(GIBSON PEACOCK. Editinr. VOLUME ni.-Nb. 250. THE EVENING BULLETIN 14 7 / 3 7..10118D EMITEVENI3II3 04i:dm ereePteiD, _ AT TINE NEW BULLETIN BUI LDING, 007 Chestnut street,'Phi YTUE ladelphia,,, B EVENINQ, ToULLETIN ASSOCIATION. onvoit co= "4""irin g a. w o Ac% jp purpoN THOlt. A tiODI. CASPER OUDER, Je., _ FRANOIE WEL , Thellawait+ la +served to subscribers hi the city st 18 cents pet week, payable to the carriers, or VI per annum. ur E n D ibio atviTATIOtifIWOM , visankropAnDS Engraved or written. motif styles of Wedding ataticnienr. Cell and look at samples. • W. O. rEitit Efisilonor. , . , , Aroh greet. MARBLED. . • ; IiANTIIORN—PRTERSDN.-h-At 'rehilst ghtireh. Bt. Louis,' Mo.. on the Mel instant, bit Roy. "zontattasery tichnyler„ Mullin R. Banthern to I elan 11;.'flanighterof Alex, Potersou,..Jr.. both of St. Louis. JuJINBONOAMPBF.,LL.—On the 28th at the re. sidearm of the bride's parent, 310 North tiixth etree t, _ by the itev. Alex. W. Reed. r. .liarnilten Jolutson to Annie 8., datishter of the late John H. . • RANK—VAN NEMAN. -On itsdl of Jauttary,_by the Ite„v Jantes A. Brindle, in Port Deposit,. Md. Air.isatte___ 'tank, of Pfdladelphis, Pa., to Miss Iladdiev. Vennernan. of Port Deposit. DIED. CrLANN.—On the 2r,th inst.. in Baltimore, Mrs Elizabeth .4:dorm, ;wife of the late Robert W. Glenn, in, the 811 h year of her age. - KELLY.—On Sunday morning,_ Margaret, infant daughter of Dennis ii. and Ellen P. Kelly, agedlialontha and 11days The relatives , and friends of the fairdlyage resPoct• fully invited to attend her funeral, from the residence of her parents. Kellysville. Delaware county. on Wed nesday afternoon. th instant, at half past two o'clock, without further notice. LEWIB.--00 Sunday morning, 98th Inst., in the 79th teats her age. Martha R., widow of the late Robert 51. i The s relatives and friends of the family are Invited to attend the funeral. on Wednesday afternoon, at 3.‘ii o'clock. frctn her late residence, 1006Wainut street. in. !eminent at et. Peter's Church, • ,•• hicittACKlrt.—On the Mb tint., Enna, rellct r Of the late . Wm. kicslackin, in the 65th Year of her' ge, fuTlyinvited v t e• a t a t nd d f t r h iend n e o rfathoo mfamily taer e e s r dpen,cVt , No. 445 Marehali street. on I.'hutv day nekt.at 3 o'clock... PEltltli.--On the late Jo h n fleary C. Perm; soo of iritroltne and the late John Perry,in the 24th year of lils age. The relatives and friends of the family Chosen Pri4tds Lodge No. 3, R. of P., aro rerpectftilly invited to attend his funeral, from the residence of his hrothe .in•law. Henry Van Poll. 9:t7 North liroad, on. Wednesday afternoon. at 3 o'clock. • It PItILLIPS.- On the 37th instant. at - midnight. at the Penmylvenia Training School. Media, of coavrthions4 Ltily. daughter of Eliza T.. and the late Peter Itt. aced 14 years, 3 months, and 19 days. Lue notice will be given of the, funeral. 811INVLER.--on the 7th inst„ Shiniller•ii, the 40th year of his age. , • ' Due notice will he glyen of hbefuneraL • • 'f 0131,1 e. -On the morning of the 27th Millard, Solomon Tohiar. in the ;COI year of his ago • • - , 'I• lie male relstives and friends of the funny are towed. fully invited to attend the funeral. from hls late resi de. cc, No. 101 S Race street, on Thursday afternoon, the :gob lust_ at 3 o'clock. •• - - W lI,LCOA,—On the ra h.Sursh floge,infant daughter of Mark Ind Ellen I. Willcox, aged I months and ✓I daze. I iacried-atiorMg, FO T FI I EvILNEYar 4ItESSES, • SCARLET orEl l a ECOT. U. • • WHITEktEItiNO ANL, DELAINE. • EYRE LAANDE6I4 Fourth and Arch streets. xt~ufi~~t` u~viiti~rs. ser . A Grand Gymnastio Exhibition. A suerican Academy. of Music, Tuesday Freida& Feb. 4, 1868. RESERVED MATO. . .. . Secure thesi• fa" at th* Oriammulum. came? of N 1 nth end Arch Prof. L. LEWIS. ja3;. ser REPT. 13LICAN 714y1N-CIBLES. 'rho , Annual Mortius of thin Club will be belt! on TVESDAY. JettiatkßY 186 e. At 8 o'clock P. 51., at the HALL OF THE FIRE ASSOCIATION, FIFTH and NORTH Streets (below Arch), entrance on North street, when of icers will be elected for the present Commies of the eictorious eampaivas of 1860. 1864 and 1866. gather to organize for the labor and triumphs of the corning struAgie, . Friends of the martyred Lincoln and eupportars of the Reconstruction Measures of Compress, come and renew your efforts in the cause of Lmedom , justice and equal rights to all men. . 1i order of the Executive Covittff. roi „ , secretary. if/I'l-U war MERCHANTS' FUND.—THE FOURTEENTH Anniversary of the Merchants' Fund will be cele brated at the ACADEMY OP MUSIC On THURSDAY EVENING, February 6th. at 731 o'clock. orchestra will be under the direction of Mark Hassler. Addresses will be delivered by • 110 N. MORTON MoMICHAEL, REV. A. A. WILLITS. 