The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOS N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Foca cents per copy. Annual subscription price, @14&. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We €o not return rejected communications. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- ing and Engraving, neatly and prompily exeouted at the owest rates. == Volume XXXI.... saNe. 333 == = — AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Y THEATRE, Broadway noar Broome eee AR Any Titus Mat wirm ne MiukiNe Patt. fatinee at 1h o'Clock—ARtIst OF FLORENCE—RicHeLixd at rxraaN. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel.—Gairrira Gaunt, OR JEALousY. Matinee at One o'Clook. er Fourteenth strest. near Bixth Hevgs—Us Cus pe mn TRE, No. 514 Broadway.— onnerban Forgan, Matiase ai Tivo 0-Clock—Warartsi— Dus Souws Kigucr Soawinpet. 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Hall, 473 Brosdway—In a Vanier or Liont ano Lavgmasur Corrs ve Batter, £0, HOOLEY’SOPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Erarortan Min. Lg Batiavs, Busiesquves axp Pantommmes. Ou! USE MRS. PF. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— tox Wirow. Matinee at Two o'Clock. STECK’S MUSIC HALL, No. 14] Eighth street.—Ans- cuvta’ Musical Sorex. SEAVER'S OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.~Ermioruy Moverrgcsy, BaLtaps, Comic Pantomimes, &c. WASHINGTON HALL, Williamaburg.—Granp Tuanas- GIVING Marine at 15 o'Clock. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Gay, Halo ano Hiauy Aue oF Paonsts Oboes trons 0M ti 1B Mee rn. ee New York, Thursday, November 29, 1866. THE NEW s. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable we have a special telegram from London, dated yesterday ovoulng, reporting considerable fluctuations in the price of United States five-twenties in the English market during twenty-four hours. The latest sales forcash were at 70 a 10\¢. The news report from Ireland is scanty. British troops were still being forwarded to tho island, and a London journal speaks of the Fenian movementas a “rebellion.” Fenian arma and uniforms, from America, had been seized in Liverpool, It is alleged in Paris that the government in Washing- ton has arranged with Napoleon that a tract of Mexican territory shall be set apart for purposes of French coloni- zation, and that the rights of the French landholders shall be respected, Consols closed at 8944, for money, in London yester- day. The Liverpool cotton market was quiet at the close yesterday, with middling uplands at fourteen and one- eighth pence. Breadstuify were steady, with the prices anchaoged. THE CITY. Io accordance with the proclamations of Presidont Johnson and Governor Fenton to-day will be set apart as ono of thanksgiving. The Custom House and the courts will be closed and the Post Office will close at ten A, M. Business genorally wil! be suspended. Dinners will be Given at all tho institutions of public charity. several voluntoer companies and societies will parade, and sevo- Tal balls will be given in tho evening. A meeting of the joint committee of the Boards of Al- dormen and Counoll assembled yesterday for the purpose of considering the propticty of complying with the ro- quest of the United States government to sell to it the eastern extremity of the Battery enlargement for a now barge office, A favorable report was adopted, and the Property will be recommended to be granted at a nomi- nal price. The Executive Committes of the Prison Association mot last evening and passed a resolution appointing a committee to memorialize Congress to pass a law for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the United States prisongrs in State Prisons, and to visit the Prest- denton the subject, Other business of some interest aleo came up at the meeting, The Union League gave a reception last evening to Senator Fessenden, of Maine, at their rooms on Seven- tornth street, opposite Ugion square. He was wel- comed on the part of the club by Mr, John Jay, Presi- dont, and responded in brief and eloquent terms, Speeches wore made, also, by Senator Grimes, Mr. Washburng and others. The ovation closed at a late boar At moeting of the Now York Yacht Club, hold last oven.ng, an offictal notification of the approaching yacht race was, for the Grst time, given the organization. At & meoting of the St. Nicholas Society, held last ovoning, the sixth day of December next was set apart for tho annual banquet of the association. The Superior and Common Pleas courts have adjourned till Friday morning ‘The case of Dougherty vs. Cuff, which was an action to determine the fact of partuorship betwoen the parties to the suit, wasup at the trial term of the Common Pleas yosterday, before Juago Cardoso, The full partica- lars of the cage wore given in this paper some weeks ago, and it wili be remembered that it involved n charge against defendant of manufacwuring whiskey