GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.—NO. 92. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE! LETTER FROM PARIS. l Corri'bpoiidouce of tho Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] I’aiiis, Tuesday, July 13, 1869. — Political matters have drawn to a climax with wonder ful rapidity since I last addressed you, and the , tieispurti may almost exclaim with Caesar: Veni, vidi, vlci. Tho apprehension felt at its threatened interpellation has been such that the Government, has. capitulated without making a tight for it, and granted so large an instalment of the reforms demanded as evi dently to make the concession of the rest only a matter of time. When it was known that the famous interpellation had received one hundred and sixteen signatures of the moderate liberals, without counting either tho extreme left or M. Thiers and his personal adherents, the Emperor felt that there was nothing for it \ (unless he chose to risk a second coup d’etat against a majority of the Chamber) but to knock nuder, and throw out a large “sop” to stay tlie public appetite for more. And this be lias done in the form (for the first time adopted) of a 'direct message to the represent atives of the nation. ' The text of this import ant document will doubtless reach you by telegraph. 1 ' Its effect here may be summed up in very few words:—if’ is accepted as a pledge at once of more to be asked for and mor^to be granted; and, above all, os a pledge that what is asked: for cannot now any longer be refused. The pre cedent lias -been established (and a most valu able one it isf,7ff tho Country, through its repre sentatives, taking the initiative, and the go vernment being compelled to bow to its de cisions. The Emperor tries hard to wriggle himself but of this unpleasant position, by “anticipating,’’ as ho professes to do,the wishes of the Chamber, and even (which was a weak and puerile conceit) by having his-messageread to it before it was duly constituted. for tbe ./transaction ' of business,. But it was of no use. He felt,' and the" country feels, that this, time he has acted “under pressure,”, and not proprio motu, and that henceforth it wili only be necessary for • the Chamber to “put on the screw,” to obtain tbe full extent of its privileges. Forthe pre sent it abstains wisely. I think, fr.om doing so; and tbe tlcrs-pterti, ’ prudently, perhaps, .has withdrawn its interpellation. But it feels its power, and will no doubt soon make it felt. The Emperor still clings to “personal govern ment” and his own “responsibility,” and will not give them up, and his power with them,' ■ in so many words. But- the reality is fast escaping out of his grasp, and a Chamber with its own President, and the privileges now re stored to it, must and will, sooner or later, 1 have its' own way in aU.essential points. ' The absorbing interest of the political crisis s has thrown everything else into the shade, . but I must just notice some of onr social and other incidents; The Viceroy of Egypt was splendidly entertained at the end of last week / In the manner I before intimated. The. fete ' ..began at Venaifies, whither his Highness pro ceed t«i in the middle of the day, and was re ceived by both their Majesties, who ’were in ■ - waiting for him at Trianon. The party then . proceeded, in carriages and four, with pos ; tHlions and outriders, to drive through the grounds of the Chateau, where the great water - works also played , for the entertainment .of / the guest. Between four and ; five in the / afternoon luncheon was served at Trianon, after which the Imperial equipages conveyed tbe party back again to St. Cloud. At 8 o’clock a grand state dinner took place in the / Hall of /Diana, to which a number of deputies and other persons were invited, who were ac quainted with the Viceroy, or whom he had ; expressed a desire to have presented to him. - The usual evening reception followed, and f- was brilliantly and harmoniously attended. S Later on, the artistes of the Theatre-Frangais /r-perfortned-Ponsardtarfavorite petltqcorhedier l of “ Horace and Lydia ? •’ and the festivities of the night terminated with a blaze of fire works and the illumination of the beautiful . ’ cascade in the Park. The last exhibition was ; thrown open to the public, and was attended ; by prodigious numbers, which gave great effect to the scene, and seemed to strike the Viceroy forcibly. He was observed several times to . express his satisfaction with great animation to the'Empress, by whose side he wasstand : ing. After being lodged attheElysee, and en- Z tertained and feasted at Versailles and St. Cloud, His Highnesscan scarcely fail to carry / away With , him. a lasting impression of the magnificent' style of living kept up by the Emperor Napoleon: It is announced that her Majesty, in her ap- . proaching visit to Egypt, intends to follow the examjile of the First Consul,and take with her to that country a complete staff of writers, ar tists, historiographers and savants, who are to chronicle her proceedings, and record, by pen and pencil, the principal sights and episodes of the excursion. The celebrated Gustave Dore figures, it is said, at the head of,the draughtsmen and illustrators,while the part of chief chronicler is assigned to Theophile: Gautier, the romance