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CANADIAN. The graafihoppm- nlague threatens certain sections of British Columbia. Ibis said that the Qlebec Local Govern- ment have decided to subncribe $10000 to- wards the relief of the aufierers by the SC. Sauveur fire. Without wishing to diminish the ri hts of creditors, the Montreal grand jury re- ommend that the law should be made less severe as regards the right of retaining deb~ tors in prison. Michael Lappnn, found guiltv at Brook- ville on the charge of robbery with violence. was sentenced to fourceen years in the Penitentiary. The Montreal grand jury yesterday strongly recommended the lash as a. proper punishment in all cases of indecent assault upgn ygnug chikiren. n ,, LA_ “The” Kinggston chomotive Company has just completed one of the heaviest single castings ever turned out in Canada. It is an 18,000 lb. crank for a. pump. On Sunday the new Sb. Jumea' Methodist church, Montreal, one of the finest; ecolesias tical structures on the continent, was open- ed for divine service. It has a seating cagncity of 2.700. _ r . . Prof. Selwyn, of the DJminion Geological Departmont, believes that the County of Essex lies over a. gas reigon, but that the reigon is very deep below the surface. Application has been made to throw on aconviction in Montreal because one 0! tb jurors got; out of the jury room Eun‘epb tioualy and went: home to get: a bottl e whiskey. (I‘heré was a hailstorm at Lachine on Thursday night, and the stones are said to have been of an extraordinary size. One is said to have measured in diameter two inches and a quarter and one inch and a half. Mr. S. M. Webb, of New Westminster, B. 0., who is at present in Ottawa, says he has information to the effect that England and the United States have come to an un- derstanding whereby no seizures of British vessels will he made in Behring See this season. Mrs. Rowe. a Toronto lady, and her slster-in‘law, Miss Rowe, of Brooklyn, while standing on the railway track in Coney Island taking ocean sketches, were run over by a train. Mrs. Rowe was instantly kill- ed, and it; is feared Miss Rowe has sustained fatal injuries. The Pinkerton detectives have succeeded in capturing Dulac. the French-Canadian deepen-ado, chief of a. gang frequentingfthe Moose river Wilden-uses, in Maine, for whose guest; the Dominion Government offered & rewmd. Sitting Bull is recovering. He is reported as saying that; he had never signed a. treaiy and never would for the opening of the reservation. Frank L. Woodrnfl‘. Iste assistant posh master at Lawrence, Kansas, has been ar- rested ona charge of embezzling between $50,000 and $60,000 from the money deposit: department of that office. The German Baptist Convention, sitting in Harrisburg, Va., having decided on Wed- nesday that: no man using tobacco was elig- ible as a committee man or delegate, yester- day came to the conclusion that it was a sin to raise tobacco or work in a tobacco fuc- tory. One man died from the efl‘ects of heat: in New York on Sunday, and half a dozen per- sons were prostituted. Mertinaburg, W. Va., reports a storm of wind, rain and bail on Sunday which caused fleet damage. the hailetonee killing a num- r of animals. Two young men on Tuesday night fought a duel an St. Augustine, Tex, with bowie knives. One man is dead and the other is not expected to recover. The delay on the part; of the United States Treasury Department in granting bonding prlvileges to the Canadian Pacific railway for their new line across the State of Maine is causing considerable anxiety to the direct- ors of the company. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh refuses to cfliciate at the eonferring of the freedom of that city on Mr. Parnell. A steamer arrived at New York from J a- maica-brings confirmation of the report that: Hyppolite is in possession of Port au Prince, and Legitime is a fugitive. The “ Journal de St. Petersburg makes an emphatic denial of the alarmist: reports attributing warlike intentions to Russia. Mrs. Maybrick, who is accused of having caused the death of her husband by poison. was yesterday committed for triad at Liver- pool. The strike of dock labourers along she Clyde shows no signs of weakening. and there are now 6,000 men who have quit work. THE NEWS OF THE DAY. Princess Eugenie Esterhazy, a leadering Vienna beauty, died on Wednesday, it is said, of grief for the late‘ Crown Prince Rvdolf. The Vienna papers use some very vigorous language in denouncing the in- trigues of Russia. and the Russophile party in Sex-via. It is reported that Luohow, a Chinese city, was recenth destroyed to a. great extent: by fire, and the loss of life is estimated at ten thousand. ian cflicers have captured and occupied Sanabeit. an important position on the Abyssinian frontier. Lord Dnfl’erin is very unwell. The com- bined influence of the Indian and Italian climates, in is feared, had a very pernicious effect upon his constitution. The trial of General Bonlanger will begin in August. It is believed the indictment is weak, but it: will suffice to secure a. sent~ ence rendering the General ineligible to office. The Austrian Clerical: are deeply offended by the erection of a monument to the mem- ory of Bruno ‘in Rome, and the Vienna Vaterland