The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. THF. DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Feurcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the lowest rates, Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, siveet.—Tux SHAMROCK. near Broome THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. near Sixth avenue.—Mapame Ristort’s FaRewett Prrrommances— Evizasere, Quexw or Excuan. WORRELL SISTERS' NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo site New York Hotel —Avappix, tax WonpknruL Scamr— GuvperzLea. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving ‘Txoors ov Japanese Antists in Tai place.—Tux I: BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Mz. anv Mas. Howagp Pavi's Guan Fareweut Concerts ix Costume. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite aa Hotel—in tumin Eruiortan Ryrentain- MENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND SURLESQUES.—TuR BLACK Coox—lureniat Jaranyss Trours. 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ROR OF THE Pitcnim's PaoGRess—Sixty MAGNIFICENT Scenes, Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 2% o'clock, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rroadway. ~ Heap axp Ricut Arm of Pxosst—Tne Wasmtxcton Twins—Wowpers ix Natural History, Science anp Aut, Leorurss Dairy. Open from 8 A.M, till WP, M. NATIONAL HALL, Hariem.—Tas Groots Minsteets. New York, Monday, May 6, 1867. REMOVAL. The New Yorx Hexarp establishment is now located in the new Heratp Building, Broadway and Ann street. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 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 @’clock im the evening. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yoster- day, May 6. Italy and Belgium are to be represented in the Peace Congress in London, The Prussian newspapers com- plaia of France continuing ber armaments. ‘United States Minister Wright was at the point of death in Berlin, Chevalier Bertinatti is to represent Victor Emanuel @s minister in Constantinople, Five-swenties were quoted at 763; in Frankfort. By mail we bave important details of our cable de- ‘apatohes to the 25th of April, embracing a report of the vigorous speech delivered by John Bright at the mon- eter Reform meeting in Birmingham, the manifesto of the “Centre of Insurrectioa"’ to the Romans, and, com- fing amidst the din of the preparations for war, the Lon- don Times’ call for immediate mediation between France and Prussia, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The official organ of the Moxican republic at San Luis Potosi on the 19th of April says that Maximilian’s forces made a sortie about the 14th at two points and were re- pulsed. The capture of a commissioner from Max to ‘Marquez, warning him that Querstaro could not bold oat, ts confirmed. ‘The Indian war is being vigorously prosecuted in Arisona and Idano. Several fights had ocourred in the _ Block Mountains. General Gregg intended deciaring all twibes outside their reservations hostile, and had already Commenced slaughtering them with a will wherever be could find them. ‘The sermons introductory to the religious saniverssry ‘week were preached before several of the religious wocieties yesterday, The thirty-third anniversary ex- erciges of the American Female Guardian Society and ‘Home for the Friendiess were celebrated in the Church @f the Hoty Trinity im this city. Chancellor Ferris, D. D., presided. The annual report was read and a germon was dehvered by Rev. Stephen H. Tyng. The thirty-ainth annual sermon to the American Seamen's Friend Society waa dolivered by Rev. W. H. Murry, in the First Presbyterian church in Brooklyn. The good effects of an excise law were made apparent in Jersey ity yesterday in the peace and quietness pre- vailing, and the limited number of arrests made througn- ut the day. In Hoboken the crowd was not so large as usual, notwithstanding the fact that no excisemen oper. ated there, the cool weather probably being thd cause. Senator Wilson was compelled to abandon his visit to Savannah, and remained in Charleston yesterday. He proposes to wind up his Southern campaign by a visit to Kentucky and Tennessce. In his second speech in Charleston he eaid that he would favor confiscation in the ovent of freedmen being oppressed by the planters for voting the repablican ticket, ‘The Consul at Lambayeque, Peru, reports the discovery of the silk plant im that neighborhood, growing wild and yielding a fabric finer and stronger than that of the silk worm. The presence of the Japanese Commissioners in this country is reported to be for the purpose of obtaining advice as to the best means of defence against iron-clad vessols of war, It ig reported also that they wish to sottle with Thurlow Weed and his contractors for s#veral ships which they failed to receive, one only being sent, and that one not coming up to their expectations. Tho Congressional election in Kentucky took piace on Saturday, and resulted im a victory for the State rights democrats by a majority supposed to exceed that cast for Duvatl in the race