The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1866, Page 4

4 ne ‘has crossed the’ Mosoala river in the direction of the Mi E xX ] cities of Chilpanzingo and Cuernavaca, the lattera fa- vorite retreat of the Emporor (?), and about fepr- - teen leagues from the city of Mexico, it ts thought that the imperialiets wit abandop Caiipauaingo, but will Secretary Seward Coming Up | make stand in Cuernavaca s Further south General Porller!6 Dinz ts keeping the All Right. State of Oainea clear of the invaders. while he ts making co. frequent incursions with strong columns of cavalry into the neighboring one of Puebla, by which he is adding to his forces and compelling the enemy to abandon many Important positions which thetr scarcity of tron) will not permit them to garrison sufliclently to resist the impulse of the liberals, In the state of Vera Cruz we have the important town of Cant the garrison of wh’ch prononaced in our favor, thus outting off communications for the French between the city of reg Puebla and Vera (ruz. The port of Tuspan, in the State of Vera Crus, is besieged by our troops. The ports of Tampico and Matamoros, in the State of Tamaulipas, are both in’ our power, as also Montergy, the capital of the State of New Leon, and the city of Saltillo, the capital of the State of Coahuila Chibuabua has tong been occupied by republican forces, and the President, Don Benito Jua- rez, is expected now every day to arrive at Monteroy, where he will make his capital for the time being, as it is the most central peintin tho north of Mexico from which he can dictate his orders to the other subordinate States and cities, The extreme north of this great republic, the State of ss Sonora, bas always been true to republican principles, as. also the extreme south, Yucatan and Campeche, where The United States Government Re- ported Ready for Decisive Action. The Mexican Question Will Probably be Re- opened with France. No Territory to be Taken by the United States. Firm Policy Demanded at winnaa m have made ‘but very ill imprenin, nt. Washington. Thus the invators are confined to a fow of the central stralagte points in this country which the superior or- nization and armament, as well as numbers of the nch, havo enabdied them to occupy—such as Vera Croz, Puebla, Mexi mato, San Tuts Potosi, Que- retaro, Moretia and Ta. These, it is true, are some of the principle cities of the republic; but. it is not the leas true that the French daro not send a small escort twenty mites from tho walls of any 0° thesetvtties for fear of their being gobbled up by the vigilan vepublicans. ‘The French have succeeded in preserving in their pos- session all the central strategic poiuts tn tho republic; that has been the outy thing that has saved their aay from destruction long ago. If they dared to extend thelr lines further than the pointe now occupied by them, thoy would Iet in such a flood of impetu- Capture of an Imperial Courier with Despatches. INTERESTING &e. Guan: CLOSURES. &e. DI &e The steamship Alliance, Captain Perkins, from Vera ‘ ‘A x ived at New Onl ‘« | Ous republicans as would sweep them into oternity. Crug on the 14th inst., has arrive ; eee. Wo: | Siaaae Raney the #roucti Save been strengthening Gree are indebted to tho purser for promptly forwardicg our | tines by contracting them, rather than weakening by despatweho< extending them, as the evacuation of tillo and Chi- huahna amply prove. ch in Mexics Waro precisely situated as a ould be in a fortress besieged and some of the Outworks in the hands of the enemy. Thoy bave yet an» opportunity of leaving Moxt by signal dofea! if thev do not, as per agreement with the United e this country at the time stated, they ly either have to sacrifice | thetr troope now here, and lose their laurels into the bar- gain, or be compelled to send over from France yery relnforcewents ~ lege shan 80,000—to extricate ¢ from his perilous jon. OUR VERA CRUZ CORRESPONDENCE. Vera Cres, Oct. 14, 1866. SRCLETARY SEWARD CHANGING HIS POLICY, fy a lotter received from a very reliable person real- font at Washington (United States) there is a paragraph to the effect that Mr. Seward is changing bis pohey; that, no matter bow oddly be has acted Leretofore, he ix coming up all right for the interests of the Wheral Mext On the other hand, wo are not wiihout our difficulties can cause among ourse! Wo, like (he Fenian leaders, are being THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT READY TO ace ovr OWN Worst Ebowies. Since T catue here, on the 28d of Jy We have bad three Governors in this State In the same letter there is also a statement to tho | effect that the Goverment at Washington is ready to act, and that the Mexican question will probably be ve opened wiih Fronce at au early date. NO TRREITORY TO Be TAKEN erts it as 9 faudt that the the United § decided pot to take from Mexico, Thie for “reaaon.?” — There which your correspondent ean say, and very outhfelly. and @ (purth one ar to be su for « short time, ¥ noo here Cavavalel as in power. He was kicked ont because he deserved it. Gom the scandaloualy nade with American specula- Libion, Steaubesle, &7. by whieh the utry wa? flecced of its money and tho troops of thelr overnoy, by acclarnation of the i to suceeed Cara- ad before he was iastailed. This, eful, bat we must bear with it The wr ‘anates, the prose offieers abd tr too, and that is that if the governinent of the Vuited | Vaiat | Canatos yj And | Be pated Genera) D of States ‘vill now come ont and show it: hand and play all { meee Ty neat Aeasthtae hentia Gutta Ms was ace Car , and witl, dnstrac- tim and General Garza for not is of ep with the imperialist fact, for treating with him ag all. ite irump cards agalyst the empire loaders, who fight daily among the do great good. It is more due te the the potty Mborat which has up te thie time beon the | When Jearez appointed Topia Governor of this State he United States government than to ele that the | 888 in ignorance of the pronunciamien's against Caravajal liberal leaders are in tine particular in which we | {2 favor of Canales; co the latter person would pot de- liver the government over to Topia until he beard from Juarez hia determination ag to whether Canales shouid nain in power, or deliver over the reins of govern- ment to General Topia, We are now In that vucertain condition of expectation which makes eyory one dissatisfied; but hist gul - find them. and sup} the chan be astonis go down t Only let tho United Sites select one anan ud pursue it—-and is seone of strife will vend Muximilion will J will rise, cn The chureh pai her, and the repat IMPORTANT CA A detachment of liberal cavalry bave just taken, be- ispate once arranged, we will be all right agal twoen here uid. the ey of Moca enka aiken, be- J "We Have two war vorselt now belonging to this State, specint fo the prison thee J {he Chinaco and the General Sherinsn; the latter-wilt be were qu nuniber of important des: These | “font against French commerce in u couple of weeks, were to yo by the next