The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1867, Page 4

AFFAIRS IN. EUROPE. The British Reform Revolution in and Out of Parliament. English Reply to the Duke de Persigny. Why England “‘Shrank from Aiding France to Break Up the United States.” e THE EASTERN QUESTION PERPLEXITIES, French Views of Fenianism and Disci- pline of the “ Men in the Gap.’’ &e, &c. &o. ‘The steamship Chicago, Captain Price, of the Guion and Williams tine, which left Liverpoo! on the 15th of March and Queenstown on the 16th, arrived at this port at an early hour yesterday morning, bringing newspaper files in detail of our cable despatches. The Cunard setamship China, from Liverpool the 16th and Queenstown the 17th of March via Halifax, arrived at Boston yesterday morning, forwarding our files in the evening. * ‘The China makes the following report:—March 18, in latitude 50, longitade 12, fell in with bark Achilles, of Liverpool, {rom Cardiff for St Johns, N, F., in distress. The vessel was abandoned and all bands were taken off by the China, The Duke of Edinburg, after paying a visit to Portugal, has proceeded to Gibraltar. The United States corvette Canandaigua had arrived at Malta and sailed thence for Crete. A despatch dated Constantinopie the Sth instant, says:— Fuad Pacha has issued a circular memorandum relative to the insurrection in Candia and the concessions wo the Christians urged upon the Porte by the great Powers. He provsts against the unnecessary foreign pressure upon Turkey, and represents the actual condition of the Christians as excellent, He also states that the Cretan movement is partial amd not founded upon re: ances, In conclusion, the memorandum promis ther gradual reforms. in the House of Lords on the 15th of March Lord Derby confirmed the report that tne Porte had consented to evacua‘o the Servian fortresses while retaining a Rominal soveroignty. Tho noble earl also mentioned other concessions whicli, on the intercession of the great Powers, the Porte had made to its Christian sub- jects. The Eastern question was more serious on the 15th of March. Russia is intent on forcing the question to solution. What that solution is to be may fairly be gathere: from documents which she has caused to be published, and which have appeared in the Hrrarp. Meanwhile Tarkey has, it is stated, announced that she has gono as far in the way of concession as it is possible for her to go. She will evacuate the Servian fortresses provided she bas a guarantee from the great powers that her sovereignty over Servia shall be maintained. A bulletin was issued March 14 from Mariborough House, announcing that no important change in the con- dition of het Royal Highness the Princess of Wales had taken place, and stating that the iuflammation in the knee, though still causing an interruption of slecp, was slowly diminishing. This bulletin tended to lessen the fears Which have been ‘created by the rumors current in al yada Londen, The Klug and Queen of Den- mark on their way to England. Despatches from Miramar state the Teports recently Circulated abéut the improver ent in th@heaith of the ex-Empress Charlotte,” of Mexico, are without fo: tion. The condition of the young sovereign has deen the same, No not eworthy improvement bas tan'- fested itsolt. . Tho worsted manufacture, of which Bradford, E: Jand, is the centre, has increased in value from cight millions of pounds sterting in 1868 to thirteen miltions Jn 1866, and the impetus which it rectived from the American war remains unchecked, Lord F. Cavendish remarked, at a late town meeting, that the population had increased in one generation from 43,000 to 107,000. Mr. W. E. Forster affirmed that not even Manchester had benefitted more by free trade than the town which he represents, A telegram from Berlin states that when the North German Parliament comes to the consideration of that paragraph of the draft of the constitution which defines tho territory of the Confederation, there will be at least two protests, Oue will come from the Polish depu who insist thatthe Polish provinces shall not be m part of the new empire, The other will be from the deputies from North Schleswig. They are in favor of incorporation with Denmark, and therefore will vot con- sent to that clause in the draft which makes them a part of the North German Confederation, Having made their protests, however, they will thereafter maintain a passive attitude. The favorite Lent preacher at the Tuileries chapel this year is Abbé Bouér, a converted Jew. Tho Abbé 1s a member of one of the wealthiest and most respected ot the Jewish families of Vienna. He suddenly changed his oreed and entered a convent of Carmes, where he met Pire Hyacinthe, whose conferences at Nitre Dame have excited go much atiention, The rule of the order, however, proved too severe for the Abbé's delicate frame; he was compelled to leave {t and take priost's orders. As he quicted the palpit last Sun- day, March 10, he received the unusual compliment of being met by bis Majesty and the Archbishop of Paris, who sevorally expressed their appreciation of his talent and eloquence. Beranger’s sister has just attained hgr 101st year. ‘The poet paid a sum to the Coavent des (scaux tor her maintenance. OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE, THE BRITISH REVOLU ION, OUR LONDON COARESPORDENCE. The Reform Question in England and Deter- mined Position of the People—Speculations of the London Press and Open Air Deciarn- tions of the Poi er Leaders—Threats Agninst the Policy of the Government—Fe- atan € cidences and Pi for the Rising of Ma 4 er RK jt to Follow—A Radical Evil and Radical Cure, &e. Lonvox, March 2, 1867. The fashionable season in London has begun. The West End is fast filling up, The theatres are crowded nightly and are increasing their attractions, The papers are full of reports of dinners, balls and parties im high life. The Queen has commenced hor series of courts at Buckinguam Palace, The Prines of Wales, following the excellent example of his father, presides at ail sorts of benevolent society meetings, and makes nice little speeches that please everybody. Rotten row begins to de brilliant, Regent street is thronged with prome- naders. Everybody is coming back totown. The season is fairly open. Fortunately the weather is very fine for London; that isto say, you can see the sun occasionally and the fog \s not much thicker than cigar smoke. Of course the chief topic of interest is stil! reform, and to that the most prominent journals continue to de- vote long leaders, The confusion of opinion as to the political aspect of the question is bewildering. A num- ber of the tories have held a meeting at the Carlton Clud, and to every one’s surprise the majority seemed in favor of household suffrage, The Standard, weli known as « tory organ, bas Come out with the same liberal prop. osition, and denounces the present plan of the tory ministry aa “worse tha a nullity.” Lord Grosvenor, the icader of the Adullamites, has @ letter in the Tues declaring that the liberal party @ disorganized. The Morning Post, the aristocratie orgaB, asserts that the ro. signation of the present ministry is inevitable, and wii) ly occur betore next Thureday. The Telegraph, a r, believes that the ministry will propose ho schold su(frage and keep their places, The radical Star caynot see the matter in that light, but anmounces that tye ve minisury is reeling to its fall.’ The Ti tepea e game which it played in regard to the ¢ 1 yw advocates reform most loudly, and boil into the government which it u power, ‘Reform,"’ it thunders, ‘ie probs liberal p inevitable. The bor of Englishmen excluded from the franchise is out of all proportion to those admitted to the privilege, 14 is impossible to compare the foreea on each side of the barrier without seeing that the bar. viel t give way.’ To sum up, the preas and the politicians of all parties and olasses appear to be rapidly uniting upon household suffrage as 4 necessity; but whether the present Ministry will accept this necessity or go out of office is a question upon which nobody can give a decisive opinion. Indeed, it is generally under- ‘stood that the Ministers themselves bave not yet agreed upon a policy. In the meantime the people of England are by no means inactive. Another great mass meeting is to be held at Trafalgar square to-night, and arrangements for another demonstration at or upon Hyde Park are in Preparation, Similar meetings are being held or have been held at Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and throughout the oolutry. The press and the politicians have apparently agreed to ignore these manifestations of popular fecling; but you might as well attempt to ignore an earthquake. The people who get up these heard in the settlement of the question. real difference as to what settiemont will satisfy Gladstone, or the or the House of Commons, ‘distoyal, Qn Wednesday evening of this woek ‘League held a public mecting at the Sussex suet Bs pitas hc ata arta opened the p ings with a brief speech, in which denounced both tories and tiberals, and added that ‘the question would come to be whether moral rorce having failed it might not be necessary that they should ha recourse to oiber means which he did not wish to mention,”’ This hint was received with cheering. Mr. Richardson, a gas fitter, followed in the same strain. “They had not only to fight. Disraeli,” he said, “but also the sham liberals, Their only course was to agitate with a determination that they would be satisfed with ng leas than justice, and they wore not deserving ane of men if they aid not come forward in their might and demand political enfranchisement, they willed it they would have it in spite of all opposi- von.” Th@stronger the expressioas used by Mr, Rich- ardgon the louder grew the cheering Mr. Mr, Brisck then delivered another incendiary speech. Ho said—~There is a limit to patience, He (rusted no’ one, not even the middle classes ‘They all remembered the Bristol riots, and hoped such things would never happen again; but if they did the middle class would be hb t suilerers.’” “A delegate here shouted out, e them right,’ Mr. Ma . a bookbinder, evi- alarmed at the frankness of the previous speaker, 1 10 say that the people were as loyal at ucen as well as the middle classes; bat this Lappeal to patriotism was received with cries and “Bosh!’? Mr. Bradi followed in a speech which deserves to be quoted moro at length. He said that “he was one of those who, in that which be had marked out for himself to do, counted the precise words of an act of Parliament or the precise coustruc- tion of aome statute, (Cheers) He was one of those who thought the sooner bad laws were broken the better for the people to live under the good, (Cheers.) He thought the time wag coming when some of ther must be prepared, if peeds be, to incur some pains and run the risk of some: penaitias to wiest their political rights from the bands of those who were deter- mined not to do them justice, who had no sympathy with them, who had betrayed — their hopes, who would Jeave them on one side and walk up- on their heads as they lay down. (Loud cheering.) At the demonstration of the 11th inst., a sergeant of the B division asked him what right be had to turn aside cer- tain traflic to allow the procession to pass, avd he answered, “The right I have to ride over you.” ' (Cheers. ) Th» position they were in was fraught with serious con- sequences, and they ought to consider weli before put- ting their band to the plough, how they could draw back from it, If they were to bave another ion, be trusted it would not be from Trafalgar square north- ward, but from Trafalgar square to Westminster Hall, (Cheers ) He did not car? for obsolete laws; if they were bad, they ought to be set at nought, even if that involved’ some paius and penalties, aud he for one was prepared to brave that consequence, (Cheers.) If they ad another procession they must prepare to protect that procession. He was not rs to have his head broken by a policeman’s truvcheon. Policemen bad 20 right to inte: fero with their elforts to obtain their politi- cal rights; and if they attempted to do so, it was their duty to take means suillcient to remove thom out of the way. They did pot want bands, banners or iy but they did need staves to protect their heads. The fifth battle mast be won, and those who opposed them would bitterly rue it” (Loud and protonged choers. } This spoon of one. of the leaders may mean nothing; the cheers with which it was received may not be sienificant. Englishmen say that these things “are ull vonsense,’’ avd that Americans are very foolisl: to place apy stress upon them. Nevertheless, the peo- pie secm very much tn earnest about