The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘AMES GORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. seca ase THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Fevrcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $34. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five ‘custs per copy. Annual’ subscription price:— Onc Copr.. Three Copies. Five Copies: Ten Copies. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the lowest rates. Volume XXXII.... No. 141 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, noar Broome stceet.—Huwny IV. WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, oppe- site New York Hotel —Faa DiavoLsa—Caxpenuiia, THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, and Sixth avenue.—HAMurr. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Tee Iurenrar Troure of Javanese Antists in Taxin Wonpenrut Yeats. 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THB NEW S. EUROPE. By special tolegram through the Atlantic cable we have a report of the race for the French Derby, which took place at Chantilly on the 19th of May. M. Dolamarre’s horse Patricien won after an exciting cop- test and amidst a very enthusiastic and brilliant turf wens. The news roport by the cable is dated yesterday even- ing. May 20. The ‘most trustworthy’ advices in London from Pandia go to confirm the report tbat Omar Pasha bes Deon dofeated by the insurgent Christiana, The Sultan Das granted the title of King to the Viceroy of Egypt. Napoleon and the King of Prussia signed the Laxem- Surg troaty of settioment, The Corporation of London Bm to erect a statue to George Peabody. Queen Victoria laid the corner stone of the Hall of Arts, London, The motions of Captain McCaflerty and Stephen J. Meany, convicted of Fenianism, for new trials were denied, and Captain McCafferty sentenced to be hanged. The United States iron-clad Miantonomoh is at Gibraltar. Lord Derby's Cabinet sustained another defeat on an amend- ent to the Reform bill, Parliament rajected a motion ‘to grant female suffrage in England. Consols advanced steadily in London and closed at 93 for money. Fivo-twenties were at 72% in London and {7X in Antwerp. Cotton declined, and closed with mid- @iing uplands at 11d. Breadstuife downward and inec- lve. Provisions steady. THE CITY. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, An ordinance requiring berries to be sold by definite measure was re- | ferred. Invitations were nccepted to be present at the | Presentation of colors to two regiments of the National Goard on Monday next. A resolution was passed to pave Seventh avenue with Stafford pavement. The Brooklyn Board of Supervisors met yesterday afternoon, A report was submitted from the Com- missioners of Jurors, showing that 5,170 had been drawn fu the county from May 2 to May 14, and that the amount received for fines was $3,000. The sum of $9,000 was ordered to be paid a steam heating company for fur- ishing the County Court House with a steam heating apparatus. The Law Committee reported adversely in the matter of confirming the awards for land taken for a parade ground, as they considered the awards too high » figure. A resolution was passed directing a sur vey tobe made and steps to be taken to yest in the county the title of lands necessary for a sewer route from the county buildings, Flatbush, to Buskwick reek, Flatlands, ¢ At the meeting of the Brooklyn Common Council yes- Jerday afternoon, tho Committee on Water and Drainage reportéd in favor of placing the sum of $204,160 to the sredit of the Sewer Commissioners for the year ending April 30, 186%, The question of increasing the police Torce of that city by the addition of Ofty patroimen, the proposed increase to take place on the Ist of September next, was debated and laid over, to be made the special order of business on Monday next, A contract for Dailding a dook fvot of South sixth street was awarded at the sum of $17,135. At a meeting of the Brooklyn Board of Education, held yesterday afternoon, the Finance Committee sub- mitted the estimate of expenses for the support of pab- lic schools for 1968, showing the amount required to be $250,000; for special schoo! fund, repairs, &c., $40,000, and for the Brooklyn Orphan Asylums, $14,600. The report was adopted. The sum of $8,000 was appropri- ated for evening schools, and $3,000 for training schools, Tn another column will be found a detailed account of frauds on the Internal Revenue Department. and where (iltett whiskey is manufactured and how it is put wpon the market, The article will be found of especial inter est, as it refers directly vo the distilieries of New York, Choir number, ke. ; those now in runming order and the manner in which they bave been affected by the sale of Silicit spirite, A heavy fraud in cigar stamps, which is @i prosent under investigation, is also alluded to, and the action of the government authorities in this city is ‘the subject of « very interesting portion of the article