The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1867, Page 4

A gieh interost, 4 “EUR The Czar of Russia and Ilis Diseon- tented Arisocratic Subjects. = = OPE. Moral Lessons from France and the Social Condition on the Continent. The Great Anglo-African War and a New Method of Negro Civilization. Our special correspondence and files from Europo fur- nish the following additional details of our cable Gespatches to the 3d of October, embracing matter of ~ . SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. State of Health of the Czar as Reported by His Enemics—Discontentea Landlords and Serf Owners—Political Influ at Court Relations Tewurds Greece and Candia— Hopes of American, Interference in the East—Reform in the Law Courts, St. Perexssvro, Sopt. 12, 1867. Ttis scarcely to be supposed that some of the absurd Tumors which baye luiely been circulated here concern- ing what some people are pleased to term “tbe alarm- ing stato of the Emperor Alexander's bealth” should not have found their way over the ocean and into the American press. Somo explanation, therefore, may not be amiss asio the source upd real worth of suc) iil natured reports, which, being spread abroad by one par- ticular set, actuated by seliish and wmaligoant motives, and eagerly caught at by papors whose malevolence to wards Russia way be vatd to bave lately known no Dounds, are sure to add one item more to the stock of akea or wilfully perverted information, which yields to public opinion almost its only supply of Rus siau intelligence. The above mentioned set is one be- longing to the arist'craiic party, who, unable to conquer and unwilling altogether to conceal their displeasure ai the series of lidera! mea-urea and reforms which have marked and stiii mark tie present reign, daily more de- priving the former taud aud siave hoiders of their ex clusive power and intiienc® in the State, take every op- portunity to give veni"to ther clafed and irritated feelings, since they cannot openly oppose the obnoxious novelties or casi asiur on the obvious integrity of the Emperors intentions, by iasinuating that he is suf- fering under a latent <hsease, which makes it doubt- ful whether bis actions may be considered ag altogether those of ono in tho full possession of his mental faculties, At the very onset of his roign, as soon as his liberal turn of mind began to be noticed and to make itself felt inthe admivistration, such doubis were circulated in an even more personally offeusive form. It was at tat time a cur- Tent talo that his Majs y was in the babit of indalging an unfortunate iuclination to strong liquors to an extent which sowetimes materially impaired bis clearness of Perception. ‘This monstrous calumny was too gross and ‘Obvious to Serve it au bors’ eud; so they partly changed their taccics, thoagh uot tue aim thoy had in view, aud when the great eiisacipation was decided oa, the aristo- crats, Incensed at Lue Summary proceeding which struck the axe into the very rovt of all their feudal privileges and threatened (0 dey rive them of a great part of their easily got wealth, 81 afloat an artfully convocted account about the Emperor's oving alfected with @ softening of the brain, which, although then in an incipient stage, ready manifested i in many rash and eccentric acis, and might shortly bring the empire to the verge of dostr. unless proper moasures wero taken be- times; the expediency of instituting a regency was broadly binted at; anit though tne whore course of events has solomuly given ihe tie to this second invention as Wellasiotue first ove, the inyeniors have not been silenced; possibly, ater ail, they reatly may believe that nothing short of insanity could have prowpted an @ttack ou so desirabio an ordor of things as tuat under Which ther clas’ so prosperously flooriehed, yr last year's tunate affair with Karakozof, jer, which cai sowie natural revulsion in the feelings aud @ partial return to something the partisans of reaction put a temporary stop to their covert above and evil in entioned insinu tions, in the exhila-ating hope that butter prospects were opening botore tuem For some time, indeed, they to bave resumed their sway; but now that the ainst them, partly from sa, ascribing the til at the Bois de Boulogne, to the initucnce of their chiet Foprosentatives, the Cvunts Adierberg, Baranoff and Sdouvaioll, openly Jorns bor uberal minded second son, the Grand Duke Viaditmur, in abetting the opposite or domocratic party, towards which she, until very