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withdrawn its interpellation.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.
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