Fi MOW AND WHY MAXIMILIAN MAKEe YORE epirors, Notwithstanding it may be 4 dificult tack, Ma: has set to work to make noblemen out of sow New York editors who have Inbored zeatonsly i cause. He commenced this work of regeneration by taking up the editor of Le Crowica, On the 16th of September he condecorated him, makiug him one of the recipients of the Grand Cross’ of Gandulupe, and, of + Course, a avallero, This the editor in question, in’ all probability, would never have known, had it mit been that his “patent” came into our possession in & mysterious manner. We have boon request! to send it to dir. Bennett for his muserm at Fort Washington No doubt, aftor Mr. Bennett bas received this paten and quite a number of other, ho will use his discretion about delivering themand waking cavalfevos (noblemen) at Fort Washington out of resident few York city A NOTE FOK DP. J. BEALYS, M.D, Thero is aleo a ‘patent’ before us, dated “Palace of CAPTAIN KIDD'S TREASURE. OUR NEW HAVEN CORRESPONDENCE, Still Another Search—-The New Huavenites Saboring Under a Pecuniary Excitement — Connecticat Supporcd wo be the Field Where the Pirate Buried Hiq Gold. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 22, 1866. The venerable Captain Kidd who, a8 a certain obscure poet onee insisted, remarked confidentially, in rhyme, that he— lish steamer to Havana, oy NEW MLEMES OUT * Mardered William More As I sailed, as I sailed, About forty reds from shore, As T sailed," Las again, m point of memory, became an otgect of in- Mexico, September 16," for Dr. J. Weales, “Doctor In Medicine, New York.” ‘The ‘jr! which onehe | terest. Tt appears that several enthusiastic Rentlemen, to have been filled up with why ‘the Doctor | many of therm influential citizens of this city, have de- was decorated te left blank, We are thus termined to form a company for the purpose of prospect- ticular that the doctor, ° 6 pate - oe at the doctor, who will not nee his patont— | inv ‘or the freebGoter'é treasure which it le supposed he except he goes to Fort Washington to find it—iay haow how much the Emperor had to say about him, Accom. | Wietly covered with turf on Thimbie Island, sia- panying the patent aod some ‘ther yupers there Was 4 ated “in, Tong, Island found, sbont Ofiven * miles letter from Senor Don Luis de Arroyo, date? Mexico, | fom New Haven. | The project is not new, us tor many years eredulous people have entertained suspicions concerning the exact loeality where Captain Kidd buried his gold, and most of them have given Thim- i. | dle Island the preference over all other localities, In course we | 2°! it hat not anfrequently been the ease that within = capture the years the excitement has become so ripe Senor Arroya that many private companies have been secretly organ- and during the sammer mouths have prospected ‘onsiderable vigor, fhe entire theory, as far as Captain Kidd's exploits in nity of Thimble I*land are concerned, reste upon certain civcumetance? respecting his return to America alter his piratienl career. It seems to be a well established fact that he did harbor his vessel under the lee of Thimble Island, or rather Thim- hie Islands (there being two islands of the same September 28, In this letter Senor Arro: the goodness of bis sovereign Le has be de Casa Imperia!."’ He concludes by norvices to Dr. Beales “on that little mat ing tobe remembered to all the family “remember bim,” and, if the gueri answer, we will be as ‘liberal’ tn tel what Dr, Beal:s has to say THE SITUATION OFFICIALLY “ The next captured paper of importance is dated Mexico. Sopt, 28, 1866, marked “Private,” and bears “No. 1 In this document the whole situation fs revi Fverything is very hopeful for the empire Mini tere are to work wonders, and the imperial to be made to rise. Nothing is said a ) goins to San Luis Potosi to take the ficlt in person. iro the past twou ; ato nearly adjoining each other), and that his paper, which covers nearly four letter pages, is addressed | PANS early adjoining » totnet Iaythien! individual, “Te Consul Gener Seseot was completely bidden from the cruisers Fmpire in New York” and is signed by Menor Pereds, | teh searching for bina. Ai ts also well known that the inebeb Seereealy Orhan dire Sucking brie hooter and his crew frequently landed on the larger of the Thimble Islands, and that they wointerraptedly held their midnight oryies there (or some time. One of tho principal ojects of curiosity on therisiand ts Eaptain Kidd's punch bowl, a targe excavation in one of the Tocks near the shore, perfectly symnmeteiealin it propor. tions; and alliough quite ponderows fy appearance, ts very exactly formed to suit the superstitions notions of visitanta who beliowe it to be the work of the eorsiirs Next spring i) is proposed to regniarly incorporate the company now privately at work, wilt a view to moro | aystemntic action. AS the Henao afi the public of thie extstonce. of twa companies, Nova reotla, he other in South Coventry, Commecticnt, Use addition of at hows poncinotvely Boas tirere axe att) ‘ortene Hunters” left, and that “all the fools are fot dead y at.!? called Consul General of the Krpire at New York, we reminded that just at our ethow ia a “patent” for bim dated Sept. 16, 1866, to wear tu in Crok of Guada lupe. Mr. Cristobel Rosas is the geutioman to whom this patent is addressed, and he receives it (7; on arcount of meritorious corvices rendered to th ‘anen's Tho special note notifying Sehor signed “Pera.” MAX AYER THY Cireular 184 of the Con 24, 1866, notifies th called ompire that u not signed by the o seeme that @onrvodr Treasury being in wer Rosas of this Inat fact is FEARFUL LEAP BY AN INSANE MAN FROM A RAILROAD CAR, [Fron the Chieags Repoblican, Mot, 20.) Itfs known to any thet Mr. Georgo Borilett, of the firm of Dartlott Brothers, undor the Sherman House, has heeu for some (ime iusane, and was taken shout a y vo for treatment to the Biate Asylum Arter a previons unsuccessful attempt, hi from thet institation and retuned t) Chieng ‘ no abatement in his malady, and, after a man ptitieation ter Coenen x bor %4, 1546, the Cons York fo nottied of the rw frotpend Sqnees about the. ourh in the eity, t wns determined by his the empire located tn aii) friends to take hin back to the asylum, He manifested and particular a tt t intense opposition to (iis when it was being ton, 8. C jor <p liecoseed, and continved to do so until he was safely ep- the Emperor would like to havo ihe oomed €h ueaea better attended to and that be would Sonnets anere wavaat Afver the train was under way, with that deep ¢ heen vice consuls ng ] which ts often extibtted by Insane persons, be profeae mation.”