lately, Manifested an unmiigated aversion, The seatooraia, 6 the coveted prize agan slipping frow taken to Locir oid wiles, and once more do their uimost to discredit that which they caunot change. Their arts, however, will bardly be of muco avail; public opimiva is pretty well up to their gam pow aud wil not easily be taken in, and asto ther Teaders, if not in actual disgrace, they may be consid- @red as on the bigh read to ii, and indications are not failing to prove tuat their tenor of even @ show of favor ig very sight judeed. Thus Count Stwuvaloil, the chief of the secret police, who accompanied the Emperor on his journey to tho Crimea, has suddenly taken himself ‘rom ‘court, and is bow performing a series of Journeys in Russia and abroad, as if possessed wita a sudden bh the evident view not to be in tl is expected retusa tu the capital, and thn a im public or formal sight than, perhaps, baa hitherto been offered bim. Count Varauoff’s dismasal,-too, from his office as Governor General of -1 tern Provinces (which ts the designation given to the provinces which former!, witated Poin ppsidered os immipent, althous: Wii be mvested with that of 8- nich wo Id be agracious mode enough of discarding bin from a tive politica: service, ther idle rumor which has found some credit is one ati. ibatrg to tue Kiag of Greece an iniention of abdaicaiing. it may be cou nuly asserted that he hay Dot for one moment enteriaived aoy serious notion of the kind, thougi tie siory way have some slight foon- dation in the fact of His having m ove of some hasty pressions om hearing uf the overtures made-to the by thy Emperor im ais fatery ew with Fuad Pasi Ho the Crimea, whew the young King may possibly have Deen betrayed ito mpted by a burst of an hy his fut nature ot Y jowever, to have toviautly subsided oa fa law's represeuting to him tho real the Emperor's interv-ntivn, whieh is anythiog bu tile or injerious to tue interesis of Greece. Indo-d, publit opinion, however divided on ott fipgulariy unanimous in its steady syr e and unt upicas of Crete. half bas been, if by the disgust of the Sultan's ri most European coua- has been here, Tho amount Of téting and coaxing y Chrisian govern- ments ov this 4 aud cond-blooded slayer Sf Christian women and children, iho ba.d und giove policy pursued with regard to th» Porte by Ler sianch friends of the Derby Cabivet, and th 1 diplomacy “drags ita siow leogih ‘whose ¥ blood @ procrasiin! those are public sympa.ty 2 With Lhe Warmess eagere Gaal success. ye very here that shia wished for resuie will about by American tuiluence. and many actualy ex, ec to see the glorious Stars and Stripes sail up the Lonlan and Bgead, poshaps tue Kosphorcs, and give a decisive ibe ovafdenc hich forms oct Of frequoas and animaved discussion in every Cire.e where politics aud padi fas are commented ‘on, is founded on the redecuion that not only suck a live Of Sonduct would be emimently becowing so great and nerous a pation as the Auwerican one, but would sasure o United States an excellent opportunity of setting up fome navel sin ions of their own in the European seas, and thas counterbalancing the Monopolizing 8+ ay estab Nished over them by ud inierfering with ber exclusive appropriation the commerce with Tod Certain is such @ step would America a lasting to di Bot only of the party immediately Dat also of Russia, who takes to _. interess of the Or.enial Christians as though they were her Own; aod thus to the «im iarity of dispo Fendencies, and the adsevcy of aay subject of conten- fon, which vow form (Mo chief bases of the friendly Dotweon the two countries, would be added the of common sympathy and common exertion flering cause, with woich umpbant progress tries ® This tnstitution, pot to be confused with the Maritime Court, jelal resort oa al! naval queations, indi- internatioual, being simply a supreme trie wal canes Or9 judged ries concerned belong to the navy (or them bee civilian the case is relerred to the or. f cloge of buat series of judicial reforms which will form one of (he most lasting glories of the rolgn, a8 having transiorred the ad. mivistrat! Of justies irom the close and iniqui- tous gloom of cluset procedure to the broad day- light of open court discussion and trial by jory. From this it may be judged how great ‘was the amazement, half ludicrous aud baif indignant, ‘with which Was received the opening « h of t6 ap. president titutlon, Ad- aa tl that, thanks to the well known integrity aod ‘of bis honorable colleagues, busi would be