without a license. Tho defendant, ou the other hand, accused plaintiff of trumping up the charge against him to de- stroy the partnership. At the trial, yesterday, several witnesses were examined and the case was adjourned till Friday morning at ten o'clock. The breach of promise case, Wiggin vs. Russell, in which the plaintiff Inid damages at $10,000, was con. cluded yesterday in Part II. of tho Suprome Court—cir- cult, A verdict was rendered for the plaintiff in tho sum of $200, Tho case lasted the entire day. The oxamination of Messrs. Schwabius, Angus, Boehm and Rowe for alleged violation of the Internal Revenue law by distilling alcohol under the name of ‘burning fluid,” came wp again yesterday before Commissioner Newton, {a Brooklyn The government called several cow wit- hoses, The case was finally adjourned until the 8th of Docomber, at twelve o'clock. On Friday evening last Mr. John Grindell, a watchman ‘o Hollahan’s distillery, on Fifty-third street, was shot, and it is feared the wound will prove fatal, A man Bamod Jonkins, representing himself as @ detective, it is Gitoged, was the party who did the firing, Ho was Arrosted, but was released, as noone appeared against him, ‘the wound will, It is feared, prove fatal the police are on his track again, | Henry Greatrox, @ photographer from Glasgow, was Grrosted In thir city on Tuesday afternoon, charged with having iteur' two thousand forged motes, of the de- nomination «/ one pound each, on the Unton Bank of Glamgow. Tho fine steamship Eagio, Captain v. R Groene, will ul at nO@D to-day (Thursday), for Havana, from ptor No. North river, The mails will close at the Post Offige at he a eo Pee a penpeem = ‘ne stock market was dull yosterday and barel steady, sy. G4 heavy, and cloted at 141), a x. “4 markete too fontinued devotd volthation, @na in nearly all branches of rade ox. os apathy and Woro the loading 1 was Quiet and @ oasior. wad di to Change floar 8906. por dbl. and qi fin anc an aotudl distntearation of Ite vijalitr is ——EE per bushel. Oats were ia limited demand and 1c. lower, Pork wap dull, unsettled and lower. Boof was heavy, though without quotable change. Lard was quict, but steady, Freights wore more active, Whiskey wes quiet, but steady. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The French Minister at Washington has furnished the State Department with the names of twenty-four trans- porta which are about to sail from France to convey the Mexioan Expeditionary Corps home by the end of De- cember, Representations have also been made by which it ta shown that no breach of faith in their withdrawal is intended, Maximilian is daily expected at Havana, his withdrawal having beon final and complete, and no ob- stacle remaining in the way of his embarkation.” Marshal Bazaine has expressed himself as anxious for the arrival of General Sherman, to whom he intends surrendering his trust. No official information hag been received at Washington concerning the reported ocoupation of Mata- moros by United States troops, and our New Orloans despatch states that it is undoubtedly a canard, The news from Caraccas, Venezuela, is dated November 8. General Pulgar attacked the céstle of San Carlos at Maracaibo and captured four vessel, A revolution had occurred in Barcelona and the government of that State had been overthrown. The revolutionists under Monogas and Peraza arrested the Governor and formed a provi- sional government. An obstinate battie was going on when the steamer left, It was proposed to consolidate Bolivar, Aragua and Guarica into ono large State. Our Havana correspondence is dated November 24. General Sherman had returned from Matanzas, The Susquehanna was to have aailed on the 25th. A bearer of despatches from Carlotta to Maximilian had arrived in the English steamer on his way to Vera Cruz, Count de Beaumont, an attaché in tho French Foreign Office, has arrived in the camp of the Brazilian army in front of Curuzu, Paraguay, with credentials as a special commissioner from the Court of France. Ho will repair to the Paraguayan capital, and on his own observation of affairs in the republic will propose a plan of pacifica- tion to the hostile Powers. Great excitement was evinced in Canada over the re- cent news from Ireland. 