says the fete was wotthy of the devil. Gen. Boulsnger says that the documents recently obtained by the Paris authorities must; have been secured through breach of trust, as only a. selcet: few knew of their existence. It; is reported that Irregular: under Ital- AMERICAN. FOBIEGN. The Westminster Review points out that there are 800,000 more widows than widowere in England, and moraliaes upon this fact in a. ponderoua and instructive manner. The plebiscite taken in Edinburgh as to conferring the city freedom on Mr. Parnell resulted in 3,197 votes being recorded for honouring the Irish chief, while 17,808 voted against: the proposition. While Mr. Gladstone was passing through Wadebridge, Cornwall, a missile, supposed to have been a cartridge, was thrown at his carriage. The police, who appear to be more alarmed than the veteran, are making an investigation. The Vienna. Nouvelle Rsvue announces that it will shortly publish a letter from the Prince of Wales to King Leopold, in which he states that Emperor William’s body is seriously 39173011611 by disease, and that; he cannot: sleep withouo the use of drugs. The Johnstown catastrophe becomes al- ways more horriblc as its extent and various accessories become more thoroughly known. Without doubt it is the most terrible thing of the kind which has ever taken place on this continent. Perhaps, taking everything into consideration, the most terrible that has taken place in any part of the. world for centuries. No doubt in is quite true that inundations have taken place which have caused the destruction both of more property and oi more lives. The overflowings of the great rivers of China, and of other places, and the great inflwviug of the North sea. in the 13th century which formed the present erider Zse at once occur to every one as illustrations of this. But in the Johnstown horror there were peculiarities all its own. All these others may be spoken of as the operations of Nature overcoming the best industrial efforts of men. And so it was to be sure in this case. In this last, however. it is to be noted that the danger was created and maintained not for any useful indus- trial objsot but simply to meet the whims and minister to the pleasures of a few cap- ricious self indulgenc and wasteful million- aires who had more money than they well knew how to make use of, and who accord- ingly created a lake of some three or four square miles in extent to be a standing menace to the whole neighborhood and for no purpose whatever except to promote their pleasures in the manner of the Roman nobles when Rome was going to ruin and had reached that point when it could neither hear its sins nor their remedy. Some people deprecatingly say that the members of that Angling club are good devout Christians and could never dream that their expensive toy was at all dangerous. Pshaw, for such Christianity ! In such a world as our would any Christian men spend such fabulous sums as must have been expanded in the creation and maintenance of this dangerous playthingâ€"the danger of which they could not but perceive as indeed they did by the frequent examinations made of it and sent at their request by some of the best engineers of Pennsylvania 1 Such Christianity though common enough is the Christianity of Apicius or Lucul‘ lus, not of Jesus of Nazareth. The thon- sands of lives recklessly sacrificed to this self-indulgent whim cannot, of course, be recalled. But these men ought to be made to pay spanking damages even if the process should involve the loss of their last dollar and make them for the rest of their days obliged to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brows, instead of making life one long selfish holiday in feeding rare fish in order that they might have the pleasure of catching them with all the etceteras of yacht- ing, feasting and (rollicking. as if such doings were well pleasing in the eyes of the Al- mighty and all sanctified by a. muttered prayer to keep their consciences quiet and their hearts serene. Since the Phoenix Park tragedy, no mur- der case has exalted more general interest than that of Dr. Cronin, in Chicago. It was a murder so foul, and so premeditated. that it aroused universal detestation and eager- ness to see the criminals revealed, and the good old doctrine of “ a life for a lite ” acted upon. The case is being vigorously pushed by the Chicago lawyers who have charge of it in the interest of justice, and already a great deal of significant information has been elicited. Startling revelations are ex- pected as the case proceeds. It is likely to prove emphatically one of the great murder trials of this last quarter of the nineteenth Century. The grand jury's verdict was to the efl‘ect that Cronin had been foully mur- dered, and that the assassins have to be looked for within the Clan-na-Gael society. They found furtherâ€"and this part of their verdict ought especially to approve itself to the minds of all thoughtful liberty- loving momâ€"that secret societies line the Clan-ha Gael, are not in harmony with and -AAm..._M._..-.