with as great rapidiy and accuracy, and a: t@ the pubiic satisfaction as hitherto,” and a good more in | English aud the Contin the same siraio, seoming to imply thay | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, UUTOBER 16, 1867—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘hongh the olf ways wers indubitably preferable, yet the vew ones, wits sume additional pers ual exer tomy might be made to do well enough, Although (iis exqule site piece of impertiuence was delivered wicu "he uiimost oo, Fet it fs rather (o> ‘pressions used bo be con~ blunder, and the general seemin, d nature and inao pointedly consirteat in the tidvred ‘altogether a har impress'on is Liat (his most toappropraty address was devised in ove of those impotent bursts of temper with which the suiky partisans of the old reg me are sure to greet every innova wn confirming their defeat aad the ultimate triumph of civilized and Liberal ideas, FRANCE. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Meral Lessons from Parla~A Highly Imper- tant Soclal Subject=The Abandonment of Infants and Iufanticide=How These Crimes th American Statesmen and Legisiaters. P. Sor 7 T86T. ‘observe an edito- fag to the growing frequency and infanticide im the United States, might be well for the Constitutional Con- tion to consider whether a losson in the way of pre- vention might not be learned from the experience of Europe in tbig matter, Having myself dovoted some attention to this matter of prevention, aud studied its workings in Europe, 1 long since came to the conclusion that, upoa the whole, the European system, which recognizes the fact that human nature is weak and liable to err, and which, therefore, takes moans to provide against and as far as Possible to protect the imnoceat from the consequences of sin and error, ig ® much more rational one thao that which ignores the trutn and leaves to socioty alone to punish rather than to prevent crime, I: ishigh timo that this question was taken up and thoroughly 1avestigated by legisiators: Whether it is not be ter, even at the risk of rendering themselves un popular wilh that impracticable class of theorists who assume toat the recognition of the fact that crim» and sin exist, aud a waya will, and that it 1s botter to regu fate and control it as far as possible than to give ln a recent number of the rial article whiob, in it full sway and deat only with its resalts, is equivaleat ‘o encouraging and licensing tt But i 13 not my Intention here to ontr upon the abstract question, but simply, a3 the matter 1s one which must, svoner or later, be taken up by your legislators, aod ove in whieh society at large !3 greatly interested, give you a d prion of a visit recently mate tothe Koundling Hosptial of Paris, one of the mode! institutions of the kin) of the world, Phis establis ment, siiuated upon the ieft bank of the of the Luxombury, 1 one ip by thair mothers Soine, boyond the gardea which children voluutarily abando: carod for dariag ‘heir intancy, and the admini-tra- tion of ch reiains charge of thom uatil th twenty-o1 4 of age, the males being apprentice trades or placed with farmers, and the qirls @ married or ions ag domestics procered for t Formerly a reyolviag box, catiod a tow (and which still remains and ix shown, thorgh no longer w placed in anche in the wail in tho street, the medium — through whch the —avandoved child was introducel to its usw home ant the tender cares of the excellent jers of cout dv Vaul, the bevevolent founder, of whi year 1540 estublisned this hospital. Av preseul, however, it Is necessary before a child can be received iolo the tastitution that a@ certificate, sane the Commissary of Police of the quarts in whieh oh motner lives, sual be presented, and ber nane and a dress taken ery effort 18 made to induce the mo‘ her to retain the cnild, in which eveut assistance 18 render- ©} her from the hospital fund, If, aowever, she Sin her devernination to abauion it, it iS re a cel ed and carried into a room called tha crche, where it 13 ou 4 beucb, and a ticket bearing its auimber, ais Ven iv io the order in Which it arrives, m ber one Commencing with the first child brousht in a the beginning of the sear, atiached to its clothing; (haa it ig Washed aud oursed by a number of stout, healthy loosing Women {rom the country, placed in oie o° the iafirmaries it sick, and fa heajthy cnild retained in the créche untu tt is sent, as all the children are, as 00m as pose bie, Into the country to nurse, 1 way here stato