The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1867, Page 6

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Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fled they should be sent in before half-past eight o'clock in the evening. THE NWaWs. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated to yesterday evening, March 28, The Grecian government has asked the intervention of European Powers to prevent further bloodshed in Candia, It was reported in London that the government had decided to guarantee the Canadian Railroad lean. Ex-Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, was arrested under a magistrate’s warrant and held for examination, prepara- tory to trial for his acts in the colony. Consuls were at 913; for money in London in the after. noos, a decline from the opening. United States five- twenties were at 7434 in London, 7734 in Frankfort and 6459 in Paris at noon. The Liverpool cotton market was dull in the after- noon, with middling uplands at 133¢d. Breadstafls dull and provisions firm at noon. Our special correspondence from France, including a letter from Paris and another from La Vendee, is of an important character. It is clear that Napoleon's politi- cal prestige has suffered severely of late, and the ‘utterances of the official Monieur go to show that he feels it. La Vendee, ‘the least loyal” of the provinces of the empife, is in = condition of destitution and dis- eontent. The Fenian Executive in Ireland, dating at the foot of the Galtees on the 12th of March, has issued a mani- fosto declaring the island annexed to the United States. The document purports to be signed by the patriot leaders, Hagh O'Neil, Sarsficld, Wolfe Tone, Edward Fitagerald and Smith O'Brien. It has been circulated extensively, A copy of the paper appears in our columas. Our special advices from Dublin and Cork are dated to noon of St Patnck’s Day. The country was quiet, but greatly excited. A powerful British squadron was ordered from Portsmouth to the coast of Ireland. CONGRESS, Inthe Senate yesterday joint resolutions amending the wooi tariff bill; relative to the transportation of ‘troops to the Pacific by the Isthmus route; authorizing two dredgo boats for use at the mouth of the Missiasippi; conGrming certain sales of land made by the direct tax commissioners in South Carolina, and for a survey for a ship canal around the Falls of the Ohio, were passed. The adjournment question was taken up and as substi- tute for the House amendment was adopted, roquiring the presiding officers to adjourn their houses on Satur- day until the first Wednesday in July and then sine die unless otherwise ordered. The proposition as amended was then passed, The bill of the House for the monthly payment of Congressmen was passed. Pending discus- sion on the bill to fix the time at which the Bankrupt bill shall go into effect, the Senate went into executive session, and om reopening the doors a message from-the House was received calling fora conference committee on the adjournment resolution, A committee was ap- Pointed and the Senate adjourned. In the House the resolations adopted by the Maryland Republican State Convention were presented by the Speaker, and after a spirited debate were referred to the Judiciary Committee, In the course of debate Mr. Thomas, of Maryland, said that the present form of government in Maryiand was an engine of tyranny and oppression; Congress had tho right to guarantee the State a republican form of government by an enabling ect, and the people were appealing to them to do so, ‘The adjournment question came up again, and the House agreed to adjourn to-day until the Sth of June. A joint resolution favoring the extension of negro sufirage was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Permission was asked to introduce @ bill to repeal the Bankrupt law of last session, but objection was made, The joint resoiu- tion for the relief of the contractors of the iron- clad Comanche was passed under @ suspension of the rules. The rales wore again sus- pended to permit Mr. Banks to introduce a Dill constitoting eight hours a day's labor for govern- ‘ment laborers, workmen or mechanics, and the bill was Passed. The Senate amendments to the adjourpment resolution were non-coucurred in, and a Committee of Conference was asked for, Further business of a private or personal character was transacted and the House ad- Journed, THE LEGISLATURE In the Senate yestorday bills for the relief of the pub- lic schools of New York and for the better regulation of Pawnbrokers and others, were advanced to a third read- ing. Bills relative to criminal prosecutions, allowing Persons accused to testify except in capital offences, and numerous others of a persmal or local nature wore passed. The Crosstown Railroad was reported favorably, and the bill requiring the Harlem Railroad to wall up the Yorkville cut was passed. In the evening session ‘the bills incorporating the New York and Brooklyn Pneumatic Despatch Company and others were advanced to a third reading, In the Assembly bills authorizing the city of Brooklyn to raise money for sanitary purposes, to amend the Re- ‘vised Statutes relative to trial by jary, and authorizing the extension of certain streets in Brooklyn were