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A PTED AFRICAN KM HE IS KHAMA OF BAMANGWATO AN ESTIMABLE MONARCH. Tfce Unswerving Frlrad r Ike Rr I Ink la IB frl<- U.iler r a ftsrlsilan anil rrogrwstlve Pe*B>l Be Ma* Lalelj Been Vlilllai K*l*j4. Aa in'.*reiuug visitor in Kngland at the present time is Khama, th* King of Bamangwato, South Africa, who ha* long been well known by repute to the British public and to th* world. Kvery traveile and hunter who ha* journeyed towardi the Zamhesi, Mata beleland, or Mashona. land, or the far Lake? Ngami country, has experienced the unwearying courtesy and kindnea* of this excellent ruler, and he* bad nothing but praiee to speak concerning him and hi* country. Hi* name appears constantly in the bine books and wo^i of travel. For 40 year* and morn Khama hat been th* oonttant and uniwerving friend to the Brituh and their progress in South Africa. Ths wish has long lam near hi* heart to com* over to England and a** with hi* own tyss th* country Bad ths people who** cause he has, through svii and good reports, so stoutly upheld in the far interior. That wish I* now being gratified. The King ha* a hoet of frraudi, and it cannot be doubted that hi* itay in England will b* mad* a pleaaant one. In truth, no native King has *v*r deserved a warmer welcome than thi* progressive and high-minded beohuana gentleman. One may say " g*ntl*man" adviaedly, for BO an, black or white, ha* by his scrupulous konour, integrity, and devotion to tae highest ideals ever *up ported the title mere faitbfuily than Khama of Bamangwato. Thi* i* no *x*uive praite. Every Knglisn Baa who has come ia contact with Khama from th* far -off days of Livingstons to the present time, ha* bad reason to speak Ol him in tsrmt of U**XADHXD BSTIXM. Khama has had a remarkable career, which it may be worth while here to glance at. He 1* DOW 65 yean ol age, but, says a writer in the London Globe, a* wun many black man, hi* sppearano* would denote that he ia much younger. Tali, slim, and well-dreaeed in European jiolh ing, the quiet, refined -look ing Becnnana might very weil be taken tor at least ton year* younger than hi* real ag*. Hi* activity is remarkable. He i* now Bo year* of age, but irom sarliett dawn till nightfall he uay bo met with in tb* (addle, riding about bis great spreading capital ul Palauhw*, butted duccas i.giy in the wtl- fare of his people and the affairs of hit country. No matter is too imall or loo minute for bis marvellous memory and kindly nature. From the humblest of bis tribes-people lo the pasting Knghi nman for whom Khama never seems to be able to do enough every person in hi* town seemi to receive some snare of his care and attention. t'aiaciiws, the capital of Bumangwoto, ha* a native population of some &>,OUO soul*, ev*ry one of whom is ruled by the direct personal mS'ieuce of the Kmgi But beanie* Palaohwe, Khama has B huge isr ritory, extending from the Limpopo to the Victoria Falls, anil from the Metabele border to far-off NgamiUml, to look after. He holds daily ouurl in the " kotia," T inclosure, adjoining hi* residence, receive* report* from the far-off part* of hi* coun- try, adminitter* juslic* and listens to appeals. A fairer-minded or more just ruler it would bo difficult to find in all Europe. Years ago in the hunting field and in native war* Khama proved himself a man of rar* courage and resource Kor twenty years, a* paramount enter uf his tribe, be has thown himself also a natural- bora administrator, reformer, Bad Kl LKH or MKN. From an unruly tribe, deep!y tuna in barbarous and often cruel custom* and upentitions, Khama has led his people stop by itep into (.' rislianity and progress. From this wretched chaos and turmoil left by his fatherand uncle, Sicomy aud Machen, who for yean were struggling tor the chieftamthip, Khama ha* evolved throughout hi* wide domain* peace, prce- perity, and order. When the wretched Bamangwato people, worried and harassed by Matahele raid* and internal strife, wer*. irnr'.y years ago, scratching a munrable ubtistonc* from the soil, you may now ee, thanks to Khama's forenght and enterprise, immen** field* of