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4 NEW YORK HERALD. the right of auffrage among the colored ra trict of Columbia, Addresses wore delivered by George 7. Downing, George Thompson, the English anti-slavery The attendance waa JAMES GORDON BENNETT, orator; Jackson 8. Schultz, &e. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR not large. ee NN eee In the Supreme Court, Circuit, Part 1, yesterday, the OFFICE N. W. CORNER UF FULTON AND NASSAU Sta, | Casoof Kdme J. Genet vs Meredith Howland, Lloyd Aspin- wall, and others, was brought (o trial, The plaintiff sues for the recovery of one hundred shares of Pacie Mail Steamship Company's stock, which his brother had gives them as collateral seourity for the payment of a loan of $6,500, for which plaintiff's brother had made a note, payable on demand. Case still on, In the Supreme Court, Cirouit, yesterday, an action == Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS B INN. BROADWAY THEATRY, Broadway, near Broome Diremt —Pers OF THE PAKTEnRk—CINDERELLA, NEW YORK THEATR2, Broadway, opposite New York | was brought by tho Bank of New Orleans for the recovery enim of $6,290, the amount of @ promissory note made during OWORTH'S FALL, *% Broadway.—P roresson Hare State DOOM ORTE GAL ee ctee ainab ea wes'ana= | ‘bo Wer ond whlle the of Retitens was-under the rule of the rebel forces, Decision reserved. The case of Schneider and others against Hiram Barney, a former Collector of this port, was continued yesterday ig the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Smalley, The suit is one of a large number which have occupied the attention of the court, the United States District Attorney and able counsel for some time past, and is brought to recover an alleged excess of duty om imported goods paid by the plaintiff under pro- test. The case is based principally upon argument of counsel, Judge Smalley took the papers submitied in Tux Ixpiay Baseer Tacx. KRICHINGS' ENGLISH, OP theatre, Broadway.—lne Bout COMPANY, Olympic Gia. STRINWAY BALL, East Fourteenth street, near Irving Piace.—Gnaxp CONCERT. CLINTON HALL, Astor piace. Varawtixe Vouspas, THs Oxwar PoLrNarional Miauc. ! SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 595 Broalway, opposite She Motropolitan Hotel—Iv taxtg Ermioriay ENTERTAtt wants, Singing, Daxcine ap BuRiesdves. Buick Cook anv ArRican Ure. PA, | AVENUB OPERA HOUSE. me tenet West | the case and reserved bis desision. ‘ atreet.—Grivrin & Cunt — Freee tterteatsr, Battabs; Buncesauss, 40 —Nooa: | - tn the'United States Commissioner's Court yesterday, ‘before Commiscioner Osborn, the charge against Lucius Browne aud others of having forged certain papers in relation to the pension money due toa Mra, McArdle, mother of -a deceased soldier, was inquired into at some length, and after the testimony of ‘Mes. McArdle had been taken the case was ‘adjourmed tsa WC tma Sour. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 220 Broadwi bite the New York ‘fotsl.—Iw rani Soxas, Daxcma, suicrins, Boaizsaves, 20—A Paina Downs enon: Oountay—CiNDER-LEON—MaDscascaR BALLet PROOFS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOU, Ey porectaeSone You aLisx—Nnano acy, rf AY, ie ac.—Towr Paston’s Tour Axouxb THR Woaw, tilt Monday. Commissioner Betts again investi- ? gated the cbarge preferred against James B. Free- 4 3 COMBIN, ‘TROUPE, aSRAR FLL areatveratee be or Those man, an Inspector of Internal Rovenue, and James gu> Favensnce Doomrumenees Miller, of having lovied “black mail” to the amount of On Batuse, 40 Tus Pexian's Oates, OR THE 1DIOT OF a PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— ‘Warr. $150 from Heary Budelman, a keeper of a feed store at Harlem. Budelman was cross-examined by counsel on the part of the defendants, after which there was an ad- Journment until the 26th inst. In tho Marine Court yesterday, before Judge Gross, the case of Weigold va the Second Avenue Railroad Company, which is a suit to recover $600 for alleged damages to a horse and wagon, was brought to 8 conclu- sion by a verdict for the defendants, The stock market was heavy yesterday. Gold declined to 13434, and closed at 134. Vory little business was consummated in commercial circles yeaterday. Domestic produce ruled exceedincly quiet, and generally nominally lower. Merchandise also ruled dull and prices a3 a general thing favored the pur} chaser. Coffee