The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1866, Page 2

they will have to toll harder and be less romanereiod (a I ‘workhouse of Carrick-on-Suir, proportion to the cost of the necessaries of life, _ The English Trade Strikes, VICTORY WITH THE STRIKING TaILoRs, [From the London Times, April 6.] In accordance with the promise made on Wednesday to the men by the employers’ *putation, Mr. Green, the Secretary of the Operative Tailors’ Committee, yesterday morning received @ letéer from Mr. Brown, the Chairman of the A: ed Masters, informing him that they were willing to come to an arrangement upon the resolution adopted at the meeting of the joint deputations on Wed- nesday, and requesting the deputation from the men to moot fhom at five o'clock last evening to make definite arrangements. The deputations met accordingly, and an agreoment was drawn up, to be binding on parties, by which the men were to receive the advance of ono penny per hour, yielding at the same time some minor elaims made by them. The strike and lock-out may, therefore, be considered virtt atanend. A gene! meeting of the men is to be held this day to report of their conmmit and it is under Ops ‘are to be opened and work resumed on Saturday morni! next. The although not obtaining all they ask: for, have gai: a iderable addition to their weekly wages, ‘The Ita: Opera. OPENING OF THE SEASON IN LONDON—PERFORMANCE OF UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, WITH MARIO. [From the London Telegraph, April 4] ‘The season of Italian Opera was last Sats bya performance of Un Ballo in Maschera, distin ed by ‘all the completeness to which Mr. 7 has long accus- tomed his patrons. Precisely at half-past eight o'clock Mr. Costa, who is noted for punctuality, lifted bis end as the familiar strains of the national anthem sum- moned the audience to their feet the massive splondor of the nobly-proporticned house awoke new admiration in the beholder. ‘God save the Queen’ was sung by the chorus only, and no sooner had the curtain fallen ‘upon this bMef ceremony, the prelude to the swelling thome of a season's triumphs, t! it rose again upon the firat scene of Verdi's opera, Verdi seems already to have marked the season for his own. Not only is it on his latest contribution to the wage that the curtain rises upon the opening night, but of tho threo works produced in the first week is likewise the product of his active pen. Un Ballo in BMaschera has scarcely as yet met with its deserts in England, and it certainly has not received the uni- versal acceptanco which bas been gained by much less meritorious works. For this comparative neglect Signor Verdi has partly to thank himself, In lay- ing violent bands on the libretto of Gustave, he secured atried and serviceable scaflolding with which to build his musical edifice; but in doing 0 he provoked un- avoidable comparison with the glittering, fairy-like ‘lace which we owe to the creative genius of Auber. The practice to which composers are so prone of setting books which have already been illustrated by their pre- decessors cannot be too deeply deplored, seeing that it tends to impoverish the field of art. A score of painters may exercise their skill upon the self-same subject, and though to one only we cau assign the palm, we may take deight in observing how each artist has conceived his subject, and by what means cach has fixed the result of his imaginings. But from this pleasure the connois- sour in music is debarred; for it unfortunately happens that the more recent opera always drives its forerunner— its model and Cee eemee the limbo of forgotten works. Both cannot liv nd the world of art is thus impoverished. If it bo true that the man isa public bene- factor who makes two blades of grass spring up where one only grow before, the musician must be an evil-doer who, to plant his own sweet flower, plucks up that set by his neighbor, when there is room enough for both to live and “take the winds of March with beauty.” Only complete success can in any case Justify the proceeding, and it cannot be said that in the case of Gustave Ver has completely eclipsed Auber. But if the impulsive Italian has not improved upon his great French rival, his Ballo in Maschera is one of his very best works, instinct from bezinning to end with dramatic life and vigor. It was possibly chosen for the first night's representation because it must be familar toevery one concerned in the performance. There was ind no novelty inthe cast. The heroine was impersonated by Malle, Fricci, who for several seasons has been one of the most generally serviceable members of Mr. Gye’s house, being equally proparod to undertake any soprano part, and who during that period has inde considerable progress, Her voice has lost none of its brightness or power, and in the tumultuous scene in which Amalia’s interview with the Duke is interrupied by her husband, as well as in the thetic appeal Morro, ma prima in grazia,” she exhib- ited cons derabie feeling. Neither Mdte. Sonieri, who the three sparkling songs of the page Oscar with more poe ‘than rolinement, nor Malle. Lustani, who sustained the small yart of the sorceress, were altogether strangers to an English audience, But ungallant as ft may seom, it is nevertheless true that the interost of the ovening was chiefly fixed upon the male actors in the drama. Whon Signor Mario first walked upon the stage he was greoted with a cordiality that appeared to give him im- mMoediate strength and confidence, for he sung throughout the opera with much of his former beauty of voice and with all his constant grace of style. If his physical capacity refused at times to follow the promptings of his will, the singular charm of which he still keeps the se- crot made ainple amends. No other tenor has ever led off the tunefui quintet “ scherzo ed é Jollia” with such debonair inscuciance, or poured ‘such irresistible fervor imto the passionate protestations that the Duke whispers into Amalia’s willing ear. Signor Graziani also met with a warm reception at the hands of an unus‘ally cold audience was ¥ erously encored for luis rendering of the plaintive me- lody, “0 Doicesze Perdu'e,”’ in which Renato recalls the huppiness of tho “days that are no moro.” Tagliafico and Capponi were picturesque as woll as 1 cally wnexceptionable conspirators, and the chorws was even more efficient than usual. The orchestra, con- ducted by the ever cuful Mr. Costa, was admirable as evor, and the scenic arrangements as artistic and com- The masked ball itself, which gives its name to pera, animated as it is with hosts of fantastical pe colored groups, is the most samptuous sceno of the ind over witnessed’ on any stage. Tl Tr vit re is announced for Thursday, and