The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LO.Nuoiv. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1%7.

crew ,of the wrecked vessel, as well as the lifeboat,
in all 26 men, were drowned. Only seven men were
s aved by clinging to the capsized boat. They were
t aken on board a small boat and transferred to the
'team tug Andrew Woodhouse, which brought
them into the harbour. Most of the Gorleston men
were married, and had children dependingupon them
! for support. The lifeboat drifted to the beach. She
was followed by thelifeboat Refuge, which picked up
one of the men, John Sheen,aged 30 years. lie was
quite dead. The Rescuer, which belonged to a
-private company, was capsized on the same spot in
January, 1866, when 13 beachmen were drowned.
Crowds of people, with the wives and families
of the drowned men, lined the pier at the har-
bour's mouth, and as the Refuge returned the scene
vas heartrending.

WHITSTABLE, Tuesday.
The gale was severely felt here, and caused very
considerable damage. The Edward Fairbrass, which
was lying in the cut of the harbour, ran into colli-
sion with two other vessels— the Emily and the
George Anson —and drove them from their moor-
ings ; the two vessels then ran foul of several others
and more or less damaged them. One, the Mary,
was sunk, while another, the Emma, had her stern,
bulwarks, stanchions, bowsprit, and main cutwater
carried away. The Para Packet, the Northern
Light, the Sarah Jane, the Edward Fairbrass, and
the Emily were also damaged. In addition to the
damages in the harbour, the Lord Warden was
driven ashore just outside so far as high water mark ;
the diving cutter Fearnought was sunk in Whitstable
Bay by another diving vessel driving foul of her ;
two vessels, the Mayflower, of Brightlingsea, and
the Sally, of this port, were washed ashore near
Tankerton Castle ; several small oyster-boats were
also washed ashore, and about 50 Pkiffs. A place
erected at Swalecliff for the breeding of oysters was
swept away.

RAMSGATE, Dec. 2.

The Bradford lifeboat and steamtug Aid have
again been out on service, in reply to signals from
the Gull and Goodwin lightships, about 6 o'clock
this morning (states Captain Shaw). On reaching
the Gull lightship they were informed that a large
light bearing E.N.E. was being burnt as a signal of
distress. It was at this time blowing a perfect
hurricane, and there was a tremendously heavy sea
on. A. sunken schooner was shortly afterwards
seen in the Gull stream, with her masts out of water,
but no one was found clinging to the rigging.
Afterwards a dismasted schooner was seen with a
steamtug alongside her, and the lifeboat remained
by in case further assistance should be needed, but
the schooner was enabled to slip her cable and pro-
ceed to a safe anchorage in the Downs. Before
leaving the lifeboat searched around the North
Sand head and shoals in its vicinity, but nothing
was seen requiring her services, and the boat and
steamer then returned to harbour.

NORTH DEAL, Dec. 2.

At 6 a.m. this morning, says Mr. J. Nethersole,
intelligence was brought here that the Gull light-
ship was firing guns and rockets ; the crew were
immediately assembled and at once launched the
Van Kook lifeboat, belonging to the National Life-
boat Institution, and proceeded towards the light
vessel, and the lifeboatmeu were then informed that
they were firing for a ship that was near the Good-
win Knoll in a dangerous position, but not aground.
The Ramsgate lifeboat Bradford had also gone off
to the same vessel, and found that her services were
not required. The two lifeboats then returned to
the shore, tut the wind was blowing so heavy that
the Van Kook was obliged to laud at Walmer.
There is not the slightest foundation for the report
that has appeared in some of the newspapers that
the lifeboat had capsized and drowned one man.
CORNWALL, Dec. 2.

A gale, which began yesterday, is blowing with
tremendous force from the north-west, and its vio-
lence seems to be gradually increasing. All day
yesterday there was a great fall of rain, but during
the night the thermometer showed a material de-
crease of temperature, and a boar frost followed,
succeeded by some heavy sLowers of hail. Con-
siderable damage to shipping and house property is
reported, but no reliable particu!ars are yet to hand.
I have to report (says Mr. R. Thomas) that infor-
mation was brought yesterday during church time
that a brigantine was ashore on the rocks between
Love Island and the mainland. The lifeboat Ox-
fordshire, which belongs to the National Lifeboat
Institution, promptly proceeded out to her as.,ist-
ance ; it was blowing a gale from the west at the
time, and the weather was very thick. Fortunately
the vessel, which was the brigantine St. Brannich,
from Havre for Runcorn,with flints, held on till the
flood tide, when after throwing overboard about 50
tons of her cargo, she floated off and was got safely
into our harbour in a very leaky and damaged state.
The crew of the lifeboat and the coastguardsman
rendered considerable assistance, and remained by
the vessel until she was in safety. After the life-
boat had returned to the shore, it was reported that
a schooner was at anchor close in shore at Whitsand
Bay. The lifeboat was despatched to her assistance,
but as the wind shifted to the north, the schooner
was able to get under way and sailed, it is supposed,
for Plymouth. The lifeboat at Mullion was also
got out with the view of rendering assistance to the
crews of distressed vessels, but her services fortu-
nately were not ultimately required.