thei, and discuss them q ii@ serivasiy, At the meeting which Tam de- cr r exatnple, everyihing that Mr. Bradiaugh said was accepted a8 quite sensible Colonel Dickson rena. ted that “he quite endorsed all that tad been ut- tered by ther orave friend.” Several other speaker: in- duiged in equaily decided language. Mr, Hawker and Mr, Bebb wuggesed a grand demonstration in Hyde Park on Good Friday, ahd “if the police interfered with them to resist them." ‘The suggestion was unanimously adopted, resistance and all, tough the peopic well knew that at Hyde Park oceurred the previous covilict with the pohee, when the ratings were torn down. Mr, Lucrait said, in atluding (0 to-night’s meet- ing, that they ‘would have to fight this baile out at "the wost ond of — London, and ho hoped they would rally in such numbers as would muke Disraeli and the other fribblers tremble. Tt was then proposed, seconded and unanimous solv i 18 of opivion that no tn of revorm will sutticiently meet the just claims of the unrepresented classes which is not, without any subter- foge or evasion, based upon the true aud constitutional principle G the bat Jonbi: Wot, on all sincere re+ Misisting upoa these emont of this question. ’? the people, and the niscting to tration at Hyde Park on Good ro? it, But the plans of the ere meetings. They pro- labor” if their demands e seen how of London talk in pubite, and juege how mach more revotationary te utterances; but the masses in the in- ally at Manchester are far in advance jon brethren, and from them comes this which the London Re- form League hus eagerly and The English papers, adhe of ignoring ev th rr} result of that will be acessation from food—and there’s av end of it, Not atail. The people know better than tbat, When thoy bave po money and vant food they kuew how to get plan was tried only a few weeks ago during the cold weather, at a place 4, in the suburbs of London. ‘There were that place, and the shops were broken empt The papers said little bout che pd nine Englishmen out of ten never hoard of it, and will deny that tt occurred; bat it did occur for all that, and the riot lasted two or’ three days. Horo is just danger of the pian proposed. If the peopie should cease work and get hungry, they wil take what they want aud perhaps the rowdles wili take somothing more. Jewellers’ stores are quite ag attractive to & mob as bakers’ shops, ond although the honest and intelligent Wworkingmen may protest aga‘nst robbery, it will ali be d under the name of re- form. Then the police will interfere and be driven away. And then the soldiery will be cailed out and biood wiil dow. Tt would be useless to venture any pro- dictions as to the sequel, All reasonable men must hope that the disturbances may never begin—in other words, t the cessation from labor may not be necessar But it is foolish to credit the Engrish notion that a rev lution here ts an absolute impossibility. yw York is as beautiful a city as London, as well govern city, with as peaceably disposed citizens and with many more free vents for the ill regulated passions of what are called “ the lowest classes;"” but New York has had its riots, Ten years ago the idea of a great civil war in the United Srates was laughed at; but still the civil war came. Eng- jand is not exempt from the convulsions that have suocked other countries; Englishmen are not different from other men, ¢ perhaps, in the vastness of their self complacency. jar feeling runs as high here in rezard to the reform question as it ever did in America in rogard to the slavery question, and, i mot checked, will lead to the same excesses. Certainly, if the workingmen ever proceed to such an extreme meas- ure as a general strike—and they josist that are preparing for it—nothing but a miracle can avert a con. lict between the people and the soidiery, and that will be ically a revolution. All parties move cautiously in dealing with a subject of such importance; but_ evi- dently the maases—who are not represented in the House of Commons, and whom no prominent jitician pro- poses to have ited there—will ultimately have more to do with reform than Gindstone or Disracl ‘There is @ remarkable coincidence, worthy of atten- tion, between the movements of the English reformers and those of the Fenians. You will remember that the Fevian outbreak at Chester occurred on the Monday of the reform demonstration, which has been described in previous letters, and the same week we had the ap- parently futile insurrection in Ireland. Now, simulta- neously with these reform ovog and reform threats, there are mutterings of another ‘ian storm. Youare doubtless tired of hearing of Fenian plots and plans, but whenever the Fenian leaders can be brought to name any definite dates for their movements it is worth while put what they say upom record, for, if it serves no F useful purpose, it at least convicts them of folly, 1 ¢ number of their dupes. The dates which leaders name now are very definite They say at that on next Tuesday morning, the Sth of Mareb, there will be * gee rising ireland, led by ——, an ex-officer i Bri lecturer at Woolwich, catied dep! bread rivts to oth you recelve no messages by can conjecture the reason. been in London within a week, consulting with ——-, aud two French colonels will hoad the Fenian volunteers. The London Times office is to be burned some next ‘Week, and outbreaks im London and Liverpool will occur during the coming fortnight. These are Fo- bian plans, as they have been revealed by the themseives to persons in whom ‘have con! Before thia leter reaches Now Trork the time fixed A peed and you will know i RS ipeeie 3 i 5 I i se A i! 4 i i <= UWatest News from Crete. By an extra of the Atbens Elpis, February 23, received yesterday, we learn that the Arcadian made a successful trip from Syra to Crete, carrying munitions and provi- sions, and landing them at different points on the island of Crete, Returning, she brought to Syra s hundred women and children and Afteen sick and wounded. ‘Tho Lipis, of February 21, states that on the Ist of February a Christian force of seven hundred and fifty men beat off more than three thousand Turks at Gera- Kari, THE AMERICAN UNION. the Duke de Persiany’s acies and Squabbies of Our Kaglish Reply to ne [from the London Times, March 15.) M. de Persigny bas delivered a great speech, said to have been weeks in