1 is thought that if the rumor {a true it will do the prisoners at Toronto infinite harm. No Judgment has yet been declared regarding the appli- cation for a new trial in the case of the condemned. At Montreal tho ieading Irishmen gave a dinner, and on the announcement of the oubreak of hostilities im Ireland gave three cheers forthe men in the gap. Fears are entertained of a raid from Vermont. Judge Advocate General Holt recently applied for a court of inquiry into the charges against him regarding the prosecution of the Lincoln assassins, but it has been dented, the President not deeming it necessary-to the Judge's vindication. Rare mine ‘The radjgais have agreed on Ben Wado aa auccessor to Foster as Prosidont of the Senate, Our North Carolina correspondent, writing from Ra- leigh, gives a view of tho political situation in that State, He gays that the old antipathy to anything identified with loyalty has roasserted itself with astonishing veho- monee, and there is an ostraciam of Union men which is fatal to the welfare of the State, Judge M. E. Manley, of the Supreme Court of North Carolina during the rebellion, was yesterday elected agnites ‘States Senator by the Logislature of that State. The steam tug C. H. Heartt was blown up.opposite ‘Troy yesterday. Tho captain and engineer were blown thirty feet from the boat. One of them died and the other will not probably recover. Clement C. Clay and his wife visited Jeff Davis yostor- oF soph Wylio, captain of a canal boat, was murdered in Frenchtown, Pa., on Saturday, and Alfred Toufol hag been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer, Edward Nevins, late a confidential clerk in the employ of Abram Hooley & Co,, of New York, was arrested at Fortress Monroe yesterday, on a charge of embezzling $5,000 of his employers’ money. In the United States Circuit Court, at Providence, R. L, Robert Crowe was yesterday sentenced to be hung, butag the laws of Rhode Island prohibit capital punish- ment, the sentence will be carried into effect at Fort Adams or Dutch Island, United States territory. Leonard Huyck, Prosident of the Merchants’ National Bank of Washington, bas been indicted for embezzling and misapplying funds. Sanford Conover, the witness in the assassination trials, whon Mrs, Surratt and others wore condemned, has been indicted in Washington for perjury. Calhoun Benham, formorly District Attorney of Cali- fornia, took the amnesty oath in Louisville yesterday. Tho bark Jessie, from Hamburg, arrived in the lower bay yesterday with one case of cholera on board, Dur- ing the voyage fifteen deaths occurred from the disease: She wont into quarantine, Ireland in Arms—Tho Commencing Disinto- aration of the British Empire. British troops are being hurried from Eng- land to Ireland with the greatest urgency, British gunboats, all immediately availablo, are ordered to Irish ports, and detachments of marines are drawn from the ships that cannot leave to swell the amount of force that England finds it necessary to concentrate io Ireland in order to sustain her authority over the Irish people. It is evidently not doubted in London that Ireland is actually in arms against her English rulers and that a fight has already taken place. The Atlantic telegraph, which tells us so much, does not give us any particulars of the event, though it. affords us scope to imagine its proportions by showing the alarm it has excited in London. The capital of the British empire, taking the titterances of its various journals for an indi- cation, is ina state of frenzy over an event that could hardly have taken it by surprise. The London Times illustrates its humanity by comparing her Majesty’s Irish subjects to diseased cattle, who are to be butchered by wholesale, without a thought that they are hnman creatures. It shows us anew the English instinct for brutal cruelty by hounding on to outrages that will revive the memory of Jamaica and the Indian mutiny. The cry is taken up by the other journals, and thé general chorus is that there must be no mercy. It is well that London has given the Irish such early notice of the terms on which they fight—victory or the scaffold. Without speculating as to how the fight may go—and, in fact, whatever the result may be as between English and Irish—the obvious effect of this event must be to weaken still more that blustering cripple among nations, the British empire. If Ireland should compel England to some modified recognition of her nationality, or if it should go further, and Ireland—more remarkable things have taken place—should obtain her independence, that dismemberment of the empire’would paralyze British power everywhere, To carry out the figure involved in the word dismemberment, {t would literally have upon the nation such an effect aa it would have upon a human body to violently toar awayalimb. But, on the other hand, if Ireland should be put down, if the attempt should be crushed by armed force and the very spirit of Fenianism be ground out of the Irish people by a liberal use of that horrible cruelty that is suche favorable instrument of English rulers— what then? That also would fearfully weaken the British empire. Every fight won against the desperate, determined Irish, would be the abstraction of 80 much power from the aggre- gate mass. Every town fired, ev eld. de- vastated, every Bnglishman, nay, évery Irish. man slain, would déprive Britain of an actual unit of a kind of strength she needs, while, gil, it would English securi- range of quotation. Such is ite Gatypy condition of a govern- ment that has gone a certain. woph es oat f tyrannical whatever footie