The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-13 00:00:00

THE NEW AUSTRIAN MINISTERS.

Some interesting particulars are given by the
Vienna press respecting the composition of the
new Cabinet. A Ministry containing so few aris-
tocratic names, it appears, has never previously
existed in Austria. Three of the new Ministers
(Brestel, Herbst, and Plener) are Viennese born,

and Dr. Beyer, the Minister without portfolio, is
. .

one of the members for the city. The majority of
the Cabinet (Auersperg, liasner, Taaffe, Herbst,
and Plener) consists of members of the Bohemian
Diet. • No question appears to exist that the Ad-
ministration is altogether parliamentary in its
character, three members being selected from the
Upper House and the remaining six from the Lower.
Brief sketches of the political antecedents of each

will not be out of place.
The new Premier, Prince Carlos Auersperg, was
born in 1814, and became chief of his house through
his father's death in 1827. He first entered public
life in 1861, taking the Liberal side in politics,
and displaying great interest in the conversion of
Austria into a constitutional state. Elected a
member of the Bohemian Diet in 1861, he became
the leader of the constitutional party, and acted
with the German members in most important
questions. His appointment to the Presidency of
the_ Upper House of the Reichsrath reached him
only a few hours before the house assembled, but
he showed himself during his term of office to be
possessed of ample tact, and a man who under-
stood how to avert unpleasant scenes and disputes.
The suspension of the constitution and the conse-
quent close of the Reichsrath, occasioned Prince
Auersperg's abstinence for a considerable period
' from political life; but he was re-elected into the
Bohemian Diet in 1867, and was conspicuous for
his efforts to gain a majority for the party favour-
able to the constitution. The prince is distin-

guished in society for especial amiability, and ex-
hibits so much nobility in mind and conduct that
Herr von Schmerling styled him the " first gen
tleman of Austria," a title that soon became

popular.
Count Edward Taaffe, the Deputy President, is
the second son of the famer President of the Su-
preme Court, and has rapidly risen through the
various gradations of official life. In 1861 he was
secretary in the office of the Governor of Bohemia,
became a councillor in the same department and
head of the Provincial Court at Prague in the
same year, and from 1863 to 1867 occupied the
position of chief in the Duchy of Salzburg. He
was then appointed governor of a district, became
a privy councilor in 1867, and in the same year
succeeded to the portfolio of Minister of the
Interior. Very shortly afterwards he was elected
into the Bohemian Diet, and chosen by that body
as one of its representatives in the Reichsrath.
Count Taaffe is in high favour at Court, and is
upon intimate terms with the Emperor, whose
playmate he was in early youth.
Dr. Karl Giskra, the Minister of the Interior,

time in legal periodicals brought him into notice.
and in 1844 he was appointed assistant teacher o
natural and criminal law at the Theresian Rit

terakademie. In 1848 he published "Press Freedom
and Press Law," and the same year was elected a
member of the National German Parliament by a
Moravian constituency. Frankfort gave him
opportunities of displaying his striking talent as a
public speaker, his speech against the proposed
offer of the dignity of German Emperor to the
King of Prussia arousing great sensation.
Returning to Vienna, Dr. Berger obtained the
appointment of advocate in that capital, acquired
a large practice, and was especially distinguished
in defence. Since that time he has published
several legal works.

PARIS UNDER THE SECOND EMPIRE
AND SOCIETY IN ENGLAND.

The Paris of the Second Empire is still the Paris
of the Revolution. In its morality, in its tone of
mind, in its popular literature it still belongs to
the darker epoch. The politic conversion of Na-
poleon, his obedience to the will of the nation in
regard to Rome must not be rated too high; at
all events it is not the conversion of that cynical,
self-indulgent society of Paris which thrives under
the shadow of the Second Empire. Paris is still
the city of contradictions and of startling contrasts.
Side by side with its fashionable society, so offen-
sive in its tastes and by its ill-disguised immora-
lities, live sedate and sober men and women of
the highest rank devoted to religion, and not more
conspicuous by their simple lives than by their sted-
fast adherence to principle. Writers of the highest
eminence, philosophers and politicians, unswayed
by the favour of Courts, stand aloof in numbers
from the corruption and venality which surround
them, and which stand in perpetual fear of their
just influence on the country at large.