1). D., J. GILLINGHAM. FELL, and other &stint. stubbed speakers. Cards of admission may be had gratuitously by early a Vi lat t il L t erDW/G. No. 86 North Third street. JAMES C. HANG, No. 614 Market street. J. D. MoVARLAND ? . No. 61 South Fourth street. DELAWARE MUI !JAL i iNSURANCE COMPANY. Third and Walnut eta. la24 rfeS.M5 MR. CHARLES • DICKENS WILL READ, AT THE CONCERT HALL, PHILADELPHIA, ON THURSDAY. JAN. 80, Ins. "DOCTOR KA RIGOLD." AND MR. 808 SAWYER'S PARTY. (FROM PICKWICK). ON FRIDAY. JAN. 31. . _ "DAVID COPPERFIELD." AND BOOTS AT THE LMLV-TREFANN THE-RENDINGSWILL CoMMENt;E EACH EVE NING AT I' O'CLOCK. AND BE COMPRISED WITHIN T w 0 HOURS. THE AUDIENCE IS EARNESTLY REQUESTED TO BE SEATEDEN MINUTES BEFORE THE COM MENCEMENT OF THE READINGS. .jaZ.t.f.m) AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK holders of the M hannon Coal Company, held January 16 , 1888 , the following named gentlemen were elected a Board of Directors to serve the ensuing year: David Knight, Jacob Knight, Wm. Collins, I C. E. Spangler. W. W. Keefer, M. D. At a meeting of the newly elected Board, held January I.s6B,the following officers wergunanbnonelymeleetod: DAVID KNIGHT. President. J. FRANK KNIGHT,, Secretary. GEO. W. KNIGHT, Treasurer. By order of the Board. holders ADJOURNED MEETING OF STOCK. of the Mercantile Library Company, to -consider the proposed amendment to the Charter, will be lield on TUESDAY EVENING,Febt tuu7 4th, at 7,16 J teclock. JOIIN LADNER, e2ii.tieUP,4 Recording Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY of the Union Temporary Home for Children win be "held at the Hoine,nortbeatt corner of Poplar and Six teenth streett. on THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 80th 'opt. at 83 e o'clock. D.C. MoOAMISON; JOS Mr Secretary. HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 AND 15.80 Lombard street, Dispensary Department—Bledt eal treatmentszut medicines furnished itratnitittislY to the Poor, sue' TWO TICKETS FOR SALE, AT PITCHER'S, Chestnut street, above Eighth, tor the Sixth Night of Dickens's Reading& • is232trp :In: del7 • I No. 818 Jayne street. 111!•fvg kr-Ft7T174:11 . _ . CENTRAL SKATING PARK.- Fift . 4;enih and Wallace Streets. Zee in Splendid Condition. = - - -:— EVEOI4:7I/4 iiiIA — TINO ALL i)AY• Supti;rior. Aocoriarp.odations. Snow alweiys tetnovodaa fast no It NIL litti QKATING ! SKATING ! TUIB AFTRKNOON_ AND a. 7 evening at, the Royston° Park, Third ant Morris stream; the Ice in fine condition and snow ranov Mneio,fun And illumination. it' WANTED—TO A POTHECO N Ad T clerk. by a Young Inan•Q. Zeirs eXPerionee. Uu• exceptional oredentlate furnhled 'rota present eintderer And others. Addres W. 11. A, Boston. Nalle, UV Sett). J. FRANK ENIGIIT, Secretary (Written for the PlithidAphis Eventhg Bulletia:l THE CORIPLA If NT OF ANDREW JOHNSON. TO RE: SVNG LY HIM . TO TOE AIR, "MY GOMM MOTHER." Tell me what direful creature thla le, Who, as I sink in my abyss, is More frightful than the great Ulysses? 'Tis Stanton. Is he the man of awful mien, Bntealm, contented add sorer*, In the War Office to be seen ? Yes, Stanton It's taunting thus to see him there, When I had told him to beware; What other creature thus would dare Than Stanton? Who would not help me when I fell Into the meshes, laid F.o well, By tricksters of the tribe rebel? 'Twas Stanton Who, WWII 1' wcalcttir. 13 By piotritsis Of Cowan timiSewatd; Told me it could not be endured? 'Twas Stanton. Who, when my Johnson party grew-litde; Stood bold againq the threats of Doolittle And said my pluck and brains wore toe little liras Stanton. Who, when I dropped the role of Moses, Unheeding congress ayes and noes-es, Said, this nattnunition for your foes Is ? 'Twas Stanton. Who, When to 111 ake my party, bigger, - I Spurned and durned the blaated nigger, Told me I cut a sorry figure? Who would not join in turning coats, And, with the help of radical votes, Q'cr wy diticoaifiture now gloats 'll4 Stanton Who is it baulks my, many schemes,, Keep, the from going - to extremes, And haunts my very midnight dreams: 'Tis Stanton. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS LETTISH VllOlll Correopondcnce of toe Phiholdalls EoetilagThilletlal PASIR, Friday, January 10th, 1868—We have not seen the sun for nearly a week hi Paria, and for the last two or , three days' daylight Itself can scarcely be said to have been vouchsafed to us. As far as any advantage of climate is concerned, one might as well have been living on the foggy banks of the Thames- as on what used to be the pleasant shorts of the Seine. A vast canopy of snow seems to be, sus pended over our heads, unable or unwilling to come down, but completely intercepting all communication between earth and sky. The temperattre, however, has ceased to be any where so formidable as was lately the cilsO. I see by the returns of the Observatory that the lowest degree of cold registered has been at Langres, in the northeast, where the thermometer at one time stood as low as 15k' degrees below Centi grade, or just above four Fahrenheit. Among the hills of theatre, the temperature was down to zero of Fahrenheit. Here in Paris there was, at one moment, an appearance of thaw, now ugain succeeded by two or three degrees of cold. Winter festivities continue to be the order of the day, and latterly a ,number of elegant sledges, with gay trappings and bells jingling at the horses' beads, have made their appearance in the Champs Elyse"es, where there is just snow enough for them to glide along with great rapid ity. The season was opened on Wednesday even ing, by the first grand bal at the Tuileries, which was very brilliantly attended, between two and three thousand invitations having been issued. Even the Papal Nuncio, a somewhat rare occur rence,made his appearance for about half an hour, and was, of course, particularly noticed by both their Majesties. The Italian Minister, the Cheva lier Nigra (who has never quitted Paris, as re ported), was also at the ball, but received more attention from Prince Napoleon than from other members of, the Imperial family. The Chevalier was recently, staying with the Prince at his Chfiteaii of Menden, where a' shooting party of what may be called the "opposition set" of the_,sTallerlea_were —assemble:li= ,The - Papal party, however, is at present quite