as a fact, which Is exciting mach at- tention im France, that it has bean tovnd thai since tie suppressiou Of tho tes, or turning boxes, by mcaus of Whicu the abandonment of the cnitd was retdored much easier than {i 4s at present, the crime of infanticide has greatly increased in tae departments where the boxes bave been removed, the average annual number of cases having risen from one hundred aad four to one hundred wad nue y-six. Lhe question of restoring the trw's in the Paris Hoxplial and in the others where \t- has been abolisued is seriously discassed, and padlic opinion throughout France is decidediv im “favor of it, he nuwnber of founding hospitals in France is one hundred and Afty-two. On the day of my last visitto the thero were uive litle luinps of bum: died up ta their clothing, ranged long on a ben-b, jooking like a row of Onwos on strings, These bad ail bean brougnt im durin: tue day, and mest of them had first opened their eyes to the day- light and drawn their first’ breath of air, and had their tiest wonder a3 to “what it was all about,” either ou that day or the previous one. The last one wuica had come in was tickeved 4,897, and tue yearly average of ii ndone! in’ Pans is a little more shan ight was not ou0 caicu- lated to inct bachelor to matrimony, for tay are not Laadsome, these litte one day oid wayiarers, who already look weared and worn before they ave fairly oommenced the journey of lire, There wore about a hundred children in the room, most of them but a few days old, sleeping in neat littic criba, covered with clean white curiains, These were oaly waiting for purses to cone and tske them to the fhe administration has orgavized a most p.r- care and nursing of the children the whole of France is appur- whicl are sent Moned for this purpose into districts, iy eage one of which # director i “ uty it isto visit at least ouce a year Child placed out to nurse or be cared “Tor in his depari- meot, and, at the same time, to procure sures for the constantly arriving children, [hess women, who are usually tho wives of peasants, and what ar considered in the rural disiricts * weil to do’ people, who keep & cow and a pig, and either own or hire aad Aili ahiectare or two of lacd, and to whom the addioual care of a litle ctiild ts no great burden, come to Paris, remain a hospital, woen each one with her charge staris again tor howe. Toey receive trom eight to thirteen .raacs a month each for their services, Over the door wine) gives entrance to the créchs ts the Appropriate sentence, “tun pore e ma mé-e, mont abun doun, gnu ape sinde moi.” (My father aud my mo'ber Lave abandoned me, but th) Lord haw red ior ine.) Pas#ng beneath this we visited the in fimaries, of Which toere are four, ove for general medi- cal, one for surgical, oe for opstualmic eases and one for measies, duu io all these Lhe cradles were tiled with hitie euiferers, Sowe of them wore rapidly and paia- fully breacting away (heir soung lives. Thence, Visi Cd ta8 schoo rooms where the childron ie, abd the play room, Where also, uuder tue ye CHEET Ui MDA IMLeElIgeut I tug ing sisters Vine vol Lhe yOOd sisters, La nal the pabile iw at and clean, and ait ¢ joly and effect upoR pa 18 (his twust Kive Way iu the mind of We vho bas a hear feeling of thaukiuiness that cuforiable a pace where these pour Mite © 80 Well Huertered ldreu are sent to the country before two years of age, aad at twelve whe boys are ussaily bound apprentices (0 Wades, While the gifis fre. rewaid in the families of ther purses, y are ofieu adopied, or aiv [ure paces as domestics, When they od Lue r conduct hax boen unexceptionabie, miuisiration ag & marriage edaud fory-elght franca, As ihe amuse theme iC MOTE 8 « porto. eomioutra jun retaius tue geaeral ovatro! of the found- Hinge util taey are of age, they havea large number Coutinually on their bands, and the director informed mo that (here were t.eu no ies8 than forty-five iou- uuder age Over whom the admiuisiradvon kept its Only about one in a bundred are ever nue 4 proof of att s any me of aye obi ebtid. G1 Course, tue large majority of children depo: ace of ilegtimace bird although cas of these born in wediock avd abandoned by their pas Fens OB accuUnL O ther poverty vocasionaily occur. Most of the cuildrea are those of ovvrtére—sewing guls, shop girls, artificial flower makers, workers iu the thoutand littie wdasteics of Pare and servant git, 10 8 almost asking too much of poor weak human Dature, Uuder all (We cireumnsiances, to expect Wwe: giris