The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1867, Page 6

JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR.! MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news levters and telegraphic despatches tmust be addressed New Yoru Henao. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be returned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. * JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyping and Bngraving, neatly and promptly executed at the lowest votes. ‘Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS TO-MO: FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street—Manm An. roinerts. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Tae Granp Docaxas. WORRELL SIST Bite Now York Lote! » NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo- anon Srv. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lovis XI, &c. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Buace Croon, OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Rir Van Winery, © WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th st—Mec's Divexsion—Biace-Evep Susan, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Metawona. NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth stree—Grunastics, Eqvestmanisy, &c. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND) MUSEUM, Broad. ‘way, corner of Thirticth street.—Deviz's Avcriox. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. and 4 West 24th street. — xs Viavoro—Too Mocu ror Goon Naturs. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Wauire, Corron @ Suanrcer's MinstKeLs. | SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ermo- Fran ENTKRTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUKS. ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Jow inthe @id Werld and the New. | his sons, two young lads, and instructed a | ¢ obtain 4 fiving. ‘The Park Bank, however, Acaly and the Pope=The Appeat to Armes and to Europe. Tbe news from Europe which we give in the cable tolegrams of to-day indicates how rapidly even the Roman question may advance to a definite solution when it has elipped through the fingers of diplomacy. The Pope's forces have been beaten in battle within the Pope's own domain by the semi-organised elements of what was but yesterday @ revolt by the hastily armed, discontented subjects of the Holy See, and the sympathizers that have made their way across the frontier in small parties. Doubtless the battle—so far as the numbers of combatants and killed and wounded give pro- portions to a battle—was a small affair ; but it is to be remembered that this is a case in which @ very little fight may have great re- sults, All the Pope’s power in troops amounts to little, and a battle great enough to defeat this power, however small the battle, is im- portant, as it at once pushes the difficulty to its ultimate point—tho question whether the Pope is to go down, or whether he is once more to be eaved by a foreign potentate. Not less significant than the news of this battle is the fact that an appeal from Garibaldi, urging all his frien@s to march at once to Rome, is published throughout Europe, and that in Turin—in the very home of tho element that might be adverse to all this movement, ff any free Italian element-could-be averse to it— there has been an agsemblago of the people, in which “revolutionary specches” were received with “unbounded enthusiasm.” What will Napoleon do? What will the King of Italy do? The despatch from Europe, published yesterday, to the effect that the King of Italy will appeal to the great Powers of Europe on the Roman trouble, has probably a good basis of fact. Victor Emanuel’s appeal to Europe on this case is simply Ttaliax, repu- diation of the claim of Napoleon to some pecu- liar power or authority as the special champion of the Pope. Europ has become impatient of the interference of Napoleon in the affairs of KBLLY & LEON’S. MINSTRELS. 120 Broadway.—Sonce, other nations. We may understand this gene- Dances, Eccentaicirixs, BuRLEsQues, 4c. ' TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio ‘Vooatism, Necro Minsrexcsy. BUTLEPS AMERICAN THEATRE, 673 Broadway.— ‘Baur, farce, Pantomime, &c. ral sentiment very well by considering that European Powers look upon Napoleon’s claim to dominate Italy very much as we looked upon his claim to dominate Mexico. If he may dictate peace between Rome and tho Italian Buran HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tax | people, he may decide the fate of Spain, of | HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyo.—Ermiorian Movwsrasisy, Batiaps axp Bortesques. { AMERICAN INSTITUTE. —Exarsitios a Dueraiat Propvcrs. on Maaspeaete NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— anD Ant. ‘_ SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING.—Granp Concunt at Steine war Bau. — == = ' New York, Sunday, October 6, 1867. TRIPLE SHEET. BUROPE. The nows report by the Atlantic cable ts dated yester- Gay afternoon, October 5, ‘The Garibaidian revolutionists in Viterbo, holding a ptrong position near Bagnarca, were attacked by the Pon- Ufical troops. Asharp action ensued, which resulted in Bhe dofeat and withdrawal of the soldiers of tho Pope. Whe effect of this victory was highly inspiriting to the men of action’ in Italy. Garibaldi’s friends held a meeting ia Turia, which was largely attended. jationary speeches were delivered by distinguished ppeakera, Mootings of a like character are contem- plated in the other cities of the kingdom. | General Garibaldi, from his prison home in Caprera, Assued an exciting address to the people of Italy, the Substance of which may be summed up in ‘the words “Ua to Rome.” He points out the “ grievances” undor ‘which Italy labors. It is reported from London that France is still arming, @s,if for a winter campaign. Consols wore at 945; for money in London. Five- Awonties were at 715; in Loudon in the afteraoon, and ‘at 745 in Frankfort at noon. The Liverpool cotton market was closed during the Gay. Broadstuffs steady. Provisions and produce with- Out marked change. By the steamship Weser at this port, yesterday, wo Rave very interesting mat! details of our cable des. patches to the 24th of September. MISCELLANEOUS. By means of the Guif cable we are placed im posses- gion of advices from Vera Cruz, Mexico, dated on the 24 of October. Tho news is unimportant Tho United Biates ropresentative, Mr. Plumb, had arrived. The fu- eral ceremonies over the fallen heroes of the repuolic ‘wero to have taken place on the 3d and 4th inst. Advices from Havana, dated yesterday, state that Otterbourg had arrived there from Mexico. ‘The visit of General Sherman to Washington is for the \purpose of conferring with President Johnson on the Wndian question, and not, as rumored, to relieve General Grant. - The disclosures relative to Mrs, Lincoln's wardrobe are causing considerable agitation among fashiouable and political circles in Washington. Davis and Gallagher fought near Detroit yesterday, tho former winning in: forty-fve rounds. Returns from thirty-four counties in Alabama show Ahat a majority of 11,000 votes had been cast over the Fequired one-balf for the convention, In the matter of the haboas corpus case in Philadel. phia, Commodore Seifridge yesterday produced the boy Gormley in court, in concurrence with the legal opinion of Attorney General Stanbery. ) The storm which set in on Thursday night in this vicinity continued through Friday and Saturday, accom. (panied in the inst two days by rain. Sevorsi disasters at Iyoa are alrondy reported in consequence, and the list ‘will most probably be swelled as reports arrive from ‘more distant laritudes. Two parties, one of English army officers and the other Mreach engineers, are visiting the Westera plains for instruction and Sa ffalo hunts, Deacon Oonklim, the cashier of the First National @ank, New Milford, Conn., it ie alleged, recently misap- priated the funds of the bank and also the public nds of the town, of which he was Treasurer, confessed crime to an informal meeting of his fellow church bers, and they advised him ¢o go away. He did so, pnd on being arrested at Poughkeepsie, the bank officers Peelegraphed to the Sheriff that they had not ordered bis ‘Grrest, The liabilities of the frm which recently failed in St. Louis amount to $345,000, and the assets are about $48,700. | The Harlem bridge is to be thrown open for travel- om Whe 16th. Ap article elsewhere in our columns this morning dies ourees apon real estate in New York and Brooklyn. The Mezart democracy held their primary elections all the wards of the city Isat night, to choose dete- no to the County, Judiciary, Senatorial and Assembly ventions | The stock market was strong yesterday. Government | ny neonei firm. Gold was firm and closed at 44% & 144%. 4 Op account of the inclemency of the weather yester. Gay there was but little animation in commercial eircies. Une few commodities, however, s fair business was fone, and previous prices were sustained in aimost ail ' Coffee was quiet bat steady. Cotton was more Fer but still heavy. Groceries were firm. On 'Change jour was in fair demand and very firm. Wheat ie Soaresly so firm, sold a6 @ decline of pet bushel in @ g' mor, but closed steady, Oate ttt iPS, irmer, ‘ork was dull, but steady mt the close, Beef was un- hanged, while lard was in brisk demand for shipment Previous prices, Freighte continued firm and whis- joy steady. Ngyal stores were quiet, but steady. Petro. ein was bat Ii shit after, bat firmiy held Turkey, of