in the ascendant at Court ; and Pius IX. seems hardly to know how sufficiently to express his sat isfaction at the recent policy of the "Eldest Son of the Church." Not only has ho consented to make Lucien Bonaparte (already attached to his household) a Cardinal, as well as the Archbishop of Paris (whom he does not like) but even de mands "more French men" on whom to bestow the same tokens of gratitude. But to return to the ball for a moment: It afforded a rare opportunity to ace how the Emperor was really looking when viewed close at hand, and not, merely passing you in his drives. Napoleon 111. certainly does not/oak older than his years, but his person and general bearing denote ease„and inactivity far 'more than used formerly to be the case, and impresses one with the idea that the body wears better than the mind, or that the former flourishes at the ex pense of the latter. Perhaps corpulence sug gests these,, ideas, or may give them more weight than they deserve ; but one can hardly look at such a boa pere do fainilk as the Emperor now appears, as he lounges through a ball-room with his pretty wife hanging on his arm, without asking oneself whether that is really the dark and ardent con spirator of 'the Deux Deeembre e or the man who commanded, nominally at least, at Soifer's°. The Empress herself looked beaming with health' after her long holiday in the country and exemp tion from Court life. For the benefit of your lady readera, I will just mention to-day, albeit uninitiated in such mysteries, that she Wore a dress of somewhat bizarre fashion, of, white satin, crossed with yellow bands of , the - same anguished her from all others by its ez. tremely original, though to my fancy "some. what too "loud," effect. Her diamonds were, of course, magnificent, and so was. also a superb hunch of gold grapes in her hair: Her Majesty has- not yet become autficlently,lP,sphitical to wear in her bead-dress the figure of a miniature, Zouave in brilliants, like thegrandes dames of the Faubourg at. Germain. Previous to the bail, I ought to wiention that a presentation took place, as usual. when several Americans were, presented to their Majesties by General Dix. Among these were Mr. Walsh, of Brooklyn; General Quincy, of : , Boston; Mrs. Bouligny, Washington; Mr. Cald New York; Miss Blood and Mr. C. ff. Mc- Cormick, of Chicago. The Emperor conversed repeatedly with the American Minister in the course of the evening. A first trial was maeltstwo nights ago,in front of the! tfotel de Ville, of Messieurs. Tessier. du Mothay and lifare'ehal's now method of lighting. streets and public places: To judge by the effect produced upon the scientific judges who were present, and the applause of the surrounding croWd;the experiment proved a great *cogs. When placed In competition and juxtaposition with the new lights, the old-fashioned gas Warw. crs yooltcd just what the lanterne,t of other days= =Would do- beside the former. The new method' Consists simply in procuring the coin pieta combustion of the ordinary g.s by the ap pliCabon of oxygen. The supply is comma cated by a small tube in the centre of the ordi nary gas light, and the effect, as estimated by the photometer, is to produce alight.of "sixty times the Intensity of the ordinary" preeess of con sumption. Indeed, by thejtidgment of all pre sent, it will be necessary that the luminous power should be moderated and deprived of its too dazzling effects by being passed through' ground or colorW ghisseii, should' the method anne into common use. Now. there Is nothing very novel in the fact, of a Very brilliant'light be ing.producea by, a iupply , Of oxygen. But then to do so has hitherto been fotind a very expen sive process, entirely unfit for general applies-' lion. The biiast of Jdeiere. Mothay and Mare chat is, that they have discovered the means of effecting this at a very cheap rate. They procure their oxygen from the common. atmosphere. How or by what means they do this is their eecret. But they have succeeded in procuring it at such a rate that their oxygen, costa them only 72 centimes the cubic metro, or athaut.a.fiftli of the usual cost. Their calculation; therefore, is that 3 cubic metres of ordinary gas, plus 4. Pubic metres of oxygen, costing together only about 9 francs, will give as much light as 180 ( utile metres of ordinary gas, of the value of 54 trance. The inference is that, with experience, we may soon light our streets three or four times as effectually at half the expense. 'Twas Stanton I omitted to mention when speaking of the dis tribution of the agricedittral prizes, that in addi tion to the grand prize awarded to him, the Emperor conferred the decoration of the Legion ' of Ilonor upon Mr McCormick, of Chicago. M. Berryer, the celebrated legitimist orator, and father of the French bar, has just entered upon his 79th year. He still continues to pursue his.laborious profession actively, and has just ac cepted the task of defending the legitimist organ, the Union, in the prosecutions now pending against seventeen Parisian journals, for illegal re ports of the debates in the Chamber. t;oldswlLit Smith CoMing to Anse. rica. [From the New York Tribune.) Lennox, Jan. 11,1868.