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EUROPE,
American Beauty and French
Critics.
Trades Combination and the Tailors'
"Strike" in Cork.
Disraeli and the Critics of
"Lotliair."
The Marquis Bute and His Adhesion
to Keli^iou.
IRISH CRIME AND ENGLISH LAW.
Imperial Russian Honor to
Bismarck.
FATTZ OUT OF TONS.
The French Transatlantic mall steamship Perelre,
Captain I)ause, from Havre by way or Brest the xsth
of June, arrived at this port yesterday roreuoon. The
Pereire landed our continental flies, dated to the
afternoon of her day of sailing from France, having
made the run from shore to shore lu time slightly
over eight days.
Among the passengers by the Pereire wa3 Mr.
B;>naparte.
The Inmtn steamship City of Paris, Captain Ken
nedy, from Liverpool the 16th and Queenstown the
17th or June, arrived ?t this port early yesterday
morning. The City of l'arls iandeil our special correspondence
and newspaper mall flies from Europe
dated to lier day of sailing from Ireland. The mall
parkage< were delivered at the Hkralp Building at
ten o'clock u the morning unopened and la good
order. %
The last of the four private balls given by the
Empress Eugenie on Monday evenings was not as
folly attended as those preceding. White was the
prevailing color ol the ladies' toilettes. The Emperor
Napoleon did not appear, having been seized by a
slight at act or gout or his return .from the races
Sunday evening. The cotlllbn was led by M.
Batbanla, aud supper served In the Gaierle >.e la
Falx.
The Emperor of France, leaning on the arm of
General Kellle, aide-de-camp, walked June 15 on the
terrace at tlie palace. Marshal L,e Boeuf, M. Segris
and Admiral Kigault de Genouilly came to present
their respects, and afterwards transacted business
with his Majesty.
General Rea l, United States Consul General for
France, gave the last of a series of brilliant dinners
at his resilience lu the Avenue d'Antln.
The Jews in Algeria gave a grand banquet to M.
Cromieux, their co-religionist.
The ma 'pendant de la Drome announces a slight
improvement in the state of M. Uancel.
The Duke and Duchess Porro di Borgo left Paris
lor the chateaa of Crllion with the Louis-Mlrepolx
family.
The Prince and Princess and Mile, de Wugram
Lave gone to their residence of Grosbols.
Tiie Madrid journal* announce that the Prince of
Orange arrived In fiat city.
King Victor Emanuel left Florence for San Ros- <
sore, accompanied by the Marquis spinola and
Colonel Galletti.
General Henry, French Ambassador at St. Petersburg,
accompanied by Madame Fleury, their two
soils, and Ills sisier-in-law, the Princess d'Isiy, Count
Chotek, Minister of Austria, and Baron FasetUFrldenbourg,
Secretary of the Austrian Legation, arrived
at Moscow.
The increasing value of landed property In Ireland
may be judged from the fact that several extensive
lots were sold in the Landed Estates' Court, Dublin,
at twenty-four years purchase of the rental returns.
It has been usual when the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
is absent from the country to associate the Protestant
Archbishop of Dublin with the Lords Justices
for the purpose of adailnlsterlmr the executive In his
Excellency's absence. On the present visit of Earl
Spencer to England Archbishop Trench's name has
been left out, h.s Grace being "no longer deemed a
State functionary.''
Mousignor Capel writes to lie London Times, saying
the report of Lord Bute's return to the Anglican
Communion "has not the smallest foundation." The |
statement origina.ly appeared in a French paper,
but the Marquis deemed it "unworthy of formal
contradiction." Monslgnor Capol adds, "that Lord
Bute was never a member or the Established Church
of England."'
A mail telegram from London, dated June 15, re
ports:?
So far from seceding from the Catholic Church the
Marquis of Bute lias started for Seville in order that
on the festival of corpus Christl he may be present
at the service which the Catholic Church in ttpain
celebrates with such splendor and pageantry.
Mr. and Mrs. Allsopp, of Rockferry, Liverpool,
were drowned by the upsetting .of a boat ou the
river.
Fallows* Stiaw'a worsted mills at Wakefield, England,
were destroyed by lire.
The Marquis of Waterford is about to lay the
foundation stone of a new woollen factory at Kilmiicthomas?
a thriving little village upon his lordship's
county Waterford (Ireland) estate.
In London Mr. Justice Byles agreed to liberate
Hurt on two securities of ?15,000, and Fl.?ke on four
securities ol ?500, with forty-ci^ht hours' notice of
trial, in the female " inasquerader's " case.
The body of a young woman, named Lees, was
found in a Held near Enniskillen, Ireland, with her
head cut oil. She had run away with her sweetheart.
aud was missing about a week.
The obituary list of the London Times of one day
contains some remarkable illustrations of prolonged
xlswnce in Ave ladles and three gentlemen, all of
whom had reached four score years and upwards,
their united ages amounting to 680 years, giving an
average of exactly elghty-flve years to each. The
eldest gentleman bad reached the great age of
eighty-nine years, the two others of the same sex
being eighty-six. Of the opposite sex the eldest
was eighty-tight and the youngest eighty years of
age.
A mall telegram from Pesth says that a trial which i
win be one of the most gigantic on record Is about
to take place in Hungary. The accused are brigands, j
300 In niimhpp and ?l? la amenta \ fhot onn ihAm
? ? , ? .. .w vafvvvvu iUHV KVV V* lUVUi
will be condemed to death." i
Victor Hugo published in a French paper the
amount of his Income. "I am possessed," writes
the author, "in Belgium of 300 shares m the National
Bank, producing about ?l,3fl0 yearly; In England,
?17,000 cf consols, producing annually ?500; In <
France, from the Institute, ?40; in Guernsey, Haute- <
tile liouse, ?40. Total, ?1,940." M. Victor Hugo 1
adds that "his property In his works is disposed of
for some years to come, and that, owing to family <
arrangements, he pays over to ills children some e
?1,200 a year." 1
The Le A'ord sayi that "Dr. Cummlng has been I
requested to leave Belgium, being without the neces- i
sary papers, and unat>ie to give evidence as to means I
of subsistence." r
The British channel telegraph cable has been found c
not to answer, and is being uken up. i
FRANCE. !
Am American Sensation In Paris~rn?aUani 1
Rwarlu on American Ladlao?Trnn?atiantto 1
Beauties Excited?The Empress' Enconr* '
aftaont of Bloomiag Youth?*What's to Be '
Done t?Outshine the Native Critics?Bleguot 1
*e,e"" Paris, June 15,1870.
We have had quite a commotion In the feminine
portion of our American colony lu Paris, occasioned
by some very spiteful remarks in one ot the leading
journals in Pans?la Liberie. It Is hardly fair to
Aold the proprietor and chief editor of that paper?