By the side of a press which, year by year, pours
out a flood of corruption, inundating with its
poisonous, anti-social, and anti-Christian princi-
ples not Paris only, but the provinces and the
lands which are tributary to France I for their
mental aliment, there is another press at work,
earnestly and successfully engaged in restoring to
the nation and to the nineteenth century the lost
heritage of knowledge in things human and divine.
Nowhere is Christian charity more self-denying,
Christian faith more transparent and energetic in
action ; nowhere are the influences of religion
more pervading in every relation of life over the
hearts and minds of numberless men and women,
especially in the higher grades of society, than in
the city where vice is a fashion and cynical
Sin-
fidelity an open profession. In Paris there are
two cities—the city of light and the city of dark-
ness ; and the best proof of the progress of reli-
gion in the land so long lost to Voltairianism, is
the bitter struggle which is going on between the
two for mastery. Evil is being exorcised, and,
in its fury at being put upon its defence, waxes
not only wroth and insolent, but seeks a refuge by
endeavouring to plunge society into a mad vortex
of dissipation. The Second Empire hates extremes.
It sees in the triumph of the good the end of its
own reign of intellectual stagnation and moral
depravity ; but it fears still more the success of the
chained Revolution, for evil once more let loose
on the streets of Paris would be beyond the power
of a Louis Napoleon to control. Hence the policy
of the Second Empire is "bread and the games."
It detests nothing so much as earnestness ; the
mooting of serious questions troubles it like a
bad dream.
This desire to avoid at all hazards serious

was born in Moravia, in 1820. His father, a tan
ner, gave his son a careful education. After
leaving school at Brunn in 1837, the young man
studied at the University of Vienna, where he
became assistant Professor of Political Economy in
1845. Elected to the Frankfort Parliament in
1848, he resigned his professorship, and, after the
dissolution of the Parliament, practised as a bar-
rister in Western Russia. In 1850 he returned to
Vienna, and sonic time afterwards obtained the
position of advocate at Brunn. This proved the
stepping-stone to fortune. From 1861 he en-
tered public life, was elected to the Reichsrath,
and
sid
distinguished. Dr. Giskra is
rapidresolution and energetic
conconsidered
r ed speedily a became
man
of
action, and is credited with great administrative
and organizing talent. Proof of this was afforded
last year during the Prussian occupation of Brunn,
when he held the post of burgermeister. The Kin,g,
and the Crown Prince of Prussia are said to enter-
tain a high regard for him, and a story is current
that the Crown Prince, when introducing Giskra
to the King, made use of the expression, " I pre-
sent to you here the most capable man in Austria."
Dr. Hasner, the new Minister of Education, is
now about fifty. Born in Prague, he became edi-
tor of the official Prager Zeitung in 1848, and im-
parted to the paper a moderately Liberal tendency.
In 1849 he was appointed Extraordinary Professor
of the Philosophy of Law at Prague University.
His election to the Bohemian Diet, and afterwards
to the Lower House of the Reichsrath, took place
in 1861. In 1865 he became Professor of Poli-
Itical Science at the Vienna University, and was
appointed Hofrath. As he resigned his parliamen-
tary appointment at this period, it was supposed
I for a time that he was about to devote himself
entirely to an academical career, but he again re-
turned to the arena of politics in 1867, being
elected to the Bohemian Diet as member for Tran-
tenau, and again transferred thence to the Reichs-
rath. An Imperial letter of May sth, which created
several new peers in Austria, also appointed
Hasner a life member of the Upper House. Dr.
Hasner is favourably known as the author of
" The Philosophy of Law," and a system of Poli-
tical Economy, in addition to numerous contribu-
tions to legal periodicals.
Herr von Plener, the Minister of Commerce,
formerly Minister of Finance, was born in 1810
at Vienna, where his father, who was ennobled
in 1850, was attached to the Court. He studied
at the Vienna University, took his degree as Doc-
tor of Laws in 1832, and entered the public ser-
vice in 1836 at Eger. In 1851 he was sent on an
extraordinary mission to Pesth, and upon the
organization of the financial department in Hun-
gary in 1852 was despatched with the rank of
an Imperial Court Councillor to Pressburg, to take
the head of the newly-established finance office in
that district. After filling a similar position at
Lemberg in 1857, he was summoned to Vienna,
where he was made a privy councillor, and en-
trusted with the provisional direction of the Minis-
try of Finance, as the successor of Baron Bruck.
Upon the accession of Herr von Schmerling to the
Cabinet, at the latter end of 1860, Herr von Plener
was definitively appointed Finance Minister, and
held the office for five years, his tenure only termi-
nating with the fall of the Schmerling Cabinet. In
1867 he was elected to the Bohemian Diet, and
thence passed to the Reichsrath, where he joined
the Opposition.
Count Alfred Potoski belongs to an old Polish
family, many of whose members have risen to the
highest dignities in the State, the army, and the
Church, Since the 16th century. In 1861 he was
appointed to the hereditary Reichsrath, and elected
the same year a member of the Galician Diet. • He
again entered the Diet in 1867, and was elected by
it to the Lower House of the leichBrath, By the