—1 have the pleasure of being able to say to the many friends of Mr. Golawin Smith that his rumored visit to America is a thing resolved upon. The letter which you are permitted to print below is an answer to most of the questions which have been nut, as well as a refutation of the current report that he meant to renounce Ids English citizenship and cast in his lot with the United States. it is; I need not say, a cause of sincere regret, not only to the personal friends of Mr. Goldwin Smith in Eng gland, but to the Liberal party, that he should have no share in the struggle which the next year or two must witness. It has been hoped confi dently that he would enter Parliament, and there is certainly no man now out of it who is more needed there. The political students who can be counted within its walls are few in number, and of this small band there are fewer still who combine a devotion to Liberal polities with a faith in ideas and a courage to support them. It is the pre-eminent merit of Goldwin Smith that he would have " brought to that strug gling minority a powerful reinforcement. He is much too well known in America to need any eulogy from me, and I am sure no American will forget his unflinching advocacy of our hated cause in its darkest ho - urs. He is to-day not less clear-sighted and courageous in demanding jus tice for Ireland in spite of Fenianiam, and how much valor it requires to make such a demand at this moment, one needs to be here in order to understand. Nor does nay one but a faithful and patient student know even what remedy he would propose for the evils he deplores. I believe lam right in saying that in addition to the reason stated in the letter below Mr. Smith goes to America in search of a climate more lenient than this. His-health has long been delicate, is impaired by severe studies; and has, I _hnpe,a chance-of=complete - -restoration-under a brighter sky. Re writes to me as follows : No. 20 BEAUMONT STREET, OXFORD, Jan. 9th, 1868.—Dear Sir: It was not by me that my pri s ate intentions 'were made public, but as they have become public, and as certain journals which pounced rather eagerly on the report gavo a somewhat inaccurate version of it, I am much obliged to you for affording me an opportunity of stating the truth. I am going to devote myself to the study, and, if after due study I feel equal to the task, to the tomposition of American history. With this view I shall probablytake up 'my abode in the United States in the Course of the summer. At what place must depend partly on the exigencies of my study. I must beWhere there are books and records, and where I can obtain permission to use them. My undertaking necessarily implies a prolong ed residence in the country , where it must be carried o. But lam not going to seek naturali zation In 'America, or to cast off my allegiance to my own sovereign and my native land. I ehall,be a candidate for no citizenship in Ameri ca but that of the Republic of Lettere. In the present state of English affairs I can imagine, though Ido not anticipate, the occurrence of a crisis which will render it incumbent on the honor of every Englishman to share, though he might be unable to influence. the destinies of that country. Believe me, dear sir, yours, very faith fully. GOLDWIN SMITH. Garibaldi on the Lookout for Spring. [From the Pall Mall Garotte, Jam 10.] Several of Goldbaldrs complualons-in-arms in the late expedition against Rome having recently met at. Mantua, sent a telegram to the General, conveying an affectionate salute, and calling on him to hasten the completion of Italian unity. Garibaldi replied by the following letter: CAPRERA,. December 22.-414 Dear Fiaqi: A lady sends Inc the following motto : "Bv perse verence victory is achieved." I hope the Italians will next spring remind the world of this devicee- - Affectionatel greeting to the companions= in-arms of your G. GARIBALDI. The It impairer% Views on the War question. (Paris (Jan. t) COr. of the Loadon r Henia) M. Larabit, the Senator, was the great man of the place who prephied at the inauguration of the statue of Marshal Dancing at Auxerre last Month. A abort time before the inauguration ho Wrote* letter to Merehil Canrobert, from which the COth stitution of Anytime extireete,thn following pat„ ea have written to Ills:::Majesty that I shall oilitivmmu COUNTY. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 1868 GREAT BUITIII4. FRANCE. make a speech, biamhig those who preach peace , when it is necessary to fight." ik few days since , 'the warlike Senator Was I honored With the following letter from His, Majesty.: PALAC4G Or Sr. CLOUD, Doe. 2, 1867.-14 Dear ,•41anaieur Larabit—l have read your speech at . Auxerre with much interest. Your language breathes the most elevated patriotism. I aria not surprised' to find' in your words the noble senti • ments with which I know' you are - animated 'to ward France and my faintly. Receive with my 'thanks and congratulations the assurance of my sentiments. Nsrour.ox.' Ifiou.object to the tautology of •isestlments," eat only say the fault is not in the translation, but In the original letter. It is thuit' that almost every day, While we are told the Bourse is 'sus 'tained hi the "efforts" of official writers in a pacific sense, something oozes out to show that in regions paramount to M. !Waller and the -Marquis de . MOugtier wards contemplated. " 7E1116410W AND Continents of the French Press upon lithe Helations ot both Couturtes and the Rights of naturalized Utilize U. [From theJoarlid deo DeWitt!. Jan: 9.7 As to' the 'difticulties which the Fenians are trying to get op between England and the United Suites, and which, find a kind, of -point d'appui on the othei side of ,the Atlantic, they could only liecovan _serious in the event of the United States Government recognizing the Fenians - as