NEW Y(
Emu* de fllrardln?responsible for this uncalled for
diatrii>e, for It appeared In the usual weekly contribution
of a writer attached to the staff, who uses
the noun <Je plume of "Vlcointe de LGtonore," and
who u known to be a literary lady. What led to this
splenetic attack on the young, unmarried ladies of
Columbia It Is hard to divine; but a personal motive
o! some sort Is, doubtless, at the bottom of it. Perhaps
the writer In question has seen her best days,
and Is fretted at the radiant and undlapated beauty
of America's fair daughters; or It may be Uutthls
Gallic spinster has been overlooked in some
of the late fftes at the palace, pheve ?=evcnil
of our lovely beilea Were the ''observe I
of all observers." He that as it may, the assault is
so ill-natured and even blttor, that It ha* naturally
attracted a goo I deal of attention In the Auicri a:i
world. Beiore commenting on It further, perhaps I
had better copy It in exinso. Here It la:?"They are
so charming, our young French gills. Educated bj
tasteful mothers, they learn nothing of lite but virtue;
too limpid to be troubled, too white to be tarnished,
Ignorant of danger and preserved by their
very chabtity, they float through the world nice
aovea in a tempestuous sky, the lightning not touching
their wings. What a contrast they present, in
their virginal purity, to the confused medley one
meets of American girls; dressed like horses on
parade, nothing being wanting, neither the mane
nor the crouviire. What need la there to invite these
daughters of the Disunited States everywhere, ol
whom there are some who habitually occupy the
ooxes on tne third row at the opera, behlud tne
drop scene, where tbey cultivate their minds and
their licartfl by listening to tne soft conference between
ballet dancer* aud lex net it ergots t In their
democratic day these daughtora or the Yankees
tiead with plebeian feet the royal stairs of the Tuileries,
while noble descendants of high barons
and ancient knights are forced to hide in some
ruined manor their disdained nobility."
There is an effusion in which multce and auger
struggle for the mastery. I would stake a trifle that
the writer of the above Is Just ono of tho-<e Ignored
descendants of some "anctent knight," whose "disdained
nobility,'' lacking the means to support it,
has not been recognized ut the Tullertcs as an acceptable
substitute for Uiose plebeian beauties that
come teeming over every year from the United
States, aud whose claims to royai hospitality are
graciously recognized by the Imperial couple who
occupy it. There is no denying the fact that our
American girls?T mean those whose beauty, lutelllgeucc
and grace raise them above the throng?arc
very marke l favorites at court. They are not only
invited to all the festivities in Paris, but arc annually
summoned to the gayeiies at Uoinplegne, where
they pass two or three days amid the splendors of
that truly roval residence. 1 fancy the solution of
this is to be fouud In the exceeding predilection
of the Empress for every beautiful girl she
meets, and, with that acute tact she Inherits
from that accomplished woman of the
world, her mother, she kuows that nothing contributes
more to the real attraction or a saloii, whether
royal or otherwise, thau the halo of youth aud
beauty. The Empress, therefore, never allows a
pretty girl to pass her unnoticed, and It matters little
whether it comes from east or west, or whether j
it represents an ancient pedigree or the new made
fiamfly at yentorday.
here is a proof of it. I was standing near an
American friend of mine at one of the recent bal !s
at the Tulleries, when the Km press. passing by, said i
to the geutlcmau in question, "I don't sec your
niece here to-night," He explulned to her Majesty (
that a momentary Indisposition had lost her the i
iiuiiui wi iwiuK iJicscui. --1 am Biiirjr n> near n, ' re- |
plied The Empress, "fyr 1 don't like one of ray i
pretty faces to be absent at a ball." What would j
the irate scribe of the Liberty liave thought and felt <
if she, like me, had overheard this frank admission t
of imperial partiality for "pretty laces''" I
Another anec lote, indicating the same well known i
trait, was related to me as having occurred at one i
of the lust entertainments at the palace. The Kin- i
press was contemplating with singular Interest a <
very lovely girl, often admired at Newport, Miss i
1 a, and the Amba?sador or was standing t
by her. "Methlnks," at length said her Majesty, i
'ilia11 used to resemble that cliarmlngglrL" "Yes, ;
pour Majesty, responded Seflor O , quite for- s
letting himself, "when you were young." "Of c
jourse," added the Empress, laughing, "when I j
was young, and that was a long time ago." The v
imbassa lor was decidedly confused at this "palpa- s
>le hit," and reddened to the temples. He had e
known the Empress all lier life, but It would have c
been more gallant if lie had not reminded her of
Lhe days wnen she was young, bat hardly more
beaut 11 uL
To return to tne censorious critic of the Liberie. I
im ready to admit tnere is a difference very marked
ti general between the bearing, and often In the
1 reusing, of French and American girls. It is the
Yell known usage In France lor all uumarried girls
.o be reserved in manner and very modest In attire,
lever wearing Jewelry or gaudy colors. A French
flrl, after her entree, in society, still preserves a cer,am
coyness, a restraint In Wiie and speech, that Is
De coming enough, but oiteu rather tiresome. Oiico
married, her dress, manner and conversation all
sliange, and these are Die privileges of her new conJit
ion. Amenc.in girls, however, undergo no such
stiff training as this. They are lu the habit of giving
Iree expression to their feelings and opinions, subject
only to the restraints of good breeding, ami
;oii8oquently they have in point ol' vivacity a great
Advantage over their French rivals, and the f.ict that
they are loreiguers renders this superior animation
unobjectionable lti the eyes of the men, though
doubtless they would consider it strange in a French
girl. 1 say in the eyes of the men, tor 1 perceive
clearly thai gentlemen. French or otherwise, would
for tue most part rather dance or chat with
an American girl than with a French one, 1
however lite a "dove on a tempestuous sky," sun
ply because they are more entertained by the untutored
iMlvrui of a sprightly girl, who talks anil
acts with the Impulsive freedom our American mailiters
allow. The Freuch women, both uiarricu and
single, however, are displeased, I nave reason to
know, at what tliey call the singular tolssez alter of
our American girls. It is evident they consider
themselves encroached upon by these "daughters of
the Yankees,'i whose attractions of one sort or aaotlicr
are not only receiving too much notice at
court, but, worse still, are demoralizing the French
gallauts, whose assiduities they once monopolized.
It is evident there is a deal of volcanic material .accumulating
in the French female world of Paris
agaiflst our plebeian betiuiiesj t\s may be seen lroni
their violent explosion In the Liberand who can
predict what may happen 111 tho future, If the nutbailee
Is not in s*ome way abated v ,
t'au the Hkrau) make some Ingenious suggestion
that will tend in some degree to calm the wounded
sensibilities of that disdained class the avenger in
the Libert& represents, and to prevent some due catastrophe
that might possibly ensue? liow do we
know but that, sooner or later, some grand banquet
may not be got up, when all the picked loveliness
of the United States mav bo assembled only to be
swept away at one fell blow by poisoned Icds In the
Borgia style v Really It Is time to look after this matter.
1 ask again, can the Herald suggest nothing 1
I appeal to its well-known sympathies for the rair
sex of all tongues and on every side of the water.
1 have run through my letter without touching any
other than tills dainty and captivating topic. I
must reserve for next mall a lot of Interesting
items, yet I have Just space to mention
that the popular Minister and his amiable wire
dined at the Tutlerks a few days since, and, what Is
considered here a high compliment, the Emperor led
Mrs. Washburne to dinner. When the scribe of the
Liberie hears of this great Mil be the indignation
thereat; but, luckily, Mrs. washburne is a married
woman, and they are allotted here far more perquisites
than Is vouchsafed to the "doves" aforesuld.