ad. ‘vanoed to a third reading. Bills to alter the map or plan of New York city, im relation to a quarantine in the port of New York, and toamond the tanking laws of the Biate were ‘passed, . The Board of Excise was in session yesterday, when Ive licenses wete revoked. The Board of Health also Deld a meeting, and a resolution directing the Sanitary Buperintendent to report any neglect of duty or infor- ality on the part of coroners was adopted. Forty-one tenement houses, out of one hundred and eighty-seven inspected, bad been found in a condition detrimental to health. Tho United States supply steamer Newborn arrived at NEW the Broo Yard yesterday from the gulf Sywad- ron, She experienced heavy northerly gales all the way. Off Charleston she passed Iarge nambers of new water pails painted greeu and blue; no marks on them, ‘Twenty barrels of chewing tobacco were seized in & warehouse in William street yesterday by the revenue officers on the ground that they bore counterfeit inspec- tion marks, One hundred and eighteen barrels with the inspection marks uncancelled were also seized. The various yacht clubs of the city and vicinity are energetically preparing tor the coming season. ‘A lady named Mrs, Thompson, residing in Bergen street, was garroted and robbed by three ruffians last evening, at the corner of Lawrence and Willoughby streets, Brooklyn. A curious case of alleged fraud has been developed in the Chicago courts, one of the parties to which was ar- rested in this city on Sunday. Aman named Rainforth simulated death and disappeared. His will was read, leaving all the property he bad to certain persons, ac- complices with him in the fraud, but it was never proven, Arule of court being obtained to compel the executors to prove the will they confessed that Rain- forth was still alive, and that his death was simulated to defraud several! life insurance companies, in which he had effected policies amounting to $15,000. A long search for Rainforth ensued, and he was found at the Dupont House, on Hudson and Laight stroets, on Sunday night, An order of arrest for Daniel Drew and Fisk & Belden, brokers, was issued yesterday on the complaint of Joseph B. Stewart, the assignee of Leonard Huyck, charging them with wrongful conversion of capital fur- nished by Huyck for a joint operation, Judgment is do- manded in the sum of $800,000, and a petition is entered to have the defendants render an account of their operations in Erie stock for the last year and a half, Mr. Drew was heid to bail in the sum of $250,000, and Messra, Fisk & Belden $50,000 each. ‘The Coroner's jury in the case of Delia Lanergan, sup- posed to have been murdered by her husband, Morris Lanergan, found a verdict to that effect yesterday, and Lanergan was committed to the Tombs to await the action of the Graud Jury. ‘The investigation inthe case of the murder of John Fitzpatrick, in Williamsburg, on the evening of Monday, the 18th inst., was continued by Coroner Smith and a jury yesterday. The three prisoners suspected of the crime were present, Testimony was taken, and the in- quest was adjourned yntil Monday next, Patrick Cavanaugh, who was examined for alleged mur der, in having struck a boy with a bootjack, from the effects of which it was supposed he died, was discharged by Justice Cornwoll in Brooklyn yesterday. Dr. George Beakley gave bail in the sum of $10,000, and Mrs, Nancy Coles in the§ sum of $1,000, to answer the charge of complicity in the killing of Mrs. Kimball by an attempt at abortion. Miss Maria Jones, a young lady who has been treated by Dr. Thiers, on Third ave- nue, it is alleged for the purpose of producing an abor- tion, made an affidavit to that effect yesterday. In the Court of Appeals yesterday the cases of Rpinetug A. Willis, appellant, vs, Silas Mott, executor, &c., re- spondent; Eliphalet Lyon, executor, &c., réspondent, vs. Samuel L, Mitchell, appellant, were argued and sub- mitted, The case of Platt Potter, administrator, respond- ent, va. Wm. Van Vrauken et al., appellant, was sub- mitted on briefs; and the case of Dougald McQueen, plaintiff and appellant, vs. Sarah A. Babcock, exocutrix, and H. A. Babcock, executor, &c., was submitted on brief by counsel for respondent, appellant being granted twenty days to amend points, The fine steamehip Morro Castle, Capt. Richard Adams, will sail to-Gay (Friday), at three P. M., for Havana, from pier No. 4 North river. Horeafter the departures of the Havana mail steamers. will be on Thuradays of. each weok, arriving at Havana on Tuesdays; returning they will leave Havana on Saturdays, arriving at this elty on Wednesdays, This arrangement will doubtless give much satisfaction to our merchants, as they will be enabled to answer their correspondeats more promptly than horetofore ‘The stock market was comparatively firm yesterday. Gold closed 134%. The marketa yesterday were generally steady, but without especial activity. The movement in imported merchandise was rather light, Cotton was fairly active and firm at 305¢c. for middling upland. At the Produce Exchange business in breadstuife was light, and prices ‘were lower. Corn was decidedly higher. Oats were steady. Wheat and flourciosed firm at previous quota- tions, Pork was without decided change. Beef was teady, while