referred to. A numerously attended meoting of cigar and tebacoo dealers was held yesterday, for the purpose of taking part in the anti-Rxcise agitation, Im accordance with that object a series of appropriate resolutions were adopted, and a committee appointed to act as a delega- tion to the contral organization of the German societies, A meoting of Post No. 8, of the Department of New "York, of the Grand Army of the Repablie, was held last ‘evening at 327 Bowery, at which an address was adopted embodying the views of the Post with regard to the recent release of Jeff Davis. The address will be found in another column. A man named Prank B. Fisher, an cam mmitied the bead hi Koor Hef ven © the words: Onase—Demg- m™ phe aro,"? L ? Nuw YORK HERALD, TUESDAY 4 man named Bally died at his residence in Forty- | The Negre Vote—The Conduct of the Radical , MAY ‘21, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. i will endanger that which she already holds. | to let it be known that his mission was an im- fourth street, on Tuesday; of hydrophobia, although he was not aware that he had ever been bitten by ® dog. An inquest was held over the remains of Heury Davis yesterday, and a verdict was returned that deceased came to his death from a wound roceived at the hands of Dr. George Rosenberger. Tn the Superior Court yesterday, in the case of Eltza Burlingame vs. Henry Burlingame, an action for divorce on the ground of the defendant's adultery, Julia Rogers testified that she had kept a house of prostitution for five years, and that the defendant had visited her establishment om several occasions, The Court will render judgment this morning. The Grand Jury yesterday made an elaborate present- ment before the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the re- sults of their labors during the past two weeks in in- specting the various public institutions and prisons, which will be found in another column, after which they were discharged by Mr. Justice Miller from further attendance, The stock market was dull yesterday, but closed arm atan advance. Gold closed at 187. In almost all departments of trade dulness was the most prominent feature; previous prices, however, save in a few cases, were fully maintained. Coffee was quiet but eteady. Cotton was unchanged. On ’Changej four was quiet and 6c. a 10c, lower. Wheat and coru, though dull, ruled steady, while oats further advanced lo, a 2c. Pork closed heavy, while boef remained steady. Lard was scarcely eo firm. Freights remained-duil, Whiskey was neglected. Naval stores were loss active, but steady in value. fPetrotoum was unchanged. Consequent upon the continued heavy recoipts and a disinctination on the part of buyers to operate at Inst weok’s figures, the warket for beef cattle exhibited less firmness anda deciine of fully }<¢, per Ib. was con ceded. Tradé-ruled stow even at this liberal cancession, though about all the offerings, comprising 1,850 head, found purchasers, Extra realizod 18c. ; primo, 17}¢c. @ 3 first quality, 17)<c. a 1746. ; fair to good, 1640. . and ordinary to inferior, 13c. a 16c. Veal calves, notwithstanding the large receipts, ruled firm at Llc, a 114, for extra, 10c. for prime, and 7c, a9 }4c. for inferior to common, Milch cows continued quiet, but holders were firm in their pretensions and demanded full prices. We quote the range, $45 a $125. Sheep and lambs wore not esqgntally changed in value, though common stock, in view of the abundant offerings, ruled ashade easier. We quote extra O\c., prime 8c. a 9¢., ordinary to common 734. # 8¢c., and inferior 5c. a Tise, Lambs were quoted at from $5 to $7 50. The hog market, in consequence of the comparatively heavy receipts, ruled heavy, and prices were !gc. lowor, At the Forticth street yards this morning 18 car loads were on sale, all of which realized $7 25 a $7 05, Iu- ferior lots were quoted 7c. a Tc. Tho total roceipts were 5,803 beeves, 74 mileh cows, 2,424 veal calves, 12,278 sheep and lambs and 21,452 ewine. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Matamoros (Mexico) correspondence ts dated May 10. A series of unimportant battics had taken place in front of Querétaro, The liborat force bosieging the town was estimated at from twenty thousand to thirty-five thousand men. Juarez had levied prestamos to the amount of two million dollars. Immediately after the receipt of Secretary Seward’s lower be issued orders in reference to the treatment of Maximilian, saying that his life should be spared, and as it waa foared that Escobedo would have the unfortunate prince assassi- nated, notwithstanding orders to the contrary, general was seat to command an expedition fost Canales, who had robelled in the North. Corona, con- sidered tho ablest of tho Mexican generals, was ap- Pointed to succeed him, and now commands ali the armies of the republic. An imperial recoonoitering party, including one of Maximilian's adjutants, had been captured and shot, ~ Advices from the Pising, dated near Fort Dodge on