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4 APRAIRS IN LROPE The Luxemburg Negotiations and Initi- ation of a Grand War Excite- ment in France. Germany a Unit Against Cesston to the Foreigner and England Neutral. “Riutual Advantages” of the Rus- sian-American Treaty. Pe RETR Proposition of the Great Powers on the Eastern Question. Russian and British Remedies for the “Sick Man.” ENGLAND DRIFTING TO A SPANISH WAR. &, &e. &e, The German mail steamship Bremen, Captain Ney- naber, which left Southampton on the 9th of April, arrived at this port early yesterday morning, bringing details of our cable despatches, The Bremen Janded six hundred and twenty-seven passengers. The special commission for the trial of the Fenians in Dublin was opened April 8 by the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Fitzgerald and Baron Deasy. The Court House was crowded by grand jurors, petit jurors, wit- | nesses aud police. Outside there was no exc\!o:! and the public seemed w take but little inter. : proceedings, The Lord Chief Just charge to the county grand were found against some nc are about three hundred per them charged with | the svered the 2 ich true bills avprisoners, There vus tor Uial, about half of ia cecasom, A number « gates from the Conservative Work- ingmen's sdou of England nad an audience of Mr, Dista: 4 deputation sent to support the Derby Re- fo 44 aud condemn the action of the Trades Union Leagues. Mr, Disraeli delivered a lengthy reply, taking much credit to the Derby Cabinet for its policy at home and abroad. The Chanceilor of the Exchequer made special mention of the consolidation of the North American Confederation as a most important accom- plished fact, The London Star,a reform organ, speaking of Mr. Disraeli’s address, says :— The Chancellor of the Exchequer had been occupied in the afternoon receiving a deputation trom the so- called conservative workingmen of different parts of the country. To them he made a speech which will cer- tainly be remembered to his continual discredit. For he went out of his way to make a personal attack upon Mr. Gladstone. Doubtiess he knew tbat this sort of thing would please the people who were with him; but it will scarcely have as much admiration bestowed upon it out of doors, Besides this feature of the speech, there were others scarcely less offeusive, The mental condition of the Empress Charlotte of Mexico appears to give very little hope of recovery. From her features all intellectual expression 1s vanish- ing more and more daly. Her pbysicat health is all ‘that can be desired, The most strenuous efforts are being =nade by the French military authorities to supply the Chassepot breech-loader to the infantry. There are already one hundred and fifty thousand of these new auns ready, and they wére to be served out to the Imperial Guard within a month. The Austrian government is about to appoint a special commission to make arrangements for the adhesion of Austria to the monetary convention between France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, The British frigate Galatea, Captain the Duke of Edin- burg, had ieft Maita for Marseilles, THE LUXEMBURG NEGOTIATIONS, poleon’s Policy Expinined by the Marquis de Moustier—An Unhealthy Excitement and Drifting to War—Preparations in France— Views of Russia and 8 lative body of France, March 8, MM. Farre, Lambrecht and Josseau made sev- eral demands (or leave to question the goverument rela- tive to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, ‘The Presivent of the Chainber announced that he had received a decree authorizing the Minister for Foroign Affairs to make adeclaration to the Seuate and the legislative body on that subjvet. e Marquis de dovsrie® tien rose and informed the deputies that he had received orders from the Emperor to acquaint them with the circumstances under which the Luxemburg question had arisen, and aiso with the actual position of the matter. He said,—The govern- ment, guided by tie interests of France,’ whici require | the preservation of peace, has brought to the considera- tion of this question thoughts only of conciliation and peace. Nor was it the French government that raised the discussion of the question. The undecided situation of Luxemburg aud Limburg gave rise to diplowaue cot munications between France und Holland, but these co! munications had no offic Cabinet consulted Prassia, a by appealing to the treaty of 1839. ernment had always © three points of view, the free consent of Holland, the treaties by the Great Power’, and the consLation of the wishes of the inhabitanis by means of wniversal sujFrace. The French government 1s disposed to exam ne the question in concert with the Great Powers, and velicves, therefore, that peace cannot be disturbed, This deciaration was received with cheers and expres- sions of various kinds, ter replied rench gov- r remarked that tho do- fe M. Tuiens made a sp owlodging the initiative which the coverament by the com which had beea made to the Coawber, but ss this communication did not furn discussion. He considered tha: th to lay before the House the desp exchanged on the subject. M. Rowues replied that the very terms of the com- munication to the (hamoer rendered ft ! question had not yet entered upon any ofl The government — had paiches to lay on the table He added:—If the bureau should authorize the interpeilatious for which leave has been asked the government will explain its opinious on the subject in question, but tho declaration which it has already made is of @ character to satisly the suscepti. Dilities cf the Legislative Body and of public opinion After some obsrvations from Mi. Emile Ullvier aod M. Berryer the demands for the interpe! lations were re- ferred the bureau . Excitement in Paris. [Paris (April 8) Correspondence of the London News.) Afearin! panic at the Bourse, caused by the hension of irumediate war, is the all-absorbing news of the aay. The Minister of War has given it as his inion that Prussia cannot defend the Khine without the possession of the fortress of Luxemburg, and 0 she is resolved ‘o maintain against all comers. War rumors crop up im ali directions. It is satd that Marshal McMahon, Duke of Magonta, bas been tole graphed for trom Afgeria, that Marshal