for Clerk of the Court of Appeals last year. The returns come in slowly, and one or two Of tbe mountain districts are supposed to have been closely contested. A report comes from Augusta, Ga, that two United States soldiers had been hung by citizens in the Edge- field district, South Carolina, 7. C. Weatherby, a member of the South Carolina Lagistarure,jwho reporied publicly some time ago that he had hada conversation with President Johnson during the winter on Southern aflairs, has beon summoned to ap- pear before the Judiciary Committos. We publish this morning a letter from a special cor- Fespondont detail'ng the particulars of the attempted murder, by am insane man named James Yeates, of his little grand cbild, near Bakersville, N. J., and hie sub- sequent death by bis own hand. The child was severely wounded by a hatched in the hand of Yeates, and is now in a critical condition. No cause can be assigned for the attempted murder, except the affection the old man had for the child, He had expressed his intention of kitting her that in death they might not be separated. John Leighton, whose arrest in Boston on certain charges connected with mining stock operations was re. ported yesterday, has been released on giving bail ia $160,000. A small mainsail yacht upset in the East river yester. day and one of the party of five young men aboard it was drowned, and the rest narrowly escaped the same fate Ag ante-mortem statement of Charles Amrhein was he having been shot two weeks ago at a ball by one of four intruders, who forced themselves in and were re- quested to benave themselves by Mr. Amrhein, who was one of the floor managers, He now lies ima critical condition, The verdict warranted the Coroner in com- mitting @ man named Horton to answer, The Downfall of Maximilian—What ie the Prospect for Mexico? The late decisive military operations of the liberals in Mexico embrace the capture of the city of Querétaro, the death of Miramon, the commander there of the imperialists, the pur- suit, defeat and dispersion of the force of Marquez, who had come up from the capital to the relief of Miramon, and the mysterious escape of Maximilian from Querétaro, who is supposed to have made good his retreat into the capital with the escaping remnants of the army of Marquez. Porfirio Diaz, the leading liberal general, writes from San Cristobal that after Marquez had abandoned seventy-two wagons laden with ammunition and other war materials, in order to escape, “he was com- pelled, after several hot encounters, to leave in our possession his entire artillery train, park and munitions, besides leaving a large number of killed and wounded and some two hundred prisoners ;” that he finally “retired in great disorder, with one-third of his force ;” and that it is thought only the leaders and officers will reach the city of Mexico, “accom- panied by the mercenary corps of Austrians, who, being well mounted, will probably reach the capital to-day” (the 12th of April). Our special correspondent at Vera Cruz (April 17) writes that the hot weather and the vom:to (yellow fever) had set in there; that from the filthy condilion of the city pestilence and death will soon prevail; that General Diaz, with six thousand men, had marched to superintend the s:ege of the capital, having previously sent down two thousand men and a park of heavy guns, to assist General Bena- vides in the siege of Vera Cruz, and that his mortars are planted, and “we are under a fierce bombardment ;” but that as a last resource the imperialists have provided vessels by which their officers at least may escape, and that “the Austrian steam war vessel (no doubt the Dandolo) is here, under orders to remain here and take him (Maximilian) on board when he shall decide to leave Mexico;” provided, always, he gets down alive in run- ning the gauntlet of two hundred and fifty miles from the capital to the coast. This is the only chance remaining for Maxi- milian—escape from the couatry with bis life. We may assume that Diaz is now in occupation of the city of Mexico, with Juarez and his gov- ernment ; that the imperialists have either sur- rendered on condition of leaving the country, including Maximilian and bis “Austrian mer- cenaries,” or that in undertaking to” cut their way through to the coast, they have been cut to pieces ; that the last defender of the empi re _——- ‘soil has been disarmog, and that tepablie-has ‘been universally proclaimed amaid the cejoicings of the people. This, we: conctade, is the condition of things in Mexico to-day. Of opurse, from the information recited, we can form no opinion as to the fate of Maximilian. We think it likely, however, that Mr. Seward’s special courier will have reached President Juarez in season to secure the life of the fallen Emperor, and we hope that our next intelligence of him will be that he has been safely delivered over to the cap- tain of the good ship Dandolo, bound for the Adriatic and the castle of Miramar. f Resting his case for the present upon this hope, the question recurs what is next to fol- low in the reparation of his damages