the 13th iust., atate that Lioutenant Colonel Custer was oc- capiod there with the Seventh cavalry, Colonel A. J. Smith having absonted himself to arrange with post quartermasters cast of him for the forwarding of sup- plies, An expedition was just leaving the camp, undér command of Custer himself, to chastise some bands of Indians who had been depredating in the Smoky Hill region, The trial of Bridget Dugan for the murder of Mra. Coriell, at Newmarket, New Jersey, was commenced in the Court of Oyer and Terminer at New Brunswick yes- terday, Testimony for the prosecution was taken, and the court adjourned until this morning. General Swayne issued an order on Sunday evening placing the maintenance of public order in Mobile in charge of Colonel Shepherd, suspending the city police administration, prohibiting out of door congregations afer nightfall, and holding individuals to @ strict responstbitity for the use or publication of violent or incendiary Mnguage, or for disturbance at any places of public entertainment. Violations of the pudlic peace will be investigated by the military instead of the civil courts, Chincoteague Island, about forty miles above Cape Henry, was visited by @ party from Norfolk the other day, when a population of fourteen hundred persons was found inhabiting the island, who exhibited almost savage ignorance of the affairs of the outside world. They subsist by farming and Gsbing, only a few of them are educated, and all manifest a decided aversion to the visits of strangers. Judge Kelley addressed a congregation of the usual variogated hues at Atlanta yesterday. The negroes in duiged in an elaborate procession, and the remarks of the Judge were received with much enthusiasm and good feeling. The President bas given his consent for the publica- tion of Booth’s diary of @vents just preceding the assas- sination of President Lincoln. The break in the Atlantic cable is reported by oMcgrs of the company to be within three mites of Heart's Con- tent, and will soon be repaired. Senator Wilson made the last address of his tour through the South at Huntsville, Ala, yesterday. Thence he returas to his home, An excise law is te be enforced in Philadelphia Ik prohibits the sale of Hquors betwoon midaight and sun- rise, and allows the testimony of a drunken person to be mken in triats wherever liquor dealers are defend. “Tt pened yacht collided with a schooner ia Boston harbor yesterday, and three women and a child, out of eleven of its passengers, were drowned, The Ingham county (Mich.) Poorhouse was burned yesterday, and six persons perished in the flames The St. Louis Democrat nominates Edwin M. Stanton for the next President. ‘Ihe census of the- United States was taken by actual count im the various revenue districts during the last two months of 1866, and shows an aggregate in States and Territories of 34.506,882 souls, an increase of 8,062,561 since the census of 1860. In most of the Southern States there has been a decrease, but in the Western States a large increase is reported. The American Colonization Society's ship Golconda sailed for Liberia from Charleston yesterday with three hundred negro emigrants on board. The Pope and the Press. The Papal government has always enter- tained a great dread of the press. It has never spared it when it has had the opportunity of wreaking ite vengeance upon it As it has been with other despotisms in their last strug- gle, so now it is with that of Rome. The press is invoked to ald it in ita helplessness. ‘The appeal made by the Holy Father to the newspapers to convey to Russia his provisional appointment of a bishop to a diocese in that country is one of the most remarkable tributes to the influence of the press that has been wit- nessed in our times, changeful though they have been. He is powerless to effect by the organ- ism of the Church one of the most important functions which devolves upon him as its head, and is compelled to appeal to the newspapers to sid him. What 4 revqlation must have taken place in the old man’s mind to bring him to such a condescension! So far as we are concerned we shall be happy to give his Holiness every assistance in our power. The Herp does not recognise dead- heads in its columns, but it will make an excep- tion in favor of the Head of the Church. Let hig send along his letter of appointment, and we will give it one or more free insertions. He can returo the compliment by forwarding na « plenary indulgence for all the sins we have ommitted or are Ukely to commit. Leaders—ite Logical Result. In the present indecent haste to seize and seoure that grand spoil—the negro vote, we ee the real estimate of the war that rules in the minds of Greeley and Company, the wilder leaders of the republican party. For four years there was a holocaust; and every family laid its sacrifice, as it fondly supposed, on the altar of the nation. Husbands, sons, brothers, fathers—men cherished by all the endearing? names known to humanity—were proudly sent out