grain furrow- ed by hundred* of light American or European plough* of moderate make. Drink, that curse ef the African, ha* been completely banished from -he country, to the immense comfort and material welfare of the tribes-peopi*. Great herd* of fine oattl* and numoron* flocks of cheep and goat* are to b* met with throughout large portions of Khama'i kingdom. The European traveller or tportsman travarsing the country find* everywhere a people who greet him with p.em..m cordiality, and, thanks to Khama'* far-reaching influence, do everything tney oan to aatiat him. Briefly, it may be said that Khama has transformed a harassed and unruly native State into the moat progressive and order- ly community in all South Africa. But not only ha* Khauia taught his people peaceful method* ; he ha* taught them, al*o, to arm and defend themselves from th* attaoit of the cruel Matabelt. Num- bers of good rifle* are possessed by the Bamangwato. They are born hunter* ; many of them are excellent shots; and under Khama'i leadership they found shemaclve* able, long ago, to repel succean- fully THE B1^"T>THIIISTV RAIDS f their Malabo!* neighbours. In on* of these skirmishe*, year* unoe, Khama w>inded hit great rival, Lobengala, then founger aud more aotivp, in the neck, t ii a fact that Lobengula bore the tear of Khama'i bullet until that day when, defeated and d'ncieditsd tw tb* Maihoua- land settlers, bo died miserably, a worn-out Fugitive. Th* firm impressions of Europeans received by Khama were excellent ones. When quite a youth be encountered Mof- fat and Livingstone, who, IB the coune of their minion work, penetrated M the then unknown Ramangwato country. Cloteupon the heeli of the missionaries came a number of bold and interprismg British hntters, mb of high character, from whom, a* well ai from their pr*dece*inrs, th* young chieftain formed hi* opinion of British characteristics. Oiwell, Murray, Vsrdon, Gordon Coming were ths earliest of the**- gnat huntert. A* a lad Klmma accompanied G< rdon Camming in thoee wonderful bunting expedition* of hi* in search of elephant* and the great gam* with which all Hechuaualand then teemed. Gordon Cumming *lew nearly all hi* elephant* in th* Ramangwato hil! country, and Khama and a few other* of hi* tribes- men oan y*t remember and tottify to th* prowess ef that molt enthusiastic and fearless Ximrod. Thi* wa* between 1847 and 18>tU Ivory and elephant* were then inordinately plentiful in th* interior. Nowaday! Khama ha* but on*, or at most, two troop* of elephant* left between Palachwe and the Victoria Fall* ! B woe- ful falling away. The chief himself is B most daring and irccxwrtJL HDNTIB. From hi* early youth, when gun* were unknown and heavy and dangerous game warmed throughout the country, on foot or OB horseback, Khama ha* in hundred* of encounters proved himself a worthy emulator of thoee great Rngliih hunttrs, who** feat* he had followed with *o much keenness. Even now the old chief's heart often yearn* for a gallop alter the tall giraffe or the kodoo, or gemibek, or other* of the numerou* game animal* mil fre- quenting hi* more de**rt country. Of late years, unfortunately, what with the fear of Matabele trouble* and ihe increasing vol- ume of European traffic through his terri- tory, Khauia ha* had little time to escape from affair* ef State. Khama became Christianized many yean smoe, and it may be said without fear of contradiction, he ha* remained ever since the most entirely satnf xotory modal of th* Christianised African. Thai e are thoueand* of nation* prof easing Christianity in Africa; there are, unfortunately, very f*w who** landard ef etnics has been so oeotntently pur* and elevated a* Khama'*. Khama'* early Christianity broaght him into great trouble with hi* father and nncle. Doth thorough-paced old heathen*. For a long time Kbama's life wa* m danger from the machination* of tne** ill conditioned rela- tives. Bat the akief* high character steadily secuied him a itrong following in the tribe. la 1870 8loomy and Maohen, who had by turns been oinefi of th* tribe, were deposed, aud Khama wa** brought into power. A