wells bE Hae? ing atlon Ere ties {a on the downward road—thar thes oni HE tenance of euch constitutional governments as the Germanic Confederation; but the Con- federation is aponged out of the map of Europe, and England does not open her mouth. Centuries of politics and war show that Eng- land believed the maintenance of the full power of Austria necessary for the peace of Europe; but Austria is pushed from her Ger- manio stool, and England dares not even pro- test. “An ally on the Tagus,” to act in conjunction with Gibraltar, was another tradi- tion of British policy; and now England cannot help herself, though she sees the whole pro- gress of a scheme to reconstruct the Iberian Peninsula fh a sense that will make it o basis of French power. The soeptre is slipping from her hands, and now 4 great revolution in her dominions comes to put her power toa desperate test. Tf England stands this revolution and puts it down, it will only be the prelude to another and another; and in one such struggle she must fall; for there will be no change, and the cause of the trouble will continue, since it is rooted’ in her very system. Her system is to-day as radically violating all the laws of national life as the system of ancient Rome would be. Fortunate inyentions in manuiag- ture, happy discoveries of the 6d688i of nature, have given her a wealth that has staved off the evil day for a while. But it must come. The i it f idl concentration of the whole soil of England in a few hands and the inevitable results, popular povorty; the concentration of the manufacturing wealth in the samo way, ao that tbe factory slave is on a level with the farm slave; the State religion and the myriad abuses that all these things cover, and behind all an impe- rious, arrogant aristocracy, suicidally refusing to listen to the appeal for reform—such are the troubles, and no nation can stand under such a burden. There is a popular revolution in Ireland to-day and there may be one in England to-morrow; for the disaffection, though different in its tone, is just as widespread in one coustry as in the other. ‘ Mysterious Influence of the Herald—Hell Gate to be Blown Up. According to our contemporaries the Heratp exercises a mysterious influence upon all mun- dane affairs, and sometimes, it may be ssid—as in the case of the late meteoric shower—upon affairs among the stars also. Some of the newspapers say that the Heraxp controls all the elections by contraries, electing the candi- dates it opposes and defeating those it sup- ports. This is certainly a mysterious kind of influence to exercise, but we suppose the suc- cessful candidates have no objection to it. We observe that the Heratp has brought its influence to bear successfully upon another sub- ject of material advantage to the commercial and maritime interests of New York. Our arti- cles upon the obstructions in Hell Gate have drawn the attention of the authorities at Wash- ington to the necessity of removing them, and it is proposed that Congress should make an appropriation for that purpose. It is suggested that the rocks which obstruct the channel shall be blown up by nitro-glycerine, the immense explosive properties of which compound are known by experiment to be amply sufficient to accomplish that work. It is hardly necessary to recount the advan- tages to be derived from opening this chanvel. It would not only afford a more ready and safo entrance from the sea than the passage over the bar at Sandy Hook and along the Long Island coast, which is always attended with more or lesa danger during the hurricane months, but it would decrease the voyage from Europe by at least a hundred miles if vessels of large tonnage could reach the city by way of the Long Island Sound. Nor are the advantages of clearing the chan- nol at this point confined solely to navigation. The effect would also be felt in extending the line of wharves up the island on the East river side and spreading the commerce in that direc- tion, which is now crowded into a compara- tively small space on both rivers at the lower end of the city. Property up town would in- crease in value to a considerable extent if we had a commodious ingress and egress by way of the Sound. This channel once made avail- able, the next thing in order would be a re- construction of our harbor defences, which are at present miserably defective, but which could be made perfect by the exercise of sound judg- ment at a very moderate outlay. We hope, therefore, that Congress will give early atten- tion 40 this subject, which is of really serious importance to this city and to the country generally. We have always held that the diff- culties in the way of clearing the, channel at Hell Gate were not unconquerable, and we seo no reason why the rocks that now render it so dangerons and cut off this port from one of its most desirable outlets to the ocean should not be made to yield to the potent influence of nitro-glycerine. 