Mr. Washburne gave a very elegant eutertaiuinent
a few days since to a large number of his countrymen
resident here and en voyage. Everybody went
away greatly delighted by the richness of the reast
and the genial urbanity of their host. A grand dinner
was also given the other day to the new Minister
to tltf United States, M. Prtfrost-Paradol, by Mr. T.
Batch, where the American Legation and a number
t>f distinguished celebrities, including somo ol the
Cabinet Ministers, were present.
The Drought?Fire la the Forcnt of Fontainebleau?"lied
Tape" Unlet and Their Violation.
Paris. June is, 1870.
We are getting into a peculiarly perplexing prellcament.
Rain does not fall, we are all as dry as
:hlps, it is thirsty weather, water is scarce and ll?
jrlce of bread is augmenting.
The forest of Fontalnebleau found It too hot, some
lays since, ana burst Into flames, it is supposed
ipontaneously, although it is asserted by some to
lave been tho act of an incendiary. The son of a
mrrlster was returning through the forest on root,
vhen his attention was attracted bj flames on the
tlateau above Apremont. He proceeded immedittely
to Barblzon, In search of Monsieur le Mairc,
it whose door he hammered in vain, that functioniry
being absent. The adjoint was next applied to,
ind the request made that the tocsin should
>e sounded. Monsieur l'Adjotnt was a man of
ed tape, and wanted a precedent for sounding the
ocsln In a similar case. He searched, found none,
ind declared he conld only order the drums to
>eat. "Well, then, rattle away." "But," remonitrated
the Assistant Mayor, "here are the drums
july, aud I must send for a drummer, which will
tabs a quarter of on hour.1' This was too much for
the excited son of a barrister, who seized a drum
and visii?d various parts of the town, rattling away
as he did ao in a manner that would have made
Patti, in "Lucia," or Oeilne -Montaiand, in the
"Cosaque*,1' jealous. This unusual flagellation of
the shecpakln soon collected ? nuutU troop OX tU#
)RK HERALD, TUESDAY,
inhabitants, an<l among other* a number of the
colony of artlsta who inhalUt tne place. Bruah,
mu.'ilntii'k and pallet were cast aside, and the disciples
of the art of painting hurried uo if possible
to save their favorite treed. Forest guards,
gendarmes and troops arrived, and at last the
flam-s Mftru mastered when nearly seventy acres
Hud Ue.u devastated. The pine trees, burned from
sl<e?n to summit, still remain erect. Might- jeers
liave a new sensation; they flock In crowds to visit
the blackened rocks and tree trunks?the only renuiuuijf
vestiges of the late Are.
TUB I'AlllS TRUSS.
There arc in Paris MO Journals, of which forty are
political.
rue loilowln^ statement of their number* and
object M of lnfereatjtt 13 oillclal:?Religion, Roman
catholic, 02; Protectant, 25; Jewish, a; instructive,
H; law, 46; adiululsrative, 24; political economy.
() '.; iiicdical, 5U; natural science, 40; agricultural,
33; horticultural, 10; military art, 19; marine, 12;
hl f-ory, 2is; line art.;, OS; architecture, 9; archwological,
ID; public works, US; financial, 40; nidus
inai urn an i iraijes, on; la'iies- journals, m;
fashions, 00; sport, 29; Free Masonry, 5; Spiritualism,
6; bibliography, id: literature, 80; in all. (MO
lion political journals, of wiuCh 113 are stamped and
consequently omit od to receive advertisements.
There are in addition to the above 40 political newspapers.
With all proper deference for our French
contemporaries, I ilnd their perusal most irkso.ue,
tli' mind being la a constant state of doubt as to
facts.
FRUMR A DA ROB.
All have heard Theresa aim; the celebrated f'emme
a Burbe. The ongiual femme A bat'Oe?large, fat
and forty?was wont to exhibit her ugliness at the
various Jeles around Fans, and is suppo.->ed to have
served as a model for the star of the Oa:6 Chantant.
In consequence of domestic troubles the hirsute Eve
tried to drown herself near the Font du change.
Medical examination proved her to be insane, and
site hits been consigned to a lunatic asylum. Theresa,
who has already made I20,0u0 franca by doing
so, is still Hinging in the C'halte Blanche; but. thanic
goodness,! have not heard her lor inauy months.
Tae Oalte theatre, notwithstanding the heat, where
she nightly Is applauded by tier admirers, whose
name is legion, Is not very far distant from one bearing
the name of an actress who, having been from
the commencement of tills century a public favorite,
now Ims nought repose In retirement. Horn on the
3oth of August, 17U8, Virginie Dejazet made her first
appearance before the public la 1802, since which she
has been constantly before it. Thirty-five years siuce
her talent was described bv Brazier in the following
terms:?1"Virgtnie D^ja/.et, the most daring actress
that 1 know, recoiling before nothing, frightened at
nothing, uttering slung with perfect tact. Vlrglme
laughs with the public as with a friend, witli an air
of having, *1 am about to give you something very
bail, but don't bo afraid, it is 1. I am a good leilow.'
Virglnle understands everything about tne
theatre, malice, nature, grace, jollity, aud if she
does not make you cry it is that she will not, ou
qu'elle if vetil bien." A greater compliment to an autre.-*
could hardly be paid.
RANKING AND BANKKRS.
Three self-styled bankers, whose united ages would
not reach the threescore years and ten sjibkeu of in
Holy Writ, are at present absent from Faris. They
are accompanied by 800,000 francs, which, If everybody
had their own, would be quietly reposing In the
pockets ol the waiters at restaurants, attendants at
baths, servants and others, who wero taken In by a
small financial sheet, published weekly, with the espec.al
object of making victims. Kvery person in
Paris likes speculation. My bonne has shares in
this and the otuer financial scheme. She Is learned
in obligations of the Vllle de Paris and government
1?nna Tlin ul.^iiwn f\f t Itn ooliiwr lionlroru
alluded lo above Is deplored by hundreds
of small capitalists. Although acting In
concert they had establishments la different
quarters of Paris, the Credit Financier, the Calsse
des Petits Capitalists and the Caisse des Rentiers.
In the safe was found, alter their departure for Belgium,
twenty-six iranes, bearing the pope's efligy,
which, as 1 before told you, diminishes their value
considerably.
CKIMK.
