The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1866, Page 4

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CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Rocaanorx; ox, 74x KNave OF HEARrs. fx HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookimn —Ermoriay MiN- eragisy, BaLtaps, BURLESQUES AND PaNToMraKs. OPERA HOUSE, Willlamsburg.—Ermoriax ALLADS, Comic PaNtomimns, &6. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — Lectores with tar Oxy-flypRoGeN Mu re twice daly, |, Heap ayo Tuour Ans or Prowse. Open from % OP. M. w York, Monday, November 19, 1866. EUROPE. The steamship City of Boston, at this port yesterday, dus with European files dated to the 8th of containing details of our cable despatches to the previous evening, King Victor Emanuel acknowledged the address of the Venetian deputation sent to Turin in a few graceful and patriotic sentences, in which he said that “foreign domi- antion had ceased forever in Italy,’” and advised the Italiang to “defend” their freedom if necessary. The Pope’s allocation on the subject of Rome and Maly, which we publish to-day, is a vory remarkabje manifesto, and produced a considerable sensation, par- ticularly in France. The Paris journals comment at’ length on the document; the Deébats observing, “The Boly Father at least cannot be reproached on account of want of clearness. He withdraws his benediction— ‘which had been misunderstood—aud hé replaces it with ss declaration of war,” A second allocution of Pius the Ninth on the subject of the condition of the Catholic church 1m Ruse is regarded as an ecclosiastical attempt to renew the Polish question undortaken at the instance of France and Austria. The London News says that in the United States the ‘South hag again attempted, “ with the President at its oad, to override the North; it has again been defeated, and it will have to take the consequences of defeat,”? Maximilian will, it is sald, attempt to remain in Mex- ica A Paris lottor writer says if such be the fact “the position will be strangely complicated, for one would #ninok that the French troops cunnet in honor be with- drawn without @ positive assurance of non-intervention on the part of the United States,” “ Lord Derby, a8 Premier of England, advocates the Nrcagagua Transit Route plan proposed some years since by Captain Pim, RN. ‘The Master of thé Rolls of Fogland has decided Bishop Cotenso's claimn for arrears of ealary in his favor, giving the Bishop costs of suit, The Master of the Rolls says that Or. Colenso, notwithstanding his deprivation by the Bishop of Cape Town, has at present the status of a Bishop of the Catholic Chareh, of which the Church of Noginnd “is a branch,” . MISCELLANEOUS. ta view of the resent consultations between the Pres!- éont and leading republican meu in Washington, !t is con- Adontly believed that the former is on the eve of a grand coup d'etat, which will gratify bis friends and bewilder his enomies, Thero is certainly, report says, an earnest desire on both sides to compromise the difficulties which *ostruct a speedy readmission of the Southern States, Oficial news from Mexico, states that the fortress of Perote ani the cityof Jalapa had been captured by the liberals, The reportof General Diaz of his investment of Oajaca aye that Be defeated an Austrian colamn o fifteen hundred men coming to relnforce the garrison, at Carbonsia, and captured three hun- dred and ninety-six prisoners, four rifled guns, ax bundred carbines and «a large supply of war munitions, A portion of Maximilian’# baggage had arrived at Vera Cruz, and letters from Mexico stated that tho abdicatiog Emperor had determined on taking with bim several paintings and relics belonging to the governinent. Two imperial obieftains had dedared for ‘the national government. Tt is stated in Washington that Juarez wi!l orter an election itomediavly, and will positively decline to become « candidate himself, Yokohama, Jopan, dates ate to the B6th of October. The death of the Tycoon is conirmed, His successor hag mol assumed the reins of government yet aad will wait wou! tho war is over, when a vote would be taken, The brig Lubra was attacked by pirates, who sbot the captain and mate and carried the veasel into Hong Kong. Iti fooling has been generated between the Freach minister and the Japanese authorities. Rev. Charles B. Smyth addressed an audionce ef over three thousand persons at the Cooper Institute yester. day ov the model artist exhibitions 1u Now York. Ho Aeiineated some of the scenes enacted thereat, and ad- ministered a scathing rebuke to the newspaper press hat are fn the habit of advertising and placing before ‘he public such immoral oxhibitions. ‘Dr. Cheever delivered @ #ermon on the constitutional @mondment at the Church of the Puritans yesterday, Ho said that the amondment proposed to rob the colored fece