made a” speech stating that Marwood had done his duty and all wera prondof him, The executioner, returning thanks, replied that he had never had such a reception and hoped he would soon come that way again. ‘This caused hearty laughter. Ye gods! und this in Bug- land in the ‘nineteeyth century! The remark of a friend of mine, which I never appreciated before, came back upon iy mind with full force on reading this dreadfu! paragraph. “The people of this island,” he said, “are by nature and inclination the most Dloodthirsty poople in Europe: once they smell blood there is no stopping them. There will be a revolution hero some day, 1 dare say, When is comes—stand from under!” THE ROUKBY Cask, Seven or eight columns of small type in yesterday's and this morning's papers about the Rousby-Band- mann case! “For two days the time of a jury wasted in listening to stories ot Mr. Bandmann's temper and Mrs. Rousby’s teats of intoxicatioa!”’ says am even- journal. You know the origin of the ridiculous udair, The performances ofethe drama of “Joun of Are’ have proved rather nutortanaie for Mrs. Rousby and ber present suit. Mrs. Rousby played Joan, aud during one of the performances, when clad in “cum. bersome arnor,” she fell from ber horse. So said gossip, Mra, Ronsby says she was thrown from her charger. Evil-minded people had said that Mra. Rousby was under ‘the influence of drink when the cab horse—I mean the charger— “reared and threw her over its head!’ This unrehearsed incident of Mrs. Rousby’s per- formane: of “Joan of Arc’? was brought wp by the counsel for Mr, Bandmunn to obi that the discolor. ations on Mrs. Kourby's arm had not been caused by Mr. Bandmann, but were the traces still left of tha accident which had befallen Mrs. Rousby a few week: before, when she had been tumbled “all of a heap from the horse's back on to the stage. The armorer testified as follows:— Lant Muster of the Lremember the produc urmor tu Mrs. Rousby's Twas standing ut the see: Tsaw hor fall off the horse. She ict cho horse rear at ally Itdid rear. going into the gate, toward the left ha reared up elittie, ‘She was Uitted up by and placed on the horse again. Did you sec her in the cathedral scene? Yes; that was robe at the Standard Theatre, of “Joan of Are.” 1 took the a her righ ‘Mrs, Roush) and the horse ot the supers was ene has Joan to walk toward the altar? She ia supposed ¢ ‘t do wo. e Lord Chief Justico—Did Mrs Rousby do so? Welk my lord, she went staggering om the « Yar Serjeant Parry-Lou say she staggered? Yes, ‘The Lord Chief Justico—What do you mean by thatt She did not walk steady. Mr. Serjeant Parry—Did you see her fall on that occas sion also} Yes. ‘On which side?, On the right and thon ou the left. . She rolled over. A gentlexian euine on the stage and sald, “What are you doing, Joun 2” What did hedot ie pickod Mrs. Rousby up. She was lying-on the stage. Mr. Serjeant Purry—I must ask you this, Did you think from your observation that she had been drinking—yes or not Yeu Mrs, Housby —May Task a quostion, My Lord t The Lord Chief Justiee—Certuinty, Mrs, Iousby (to witneos)—Are you sure you ssw me fail from the horse? fanz ‘Do. you know that the horse was s cab horse? (Much laughien) Witness—I cannot toll. ANOTHER WITNESS, Robert Bailly, examined :—I was engaged as a supers numerary in Joan af Are” I wes sewordeman at tie te. (Laughter.) Idid not seo Mes. Rousby tail from the forse, but Lheard her screum. I went and saw her under ri e. 1 suw her afterward ut the wings, A young woman was with her attendant. ‘Mr. Sergeant Purry~What stato was she in? Could you Judge at Ml whether sho Lad boow drinking? According to ‘ay bet opinion I would say Mrs. Rousby was undur the i Huence of drink at the tine. She had hor arms round tl young ludy sud was erying and sobblug and shedding tears. A SERVANT GIRL, Poor Hannah Savage, Mrs. Rousby’s ex-servant, ‘was severely cross-questioned, and, I am sorry to say, came off second best. Mrs. Rousby's counsel asked her:— Did Miss Hunt find you in bed with a man? (Laughter). ‘he Lord Chief justice—Do you think this ix « laughing matters Witness—No, my lord. Mr. Wilis—Do you know # au named Corgan? Yes. ing