Suicide is still on the increase. Heat of the weather
Is said to have something to uo with it, and yet
[ shoulu imagine that but few inhabitants of this
sapitai can hope to iiud cooler quarters in
the next world. Four of us attempted and
three succeeded In one day iu anticipating
payment of the debt to winch humanity
is heir. One, a geographical engineer, took
i header from the Pont de i'Alma, and a policeman
:ook a header alter him, as did also an inhabitant of
tne neighborhood, lie was brougnt out alive, although
before throwing himsell into the water he
lad tried to strangle luinseir with a rope tightly tied
iround his throat, and had swallowed the contents
>1 a vial lull ol ammonia. It is evldeut he was not
torn to ale by suicide. At the Pont de I'Alma a man
it tempted to drown himself, while at the Pont
le la Concorde another, anxiously watched by
i gaping crowd, was walking about quietly
it tne bottom ol the river, airing himself with a pipe
?f gutta perclia tube, the oritice of which was supHirted
on the surface of the water by two pieces of
vood. The shoes of this submarine flaneur had
ales armed with perpendicular points, which
mabled their wearer to walk easily against the
:urrent.
oossfp.
in Paris if a person drops a sou in the gutter everylody
stops, everybody gazes intently, without knowrig
at iv iiut, ami everybody chatters, without know- i
ng wnat they are talking about. A policeman arives,
litters the magic circulet, messieurs, cirrulez!
.nd the crowd disperses no one knowing anything, i
tut every one inventing some story to retail and be
uiproved on by the lirst person to whom the great
vent is lmnartud. Paris is a eossimn?'. louu^ine i
dace. How people get through any business at all <
a a mystery. The tune lost in trying to Unit people <
it tlioir otllces or residences Is atnaziug. From
:leveu till one you can find no one; or rather, the
wo best hours In the day are wasted in
afcs with breakfasting and the cieiine taw,
ollovved by the small glass of cognac atid
stgars. Until initiated In Parisian customs
: became as thin as a liudle string iu my endeavors
;o find people. I round, however, that it Is as hopeess
to attempt to catch a Parisian between those
lours as It is to tisli for trout under a bright sun.
when the fish are taking their mid Jay nap and
would not "rise" at the daintiest living fly on the
iviug, much less at an artiticiuu
1RREVKKKNT.
It Is diftlcult for the French to be serious: they are
lively by nature. The Paris gavroche is celebrated
ror witty sallies, even in reference to the most serious
subjects. I hearrl one yesterday afiernoou, at the
corner of the rue de Lafayette, where your correspondent,
among others, had been brought to a
standstill by a passlug funeral. Followed by a considerable
number of lerter carriers in uniform, the
interment was evidently thar of a postman. A
yavroche in a blouse at my elbow took his cap off
like everybody else as the hearse went by; but he
could not resist causing an indecorous titter in the
:rt>wd by alluding to the defunct ill an audible voicj
10 one ot his pats, "Dm done, awjusl^?is he prepaid
and stamped for l'oreigu post, or does he go
tree ?
IRELAND.
(Execution or the Iw-Tlie -Special Coin*
mission la lUeatli?Causes or the Extrajudicial
Assemblage?Municipal Excitement?The
Prisoners, Their Appearance*
Trials and the Kesiilt?Sentences?The
Sceno In Court.
Tiiim, June 15, 1870.
The Special Judicial Commission for tne county
Meath, which has, for some time past, been the sub
ect ol much controversy ami speculation, concluded
ts labors in this town on the 9th instant. Though
;he criminal calendar was a long Olie, only two of
he prisoners, strange to sa.v, were put on their trial;
jut, as these were convicted, the Crown was, I suppose,
so well satisfled with Its victory that It did not
wish to procced further, aud adjourned the other
trials till the next assizes.
CAUSES.
As the commission is over, 1 wish to make a few observations
upon it and upon the state or things which
occasioned it. There are few, I think, who will deny
that, for the la.it six or eight months, the social condition
of the counties of Meaih and Westineatli lias
been such as required the interposition of the law.
Whoover reads the letters I have already written
from this county will, 1 doubt not, be led to form a
similar opinion. Several murders have been committed
In the county, but none of the erlminals have
been made amenable to tne law. Numerous other
offences of a less serious nature have alao taken
place, aud, In the majority of Instances, It is to be resetted
the ofleuUers have not been brought to
lust ice.
Bo many criminals have escaped that Mr. Gladstone
and his colleagues were accused, and, indeed,
with some semblauce of Justice, by their political
opponents, of the greatest neglect with regard to
the state ot Ireland. Night after ulght In the House
or Commons they were persistently taunted with
Tomentlug disturbances of a religious as well as of
a social nature In Ireland, with encouraging th?
assassination of the landlords, with doing all mantier
of wicked and foolish things; but, I may remark,
that the only ground tue tory "squireens"
had for these accusations was that the government
lid not adopt any extraordinary measures to present
these crimes. The object of the tones was
two-fold. Thoy wanted these outrages to be regarded
as the result of Mr. Gladstone's policy, and
they were resolved on forcing him to adopt
?oereive measures that would bring his government
Into disfavor with the Irish. Unfortunately,
In the latter Instance they were but
.00 successful. But, instead of regretting
these outrages, the torles sang a pa-an
>ver every one that toon place. They did more than
this. They encouraged them in every way they
:onld. They were ready to join with the Fenians,
with the Orangemen, with any and every society In
raot, to help on and encourage those outrages which
they so loudly deplored In the House of Commons,
rhe Importunities of these tones and the actual
Hate or the country forced Mr. Gladstone at last to
mtroduoe tbe Coercion bill, and, strange to say,
irltb the exception of 8u Jotm Urar and ft* to* ftl
JUNE 28, 1870.?TRIPLE
lowers, from noni dM ho receive such opposition as
from the tory memoera.
COERCION.
The Coercion bill whs passed. and while It placed
the entire population of Ireland under some restrictions
it completely suspended the liberties of the
people or Meath, westm.:ath and Mayo. Notwithstanding
Its severity and the extraordinary powers
with which It Invested the magistracy and the Dollce
crime still continued In Meath.
The special commission, which la just. now olosod,
was Iss ,od by tne Lord Lieutenant for the purpose
of dealing out th* severest punishment to such {>ersons
as would be found guilty of < ,rimes of a political
or social nature, and, by making an example of
theiu, deter other* from feUovrlBg tu their loottfteps.
ON rariL.
I have no fault to And with the ODject of the commission:
1 believe that circumstances Instilled it and
that it was absolutely necessary; but I do not sea
why ull the prisoners were uot put upyn thelf
or why the Crown was satisfied with the conviction
of two. it is an extraordinary fact that, although
only two prisoners were tried, the county Meath, for
being purged or these two crnnluais, will be put to
the enormous expense or j?4,ooo sterling, aud all
this ror a trial or about ten hours. The prrsldlng
judges, Chief Justice Monaglian and Mr. Justice
Fitzgerald, are, it is said, to receive ?i,ooo sterling
between them. During the trial Judge Fitzgerald
never opened his mouth, and the Chief Justice delivered
two charges, which were remarkable for notniuft
but their bad English. The Attorney aud the
Solicitor General will also come In for their share of
the cash, and the prisoners' counsel, who, though
employed by the Crown, will also be paid by the people
ol Meath for their strenuous exertions m behalf
or Mr. Itadclifle's would-be murderers.
When government went to the trouble of raising
such a "luss" aud of incurring such expense, it
should have arraigned all the prisoners or have had
uo commission at all.
indictments.
The trial of Edward Ueavty and John Brady, for
the attempted murder or Mr. Kadcllffe, J. l'., wan
looked forward to for several months past by the
entire population of this oouuty, indeed 1 might say
of Ireland, with the utmost interest. It was the
most serious offence of a political or social nature
with which any person in the county stood charged;
and althougn It was not very remarkable In Itself,
still It bad a public significance which the people as
well as the government were not slow to recognize.