writer. • Although the 4th of July was not, as I re-' marked at the time, officially celebrated this - year in Paris; the occasion was not allowed to pass oyer wholly unobserved. Several private entertainments took place, amongst -which ■especially deserves record that given by Messrs. Bowles, Bro. & Co., at their pleasant saloons ahd picture gallery iii the Hue de la Paix. Governor Curtin, the new American Minister to the Court of St: Petersburg, just arrived in ’.Paris, was among the company;- with Senator Chandler, General Bead, now Consul-General for the "United States in Paris ' in place. of Colonel Hoffman, Mr. Drexel, of ’ the .well-known firm of the same name, at -Phi liideli>hia,also amongonrlatcst arrivals,the- Hon. Anson/Burlingame, Chinese ambassador, and a considerable number of other American residents or temporary sojourners. The ab sence of Mr. Washburnowas at once regretted and unavoidable, onr new Minister haying, as I mentioned, proceeded to Hombourg to take' the waters. I fancy the above will be'one of the last American reunions in Paris for this segsoii. The weather has set in uncommonly sultry, and there.lias been a general sauve qui peut on tlie part of almost every one exoept official personages kept hero by/ the bxtraor- I dinary session of the Chamber and the critical posture of political affairs. The members of the Americo ID axlji (ffijemufl fklkfiit Chinese Embassy word .taken the other day toj~the telegraphic establlsh . went in Grenelle St. Germain, to see the Meyer autographic apparatus at work. Tbe visitors were received by the Vis count de Vougj-, the Director, who explained : toThem. the whole of the. operation. , The as tonishment of their Chinese Excellencies was beyond, bounds, when they found telegrams, traced with their own hands, in Chinese characters, reproduced textually andidenti cally at Lyons, Marseilles and other places. ■ The Franco-Belgian difficulty has so long ceased to attract public attention that scarcely any notice has been taken of the announce ment of the fact that it was at an end. Such, however, seems tobe the ca&e. The prin ciple insisted upon by the Belgian Govern ment has been maintained, and the legislation which first raised the difference between the two countries has remained unaltered. But certain special privileges have been accorded to the French lines, to facilitate thecontinuous passage of their through trains on Belgian territory. "With the exception of these con cessions of detail, the Belgian Government has manfully refused to budge from the posi tion it originally took up. Messrs. Bancel, Jules Simon, Gambetta and Picard, tbe four members for Paris who were elected also in the Provinces, have decided upon taking their seats for the latter. We shall, therefore, soon have the excitement of fresh elections in Paris. THE PRESIDENT AT LONG BRANCH. Tbe Grand Ball at the Stetson House. [Correspondence of tho Kew York Tribune.) Lowo Bbanch, July 26.—The ball to-night at the Stetson House in honor of General Grant was a brilliant affair, despite the heavy southwest storm that confined the affair with in the Stetson House and hotels adjoining. The most distinguished company ever gathered at the Branch welcomed the Presi dent to the ball-room at 10, to the music of “Hail to the Chief.” His Excellency advanced with his wife, who was also ushered in by My. Seligruan, Chairman of the Committee of Ex ception. General Sherman and daughter fol lowed, and next to them was General Sheri dan. ana ex-Senator Thomas The Beception Committee consisted of the Hon. A. H. Cornell, Lewis .B. Brown, Daniel Pettoe: B. H. Brewster, Nathaniel W. Chatter, H. H.' Buggies, Spencer D. Priggs, Robert Bennie', General. Wallen, _jQeneral Horace Porter, George W 1 Childs, William F. Leech, Bobert Campbell, John Hoey, Jr- and Chas. Chamberlain.. , The band at once commenced tbe music for “Lcs Landers” quadrille; and the President’s set was formed as follows: , Head couples, Gen. Sheridan and Miss Sherman;. Gen. Comstock and Mrs. Comstock; side" couples, Gen. Grant and Mrs.Borie; Gen. Sherman and Mrs. Grant Gen. Grant, under theimpression that it was a plain quadrille, became slightly confused, and Gen. Sherman also seemed bewildered, bntit was just fun for little Phil. Sheridan, who all through the dance went it with’’ the vim and hurrah of the genuine cavalryman, much to the amuseinentqf the drcle who gath ered near. 1 n The bajl-room was magnificently festooned . with the national ensign, and a thousand tiny ' flags waved in the breeze that floated off .