New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

press with the tlwayg lively topic OF the treat
American Rebellion AS is the natural courte Of
events in all excitements like that now raging in
London, after a certain period of wild snd aImost
insane fright, during which the Engshman rusles
10 The Times with bis more or lees feeble but fran
tic cry, there then comes an interval Of comparative
quiet and we see something like philosophical
attempt to discover CAUSES and apply remedies.
Whether rightly or not, the London press seem to
agree, edtorially and in the general tenor o. their
correspondence, one point: that the great under
lying evil is the presence in the city Of tho ticket
of-leave" men, Gbout whom 80 mach bias been writ
ten aud said during the past fifteen years. The gen.
era features of the system ore well enough known
to our readers and this ID not the tine 10 90 deeper
INTO the subject. The Journals and the people who
send communications TO them, insst upon il, az an
undeniable fact, that the town now swarns with
these tieket-oi-leave" men, let eff from punish
ment upon the suppoaition that they will become,
nave became, and becoming good and sober citI-
zens, because industrious citizens; that these men
DO not 30 become respectable; that they would not
if they could and that they could not if they would
that they are led by combined want and evil
example TO follow tho natural pgomrtings of
their deprayed dispositions, and that they take
to highway robbery as spontaneously az tic newly
fedg.d duck seeks the ster. Sir Joshua Jebb,
who is held TO be, in ID measure, the father, or
spousor OF the "tcket-of leave" system, 10 now the
victim upon whom all v.als OF wrath poured; in
IN unlucky moment, with either q bodncss or
fatuty unequaled no chose tie very hight OF the
excitement to come on, with deiense Of tue plan,
and Of the miserable convics who .ook advantage Of
the system. Consequently, he Is abused by the
daily, weekly, and monthly press, and Inns iurnshed
ample na.egis 10 PaEch for caricatare and satire,
invariably iil-humored, and occasionally witty.
M.anwh bile, the WinGowb Of the London shops
br.sie with destructive weapons of various sorts,
and Of mort curious shspcs; dirks, clasp-kniyes,
notifications Of the American boa Ie-knlic, reyO.v-
ers loaded sticks das ger canes Intricate machines
wilh uncCulh names warranted 20 rlay the user, II
lot tLe one against whota they are used. All there
things scem 70 keep alive thoeexctemcrt, and load
down tho pockets OF nSnly Pcje.irans. IL is liz
tic singular dat, with sue elaborate prcp.rat M,
supposing the evil is No great 20 rs commonly re-
ported, there should be 80 few rascals slail
nlain.od. William Hewitt who. in Il letter 10 The
star make some teusibie suggestions, states that
Ia New South Wales and Tasmania, where uine-
teDbs Of ,le population ARE couyc,s, or TIE Children
Of cJnyci,, tho e4is's most orderly oonui..oa OF
thing; wli.e in London hardly decent man or
woman dare venture into tie streets al hight, lie has
travelled alone. night ard day, among thla trans
lored convict population, aud slepl ia their tent IN
no instance being molested. Ihis, IN his opinion
alisos from taking men away from temptation aud
giving hem constant labor.
/ -George CruiktLank, name 90 long known as
th.l VI d mona. caricaturst, to speak that in our
minds We Almos, inclined 10 make lin a cotcm-
porary Of IIogarth has now full exhibition Of 400
Of bis works, early aud l4te, great and
small, at Exeter Hail, London The lumor Of
Craikrhauks cerlcalures Of faehoaable fobies and
foes long ago is not Of n sort to be iqly sppre-
c.aled ty Us who have become accustomed TO a STYLE
Of saiiical engraving which evolves the hgmor Of
the situation, and pc cnie dramatic group rather
than grotesqus individual; bat in tie Tiotnres
where be was moved by graver dese where no
sought 10 project upon the block his idea Of griev
ons wrong, his great strength appeared OF Cruk-
shauks more rec woiks the cause Of temperance
has icaped tie advantage, bis main force having
becu boldly, almost sayagoly, directed asaiusl the
mighty evil by which the English working classes
have suffered eleh damage.
The latest and Guiding phase Of tho cole
brs,ed .dc,oussc ID lon duel case iu Paris was q
trial Of tic cause IN which Madame Dillon eoupL.
ind unity from the Duke 10 C.lcrousse Tor the IT,
Jury she suffered in tie oss Of lcr fon. Sc de-
manded lie annuity OF 900 francs and the sum Of
5000 franco Tor funeral expenses. Tho plea Of the
defese was 10 the effect that tie Duke had been Hc-
Quilted lie charge OF homicide. upd that this vcI-
Oct I'D IN elect sad he not responsible Tor tue
death VI bis Antagonist moreover tna. the amount
claimed was too large. La opposition 10 tits last
Point, II wbs own thnt Alr. Dillon WAS IN receipt
d from 1850 TO 80 600 francs yetr, Lilo f0urce9 oi
,nco.e bong las own per, H. hpod, aud various
In, lien ournais, Of which he Ao cosrosp NJ.
On botu4 OF a., Duke, one Of hs counsel stated to
the Court thai if client lad pus.,d "a stormy
/ youth" aud bad GIsspa,ed million Of francs in
low yoaIs, f.ct which Induced his family 10 pa.
BIN under Ac restraint Of legal guardian; siiil be
did no, wsh 10 plead poverty, for his client NOW
joy cd tho income of ,aili of fnn.s u his own
of ne-rly two millions Inherited FROM Il brother
III, r,.ut Of tie trM was a decree N favor OF
NJ idntne Dillon, coaiemuiug ,ho Duke 10 pay her al
auuuiy OF 5000 francs.
"A loIer-wrer gho dncs from Khar,oum, on
lho White Me, rays that tho legitimate irade OF
that place has given way to "A traffic III blnyes and
ivory. The BANNER OF obtaining tho former is this,
| he merchant IN knanOum sends Il lntge party OF
amed meu IA sailing vessos, wh, attack prospef-
ous village hi or dive away the meu, and capture
the women and oidrcn. TIE ivory IL obtained by
ON equally respectable, but more elaborate metAod,
/ AT Ito same time tho slaves taken, above
stated Arge numbers Of cattle caught; they for
Mil tho merchants capital. lie sends them, under
conduct # his aimed force into tho Interior among