questions which might rouse the energies of France
—for happily France is not Paris, whatever Paris
may say to the contrary—lies at the bottom of
the policy of the Second Empire. It is in the
interest of this policy to drown, if possible, the
voice of conscience and quench the light of reason.
What means better adapted to such an end than
the enervating fascinations and the luxurious pro-
fligacy of such a city as Paris, and of such a
society as it alone is able to bring/together, aided
by the encouragement and example of a dissipated
and extravagant court ! It is already become too
trite to remark on the manners of the ruling
favourites of fashionable society in Paris. Any-
thing more unbecoming can scarcely be imagined
than the rivalry before the public eye of painted
vice and the not less bepainted leaders of society.
The great world is becoming a stage, to which
the populace of Paris are admitted as spectators.
They cheer and hiss, they stare at and mob, they
publish criticisms in the newspapers of the beau-
ties, of the arts and wiles, of the dress and bearing
of these actresses of fashionable society. The
manners, as well as the license of speech of the
green-room, are invading the Parisian salons. The
privacy of life is destroyed as well as the sanctity
of home, and woman, to say the least, loses what
Schiller describes as her greatest ornament—
womanliness :

Des Weibes grogste Zierde ist die Weiblichkeit.

_
The manners and tone of society under the
Second Empire, combined with other causes, have
not been without their influence upon England.
London is not so far removed from Paris as it was
twenty years ago. Twenty years ago French
scepticism and social " fastness" were both shunned
as un-English. No paper, for instance, of the cha
ratter of the Pall Mall Gazette, without at least
eliciting a storm of indignation, could have quietly,
as it did the other day in a review of the year, put
the question as a matter for consideration " whe-
ther any form of Christian faith be true." Such
open avowals of unbelief, which pass unchal-
lenged, are not uncommon now-a-days in what is
called the intellectual press. Statements of the
kind wAuld never be made in so uncalled-for a
, manner unless public writers were conscious that