La Tra virta for Saturday; so Verdi has it all his own way this ‘wook. mo Musical. MADAME ALBONI"S HUSBAND INSANE. (From Galignani’s Messeng>r, March * * + Bofore leaving this (Italian Opera) theatre Notice, our duties must diverge from the pleasant paths of concratuiation to condolence, Every English rosi dent in Paris will deeply sympathize with the greatest artist perhaps that ever trod. this stage—Mmo, Alboni— m the fearful affl.ction that has shivered hor household fos upon her hearth and made desolate her happy ome. The symptoms of insanity which had occastn- ally been observed in the Count Pepoli’s conduct had incronsod in intensity until his removal to Dr. Blanch’s establistiment at Passy became necessary. Sorrows sach as those are far be the reach of consolation. Thi are wounds which cannot be touched even by the t degoat hands, thougt they are deoply felt by those b ¥-me. Alboni has so often made to beat when she enchanted us by her great powers. ROSSINI'S LAST CONCERT FOR THE SEASON. {From Galignani’s Messenger, Paris, Rossini's | soiree for the season took pia: urday. The Siabat Mater was to have boen ox an {ndisposition of Mme. Connoau interfered, and ms- cellansos pieces wer: given in its stead. The duo from Semiramis was finely sung by Miles. Vitali and Bloch; duo from Willam Teil (instrumental), White and Diemer; aria from Faust, Mile. Vitali; Pro Pescatis, Tam. burini; duo from Don 'Pasquate, Tambarini and’ Mite. Vitali; the Lazzarone, by Delie-Sedie; [i Lovere Bambno, = and an air from Mercadante’s Lemo-a, Mile. ‘tall. The Abbe Liszt and Sivori were guests at the dinner which preceded the entertainment. Miscellancous Foreign Items. Now® from Cochin China, pubhshed in the Courrior de Saigon of the 20th of February, is satisfactory to the French people. ned in the colony. On the 1th of that month was celbrated the marriage of Captain Savin de Larclause with Mile. Do. tergue. This is the first wedding inscribed on the civil register. Advicos from Athens state that a rumor prevailed that the Greek government was about to negotiate a loan of tour millions of drachinas with the bank Ganer of Corfu Tho Viceroy of Egypt is expected at Constantinople for tho purpose of thanking the Sultan for having given bis approbation to the couvention relative to the Suez canal, A popular meeting, consisting of three thousand per. fons, has been held at Stettin, 4 strongly ‘pronounced inst hostilities in Germ War, says a resolution adopted unanimously, is oppowed to liberty aud fatal to the country The official journal of Schleswig publishos an ordi- Bance annulling the authorivation for the manu jurers of that country to participate in the Paris exhibition in a separate division. A space of fifty aquare metres will be now reserved for them in the Prussian department The Committee of Fivance tn Stockholin has voted a credit of 170,000fr. toward the expense attendant on the reprosenutation of Swedish manufactures at the Uni- vorsal exhibition of Paris, A pacific agitation for electoral reform contiaues, and tnereases from day to day in Belgium. The Garette Belge states that a spring of petroleum oil was discovered at Ledeberg, in the environs of Bruscswls Tho Meniteur du Soir says:—It had beon agrood the month of January last, that the representatir: Paris of the signitury 1 Peace and abundance re Up by the European C view to make ™* © ita mouths 28, and thoy ha the navigation of tha atiaries assembled on Mareb ven their unanimous aasent to the above montioned act, which assent may be cousidered as an express and formal rectification, Tt only how to proceed with the works necessary to f tal the navigation at the Sulina mouth, upon which are at Presont concentrated all the efforts of the commission fhe Journal de St, Petersburg of April 5 publishes « Aistorical review of the question of the Danubian Princ\- ities, acoompanied Wity official document’, The ob- tof thin review is to al that from the year 1856 to Rossa has alway: ted upon the expediency of Consulting the wishes of the Moldo-Wallaehians, and has | Eo mat to a union of the two peoples so long tence should not prove such a course to be preju- dicial to the welfare of the principalities iy The asual muster of the English volunteer force took Place at Brighton, on & tonday Between 20 000 and 30,000 men nssernbied on the occasion, The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge re. wed the troops. Wilson, who has been a cashier in Mesars Lamb. ton & Co.'s bank, In Nowcastle.on-Tyne, England, forty ra, has been taken into custody, and’ brought before ho magistrate of that town, and remanded, charged with having forged a bond for £1,400, upon the River Tyno Commissioners, in connection with some trast Property with which he wae connected. Mr Witkon was aleading man among the Dissenters in Nowcastle, aod his apprehension caused great excitement. A workhouse bamed Buckley murdered Mr, Corouso H. Jeotsoe, of Carrick House. whee leaving the NEW YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. Treland, on the 31st of March, He struck him on the head with a heavy stone ‘to escape. Mr. J Goresiane Oy Ln Meath ee pone houses of Dunally and Wate: |, with sev first families in the counties of Tipperary and Waterford, will be placed in mourning. peal ia ted Toulon fleet o! ce, consisting eur thinet ie line aaa se five Selena. B0Gee | se: Card am ag i r practae ww manceuvre invented by Caton was anchored between sailed round her at increased speed. The ‘The Cortes of Portugal will close on April 20. The remittent fever, which a committed such ravages at ,St. 3 nal broken out with violence at Moscow and Orenburg. At Moscow a new hospital has had to be opened for the tion of the sick. The Disturba: Anarchy Along the Persia: {From the Times of I: March 13.) nce received from Int pro| insecure, so much so that cessary to take the British agent and all the Christian families on board the Berenice for safety. Notices have also been circulated among our Indian subjects warning them of the risks they would be incurring should they remain on shore, and the mail steamers have been for- bidden to enter Muscat, unarmed vessels being con- sidered hable-to attack. On the murder of Thow- eynee, the late Sultan, his fourth brother came to Bom- bay to acquaint his Exceliency the Governor of the revolt. Her Majesty’s steamers Octavia, Commodore Hillyar, and Highflyer, Captain Pasley, have been sent to the Gulf for the protection of life and shipping, as also to inflict salutary chastisement upon these wild and troublesome tribes; but intimation has not yet been received what measures have been considered necessary for the accom- plishment of these ends. Her Majesty’s steamer Coro- hemo proceeded