of the rghte guaranteed by the constitation un- amended to overy free citizen, and the voice of God Dimsolf was against it. Rov. Henry Ward Beecher, delivered « dissourse yes- torday morning, on * A Wantfof Faith/beiag Sin,” and in the evoning on the text, “If thou be wise, thoe would be Wise for thynelf: bot st thoa soonest, thou alono shall ‘bear th’ The now Mothodiét Kpiscopal charch on Sixty-first root, between Second and Third avenues, was dedi- cated yoxorday. Rev. Charles Fletcher, of Brooklyn, Golivored an ad tress mpptopriate to the occasion. The nineteenth anoivermry of the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Sunday “choo! was celebrated yeatorday, end the fiftieth aoniversary of the Allen Street Pree. bytorian Sabbat! School was celebrated with « golden Jubilee, The cerdmony of bieeiny & bell took piace at the Church of St. Augustine, in Morrisania yesterday. Dr, MeCloskey, Archbiabop of New York, delivered the ad Areas om the occasion, The Very Reverend Rtisane Rowsellon, Vicar General af the Diocese of Now Orleans, La, died in this city on Friday, from the effests of # fall received on the deck of the steamer Periere, om her recent voyage from Havre, ‘The railway tracks on Broadway betweon Ano and Fulton streots were removed yesterday Mayor Hofman ating (ssued an ordér to that effet. Marqtls do Monthoton, the present French Min ster a) Washington, has been recalled, and M. Rorthemy, ‘ate the French Migieter to Chima, succeeds bim. non g the letters lost irom the Department of State transfor of its arobives to the new bulidingin effeotually uses up a former American Minister at Paris, The Miniotor is eupposed to have been the famous John Armstrong, afterwards Seoretary of War. The steam whaling bark Pioneer arrived at Now Lon- don on Thursday from the Arotio Regions, She brings cheering news from Mr. 0. F. Hall and his exploring Party, who were at Repulse Bay in good health, and ener- getically pursuing their researches. Despatches from Arkansas stato that the ratification or Tejection of the constitutional amendment has been dis- cussed in the Legislature at Little Rock and referred to & Committee on Federal Relations. A member of the firm of Pike, Lapeyre & Co., bankers of New Orleans, was robbed in the Post office in that city, on Friday, of $20,000 ia compound tnterest notes by a pickpocket. ‘A largo fire occurred in Chicago yesterday morning which destroyed several leading business houses on Lake and Water streets, The loss is estimated at half million dollars, ‘The Petersburg (Va.) theatre was burned yesterday morning, the loas amounting to about $16,000. Hollahan, of Hartford, has won the golden cue in the recent billiard tournament in Hartford, and the title of champion. Rev. Dr. Preatly, Of Pittsburg, who was suspended for alleged cruelty te his*wife, indecent and profane Jan- guage and adultery, made a farewoll address to his oon- gregation last night, in which he denied the two last indictments. Acting Ensign A. J. Kane, who was sent to Washing- ton for trial on charges of having accepted a bribe from President Geffrara in Hayti, was dismissed from the service. on Saturday, The Rise, Decline and Fall ef the Democratic Party—What Comes Next ‘The handwriting on the wall has been inter- preted in the recent elections, and it reads, like the terrible edict against Belshazz:r, that the demooratio party has been weighed in the balances and found wanting, and that its kingdom is turned over to the Medes and Persians. It is the conolusion of one of the great chapters of our political history, cover- ing all tho vicissitudes of parties, platforms and politicians, ali our political agitations of sects, nationalities, sections and factions, and all our measures of progress and development, and our domestic discords, civil and foreign wars, since the first election of General Jackson, in 1828, as President of the United States. The election of 1824—the old pre-existing parties having become “all republicans and all federalists ”—was a scrub race between Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay, resulting in the choice of Adams by the House of Repre- sentatives. From that day, on the charge of a bargain and sale against the supporters of Adams and Clay, and upon the glory of the battle of New Orleans, and the cry of “re- trenchment and reform,” began that crystalli- zation of the drifting political elements of the country around General Jackson which re- sulted in his first election. The “Hero of New Orleans,” too, was actively identified with the old republican war party of 1812, while John Quincy Adams; aa the son of the original léader of the federalists, John Adams, was identified as the embodiment of the alien and Sedition laws an@ the Hartford pesce:conven- tionists in fhe war of 1812 ; and thus, to ‘the election -of Martin Van - Buren, theso