? point w to believe that, npon dre coca deration, bis beat course us Tt ts aboat the estimates wad be tor yield to tha. wishes Of his Charleston, We think, wit frend® The train teft’ here an Wednesday mate are large, and that night. Deceived by his pro‘eseiona of acquiescence, t but we cannot seo | (vo guardians retired to rest, one of them--Mr, Will mation which is ¥ ipying the same berth with Mr. Rortlett, At about i, Perhaps Sofor four o'clock in the morning Mr, Bartlett aroge from his to ua, bot as hte lette: we hope he will let ua know where we may a Answer, or are Wo to getan answer through tho same channel we received Cirealar ono seal vat wns detected wad indnced to desist. Ina few mo- a ments more, when bis bedfellow bad dropped into @ mo- There ie algo @ large number of miscellancous dot. | i cutury elo her, he appears to bave sprung lightly from monta bearing upon subjects not of pan eee iis berth and to lave gone to the door of the car, His of a pera = on Caster tom pacers, whic hh | absence war disc Surin ee are all of avery lato date, showing or indicating that we onthe Was ‘opening ie door be eae Max has made up his mind to leave the country, “oft r, who informed him that Mr. Bartlett had cially” at least, At the same pe wg Te Thy deen gone outon (he platform im his stocking feet and had 18 not one word about hia intending to om to the effect | Jumped from the train. The train was running at the the head of any troops, and onlyvone word 10 the offset | Tate of thirty miles an hour at the time, and it waa very Shat ho must travel a little in the imterior to tro prove diMeult for a person to mautain a footing outside the health. This ends the budget. car, as The so*ne of the occurrence was about five miles this Movements of Melin Regiments Ko Route for | oie oe Lincoln, which place the train reached in a fow France Ordered Rack, de. moments, Hore Mr. Willard and Mr. Huntington got of New Onpeans, Oct, 28, 1866. from the train, and, a8 soou as it was daylight, pro- A private letter from Mexico, dated Ootober 2 fe pub- | ceeded on foot ap the track for % distance of twelve Habed in the Times, It states that Majin has orders milos, but without finding @ single trace of the Insane man,’ Every nook, cranny and culvert on either wide retake Matamoros, Hoe gets 7,000 men, about 2,000 0f | was search _ nothing was seen to tnaicn that Mr. y and Ne Xe Bartlett wa the region, nor was there anything to Gailgreo retate acd occupy placos i mats Fe Neered | show whero ho Wad landad when he made the fearful Maximilian ie at Cv n. The regiments which wore on route for France have been ordered back. Lator advices say Mojia started of suddenly cece nnn nena ton COE ing somentere in the ve pity. ‘This bappeved on The French corvette Phlegethorn, fron Vern Crug, | Thursday morning, and though the search haa been con- arrived at tho bar this morning, with «for the | Unuod under the superintendence of the Innatic's bro French Consul here. ther, Mr. William Hartlett, and soveral other persons, (ee anee the occurrence, sething bee yet been dis: Letter from a m in the Mextenn Sere ered of the insane maa. ir. ee Re Ll ~The General Situation of the K , | ance of $101,000 on his life, whieh makes qui = , ioyeanaee Aadnaant Des yen of his safely a matter of great pecuniary interest to the Matamoros, Mexico, Sept. 26, 1560. berth and retired to one end of the car, but bis absence being discovered ho returned again to his couch. Shortly afterward he made a renewed attempt to get out of bed, tothe embankment for the whole diatence was of a soft, or sandy nature, and, Incredible as it may seem, believed that he bas sustained no infury, but ti espa life insurance companics. We have in Lower California an American auxiliary Tho North Adame ( phyogs that ts force of (wo thonsand men. Mazatlan is blockaded by | ments were made three a ae tonseie Wak one wing of Corona’s army, while the other throatens | 10%) aoe i g-) CL yh Topic, one of the imperialist strongholds in the Stato of | time. On the three holes were made and blasted, Jalisco. In Guerrero, Alvarez has confined the French by n beens = out rock that took wis = D ror sixty yards, Eleotrict striotly to the occupation of the port of Acapulco with | sora Yo tnatent of Mein sotting fre 10 powder as on columa of bis forces, while with another he himeell } woll ay glroering with their dag untarnished }- ' NEW YORK 'S#RALD, WEDNESDAY, ‘OCTOBER | The following the Registrar of Reoords exhibits a very favorable condition of the public health Compared with the reports of several weeks previous. There were but five deaths from cholora last week :— 0 oF Virat Statistics, Oct. 23, 1866. nitary Sn E.R. Darrow, M. intendent:— New York in The total of a taclating hie inmates of the (sland hospitals, ‘The total mortality In Brook lyn wes 148, exclusive of county institutions. ‘This would be 1.000 of the equivalent toan annual death-rate of 246-7 census—in Broo! popullaon by Brooklyn, and of $1 2-7 per 1,000 in Now York, The zymotle Infections cauked only 27% per cent of the total deaths in New York. ‘The previous week these foubatr diseases with 314 per gant, and four weeks ago with t of the deaths, Four weeks ago the rrheeal les caused 75 per cent of the zymotic deaths in each of our cities; but last week those maladies gave but BG ‘New York, aud in tt ut in the latter clty the ratlo of 3, in four weeks, ffom 39 majority of her inhabitants in suffocating masses in tenant houses as more than half @ million poor in New York are eked, - Pethere was an inorease of forty-seven deaths in New York last week, Tubercular diseases caused twenty-four of these adaitional deaths, and infammatory disease of the lungs and other organs produced the Dalance of this increase, The poor now begin to shut out the cold and shut in the fotil alr Of their unventilated tenements, and before another we shall find that fevers and lun; thrice as many lives as cholera dif in summor. Yet there ie of any kind in the olty, and there may nok fers and obslindte local ‘maladies pre ee 16 poor now claim the ground that od Torts . The rt fevers st dgventory eres TRat or thoes’ lobalitien’ which every The ratio of Infant moctality continues to deareaan, she ‘Arst of infa i ing a the BiB fe cant esc i Ree fo eis il, Where, from some cause, this ratlo doeg pa jear gave 27 2-8, and the first ive yoars gave per cent of the mortalit ry juring-the week was eos Fabronblt; the tveragy Bursidlcy wan 6 oe fobeattn’ bat wits tn the mettonclitnn date hen the 3 but wi In met ‘week in which cholera there war a ot of that pestilence in several Western cities. en_in our itn. mediate vicinity a little city — a bill in New Je: lina been amittan by cholera. ot 80. virulent w type that{t killed ten perons in Give tenements during the week, and when I visited the premises others were pore were fatally amected, RIS. THE RAVAGES OF THE GHOLERA. tf Five Epidemics—-Namber of Deaths Each Visitation—Interesting Aecow of the Panics Which Ensned—Tables of the ity, ‘ing virtually disappeared. from. the city, the citizens of New York have been enabled: to re- turn thenks to the Almighty that the ravages of the dis. ease have not been as extensive as they were. daring previous visitations, While thus profoundly” ‘grate- ful for the’ escape we have biti, g glance Backward, ab the experience of New York with the Spttemic chol- ora cannot fail at the present time to