wo be stricly “virtuous,” The wages ot a vont & girl who Works on iaates’ di twenty {rane a woek for twelve te jabor a day, aud the general rate of pay for ordinal Wig girls from ten to Gfieen france, With this a young gul can m wit rigid coonciny to keep deur aud body | living in some damp, soniess gurret, and ealing & roll Woich coste a sou ‘and drinking a bowl oi colts for and making a dinar from a bow! of soup aud Jed meas at @ cook shop. But every wing dear In Paria dom excoed now, and the workiog girl wi ng, It goes day by day for tho bare necessaries of nd when the cold weather comes, her virtue, though perbaps very cheering sad consoling in tho wb- siract, Wil bay ber neither faancle nor coats, and 60 * and ber lover buys thom for her, and she, ber liaiwn produced liv naural result, abaudoas hiid to the good sisters who have the care of the Founding Hospital. Were (here no such institution she id be strongly tempied to ‘sin’? one of a much deeper and insiead of consigoing ber offspring to faced sisters, might bury it in the muddy waters of the ated in the commencement of this letter, It is iscuss the abstract que: fforence between the American and jal systeme—whetuer or not Pi better than punisbmont—bus simply to give you a few facts, upon whion jawmakers may base their futureaction. Im Vienna the prevéution of tendency wo Infanilolde ig Carried to a much greater ox- tent than in France, There a iy fa hospital is estab. dod the medical m imo : — closely voiled, aud io with being requi be oven her bame or address, when her child is Ht into the world may leave it to be well cared for At the expense of ue government, Whatever may bo the effecs upon pubis morality of this facility for the | Concealment of “sin, “4 is very Certaia that the erie | | of infanticide is ove ecdroaiy knows in the Austrien capita, THE ANGLO-AFRICAN WAR. * Graud Negro Question—Eugland agape the Fountain Head of Fay ter to Queen Victoria and its Consequeuces. (From the London Star, Sept, 21.) The dangers of the expedition now in Theodorus, of Abyssinia, the doul anything but the very fullest sueceas, the facture, bave been discuss*d om broad grounds and in detail with suficient earnestocss and warméh, It seeraa ‘tbat in spite of ali tue unauswerabie objections that have Deen urged aga nst this unlucky war, the Ministry are determined to vindicate for themselves the reputation of being « bags Tiling ot and so to.commit us tbe euterprise, fo have heard a the necessity for viudicating upon this necessity the" founded; but--* “may be qi tanding,-with much confidence, that not one person in ‘Of those who are most sent to avenge the wrongs of English subjects upon King Theodorus could recapitu- late the facts which led to the quarrel. At tires the seemed so trivial that even men who were dili- a! readers of newspapers, and who felt deeply inter- ested in politics, did not take the trouble to get at the facis of the squabble between the Abyssinian monarch d bis visitors, do pot pretend to be able to give either a copious or an accurate account of the transac- tions which Involved usin this upforiunate complica- tiou; but we can assist our readers at least to form a general idea about what we are going 1o war for, andthe degree of tujustie which we have to complain of at tho ands of our enemy; and th si the more need ul as the dimes, a few days ogo, professed to give the facta of the o lication, aud Very seriously misstated some points, Our relations with Abyssigia commenced when the country was plunged in even greater anarchy than at present. Tho tmparial House of Oubio boasted a myth- ical descent from King Solomon and his fair vi itor tne Queen of Sheba; it miaintained theoretically very high Preteusions, and was looked upoo with a kind of reve- rence by the people But the fzimeant cbaracter of the monarcis o tis family has long lost them the practical exercise Of power, A number of peity chiefs usurped fiy in every province, and carried on an embit- war among thomselves. With ono oi tue-e Ras Engiish oilcial uamed Powden became ivtimate, the tasiavce of this gentioman Lord Palmerston Joned in 1548 the e-tabiishment of a British Consu. lug @t Mussowas, the cliel Abyssinian port on the Led Sea. Mr Plowden was the tirst Coucul, and succeeded in making a treaty wih Ras Ali; but on the fall of (hat chiel His successors had uo idea of boing bound by his engagemenis, and, to Mr, Piowden’s great dsgast, siowed very fttlo respect for the Consul or his ow Iu the year 1555 Theodorus, an