old divisjons operated in marking the lines of the new partes. The Jacksonian party,/however, was without a fixed policy until the second election of “Qld Hickory,” in 1832, 28 the champion of the war against the old United States Bank and against its power in yolitical corruption as & great financial monopoly. With the over- throw of the bank Jackson undertook a new financial system with the “pet banks” of the several States, in dividing the Treasury gold— some thirty odd millions—among them, as his depositories. The paper money inflation of 1885-36 followed, and then came the tremen- dous financial collapse, under Van Buren, of 1837, which swept the democracy out of power. in 1840, with tho resistless sweep of a popniar tornado. This political revolution, however, did not revolutionize Van Buren’s Sub-Treas- ury system; but it brought the dem to a change of base from the financial to the slavery question, ander the Southern Calhoun wing of the party, its powerful enemy, Jack- son, being now out of the way in his quiet retirement at the Hermitage. In January, 1844, there was, as we were after- wards informed, a tacit understanding between Mr. Clay and Mr. Van Buren, that, as they were, to be pitted against each other in that year’s election, they would both take ground against the scheme of the annexation of Texas, so as to keep that dangerous slavery issue out of the canvass. At all events, when, in February, as we remember it, they were sounded upon the subject, there was a remarkable coincidence of opinion in opposition to the Texas scheme be- twéen Clay and Van Buren. But the Southern democratic leaders broke up this arrangement at thelr Baltimore Convention, a few months later, in. enforcing ‘for the first ‘time their famous two-thirds rule, in order to overoome Van Buren’s pledged majority. Thus Van Bu- ren and his policy of ignoring or postpening the Texas annexation scheme were cast aside by the Southern democratic leaders, and Polk was nominated, pledged to the annexation, with all its hazards of a war with Mexico, From this bold and startling movement for the addition of an empire at the expense of a foreign war to the Southern pro-slavery bal- ance of power in Congress began the real decline and fall of the democratic party. Polk was elected, the Mexican war followed the Texas annexation, the treaty of peace brought into the Union a new empire, upon the division of which on the slavery question Van Buren had his revenge in defeating the democratic party in 1848 by his independent free soil move- ment. That was the first staggering blow to the party from the anti-slavery elements of the North. It rallied, however, in 1852, and almost swept the field on Clay’s great com- promise measures of 1850, and it might have held the government to this day had the party thus remained. But its Southern leaders, Mason, Jeff Davis, Slidell and company, bent upon a Southern confederacy, cajolod poor Douglas and coerced poor Pierce into the repeal of the old Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas border war on slavery, old John Brown, poor old Buchanan, the Democratic Convention, rupture of the party, Abraham Lincoln, the rebellion, the Chicago Conven- tion, the suppression of the rebellion, the con- flict between President Johnson and Congress, and the late terrific clections, tell the rest of the story. ‘Thus, in its desperate atruggles to retain the government or to destroy the government by the strong arm of Southern slavery, the grea} democratic party was first crippled, then divided, and Sourersd Tis first disas- vas sae in oust ing of Van Buren on the Texas question, and ite last was in still vglom was a Charneteriatio latter from Napoivon | Mdhering to ite {raitors of the South against telah, hl dA sts op sor 9 ek 2 97 167 STIRS Fu. olan ob Abe le. ele ae oF ke ar rae Maca” RG wi ee aac. SHARIA 2 2g enol omy (18 colbad veered SO « torious North. Aad “now” what comes next? The reconstruction of the scattered materials of the party on some now issues or an out-and- outnew organization, name and all. The leaders nd organs of the Northern rump are begia- ning # agitate a scheme to out-radical the radicals; but already their dissensions upon the propositions indicate thht general dissolu- tion which followed the collapse of the old whig party of 1852, The democratic elements are adrift, and it will take some time and con- siderable agitation and beating about hither and thither to put them into a new form as a party for the future. Meantime the republi- cans have it all their own way, and may, if they are prudent, hold the government for twenty years to come, Napoloon’s New Game—Freedem of Allinuces in Europe. Europe cannot settle quietly into the new relations that might result from the Prussian triumph of the past summer, The reconstruc- tion of the German confederation, with