The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1879, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY ANO ANN STREET. GRE tia JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, shed every slay in the year. cluded), Teu dollar ree 1 ¢ dollar riod less than three mouths, Sunday edition inelude Sanday edition, eight doilars per yeur, tree of LY HERALD—One dollar per your, free of post- age ‘NovICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,—Remit in dratts on New | York or Post Oftice money orders, and where neither of | vcured send the money in a registered lott their new address. 5 oF tolegraphic despatches must EKALD, ould be properly sealed. ions will not be returned. be addressed Naw Yo Letters aud parka Rejected commu: eco ase matieas aeentireis PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH STRERT, OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— Y STRER -% . D Lor RADA P NC advertisements will MADISON SQUARE GARDEN— AQUARIUM—Pxomenape TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanixay, KOSTER & BIAL—P an Concerts. YORK, MONDAY, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and fair in the morning, followed by increasing eloudiness and possibly rains toward night. To- morrow it will be warm and partly cloudy, with | showers, ‘Wai Srreer Marrers. miemories of closing quotations and fractions | generally have been dimmed by the long holi- day aud the celebration of “the Fourth” will find facts and figures in our financial columns to cover every point. Cnastixe Cox sends, through a clergyman, some advice to young men, and it is of excellent quality. PERATURE was somewhat discouraging to excursionists who have not yet learned that in the woods and on the shore such days are more delightful than any others. Tux Cause of Brooklyn’s poisoned milk should be sought as carefully as the worst mur- derer, for something very like murder—and by wholesale—seems to have been at the bottom of it. HorrAn For Harvarp! One of her students bas knocked down and punished a Coney Island policeman for clubbing a lady. A detachment of such beys could tind plenty to do in New York during vacation. Aw Iyrerestixc Letter from Liberia shows that if the United States is ever going te help the Afriean Republic which American money and men founded now is the time. England has still a fondness for playing ogre. RABLI Prerer Coorrer, whose name has always been prominent in efforts for the public good, has devised a plan for doing away with the noise, smoke and dirt of the ele- | vated roads, and Herawp of to-day A Temperance Li URER said yesterday that the grogshops have ealled poetry, music and painting to aid them in alluring men, just as if temperance societies might not do likewise. But such things cost money, so the drinking nian is offered only talk, which is cheap. explains the same in the Street PRreacwinG has begun again, It has its merits; the air of the sanctuary in which such sermons are given is sure to be good, so. that the hearers are not compelled to go to sleep, and there is vet much inducement for the worshippers to study each other's clothes and carriages. AmonNG THE INCIDENTS of @ great “sun dance” among the Sioux were many severe tortu self ted, of the young braves. all redskins—and white me upon themselves when the rage for blood comes | upon them. person then. They would never hurt the wrong Tue Justivication of Sunday trains on the Metropolitan read was afforded yesterday by the quantity of travel to and from Central Park. The only great breathing place in the city should be made as accessible as possible, and its benefits retained by a speedy and comfort- able return trip. Ocn SrectaL Despatcn fro ritory describes a grand aboriginal powwow in which the formation of a Territorial government was warmly advocated. It would be interesting to know how many railroad men, and from what particular companies, were behind the affair, for | a better beginning to a general railroad grab at the Indian Junds could not be devised, Ix Avorn Cotvmy, under “Will Some One Explain?” a prominent Hebrew asks why his people, in a land where they enjoy the fullest freedom, are less faithful to their written law than their forefathers were when subjected to annoyance aud even torture? The answer will be awaited with general interest, for similar questions have been asked about the descend- ants of the Puritans, the Covenanters and other stout-hearted worshippers. Tne Wearne —The barometer is high over all tlie Atluntic coast districts, the centre of highest pressure being over the ocean off the Middle Atlantic coust. It is falling steadily throughout the lake regions and the central vaileys, owing to the vance of the disturb- fnee that was over the Northern Missouri Val- ley on Saturday. As predicted in yesterday's Iteratp, the disturbance is developing more energy as it moves eastward, and the present indications point to itso re storm centre as it approaches the lower lake regions, Heavy and continued rains fell in the northern | lake regions and the Northwest, and light | showers are reported to have fallen on the } England and Gulf coasts, The weather was enerally fair throughout the S i tie States and the central vall country, The Northwest, fresh on the Mi New England coast and A decided urred in t perature in all the districts east of the Rocky Mouutains, particularly in the Lower Missou y and t istur ed in the central en brisk in the {dle Atlantic and rally light else- winds have bt ntral valley districts, K a tornadoes will probably valley districts during the next forty-eight hours. The weather over the British Islands is unsettled, and there wations of the movement of a depression northern districts. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warmer and fait in the morning, followed by increasing cloudiness and possibly rains toward night, To-morrow it will be warm and partly cloudy, with showers. Would that | would operate | the Indian Ter- | Is British Free Trade a Fatlure? cially the debate on agricultural distress in | the House of Lords two days since, show that there is asmall section of the leaders of English thought who are beginning to question the soundness of the free trade policy which has been pursued since 1846. We need not have waited for the late debate Lords and the recent discussion of the same subject in the Cobden Club to find symptoms of a weakening of English opin- | ion on the question of free trade, which versibly settled, ‘There could not be stronger evidence of the rising distrust Jone number of that vehicle of vigorous | discussion, the Nineteenth Century, in which two eminent statesmen and thinkers—Earl Grey and Mr. Lowe ~ have strong articles in defence of free trade, Champions of | such note and mark do not come into the | arena for the defence of a cause which is | not felt to be in danger. There is un- | questionably a tendency in England, the | Beet free trade country of the world, to reopen this important question and submit | it to further discussion, | | | It deserves to be noted down that no English statesman who ranks high either for ability or official position has exhibited any symptoms of vacillation as to the soundness of the free trade’ policy. Not { even Lord Beaconsfield, who poured forth | ‘such torrents of invective against Sir Robert Peel when, .as the conservative Prime Minister, Peel went over to the camp of the free traders, has uttered a word of distrust in these recent dis- cussions, and Sir Stafford Northcote, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, stands firmly by the free trade policy. Its assail- ants are men who have never established any title to respect as thinkers on economi- cal questions. With all the ablest English statesmen and financiers on one side, and mere neophytes and sentimentalists ar- rayed against them on the other, the re- sult of the new free trade discussions can- not be considered as doubtful. We believe that British policy is immovably fixed on the basis of commercial freedom. It is absurd to expect from free trade con- sequences which its intelligent advocates never promised, They never pretended that it was a guarantee against commercial criscs, those most remarkable phenomena of the modérn financial world. One of these great’ trade convulsions visited Eng- land in 1847 and another in 1866, but no- body at those dates was absurd enough to ascribe them to free trade. On both occa- sions they led to vehement discussions of the merits and demerits of Sir Robert Peel’s Bank act of 1844, which did make a pretence of guarding against such catastrophes, and those assaults upon the Bank act were pertinent to the occasions which gave rise to them. Commercial | crises are a result of the modern system of credit. They hinge upon the modern | method of conducting trade through the | agency of banks. All merchants deposit their funds in a bank, which makes its | profits by loaning out at interest the de- posits it receives without interest, or at a lower rdte of interest than it pays to its de- positors. The consequence is that a bank, though perfectly solvent, can never meet all its obligations on the instant, It regu- | lates its business on the average calls likely | to be made upon it for paying depositors ; but if sudden distrust or-alarm impels | them all to demand payment at the same time the bank is unprepared, and the fears ot the merchants that they will not be able to mect their engagements causes a panic | which leads to a general unhingement of business. Such crises have no relation to | free trade or protection. They occur in every country which makes use of banking facili- ties quite irrespective of its general com- mercial policy, As the advocates of free trade never professed to regard it as a pre- ventive of commercial crises it is mere shallow absurdity to raise an outery against free trade if a country is visited with a trade crisis of unusual length and severity. The United States and Germany, which are | protectionist countries, have recently been as heavy sufferers as England from com- mercial stagnation, Neither is free trade a guarantee against the distress occasioned by bad harvests. The grain crops of England have been de- ficient for the last four or five seasons, and this is the main cauve of agricultural dis- tress in that country. To be sure, in a country which excludes foreign grain by high duties the shortness of a crop is partislly compensated by high prices. But this is a besefit only to the producers of grain, and is a great evil to the mass of the population who ‘The free importation of breadstuffs keeps the tood of the