to the death harvest that the country might not perish nor suffer shame. Doevastation in the form of fire and sword swept over half the land, and the people with one ready, willing voice, gave the government a mortgage on every dollar and every dollar’s worth. But was it all for the country really? or must we now gradually open our eyes to eee that it was all for party? Greeley and Company assume that the war had no higher or nobler object than to give them @ chance to get at the nigger vote. All the blood shed, all the money spent, merely moved away the obstacles that were between them and such purpose. Their eagerness now is not to secure in the South any national object that might have been worthy such-# war;" not to draw toward us by wise laws -the States that slavery had so nearly torn away ; not to establish property and personal rights on a better basis; not to assyre to the country that permanent peace and tranquillity for which such sacrifices were made. No; thoir whole policy—all that the war has led them to—is simply and purely an eager, indecont, devil-take-the-hindmost race and scramble for the votes of all the niggers between the Potomac and the Rio Grande. Was it for this that the American people gave a million lives and thousands of millions in money? We must understand the recent events at Richmond in the light of this republican view of the war. Republican bondsmen, judges, jurors and lawyers all see it the sume way and open their mouths in an accord as happy and harmonious as though they were only the four and twenty blackbirds of the political pie. Aud the arden of the gong musi starile the country. We Gare, they say, for no result of the war that is worthy of respect. Tuere was nosuch principle in it a3 sould make oppo- sition a crime. It was only eur party game, and we have won, We have removed the obstacles to our party supromacy > we have access {o the niggers—to a vast ignorant mass of voiers whom we can shape and use ae we will, and by whose votes we can control, not the South @nerely, but the North also. There are no precedents to be made; there was absolutely nothing in it but the nigger; and this prisoner, who might be impor- tant if there were any euch mational question as good goveramen! and treason at stak:, ia nor even worth his board in a casemate. Such is the tune. How does the country like it? How will the people bear to be thus told, by the in- difference with which the reprasentative man of the whole tremendous revolt is set at large, that there was no treason? How will they vear to learn, by seeing everything forgotten in eagerveas to secure the nigger vote, that the great dominant party s2¢3 no nobler result in the war than the chance to use the niggers? That it can shut its eyes to the first necessities of restoration, to the securing of peaco and good order and harmonizing the country; nay, that it will actually lay dowa a pro- gramme to imperil again all the proper objects of the war, rather than risk the loss of the votes it has evidently always regarded as the grand spoil of the struggle. Two thoughts will grow into the national mind as tho people reflect on these events—the repudiation of the vast debt incurred for a party purpose, and the repudiation of the party that incurred it. If the conduct of radical leaders forces the conviction that the war isto have no other result than might be summarized in a party programme, the people will grow restive under the burdens it has placed upon them. The debt was incurred by the people through devotion to the national cause; if the money was spent for any less important cause than that of saving the nation, the people will not pay. That, in plain English, will be one result of the last radical assumption that (he country was never in danger—that there was no traitor, no treason, no crime; merely some inevitable political opposition, quite innocent in its nature, and for which it would be cruel to punish any one. Another result must be the utter destruction of popular confidence in all those men who have thus shown their readi- nes: to play fasi and loose on questions that the people jusily regard as vitally important— to trifle with the life of the nation. There must be and will be a clean sweep of these politi- cal hucksters. Men who have no other ideas of the greatest struggle of modera times than that it was the last political shuffle are un- worthy the respect of an intelligent people, and must give place to leaders with more of the real character of the people in them, and who, by their sympathy with the people, can properly lead the country to the fulfilment of the nobler parts of its destiny. Renewal of the War Between Spain and Chile, The Spanish government has not, it appears, given up its revengeful projects against Chile. The war is to be immediately renewed, and such damage done to its harbors and com- merce as the strongly reinforced squadron of Admiral Nafiez can effect. Peru will of course come ia for her share of the