all other Powers whose future is shadowy. All this supposes that he is the arbiter of Europe—a character which European sentiment declares he has not held since the battle of Sadowa. Prussian victory on that famous field moved the European centre of gravity, in @ political sense, ten degrees to the eastward. If kings in future shall ask permis- sion to make war from any one but their own subjects, they will present their petitions at Berlin, and not at Paris. Europe feels this, Italy sympathizes with the feeling, and the King’s appeal to Europe has the popular voice of Italy behind it. This appeal is the modus operandi by which Italy’s ally in the last war is to be introduced into the quarrel.. Custozza was Italy’s important contribution to Prussian triumph—a triumph that gave to Prussia the empire of Germany, and to Italy only Venetia. The settlement will not be satisfactory till [taly has Rome also, and she expects to get Rome by the process of making the question one to be determined by all the Powers in common, substantially as the question of Luxemburg lately was. This whole Roman trouble, therefore, is likely to resolve itself into # dilemma for the Empe- ror of France. The Pope has not the military power to defend his throne, which his people sre determined to cast down. Victor Emanuel declares his unwillingness to defend this throne, and declares that if France endeavors to de- fend it, or pretends to make him responsible for its defence, he will appeal to the combined power of the Continent. At this day the deci- sion of any general council of European Powers must be against the Papacy, and thus Na- poleon will find himself at war with combined Europe, or he will be compelled to accept a hamiliating change in the traditional policy of his government as to Rome. Can he stand another humiliation? or is there a limit to the extent to which France will accept shame on his account? f Tho Risks of Life in the City. Many people tremble when they go on board ship to take a voyage across the Atlantic, and we are too often called upon to record loss of life and suffering by accidents on our river steamboats and railroad trains; but few im- agine they are in danger by the horse cars in our streets, Yet itis evident from the acci- dents occurring frequently on and by these street cars, and especially from the list of acci- donts published in the Henan yesterday, that the risk of life and limb is as great on the streets as on the ocean or steam care. In one day there is the record of a young lady being killed and many persons injured by a horse car running down the descent in Atlantic atreet, Brooklyn; of two children being run over and serious\y injured at South Fifth aod Eleventh streets, Williamsburg ; of a colored woman being knocked down and badly hurt by « Bleecker street car, and of a man being ran over in Fulton avenue, Brooklyn. This is 4 fearfol account of casualties, as they are called, in one day. Now, it is clear there must be great carelessness or recklessness on the part of the street car employés and companies, Doubtless all sorts of excuses will be made for these accidents. It may be said, in the Atlan- tic street case, that the brakes would not act, in others that it was dark, or that the victime should have kept out of the way, and so on; but these are lame excuses. The streets are our public thoroughfares, and the lives of the people are not to be endangered by the privi- leges granted to the railway companies. The cars should be so constructed that the brakes would not fail to act instantly, and the conduc- tors and drivers of the care should have light enough to see what is before thom and be com- pelled to keep vigilant watch along the streets The car companies and their employés are to diame, and they should be teught that they cannot thus recklessly killand mutilate help- less children and others. We bope a searching inquiry will be made and the offenders pun- ished. This is the only way to protect the community from such recklessness. Hany Kxox.—The Park Bonk will not be | allowed to obstract the sidewalk on Broadway without some opposition. It has already met with hard Knox, and the courts may step tn to prevent the consummation of the ovtrage which the Corporation would have permitted. To the Jew the week which has just ended has been a week of social and religious fes- tivity. It bas been the first week of his new year. Of the ten penitential days with which the Jewish year commences, and during which the faithful are supposed to devote themselves to fasting, prayer and charity, six have rolled past; and we do our Jewish fellow citizens no unkindness when we express the hope that, at the close of the penitential season, they may have the eatiefaction of believing that their names