The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1867, Page 4

4 -ARFAIRS: IN. EUROPE. The Duke de Persigny on Constitu- tienal Government in France and the United States. Zgiand’s Wish for the Disruption of the Union Announced by WMapoleon’s Biinister. M. Emile de Girardin---His Life, Politics and Newspaper Power. Fight Between British Soldiers in Ireland. . &. &. &o, ‘Tho Courriér du Havre, March 10, saye:~ In consequence of the at refusals of the ‘Spanish igo ne iS a be ag Soar Corp Lord Stanley relative 1@ Tornado, it is ex; at London that the British fleet at Malta will be sont before Cadiz. ‘The Courrier du Havre, March 9, reports:— Private letters from Japan say that the brother of the new Taicoun sailed on the 8th January, from Nangasaki for Now York. After making a short stay in she United States, the Prince will go to Paris, to see tho exposition and will pass all the summer in ce, The Posen Gasette says that great discontent has taken hold of some persons at Moscow in consequence of the Yate land and serf system reforms made by the Czar. ‘Numerous secret societies were being formed in that city, but the police were upon their track. About the ‘Czar preparations were making to cause certain arrests ‘and punish the parties with imprisonment. , Tho Paris Opinion Nationale, March 10, saya:— It is afrmed in political circles at Pera that Fuad Pacha wil! introduce into Turkey the Code Napoleon, and completely reform the law courts and judiciary system of the country. It is said, also, that he intends to allow the Christian element to enter the private ‘Councils of Ministers and into the Grand Council of Justice, OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. FRANCE. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. M. de Girardin’s Position of War Towards Napoleon—The Power of the Liberte in Its Financial mn—Exciting “*to Hatred and Contempt ”—Girardin as a Journalist, Poll. ticlan and Revolutionist, &c. Paris, March 12, 1867. Emile de Girardin is now an aggressive enemy of the Emperor. Since his famous “amputation” article, ‘which was composed and printed in proof the day be- fore his trial and published the day after, ho has chosen to give himself and his lieutenants a half holiday. Original writing they profess to consider too dangerous @ luxury to indulge in. Judicious scissors work is what, for the most pert, the Liberté is made up of. The first page consists of gleanings from contemporaries. The second ts devoted to quotations, alphabetically arranged, from the great French authors in favor of freedom of the pres. The prison meditations of Louis Bonaparte have a large part in them and are put next in order to the immértal Paul Louis Courrier, who gives relief to ‘tho platitades of the other. A column of the third page cites the opinions on the same subject of illustri- ous Enghshmen. The rest is devoted to Baron ‘Brisse’s culinary article, odds and ends, and tho state of the money market. It isin the latter that (Girardin shows bis consummate skill in carrying on a covert war- fore. One of the best ways of inciting to hatred of despotic government is to destroy the confidence in it of capital- fata. This the Literté aims at doing, end i te Detter able to act the part of “bear” than any of its contempo- rariea, Its financial editor has long since made a mark in the monetary world by the soundness of his opinions, the reliability of his news, and his quickness in discern- ing tendencies towards fluctuations on the Bourse, It ts therefore a serious affair when he says, ‘‘Polltical news make habituds look grave. It is no longer the East, but Prussia which throws cold water on the efforts of the bulls. Each day, we believe, will bring its contingent of increasing uneasiness. It will then be soen that wo were right in, forsome days past, warning buyers not to bo over confident in the artificial rise of the last fortnight, { wil! soon be too late to withdraw one's securities from tbe chaos towards which the Bourse is fast coming. Let those who have any foresight and firmness hasten, while it @ get time, to seek shelter and be in savety against ‘the storm bursts."” In the form of a critique on a critique of Ponsard’s ‘sew piay Galileo, there is in to-day’s Liberté an article more fitted to excite to hatred and contompt than even ‘the one for which M. de Girardin was prosecuted. The style ia the chief editor's, but the signature at the end that of Fagnau, his third lieutenant. It takes M. Paul St. Victor, the writer of a theatrical notice in the Pres:e, t taak for blaming Galileo for not having the grace of martyrdom. ‘It ts as absurd,” says M. Fagnau, “to look for courage in a nervous savant as it is to look for learning in a soldier What we should execrate is the intolerant, ignorant, besotted and cowardly governmont whieh obliges the saran’to mask his knowledge, or the writer to veil his thoughts. Everything we know not wo are entitled to learn, everything we think we are en- titled to say, and when we have a right say it we have a Fight to write it. Otherwise the word right is moaning- less unless it signify good pleasure, When will worts have thoir trae signification! When will the law of so- ciety be reason? When will despotiem, ignorance and hypocrisy cease from reigning? Every government, without exception. under which science suffices not to justify the saven, the idea, the thinker and talent, the writer, is @ hindrance to progress. Every government which obliges them to give proofs of ‘their courage, to bo the Goordans Bruos and the Vaninis of their day, is detest ad hateful. It isnot a govern. ment, it is a usurpation. M. Paul St. Victor should not have cried shame at the Pisan astronomer when he bent bis knee before the Holy Ofice, What he should have execrated was the oppressor not the oppressed, the perseciitor mot the persecuted, the jndge not the ac- cused.’ {t is #0 long since Emile de Girardin retired from pub- hc iife that Mort of your readers familiar with French politica can know little of him. is tho inventor of the cheap press in Europe and made a good deat of noise during twenty yore: Be is the son of General Count Atoxandre de Girardin, who gave bim an exce!leat edu- cation and started him as a journalist. The peculiar aptitudes of Emile soon showed themselves. No man understood better than he did how to write fur the igno- Fant without condescending to be valgar. His imagina- tion was inflammable and bis head singularity cool. He bad ail the boldness (and boldnoss, Lord Bacon says, is a chief element in success) which comes from an in- tense faith in himself. He was as lar sup-diat and methodic as a military neer. AD excellent memory was aided by his excel- lent systom of jabelling and docketing letters, news. papers and pamphiets, so that at any moment he could said, no matter how thing he had written or better how to disinter something an adver long ago, at variance with epoken the day before. ¢ ly knew wivertiae bimself, or to wi ‘ead poblic opinion by veering round with it, divioed what the next manifestation of the mind of the fickle multitude would be. The maxim ‘so long as thou doest well unto thyself men will praise thee,’ was ono he invariably oD. bo did prospered, aad co for twenty-two years men praised him. Contrary to French custom he married a dowerless Beauty, Delphine Gay, whose mother, hine, called her afwra heroine in oue of Mme. do who on princi But do Girardin saw that ahe was one of the few women of ber day who knew how to direct a salon, and he know © briillant salon would be about the best advertisement he could have in the upper circles of Parisian society. jut cam use, Lt i ed shee toe Presse, on the 4 ‘our ‘who from the first ep a talents, under the arte eter san etrock for 0 their while to pay her at this rate ~ life as an Guisot governi transferred Ti allegiance to the Molé administration, one was & sub-lieutenant f ihe chief editor, Bat Hippe having refused to make a peer of Count Alexandre de Girardi’ his sec {oo alsa, f belleve, foresaw the storm of 1848) became 1 violent Spowaens of she king, and wes | my nd t acquitted jn aes C~ offered him for hia sap NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1867.-TRIPLE SHE the Presse, proposed that duelling should be made filte- gal by the provisional government. On making proposal he was ‘“‘embraced with effusion” by the trans- ported listeners, and thanked them from ‘his which echoed the sentiments of fraternity that every face." 5 [ eS282 a i - This child was a ‘She died in her sixth year, Biarritz, where she was tional Police last Wednesday. Nobody had previously heard anything about him, and he does not give promise of keeping up the prestige of the house. The systematic opposition M. de Girardin has recentl; entered on to the imperial government is an event whi shakes confidence in the Emperor. MM. de Girardin is said to feel confident that wo are witnessing the be- ginning of the end. Hence his hostile atti to the actual régime which he says bas had a fair trial aod | tae proof of incapacity to meet the wants of the french nation. day does not come there will be no fall. sal Exhibition exercises an enormous prestige on men's mine People refuse to believe in the possibility of @ universal conflagration just as that grand indus- trial tournament is about to open. The news from the East is said to be less good. As to the pretended under- standing between France, Russia and Kogland, nobody says any thing more about it, M. Benedetti's arrival here from Berlin is connected with a rumor that Prus- sia is striving to obtam the concession of Luxembourg from Hoftand, THE FENIAN WAR. SPECIAL CORRESPOROENCE OF THE HERALD. Fight Among the British Garrison Neur Cork—The Irish Soldiers, Aided by the Scotch, Beat the English Lancers, &c. Queenstown, March 12, 1867. Aserious fight took place at Ballincollig Barracks, near Cork, among the British soldiers stationed there to protect the extensive artillery depot and government powder miils, The causo of the outbreak was, of course, Fenianism. The Irish soldiers, assisted by some companies of a Scotch regiment, attacked the English lancer regimont, of Dungarvan notoriety, and the resuit was that several lives were lost. All news of this matter was supprossed by the military authorities; but tt leaked out among the people never- theless, and next day, while the Scotch companies were marching through the city of Cork, they were loudly cheered by the people. This ovation was received by the Scotchmen witn very evident pleasure, Thave just been informed that a plot has been discov- ered, which, had it succeeded, might have been the means of killing all the employés at Haulbowline. Three of the convict keepers have run away and joined the Fenians, Those were to lead on the convicts toan at- tack on the ordnaoce department at Haulbowline, The Convicts are now working there at the docks. Their first object was to spize the arms stored there. The plot being discovered, the works at Haulbowline have been stopped, and a strong party of marines stationed there. Some of tho clerks also on the island bave received arms, Three, I know, have applied for them, and re- coived each a rifle and fifty rounds of ball cartridge. Hor Majeaty’s steamer Advice has been stationed at Passage, where there was something like a demonstration in favor of the Fenians last night. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Severe Weather for Campnigal Sol Rising Spoken Of—James Stephens’ Secre- tary Arrested, &c. Dvstix, March 12, 1867. It would soem as if the elements had combined with the Britiab forces to check further action on tho part of the Fenians, Sinoo I forwarded my last despatch the most intensely searching east winds have swept relent- leasly across the country, accompanied with sleet and rain altornately, Yesterday frost sot in. During the afternoon white flakes made their appearance, and this morning a thick mantle of snow covered alike mountain and plain This unusually severe weather bas affected the troops a3 well as the Fenians, Several of the infantry soldiers have been sent to hospital, and the horses of the cavairy are dying from exposure daily, How much more in- tense must be the sufferings of those who are still obliged to encamp on the bleak mountain side, badly clothed and badly fed! Many a mother's heart has throbbed with anguish during the past few nights, as she saw, far up on the mountain side, the twinkling of tho Fenian watchfire, and romembered the stern sentinels who cut off the chance of communication between herself and the son she believed to be there, The most strenuous exertions are being made by the Irish authorities to take advantage of this state of things, so as to check any chance of combined action ‘on the part of the Fenians already in arms ‘and to pre- vent further auxiliaries reaching them when the weather opens again. Five flying columns have been formed, consisting of infantry and cavalry, each commanded by officers of great experionce and provided with all the materials for rapid movemonts. They are daily engaged scouring tho face of the country for Fenians. The latter have managed to koep out of their way, and up to the present there has not been any collision of importance reported as having occurred {between thom and the troops, With astonishing rapidity they receive informa. tion of the proximity of the military, and disperse be- fore the latter arrive. A sort of hide and seek game is kept up. Information is receivod that a body of Fenians are known to be located ina particular spot, the troop: dash in pursuit, but always arrive too late, Sometimes & few of the last stragglers are caught, but generally a half roasted pig ora quantity of potatoes in a turf fire toil the tale of recent flight. Those ior whom 0 meal was preparing are away, to congregate again at some distant Point and be followed again with the same result. It is believed that the Fenians cannot stand this long; the authorities calculate that fatigue, imperfect supplies and the inclemency of the weathor will compel the in- surgents to endeavor to return to their homes, and incul- cate a wholeaome fear of the troubles rebellion, Should this oe not have the desired effect more severe measures will be resorted to, The outlying constabulary barracks in all the counties referred to, most of which have been the scene of a jan assault, are abandoned, or left with a small guard, the men being collected into the lurge towns to Protect them in case of assault, In Dublin the Motro- politan police, armed with revolvers and swords, guard all the roads leading from the mountain district, and eaee, are bee's ly for the of ings are heid daily for purpose yreasin: loyalty to the throne and a determination to uphold is authority. In many districts the inhabitants aro being sworn in as special constabies, and many absentee pro- g who have for a considerable period resided in dorset] and France, have expressed their determination to at once return and arm their tenantry, so as to assist in quelling further demonstrations, Consideral anxiety was felt at the commencement nianiam should cause desertion from the police or military force. This has not been the case. No instance of sympathy with insur- gents bas been The authorities are loud in aaahoe of the fidelity and valor shown by both branches of the service, The forces available in Ireland at prosent may be thus summarized :—25,000 soldiers, composed of in- artillery and Co ag the constabu- men; ropolitan con- 4 ibe local foree of towns "600 tn ad, be computed 160 detectives, making ), exclusive of apecial constables, on marines Notwiths ing this array, the Fenians do not seem prisoners who bave been captured, and with whom I have had opportunities of conversing, declare that great 18 yet to come on; that only part of the were cailed out, to the cam Tt would t the plans of the of the movement inged with judgment, Fenianism was failing in Ireland, the repeated collapse of ” promises the men at home, who could not ve the Machiavellian pol his actions. cannot decide for the one or the other, and should wish tion to the North; or the counties of Cork and Waterford to theSouth. A’force from the Wicklow Hilis might haraas the counties of Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare. ‘Thus time might be given for the gathering in of Irish. men from Engiand, America and elsewhere. With their present resources ideas of success are ridiculous, Rumors that America and Buasia will act in the ques- tion, in a similar manner to that adopted by England in the late war and on the Polish question, sustain their ‘The general tone of opinion 5 that the Fenians hand” preparfvory to a further taken by the leaders of the LJ from are ed for high treason; being that some of them will suffer the extreme penalty of death, ‘The other commissions will be held in Limerick and in Cork, presided over by junior judges or Queen’s counsel. A rumor prevailed in the city thata plan has been or- eral impression ganized arising of the prisoners, confined in Mount- Joy prison. ¢ Up to the present no such event has taken place, and as double vigilance is now observed, it could doubtless be promptly checked. Disaffection has made its appearance among the em- ptoyés of the principal railway lines, Some of the en- gine drivers and others have been arrested, and stores of pikes discovered. Tho Great Southern and Western Railway have obtained the services of a company of the Fighty-third foot, to be on their promises to meot any emergency. Six Irish-Americans were apprehended at Queeastown on Monday, while endeavoring to obtain passage for America. fhey atrived here under an escort yesterday and were committed to Mountjoy. They are believed to have been actively engagod in the encounter at Kilmal- lock some days ago. Considerable uneasiness still prevails in Dublin. It is rumored that an attack on the city is meditated, and that Fenian fire will be used. Assemblages of armed men are reported to have been seon in the suburbs; but the activity of the police reassures@he loyal, Quantities of arms and ammunition are still daily pickod up, both in houses in the city and in sand pits and quarries in the suburbs. = Information was received this evening that a number of the Fenians who atill remain