‘~._. are injurious to American institutions. Just ‘ so, and neither are they in harmony with but are highly injurious to Canadian institu- tions, and all other national institutions that are worth possessing. And therefore if they can be by any legitimate means put an end to and rooted up from the soil of this western continent, by all means let it be done, and let all the people say amen. In conse quence of the jury's verdict a number of prominent Chicago Clan-na-Gael men have been arrested and held without bail, as accessories to the crime, if not perhaps the actual criminals. Among the men thus committed is a prom- inent lawyer named Sullivan. Morcney and McDonald of New York have also been arrested on a similar charge. About the former of these two men a strong chain of circumstantial evidence has already been wound. Canadian and all other loyal British subjects may well pray that this detestable crime may be brought home to that dangerous organization the Clan-na- Gael Society, which is notoriously hostile to everything British, and whose species of loyalty to Irish interests amounts to insane hatred of everything that is Scotch and English. It is avowedly in favour of “physical force,” and “physical force" is a mere euphemism for murder whenever in the opinion of the chiefs of the society that dernler resort becomes necessary. it was all but certainly the Clan-na-Gael that murdered Cavendish. and if the Clan-an-(isel has not murdered Cronin, it is not because oi anything in its constitution that prevents such a mime. The tact; of the matter is than the Clowns Gael belongs to that class of secret: society which might have done in Sicily about a century or two ago, but which ought not to be tolerated nowadays in any civilized community. Tlmt Horrible Catastrophe. The Cronin Murder. Labor, in political economy, is a term so dependent for its meaning on the circum- stances in which it is used, that any scienti- fic definition of it would lead to misunder- standing. The best service, in fact, towards rendering it intelligible, is to clear away some attempts that have been made to subject it to scientific analysis and definition. It has been separated into pro- ductive and unproductive, but no such division cm be fixed. A man who con- tributes to make a book, of course appears as a productive laborer, but what the author contributes is not matter, but intellect, and it would be difficult to maintain that he ceases to be productive ii he deliver such ‘ matter in an oration or lecture. It is ‘ impossible to draw the line between , badin and intellectual labor, since there: is scarcely a work to which man can put his band which does not require some ‘ amount of thought. A distinction between ‘ capital and labor has otten been attempted ‘tc be established, with very fallacious and dangerous results. Capital in active operation infers that its owner labors ; for if he want profit from it, he must labor and often severely. In a large manufactory, where tho proprietor is sup- posed to be a gentleman at large. drawing ibis fortune from the sweat of the brow of his fellow-men, he is often the most anxious and the hardest-worked man in the whole ‘ establishment. It is undoubtedly correct to divide human labor into two kinds, men- tal and physical ; and to concede that with- i out the one there could hardly be the other. It is only amongst the most laborious and ‘ industrious races that we find the most com- lprehensive and productive mental effort. That is, where the physical labor is the most varied and inventive. “,0 far as the history ‘ of man has been traced, there has been found couditionon of existence unaccompanied by , labor, both physical and mental, the latter, icertainly, in the earlier periods, devoted 1simply to the direction of the former to- wards the only absolute uecessity, the sustenance of life. This brings us by way of acircle to our beginning. that mental labor must precede physical labor, while it can only increase and extend with the in- crease and extension of the latter, which is to say that while a mental impression of the conditions of hunger, and mental enquiry as to the existing means for allayiug it must precede the physical effort to procure snob means-mental efl‘ort will not proceed beyond this point, except co-relativelyiwith the progress and extension of physical labor. It should then be borne in mind that in considering one kind of labor we are including the other, so intimate is the relation between them, and that the ratio of mental activity is in proportion ,to the multiplication of the varieties of physical labor. Such knowledge as we possess of prehistoric races has been derived from existing results of their labor, naturally of the most primitive character, rough-hem: implements and weapons of stone giving that period of human existence the dis- tinctlve title of the " stone ago.” After this came the discovery of the metals and what is termed the “ bronze age,"sinco which time there has appeared to be no possible limit to the extension of human labor, or to its resources in ways and means. As imple- ments multiplied, wants increased, and the history of the human race is in fact a record of the wants of man and his devices for sup- plying them. One such device made its ap- pearance very early in history, that of a division of labor, by which one individual be- came the fisherman, another the hunter, and a. third the tailor of a settlement or groupâ€" such groups