be interesting, ¢x- hiviting, as jt must, tho beneflt of timely precautions as gompared with the evils which followed the @ \atoriness of those wiio’ were in power during the years of which we have written below, TIM OHOLKRA 1s 1882. dl _The year 1882 har peen rendered memornbte in the history of New York aa the tine when the cholera first made: its appearance in-the city. ‘The disease ‘had | during the previous year appeared in Kurope for | the first sime, but it did not cross the Atlantic ocean tor acasly tweive'months. During the first week in June, 1832, however, the first case of genuine Asiatic cholera ever kuown in the barbor, of “New York was oar- ried totho Quarantine Houpial, “Ou'the same day the brig Carrick waz making her way to Quehec with a large number of emigrants ou board, some of: whoin were sick with the cholera. Onthe sth of June‘#she discharged her chtgo Of sick and Well paeepgera, The latter, atier being kept in. quarantine for afew: daya, were permitted to go at-large, und dering thé third-week in the sani6 month nininy of ther ferived tht Néw, York, haviog bray. elled by way of Albany., Before their arrival, however, there had been-two futel ‘cares téporied in Now York; not tracéd’ to Quaranting, but syidenitly dependiog upon atmospheric causes, Nevertheless, the arrival of tho emigrants, bringing with them the very germ of the in- fection, gave an impetus to the disease, and on the 21st of Juno the authorities officially announced the preseuce of Asiatic chotera in the city. A TRRBINII FAME. " When the official declaration was promulgated a panic of the most fesetal unture imaginable manifested iteel! among the peopte of New York. Thousauds of persons ‘ left the city to escape from what was to them a plague for which there wamno cure, Sclarge was the number that left at days every avenue of de- partare, every steamer, ferry, carriage, &¢., wes crowded with occupants, whose palitd face: and nervons- ness betokeped the ferr and anxiety under whieh they labored. It was in vatw that a tew travo men reasoned with them through theolumne of tie newspapers, The panic was joo widespread and had taken too firm » hold y the popular min@ for romonstrances to: prevail. Nor wee this desertion sentined solety to the upper classes of society. Hundreds of workiagmen threw up their employment and:wont with their families, rather than reraain and face thedisease. It may safely be said that none but the stout hefrted and those who were ab- solutely unable to leave romained imthe city. These, it is true, formed no inconsiderable portion of the tion; *till the number that departed cms jently great to cause the principal thoroughfares to look com- paratively deserted. Never, in,the history of this oom- tinent, has there been such » panic and a terror, ‘THE RVIDEMIG INCREASES, The virulence of the cholera poisou, aided by fear, caused the disease to increase with remarkable rapidity atter the 2let of June, The number of Cases, which bad been reported with units, quickly increased. to tons end afterwards to haadreds. As July advanced the disease a-sumed alarming proportions. Perone were suddenly seized with the premonitory diarrhoea while welking on the streote, and in a few min- utes cramp and collapre followed, and in many instances before vietims could be conveyed to their houses or to the hospitals, death had ensued. Ow the 2ist of July, and one month after the ithorities hud announced the presence of cholera, the demic atta ued its gome@ On that day two hundred and ten persons were officially.reported as having Med: from the disewse, Por several daya previous business had been partially suspeuded imsthe city; the stores on Broadway were kept open bet a few bours each das, and the entire community geemed paralyzed by foar. Thy ferry ate that plied Wetwoom the city, New Jerser J the islands bad partially runomg, and New be shunned iyot death in the scene. Wat One Of Woe end desolation. re almoab enuitely doverted, save by the tad Cheix Peay gi «au the comers cofti were oxporud jor cale and found many purchasers. the middie of the streets but few privaia or public cor veyancos, save thos used to convey the to the rink aroundes, were to be seen, Aliogether New York pregented & xcene of the most terrible gloominess, and one which has never been eflaced from minds of those Who were ia the city throughout the progress of the direase. . AGAILMEST AND DISAPPEARANOY OF Pie RVIDINIC. ‘isto July the cholera steadily abated, and part of September following, the io ly announced to have deappeared fromebe beequent vi ns, they disease maparatively period of tim ty days During that period, however, ports Khowed a total of 3,613 deaths from cholers. It would even be safe to place the actual figures as bigh as 5.000, for during its ravages a large number of deaths were reported a5 dlarrboa, which were really cholera. a York seemed to city, th exceedin, the official TF CHOLERA FIELDS 18 1832, There wero four parts of the city in which the cholera raged with the greatest intensity during the epidemic. The first point attacked was Roosevelt street, and that portion of Cherry street in its immediate vielnity, From thence tt spread to Duane streot, near Hudson, and 1 rue street, near Grand street. It raged with I in tensity in a bitny quarter then, and «till now, known as “Rotten Row,’ situated between Grand and Broome streets, on the west side of ity. Here nearly every person attacked died, many hing miserably, with- ‘out assistance being ren |, or before aid could rea h them. The disease also flercely attacked an undrained quarter in the vicinity of Delancey street, and nest oad fatally through the region known aa ‘“Corlear’s Hook,” ‘& section of the city south of Grand street f¢ now Covered with machine shops and storchouses, ki this period, however, 1t was the most horrible locality in Now York, being far worse than the Five Points for vice and filth. Here was located the grand centro of im tution, and here the abandoned women died by every week, ‘TOM PREPARATION MADR, Profoundly ignorant of the nature of the di ox. copting ron 4 vague information aa was obtained Burops, tho authorities and oven the medical wore unable to advise any measuros that would tend to lessen the severity of the epidemic. But few or no pre- sponta inthe cy When tad nde ta appearane poarod in the city, en it had made Ita apy Sevever, five cholera wore established for t! ree of es the largest of them being erected In the City stands, Of the other pri lished on Greenwich other in the lower pert of Rivi , There was no regu! of practice; all of et «clans were periect ie to the disease, and their prescriptions at first, it ‘be truly sald, bp dif eRperimental. As the epidemic progressed, experience taught what of treatment wae likely to ald the sick, thus tnany valuable lives were saved which would olsewise hire been lost. though the ~ hy tee in Alihoug’ ie September 1832, tts ti oteauna, waa the result was that two elevator 1844, {again made ite how. ever, was of @ milder this aoe