turer, apyareutiy of considerable ability, bonudie y tod G1 tusefupy odsnesy and uncon!roiled was onubiod in ihe avarchy Which prevailed to se the inperial ine altogether, aud to establish bin Uruly on the throue as Negra, or Emperor, He + this time about Ca ny live years of ag», and his popul :- riy Was great, especially with the army, He was 8 (uilor'a time in overpowering all oppositicn from his rivals, aud was preity generaily recoguied as be sovereign de jue and de fa-o of tu country, A jage wich Ube heiress to the ciains of tue old dy- jd to consolidate his power, thoagh tt has 4 out unhappily; ambitiois projects for resioring (be glory of Ethiopia and seating bimself ou thy throug of Jerosalem dazzied the imagination of the Abyssinians, It wtil bo readily conjectured «hat with these piaus and ideas be wo 1d be littie disposed to en lure a ebgut frou any forega Power, Meantime bis relations with Mr, Plowden bad conti- noed very am ‘The Consulate at Magsowah waa, soon involved io the revoliions which afer a ie threatened the throne of iheodorus, and in Plowden wes unfortunately kuled by some The #mperor took acruel vengeance for this act by slaughtering aif the tr.oe that had perpetrated , Do Che protessed to do so wholly from motives of por- sonal iriendsbip, He regarded tne British Consulate at a-sowah with Susp ecion and dishke, and when in Jaly, 1862, ihe Eagiish Foreign Oflice seat out as a successor ty sit, Piowuen, Cap aia’ Cameron, who had discharged ome minor diplomatic offies in Turkey, avd had served vader Sir WP, Williams at the siege of Kars, the E peror, hobwithstandog the pr-sents waich (be vew Con- sui conveyed to the Abyssinian capital, ordered nis visitor back (0 Mas-owah, Negouations, however, were 1 recommenced by Captain Cameron, who seems to t Ali, an adsen- have been of a suiliciently meddiesome disposition, and Who was constautiy iaterering to ste disputes of various kinds between Theodorus and his rivals or for- eiguenowies, Proposais for a reuewai of tbe treaty made wili Ras Ali were pat forward by Captain Cameron, ana vierlawed Witd UBeXpected good humor by the Em- who bing at this time hard pressed by the tains ol the Exyptians on his northern frontier, wi aus.ous to send an @.ubassy to England, ia tho lepe, no of odiainiug Eugiish belp against his cuemies, He Wrote av autograph letter to tue Queen proposing to send ervy: to London, aad entrusted this important document, the immediate causo of all the subsequent ditlicuities, to the Consul, I. was despatened by him ad Gas beon alleged, by an unsafe and unaccustomed route ved on itg passage, In consequeucs, by some pands which infested the pe:tioa of Abys- Sina through which it was to be carried. It did not England for more than six mouiia, that is tll ‘y, 1863. When it did come it was unfortunately thought of slight importance by the ofliciais at the Foreigo Office; it was thrust into a drawer and leit without answer or consideration, until tho news of the anger and cruelties of Thecdorus compelled ihe gorern- ment to turn their attention to the matter, in June 1864, The delay in replying to this letter was the first cause of uilence which Theodorus insisted upon, He began vo pick quarrels neaceforward it would seem, with Captain Cameron, whose interference in nego wih the Egyptian invaders he bad at first solicited. Ine ‘onsul, jo underiaking (his interference, had evidoutly plunged into unnecessary aangers, The Egyp: government remonsirated azainst bis action in tue dispute at ail, and he found himself compelisd to assume av maction which Theodvrus no doubt wrongly taterpreied to mean delibe- rate bostility. In tuts uneasy condition matters re. mained til November, 1863, when an event occurred which, without any apparently adeGuate reason, threw the Emperor into transports of rage, and inspired bim with an intense hatred oi Engiand. Olleaded pride at the negiect with which bis letter to she Queen bad been | had iy before this dis- osed hita to look with an evil eye upon Englishmen. Ju.ortunately @ pretext for the outpouring of his ani- mosiiy “as now git him, The Socie\y for Promoting Consuanity among the Jews bad sent out to Abysin a some time before & missionary named Steru, who had criticised the actions Of the Emperor somewhat severciy in a pampilet, in which ue had spoken of the Abyssinian movarch a8 @ Cold bioeded murderer, sr. stern, alter a visit to Europe, had returued to Abyssinia accompanied by a brother missionary, Mr, Rosenthal, and had sought aud