lard was unchanged Freights were heavy. Whiskey wasa shade easier. Naval stores were quict. Petroleum was depressed. MISCELLANEOUS. Despatches from San Luis Potosi report that there was good reason to believe that Maximilian, finding himeelf cornered, liberal troops being in front and rear of him, and his main dependence for supplies being on the meagre crops in his neighborhood, had offered to sur- render. The answer was a refusal to treat with traitors. Mendez and Fragosa, liberals, were on the road between Querétaro and Mexico with five hundred guerrillas, A communication from Havana says that arrangements had been made there by agents of Maximilian for the enlistment of Spaniards into the service of the Mexican imperialists, About three hundred Lad been calisted for this purpose, Despatches by the way of the Rio Grande state that the supply of water at Querétare was Teported cut off bythe liberals, Miramon had tesued a proclamation declaring a war of extermination. Vera Cruz papers report that Porfirio Diaz was besieged in Huamantia with three thousand troops. The garrison at Mexico City was said to be one thousand two hundred men. Our correspondent at Columbia, & C., has recently made a trip of some length through the State, and is of opinion that the railroads are as demoralized as the peo- ple, Columbia still plainly shows the marks of the fire which swept over it during the war, The people are generally disposed to feel reckless in regard to the con- sequences of reconstruction, and work themselves inte a fit of passion when talking about it. Our corre- spondent believes that there is some sly artifice con- coaled beneath the professions of Wade Hampton and others at the recent colored mass mecting conciliatory of the negroes. They talk very differently im private conversation. In Virginia reconstraction is rapidly pro- greesing. Even the most fanatical ef the ex-rebels ‘express themselves anxious to co-operate with General Schofield. The labor system will probably develop itself the coming year, as, in previous years when it proved decidedly unsatisfactory, the negroes were only con- eerned about their newly acquired liberty. Our correspondence from New Mexico, dated at Santa Fé, says the number of troops located in that district is two thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. Major General Sykes was expected to relieve General Carleton temporarily, and to be himself superseded soon by. General George W. Getty. * “e The Senate has rejected the nominations of General Stoeum for Naval Officer of the port of New York, Matthew McMabon for Postmaster of Brooklyn and Gen- oral Frank Blair as Sinister to Austria. General Sherman has obtained permission to visit the Holy Land with Captain Duocan’s party in June next, The Republican General Committee of the State have issued a call for a State Convention, to meet at Syracuse on the 10th of April, to nominate sixteen delegates at large a8 candidates of the party at the election on the the 234 of April for delegates to the Constitutional Con- vention. An old-fashioned duel is soon to take place between two Mississipp! editors at Milliken’s Bend, La. A convention for the purpose of aiding certain rail- roads im the State of Maine was held yesterday in Bangor. A republican Congressional nominating convention is called to meet in Nashville on the 17th of May next, to which the colored voters of the State are invited. A conservative convention to mominate a candidate for Governor meets next month, and the same invitation is proposed to be ex tended to the negroes, The Nova Scotia Parliament bas endorsed the action of the Confederation delegates, The new officers of Now Orleans recently appointed by General Sheridan were inaugurated yesterday. The new police force will be appointed without distinction of color, Five children were burned to death in # house at SuMeld, Ohio, on Wednesday night. A tleigh broke through the ice at Cornwall, C. W., on Wednesday, and « man, bis wife and child were drowned. The convention of whites and blacks at Raleigh, N. C., has adjourned after a two days’ session, Resolutions were adopted eulogizing Congress, endorsing the Civil Rights and Reconstruction bills, and favoring” univorsal education. Fifty-three counties were represented. Resolutions asking the government to grant belliceront Fights to Ireland have been adopted in ihe Neyala Sonate ns Active Work in the South- General Sheridau’s Coup d@’E tat—Congress and the President. “Little Phil Sheridan” believes in de- cisive measures. His “General Order No. 5,” as commander of the Fifth military district, comprising the States of Louisiana and Texas, sustains his reputation, He briefly declares Andrew S. Herron, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, Edmund Abell, Judge of the First District Court of New Orleans, and John T. Monroe, Mayor of the city, removed, and names other men of a better record of loyalty as appointed to fill their places, at twelve o’clock on the day on which the order is issued. This is the short work of a coup @éat, and a republican contemporary says it “Thrills the Unionists with joy and the nullifiers with dismay.” But wherefore? What offence have these dismissed civil officers committed to justify this unceremonious