was steady and firm. Cotton was 3c. ower, with a moderate business doing. On ’Change flour, wheat and oats ruled dull and drooping. Corn de- clined 1c,, with nothing doing. Pork was dull and Jower. Beef and lard ruled heavy and quiet, Freights were dulland nominal. Whiskey was inactive, Petro- loum steady though quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton yesterday delivered an eddrems iv advocacy of her claims for “woman's rights and uptversa) suffrage’’ before the Joint Judiciary Com- mittee of both houses of the Legislature. She forcibly maintained the right of her sex and the right of all colors to the exorcise of suffrage, and particularly de- manded of the Legislature to provide for the voting by females for candidates to and for female representatives in the State Convention for the revision of the constitu- tion. Tho Kentucky Legislature is still engaged in ballotiug for United States Senator with little hope of coming to a decision. There are seventy-five conservative and radi- cal Union men in the body, but they refuse to compro- . aise side issues, and will probably, by euch action, en- | sare the election of an original secessionist, ‘Bixty-zix ‘votes are necessary to a choice. ‘ S. C. Pomeroy was re-elected United States Senator for E. G. Ross was,choven to fill the vacancy occasioned -by ‘be held in ‘New Havén today. Ate caious last night for'Govetnor'by acclamation. The Novadé Legislaturs’ passed “the constitutional amendment on Tuesday. The British ship Royal Sovereign was burned nine miles below New Orleans recently, having on board for Liverpoo! 2,850 bales of cotton. All the steamers at the Mobile wharves were seized by the United States Marshal on Saturday for carrying oot- ton wot covered by tarpaulins. They were released under heav y Donds on paying fines. Six persons wore potsoved in Portland, Me, on Tues- day, and, although m0 deaths otcufred, two of them ere 1a a very precérious condition. How the poison was ad- ‘ministered 1s 4 mystery. Ad engine, with tweaty employés on board, was thrown from the track of the Long Island Railrosd, near Jamaica, yesterday, one man, James McLaughlin, beiog instantly killed, and another, the engineer, horribly and perhaps fatally mangled. 2 ‘The report that Mexican privateers are being fitted out &t points om the Guif coast, in the United States, is de- MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S Pavyexirm—Ma. and Mrs. HOOLEY’S OPERA MOUSB, Brooklyn.—Ermorias Mrv- mossy, BactaDs amp BURLEzsques.—A Hunran Tar Arouxp rue Womup, THR BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Tweovy-third street and Broad Prucam’s Proanass—Srary Maa Union Hall, corner of Movixc Mimnon or nT SCRNES. ANSCHUT#@'S MUSICAL INSTITUTE, No. 141 Eighth sreet.—J. B. Pozxaxsxr’s Quanter SoiRrze. _DERBY'S NEW ART ROOMS, 845 Broadway.—Qaaxo Exarertion or Parnes. NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Brondway.— Hrap ayo Rigut AxM oF Prosst—Tne WasaiNcton Wonpmrs ix Natura: History, Science axp Apt. Open from § 4. M, ull OP, M. New York, Thur » January 24, 1867. EUROPE. By the steamship Cuba at this port yesterday we re- oo: ved interesting details of our cable despatches to the 12tu of January. Our special correspondents in Berlin and St. Petersburg furnish matter of important momest rolative to the progress of the Eastern question towards @ solution, and the policy which the rulers of the great Stat es are likely to hold towards Turkey and each other Previous to and at the final settlement. From Prassia we have the outline of a plan, just proposed in Germany, for the partition of the Turkish empire and the oblitera- ‘iow of the Porte government, which, if carried out simulianeousty and in the interests of the Christian sub- Jecta of the Sultan, particularly by Russia and Austria, ould be likely to effect the object witheut bloodshed. Russia takes to herself the credit of being the only sin- ere friend of the oppressed peoples of the Turkish Provinces, ant ‘thé entire subject was canvassed with serious attention both by the statesmen ‘and people of tbat empire. Ruisia watches the progress of the Aus- Wian agitation jo Poland with much eanicty, and is Mikoty to anttcipate the Hapsburg movement by e-bold counter stroke. 