ad fear on the part of the ila, to been manifosted during its first visit, did Tnuch towards loss tt teal mem (50, had beet care- fiisety agin gator erent tae if Hi 7H E ff H F did not, the city until the 11th of May of the fol- when the first cases wore reported at street (now Baxter.) Tho place was i i @itby to an exireme, and illy vontilated. The apartment wi ° the’ cance occured was “in fags “afiar (the oid) "no. less "than “hve ‘haman | no less an Selogs ite up'n the floor im different stages of the dis. | mont of the apostle, ae ease. These wero | iy lying in @ mass of mud | aaig ggg rg iv filthy rags. ‘our ve after bd oO red, in & prec Kk the “Old Brewery” and con- 1 or: wapenrte the hao ia Afr being confined to Sia Bee ter that thoee “who should call on. locality for two weeks the disease commenced spread! ] throughout the city with fatal rapidity, ° heey ‘How then shall they ‘THE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN, th y which had been re- reper Gomane uo peneraan a cisehine Mons wens ucber? w shall they preac mic until after the disease ‘appeared in the | Wales they it ih then comes by hearing, = Then it was thal Messrs. Jaties Kelly, Robert 7, | Dat hearing by the word of God.” The ple an Hawes, Alexander H. Schultz, Charles Webb, Edwin D, | ROUnovd At) smote hese e worda la @ fundamental Mongad, Robert A. Sands and, Jacob F. Oakley wore ap- foaean pL acetpiel bsg od Feligicn, and Imposing ‘ss Mee 8 ears Of Baal aod oe Pea ee noak, | weeks, of Bishops. from ey, of our, country— foroph Mather Smith, and Samuel W. Moore, These | {tam ite Prcltc, to te Atautle | shores—assem. committees promptly set to work to abate nuisances and | Vl, 0 are now. ass Lay connie ‘soene tamara the oily 9 thoroughly, aud by thetr en is embodied in the fact of which we are wit — reeverance did much towards lessening the | \5 in the principle that faith, according to the dispense- severity of the epidemic, Seven cholera hospitals were mite AES te ed, one boing on Willian street, another on | #8 of God. ts prov: fF man ministration of Contre street, a third'on Stanton street, "a fourth on | M2, ee a on eer at God, qT th, a fifth on Phirty-f‘th street, and two | bree, propasiions. | The fre Fags ee Test thre Colored oe jb Relioene -iaapial and Ake ‘body of men whom He sent in His name, to whom He ‘TUN MORTALITY. gave the commission to announce His doctrine to His ‘ ? People, that Ho the existence of tbat The cholera in the city on the 1ith day of December. | men, of at did. not entirely disappear before It, ever, Ceased to carry off many victims in the lat- tec ore From the time of its arrival to Were ocayroporid 0 the Cy napector. Tho Rie were re he City , lowing tables show the mortality of each week during its . tom Hed by the rite of Week ending, Deaths Week ending Christ and to the doctrine which He announced. In May 19. $ July 28 treating of this subject I shall abstain from the comsld- May ane it eration of those texts of Scripture which might be at. rerash duced to prove it, I. shall consider the gubject, as tt Aug. were, on its own merits. When I refer to Scripture eS it will be for the purpose of stating facts which Kept. & are never denied, or else on qu ons requiring peed me to use the absolute langnage of Holy Writ, pt. First, then, Christ established a of men perpetu- Sept. 22...... Sept. 22 to December exist (9 tench Hi ally to tacramenis, Presupposi Ke itunatod. From the above tablo it will bo seon that the cholera Teached ‘te actne ou the week onding the Zist day of Tuly, hore being T14 deaths thon reported. It was a singular coincidence that on the same day—July 2b 183% the disease also carried off the greatest number of viens, Christ sent men to teach: THE FOUNDH BTIDRNG, This visitation took place in 1854, and although it was, in comparison with (hore of 1882 and 1849, but @ slight epidenuic wave, it posaccsed features quite different from any of the other. Like all previous visitatioas, the cholerw broke out in the fiihy aie’ | of the city, but it penduolly spread, and when ft reached the cleaner portions ibobtained a foothold, which it retained until Hs not disap poarince. ‘Lbis fact somewhat weakeyed the gene! necépted theory that cholera only Hyves tu The midsvof Mth, In isianee it did not prove itself to bo owt the diseare of filth and wretehedness.” In comparison with Lhe numbers of both classes, the pro rtion of deaths from t1 Sixteee of Society was much 1a classer,,and this fact was noticed in an Vditorial neticie inthe Haraur at the iime, What explavation basever eegeese for this singular freak of the cholora is not receive the Apostolic mini: received it on any other powers of the minisity. bie here. that power subsists or the object for bee been atta na. admitted in Jogish object for which ease among the higher ir tLan that of the lower w THR MourALATY 1 1864, even of diving authority, From the official reporta of the City Inspector the fol- : 392 From November 4 to pe dongs foothold im the city with great tepacity. Indeed, the oMvial reports at the time proved that it dd not entirely disappear a the latter part of December, Th# qviRaiC OF Te PERNT YaAR, ‘The arrival of tre steamship Atalania on the 24 of No- vember of Inst year with Oftem cholera patients was the first warning to tho poopie of New York of the ap- Proach of cholera Sn the spring _of the presemt your several other steamships reached this thor wiih cholera patients ameng the crowded etigrants they contained, ané the garm of the disease being transmit. ted tothe city, the first case of cholera reported in New York occurred on the Ud day of June, in @ house in Broome street, near Fovsyth strect. This case proved fatal, and was yoon after followed by another, in the per. son of & woman who bad washed the soiled clothing ot the deceased. The cholera continued to find victims, but these were so few ond far between tliat ne notice Was taken of the existenoe of the diseme, until the 16th of the same mouth, when six doaths- during the week ending on that day were officiatiy reported. For the »wever..but five deaths iook place; but at the expiration of that time, from tie second week im July, st obtained a foothokd in the ¢ ty THE NUMBRY. oF VICTIMS, the sacrara cini predictions of a coming hear the prophet whom God to obey him a the Israelites the pro tat, whate of the people, ould subsiet, has gpampenaniod: commission, and 1] at every jement of Christianity the same hegre! thd and duties exist as were first constituted. My pro- ts that. this commissioned body ts perpetu- ordination aad by the transmission of the right to exercise that power im the transmission of orders. My third is the.testimony borne by this body to the facts which establish the divine mission of Jesus doctrine an were to'fotlow them inthe ministry? But it is a qi tion now only of. the purpore of mirseles, of the purpore of power to preach the pame of Christ and toadminister ts, and this descends through all those who bad the power from the firat deposiior of Bat you tay say Ubet