to the Gulf yesterday as tender to the Uctavi Coal on the Shores of the Red Sea. LETTER OF ONE OF THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. The following is from a missing letter of Dr. Beke, in which it is stated that Mr. Rassam had met the Emperor Theodore and been well received by him. It will be remembered that this statement bas been denied by Dr. Beke in a subsequent letter: — M’Kvta, nman Massowag, Feb. 13. The discovery of coal in Abyssinia has caused a consid- erable movement along the coast of the Red Sea. A few weeks ago a party of Frenchmen left Massowah, for the purpose of visiting a coal field situate somewhero between Massowah and lah, which is said to have beon discovered several years ago by Mr. Barroni, for- merly British Consular Agent at the former place, and of which they are reported to have made a conditional sale to a French commercial house at Alexandria for five mil- lions of francs. Further south, near the Straits of Babelmandeb, a party of two hundred Egyptian soldiers with two Euro- peans (Englishmen ?) have jed inland to take pos- session of another coal fleld at Galeila, which was pur- sep about two years ago by a British subject resident at Aden Should these discoveries of coal along the shores of the Red Sea prove to be of value serious questions cannot Tail to arise with respect to ownership anid to the sove- reignty of the territory in which the mineral is situated, The Ottoman Vorte has an antiquated claim to the whole coast of the Red Soa; but it nevor exercised any rights of sovereignty except at Suwakin Massowah. In 1862 Ahmed Araie, brother of Naib Idors, of Har- kiko, was nominated by the Porte mudir ( of the coast between tbat place and the Straits of Babelmandeb, and is sald to have panted the Turkish flag at several points the as far south as Burbul, beyond which place lhe was prevented trom proceeding by the natives declaring themselves to be dependent on Aussa, and therefore sub- ject to the Emperor of Abyssinia, who (it is well known) claims the entire coast as bis own. The cession of this coast recently made by the Parte to the Viceroy of Egypt is ikely to bring the question of sovereignty to an issue, as is indeed evidenced by the despatch of a body of yption troops to take possession of the coal fields of Galeila, The recent acquisition by the French of the territory of Obokh, near Ras Bir, is said to have beon made with a view to the appropriation of thts coal feld, which is in its vicinity. The existenc® of cdal along the shores of the Red Sea is of the utmost importance at the present moment, when two lines of steamers are about to run between Aden and Suez, touching at Moscow and other ports along the coast. The one of these is a branch of the Britis India Steam Navigation Company, the other is a new line, to be established by the French house of Bozin & Co., of Marseilles and Alexandria. Personal Intelligence. Lit of Amoricans rogistered at Messrs, Bowles, Drevet ’ 24 Rue de la Paix, Messrs. Vandenbrock h ntin; Messrs, No. 8 Piace de la Bourse and ."s. No, 6 Rue dela Paix, Paris, Wm. Appleton Potter, Taylor, H. W. Robbins, 8. F. Jobnson, Mrs’ Line, Miss Fuller, Mr, and Mrs. J, Hobart Warner, Clirkson N. Potter, Edwin W. Holbrook and wife, Cyrus W. Field, P. H. Atwater, J. Lyman, Jr., W.Austin, H. Victor Newcomb, J. T. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. John T. 8 wood, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ball, M. C, Hamilton, from Now York: Johu Goforth, Herman Gi <. Muerhead, Jas, & Keon, Dr. Edward Rhoads, Mr. and Miss Wharton, Miss Cornwall, from Philadelphia; Geo, A, Newell and wife, F. F. Washburn, Miss 8. E, Washburn, Dr. and Mrs. C. M, Weld, Mrs. C. L. Gtbson, Miss L. L. Gibson, 0. R. Chase, from Boston; F. H. Wilkeson and sister, A. Tracy, Franklin Sidway, Jonathan Sidway, from Duffal SB. Canfield, wi gon, from Syracuse, N. Y.; and Mrs, John A. Cutler, Henry L. Kigh, Mise Mattoson, Mr. and Mrs.’ Henry Farnam, from Ch li.; C. W. Keyes, Mrs. Burnett, from Mlinoi p- pert, from Iudiana; Goo, B, Farnam, from New Haven. The Emperor Napoleon has granted a sum 0” eighty thousand francs from his privy purse to aid the Trappist Fathers in important works they have underiaken for draining the ponds of Las Dombes, in the Ain, in Monroe & M asrs. for the week ending March 30 HAC, Bouvet, reader to the Empress Euge: a large lan the Ai he wedding will take place be: the chapel of tho Tuileries Dr. Thomas W. Evans, of Paris, and family have re- ceived a most severe blow by the death of Mr, Louis Evans, his nephew, who has just died at Nice, The Hon. Mrs. Theresa Yelverton has been giving readings ta London, Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M. P., and Mrs. Disraoll pri 7) left Hughenden Manor to visit the Duke and Duchess of Wellington. The Duke and Duchess de Mouchy, whose private aftairs have farnished the wock's gossip in Paris, were observed at the Church of the Madeleine, on Easter Sun- day, to take communion togethor, Rossini hae written from Pars to the Kir to remind him of his py old port.” “Your Maje your promise; bat you must rem and that I stiould pre ‘er drinking your Majesty’ health to prolong my own life, whereas, unless it should come soon, iny friends will drink it to ny memory.” QUEEN AN AMERICAN FAMILY ALLIANCE WITit VICTORIA. [From the Gazette de France, April 5.) The Princess Hole Prince Christ of England, by lier marriage with of Augustenbarg, will becom : U lady named Lee. The {amity rs ago settled themselves at nt unusual with rich Amoricans, to pean family, Y hter, Minist ro. Wartemburg time after inspired with the other of oroign Duke of ste ce, The o ed to Paris te the hy hier, and now becomes a HORACE B. CHAMBERS. Mr. Horace B. Chambers, son of Judge David Chambers, of this city, died on the 11th inst, in San Francisco, aged thirty-three years. The deceased formerly occapied a position in the Adjw tant General's office, in Sacramento, and at the time of his death was in offical employment in the San Franciseo Custom House. During a period of fifteen yours Mr. Chambers devoted his energies and abilities toward the development of the resources of California and Nevada. His courage and eflicioncy were displayed in many severe prospecting tours in company with the associates of Wells, F, & Co's Expres, The disease which resulted in bik h was contracted in the wildernesses of Nevata. The family of the deceased are woll known in Phila hia and St. Louis, It will be a Source of satisfaction, although melancholy, to know that the hours of young iubers were #0: laced by the attentions of kind and devoted friends. Sad Affair—An Escape from Ja Aunaxy, April 21, 1866 A day of two sinco Mr, Hiram Mefatyre, of Llinoia, who