3 ol - CONGRESS. . * ? An tho Senate yesterday severe! villi, ameudatery and. supplementary, ‘were introduced and seferted, .amsoag. thom being bills amending the Postal and Howiesteas. Jawa The former modities the schedule of chagges for postal money orders. The Tariff bill came upas un- ‘Banished business. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, spoke on the general subject of the tariff and revenues. No amend- ‘meats of importance were made, and pending the con- sideration of the bill the Senate adjourned, In the House the scssion of Tucsday lasted until yes- Yerday noon. After about forty votes takem by the yeas ‘and aays a compromise proposed by the republicans was agreed to, and at eight o’cicck the House took a recess until eleven. On reassembling Mr. Fiuck led off i» an hour's debate on the Test Osth bill presented by Mr. Boutwell, and was followed by Mesara Rogers, Niblack and Boyer, During the speech of the latter the House adjourned, aod was immediately calied to order for Wednesday's wession, and proceeded to vote on the Dill, which was passed by 109 yea; to 42 nays. The members who eb- Bented themselves during the filibustering motions of Tuesday wore artaigned mm front of the Speaker's chair and discharged On’ payment of double the usual fees. ‘Two of the republican members took the occasion to re- fect very severely on the condact of other members of the same party in retreating 80 ingloriously before the aninority. The bill to regulate the silection of jurors in fbe District was passed. The Judiciary Committee re- ported back the bill to amend the act declaring who shail be President in case of vacancios in the offices of President and Vice President, Tue Post Office Appropri- ation bil! wag then passed, and the House adjourned. ' THE LEGISLATURE. Tn the Senate yesterday notice was given of iatention © Introduce a Dill to make general throughout the State the provisions of the Metropolitan Excise law, The Dill 2° @ply the law relative to wrecks to lake and river ‘boats was passed: Tho bill amonding JWator act was offered to'a third feaditig. ofthe select committee to examine the giors in New York harbor, submitted a’ wecommends the widening of tho streets ‘wa'er's @fge and the appointment of a special board to Dave supreme control of tho harbor. { tn the Assembly the bills to amend the General Rail- goad law and for the further protection of female em- ployés ia New York were reported. Notice was given of Intention to introdace bills to allow criminals to testify in their own bebalf; i to the effect that navigation on the Mississippi below Cairo, Iilinols, has been closed by ice, are untrue. Bills wore passed in the lower house of the Tennessee Legislature yesterday organizing loyal militia of white and colored men in tho State, and striking the word ‘+ white * from the franchise law, The. State law permitting the ale of negroes into @avery for crime has been abolished by the Maryland Legislature. ‘The Baltimore City Council have taken steps to teat the legality of the law ately passed by the State Legis- lature, providing ® mew election for Mayor an@ City Council. ‘William P. King and Abe Owen, two of the Kentacky raitroad train robbera, have b on sentenced to be hanged on the 22d of March next. Richard Lewis, who killed Mr. Richmond at Powgh- keepsle lest summer, and was sentenced to be hung on Friday next, has been respited by Governor Fenton, his connsel hinving entered a bit! for a névw trial.” Heary Gardiner, the Elmira murderer, was seatenced yesterday to be hanged on the Let of March. , i The Present and Futare of Irelasd—Fenian- fom and Emigration. . Fenianism is really dead and buried. Alav- ing done a great deal of injury to Ircland and to Irishmen, and no good to anybody except the few leaders it has enriched, the conspiracy. is ended. Our Minister at London is delnged with letters from former Fenian agents, bogging him to assist them to return to America. Ire- land is filled with British troops, police and constabulary; but except in a few southern counties they might all be safely withdrawn. Daily arrests, searches, courts martial and seizures of arms continue ; but this is only the winding up of the work of spies and informers. Among the people generally the subject ts quietly ignored ‘as « thing of the past. They Vanling of steamboats and ‘vededis navigating Long ‘Lunnd Sound were Introduced, A resolution directing ©: Kepresentatives and Senators in Congress to advo- es + 5 b1ll (or exempting