to the republic? The sum total of the French troops withdrawn may be set down at forty thousand men. This powerful force, with all its superior training, skill and equipments, while holding every importint position in the , from Matamoros to Yucatan, still found it exceed- ingly difficult to keep even its communications intact. What, then, was the hope of Maxi- milian, shorn of these French troops? He still had left him a considerable body of French, Austrian, Belginn and other foreign adventurers as volunteers, forming altogether the nucleus fora strong army. Then le had Marquez, Miramon, Mejia and other Mexican leaders and their followers, committed beyond remedy to his cause. Then the Church party, which had abandoned him, bad as a last resort taken him up again, and from this party he received his money, supplies and Mexican recruits. Thos he was, with the French evacu- ation, supported by an army of fifteen thou, sand men, with a European infusion and Buro- pean arms of the best, which rendered this force equal, perhaps, to thirty thousand of the badly armed, trained and equipped liberals. But with this force Maximilian, to hold the city of Mexico, had other widely detached points to guard, which so divided his army that the liberals were enabled to cut him up in detail— the very game which Miramon in the outset came very near winning in his bold push upon Juarez at Zacatecas. The Church and the Church party, then, will have to bear the brunt of Maximilian’s damages to the republic. The loss of the landed estates of the Church, which, to the extent of two or three hundred millions in value, Juarez, before the French intervention, had turned over to the State, broke the power of the clergy to a con- siderable extent; but still the Church was powerful in its reserves of goods and chatiels and hard cash and in iis comprehensive system of contributions from the faithful. No doubt, therefore, Juarez will now make a decisive settlement with the Church to such a degree as to render it as powerless as it is to-day in Italy for all reactionary purposes. Religious liberty and equality we may next look for, on such a basis in Mexico as to completely detach the Church from political intrigues. This will be laying a strong foundation for a stable republican government in Mexico; and so there is good ground for the hope that, the great underlying cause of all these Mexican revolu- tions being removed, we shall have no more of them. At all events there is time enough yet to reopen the discussion of the annexation of Mexico, In 1847, while in occupation of the Mexican capital, General Scott, by a “council of notables,” was offered as the representative of the United States the whole country asa free gift and a salary as Provisional Governor of two millions of dollars. But he refused the splendid offer point blank, because of the political distinctions in the United States be- tween the white and the negro races and because these and other races were equal and so mixed up in Mexico that it would be impos- sible for President Polk and his Cabinet and Jaken at his residence on East Twelfth sirect yesterday, ' Congress all together (o establish the dividing NEW YORK HERALD) MONDAY, MAY 6, 1867. Une be!ween whites and nogroes and Indians | The Abolition of Slavery tu Brazil-Now for not taxed among the Mexican people. This was a strong position against Mexican annexa- tion then; but the difficulty exists no longer. We are now ready, it Mexico is ready; but, with political equality here and religious equality there, the interests of the two coun- tries are identical united or detached, and we can bide our time. : ‘Twe Impertant Events. To-day and to-morrow, in London, take place two of the moat important, a the two most important events of the times Representatives from Great Britain, Russia, Austria, France, Prussia, Italy, Belgium, and from the King of Holland as Grand Duke of Luxemburg, will meet to-morrow to determine the fate of a German duchy, and to decide whether the peace of Europe shall or shall not for the pre- sent be preserved. To-day one hundred thou- sand working men, deeply interested in the question of retorm, and deeply dissatisfied with the measure now before the House of Com- mons, will assemble in Hyde Park, there in the face of heaven.and -before their fellow men to repeat their grievances and to reassert their rights, The interest which would have at- tached to either the one or the other, had they occurred ata longer interval, will be dimin- ished by the attention which will necessarily be given to each. Both, however, will take, place. The Congress will assemble, members will proceed to business, and in all probability, before the shades of Tuesday evening have fallen, telegraphic wires will announce to all the ends of the earth what is the likelihood of an amicable adjustment. Reformers will gather im strength at the appointed rendezvous, and will make it plain to the world that, in spite of false friends and avowed enemies, in spite of Queen, Lords and Commons, English working- men, however patient and tong-suffering