was visiting a brother at Dover, Dutchess county, while practising with « revolver fired at a doghouse, in which two little daughters of his brother were playing, Killing one of them instantly. Jacob Alcombrack and Jerome Fletcher, indicted for burelary broke from the Sehewartedy jail last aight. OUR SPORTS. Extensive Preparations for the Spring Season. RACING AND TROTTING. BPsomM AT NEW YORE. YACHTING AND BOATING. OCEAN RACES AND REGATTAS. The Great International Boat Race Between Hamill and Kelley. BASE BALL AND BASE BALL CLUBS. CRICKET AND CRICKETERS. ° CROQUET AND ARCHERY. &. &e. &e. Wretched, indeed, must be the being who does not feel some joy at the approach of spring. This year such a@ person does not exist, ushered in as it is by a winter as drear and disagreeable as ever occurred on our conti- nent, and one which insists on remaining with us to the last, and does not retire from the field until the balmy air of April compels him to hide‘his face, ashamed of his hardihood. For four long months have our unfortunate citizens dragged their weary way through oceans of Stygian mud, or else picked their careful steps across glaciers permitted to remain in our thoroughfares through the consideration of amiable street cleaning contractors, Joyously, then, do all hail the change-about to be inaugurated. With the advent of spring the sporting world will be- gin to bestir itself over the entire continent, and no- where will there be a greater bustle than in the city of New York. While the student of nature sces in the “ etherial mildness’’ of which Thomson speaks the waking of vegetation from its lengthened hybernation, the mantling of the earth with verdurd, the clothing of the trees in brightest foliage, and the bursting from the soil of future flowers; while the fair sex gee the introduc- tion of Paris modes, new freaks of Dame Fashion, hith- erto unthought of hats and undreamed of coiffures to replace the exhausted “waterfall,” the sporting man, with a keen appotite for enjoyment, pictures to himself the trotting course, with its sleek occupants and crowds of spectators; the base ball ground, with its excited players; the cricket fleld, the rowing matches and the yachting. Hundreds are at the present time making books, planning matches and dreaming of untold success, Bats aro with- drawn from their hiding places, balls ‘recovered, wickets polished and boats carefully examined; yachts aro being made trim and neat, while horses are carefully trained by their fortunate owners, Infact, everything promises well for a first class sporting season. In New York more than in any other city tn the Union are outdoor sports indulged in. Our metropétts has always been’ proud, and justly so, of her pre-eminence in that respect. New Yorkers, too, enter into these sports with a zest, a spirit not found elsewhere. Known over the world for their energy, their go-a-headativeness, Americans live on excitement which they thomselves furnish, and whether on the skating pond, the bade ball grpund, tho, trotting course or the yachting grounds, New Yorkers ably sustain the acknowledged superiority of their country and the supremacy of the Empire City. A lengthy and admirable programme in all the sports re- ferred to is laid out for the coming séason, which wo lay before our readers, THE TURF. From presont indications thore will be more racing and trotting during the approaching season than ever took place at any provious spring meeting. Besides a dozen trotting matches between the stables of Woodruff, Mace and Péfer, the proprietors of the Fashion and Union Courses have each offered twenty purses to be trotted for in the months of May and June, which are of such liberal proportions that the finest and fastest horses in the country will be sure to be brought forward to contend for them. A number of new trotters will make their appearance, among them Louis and R. R. Stuyvo- sant, both of whom are represented to be g90d ones. They are matched and will trot in a swoopstakes of $1,000 cach with Molly Pitcher, on the 16th of May, at the Union course, mile heats, best three in five, to wagons; and on the 30th of May they trot again for $1,000 a side, two mile heats, to wagons, at tho Fashion course; and again, on the 9th of Juno, at the samo course, three mile heats, to wagons, for $1,000 a side. R. R. Stuyvesant has two other engagements with Mr. Turnbull's Hambletonian gelding, the first of which will come olf om the 16th of June, and is for $1,000 a side, mile yeats, best three in to go as they ploass; and the other {s at two mile heats jor a like sum, antl this will likely be under the saddle, and will the 23d of June. The gray mu ¢ of on Blonde is matched with Ella Sherwood, two mile h ats, in harness, the etal and also with amodore Vanderbilt, mio hoats, best ruess, Shark and Lady Kmma are go as they please, for three in five; aud th iven by the py ‘, mn prictors of the Union will average four (rot ‘then in June the ree days, with a day, and ther hard to contend during th will be a meet- under the Brosdrock nel arrived at Ho- eleven race his slaves , and are still satisfed with him as a mast the purses to be run for at Hoboken a ‘press’ of, to be made up of contributions from the publishers in this neighborhood. “THE AMERICAN JOCKEY € Awant has long been experienced of horse racing in having a regula as in Paris and 1 , for the turther The want will d this yeurby the American Jock at present, promises even the old club will bo ev “8 will be seen by referring whom are of the wealthiest juss of our ertizens, as follows ducted on the best princi to the list of officers, al and m st respect: A. Keimont, President; Leonard W. Jerome, Vice Pres! dent; Wm. Butler Duncan, Treasurer, and J. F. Purdy, Secretary. It is intended that this club, in addition w itv reguiar club house on the grounds at Bathgate, shall have another in the city, where, during months, the members may enjoy themsely ‘The race course at Bathyate, which will be inaugurated is without doubt the finest in Itis situated within a short distance of Fordham, and ts but ten miles from the exty. There is every facility for approach to it by rail and buat, and the ride along Fifth avenue and through the Park, past Me- '« Dam (9 the course, is a debghtfal one, Th’ course is of a peculiar shape, and so arranged with fr “verse corves that the horses, in ranning once round the coy 184, pass twice within sixts yards of the home rum and \"™ mediately in front of ‘the grand stand. The grand stan! is four hundred and fifty teet long, and has for the ac commodation of spectators two tiers of seats, which will affurd from eight to ten thousand persons an opportunity of seving the horses ail through the race. The