material for the constructing of fe) cing vensele from taxes and duties and extending | ‘go -rnment aid to the establishment of American steam- ‘Phip lines to Europe was laid over. THE CITY. The Kast river was completely bridged over by the ice ‘Borges yosterday and many hardy adventurers crossed ‘over it on foot, The natural bridge thus formed was by ‘Wo means permaneat, however. With theebd tide the precution of the law, Ye A temperance meeting of the society of Plymouth urob wae held im that building last evening. Rev. H. it and got themselves arrested; but- the Irish republic and all its officials were transferred to N>w York, and the only Fenians left in Ireland were those sent over as missionarice from the United States at the close of our civil war. But in the meantime incalculable mischief had been done. The throats of the Fenian chiefs had driven business and capital away from Ireland and thrown thousands of poor men and women out of work. The money which these poor people had been accustomed to receive from America, to eke out their slender store or to assist them to emigrate, no longer came; it had been subscribed for Fe- nian bonds, through the persuasions and promises of such men as O'Mahony, Stephens and Roberts. Deatitute, desperate, dying of slow starvation, the Irish peasantry had at ono time some faint hope that all this enthusiasm in America would result in some benefit to them; but week by week this hope faded, until the failure of Stephens to keep his promise to return to Ireland before January finally extinguished ft entirely. The majority of the Irish in~ Ireland now believe Steplens to be either a spy or a rogue, If the were to visit Dublin he would be mobbed’ by bis former friends. There is nothing ‘except the fear of this reception to deter him from return- ing. Travellers can pase through and across Ireland without the least molestation; and, with his boasted skill at disguise, Stephens would be perfectly safe. Bat be would have hard work to find the army which he pledged himself to lead or to account for the funds which he has collected. The only possible good result which Fenian- ism has had is to attract the attention of the whole world to the miseries of Ireland; but, in order to do this, it has made those miseries greater. The Irish can do nothing for them- selves, In his mud-walled and straw-thatched and earth-carpeted cabin the peasant sits by the side of the smoky peat fire, watches the potatoes boiling in the iron pot, smokes his clay pipe and broods over his troubles. He sees that things are getting worse for him every day ; but he does not see how to remedy them. Fenianism has done him no good. He knows nothing about John Bright and reform, and he does not understand the tenant right agitation. His only hope for the future is emigration, and that requires more money than he can save in a lifetime. Any help for him must come from without; but the money which would have taken him to America and made a man of bim has been squandered in Fenian bonds by his credulous friends in the United States. All the legislation which may be proposed can- not relieve this poor peasant and the olass which he represents, The present generation in Ireland is doomed, unless it can be es sisted to get away to this country. The agri- culture is too poor to support the population, at Belfast. The English government is going to take up tho matter at the approaching ses sion of Parliament, and may possibly couple. a tenant-right bill with the motion to contieue the suspension of. the habeas corpus ; but the duce practical effects, The peaceable repeal of the union between England and Ireland, which some enthusiasts, like Sir Jobn Gray, of Dublin, predict; would be equally tardy. If Bright could give the Irishmen votes at once it would not help. those who are starving, Emigration is Ireland’s only relief, and we hope that the Fenian folly may be turned to some practical account.at last by compelling the leaders to disgorge’ and employing what remains of the Fenian funds in bringing the Irish here. This is: the only republic in which they need ever care to have a part, and here: they can have freedom, happiness, prosperity ond universal suffrage without the necessity of { conspiracies or rebellions, The Fenian lead- ers have much to answer for in the lives they have sacrificed, the hopes they have blasted, the money