in the Dublin Mountains have quartered themselves on the farm houses and bave eaten up all the provisions. They only wait for favor- _able weather to make a raid on tho houses of the gentry in the county Wicklow. On Sunday eyoning four detectives pounced on a Fe- nian Council of Five, wno were deliberating in a public house in the city. Among them was the late Head Cen- tre for Manchester, who made a desperate resistance; but they were all captured and committed by the magis- trate for high treason, CONSTITUTIONAL RULE. A French Minister of State on Engiand’s Endeavor for the Disruption of the Ameri- can Union, The French Senate met in session on the 12th of March, M. Troplong in the chair, M. Rowher, Minister of State and finance; M. Baroche, Minister of Justice, ana the other government commis- sioners, were present. The order of the day was the discussioh on the Senatus Consultum, modifying art. 26 ofthe constitu- tion, The Duke Ds Persiony—Any change in the constitu. tion of a state is an act of much greater gravity and tm- portance than the acts of the government in the exercise of public affairs, Thus, im presence of the modifications recently introduced into our tnternal regimé, and of which the Senatus-Consultum ts only a consequence, @ subject worthy of sorious consideration is the effect which such transformations may produce. On the one band is a country which belioves that certain changes t iz the most devoted servants of the State, and ear ener nce of public opinion. On the other is a sovereign who says to himself that if the nation wishes for a change he had bet- ter anticipate its desires rather than oppose them; and if, when the experiment has been mane, public opinion should protest against the alteration, thero will be no d.fficuity in remedyivg the evil. The modifications have excited apprehensions and hopes. Some persons are terrified at seeing certain governmental practices revived which they believed to be coudemed by experi- eace; others look upon the change as the triumph, or, at least, the precursor of the realization of their doctrines. Such, indeed, are the ideas which prevail respecting the Presence of ministers in the Chambers, and which both ies say must end by producing a ministerial responsl- ility. Thus the bopes and fears of the two opposite camps arrive at a similar result by a contrary reasoning. Tho-e misgivings as well as those expectations are bovh cxeggerated, as the Emperor's government is too wise and firm not to maintain the funda- mental inci} of the constiution. * * * Parliamentary liberty is the rieut which a nation has to make its own laws, to control ita government, aid it by advice and impose upon it in case of necessity the na- tional will by constitutional means, The object of the institutions of a free people is, in short, to assure its grandeur and prosperity, and not to crown its orators as at the Olympian games. (Approbation.) Liaten to what Henri LV. said:—“If I made it my glory to pass for a groat orator,”’ said he to the States at Rouen in 1596, “I should hi brought here more tine words than good wishes ; my ambition has something bigber than speaking well.’ Well, xentiemen, every govern- ment ought, like that Prince, to have a highor ambition than mere words. Take the cares of America during the late war, The Chambers ot the North were as ardent as the government for the conquest of the South ; but suppose that responsibie ministers bad been sittiag in them do you suppose the issue would have been the same? Cortanly not. At erery battle lost there would have been a change of ministry, an upzel of the State, and the rout of the armirs wauld have extended to all men's minds, (Hoar, hear.) Look at the at’? ude of England during that strvggle. The sentiments of our newh- hors were not doubtful. Asswredly wir wishes were mot for the re-eslablishment of the Union, Never was’ a finer oceasion presental lo fre> Engiand for some centuries from her American night- mare. But ber responsible miuisters were there! TI counted the ranks of their adversaries—so many radicals who will vote for the Union from polittca! passion, 80 many tories, who, though they wish for the same thin; as the whigs, will vote against them to turn them out, Before this calculation they stopped short, inert and discouraged; the Goddess Upportuai'y escaped their Shades of Pitt and Chatham, you ought for the instrument in your hands force, become in those *of your one of weakness’ And now, gentle. men, return to the Senatus-Consuitum, if the liberal me initiated by the Emperor are grate- fully received by the Chambers and public opinion. If the wisdom of the Assemblies and the tranquillity of parties justifies the confidence of the sovereign, the Senatus-Consultum will arnply guarantee the state against any surpriso arising ‘rom a single discussion in the Legislative Body, whichjon its side will, doubtless, receive with the patriotism which distinguishes it the advice of an assembly composed of men who have ren- dered such services to the country, May act and those which are to complote the work of the 19th * January ‘accompligh the happiness and pros- . ee 8 @ ig A France | 'e have before us two conrses—one, to choose the Eng- lish liberty, in which it would be necessary to change our interior organization and hand the administration to a class of rich, independent men; or, on the other hand, if successors we wish to maintain, as in America, or democratic so ciety with our organization of democratic functionaries, oe soe sua renames, as in America, our ministers nbers, leaving the to “dseinblcy, and freeing the tntalere bo gery in the he tke ‘aumert ly of the executive wo for a third course, having like our ancient parhament régime, all the inconveniences and none of the advany tages of the others, it would be because we should have Jost the sentiment of the public interest in the practices of a false liberalism. Our country is, Rar excellence’, that of logic and good sense, It may, like others, be mistaken on new matters, but not on things that have ‘been already tried. No, a thousand times