Men of all classes flocked Into Trim to be present
at the trial. The town was so crowded that it was
next to Impossible to get a bed. The law oHirers of
the Crown had to sleep in bedrooms in which I heard
they could not stand upright. At the two
hotels, which were very far from being
comfortable, a stranger would be accommodated
with a bed for a guinea a night. The Jury were sunt
to a hotei, and were so badly provided for that the
Chief Justice felt It to be his duty to flue the SubSheriff
twenty pouuds sterling. The Hbuald's
special correspondent, who came back here the
evening before the trial, was obliged to repose on a
sofa in an apartment occupied by three others, and
for this luxury paid half a guinea.
.STKEKf AND COURT 80JCNB9.
Every one was up early next morning. Tho Judges
arrlveu from Dublin by the ten o'clock train and
took their seats on the bench an hour afterwards.
The streets and ianes were crowded, but cotuoatatlvely
few were able to obtain admission to the
court,
kdward qkarty,
the chief, or rather I snoutd say the only, crlmliml,
is a man of about forty years of age and has an extremely
forbidding cast of countenance. He Is a
small man, rather below the middle si/.e, of dark
complexion, Heavy eyebrows, wicked looking evs
He wears a black whisker and motmat ue.
A worse countenance, I think, I have never
seen. His character, If report can be relied
on, Is quite as bad as his appearance.
He enjoys a very unenviable reputation in Kells, of
which place he is a native. For years he was mixed
up with all the secret societies of the town and
neighborhood, and was the leader of the rlbbonmen.
in 1850, when the Phoenix boys were being arrested
In different parts of Ireland, Gearty fouud It necessary
to go to America, but returned to Kells a year
or two atterwards, when the danger was over. As
far as I am able to understand, the inhabitants of
that town neither regret his absence nor his fate.
john brady.
The other prisoner, John Brady, in a boy of about
twenty years of age, ami had the mlslortune of falllug
iuto bad oompany a rew years ago. He lias quite
a boyish look, aud there Is nothing vicious about his
appearance.
testimony.
The trial of these two men, though short, will not,
I think, be rorgotten in haste iu the county Meuth.
Brady, a short time after his arrest, made a voluntary
statement to the resident magistrate of Trim,
which was Droduced in evidence airainst him at the
trial, and created a sensation such as, L believe, wan
seldom leit In a court of Justice. They knew that their
luteuded victim, Mr. Badcliffe, was in town, and they
armed themselves and went to meet him at a lonely
part of his road home. Brady was to hold the bridle
lines while Gearty was to Are the shot, and, 11 necessary,
to cut Mr. Kadclltfe's throat, for which purpose
he brought with him a butcher's knife. As
was agreed upon between them Brady seized the
bridle and Gearty discharged the conteuts of a large
pistol at his intended victim, which, providentially
missed his head and took eflec: In his hat. Brady
was so frightened that he let go the bridle and thus
prevented his accomplice rrorn despatching Mr
ttadcllffe with his knife.
It also came out during the trial that several persons
were to be murdered witlun a short time from
the attempt on Mr. Kadclltfe's life. Among them
were a Major Oat toil and his son, i.ord i>unsauy's
agent, and a gamekeeper In the neighborhood of
Kelts.
These facts, with manv others I need not introduce
here, gave a dreadful interest t& the whole proceedings.
I saw the Chief Justice actually tremble
on the bench. The Solicitor General, who certainly
is not a severe or rough-tempered mail, was so excited
with the horrible story he had heard that lie
delivered one of the ablest and most telling speeches
I ever listened to against the prisoners.
SENTENCED.
Gearty received the heaviest sentence the law
allows for the offence of which he was guilty?
namely, penal servitude for the term 01 his natural
life.
Brady, inconsequence of his youth, was strongly
recommended by tiiejury to mercy, and was let off
with ten years' penal servitude.
HOPE.
I have no doubt that tills sentence will be attended
with the best, possible consequences. It win give
Gearty's accomplices, of whom a large number are
in custody, a fright which, probably, they little
dreamed of. it will, it is to be hoped, put an end to
those lawless societies which, beyond all doubt,
exist in this country, and should it do this it will
accomplish a great deal. To strike terror into the
hearts of the people was. I reel certain, the reason
which Induced the government to issue the commission;
and their object was a wise oue, uud will, iu
due time, bear good fruit.
FIRST EFFECTS,
i lie yi i.iuiier uctti ij, u?.e mum imier munwrers,
was a coward; Tor wueu sentenced lie faimed lu tho
dock. The unfortunate man leaves a wife aud a
large family to bewail his unhappy late. The former
and two or three or the latter gave vent to
tlu'ir feelings in screams and sobs, wnich those
wno had the misfortune $<> t^jvr will not soon forget.
TUd Tailors* Trade "ettrike" In Cork?'What
an Employer Hays.
[From the Cork Reporter, June 17.J
At the poiice office yesterday the charge against
the tailors on stride lor combination came ou for
tearing.
Mr. cremen, on behalf of the accused, suggested
that it 1)0 withdrawn in view of some arrangement
being come to for the settlement of the dispute between
the operatives and thetr employers.
Mr. Bishop, the complainant, stated that he could
not go from his place of business to his private house
Without being annoyed aud threatened with assault.
The fuse was postponed until Thursday next, and
should the master tailors get no cause or complaint
tn the interim, it will not probably be proceeded
with.
Centralizing Agencies.
[From the Cork Reporter, June 17.]
In the British Parliament Mr. Heron intends to
ask tiie government how long it is intended to keep
the military in Tipperary workhouse, with the view
of having them removed.
Mr. Stackpoole will, on next Monday, in Parliament
ask her Majesty's Postmaster General what
steps he proposes to take and when ihey will be
taken towards securing for the people of Ireland "a
sheaptr, more widely extended and more expeditious
system of telegraphy."
ENGLAND.
Pattl Out of Tone.
The nuslc&l editor ol Le Oauloit, of Paris, gives
the fol owing account of a difference between Kmc.
Pattl aid Herr Waclitel:?
In one scene of "Don Giovanni," as is well known,
the teuir sings an air or some length, during which i
time Ztnlna ftnrl Z?nn?'ttn ?r? lafi nn fh? nt?m> tali.
lug uo part in ttie music. By a conventional arrange
ment tie artists representing these characters ujually
retire and only return when the tenor has tin- !
Ishcd bin air. - At the last representation of "Don
Glovanal" at Covent Garden lierr Wachtel, who had
request*! Sigtior Tagiiaflco to arrange with Mme.
Pattl toobserve the usual course, found, when about
to comnence his famous piece, that, although Signor
Tagllaflx) had retired from the stage, Mme. Pattl
was still there. Believing that she had misunderstood
Ote arrangement, he said, in a low voice,
"Leavethe stage," which Mme. Pattl at once did In
great imignation, and immediately protested to Mr.