--the old ocean through the open windows. Beauty and fashion flitted everywhere, and diamonds flashed on every side. A crash of'Silks and wreck of satin marked the progress of- the Grand Ball to the President. The storm raged without, yet within: the brilliantly lighted hall the ' dance went- 1 on. That the President was pleased could be seen in tbe quiet smile that lit up his features when he saw some forms: mbveato delicious music. The President was attired in full evening dress. Gen. Grant is certainly no dancer, but he is far from being awkward or ungraceful. On every side- epanletted shoulders • were -to - |>e - seen, but the brilliancy of these did not detract from the appearance of the ladiea. whose toilets were, in the: main, faultless in taste, and the - subject of constant admiration. - r Mre. Boric wore a lavender-colored silk, pompadour, with white lace, powdered hair, and elegant diamonds. Mias Sherman looked very pretty in a plain bine and white satin dress panier, and without diamonds or other ornaments. Gen: Sheridan wore his uniform but without 'epaulettes. Gen, Comstock was in-full-dress uniform. Mre. Grant wore a white satin dress, with train, low neck and short sleeves, red flowers, white lace over the shoul ders. Mrs. Gen. Comstock wore a blue satin dress, with white lace trimmings and,dia monds. In the ball-room, directly over tho chair where President Grant rested after the first dance, was a bronze medal, presented to Gen. Grant by ex-Secretary Bone., The medal is a bas-relief of Washington,. Lincoln and Grant, with the inscription: “Triumviri Amencaui—Pater, 1787—Salvator, 1867—Gus tos, 1869.” After tlie first set, Gov. Bandolph introduced to the 1 President the members of his personal staff. Among tbe distinguished guests mingling in the throng and joining gaily in. the dance, or promenade were Chauncey- Mv Depew, Gen. Ledlie, Charles E.,Loew,, Esq., Samuel N. Pike, Sefior Brignoli, Col. Frank E. Howe, Major-General Rufus Ingalls, Major-General Ames, General Comstock, General Ewing, Ex-Governor Ward, General Porter, Senator Morton, Sir Jno. Barrington, late Mayor of Dublin; Governor Bandolph, of New Jersey, Attorney-General -Brewster, and Captain Braine. At - midnight, the grand march an nounced supper; . and, it rivaled the hall in magnificence. The President, who had, remained in the ball-room all the evening, led the company in the inarch to the banquet. The gentlemen of the Ball Committee deserve credit for the success of the, affair. . Their names are, as follows: William M. Fliess, ChairmanjMajor- General A. Ames, C. A. Stetson, Jr.,J.D.. ■Abecasis, W. B. Borrows, O. H. Davis, F. Carroll, L. G.-Moody, John Hoey, Jr- M. Mackenzie, H. S. Leech, Julian Myers, Capt. P. B. Stetson, H. B. Connors, 8. Boocock, J. E. Fisher, Frank E; Howe and Charles Cham berlin. ; Grafulla’s/Band, ,ofNew York, and Gilmore’s Band, of Boston, furnished the music.-. Koopmunsclmap and Ills Coolies. ' Koopreanschaap, the German who has been getting up extensive schemes for the importa-' tion of Coolie laborers from China , into this , country, finds his occupation gone and . his visions of future profit in the role of a slave (•master entirely dissipated.; It now appears that there is a law pf Congress which eft’ec-. this'ctmntry, passed a? the 'secondsession of the Thirty-seventh Cdngress. The law forbids’ the building or equipment of any vessel in any port of the united- States for this purpose, and condemns any vessel engaging,, in the Coolie trade to seizure and forfeiture.. The same act also .provides, that every person who shall aid or abet - the- building, eaiubpind or navigating of. any vessel intended for the Coolie trade, shall, on conviction, he .liable to a fine not exceeding $2,000, and be imprisoned not exceeding: one year. Another section of the act makes it. am offence; to • take on hoard ; any vessel, or; to transport any Coolies 1 iri i tended for the Coolie -trade, and renders the offender liable tothe penalty mentioned above. Under this new aspect of the case Koopman schaap’s project does mot pronSSe to he quite so successful as was at first anticipated. .The PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1869* treaty /between China and the United States, lately negotiated by Minister Burlingame, also makes, engaging in this human traffic a penal offence. . VICTOR HUGO’S LAST NOVEL. . L’Homme qui Bit. Par Victor Hugo. Now lork, D. Appleton & Cie. , The reign of Anne in England lies in our minds as clear-cut, trim and distinct, in, its social features, as a Dutch garden. We have it portrayed with an extreme neatness that was then new to English writing, in tbe verses of the polished satirists of the day, in the be ginnings of magazine-literature under Steele and Addison; the romances of Fielding and Smollett and Fanny Burney - delineate that society again, identical, though of asomewhat varying date. It is alwaysthe England of the ■ macaronis, of mannerism, -superficiality and enamel. French polish, a thing as different from the lofty courtesy of Elizabeth’s knights as a sugar plum is from a pearl, had invaded the rugged island from over the channel, and the rage for it was curious and enduring. Our picture of that life, which seemed so given over to externals, is as clear and luminous as that of any other phase of the world’s civiliza tion. As if to keep its grotesque peculiarities safe in modern minds, a great English master of our own day has devoted some of his best tact to studying out those fading traditions, and the polished figurines of “Esmond” and “The Virginians” nod industriously from their ranks, like the sharpest and most vivacious and finished images of the china-cabinet. The beauty and excellence of surface has hitherto been taken tp be the central idea "of the dy nasty of Anne and the Georges; and. the ex ponents of those quaint'times have resolutely kept themselves from looking beneath the out side. But the French poet, whatever he is not, is earnest. The seleeiion of the commencement of artificiality in England for a story might, seem .curiously unlike,the poet-romancer, wba. has hitherto been painting primitive monsters 1 with loaded brush. But his way of making, out of the very trimmings of extremely forced society.a certain species of great,typical figures, finds here an opportunity-grotesquely copious. In contemplating the reign of Anne, he simply observes that the rights of feu dality and of the peerage, which, up to . that epoch, sprang from the occasion, and were natural,' now began to be false to the spirit of the nation, —some- thing horrible, encrusted, tenacious, lying and pressing upon the development of society. Feudalism, no longer at the head of the bat tles of the world, hut living in velvet and feeding,upon the repression of the people,this incongruity, which has its comic side; is to him simply horrible. It was seen to be so; in deed, by the glaring blue eyes of Swift. Victor Hugo therefore turns to that-particular com mon-place book in which he has collected his recondite tacts about English law and cus toms,: and constructs a group of his awful, agonized giants, who are to suffer and bellow r mure Hugo; under the very lacquer and rouge of Queen Anne. The hero is Lord Fermain Clancbarlie, Baron Clancbarlie and Hunkerville, Marquis of a Sicilian province, who up to the period of adolescence is kept in ignorancq of his rights, and gains his bread as a mountebank under the theatrical name of L’Homnje qui Sit. The action of the story is confined to two pe riods,like dramatic acts; in which L’Homme qui Sit is Het in motion. The flrst perifld, t]iough occupying a book of some hundred pages in the narration, is only a night, a winter night of 1690, dnring which the hero, as a little child, is abandoned by some vile quasi-protee tors, and struggles quite alone through the snows of the promontory/of Portland for shelter "and support.' 1 He reaches the ambulant wagon of a mountebank, having on his way picked up a freezing infant. The juggler, a sort of Diogenes, scolds and .cherishes the pair. Daylight reveals that the boy’s mouth has been slit from ear to ear in a revolting mask of laughter, and that the baby-girl is blind. ' Tbe Man who Laughs is actually tbe son of a . peer of England, Baron Linnoeus Clancbarlie, who dies in voluntary exile on the banks of Lake Geneva. In this Cromwellite; this revo lutionist, who will not return to England to enjoy the Splendors of the Restoration, we have an idealized portrait of Victor Hugo at Guernsey. The • gay Stuart King, Charles 11., developes a some what devilish side to his rollicking char acter, in seeking out the neglected heir, and spoiling his. hopes of succession by.-fcausing his face to he mutilated out of recognition through the arts of the wandering kidnap pers, the Comprachicos: These wretches, forced to fly from England, abandon the child at a tender age,.-with his soul alone and deso late in the world, and the seal of eternal laugh ter stamped upon his face. A vile creature of Anne’s court, Barkilphedro, has a position in the Admiralty which gives him a right to the flotsam of the seas. He finds the bottle in which the shipwrecked kidnappers have sealed the true story of L’Homme qui Sit. The poor boy’s face makes his identity easy of estab lishment. He is arrested on the ambulant stage where he grimaces for a living, con fronted'with the man-stealer who had muti lated him and who is preserved in prison, re instated in -his rights, inducted into the Peer age, and affianced to the duchess Josiane, half sister to, the Queen. These rapid events are crowded upon one another in the couple of days to which the second hook or Act is de voted, This /book, with ..every accumulated vice of style, delineates some of the most tre mendous scenes Victor Hugo ever imagined. The confronting of L'Homme qui Sit with the Comprachico, who, while his ribs are cracking under that peine forte et dure which Longfellow Tias availed himself of ' For the most effective scene in ' his ”New, England Tragedies,” //dies in laughing at the result of his work; his subsequent meeting, at Wind sor, with the superb Duchess, Who loves him with diseased passion until she /finds she is destined' to ho his spouse;. the scene wlieie he pours out, /before the! assembled peersjrthe wrongs of the people, among whom he has grown, and whose ancient . mask of ag ony is typified by tbe awfni laugh behind which be lives; and bis death, in despair and . ■desolation, in the Thames; beneath the corpse of the blind maiden whom he . has saved and loves—these aire the grand situations of the - novel, conceived with a largeness and epio OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY. sublimity utterly impossible to any contempo rary artist, yet tbroughont : poisoned with that eternal egotism, that anxiety Tor effect, that accent in fact, which we call Hngoism. : In declining years,- and with a nature, warped by the sufferings and agitations of a too-public life, the-creator of-the='French ro mantic school thus Continues to invent, to publish, to preach, to declaim, to inveigh, to rhapsodize. His fancies grow more and more grotesque, and for the vivacity and activity of his youthful invention ho is forced-to substi tute this frenetic posturing, a determined suppleness of fancy that is not unlike the des peration of the aged acrobat, who will- keep