The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-04
The Old World A. 1t Is-Its Royalism,
Relation, SuiIerings and Crime.

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The special correspondence from Europe by
mail which Is published in our columns to-day
embraces a very varied, interesting aud really
important detail of the progress Of events In
the Old World to the Gath of June. Napoleon
was convaescent and about to proceed from
the Tuileries to St. Cloud so as to enjoy
more complete rest, and thus tone up
his system more effectually. Paris was dull;
really wanting in sensations. The Prince OF
Wales, with the leading members of the British
aristocracy enjoyed the sport of pigeon
shooting on an extensive and right
royal scale at birmingham. The place,
the scenes which were witnessed on
the way to it from London, as well as tho
manner of conduct Of the pastime are de-
scribed by one of our special writer's. The
report of the condition of the poor
birds at the close will certainly lead to
the differences and query:-Does pigeon shoot
ing as conducted at Nottingham tend to ele-
vate the humanities is the sport of pigeon
shooting good everyday practice for the future
head or Pontiff of vast Christian Church?
From st. Petersburg we have a special letter
describing the interior Of the great National
Exhibition Building in the Russian capital its
management, its products, classification and
OrnamentatiOn. The work, as it is set forth by
our writer, affords solid grounds for the hope
that the mighty empire of the Cars will at no
distant day be carried-as was anticipated
lately in our columns-from out of the sphere
of the desolating sweep of the sword
of war and placed within the high
and encrowning and consoling field
of art, industry, material production and gen
eral progress. Ireland speaks again OF British
coercion, of her visitors from abroad being
annoyed and frightened away by the police,
of capital aud muscle driven and exiled from
her soil and of the want which dwells son her
freedomless crags, extending its steps to her
desoate Shore
England was deeply agitated on the subject OF
the national moralities. Assuming himself to be
almost perfect, 'past all parallel" in his social
condition, John Bull is just now standing
aghast at the recent police discoveries of the
s'female masqueraders" and the existence Of
regularly organized system of baby poisoning
for pay, the production of an extensive cor
respondence by letters from many parts of the
country with the alleged poisoner-who has
over half dozen aliases-and the digging up
of the dead bodies of some Of the little
ones in and around London. John is
really Mortified He has his hands
stuck down to the very utmost depths of his
breeches pockets, his hair on end, and is
sorely perplexed, accusing himself almost OF
being quite as bad, if not worse, than the
Asiatics or Africans whom he has been so
anxious to convert to his own system of Chris
tianity, or as the American ''Salwanners"-
according to John Willetts pronunciation in
Dickens ''Barnaby Rudge'-whom he was so
anxious to aid during the war of the rebellion
against the Union. In such mental straits Mr..
Bull is looking for comfort to 'Lothair" on tho
one hand and to Rome on the other. He is
likely to return to first principles either by
the route of the Jordan or the Via Sacra of the
Eternal City. A London Israelite writer
pitches into Blackwoods Magazine again ani
fercely, for its assault on "Lothair" while the
religious movement looking to reunion OF
Christendom under Papal auspices is in
active progress in the British metropolis. So
does the Old World move, as described by our
special writers, and as it keeps moving and
still 'sgoes round we do not despair of its
peoples coming right in the end.