beifigetente, and allowing Fenian Alabama to sail from Ameri can barbers. Bit it is 'not probable that the Ill will of the Americana against England be carried to such an extremity. Still less import ance shoultlbe attached-to the pretension enter tained in America of securing a certain immu nity, or, at least, certain privileges to American citizens arrested in England on a charge of Fenianism. England, like every other country in Europe,(Turkey excepted,) ap plies the law of the and to forelgrfers arraigned on a criminal charge; and an American citizen, however authentic his nationality, may be legally condemned and executed if he takes part In civil disturbance, just as an Englishman or an American would be in France. An Ameri can prisoner, however., has a privilege in Eng land which ho shares With every other foreign offender--i. e.. of being tried by a mixed jury. But that generous scruple of the law of England has nothing to do with in ternational law, it is what In diplomatic) parlance is styled municipal law, and if Eneland departs from or annuls it with regard to Irishmen, who claim to,be Americans in virtue of their naturalization, no foreign Government has any right to • demand its fulfilment. Such are the principles of international law in the matterand they are so clear and so unques tionable that they exclude any possibility of con flict between the two countries, save, of course, in the ease of America, bent on fastening a quar rel, upon England, thinking fit to deny that which is self-evident. RUSSIA. French Professions of Peace Regarded as Doubtful. The Invalids Russe, of St. Petersburg, of Janu ary 10th, says: The protestations of peace which have appeared in the French semi-official jour nals are useless and reassure no one. Notwith standing the friendly_professions of France, mis trust crisis between Powers more than ever and the continuous debates in the Corps Legitddif on the reorganization of the army prove that France has secret plans of great importance for the corning year. March!. and Disposition of an Inaperini • • - Arm pr (Berlin (Jan. 18) Correspondence London Vines.) The troops sent to the Western provinces of the Russian empire within the last twelve months are set down here as above 225,000. Vast as this number is, their being dispersed over an enor mous tract of country diminishes the military and political Importance which would otherwise at tach to the movement. The echelon begins at Wilna l extending as far south as Volhynla and the Lrkraine. The various corps employed on this service are provided with cast steel guns on the Prussian. pattern, 700 of which (450 four-pounders and 250 nine pounders) have been manufactured at Krupp's for the Russian Government since November, 1866. The conscription in coarse of progress will add 240,000 men more to the impe rial forces, without a corresponding dismis sal of veterans having as yet been ordered—a circumstance calculated to confirm the belief that the extraordinary measures resorted to are in tended to support the Eastern politics of Prince bortschakoff and give the idea of his being in earnest. No doubt some pressure is exercised upon Austria, the most vulnerable of Russia's ad versaries, by this military display, and the lan guage of the St. Petersburg and Moscow press is certainly not of a kind to allay any misgivings roused at Vienna. The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius—Dis. tingnisned Visitors in Naples. (Naples (Jan. 5) Correspondence of the London Timm) Vesuvius, so far from diminishing in its attrac tion, becomes daily- more menacing and splen did. For several days after Chrlstmas_the -thunders -of—the—mcnintal _ as to break the windows in the neighbor hood with the vibration, and the stones which were ejected fell half way down the cone. Yoa may conceive, therefore, what a height they attained. On the 28th there was a slight diminution in the action of the mountain, and then the shocks began as violent as ever; the crater full of lava boiled like a cauldron, while columns of ashes and crystals of anfigeno, so says my daily report, were sent to a great elevation. On Friday last another crater was formed near the Great Cone, and in the direction of the Hermitage. • Out - of this has been flowing ever since • a river of liquid lava, offering the most brilliant spec tacle. From the two craters issue two curved streame.,forming an eclipse, meeting, of course, at the bottom, and pouring down toward Resins. At times the entire interval between the streams is filled with the fiery flood, from the sides of which issue a thousand little rivulets, appearing in the distance like the corruscations of an au rora borealis. Since the commencement of the( eruption I have never seen it half so brilliant as it has been since Friday. Our visitors increase from day to day, attracted by this wonderful spec tacle. Lord and Lady Clarendon, with their family, arrived on Thursday night, and Count Apporiyi on Friday. The Duke and Duchess of Aosta will arrive on the 16th inst., and great pre parations are being made for their reception. They remain during the whole of the Carnival, in which interval there will be much gayety. The United Statea squadron is expected here this week. It will consist of the Admiral's ship, the Franklin, and three others. JAN- 9.