inaugu- ration race will be the popular and purely American one of four mile heats—the only proper vest for (ho thorough- bred horse * *POUR-IN-HAND’ CLU Each day America is bec wre socialized. Am-ticans no longer siart alone into the backwoods equipped for a solitary hunting expedition, and there, away from their fellow men, cultivate a rude civilized air and inculcate the feolings, passions and dis- likes of a miaanthrop’, Man was never intended to be nd we are beginning to endorse this principle so laid down by nature. Another step te. this” socializing is the establishment of our-in-hand”’ club and the first on this cont.nent. Wagon riding, however pleasant it may be to the indidividual who holds the ribbons, is in itself @ boorish, unsocial sport, totally opposed to the #8 of sociability and far removed from what properly nstitutes a gentlemanly pastime, Chough simple Kon Fiding 8 i itself not quite objectionable, atill there necessary concomitants which make tt so, A toad covered with dust, which, flying on all sides, fille ti atmosphere with clouds ‘which obstruct all ‘vision; a horde of vehicles, dashing along at headlong speed and driven each by & yelling, swearing, haif-crazy sport, half-biinded by dust and maddened by the oxcite- forgeta ali refined principles sensibly in the seale Of aud lowers bumanity. PAR’ vs ished throug! thi sober Je established among ju try Haze phi Magie. : Boni ‘Dream, Eva. Haswell, Kate Ww Ir y 4 ! then a y house, where benzine and Bourbon are synonymous, @ stoppage here for three or four unsoc al giasses of this unenjoyable concoction, and a half-drunken drive home, in the course of which an apple woman and bey man are k ied and two children maimed for lie. ly, a wagon ride is @ pecu- liar luxury. On the other hand, take a ‘four in hand.’? How different is everything. ‘The vehicle which accom- modates from twenty to twenty-five persons, among the rest a number of ladies, driven by fast “spankers”—a sociable party, who pass the timo as they drive along in country a! advantages to participants. The vast benefit of having skilled seamen among our you during the late war, and as Colum! tress of the seas’ it becomes the youth of the coun- to retain her in that eet position, which they can only do by themselves ming conversant with the management of all matters appertaining to the plough- ing of the briny element, “NEW YORK.’ ‘The New York Yacht Club stands proudly out as tho first in the country, and, 1t may be said, ia the world. The yachts comprising it are over forty in num- ber, and all of them large boats of exceeding swiftness, The names of the principal, with the owners, are as fol- men Was well proven is now the ‘mis- J, M. Hubbard. J. Van Shaick & J. E. Devlin. J. G, Bennett, Jr, ‘T. C. Durant, D, Devlin. C, Allen, Jr. F. Gibbs. Frit agate = ‘White Wing. od rm This club has done a vast deal to encou! the yacht- ing interest in te Sloman — = = sea sons it has afforded the 8] ing public of our m lls ‘amusement which it could not find elsewhere. This season will undoubtedly far excel all previous ones in brilliant contests, Already a number of match races bave been made, and with the regatta (spoken of abov @ review and the usual squadron cruise in August, programme will be complete. As all the members are workers “one with another,” the harmony so seldom found in similar organizations 1s apparent here, and 80 the management of the club and club affairs is unexcep- tionable, The officers for this year ai Commodore... .. W. H. MeVickar, Vieo Commodore. A. Major. Rear Commodore , A. Livingston, Secretary H. Morton, Treasurer .R, Hone. Measurer. ‘A. W. Craven. ‘BROOKLYN.”” club is an old ostadlished one, and one which claims to be second to none save the “New York.” It has a large number of members, the yachts belong- ing to itare, many of them, remarkable as well for the beauty of their butld as their fleetness. This year will in all probability be Th very successful one for the “Brookiyn.”’ Many gentiomen have declared thoir mten- tion of joining the club, and several new yachts will be added to the squadron The officers for the present year are:—Commodore, R. Whiting; Vice Commodore, F. W. Sheridan; recretary, W. Lee; Treasurer, W. Ringwood. “HOBOKEN.” Among tho clubs on the further banks of the Hudson the Hobokon Cinb ranks prominent. It was organized in the fall of 1856, and since that t'me there have been ful io 8 the sloops neva, Car- » and Laver, Tillie, and Dur. any of the members did good service The officers of the odore, C. Appleby; a. fall ; for the Union as officers and sen club the sent year are:—Com: Vice Commodcre, V. Veutiaume; Recording Secretar Courvoisice ; Corresponding Secretary, 8. J. Treasurer, W. H. Henry. “JERSEY cITY."” Jersey has pot alone the Hoboken Club to bonst of, but another, the Jersey City, which is an admirably conducted organizatic The Seabird, i Lizzie, Neptane, and several other good sloops belon to the club, aud are manned by as tine a lot o yachtmen a} ever hauled in a mainsheet, lowered a jib or set a squaresail, The rovatta takes place in Jun. The officers for the present sexson are Commodore R. C. ‘lton, Vice-Comnthodore F, Gratu, Jt., Treasurer A. B, Reynolds, and Secretary Win. Clark, Ji “10NK." The Ione has beeo organized but a single season, and therefore has had no chance of distinguishing itself up to the present. From the calibre of the geutlemen com- prising it there is little doubt that it will ultimately becowe a vai. able acquisition to the yacht flotiila of New York. ‘The viicers ary Comunodore W. H. Cornet, Vice- Commodore G. W. Oxborne, Secretary J. D. Malone and ‘Treasurer J. A. Weasel. ic, Zephyr, Josste, BOATING. There aro several boat clubs ia New York, and the members of many can pull as stout at an oar as any cise. where. During the past season a number of very in- feresting races took place in the cove off the Elysian Fields, and each race was witnessed by large crowds of spectators, The race between the New York and New- burg crews, which eventuated in the success of the lat- ter, wilt not, in all probability, be repeated, As neither crow has a club to bring the carsmen together for prac- tice, it requires considerable independent training to get up a race of this kind, Thore is one thing very much wanted in New York; that is an appropriation from the city for an annual regatta, Boston has done nobly for her boating fraternity, Philadelphia is not behind band. Why, then, should New York, the Empire City of the Union, not act gener. ously by the public and the lovers of the sport, for in ratifying the one they would surely please the other? ‘here is a rumor of the matter being brought under the notice of the Common Council, and if this should be the case we hope tt will recetve that cone:deration from both boards to which it is fairly entitled, Daring the coming month several races will take place on the Hudson and veriene tions are being or that ,. York clubs are the followin, a “RMPIRE CITY REGATTA CLU Thy !