:Emperor's desire he resigned his post in order to their scepticism was very generally shared by their
take his seat in the Upper House. The Count readers. Synonymous, whether consequent or not,
enjoys high reputation as an excellent landlord with this growth in the cultivated classes of un-
and agriculturist. He has introduced model farms belief, a laxity in manners somewhat akin to that
and improvements into his native district, and of the Parisian Court is creeping over English
administers his enormous landed property with society. The cynical discussion as to the " disuse
great ability. of marriage," the flippant homilies on women in
Professor Edward Herbst, the new Minister of the Saila day Review, besides other instances
Justice, is just forty-seven years of age. He studied which we forbear to discuss, are symptoms, if proof
at the Vienna University, took his doctor's degree, were wanting, that the old decencies and respec-
then became Professor of Legal Philosophy at tabilities of English life are on the wane. It is
Lemberg in 1847, and was transferred to Prague, impossible to look forward without misgiving to
in a similar capacity, in 1858. His entry into poli- the breaking up of the hold which Protestantism,
tical life began in 1861 at the Bohemian Diet, where as a system of religion, had on the English mind.
he was associated with Bring and Hasner in the The lapse from Protestantism into unbelief, though
leadership of the German party. Herbst is not longer delayed in England than in Protestant
only the hardest worker, but also the cleverest Germany, is but too likely to lead to a greater
dialectician at the Reichsrath and the Diet. No social deterioration than is now to be found in
one is equal to him in readiness of repartee, yet France, for the decencies of English life are no
his quiet and self-command often drive his oppo- substitute for the active defence of morality, and
nents to despair. His experience and knowledge the reinvigorating power which the Church in
of Austrian finance have been acquired in the France has always been able to bring to bear, even
Reichsrath, and it is not to be denied that he is in the worst of times, on French society. More-
among the severest critics of this department. over, there is this difference between France and
His achievements, however, in the field of juris- England at the present day : that the highest in-
prudence are still more extensive, and his advent tellectual activity of France—we are not speaking
to the Ministry of Justice is generally approved. of the lower literature—is rising from the slough
Dr. Rudolf Brestel, who has had the courage to of infidelity to the knowledg of Christian truth ;
undertake the most difficult post among all the whereas, in England, the tendency in the intel-
Ministries—that, namely, of finance—was born at lectual classes is towards rationalism. Protests
Vienna, in 1816. His chief studies in youth were tantism once dead can never revive ; there is,
philosophy and mathematics. From 1844 to 1848 therefore, no reinvigorating power at present with
he filled the office of Assistant Professor of sufficient means at its disposal to act upon English
Elementary Mathematics at the Vienna Univer- society in such a manner as the Church in France
sity, and became member of the Austrian Reich- did when France fell a victim to Voltairianism.
srath in 1848. He entered subsequently into Though, in England, it is to be hoped that un-
journalism, and has held the post of secretary at belief will not come with such overwhelming force ;
the Credit Institution for Trade and Commerce yet, as the means of protection and of restoration
since 1856. In 1861 he was elected to the Lower are less than in France, the danger of such an evil
Austrian Diet, and thence passed into the Iteichs- inflicting permanent injury is greater. What form
rath. He is known as a ready speaker, and a firm the threatened religious and social Revolution, if
adherent of the Constitutional party. it be not, as we trust it may, altogether averted,
Dr. Berger, the Minister without portfolio, was what gradations it will follow, it is not easy to
born in Moravia in 1816. Losing his parents early forecast. Old habits of mind, social traditions,
in life he had to encounter hardships while going reverence for the past, the soberness of the national
through the Gymnasium at Olmutz, but entered character, are opposed to violent changes, and to
with great zeal upon the study of mathematics public exhibitions of irreligion or of immorality ;
while attending lectures on philosophy. In 1834 but, in spite of these excellent qualities, indica-
he went to Vienna, where he studied law, but tions are not wanting that the sanctities of domestic
still indulged his liking for mathematics by attend- life are being held in lower esteem, and that the
ing Littrow's astronomical lectures. Subse- tone of English society is degenerating to that of
quently he devoted himself entirely to the
,study Paris under the Second Empire.— Westminster
of law, and took his degree as Doctor in 1841. Gazette.
Several articles from his pen appearing about this

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

From the Anglo-American Times.)