In tie later Machen became onne more too strong for his nephew, and Khama went into exil* ia th* disert coun- try toward Lake Ngami. In 1875 he wa* one* more elected PARAMOUNT CHIlr of th* Bamaawwato. Since that time Khama ha* firmly held th* rein* of power, to the *ver-inrrea*ing benefit of hi* people. Large numben of the Bamangwato are now Christianized. Khama allow* complete toleration, and there is no forcing into religion. It speaks well for the Hamang- wato, nevertheless, that two or three yean ago the mm of $15.000 wa* subscribed and paid by the tribe for the purpcse of build- ing a new church in Palachwe. Ten yean ago Knaina oilered the whole of hi* coun- try, under certain conditions, to tb* Kritich Government. Thai offer was, strangely enoug.i, declined. A Protector- ate wa* declared over the lower part of the country ; the remainder has been included in the British sphere of influence. There, wilk characteristic Colonial dttice "drift," the mattar ha* been allowed to remain. The British South Africa Company has, since it* inception, received the greatest possible assistance from Khama. Th* traffic through th* Bamangwato country ha* for the last firs years been immensely augmented, and the railway from Mafe- kmg is now at once to be pushed forward to Palachwe. Knama now feels that he i* getting on in years and would like to see the future of his country definitely settled, if possible, under dinct Imperial control. The future of his son and successor, Sicomei, a prom- ising young man 01 four or five and twenty, has also to b* provided for. A FINISHED COUNTRY. What in 'Aasrrlran TBi.kt *r Bur, I FAMOUS TREASURE SEP, MORE THAN $1.000.000 AT THE BOTTOM OF TUB SEA. The teas *r IB* nine's hlp Leilse with fler Vast Trriuure and All ** Baarel - Beeovrry efSM*,*** Atlll ! r*>r A staff correspondent of the New York Tribune, recording hi* first imprcesion* of England sayt: " Whoever enter* Kngland at Southampton seem* to be journeying all the way through a continuous park plan- ned by a landscape gardener who ha* known the poetry of hi* srt. What i* most r*m*rkable in thi* aerie* of entrant- ing rustic pictmts i* the alwence of blem- ishes and flaws. There is nothing un- sightly at any turn. There is no blacken- ed stump* bleaching in ihe fields; no ugly fences failing out 01 repair; no depremons in the slope* ot well drained meadows ; no signs of disorder and lack of tidmoa* in the village*. Nowhere are flower* lovelier and more delicate; nowhere aro the tree* more shapely or the fields greeuer. Everywhere there is a seme of svmn.eiry and repose that come* from perfection of detail. '1 tie Koglish 1:01111 try is liui-hc.i. Moth- ing remains to be done in order to perfect these picture* of rural lovelin***. The same impress ons are produced by the munificent pleasure ground* of London and it* environs * * the old parks, Hyde, Kegenl'i, Kew Garden*, Richmond and Hampton Court. Tne.es, too, like the English country, are finished. The Engh*h love their tree* and flower*, and know how to group and mast them. In their park* they study the broadeat and most restful etlects, and avoid fuMinen and pettiness in detail*. There is an artistic sense of tranquility and repone in their landscape art that is lacking in American rural and suburban scenery." Hlgrh License In Boston. It i* propoeed in Boston to rai*e more money for the public schooli by selling liquor licenses at auotioi. The uniform license fee in that eity i*$l."HX>, but a* tome saloons are much more valuable than others it 11 t-on tended that they mould pay more. The Boston Advertiser claim* that if all haeunes were put up tl i>ui>lK itu.non the city would get fiom jlcii.u' n to $ 1 _'"O,- 000 a year more than it doe* now. There i* an oaken cliaii in th* office uf Lloyd's, in London, the gnat maritime firm, which ha* a itrange and romantic hittory. It wa* mad* from the rudder of the King'* chip Lutioe, which, in 1799, w t wrecked ia the North Sea, with theiargemt amount of gold on board that ever went to the bottom. The Secretary of Lloyd's recently gava to the publio an interesting account of tins wreck, and