a closer and more forced cohesion in the parts and a different head, is not to be the end and only result of the war that has driven Austria out of Germany. This is evident from what is heard of the readiness of some great Powers to push at tho present moment a traditional Policy, and it might be inferred from the necessities that other Powors will be under to Secure their safety, not to say their existence, in accordance with the new conditions of national life that aro likely to prevail. The most ob- vious result of the German war was the de- struction of the established order—the rupture and abolition of that fundamental public com- pact in virtue of which the several Powers were known political quantities; and as this order has been destroyed withous regard to the common consent of Europe, without a recognition by all the Powers of its necessity, So there seems no general authority anywhere to limit the results, and to say what may or must be the only consequences and changes. The arrangement of Europe, such as it wus established by diplomatic assemblies at Vionna and Paris, that definite balance, has been thrown into the air like a handful of coppers, and at the new balance is to depend very much upon a scramble, When the causes that immediately induced this war were first in operation the Emperor Napoleon proposed a Congress, in order that a common utterance, representing the power of Europe, should lay down the rules of ‘conduct under which the several States must act, But- Earl Russell, with short-sighted smartness, opposed that proposition and killed it, and consequently Europe has'now no general authority or un- derstood line of action to regulate the changes, and each Power pursues the dictates of its own ambition, knqwing no other limit than that of its power. ; \ This state of affairs is recognized by the Hmperor Napoleon in the declaration that “the new principle that governs Europe is freedom of, alliance”’—freedom of the courts to choose their own. ‘associations and make their political games wherever they can see the great est advantage, as opposed io that definite and often incongruous classification and association of Powers hitherto regulated by international congresses. But the sentence by which the Emperor recognizes the new conditions in Europe also dimly indicates the means by which. he apparently ex- pects to keep pace with the game for supre- macy of power and influence. If the prin- ciple of the freedom of sovereign Powers to find their own future’ places in the continental system is dangerous, as it opens the way to vast combinations that may throw the Euro- pean world into the hands of Powers that hap- pen to be at once the strongest and the least scrupulous, it has also the advantage of forcing together for mutnal support Powers assimi- lated for'any reason whatever. Thus it seems probable that we are to have an alliance of Russia aod Prussia for designs against Austria and Turkey—designs that would combine on one purpose nearly the whole tremendous power of Northern Europe. But the very principle in virtue of which such a coalition could be secured makes it possible to unite nearly all the rest of continental Europe against it; for in virtue’ of this principle France could at once boldly pass that gulf of traditional hostility that has separated her trom Austria through such terrible wars, and cotsistently stand before thé world as the ally of her most ancient and inveterate enemy. Cegiainly it’ is in that direction the Emperor Napoleon glances when he tells the world that Aastria, enfranchised from a past—a German past—that was hostile to France, summoned to a new life, governed by principles French, in origin, and animated by those sentiments of progress that are the peaceful bonds of mod- ern society, should no lomger be looked upon as the enemy of France, since “neither hos- tility nor interest” separates the two countries. But this principle will act in other directions far more strongly than betweon France and Austria. It will tend to force the coalition especially of all Powers assimilated by race, history or aspiration. In this way it will assist the Emperor of the French in carrying out what has several times secmed to be one of his favorite projects—the more or less inti- mate consolidation of the various branches of the Latin race. Prussian preponderance—the unification to a certain extent of Germany— had already made this possible. At one time any steps towurd an intimate alliance or union of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal would have@been regarded jealously in other parts of Europe. But Germany has gone further in the creation of a great Power, and Europe has looked on in silence. Germany cannot object to the application of her own principle else- where, and other Powers cannot protest in the case of the Latin race against