3 Waat tue Mxayino or raat Lono Dus- Patca’—A telegram from London by the Atlantic cable Informed us yesterday that a telegraphic despatch had been received by the American Minister in Paris from the govern- ment at Washington, which was a very long one and occupied several hours in its trans- mission. It ts believed that this related to the Mexican question. Without knowing the tenor is telegram, we may be sure that it was a ly impértant ong and in all probability was inspired by somié new hitch Io the Mexican difficulty. We do not think there isany reason to apprehend trouble with France, and believe the Emperor Napoleon will carry through the arrangement made for entirely withdrawing from Mexico; but there ts evidently some new foature in the case which required such lengthy instruotiong to be sent to our Minister at Paris. The closing events of this Mexioan business Fill he watched on both aides the Atlantic with iaporemy- ol Majesty’s dominions has prevented the concen- tration of her military resources at any partiou- lar point, do welook upon a well organized and skilfully directed movement of the kind aow reported to be in progress as without reasonable chances of success. The question of their realisation of course depends on the extent and forwardness of the preparations made by its leaders, As we are not in the seorets of Mr. Stephens, all that we can do is to assume that they are ofa character to bear out the declarations that hehas been making for several months past.. When men are content to risk their necks on such preliminaries, we are entitled to conclude that they are satisfed as to their completeness. There isthia to be said besides, that notwithstanding the ridicule which they have been endeavoring to cast upon the movement, the British government and press are now thoroughly alarmed at it and are putting forward their best 'enérgies to defeat it. The sanguinary threats by which they seek to terrify its leaders dispose us to attach all the more importance to it. When his digestion is undisturbed by his fears John Bull is one of the moat sentimental of philanthropists. Dur- ing our rebellion be was shocked at the small hardships to which we were - occasionally obliged to subject our prisoners. But talk to him of insubordination in any of his own do- pendencies and he at once becomes savage, and can apeak of nothing but shooting, hang- ing and “stamping out.” He is evidently badly irighlondd just now, and with reason, Tf tho estimates which wi Bubjoin ars orrect he will fitd that he has got a job on hand that will try not only his temper but his resources. There are at present in Ireland of regular troops about sixteen thousand men, with eight batteries of artillery. These cannot be added to without weakening other points which it is just as necessary to protect. The condition of England and Scotland at the present time is not such as to permit of the garrison towns being stripped of their usual quota of men. What with the incendiary threats of the Fenian sympathizers and the discontent caused by Mr. Bright's appeals, it is needless to say that such a proceeding would be most imprudent. To these sixteen thousand regulars in Ireland are to be added about twelve thousand of the constabulary, whose efficiency and fidelity oan only be counted upon as long 43 success favors the government. Of this aggregate of twent7- eight thousand men it may fairly be assumed that not more than three or four thousand can be concentrated at any given point. The necessity of protecting the various government buildings, barracks, forts and dopots through- out the country will absorb the rest. Mr. Stephens claims that of the Fenian organization on Irish soil there are two bun- dred thousand men upon whom he oan im- plicitly rely. Fifty thousand of these are thoroughly drilled soldiers, under the oom- mand of voteran officers from the American army, and the remainder are in a condition of more or less military forwardness. That this is no mere boast we have evidence. Reliable parties who have recently returned from Ire- land assure us that throughout the country they had seen the agricultural laborers drilled with a success which, considering the difficul- ties of the opportunities, is truly astonish- ing. Assuming, therefore, Mr. Stephens’ figures to be correct, and that there is unity of pur- pose and no great mismanagement on the part of the leaders of the movement, we do not see that it would be a work of great difficulty to simultaneously fall upon and overpower the small government garrisons and detachments, which are scattered at long distances from each other. As to the question of supplies, there is reason to believe that the accumula- tions of stores which have been made by the Inaurgents at different points will be sufficient to carry them forward for several weeks. If in that time they succeed in gaining any con- siderable successes, they will know how to sustain themselves in the field. All things considered, then, we are far from looking on the movement in progress as an impossible or hopeless one. If its friends at this side only act up to their professions, it may result, if not in establishing Irish inde- pendence, at least in forcing. from the British government those concessions which the Insh people deem indispensable to their happiness and prosperity. A Brisa Capiner Meerina ov THE ALABAMA Case.