they may be, will not much longer be denied their rights. Our evening cable despatches will be full of interest. The public will naturally await their arnival with impatience. Condition of the National Banks. ‘The declaration of large dividends by several of the national banks, in addition to the large amount carried to their surplus funds, shows the enormous profits of thess establishments, The First National Bank of New York, tor ox- ample, has just declared a regular -semi-an- nual dividend of ten per cent, besides increas- ing its surplus fund sixty-five per cent. All. the banks, in fact, chat are managed with ordi- nary ability and honesty, are making immense profits out of the public, which are. altogether out of proportion to those of every other busi-. ness. We do not conclude that generally the | gains are as large es forty, fifty, sixty or-more pet cent, which some ef them show; bat we think we do act overestimate the aggrogate.at is over four hundred and eighteen millions, se. that we may fairly calculate the total prodts for all the national banks oyer a hundred millions a year. Probably tuey reach a hun- dred and twenty millions. While ‘this exhibit is extremely gratifying to’ the few favored capi- talists who hold the stock of the national bank- ing associations, the mass of the people might properly inquire whence these excessive profits are derived, and whether they indicate a healthful state of things for the country at These profits of a hundred to a hundred and twenty millions are drawn, of course, from the productive interests of the country, and go into the pockets of a few, comparatively. It may be said that capital has its rights and privileges, the same as labor or skill in busi- ness, and that all have a right to make the most they can from their aceumulated means. This is undoubtedly true as a general prin- ciple and as regards individual action. But in great national organizations or institutions, in institutions which are legalized and fostered by the government, there should be a limit to their power of absorbing the products of in- dustry and the wealth of a people. The prin- ciple of restraining the graspmg power of capital is recognized everywhere. It is em- bodied in usary laws and in laws prescribing the rate of interest on money. The general welfare, as against special interests or privi- leges, should be the object of government. But in the case of the national banks what do we see? We sec a gigantic monopoly over- shadowing the whole country, absorbing all the profits of industry and threatening to exer- cise the most dangerous power both financially and politically. It is far more dangerous than the old United States Bank or any other moneyed institution ever was. We see the na- tional banks not only legalized and supported by the government, but, strange to say, in addition to the large profits which could be made in the ordinary way of banking, and in the face of enormous dividends, the govern- ment actually makes a positive gift to them of over twenty millions a year. Besides giving them the exclusive privilege of banking, and driving all other banks out of existence for that purpose, it gives them the profits of three hun- dred millions of circulation. The Bank of Eng- land, with all its services to the State, was never accorded anything like such privileges, and ‘was never permitted to make such immense gains. Although that great establishment manages the British national debt, and acts as our Treasury Department does for the govern- ment, besides coming to the rescue with its funds whenever the Chancellor of the Exchequer is in a tight place, the government takes two- thirds of the profits of its circulation not repre- sented by gold in its yaults—that is, of the cir- culation represented ‘bearing secu- tities. The whole of circulation of the national banks is represented by interest-bear- ing bonds; yet they draw their interest and pay nothing for the privilege of circulating the money of the country. Never before was there such favor conferred on capitalists or such a fraud upon the people. The whole organiza- tion is, as we said, a dangerous one anda monstrous cheat upon the public; but if it is to be continued let us at least save the twenty millions @ year now given to the banks by substituting legal tenders for their notes, and cancelling with these the three hundred mil- lions of the interest-bearing bonds now depos- ited by them as security for their circulation. This is the least thata heavily taxed people could expect. It would relieve our burdens and help to pay the national debt, while the banks would, as the exhibit of their condition shows, make plenty of money withaat this ex- traordinary gratuity. Cuba and the Last Slave Ship. The special Heraxp despatch, vie London and the Atlantic cable, which we published yesterday, announcing a decree from Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, abolishing slavery througbout his dominions, marks the opening of @ new chapter in the political advancement and material prosperity of that vast and mag- nificent empire