General Butler has been named for President,
and the Hon. Ben. Wade for Vice-President on an
ultra-Radical platform. A strong movement is
being made by the friends of Chief-Justice Chase.
The central committee of the Republican party of
Louisiana met at New Orleans on the 23d Decem-

ber, and unanimously nominated him for the Presi-
dency. The caucus of the Georgia Convention was
almost unanimous for the same ticket—five dele-

gates only responding for General Grant. There
is a rumour that should the Chief-Justice's friends
fail to carry the Chicago Presidential Convention,
they will withdraw to St. Louis, and there organise
one they can control. They feel sure that the
Southern States will vote for him if they can get
into the National Convention, and for this purpose
the Radicals in Congress will, if possible, hasten
Reconstruction. " General Hancock and Minister
Adams" is a ticket talked of by the Democrats.
But although a strong section of the Radicals are
opposed to General Grant he remains the people's
candidate, and it will take a great deal to shake
him out of this position.
The President's Message, asking Congress pub-

licly to recognise the merits of General Hancock,,
which has been received with such derision through-
out America, is explained by the fact that the De-
mocrats have turned their attention towards the
General as a candidate for the Presidency. Some
Congressmen of that party waited on the President
and asked his aid by directing public attention to
him. Mr. Johnson the more readily responded, as
he could imply censure on Congress while praising
Hancock. The step was a false one, as the Demo-
crats have found, and now they blame the Presi-

dent for using his prerogative to advance the schemes
of his political supporters. Its effect on the House
of Representatives is seen by the resolution passed
last Monday thanking General Sheridan for his
services, and censuring President Johnson for re-
moving him from his command. General Hancock
may well exclaim, " Save me from my friends 1"
Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record
for Jan. 1 announces a large number of interesting Ame-
rican works. In noticing Charles Dickens's story in Our
Young Folks, called " A Holiday Romance," the Messrs.
Trubner doubt whether the purchasers of the copyright
are protected by American law, although Messrs. Ticknor
and Fields believe it cannot be produced without their
sanction even in England. This, however, is denied by
another publishing firm, which, yesterday, in the Times,
asserted that a foreigner in the States is protected in his
copyright by the law. If the tale can be pirated, it is
considered another strong reason for American publishers
to unite in demanding an international copyright. We
extract the following items from Messrs. Trubner's literary

table :
" The Letters of the Hon. G. M. Dallas, during
his residence in London as Minister in England, 1856-60,
will shortly be published under the editorial revision of
his daughter, Miss Julia Dallas.
" Gail Hamilton has in hand a new volume on
" Woman's Wrongs."
The Hon. William B. Kenney, formerly United
States' Minister to Sardinia, and previously editor of the
Newark Advertiser, has boen engaged for nearly ten years
in the preparation of "A History of Tuscany."
Messrs. J. B. Lippincott and Co., of Philadel-
phia, are publishing what they term a " Globe Edition" of
Lord Lytton's novels at a dollar and a half per volume.
The volumes are printed in long primer type on toned
paper, and form very handsome, portable, and readable
books.
4‘ Professor G. W. Greene is preparing an edition
uf. the Works, with a Life of his Grandfather, General
Greene.

" Mr. G. P. Putnam,has just prepared and pub-
lished "An American Supplement to Hadyn's Dictionary
of Dates."

" Southern Society—a weekly4ournal of literature,
society, and art—has just been commenced at Baltimore.
In its list of contributors we recognise the names of many
of the most distinguished writers connected with the
Southern States.