ORMES HEAD, Dec. 1.
The smack Brothers, of Beaumaris, was wrecked
in Llandudno Bay, during a strong gale from the
north, this evening. The Sisters' Memorial lifeboat
was launched with a crew of ten men only. Of these
men three formed part of the regular crew, and the
other seven were volunteers, some of them not being
seafaring men. Owing to the heavy sea and want of
strength in the crew the boat was driven back
ashore, and all the efforts to launch it again were
unsuccessful. Seven of the men then put off in a
shoreboat, and at much risk fortunately saved the
two men from the smack, shortly before she became
a total wreck.

HOLYHEAD, Dec. 2.

" We have been visited here with a most terrific
gale from the north," writes Admiral Schomberg,
Queen's Harbour Master, " and but for the inde-
fatigable and courageous conduct of the crew of the
lifeboat Princess of Wales, belonging to the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution, we should have been in
much distress. We have had three wrecks—one a
French bark, the Bayard. She parted and came on
the rocks near the lighthouse. The lifeboat was
launched at 9 p.m. in the face of all difficulties—
heavy sea and lee shore—and brought all on board
the vessel safely to land, about 14 in number. The
lifeboat then went out three separate times to an
English ship which had sunk near Salt Island, and
brought 30 of the crew in all on shore. At 5 a.m
she was again manned and sent to act near the
Breakwater to save a schooner's crew. The men
were ultimately got on to the Breakwater. Nothing
that I can express can be too strong for my admira-
tion of the men, for a worse night I never saw ; it
was just such a night as the Royal Charter gale."
Another correspondent, probably writing later, says
that the boat bad been out six times and had saved
altogether 52 lives during the gale.

Mr. Frank Connelly, son of the Rev. Pierce
Connelly, Baltimore, is warmly spoken of as a sculptor by
the Italian correspondent of the New York Times. He is at
Florence, and has gained a great reputation by an ideal
bust of Shakespeare's Cordelia, as well as by the truth and
beauty of his likenesses in busts and figures.
LADvEnTisEMRNT.]—Avoid Medicine-s: they always aggravate
chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring
nevalenta Arabica Fool, which yields three times the nourish-
ment of the best moat, saves 30 times its cost in other remedies,
and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound
lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional
regularity, an energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We
extract a few out of 63,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored
by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—"R0me, July 21, 1866.
—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since,
abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely
to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Foest of which he consumes
a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene-
ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel
lent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure
No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver
complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous
palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and
the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord
Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years'
dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from
dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency
spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure No
46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years'
diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and
partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.
In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 93. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d ; 5 lbs., lls.;
12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77,
Aegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ;
and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Chcapsido ; 63, 1.50, and 289,
Oxford-tarot; dilo Strad; and all gt worts and cliomista,

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
A correspondent writing from Naples, Nov. 23d,
says:—

In the lull of general polities we have had a
storm in a teacup, by the dissolution of the Copa-
mercial Council of Naples, and the appointment
of a Royal Commissioner to manage civic affairs
until a new election. Any one knowing something
of the worshipful Corporations of New York and of
London, can have a pretty clear idea of that of Naples,
and will understand why much was said and little
was done. Many honest people are willing to ac-
cept civic honours without troubling themselves
much aboat the corresponding duties. As a natu-
ral result a small knot of probssed politicians had it
all their own way, and ended by electing au execu-
tive committee of the brightest red colour.
It was expected that the Government would
let them have a fling, but it turned out dif-
ferently, and a telegram from the Minister of
the Interior destroyed in an instant the result of
several years electoral labour. The wrath is great,
particularly as it is believed the Minister has in-
tended thereby to give the advanced party a fore-
taste of what he will do if they make themselves
too troublesome in the approaching meeting of the
Italian Parliament.
Turning from the political stage, the operatic
company at the San Carlo is better than what
the public has been accustomed to of late years.
The " Africaine" and " Otello" are being given on
alternate nights. The contrast is interesting be-

tween the most recent work of the great German
composer, and one of the earliest productions of
the Italian composer, who brought it ought forty
years ago on these very boards, receiving about
1,500 fr. for the copyright. It is true that in those
halcyon days the best pit seats were about lfr.
Vesuvius is also busy for our entertainment. Al-