of th* numerous attempt* to find her lost treasure. Th<i Latins was a thirty-six gun frigate, oaptui - d from the Frsm-u in 1793. "In the autumn of 1799 it was necessary to send a large amount of specie acroas th* North Sea, aud, a* usual, application wa* made to the Admiralty for a King's ship. Thi* method of conveyance wa* thought the best guarwatre for honesty, the best auuranc* against captun by foreign foe*. Although tome noney 11 inppoaed j to hav* been tranimitted by the Lutiue lo pay Hrili*h troop* then *ervmg ID Holland th* bulk of the treasure wa* forwarded for purely commercial reasons. "London merchant* trading with North Germany in tiioss day* wsrt in the habit ef tending their good* and then drawing bill* for their value upon Hamburg and ether hoosoe at so many months ahoad. By th* time the bills fell due the good* had been sold for cash, which wa* paid into th* banks to meet engagement*. But a pro- tracted froet in tb* early part of 1799 had so long sealed th* Elbe that th* merchan- dise bad been detained ice-bound, and I could not bo landed or disposed of in time. "The London traders, to savs their credit | and eecapo th* expense of protest, pro v id I ing new bill* and other probable oom j meroial diaasten, reeolved to mud oa*n across to cover their draft* a* they came to j maturity. So grave wa* the orjait, so great th* sum to be embarked, trial a king'* snip was ask*d, and nearly ovary banking firm in Lombard itreei dispatched a member in charge of it* own cash oon tri button. "Moreover, as many legal question* might arise, an experience! notary his name is preserved, Mr Schabiacn wa* secured to accompany in* party and ad Tits 1 in any difficulty. Th* precious cargo wa* insured principally at Lloyd's. "Various idea*, and nothing quit* au- thoritative, prevail a* loth* exact amount ou board the Latin*. Some sty theepecie, which wa* in com* of all tortt, gold and nlvsr guineas, golden piastres, doubl* Lou:* d'Ur, Sicilian gold puce*, nlver piastre* and dollars, alto in gold and silver ban, reached a total value of upward of a million. The only contemporary report is tnat in the Annual Register and in me Gentleman's Magazine for 17'JH, which fixe* the amount lost at merely 1'ltO.OOO ; but Lloyd'* underwriters srs SAM to hav* paid insurance to the extent of li)O,UOO; another sum of 100,000 was insured in Hamburg, and there wa* 127,01.10 ia public money for pay to th* troop*. " I.OAI'lMi TUX THS.ASI KK SHIP. In October of that year the Luliue was ordered round to Yarmouth to lake treas- ure on board and proceed to the Elbe, Her captain was oue Lancelot >a-yuu*r, K N., an olbcer ef distinct un, aud uo doubt hi* mission wa* much to hi* tasta. The short voyage wa* likely to bring h:m considerable protil, for U w ihe rule to pay naval captain* a commission of 1 per cent, on th* total value embarked. " On the evening of th* 5th of October the Lutiue lay in Yarmouth road* with a merry party on board. Tb* captain, no doubt in excellent spirits, had given a grand bail M the lead ng people in and about Yarmouth. The last of tne guet't had hardly gone ashore when peremptory orders oume from the Admiralty that ths Lutine should forthwith go to sea. She ailed in the sany morning of th* 6th, and from that time very little was hoard of her. " It i*, however, known that ihe steered a straight course for Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the Kibe, wind strong from N, N. W., and greatly in favor. After landing passengers aud treasure the Lutiua wa* to convoy a fleet of mercantile to the Baltic. TRUCK ON TUB BOCKS. "v>on after midnight, going fre* and under full press of sail, sn* itruok <n the outer bank of the Island of V iieland (Klyland), the next to th* Tx*l,au .1 one uf Ihe ring of islands that hem ths mouth of the Zuyder Zee. .She must havo been slightly out of the course, and it ia taid that there wan a strong lee-tide running. During th* night she went down with all on board. Another King's ihip.ihe Arrow, CspU Portlook, wa* in oompaoy, but th* could give no help, nor the 'sciioot*,' or tinning boat* of the coast, sod when day bioke there