no! France, great, enlightened and glorious ae all the 8 of and a to march under the of weakness of the Samnites Great Spend ‘The debate was resumed on the 18th of March. M, Hovsrt-Daxists said—There is one point which I iver wert ate may iy the extension given to right of meeting. That right is far from of the same importance in all countries, Thus in Ttaly there are only 700,000 electors and in England only « million. But in where th x evidently chatacter of public bod: love I dread the application of the suspensive veto our hands. @ history of vetoes in general tous; Spain has had no reason to them, and the constitution of the Un by them at this moment. Viscount pr 1a GUERONNIPRR said:—The observa' of Baron Dupin and M. Hubert-Delisle to me in- tended to establish two points: first, there can be no real bet coan without our becoming @ legislative assembly; and secondiy, that the Senate, in- vested with a consultative autuority, descends from ite high constitutional sphere to become a subordinate howover, is clear, eae that the ear con- I aary 19 bas profoundiy modifi 4 * * * When the judges shail it decision is not without appeal ‘i moderate, to eltetii HEE ae d * * * The ipal subject of his speech was minis- terial responsibility, and be applied himself to show how that principle, and necessary in Engiand, is, to superfluous and in secondly, the example of the United hich are a democracy, and in which responsibility does a 1B, 6 pemage.s medion aie one ame, See 008 @ not exist. it seems that neither argument bears discussio: admit that the intervention of the deputies ia practice; but we must firat observe that M. de Persigny does not show that such an interference has disappeared. Have the deputies and even the Senators absolutely ceased to influence by their solicitations the choice of the functionaries by the Ministers’ That may or may nd in any case it does not necessarily result present organization of the powers. fre the Avenir National, March 14.] “* The noble duke at great length combatted the principle of ministerial responsibility, which was not under discussion. The opinions of the duke on eloquence haye long been known. Of all the muses, that 15 the most fatal to the grandeur of empires and the happiness of societies. It was that which prevented the Samnites from ig ams | on Rome after the victory of Candium, and the English from finishing with their rival, the United States, at the period of the revoit of the South. Instead ot acting, the Samnites and the English deliverated, and the Romans and Americans were saved. There are undoubtedly occasions when it is better to act than to taik; but the great bodies, where resolutions are tho result of an eloquent and passionate discussion, know how to act when a fitting occasion arises, The Roman senate, the House of Commons and the Conven- tion have sutliciently proved the fact. It assemblies have their weaknesses, governments directed by a single man have theirs also, and recent events attest it. {From La France, of Paris, March 14,] * * © M. de Persigny compared the institutions of France with those of the United States, and would have at Paris, as at Washington, the doors of the (ham- bors closed to the Ministers. The honorable member of the Privy Council, however, forgets one circumstanc®, which, nevertheless, d es some attention, which is, that France is an hereditary monarchy, whist the Presi- dent of the United States is elected every four years, and that even in the interval of hi~ mission he remains, with reapect to the Congress, a subordinate power, since one of the tw» Chambers may impeach him, and the other depose him. Should not the fund»mental difference of those conditions avd of that situation lead to a corresponding dissunilitude in the manner of control exercised by the Chambers in France, and in the mode of responsibility of the agents of the executi : power? POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Detection axD Arrest or 4 Borotar,—Yesterday afternoon Bridget Murphy, residing at No. 415 Wash- ington street, locked her apartments and went out for an hour or two, and upon returning she found a man coming down stairs with a quantity of ready made clothing, valued at $50, which she recognized as her pro- perty. She gave an alarm, when the man, giving his name as Jobn Hughes, dropped the goods and fled into the stroet, whither she followed, ing ), thief 1” “Watch !"" &c. Anofficer of the precit hearing the alarm, j in the chase and followed the fugitive across Canal into Sultivan, where he was overtaken and secured. Mughes was taken before Justice and committett}to the Tombs for trial, showed that the room of Mrs. a entered with faise keys’ and her ward broken open and ‘Tamprrixe wire Tarevea.—Un Monday evoning James Roche, of 98 William street, was assaulted om board of » city railroad car by John Keefe, with the alleged intent to pick his pocket, Boing caught at his little game, Koofe left the car and fled, but was pursued and arrested by officer Matthews, of the Fourth precinct. ‘he pris- oner was locked up, and Mr. Roche requested to be ia court early yesterday morning to make o complaint against him. Mr. Roche, however, failed to appear, and on making inquiries it appeared he had been approached by the:prisoner’s triends and given $9 not to appear and make a complaint against him. Roche, hot taken to court, and made an affidavit against Keefe, whom Justice Hogan committed for examination. Assaviting aN Ovviosr wird 4 Cart Roxc.—Johan Williams, a colored maa, was yesterday committed to the Tombs by Justice Hogan on the charge of having on Saturday last committed a felonious assault on officer Jovn Daniels, of the Ewhth precinct, by striking bim on the head with a cart rung, inflicting a severe injury. Al the time of tho assault the officer was attempting to arrest Williams in Mercer street on suspicion of having stolen a silver watch from Gottleib Dendil, residing at 170 Elm street. Tho accused is held to answer for the larceay, as weil as the assault on the officer. Kesrive a Disoroerty Hovse.