New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-18

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Rebel reverses. II reminds OF The De Sau'J OF
! Dr. Holiness Electro chemical poem:
"whcn the curen. strengthened 0loomed the y'eieed
Tool drink or victu.l, yet grew IA, sndro'y
And rom time 10 time, in shdi y agtlcaihtioh,
| SAID HuTn! JEFF Davis
When the curen. ,lachened drooped the m,. .rans'r
Faded faded, faded, as the stream grew we'heT'
OF disintepation'
Yesterday the Palmcrstonian Morning Post, 100. ma
'woand.a. quarter column the Sanitary Commis'
sion.
should not wonder IL the impressions as 10 me
dccadcnco OF the Rebellion gaining ground sinnl-
taleou-ly in Ersaea, but OF that your Partisan cor
respondent well qualified to keep You advised. Very
recently got a letter from an acquaintance in that
capital who told me that an unusual amount Of cor
dialty is now manifested toward oil representatives. oil
the T. g Government, the astutc Emperor having re-
solved hcnceforlh 10 observe such neutrality that no
more Rebel vessels shah again set forth from French
ports 10 prey on American CONFERENCE.-THE winch sounds
100 GOOD 70 believe Further that among military men
there existed cuiiou. impression that Gen Grant coud
take Richmond whenever be chose and that he only de-
lavcd to DO so les, he might compel Lees army to re-
treat southwark and in conjunction With that OF Hood
20 fan upon aud ovcrmutch sherman. You know that
French opinon has commonly been rather favorable TO
the present commander Of the Army ofthe Potomac.
To miscellaneous matters. We have not talked much
vet of the capture Of the Florida by the Wdchust IN
a Brazilian haIbor. though i expect that the circuDl'
stances Of The viii excite considerable discussion"
and the usual quantity Of Ango.Rebol denuncauon Of
American awessness and disregard ~ the rights oil
neutral governments. England has night 70 be ten
dery interested in behalf Of Brazil she has, herself
behaved toward her with such singular magnsniinity
At present the general opinion is that we are wrong
but that the aggrivel party bling Brazil weak nation
with leanings toward the Rebels wiI be obliged to
pocket IT, ayengng herself If she chooses she did In
her quarrel with England, by Withdrawing her AM
lhlssador.
wrote in ny last about Tho entrance Of vessel sail
ing under the equivocal name Of Southern Rights
which entered the Thames and past the Niagara and
Sacramento being mistaken fOT Rebel cruiser, Or al
least insoent bocade runner. She LES now OF the
docss, uadcr the Stars aud Stripes her ownor being o.
cnsibly loyal citizen Of the lnted states, haiIing
from Milne What induced him To select such title
for his craft only the genius Of pcivoIsity knows.
Sommes is said to be of again. from Liverpool in a
schooner which has conveyed him aboard "a large
screw steamer lying off Funcha understood to be the
New Alabama, which steamed out 70 sea nd made for
Bermuda" Thus yesterdays papers. Privately the
change as a smar. transaction the part of Nh John
Laird Of Birkenhead Bnt for this indirect coFobbora
ton should pu, it down oaaa,& ioF the looking
Raphael commonly escapes, Ike me eutue.A.h, III
obscurity of his own raising
To English sulJccts. proper. Yesterday there was
buried at Rcnsal Green Cemetery the iody Of John
Leech. artist whoso handivork Is known to civilized
people al tho world over lie lles at ju.t graves dis
Fuu. OH .l.use sch ir
friend lis ardent admircr .lliam Nakepeace Thaok-
gay Only thirteen months and DO stood there rs
mourner among Others OF highlands modest. and sur
prsed them By sudden burst OF intense grief all the
more noticeable snd affecting coming from ord mart
~ cold grave and reserved. Thus the most loyeablc
tie most delightful the most exquisite II English
dlalgli rests beside iEcomparably the greatest
novelist. il sHpeTiuous TO praise him. though one
longs 10 do H. gratitude for the ,housaTl IL OF kindly
honest pleasant graceful humorous pictures We have
owed 10 him FOR many years. lie Lifted earicaiure
into the region OF the fine arts he The Dickens
tic pencil Before BIZ advent comc draw ing attempted
only very limited range 81 topics il crude,
and ugly despite tie occasional eHceoHcics Of George
Cruikshank But nov Via, storclouso Of blameess
fun Is there Ia those forty six volumes oi PHoh ioug
hurcbackod enemy. Peac, wlo for the last hifdozen
years wold have been unut:oiably dreaTy without
John Lccch ! old enough 20 Tooollect his artistic
beginning Over quarter Of Il century ago Bdrs LVt
published wood cat per week under the title u \
Gallery Of Comioaities." Some were drawn by Kenny
Meadows. but the majority owed their existence 10
young IondonoT who had not then quite omancipated
himself from the position Of q medical student and the
shop Of a surgeon and general practitioner at Hoxton
where Ais friends had placed bin Tbs practitioner
other than the original ofthe Mr. Hawkins the athletic
lures ofMr LcLbury," whose yaearies are very faith.
fully reproduced in that amusing novel Subsequent 70
the ast appearance Of that remarkable gentleman
Lcech wisely resolved follow the bent Of his artistic
ncnations. He had his hordships at first Of course;
and uscd to tell halfpntheiic. halthunorous story
about his carrying large photographic stone from pub
Usher topnblishcr yainy soliciting them to purchase IT,
until he knew not which achcd tie most his arms or his
heart Very soon, however. came opportunity. lie
drew good deal for BeHteys Wsc,iloav On the l7th
ofJuly, lsil. Henry Mayhew. Marx Lemon l.. Ian.
dcs Stirling Coync, Henry Gratan and others started
Punch and in Of it, earliest numbers YOU win lind
big cut Of Foreign Affairs with tie little hero.
glypLic signature Of wIigslng iecl in n bottle of
water, 50 familiar Nou know the rest. At
the time of us dcccase lc vas making upward Of
1900 by his pencil.
He died Of heart disease probably accelerated by herd
work, at eight and forty Wherever be went he carried
his labor in the shape OF carpeibas iu OF lockwood
to be day RENTED TO Fectst with the words penccd
on the blocks 81 hnYe never been without in the
house waiting for me { wanted most immediate the
boy always says for twenty years lie told personal
friend recently. They say that the ogangrindcys helped
TO k him. Certain il is that hc Lad become terribly
sensitive and irritable lie hated al noises, his
dread Of them amounting nonomana There has been