Canrobert has ar government ougit hes which had been } resp nea NEW YORK EERALD, TUESDAY, ‘APRIL 23, 1867. occurred kines tI when more sneasiness, Cequtet and ins Au a this InoMeNL poiutment and Something MmoOre even among tose were accu tomed to place anbounded conf- dence im the ability of their rulers, for they feel how completely have been falsitied the assarauces given by the Prime Minster im the leguslative body—that Beance bad not oviy no reason to compian, but every reason to rejoice at what took place last year; that Germany was leas before; tuat st was now broken up iuto three fragments instead of be- ing One compact confederation; that Prussia was de barred from entertaining any further ambitious proj%cis, but not a word about Luxemburg or Belgium, They s2¢ that the whole policy of Prussia is a crushing answer (o Af. Rouher; that his u of the three fragments is diss! pated by the treaties with the southern States of Gi disapp a & Princess Hohenzollern, and that the pretecsions to Luxemburg are disposed of by the interpeliation of M, Benoigsen, by the intense agitation in Germany, and the appeal to We teva ‘that signed the treaty of 1839. of the Paris papers, never favorable to the The quection of Luxembiry’ le ao longer ous of aggre q em! ni x dizement, it is one of national influence. A great country like France is always at liberty not to put forward pretensions, but the day it does put them forward and considers them just, it cannot renounce them at the of any bidding power, especially when that power has no right of itgown. The day when it is otherwise, the day when France expresses her wish only to bend before the injunctions of the foreigner, she is no longer & power even of the third rank, to use M. Thiers’ expression, she is mo more than jum. The conclusioy to be drawn from the article of the Eten dard is, then, either the evacuation of Luxembarg by cereus wma ateainae dolay, between Prussia and ce. The Datch Dimculty—A Higher Money Bid. [From the Independance April 6. In the Dutch Cham! ‘on the | Rent question, M. Van Zuyk not the Jess inink it it to express an upinion that the ce~sion was a di thing in the interest of Holiant, and gave the Chamber span oft imormation very curious, or rather very afflicting for the dignity of ‘he Sovereign of the Grand that tue affair had come lo a halt sob Duchy, namel ¢ the priv 0 cred Ly France was net found Thus the mai‘cr turns on @ mere higgling for price, in which (he rizhts of a people and the respect of a govern- ment to iivulf are in no way interested. Nothing conse- queuily bas yet been done, and if we are to believe the “3 brought from ail quarters by telegraph, nothing will be done —either because the Emperor Napoleon may refuse to increase his bidding, or because the King of Holland may recoil. before the reprobation which would be raised all over Europe by the conclusion of such a reprehensiole bargain; or lastly, because neither party may be willing to encounter the international complica- tious which tie transactious would produce. We are the more inclined to this last bypothesis from a tele- gram sent us {rom London, announcing that the British government had been iniormed by its Miuister at the Hague that the King of Holland had brofen off the ne- goiiations in order to prevent international difficulties, Minister M,. de Zuylen, im fact, declared that the in- terest of Holland cuiled for the cession of Luxemburg, but that the price offered was too small, On the sw Ject, it was not precisely negotiations that had taken place, but conversations. ‘The Dutch government, in Ollering its xood offices, only desired to show that it had no responsibility in the matter. The declaration of Count Bismarck that all tics betwen Lucemburg and Ger- many had ceased had gwen the greatest pleasure in Hol- land. ‘The honorable Minister terminated by declaring that the Dutch government would not henceforward interfere either officially or non-oflicially in the allairs of Luxemburg. Prussian Approval of Napoleon’s Course. The semi-official North German Garet’e of Borlin, aated April 8, commenting on the disquieting ramors in circu- lation relative to ihe Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, states that the @ecision of the question of the preservation of peace does not rest with the Cabinet of Berlin, for the character of a Federal State is solely defensive. “he same paper adds :—It is, perbaps, the greatest triumph of the Emperor Napoleon’s government that it bas brought the French nation to admit that they can serve their own and the general interests of civilization better hy giving the hana to an opment, and, in place of humitiating kim, joiving with niin in endeavoring to pro- mote the accomplishment of the great work of progress. The German People a Unit Against Cession. A large meeting was held in the Alhambra, Bertin, on the 7th of April, at which the following resolutions were passed by a large majority :— ) That chis meeting declares that Luxemburg miust never be separated from German; That it 18 the duty of the German people to insist with all their sirengih upon this province belonging to Germany. ‘That the union of this province wih Germany must take place as soon as possible, That any propo.sl for the votes of the inhabitants of Luxemburg to be taken fs to be unhesitatingly rejected. England Neatral in the Matter of Barter or Sale. i. {From the London Times, April 8.) Sir Robert Peel must have been somewhat disap- pointed with the result of the errogation he addressed. Fa last Friday night om the subject of Laxemburg. The Foreign Seoreiary, indeed, contirmed in the most explicit maoner the current report as. to the definite interruption of the negotiations for the cession, But Sir Robert wanted something more tvan this, He wanted to hear that the British government had been wide awake in the maticr, weil iniormed long ago of the whole de- sign, and equally prompt in communicating its disap- proval to the parties concerned. His opinion was that of late we had withdrawn too much rom Luropean polilics, and abdicated duties devolving upon us asa great power in burcpe. Me thought this isolation bad been carried too far, and was producing a bad effect, and as the Luxemburg question was of singular import- ance