removal, and why is their displacement hailed with joy by the Unionists and dismay by the nullifiers ? The official correspondence on the New Or- leans massacre of last July explains the mystery. It thus appears, from the testi- mony of General Sheridan among others, that Herron, Abell and Monroe were to a great extent responsible for that massacre ; that it was the result of a conspiracy of unreconstructed rebels, officials and pri- vates, to suppress in a reign of terror the Yankee abolitionists in New Orleans and the emancipated blacks affiliating with them as a political party. But were not Herron, Abell and Monroe in the confidence of President Johnson? Unfortunately for the President they were. He was not only deceived and betrayed by them. but he tolerated them after the facts had established their criminality as confederates of the mob engaged in that July massacre. He had, however, com- mitted himself to the theory, and would not abandon it, that the obnoxious radical conven- tion and the negroes were the instigators of the riot, and that Herron, Abell and Monroe were the instruments only of law and order in its suppression. General Sheridan, on the spot, very pungently at the time took the opposite view of the affair, and his convictions of last July are embodied in this decisive order No. 5. wet In the next place it is reported that Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, has sent a compli- mentary despatch to General Sheridan approv- ing this order No. 6, and we presume that he has done so because his opinions of that New Orleans massacre are understood to be those of Sheridan. What, then, is the position of the President, assuming that these men were removed without his authority and against hig wishes? He cannot touch the Secretary of War, because he is protected in the Cabinet by the new law regulating the tenure of office. He will hardly undertake to remove Sheridan or to reinstate these obnoxious officials; because either of these proceedings will strengthen the impeachment party before the Judiciary Com- mittee of.Congress, charged with the investi- gation of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” alleged against the President in view of his impeachment and removal. His position, then, is not that of the great Mogul reclining on a bed of roses, nor anything like it. He has Sec- retary Stanton to hold him in check on one side, and the impeachment committce to watch him on the other. His only course, therefore, is to let these laws of Southern reconstraction under Stanton, Grant and the commanders of the five military distriets, take their course, taking care only to “see the laws faithfully executed.” Meanwhile, while General Sheridan has taken the bull by the horns in Louisiana, we per- ceive that General Sweeny, post commander in Georgia—in the absence of General Pope, Third District Commander—has ordered the suspension of certain local elections super- seded by Congress, that General Schofield is very popular in Virginia, that General Sickles has been favorably received by all parties in North and South Carolina, and that the people of Mississippi and Arkansas are pleased with their commander, General Ord. From Virginia to Texas we perceive, too, that the republican politicians, white and black, including some colored stumpers from the North, are actively at work organizing a Southern wing of the repub- lican party, while General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, and General Lee, in Virginia, and others of that school, are moving as earnestly in behalf of a new independent Southern party of whites and blacks, planters and laborers, under the laws of reconstruction. From all these proceedings we see that Secretary Stan- ton, with the district military commanders under his instructions and approval, is really the master of the situation, that the Southern people are at last thoroughly convinced that President Johnson cannot even help himself, and that instead of praying any longer to Her- cules they must put their own shoulders to the wheel and work out their own salvation under the conditions of war resulting from the col- lapse of their Southern confederacy. To make all things sure, Congress, now about to adjourn, may decide to come together again in the summer to take a look at the sitastion and progress of reconstruction in the South, and to see what the impeachment committee will recommend in reference to President Jobnson, and ‘to learn also what will have been done meantime, or to deter- mine what must be done with Collector Smythe and other office holders whose places are wanted by other parties. Moreover, as the radicals of Maryland threaten a little revolution on their own account unless Con- gress shall interpose to save them, that matter may also come up for the summer session. Otherwise we expect that everything will go on so smoothly that this precautionary ses- sion will have nothing to do but to report pro- gress and adjourn till December. Our State Constitutional Convention. Both branches of the Legislature agreed on Wednesday to the report of the conference committee on the bill providing for a conven- tion to revise the State constitution, and the bill was passed. It provides for the election of delegates by