New-York tribune., 1876-01-22
PERSONAL.

NJ. WALTON, Minister of Public Instruction in
Rheims. at a cost OF 100000
Mr.. Disraei on his 10th birthday received o
letter OF congratulation from the Nottingham and Dis
| trict W0rkingmen's Constitutional Association
Gov. Tilden, at the request of the Common
Council Of Albany, has consented to SIT for his portrait
| to be placed in tho Common Council chamber OF that
| city.
Prof. Sumner of Yale College announced to
his this week that marks for recitations would DO
dispensed with hereafter, and students standing in his
class would be determined by the examination a. the
end OF the term
The plan of erecting a statue to Col. Robert
g. shaw in Boston, has been changed, and IL has been
decided that an equestrian statue is the most desirable
Additional subscriptions 10 the fund.- which amounts
| to ~, sol O6, will be solicited
Miss Charlotte Cushman is again dangerously
I'll in Boston, and her condition gives serious alarm to
her friends opiaes administered to relieve her intense
pain have produced violent vomiting and infamed tho
cancer from which she Is snferlng
The statue of Gov. Winthrop, by GreenOugh.
arrived a few days ego in Boston from Florence Tho
figure life size dressed in Puritan style, and mounted
upon plain pedestal The statue will be sent to Wash.
10 the National Gallery OF Art.
Mr.. James Wick writes to The Rochester Union
aud Advertiser account Of bis learning the printing
and stereotypng business with g. Redeld then promi
nent New-York printer and publisher. Among the fifty
odd
Horace Greeley, who after started literary paper
in company wIh another cOmposiior la the same ONCE
Mr. Wick recalls pleasant remniseeuce Of MS service
under Mr.. Rediied, when by some mshap the money no
had sen. to deposit in the bank proved little snort
Mr Redfeds count ana gratefully records the Kind.
ness with which, In spite OF tue misfortune hr Rednsd
continued to treat NM Inc e1-pIiisnet Is now ses.ca
small fruit farm at burlington, NJ lie says mat 20
Iar he knows ROBERT Craihedd OF New-fork and Dir
Vek the only persons living who worked or hlin
ut the time with SIR Greeley in WiLiam-st
Mr. John VI. Francis sums up the result OF
his observations in India as follows: have Little iah
that the people ever will be civilized into En-
glands rule In Calcutta for nearly 200 years has not
accomplished that has It made hardly beginning
toward reformation and the extrpatiOn OF heathenlsn
comscientiousy believe that missionary effort Ia their
behalf is in large part money and labor wasted believe
and Christian work. would accomplish IN our own c0un.
nv ten times more Oh bSssed results than is possible of
accomplishment here. Tie missionaries, 80 far as know
believe sincere wOrker- and are doing their Oess
for TINS pope under wbat seems 70 NE very 5ie. os
couragemcnts. But here la Calcutta, in tnls city 0t
British possession ana government America furnishes AT
missionaries TO that Il put TO that labor by
English missionary organizations. Our missionaries arc
aDOIng earnestly heIe with what appears To me exceed
ug!y small results Christian and indeed, ciyiizins
point Of view only wish Jealous labos were be-
slowed upon heatLen and children OF Ignorance,
with far more effective rtsus."
The following story is related of the Pope;
when the Of Modena lately died, and IL was stated
in tho papers that he had laid the tesameniatoy obsa-
upon his heirs to pay yearly to che Pope until ths
incomes Cardinal congratulated his Holiness upon tue
circumstance that the Holy See had secured handsome
income to the end OF all time The Pope shrugged
his shoulders and related the following little nar.
rative to the Cardinal: The Duke Of dodena had
kept accredited 10 the Papal Court charge
d'aifaires who was a prelate, and who, Ike
other diplomatists, took holiday abroad every sum
e When he returned Rome he always paid his visits
20 the Pope and regularly conveyed 10 him the Duke
Of Modeuas devoted homage For year or two the
Pope made remark but one occasion ne cisuhAy
referred the DUKES enormous wealth. Next year llo
reverend diplomat caue usual 10 Ofer MS masters
homage. Inis the Pope manifested some llnpatonce
and that he mad heard t1e Same assrdces eaf
alter year. Dut3ind here made gesture of counting
out money-he any PRACTICAL PROOF Oi tneso
prOfessious OF devotion. Tue envoy could not bep
smiling which initiated the Pope 10 such degree that
lie told his Exceleucy plainly he nghG for tue fnturo
spare himself trouble of repeating such hypOcrltcal
occurrence the Duke VINO thenceiorth contributed
Thousand crowns about 4l2Ol yearly TO the Peters
Pence Ihe Pope IN Concluding MS story observed hs
who IN lie not likely Ia have Dec0lne gem
death; Therefore hold TINS piece OF lntesece
10 be merely newspaper canaru lneTe was a SIeat
deal OF talk about tie old Emperor Ferdinand of Austria,
how lac WAS going TO leave me splendid legacy put
nothing came IL except professions Of fGeYO0n whlca
uont lny thing and certainly don't bring ue ia any