—It appears that Mr. Adams, our Minister at London, has reopened the Alabama case, and that a meeting of th “Mritish Cabinet “will soon be held, when the subject will receive the consideration which its importance deserves.” We presume that, looking to that old Celtic idea that “England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity,” the Derby government begins to realize the fact that this is not the time for a difficulty with the United States. It is, -how- ever, the very time for our government to push these Alabama claims and the question of neu- tral rights and neutral obligations toa definite and conclusive settlement. Stamptva Ovr—The London newspapers re- commend that the Fenian insurrection in Ire- land should be “stamped out.” The Times suggests that it should be treated like the cattle plague—that is, by killing off all the diseased cattle. The method employed to stay the cattle plague was first to slaughter all the animals afflicted with the disease and then to draw a cordon round the district and kill all the cattle that might possibly have come in contact with them. If this course is to be pursued in Ire- land all the Fenians will have to be “stamped out” first, and every one whe comes in contact with them must be efterwards, As this class would include nearly the whele popa- iation of Ireland, the British governnfeat would should be ripe for Ireland now the Fenian the nationality of a people who have never sbandoned the idea of resuming a form of self-government at the first opportunity, is undoubtedly true, and if the opportunity insurrection will have the best wishes of all classes on this side of the Atlantic. The course pursued by England during our war has inten- sified the feelings of hostility towards her which have never altogether slumbered since the battle day at Lexington. If it were pos- sible for old scores to be wiped out by success in two wars, new scores have been piled up during the Southern rebellion whioh cannot be forgotten. British interpretation of belligerent rights, ao hastily adopted and so maliciously carried out towards this couatry and government, may be regarded by the American people as most appropriate and available in the case of the present rising In, Trotand. Pray ae aie There is nothing to prevent us fm fur. ishing money, contributing arins and even sending out’ armed vessels to aid the Irish people in their steuggle for national life, if done by private individnats, which can be accomplished without compromising tho Goverument in any way. That such a dis- position exists we think js pretty evident, and wa should not be atall surprised to 460 England paid back in her own coin, if the Fenians in Ireland show a bold front and can hold out for any length of time. The manner in which the British Cabinet is dealing with the Alabama claims looks like a justification of the proceedings of the Anglo-rebel pri- vateers and an adherence to the interpretation of international law which left our commerce open to destruction by English ships sailing under the rebel flag. We cannot be blamed if our citizens avail themselves of the same op- portunity to make money out of the difficulties of England that Messra, Laird and Gregory and Lindsay and a host of other English aub- jects used te enrich themselves out of our difficulties, Neither shall we be astonished to find the sympathies of our people assuming a practioal shape in the prosent movement in Trelaad. There are plenty of merchants in New York alone able and willing to supply the material most needed at this crisis, It would be a profitable and congenial enter- prise. A little more stirring news from that quarter may produce an active development of the sympathy which lies deeply in the hearts of all the community. The savage spirit evinced by the government organs in London will not serve to abate the interest felt here in this Irish movement for national independence. It recalls to memory the mer- cllees policy of the prison ships ‘and the Dart- moor dungeons pursued by that government in our revolutionary war, and is not likely to find much favor in the American mind. It appears from the London Herald, the mouthpiece of Lord Derby, that our govern- ment is expected to interfere in bebalf ot Eng- land to defeat the Fenian plots at the proper time, which we take to be about the coolest Presumption that even a British government organ could manifest. It ts trae that our gov- ernment saved Canada for the British empire, for