* not, properly ing, & boat club, owning, as it does, Me! . ma has ake ee, aa. 1 is for purpose of organizing each year a Iogurle on ,the Harlem river. Up to the present there have been m0 Of these, all of which have been pre-emi- The annual regatta usually takes on the ge river, whea there aro onerally either Ur or five matches; a single and Fee eraly ait Tor vet, ‘ateon fect boata, a Oehing bost race, and champion four °8F aod other races, prizes boing awarded to the amom't Of five hundred dollars, The Harlem river is admiraby,” “dapted for boat rac 's, as at all riods of the year and in, ll weathers the water is per- fectly smooth. There is ay ttaight course of one and a quarter mile in length, and Sle club bas started a five mile race, in which tbe bow? travel twice round the course, which i# always an inteyr@ting affair, Tho officers nontly succom Ul. place in Septem °F. of this club are President, Counc ‘Man Stephen Roberts; Vice President, C. Thomas; Treas "6r, C. Cotes; Secro- tary J. 8. Darling. “conumata.’” The Columbia Boat Ciob, though not ar old elub, has shown itself during the last season one of gXeat promise, To it may be amigned the credit of f fr, extent the interest in boating in New York. through the summer and to the ordinary club inotchen ter towed antiant tival clube with more or ‘The are all gentlomen of refine- mi social qualities. have gaived for them the Tospeot of the entire boating What races they may have this season aro not yot known; is litle doubt but that the Columbia will fraternity of New York. Pp * The “Waverley” is its own a respectively in the persons of the champion sculler Kel- ley, of Putney, England, and Mr. James Hamill, an am- ateur rower, of Pittsburg, Pa. This contest will un- doubtedly take place at Nowcastle-on-the-Tyne, as that locality seems more favorable than any of the waters of the Thames. The boat which Hamill will row will probably be from the manufactory of Councilman Stephen Roberta, of the Twelfth ward in this city, and will be named President Johnson. She will be carefuily boxed and conveyed across the ocean in the next or succced- ing steamer which leaves this port. Mr. Hamill, accom. panied by his brother, Mr. James Hamill, Chief Engineer of the Pittsburg Fire Department, sailed yesterday in the steamship New York, and will arrive in time to settle the difficulties in dispute regarding the kind of weather in which the race may be permitted to come off, and make all the necessary arrangements for the forthcoming match, The n information in rej to the course and the situation of the waters will be given him by Chambers and the Claspors, who are well and are at ——— rable pare on the r. Mr. Kelle; wing repeat ingnees wo try the oar with Hamill, ere can be but little doubt that the race will take place, and that it will create an excitement second only in importance to the Pugilistic encounter betweon Heenan and Sayers. Fhere™ will probabl; they will both @ place on the river Tyne question yet undecided. Whatever may Hamill will win, ‘the ry fact of the race coming off will exercise a benefl- cial effect upon the boating interests of this country. By lato English papers, we seo that some little misun- derstanding oxiste in the minds of those having this in- ternational match in band, which will unquestionably be settled on the arrival of Hamill in England. Tho Sport:- man of March 2%, in relation to the above affair, say: ‘We are at length in a yn to present our readers with a copy of the articles of ment for this proposed match, thy original draft of which bas been this week forwarded to us by Hamill for Kolley’s signature, are as follows:— ae two races; but whether is a be the result, and of course we hope Kelley, of Putney, ind, aud James Hacnitl, Pilishitg. Uniied. Stator of Ameen hereby: agree $wo aculliug races of tive miley each, th England. | The place for said races to be named by Hamill after his arrival there. Each race to be for the sunrof five hundred pounds, Hamill to recelve one hundred pounds as.an equivalent for England to row said races. The distance in each r: five miles, or as near 60 as it may be possible to a uitable course. The first race, aw usually rowed in Eng: hall be five miles straight. The second shall be two an half miles to @ stake boat, returning to the place of spring core man to turn the same stake boat from left to Fi hi reby agree to Tow ‘going to to be nt. ‘The dates of the races to be named by Hatniil after arrival in England, and after having selected the course. Kelley to have two weeks’ notice of the place and dates of tho races. Should the fiver not prove smooth on the dates named for said races, ‘or both sball be postponed until the first day that cotirse can be had.) Both races to take place on the same course, and on da: other if possible. No interference by either Bea! or their friends to prevent a fair race. The judges and referee tobe mutually agreed upon the day before the first race, Two Bundred and titty pounds to be pidced by each man, are forfeit, in the hands of a responsible party on the signing of Said n hhainted to the cstor of der the money to be handed to the edit before the first day named for the rave. Witness our bands this 10th day of March, Anno Domini JAMES HAMILL, following each this agreement. The remainder of aforesaid two wi Altest—Jno, Paisurr. We have duly submitted the above to Kelley and his backers, and they are unanimously of opinion that with- out some very considerable modifications, the terms as proposed by Hamill cannot possibly be acceded to. Kelley very naturally objects to the absurd clause which would give him only a fortnight’s notice of the course and the date of the races, and demands that Hamill should fur- nish him with particulars of time and place at least a month before the event, s0 as to yw # sufficient inter- val for preparation, while both be and his backers abso- lotely decline to entertain any proposition for postponing the race after the fixture has once been decided on; sincs, if accepted, the arrangement would be binding on Kelley, while practically it would leave his opponent at liberty to select bis own day. Ip addition to the above somewhat one-sided clauses, some surprise has been expressed that the articles coutain no mention of a proposal, which our readers will remember origin- ally emanated from Homull, to the efiect that if he suc- ceeded in de eating Kelley in their first encounter, he would row him again for