reprisals which the offended pride of the Narvaez Cabinet 1s about to resort to. It is to be regretted that these governments did not succeed in carrying through the negotiation with Mr. Webb for the purchase of the Dunderberg. Its acquisition would have at once settled the dispute. The conduct of Spain in this matter is, we think, shameful. Were the right on her side she could afford to exhibits little magnanimity towards 8 weak power like Chile; but being confessedly im the wrong, the determination to renew a war which has merely a sentiment for ite pretext, is indefensible. She can back down readily enough from an imprudent position when she has a Power like England to deal with. How much more creditable would it be for her to admit her error in regard to Chile, which has maintained its honor ia the face of such heavy odds. It is not by such @ course as this that Spam can expect to regain the position she onoe held among the nations of the worli, The indig- nation and resentment which it will excite will unite against ber all the governments of our continent, Ta playing for 4q large a atyke she The loss of Cuba would bea heavy price to pay for the satisfaction of a fruitless vengeance. A Blanket Sheet in the Blues—Eaterprise Against Trustworthiness. One of the lumbering, dull, old-fashioned, forty by thirty blanket-sheets published in this city under the misnomer of a daily news- paper, makes itself very uncomfortable over the enterprise of the Heratp. It does not believe in special cable despatches—sees no reason why any journal should take upon itself the trouble and expense of publishing daily special telegrams of every important event transpiring on the other aide of the Atlantic—does not understand it—sighs and groans for the good old days when no news was published until its “roliability” was assured by the arrival of the mails, a month or so old; and deplores, above all, that the publio—the rushing, roaring, mad-brained public—will insist upon applauding enterprise, and patronizing enterprise, and preferring en- terprise to “ trustworthiness,” The socret of all this uncomfortable feeling on the part of dur slow-coach contemporary is that it cannot get over the ‘special Bismarck toloyram to tre Huratp, which not only gave tho first information of the serious trouble be- tween France and Prussis to our ow. people, but was'telegraphed back across the Atlantic and set all the nations of Europe in a,blaze of excitement by first conveying to them the news that they were probably on the eve of a gene- ral war. This great triumph of the Heraup enterprise seriously interfered with the digestion and the good temper of our dull but trustworthy neighbors, and their columns were filled with attacks upon the Bismarck telegram as a bogus report, until the official statements of the French and Prussian governments proved that the Herarp was as weil posted upon their affuirs as were their own monarchs and ministers. We have no doubt, however much our heavy contemporaries may fret and worry about it, that in five or six years the Tleracp special cable telegrams will be regu- larly sent back over the Atlantic day after day, and will become as well known in Europe as United States five-iweaties, and be in just as little danger of repudiation. We shall spare neither energy, labor nor expense to bring this about, and our chief incentive will be the fact, so much deplored by our grumbling con- temporary, that the public will so obstinately prefer “ enterprise” to bianket-sheet “ trust- worthiness,” Tho Moxicad War Orisin-The Demand of tho Hour. The Mexioan capital is on the eve of surren- dering to the victorious liberals. According to our correspondence Marques was, with a mis- erable remnany of imperialists, holding out against the will of most of the imperial leaders at the capital. At the solicifation of a German Princess General Diag felt disposed to guaran- t2e the lives of the Austro-Belgian corps, which had disbanded and sought protection under the Prussian flag. Diaz, however, could say nothing of Maximilian, whose situation is daily more critical. Active operations against Mex- ico were to be commenced on the 24th of April. Our despatches from San Luis Potosi give news of a bold sortie, on the 27th of April, from Querétaro, the breaking of the besieging line, the subsequent rallying of the liberals and final repulse of the imperialists. This is the substance of the fighting, and almost every report that Escobedo has given us of his opera- tions in front of Querétaro. It is doubtful if he takea the city before Diaz, victorious in the capture of the capital, turns northward to furnish the necessary brains and a reinforce- ment of troops. Miramon, it appears, under a flag of truce, unsuccessfully tried the old game of an armis- tice to decide on the future form of govern- ment in Mexico. Maximilian foolishly clings to the crazy idea that the Mexican people have shown no opposition to the empire, and that in an election they would give