preparation, which is rather to be rogarded as a State paper than as’a legislative argument. His object is to prove that the Emperor bas made no rea! change in the constitution, but has only simplified formalized some successive modifications. This ex- planacion is intended to reassure those who were begin- ning to tremble for the integrity of the fmperial system, and to dispel the triumph of those who were hailing the dawn of constitutioan! freedom. Frauce, he says, has not, and is not to have, re- sponsible Ministers, and she is far better out t It is not they maice a nation reat! free. 30 far as the arg is confined to Fra with such atray lights as cau be borrowed from class antiquity, wo must admit M. de Persigay to be an a thority ov the French part of the qu sion. ‘But when he crosses the Channel, takes a sketch of our own Par- hameniary system, and, by the working test, contrasts it unfavorably with the corresponding instituiions of b § own couniry, we must bez to inccrpose, and protest agalnst the fdetity of his picture and the ‘soundness of bis reasons, = * * ® For centuries France has been by Queens, by mistresses, by by enery class’ that di dains resp-n- with- ly intriguers, by thearis's, sibility and pushes a right, or a sentiment, or a creed, or a scheme to its fatal conel sion without check or remorse. Whether the great. idea was the destruction of a nobility or the extermination of a beresy, or the establishment of a great nation and vreater monarch, or some other grand conception of political vanity, it was allowed to run its course, and found fitting authors and abettors Absolutisms and oligarchies never appeal but to the rock which renders back the echo of the words So theyon'y go lo meet their doom, But, of all the grand ideas that have been the bane of France, which is that which M, de Persigny conjures up before us, to confound our na- tional conscience and pronounce our doom? When the golden opportunity tately presented itself Hngland shrank from aiding France to up the United — Sta'es ‘by supporting the Southerners and by eatablishing @ Mexican empire. By this time, it seems, we ought to be roating together after the demolition of the great American republic, or winning glory in the still untlo- ished enterprise. under no government what:ver would Eng'and have marched one foo: in such a desperate and gratuitous crusade, org of the beret aine ts against founding empires and destroying them upm @ Sieuailon of —- consequences, either in od World or in the New. Such projects are, indeed, oftener found in palaces than in j aye and in hearts as well as bands insulated mm social relations and their natural control. If this be ali—and this idea Is to be the touchstone of our reapective metals—we are content to sta d the ordeal. and to be thankful that we are not @ nation of arzat ideas and irresponsible rulers. FRANCE. © 4. > Lhiers on Napaicon’s Foreign Policy. A despatoh from Paris dated March 14, ovening, “ays:—In today's sifting of the Legistative Body tue interpeliation of M. Thiera upon the foreign policy of the government came on for discussion. M. Thiors said:—The state of Europe, and particularly of France, at the present time is serious. This fact is Proved by the general increase of armaments; but it may, nevertheless, be viewed without anxiety. Tho present stato of things is occasioned by the false ideas which have into European policy. Formerty the policy of Europe was based upon the equitibrium of power, and the smaller States, which served to weaken the Collisions between the greater ones, wero re- spected. This policy, which made the greatness of France, has been replaced by a new idea—that of nationalities and of great agglom:rations laving the same origin and speaking the same language, From this arose the interest shown towards Poland and the efforis made to establish the unity of Italy. The ambi- tion of Pruasia and Russia, in taking advantage of the idea of oationality, is a menace w Europe, France made @ serious mistake in permitting the development of this atate of things. The goverment had but to say one word to arreat the course of this ambition, and that word was European equilibrium; but the government was lod away by, the chimera of the nationality principle, and by an unreflecting desire fir populari y. To lessen the evil a policy at once wise and firm is necessary. Wo will examine the scheme for the reorganization of the army with vatriotiam, out we mus: also return to tho poticy of a Kuropaan equilibrium By pur ; Lreorner tie allvance of Eng- ress of tho small © independent elt in won of ‘adfairs must puatry; & return, in fact, mus: he made to tie policy of good ‘sense, for not another mistake must be made, M. Thiers’ speech was listened to with great attention, but without any great marks o:ther of approval or dis- approval Toe Frang bas an assurance that the debate will show that in the foreign relations of the empire there is nothing whatever to create aiarm. It will be shown, says the semi-oificial paper, tivat the alleged negotiations in reference to Luxembourg nover took place; that Enit- land, Franee and Russta have arrived at the basis of an understanding in referonce to the Eastern question; and tho visit of M. Benedetti to Paris is whoily of a private nature. Mo debate raised by M. Thiers was continued March M, Garnier Pages replied to the absurd arguments of M. Thiers as to the desirayility of fostering sali ~tates, M. Emile Oflivier advised that France should honestly accept the changes whic have taxon place in Germany. THE BERBY REFORM BILL. Plain Hints for the Reconstructed Cabiact. (Feom the London Times, March 6 } * © © The bill of the goverunont aot yet befére the country. We know that it will enfronchise freely, and we are assured that it will mot correspamd to the purely democratc views which Mr. Brigit expresses. It may be chat whon the details of the bili are stated we shall not find its character exactly what Lori Stanley last night described \o the House of Commons; but it must be acknowledced that a bill of that character is What the nation wants. Everybody wishes to satisfy tho just ambition of the working classes to have a I share in the government of wishes to see them wielding supreme . right—nay, it 18 essential, that this should be frankly avowed, and that the spokesman of the Ministry in introducing thetr reform bill