—The eruption of. Motuit Famine' con tunes to be' serioue. Lava is slowly accumu lating in the direction of Torre del Greco. Shocks of earthquake Were distinctly felt during the last two nie s ita. The mograph is still agitated. The_: 016 00 1 111101.. - [From tie New Sin the deeease of Sir Frederick Bruce; the late British. tish Minister to the. United 'States, , Groat Britaki bad been witheut en accredited _envoy or ambassador at Washington. Yesterday, how ever, the Cunard steamer Siberia, ou landing at her dock Itt.rersey City, brought a successor to 81r Frederick Bruce, Edward Thornton Esq. the newly appointed Idiniker from . (four& of to the''[?ci ted States. The , Siberia reached dock • *beat tbreti . ,• itecitulk In t.o the afternoon. Atter the malls had been< denture& 'and the vessel and its passengers exaralnedih# , ,the , Cinittim'ffottse ffi oeleirp.cour reporter had the pleatinteref,:taidig a look at the representative other litsjestY.--' Edward Thornton was dressed in a light colored tubed. Scotch tweed pantaloon's, andia 'heavy: cloth paletot or cloak without arms, wearing the old style garotte choking collar with plain bt wk. necktie. Mr. Thornton is pediape sixty years of age, ;, of lather , bilious complexion, bright hazel eyes, very quick in their motion, white English side whiskers, whitish gray hair mixed here and there with a few black streaks, and stands rather slender in build about five feet ter:cinches in height. Mr. Thornton Is a very,quiet-looklng gentleman, without anything acidulous, firm, haughty, or pompons in his manner, and has not by any means that • pompous portwine look often . observed in the servants of her most gracious • Mal esty' exiled to this "horrid", country. f Mr. Thornton wore a silk hat', careless i y on the back of hie head, end brought with him two male sec- cants: Taking him all in all Mr.' Thornton, as -be stood leaning over the side of the steamer, re eembled Mr. Carlyle ,visty closely as heaped when delivering hie Inaugural riddreee, as. Lord Rector of thnUnivereity of Edinburgh.. The same un affected, simple, and unostentatious man ner, and the same utter absence of pretension. , Mr. Thornton, having made all , things ready, appeared on the 'gang-plank, with two silk umbrellas in his hand, and having gained the dock, he held. a personal Inspection Ofhis baggage. ; which was spread out en the , dock in great confasien. As flack would have it the very first person encountered by the representative of her Britannic 3fajesty on snip ping on American soil was 'a full-blooded and athletic , built Fenian, who proffered his aervices to the English'Ambassador to tarry Mr. Thorn ton's trunks. The Fenian was not av,aro that he stood in the preeence, of the represeutative of English tyranny, and the Ambaseader knew not that the man asking to, carry his trunks was, a member of the Brian Born Circle of the Fenian. Brotherhood. But eo it -was, and with an involuntarY shudder and a wave of the hand he • refused-the Fenian's offer sternly., The Fenian, on being informed that the gentleman who refused hie assistance was the British Minister, vent away; after expectorating in his half-closed fist as if about to perform some terrific deed of blood. Then Mr. Thornton inspected his bag gage, heavy trunks, packing cases, and leather and tin deepatch boxes, cases of claret from Old England, jars of picalllll, chow chow, pickled onions, and walnuts, a basket of champagne, and many other creature comforts, all labelled from the Foreign office as if Lord Stanley himself had watched'tne packing of the precious edibles and drinkables. One of the male servants brought over by Mr Thornton' kept strict guard over the baggage, eyeing each Custom-honse Wilder like a police man, in fear, that they might, with true Ameri can recklessness, put their official clutches on the sacred traps of H. B. M.'s Minister. At about half-past four o'clock, Mr. Thornton, his luggage and servants were driven to the Clarendon Hotel, where he will remain for the space of twenty-four houre,to recuperate,and then it is understood that he will start direct for Washington. perhaps this evening, on the late train. Mr. Thornton was without any mdee as it is intended that the staff or legation former at tached to Sir Frederick BruceNW act uuder fife Or ders of Mr. Thornton until further news from the Foreign Office. Perhaps st; no former juncture since the year 1812 has the relations between Eng land rind the United States been in such a delicate state ae at present, owing to the Alabama claims, the question of enforced citizenship, the Fenians. &e. and Mr. Thornton will have his hands run of busineee, no doubt, on his arrival in Washington. (From the European Times, January tr.] Mr. Thornton, the lately appointed ,British representative in the United States, will take his departure this day, in the Siberia, to assume his new duties. Mr. Thornton's last active' services were as Minister to Brazil, but previous to the vacancy , caused by the lamented death of Sir Frederick Bruce he had been offered a similar office at Lisbon. The appointment of the new envoy has been subject to mn,ch criticism, and the leading journal has lately com mented on it with some asperity. It is of the utmost importance, especially at the present time, when tee Alabama claims are still unsettled, that a suitable person should be se lected. The country has such confidence in Lord Stanley's foreign administration that it may rest assured that, had he not had the utmost confi dence in Mr. Thornton's tact and ability, the office would not have been conferred upon him. Without influence to back him, the new envoy has received promotion from a succession of foreign secretaries of different