the stage by a redoubled expenditure of his vital force, though the bones are heard to creak in their-joints, and the breath to labor as it comes and goes through the maoliine. Victor Hngo’s puhlications since Leg Miserabies are the declining grades from Parnassus. We look in vain through the pages of L’ Homme qui Sit, with all their surprises, for anything equal to the conversations in the latter part of the Travailleurs, for any aphorism comparable to wbat Javert says aboutFantine: “Cestsifacile d’ etro bienvelllant—etre juste,- viola, la diffi-r culte!” Inadditionthe circumstances Of Hugo’s later life haife forced him, as it were, into the m ost disfiguring phases of vainglory; the flatter ing things that used to be said of him by cir cles of lively and faithful believers are said no longer in Paris; but the nostrils of thedivinity are grown accustomed ,to the .incense;. the agreeable things must be said; and 'so, in' the loneliness of voluntary exile, the genius has grown accustomed to swing the censer under his own nose, to pour out- the sweet seif-flat tery from between his own lips. There was excellent self-confidence in the Notre Home, and in the preface to Cromwell; there was a sober certainty of awakening, merit even in Hans <TMonde; when it came to Lcs Muerabtes, Marins was made to explain at great length how it was that Victor Hugo became Bonapartist, while the episode of. Bishop Bienvenu seeking the blessing of the old revo lutionist was a clever though obvious glorifi cation of exile and Bonapartism at once? The various allusions to the ancestors of the family Hugo scattered up' and down through the several novels had a,pleasant efiect of keeping the quality and importance of the writer always in mind. Bfft none of these plans have approached in deliberate self-glorification the solemn chapters i n which Victor Hugo here magnifies himself under the figure of the patri cian friend of Cromwell, Linnoaua Ckmcharlie, who abandons his estates for a haughty exile, ' and who begets the representative <st human suffering, that Man whose face is crucified under tbe torture of an eternal laugh.. Tbe Paris Press on tbe Imperial Message and tbe: Prorogation. The Debate of July 13 says: “As will readily be comprehended, we reserve to ourselves a more mature consideration of this important document, and that for the moment, on a first impression, we can only judge it in a summary manner. We believe, however, that we cor? rectly express the opinion which at present prevails in Baris, in stating that the public has ' received the' manifesto favorably; that it is considered to contain the elements of very serious reforms; that without doubt a firm reliance is placed on the complete development of these changes in all their legitimate conse quences, but that, in the meantime,the gravity of the pacific evolution which is being accom plished is fully comprehended; gratification is felt at the prompt and liberal response which has been made by the Emperor to the wishes of the country; and, finally, the idea is enter tained that there is no possibility of under valuing the importance of these concessions, and that there would be injustice in not testify ing some gratitude for them.” The Consfituffonner: On the Bth“of June'last a seditious demonstration took place in the streets of Paris. The Emperor's reply to 1 the disturbance was tlie letter addressed by him to. Baron de Mackau. A month after, the Con stitutional Opposition, united to an imposing fraction of tbe majority, defined the wishes or the nation in a clear, precise, and respectful declaration. The Emperor’s reply to the in terpellation of the 118 is conveyed in the mes sage presented to tho Chamber. We have now made a great advance in the path of parlia mentaryliberties,and it becomes us at once to congratulate and thank his Majesty for an act of prudence, which is, at the same tune, one of political abnegation. The Si'ecfe (also writing in ignorance of the prorogation, &c.): “What are these reforms? Are the 3,500,000 men who voted for the Op- . position expected to be grateful for them? Pshaw! They claimed democratic institu tions, they requited the emancipation of uni versal suflfage, they believed that thfe election of mayors would he at once accorded them, they imagined, good simple folk, that personal power was about to disappear before their im posing manifestation! Parliamentary reforms are granted, which will not depreciate, for they have an incontestable utility, but'which are absolutely insufficient. As an accessory this gift would be excellent; as ‘ the main ob ject, it is almost hull.” The Temps: “A Chamber, such as it appears the Emperor is desirous of re-establishing, ought to be able to question the Government when and how it thinks necessary; to address 'it when it thinks proper, absolutely in the same way as the Emperor addresses tho Corps Legislatif; and to regulate for itself its faculty of amendment, and evenshare with the Crown the initiative of laws. All this forms part of the autonomy bf the Chamber, 'and is always understood so in free countries: Could there he any greater fiction than that of attributing to one man, the Emperor, the faculty of con ceiving a hill, and of understanding the justice of it, or of seizing the moment opportune for its