Brownson is sorry to hear by Father Ernest Van Dyke that Fifine Brownson's eyes are worse than ever He thinks it must be owing to her being kept awake and worn out with Orestes Brownson. Brownson saw Father Van Dyke but for a moment, as his visit was paid to Sarah Brownson . He seems to be in better health. He told Brownson nothing, since he knows nothing, how Henry's law business is prospering, but his manner left the impression that Henry is not doing very well. Brownson wishes to be told plainly whether Henry is meeting his expenses. Brownson has been intensely busy preparing the first number of the Review. It is now going through the press. It will be five dollars a year, payable in advance, and it will be worth 20 per cent more to him if subscriptions are sent direct to Fr. Pustet and Co., 52 Barclay Street, than if the numbers are taken through agents. Henry will receive his number by mail, free of charge, except for postage, four cents a number. He has it stereotyped, and prints only 500 copies to begin with. It will cost, composition, paper, press work, binding, about $260 a number per 1000 copies, which is very reasonable. A number of subscribers are already received. He has received many encouraging letters, and already $105 cash and thinks he shall get 1000 subscriptions in the course of the year. Brownson's health is possible; Sarah is improved wonderfully since Anna Brownson went home and he is beginning to feel that he has a home again. They are getting along pretty well,—only he has double rent to pay till the first of April. After that his rent will be $400 a year. He still writes for the Tablet and he has not much leisure for his fingers are stiffened. The elections have gone as Brownson ex-ected. He did not vote. He could not vote for Greeley, and would not vote for the Republican party. Greeley was a dead weight and injured the Democratic party more by being a candidate, his thirty years uninterrupted hostility to it. Coalitions are rarely successful on a large scale. France seems to Brownson to be on the declivity to the Republic. Auguste Theirs is a humbug, and Brownson expects to see very soon Leon Gambetta dictator. Bismarck is playing a very unwise game and is preparing to give Russia the sympathies of the whole Catholic world, when four or five years hence she disputes with Germany the hegemony of Europe. Love to Fifine, the children and all the relatives. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.