English people at moderate | prices, even after the worst harvests. ‘Lhe | great body of consumers is benefited, and the depression of agriculture is due to un- propitious seasons and not to free trade. The repeal of the Corn laws has really proved a great benefit to British agriculture, Cheap tood has made low wages suffice for the subsistence of the vast manufacturing and mining population, and has built up and enlarged those great branches of British industry. The consequence is that in all states of the crops the British agrieal- turists are always sure olf a steady home | market. Harvests of the greatest abun- dance do not depress agricultural prices, since the domestic consumption always exe ceeds the home supply. American grain comes into the English market burdened with the cost of five transportation, grain grower the full advantage of the home market so for as he is able to supply it, whereas if the European crops happen to be good in a year of American abundance the Americun farmer burns his corn for tuel ior lack of a market. Although free trade has no power to control the weather aud insure good harvests it is a pertect security to the vast manufacturing population of England in what would other- wise be seasons of suffering or fumine, | for twenty or thirty years seemed irre- | and misgivings than is furnished in the | have to pay famine prices for their food. | on agricultural distress in the House of | | | ment in industrial processes. The iron Recent discussions in England, and espe- | trade of England has been for several years in a state of extreme depression in conse- quence of the cheap methods which have been discovered for the production of steel. Steel rails or any article in steel will last three or four times as long as the | same article in iron; and now that steel thousand miles | which gives the English | can be produced at a trifle above the cost of iron there is necessarily an immense falling off in the amount of that metal required for the annual consumption of the world. A large proportion of the in- dustry employed in mining and smelting iron will be released, and that industry is so vast that there is more distress than usually attends the success of great inven- tions, But surely free trade is not charge- able with the incidental loss of employment which results from the march of improve- ment in the industrial arts, Nor is iree trade to be held responsible for the strikes, the labor disturbances, the frequent interruptions to production in great establishments and the consequent increase in the cost of articles which have afflicted British trade and industry during the last few years. A return to the ex- ploded policy of protection would have no tendency to remove the evil of which ‘the muiinous workmen complain. A duty on imported grain would raise the price of food and render their low wages still’ more inadequate. A duty on imported manufactures would amount to nothing, because the home market can take but a small part of the products of the colossal English establishments and the exclusion of foreign goods would be a bagatelle, The home market would be broken down by glut of goods without a large outlet to foreign consumers, and for- eign markets can be commanded only by cheap production, It is absurd to fancy that the wages of British laborers could be raised by a protective tariff, ‘The simple consequence would be a glut of the home market and the ruin of British indus- try. The commercial supremacy of Eng- land will end when she cannot undersell rivals in other markets than herown. Her trade doubled within the first twenty years after she adopted free trade in goods ; her tonnage doubled within twenty years after she adopted free trade in ships ; and if her immense industries are going into a de- cline it is owing to quite other causes than the commercial freedom which put her so far in advance of all other nations in wealth, power and prosperity. China on the Aggressive. The despatch which we print this morn- ing regarding the progress of the Chinese conquest of Kashgar possesses several elements of interest. It is certainly to be regretted that the details are so meagre. The mention of the fortress of the city would indicate that it is the capital of Kashgaria which is referred to. ‘Lhe recapture of that city by the Chinese would be an event of the highest importance in Asiatic affairs. The mention of Kuldja in connection with the event, would, how- ever, lead to the belief that the subjugation of the insurrection in Khotan (or Illitsi), one of the four provinces of Kashgaria, is what is referred to, and that the people of the capital of that district, Khotan, have been given to the sword. Inthe latter case the reconquest of the disaffected territory brings China into dangerous proximity to the Russian'territory of Kuldja, the claim to which has been disputed recently with great emphasis by China. The embroil- ment of the Mongolian Empire in a war with Russia would awaken such an interest in Central Asian affiirs as to make it the news centre of the Eastern world for many months tocome, China would become a new factor iu the Anglo-Russian problem as regards India, American Preaching for Europe. England must admit that America has again beaten her on her own soil. We have taken her championship