The New York herald., 1873-09-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Thomas Carlyle Is now living at DumfriesT
Scotland.
Ex-senator James Nye. of Nevada. is registered
at the Grand Hotel.
Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow, OF Texas is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Ex-Governor Warmoth of Louisiana, is again ae
the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Lieutenant General Sheridan arrived In WashingS
ton on Sunday evening.
Edmund About has become Paris correspondents
OF the London AtnenGum
Secretary Richardson left the Fifth Avenue H0teg
for washington yesterday.
Senator o. p. Morton, OF Indiana has been at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel since Sunday.
Prince Arthur OF England narrowly escapeE
drowning at Trouviue, France, on the 10th ult.
Mr.. w. o. Charlton, Secretary Of the British Les
CATION at Washington, is at the BrevOort House.
Attorney General Williams came on from WASH
ington yesterday. He stayed at the Fifth Avenu6
Hotel for short time and then proceeded to the
East.
.Ginxs Bapy'' jenkins has been solaced for hiss
late defeat in Dundee, Scotland. with piece Of
plate and al,OOo presented by admirers in the
town.
The late Duke OF Brunswick was borne to hid
grave on the funeral car that was used at the OBJ
sequies OF Louis XVIII, the Duke de Morny and
Prince Jerome Bonaparte.
The arrival of the Bishop of the Falklands. Right
Rev. DR.. Stirling In BuenOs Ayres. has diffused q
general pleasure among the British community
His lordship is distinguished member OF Exeten
College, oxford, and has been actively engaged foe
more than ten years in missionary labOrs amonQ
the Indians in the extreme south OF South Amerl
lea.
correspondent of the John Blu English news
paper advocates the abolition of godfathers and
godmothers. The causes which led to the fnstitu-s
<ion OF sponsors have he says. ceased to exist tho
sacrament OF baptism Is complete without them,s
and If they were done away with very many re-
lgious dssenters would return to the Established
Church.
The Russian female students OF medicine, re-
called from Zurich by an imperial order, have
made an application to the University OF GleseE
for permission to pursue their studies ut that
place. The medical faculty there unanimously re-i
fused to grant the request and expressed strong
dsapprobation OF women attending lectures ON
such subjects
certain reverend gentlemen thinks that lters
airy women should not marry. Mrs. Hemans Mrs.
Sigourney Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Fanny Kemble But,
ler, all had domestic infecity. Hannah Moore,
Miss Edgeworth Miss Sedgwick, Alice and Phnba
Cary Louise AIcott, Elizabeth Phelps, whose books
made the world better than they found 1t, did well
to remain single.
Mr.. Leatham M. r., having declareu 10 Lne HudS
dersfied (England) Republican Club that, had bet
not paired OF with Mr.. Walpole. NJ p, he woul6
have voted for the increased annuity to the Duke
OF Edinburgh, that organization has resolved that
he "does not represent them, and add that they
shall be compelled to leave him in the ruts OF tory
ism, and continue their onward march without
nm."
Mr. John Bright, as Chancellor OF the Duchy of
Lancaster has the patronage OF forty-one livings,
or rectories in the Church OF England. These liv-
ings are of widely varied character, ranging
from Reston in Lincolnshire, worth fl16 per an
mum, to Rothbury, in Northumberland, with the
very comfortable income of a1,47o year. Mr..
Bright will, no doubt, prove himself gook
'sfrlendn to worthy, humble clergymen.