that to which they assented in the case of the German people. And now that this great alliance looms ‘&p in the North, it is likely to become a vital ques tion whether some positive unification of the Latin race is not a political necessity, If the present Spanish throne be swept away and the old Peninsular Honse of Braganza succeed to the united throne of the two kingdome—there will then be, at least, an intimate family alliatice of the three great Powers—as the present Queen of Portugal is the daughter of Victor Emanuel, and as another member of that : King’s berg lenseiede jee Napoleon, The rest will easy; ¢ King of Italy is hardly more than one of Napoleon's counters in ihe Buropean gamo—and the King of Portugal would be the easiest kind of clay to pat in amy shape, This new organization of powor is, at least, « bighly NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER: 19, 1860; the most popular man of the day. Wherever he appears, in spite of the coldness of the upper classes and the detraction of s large section of the press, he is received wih open arms and hailed as the cham- pion of their rights by the great body of the people. Those who have been watchful of Mr, Bright’s movements and have noticed the en- asm which, in every instance, in England andin Scotland, his appearance has excited, will naturally attach not a little importance to the visit which he bas just made to the Irish metropolis. From the Dubliners he received a most hearty welcome. The banquetheld in his honpr scems to have been successful even be- yoni expectation. With the O’Donoghue in the chair, and surrounded by the dignitaries and clergy of the Roman Catholio,Church, the great English reformer had much cause to be satified. It was a tribute of respect from the great body of the Irish people in the persons of their only true representatives—a tribute heartily and honestly given, and, we believe, grathfully received. The clergy of the Estab- lished Church were conspicuous by ‘their ab- sence, but that was only to be expected. Mt. Bright, notwithstanding his brilliant and unselfish advocacy of the cause of Ireland, was not permitted to take his departure from the shores of the Green Isle without experiencing @ considerable share of the pointed personal annoyances to which every leader who sceks to champion the constitutionalism of that country is invariably subject. At the meeting of the workingmen in Dublin he was brought face to face with a most dangerous element of the Irish population, which at the,present mo- ment, moved by the spirit of Fenianism, cares nothing for either priest or parson, and there his address was interrupted by the exhibition of a war dunco, given to “The March of the Fenian Men,” after which “cheers for James Stephens” and “The Irish Republic” fell with ominous and disagreeable sound on tho ears of the peace reformer. Mr. Pope Hennessey, M. P., an Irish leader of repute, and a warm advocate of Polish re- generation, in an address to the electors of Wexford, which we print to-day, assails Mr. Bright personally with much © severity, and winds up by classing him as a Partiamentary enemy to the cause of the straggling nation- alities, and a wholosale objection to his land tenure reform plan and other theories for the eure of the ills of Ireland. There is little doubt that Mr. Hennessey’s sweeping con- demnation of Mr. Bright will disiract the pop- ular sentiment of the country very consider- ably, and aid England vastly in a pursuance of her old plan of divide et impera, as applied. to the unhappy island. Mr. Bright’s detractors will exert themselves to the utmost to depreciate the practical im- portance of hig Dublin visit; but, in spite of what may be said to the contrary, there “are many who will continge to believe that good will be the result, _ Never were the Irish people in greater need of an intelligent and patriotic leader than at the present moment. As mach as to the unjust laws, to which Mr. Bright in his banquet speech referred, the woes of Ire- land are to be atiributed to the easy confidence which her people have uniformly reposed in unprincipled’ demagogues—men who have played with their gencrous instincls and worked upon them for purely selfish ends, Much, we aro willing to believe, has been done for Ireland in recent years, Wrongs bave been righted, grievances have been removed. Wo have nover been of those who measure the wrongs of Ireland by the tide of emigration which continues to roll towards these- shores, Legislation alone never made # people either Prosperous or happy, and never will. The circumstances of one country are not the circumstances of another ; and we are equally unable to comprehend why, if they are to better their position, the Irish people stiould not come to America, or why their coming here should necessarily be the result ef wrong and