Gye thai she would never again sing with a tenor
who couH speak to her with such insolence. An
explanation loliowed, which was simply that Slgnor
Tagllatiw had omitted to inform Mme. Pattl of the
desire o lierr Wachtel, and the lady at once admitted
that the latter could not have Intended to
affront hur; but lierr Wachtel, In nis turn, was indignant,
refused to sing again, ana demanded that
his engagement at ?000 per month should be cancelled,
wtpcti was done.
DISRAELI'S CRITICS.
Lothftii Under the .Hcnlpet, and by Whoa.
The Glisgow Herat(Vt London correspondent
writing upon the above subject says:?
The slashing criticism of Mr. Disraeli's book contained
in this month's "Blackwood" has been written
by Mr. Lawrence Ollptiant, author of the recent
"Piccadilly Sketches," ana a well-known contributor
t*tuc (pry uawUue. Mr. 0U?tt?aU who tftcame
SHEET.
1 . i an rr .
known to fame by the record ot his travels la donriectlon
with Lord Elgin's mission to China, entered
Parliament as the representative of the Stirling
burghs, having been elected at the general election
which took place immediately preceding Lord immersion's
death. A sudden whim, partly occasioned
perhaps by lll-hcalth, caused him shortly after enterlug
1'arUament to resign his seat, and he departed
for America, where he was next heard of as one ot
the founders of a new sect, whose peculiar principles
seems to have been a combination of religion and
f irming. Here he was for acute time entirely lost to
hlglt class society, of which he had been
once an Influential member, and what little
was lipard of him merely revealed the lact
that he wiw leading a life of transcendental
solitude, soltaewnat akin to that described in
Hawtliorno's "ttlythesdale Uoiuauco." lie W43, m
fact, beginning to be forgotten lu lf.tiglanfl, when, St
iiiu commencement or tne present year, bin "Picoadti1
v Sketches" appeared, ami brought lilm more prominently
borore the public. They were very bitter ana
slashing iu Ui(;ir tone, and, as they satirized the
more glaring of our nodal evils, In the cynical vein
of a man who, having probed their depths and found
them vanity, htiu retired into tho wilderness, where
he could rail at them with authority, tho book bei
arne tue town's talk, and was extremely popular at
tho fashionable libraries. One or tho strangest features
in connection with this publication, however,
remain* to be recorded. Having written, as It were,
from the heart of his solitude, In the most caustic
and condemnatory terms, ol modern fashionable society.
Mr. oilphant loft America and came over to
London to hear what that society which he had so
strongly ridiculed had to say about his book. He
has beeu haunting the clubs for some time since,
and "Lotualr" having been opportunely given to
the world while he was idling, he had the opportunity
of feeding fat lite grudge, ancient and
otherwise, upon Mr. Dlameli, and writing a review
which, at all eveuts, has created a sensation.
[Prom the London standard, June 15.]
Some ol our readers may recollect that from tho
time the Peellte section purchased tho Murntng
Chronicle, apparently for the purpose of writing Mr.
Disraeli down, there were published In that paper,
year after year, Invectives against that gentleman
which far outstripped all the limits of political discussion.
No one knew at tho time who wrote them;
they were ascribed at tho time to various individuals;
but at lust it came out the slashing writer
was Uoldwln Smith, then a man comparatively unknown
outside the walls of Baliol. Surely the <>x
ford professor muit have forgotten In tils trriiation
at the "vonomles* story" of "Loihalr" for how mauy
years Ue libelled Mr. Disraeli with impunity ami
anonymously.
Whence the Title?
"A. CT. 0.," writing to the London News, says:?
Why Mr. Disraeli pitched on the name of Lothalr
for the hero of his last novel has puaeled more than
ouc of your contemporaries. 1 think even Mr. Coldwin
fcmith might, if he knew the source of Mr. Disraeli's
inspiration, admit tliat of a certain sort of
cowardice he is not guilty. On turnlug to Punch for
1841, vol. 8, p. 19, 1 llnd- among the characters in
Punch's Pantomime one described thus:?" Lothalr
(sometimes called Young England, afterwards Harlequin),
Mr. D'lsraoll." The significance of the
motto, "Nome omnia hctc salus est adolescentulis
is also oxplalned by this reference. Like M. Etegnler,
Mr. Disraeli, in retiring from a profession in which
lie has been so eminent, considerately wished to give
the benefit of his experience to that Young England
with which he was once himself id entitled.
GERMANY.
RuMian Imperial Honor to Bismftrck?The '
Czar at Emi.
Tne Mcmoire Diplomatique of Paris states that
when Count Bismarck, who accompanied his
sovereign the King of Prussia to Ems, took the hand
of the Czar, and was lifting It to his lips, the Emperor
Alexander anticipated the act on bysalutiug
the Prussian statesman on the cheek. From this
gracious salutation It Is Inferred that Count Bismarck
is tu great, favor with the Czar. The Mimorial adds
that "In diplomatic circles it la still believed, notwithstanding
the denial of the semi-oiticial journals,
that in the interview between the two sovereigns
plans have been agreed to In luri Iterance ot the work
of disintegration which has for some time past been
currinil mi tnwarrtu Austria: nn t.liA nnrf. nl I tin nun
Power, by secretly Inciting the Czech to refuse all
compromise with the Court of Vienna, and of other
by propagating and encouraging Pan-Slavist Mean
tnrougliout the countries under the Austrian sceptre
which are inhabited by a slave population."
The Preaseot Vienna, however, announces that
the object of tho royal meeting at Ems was to arrange
a marriage between the second sou of the
Czar, Prince Wiadlmir, and a youthful princess of
the royal tauiily.
Finance and Trade in Frankfert.
[From the London Times (city article), June 16.]
The advices from Frankfort describe a great tendency
to animation on tne Bourse. Old and solid
railway securities command high prices, and Lombard
and Austrian-Preach shares are especially in
request, on the expectation of a large export of
grain?a circumstance which haB also caused the
v'loiina currency to rise two per cent during the
past week.
A new bauK has been started at Frankfort under
the title ( the German-American Bank, ami among
tue promoters there are very good names. "They
might do a proiltable business," it is remarked,
"Out the question is whether anything of American
origin could be safely endorsed an long as ju Ujvt
are appointed by universal suffrage and not by competent
authorities who could ascertain the characters
of persons in whom such functions should be
vested." United Slates bonds are In demand for
Investment, while there is scarcely any iloatmg
supply on tlie market.
The Frankfort municipal authorities have granted
a concession to a company for extensive waterworks,
with a guarantee of four per cent interest on the
amount of their shares, taking also 1,600,000 norms
on their own account. The water will be brought
from the Vogelaberg and the Spossart, a distance or
thirty miles, previous attempts to bring it from the
hills in the neighborhood having failed, and the
undertaking seems to be expected to prove highly
remunerative. At a meeting of delegates from tho
French and South German railway companies interested
In the trattle between France and AustriaHungary
at Prague, it has been resolved to reduce
the freight for corn irom Pesth to Paris, via Cologne,
:ia haa nmvintialtr Itoan Mm ruan> wlo If/*>*! tn
Dynamlt in the lnternailonal trattlc; to grant a reduction
in the freight of cotton sent froui Havre, and
various other reductions, to secure the transport lor
their lines.