though the lava has not yet descended below the
great cone, the eruption is daily increasing and be-
coming more interesting. The weather is bright
and clear, so that those who ascend at night and
wait until the morning are repaid by a series of the
most magnificent scenes that the world can show.
The Duchess of Genoa is expected here this win-
ter. The ladies may thus expect some balls at the
Royal Palace, and the Union Club will also give a
series. The Union Club is the Almack of Naples,
always most liberal for travellers ; its balls are
much more select than the official soirees, and have
consequently always obtained a brilliant success.
Russian America has been formally transferred to
the United States authorities. The ceremony took
place at Sitka, October 8, Major-General Rousseau
acting for the Unite.! States, and Captain Fest-
vehoff, for Russia. A battalion of United States
troops, headed by Major Charles 0. Wood, of the
9th Infantry, drawn up in front of the Governor's
house, where a large assemblage was congregated, wit-
nessed the attempted lowering of the Russian and the
rise of the United States flag. The Muscovite bunt-
ing obstinately ref used to come down, and eventually,
being torn from the halliards, floated away on the
breeze. The Stars and Stripes went up easily and
gracefully. The speeches were short and to the point ;
the Captain in substance saying, " I transfer the ter-
ritory ;" the General replying " 1 accept it." The
Princess Makesatoff is said to have wept audibly,
and probably sympathised with the obstinacy of the
flag which refused to be degraded for lucre, and
took its own way out of the ceded territory.
Except the postponement of the trial of Mr.
Davis until March, the only cable item of news is
that the majority of the Judiciary Committee have
presented their report, which is in favour of the
Impeachment of President Johnson.
The Albany Reconstruction Convention remains
in Session, and is devising disfranchisement measures
so sweeping that not one out of every ten white
men will be able to vote. A resolution has been
adopted, demanding payment of wages to negroes
for work performed by them after the publication
of the emancipation proclamation. The white dele-
gates are abandoning the Convention in disgust,
and the galleries of the house where it sits in Mont-
gomery are daily filled with negresses. L •gislating
is a new toy, in which :-.,atubo is not likely to suc-
ceed, as well as when, with the banjo, "kicking up
before and behind." It is probable that the Conven-
tion feels a little astray, as it has despatched a dele-
gate to Washington for instructions how to act. The
Finance Committee, of whom two are negroes, neither
able to read nor write, has reported an article to
make illegal the financial acts of the State, under
the Confederacy. Similar Conventions are in Ses-
sion in Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia. The ex-
penses of the military government in Virginia for
the past ten months, exclusive of the subordinate
civil government, has amounted to $5,239,000,
which comes out of the Federal treasury. It is no
wonder, considering the number of States similarly
situated, that the feeling of the North is opposed to
the Congressional plan of reconstruction, as there
are good grounds on the question of finance alone.
General Pope proposes to send to Congress a list
of the prominent Georgians, who, though disfran-
chised by the Reconstruction Acts, have actively
interested themselves in favour of Reconstruction,
with a view to their restoration to their political
rights by a special Act of Congress. It is thought
that this will give Congress the opportunity of re-
viewing its late policy in this matter, as the terms of
the Act have been proved to strike at persons who
are now considered to be the most loyal and best dis-
posed, as well as the most intelligent, of Southern
citizens.

The New York Citizen states, upon reliable au-
thority, that John Mitchell, editor of the New York
Irish Citizen, has commenced a suit against Major-
General John A. Dix, now United States Minister
at Paris, for falseimprisonment during the war, and
that Mr. Charles O'Connor will be leading counsel
in the case, assisted by legal companions of the
highest character and calibre. The captain of ar-
tillery who, acting under the General's orders, ar-
rested Mr. Mitchell, will also be proceeded against.
At the time of the arrest Mr. Mitchell edited the
Daily News in New York, and General Dix com-
manded the department of the East. The case ex-
cites much interest, as it will affect, if pushed to a
decision, many similar cases. The first question to
decide is whether General Dix, or any other officer
or ex-officer, can be held individually responsible for
acts committed under the orders of a superior, and
in the line of duty. The special act of Congress
which specially directed and gave impunity to such
transactions must first be declared unconstitu-
tional and void by the Supreme Court of the United
States.

On the 7th inst. the Tennessee Senate recon-
sidered the bill prohibiting distinctions on account of
colour by railroads in the conveyance of passengers. A
motion was made to amond by requiring roads to provide
cars especially for coloured people.

Panama is becoming one of the great commercial
ports of the world. It is stated that 22 steamers a month
arrive at and leave it for different parts o f the world.
Only a few years ago the place was nothing more than a
wretched hamlet.

REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY.—
The report of the Comptroller of Currency has been com-
pleted and laid before the Secretary of the Treasury. The
entire report will make a volume of 700 pages, which will
include the last quarterly report of each national bank in
the country in detail, and abstracts of the report for the
preceding quarters during the year. It will also embrace
extended general remarks on the currency question, and
the workings of the national bank system. The manner
in which it will appear will bo astandard book of reference
for all bankers and those interested in national banks.

FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER ON LAKE ERIE.—
Dunkirk, New York, November 4.—The propeller Ackma,
belonging to the Western Transportation Company, foun-
dered and sunk 20 miles off Dunkirk this morning. Two
of her hands have just arrived at this place. One of her
boats was picked up by the small boat of the revenue cutter
Commodore Perry, Captain Otthger, now lying in port
here. There is another small boat containing the captain
and nine men yet to be heard from. She was all safe at
seven bells this morning (half-past 8 o'clock),and is supposed
to have landed somewhere near Silver Creek. The Ackma
had a full cargo on board when she went down.

News from Lisbon, on the evening of the 22d,
stated " The American ship of war, the Guard, has sailed
for New York direct, by order of Admiral Farragut."

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY IN CALIFORNIA.—SpeciaI
despatches to the San Francisco papers say that a fearful
tragedy occurred on the day at the recent election at Little
Lake, in Mendocino County, California. It appears that a
feud had long existed between two families of the names
of Coates and Frost, who resided in that Vicinity. On the

day mentioned several members of each family went to the
town armed, and on meeting the elder Coates fired upon
and killed one of the Frosts. The firing at once became
general between the families, during which five of the
Coates family were killed and three wounded dangerously,
while on the other side Frost was killed, and his son-in-
law, Duncan, was mortally wounded. Not a word was
spoken by either party during the affray.

Yesterday morning the gunsmith's shop of the
Messrs. Richardson, Cork, was discovered to have been
entered, and 200 stand of the most improved rifles and
revolvers stolen during the night. The procession which
to-morrow is to pass through the streets of Cork, in
mourning for the executed Fenians, excites some fear.

A frightful explosion occurred yesterday at
Liverpool, by which the old American blockade-runner
the Colonel Lamb, now the Greek Government steamer
Bonboulina, was totally destroyed, and half the crow of 73
killed. The vessel was blown to pieces by the explosion
of her after boiler.

A new Order of Montana is to be distributed to
the Pontifical troops. It is a cross, with tho words "Pius
Papa Nonw," and the date 1867 on both arms.

The capitol in Washington is finished. The last
stone of the extension was put in its place on the morning
of November 14.

The recent census makes the population of Wash
ingtou 73,000, 22 000 of whom are coloured.

THE AMERICAN MAILS.—In the House of Com-
mons Mr. Graham asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
last Thursday what, if any, arrangement had been made
for the conveyance of the mails between Great Britain and
the United States of America after the termination, on
Saturday, the 28th of December, of the present service,
which had been so efficiently conducted. Mr. Hunt (in
the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer) said it
would be in the recollection of the house that it was
arranged by the late Government, and adopted by the
present, that at the expiration of the postal contract with
the Cunard Company, tenders for the conveyance of the
American mails should be solicited by public advertise-
ment ; that there should be no subsidy, but that ship-
owners should be asked to make offers for the conveyance
of the mails to America, leaving the United States to
arrange for the mails irom America to England. Adver-
tisements were accordingly put out ; but the answers did
not meet the expectations which had been formed on the
subject. There was one offer from the North German
Lloyd's for Tuesday, from Messrs. Inmans for Thursday,
from the National Steamship Company for Friday, and for
the same day from the Hamburg American Steamship
Company, but there was no offer for the Saturday's convey-
ance. The advertisement was issued by the Post Office
authorities ; and it contained a note that the tender might
be varied from the printed form. Accordingly, the Messrs.
Cunard rent in a letter stating that they were prepared to
send in a contract for a smaller sum than was now paid.
The Post Office expressed a willingness to receive it, and it
was sent in. It was for a fixed sum:for ten years, and a year's
notice, and they were to receive no sea postage, the Post
Office receiving the homeward sea postage from America.
An officer was sent over to America to ascertain what
America was doing, and communications were going on
even up to that day. But her Majesty's Government
thought it would be impossible to enter into that arrange-
ment. They were, therefore, in great difficulty, besides
having no offer for the Saturday mail, and they feared that
the mercantile community would be put to groat incon-
venience. Under the circumstances he had been in per-
sonal communication with Mr. John Burns, one of the
managers of the Cunard Company, who had met the case
in a public spirit, and had expressed his desire to meet the
wishes of the Government ; and within the last few hours
arrangements had been settled with the Cunard Company,
for one year, for a fixed sum, for the conveyance of the
mails. As soon as the negociations were complete there
would be no objection to laying the whole of the correspon-
dence on the table.

Miss Priscilla Edwards, and two other women,
will publish on the Ist January a weekly newspaper at
Terre Haute, devoted to the rights of women. There are
nine women editors and assistant editors of newspapers in
Ohio.