th gate rests on the acthority of tt thal in the-ense of the Curi-tian ai THE CATHOLIC COUNCIL IN BALTIMORE. Sermon of Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louls— Address of Archbishop Purcell te Arehbishep Spalding—Reply of the Latter. The following is the sermon by Archbishop Kenrick, ‘of Bf Louis, on 2lst of October, at the close of the Plenary Council, President Johnson present. “Faith then comes by hearing and heari ” fr) chap. tide ver. “Epistle or 8 Rev. Rev., Riowr Rev. snp Rev. (aes oe Ra — Larry:—This state- the construction of the sentence 2 coneinton from Sopatting soe has bean because another part je same gospel it is alsonaid, “Faith ie b th me ity by hearing and hearing by ~ the name of would be. saved,'’ and then pats a series of not believed t or how haley * or Him of whom they have not heard ? oe eding part tually, Rie re rec wouually h it was establ hed ‘Those are principles univercally e docrces. What was the special rist gave powor to the twolve te teach all nations, to instruct all creatures ? An, object Says the Apostle in the fourth verse of second chapter of the First epistle of Bt. eat Paul Lo Timothy, “God wills that ai! men he, aud bis a f ou waar stay of the cholera was officially reported Homan toc'ty exits =! earth, His mer xin 10 i re ids 7 7 is and the commission to carry the tidings o' jon maa tie, Peathe, | Week nding, Deaths. | son must subsist, 14 there auy liiwit aselgoed to «this al shat yp | commission® "He who gave, it till ives-—the immortal , God, the King of all ages. "The proof is drawn from the 32 Ronrember Oo---seee+ 120 | words of the commission and I, shall therefore abstain ST Sehomber 23, 35 °f form considering it. Let us consider Wf any reason for @ ‘Semember 20: $7 | Supposm: that the commission might be changed was Gane + GF | medicated or could follow, baving regard only to the na- Octobe 3a $2 | tare and object of the commission and to Him who uve 442. October 21 25 | it. Ie may be gait that the authority of the Apostles By Goneee oa” 2 | may not be suppcsed to exiet im those who, succeeded wal Novenbae 4 #4 | thom in the yninistry, end that wien there is a question viloge of apostieship, of universal jug.sdic- tion established ia the Church of Christ; whon it is a 27 inal departure question of individual Juspiration, @ question 0. expross E: powers exercised in) restoring the ick and lam to Reaper carte alts and vigor an@ the to fite, fordpoing table shows that aithongh vl a damedl ts a was not as destructive ae ip 4882 and 184, it retained ste | wien dee Apdatioe should “hare: pressed authority of a del Fwho gave it, 60 yp of (aturo good things aad, moreover, conkrined spe- jessiah and commands te romised to yaise up, and you Moses, There was a term set to the powers of the priesthood, and.im full es oud working miracles Jesus Christ show: ir were the powers of the Jewish priestho d, He recalled them, aud in doing 80 showed that He who gave them powers cared for and divine institution might be abu struction of the eity and sanctuary and inthe dixpersion madering impossible to obey 1 because it was only at Jerusalem that the right of saeri- fi There is uo parity whatever between auurded thens let (heir ‘as it would im the de- law, ‘To tho presont time the ch vera has taken off over one @ following table of denths from the disease, | Te apoatice resides m that body of Which thes were the Oy tho Registrar of Vital Siatistice>— first members, ‘That body subsists, and mut always Week ending Deaths, Week ending Deaths, | subsist, £0 long a# men remain on the earth, Ant who, June 16, 1866. :. 6 September 8. - 60 | at the present day, are the inheritors and pnrticipators June 23. 4 September 15,. + 67 | in the apostolical communion? the power of the minie- 1 September 22 + 54 | try not descending, asin the old Jaw, from father to son, © September 29. . 88 | but by the laying om of hands, as is shown from Scri 11 October 6. 36 | ture in the sixth verse of the first chapter of St. Paat TL Ocdober 13, . 18] Epistle to Timotity, where the apostle admonsles 48 Number “diseovercd “ro stir up the graee of God by the laying ou of i 250 after each weekly This could not of Reelf communicate the the 250 report wus made anil ministry; it must be. by the laying on of hand® by one 145, who has himself » commissioned authority t.perform ue 4 | this daty, as Paut Iaid hands on Timovhy, nud Tuno- September 1 “a — | Uy laid bands om others; and hence the atironition to Total... vue oa CEES aT eaew ke — 195 | lay hands on no man plig! or for slight cause, last he 1k wilh be observed that the number. o: deathy in- | be ‘a partic.pator im his stp. laying on of imnda, crensed about five hundred por cent daring the week according to the monuments of antiquity aud to the tes- endl) August 4. This arose from thesudden outbreak | timony of univerest bistory, by men who have re_ebred of the cLolers among the inmates of the Workhouse on | the sacred power, ix the means appointed by God for the Black wei.'y Island, it raged $n au epidemie form, | communication of the powers of the ministry. Tf ever ying a@ within a few days one-fourth of the popa- | the chain that umices us with the apogtolic time can be how rom the Workhouse it spread to the ether } broken, If is not, indeed, ay some n have hd, a prbblig has tiations, and these during the entire mouth of | sign, Her does it indicate a ucecselty, for omit. August Girnished’ n majority of the deaths reported ip | img’ ordination, There te wot each A necessity; the prortaary report. bot if a Tok in the chain that binds ne ATAMELNG OFT THE CHOLKKA to that time ean be Broken there ly a cessation of Chris. Us it generofy believed that but for the energetic | tinn fait! and of the obligation to believe a siugi¢ word ness ures iaken to “Mamp” out the disease, there would have been s much larger number of death*, Tha the cholera of the preeant year was of a matigonut charac. ter, the gapiaity with which it killed would appear io prove. was, however, preveuted from spreading or obtaining » ‘dotbold i any locality by the vigor out aystous of disinfection pursued. = Whenover & vase appeared, the premises in which the patient Ived was promptly cleansed and famicated, and the germ of the disease stifled, as it were, before it veached maturity. The success attending the efforts of the Board of Health in this respect hav proven that the cholera ean be controtled if precautions are taken in ad- Youce of its appearaner. And in view of the possible chance of « return of the disease pext apring, such measures as were taken last summer to cleanse the city, should be vigorously pursued during the coming winter. RECATITULATION. The foliowing table will show the number of victims that New York bas furnished to tbe cholera from ite first appearance in 1832 to the week eating October 13, of the present yenr:— ‘ be os volves the con from Ged, beea recorded 9 jurisdiction or vay? in the eight verse of th: epiete to the Corinubians » the truth.’’ There never co bbe applied Nember of dewths in 1832. Number of datos in 1834. Number of deaths in 1549, Nomber of deaths ju 1854... .. Number of deaths in 1866... Anglican order that succession. any man to teweh otherwise thao taught, for, to such a one the wore ‘Although an angel from heaven were to preach another decirine let bim be snatherme ized.’ ‘The right to exercise the powers of the miaistry is no | Joss exsential to apostolic sncceasion thap tho reception of ordination itseif* The charch has never denied the validity of the orders of the Eastern sectaries the Greek ebarch but she nover has. acknowledge makes A Bot whether these orders be valil or not, one thing ja ceriain, (hat there i not and cannot be, except in comuect.on and communion with the pastors established by Christ, the right to the power to preach of the gospel of Christ, He who made this apostolic mivistry did so to give to men the means ty which they might Krow him, and there ts uo @vidende to ahox that a link ffi the bain of apostolic eucceseion has been broken: nav, mare, each # stpporition nston thar that mission was pot vent if the mission wae never coult have faited, Bender the tran the powers of the ministry by ordivat om wer lo exercise ceived in the reception of reacted orders hirteenth chapter of bis “We can do nothing againnt 1 bo a power wor right in wearily’ ine by God ft Josue Christ had he apostle mich a of the claim to apostolic TOAD... sere eieeee cess ene . the Gospel. As well, to use an Illesiration borrowed Over thirteon thousands of persons hat from the ciroumstances of our time, as well might the to the cholega tn this c.ty atone, and alti this num- | electric fuid be considered a messago across the Atlantic, ber “might appear comparatively smal, wi the mor- | when, as in the first two attempts to lay the Atlantic tality from the same cause in other places is remembered | cable {t broke im mid-ocenn--as well can we suppose it shows how terrible is the disease. It is to be hoped, | that the powers of the ministry or tH right to exercise howaver, that the ravages of cholera, as an ic | those powers could exis!, if the right which binds the diveasa, gre drawing to aelore, Exp rience has taught it to the past had been brokem, or. couid any the worl@ that tho surest and most furmidable enem; ‘ature time bo subject to such a condition, St. Cecel) y to it ts cleaniinens, aed tf the of New York will only Beag this fees in mind IieP eed never feel tho slightest appredcasion of Asiatic obolera MEAGRE MEANS FOR SAVING LIFE ON BOARD OF STEAMERS, TO THE HDITOR OF THR HRRALD. Having reed your various articles showing up thacon- | capnot dition in which some of our seagoing steamers aze sent © soa, will you permit me, an old traveller, to saya word or two. Persons trawelling on tho different lines ave united under thelr from i wee & hose ly aruw tyom the trunk. Cet of the soutec.and Observe how, In the Church, all the merabers of which tt is composed of the diocese in which the) in writing on the sanctity of tho Church, speaking of the nocessity of being in communion with the body of (he Church, compares it to a river wire draws its water obes live ou the vhis » whi ‘s by) God: man ed, man the pastors uniter live, and the cannot fail to se that wind steamors out of tem do not te ‘each dtoecese with eae § other bishop In the havo the means of saving one half of thepersonson | Catholic world, because united with the Bea of Roma, board if, by accident, the steamer goo dows. As an instance of the reckless manner in which steam: | the ors are = to soa, that of the steamor Santiago de Cuba, whteh came ro wear going down, mes- tion. With ovor five hundred persot \ccessor of him to whom The pewer, continue His authority, atd the whole Jeane. Christ i : ‘the Word of 07 Paul’ to the how ‘hall 7 period from the com- le to admini ter the ing the principle which cominoa sense dictates—that no man can act for ayotber person, ted authority, whlch appears when St. low then can they preach unless they be sent’’-—I shall confine myself to the statement that In the twenty- first verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of, pt, John we read that our divine Lord, after on, appeared to His apostles and suid, “As the Father lias Sent me co I also send you;” and that this promise was mace, that this commission was given to. the Apos- tles not a8 individuals but as a body, will be acknow- ladgod by every one who FotoMcCiR that Thomas was pot present; for gertainly no one would say thet he did not jtwe do not know that he won, aud ad be was repre- sented in that body goal representatives of that body, to the most didtant ages, recoive the curamission of the But was this power to bave ics exivtenco cdntinucd ? The same pr.nciple whivtt guides tuén in the interpretation of delegated power ix appyes- | If power be given for special purposes and no limttation of time mgt to un its continaance . and ul Jesus Christ, No ce can be cousidered than this of the piney, id it 1s impossi titer the apart mi the men to wi he transmitted the to preach, should not have ume derstood Ne 7 the bm ma sunaaaeare < of the apostles coul we been misinformed. i & fhe yh ‘wht bet foun ig ort that any omission can bave been made, and each pastor can say, with St, Paul, “That which I ree ceive of the Lord And how ad» the ghi! the adult, or any one to aay Py ‘evar Christie other than ini of truth. We send the ope presi to other than the tional testimony of the Church, to the fact of the divia® iui utnens, ant’ well as to the men dwelling in civilized and ia ag reasonable before ag iny; a all men on an eq qi y a ue sole tho Aagd the Ss ae founded.on with teaching Pom tolic Charoh there is the same simple and certain rule of faith and conduct, founded on the fact of the Church te teaching with authorit; cinta ge chareh, resulta in jecesaity of holiness being obedience to authorit or itive peop je. that cone th apostaticlty 66 pee and ul stitutes tho ‘enabl the Apostle, | grounded on tho founded lon ot the Apbaties, Christ himself being the chief corner-stone,”’ oft ‘The following ts the addreas of Archbishop Purcell to Archbishop Spalding, delivered immediately after ates bishop Kenrick’s sermon:— Most Rev. Deveaat 1410 Sxe—Ia con- formity with a tinnesbondred ei Tatand before you to speak to you. as oldest by Consecration of Distlope of the Unwed states \Sabpeeunee ‘the sont - ments of respect, » Voneration an Pre for you er orders of ape Long you represent Sovereign Jesus Christ, and, as sich, ‘Kewontd be ie or as to manifest te you all the ga of. 7 Se Boden) fe possi . in selecting you for this responsible dut been en lightened oy aca's Tight hand-—His Saal oie and the priests and people of the United States, feel that you have been endow: and propared by the Holy Spirit for the place you occupy. ie life hes been a preparation for this office, Born in Kentucky, the iand of chival- rous feelings and noble sentimonts, selected to be the first any hop the ‘United spe we seo, beloved frie In the person of.our yer 19. Arohl a heaitifal