are inscribed with honor in the Book of Life. Devout Jows in the midst of us there are doubtless many; and different as our orecds are, we cannot refuse to admit that there are Jows not a few whom some of us Christians would do well to imitate. pata SP It fs not, however, our intention to disouss the Jewish creed, or lo enlarge on Jewish pecu- Uarities. Our object is different, and, as we think, nobler. These new year eolemnities havo to us been deeply suggestive. Irrasistibly they carry the mind back over a long and cheokered past, and to other and far different ecenes. Nor are they lees monitory of the possibilities and probabilitics of the oomlag future. How strange, how evontful has been th his- tory of the Jews! Honored as no petple have ever been honored, before or sinco, with the special favor of Heaven for tho epace of two thousand years, persecuted as no people have ever becn persecuted for well nigh two thou- sand years more, they have preserved their individuality and clung to their peouliar tonets ina manner which is without parallel in the entire hiesory of the race, In almost all coun- tries @ homeless wanderer, the Jew has yot preserved his identity ; and the Jew of to-day, whe‘hor found in Asia, Burope or America, dit «ers in no essential particular from the Jow who howled around the cross of Christ, or from the Jows who went up to the aanual feasts in the days of David and Solomon. So much inherent vitality, 60 much tenacity of purpose has oover been evinced by any other people. They are the only living people whose individuality remains unchanged, and whose history carries us baok to the years of the world’s infancy. Volumes have been written on the persecu- tions which the Jews have had to endure, and over which they have triumphed. Since Titus sacked Jerusalem, putting to death unspar- ingly man, woman and ohild, deluging its atreots with blood, and levelling its famous temple with the dust, realizing to the full the terrific predictions of Scripture, what suffering have they not endured? Driven from their own country, homeless and hated wherever they have found themeelves, subjected some- times to wholesale butchery, impelled again and again in different quarters to repeat the exodus, plundered of their hard-earned gains, tortured by'machinery more infernal than the Inquisition ever invented, the marvel is that as @ people they have survived. The greater marvel is that they not only survive but pros- per—prosper in numbers, in intellect and in wealth. The treasures of the world, in fact— the gold, the silver and the precious stones— are in their hands. True to the character which first revealed: itself prominently in Egypt, they never enter a country without making its gold, its silver, its jewelry their own ; nor do thoy ever leave it without carrying these with them. Itis much to eay, but it is not more than the truth, that many of the great landed estates and not @ few of the crowns of Europe are virtually the property of the Jews. They are the great kings of gold, the world’s bankers, the rulers that are to be. It is not to be denied, however, that though the Jew has remained the same down through all the ages, the circumstances surrounding tte Jew have materially altered. He is no longer the object of universal hatred and disgust. Shakspoare’s Shylock belongs to a dead and buried past, not because the Shylock is not, but because the feelings with which Shy- lock was regarded have ooased to be. It is those altered circumstances which have given the Jew his opportunity, and which may poasi- bly in the long run even change his character. Hitherto the Jew has been an alion in almost all the countries in which he has settled, and for the obvious reason that as an alien he has been treated. Denied the rights of citizenship, he has never felt a citizen’s obligations. Mat- ters have begun to change. In several of the European States the Jewish disabilities have been completely removed. In the lists of uni- veraity profeasors, of court physicians, and even of cabinet ministers, Jewish names are to be found ; and already, even in England, the once despised people are extensive holders of real estate. In England, even in England, a Dis- raeli rules the Cabinet, and a Rothschild con- trols the finances. How great the change since the days of the Bristol Jew, whose teeth were plucked out one by one, to compel him to re- veal his treasure ! Improved, however, as is the Jew’s position in almost all countries, nowhere does he find himself so much at home ag in the United States of America. Disabilities here he has none. He takes his place among us on terms of perfect equality. The full privileges of citizenship are accorded him. If born within the limits of the republic, the highest offices of