belt, under- sold her butchers, distanced her fast horses, vanquished her best oarsman, and yester- day one of our preachers—our own Tal- mage—drew two great congregations, each of twenty thousand people. Clergymen differ from sporting characters in some particulars, but the sense of being beaten is one of those touches of nature that makes tie world akin; so when the native occu- pants of the various English pulpits hear of the wonderful success which our special cable despatch shows the Brooklyn Boan- erges to have achieved there is sure to be a great deal of feeling which men of any other class would express in language most vigor- ously Scriptural. We do not know what the preacher said, but no one can doubt that it was something that England had never heard before, and that it was emphasized by gestures which would have been impossi- ble within conventional pulpit robes, We are glad that London has at last found a pteacher after her own heart, for she | needs religious teaching as badly as any place in the world except Washington, or perhaps Albany. One thing Mr. ‘lalmage's London success will certainly demonstrate, and that is that the big organ and the cor- net have not, as some ill-natured people have said, been the principal attractions which have heretofore drawn great crowds tothe Brooklyn Tabernacle, Up Goes Grain. Grain will not be so high this year, we trust, as to make its price oppressive to the needs of our own people, but it will cer- tainly be sufficient to make producers and carriers reasonably happy. One hundred million dollars’ worth will be wanted in France, as the Ministry already declares, because of a bad year in that country; and one of the explanations given in the British House of Commons ot the distress in Eng- land now felt is that the year has been a very bad one with the furmers. Through- out Europe there has been all summer un- favorable weather, and as this is the real source of the trouble in England and | France, the same trouble, a deficient har- vest, though we do not now actually learn the fact, will perhaps be found to have been experienced os widely as the common Nor was it ever pretended that free trade | cause has prevailed, Our year, on the con- is a prophylactic a st the transient | trary, will be an extremely good on nd | distress which accompanies great improves | as the greatest part of the deficiency in Western Europe will certainly be made up from this side we shall be able to send to the people beyond the sea all they need without such a drain upon our resources as to make grain dear for our own people. M. de Lesseps and General Grant. The famous French engineer, in the course of the interview received by cable which we published yesterday, remarked that he in- tends to offer General Grant the position of “honorary president” of the Panama Canal Company, ‘This proves that M. de Lesseps, besides being a great engineer and vigorous administrator, is a shrewd judge of the methods of conciliating popular favor for his new enterprise. A company with General Grant at its head would inspire confidence in the United States and throughout the world, provided that he was the real and responsible head of the corporation and not a mere figurehead. M. de Lesseps has something to learn of the character of General Grant if he thinks the Gen- eral would accept the position of ‘thon- orary president” even of so gigantic and magnificent an enterprise as the inter- oceanic canal, If an American company, incorporated by the Legislature of New York or some other important American State, and relying on the protection of the United States forthe property invested in a foreign country, General Grant could afford and might consent to be the real and responsible president; but it will be in vain to offer him the nominal presi- dency of a French company, leaving all power in the hands of M. de Lesseps and utilizing the popularity of General Grant as x means of allaying American opposition to an infringement of the Monroe doc- trine. M. de Lesseps has more than the proverbial politeness and address of his nation, and it would be a great stroke if he could disarm American repugnance to foreign control of the Isthmus by a pleasant compliment to the illustrious ex-President of the United States. But General Grant is too true an American to be caught by this flattering bait. What M. de Lesseps contemplates is a French company, organized under French laws, on the assumption that those laws offer greater security to shareholders. We do not question their strictness and se- curity within the jurisdiction of France, but how are they to be executed in a foreign country like the United States of Colombia? Is France to step in and exercise authority over the Isthmus? The American govern- ment will not tolerate anything of the kind, and the sooner M. de Lesseps is disubused of this chimerical fancy the better it will be for the success of his enterprise. The trade by which the canal is to be supported will be chiefly American trade, and, what is more, chiefly the coasting trade of the United States be- tween our ports on the Pacific and our ports on the Gulf and the Atlantic. Our government will protect that commerce in every stage of its route, through the canal as well as in the Gulf and on either ocean, American ships carrying American