he hoped to hear that we had on this occasion vin- dicated our position by interfering in good time, and to good purpose. It would have gratified him to hear that Her Majes government, having obtained eurly information of the projected transfer, had put” its on the transaction, and that the relinquishinent of the design now announced was due to and recommendaiious proceeding from our. Cn no one, however, of these poinis, ily for Sit Robgrt, was satisfaction forthcoming. Lord Staal fever hoard of the matter ull abont ten days ago. hen he did it was evident to bim that his inter ed would not be called for, So ho let thinks talce their course, and they have come to an end, at avy ‘thout any iniervention, ' pidge, 7 obligation on Ue: part of this country. ‘ontederation was broken up last the civil war ia Gorn aber: i belo Wheb the year by what may the Craad He the Duke of 18 3 of Holland but ho ceased, az a matter of deration when for did in Ger. no part in the ¥ course, Wo bo a member of the Con! jon had been de-iroye eith #0 vhat n ut ad, for it formed no part of U nor had the Duten govern jaterest in its uot th ‘dominions Durch people any o aS a private and persona senze ia which F * # | explained that onr oi tions that ments under treaty—were very © wud bound to defcnd the inter. In his Grand Dachy of Lux- tad een proposed to deprive him itorest he would have had an appeal in tho ease proposed our guar- antee had evidently uo place whatever, for the King of Holland way dealing with his own patrimony accoraing to his own vows (/ expediency, aud puiting his prop- erty in ancher form, With the question arising be- tween Germany and Franeo we had no concern; the integri'y of the Cerman coufederation or empire had never buen pursued by ue, nor were we bound to defeud 1’, co far, Wereiore, as treaty ob) gations were concerned 4¢ were not called upon to interfere at all, and our yenerat juierests or duues remained alone to be considered. Of tuese Lord Stunloy took a highly prac- tical aud Common sense view. Pcthaps he thought (he proceedings of France were ill-judy id dangerous ; perhaps fv th ugat that atcor what we had allowed to pas in italy aud Germany we need not make a stum- bling bck of such a little job as Luxemburg; but, whavever te may have thought, ho gave no expression to his opinions, for the simple reason that there was no need for bim to do eo, He was distinc ly apprized of the conditions attached to the King of Holiand’s acceptance of the French pro) namely, that the popuiation of the Duchy should be as- seniing parties and that Prassia should sanction the gone on a mission of observation to Strasburg; and, more important than all, that Major Loisel, one of the most distinguished officers in the French army, has been sent in hoc haste to the Rhine. It is also announced that the army of Lyons bas boen ordered to ‘hold itself in readiness. ’’ ‘From the London Stan April 8.) Our correspondent exhitnis a stato of great un- easiness and soreness amoog all Frenchmen on the posi- tion of the Luxemburg negotiations, and the convictior is general in Paris What, sooner or later, war will break out between France and Prussia. A iate telegram from Paris says:—The rumors current here that az ultimatum had been sent to Prussia, and that the Duke of Magenta had been summoned to Paris, and that a loan of 300,000,000 francs was ‘avout to be issued, are denied, French Feeling Towards Prassia. {From the Paris Patrie, April The country knows that on iplonatio nds the Amperial go, ornment bas preserved its oeitt and Shat nothing can cause it to swerve from the object it t for our rights, the sutisfac- : ¢ progress of our influence, (From La Franee, of Paris April 8, The moment may come when the pk not- withstanding the Lim pay it displays towards Ger. may be compelled to take into account that which the matioual dignity would impose in the event of an obstinate thove guarantees which are due to jut The respunsibitity of events would fall upon those who pom to undertake the task of dis- turbing Europe by unlimited ambition and unbridled 3 (From the Paris Standard, is Standard, April 7, having thought proper to ones the co- signitaries of treaties of 1839, France, in her turn, ‘been compelled to place herself in communication with the am Powers. The matter is now placed on 8 ij footing, and ali leads to the bope that ‘ti will there remain. Anxiety for the Forelan Relations and Dis- pt Home. {Paris (March 8) correspondente pf London Ti t{roaroaly romouser way ported 068 the Presiden = transfer, Now, about the feeling of the Luxemburgers Staniey kuew little, but about the decision of the government he had no doubt atall, Whatever may haye been Count Bismarck’s orig.nal views ja this maiter, it had become evident that the Germans would never submit to the lors of the Grand Duchy, and that Prussia must give effect popular vptnion, The question rested with Prussia, and it was for russia to decide. If she refused her consent tho affair was at an end without our meddiing. It she, wielding the sword and speaking with the voice of Ger- many, chose to perinit the bargain we could not forbid it. Lord Sianley therefore replied provisionally and in- definitely to the overtures which had been addressed to him, convinced that before many hours were over the question would be decisively settied by more interested arbiters. In this belief he was perfectly Justified. Whether wo may have got beyond the first act of the piece remains yet to be seen, but we think the public will be disposed to conclude that, as far as things ba ve Bo reason to be ae ce the tages from The Journal of St. Petersburg publishes an article referring (0 the premature opinions expressed by the Russian newspapers on the sale of Russian America to the United States, 1t says:—We can only state that the transaction is mutually advantageous, and that the ports of Eastern Siberia will be granted certain privileges, and that the commercial interests of both countries will be pro- moted. British “Concern” in the Transactt Cheap Sustention of the Mouroc oa From tho London Times, April 9. this quite "new sensation to find ovrselves Interested ‘ere exe from tht kiod of couce?D, end able to loo Were exemps from kind of concern, al With soreaity Woon