"Remarkable Trials of all Countries," is the title I
of a book announced for speedy publication in New York.
It will contain the trials of Charlotte Corday, Earl For-
rers, the Marchioness of Brinvilliers, Courvosier for the
murder of Lord William Russell, Corder for the murder of
Maria Martin, Robinson for the murder of Helen Jawitt,
J. C. Colt for the murder of Samuel Adams, Sawney
Deane, &c., &c. It is to form an Bvo. volume of about 450
pages.
" We are glad to announce the appointment of our
friend, Mr. M. C. Tyler, well known in England, to the
Professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature in Mi-
chigan University."
tinder Secretary Seward's superintendence and
the authority of Congress, a handsome book, called the
"Lincoln Memorial," has issued from the Government
printing office. Three thousand copies are printed ; only
one copy is given to each member of Congress. Foreig❑
Governments and societies which in any manner noticed
the death of Mr. Lincoln are to have copies.
The California Legislature has elected Mr.
Eugenie Casserly to the United States Senate, in place
of Mr. Conness, whose term has expired, after a ballot of
several days. The Democratic party in the Senate gains
one, and the Republican loses one by this change. Mr.
Casserly's term, however, will not commence before the
4th March, 1869.
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, who has pro-
mised to address the people of New York "on the condition
of the South," is now on his way North. His aldress will
be made at the Cooper Institute early in January. M-.
Stephens is in feeble health, and has to travel by easy
stages.
B. F. Martin, of Manchester, New Hampshire,
W. F. Daniels of Franklin, and the proprietor of the Sun-
cook and Webster mill at Suncook, were arrested on
Dec. 17 by the United States officials, charged with re-
venue frauds.
James W. Johnson, the Republican nominee for
State Railroad Commissioner, is one of the most prominent
and influential business men of northern New Hampshire.
He in a native of Enfield, where he still resides, and which
town he has three times represented in the State Legisla-
ture. His occupation as a wool and produce broker has
given him an extensive acquaintanct) and strong influence.
In politics ho has always been Republican.
A court of inquiry into the c:rcuinstances of the
recent railroad disaster at Northfield is being held at that
town. Engineer Abbott, on whom the whole blame of the

accident rests, testified that he was running only eight
miles per hour when he reversed his engine, three lengths
of the train from the chasm, and had the brakes been well

manned he says that he thinks the train might have been
stopped in time. He had not drank intoxicating liquor for
six months, and had no particular care or responsibility on
his mind on the fatal day. Ho was running up to the
bridge a little faster than usual under instructions from
Assistant-Superintendent Tenney, but none of his testi-
mony affords satisfactory explanation of his carelessness or
cause for the accident. Another of the victims (f the dic-
aster was George R Bancroft, of Burlington, who refused
assistance, saying, " 1131 p the other bays, there is no hope
for me," and died in ten minutes.

James C. Engly, went of the Merchants' Union
Express Company, has been arrostedat Providence, Rhode
Is'and, charged with a conspiracy and an attempt to rob
the company's safe at that city of $300,000. is in gaol
awaiting an examination. Engly is the man whose ope-
rations in connection with ItboJe Island ware the subjcct

of legislative examination.

Governor English, of Connecticut, has appointed
Origon S. Seymour of Litchfield, William J. Hammersley
of Hartford, and John T. Wait of Norwich, commissioners,
to inquire what changes, if any, should be made in the
joint-stock laws of the State, and as to the expediency of
creating the office of State Attorney-G3neral. The report
will be made to the next Legislature.

Edward Rogers, a Philadelphia capitalist, has re-
cently bought the " Island" in the Washington lake, near
Now Haven, and is to erect a fine summer country houso

,hereon.

The Springfield Republican says :—The Democrats
have a new candidate for the Presidency, and the strongest
one named yet, General Di; who will resign the mission
to France in a few months.

Governor Fletcher has decided the closely con-
tested election of a successor to Congressman Noell, of the
third Missouri district, by giving the certificate to Gen.
James R. M'Cormack, Democrat.

Francis Tukey, formerly a famous criminal lawyer
in Boston courts, and chief marshal of the city under
Mayor Quincy ten years ago, died recently near Sacra-
mento, California. In 1861 he was a member of the
California General Assembly.
M. de Bille, the Danish Minister to the United
States, has arrived at New York. There is a report that
the ion. John P. lisle, the United States Minister at
Madrid, is to be trausferred to Vienna.