politics. The reason of his not having any influential or extensive personal acquaintance at home is probably to be ascribed to his having passed so many years of hie life in the service of the State, and in gaining experience in his pro fession in distant parts of the world. The fact of Mr. Thornton being a commoner is also brought forward as an objection to him. Lord Palmerston was of opinion that America rather "loved a lord," but if the Foreign Secretary's range of choice has been so limited as not to in clude any members of the Peerage, who were either able or willing to accept the responsible post, he had no option but to take a commoner. On the testimony of all those who have been brought into business relations with Mr. Thornton, and judging from hie having been promoted by successive Ministers, the country sh otildleere atidied= that -- bo - ks - well - fitted - for the very responsible office on which he is about to enter. The principle of legiti mate promotion has been carried out in his case, and if he has served the Foreign office well hitherto in wk.. ..1r posts, what reason is there to suppose lit :will not be equally successful in a more promink position? At any rate'the appointment has beets amde and it is idle to cavil at it. It is unwise to increase the new minister's difficulties by harsh criticism, and to pursue him in his new sphere of duties with hostile strictures, which are only calculated to lower him in the estimation of the nation to whose government he is accredited. Rather let us give every encouragement to one who enters on so difficult and delicate a poet, and which will for a while require the nicest tact and the utmost pa tience, qualities that were so prominent in the lamented Sir Frederick Bruce, If Mr. Thornton succeeds in acquiring the esteem and respect of those with whom he is about to take up his resi dence, to anything like the extent to Which his predecessor attained, he will be fortunate; and if he should by negotiation smooth dOwn those difficulties which at, present stand In the way of a thorough entente cordials between the Cabinets of Washington and St James, he will have earned the gratitude of his couutry, and have convinced his detractors tha Lord Stanley, in choosing him, "put the right man in the right place. Suicide in lialainsere.-A Alan Slangs Minim,lL, (From the Balite:tom American, Mt] On Baturday night William Bran!, trunk mann faciurer, residing at No. 229 South Bend street, near Canton avenue, committed suicide by hang ing at his dwelling. He fastened one end of his necktie to a pair of compasses secured to the top of the door frame, and placed the other end around his own neck, whi e standing on a chair. He then drew one foot off the chair,without any thing under to sustain the weight of his body. It seems that about ejy o'clock' that night he told •-hlawire.that he_was_goinit _to_ take a trunk _to the store Of Mr. Heiman, on Broadway • B he said that as she was going to market she could with her eldest daughter carry this trunk. To _this he ` agreed, and his wife and daughter went , out. On returning, about a qptuler, after tea o'clock, they, rotted sugptlatied Ls above stated, one root t 00 411 0,14 the chair an O the other hanging down:,. The wife bututlitibili, titti down,::e lifeleSii body 4is Soon gel lloWEibla wag, attalOaltied, bat he found tbitl Hee was ektiiibt. 4,41 , 041100 Was held b, CerObbtf the 0414141.1te ierdletla geoprailkiee' with the • abov Aim WM. The droved was about o'4ll=l _yaso . and leave#fOttralktrea• ' 44.40 mat deed BASERSTON, Pali')lir. 1 2 .114 . M,'I'ilREE °EWE'S. irA aka AM* IPIA Kingsley hasbOted Robitmon Crtisoe. —Forrest has dope edge In Istew Orletttis: —A Mlss'ilfleti is 01014 Yfamtet In Galveston_ Intends a tint)lF'. Opttt, L nklish -L-Laniartine desirett that his death !shall. not. again betannonneed tint)). It aetntaly occurs, -The HutChinson fantily sang at the ope of the Legislature of lowa.. , • , —The Viceroy of Egypt has got Edrutin4.siik, tut % to write a book about that country. • % • . i-Eugenie shot 31 head of game with herb*" , fait , bands , the other day. • ; •, • .• --Peach trees are already in blossom in Florida,. - and tomatoes are nearly , ripe, in the garden& • -1-A party of ruffians in Detroit gagged. Iv wses.'s. man-by stuffing an apple hatoter months Czaroviteli (the Princess I)agmerj•• IL" now considered theltandimast.woman of toyal ' lineage in all Europe. • • --Tlielirooklyit Union • informs us that itoortia. • Moses who ordered the ran to Mead still. • Moan never studied astronomy. ' -Yonng men who go to flails would; vex to rem einber that a bat shank' metier . end *lth reel.—Caße dun Adv. • —Holland's 9Eathrhia't has had a greater toile t ban any other Smerleitn poem. . Idedlocritr'' always etteceeds better than genits. T---Bohn, the publisher, has quit the trade. Ins' classical tianalations have won hint tlettaingt from every undergraduate. • • - --There are said to be 'fifty thoUsand mists in New York, and five millions in the ted States. • • • • , —At a recent' celebration of the British Viderar at Lucknow; there were four hundred elephants in the prooession. • • • —.Conatmadbre Vanderbilt has curtailed the free pass privileges of the members of the New York .Legislatnre. —Two men were over Whelmed by an avalanche and perished in the snow on Mount Bt. Bernard In December. ' • • —Nantuckethastieen ice-bound fOr two Wicket, s and shut off from communication with all thereat of the world. ' -* • —An Indiana 'editor