SPAIN.
Prim'* Speech on the Search for a Kins.
The following Is the text of ihfc speech pronounced
lately by Marshal Prim in the Spanish Cortos on the
subject of finding some one to accept the vacant
throne. He said:?
The deputies probably expect me to proclaim the
name of a candidate with whom I hail been authorized
to treat on the part of the Spauish government.
lH<{ar, hear.) I tilitiU pflt do so, because if 1 did l
should commit an Indiscretion which might lead to
complications; and, bosldes, my honor is pledged.
Ueutlemen, you will, doubtless, approve my reserve.
(Yes, yes.) j'he candidate was assuredly in
the condition Spam requires. That Is to say,
of royal race, catholic and of lull age. liut
fatality had written in the book of destinies of
nations that we were not to succeed In finding a
king. The Prince, 1 have been Informed with as
much delicacy as benevolence, cannot for the present
accept the crown. Then the government thought
the time was come to refer to the Cortes and make
the Ai-senihly the arbiter ot the question. Thus I
sum up my statement. The Ministry liua not been
lortunatc In these negotiations; It has no candidate
for the crown of Spam to present you, at least for
the present, out will It have to-morrow? 1 cannot i
say. I can only assure you that the government Is
animated by entirely the same sentiment as the
monarchist deputies, and that most certainly the
Cabinet has not lost all chauce of finding a monarch.
Without being able to fix a date or wishing to name
the cxact day, the government will contiuue to
treat the question with great prudence and reserve i
until it can present to you a candidate capable of
creating a general opinion In Lis favor. Like you,
we have considered that the first thing that the
country required was to get out of the Interregnum
at any price. But we have no candidate to offer you,
yet, as it Is possible that the majority in the Cortes
may have one, you will, with your exalted wisdom,
take what determination you may deem proper in
conformity with vour patriotic spirit and sentiments.
I may add that tne government, as well as the deputies,
looks on the continuance of the provisional
state of things as a great evil; but not having in its
power any means of getting out of this painful situation
tt does uot share the exaggerated fears which
have been expressed as to the dangers which would
result therefrom to liberty and society.
A Paris journal of the 16th of June reports the
speech and then adds:?
The Marshal acknowledged thnt the Spanish crown
had been o He red to four different candidates in suecession,
all of whom refused it As ho did not give
their names we will supply the deficiency by stating
that they were the ex-kegent of Portugal, Don Fernando;
the young Duke ot Genoa; Count d'Ku, sonin-law
of the Emperor of Brazil, and Prince Fredcrick
of aohenzoilern.
RUSSIA.
A. Church Sensation from I'ari*?Intolerance
and Self-Sufficiency.
The St, Petersburg correspondent of the Eastern
Budget, of Vienna, writing on the 6th, says:?
The news that an Knglish family of the name of
Dickson was brutally ill-treated the other day by the
pew opener of the Russian church In Paris has produced
a great sensation here. It appears that this
family, having a desire to see the church, were ac
coiuimuieu ujr a ivua.iiau imij, uuu miu. wie jjcw
opener, on learning that they were Protestants,
turned them out, with such violence that the indies i
of the party nearly fainted. The Russian Pope .
attached to the embassy has since attempted to explain
this outrage by stating that he lias not suillcient
funds at Ills disposal to keep more than one pew
opener. Otherwise, be added, the iarniiy in i
question would not have been refused admit- i
lance at the door, as the cnurch is kept up not to
atlsty the curiosity of foreigners, but to provide
for the spiritual wants ot Russians. This explanation
does not seem to have been very well received i
by tUe government here, which is very aeuoitive to
1
' It
know that the expuUon from a Kuwiaa church of I t
Bereunit of othor reltgftus can only bo regarded in
lose countries as an net of intolerant barbarism.
Visitors to Paris will ?e glad u> hoar that vuw Rum f
dog iu the manger liu tr. last beea brought to boob. i A
OLD WOR.CD ITEMS.
The crop of trutnes H sud to bo declUilug la 1
France. I
The cholera hat beon raging fearfully in British j T
Inula, and the smell from some of the rivers there is
frightful. f f*
A daughter of the celebrated Lola Montez has just \
made her debQt as a 'Museum iu one of the Qermau ' j *
theatres. <
The huge stoel plated . frigate The Sultan, the largest
in tlieworld, built at Chatham, England, for the
Turkish Navy, in said to be a great success. v I
The second drawing of the Turkish railway bonds
has Just taken place at Constantinople. No. 514,782 y,
obtained the prize of aoo.ouo francs, aud 644,510 that
of iii.OOO iraucs.
The Bonn au Parlement, of Brussois, announce! ? ?
that M. Laugrand Duinonceau, the Bulgian banker, .
has recently left Belgium for Brazil witu some mem- ?>
bers of his faintly. V
Some workmen of a town In Hanover amused <
theinselvns tir utrinnlnir n tinav rnmnaninn mil f?a- #
tenlng htm ln'that condition "to a tonabstone. A few v
hours later he was found there, dead.
Brltiati fishermen have been Infringing the right*
of the German fishermen near the coasts of tho . ,
North Sea. The latter extend to a distance of tlxrea
nautical miles at sea from the extreme limit. *
Deep-sea fishing for ling and cod is proving much
more abundant and profitable this season than for
many seasons buck, and, generally speaking, the . j \
N or t Humbert and lluliing trade is very prosperous at
present. *
The Danish government is devoting great attention
to fortihCHtiou. The military measures taken by k j
Prussia on tho mluud of Alien have fully aroused tu? i.
Danes, and tboy will prepare for possible war, cost
what it mar.
A man clad In a coat of mail is travelling on horse- - i1
back about Scotland. His object In going in thU
guise is neither Quixotic nor warlike. Ho is travel- - ,
ling to advertise the excellence of the black leal
with which his coat is polished. '
The celebrated Swedish poet, J. L. Runeberg, still
alive in Norway, but mentally Incapacitated, in consequence
of a paralytic stroke, has been made an ? j|
honorary member of the Swedish Academy of Fine
Ai ts, History and Antiquities.
The discussion in the Municipality of Milan relative
to the grant for the St. Gothard Railway was ex- ?
tremely Ions s"H animated, having lasted three sittings.
The subvention of a million and a half wo*
ultimately sanctioned, as already stated, by 35 to ).
We hear that the plenipotentiaries of Prussia, Ba- k
varia, Wurtemburg, Uaden and Hosse, who met in
conference at Frankfort, for the purpose of settling '9
and dividing tlie debts made by the Knights of St. 1
John, in tho years from lsoi to 1*05, brought their Ju
labors to a satisfactory conclusion on the 2sth ult.
According to arrangement already made the Swiss t
quota will be borne by the above mentioned govern- *
ments. 'V
The number of the London police on the 1st of i|
January, 1870, was 8,857, viz.:?four district super- ' I
Intendeuls, 25 superintendents, 240 inspectors, 934 * .
sergeants and 7,0ts constables. The number Is less
than on the 1st of January, 1809, at which date tnere
were 7,093 constables. The cost of the metropolitan s
police In the financial year 1889-70 was ?818,310, but ' .
this Includes a contribution of ?02.000 to the sutler- I
animation fund. There are 2,830 men on the superannuation
list.