—On Monday night an officer of the Fourth preciact police arrested a seaman named Lyman Johnson on the charge of keeping a dis- orderly house in the basement of bis premises in Water street, the resort of abandoned females, reputed thieves and other vile and disreputable characters. Six degraded females, inmates of the premises, were also arrested, and all the prisoners taker before Justice Hogan, John: son was held to answer and the women committed for ten days each, Tue Bacos Farge Preresox Case. The examination in the case of Mr. John R, Bacon, arrested some weeks ago on the charge of falsely inducing afr. George E. Bor- land, of No, 7 Beaver street, to purchase fifty shares of stock of the Commercial Steamboat Company, on the Tepresentation that the stock was good, and commanded & promium of seventeen per cent, was resumed before Justice Hogan yesterday morning. Only one witness gave testimony, which went to that the stock of the Commercial Steamboat Company was never at a premium of seventeen per cent. After paying his money Mr. Borland did not receive the stock {rom the defendant according to agreement, and never succeeded in ovtaining it before thetompany became embarrassed and eventually fated. The further investigation of the case will be resumed on Friday next. Atteceo Lanceny.—George W. McLean, Street Com- missioner, made a complaint before Justice Dodge yesterday, in which he charged Patrick Hayos with tho theft of a quantity of jewelry, vaiued at $130. Mr. Me- Lean on the 25th inst, left a satchel containing the jew. eiry in one of the Harlem Railroad cars, and when be miased it ho applied at the office, and found that in the meantime the satchel had been given to the master, On oxamination he alleged be found that The baggage master de- from whom the satchel had been received to Captain Speight, of the Twehty-eighth pre- cinct police, and he Hayos on one of the after- noon trans. Hayes was identified as the man who had left the bag at the office, and was committed for exami- nation, Darina Lancexy From ax Excnayor Orrice.—On the 16th instant the exchange office of Edward Cotte, No. 133 Bowery, was robbed in midday of over $200 in money by a daring young thief, who stretched over the counter and grabbed a quantity of bills and specie within convenient reach of his arm and rapidly skedaddled, On the 26th instant officer King arrested a youth named Lesser Jacobs upon a suspicion of being the individual who had committed this robbery, and in wholesome ‘understanding of the merit attached to an open confes- sion this hopeful youngster acknowledged the soft im- peachment and accounted for the funds he had thus ac- quired by stating that he sold the bills ($115) to a broker and gave the ie, consisting of pieces of various aenominations m his mother. with a Mra. Gumpel for greenbacks, dollar for dela Lesser Jacobs, bis distant progenitor, aod her oblig: friend, were aged arraigned at the Essex Mar! .court, with and the two later a8 receivers. Some coin found in the posses- sion of Mrs. Gumpel was put in evidence and identified, id the accused were severaliy committed by Justice Pregrocket Cavont.—John Newman was arraigned before Justice Ledwith yesterday, on a charge of having picked the pocket of Mrs, Susan Dennis, while in one of tho Breadway and Twenty-third peat Es bo re his guilt and was committed for trial, wi 11, RECKLESS Drivinc.—Jacob Moyers, a butcber boy, was hold to bail in $600 to answer the charge of having driven butcher wagon over the leg of James C, Wheeler. A Desrerats Darkey.—Thomas Bailey, a villainous looking colored man, was brought manaciod before Jus- tice Ledwith yesterday by officer Tully, of the Eighth Precinct police, who caught him in the act of steating a CHINA AND JAPAN. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. American Travel by Rail and Steamship—Rua ef the Colorado from California to Yoko- Boarp L Srrameare COLORA! ee Fa February 1, teen} ‘The opening of steam communication between San Francisco and China and Japan, being a subject of very great importance to the United States, it was thoroughly discussed some time previous to our departure, A fow doubted its success, they said it was too expen- sive, could never pay, &c., and would finish off by say- ing that the completion of the Pacific Railroad would 80 far weaken the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, that they could not afford to ran their ships over to China or to any other place, in fact that the Railroad would “kill” the Mail Company. It is fortunate for the interests of the community at large, that such croakers were in a very small minority. The clear headed business men saw that the line was bound to succeed, and of course favored the project. And you may rest assured that whatever the Pacifio Mail Steamship Company undertaxe, is bound to succeed. As for the Pacific Railroad ruining the Pacific Mail Steam- ‘ship Company it is all boan ; it will be the making of the company. Not that they need any such assistance, because time has clearly proved that they can do with- out it. The railroad will only take away a very small Proportion of the steamer passengers; the steamers will still continue to carry the same amount of freight as they do at present, And any person after having made one or probably two trips on the care, will gladly return to the ‘old line,” finding the large state rooms, immense saloons, and the size and motion of a first cl steamer far preferable to the small accommodations and continual jar of a steam car, Novelty will induce a great many to go by rail to the Eastern States. The idea of going home in seven or eight days is something so remarkable that many will g0, as Ihave already said, out of mere curiosity; but they will soon find that the time gained in going by rail does not compensate the for the shattered nerves and weakened spine which they are sure to suffer from after a long trip by rail. But, even admitting that the railroad will ‘kill’ the Panama route, it will most cor- tainly build up the China route. What the Mail Com pany lose on their Panama line they will more than recover on the China line. The