introduction? What a contradiction to bargain vyitb /the representatives of tho country on 1 public affairs, while the Govern ment replies to all the interpellations of the press by a deluge of comvimuqueß. It will bo easily seen that on the /points indicated, there was plenty of matter which required olearing up between the Government aiid the Cham ber. It is unfortunate that the Left Centre did hot understand-this, and still more unfor -tnnate-that tbe Government lias determined to- - disencumber- itself at any price,' tar unex pectedly proroguing the: Chamber. The com municatlon.yesterday was well received, but tho decree of this. morning has produced a disastrous effect oh public opinion." The Opinion' Nationale: The reforms an nounced by the Emperor would have been re ceived with joy anijPgratitudb six months ago.. To-day they appear tardy and insufficient. In reality nothing is changed. There is nothing , to prevent the 'Emperor repeating the Mexi can expedition; if he chooses he may to- , morrow morning go to war with Prussia. He . is not accountable to us for aught; he may in volve France when, how and to what extent he pleases. The difficulty is turned; it is not'. solved. The Emperor remains absolute. 11 The Arenii-National views the message as insignificant, and considers that the tiersparti EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. THE FRENCH CRISIS. lias behaved disgracefully, but it expected nothing better from weak-minded, vain, am bitious intriguers, destitute of mauliood and brains.. The crisis is not over; it is only be ginning now. The Journal de Saids resorves its opinion. As to the prorogation Inserted in the Journal Official before being communicated to the Chamber, it uncharitably suggests that the Government was so distracted that it had lost its head. The Liberti describes the changes as a kind of compromise between -parliamentary and pembnal rule, with the defects of both and the advantages of neither. It bids the Govern ment mind what it is about. The Sdrmel looks on the whole business as a farce, and/begins its article with “ Didn’t .we tejlyouso?” , Tho Gazette de France guardedly expresses an opinion that the summary mode in which the Government has silenced the Legislature is ominous as to the measures it means to bring forward. The Presse, while admitting that the “modi fications ” are excellent in themselves, deals very severely with the prorogation, and holds that, if the tribune is silenced, it will be the duty of the press to supply its place. ItAPOPEON’S CONCESSIONS. Writingon July 12, “A Parisian Correspond ent” says in the London Times: “The . conces sions endorsed in the imperial communication are six in number, and the most important of the six is the fifth one, which suppresses the incompatibility now legally existing between the function of Deputy and the office of Min ister. That is a near, approach to the system of Parliamentary ■ Cabinets, and the signi ficance of this reform is mode -still clearer in one of the following sentences, where the engagement is taken to deliberate in council on all the affairs of the State. These two things, when put together, , are so much like, the re-establishment 'of a responsible and governing Cabinet, that the worn is only wanting to make the reform complete and-to bring os back to Constitu tional Monarchy. But, as I told you, the word 'is the true difficult^in that matter,/and. the Emperor could not utter it without a painful struggle with himself. “Why do you wish-so muen-for the word when you have the thing?” saidM. Bonher some days ago, talking with M. Buffet about Ministerial responsibility. “WZby, if we bave the'thingfdo you persist in refusing the word ?” M. Buffet answered; and, indeed, it may be said now that the thing is given in full while the word ,is still avoided with the utmost care. The Paris correspondent of the London Daily News says: Poor and unreliable as the promises are, their value is yet diminished by the saving (or rather the destroying) clause at the end, that the Emperor means to preserve intact “ those prerogatives which the people have more explicitly confided to him, and which are the essential conditions of a power which is to preserve order-and society. The double terms in-which this_prqpo3ition is .stated are very remarkable.: The Emporor, it '“trill be observed; while clingibg to the. verdict upon a series pf general propositions mani festly unintelligible to the mass of the public, snatched from the people under a reign of terror eighteen years ago, does not admit that the people has even’*how a right to change its mind. His'essential’prerogatives, as then constituted, are pronounced dogmatically as still the essential conditions of order and society.” ■ • MALTA. Obsequies of the IJ. N. Consul. Malta, July 9.—1 announce, with feelings of deep regret, the decease of Mr. William Winthron, United States Consul in this Island, which event took place on the 3d inst. He was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and occupied the post since the year 1881, gaining the respect and esteem of the British authori ties here, and those whose business connected them with tho United States, by his affable manners and friendly disposition. Mr- Win throp.employed much of his leisure in literary pursuits, and was a valuable contributor to the periodicals of his native country, as well as to those of England; besides, his despatches from this, a British garrison town, to ms Gov ernment dnring the rebellion, contained much useful information;which he was able to gather /here. ' ' ■ ", " ; /"/ T " " /."