New-York tribune., 1878-04-29

improvements at the mouth Of the Mississippi Rive,
where he has been engaged during the past eighteen
months as civil engineer
The Duke Of COnnaught Is said to be be.
trothed to Princess Louise Margaret youngest dauehe,
OF Prince Frederick Charles, Of Prussia; anothsr
daughter, Princess Marie. is to marry Prince Henry
brother OF the King Of the Netherlands.
The Jefferson Davis vino appeared at a
review Of Mexican troops. in full uniform. Il
not the former head OF the Southern Confederacy,
It was Colonel JEFF c. Davis OF Indiana at present in
command OF the 23d United States Infantry.
MIR. Richard Grant White, in a card in Tha
Erening Posi, denies that he in any way q candidate
for the succession to Mr. Brevoort as nbrarsn at tho
Astor Library, observing. in vague way, that this
story Ike some others circulated about OF late
The collection of Charles Dckens's letters.
soon to be published by his daughter and sister inaw
will doubtless be q very charming one 1t is supposed
that the work will contain the large number OF letters
written to Mr.. Wilkie Collins, Mr.. Carlyle and Mr..
Browning
There is more music in the air at the Acad-
! emy of Music than any impressario has paid
| Tor, or any tcket-buyers can get O chance
to listen to. sacrilegious hands have been laid
| upon the sacred persons Of "tne manage
ment." The outside Goths and vandals are coming
down upon them with proxies innumerable and a com.
pete revolution Is said to be impending Barlow steb-
| prOxy-hOlders are to be beaten.
The late Lord Leitrim, says The World, Of
London, was Of strong likes and dslkes, ono
Of his chief antipathies horror OF goats An old
woman OF his tenants had favorite goat which he
espied one day and made her bring up to him by the
side of the road. without word OF warning be took
out his knife and cut Its throat The woman as far as
she dared reprOached him with his ruthless act where
upon he gave her $50 note, saying Take this TO buy
COW with" It was characteristic OF the man; hard
unyelding, easily moved to anger but swift TO make
amends, and always inexoraby just
M. SOleil, the Optician and inventor OF the
| saccharOmeter, is dead. He was eighty yoars old
All the beautiful apparatus used by Lord Brougham for
his Investigations light manufactured and largely
devised by NJ soeil When his lordsbip brought his dis
coveres under the notice OF the Academic the table be
fore HIM was covered with arrangements OF knife
edges for producing the refractOn of the lu-
minous rays. Lord Brougham, while preparing
an experiment, was pierced the corner OF
his eve by one OF these knife edges Blood flowed freely
from the cut, and for period the lecture was
pended NJ AragO solicited the indulgence or the audi
sOSs sOe q Lord brOusn'm was suffering from coup Do
The difficulties with which artists have to
contend in artloving countries. forcibly Illus
trated by NJ Charles Clement in his biography Of Geyr,
painter little known Of France in spite OF his many
remarkable works When young and poor he
charged by the Due de Luynes decorate the grand stair
Of the Chateau Of Dampierre He painted several
acgOrica figures that Of" Religion" being ofrare beauty
NJ Taine says that few ideal figures noble.
more chaste OF more simple and grandiose severity.
Great the admiration expressed for the work OF the
ideast painter The staircase led TO gallery prepared
Ingres IN Ingres arrived and ascending the stair
case looked the work of Gleyre. He made movement
OF displeasure, put his hands over his eyes,
and passed on. short time afterward the
architect received orders TO eface the paint
ings He protested, but the Duke replied that tho
gallery had been constructed for NJ Ingres. who had
refused decorate If the paintings in the staircase
were preserved" They destroyed, and for year
Gleyre felt incapable OF working; but he behaved
bravely complained and always spoke in the high
terms talent Of Ingres This episode has temples
NJ. Taine, who is great admirer Of Gleyre, to wre.
What the most generous protector OF artists man OF
heart and mind connoisseur, independent grand
seigneur! What! the most ustriOus painter OF France
the summit of glory and honOrs poshumous son OF
Raphael. the chief OF the idealist SCHOOL, And both
ceIyed aud executed according to their views. And NJ
Tane that for disposition and arrangement Geyre
was without uyal, and left 1ngres far behind.
MILAN, April 2S.-General Grant arrived in
this city yesterday and received by the Prefect
Syndic, and other officials.
CINCINNATI, April 2S.-The Rev. p. b. Nor
gan, OF St. Johns Protestant Episcopal Church, tonight
formally announced his withdrawal from fellowship
that church on account Of its ROmsh tendencies aud bis
intention TO unite with the Reformed Episcopal Church