at Mrs. Ruwoby's hon: Yes, an round in bed in your root Yes. He weat ¥ 10 lie down because he was not wel Did he ‘you he was going. w yoar bed? He was painting the staireuso, and when he became ill he asked we if he mixht go to my bedroom, Mrs. Rousby seid be might, and she yave ute some brandy to take up to bit, Did Miss Hunt come up to your bedroom and find the room door lucked? No, Did you not open the door, and was there not the mau im bed? ton thas vecusion. The Lord Chief Justice—Who was this man? He wasa master painter, and a married man, Was he over in your bed? | ¥ Why did he not go to Di Rousuy's room. ‘THK END OF THE SQUADBLE. ‘There was a muss of such testimony, und it seemed to prove to the minds of the gentlemen of the jury that Mrs, Rousby imust have beca marked black blue pretty well all over her body about the time that the theatrical seuttie took place; nor did it appear from the testimony that Herr Bandmann art Mrs. Rousby much; in fact, sho mado the mot of the “opportiinthy to attempt io get gratis advo for the forth. coming periormance, Mrs. houxby, said one of the witnesses, had said, inipediately after the scuftle, that sho would make him (Baudmann) sgiter; that he would be hissed off the stage (le was engaged to play in “Proof”’) and she would receive the sympathy of the public. So she did for # time. She acted im “Madeleine Morel’ with her arm 1 u sling to a most sympathetic audicnee, Herr Bandmann ius undoube edly suffered in reputation ever since. . ACQUITTED, ‘The Lord Chief Justice, iu simming up, left the jury to deside w very simpie question. lv had been thrown in the teeth of Mrs. wusby that ber talic about the swelling and inflamniation in the arm, and the application of was tor the ostensible purpose of making au exaggerated display, but having heard the evidenve of the sur. geon who attended her they must know that such could not be the case, for the doctor himself ordered the bandages to be puion aud the lotion to y's root That was Mra, be applicd. ‘They het to decade simply a question of tect, Did Mx. Banidmann intention strike a blow with his fist, or arm? Because, if he did, he was liable to be found gutity in this case. ‘The jury retired at twenty minutes to five o'clock, and returned after an absence of Severin tier of sn hour, when the foreman or the Jury "We find | that the injuries were caused by alr. Bandmenn unia- tentionally——"" ‘The Lord Chief Justice finterrupting)}—That is a verdict of not guilty. MR. ‘SOLHERN'S CONDITION. AvELPut Horr, Liverroor, Noy, 21, Asis, To tur Eprron or Tuk HeRALD;— So much has been said about, and so greatly has the recent iliness of Mr. Sothern been exaggerated, that I feel it my duty, as his representative, to submit an official declaration of his present condition, He has in divers daily journals on both sides of the Atlantic been elected to be the unfortunute possessor of paral- ysis, tuberculous consumption, softening of the brain, disease of tho heart aud a dozen other organia troubles, the owner of any one of which might with a digsatisiied resignation close thy door upon any hope of a bright distant future, Lam happily able to state that his retirement from professional labor is purely owing to trouble of a functionary nature. During the past eighteen years I suppose Mr, Sothern has acted more times and travelled over more grotnd than any other star in the known world. His holidays have beon rary id his constant devotion to work, together with the physical wear and tear con. uent upon the incessant travel it imposes, @ cessation from labor for some time imperative, “The lust Maem &ec., is always & dangerous one, end it was to avoid this that two of the most cmivent mea in England ordered his immediate re- edical tiremieut for at loaat six. monitha, ‘ae the expiration of which time it is ped he will be tor decade or so unremitt In the meantime he wil) Ny. week absolute teat in italy, where the genial ell. mate of that couutry, aided by ao total abstineuce from all dramatic excitement, will the prepare him for bis proposed retira to the ‘tates, mo, mont topecttly ora evmeasg me, mow ettully you WONACE Ww. Business Mauager,