The Round Table tells us—" The price of books is
the subject of a letter from Messrs. Leypoldt and Holt to the
New York Times, in which some important points are quite
clearly stated. The occasion of the letter was an allusion,
apropos of Mr. Bristed's "Interference Theory of Govern-
ment," to the excessive price of American books, and here
is the story of it :
The volume in question was published at Mr. Bristed's
expense. Five hundred copies were printed at a cost of—
For stereotype plates... ... ... $127 24
For paper ... • ... 41 12
For printing ... ... 10 00
For binders' stamps ... 15 00
For binding ... ... ... 90 00

$283 36
Alvertising costs ... ... ... ... 50 00

Total ... $333 36
Mr. Misted is to receive from us the half of
the retail price of each copy which we sell.
Fifty copies are given to editors. If the
remaining four hundred and fifty are sold,
Mr. Bristed will realise ... ... 225 00

Leaving him out of pocket ... $lOB 36
That is on the supposition that the whole edition is sold,
since each unsold copy is an additional loss of 50 cents to
the author, and from the subject of the book—by no
means a popular one—neither author nor publishers
looked for more than one edition. Mr. Bristed is there-
fore sure to lose not less than $lOO, while Messrs. Ley-
poldt and Holt—who say that the trouble of preparing a
$lO quarto would have been no greater—can, under the
most favourable contingencies, make no more than $45
the inducement to both these parties being their interest
in the views set forth in the book. Whence, argue these
publishers in a manner that cannot, so far as we see, be
gainsaid, it is necessary to charge for the popular books
that do sell large editions enough to pay themselves and
their clients for those which do not. The causes of high
prices they further enumerate thus :

"I.—The Tariff.—An ingenious means of making the
purchaser of most of the materials used in book-making
pay $2 to certain officials and protected interests, in order
that $1 may get into the national Treasury.
"2. The Absence of an International Copyright Law.—
Which deficiency prevents American authors and pub-
lishers from collecting their profits wherever the English
language is spoken, and obliges them to collect them all
here.

3. The absence of a class of readers who habitually
pay high prices;"

in regard to which last we regret our inability to quote in
full.

" In the European market," says the writer, " there cir-
culates a dim suspicion that a book has had something to
do with brains. For instance, in England a book con-
taining the ideas of kill is worth many times as much as
a book of the same mechanical attnbuteS containing the
ideas? of Muulbach. Here Muhlbach's Joseph 11. sells
for the same price as the somewhat larger Mills'
"Logic." In Europe the man of culture enough to read
Mill is supposed to have acquired his culture through the
possession of money enough to pay for him. And he is
supposed to have acquired, through his culture, sense
enough to see that the sale of books of that class must be
limited, and that, therefore, in order to adequately remu-
nerate author and publisher each copy must command a
high price. .

"Books of a certain class are wanted as soon as they
appear. People who can afford it will pay a big price to
get them at once. In Europe they allow such people the
privilege. . . .

" It appears, then, that the European publisher has two
sources of revenue which the American publisher has not
—in the willingness of readers of good books to pay good
prices, and in the readiness and ability of expectant curio-
sity to satisfy itself at an absurd cost. This gives him
room to carry on operations not affected by those influences
at a rate of cheapness which Americans cau hardly dream
of. When a demand for a popular edition of Mill's socio-
logical works arises in England, the reward already reaped
and constantly accruing from the more expensive editions
enables the publisher to make the cheap edition at a price
staggeringly low ; and when any book is published purely
for the million, it can be done at a rate which, if applied to
all books, would not pay a publisher's office expenses.

" The case with us seems to be but one more illustration
of the averaging effect of Democratic institutions. The
rich and cultivated pay less, so the poor and ignorant must
pay more."

There is one other respect in which foreign publishers
have an advantage which Messrs. Leypoldt and Holt seem
to have unaccountably overlooked. This is the sure sale
they can rely upon to the circulating jibraries—a point
elaborated in this last Paris letter of The Publishers' Circular,
where it is shown that this is of itself esough to secure the
publisher against loss. This consideration—the direct and
very large interest to publishers of such wholesale pur-
chasers—adds another to the many occasions for wonder
that we are still without anything to correspond to the
English Mudie's."