they have wasted and the suffer- ings they have caused: They have retarded the progress of Ireland at least a quarter of a century and they have doomed to death thou- sands of Irishmen who might have been trans- formed into thriving American citizens. For the present they may enjoy their ill-gotten gaits ; but both in this world and the next they ought to be punished as they deserve. Undignided Conduct in the House of Repre- eentat Before the present stesiofi commenced we offered some good advice to Speaker Colfax in relation to the course it became him-te pur- gue as Speaker” of tho House of Representa- tives, We are sorry to bec that be has not profited thereby, but that he continues to suffer that branch of’ Congress over which he pre- sides to be disgraced by the unpartiamentary violence, buffoonery and ungentlemanly be- havior of some of its members, The scenes enacted in the House this session become the more reprehensible in view of the momentous questions which are claiming the attention of Gongress_ and upon the wise solution of which the future of the nation depends. The important issues of the present day claim earnest action and calm, statesmaniike consideration. The work of the hour is the work of clear-headed, resolute men, and not of frothy, scheming politicians, Oonduct which in ordinary times would be only contemptible, becomes now revolting. When the President of the United States is in danger of impeachment ; when the Supreme Coart of the United States is to be remodelled ; when the old eystem of appoint- ments and removals is to be swept away and a néw one substituted ; when the States are to be reconstructed on a loyal basis and read- mitted to their position in the Union, it is no time for violent, abusive harangues, stale, vulgar stories and worn out jokes on the floors of Congress. It is mainly the fault of the presiding officer that such conduct prevails. Speaker Colfax is an amiable sort of man, willing to conciliate all sides, but he lacks the force of character and dignity of manner necessary to hold f control over such a body as the House Clay, Barbour, Stephensos, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1867. tionable in all its features. The whole system of internal taxation promises to be a most prolific source of fraud. It induces perjury and cheating on the part of the taxpayers and makes the greater portion of the officials who have anything todo with it corrupt and dishonest. The sooner it is all done away with the better for the country. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Mastina ov tar Fing Coumssioens.—The Fire Com- missioners beld their regular weekly meeting at Fire- men’s Hall, Mercer street, yesterday, Prosent—Com- missioners Engs, Abbe, Brown and Pinckney; the latter the Board that sions had the on Sanh eee etree oer ic im oe was then gone through, ict ia England between King and Parliament. The great conflict in England between King and Parliament, between royal prerogative and parliamentary privileges, lasted during four reigns. its varying fortunes were accompanied by “seditions, impeacbments, rebellions, bat- tee, sieges, proscriptions, judicial massacres.” During many years, says Macaulay, “the execu- tive power and the legislative power had so effectually impeded each other that the atate had been of no account in Europe,” until, ashe shows, the long, fierce and doubtful struggle terminated happily in the entire union between the throne and the Parliament, which was an- nounced when the King-at-arms proclaimed William and Mary before Whitehall gate. The strife had grown out of the ancient an- tagonism between the superstition of the divine right of kings and the idea of popular liberty. With the triumph of tho latter it resulted in the Declaration of Right, This, “though it made nothing law which was not law before,” con- tained the germs of all good laws and formally recognized and established-e fundamental prin- ciple of the British constitution, which is also # fundamental principle of the constitution of the United States, This may be defined aa the subordination of the executive to the logisia-. tive department of governmoat. +: Five hundred years ago this principle, which is so old that none can tell when it began to exist, had become authoritative in England. Ample as were the prerogatives of the sover- eign, “no English king ever laid