having originated in the instinct of preservation by members, and in the law of the value of numbers, as a factor in labor. On this principle, too, originated the soldier, or guard, whose duty it was to watch while others worked 5 and the messenger, or carrier, inefficient to originate, but useful to carry I out the designs of those better qualified. The report that the office-seekers at Wash- ington have nearly worried President Harri son to death is borne out by the statement that between March 4 and May 18 he made 9,500 appointments. During the corres- ponding period of 1885 President Cliveland, according to the Springfield “ Republican," filled only 2,000 oflicee. It might be men- tioned in this connection that Republican sentiment on the subject of civil service re- from seems to have undergone a remarkable change since the perty's platform was form- ed and adopted at Chicago a. year ago. New York State's new law with regard to capital punishment provides that it shall apply only to criminals sentenced to death for crimes committed since the let of Janu- ary last. Since that date about fifty murders have been committed in the State, but only one murderer has been convicted and sen- tenced, and as his counsel has appealed against the sentence on the ground of its unoonstitutionelity it is not at all improb- able that the new method of execution will not be put into operation this year It would seem that it is scarcely less difl‘icult to punish a. murderer across the line then it s for a. camel to pass through the eye of a. needle. TheVictoria. B. C., “Colonist” hints to the tail-twisters in the Senate that they fail to take into account one very important result of a war with the British Empire. Enormous quantities of the produce of the United Staes now find their market in the United Kingdom. A war would not only close this market, but the glut thus produced in the neighboring republic would force a reduction of prices that must cause distress ‘ from one end of the country to the others : The “ Colnoist” might add that this eflect would outlast the war, for the United King- dom having been led to draw its supplies from other quarters, would be unlikely to abandon the new channels of trade, and and would ever afterwards offer less of a market for United States produce. The closest estimates that can be made of the value of the property destroyed by the Pennsylvania floods are almost as appal- ling as the death list. The losses at J ohns- town are put down at $30,000,000. and those at various other cities outside of that district at $13,000,000. In addition the railways have sustained damage to‘pthe ex- tent of about $1,250,000. When to these figures are added the losses by the Seattle fire, estimated at $5,000,000, it will be seen that capital to the extent of $50,000,- 000 has been totally wiped out within the space of a few days. This is a small sum as compared with the total private capital of the United States, but it becomes enor- mous when it is remembered that the loss is borne by but a few thousands of people. LABOR. The first duty of the old maid, as “Lillian Mayne ” so aptly expresses it, " is to make herself an independent womanâ€"a thinker and a worker.” She owes it to herself to make her existence as womanly, true, and healthful as it can possibly be, and to do thin she mustbravely face her position and uphold with dignity her part and lot in life. The old burberic idea that a certain opprobrium was necessarily attached to her position is fast dying out, as civilizxtion adveuccs and women has acquired the privilege of taking her destiny in her own hands. Formerly perhaps the class of old maids was composed of those girls who were outwardly unattrac- tive, or who, from some deficiency in purse or position, were considered undesirable ; now, however, it is often just the reverse, and their ranks are reintorced from the brightest, the richest, and the prettiest, whose lot is of their own choosing. Among a number of youne girls who grow up together it olten happens that it; is the most: superior, the moon innately refined. and the most: truly cultured, who remain unmarried. And her friends will tell you than it is her own choice, that no one was more sought for, or more generally admired, and that: many an honorable men who would faiu have chosen her was obliged to turn to her less attractive but more an- proachable sisters. Yet; in after years. these same self-important matrons and their children will twic her about being an old maid l A thoughtful man once told me that the reason why most old maids had never mar- ried was because their idea-ls were so high that no living man could ever come up to them. " And. what makes old bachelors ?" I asked. “ No man is an old bachelor of his own free will,” he replied ; “ it a man doesn’t merry it is because the women he loves won’t marry him." But whether a woman marries or does not marry she will naturally outlive her first ideals, simply because they are usually utterly impracticable; and if the truth were known there are probably quite as many disappointed ones among the more ried as among the unmarried women. Of course a true marriage where love reigns su- preme is the happiest state known to man, but this golden ideal will be but