railroad will so shorten the time from New York and London to China that nearly all the trade of the East will flow towards San Francisco, and that of course in the steamers of the Pacifio Mail Steamship Company. Amorica will then become “the highway of nations,”” and San Francisco will reap most of the benefits. As if to do honor to the new enterprise, the sun arose in all its grandeur on New Year’s morning. The day ‘was one that New Yorkers have never seen in mid- winter, and I bardly think they could appreciate it. Tho sky was perfectly clear; not a cloud dare show itself. Nature did her best to give usa fair start. Everything looked bright and cheerful; and we could not have wished tor a more favorable day for our departure. Of course everybody knew the hour and place of our departure, and being a holiday, all San Francisco turned out to watch the steamer leave. The billa around the city were thronged with people; so were the wharves, Particularly the wharf the stéumer lay at. At twelve o'clock precisely, on January 1, 1867, we cast off from the wharf and started on the pioneer trip westward, which fact was duly announced by the fring of guns, As we passed the Pacific Mall steamship Golden City she saluted us with-a gun and dipped. her colors. Tho United States steamer Vanderbilt dipped her colors, ‘manned the rigging, and gave us “three times three.” The revenue steamer Wy: the fortifications at Black Point, Alcatraz Island and Fort Point all saluted‘us, It wasa great day for San Francisco, and of course every- body wished success to the Colorado, AS we went through the Golden Gate we steered due west. There lay tho broad Pacific Ocean abead of us, quietly maintaining its name, At about three o’clock iu the afternoon we passed the Farallone Islands, bleak rocks standing far out im the ocean as a dread to marin- ere. The Farallones passed we look for no more land until wo sight the east of Japan. Everybody being tired out with the excitement oo casioned by such a trip, felt very much inclined to re- tire early. They all and the next morning seemed very much refreshed by their night's rest, but your cor- respondent, alas for the shortness of the berths, had a very poor night's rest, in fact, it was pot a rest at all. The berths are only six feet in length, and that being at least three inches too short for me, you can imagine how pleasant my slumbers were, wedged into a berth entirely too short, and so very narrow that I had to get out in order to turn over. Our state rooms were very large, the largest I have ever seen; but it is a great pity thet the berths are not longer and wider, It isa general failing of all shipa, I have never yet found a berth tong enough, and I don’t suppose I ever shall. Berths will always be too short and too narrow until tho men that put them up are compelled to sleep in them. As they aro never called on to do that it makes no difference to them how the berths are made. Having pat everything in order in your state room for the trip you commence on the second day out to make acquaintances and to look around the ship. There being only a few first cabin passengers on board, not quite forty, it did not take long to get acquainted. After being out several days I took a “cruise” around the ship and saw a gront deal that was interesting. In order to make the Colorado fit for this trip she had an extra covoring of planks put on over her hull, her bows built up to the hurricane deck and her outer taken off. She is 375 feet long, about 50 feet . and her last measurement ia 4,008 tons, She has an immense walk beam engine, a cylinder of 105 inches in diameter and 12 feet stroke. She has pena masta, is {ull eh be able to make very good time with, Ler if anything should on to ber machinery. © accommodations for of all classes are far superior to anything I have ever scen. The first cabin has a0 supertor on any ehip, the second cabin is fally equal to the first cabin of Vanderbilt's lino, and the stcerage i@ as fine as Vanderbilt's second cabin. About 150 first cabin, 250 second cabin and 1,900 steerage pas- sengors can find amp!e accommodations on board Captain Bradbury is all that could be wished, a perfect seaman apd an accom) leman. We have great cause to feel thankful for our officers, 1 have never yet travelled on a ship with sucha fine set. They are a noble, manly set, and understand their duties thoroughly. Discipline and cleanliness are points on which the Pacife Mail Steamship Compauy are very ticular, and this vessel certainly comes up to all that Be required ‘on those points, Our table is excelient. No one has ever complained in the least about our moais. We certainly ought to havo agood table, if we are allowed to form our ideas from the appearance of our steward. He certainly looks as if he knew what good living was; he weighs about two bundred and Arty Spend and seems to be filled with the importance of his position; but a facetious passenger remarked, ‘‘that, to his Tc it looked as if the steward had something-more solid than mere importance tucked under his veaj."’ He certainly cannot see his knees, and ioe he must use @ looking glass to enabie him to tie is shoes. Time generally hangs heavily with travellors at sea; bus we had suck an exceedingly pleasant set of passen- gers that the days by in an incredibly short space of time, Books, cl checkers, cards, &c., were all brought into requisition; and whenever tho sea was smooth ¢1 wo would indulge in a game of “‘grum- mets,” for which amusement we are indebted to Dr, Salter, the United States Consul for Hang Kow. sailor can make a “‘grummet."’ Thoy are used in some way on the yards, how Ido not know. They are rope rings, varying in size according to the use made of them. as ‘into jal parts, and numbered fro: 1 up to 10, the “ten” being in the cenwe. A semi+ circle, with a diameter equai to the width of two of the sub-divisiona, is then drawn at the base and the words “ten off” written in it. The ‘grummeta’’ used in size from five to eight inches in diameter, to the taste of the player. A line is drawn on the deck about twenty feet from the apex of the tri- fle, Sides are chosen, and you commence pitchi n, i Hi 3 i m7 3 = + 2 i : : § ? i Kin account of the, It was impoosible, aa I have form any correct impression and the surrounding country. About one half of the the yards and gave “three times three.” [no uting up to the coal where we were to make fast, ~ very close to thé slora oF tne, Pronoh. (rigats La Guerridre, +Com. Oliver, and while the frigate ber band struck up ‘he Star Banner” Be a a Tr ot The the in port who friendly per Fae us any The compliment paid us Fs fom omndord our national aire was very neat BP peneetie lge ae all duly The English upon this enter- iP aes aap nat Stay oe pee fun the crack Eagish line, « and Orieatal Steamshi hac ge completely off of the Eastern Bl " ne, ‘wretched, yok for panes jow, and wil - gers, and they will never be able to compete successfully with the eaperion vessels of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. "The Colorado is the largest and finest steamer over seen in these watera. Her immense size, graceful lines and elegant fittings were alike the envy and admiration of alt who saw her. Her smail consumption of coal was a perfect wonder to the Europeans. Our course was @ little over five thousand two hundred miles, We averaged ten knots an hour, and only consumed eight hundred tons of coal in twenty-two days; something very re- markable for a sidewheol steamer of four thousand tons burthen. ‘The natives came around us in perfect swarms in their sampans. The Japanese are what might be called a per- fect copper color—they really have a rich copper colored complexion; it is quite different from the Chinese—the latter have a sickly yellow and will not bear comparison with that of the Japanese. Tho “Japs,” as they are called, are very small in stature. Their winter dress is mainly a thick quilted gown which they can throw off ina minute. In summer they wear very little clothing. The cooliea whilo at work wear nothing whatever, except a “clout”? at the waist? Overcoats made of oiled paper are some- times used when it rains, but a heavy cloak made of split straws is most generally used for cold or rainy weather. The ‘‘sampans”’ are a small boat used by the natives. The only point of resemblance between them and our Doats is, that they are boats; all boats to a certain extent resemble each other, and that is all the resemblance there is between a ‘‘sampan’’ and the small boat in gen- eral use throughout Europe and America. They are not pulled as we pull boats, but they have small beams run- niog across the boat and extending about cight inches over the sides. On these they place their oars, and “ecull”’ the boat, instead of poling her. While at work in their boats or doing any physical labor they keep up a continual grunting, which sounds something like ‘‘hoo- baw, haw-hoo,”” The coolies do all the work; they are even used ag beasts of burden; they either carry on their backs or else put the articles to be carried on a small hand cart, and about a dozen will get hold of it and commence their horrid grunting. It sounds more like the expirin; ot an antiquated specimen of the genus “‘pork’’ w does ke the “melodious chant with which toiling hu- manity is wont to lighten labor.’ To see all of Yokohama and be able to do full justice to it requires'a stay of two or three days at least. As we only remained there twenty-four hours it was utterly impossible to see all that was to be seea; so I will reserve the place pie time * Fd i +, : ‘a H ‘ Pf i i tt iz E H Fes i B i i fT ty . 5 i Bx o ie Feit fi iett tinal i f [ iia i Hi HE He : 3 i 2 ? 3 FE i ath ire ; 5g 3 : | i fF g28 Ee» gi succeasfully with ‘such skill that he excited the admira- tion of ali who were fortunate enough to remain up all night and vee it done. I have never seen anything to equal tt; and, without hesitation, I ascribe to Captain Bradbury & proficiency in seamanship that cannot be ex Tho view of Hong Kong by gaslight as we entered the harbor was perfectly beautitul. The barren, rocky hills immediately back ‘of the city looked exceedingly black and glo-my; but the lights of the houses, ¢: about one-third the way up the hil formed a most beautiful contrast, It was a sight worth seeing, and one I would pot willingly miss. As it was quite dark tne Captain not knowing ex- actiy where our final anchorage was to be, dropped his anchor some distance off In.the morning we steamed around the harbor, and anchored very near the United States steamer Hartford. As we passed the Harttord be- fore anchoring she fired a national salute of twenty-one guns in honor of the arrival of the pioneer ship of the new China line. The shore battery also fired a salute—an honor never before conferred on a merchant vessel. All the shipping in the harbor was decked out in buntil on our account. To the merchants and community large the success of this line is quite an eee ob ject. The latest London news they had was of De- comber 19, 1866. We bring them London advices up to December 30. ‘As at Yokohama, the Colorado is the all-absorbing topic of conversation. Numbors came on board yester- day to look around. Johomy Bul! seems perfectly di founded at the size and ificence of the vessel. never “« T4 es p anaes —_ build sucl vessel. 0 te wu that bas ever been on the Eastern waters. iene eae Ei to Washi: ja an! D, ‘he uscal in port, we were by in their boate, wanted 4 us ashore; rs” for not from life, but ve thom’ iat and cme ny exhibited works of A portion of the «‘moon-eyed sons of the Flow. Their “gampans” are few inches of the gunwale, and whole families move around and tirely too boat as well as the men. on their backs and work a9 hard, if ‘lords and wv ad Semen young one striking his time he ‘‘comes Vall of thas class have I presume that is the cause of it. Both here to In a $17 to eS in $18 50. ‘account in do- in Japan, and there is therefore a slight 5} and ot the prefera- but had not and 0, re Teserve a full de- B. Dunn was arrested near Wallingfi Conn. on the with forsing the names , he offered in it for Basserman, Eohoou an’ Tt is thought ho Of property in thig,