of the mighty Amazon. From and after the eighth day of April last all the children of slaves, as of freemen, born in Brazil, are free, and the existing slaves at the end of twenty years are also to be free. We have no doubt that within a year or two another imperial decree will complete the work of emancipation thus begun, and that Brazil will thus take her place with France, Great Britain, Russis and the United States in the abolition of slavery. The population of Brazil, in round numbers, is eight. millions, of which two millions are whites, one million one hundred twenty-five thousand free people, blacks and mixed races; eight hundred thousand civilized’ Indians, six hundred thousand mixed slave population, and over two millions African ‘slaves, The laws of the empire have rendered manumission easy, and once set free the negro finds every calling and every office in- the State as fully open to him as to the white man. And in society, as in politics, color is no barrier tosuc- cess, The work, therefore, of negro emanci- pation in Brazil is an easy matter, civil, politi- cal and social equality being already estab- lished among freedmen of all races and colors. With us African emancipation has been pur- chased at the cost of a stupendous four years’ civil war, involving, North and South included, the sacrifice of six hundred thousand able- bodied men; the impoverishment of extensive communities, and heavy taxations to meet the demands of three thousand millions of debt. And why? Because of our late broad distinc- tions between whites and blacks, because of a decree from the Supreme Court of the United States in 1856, declaring that under the federal constitution the negro, bond or free, is not a citizen, and “has no rights which a white man is bound to respect;” and because this decree, while it soMdified the North against slavery, rallied the South to rebellion in its defence. Even in the midst of the war, as late as De- cember, 1862, when the door was open, Presi- dent Lincoln, casting about for s way to uti- versal emancipation, could find no plan of eafely reaching it bofore the year 1900. The Emperor of Brazil, then, has done as much as could be reasonably expected, in giving slavery a margin of twenty years in which to die out. But, we repest, that having broken ground. upon it, he will soon find; as versal liberty and political equality. Spain will also be made to feel the moral ef- fects of emancipation in Brasil superadded to emancipation in the United States, and thére will be 8 work of reconsiruction before long in the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, the last remaining places of refuge in Christendom of African slavery and the African slave trade. With regard to this traffic the Emperor of Brasil has for years past actively co-operated with England and the United States to sup- press it, Always cultivating the most friend- tion, will bring the two countries into atill closer rapport. Our imports from Brasil, with the opening of the Amazon to free navigation and with the abolition of slavery, will be rapidly swelled from twenty-five to fifty mil- lions a year, and our exchanges will be cor- bountiful support of s hundred millions of people, What limits, then, are we to fix to our trade with that valley under this new epoch of emancipation and commercial reciprocities? Meantime we may expect some important man- ifestations in Spain and Cuba of the moral ef- fect of this decree of emancipation in Brazil. Steam engines and telegraphs are bringing all the nations of Christendom so close together that a great event in one pulsates through them all. Internal Revenue Receipts. From the comparative table, published by the Treasury Department, of the receipts from internal revenue from July 1 to April 23 of the last and present fiscal years, we notice a falling off of over thirty-three millions. Some have supposed that this reduced income from in- ternal revenue arises from the modification of the law by Congress; but this is a mistake, as no results have yet been obtained from that. One of the principal causes will be found in the condition of trade in the country and the reduced incomes of business men. Many of the greatest merchants, such as A. T. Stewart and Claflin & Co. wno returned immense incomes last year, return little or nono this. This may not indicate the standing of such great houses, as they balance the profitst of one year with the losses of another; but it sbows @ reaction in business from one cause or another. Probably there was a great deal of overtrading shortly after the war; there may be large unproductive stocks on hand; people may not buy quite so recklessly, and the re- turns from country merchants, particularly from those of the South, may be slow in coming in. Various causes may have combined to produce this falling off in the incomes of our great business ‘men. llicit distilling has been general, and no doubt the government has been greatly defrauded in this way. Losses have occurred, teo, from the complicated and expensive management of the Internal Revenue