injustice. But, making every allowance, Treland, it is uot to be denied, has grievances enough—grievances sufficient to irritate, and even more than irritate, a less excitable people. What she needs, however, is not a second Fenian invasion, or any other foolish resort to violence, which can only end in aggravating and prolonging her misery, but mon of ability and patriclism—men who will clearly, intel- ligently and forcitty give expression to her ‘Wrongs and demand their redréss. In the absence of any prominent leader of thelr own, the Irish people have called Mr. Bright to their aidyand he has nobly responded. It will be strange, indeed, if his withering exposure of “those two gigantic evils—evils unparalleled under any government calling itself liberal— should not result in somé practical good, It Mr. Brigit shail sucesed in directing the Irish mind to more practicable i#sués he will not only prove himself a friend of Ireland, but entitle himself to the gratitude of the British empire. Disra.cers Fracos—Start Line Diver osvana,— Frauds upon the government, through a viola- tion of the internal revenue laws, to the extent of a million and a half of dollars, have just been discovered in Brooklyn. It appoars that large quanzities of iMlicit whiskey were found in differeni private distilleries through the vigilance of government detectives and the Deputy United States Marshal. When ft Is known thattheso frauds bave been going on for some time it becomes questionable whether the governuent inspectors—who receive five dollars per day for everseeing the distilleries and insuring the payment of the tax upon all manufactured spirits—have not grossly neg- lected their duty. In many instances the internal revenne officials are most zealous in preventing and detecting frauds, but it would appear either that the distillers were too amart for them, or that the temptation thrown in their way was too strong for some of them. In “Addition to the quantity of liquor found stored away which had not paid the tax of two dollars galion an ingenious mode of defraud- ing the government was adopted by manufae- turing what was called “burning fluid ”—a was extracted by a chemical process after the spirit was Inspected, andthe pure aleobol put on the market without paying tax, It is said that the parties im this manufacture realized over $400,000 twenty days, In this case the inspectors may htive been deceived by the bat } Disrepted Condition of the South Américan Republics. The deplorable condition of the South American States is graphically illustrated by the brief letter which we publish this morning made his appearance at the capital of Vene- zuela there was no organized body or autho- rized person to whom he could present his credentials; both President Falcon and his representative avoided the capital; and it was only after waiting. some weeks that a govern- ment was organized and Mr. Wilson was ena- bled to present himself as the American Am- bassador.° The financial condition of the republic and business generally is in such a bad way that there is no hope of the debt to this country being paid, as, under the provi- sions of the convention made with Minister Culver, it should be during the current year; end our correspondent intimates that nothing but a ship-of-war will ever settle the matter and secure the money. We do not want the money on this condition, The United States can far better afford to los: the sum due her than threaten and ‘bullyrag a weaker Power into payment, particularly if that Power is attempting to establish a republican form of government in the remotest degree like our own; and 'we’hope Congress will take no step towards enforcing its payment by warlike demonstrations. The condition of Veneguela and the other South and Central American States should meet with our sympathy, and, as far as practi- cable, our assistance, Chile and Peru have just passed through an exhausting war commenced against them by a European monarchy with the same purpose-as that inspiring the French in Mexico, namely, the re-establishment of monarchical power and institutions on this republican continent. Begnn when the United States was ongaged in a great civil war, the attempt of Spain against Chile was an indirect insult to us, as much 60 ag wus the invasion of | Mexico by Napoleon, and ought to be resented as such, Bolivia is afflicted with internal troubles and threatened with partial absorp- tion by her powerfui neighbor, the Empire of Brazil. Peru is in a volcanic state of political eruption, and Prado, the most powerful and sensible man who has been at her head since the time of. Simon seat as Dictator and President only by the most arbitrary measures. Mosquera has given a little. quiet to New Granada, and Eeugdor. isjust happfy throygh a oivil |- war of formidable dimensions. Lopez, in Para- guay, is defending