wai no Luliue, only two sur- vivor* wer* picked up by a Dui.ii lugger at daylight clinging to th* wnokag,on* of ' whom died almost immediately, .tad the ether, Mr. Sohabraoh, the notiry, very oon afterward* diet), but not until he had told the little he knew. "Repeated ei.ona have been mad* to recover the money. In the year immediately following, when the whole thiug wa* fresh, and before the sand had silted or drifted over the wreck, th* Dutchmen tielied up lorn* 63,000. Then more lyttemat 10, and some really costly effort! were made, and by 1H57-8 noiher 5O,OOOwi r*. overed. Th* present operation* were In-gun in ISITJ hy an English engineer, Mr. Fletchir, who had bei n engaged on th* Dutoii COAII iu railing a aunki-n dredger. He became interested in the Liuine, and aa* himself with another eminent engineer, Mr. Rmipple, they hav* approached the businett in a novel way. Their idea it lo clear th* ihlp of sand, but to iudose her in a central area or dock faced hy sandbags, which will prevent further lilting, while they ran lack the interior of Ihe wreck by diver*. Thi* area u 200 feet in eMamet*r, from which the sand will be removed by powerful suction dredger*. "It i* calculated that a lester are* of torn* 50 foet in diameter mcloias the (hip nd its bullion chamber, possibly a much les* area. ; but it i* supposed that the 'ihamber ha* been broken up and it* oon- ents disported some distance around. No doubt the heavy bar* of bullion will have worked deep down into the sand a* the m must have done, for only two hav* been recovered : hot they will be found a* the sand is removed. Loo** com* many uf them will be probably *uok*d up through th* dreduing pump* when deposited on the perforated table* on top th* sand will )*** freelj sway, but the coin* will be retained. But the bar* of gold ar*> wbst ill be looked for mo*t eagerly." THE GOTHENBURG SYSTEM. What II Mas * sad Is *! for Ike Vltlet sml Tewew wr<le*j. Mr. Gladstone ha* recently written a etter in which he haa expressed hi* view* a* to temperance reform, and hae amid that while ho ha* a poor opinion of some re- strictive measures, bo would like to see the Uothonburg system have a fair '.mi in Great Britain. The objection to mat syitsm by many professed temperance reformer* is thst it simply restrains and does not abolish th* sale of liquor, and they argue tht they can have nothing to do with a plan into which the legalized salt of atimulant* enter*. Th* history of th* Gothenburg system, however, may well bo attractive to loose wno take t morn utilitarian view of the subject. It originated m Sweden in 1S&>. I' he object alined at by it* founders wa* the decrease of the widespread poverty of the working classes, in so far aa u wa* as used by the auUM of Intoxicating liquor*. The mean* by which it was proposed te bring about toil reeult were: (1)A radical rniormof Iks manner in WHICH the liquor traltac wa* conducted, and ('2} an artificial heighten- ing 01 lie price of spirituous li<|uora, to be secured by the suspension of ttie rUHClM.! OV COMHCTIT10N. With the** end* in view, in* autiioiities agreed to transform th* saloon license* then existing in Uotheuburg to a company, wbo contented to undertake the busmeoe on the understanding that neither the shareholders nor the person* nvagod a* managers snould derive any prod i from the sales beyond a nieii ptrcsniagt on the capital invested. 1 ins principle of " no profit to the seiiert ' I* the keyitoti* of the lyitem wherever it ha* ben established in Sweden. In IHott, the tint year of the opsralioo of th* new yitem, the conviclioni for drunkenness in liothenburg dropped to 1,424 irom 2,070 the previous year. There were, at 'n time 01 the tint formation of tn* company, 6U huouee* n existence, giving one saloon to evrry 783 of th* inheiutanta. Tus tint step taken by th* company wa* to reduce thi* numoer to 43, or on* to every 1,1)93 uintmtanta. Taking tn* first tea year*' experience ef the system as applied in Gothenburg, the results on the vtioie were | not vory encouraging, and many were di*- | posed to pronounce u a failure. In 1 S 70, | however, a change *et