Senatorial districts, adopting also the recommendation in the Governor's message, that thirty-two delegates at large should be chosen—sixteen to represent the republican party and sixteen the democratic party. The election is fixed for the 234 of April, and will be held according to the suf- frage system of the present constitution. In addition to the thirty-two delegates at large each of the Senatorial districts will elect four delegates for itself; so that the whole number oi. the delegates to the Coavention will be one hundred and sixty. As the republicans have a large majority of the districts they will probably have a decisive majority in the Con- vention. We may, therefore, expect some changes in our organic State law very mate- rially affecting our city government, What these changes will be cannot, of course, be predicted ; but our municipal affairs have come to such a pass that our taxpaying citi- zens would doubtless welcome almost any change. No change could easily be for the worse. The proposed extension of negro suffrage was deteated ; but it is likely that the Convention will make special provision for it in the new constitution. Perhaps the advo- cates of women’s suffrage will also make a dead set at the Convention for a recognition of their claims, with what success we shall see. A Very Pretty Quarrel as It Stands, In a recent debate in the French Senate the Duke de Persigny, in pleading the advantages of a ministry which is not responsible to the Legislature, turned to the United States and its Cabinet, which is- not dismissed by an adverse vote of the House of Representatives, and then he turned to England, where the Cabinet is subordinate to the Commons, and said, in making his comparison :— Takes the case of America during the late war. The Chambers of the North were as ardent as the govern- ment for the conquest of the South; but suppose that responsible ministers had been sitting in them—do you suppose the tasue would have been the same? Certainly not, At every battle lost there would have been a change of ministry, an wpact of the State and the rout of the armics would Nave extended to all men's minds. (Hear, hear.) Look at the attitude of England during that struggle. ‘The sentiments of our beighbors were not doubtful. Assured- ly their wishes were not for the re-establishment of the Union. Never was a finer occasion to free England for some centuries from her American nit msible ministers were there! They counted the ranks of their adyersaries—so many radicals who will vote for the Union from political passion ; so many tories, who, though they wish for the same things as the whigs, will ‘vote against them to turn them out. Before this catculation they stopped short, inert and discouraged; and the Goddess Oppor'unity escaped their powerless hands. Shades of Pitt and Chatham, you ought to shudder; for the instrument which in your hands was one of force Decome in those of your successors one of weakness / Now, considering that France was in the same boat with England, and that each desired the destruction of this great republic, this ig rather a back-handed compliment of the French Minister of State to his master’s devoted ally. We see what the Duke is driving at; but this illustration ‘may lead to some curious disclo- sures, and perhaps to serious consequenees touching the entente cordiale between France and England. ~ In reply to this assault of Persigny on “per- fide Albion” the London Times is quite severe, and is evidently desirous of clearing England of the charges made with regard to the United States. It says, “When the golden opportunity (which M. Persigny refers to) lately presented itself England shrank from aiding France to break up the United States by supporting the Southerners and by establishing a Mexican em- pire.” Then it adds that “under no government whatever would. England have marched one foot in such a desperate and gratuitous crusade,” There is an old proverb which says that when Togues quarrel just men get their righie, We may say that when these guilty Powers, France and England, quarrel over their hostility to the American republic during the war we are likely to get at the truth. Persigny says “the sentiments of our neighbors (the English) were not doubtful. Assuredly their wishes were not for the re-establishment of the Union.” He says this boldly before all the world, and beno doubt knows what the wishes of England were. The fact is he has uttered an unpalatable truth, and the Times endeavors to shield Eng- land by asserting that she would not enter into such a desperate and gratuitous crusade. Now, we are aware that Bogland declined to enter into Napoleon’s Mexican imperial scheme at the eleventh hour; but we know that she encouraged it and eagerly recognized the em- pire of Maximilian on the earliest opportunity, as did all the other monarchical governments of Europe. Then, as to wishing to see the Union dismembered, was not England the first to recognize the rebels as belligerents? Was not the sympathy of the ruling classes in that country openly manifested for them? No one here has ever doubted that England desired to see the Union broken up. France, or rather Napoleon, was more bold atterwards in the Mexican imperial scheme, and, we may