the Btate are open to his ambition. Evidence is not wanting to show that the Jews appre- ciate our republican institutions. In increas- ing numbers they annually flock to our shores. In all our large cities they form an important and useful element. In some of our Western States they figure as the largest holders of real estate. A Jew President is not an improbability in the early future. Itremains to be seen whother with the superior advantages we offer him, and the grander appliances we can bring to bear upon him, we shall not be able to manufacture out of the old material a grander animal than has yet borne the Jowish name. Miemasagement at Castle Gardon. Some very singular developments have re- cently been made regarding the management at the Castle Garden emigrant depot, and the affairs gqnerally of the Commissioners of Emi- gration. The point of the whole matter appears to be that the Commissioners pay more aiten- tion to the collection of their large revenue and to the squabbles of railroad companies, than do to the interests of the emigrant Ths is that the emigrant is badly treated, neglected and swindled at the very institution designed for bie prowotion. One case is reported in some of the papers, which shows tees neglect on the part of the officers in charge of the Castle Garden depot A man residing in Pennsyivania sont to England for friend to receive them on their arrival at this port and forward them to their destination. Inquiry was made at Castle Garden, but no information Could be obtained concerning the boys. Some ten days afterwards it was dj. covered that they had been sent to We'rd’s Island, and when their father came to Vue city to look after them he found that they had been shipped off to Rhode Islané,, instead of Penneyivania, by the blunder @r carelessness of the Castle Garden quthoritien, There is evidently something wrong in the management of the emigrant business at the Battery, and the Commissioners ghould either Gétond to their duties properly or resign their positions. If the officera they employ are not competent and faithful, they ehould turn them all out and get e new set in thelr places. This appears to be the beat thing the Commissioners can 0, for certainly the business of Castle Garden, es at present managed, is disgraceful Yo the State, and of no benefit whatever to the emigrant, ee Iefucace of the Herald—Ne Mystery oo it. We print to-day an article from the New Orleans Picayune of the 29th of September, and another from the New Orleans Times of the same date, referring to an editorial of the Herarp of the 27th, which had been tele- graphed to those papers from Washington. It had reference to the political situation of the South, the Louisiana Convention and negro supremacy, and was deemed of sufficient im- portance to send all the way to New Orieans, at telegraphic prices, 80 as to appear in the papers there on the day following ite publica- tion in New York. It will be seen that our views upon the Southern situation are appre- ciated and endorsed by the press of the South. “ As o diagnosis of the diseases that afflict our body political,” says the New Orleans Picayune, “it (the Heraxp article) leaves nothing to be desired. Wo bere on the spot can add nothing to it.” “In political matters the Herato is well known to be keen of vision,” says the New Orleans Times, in endorsing our opinions upon the disastrous radioal policy forced apoa the South, Woe cite this incident partly in answer to those who would assert that the Herato’s opinions have little weight or influence, and partly to account for the reason why its opinions are regarded as carrying some im- portance with them. Affiliating with no party, wo are at liberty to speak, as no partisan journal can, of great public questions freely and frankly. Our enterprise and views and constant habit of keeping time with the footsteps of progress enable us to be abead of all other papers in the punctuality and variety of our news. Our correspondents are to be found where ever any evonts are transpiring which can be of the least interest to the public ; and where the Heratp correspondents are not people have grown into the conviction that there is the performance of their duty to us and the public neither by danger nor inconvenience. * This is one other reason, apart from its in- dependence of party, why the Heratp enjoys influence and prosperity. Another is its value as an advertising modium, acquired not only by its immense circulation, but by its method of olassifying advertisements instead of scat- tering them promiscuously through its pages. We may safely say that nearly one-third of the business of the city is done indirectly through the advertising columns of the Heravp. Our system is not like that of the old blanket