Department. Besides, people learn by experience to evade the law in « hundred ways, where so many things are taxed, and where the facilities for defrauding the government are so great. We cannot tell yet what will, be the effect of the law as modified. It is su;yposed the revenue will fall off much more when that goes fully into operation, But wiasatever may be the result, one thing ts cerain, and that is that the whole system is quaprous, oppressive, and far among these | The Aesntour Katertainment in Ald of the We- | too expensive in the management. Instead of such a system of taxing almost everything, and the inquisitorial income tax, revenue should be raised chiefly from a few articles of luxury in general use. The British government raises a revenue equal, or almost equal to that which we need in this way. The machinery would be thus simplified and the cost. of collection greatly reduced. Unless Congress wants to keep up the present system for the purpose of providing for an army of officeholders, it will go to work next session to revise the law in the manner indicated. With our immense means and resources and the industriul activity of our people, a sufficient revenue could be raised for the current expenses of the government, and to put the national debt in process of liquidation, without taxation being made vexatious and burdensome. Where are the statesmen who can comprehend the subject and accomplish such a desirable object? An Unrrorrraste Investuent—The one hundred thousand dollars invested by President Johnson in the capture of Jeff Davis.. Doubt- less if the administration had foreseen then the. trouble of settling the question—what shall we do with him !—they would have given, if ne- cessary, a hundred thousand dollars to help him off to Mexico. It is prebable, however, at last, that he will soon be tried or releaged as a bad speculation. Far Pray—The position of Senator Wil- gon that the outside States in meeting the terms laid down by Congress will be restored to Congress, On that platform the Senator may defy “Old Thad” and all his followers. Enovon or Cutcaco.—President Johnson, re- cently invited by certain workingmen of Chi- cago, to attend a mass meeting of theirs in said city, prudently declined on the score of press- ing official duties, That trip of last September was to Mr. Johnson enough of Chicago. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL. The Orphoonist Singing Festival. The preparations for the yearly spring tide festival of erpheonists and charity children having been com- pleted, the festival will take place at the Academy of Music on Thuraday next, May 9. The Orpheon free schools wore established by Mr. Jerome Hopkias about five years ago for the special training of choir boys, Since then almost every. boy-choir, including the late “Cocilian,"’ in New York and its suburbs, has been tn- debdted to the Orpheon for singers. Later departments for elasses of ladies and giris, as well as for young mon, ‘were opened, so that in point of comprehensiveness these {ree achoois have never been equalled on this side the Atiantic. Over eeven hundred pupils have been in attendance im these during the past season, and free musical instruction has been given to over three thou- eand since they were started, ‘They will, doubtless, as they ought, continue to obtain the favor and support of the community.. The yearly festi.al on Tnursday will place under the easpices of about two hundred of | wellknown orchestes wi suppert the.monster ohorus 2a this occasion, and Miss mon’s Hospital at Dr. Ward’e. Ts has become very much the fashion latterly in Now Dr. Ward's, the'corner of Forty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, in aid of the Women’s Hospital, The spacious pieture gallory was turned inio a theatre on the occasion, eal of case and grace and sang sweetly. some and stylish in figure, and makes @ very fine ap- pearance before an audience. Miss Allen performed the part of an old family negro nurse quite naturally, Miss agreeable light entertainment, and bad more of a social than public character aboat it. Besides ,the beaatiful women who chiefly composed the audience, and their rich, handsome dresses, were well worth seeing. Sanday Concert at Steinway Hall. The thirty-sixth Sunday concert at Steinway Hall last night was crowded, and some exceilent artists assisted init. Mrs, Howard Paul, whose magnificent coatralto voice, a perfect phenomenon in the concert hall, never appeared to more advantage than in ‘‘ He was despised,”” from the Messiah, and an aria from Mercadante was en- thusiastically received and encored. Such a voice should be heard more frequonfly in concert and opera, and there is no doubt of unqualified success if Mrs. Paul should devote herself to such a great undertaking. We ave no contralto in America who can compare with her in voice, and with the necessary preparation she would be invaluable in concert, oratorio or opera, The other artists wore G. 8. Hall, baritone, a debutant; George Morgan, the well known organist ; Colby and Miss Poweli, pianists, and the usuas orchestra, Ristori’s