claim to gene- ral legislative power.” The most violent and imperious Plantagenet was aware that the king could not legislate nor impose taxes without the consent of his Parliament, and that he was and people. “All,” says the historian, “was transition, conflict and disorder. The chief business of the sovereign was to infringe the privileges of the Legislature. The chief busi- ness of the Legislature was to encroach upon the prerogatives of the sovereign.” At length James ignominiously fled and lost his throne. The first wish of William was that there should be concord between the throne and the Par- liament, His wish was fulfilled. “Tbe King- atarms, who proclaimed William and Mary before Whitehall gate, did in truth announce that this great struggle was over; that there was éntire union between the throne and the Parliament; that England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank; that the ancient laws by which the pre- rogative was bounded would thenceforth be held as sacred as the prerogative itself and would be followed out to all their conse- quences ; that the executive administration would be conducted in conformity with the sense of the representatives of the nation, and that no reform which the two Houses should after mature deliberation propase would be |* obstinately withstood by the sovereigns.” In all this is there no lesson for President and Congress as well'es for King and Parliament? The Impoachmont Agitation ia Wall Street. Wall street is making desperate efforts to get up an excitement on the question of the-im- peachment of the President, with a view, no doubt, to cause a rise in gold and help along other speculations of infinite variety. If gold could be forced up to two hundred—which is not at all likely—it would give great satistac- tion to a certain class of speculators, and they are just as willing that their object should be wi Amagnst Couzan.—The graduates of this college residing in this city moet yesterday, at the office of Mr. H. G. De Forest, No. 82 South street, for the pur- pose of forming an alumni association. After the adop- tion of a constitution the followt: were, elected officers: —H. G. De Pedteut, Rev. Ww. A. Clift, Rev. James D. Wilson, Spring street Pres- church, Charios H. Sweetser, bint mad » Treasurer. Among the graduates are Beecher, ‘Waldo. Hutchins, Dr. E. BE Rev, Bishop Bailey, of Newark, and Veranax Scorr Liva-Guano.—A meeting of this time ‘honored organization was held at No. 85 Nassau street, yesterday afternoon, Genoral J. H. Hobart Ward pre- siding, to take into consideration the propriety of ereot- ing some suitable memorial to the memory of Lieutenaat Winfleld Scott which should to por. tarlthe record of his tanntoce aaa ouster, bis virtoas asa@man and his constancy as a patriot, Resolutions oreeneae the above and inviting the Scott Legion of ‘iphia, and other organizations comprising those who had served under General Soott in Mexico, to om hag with them in carrying out this object, were Lge Lirspary Agsoctatioy.—The Possibilities of the Human Mind was the title of a lecture delivered last evening by the Rev. Samuel Osgood, D, D., at the bound to conduct the executive administration | accomplished by raising an alarm upon the | Bleecker street Universalist ch Soggeadd the auspices according to the Inwa of the land, bis advisers | subject of the President’s impeachment as any pit oh batrin the Malivery, and was lata Sroage and agents being responsible if he broke those | other. For this purpose they are using the Seek Sen aes eae oe fair and. party papers in various ways. These journals are busily engaged in predicting bloodshed, insurrection, a renewal of civil war, thunder and lightning and all sorts of calamities, if Congress should exercise a constitutional right in impeaching Mr. Johnson. These articles of the Tribune, Times, Express and other party journals may probably create some alarm in the minds of a few innocent people; but we are not in the least afraid that any danger to our commercial prosperity is threatened by the impeachment of the President, or that the stability of our democratic institutions will be in any way damaged by it,as the European journals and party papers at home stupidly infer. On the contrary, it may be regarded as one of the greatest triumphs of the principles of our government if Congress can, in a strictly laws. Tbe