the samo stakes over tho recog- nized Thames course, Another not unlikely source of dithculty is to be found in the somewhat surprix ng fact that, although the articles have duly come to band, they are ‘unuccompanied by any deposit; and it is scarcely probable that Kelley would consent to sign the agree- ment until Hamill really proves that he means business by covering the £260 which has been lying idie in our hands for the last (our months. Possibly our transatlan. tle friends may not be aware that {t is customary, in this country at least, to make good a deposit at the time the articles are signed; bat, be this as it may, it id impossi- ble, under the circ imstances, for any ulterior stops to be taken in the matter until we have further advices from w York, or, at all events, until the arrival of Hamiti, who, from ail accounts, may be expecied in this country in the course of next month. THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES—CHALLENGE FROM CHAMBERS TO KELLEY. [From the Sportsman, April 3) Lato last evening we received a telegraph ¢ communi- cation from our Neweastle correspondent, informing os that Robert Chambers had forwarded a loiter to us by that day's post, inclosing a challenge to Harry Kelloy to Tow ou the Thawes, in September next, for £200 a side. BASE BALL. The coming month will witness the lovers of base ball out in full force. And who is nota loverof this, our national game? The sun will smile upon the base ball ground, and the summer breezes, as they rustte amid the new-born grasses, will harmonize together, singing as they go the “Wearing of the Green.”’ The air will be filled with joyous shoutings and gladsome langnter, and the swift ball will fly from the pitcher's hand to be stricken into, perhaps, eternity, or out on the road, by the keen-eyed batter. Then lithe limbs will laugh at nimble fielders as from base to base the batter makes a home run. Praise of the pastime, either as an agree- able sport or healthful exercise, is wot necessry. thousand ball players in New York never w ing laudations, so we are excused. T, for encouragement to the clubs, which every day are prouting up throughout the country. Base ball is of ali owldvor games, either on this or any other con- Unent, the prince. Combining ail the ad) ot, with a sociability quite foreign to that ga ly entitled to the position it holds iu the estimation of © public, Americans do not care to “dawdie” over @ sleep inspiring game ail through the heat of a June or july day What they do they want to do tn a lurry, Englishmen differ materially in this will spend balf an bow and an hour conning Tight ieular, The over a glass of “arf an’ olumn of the Times, An American dashes off a “whickey cockfail’ or :‘smash’’ and reads the Hee) Summary in about minutes, Thus the reason of tue American anti cricket can be readily understood. It is too slow, and evory man is not always engaged. In bas: ball all is lightning; every action is «wit asa seabird’s flight, and there is no one who not something to do, and all want their “bands full’’ when the ball is round about. Of the coming season very little can as yet be said, There will be iy 3 of interesting matches, and the ap- yng faces will again gladden the lovers of game. ‘There are about twenty senior and one hundred junior clubs in New York and Brooklyn, cotprisin eight and ton thousand players. These clubs play at Brooklyn on the Capitoline, Union and Washington grounds, and at Hoboken on the Elysian Fields. latter ‘arf,’ three hy to between tise great drawback to the New York clubs that they we no ground on which to play on this side of the river. There is a portion of the lark allotted for a base ball ground, but up to the present none bat the students of the Free Academy have been permitted to play there. If something could be done to by this groumd to the Principal clubs, it would be of the greatest ible ad- Vaniage, both to base ball players thet ves and to the genoral public. It would be impossible to notice each club in New York in detail, but a few words about the most distinguished canpot be otherwise than inter. ‘sting to all the lovers of the sport. The club that natu- rally arises Grst in our mind, is the “ATLANTIC.” “Champion Rase Rall (fub'’ is @ proud title, and proud the members of the Atiantic. of iyo, to be mombers ent, whose thero by from bi reasure! ei Presidency of W. A able members, Secretary and which Cy pe imber ite considerable interest 5 prom! the Treasurer; W. a club than petition confidence in their skill, regattas. Tho ad % among ‘B. Brady ; Treas- Cozans; Kelly, HL Be gard ited be They of ds, is second od and, as far be seen, it will continue Rone. Tho matchos between this and rival olubs ar always the “events” of the n ssed, called #0, For nine years has it held this hi challenges from the Atlantics we cannot says a eeesbens look forward to additional 7 ends wish them TOUS B6asOD. aA —an enthusiast Atlantic is 8 certain to su Jas, Mowlene, and A. iL Mumby, ore “MUTUAL.” ‘This club is justly lookea uy; firat in the count It is each yoar plays receiving ut all as among an old ‘established RE i i comers. The officers for President; James O'Neil, H Dongan, EE ii “AOTIVE.” Next to the Mutual comes the Active, which close on its precursor’s heels sometimes that it HI “EMPIRE.” To know the Empire i to look at their record fee vious seasons, which is decidedly a bright oma jumph follows triumph, and seldom a defeat. are no inactive members here; all are pla; and not second rate ones either. For fielding this club is not excelled, if equalled, and its second nine are 60 its first will have to work bard or they will not be able to keep their places. Mr. T. G. Voorhees, the pr the club by i is ably assisted in the management of clags officers. “GOTHAM.” The Gotham is one of the oldest clubs in the country, coeval as {tis with the introduction of the game. & number of our old sports swear by it; and as there is always plenty of young blood among the mombors, this club holds its own, and if not cqual to other more pre- tentious clubs in’ play, one thing is certain, that for the social position of its members aud the gentlemanly com duct of its proceedings it is not to be exceiled among any of the clubs in the country. President, Thomas Henry; Vice President, W. B. Sweet; Secretary, Charles adie; Treasurer, L. J. Cohen, “ECKFORD.” This isa meeeirn OUD, an b holding a ition there that arora Pomnere isavery friendly feeling existi between the Eckford and the New York clubs, many whom challenge it and aro challenged in return. A fine #aason opens before the members, whose dreams as well as waking thoughts are occupied by the all. tople of the game they all love to play. Br. J. Jenkins makes