IB, and th* last ! fourteen yearn hav* been marked by A STKADY DIM1.1CTION in the) coniumptiou of ipiriM per head of the population, in the conviction* for dronkennoss and in the case* of delirium treniens. Th* experience of Gothenburg has lod to the m roductiou of the lyitem IB Stockholm and in many .Swedish town*. ! Tn* effort of the companiee ha* been to ; ssleot good, epen iituation* for their avouue, an I to make them light, well- ordered, andreapctabivfrequeuted place*. A short time ago th* various British con- tular officials in Sweden were requested to i report on the subject. Replies were re- | dived from 2 Consuls, aud, without exception, they were favourable to the ivitem. Mr. Gladstone has no doubt made bimaolf acquainted with the Gothenburg plan 'from independent source*, and hi* declaration on th* subject will probably have considerable weigiit with many of the friend* of temperance in Great Britain. Ancient Fire Engines. The oldest tire engine in Kngland is at Dunabable, bearing the dale 1670. At Hereford is one of the Vaude Heide't tire engines that wae presented to that oi'y A. D. 1670, by P. Koley, K*q.. M. P. Refer- suove to fire engine* are found in very early times. In an illustrated sixth cen- tury Latin manuiicript of the " Spmtaiia" of Hero of Alexandria, who liv. d 300 yoara before lh I 'hrnt'ian era, is delineated the Kgyptmu tire engine of the author's timo, with lie double :orce pump, valves, lever arms, gov>* nt-ck, and probably, too, its "air chamber." in IlilM) an act of Parliament wa* passed requiring a "large iwjil brass syringe" to be kept iu each waril of the City of Londco, ud to be worked by the respective Aldermen. The London Gazette of August 14, 1G7U refer* to "letter* patent granted to Mr. W barton and Mr. Stroud," for new invention for quenching fire with a machine with leather pipe*, to carry a large quantity of water in a continuous stream to the top of the house, whioh wa* proved iu the great fire at South wark. Rather Hopeless. On* l'id you make an impression on that pretly girl you got so wild about? George I'm afraid not. When 1 called, ho summoned her chaperon, and then the two apent the evening arguing the point* of a n>w ooitum*, with me at umpire. Afraid of Internal Ruction. Smith is walking around to-day a* if he wore stopping on eggs. He need* to. What ails him ? Why, last night after he had gon* to !>.! ho remembered that he should have taken soiiio iiuinin oaptuUii. He got up in ih dark and took 'em. This morning he dis- covered that ho had >wu lowed thre? t oaiibor revolver cartridge* I WOMEJf BULL-FIGHTERS, BRUTAL SCENES STIH ONLOOKERS TO FRANTIC APPLAUSE. pal.-. /. !* rir.d.r. rrnh La.r* -Bleeslr lebary ef a Bull br la* favorlle >uialr Mai , dor aVwardrU Wlifc Jrweltaael newer* aveeadeeee *n*it< 'ri. In the land of Moorish ruin*, Don Quixote nd PhilipIL, probably the mott live thing ti it* troop of women bull nglit era. The** trapping Barcelona girls were formerly mill hand*, hardly earning a pittance, They became bu.l-dghtert, and now they make 120 apieee for every fight in wbioh they engage. Poor old Spain ! Her bull- tight* sad her Moorish rums are all tbat are .eft t* her. ! he Moorish ruins ars hatofui in ns eye*, but th* buil-fight remain* th* ohoeea "port" of her 20,000,000 of people. The** bull fight* by women are conducte** in the same manner a* wh*u the toreador* are men. They wear the same costum** and th* scene* are oharacterlaod by th* no brutality. In fact, were it not fo r their smaller nature, no one would tnmk they were women. Certainly not from any shrinking from their brutal ta*k for the* in to riot in the blood of tneee ign>ble shamuiee and lake a diabolir-J delight ia the suffering of the doomed animtlt. Their buise* are tne earn*, broken down, that in ths late year* have been reserved for the national aport of Spam. The Amazonian picador* come into th* arena astride these poor, broken-dowa brute*, dreeaed to th* costume of Spacis* knignt* ci old. TII1V CABBY LAKCKS, and take their poai t ion in th* middl* of th* arena, oppoaite the bull stalls. Then cam* the unuiot on foot, who