that small state from the in- roads of Brazil with great valor and success; but the war is exhausting to both parties, end particularly so to the small republics. of, Urnguay and the Argentine Confederation, which have become engaged in entangling alli ances with Brazil. There is a lesson read and a duty pointed out to us in this state of affairs, The secession- ists of the South would have forced a similar wretched condition upon each of the States of the South had they succeeded in their designs, The doctrine of State rights hay virtually been. in operation in South America for many years, and the result is apparent. We looked‘and still hope for good resulta from the close alli- ance of the Pacific republics for defence against Spain; and it will be a fortunate.day for them when, without sacrificing their State organiza- tions, they beoome consolidated in a grand republic like) our own; with tree institutions, free people, and greater aims of universal good and prosperity. ‘Ibe duty of the United States is to assist and defend these republics by prompt recognition and expressed sympathy ; and Mr. Johnson cannot do better than to ex- tend the same attention he is paying to Mexico to Paraguay, Chile and Pera in their present conflicts. While the struggle in Europe has of late years becoms a conflict of races, and polili- cal combinations are made by the Germans and Latins and Anglo-Sarons, as races, this country ought to strive to make the war one of institutions, and confine its foreign policy to making this entire continent republican, in opposition to the monsrchical continent of the East. Steet Commeseovne Consus Osrince.-— Charles G. Comet resigned his office on Sitar- day, in order, 94 he stays, to deprive bis per- sonal and political enemy, JR. Whiting, who bas been commiswioned to inquire into bis official conduct, of “thot satisfaction aud the gratilica- tion of his reavengefal spirit’? Mr. Cornell's term of office would have lasted but two weeks more ; his Jabors would not bave been very great, and he ought to bave remained for the sake of the pablic good wnd public gratitication, in order to prove the innocence which he claims of the cherges mado against him. He has been couteni, however, to submit an ex- planation aad # loag and dail answer to the clarges proterred instead of submilting toe rigid inquiry. Innocence ander sm picion generally secks the most rigid seratiny. Mr. Cornell has tnwisely made himeclt appear as if uvoiding it, and his answer, of the waual and ordinary sort, fails of tte intended effect as @ protest of injured innocence. Besides, Mr. Cornell has deprived the pablic of @ sensation in the shape of an exposition of the “ring” and ite doings, a subject in which the public are much interested, now that the “ring” is in the pangs of fina! dissolution. It passes away, however, without causing the slightest regret to the tax-paying people, who are determined to have board of works established by State authority, which shall permanently displace the Street Commis- sioner and all sinister powers, and give us en. terpriseand honesty in the city departments, instead of the remisaness and corruption whiah have hitherto existed. ee ae Tax Exciisn Nicanagoa Ramwar—lt will be seen by our foreign news that the pian for the Atlantic and Facifio Railway by } is declared by Lord Derby an international on- terprise of great imporiance, and is likely to meet with very positive favor at the hands of the British government. Undoubtedly Joha Ball be.dispoved to hurry up his plan for inter- oceanle communication through fears of our commercial supremacy; but we ean afford to every rail every dollar that he ‘on the Isthmus, fe sees rightly a great advantage to himeelf ia bie commercial enter- ‘Dot a greater advan: Bolivar, holds © bis mote he labors to give us ultimately the full com- mercial benefit of our position in the world. As to the of his securing territorial domination,it is too small, to be weighed gains! the advantages, and he will have eo instructive example before his eyes, for we are just now trying that very question with France in Mexico. Tae Rerorw Question w Excianp—New Move ov THe Torms.