sheets, where an advertisement stands for a whole year In the same type, becoming stupid by its familiarity. Our advertisements are tresh every day. They are the representatives of the active life of the community. They come to us not by solicitation nor the agency of drummers, or any process of that sort, The business is done legitimately, as between buyer and seller, and there is no reduction made for the repeti- tion of advertisements. We have an available medium of communication with the public to sell, and the business man buys it from us ina legitimate way. It is the best investment he can make in prosecuting his business to suc- cess, and he knows it. Take our advertisements of real estate, dry goods, and all commercial business, and the commercial news from all parts of the world, which forms an uuvrring guide to the merchant, and we have « prominent motive for the public to employ the Heratp as their agent in the transaction of business. Our Sun- day issue ts, perhaps, the only paper published on that day which is 80 thoroughly local in ite features, and embraces, at the same time, the material and important news from all quarters of the globe. These, we repeat, are the main reasone—and they are more commonplace than mysterious—why the Henatp has obtained so large a circulation and exercises so goneral an influence. A London Playaoer’s View of the New York Stage. Our readers will be interested by the ex- tracts which we print in anothor column from three letters on the New York stage, by Mr. Jobn Oxenford, the distinguised dramatic critic of the London Times, who has lately made a brief visit to our metropolis. The “ London Playgoer” was surprised at the crowded audiences which fill our New York theatres in the summer, and is convinoed that “the love of Americans for theatrical amusements, tf not nolsy, is certainly profound.” It is to be hoped that the managers of our theatres will }} spare no pains to supply the growing demand for theatrical entertainments of the highest order. Unequat Jostice—The poor apple women of New York have to fight hard to get the can get Me privilége from the Common Council to p%ace a greater obstruction on ® public stret than is formed by all the apple stands ‘and soldiers’ booths in the cily. Fashions and Amusements. Our Paris fashions correspondent gives us in another column the latest movements in the world of fashion across the Atlantic. The new riding euits in the country around Paris, which distinguish each family by their colors, like jookeys on a racecourse, are very convenient guides of one’s acquaintances in these days of dyes and cosmetics. People’s faces change there every day in consequence of these chemicals, The puff and powder days of the Bourbons are revived in some of the ponder- ous dresses, and turreted chignons and skirts are In many onses looped with flowers like a bower in s garden ora lager beer at ® Sobtitzenfest. A halo of glory surrounds the heads of the fair sex in the shape of a gold circle in frost of the mew bonnet. The Que6én of Portugal and the Grand Duchesses of Rassia have been investing heavily in satin, gauze and Gilagree. Napoleon's better half, strange to say, wore 8 Bismarck without trim- mings when last seen on the seashore. Not even 4 reconstructed map of Europe adorned the akirt. Ladies had better deal cautiously with French dyes. Anactress in Paris wanted Titian hue for La Grande Duchesse and be- came groen instead. She was in « state of verdancy for weeks. While her oblidren fave been playing rouge et noir at Baden and that German salad Homburg, Madame Fashion has been pugzling her brains for noveltics. Since the fall openings in this city our fair sisters have been girding themselves for the season with Boulevard ekirts, contracting their crino- line, putting double sleeves and a whole cargo of jet beads on their cloaks and throwing diadems across the fronts of their bonnets, to prevent them from falling over on their dear little noses. But while the many strange and wonderful articles OF female attire are thug ypdergoing their semi-annual chameleon pfocéss, the theatres are holding forth every night in ali the bravery of tinsel, scenery, costume and acting. We place acting last, because in these days it eeems to be the last consideration of some managers. In a stroll up Broadway in the evening the theatregoers will find Forrest, as the representative of the classical prize ring, or Spartacus, the Gladiator, at the Broad- way ; dancers, in gauze and filagree costumes, walking on their toes, at the Black Crook ; Rip Van Winkle, going to sleep for twenty years and waking up again, at the Olympic ; the New York theatre leaving its six weeks’ proba- tion Under the Gaslight and welcoming Mile. Zoe; @ terrific sword combat ‘and 