The New York herald., 1872-11-27
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

M. Ernest Renan is in Naples
Prince Christian, Of England, is on the CONT
nent
Governor Jewell of Connecticut, is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. Froude yesterday returned to the Brevoort
House from Boston.
State Senator W. B. woodin, of Auburn, is at
the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Ex-State Senator J. H. Ramsay, of Albany, is at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
General s. E. Marvin, of Albany, is sojourning
at the New York Hotel.
Donna Maria Pattuzi Gavazzi, mother Of Father
Gavazzi, died lately at Pist0ja, Italy.
State Treasurer James p. Newc0mb, Of Texas, Is
In the city, at the ST. Nicholas Hotel.
General o. v. Dayton, of the United States Army,
has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel.
Ex-senator William M. Gwin. Of California, yes
terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The Prince OF Wales' thirty-frst birthday was
celebrated with great enthusiasm at Sandringham
on the 9th inst
The Earl OF Shrewsbury has been installed
Stadordshire, England.
The King and Queen of Naples will pass the Win
ter at Pau, where they now are. King Francis ap-
pears little in public, and receives but few visitors
Congressman L. p. Poland, Of Vermont, yester-
day arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr.. Po-
land was formerly member OF the United States
Senate.
N. Hyacinthe Lemoyne. an advocate established
at Cairo, In Egypt, Is the person with whom the
Duchess de Persigny is about to unite herself in
marriage.
named for the Lord Rectorship of Aberdeen Uni
versity. Messrs. Gladstone and Darwin have both
declined the proffered honor.
Mr.. A. n. Powell will be associated with the
National Temperance Adr0cate after the 1st OF
January next, when The National Standard, which
he now edits, will be merged into the former
paper.
Patrick Donahoe, OF the Boston Pilot, whose
building was consumed in the great fire, having
been since burned out second time, says in this
weeks number that he Is "about tired OF this
Phoenix business"
M. Fournier de Saint Arnant. long esteemed the
greatest French chess player has at last been
checkmated by DEATH In 1s4s he was Provisional
Governor Of the Tuileries, and for several years
past had resided in Algiers.
The Emperor, OF Russ la, at his recent visit to the
cemetery at Sebastorpol where repose the soldiers
killed during the siege, planted two acacias before
the tomb OF Prince Michael Gortschakof and
crowned his bust with flowers.
The Honorable Eliot Yorke, son Of the Earl of
Hardwicke, Is soon to be married to Miss Annie de
Rothschild, second daughter Of Sir Anthony de
R0thschild. The lady, it is reported, will not
change her religious faith. Her papa is Jeu d'espytt
M. Theirs, having been understood by the police
to have been caricatured in the Alcazar Music Hail.
In Paris, that establishment was shut up for o
week. The portrait was however, announced by
the artist as that OF the actor Leonee 1t Is bad to
resemble the willy Adolphe
Maria Mangin Brown, lately OF Mayfair, having
neglected to make will and being without heirs,
has enriched the British government by some one
and q quarter million dollars dozen such in
testates and John Bull could settle the Alabama
claims without another penny on the income tax.
Among those who arrived on the steamship
Baltic yesterday was the Rev. Father Adams for
merly pastor at Ballymena, Ireland. He is reported
to be nne lnguist, and was educated at Sala-
manca, SPAIN 1t is understood that Father Ad-
ans will be appointed to curacy in this diocese
by Archbishop McCOskey.
Herr wagner, the musical composer, threatens
several German newspapers with libel suits for
their structures upon his music Why does the
trascible maestro trouble himself about cotem-
porary opinion when he writes for the future2 II
the editors are found guilty the punishment should
be to sit ont ''Tannhauser long as a single set Of
eddie strings would last.
Mark Twain has returned home In the Batavia,
at Boston. His first joke is a serious one, com
prslng. as 1t does an unique account OF the pick
ing up OF number OF shpwrecked seamen, all o
which lie witnessed in q terrific gale, without the
protection OF an umbrella This thrilling account
he sends to the London Humane Society. He asks
no reward for his own superhuman exertions on
the occasion.
Mr.. Anthony Trollope, the English novelist, who
arrived at the Brevoort House on Monday will sail
Cor home to-day on the steamship Cuba. Mr.. Troll
ope Is now closing longiourney through Australia
Oceanca, Canada and the western part Of our own
country. The many and differing scenes that he
witnessed during his tour probably cloyed his appe
tite for novelty and Influenced him to leave New
York without having more than glimpse at Its
proportions and pecuarities.