The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-23

The report gains ground that it will be pro-
posed to extend the Regency of Marshal Ser
rano for three years, thus pOstponing the choice
OF q permanent ruler for that period. We are
assured that all political parties, including even
some Republicans, acqulesce IN TINS arrange
ment-it is not easy to see with what uIterlor
views.
Chances of War Between Spain and the United
The London Daily Telegraph, discussing the
chances of war between the United States and
SPAIN which is ION the cards, says the mercan-
tile navy of America, which has butlately begun
to recover from the shock of the civil war, would
again be driven from the seas; our cousins would
lose the carrying trade which they are now win
ming back; the markets of the whole world would
be affected by the disturbance of commerce; and
Spain herself might utterly lose the chances of
political and financial rehabilitation that seemed
to be afforded by the revolution of September.
The danger may look remote; but grave events
have ere now sprung from diplomatic passages
at arms far less menacing than the present. 1t
urges the resumption of the overtures for the
purchase of Cuba, and says in the interests of
all concerned, it would be matter for grave re-
gret if any extreme resolutions at Washington
put an end to them.
The London Daily Ne1os says rumor is afoat
that the proposal of the American Government
to Spain for the purchase of Cuba on the basis
of the payment of 800, 100000 guaranteed by
the United States, has found very powerful
friend in the Spanish Administration, whose
name for the present the Ne1Cs thinks it de-
sirable not to mention. One cannot close ones
eyes 10 LQe increasing IutL Juc per-
tinacty of the rebellion, the prolonged and accu-
mulating expense of the measures necessary to
confront it, and the persistency and unaninlity
of a certain party in the United States in their
endeavors to secure the island at this juncture,
may possibly wear out the patience of Spain.
Effect of the Byron Scandal.
The librarian of an extensive. library in Glas-
gov writes:-"Since the publication of Mrs.
Stoves narrative there has been quite run on
Lord Byron's poetry. Six copies are out, and
have been out this last week, and have had
since Wednesday thirteen additional applica-
tions for the much-coveted volumes / may add
that the demand has mainly come from young
ladies and from youths of sixteen or seventeen
years, and the Parisina' and Don juan are
most sought after. Two young lady members
have four times asked in vain for 'Parislna.'
A Venerable Dowager's Story.
A correspondent of the London Times says
II am permitted to give some details furnished
me by a lady of great natural abilities and keen
observation, unimpaired by advanced age
fashionable political, and literarY-both of days
long past and of these is perhaps, unsurpassed.
The Dowager Lady s. writes as follows
Stoves account Of Lord Byron l want to know the
truth. l have seen great deal of Mrs. Leigh
Newmarket, when Lord Byron was in the house,
and, as she told me- was writing M go The Corsar,a >
small house, full of her ill-trained children, who
were always running up and down stairs and going
into "uncle's" bedroom, where he remained all
the morning, Mrs. Leigh was like mother
to Byron, being so much older, and not
went ' with her., at her request, to pay a
wedding visit to Lady Byron when she returned
to town, and she Mrs Leigh expressed the greatest
anxiety that his marriage should reform him. He
opened the drawlngroom door himself, and received
my congratulations as savagely as expected, look
ing demon-like he often did. But my astonish-
ment at the present accusation is unbounded. She,
ane lady scrospe S Davis used to come dnner
and talked great deal to me about Byron after
wards, when he resided in the country, and never
remember hint at this unnatural and improbable
liaison when all London was at Byrons feet Ihave
rs Les Laa S Of her was aa9 per to
fecty correct She says 'she was an amiabe and
devoted wife and mother OF seven children. Her
opinion of her. She must have been married lin
1soD when Byron % was quite boy (he was nineteenl
tunes in her later years. Her excellent and only
surviving daughter nursed her with the tenderest
been so wicked to write so horrible story of one
too long dead to have friends left who could refute
the story, seems beyond belief"
The Pope and American Freedmen.
The London Post says that the condition of
the emancipated negroes in the United States
has attracted the attention of the Holy See, and
the Roman Catholic Church is about to make q
great effort to bring these outcasts within her
fold. No less than two hundred of them are
now, correspondent says, studying for the
priesthood at Rome There are, as the writer
quoted says, certain features OF the Roman
Catholic ritual which render it specially well
adapted to captvate the negro imagination,
and it will, he thinks, be not surprising if a
large portion of the black population of the
South is brought over to the Church of Rome.
This will not be pleasant news for Protestants
NapoIeon's Health and the Destinies of France.
The London Times in its comments on the
crisis in France, says;-
The Emperor Napoleon cannot afford to be
ailing 1t matters Comparatively little whether
his malady is acute or chronic, Or finally,
whether il all arises from shattered nerves and
depression of spirits. The fact is, he does not
preside at his council and every one can ina
zine what the Imperial Council is without the
Emperor. A great crisis is impending. mo-
mentous change is in progress. One can almost
imagine the Empress meeting the members OF
the Cabinet in the council-room, and address
ing them in "Lady Macbeths" words,
telling them that her lord ''grows worse
and worse" and bidding them ''stand not
npon the order of their going, but go at once"
The day before and the day after the delivery OF
his speech in the Senate, Prince Napoleon was
closeted with his Imperial cousin at ST. Cloud.
The truth appears to be that the necessity OF q
better understanding between the Emperor and
Prince Napoleon begins to be felt. There are
men who think the Prince has been always q
trump card in the Emperor's hand, to be played
iaGwae great emergency and that even MS late
has only been put forth as feeler to ar,
Aorrect knowledge of mems minds II
mdeed the purpose the result was
I ,'< RI NJ. 8H0Eered for the clamor raised by the
W 80. place Frances real liberal