4 graceful pantomimist at the Bowery; burlesque and Meg’s Diversion at Wallack’s, with funny songs and extravagant puns; the great piano poet, Leopold de Meyer, at Steinway Hall ; Ristori and La Grande Duchesse at the French theatre, /the former reviving the days of the French revolution and bringing before the public of the metropolis, in splendid style, the unhappy Marie Antoinette, and the latter bothering her- self about Fritz and te sabre de mon pire ; and last, though net least, at Banvard’s theatre, the Devil’s Auction, in which his infernal Majesty disposes of pretty dancers and their unadorned pedals, The burnt cork herdes of the minstrel and variety theatres roar lustily, twang the banjo and ruthlessly burlesque everything that is in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. The managers look over their books and at the cue of patrons at the box office with serene satisfac- tion. Surely modistes and managers have no reason to complain of the present fall season. ‘The Pan-Anglican Synod. The first step taken by the Pan-Anglican Synod was a misstep—the exclusion of news- paper reporters, which was tantamount to ignoring the press as a medium of communi- cation with the people. This step was prompted by the same spirit which led the Pope, about two years ago, to anathematize the newspapers and other agents of modern civilization. Almost all the journals of Great Britain have agreed in exposing the folly of this misstep. A second step has been taken by tho Syaod in the same retrogade path, and the learned Bishop Colenso, as the repre- sentative of the principle of fearless criticism in the search after truth, has been formally condemned by it. In this condemnation all must share who accept the latest resulis of scholarly investigation. The Synod belabors Bishop Colenso with as heavy blows as Bishop Twells, who recently broke open Bishop Colenso’s church with sledge hammers, and then preached a sermon from the text, “Qur weapons are not carnal.” According to a telegram of the 30th ult, the Synod has taken also a third step, which must be classed among works of supererogation. It has adopted and issued an address condemning at one fell swoop three “offences” already etigmatized by the English Churoh—rational- ism, Popery and mariolatry, and seeking to promote unity in the Church. The spectacle of afew bishops and priests of the English Church exhorting the bishops and priests of the older and more numerous Greck and Latin Churches, who by no means return the compliment of recognizing the validity of their ordination, to unite with them, is somewhat amusing, to eay the least of it. If we remember, moreover, the limited powers of the Pan-Anglican Synod— that it Is not authorized to settle anything or define anything in respect to faith and discipline ; that all the bishops of England can neither make nor unmake a bishop without instructions from s prime minister; that they can neither change nor even interpret the articles or the liturgy, nor modify the local legislation which governs the churches in the colonies—we shall not attach great practical importance to this singular Episcopal conven- tion. Doubtless it will be the occasion of many good dinners at Lambeth and elsewhere; bat we cannot easily conceive what else can have tempted Bishop Hopkins and other American bishops to become delegates to it, The only advantage which the American dele- gates could bring to it would be a full state- ment of the superiority of the voluntary prin- ciple tn ite application to religion in tho United States. They might convince even the Bishop of Peterborough that the separation of Church privilege of keeping thoir stands on the side- | and State might not involve the downfall of the walks. The soldiers with only one arm or one British ompire, The Bishop of Peterborough leg are driven to the State Legislature to | lately made speech in which be exulted over obtain the privilege of erecting « few wooden | the fact that in the last four years nearly one sheds in which to soll napors or other erticles j hundred churches had peen restored or | schools, The highest salary of 9 pale atincle prove? Why, first of all, immense second, immense energy; and, thirdly, real love for the Church of England as the Ohureh of Christ. He trusted the time would never music in the world will not reooncile the work- ing classes to sacerdotalism, music, without sacerdotalism, is their dotight” Amid ell all these signs of revolution in the English Church it is not easy to discover any sign that the majority of the higher clergy are inclined to carry desire for reunion with the older churehes to such an extreme as to sacri- fice the fat salaries which so many of them— like the Archbishop of Oanterbury, with his $75,000, in gold, a