should distinctiy state the object and intent of every part of the measure, Such frankness is the only way of proving that no attempt is fr he pre the classes rane ae enfranchised—to coufer a boon on them openly, wi lonign of taking it way in secret. If the a each branch of the frate- work of the reform bill be fairly avowed at the outset, tion of the Ministry will be infinitely strength: 'o trust this will be done. The Mii have made many mistakes; let them not add to them another fatal s anne ¢ 4 the ae nt < the reform question. in ing Measure, let them avord all attempts bbe oa oe CA ES Toatations pendent on the creation ‘new 4 led" privileges, but let them not shrink from noveitios of electoral pro- cedure, But, above all things, lef we have no more Whatever they do, whatever counsel they may finally adopt, lot them explain ite meaning and {ts justi- fication with the utmost plainness to Parliament and the er ae, will thus disarm prejudice, and give them- ves irost ise of success. March 15, Earl Grey gave to the House of Lords and the country his views upon the grestion of reform. He ts afraid of the pi jerance of numbers, and sees no moans of avoiding it save by the adoption of a cumula- tive vote. I cumilative vote is his panacea for all the ills of the body pote He is afraid of legis- lation in haste, and urges that it would be better to wait oven until another session for a Reform bill, rather than bave some hasty and crude measure, Plural voting finds no favor in his eyes, and, therefore, the scheme of re- form which the government has now agroed upon will not, we expect, have his lordship’s support. FRENCH VIEW OF FENIANISM. Strategy oft’ ‘Men in the Gap’*—The Causes Which Have Excited the Movement, (From the Paris Debate, Mareh 13.) bed Every day the English Ministers declare jiament that the Irish insurrection is extinguished, and that the military forces at the disposal of the government are More than sufficient to suppress every serious move- ment. And yet the rising doos not end, and wil! not end for a long while; i és ever recommencing. No doubt the regular troops, who, Treland as if in a conquered country, will win battle whon the enemy offers ; The tactics of the 5 but the insurgonte are clear enou; ey bave jong been indicated by the insurgents themseivee—to avoid all gon- efal actions, in which they would inevitably be crushed, but to harass the troops by Mountain and guerilla warfare; fg dipporse 9 soon ag they aro reached and go apd rally NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 238, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. i be a itt ; Sh i] B i i f at i al | i i rat i i ells il | : ie i 5 z ae 3 & i Bez i eFze z 2 5 E 3 capnot be called prolem maitre creatam. Their sires wore cailed the United Irishmen, bred Whiteboys, the Hearts of Oak, the Stell the Black- feet. Misery is their 5 her at ts, famine, fever and pestile A (fic mother of istory is a legend; turies—not since the conquest. selves conquered, still oppressed, ‘ander a military oecupation; they still consider the invasion as a thing of yesterday. Passing through a field, the peasant points to the ground at his feet and says to tis chil- dren, “This is yours; 1 belonged to your fore’ athers itis the -axons who have takep.it from ua.’ This nis- tory-of Ireland is always the same, and when we speak of it we may say, “T always tell you the @ame thing, becouse it is always the same.” Read! the proclamation the insurgents published the other day. As will be sven by this proclamatioa, and moreover oy the very compo- sition of the insurgents and tbeir origin, this movement is essentially diferent from that’ which Hreiaud roso for thiry yews ago, It is con- nected rather with the great rebellion of 1798 Fepienisin 12 above all a return movement from Amer- iva—a sort of ebb of the tide of poverty cast upon the other side of the Atlantic by famine and jyphus. I saw that horrible pestience of 1847, which devoured two miitions of human creatures; I Still see those herds of Spectres dying in the gutiers at the doors of the over- crowded Lospitals After poverty it was youth which left; the young Ireland republicans of 1848 em'grated to the land of the repeblic, and from year to year the cur- rent of emivration d—it was by hundreds of tho sands that the stream flowed on from old Murope to yonng America. These emigrants, these outea-ts these atlas, who departed leavin; impreeations bei ind the’ and carrying wita them oaths of hatred and venveanc: have fou “1 on th? other side of the ocean a second Ireland, which is in a state of per- manent copspiracy)y against’ Engiand They it is who carry armed invasions into the Eng- lish possessions in Amora: they it is who lave formed al! those associations, ail those masonic lo 1 tue Pena society has sprung, In that new dies country, where ther» is room for ail, they tave mace money. Many took part in the great Ameri. oan civ din it a certain.amount of mil- itary experiance. which they place at the service of their fellow countryinen, ‘The Trish insurrection is es- sentialy Am Tue money, the arms, the leaders come from America; it 18 a retarn af the cmnigrants for offensive purposes. ' Th's transplantation has completely changed the charac er of the Irish insurrection. We are accustomed to see in history the autagonism of Cathblic Ireland and Protestant land. Now, the religious question cvunts for nothing Were O'Connell resusci- tated be would be nooted. Tho Irish revolutiontsts aro not only republicans but ratonalista; they will subinit to the domination of the — Catholic clerzy no moro than > that of the Protestant clergy. They have inscribod on their banuer the emancr- pation of thought, the secularization of instruction, the separation of church ard state, As happens in Spain and Ttaty, and in overy nation reared where thought is stifled, tuey leap at a bound from superstition to atheism, from the senpulary to blasphemy, This is why we see the Catholic clergy in Ireland fur the first time make common cause with the Protesiant government of Euc- land, ‘The ioaurrection is avathematized from the pul- Bi and Ye: isin excommunicaied like Freemasonry, Established society closes in its ranks against an assaiii. which threa‘ens iti its every class, in its every grad. and in its @very form. We know very weli—w sa) go once aguin—that tne Irish will not take Eugiand; we