Part I. (new edition) of " Cassell's Popu!ar Edu-
cator" has just been issued. To those earnest and intelli-
gent youths determined on self-education, if deprived of
the advantages of school; this work cannot fail to be use-
ful. It is issued in numbers at lid. each, and contains
lessons in the languages most in use, as well as in every
branch of knowledge. It opens with lessons in French, a
language, we believe, to bo quite unattainable unless
taught. The mass of information condensed into the 64
pages now before us is perfectly bewildering. To school
teachers the work must be peculiarly valuable. A lesson
in punctuation not only tersely lays down the rules, but
curiously exemplifies their neglect. A commissioner for
lighting one of the largest commercial cities of Europe, by
misplacing a comma in his advertisement, contracted for
but half the supply. He represented the lamps "as 4,050 in
number, having two spouts each, composed of not less than
20 threads of cotton." What he meant was that each spout
had 20 threads, and the comma should have been after
spouts, instead of after each." The clerk of a congrega-
tion in Scotland had a paper handed to him, as the custom
is, to read before the minister stood up to pray with or for
the congregation, containing the following words un-
pointed ;—" A man going to Oa hie wife desire* the

prayers of the congregation." The clerk read it as if a
comma had been put after the word wife, and unfortunately
excited in no small degree the risible faculties of the people
assembled, thus: —" A man going to sea (see) his wife, de-
sires the prayers of the congregation.' "
Mr. Henry Latham's book " Black and White"
is alluded to in the Round Table of the 16th inst. The
book had not reached America, and the writer's remarks
wore on the comments contained in the Athenmum. We
have not read "Black and White," and we are not a little
surprised and amused when the sour krout of the United
States was thus dished up and placed before us:- "'lf you
do not like Terrapin, you will not like America,' said Morton
M'lNlichael, the pleasant Mayor of Philadelphia, to an
English guest. This sort of saying is becoming common
in the United States. Every English traveller who finds
himself in good company, especially in Richmond, Balti-
more, and Philadelphia, is tested with Terrapin. Ile may
not know what isgoing on ; what is expected from Idm; but
his quick sense will tell him that, on a certain dish of soup
being placed before him—a black and most unsightly look-
ing dish—the eyes of his friends and hosts are upon him.
If ho pauses at the sight, they 'wait and watch ; if ho re-
coils from the taste, they change colour; if he se:sds the
plate away, they despair. He may as well take his port-
manteau and sail fur Europe. If he should smack his lips,
cry ' Bravo ! what is this ?' and call for a second helping,
his fortune is complete; the company will accept him as a
brother, and from that moment he will be enrolled among
the choice spirits of the world who are recognised by our
cousins as friends of America. 'Once,' said a great be-
liever in this test, '1 was rather staggered. A man
came to Baltimore with good letters of introduction ; he
was a scholar and a Republican, and his whole heart
seemed to be alive with love for us and for our institutions.
We set Terrapin before him. He turned up his nose ; he
pushed it away. But events justified him. He was no
friend of America; for when our great trouble came upon
us that man was one of the sharpest thorns in our side.
How could he be a friend of America when he could not eat
Terrapin ?' Mr. Henry Latham liked Terrapin ? Accord-
ingly, the spirit in which Mr. Latham has written about
our brethren in Americais commendable in a hi4h degree ?"
On this surprising statement the knight of the Round Table
remarks:—" To us—although we have heard much of the
dish, have sometimes seen it, and are aware of the im-
portance it assumes in the eyes of such traditional English
tourists as Mr. Paulding waged war upon—this is a revela-
tion. We have lived in Boston, New Haven, New York,
Philadelphia, Mobile, Now Orleans, San Francisco, Sacra-
mento; are nut unfamiliar with Baltimore and Richmond,
the two other specified cities; are American,' so far as
one can be by parentage, birth, education, and all other
essentials that suggest themselves - yet to this day we have
never eaten or been offered Terrapin. Still, if Mr. Latham
and the Athenaeum reviewer liked it we are very glad they
got it, and only object to having it made our national dish
in the same way that beefsteak, potatoes, frog's legs and
horse, olla podrida, paid de foie Bras, candles, train-oil, are
the dishes associated respectively with Briton, Irishman,
Frenchman, Spaniard Strasburger, Russian, and Lapp.
The misconception seems to us as great as that of the
Blackwood writer about our 'lnroads upon English' in
his parenthetical explanation that persimmons are nuts.
Even against Mr. Trollope we have a similar grievance,
which, however, we may keep until we can speak of his
Lotto. Schmidt, and other Stories,' two of which contain
the offences in question."

Mr. Fitz Hugh Ludlow is at work upon a novel.
The Rev. S. Irenaus Prime is to make a book of
his letters to the Observer.

Mr. Edward R. Sill is about to publish through
Messrs. Leypoldt and Holt the first volume of his collected
poems.

Mrs. R. H. Stoddard is soon to publish a new
novel untitled "'Temple House." Like her earlier stories,
it is a story of American life, the scene lying in a new Eng-
land village.

Miss Dodge—Gail Hamilton—will soon give us
another little book, entitled " Woman's Wrongs."
John Mitchell is publishing in the columns of his
paper, the New York Irish Citizen, reminiscences of Gen.
Thomas Francis Meagher, being a graphic personal his-
tory from the editor's pen of the Young Ireland move-
ment of 1848.