tha ananniations ar nerolexities of A but now the bargain between the United States | Empire they can look for none. Greek knows and noble ear! had LUSS A035 Rel us, Ia our t alking of our fron- | Covats "pow this inevitable tendency; he caloulates that Enlistment act THE BOARD oF HEALTH. wad privileges, aed wonde: cession | if (ue population of any province Go but assert their ‘should that be it | Claims with suilicient energy; if they do but fight boldly aud cry ovt lustily, they are sure very soon to have on. E ore for ua Vy may b cisely Tre that we camut hinder the maiter Meeottag of the Board—The Proposed Now Abattoir at Forty-foarth Street. plied, however, u @ would, and that wo od not if we could, { their side that public sympathy of nations which courts to treat them with ‘The’ transaction 1s about one of the simplest and | and cabinets must needs obey. The Board of Health met yesterday afternoon, Prest- most rational pieces of public economy efiected The Candians have ob ained this unquestionable suc- Rumen. give wr Gone dent Schultz in the chair. cess. They have interested all the contunental Powers on their behalf, and the result is shown in one of the movements i z iF az t is our time besides ail ber vast dominions in Europe and Agia, also the poriliwesternmost angie of the American continent, Tis biewk, intospita- ble end irreciaimable region is worth nothing to her. It could not, from i's intrimue value, be ww rth anyl! ing to anybody; but it has a value in tho eyes of the United diates, aud so Russia has taken her property 10 Dr. Stoms offered the foliowing resolution, which war and i i g i é i | | it it i 5 ef et ii [ Es ry F i i by the dearest market, and sold it for seven millions of dot- wo should be at the proper time to tora, As her title to, the land was quite unitupeachabie, uaa’ id be ged the view he enter- and as sho had a right to sell and the Uniied he reserved his own opinions upoa States a perfect right to it is evident that wo bave case of the Victoria, he must oes happen, however, that in the bis noble i Hil Se ef i i E i H 3 i z pts li it ive reasons for interfering. ied by this transaction of « single Privilege or advantage. Our frontiers re- main exactly as they were, and we have exactly the game access—neither more nor less—to the sea. The only real difference 13 this, that our neighbors will be of a different character. The Russians held tue country so cheaply, and with such little interest in it, that the whole of their settlers did not at the Jast census number ‘a thousand; they would certainly never have encroached 5 Supporting the Cabinet Action. The British iron-ciad war vessels lying off Malta sud- denly received orders to proteed to sea; and the Prince Consort and the Royal Oak left under sealed order for, it was believed, the coast of Spain, in conseqyence of the Tornado difficulty. He i i ul bod us, or tts Boat in fa! Rta D our rivals, iraq — ymericans, on the contrary, Tepresent an energetic, pushing race, indefatigabi: ‘in colonizing, of terri- YACHTING. tory, and conscious of a great politica missim. It is cer~ uld nave rejected the Proposition to cede it to those who have been for month3 engaged in armed resistance to the government. Fuad Pacha might have observed that the Powers which these diplomatists represented are not conspicuous for their readiness to yield territory when demanded by their neigh- bors. Russia will, it is true, sell a useless tract near the North Pole for a good round sum; but her course for generations has been one of annexation, and the only résti- tution she has ever made was imposed on her by force a Sew years ago, France would call out all her immense resources and deluge Europe with blood rather than give up a single village. The world, indeed, is at this moment in doubt whether peace will not be disturbed by the ambition of tye great nation to possess itsell of a paliry province, the inhabitants of which steadily re. pudiate its designs, If we turn to Austria we do not find that she snowed any willingness to part with what she considered her own. She held on to Italy with a grip which was only relaxed when the sword was at her throat, So long as we can remember every Aus- trian politician or soldier declared that Italy was neces- sary to the greatness of the empire, and shonld not be tain, in short, that our cotouies on the Pacific would never have been troubled by the Russians in those parts; 1t ig by no means go certain, looking far into the futuro, that our new neighbors will be as inert or as inoffensive, But it is oniy in the dim region of speculation that we can descry any cause for concern. It is probable enough that the transaction was intended as a hint for us, if not a warning; but we may take ft ag it was meant and yet not be very uneasy. We are said, indeed, to have pro- voked it, though the provocation was certainly never contemplated. The Americans have taken umbrage at the new confederacy of our North american colonies, though a people setting such an extraordinary vaiue upon Union ought not to gradge the advantage of the principle to others. They fancy they can discover the germs of an “empire” or a great monarchy in the new coutederation, aud are jealous accordingly, though they know that tt 1s our business and not theirs, just as the purchase of Russian America is theirs and not ours. The 1 offence, probably, consists in the preparations not ‘or a future empire, but for the perpe:ual inde- pendewe of @ State which had been expected to fall meots of Imperial Yachtse—Hungarian Aristocratic Yacht Clu! [From the London Times, April 9.) The French Imperial screw yacht Prince Jerome, which has been cruising for several days in the Solent with his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon on board, steamed through Spithead for the Channel on her return ‘to the coast of France on Saturday, On arri abreast: of the works for the marine forts on the Noman and Horse Shoals, the yacht was hove to, and Prince Napo- leon, embarking in the yacht’s steam cutter, made a long inspection of the annul me work which wili form the foundations of the irom superstructures, and the top- most concluded portion of which now stands consider- ably above high water level. Models of these important bossa