say, more imprudent and Quixotic, but England was not less hostile to the American republic. We owe neither anything for good fecling, and in our success and strength we can afford to smile at their unfriendly and futile efforts to injure us. It is amusing to notice these recrimi- nations—the quarrel of the delinquents over their misconduct and folly. We shall hear, probably, much more; for this tilt of Persigny and the Times is but the beginning of the con- troversy. By all means let us have a fall con- feasion. It will be good for the soul if not for the entente cordiale, and may be both interest- ing and profitable to us. ‘The Kingdom of Canada and the Fenians in Congress. In the House of Representatives on Wed- nesday last Mr..Banks, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a joint resolution de- claring that the people of the United States cannot regard the proposed confederation of the provinces on the northern frontier of this country without extreme solicitude; that a con- federation of States on the continent extending from ocean to ocean, established without con- sulting the people of the provinces and founded on the monarchical principle, cannot be considered otherwise than as in contraven- tion of the traditions and constantly declared principles of this government, endangering the most important interests and tending to in- crease and perpetuate the embarrassments already existing between the two governments. The resolution was passed without division. This clear and decided expression of sentiment in Congress is no doubt a faithful echo of the will of the people of the United States, The British government,’betore proceeding further in this matter of the confederation, would do well, perhaps, to confer with our government, in order to prevent future complications involy- ing the amicable relations of the two govern- ments, Mr. Banks slso reported on the same day and from the same committee another resolu- tion, declaring that the House extends its to the people of Ireland and Candia in all their just efforts to maintain the independ- ence of States, to elevate the people and to extend and perpetuate the principles of lib- erty, Although this is rather a cloudy tesolu- tion, saying as little as conveniently can be gaid on the subject, it is significant enough, especially when we remember that- there are two hundred and fifty thousand fighting Fenians YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. OPRRIRAR EES cc NET Be Ka ET eS le the British government to take into considera- tion the power of public opinion in the United States. It is certa.” tbat our citizens would not look more favora ly on ® kingdom in Canada than on an empire (2 Mexico. The Domestic Troubles of th” Family of + Nations. . By Probably upon the principle that met loves company many prominent Europead statesmen and journals have wasted a great deal of sympathy and advice upon the do- mestic troubles of the United States. During the war for the Union nothing could be more patronizing than their tone, nothing more self- complacent than their philosophy. Nowadays they presume to pity’ us and to shed bitter tears over the sad condition of the greatest of republics. The United States do not require any such sympathy. Here we are steadily working out the legitimate results of the recent war, and in spite of oceasional hitches and delays in the great work of reconstruction everything goes well and promises fairly. This country is like a strong man recovering from a severe illness, which has been very beneficial to his constitution, however painful it may have been while it lasted. There may still be a little bile at the South to remove, and perhaps there is a Presidential wound to be more thoroughly healed ; but in the main the patient is rapidly regaining health and vigor and is enjoying himself as only conva- leacents can. But when we glance at the state of affairs in the Old World we discover that the old adages concerning the skeleton in every house and the black sheep in every flock are quite as true of nations as individuals. The monarch- ists of Europe had no time to indulge their chagrin at the failure of their predictions of the dissolution of the Union before a dozen petty German princes were wiped ont of existence, two or three kings deprived of their crowns, Austria reduced to a third rate Power and France humbled in Mexico, Venice and her German policy. Never was a Nemesis moté prompt than that of the Prussian war. Now Italy is ina muddle about ber finances; Spain is upon the brink of revolution ; Turkey is trembling at the advances of Russia ; Prussia feels by no means safe in the event of a grand coalition against her. All these nations have their sore points; but England and France, the two Powers most attxious to interfere in our affairs during the rebeftion, are especially conspicuous for their domestic troubles. If we have the subdued South, England has Ireland in a state of insurrection, and France has La Vendée ripe for revolu- tion. If we arc afflicted with a few malcon- tents, England is disturbed by the reform agitation, and France has its party of liberty, who begin to be bold enough to attack Napoleon. with his own speeches in the press end with ominous epigrams inthe sdlons. We have but to sit still and watch the miseries of these diplomatic gossips, who are slway? 