rule as to taxation was among the ar- ticles which John was compelled by the barons to sign. Edward I. and his powerful grandson ventured to break it, but both found it expe- dient to yield to the opposition which they encountered. Bracton, who wrote under the reign of Henry III, said, “the King hath aleo ® superior, namely, God, and also the law.” Sir William Blackstone declares, “the principal duty of the King is to govern his people ac- cording to law.” The King of Great Britain, in his coronation oath, solemnly promises to govern the people of his kingdom “according to the statutes in Parlinment agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same.” Mr, Conkling, in his recent treatise on “Executive Power,” refers to the fact that Charles L lost his head and James I. was driven from his Axwvat Report or tar Gerwan Socterr,—The German Immigrant Society has just issued its annual report, from which it appears that of the 233,717 immigrants at this port dui the year 1866, 82,804 were Gormans, most of whom left for the Westorn States. During the last months, however, a lacge number of without means, for the most part unmarried arrived, who have no trade nor apy particular tion. These remain mostly in the city end have by charitable citizens or cared for in At the agency of the socicty 1,784 were received during the year, con! $25,013 65 in money; 988 immigrants secking employ- ment in the city were provided with situations, balance of $5,695 26 remained in the treacury on the Ist of January. The society expended 38 is a of 4 jouse the sum of $20,000. The receipts of the society from ne” for diplomas, subscriptions, &c., amounted te Tam Cansvat Sxasom.—A number of the German singers of this city left for Philadelphia yesterday, te participate in the bal masgue of the Young Maennercher of that city, which was held at~the Philadelphia » Academy of Music last night, for which rations had 1 night, prepa: > throne “by the persistent assumption of powers | legal fashion, acting in pursuance of the power <a one scale. The of Philadel- i i without warrant of law.” The same writer pee ed tating etlag Are year _ 4 cites the memorable answer of Roger Sherman to the elder Adams, objecting to the participa- tion-of the Senate in the power of appeimtment. to office, “the. Executive is not to execute its The et principe ity, of ee Dru m Warese Sranet—Lom ‘Aster 910,000.26 ‘no means been ¢tzietly observed by all Eng- ‘out ig the gasret story of No. 68 Walker strect, occupied lish eovereigns. But it has by O.: , Manufactarer of -cloth hats-and restrain .the royal pretogniive, The ‘Tuitors, J) during their reign of one bundred and twenty years, occasionally, like the Plantagenets, invaded the rights of their subjeots, exacted a sbowt $1,000, anid to be covered by farcresen, taxes in the shape of loans and gifts and dis- The third floor ws Gooupled by A. J: Wondes & Co. and pensed with penal statutes; “nay,” adds the br The second hose fs covapled: historian, “though they never presumed to = Reng ty = by At Becht enact any law by their own authority, they and fanoy ‘The was well covered occasionally took . upon . themselves, . when Hong covt .Coend, KShneblt he, neon Parliament was not sitting, to meet tem- ocoupied by Xabelr ao 0 -sootnarant, i But. they could not carry oppression ove of bis mod at wis eclocke ‘tna that he ‘orderea We Deyond a certain point without encountering | fiect, although they are, in fact, the opinions of pave Pe HOE A determined resistance, and they had “to watch, | the people who put down the rebellion and | ‘me be estimated atotont $10,000 ad with constant anxiety, the temper of the coun- | are desirous to see the fruits of peace realized | Actwenrs, &o.—Bridget Times, a domestic, slipped try.” Even the proud and wilful Henry VILL | 98 s00n as possible. It is not asking too much found himself obliged, on one occasion, to re- tracta demand and to apologize publicly for his infraction of the laws, The Tudors, not- withstanding their flery spirit, “never once, like some of their predecessors and some of their successors, carried obstinacy to a fatal point.” From Henry Il. to Elizabeth, England | flourished under @ system which contained the germs of the institutions of the present day. The subsequent strife between the Crown and the Parliament would, doubtless, have com- menoed early in the reign of