are about to be forwarded to the great Paris Exhi- tion. The Imperial Russian steam yacht Stondard was being made ready to putto sea in May. It is botieved that it is destined to convey the Russian Crown Prince and Princess on a visit to Copenhagen. carry thech up north,” and. th seriously affected. the carson the Harlem Rail. road brought no vattle lower than 106th street. He un. deratood that on the Hudson river, however, cattle wi landed about Forty-fifth street, If that were so ever animal that travelied on four legs coming to t taken throngh any collateral avenue, Against this 1 might be said that the cattle would be taken through the streets at night. But cattle were cot simply an obstra tion to the highway, though neither women nor child could pass over the sidewalks of a street through wh! cattle had been driven with any degtee of comfort, Ne one could sleep in a thoroughfare through which catu were driven at night. He for one would rather by fax y listen to the melan. y grt descent into th t republic. The | independent as long as Austria had mon in thefield or | .The Empress of Austria nas accepted tho protector- | hoar the booming of the cannon than A a Shas bet "brought be iegh not | paper in her treasury. Nor 13 Prussia at all remarkable | ship of the Balaton Lake Yacht Club, Hungary. The | choly bleating of the calf, bp asco sha bo only that no new European or iomorkiont gov- | for cessions of territory. She lias gained a great deal, | commodore of this yacht club, which has just been es- | separated from its mother, an oe hie ait anak ernment sball be established on the North Ameri. | and has, by successive apnexations, grown to be the | tablished, is Count Edmund Batthyany; it consists of | hunger and fatigue. Speaking for himself an neighbors, he could say this was one of the most ser:01 of the eviis with which they were threatened by the new abattoirs. The gentlemen on the other side might) think that they could transport thoir cattle from 100th) street in barges, but he was certain they could really do no such thing. Again, the business of the new abattoir’ would doubtless increase, and gradually sproad( right up to Forty-eighth street, and from the river through all the space east of the First avenue, Mr. Schaffer closed by saying that the gentlemen who proposed to erect the pew abattoir would lose nothing by not being permitted to carry out their design, as their lots could readily be sold at their full value, Mr. Coorer said he and other butchers thought that mon pursuing that calling were just a3 essential toa communi'y as any other class of citizens. There could not bo a less objectionable place for an abattoir than ‘that which they had selected. Mr. Parrrrson said a few words in behalf of the new, abattoir, contending that kept in the manner it would it could never become a nuisance. ident Scnutrz said he thought tho best plan would be for the Board to visit the locality, and see for them. selves the chararter of the neighborhood which would affected by the abattoir, The Board would take an op- portunity to make such a visic during the present week. | The Board then adjourned. THA TUR. leader of Germany and a tirst class State; but the Danes of Schleswig have not found the government of Berlin very willing to listen to proposals for giving up any- thing that it possesses, Indeed, the only nation whose practice gives it a right tw preach in such @ case 2s England, which yielced the donian Islands to Greece. unsolicited and unmonaced by any Power, and purely in accordance with the wishos of the people. Turkey, therefore, must be excused for foltowing the example of its advisers, and refusing to abandon Candia untit fairiy vanquished. As far as re- gards Engiand, we cannot regret that Lord Lyons ab- stained from joining in the representations of the other Powers. Jt ws not for us to hasten the downfallof Turk- ish power, for we are not prepared with any‘hing to subsitute for it, The changé, whenever it comes, should come from internal action, 80 that it may not be accom- piisbed until the other political elomeuts are 80 combined a8 to give hopes of life, vigor and stability. If, how- ever, tne Turks havo any power of adapting themselves to the new circumstances of the empire, now is thetime to display it, for their conduct now will probably deter- mine their fate. twenty-five mombors, and every member is bound by the rules of the club to poasess a yacht of his own. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Charge of Mutiny on the High Seas. Before Commissioner Osborn. Henry Vavlinde, a seaman on board the American ship Granite State, who had been charged with othors (against whom no accusation was sustained) of being guilty of mutinous conduct while on a voyage from San Francisco to New York, was brought up yesterday before Commissioner Osborn for further examination. At the last hearing the Commissioner intimuted that, upon the evidence as it then stood, he thought there ‘was enough upon which to hold the accused, but would Postpone the oase for tho testimony of the’ steward of the ship. The steward not being m attendsnce, the Com- missioner said he woutd hold the prisoner for trial on the charge of autempting to kill the captain by knocking im dowa with a blow capstan bar. Charge Against a Custom Honse Clerk. [Before Commissioner White. ] Alfred St. Clair, a clerk in the Custom House, was yos- terday further examined before Commissioner White on @ charge of having presented forged pay rolis to Mr. Johnson, assistant ,auditor, and thereby defrauding the government of the sum of $1,086. The facts of the case, together with the evidence of Mr. Johnson, have already appeared ia the Hexanp. Mr. Joseph Bell conducted the Prosecution, and Judge Becbe defended the prisoner. Mr. Johnson was again placed on the stand, and cross- examined by Judge Beebe, with the view of sho that the witness was so much pressed with business on the day the rolis were paid. that he had not sufficient means of identifying the prisoner, Witness testilied that he told a person in the Custom House that the person who presented the accounts had a sore alongside of his nose. {the ner has no sore of that kind.] He told the offi- cer who arrested the prisoner that thers was something peculiar about the J a ype gules nose. The further hearing ‘was adjourned to Friday next. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. The Fernando Wood Lease—The Motion to Vacate the Pullman injunction Withdrawn. Before Judge G. G. Barnard. Christopher Pullman vs. the Mayor, éc.—It will be remembered by the readers of the Heraup that in No- vomber, 1866, au injunction was granted by this court restraining the Mayor, Comptrolier and others from pay- ing to Fernando Wood the sum of $15,000 per annum for the use of the premises Nos. 315 and 117 Nassau street, which had been engaged for the use of the Corporation Counsel and tne Corpora- tion Attomey, but which these gentiemen de- clined to use on the ground that they were not suited to their requirements, &c. A short timo since an alternative mandamus was issued compelling the Comptroller to show cause why he should not be com- pelied to pay the rolator, Fernaudo Wood, the ‘sum of $13,500, being the amount of three quariers’ rent then ciaimed to be due, and also why the lease which had been drawn for ten years should pot be continned. The court decidod in the latter case, atter argument by emi- nent counsel, that the peremptory mandamus could not be granted, as the Pullinan injagction was still in exist- tonce and vaiid, Fernando Wood then gave notice, through counsel, of a motion to dissolve the injunction, ‘on the ground that Pullman’s right of action, ua a mem: ber of the Common Council expired with his term of office, and that consequently the injunction was void, and should be vacated. The motion has been set on the calendar for argument nearly every week for about two months past, but the parties failed to come to the seratcn, and the mouon was yesterday withdrawn, Fer. nando now iniends to put in an answer to the complaint in the Pullman case, und test the validity of his claim can continent, but that those actually established sha}! not be put in repair, or preserved by any means from the disintegration ‘and absorption conceived to them. he Americans would not have @ regenerate and they do not won! a cmnsoidated Canada, They know better than to believe in their hearts that avy union of the British Provinces conld ever prove a rival to their own, but the new confederacy may well be stronger thi the previous loose bund!s, imbued wita greater vitality, aud less Ifkely to tumble into their iap. They only tooked with toleration on the fabric as it stood, and they are annoyed at seeing it strengthened, repaired aud fitted outfor anew lease of independent life. So they reply, it is thought, by buying the premises next door, and shatting us up a little in a fashion intended to be a littie ominous, Nar has the Purchase been without its effect, for telegraphs havo beeu set in motion, information required, questions asked in Varliatent, and statements made by Ministers with all due gravity, reserve and deprecation. But for the ratiication to be obtained from the United Stares Senate the transaction has been actually com- pleted. Kussia has agreed to sell and the executive government at Washington has agreed to buy; so that, unless the Senate should refase its consent—an event not to be anticipated—the affair is at anend. It bay certainly been unexpected, for aobody ever gave a thought to such a contingency. America was as ‘nearly out of the world as the jand the Frozen Ocean, and even if ig Fey oe remember that the Czar was our ‘hbor on the North Pacific, it was not to be presu would be sellers of territory. But now that tho event has oceu: it cannot be thought surprisin; It w decidedly a good bargain for Russia, and not a bad one for the United States. The mere country is dear, no doubt, at the money, but territory has iis poi as well'as its natural value, and this is where the Ameri- cans will get their return, have got it already— at least, so they will think—-in the sensation they have created over hera; but thet ampression will not bo long lived. A very short reflection will suflice to convince Englishmen of the true nature and import of such a transaction as this. There 13 not the slightest reason why the Americans should not acquire th.s country by fair purchase, if they please. Vossibly the acquisition may portend some trouble to us tn’after times: but that is more than anybody cun tell, and it will be soon enough, at any rate, to deal with ihe watter when those mes arrive. THE EASTERN QUESTION. acre THE ANGLO-SPANISH DIFFICULTY. Questions Involved in the Tornade Case—Ac- tion of the Derby Cubinet—A New Iunsalt to the Fing. In the House of Lords on tho 8th of April the Earl of Malmesbury said—I appeal to the noble marquis oppo- site, in whose name a notice stands on the paper to the effect that be shall cail the attention of the House to this case, to postpone doing so until after the Easter re- cess. My reason for making the appeal ts that since the papers respecting the Toruado have been laid on the table our relations with Spain have become still more complicated. A second dispute with tbat country has, im fact, arisen, which appears to me to be even more im- Dortant than that connected with tho Tornado—I allude to the caso of the Victoria, a British trader, which hus been seized by a Spanish vesso! fourteen or iifteen miles from the coast, and has been taken to Cadiz and sold. ‘There may, perhaps, in the case of the Tornado be argu- ments which may reasovably be advanced on both sides of the question; but itscems to her Majesty's govern. ment that there is no palliation or excuse for what has been done with reference to the Victoria, It is more than a common outrage that a Spanish ship should attack on the high seas a Britis trader and insult the Britisa fag, aud Ler Majesty’s government have deemed it neces- sary to take the xravest notice of the matter, in a despatch which has been writteo by my noble friend the secre- tary for Foreign Ataira, ‘To the despatch to which I al- lude her Majesty's government have not yet bad any answer from the Spanisn government, Lord Stanley asked, as your lordsiip knows, that com pensation should be made for the loss and injury sustaued, and that an apology should be offered to this coautry. No answer having yet been received to tua’ despatch 1 hope the noble marquis will not at