goods will derive their protection from the flag which they carry, ond not from any permissive foreign Power which establishes itself on the Isthmus, Certain it is that. our government will never permit its control of its own com- merce to be interfered with or impaired in time of peace, nor ever recognize the pre- tension of any foreign Power to close the canal against its armed vessels in time of war. In sudden emergencies our ships of war will not be compelled to make a long voyage around Cape Horn if we need to send ao naval forco to the Pacific coast. M. de Lesseps has fallen into a serious mistake if he thinks that a little adroit flattery can change the settled purpose of the government of the United States respecting foreign inter- ference with the affuirs of this continent. An Important Office. Governor Robinson’s prompt removal of Coroner Dempsey, of Staten Island, who was recently convicted of the offence of swearing to false accounts, was to be ex- pected, and it is to be hoped that the succes- sor appointed to the vacancy will be an im- provement on the general run of such offi- ciuls, at this end of the State at least. The recent murders in this city have developed an amount of incapacity and stupidity in the New York goroners which strikingly illustrates the carelessness of the peo- ple in filling this important office. A coroner has great power and great respon- sibility, and ought in all cases to be a citi- zen of intelligence and established repu- tation. Yet when an election comes round the party conventions put any political hack they happen to fancy in nomination tor the position, and the people vote for him without a thought of the importance of the duties he will be called upon to dis- charge. The Coroner inthe Hull murder case was as much to blame as anybody tor the outrageous blunders made by the police, which but for an accident might have led to the escape of the real murderer and the punishment of un infovent man. Some inquests that have been held on Blackwell's Island might, if the truth were known, prove startling reve- lations to the people of the danger ot making corouers out of a low grade of ward politi- cians, In future itis to be hoped that our citizens will Le more careful what sort of candidates they elect to the Coroner's office, and will compel one or other of the political parties to put in nomination better men for that office than it has heretofore been the custom to select. Reckless Use of Firearms, Shooters who ‘‘didn’t know it was loaded” make up an extremely large class of the careless people who kill others without homicidal intent; but even their poor plea implies that if they had known it was loaded, or had possessed intelligence enough to reflect on the point, they might not have used firearms in a way to wantonly destroy life. There are, therefore, few more aggravated degrees of recklessness thun theirs, and these degrees are exhibited in the report of the numbers of persons in- jured “accidentally” on the Fourth by missiles irom various sorte of firearms, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1879.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. All the persons who handled these firearms knew they were loaded, and knew even that they had bullets in them; yet they fired from their windows or fired in the Streets pistols with bullets in them as nonchalantly or indifferently as they might light so many firecrackers—utterly with- out regard to the safety of the person who might be opposite the muzzle of the pistol at the time, In every one of these chron- icles reported on the 5th the perpetrators of the evil ‘ran away,” and we believe none of them have yet been found. Police and everybody seem to regard this as a little patriotic eccentricity of no moment. This use of dangerous weapons in absolute indifference to necessary consequences is an unprecedented spectacle, and, if itgrows upon the public, will simply turn the and the people had to be taken off in small boats. In the other the launch ran foul of the hawser of the Harlem boat, smashing her flagstaff and occasioning an alarm among the passengers that might easily have grown intoa panic. It was far more attributable to luck than to judgment that no lives were lost. By what right do these launches carry passengers? Are they ferryboats, plying between the bridges, or excursion boats, or what? Have they any license as ferryboats, or do they comply with*the laws regulating excursion boats? What engineers do they employ? It is stated that their engineers are men licensed by the Sanitary Bureau to manage steam boilers; but does this fit them to be intrusted with the lives of a hundred or more passengers? If the business is Fourth of July into an annual festival of | lawfully followed it is certain that it St. Bartholomew. Some visitation of pen- alties might have a good effect. We doubt if the law could inflict for this offence any punishment that would be at all adequate to the evil, but it ought to be tried. London Goes Mad. “Vulgar desire to see notorieties” is what the British critio would have called it if the people of an American city had so coms pletely gone mad overa company of play- ers as London has gone mad over the French company, or rather over Sarah Bernhardt. The enthusiastic and very ‘‘fresh” exuber- ance of our