wants to know if. Weitcra whisky was ever. seen "coming through the rye.", It is often seen zoing through the straw. —The Sultan of Turkey is a great reader of French novels: He adores Balzac and , George Sand. Thirty-clue persons died in Chicago Illinois, during last week without medical attendance, being too poor to employ physicians., —A Halifax (Nova Scotia) paper declares that NoVa Scotia will certainly seccee from. the DO-, minion, the people having determined, to rid. themselves. of the new Government at any cost. . —The Crown Princess of Prussia Is getting up• an international exhibition of needlework. to be held tit - Berlin in October: A good"deal of it wilt be needless work, likely. —The Paris court has decided that a lady can not appear on the stage without the consent of her husband, even if he does nothing,for her sup port., But suppose rifie hasbmd —The Canadian Provinces are making every effort to relieve the starving fishermen of Nova Scotia, who are in utter destitution in cense,- quenco of the failure of the fisheries. —The Scranton (Pa.) papers announce that portions of that city are visibly sinking into the depths of au old coal mine. Considerable slum is tail among the inhabitants. , —A young girl in Louisville,Kentucky, whilst being operated upon by a surgeon at one oUtbz hospitals, for a dissase of the foot, died trent the eflects of chloroform. —Mrs. Clemm, the mother-in-law of Edgar A. Poe, is so very poor that she is supported in a charitable institution in Baltimore. She recently wrote a letter to Dickens for pecuniary aid. —There is not a Congressman in Washington whose house is so amply supplied with rare bboks and beautiful works of art as that of Charles Sumner. —lt will not do for the users of "slang" to , go to Hartford. A police judge of that city recently sentenced a prisoner on trial to thirty days con finement for saying "bully boy." —A Minnesota physician has the unpleasant habit of knocking out two panes of glass and hitching Ids horse to the sash when he does not find a bitching-post. If begets rid of his patients' internal pains as summarily, he will do. —A Canadian mayor recently went to England to sell bonds,of the Grand Trunk Railway of the par value of .£40,000. He sold them for 41,795, which probably paid the expenses of the trip, but left very little for the city treasury. —Du Chain had an offer of marriage from 85$ dusky beauties, all at once, in the .Idtogs coun try, Africa. But he said he wasn't anxious to. marry just then to that extent. He hadn't affec tion enough to go around. , —The Toronto militia were terribi7 frightonod the other day by &ding a piece of iron stuck through the door of the Old Fort, and immedi ately the guard was -doubled, under• emir-ahem sion that the Anions were coming by telegraph. -- - A - horse - in - Troy - could eeofceyl The doctor opened the windpipe, and removed a piece of tin, which the horse bad probably torn from the manger,and which lodged in the throat. The animal is now convalescent. —The superintendent of an English workhouse, in order to prepare the boys in his charge .or inspection, scrubbed their heads, the day before Christmas, with "blue ointment." The result was that eighty of them went to the hospital, and one died, —A Polish dansense, lifurowski, is creating a ealtorial. sensation in WardaW, and tarns heads and pirouettes at the same time. She combines personal beauty, grace and extraordinary muscu lar power. Her poses are said to be ravishingly picturesque. —A countryman went into a cheap hotel the ether day and complained of the towel in the wadi-loom. "Pahaw," said the landlord, "I don't see why you should lied fault with it. Two hundred men have wiped on it this morning, and you are the first to complain." —The following outrageous toast was recently Riven at a dinnerln Washington by a man named ichard L. Cropser—"The President of the United States and to the man that pulled the trigger that killed the man that freed the nigger." And this was uttered at a hotel owned by a Radi cal Republican, and *here Hon. B. F. Wade has his lodgings. —A Pomeroy (Kansas) paper big( been edlded by the spectacle, la the court-rood in that place, of four lawyers reading one Bible at the sane time. Two were sitting down and holding the book between them and the other two were look ing over their shoulders. and the attitude and ex. pression of the group were such as to inspire the. belief that they bad never aeon the book before. —The Emperor of the French hae written the.. following letter to the Mayor of New Orleans: PALACE OF THE TUILKIMIS, Dec. 80, 18137.,;- Ilfmleteur the Mager: I have received the poets. graphic - viswe of New Orleans whleit ott, have -1114 the *Winces' to..een4.l.nelollW eity_,CouncU. It Wa B with very otrollElol4* that I passed in review the menutneute, as me various localities of a city which AM* to Frappe with so many remembrancoe and, so m 3 ny spa pathke. You have partly retelned, ear laws, oar euatows and our language,. a n d teutertsin bow* that the Bolts will be midi Stronger by cottimern dal intercourse. I should be happy if the gar , Versa! Repoeltlea s u wbleh you have taken distinguished Put, - Bee:eclottlboted to toefellie our business relations. Be pleased. girt together with your honorable colleagues of the Ck"listni who have sent me their uneeesees, Mid AU.% " m4114°11°13 am.. 4lol lsthteil hare wed., to 1.1 aMt Int:eteeetti maw" thcAiiimee b sik my heat wishes.' etatourow.
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