General John Piatt is in Union-square, New
York, preparing some volumes of recollections, political
and military, which are to bo issued early next year.

THEATRICALS AND AMUSEMENTS.

(From the Anylo-American Times.)
Wo cannot tell what the sensations were of Ma('lle.
Clara Louise Kellogg when she first stood on a Lon-
don stage and faced the thousand curious eyes fixed
upon her, the illustrious stranger. A young lady, with a
great reputation to maintain, however confident of her own
powers, must have shrunk somewhat startled at the trying
ordeal. The restraint caused by this feeling could not fail
to lessen the great powers of the at tide, and there can bo
little doubt that, as Mad He. Kellogg has grown accus-
t ,med to the new scene of her prfortnance, and has
regained her ease and self-command, she has become more
enchanting as she returned to her natural self the prima
donna who had charmed the citizens of New York.
Seldom has a stranger at once taken such a place in the
musical world in Europe as that to which Miss Kellogg
has stepped. The metropolitan press is unanimous in its
verdict. Critics may differ in detail. They may hold
opinions which clash as to the rendering of certain cha-
racters, but none differ as to the powers of this young
lady, either as a singer or an actress. Our space does not
admit of our culling the various criticisms, but we intend
occasionally to notice some, as the career of the gifted
American has a deep interest for her countrymen. The
opinion of the Saturday Review is thus given :
"As a singer, Madlle. K—, while a long way on the
road to excellence, has faults to conquer as well as merits
unreservedly to commend. Her voice, a true soprano, is reso-
nant and telling, without being powerful. It has been well
trained, but still, in rare instances, lacksfurther cultivation
especially, for example, in the method of taking the higher
notes of the register- not so much in passages where they
are reached tep by step, as in those where they have sud-
denly to be attached. She boasts, on tho other hand, the
precious quality of being invariably in tune ; and
this is allied to extreme sensibility in cantibile phrases,
her delivery of which, but for an occasional ten-
dency to drag the time, and thereby to exaggerate
expression, would be absolutely faultless. But for the last
easily remedied defect, we can imagine nothing more
thoroughly exquisite than her manner of singing The
Last Rose of Summer,' whether in Italian, or when in
response to an encore, the genuine heartiness of which is
unmistakeable, she substitutes for the foreign adaptation
a verse in Moore's own language. That her voice is
flexible, no less than telling and sympathetic, is clearly
established by her facile and brilliant delivery of the Air
des Bijoux' in 'Pause; and of the cavatina at the close of
the first act in La Traviata.' Then her articulation of the
words, her sense of accent, her balance of phrase, alike in
tempo giusto,' and in tempo rubato' in the strict division
of time, and in its measurement at discretion, are irre-
proachable ; while last, not least, her pronunciation of the
Italian language is so uniformly correct and musical that
she might be almost taken for an Italian-bred. Each of
the three operas in which Mdlle. K— has hitherto per-
formed has earned for her a signal and honourable success,
and the greatest hopes are reasonably entertained of her
approaching performance in Linda Chamouni.'" These
expectations have been fully realised.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.—The
American Champions, added to the old favourites of the
circus, make up an unmatched company. The former
were organised in the United States, culling the cream
from equestrians and gymnasts, for a grand display
at the Paris Exhibition. During the summer this
wonderful troupe performed in that capital, attract-
ing, as they say, upwards of 850,000 persons, among
whom were all the crowned heads who visited the French
metropolis. Although we are not inclined to go into
announces itself in language which does not err on the
the ecstacies attributed to the Parisian public and press, wo
cannot deny that the press were in a measure justified in their
enthusiasm by the performances. Mr. Robert Stickney is a
specimen of mankind who would form au admirable model
for a sculptor. Ii presents a more beautiful development of
muscle—so light, graceful, symmetrical—as scarcely to be
excelled. Strength as well as activity generally go with
symmetry and beauty of figure, and are seldom allied to
heaviness, but never to clumsiness. The American
gymnasts illustrate this, Kelly, whose feats have never
been matched, being tall and thin. Their performances
aro really. marvellous. The leaps from a spring-
board are bounds into the air, where they seem to dis-
port themselves like tumbler pigeons. Each performer
is characteristically marked. One appears to rise and turn
at the greatest height, his head, not his feet, passing
nearest the object ho clears. Another shoots off like a
rocket, his flight through the atmosphere being ahnost as
rapid, nearly all the arena in which stand 12 horses being
cleared at a bound. A third springs into the air, turning
two summersaults ere he again alights. Scarcely less sur-
prising is the performance of the Hanlon Brothers. There
are three of them—the second stands on the shoulders
of the first, and the third on those of the second. The
uppermost springs into the air, the second jumps from
the shoulders of the first, and ere he has reached the
ground he who had been uppermost has alighted in his
place, having turned a summersault ere ho descended to
the perch on the lower's shoulders. Not only do they
pring from the shoulders of the ono to those of the other,
but turn summersaults in the air as they go. There is
some horsemanship of as unusual a character. The horse
rushes round the ring freed from every restraint as nature
made him; no curb, no padded saddle, the equestrian
stands on the well-groomed back of the beast, and what
ho does is done on that platform. James Robinson does
not ride his horse. From the arena he springs to its back
as it rushes on, and there disports himself as on a stage.
For a period he is half the time on the animal and the
other half in the air, flying through hoops and turning
summersaults as ho goes. One sees a rushing horse, one
sees what appears a flying man—the two aro connected,
but one scarcely knows how. The educated animals
form a most interesting portion of the entertainment, and
John Bull's love of clowns is shown by the roars of laughter
with which their sayings and doings aro greeted. Ono
of these clowns is certainly an admirable specimen of his
craft, and the most perfect horsewoman wo have yet seen,
mounted and dressed as if for a display on Rotten-row,
maintained a goat go grawful, a baud so light in wramand_