distribute tnem- eetvee in the spaces between irie barrier*. The ehulo* are attired in ipieudid cloakaj and wear a great deal ot gay riboon, altogeiner making a gorgeou* flsan ef color. Lastly come* 'he woman matador, Providencia Almeda. She is liaodiomsly dreaasd. She hold* ia her right hand B naked sword, in her left ths muleta.a stick with a bit of scarlet tilk altaonod. The chief magnf rate givet a aign.tb* bull i* brougnt out of th* nal.i aud th* dgkt begins, Th* wom*n picadors await the development of the bull's character. If be i* a brave beast it lake* all tneir skill to act on the dafeuaive and evade him : if no i* a coward they goad turn to fury with tab*, noises and waving s scaxiet cloth. In a rinht witnessed y tne writer the tint bull, a maguiti -rir Spaniard, wa* taken la hand by a female Unrcule*, Maria Alvarado. Th* beast at once attacked several hones. Oue of theee becoming completely uiaembowellen', galoped about the arena with hie entrails uraggiug after turn. No one thought of des|iatohinii the poor beast ; he wa* dragxd off, pernap*, to have hi* *ntrail* thrutt back, nit belly sewn up anil !>* sent back into the ring again. Such things are done continually. Maria Alvarado despatched the bull all too quicciy to suit the blood-lhirety instinct* of ner audieaoB, Two other tignl*. in which wom*n to- reador* participated, took place the laato afternoon. In oue of tnese Providencia. Almeda, the favorite woman matador, am. net drove liei audienon frantic with delight by her butcheries. She ki.led a French bull after a tenet of horrors too hldoou* to describe. The people (honied till they were Hoarse, clapped tneir hands and threw to her JIWsXS A.ND FLOW BBS. Th* high-bred Spanish laui**. in their lao* i las, would nave liked to smother her in em brace*. Th* entnutiaani of a London audience the Snal night of a grand opera season is '-old Bod tame compared to th* frenzied ecitacy of these people over tins olive skinned sinewy amazon. There is, at least, en* country in Western Kurope, where Dr. Nordau's gospel it not needed. Spam ba* written fini* tu her "degenerate*." Among the Spaniard* the decadence of the "art," as ttiey are pleased lo t*rm thi* digutting brutality, i* bewailed by COB- noisMur* of the Plaza. La Nenua S.dia, th. Madrid organ ot tne buillight, must* that ttp* should be taken to restore the "art" to iu original cplendor. Ihoruberry, who y->aii ago saw such bull-fighting a* it would b* impoewhl* to find to-day, saya that *v*n tnau the judge* w*r* siiakiof their hsadt from the upp*r box** of th* Plaza. Ala* I" *ighed Monoculoui, " thi* chivalrous but cruel amusement ha* sadly fallen off aud degenerated lino* the day* of the Abcnoerragea, The picador* than w*rt> gentlemen, who d'*played th*ir courage and dextrou* riding, not for hire, nut to win smile* from their ladies, who sat looking on. 1 he mere death thruit wa* then a secondary thing, and instead of those carrion knacker i hones, they wheeled and circled on fiery Arabs, each worth a kingdom aud at whose death queens might have wept. Thoe.- turbanee) men fought with simple javelins four feet long, and tlew the bull unaided with their own hand*. The bulls of Geryon, that Hercules stole, are ttill certainly ttrong and tierce ; but they are, af tor all, lean ana small, and nut to be compared with the bulls of Kngland for power and muscle. But though no longer the amusement of hign born men, bull-fighting is more/ popular lo day in Spain than ever. The Spanish ladies attend the bull fight* with as much pleasure a* ih* Engliih fair att'iud an opera. To the retp.oiable middle clai* It ii lite chief recreation. They bring their children, aud the little thing! clasp their hand* with delight B* the goring of Bom* broken down hone. Had Capital to Start With. How i* bumnes*, John T ask*d L'ncle Allan Sparks, as th* Chinese lauudryman run.ied him hi* washing. Not velly good, answered th* China- man. Hy the way, John, maMd Uncle Allen, fouling in hi pocket for tbe change where- with to pay the Ce.eeuel, what ii your other name ? Nam* Chin Chin. 1'rop launriryiug and try th* auo'ionter buainets, John,