year—enjoy. Neither Italian Pope, nor Russian Papa, nor English Prelate can afford to bo so indifferent to money as the egrly Apostles were taught to be by their Great Master. The Whiskey War in Philadelphia, The City of Brotherly Love has been in a ferment for the past week, on at of the illicit Briisutstes and di Tieden of whet Diok Swiveller would oall “the rosy” going on in {ts midst. A raid on a colossal scale was organized by the revenue officers and the United States Marshal, who, with a force of marines, sallied forth in quest of the spirituous enemy. After an arduous pursuit and close contest, (a which the liquids spilled were blood and whis- key, the raiders returned laden with trophies, Among the spoils of war were a tin head—pro- bably belonging to one of the City Fathers—e few hogsheads of molasses, some copper and a large aumber of “worms.” All the and female whiskey devotees of the Quaker City were out in strong force and evinced their dissatisfaction at the course of the revenue officers in unmeasured terms. Both armies came in collision at Inst, and gunpowder and bullets were brought into requisition to main- tain the majesty of the law, even at the expents of human life, They are ségustomed to whis- ee ae ee force unsparingly to quell We do thing in e different style in New York. Instead of blood we apill greenbacks, and meet the enemy pocketbook, not sword, in hand. The plan fs not as rade as that which the descendants ef William Penn adopt, but, we think, soarcely es efficient and productive of obedience to law. It has effectually discomfited the whiskey popu- lation of Philadelphia; for as Rachel wept fer her children and would not be comforted be- cause they were not, so the red-nosed devotees of Bacchus wail and lament over the whiskey, not the blood, spilled in their late contest. Perhaps this is the true “red eye of battle” te whioh Master Conkling so feelingly alluded tn his sophomore speech at Syracuse. If the leader of the whiskey heroes had adopted Fritz’s plan in La Grande Duchesse, and let the officers transfer the coveted liquor to their stomachs, instead of the ground, have been victors, like that pars Bo general. : Our Pablic Schools. There is a deep and growing interest in our public schools among the people, and the chil- dren of the people, of every class. That the Board of Education is awake to the importance of meeting the demand for additional school accommodations with an adequate supply, ls evinced by their resolving on Wednesday evening that a special committee of five be ap- pointed by the President to considor and report upon the feasibility of ‘adopting bylaws fixing the attendance at each school, based upom sanitary regulations; and also to report what legislation, if any, is required to secure better ventilation, accommodation and care of the pupils of the schools, and to give such other information as may, in their opinion, tend to secure the health and comfort of pupils and teachers, and economy in the erection and care of the various school buildings. During the past ten years the attendance at the public schools has more than doubled. The average attendance at the day schools is about one hundred thousand pupils, and the registration which is now being made for the evening schools that are to be opened next Monday night already indicates a number of pupils ex- ceeding ten thousand. Even the new school buildings which are now or soon will be com- pleted, and the sites for new school which have been lately purchased, will proba- bly. be insufficient for the rapidly multiplying number of pupila. Of these new school build- ings, one in the Fourth ward will accommodate seven hundred; one in the Fifth ward, seven hundred; one in the Ninth ward, two thousand five hundred; one in the Tenth ward, five bun- dred; one in the Eleventh ward, seven hundred and fifty; one in the Twelfth ward, three thou- sand; one im the Seventeenth ward, five hun- dred, and one in the Twenty-second ward, thousand. The fino sites purchased for in the Sixteenth, Twentieth and T: wards will accommodate seven thousand pupils. Tt has become necessary to fix a limit to the number admitted to each school, to provide for the suitable ventilation of the school houses, particularly of those erected before the vital importance of ventilation was properly appreot- ated, and even of those which have been more recently erected, but are now unbealthily crowded. The other objects proposed for the consideration of the Committee of the Board of Education are likewise important. The annnal salaries paid to the male and female principals of the Grammar schools wore quite justly increasnd last eummer. The tre ditional distinction is still made in the salaries of men and women engaged as teachers in the