motives best known to President Johnson; but why it should become a detective force to save the empire itself from the disintegration which the Pall Mall Gasetle admits as the cer- tain result of the loss of Ireland to the British crown, is not easy to understand. It is more probable and would certainly be more equita- ble that the same belligerent rights which Lord Russell recognized in the rebellious South in 1860 should be accorded to the Irish bellig- erents now in their struggle for nationality, HEAVY FORGERY IN SCOTLAND. A Photographer in Gluszow Forges Two und Notes and Escupes to 'y—Hlis Artest by a New York Detective in This City. Several woeks ago the officets of the Union Bank of Glasgow, scotland, were made aware of the fact that spurious notes on the bank of the denomination of one Pound were in active circulation. fo the experiouced eyes of the @mployés of the bank the worthlessnes: of the notes was plainly discernible; but 0 wail had they been executed that it was diiiicult to determine whether they were photographie copies of genuine notes or spurious notes printed from the plates of the originals. The fact wan patent, however, that they were forgeries, dangerous ones, fo tbat prompt measures for ate the spreading of ¢ me aod forthe de. tection “party or parties od in making and ‘utterin, vn should be vesort The matior was tn hands of the police, who succeeded ia Ing. vat of the motes In kuch @ Way ws lo satisfy them (hat THE CRIMINAL party in tho transaction was Henry Greatrex, a photo- ar, well known in the city of Giasgow. and that he succeeded in circulating two hundred of the spu- rious notes, Groatrex is a man of fine presence, gentie- manly bearing, and possessing aa eaay and eloquent diction. He was at one time a member of the Glasgow Volunteers, and is sald to have been at other times an actor and @ sensation street preacuer, and, at the hang- jog of Dr. Pritchard, the wife poisoaor, created quite an excitement by haranguing the crowd on the great wrong committed by those who attend wt criminal executions. He is « man of family, having a wife and three childreo. ‘TUR ESCAPE When the crime had been traced to Greatrox imme- diate see were taken with the intent of securing him, but he evidently ascertained that the detectives were on his track, and he suddenly and quietiv loft his family, and, taking with him @ young woman who haa been in his employ, he fled to Sou embarked for Superin' t of the Glasgow police, did easily, and he according); eee Mo set ot 90 according! Recensar; 3 from ‘the British goveroment, under the extradiuea treaty with the government ‘of the United States, for the return of the accused, and taking passage in the steamer Bromen resumed Tae oHase, Arriving in this city Mr. McCall repaired to the cen- office of the Metropolitan enone) and, on ex. plaining the nature of his mission, ve J Eus- tace was detailed to nasist in ferreting out the criminal. - MeCall had it over with him an excellent Ike- nese of Greatrex, wi the detective carefuily studied. ‘rae On Tussddy afternoon Mr. observed ® man {i Canal street who, he thought, looked very much like the fagitiy stepping up to hits, he accosted bim, say: ES A ae! him a soe a Eee z 5 France to Convey Them Home. The Fleet to be at Vera Cruz Before the End of December Maximilian Daily Expected at Havana. Bazaine Anxious to Surrender the Coun- try Into the Hands of Gen. Sherman. ke ke. me.’ ‘Wasuincton, Nov, 28, 1866, There is no doubt whatever, as it has this morning been obtained from an official source, that this govern- to make certain representations to the govern. ‘mont concerning the delay of the French qos tn evaca- ating Mexico. rd Representations have been tafde by the Frenoh Minis- ser to the State Dopartmerc, from which {t appears that, owing to the changy in the Fronof, Gainer, 9 government was fot notified of € ciliata the” Fronch, Emperor's pians in regara to Morice wholly gonsistent with agrapgemonte proviously ande, i now turns out that, 90 far from con- ‘Smplating a prolongation of his occupation of Mexico, the French Emperor is zealously employed in perfecting arrangements for tho immediate withdrawal of his entire army, in proof of which statement the Marquis de Montholon has furnished the names of four. teen large transports about to gail from Brest, and of ton others that will immediately follow. This fleet may be confidently expected at Vera Cruz before thé end of December, and the whole French oxpeditionary corps will doubtless bave embarked by the last of January. Positive information has been receivéd that the with. drawal of Maximilian is final and complete, all ob- atacles to his qmbarkalion being removed. He is daily expecved a) Havana. thie Teaves vig debris of the om- pire in the hands of Marshal Bazaine, from Whom ter ters have just been received here, expressing his anxieiy for the arrival of General Sherman, to whom he intended Surrendering the trust, thus