New-York tribune., 1880-09-25
PERSONAL.

| The Rev Edward Everett Hale will next Sunday
preach the first In the Sage Course, at Cor
| nell University.
Mr. Observation-Disclosures the Danish Minister
has been transferred to Rome, and will sail for his
new post in few days. His successor is Mr. Bile.
Empress Elizabeth OF Austria, whom Paris gOs.
sip r styles the first Amazon of the world" il
about receive, it Is slid the title Of honorary col
onc OF regiment of Russian Uhlans.
Ex-Governor Packard, of Louisiana, Consul at
Liverpool is forty five years old, and described as
a large, quiet and afable gentleman. The position
Is now "A salaried one and, with some allowances is
not worth more than $4,000 year Ii used to be
| much more of a prize.
A letter from General George S. Batcheller, dated
Cairo, saws he is prevented from coming home
to cast his vote for General Garfield by his having
been designated the United States represen alive
upon an International Commission, which is to
meet in November for the revision OF the codes and
treaties relative to ex-terrtOrial mixed jurisdiction
in Egypt"
Congressman George c. Bicknell. of Indiana de-
livered address Friday, the first reunion of
the BIcknall Family Association, held in East Wey-
mouth Mass He sad the name Bickne was Sean
dlnavlan in origin. and was originally spelt Beck
nil, a word which means about the same as Brook
vile IN modern English. He advanced the doctrine
that individual gr atneSS arises generally III homo
geneous bodies, and the reason that America had
produced no great Work yet was due TO the fact
that the people were not yet sufficiently hOmogene-
Gus.
Dr. Philp Schaif. the Biblical scholar. is quoted
as saying that the Bible NOT to be reg glrded as
book so much as "A force" writer in The Christian
InteliigeRcr describes him ~ follows: "He is a
rare combination of the scholar and the man of
affairs, rarest of all IN a German This is no long
bearded. tabacco-ricd, spectacied and owllsh pro-
iesSor. bnt rounG-laced. brght-eycd and clear
skinned man, alert IN every fibre aud alive in every
sense. He knows books rs few men do but he
knows newspapers and men, and all things worth
knowing like book. And he makes books, too.
When think Of what his correspondence must be
| am appalled, for he Is the connecting link be-
tween Europe and AmcrIca-a kind or telephone
Ihrougl whom they talk across the sen, and about
whom the, nuclcate IN Councils and Alliances and
Committees
London. sept. 2l.-Th, correspondent of The
Times at Rome says: " \ young \ nercan soprano.
Mare Van. Of Cincinnati. has made the daring a.
temps Of appearing tor the first time on any boards
20, It ;riml Gonna ~ TIE Poitaama Theatre, in the
part Of Gudd, IN NeIdrs opera of Kigolclta." The
enormous theatre, which hold, 1000 people. was
full. The audience received the debu ante with ab-
solute silence. Notwithstanding that natural agita
ton. which made her first notes uncertain she went
through the first scene well, was called out twice
and finally attained well-deserved success The
Roman musical critics praise the quality and extent
of her voice which is strikingly sympathetic. the
good style Of her acting with reservations on the
want Of training IN the management OF her voice
and pronunciation Of Italian wordsl and predict for
hers successful career" The lady referred to is prob
ably Hiss Van Zandt. Among the passengers nv
the steamer Guy of Richmond. which sailed from
Qureustown to-day tor New-York, are Mr. Archibald
Forbes, the well l.known war correspondent OF The
Daily Aecs, ana Nine. Gerster Mile. Belocca. Sirnor
'"ien Arditl, and other opera singers. Baron