him a unani- mous vote. This culminating Mexican contest, pregnant with vital resulis to the United States, appears to excite but little attention from our State De- partment. In the future the Mexican problem is to be the greatest one with which we shall have to deal, and when it comes upon us it will demand a statesminship in its solution of a quality not inferior to that demanded by our present negro question. Nearly seven million five hundred thonsand Mexican Indians and five hundred thousand of the Spanish and mixed races are emerging from the great revolutionary cloud of fifty years’ duration, and grasping, at the sunshine of liberty and constitutional government. This immense population is territorially connected with the ten million whites, blacks and mixed races who have just emerged from a retrograde revo- lution ia our own country,and who as a mass are scarcely superior in education to the Mexi- cans. Two unsettled elements in contact, and banding eighteen millions of inhabitants, full of smothered and unsmothered revolutionary fires—the one a part of, the other in contact with our nationality, and both in the same cli- matic zone, demand a little more attention to the Mexican half of the problem than has her:- tofore been given it. The great demand of the moment is some one to represent us in Mexico. During this whole struggle we should have had none of this half- way policy. A minister should have been by the side of Benito Juarez from the time he left his capital to the present moment. Had this been so the republic would to-day have occu- pied the capital and mach blood aad millions of treasure spared. The world, too, would have understood that our professions for the repub- lic were not of straw, while the presence of an able representative would have enabled us to shape the fature desttmy of Mexico, counsel, consult with and, unite in.a harmonious policy, which, moulded to the times, would prevent our clashing in the great questions that ‘must inevitably spring up between us, and, for want of proper action at thia moment, give rise to much bitter feeling. On the 9th of December, 1866, Mr. Campbell wrote to the Mexican government, “For many reasons not proper to he mentioned herein I regard it as important to the cause of the re- public that I should commanicate with Presi- deat Juarez at Monterey speedily, and ‘I shall go there with the expectation of enjoying that honor at an early day.” Thus it wild be seen that six Ago the man appoiAted to rep- resent us in co agreed with ofr views. He even mont further, and so great ‘was his dosice portant one, that he waived the fact that he was only addressing @ mili:ary official of the Mexi- can government, and, in answer to General Escobedo’s invitation to call and dine with him, wrote the following diplomatic note:— Browssvitts, Dec. 8, 1866. Guyznat—I have the pleasure of acknowledging the Teoeipt of your esteemed favor of this date, and beg to $kPreee to you my for your polite at- LEWIS D, CAMPBELL. These words, called forth by an invitation to dinner, were to the point, and, had they really foreshadowed our Mexican policy, would have been of great service to us, It is time, how- ever, that action should follow sentiment. The the side of Juarez as the exponent of the moral force we have exercised in the restora- tion of the republic. We want an able man ; for the position demands a man who is fitted to grapple with the great questions which are to arise in our contact with Mexieo. He should understand the language, the people, their his- tory and their wants; for he will be the great link to make the contact harmonious. The Stale Department should immediately place us in communication with the Mexican republic, order the present Minister to his post, if it con- siders him capable to grapple wilh the im- mense work on hand there, or sead some man who can represent us and comply with the exactions of the position. Peatilential Nuisances in New York. We must again call the attention of the Health Commissioners to the monster recepiacle on Tenth avenue, between Fifty-third and Fifty- fourth streets, for dead animals, slush and débris. The HeraLp gave, some time ago, a fall account of this deep pool of stagnant water, nearly an acre in extent, stating, also, the fact that during last summer’s visitation of the cholera the neighborhood was the most unhealtby locality in the Twenty-second ward. No heed has yet been paid to our suggestion that in view of the approach of sultry weather and the possible return of the cholera, which last year found two victims ina single house within a stone’s throw of this pool, it should at once be either drained or filled up. On the north side of Fifty-sevond street, about midway between Fourth and Fifth avenues, is still another pestilential nuisance—an accumulation of filth of nearly all kinds, which has been per- mitted to remain thore for nearly a year, not- pumerous reports which have been made, not only 0 the policestation, but aleo