relieving himself of a serious embarrassment. The Reported Occupation of Matamoros by United States Troops. Waauuvotox, Nov. 28, 1866. There is no truth io the statement telegraphed to Northern journals that the President yesterday received @ despatch from General Sheridan announcing that Gen- oral Sedgwick had crossed the Rio Grande and occupied Matamoros, The President has received no such infor- mation up to the present date, except such as has reached him through the newspapers. Although there fa no. good reason to doubt the truth of the despatch from Galveston, the intelligence it brings is regarded by. men here who are thoroughly familiar with the situa- tion in Mexico as needing confirmation, It is welt known here that thore are but two steamers from Moxios every month—one from Vera Cruz and the other from the Rio Grande, By the overiand routes it requires. about thirty days to receive information from Chihuahua and El Paso, and, in view of these facts, it ts thought that despatches received from Mexico almost “datly should be cautiously accepted. New Or.xans, Nov, 28, 1866, Our dospatches from this point yesterday furnished in- telligence from the Rio Grande aa late as the 234 Inst., one day later than that of the Galveston despatches telegraphed from New York to-day. The report that General Sedgwick had crossed troops and taken posses- sion of Matamoros 1s evidently a canard. General Sedge wick had paid an unofficial viatt to Escobedo, who is ia. vesting Matamoros. THE MEXICAN MISSION. QUA HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE. Further Mov General Sher Tho Susquoh 25th for Vera Havana, Nov, 24, 1666. General Sherman arrived in Matanzas and took quarters at the “Leon de Oro’’ Hotel on tho 21st inst, At about eloven A. M. ho visited the caves at Bellamar, incompany with Commodore Alden, Colonel G. ©, Au- denried, Dr. Lyon, Messrs. V. 8. Hane, W, P. Burwell, D. 8. A. de Morales, Manuel J, Presas and Joaquin lana. The party afterwards drove through the Valley of the Yumun to the Lyceum. At about three P. M. they returned and took the cars for this city at the Regia station. General Sherman and suite returned from Matanzas og Thursday, highly pleased with the excursion and the many attentions received. Tho party ted of General, Colonel Audenried, modore Alden, Dr. Lyon, V. & Hane and W. P. Burwoll. They were most sump- tuously entertained at dinner by Senor Aldama, where, xe nae rerene Laon ng gh sh. is morning the eral, Mr. Campbell, modore Alden and other gentlemen of the pe visited the well known cigarette manuj of the Regla warehouses and other ishments of a visit. A good deal of the General’s time having beeu taken up by visiting and other occupations, he escaped & great many importunities, with which he wag eae aseniled. The General has not only beon ad is great military reputation, but also his great stock of knowledge of many other topics, inciuding mers cantile affairs, Don Francisco Fosser, the director of the Banco de Comercio and Regia warehouses, conducted hi ‘and was quito astonished at finding a great military like General Sherman 80 perfectly posted on all ‘of interest and especially commercial business, It having been stated that the Sasquebanna is to-morrow, there is no time for giving @ party on Bor will the illustrious friends be able to accept of the Jie de champetre which was intended to be given im Marianao, similar to that given on a former occasion, But ou the return of the susquebanaa all that will be made up for. Among the passengers by the English steamer Eider from Southampton, bound to Vera Cruz, I noticed Dow Jose Posolio, the bearer of special déspatches from Car. lotta to Maximilian, He left yesterday morning. & é i to h General shermnn’s Mission as Viewed by the London Times, (From the London (Sunday) Times, Nov, 18.] General Sherman has been sent on an extraordi: poong a ns Pd = what he goin ere, There myatery Shoat this business, The United States mean to not ouly the French tena, Maximilian himself of Mexico, and to lend all the ages can give to the gov it of Juarez, This may be very it dent on tl of America, and very fatal to Prospects of nico; but there is in our di Strong or recklew enough 10 give e decided Ne’ te American dictation, MEETING OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. A meoting of the Now York Yacht Club was held at Delmonico’s last evening. Fully forty members of the amsociation were in attendance, the yachts Fleetwing, Flour de Lis, Halcyoa, Haze, Henrietta, Josephine, Magic, Maria, Rambler, Restless, Seadrift, Vesta, Boalta, Eva and Joraldine being represented by their respective owners. After some routine business had been trans- acted the first official notification of the approeching ocean race between the Fleetwing, Vesta and Henrietta mon motion to appropriate priate Tun of for the accom: the members the competing vessels ag far as the December offered and lin eee Sees at