Elizabeth, when the discontented Puritans began to retura a majority in the House of Commons; but the Europe and Protestant Europe left little iment of 1681 that the opposition which had during forty years been silently gatheriog and clared by its agents in Congress. The right of the people, as represented by Congress, to exercise a controlling power in the govern- ment is but the exposition of constitutional liberty as claimed in England, and substan- tiated in the time of the first Charles and the second James. That idea of constitutional liberty was fully recognized by the founders of our government, end was hence incorporated in the constitution of the United States, in de- ference to the spirit which animated and gov- Were it not for the President’s obstructions cile his own views tothe wishes of the majority Of the people he has the option of resigning his office, as the prime ministers of England so frequently do in similar cases, or he’ can yield his opinions gracefully to the convictions which have been so irresistibly expressed by the people of all the Northern States, the force of which he cannot mistake, Such a course would render the harsh measures of the Jacobins unnecessary or impolitic. In any event the progress and final success of the impeachment will not distarb the ordinary course of things, no matter what excitement the bulls and bears of Wall street or the party newspapers may endeavor to create. for the purpose of addressing the meeting was apole- gized for on the ground that the weather was go severe and the travel so much obstructed by snow that they could not reach New York. The meoting having beon called to order, the chair ‘was taken by scolored man, Mr. Jonas H. Townsend. Presidents and Secretaries having been appointed, Stonga' ows apexe andere lta Srertioe the ver Hh wes seater bim, man wherever it was conferred upom te ii i E A f i ? i i lawfully do.” Charles L defied constitutional opposition at Weatminster, dissolved Parliament after Par ii ii Fs i A; ; ul liament, closing the doors of Westminster Hall ae etal tes elanenes cb oamemmete for eleven years atastretch, and systematically ibeluhade ened no more dou, at my by attempted to make himself # despot ad to re- | roared hefore the Assembly committes re- on ee, ee) ae aid : aig orr-corr gehen se preggo be | conty, eetifed that the Hudson River Ral. | si if noher give i ey weal tome caigs? oye paar Gey nade coantey Attained the franchise, that) moment the White carts of would be @afe only when he should Russia and of Karope would be made free. ) be. utterly helpless. Charlee 1 lost Dotca nopotin fine vant at Ameren ea first bis prerogative and at last his head. ot, only liberated Bee sare be cece oweres o> Cromwell had the sree of coptarten to franchinng i maions of mes, "(cheera) Hiaments and in defiance of thelr opposition. by et egw hm Sata enn He soon found thet his wish to govern consti- PERSONAL _INTELLIGENCE. tatlonally was unavailing, and that he could Americans ia Paris for the week en@- not substitute the empire-of the laws for Ef Aller 1 Be of the sword. Ricard, his son, ifred Rodman, Me. and Miss Rofman, KA. Motley a Hunter and others who have filled the | House of Commons. Parliament was slowly Berton . De. Speaker's chair, have been high-toned gentle- | bat constantly gaiaing ground on the royal’ 3. Se rae men who thoroughly understood men’s juring the reign of Charles IL, Thom Connolly, characters and could exercise a power over | his death was speodily followed by signs that Garcia D, ‘Wiok- them sufficient to suppress any unparliamentary | the great conflict was approaching a final lesue. Ce 3, ©, or undignified conduct. Speaker Colfax is of James IL. could boast of one of the moat obse- | tbe some Amendments to the Income Tax, aw. ohn’ Mann, R.' T. different construction. A strong partisan | quious of the fifteen Parliaments held by ea on Fores wed and ® more politician, he does not venture to | Stuarts, but his wishes to repeal the Test 8, Kinney, Mien Kinooy. place any restraint upon the license of debate ; and the Habeas Corpus act and to raise ary TOM. Fe ee ee cnn e hal ahem gee leet Le - Leas ‘ad. oh ae, inclways more disposed to join in a Franoe, unwilling as aggravated taiatare Gongross to ropeal ti Gu npneane’ nas Ge crowing dlsatshotive of beth Perlioment ¥ men's oelvate affire, ond ia wnjest and ehjee- | asrtuyear an