80 ready to pry into our family matters and retail scandal and slander about us. The gossips are evidently going to have enough to do at home; misfortunes are threatening their own households. If it were possible we would magnanimously attempt 10> avert the storm; but, as this is not permitted us, we must endeavor to philosophize as admira- bly as our neighbors did under similar circum- stances, ‘The letter of our correspondent at La Ven- dée, published in another column this morning, reveals a terrible amount of destitution in one of the least loyal provinces of France. Letters from other correspondents, recently published, show that similar misery exists in Ireland, and even in the heart of England. Starvation is no stranger in those countries. ‘The rock huts of La Vendée, the mud cabins of Ireland and the brick hovels of England are filled with people equally discontented and suffering. The poor peasant of La Vendée stuffs himself with cabbage, the Irishman fills himself with pota- toes, the English laborer swells out bis bread and cheese with bad beer, because this class of people cannot afford meat in those countries, A starving and discontented mass only waits for a leader to become danger- ous, and both in France and England the leaders are at length appearing. We shall see within a very short time marked changes in the governmental systems of those dations or formidable and sanguinary revolu- tions. The concessions which Parliament pro- |, Poses to the English, and those which Napoleon has actually offered to the French, are but sops to Cerberus, and very small sops at that. They tantalize the people rather than satisfy the popular wishes, In spite of the threats of the government and the increase of the police force the working classes ot England still meet to demand their rights, and still organize tre- mendous demonstrations that seem half like displays of force. In spite of the rigor with which Napoleon rules France journalists still hint that the empire is not to be eter- nal, and Prince Napoleon declares that if the Emperor were to die now the regency of the Empress would not last a month. A new and more stringent conscription will certainly not make matters any better; and yet that is a main feature of the new French Army bill. We are not fond of playing the réle of Cassan- dra, but we warn England that there is great mischief brewing, and we advise Napoleon to bestow a little attention upon La Vendée and our correspondents letter. Undoubtedly the aggregation in France and England of great, wretched masses of the popu- lation—turbulent and discontented because they are wretched—is a source of real and present danger to the peace of both countries. The oppressed in Ireland, the degraded agri- cultaral laborers of England, the hungry masses of La Vendée readily enough see the associa- tion between their physical miseries and mis- government, and are the great, terrible power behind the politicians who clamor for reform and change. From the dangers that thus loom out of the cabins of the lower order of national life there is one grand avenue of escape for the rulers. This is through emigration. Let the governments of France and Great Britain fos- ter and encourage by all means all plans and schemes for transferring the superflucus masses of their people to these shores, Thus they will rid themselves of their dangerous classes, and such depletion of the overcrowded hamlets of the Old World will make the struggle for life easier with those that are left behind. This policy, moreover, like the mercy that is twice blessed, while jt must improve the copdition of the people who stay in the old ‘ands, will in- within striking distance of the Canadian bor- | finitely mend the fortnties ‘of oi1 those happy der. Surely, then, it would not be unwise for,| wanderors who shall find thoir.way to the par. tures mew of the Western World; for our alr has the magio to change the depression and despair of the victims of the European systems to the exhilaration, energy and exuberant spirite of the freeman. Emigration is the grand remedy for all the troubles of Europe. Important from Mexice. Our despatches from Mexico, published in another part of the paper, show that Maximi- iiay and his grand army were in a tight place. He remm.red at Querétaro expecting the liberal General Esyobedo would attack him there; = oe but it appears shat Escobedo is too skilful a commander to waste his ammunition and strength on stone walls and intrenchments, He has taken the wiser course of hemming in the imperialists and cutting off their supplies. Escobedo had a larger force than Maximilian, that of the latter being estimated at eight or nine thousand {men, and that of the former at four- teen thousand. Maximilian is afraid to come out and fight this superior force in open field, and his communications and supplies being cut off, it is reported that he contemplates surrender- ing. Our correspondent on the spot says it was understood he had offered to surrender, but that President Juarez declined to treat with traitors, meaning, probably, Marques, Miramon and the other Mexican chiefs on the imperial side. This looks as if Maximilian wished