Last Appearance in Brooklyn. On Tuesday evening the Queen of the Drama will ap- pear for the last time at the Brooklyn Academy of Masic, The play selected for the occasion 1s Elizabeth. ‘The sale of seats so far has been something unprece- dented in Brooklyn. On Thursday morning last the box office was opened for the first time, and in an hour and a half over $1,000 were received, exclusive of what had Deon received at the ticket offices in New York. On Saturday nearly every seat in the house was sold. Pro- bably Ristori’s farewell in Brooklyn will be attended by one of the largest and most brilliant houses that ever witnessed her matebioss impersouations. To-night she plays the great character of Thisbe, in Victor Hugo's Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YACHT HENRIETTA. Avery fine photograph bas been taken from an English Print by Brady, the subject of wisich is the yacht Henri- otta in mid-ocean. Around the picture of the yaebt are photographs of the medals struck in honor of that event, arranged in an artistic manner and forming with the central feature of interest a very attractive picture, The outlines of each portion of the photograph are sharply defined, and every spar, rope and sail stands out in relief against the leaden background of the sky. The waves are also admirably given, The picture ie bandvemedy mounted and presents nothing to offond tne eye of an artist In any particular, but rather to demand his un- qualified praise, CONGRESSMAN KELLEY AT CINCINMAATI. Crvomewa"a, May 5, 1867. Kelley, of Pennsylv:,oa, arrived here Ml ‘Uhis morning, and lett for Mompais, where he w.il make his Gret speech om Tucaday. EUROPE. Ttaly and Belgium to be Represented in the Peace: Cangress. Prussian Complaints of French Armaments. United States Minister Wright Fatally [lL John Bright's Speech at the Birming- bam Monster Reform Meeting. “Wo Power in Lords or Commonc to Resist” the People. Manifesto of “the Centre of taverreetion = to the Romans, British Call for Mediation Between France and Germany. &. &. BY THE CABLE T0 MAY 6, THE PEACE CONGRESS. Italy and Belgium to*be Represented. Loxpox, May 5, 1867. Italy and Belgium are to be represented im the Peace Congress in addition to the other Powers previeusly an— ‘nounced. Pruesian Complaints Against France. Loxpon, May 6, 1867. The press of Prussia complain that France ts still com- tunuing her military preparations, ig Ualted States Minister Wright in a Dytag State. Braum, May 6, 1667. Governor Wright, the United States Minister to the Court of Prussia, is reported to be at the point of death. ITALY. ‘The Now Biinister te Constan' Fiorence, &e. tineple. May 6, 166, The Chevalier Bertinatti, formeriy the Italian Mim. ister to the United: States, has boen apporated Ambassa- dor to the Sublime Porte. loft New York on the 20th of April, also arrived bere to-day and sailed again for Liverpeel. BY STEAMSHIP TO APRIL 25. ‘The German mail steamship Union, Captain Von Sem- ‘The Bourse Gasetie of St. Potorsbarg makes references article of an extremely warlike character, in which i i that, though the news of his death was not true, yet he had an attack of apoplexy, and, theugh his condition ‘was very grave, his medical attendants had not lost all hope of saving him. The Marshal bad but a short time defore been appotnted to the command of the Camp of The imperial Russian squadron, under the command of Rear Admiral Kern, recentiy returned to Europe from the North Pacific, has anchored at the Motherbank, off Portsmouth, England, consisting of the screw frigate Askold (flag), seventeen guns, Captain Polozoff; the screw corvette Varing, seventeen guns, Captain Lunda, and the screw despatch vesse) Izoumroud, five guna, Captain Brilkin, waiting orders from =t. Petersburg ex. pected for Cronstadt on the clearing of the ice, The Tzoumroad was to sail from the Motherbank for Havre with Admiral Kern and a number of bis officers to enable. them to pay a visit to the great Paris Exhibition, ‘The ceremony of inaugurating the statute of the inte Mr, Cobden, erected in St, Ann’s square, Manchester, wok place Apiii 22 ‘The proceedings commenced with & gramd procession of trades’, temperance, friendly, political amd other societies, with bands of music, ban- ners, &c, which started at two o'clock from the stome flags between the Peel and Wellington stares in front of the Royal Iu@rmary. Tho first division of the procession comprised the trades’ so~ cieties, which included the paiternmakers, Frenchpolish- ers, tailors, saddlers’ society, amalgamated engineers, glass cutters, operative omrpenters and joiners, bakers, brush makers, bleachers, boiler makers, brick makera, brass founders and book binders, The second division, covsisting of frienily and co-operative socleties, in. cluded the “Druids iseventy-five branches), with depus tations from other societies at Rochdale, Colne, Bolton,, Bradford, Baryoidewick and meny other wowns, The Political sogieties included the Reform Union and the Reform Tague, with depntations from nearly all the darag ‘Wwns surrounding Manchester, The prasemnqa