ing, that both she and the horse made a picture well wort
the pencil of an artist. The house was so crowded that
we were compelled to stand, and the thunders of applause
predicts a success in London for these champion gymnasts
and equestrians as great as that which crowned their
efforts in Paris We cannot allude to this theatre without
a word of praise for the admirable way in which it is
managed. Thera is no cleaner, batter 'ventilated, and more
neatly appointed house, nor any other where the visitor.
meets with more civility—a contrast to the snobbism of
the servants of the greatest opera in London.

HERR HAUSE'S CLASSICAL CONCERTS.
On Thursday evening, the 21st inst., Herr Hause, NO°
is already well known to Americans from his performanceS.
in Now York and Boston, gave the first of his intended
series of six concerts at the Qu en's Concert Boom!,
Hanover-square. The music performed was all classical.
selected from the compositions of Mozart, Hummel, and
Herr Hause himself, whose playing cannot be too highly,
praised. He possesses an the qualities which characterise
a great musician, viz., force and brilliancy of execution,
combined with delicacy and softness of touch. His eolnP°-
sitions show that he possesses a theoretical,
practical, knowledge of his art ; and he will doubtless 131°
a high place among the musical professors of the metro-
polis. The remaining five cuncarts will take place
Thursdays, December 19th, 1867 ; January 30th, p,br uer.l
27th, April 23.1, and May 11th, 1868. :is well 0s

An American paper says that Mademoiselle Adelina Patti
will return to the United States after fulfilling her engage-
ment at St. Petersburgh.
THEATRE COMIQUE, NEW YORK. Cotton,
Sharpley, and White evidently possess a fine sense of tha
ludicrous; for there is never a night in which they fail t°,
present one feature or another which fairly convulses the"„
auditors with laughter, and leaves them gasping for breath
with an aching head, too exhausted to indicate their sr
proval by applause. The last laughter-moving absurdity
is the introduction of the African Gorilla and the " Whit°
Elephant of Siam." Their gorilla, like Barnum's, bas a
tail which Du Chaillu tells us is not an appendication f
respectable gorillas in the place where the good gorillas
grow. But the " Comique " gorilla is such au irrepress:
ibly mischievous little beast that we pardon his tail and al`
paralysed with laughter at his antics. The White Elephant,
aside from his wonderful resemblance to Nature in h'S
make-up and manner, is also a very ludicrous animal,
which flaps its ears, swings its trunk, and moves with t
slow precision and dull gravity proverbial to the sure enolh,'
quadruped. It is a pleasing novelty, and provocative of M°Te
genuine fun than anything we have seen since Horace G
ley, with his white hat and benignant countenance, 117'311de:et
into the arms of the Grand Duchess, when he mean' .°
have attended a horticultural and mechanical exhibitio;
Sharpley shoots off sharp utterances with the rapidity ell
a repeating rifle, and always hits the bull's-eye. Pc)bs°„o
and his wonderful banjo- playing, Dick Ralph in
eccentricities, and the queer, ungainly, dexterousJaP3l2%;
make up the amusing portion of the bust bill over given -
a variety show in this city.—Wilkes's Spirit.
Wilkes' Spirit says :--,4 We are pleased to hear t•-113
Miss Kellogg has made a brilliant and enthusiastic sucre:
in London at Her Majesty's Theatre, as Marguerite'
'Faust.'"

Thayer and Noyes' Circus is in Washingtnt
with Dr. Thayer, the cultivated clown, and the 1313gn'-'
cent lions.
Offenbach's compositions are said to be PO.
arised from Chinese music two thousand years old.
Blind Tom, the wonderful pianist, is at Flo
delphia.
The " lake scene " of the new piece which istis
succeed the " Black Crook " has been rehearsed, 311 d
pronounced surpassirgly beautiful.