seldom re- alized while so many men, and women too, marry from other causes then those prompt- ed by true and heartfelt affection. When awoman “begins to be about thirty years of age" and feels herself being set asidel then is the time for her to look calmly at the disadvantages of her position, take account of her resources, and assert her rightsâ€"unless she means. as some writer advises, to «face herself, and settle down as a nonentity is some brother’s or sister’s household. People are very apt to place the same value upon her that she places upon herself; if she is content to drudge day after day they only shake their heads sagely and say. "Oh, well sooner or later we all gravitate to our rightful positions.” The old maid may think that she deserves credit for thus making a martyr of herself. but to my thinking. such a course is the result of pure cowardice. Much greater courage is required to face the battle of life as a soldier, than as a hanger-on of the soldiery. Woman was designed as a help- meet, not a servant, for man ; as a dispen- ser of the good things of this world, not a beggar, dependent upon charity. If she is poor and has to make her own way in the world, let her consider What it is she ls besv fitted for, and go to work with energy and self-denial to perfect: herself in that, so as to take an honorable place among the world's bread-winners. She is still no worse off than her married sister in she same circumstances, who is compelled to begin her toil earlier and continue it: later, conscious all the while that with her best endeavor she is unable to procure the ne- cessaries of life for those whom she loves better than her own soul. If, on the other hand, the old maid has an income or a home in her own right, and is in- clined to be domestic in her tastes, then let her keep house and invite male of her friends or relatives to come and live with her. But if she be a wise woman she will not when der the right of controlling her own affairs to another until she has proved herself in- competent, for present development shows that as large a percentage of women who go into business are as successful financiers as men. Here, in her own house, if she holds the reins of government with firmness and discretion, Who can be happier than our old maid? She may indulge in self-culture to her heart’s content or gratify her taste in whatever direction it may happen to lie, with no one to say her nay. Every true woman finds enjoyment in ministering to the welfare of some living creature, in the consciousness that something weaker than herself is dependent upon her for its happi- ness ; therefore pets of some kind are indls- pensable. If she loves children, there are any number of little waifs in the world for her to adopt and bring up as her own, who can say 1.1 after yeaas as little “ King Arthur,” (in the story of that name by Miss Muloob) said to his little playmate who twittered him with his adoption, “ My mother chose me for her child, but your mother had to take you whether she wanted you or not.” . .-. .- 1 v ,r, A.‘ Or if the old maid prefers dumb pets to litule human animals, she can fill her house with them and no one can say a. word. There is as great symputhy and real appreciation of inmost thoughts between human and so- eallgd brute friends as there is among men- kin . Who can imagine a more charming com- rade for a ramble through the fields at sun- set than an intelligent dog, or who would barter the silent companionship of a noble horse during a breezy ride over the hills, for ‘ any human friend whose obtuseness alone compels him to put his thoughts into words? And last, but not least, let our old maid see to it that she keeps her heart contented and happy, and her hands busy. She can- not throw sunshine on the pathway of others, unless she is sunny and sweet-tempered her- self. If her heart and hands are always busy doing good for somebody, she Will have no time to sit down and breed over small disappointments, puny discontents, and im- agined slights. And she may rest well~assur- ed that thers will be no lack of the loving ministration oi friends in her old age, if she spends the best years of her life in promoting the happiness of others. ‘r “1‘-_,.-. Probably the best time for the average civilized woman to many would be any age between 24 and 36. It is not said that: no FOR AND ABOI’T “'ONEM. THE BEST TIME FOR A GIRL T0 MARRY. THE DUTIES OF OLD MAIDS M. WALTON woman should marry earlier or later than either of these ages ; but youth and health and vigor are ordinarily at their highest ner- fection between these two periods. Very early marriages are seldom desirable for girls, and that for many reasons. The brain is immature, the reason is fs ‘ _ and the char- acter is uniormed. The con rd «anions which would prompt: a girl tog-marry at.” would in many chses have very little weight with her at ‘24. At 17 she is a child, at ‘24 a woman. Where a girl has intelligent parents, the seven years between 17 and 24 are the period when both mind and body are most amenable to wise discipline, and best repay the thought and toil devoted to their development. Be- fore 17 few girls have learnt to understand what life is, what discipline is, what duty is. They cannot value what is