know véry well that they will not even tike Treland, [But if they are poworleas to do thing, they can prevent euxshtog fram being done. With such.a state of things Bo-o1 uo labor, 26 industry, no secur. | ity 18 possibte. © A few dav« ore sufficient to destroy the. work of long years. ‘Por fit or twenty ever since the law whiclt had’ mobilised mortmai Property in Ireland, segs. money: bad gone to the country ani been embarked in both land and trade. Atthe same time that wound of Ireland, “absenteeism” —that is, the non-reaidence'of the creat landowners, who did nothing but ‘draw their revenues, through agents, in. order to spend therm’ ta Kngiand or on the coptinent—tended consideratiy to diminish, This regenerative movement is compictely paralyzed and checked. In vain the Eng- lish aod the Bugitxh government crush the tosarrection. That is jterwards what ‘tare, trade, capi already much shaken longer exists, Costies ‘are boing fortified as in fendat mes; isolated houses bave become uninbabitable, Business men who bave grown rich, and who had begun to buy land and spend money upan it, are regarded as usurpers and spoliators, and are shot at, Even in the towns trade bas no foture; and the other day—that on which the insurrection broke out im several countios at once—dundrods of young men were missing trom the Dublin shops. THE WORK IN “THE GAP.” The Fenian Oath. {Limerick Junction (March 13) correspoadence of London Times.) Acopy of tha Fenian outh was found upon Bourke, the man who led the insurgents at Ballyhurst, near Tij perary, aud » lo being oa horseback came to grict at first ditch. ‘In the presence of Almighty God,”’ so tl oath raps, “I solemnly swear that I will not bear arms against, or by word or act give information, aid or com- fort to tue enemies of the Irish republic until regularly relieved of this oblication—so help me God''' The form of oath is not badly conceived 1f the ovject be to procure its wide acceptance. According s strict grammatical construction the underiling ex. acted is Bot to bear arms against the enermes of the Irish republic—a droll way wi advancing Fenianism indeed. But even as it would be generally understood, it does not pledge those who take it to anything more than Dr. Jounsou thought was meant by subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles. “You are not supposed to as- at You undertake not to preach * oath merely calls for something ity, and probably, therefore, it is not the o; the other relating touctive support, and requiring from the neophyte a promise of obedience when he 1s called toarms. The unwillingness of the people to supply information may be accounted for in part by the extent to which the onib above given has been taken, them.’ tral Discipline in the Fenian Army. The Fenian feaders were prompt in punishing any breach of discipline of insubordination on the part of their dupes. (ne instance which occurred near Tippe- Tary was told me to-day. A farmer's son, who says he ‘was impressed by the insurgents, was out with them all Tuesday night. In the morning, feeling very hungry as wel! as very tired, be said he would go home to break. fast, As no wilitary code, not even the Fenian code, can recognize the right of an army inthe fleldto go every man his own way to meals, the Fentan leader ob- jected to this proposal. However, the young recruit was enused to the rigid discipline by which armios are kopt together, and being very huncry be was very wilful, andas he weighed the assured delights of the morn- ing rasher and hot toa against the remote prospect of aha’porth of bread and water from the brook, he stepped boldiy out in the direction of home. The Irish- American ieader of the Fenian band went after him, and with an oath gave him his breakfast in the shape of ‘8 bullet through his thigh. The man is now under care of a su and on Sun- day Mr. M ay of Kingswil! rary, ant ovat to take his deposition. ‘One 80 #8 ide J = > Yesterday were thickly covered with snow, while the intense, A thaw set in during the ight falls took place, and there indication of any favorable change in the unusually ‘weather this morning is very severe, i att 7 j i i i ' 2 Man- | in bis native land. | { é Hi f : Hi i | i a fi i g i : ' Leaving the train at Elizabethtown, I designed to go by stage route about sixteen miles into the back country. Running down to that point, it was observable that the face of the country appeared legs and Jess favorable, and farmers were disposed to take a desponding view of their prospects. Still there are not a few who looked upon the bright side, and belteved they might do a decent thing yel, even tn tobacco, which was least promising of all. Passing Salt river and the Rolling Fork, it was apparent that the plantations along their course had suffered from the inundation, and the soil was washed away m a few places; but the destruction was not extensive, as the river had not far overflowed its natural bahks. It seemed fair to. conclude that if the farmers could be favored with a cessation of wet weather, their case would not turn cut so hardsafter all, Previous to the rainy season the indications throughout the counties lying along the route were of an increasing prosperity. There was grea’ activicy in all branches of industry connected with the farming inverest, The little towns were looking up, busy and thriving, Houses were in pro ection, and new settlements were starting into being at tivantageous points on the line of the rail- way. All of this is by nO means mmterrupted, and there is an air of thrift still apparent through a veil of dis- couragement. At Etizabetbtown [took the coach as I had intended, ‘This kind of travelling is vext to an impossibility at this time, particularly when it happens to be over a turnpike Litth> b-tter than a dirt road; and T leave the subject as being allogether “too many for me,” and proceed on my way ‘There were four o° us in th» coach, and my compan- ions f il to begutling the tedium of the journey in cone vervation while £ could not choose but listen ‘They wer> ail natives of the State, thoagh one had resided for many years in Ohio and was a stranger One was a ‘conservative ;” the other resident Kentuckian was still hankering after the flesh po!s ofa dead dynasty, aud in the march of the day was lumbering far bebind with the impedimenta, a sort of malingerer, sick Over alost