welcome to Dickens, and a somewhat similar weakness on our part toward a host of people from the other side more or less worthy of attention, has procured for us no end of satirical consid- eration on the part of our British cousins, very happy at an opportunity to point out asnobbish disposition to admire distin- guished men and women. But all London is crazy now, and not over art, as it fancies; not over the masterpieces of the French stage, and not over the grand performances of those masterpieces by the great actors of the Théitre Frangais, but all the fripperies and accidents and vanities and whims of an actress. John Bull, even at his best, fenced round with all his dignity and re- serve and spirit of exclusiveness, becomes a mere gobemouche, and hunts down a Jewish lady, who, aside from her career on the stage, is a very commonplace person. Out of this visit to London we apprehend that the actors of the Théitre Frangnis will be losers on the moral side. They are made part of an expedition which is mero Barnumizing, and that must hurt. They are the tail to Sarah Bernhardt’s specula- tive kite. Her shows of sculpture and painting gathers money for her, and all the rest is used to advertise it. Now the sculpture of Sarah Bernhardt is of precisely the same elass with the sculpture exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial, where a clever woman used to make a statue out of butter. People admired and wondered and gazed, not because the statue was beautiful, but because it was made out of butter; and London runs mad over the Bernhardt exhibition for reasons just as little related to art. We are sorry to see a company for which every lover of art has reason to feel the highest respect compro- mised by such relations to a mere humbug show. Privileges of the Police. A short time ago Policeman Tully, hav- ing been found drinking at the door of a saloon which was open in violation of the law at two o’clock in the morning, set upon the roundsman who detected him and beat him unmercifully with his murderous club, breaking his arm and splitting open his skull, The defence of the policeman was that the roundsman had struck him a blow with his fist. This was not at alla probable story from the very nature of the case; but, if true, it formed no justification for the felonious assault that followed and which might have hada fatal termination but for the fortunate inter- ference of twocitizens. The ruffian was tried last week, convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary— a punishment scandalously disproportion- ate to the offence. But light as the sentence was it has not only mot yet been enforced, but the con- victed officer has been enjoying his holi- day in the city, a practically free man, A stay of the enforcement of the sentence having been granted by a Supreme Court judge Mr. Tully was on Thursday last taken out of the hands of the Warden of the Tombs Prison by an order of the Sheriff, placed nominally in the “custody” of a deputy sheriff and practically allowed his liberty. With the companion kindly fur- nished him by the Sheriff the clubbing policeman has been enjoying his Fourth of July holiday just as convivially as if he had not murderously assaulted a fellow officer and been sentenced to the Peniten- tiary for three months, When the disabled roundsman was car- ried into the sation house on the morning of the felonious assault one of the force assured a Heaatp reporter that Tully “eared nothing about it,” and would not attempt to escape, as he had enough political influence to ‘get him out of the scrape.” This prediction appears to have been correct. Mr. Tully's friend, the Sher- iff, has granted him privileges that would not be extended to any person desti- tute of ‘political influence,” and we may next expect to see the name of Tully re- ported by the Police Oommissioners for promotion. Risking Human Life. From the account published elsewhere in to-day’s Henatp it seems singular that some fatal accident has not already hap- pened on the steam launches which are allowed to curry passengers between High Bridge and Harlem Bridge on the Harlem River, These little boats are capable of holding with safety from forty to sixty pas- sengers each, and they are permitted to make their trips with trom one hundred to one hundred and seventy-five pussengers crowded on their decks and packed s0 closely o# scarcely to afford room for moving. Yesterday these death traps—for they are nothing more—met with two mis- haps, either of which might have led to a disaster. In one case the crowded shell, owing to the bad management of those in charge, ran into the mud near High Bridge, should be so conducted as. not to risk human life, and no one will pretend that there is not great peril in every trip these little boats make with overloaded decks. The lawagainst carrying more than a certain number of passengers applies to them as wellas to larger craft, and ought to be enforced. The authorities whose duty it is to look after such matters should pay attention to these bonts and their management before an acvident attended by loss of life stirs them up to activity, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans wore registered at the Paris office of the Hznaup on Saturday :— Adame, Mrs. Crowell and family, New York, Grand