—A despatch by the cable yesterday informs us that the tory gov- ernment of England is preparing a plan to flank John Bright’s reform movement. It is announced as a brilliant scheme for baffling the reformers in the coming session of Parlia- ment by introducing a government reform measure, which is to be laid on the table until the succeeding session, the Ministry generously offering the House of Commons an opportunity of considering #in the meantime. Whenever the tories obtained. power they were always accustomed to make « higher bid for popular favor than their’ predecessors in office; but their ‘attempts in this direction were usually confined to promises,’ which were rarely, if ever, fulfilled. In the present advanced con- dition of public intelligence, quickened as it is by the agitation of Bright and his colleagues, the tory government dare not go as far as the people are prepared to demand in the matter of Parliamentary reform. It is one of those momentous crises in which an aristocratic and land-owning government is “placed in a most embarrassing position, between the popular clamor for the right of suffrage, which they cannot accede to without signing the death warrant of their own order, and the desire to retain a tenure of office which, without some concession, must, in the existing state of affairs, be very brief. The object of this new movement is doubt less to gain time and to weaken the effects of Bright’s agitation by some seeursnce of a com- promise. We hardly think, however, that the government will succeed in flanking John Bright, and we are morally certain that no re- form. measure which the tories dare introduce will satisfy the demands of the British people, . with the present high strung sentiment that prevails in the three kingdoms. Tue Surrims Srerrep.—It is given out from Washington that there are to be no more dis- charges from office for opinion’s sake. ‘This’ means that the coddling. of the broken up democracy hag not paid expenses, and that the President is wisely disposed to cultivate an armistice anda treaty of peace with Con- gress. The voice of the people is beginning ta be understood. as A alae r ‘MEXICO., Ometal Revort of the Capture of, the City of Jalnpa and the Important Liberal Victory Near Oaxaca—Large Haul of Prisoner* and Guns—Maximilian’s Buzgage Arriving to Vera Craz—Two Ymperial Cifeftuins Neclare for the Liberals, &c. ‘Wasmrnotow, Nov. 18, 1866, Oficial news from Vera Cruz to the Ist bas been re- ceived ta this city, with the following information ;— ‘The city of Jalapa and the fortress of Perete have boom captured by the liberal General Mantarre. Camille and Calderan, two imperial chieftains in the State of Vera Cruz, have submitted to the national gov- ‘ornment. t An official report of General Diaz to the War Department, states that after the important victory he obtained at Miabuallan, Oaxaca, on the 3d ult., he advanced against the City of Oaxaca, and invested it for cleven days, As he was gotting ready to assault it he heard that an Aus trian column of 1,500 men was coming to protect the garrison. Ho therefore abandoned the city and wentte meet the column, and did so at Carbonsia, al eleven o'clock A. M., on the 18th. Tho battle lasted until seven o’clook P, M., General Dias having obtained a complete victory. He followed the enemy as far as Minas, nine tiles from Carbonsia. He took 396 Austrian, Potish an@ Hungarian prisoners, four rifled guns, over 600 carbines, and a very large supply of manitions. He further states in his report that he would march that very evoning to ‘ i E 3 : Presidoat Juarez te Order an Election ta Mexico. Wasuanarox, Noy, 18, 1866. It te stated by parties authorized to speak for the re- public of Mexico, that i¢ is the firm intention of Preat- dent Suarez to order an election in accordance with the constitution for a President and Members of Congress, ‘as oon as it shall be practicable to do so. They turther assert that President Juarez is not, as his encmios repre- sont him, an ambitious and unscrupulous man, whose only object is to keep himself4n power, but that he has i whether he will allow his name to be used didate for re-election, even should his friends SENATOR DOOLITILE ON THE WAY TO TEXAS. New Ontcans, Nov. 18, 1666 Senator Doolittte arrived here to-day en rows for the ‘Texas frontier. It is surmised that bis mission is om bashtew connogted with Mexican affairs. ———-—— THE RAILROAD TRACK ON BROADWAY TORN UP. Om Saturday morning inet Mayor Hoifman, by advice of the: Corporation Counsel, issued an order for the re moval of the double track of rails Iaid on and across Broadway by the Dry Dock and Rast Broadway Railroad Company. Accordingly on yesterday morning a large force of laborers proceeded to tear up the track and to reiay*the pavement of the street. Quiles crowd gath- ered on the sidewalks to witness the performance of the ‘work, and the feeling was one of genera! satisfaction at the removal of this nuisance from the principal thorough- fare of tho metropolis. No effort was made to prevent the tracks being torn up, and it was mot ascertained ‘what steps the railroad company intended to take in tne mater. ee Kev. Etleane Reusecton, Vicar (ieneral of New Orlenas. On the Stat uit., during the passage of the steamship Pereira from Havre to this port, the Very Reverend Etienne Rouseslion, Vicar General of the Vathollc dio- cose of New Orleans, La, « pamenger on board the versol, in going on deck, slipped and fell backwards, in- Joring himself severely. Tho reverend gentieman was