cause, The “foreien’” gentioman was a democrat, It happened in some way thar the dolefal man gave vent to bis repining by making acomparison between the comforts one enjoyed under the good old ruje and the miserable make shift one must put up with now. Perhaps the bumping and bang- ing he was getting as he was joited about like @ pea in a rattle made him think of his sures and tender spots. At ail events he enumerated a catalogue of troubles and tribalations, and wound up with tho complaint that seemed to be the gist of them all, “You didn't have to tote your own wool and water in those days. Every man had bis pigger totetch and carry for him, but now its diferent,’” and the poor teilow put on a dismal face, and vurned appealingly to hs conservative companion, as much aa to say, ~hings can't be much worse: when they have arrived at that pass.” But he did not get the enconragement he looked for. The conservative ob- Jecied decitedty; bat he threw im a remark or two in jaudation of State rights, and some fling at Congress, to make his opinions go down. ‘Thus the conversation was started and wont on with: out sisagroeavie warmth on either side, the Ohio gen- teman tinding an occasional opportunity to throw in a word tozave the bee of both parties, Tae consery- ative endeavored to show the dismal gentleman that whatever question of right might be involved in the subject of cmanctpation, taking it as an accomplished fact, tt wax not to blame, to any considerable degree, for the evils allégod uzainst it, “Granted,’’ ho said, ‘the negroes are shittloss and die- inclined,to work; but they alyays were that, and it does not appear (hat n futare they will be more but rather legs 50 as Soun as they come to learn the responsibility of their sittation. Soelf-dependence must certamly stim- late jndusiry.. As for having some one to go your me- ‘alal se: , youcan Have more labor of that kind for the saine amount of money than you ever could. Men ‘ean he had for $20 a mon h—good srages (Lay nothing of getting them for $10, which is often done about here), apd that is iess than you formerly paid when thoy were Slaves. To this, as a slave “Then I pits '8 all,’” said the conserva- tive, with asmile “I can fancy the condition of house servant kept on that amount. Food, clotivit terest on the investinent aud all that must be calc ‘lated ip the expense of Keeping a slave. Pray, how much do you estinate a good negro to have been worth ?”” The calculation that was to have been based na tho re- ply tothis query never transpired. The coach lurched heavily to one side and came to grief ina mud hole, Tho mshap broke #9 bones, and was soon repaired; bat i broke the thread of the conversation; and, when it was again taken up by the dismal maa, no effort was made to reanite it Nor is it two he wor » other responded, ‘*$200 a year is a3 much od bartly necessary to follow language, with its belitting figures, can be found served up in any copperhead paper. Touching ‘on “usurpation”? was the ope touch of cominon feeling that made these three men akin; and, for a moment, it was like a “happy family. "? Not much more was said, and we soon after reached the end of our journey. i thought worth while Jo take down the main poinis of the conversation, simpiy as presenting an example of the fact tbat various inflvences are working im this Stato—some calculated to check, others to promote, the re-establishment of society in its new form I could not but think that the man of passive counsels was not wholiy oppored to the other's way of viowing a citizon’s responsibilities, and at home would be found playing the injured saint a littie less, and the honest husbandman a little more. Arrived at our destination, every one went to his business; I to mine, wi.ich was to look about and hear and see As much as possibie in a short space of tim First, I took @ 100K at the place, or rather street, trom the botel door, Decided!y uninv iting and little promising— Bothing to satiefy expectation, it had a naked, aban- doned air, as if waiting a long time for somebody or somothing to turn up, aud nothing ever had. I fancied that whoever watches at those windows’ for the coming of somebody must watch long and wearily in vain, First and lat, thore must have been a great many disappoint- ments of one kind and another in that little street, and mine seemed to be the last of all. Nothing of interest occurred to me in this tired litde town, and I left it incontinently, Striking across countre, horseback, mleback, on foot, anyhow to Giasgow, I listened all the way to every moving tale; bat alth tales of sor- row are plentiful enough, it did not occur to me that any one was much hurt. A good oid dame who gave me a divner that I much relished of corn-dodgers and told me quite pitifally—all im the same breath—that she had lost everything now; that her niggers were free, and she believed was no more liberty left in aes | and she might as weildie. She admitted that she coul “hire them cheaper than she coaid own and that seemed to give hera more favorable ee. American liberties; and my opinion is she will ‘some ten years thi age therer, i: quiet so faras my any. an stealing down about Danville, all observation goes. Condition of Things Along the Kentucky Shore—The Reconstruction Question, Poll- of the Late Os Boarn Streamer Great Rerveric, Lovrsvinie (Ky.) Lanpino, March 23, 1867. } Our trip from Cincinnati to this point was not attended by any remarkable incident beyond the usual curiosity manifested at the landings by the natives when thoy were permitted to get a look at the “big boat,” as they call the Great Republic. The appoarance of Louisville is by no means as inviting as it might be, owing to the effects of the late disastrous flood. The levee and streets bordering on the river are ankle deep in mud, and busi- ness is much retarded in consequence. Huge logs and tranks of trees have been left in the lower part o the city by tho receding waters, while lighter drift wood is ® foot deep and marks the shore for miles above and below the city. 1t is an old saying that “it man ill wind that blows nobody good.” De. structive as the flood was to many of the residents, the poor will reap a rich harvest of firewood, and many a lowly tenement will be made warm and cheerful which ‘would otherwise have been cold and desolate, The city is rather lively just now from two