/" .v;/> . ”/ The funeral of the deceased Consul took place on the sth, when a numerous cortege followed the bony to its last resting-place; the zFrotestant Cemetery pfX'Ta.BraxiiWUesidesz many friends and members of tbe Masonic body,!n which Mr. Winthrop held 'high de grees, the funeral was attended by the follow ing, viz.: The Hon. Sir Victor Houlton, G. C. M. G., Chief Secretary of Government; the Hon. Bichard Cornwall Legh, Member of •Council; the Chevalier Slythe, Consul for. Italy (the Doyen % of the Consular Body); Col. Nich,Deputy Quartermaster-General: Mr. Be njamin Douglass and Mr. Chas. Breed Beynaud were pall-bearers; then followed Col. Mitford, Town Major; Mr. W. J_. Stevens,Acting Vice- Consul, as chief mourners; the Consular Body, the Hon. Capt. Hoseason, N. N., Superintend ent of Posts; Col. Dumford, N. E. 0. B.; Gen. Newton, Lieut.-Col. Dillon, Capt Knox, It. A.; Capt. Haldane, 64th Regiment; Mr. Tailored! di Baroni Sceliarras; Capt. .Grant, A. D. C. to H. E.the Governor; Mr; Coffin, Deputy Post master-General; Mr. Alfred Christian, C. M. ’ G., President of the Chamber of Commerce; Mr. W. Leonard, Agent for the Underwriters at Lloyds. Mr. Winthrop leaves-an afflicted widow to mourn the -irreparable loss. She is tbe=Sittighter of the late William Curtis, Bart., and, granddaughter of the Baronet of the same name, who was for many years an alderman of the city and afterward Mayor ot London. Tlie United States Navy In 1860. Tho new Navy ltegister, dated July 1,1869, furnishes the following stutistics : Active List.— One Admiral (D. G. Farragut), one vice-admiral (David D. Porter), 10 rear admirals, 25 commodores; 50 captains, 90 com manders, 180 lieutenant-commanders, 69 lieu tenants, 99/masters, 164 ensigns,74 midshipmen, 21 surgeons, ranking with commanders; 79 do., ranking with lieutenants; 35 passed assistant surgeons, ranking next fiftor lieu tenants ; 37 assistant surgeons, ranking next after masters; 18 paymasters, ranking with commodores; 62 do., - ranking with lieu tenants ; 40 passed assistant paymasters, 5 assistant paymasters, ranking after masters; 9 chief engineers, ranking with- commanders; 36 do., ranking with lieutenants; 80 first assis tant engineers; ranking next after lieutenants; - 128 second assistant engineers, ranking next after masters; 2 cadet engineers, 6 naval con structors, 4 assistant do., 7 civil engineers, 18 chaplains, 10 professors of - mathematics, 2 secretaries, 51 boatswains, 49 gunners, 35 car penters, 30 sailmakers.. On probation at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.: Midship men, first-class, 69; second class, 53; third class, 41: fourth class, 5. Setired List. —Retired under acts of -1855, -1861—and—1864 ;-18—rear-admiralsrs2-commo— dor/es, 27; captains. 16 commanders, 5 lieuten ant-commanders, 3 lieutenants, 1 master, 3 en signs, 5 masters not in lino of promotion, 24 surgeons, 2 passed assistant surgeons, 4 assist ant surgeons, 14 paymasters, 1 passed assistant paymaster, 1 assistant paymaster, 2 chief en gineors, 5 first assistant engineers; 9 second ao.; 2 third do., 7 chaplains; 3 professors of mathematics, 2 naval constructors; 7 boat swains, 5 gunners, 7 carpenters, 6 sailmakers. Mdripc Corps—One brigadier general and commandant, .(Jacob-Zeilin.). 5 general staff, 1 colonel; 2 lieutenant-colonels,4majors, 20 cap tains, 30 first lieutenants, and 29 second lieu tenants; On the retired fist there are 1 colonel. 2 lieutenant-colonels, 2 minors, 1 captain, and I'second lieutenant. / / > / Volunteer Navy —One lieutenant, 1 master, 2 ensigns, 60 mates, 4 passed assistant surgeons, F. L. EETHERSTON. PoMfelisr. PRICE THREE CENTS 5 assistant surgeons,.l first assistant engineer, 10 second assistant engineers, and 20 . tiurcLos sistant engineers. ' . .. There are now 193 vessels;■: constituting the armament, 51 <of which are iron-clad ami screw steamers. The whole .carry 1,308 guns. Tlie names of ,30 vessels .have' -been . •chatigea. Since January last‘lo' vessels have been Allegheny, Glasgow, .Hornet, Huron. Memphis, Mitscoota, Pequot, Purveyor and Winnipec ' H FACTS AND FANCIES. - [For tho Philadelphia Evonlng- Bulletin:! ■. - Woman’s True Sphere. With broomstick for javelin, dustpan for shield, 1 On clothes horses mounted, away to the field t And panoplied thus, let us war to the ladle, But ladies shall vote; yes, and men rock the cradle. . Arise and chant wildly your Amaaon sonnets; Then on to the comliat, girls 1 I’ll hefld your bonnets! Our whole social system without stay re . model! Charge, Mrs. Partington I On, Mrs. Caudle f Flutter your unfurl your top-gal vxJanfe, \ And sMI in my girls ! We’ve Ben. Wade in balance. A.D. A' RESPONSE. ■ ■ Women’s Sew Sphere. With pipestem for javelin, cigar-case for shield, On rum-barrels mounted, our foes take the field! u ; And' panoplied thps with ease we will beat; ©ur armor—Truth, Honor and Virtue—com :plete! ’ ■■■■' Our lame social syßtein we’ll surely remodel By laws right and Christian, not by Mra. r Caudle. Knaves, Dandies and Tyrants will, have to knock under; We’re unhurt by their'lightning—unscared by their thunder. 