this moment enter iato the question with regard to the Yornado until we ascertain what spirit the Spanish government will evinces with reference to the question of the Victoria, I cannot help being convinced, considering the proverbial seuse of honor which the Spaniards feel with respect to their eredit, aud knowing that they would not an outrage being committed upon a span- ship in the Channel without raising a cry from Cadiz to the V’yrences, that when their goveroment iearns tao facis it will not hesitave to concede the reparation witicls has been asked, aud will not eeck to stield a subordi- naio ofiicer who was inthe wrong. I therefore trast that alter the Kaster recess we shall be able to say that this adlair has ceased to wear so serious an aspect; but I am atraid that if the noble marquis were to raise any discussion at this moment in your lordships’ House it } would rather be prejudicial thaa benelicial to the ne- gouations waich are taking piace, (Hear, hear ) ‘The Marquis of Cianricarde said that, of course, when his uobio friend, speaking as a minister of the Crown, said that it would be better upon public grounds not now to enter into a disenssion with respect to our relations with Spain, he could not refuse to accede to his request for a truer postponement, At the samme time he ust Protes: agaiust those british subjects who were con- D A trotting match for $300, mile heats, bost three im five, im harness, between the sorrel gelding Boy Home, and a variously colored gelding, named Drop, came off yesterday afternoon at the Fashi Course. The weather being delightfully pleasant during’ the morning, induced many to take to the road in open, ‘wagons to enjoy, as they supposed, the balmy country air; but by the time they reached the course, and the| preliminaries bad been arranged for the start, they heavens became ov: anda storm suddenly burst over Long Isiand, making the track anything bas. pleasant or safe for man or beast. The judges were in the stand, the horses on the track, and coming up in the) face of the pelting rain, they got the word for the firzt) heat. Tne horse, with a coat like Joseph's, of many colors, did pot scem to understand what the ** qunder and blixen’”’ meant, and instead of trotting, indulged in a variety of movements to the great disgust of his backers. He was a badly in very moderate time, the Boy from Home keeping his feet and trotting at his leisure, making the heat in 3:08. Di cess between the heats, when all parties together in the saioons, oa Frceroed re gd bd by the way, was destroy: ting was brisk, the from Home being offered ai four to one. The time being up, the bell rang to bring up the horses, and an even start for tho second heat was had, but the spangied elding was soon all aboard again, and the Boy from ome led six lengths around the turn, slipping and sliding at every ste; Snowdrop then settled for a | moment and closed the gap, and was within four tengths | of the Boy when be passed the quarter pole. The tatter | slipped up on the k , and the calico gelding and his adversary were side and sido at the haif-mile | pole. They broke on the backstretch, and the, }| spotted beast was a length and a half abead at the half- m ‘They were up and down for the remainder of the | mile, the Boy from Home winning the heat by a neck in | 3:09. A hittle altercation then ensued between ‘‘two | gentlemen” as to who won the heat, when one called — the other liar. ‘Then the lie was given In stronger | terms by the bene nad and then “the gentleman” | who gave the lie first threw out his dexter mawiey, which alighted on the right eye of the other gentlemen, tue blow immediately Producing ‘light “mouse.” The gentieman ‘as vas it,” having a small penknife tn his , made a plunge at the other and punctured him | under the left ear, drawing ‘the cochineal”’ copiously, ‘This caused consideraoie excitement fora moment, but the proprietor of the course soon od among the beili- gerents, and informed them that would have tho Allied Intervention in Favor of the Cretans— England Acting in an Independent Diplo macy—The Solan Firm in His Position. ‘The imperial Turkish Commiseioner, Mustapha Pacha, had returned from Crete to Constantinople, ‘Tue representatives of France, Ruesia, Austria, Prussia and italy, jointly pressing the Porte to grant an armistice to the Cretana, and to consult the Christians whether they would prefer an anionomy or to be annexed to Greece. ‘ ne English Ambassador, acting apart, only recom- moeucs an automony, Large reimforcements wore being sent to the Greek frontiers. where a serious outhieak {3 apprehended, The Turkish generalissimo, r Pacha, was goiug to take tho con 1 inchiet, Twenty thousand militia had been called oal, and great approuenstons were en- tertaned for the internal Wranquiility of Constantinople, and the importation of arms was prohibited, On Russian Opinion of Altied Intervention. {From the Invatide ® f St. Poteraburg, April 6.] Despaiches received here contain the serious announce. collective note ou tne alfairs of the East to demand Candia to ¢ vineos of th ante This forward by the Cabinet of the Id hot be accepted bv the other ant Powers. Moreover, what is meaut by a guarantee of the | cerned im the question whicu he wistied to bring before ‘eminent coansel to | Bret ow gone pre bag gl meer against his fellow possessions of Turkey? Does it imply that athe their lordships veing made to suffer by reason 6f that notes Sto, mak — noes na cates toe = be ons a tenn "yoo ot pain would be obliged to suppdrt Turkoy, even should the ponewent. If their case was innde oul, as he be- effect, and quietness soon took the place of turmoil conciusion that his point could not be maintained, as, in Christian populations, exapperated aud driven to des- | heved it eventually would be, and the spanish Govern- i tn bis fa ‘among the people. Tho storm of the elements, how- pair, determine to free themsolves from an odious | meni should lind tbat 1s officers had been in the wrong, | Lenten oe its teen a eee onal af the timate | 2¥@F, did not cease, and in another pelting Hee errr, Pe Doubd to put down such attempis | he claimed that every British seaman who had been | ‘action was instivated bring sult as a trustee of the peo. | LOTses were called