an eflicient president. “EXCELSIOR.” The Excelsior club of Brooklyn has striven hard tm the past to out its motto, and in justice to them i may be said they have succeeded in establishing. for themselves some considorablo fame. When they had among them the celebrated pitcher James Creighton, they were looked upon as no mean adversaries by the best clubs of the country, and with unusual vigor they intend this season to perpetuate their name and fame, Dr. J. B. Jones; no means a bad one, 0 Active does in our ‘The officers of this club are:—Preside Vico President, R, Oliphant; Zecrotary, surer, W. W. Kelly. “SOCIAL.” ‘The Social is but a recent addition to the metropolitan clubs. What it may become is in the hands of ite mem- bers. The championship is open to them if they bat have tho skill to obtain it; aud as hard work will accom plish a good deal towards ultimate success, a few years may sce the Social head the list. Alderman Ignatius Fiynb occupiés thé honorable ition of president, which will be the more honorable from his occupaney. ' \THLETIC.”” is Athletics are Bostonians and admirable speclmena of the “hub,” ,They have been. beaten by the Atiantio, but can well claim to come second on the «list American base ball olubs, Thore is @ vague rumer sporting circles that the Athletle floating round amot is going to bo th ‘charnpion ‘club the coming season. If it can beat the Atlantic wo will hail it as master, but till then we must question the probability of the rumor, however prevalent. aa fie thsencinabslie phdaatas The Newburgers liavo an excellent clu! tis president and they call it the Hudson River Scott Is play Club of Newburg. The members are not afraid to any club outside of the “crack#” of New York Brooklyn, and will this year show what they can They are a determined lot. OTHER OLUBS. There are a host of clube, many of them first which the limits of this article will preclede mention Among these are the Eureka and Newark Newark, presided over respectively by J. B, Dawsen C. H. Thorne ; as also the Natioudl Club of Wash ton, with J. A. Gorman as president. An entire best junior clubs are in existence and daily Springing up, members of which, as the old playars drop of will up the gaps thus formed. So much for base ball. the game flourish and the home runs be many during the coming season. THE ETNA VERSUS THE NOVELTY WORKS. 5h 28 Begs An interesting game of base ball between the 474 of the Etoa Iron Works on one side, aud those of Novelty Iron Works on the other, came off on Th last, resulting triumph for the Ktna’s, Goore— Novelty nine, 14 runs; Etna nine, 43 runs. CRICKET. Cricket 1 an old game and in England a very popular one. The name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon eriecs, signifying a staf or bat, We first hear it spoken of by this name in the your 1685; but it is a well established fact that it was played before that time. Whether the “Cricket on the Hearth’ bas anything to do with the game does not appear in history. As mentioned above: the game all over Grent Britain is a very popular one, ‘and occupies the same position in the popular estima thon that base ball does here, and every villago, however smnath, thore has its cricket as hero it has its base ball club.’ The “All England Eleven’! is looked apon am next to invincible, and it full time Thata “United States Eleven” should show them that ao interval of fives Among the Marylebone, bas vastly improved thom. clubs in England are the Surrey, Nottingham, 1 Zimgari, and in ire land = the = Phenix id Leinster, of Dublin, in the last named of whicl are some of the Dest in the country. Crieket in itself i @ very noble pastime, and although Americans de not at teare much for it, it is not at all unl that after some time it may establish a strong f on this continent. ‘our metropolis and from five (o sever, all of whom display more or less skill probable that after some time the two games of cricket and base ball will become so like one another that a dis- tinction will be altogether unnecessary, The strict laws which govern the latter are, after each change, approximating closer to those of cricket. But to (he cricket clobs, the first of whieh is the “er. * years principal players may be said the United States, cricket clubs It ia the oldest ome on this continent, and, as the name sufdcientiy lndiesten, is composed almost entirely of Englishmen, The roll members shows between one hundred and seventy and two hundred members, many of whom show considerable ability inthe game. The clud grounds are st Hoboken, and are admirably made. Last season it almost entirely at the Vark; but as there is no tanity there for the erection of a club house, it unlikely they wil play there this geason, During the simmer months they hve a number of matches, whie& generally turn out in their favor, and from in@- cations the present will be @ most successful season. ‘The officers of the club are:—President, R Bago; View President, A. H. Gibbes; Secretary, J. Mumford, Tres- surer, G. M. Vanderiit, The creket season commences April’ 23. “New York.” The New York Club is more American that tbe S& o's—that is, there are a large number of American in it. A number of the members, Loo, are good base layers, aud occasionally the club indulges in this game tn in each week on the grow at Bediord, L. L, and during the season ber interesting matches are played. The clab aumberm about one hundred and tweuty members, and this year to add largely to tte numbera The Base Ball Club are fast friends of the Now York. ‘te Sharp; Secretary, Mr. Bally officers arv:—President, H. Troasurer, Mr, Higham. “WILLOW.” Not by any means an unimportant club is the Willow of Brooklyn. [t has been but a short time organized, and ag all the members are passionately fond of the game there 18 little on that it will 2 enccodingly The ciub a very nice cricket grou! L, where through Ary season their matches are played. ‘The oiticers of the Willow aro onergotic in the of their official daties and never lose sight of the inter+ ests of theircharge, Their names are —President, T. Terry; Vice-Premdent, C, M. Henderson, Secretary, Treasurer, J. Sievenson ; T. Groves. CROQUET. White a multide of outdoor sports afford recreation and exercise to our male lation, the ladies of oar] metropolis, as well as of the other large cities on continent, are almost altogether debarred from ou amusements during the summer, Experience has proved with what @ zest our fair metropolitans have into the national winter pastime of skating, and how pro ficient they after & short time became in the ark When the idea was first proposed of ladies partiel in that favorite sport there was a cry of reprobatl and (ho entorurising lady who ventured om the toe