New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-18

al public passions, preudices ,and caprces Judging
'nein with equal freedom and calmness whenever
.hey presented themselves before him; meyer Quarrel,
ing with them abruptly, but ever resolved to reals,
"neh tney compromised the policy which, in his
strong conviction, the public interest called on him to
maintain. While possessing the instint and natural
gls o' authority he was eminsntly prudent aud scr-
Puous 10 the exercise Of government full of respect
Ior menan general, and for the common rights Of ALL
but without any democratic bias, and diguifed in
manner Oh all occasions almost TO severity An al.
mirable compound of lofty intelligence and tempered
Judgment as Of pride without ambition. which com
manded, at the same time respect and confidence and
raised him to the undispued leadership of people who
in him their most dsinerested their safest ables,
and worthest servant"
Not little curious is tie letter Of Louis Phip,e TO
NJ. Guzot. in acknowledgement Of receiving copy of
his biographical essay Washington: INV dear late
Minister: II have 30 long delayed my reply, It ia
because wished to thank you myself for your work
on Washington, and to tell you how much should bs
gratifed il could command time to read and talk over
it with you. You know too well how completely I am
deprived of these tranquil rcaxations Nevertheless
shall endeayor, at least, to read the Introduction,
which hear spoken OF as a masterpiece. My three
years residence ia America produced important
influence On my political opinions and judgment on the
march Of human events The purtanic and democratic
revolution, yanquisbed in England, and driven for
refuge 10 the little States Of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, and Connecticut overlOwed and subdued al!
the other elements Of population in the vast continent
on which the European tempest had impeled it, For,
although the Dutch at New-York, the English Catho-
lies under Lord Baltimore, at Baltimore (l652l, and
earlier than either, the French under Henry IVl,
had attempted this great colonization all were ex.
tinguished under the puritanic democracy, aud the
fragments Of the L0hg Parliament and ts army. But
Washington neither puritan nor aristocgt; still
less was be democrat lie was essentially a man Of
order and overnment-seedng ever to combine and
ufe TO he best advantage the often diseoriant and
always weak elements with which he had to combat,
and to rescue his country from anarchy. feel con-
WINGED that you have drawn him thus, and my conf =.
deuce on this point ad6s much to my regret at not
having line to read your Washington; but it always
gives pleasure to repeat the assurance OF my sent
mcnts toward you."
-"The Last Travels Of Ida Pfeifier - translated by
II. W. Quicken, have been published in London, with
a biographical memoir Of the author The good ldaS
locomotive exploits are almost sufficient to make the
hair stand on end. In 1912, she had beea, between
the months of March and December, at Broufsa Bey-
rout .jaffa Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Nazareth Da-
mascus Baabeck, the Lebanon Alexandra, Cairo,
crossed the desert 10 the sthmus of Sez and the Red
Sea- Egypt Sicily, and the whole length of Italy. In
1915, she was in Iceland, Copenhagen, Christhnis,
Thecmark, over the Swedish lakes to Stockholm, over
Upsala 10 Danomora, and returned to Vienna by
Trayeumnde Hamburg, and Berlin. In 1910
she was again at Hamburg, and from thence
to Rio Janeiro. In lS47 she was at Valparaiso.
travefsed the Pacific Ocean, landed a. Ota-
hee, and from thence sailed 20 Macao, visited Hong
Kong, Canton, then proceeded to Ceylon, which she
trayersed in various directions; next, in Madras and
Calcutta, and proceeded up the Ganges TO Benares;
was AT Sarneth Cawnpore, Delhi Indore, and Bonn
bay. In 1913, she was at Bassora, Bagdad tie ruins
of Ctesiphon and Babylon, Moussoul, UrHaiia, and
Tabuz, Armenia Georgia, Mengrelia; at Anapo,
Kcrtcb, Sevastopol, Odessa COnstantinope, Greece.
the Ionan Islands and Trieste: she had in this last
voyage travelled 500 miles by land aud $4,000 By sea-
In lS5I she in London, Cape Town, Sarawas,
Shifting. Ponanak, the diamond mines OF Laudak. la
1852 she in Batavia Sunaira and poceC ded rear
TO the Lake Eier-rara. She was next among the
smaller Sunda Islands, and to the Moluccas, Banda,
Amboyma, SsparEG, Ceram, and Ternate. Sic tra-
versed tie Pacific TO- $50 miles TO visit California; was
at San Francisco and the goldwasbing districts ON the
Sacramento and the Yuba. In 1888, she was at
Panama Calao, Lima, crossed the Cordilleras, wit
messed an eruption Of tho Co,opaxi, wa, at Quito,
back to Panama, and crossed the Is;hmusi then in
New-Oreans ST. Louis, Chicago, the Falls OF Niagars,
Canada, New-lork, Boston, aud back again IN
England in 1851. This was her second voyage
round the world Her iaS voyage wac 70 Madagascar,
Of which an account 10 given in this volume.
Proceedings have beon taken in England, before
the " Court of Arches, against the Rev. Dr.Wilams,
for his article on Bunsens Biblical Researches in tho
" Essays and Reviews" The Rev. Rowland VIII
liams ID. d., Was formerly Fellow Of King Col
leqe Cambridge, and two or three years ago was
appointed by his College to the benetce of Broad CAak
Wiltshire in the Diocese OF Salisbury. In tue citation
with which he has been served, and in the agteles
which will be fled, lie is changed with throwing con-
tempt the prophetoa books of the Old Testament,
and otherwise degrading the Scriptures. 1t is under.
stood that Dr. Williams will defend himself in assert
ing that, in the article complained of, he has merely
set forth in detail tie leading views of Baron Bunsen,
as expressed in his theological writings, especially in
mis- Egypts Place in Universal History" and he
Goa IN der Geschichie and that in his own CONF
menares upon these, he Las not laid himself open
any charge which will subject him to eccIesiasical
punishment. They cay the, prosecution will likely
fall that it will only give wide publicity to the opinions
is intended 10 repress that it will excite interest and
favor for those opinions and bring scandal upon tho
Church. to which the Bishop simply answers that he
must do his duty.
"A new book of travels in America entitled "a
Woman's Wanderngs in the Western World, by Mrs.
Bromley daughter of SIR Fitzroy Kelley, has recently
been issued in London adding another specimen of con.
ceit and pre- udice to the of inflated rubbish which