to the Health. Courmissioners themselves. . To pagsers-by, as well ag fo residents in the vicinity, this place has become intolerably offensive. We need not insist upon the indispensable duty of the Health Commissioners to eee to it that all such pestilential nuisances as those we have mentioned be abated before the heats of sum- mer shall have aggravated their deadly exhala- tions. We have cheerfully recegnized the claims of the Board of Health to public grati- tude for their efficient services last summer; but let them not reston their laurels. Unre- mitted vigilance on their part will be expected and required. The Prince of Wales and Eaglish Art. The Heratp published yesterday the speech of the Prince of Wa'es at the anniversary ban- quet of the Royal Academy, previous to the opening of the exhibition. In that speech his Royal Highness avows a laudable interest in science and art. “If I may say so, I take,” de- clared the Prince, “the same interest which my parents have always taken, although I may not have the same experience or knowledge ; still I hope I sball always tread in their foot- stepsin that respect.” The Prince eulogized Sir Edwin Landscer, felicitating himself on having become the possessor of an admirable picture by that artist, and alluding to the creat distinction which Sir Edwin has lately achieved as a sculptor by producing “one of the finest monuments of art in this country.” He laments the death last year of Sir C. Eastlake, and the recent death of another Royal Aca- demician, Mr. Philip, “ to the vivid truthfulness of whose pictures from Spanish life I myself, from being in Spain, can amply testify.” “With reference to the exhibition now before us,” added his Royal Highness,“I think 1 may say that for many years we have not seen a finer exhibition. The names of Grant, Watts, Mil- lais and others I need not particularize.”” Be- sides the Prince of Wales, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Dake of Cambridge, Prince Teck, and most of the Ministers of State were present at the banquet. English art, it will thus be seen, does not lack high patronage. But bigh patronage alone, while it may foster and encourage, cannot create high ari. The London journals judge the exhibition with which the Royal Academy has just entered on its ninety-ninth year less leniently than. the Prince of Wales. The Times, for instance, seriously raises the question whether English artists are worthily taking the stand in the world that they ought to do, cr grhether the nation has, outstripped the 8, and is already demanding higher aspirations and nobler deeds than any which these exifbitions offer to represent the art life of the couniry. “We must own,” says the Times, “to some misgivings upon this point, and the more so ‘ when we liear it whispered abroad that in the | great international competition of all the arts and alt the nationa which France bas en‘ couraged, English painters have not wee single mark of the highest excellence. may not prove to He strictly correct, and we ean only hope it may nos be; but if it should turn out that to our artiste is awarded ® second rate place only in the great con- course, we must frankly own this is a judgment which would be entirely borne out by the exhi- bition of the Academy which is now before us.” Tho Times is of the opivion that when the exhibition is pronounced a good one, a very interesting one, above the average, very vari- ous, and so on, this must be taken to mean only that the generality of people are pleased with the pictures, amused and interested for the time, without being much impressed, wiaile critically It must be admitted that English painters generally are deficient in some of the most essential qualities of art. Some ‘eading ‘spirits among them have chosen to daugh at high art and the ideal till art has revenged her- self by deserting thom altogether ‘and giving them over ¢o & fascination for sense ‘U8 beauty and the succes to be derived from me, “¢ techni- cal accomplishment. This, according ‘%0 the Times, is a broad road, easy to follow am ' Ce tain to lead to popularity and material b °° fits; the narrower path is more difficult a "4 taxes the devotion of the painter more severely, * The “ Jephtha” of Mr. Millais, several of Mr.’ Leighton’s works, those by Mr. Prinsep, partioa- larly “The Venetian Gambling House in the Sixteenth Century,” together with a fine work called “lIarael in Egypt,” by Mr. Poynter, and a number of remarkable portraits by Mr. Watts, are specially mentioned as cating a higher feeling for ideal beauty and a sense of the intellectual and poetic that afford some brighter hopes for the futare of English art. The pictures contributed scapists among the latter, have fallen short of the exvellence: to which all artists oaght to aspire. The City Finances—Important Suggestions by Comptroller Counolly. On behalf of the taxpayers of the city we invite the immediate attention of the Commis- sioners of the Sinking Fund to the suggestions made by Comptroller Richard B. Connolly in his annual report to the Common Council. The Comptroller strongly urges the immediate ] Sale of all the unproductive property, of what- ever nature, belonging to the Corporation, as well as of the city markets, wharves, piers and bulkheads, and the payment of the city and county debts, or so much thereof a3 possible, with the proceeds, : It will be remembered that a shori time ago a sale of city property took place, at which an amount was realized far in advance of the val- uation. In some instances buildings, rented at from two hundred and fifiy to four hundred dollars a year, brought from twelve to eighteen thousand dollars. Of course the triends and asse- ciates of the Corporation “rings” had secured these profitable leases, and in many cases, low as the rents were, the lessees endeavored tp avoid payment altogether, on the ground of political services, The groge amount of that sale reached about eight husfred thousand dotlars. The rents received by the city on the property sold had not been two per ceng on this sum, or less than cixteon thousand dollars. rn city debt the gross receipts of the sale will dave the taxpayers eix per cent on eight. hundred thousand dollars, or forty-eight thoussed.dot- lars a year—a clear annual gain of thirty-two thousand dollars a year to the city. The markets and the piers, wharves ead docks have long been @ prolific source of cor- ruption’ in our municipal government. They have been a charge upon the city, instead of a source of revenue, This might be less objeo- tiomable if they had been managed in euch a manner as to yield an indirect retarn and ben- efit to the city, by way of ample and cheap markets for the people, and such liberal facili- ties to commerce as would increase the busi- ness and repulation of the port. But the mar- kets have been insufficient and dirty, and through the operations of the political middle- men who have controlled the leasing of the stalls the actual dealers have been so badly victimized that they have been compelled te make up their outlays by high prices. and sharp practices upon the retail buyers: The piers, wharves and docks have been suffered to fall into such decay that they have been: a reproach to the city and a danger and hindrance to com- merce. In both cases, under the old. ment of the Comptroller’s: office, the fs hee had to: pay out, year after year, more'tham it has received. The mode of operation with the markets may not be generally known. In West Wash- ington Market, for instance, some of the: best stands have been leased for one dollar a week. These leases have been secured by the “ring’” operators, who have sotd them to the regular dealers for premium:, sometimes as high ae ten anid fifteen thousand dollars, the’ city, ot course, oaly receivirfy the amouot of rent called for by the lease. Through this swindling operation the rents received tor market stands up to the time of Comptroller Connolly's accession to office would not pay two per ceat on the lowest valuntion of the property. The whole amount collected in 1866 was under one hund?ed and eighty thou- sand dollars. The cost of keeping the markets in repair and paying the salaries of the official leeches fastened upon the fund was two han- dred and fifty thousand dollars—s loss to the city of seventy thousand dollars. Comptrolier Connolly is now increasing the rents of the stalls as rapidly as the leases fall in, five to seven hundred per cent,and at the same time protecting the dealers from the imposi- tions of mid@lemen and other strikers, and the lessees are willingly paying the increase. But he recommends, as the best thing for the tax- payers, the sale of all the markets, and the ap- propriation of the proceeds towards the-pay- ment of the city debt. The piers, docks and wharves have heen equally unproductive, and from similar causes. In 1865 Comptroller Brennan sold a number of thé leases at a fair rent, on condition that the city should put the property in good repair. But not « dollar was expended for thet: pur- pose by the city, and some of the lessces .refuse- to pay the rents, and no revenue has been re- ceived by the city from this source. This year an appropriation of two hundred afd "afeen thousand dollars bas been made for repaim ; but this is barely sufficient to put four of the piers in proper condition. The Comptroller catimates that the markets, wharves, piers and bulkheads are worth fifteen. million dollars at an immediate sale. We have reason to believe that he feels o of realizing more than this sum by two - three million dollars, if the Commissioners ot the Sinking Fund should determine to dispope of the property. If the fifteen millions shold be applied to the payment-of so much of the eity debt, it would save the ary ot the payment of six per cent on, that amount, or nine hundred thousand @ollars annually. It would actually save “ them more than this; for, as we have ‘shown, the markets cost the city Imst year sevonty