M. Oarnier, a member of the French Cambodian
expedition, asserts that in China the taste for opium . L
is by no means confined to the human race. Pigs
and horses thrive upon poppy flowers, and when de- * f
prlved of their favorite food languish and die. At a i
town In Yunan rats used to resort In large numbers
to an opium manufactory In order to inhale the
fumes from the coppers, and after the town had a
bee'i sacked by ihe Panthays the ruins or the factory
were visited by its old tui'jituen, who were content 1
to die on the scene of their former happiness. What
etl'eet opium might have upon the equine constitution
we cannot say; but ir it would enable the bro- i
ken-down cab horse to forget his miseries for a time,
and, while standing on tne rank, to dream of the , 1
freedom and fresh pastures of his youth, the most
rigid moralist could not grudge the addition of a '
few grains of the anodyne to the contents of lita
nose-bag. ,
A trial has just taken place at Calcutta Involving
the right of a Hindoo woman to choose her own religion.
A young woman, whose friends belong to.the
Uralimo SomaJ, forsook the tenets or her lathers ami
was baptized, iler relatives got a writ of habeas
corpus and secured influential counsel, but the judge ' j
decided against them and gave the woman her lib- .
crty. She at once, iu open court, in the most unhesitating
way, Intimated that aiie would not return to U
her relatives. However, before judgment was re- i
corded, she was again removed to a private room,
in order that her mother might again tiy to shake
her resolution. No Christian friend was permitted to
enter. Presently walls aud shrieks and Bowlings of
grler reached us. After a painful Interval the young
woman was again called forth into the midst, evidently
much agitated, und yon may Imagine the
trying ordeal in a court crammed with spectators. #
she also had never been beyond the walls of the 1
Zenana till within the last week. By God's grace
she stood llrm, and in a firm voice replied to the
question where she decided to go, "To the Padre
Sahibs." Tne excitement is Immense among the
natives. All Calcutta U in a ferment.
There can be no question of the adulteration of
beer with water. This can hardlv be haIiI to b? :.n
unmixed evil. Those who contend that the more ^
serious adulterations with cocculus lndicus is rare J
should remember that the amount of cocculus lndl- t
ens Imported Into Ktigland is sufficient for the adui / I
teiattou ol three-llfths of the beer consumed in the I
United Kingdom. There Is no other known
use for the deleterious drug. It Is utterly T
useless and never employed In medicine, and ' t
is equally useless and unemployed In the
art-*. Nevertheless, while the quautity imported
in 1857 amounted to 6R cwt., It amouuted *
In I06S 10 1,004 cwt. It may also be stated that the
use of cocculus lndicus to give a fictitious strength
to beer is not by any means confined to this country.
According to a statement of Proressor Dragcndorff,
formerly chemist to the St. 1'etersburg police, ?
plcrotoxine, the active principle of cocculus lndicus,
is lartrelv used for adulterating beer In Russia, and it , >
14 a frequent occurrence that brewers are lined on
this a> count and the i?eer confiscated. Schubert, or
Wur/.burg, also states that Bavarian beer Is very , I
often adulterated with cocculus indicus.
TH&OSC OCCllttBENCE IH A PRINTING OFFICE* , I
A Journeyman Printer is .Shot Dead by a
?D-d Hub."
[From the Council muffs (Iowa) Times, June 21.] *
Yesterday, just as the Times was iu press and the * j
boys had begun to distribute their cases, our oillce
was the scene or a terrible and sanguinary encouuter.
James M. Bell is a you'ig man about twenty-two
years of age. lie is a small man, about live l'eet six , f
inches high, rather sioclcily built, has gray eyes, light 1
curly hair, and is in his manner taciturn, and so far
us our acquaintance with him goes to show he
is a quiet, orderly young man ana always minded , ||
his own business while employed in the Times oillce.
lie has been in Council Mull's only about ten or
twelve days, and has worked part of the time in tills
oillce and part of the time on the Nonpareil, having
no regular situation, but "subbing," as u is .
called, for other printers regularly employed, at such
times as the latter happened to be drunK or iudisposed.
He had been "subbing'' for Charles Austin,
the murdered man. durimr the ilav. At. atumt ?
nix o'clock In the aftcrnouu Bell?left tlio Times
oflice and went over to the Nonpareil, remaining
there a alien tune, wnen he returned. He came up
in iront ol' the Times office and leaned up against
the door casing, looking lhto the office. Austin
made some remark about his "d?daub," blaming
him for somethiug that had occurred. The latter
(Bell) responded by calling Austin a " d?d liar."
Austin made a rush for the door, swearing he would
whip Bell, but was so intoxicated that he lost hU
balance and went off the sidewalk into the gutter.
Recovering himself, he started for Bell a second
time, when the latter drew a small revolver, and '
leveling it shot his assailant through the head, the
ball striking him directly over the rlgnt eye and
about an Inch above the eyebrow, passing directly
through the brain and lodging against the skull bone
on the back side of the head. Austin threw up his
hands, gave a dull groau and fell forward on hid
face ou the sidewalk, and lor some minutes made uo
sign. Pretty soon, however, he began to exhibit
stuns of remaining life, and was taken up and carried
to the yard in the rear of the Times office, where he
remained tu a semi-conscious condition till removed
to the building adjoining the Washington House.
where he recovered sufficiently to converse at intervals.
'
Bell, immediately after he had fired the shot, came
back Into the otilce, terribly frightened. We
said to him. " Bell, what have you done ?" He ,
replied. "1 have shot Austin. What shall I do r"
We at once tola him to go over to Montgomery's
oillce and keep out or the way of the
rapidly gathering and fearfully excited crowd till he
could be taken In chargc by the proper authorities. /
He followed our advice ana went across the street.
The crowd was increasing by scores, aud in less
than leu minutes the whole street in front or our
office was crowded with people. Some of the law
less and turoulent spirits who are always on liana
In such cases began to ral?c the cry, "Where la
ho?" "Bring him out," Ac., and two of these latt?r
followed Ben across the street, avowing their determination
to lake hini out and hang him. They
were, however, speedily dissuaded Trom their purpose
by a little "moral suasion" in the hands or
Montgomery, and there were no further demonstra- y,
lions of the kind.
Bell was born In Cincinnati; he has a brother
Itvlng in Indiana and two sisters living In Benton
county In this state. , <
Charles Austin is thirty-three years of age. He Is
an old jour printer, having "tramped" the Dnlted t
States from the Atlautic to the Missouri and iroui M
the lakes to the Gulf. He was an eccentric genius, Jfvery
intelligent and pleasant, and, like most old jour
printers, was nossessed of an Inexhaustible fund of
anecdote and" humor. He had all the proverbial
urencrnsity of the true printer, and his last penny
was at the service of any one who used him well.
His wound is uudouDtediy total, and he is only alive
now by reason or his cast twin constituiion and his
strong, sluggish nervous organisation. Hla home la
?t ltt>? Whitehall street, New York city.