Hotel. Adams, Way L., and wife, New York, Grand Hotel, Alliger, R. D., New York, Continental Hotel. Ashley, Miss Florence, New York, No, 50 Rue Aboukir, Barhydt, D. P., New York, Continental Hotel, Barhydt, Miss G. G., New York, Continental Hotel. Barnum, L, H., New York State, No. 5 Rue Rollin, Benton, Dwight, Cincinnati, No. 75 Boulevard Clichy. Beveridge, M. W., Washington, Grand Hotel. Bierstadt, A., and wife, New York, Continental Hotel. Si Blake, J. H., Texas, Hdtel de Deux Mondes. Bradley, M. N., Virginia, Hotel Binda. Brown, H. G., New York State, No. 45 Avenue de VOpéra. Chamberlin, H., New York, Grand Hotel. Claxton, Charles, Philadelphia, Hotel du Pavillon, Collamore, Gilman, New York, Grand Hdtel. Coudert, L, L., and son, New York, Continental Hotel. Creed, Eugene, New York, Hotel de St. Quentin. Darlington, Rohan J. G., Philadelphia, Hotel de l’'Athénée. Dessau, Simon, New York, Hocel de Nice. Dickinson, H. L., San Francisco, No. 29 Rue Caus martin. Dickson, D. 8., Philadelphia, Hétel de Londres ot New York. Dutel, P., and family, New York, Hotel Bergére. Duryea, Wright, and wife, New York, Continenta? Hotel. Duryea, L. T., New York, Continental Hotel, Dwyer, T. N., New York State, Grand Hétel. Fisher, Robert A., Baltimore, Hotei de l’Empire. Gould, Paymaster William P., United states Army, Hotel Binda, Gould, Mrs, William P., Hotel Binds, Granberg, D. W., and wife, New York, No. 7 Bue de la Bienfaisance. Helmuth, W. T., and wife, New York, Hétel dq Louvre, Henry, William, New York, No. 50 Rue Aboukir. Hickox, A. M., San Francisco, No. 44 Rue de Clichy Howell, Rear Admiral John O., United States Navy, Hotel Bellevue. Irving, Mrs. F. J., New York, No. 50 Rue Aboukir, Kelley, 1. A., Cleveland, No. 4 Rue Chalgrin. Knight, G. 8., New York State, No. 4 Rue Chalgrin, Lucas, Rev. W. B., and wife, New York State, No. 11 Rue Colisée. Massa, P., and wife, New Jersoy, Hotel del’Athénée, Mayer, Constant, New York, Hétel Byron. Mead, 8. R., and wite, Boston, Hétel de 1’Athénée, McKrea, John E., New Jersey, Hotel de Londres e& ‘New York. McLean, W. F., Canada, Hotel de 1’Et6. McNamara, P. J., New York State, Hotel de Londres et New York. McNamee, Joseph, New York State, Hotel de Lone dres et New York, Niemeyer, J. H., New Haven, 38 Rue de Lille. Nott, J. C., New York, Continental Hotel, Oakes, Josiah, Boston, Hotel Bergdre. Orson, A. H., Canada, Hotel de 1’Eté. Osborne, Miss, New York, Continental Hotel, O'Connor, M. P., and wife, San Francisco, Hotel Binda, Paine, Lieutenant F. H., United States Navy, Hotel Bellevue. Perrin, Mrs. E, 0., and son, New York, Hotel Binda. Pritchard, Colonel M. N., St. Louis, Hotel du Louvre, Rathbun, H. B., Canada, Continental Hotel. Rathbun, Miss, Canada, Continental Hotel. Reynolds, W. D., and family, Virginia, Hotel de Lille et d’Albion. Richheimer, G. M., New York, Hotel du Pavillon. Robinson, Wallace ¥., and wife, Boston, Hotel de VAthénée, Ryder, W. H., Boston. Hdtel du Temps. Shaw, A. D., New York, Grand Hotel. Simmons, J. H., New York, Grand Hotel. Smith, L. Randolph, New York, New York Hotel, Stafford, W. F., New York, Grand Hotel. Steinbech, Edwin, New York, Hdtel du Pavillon, Stern, Louis, New York, HOvwl Violet, Stix, Charles, New York, Grand Hétel. Stokes, G. H., New York, Hotel Bergére, Switzer, George T., New York State, Grand Hotel. Taft, James H., and family, New York State, Com tinental Hotel. Tormey, 8. J., New York State, Hdtel de Londres ef New York. Tweed, T., and wife, New York, HOtel Chatham. Vandervoorst, W. L., New York, Continental Hotel, White, Horace, New York, ltel de |’Orient. Wilkinson, James, and wife, New Jersey, Hotel Chatham, Wilmerding, J. C., New York, Grand Hotel. Wilson, Benjamin B., and family, Philadelphia, No, 34 Rue Tronchet. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, is at the New York Hotel. The working classes of Kast London do not, as @ rule, go to church, Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, once made & chart including 324,000 stars. ‘The Saturday Review believes that commercial and manufacturing towns have local and social unity. ‘The Chicago Times, in one of its poetical moods, wonders what the laboring classes would do without the pool rooms. A soaside contemporary speaks of a young lady who, when she was in the breakers, appeared as elim as acandie, A sort of tallow dip, as it were. Alphonse Daudet, the popular Fronch novelist, wag once an usher in & provincial school. He was only eighteen when, in Paris, his first volume gained for him a reputation. Many Amerivans who go to London seek the church of Dr. James Martineau, whose essays, com tributed mainly to the National Review, had at oue time, when they were printed between covers, a great deal of popularity in this country. An enthusiastic Enyigh writer says that ante have their armios, fishes their schools and tigers their sentiments, and he adds that even worms may have their religions. We therefore suppose that thore may be caterpillars of the church, London Spectator:—Literature must not be too much cramped, for language can never be measured by the finest weights and measures, But it is an advantage to it, rather than otherwise, to be re strained within fair limits of the subject matter, though it be only by the fear of an action for livel Af it trespass too flagrantly over the border,”