lustration. of the “union ot neki wen who were sont aw: over the aAllegl mountain, and to the most distant parts of our glorious republic we now behold at last, See how God ry labors with interest, in giving us our most revere Archbishop to rule gver you. Ali fee) happy to have Foe ri ublished al out head. We. the book# you have and thelr value, the lectures you have geligerc and fhe sermons you have preached, and the from: have wise men for b priests; there is not a slu; among ae ine tadolonee or blot ls to be found ketal wombly. Al! ure np to the day, the time dave seen in this hovored body theologians able oe | you with our allegiance. You, domparé with any on the face of the earth, with any te be found in #4 or Gormany. ‘The Aterican ciergy are wort! he noble people of thir otry, aud of the grav@ republic la which our lot has beep cast. May God Leber ve our venerable Archbishop, yer the Church in thie land; may Ho bless Anaorica aud His hand to bless 4 reunite pie——a peaple bI God and exhibiting to the world such s spectacle piness such a3 was never een before. Archbishop Spalding’s reply to the addrosz of Arch- bishop Parcel, Arclibishop of Cincinnati, and others:— Vexkeauee ARCUMAROPS AND Hizvore. AND Very Ravel EX@ND (LERUX OF THIS S¥Nop—-1 cannot command words’ to exprers the feclings whieh {ll my bewrt on this sok ewn occasion. What I have beard—whieh I snow ex-* presses the feelings of all my veurrable brethren—com- peusate® me more than one Lnndred fold for the litte Jabor I have Lad in preparing for this Council, Ifesl and say trom tay heart vist T am on hy of the eulogy which ihe partiality of my venerable brother bas passed upon me. Scan ply lay claim to io ore ATE mim nese. Tam oaure Mint the secret of what been is that Tam the voice, or the abadow of him who.repae- * sents.unity and authority on the earth, wndthat Tam, vested. wever nnworthy, with the aat of Pi IX, through whose —_ voice speaks, and throng Peter, Christ. There is ° simplicity and sublimity, and beauty of our Jeith, We are bul the last link in # golden chain, the Drat. of which was Peter, and he was l to the rock which was Christ. Never was (he unity of the Chareh ant’ its unearthly character more strikitighy exhibited than in this Council, Here we have venerable prelates frota every part of. this who have come five or six thousant hearing of my votce, because in my Voice they recognized the ae of ew [X., of Peter and of Christ; come together one heart ene soul, intent ay on the. object and providing for hig, ROME wallen‘conve'at the of beautifying the house of Godt iow’ of wen. All other considerations ly forgotten... During tue two weeks of the'council and white im_session six or eight houry a day, not ope word Las been breathed, not one allasion has been to the stitving and exciting topiee of the day. Our’ - dor is not of this world; we have higher aims, “ to God in the high nd P on earth to raeu of good wil” to devise waym and wo ee out the parpose for witch. Chriss diet on oresa ih save omen, te bind them together in unity « charity; we soured above the region of storm a1 eloads fato the purer atmosphere of God, wher? there j¢no controversy nor contention stirred ap by human pasion, Ait bations it thie Cou i iit H bpm re "4 fc support and. for- to be atte’ . i ‘ou for yer hearance during the Dect tee weeks of most importaaé deliberation. My heart wil) go with atin ni —— muy travel, whether im the farthest poswon of the or West or South, whether to the AUantic or Pacifie sboree—our hearte will be oue, a our (ait is one. May God help us ali! jee Dy pe toi bis ae ing of them by the atetibiehops an proces- siou was formed ond reterned to the Arenblshopre Teal: dence. —w ORAMATIC CENSORSHIP ARD THEATRICAL MONOPOLY ENGLAND, TO THK EOIFVR OF THE MKRALD. Your recent articles ow dramatic contorsbip im Eugland suggest to me some thought? on that subject and ite sister abose, theatricel-monopoly. A censorship of the drama L bold to be amindefeasible as a cemporship of the press woukl be, The manner too in which that conser. ships exerclted is aerbed as the principle ieuell. iy it not absurd that..thin: censor ¢hon!d have the: power te strike oat aug part he pl aved of # new play,. while he te Provented from toncbing # line of an old ono? Thue the tmosk iodelicate plage of Boaumon: and Fletcher can now he performed Ly jaw, aad the censor has ao power to prevent i, What is it, then, thar prevents sueb reprosemy talons ‘on the British steye ys Imply) air, oe ce! ert, the good taste and vood feeling of the pol Uathat (hey ought to be Jeit, When « national stage did indeed exist in England, when Carrick and Mowsop and Dorty porformad before the assembled nobles and seniry of (Lat eountry—aad in that coantry at that time ws \dizatton hod reached the highest point it could atain— bo license was found noceeeary, Why! Meconse the of (rue decorum and that refinement which is inse bie trom decency furbude toe pectetmanct of} or Immoral compositions, aud tasued iis laviolable in- potions againat the ivfringement of propricty . The dramna’s laws (he deaina’s patrons give. Amt now, in Europe aa well aa ip this eoantry, that code may be safoly intrusted with stage censorship. Hut let me examine the matter & Little more closely. ‘The con orship is-practically aired at the minor theatres, ne they are called, Sow, sir, the reason why these minog Leatres were placod w such restrainia as almost to amount to a at rewion was the licentious manner which they by meonducted in the the Seeond. It #as pot for the purpose literatare, but to sappress indecency And do these reasons pow apply? 1 have visited withia a short period most of the aainoe theatres of London, aod truth obligne me to stato, that the audiences and the performaucos were of a. most reapectahle character: was the object of Bving the monopoly to. the patent theatres? it to rate the dgnity of the aational drama? it answerod that end? Ho far from {t, it if a cause general complaint that the drama began to decline from the tine tbe taomepoly was given, aad now it is an ad mitted fact that the poverty of te drama ix greater tham, ix Known in any other dopartnapot of literatnre, Where are the sublime tragedies, the chaste and belitinnt come. dies which the pateut of monopoly wassntended to foster I might to the m@nopoiisns ** ou encouraged such porformances ? Ane ¥en profrred thera 0 egOa- tefan spectacles, wild beart acrobats, raters and sword swaliowers—in a word, have you put the drama in a better sitnation than It was when you re- coived ittrom Bon Jannsoa and Shakspere? ng have ee ae you are not entiged to mon A fc loge have atria eer hase Glace ie have to Cee eee te ck and Heun bad ee cosmoramas, aud Mon eave in two house And boa eonstrictors—' a - Voadon, and one of these & much abused “minor,” opinion wiil exercise its sway. Se ast in America Gyraaee or ia fs -4 previons on by @ Fequisite, and certainly ‘enjoy a mowopoly of she di countfy through ther etcta rane represent regular tragedy sad womety cn ee mans Se Rt a