causes First, the near approach Of the spring ecleotions, in which there is unusual interest manifested, and second, the arrival of the great Ristori, whose Elizabeth seoms to have turned the peopie’s heads. By the talking of politics, these Kentuckians croitielta War’ Of rebels as you will find anywhere, from the Rio Grande to the Pototnac. Nowhere in the South, will ‘ " perhaps, Woe hott end brooms of Laer i Pe Jandit steamer John T. Coomb, it appears, her moor- ings jast above the levee wien the river was at ita great est height. During the night, when we, ae was a s sleep oD the water took fi lore F jeucee pene gene) The next day found her high and dry on a ledge ‘of limestone rocks, from which it will be impossible ever to remove her, Her position now is very muca like as if one of your North river boats had been Ilfted half way up the Palisades, and deposited on a projecting ledge forall time, The Coombs is quite a large pon apd from her elevated position can be seen for miles, ‘or present position was the result of a piece of gross carclessneas on the part of some of the THE KIMBALL ABORTION CASE. Examinati Testimony for the Prosecution—Twe Signatures Appended to the C quisition Alleged to be Forged, &c. t The examination of Dr. Goorge Boakloy and Mra, Nancy Cole io the Kimball abortion case was continued yesterday before Justice Dowling, at the Tombs. The following evidonc? was taken :— Dr, Edward B, Dalton sworn—Was a physician practis- ing in this city, and was connected with the sanitary department of the Metropolitan Board of Health; in the Kimball case he had first sought for the records existing in the office of the Registrar of Vital Statistica, Dr. Elisha Harris, and had desired him to communicate with Coroner Gamble and desire a complete record of the inquiry upon the body; on Dr. Harris reporting that he had failed to obtain that, witness desired niin to commu- nicate with the Superintendent of Public Health at Prov- idence, and obiain from bim such infor rezarding: the arrival and buriai of the body of Mrs. Kimball ag might be in Lis possession, be pod with all the papers and documents; as a result he correspondence be- tween Dr. Harris and the Providence Superintendent of Public Health a coroner’s inquest was eid at that place; a3 soon as he had ascertained that an inquisition is ‘been held at that place witness made an affidavit setting forth the informetion he had received from that source; witness was then des red to visit Dr. George and to request his attendance the Board of important business; he aly visited the and Dr Beakley aitended ip compliance with quest; Judge Dowling was thon summoned to the of Health and a complaint made against Dr. Cross-examined by ex-Recorder Smith:—Some were received at the Board of Health in reference to inquisition made in this city; the only paper witness ceived was a certifioat was by Rexistrar of Vi to q E ir I iffertt i had instructea did not know that jonemaey eyes Deon a:discussion at the Board leaith as to assignil certain portions of a hospital to physicians who practised homeopathy ; had that there had been such « dis- cussion; Dr. Parker, he believed, was stight to the hommopathic school of ‘medicine; Dr. er, had heard, had opposed tne assignment of certain wards in hospitals tor the use of physicians; when he caliet upon Dr. Beakley witness had bad a conversation with him; 1 congequence of that conversation Dr. accompanied him to the office of the Board of Health; Dr, Beakiey voluntarily accompanied him; witness told the doctor what he wanted with him; when they ar- rived at the Board of Health witness took Dr. into the office of Presideat Schultz; bad versation with him there; witness said in substance that the doctor was fnvited there in consequence of an inres- tgatien into the facts of @ certaiu case, that of Mra Kimball; the doctor asked if there was a sn: of fou! play; I told him there was; he then asked if there ‘was a suspicion of the of s miscarriage; told him there was; the doctor assured me that if there bad been foul play he bad had noting to do with it; Dr. Boakley waited in off four or five hours before Ji arrived ; the door was not locked ; did not teil the doctor he must not leave, but if he had offered to do #0 would have prevented him’ the doctor asked to be permitted to leave and witness told him it was desired he should remain; dia not recollect saying that he could not go; if tie had attempted to go the police would have stopped him; no one else had been there witness would have tried per- sonally to detain him; witness was acting under the di- rection of bis superiors; witness made po ngs, ar against the doctor when he was brought vefore Judge Dowling. Mr. Wilson, the undertaker, was ee ee to be an inquisition held upon the hi mI Mr. Gunning S. Bedford then stated that he had re- ceived the imquisition from the coroner's oilice, and placed the coroner's clerk upou the stand to testify that the signature of Coroner Gamble was Unpemel Judge Dowling, baving examined the inquisition, said that the name of Sarah . all was signed differ- ently to her signature upon affidavit; and in that affidavit she had sworn that she had never signed any paper for the Coroner and that she was unaware that 2 Bedtord propoced, as Miss Coggvhall was serious r. proposed, as was iy ill and unable to atvend 10 court, a recesa of two hours should be taken, and that Judge Dowling, ex-Recorder Smith and himself, should visit her and take hor testi- mony ns to whether the signature on the inquisition was genuine or not. This motion having been agreed to, the court adjourned. At two o'clock the dings were resumed. Mr, Bedford stated that Sudge Dowling, together with Mr. Smith and himself, had visited Miss: 1, and ‘that she bad most emphatically and uaqualifiedly denied having signed the an motion to dismiss the papel Mr, Smith then made pris- oner, on the ground that the testimony was insuMcient pod ag even a suspicion that the defendant was ty. P beth Bedford replied, and Judge Dowling decided to hold the prisoner. The case was then adjourned until two o'clock to day, when the witnesses for the defence wili be ex- am! OBITUARY. one to the Turkish army. undoubtedly great talents, however, soon elevated him pad eye Rome gt he tg bon = he Tn ghige bg Bh IL Rroat age ot ~ In right Tefusing to oxercise vas arenes Period the merely ihe