best, either in the father's wisdom or in the mother's tender. neue. When merried at that childish period they are like young recruits taken fresh from the farm and the workshop, and hurried off to a long campaizn without any period of preliminary drill and training ; or like a schoolboy removcd from school to s. curacy without being-gent to the university or to u. theological hall. Who can help grieving over a child-wife, especially if she have child- ren, and a husband who is an inexperienced, and, possibly, 6.x acting boy-man? The ardor of his lovo socn cools ; tho Visionary bliss of her poetical imagination vanishes like the summer mist ; there is nothing left: but dis- appointment nnd wonder that what promised to be so beautiful and long a day should have clouded over almost before sunrise.â€" [HospitaL (title of a marriageable age do not like to tell how old they are, but you can find out: by following the aubjoined instructions. the young lady doing the figuring tâ€"Tell her to put: down the number of the month in which she was born, then to multiply it: by '2, then to add 2, then to multiply it: by 50, then to add her age, then to subtract 366, than to add 515, then tell her to sell you the amount she has left. (Fhe two figures to the right will tell you her age and the re- mainder the month of her birth. For (X- ample, the amount is 822, shale 22 years old, and was born in the eighth month (August). Try it. Our marriage is not a. failure, is it dear? No. And we just live like two turtle doves in eap year, and not' a. riplet rises to mar the harmony of our gentle flowing lives, does it '3 And you love to bring up the coal for mo and hang out the clothes, and build the fires in the morning, and do everything to make your little wife hsppy. And you want: me to ask mother down to spend a couple of months with us? Now, don’t say no, but come and kiss me, that’s a dear. .Yea; I will when you drop shat rolling pm. There are now 600 Irish ladies, impover- ished because unable to collect any rent for their property, selling theirr work through the agency of a London committee headed by the Queen and having the Princess Louise for one of its members. 0pen~work- ed table linen and bed spreads constitutes the greater part of the exhibition of these ladies’ work, but embroidery of many sorts, and bonnets, hats and caps are included in it. A traveller recently returned from Turkey says that the dress of the ladies of Constanti- nople has become so much like that: of their “ infidel" sisters, that: a. wife of the sultan would attract very little attention in an American street). The “ feridje,” the large shrouding mantel, is shoped almost like a dolman, and ifis flap on the back has dimin- ished to a collar which is fastened by a knot: of ribbon in front, and is sometimes trimmed with lace. The “ yashmsk," or veil, is very thin, and long gloves ere worn. Prince s Metternich of Austria will soon visit Paris. This is important news for Paris. The Princess is the wittiest, most dangerous, brilliant. sarcastic and fascin- ating woman in Europe. She does the most eccentric thingsâ€"to use a. gentle adjective â€"and society applauds. To her is due the introiuction of the circus among people of leisure. She is fond of smoking a pipe, and as she increases in years is more and more dependent on tobacco for consolation. She speaks a number of languages fluently, even the profane. Altogether she is the most picturezque woman in Europe. Mr. Henry Clewe, the well-known New York brcker, having sent a copy of his work “ Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street ” to Mr. Gladstone, has received from the latter a letter of acknowledgment, and a. second one which reads as follows :â€" “Having expressed my interest in the portions of your work which I read on the day of its arrival, I think it would be less than ingenuous if I did not, after reading what relates to the Cabinet of Lord Palmer- slou on page fifty~six and in the following chapter, make some reference to it. Allow me to assure you that so far as that Cabinet is concerned you have been entirely misled in regard to matters of face. As a member of it, and now nearly its sole surviving member, I can state that it never, at any time, dealt with the subject of recognizing the Southern States in your great Civil War excepting when it learned the proposi- tion of the Emperor Napoleon III., and de- clined to entertain that proposition without qualification, hesitation, delay, or dissent. In the debate which took place on Mr. Roebuck’s proposal for the negotiation, Lord Russell took no part, and could take none, as he was a member of the House of Lords. I spoke for the Cabinet. You will, I am sure, be glad to learn that there is no foundation for a charge which, had it been true,might have aided in keeping alive angry sentiments happily gone by. You are of course at liberty to publish this letter. To your reference in page 70 as a record of' impressions, winch I am not entitled to use, I can make no objection, though you are probably aware that they were many years ago the subject of a detailed explanation from me to the American Government and of a most handsome reply from Hamilton Fish." How To TELL BER AGE. A Bit of History. I! WAS ALL RIGHT. NOTES.