up for the third heat. by arms? Of all the mons of appeasing the agitation in | wronged, and the owners of the British ship which had pie, for the reason tuat the term of office being so short potent = even, the spangl Paced od af 0 the East, this would be | the most fatal in | been detained sbould be indemnified up to the last hour | (one year), that by ® Tile “waving of” his right of | @® ~ chon edie 3 Sais ween neces that ehamers| task Ler turkey ate | tees taonie extent of tte injury inicted upon them, | actiog wostd conse oF Woald nok have timo to reach the | TGp"soouen" and: dropped mice Vengthe penn He 4 lo tempt to enter on a creer of real reforms, and | fad all ‘appellate courts. afterwards had a chance; and the Boy from Hume never if she succeed’, the dapgdrs by which she is at present COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. won the heat and race. Time, 3:04. The following ts a Clarendon was glad that the noble mar- eee wal no ber 2 ba removed. Unfortunately her Past conduct i not of « nituro to inapire confidence in | quis had thought it consistent with his duty to comply Before Recorder Hackett. that respect. The Porte i: often made the most bril- th the request made to him SRNTRNCHS. liant promises to {is Christian suijocts, But has it hewno lizgiy glad ft tha see site, and Le should also be exceedingly glad if the result of the discussion which was to take place after should be to ciear the owners oi the Yornado of the suspicion which now attached to them. There were so many facitities in this country for evading the law, and 80 many porsons had so littie scruple in resorting to those evasionsin order to bring their goverument into discussion if not into trouble with other goveraments ion could not be too falfilled ono of them? How can Burope have any faith in sach engagement) and side wits Turkey against the Christians? To guargnice the be te of the Turkish territory would be emttoatht to defending all the persecu- tions that the Porte may igftict on them, ne At tho opening of the court yesterday the Recorder sentenced the following prisoners who were remanded during the week:— Thomas Kerrigan, ounvicted of stealing $3,000 worth of watches from Lionel Jacobs, was sent to the State prison for five years. Wm. Corrizan (for burglary), and James Davis and Wm. Douglas (for THE EXCISE LAW. The following order was issued to the captains of the England's Treatme: A Natural Death of the Lmperial Pt it~ ‘efernble te Violent For- yesterday afternoon :— . ciga and New Reujedies. cone eee GENERAL ORDER NO. 496. From the Logdon Tim 18. their own private ‘Sing prison for two years mont Sursainrenpext of Merrorottan Po! i Til artes) er coattails Sa a Nepean er Td ee and not only ordinal jitical it at thei to a ice ie name mercantile men, have a Jiclon then teapot idee evects 7 7 Catherine Mashing and Bl Kelly, guilty of larceny, | of each having been licensed by the Metro- are 1 store for us, our o¥n Foreign Office, however cau- ‘wore sent to the one year, to carry on the liquor business, has ‘who committed a violent assault upon for one year, a white con. tious its chief, cannot ayoid being drawn into the ¢on troversies which agitate Courts and Embassies, The irrepressible Eastern quéstion socms likely to miz teelf with any disputes which may arise on the Rhine or in Cen- tral Europe. It is boasted that an ization exists, and that at some noi remote time the Turkish biol ment will bo assailed by the great mass of its Christian Hel eititly ' subjects, and that th°y will have thy and far the record of gach conviction. wn not on!y of Rrws' Gul of al the chigy Powers of the IL You will also specially to this office all con- inent, The events of the last fow weeks indicate that Island t¢ victions that may hereafter for the vi these e: are not entirely unfounded. The Cre- George Of either of the said sections of 578, giving the tan insurrection, whatever its military fortunes, has been worth of ames and places of the persons s0 convicted, tho par- politically successful. The insur; have ‘not been ‘March, ticular section and clause violated, the judgment of the able to drive the Turks from the Islaud; the vastly su- Richara court of jt ‘and the name of the justice before strength of the Porte has been exerted _ ing him by gs may take piace. pa order to crush #0 dangerous an ou 3 frow Sergeants in charge of court squads will keep an ough we still hear of fighting, it will nardly be of March. accurate record of all such convictions that may take that the cause of the Candians is hopeless if be Joun Go eel ee ee te left to vee, The little island, only twos ieee) ante we ae iddlertntendene, 5 W. Dinas, Inspector. cS PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Imperial decree, dated March 9, 1867, the Emperor Pedro IL. appoints the present Brazilian minister Senhor Joaquim Marfa Nascontes de re Ze Tistian aord: Seogpiy imran ete cy bch survive al Catholic. mations, and it may traiy be maid that if th le earl Benhor de Azambuja is to be replaced at Washi Turk finds in the Russian an unrelenting enemy, be will jad heard what there was BY, Senhor, Dr. Domingos Joss Gongaives do Magalhaes, never find in the Frenchman or the Austrian whether for or against the own Gea, Dewars Van Vin a ecent at Vienna, unwilling and lukewarm friend. Motives of that the suspicion attached to life as the able and emoiesr’ cht Mh ng and jealousy of Russian agression may caugo the atthe te Pid quartermaster.general pean nations to band toxettor for the support of the Otto- Cirloos of this citys yesterday lore Sith tie ne eet man Power, or rather to maintain the integrity of Baltimore, rte A left with bis family for aon bectrer rom ftas ggg bE seme, question. ut, than reatrerara he was some tiie ago Tranaterred 7 ic G 10" more nefer however ' really desirous of dong to give | earl whether it'was upon roapclon Of Trlonde wanancrities ot Washington, A large namie Europeans a real sympathy with the presence of | were to be put in irons and iil-treated at tho railway depot to bid him their race io ca tara Against Russia they es tate Brith on was b~ ‘end to wish nim God sveod in his now feld of maw hope for supwert. aoains the Christians of their own tieh “cam, and Britich ahinowsare ware une, ‘