to obtain an amnesty for these Mexicana in the articles of surrender. As to Maximilian himself, we suppose {the liberals would have no objection to let himgo. It is believed the imperialists cannot hold out, and that the war will be ended and the Juarez government fully restored within a few weeks. The Connecticut Election—Progress ot Bar- num’s Show. x The small showman has added a number of oratorical curiosities to his travelling caravan in Connecticut; but what parts they intended to play are not announced. There is General John Cochrane and General Van Wyck, of New York; General Harriman and Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire; Mr. George W- Curtis, of this city, and Mr. Patrick Corbett, of Syracuse, all of whom mugt divide between them the honors of thé woolly horsé, the Feejee mermaid, Joyce Heth, the bearded wom: spotted child, the Brooklyn Circassian and the idiotic “What Is It” Barnum is marching this curious menagerie of stump orators through the sober and respectable State of Connecticut, with tooting of fifes and roll of drums and the appropriate brazen melody of & noisy museum band, scattering meantime free passes to the curiosity shop and a fair share of greenbacks broadcast over the land. We can- not help these gentlemen if they invite the odium of all respectable people by permitting themselves to be exhibited as the suoceasors of the white whale, the Belgian giant, the negro turning white and the learned seal in the emall showman’s travelling menagerie. No doubt the republicans of Connecticut, while they are greatly amused by this motley crowd. of curi- osities, who sre, indeed, more extraordinary than any with which Barnum before hum- bugged the public, do not forget thet their splendid record of the past six or seven years cannot UM blurred end’ @isfigured by the disgrace of sending such & representative to Congress as Barnum. It is & pity that so worthy s gentleman as General Hawley, the candidate for Governor, should be submerged by carrying such = millstone round his neck; but it seems almost inevit- able that such will be his fate on Momday next. Unfortunate as it may be for the repub- lican party in Connecticut that the issue of this election should be placed upon such a basis, it may be some consolation to the party gea- erally throughout the country that there is no political issue involved in it. Whether Hawley and Barnum shall be defeated and the democratie candidate, Mr. English, be elected, the result will mot prove. either a political success or discomfiture. The case really oa trial is the moral sense of the republicans of Connecticut. If they can carry their ticket without seriously damaging their reputation it will be falsifying the Scriptural adage that you cannot touch pitch without being defiled; - The probabilities are, however, that the dis- creditable candidate for Congress in the Fourth district will drag down the whole republican State ticket with~him to utter per- © dition, if the copperhead elements represented by Toucey, Seymour and Eaton, by their il- timed interference, do not counterbalance the disgust with which all respectable republicans view the impudence of s notoriously self-cop- victed, small, awindling showman in thrusting himself forward asa candidate for a position of trust and responsibility. Tho Progress of Britich Roferm. In yesterday’s Henatp we printed a cable telegram announcing thet in the House’ of Commons on Wednesday evening last the government Reform bill was passed to a second reading without a dissenting voice, or, in par liamentary parlance, without a division. The bill is to be brought forward for the second Teading on the 8th of April. In the interval, on the 4th of April, Mr. Disraeli bas resolved to present his budget. Of the details of the Reform bill, so far at least as these have been set forth in the House of Commons, we know nothing. It would ap- pear, however, from s report of a meeting which was held at the official residence of Loré Derby on the 15th instant, that the bill is tobe substantially that which was reported in the Henatp some ten days ago. The borough franchise is to be based on a five or six peund household rating, qualified by a two years” residence and a personal payment of the rates, In addition to the occupation franchises there are to be others based upon property in the savings banks and in the public funds and’ upon the payment of twenty shillings a year in the shape of direct taxes. The educational! franchise, distinct from either of those just’ mentioned, is to include all graduates of uni- versities, members of the learned professions,’ such as ministers of religion, medical! practitioners, certificated schoolmasters and all persons who have obtained a mid- dle class examination certificate. The county franchise is to be based om & fifteen pound rating. The principle of duality or double voting is to be recognized «in regard to some of the new franchises. Such is the new Reform bill, so far as we are in possession of its details. Whether it has andergone any modification since the meeting above alluded to we know not, We forbear, therefore, dis cussitig ite morits for the provent. “The thot tint’ thie ‘BIN has passed the Arey’ tonding 00 ensily ia a0 progt that i; will be