General A. D. Wrass, of Boston, will be strongly-
urged for Sergeant-at-Arms of the next Legislature, and a
letter of high commendation of his military abilities from
Go7ernor Andrew is published. Gen. Wass went with
the old Sixth Massachusetts Regiment as one of its first
lieutenants at the beginning of the war, and rose to his
present rank through the 19th, 41st, 60th, and 62d regi-
ments. He was three times wounded in the service.

Henry H. Haight, Governor of California, is a
native of Rochester.

Neal Dow was given a complimentary break-
fast at the Quincy House, in Boston, o❑ Thursday morn-
ing, Dec. 19, by his friends and allies in the temperance
movement. William Lloyd Garrison and others made
speeches. Mr. Dow expressed his regrets that prohibition
had been rebuffed in Massachusetts.
A girl, ten years of age, was resuscitated at Rum-
ney, Massachusetts, twelve honrs after she was supposed
to have been drowned. She did not regain full conscious-
ness for more than two days.
Among the passengers by the Cintbria, last Tues-
day, at -outhampton, from New York, were—Mr. M'Clin-
tock, United States Consul to Bradford, England, and
Mr. William Heine, Colonel and attaché United States Le-
gation at Paris.
General Meade has declined the removal in suc-
cession to General Pope in the Third Military District,
preferring to remain in command of the department of
the East.

Messrs. J. and F. Howard, of Bedford, and Mr.
C. H. ll'Cormick, of Chicago, received grand prizes at the
Agricultural Exhibition at Billancourt.
There is a report that Commodore Vanderbilt, of
New York, who has a controlling interest in the Long
Island Railroad, intends putting a line of steamers on the
route from Greenpoint to Stonington or New London,
early next spring, to be run in connection with the trains
on the Long Island Road, *so as to make the shortest route
from Boston to New York
A. H. Byington, of the Norwalk Gazet:e, is to
have control of the publishing department of Dana's now
enterprise, the New York Sun.
Mr. Ashley, the impeacher, in his late letter,
says :—" In the estimation of many the situation demanded
a scapegoat, and I have been selected by the anti-im-
peachers to bear off their sins and to divert public attention
from the stupid inconsistencies of the panic-stricken im-
peachers."
Mr. Raymond, of the New York Times, has stated
that in going into the Philadelphia Convention he hoped
to inaugurate a true Union movement in the South, but the
itepunnean party are not ready for it.
Mr. Jefferson Davis and his wife have arrived

in Havarti:lab on their way to Now Orleans.
The Austrian frigate Novara, with the rema'us
of the late Emperor Maximilian on board, arrived off Corfu
last Wednesday.

Jacob Barker, ruined by the civil war, is now
before the courts as a bankrupt. His fortune at one time
was immense.

Freeman B. Smith, a counterfeiter, fled from
Toledo, lowa, to Kingston, Canada, where he was fol-
lowed, and his surrender demanded by the State autho-
rities of lowa. This was resisted by his counsel, who
maintains that counterfeiting is forgery, and forgery is
not within the provisions of the extradition treaty.
An argument of Lucy Stone, on the 26th Decem-
ber, when holding forth at Brooklyn on Woman Suffrage,
was to the effect that a soldier imperilling his life for hie
country had in all ages and stages of civilisation acquired
rights as a freeman, that is the right to vote ; but as e
woman imperilled her life to bring the soldier into the
world she also acquired a right to vote.
Mr. James Hutton has resigned the editorship
of the Leader.

Chief Justice George Martin, of Ohio, died at
Cleveland, on Sunday, Dec. 15, Rear-Admiral James S.
Palmer, commander of the north Atlantic squadron, died
at St. Thomas, West Indies, on Dec. 7, of yellow fever.

The Maine shipbuilders aad owners held a con-
vention at Bath, on Thursday, Dec. 19, and appointed
agents to press upon Congress the removal of duties upon
articles used in shipbuilding, and to repeal all unfriendly
legislation. Delegates were also chosen to the National
Commercial Convention to he holden at Boston in
February.

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