1 : The sneers of the shallow shall not move our . . balance; ■ r We’ll sail in and win,with flying top-gallanta J D. A. ■' —Nashville has a negro with nine wives. —Alboni has put up her price to match. Patti’s. ■ —Good balls for aristocratic'watering-places —Codfish balls. 1 ' —Admiral Farragut passed through Omaha, last week, with his family, bound to San Fran cisco. ..... . ...■ —Parents in China decapitate their children to cine them of opium-eating. It is an active .remedy, "v —Proctor’s Cave is a recent discovery on the route to Glasgow Junction; on the Louisville and Nashville Kailroad.. —lt is suggested that there should be a cen tennial celebration of the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, which took ‘place March 5. 1770. —The ladies’ right to order a husband up is advocated by the advanced females. It is said that Miss AnthOny Once asked a gentleman to step out, but he .replied, “No, thank vou. Susan, bo Anthony.” —Major J. M. Graves and Boberi Moss, two wealthy Southerners, have gone to California, where they are in hopes of securing 2,000 Chi nese laborers, whom they propose introducing into Mississippi to work the plantations of that State. ” . —The figure-head of the now ship General Chamberlain,-built- atßath, M e., is-astatueof- General Chamberlain, life size, dressed in his military uniform, and is one of the most cor rect likenesses ever executed in wood. —The Duke of Madrid, Don Carlos, has, issued a manifesto to the Spanish people in which he calls himself “King of Spain by the holy hand of the law,” and not “by the grace of God,” as in the old forninla. The “tuvino right” is dropped for, the “legal right,” which, indicates a marked piogress in tho political views of the pretenders by hereditary right. —Some curious devices were resorted to at -M. Oppenlieim’s ball (the splendor of which w the talk of all Paris) to-amuse the Viceroy. New figures were invented for the after-sup-' per cotillion. Large sealed envelopes were distributed among the ladies, who opening ’them found grotesque head-dresses inside, withwhich they were,expected to crown their , partners. , Crackers containing pieces of fancy costume were also pulled, between the figures of one of tho dances, and the gentlemen had to wear the finery which fell to their- share. In what was called the steeplechase dance the ladies received fans bearing the names of well known race-liorses, and the gentlemen cards similarly inscribed. At a signal the music struck up, and each gentleman hastened to discover the lady on whose fan was written the same name as on his card. , Another fantastic novelty was the distribution of hoops among the gentlemen, one to each six. The six advanced to a Jady, carrying their hoop be tween them, and on ; touching a spring it sud denly imprisoned the one destined to be the lady’s partner. Both the Oriental visitors and the native visitors are said to have been much ' amused by these performances. AMUSEMENTS* —A moist and ardent audience packed into the Arch pell-mell, last evening, to hear the Minstrels. It Was evident that there hail been a dearth of all practicable entertainments for a sadly long time, and' the knights of ebony obtained an audience of the quality’usually reserved for more legitimate entertainments. Bryant’s company is a very full one; with pretty good music and respectably comic end men. The sole originality consists in the happy confusion of Ideas labored under by Bryant himself, who corks his face and talks Irish. The bewildered image left bn the mind, between a Carolina minstrel and “Saint Pa trick of Ireland, my dear,” savors ofthesuper natural. His great hit is in the part of the younger a’wme, in the duet from Gene vieve; he seems to understand the peculiar innocence and emptiness of intellect, in?, all ■ matters beyond the discipline, which 'the French soldier attains to. The entertainment, after a bill of tremendous liberality, con cluded, at a late hour, with a travesty of Tro vutore, in which Eugene, the contralto, song and acted as “Leonora” with a good deal or spirit and burlesque intelligence. The,chances are that Bryant’s Minstrels will.fill the house until August 30th, when ’ tho blonde Lydin Thompson is to shako her glorious locka afe us. A Baixoon Voyage.— l*rof. Light; of Le banon, Pai, who on last Saturday i afternoon made an ascension in a balloon from: York, Pa., landed with his balloon on. the same after noon in a field immediately south, of the Con estoga Furnace, in the southern part of the city. Tho Professor , started at York at ten minutes before three o’clock, and arrived hero at about ten biinutes after four, having inodo tho trip in one horn: and about twenty xhin utes. The aerial ship/which is called the bion,” and has a capacity, wo believe, of ten thousand cubic feet, was lauded without hav ing sustained any damage, and by five o’clock tho same evening was on its way back to York. Prof. Light returned to York, arriving at that place at about eight o’clock on the evening of the day on which he started from thereonhia ■ trip through the air.—Lancaster £rpress, aßth. —t , l l - H If j-;.''.;'''. f; id fjiij. ? •}i.y;'Zy'lp- t,
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