objaived an aadience of Lheodorvus, At this audi- ence, is i stated by himself, he was mae a prisonerand grossly maltreated, his only offeace veing ho bad pressed ‘involuntarily his disgust at the brutai trea. meat of ha interpreters by the imperial execusioners. ihe Abyssiniaus, on the other band, allege that boih missionaries bad used treasonabie expressions towards tho Ewperor, and it 18 quite probable ti guage employed to Mr. tera’s §=pawpbiet become known to the people te whom be so rastly entrusted bimeolf, Mr, Consul Cameron, as we beileve, through motives of pure humanity, remonstrat- ed with the King om the mavner in wich’ ‘he mis-ioa- aries and their families were treated. Thia was the spark to the pow A frightful outburst of rage foi- lowed, aud all the Europeans on whom tho troops of Theodore could lay haa ere thrown lato pram, That they wero treated with very savace cruelty is not to be digputed. Mr, Stern, Mr, Rosenthal and Cap- chains and hall starved Bul, bart as their © on WAS a! first, Wore Was Lo be eudured; (or tue rage of the Kimperor was aggravaied whea a loiter arrived for the Cousul from tne Fore go Onice, In which no notice was taken of iheodore's muni ation to the Queen, and Captala Cameroa was or- dered back with some aspority from Goadar lo Masso- n of the eaptives became, day by peless At last, ia Febra- ary, 1564, Capiai ccveded in sending a let. ter bome With an ac plivity aud a suppit- ca‘ion that something should be done to rescue him aod tain Cameroa were loaded wil nd hed London on tho 25(h of May, 1864, afer Mr. I Danby sevmour asked a question about tbe aifuir in the House of Commons A , Of Course, the goreroment know no de- tails, and codia make po reply, Bat the sartiiug cir- cumstances and the atvention draw to the waver in Parliauent brought Theodore’s loiter to the of the ovscurity In which 1% had been allow pose. It was devermined that a piausiblo answer to this missive should by sent oat at once Lo Abyssiala, with preseuts for the Emperor, and an cavoy, who should be instructed (o request (ho release of te cap. tives, Sir Wm Cochian, whose diplomatic services in the East bad been tried and wero favorably known, by was at first named report for tis delicate duty; th Dr. Beko, whose acquaintance with ' Abyssinia waa undoubted, was ed, Finally, neither was chosen, to a geutien who bad assisied Mr Layard in bis ex- plorauons a Nineve eecrotary to the politcal resident at Aden. ia no doubt a clever dipiomatist; but there is much force tm the objection that, being an Armonian, his appoint- nt must Lave appeared to the puactiliously vain Theodorus a net respectful sot, Or, Rassam, on arriving at Massowah In Augua’, sent op the letter under the sign-manval of ber Majesty, with which he was en- trusted, \o the Eumperor, aud enlisted the services of the Copuc Patriarch, to whom he bad @ letter of introduc. Vion on behalf of the captives He was left for a long time ip suspense, Thoodorus was detor- mined to be even wih the Eoylist and to snow toat hoe could take as much time to answer « letier nw the most civilized poteatate of thom ail, At last he releated, t messengers to Massowal: to wi quiries ho was much odended at the potty charaeter of the mission, Mr. Rassam wa vited to the capital aud @ntered into nexot: amicable and ietibar kind witb (he Empero: resolved apparontiy, to drive as hard a bargain as he could, and to obtain aa the price of tho captives’ release somo material advantages, But his resiiew vanity wae Blartied ry breath of ramor sud every trife whien might be con&trued {nto a slight, Some too realous fricnds of the prisoners in this couotry estimating, per- haps correctly enough, the objections (o dir, Rassam as ao envoy, gol up & very Un¥lao opposition embassy of their own, Dr, Deke went out dieciaiming a connexion with Mr, Rassam, and this gave, u final biow to any hopes which the ht bave entertained of accom cious latter gentleman piishing bis difficult task, Theodorus became susp! again, Mr, Rassam was arrosted Koglish upon whom bands could matter bas since rested. Any attempt at that bas since been args on has been brought oo by the Co clergy, or by Mr. Find, @ German mi slooaty, ‘whore family has been detained at Magdala, The moral of the whole story is obvious enough, Its woll for us to be wise even alter | nd we can that th it! race, aud §) chance of Involving u# tn | not roan honor of advantage agalust buful gaia in cso of case pA GENERAL GRANT. Opinions of the- Press and People About His Nomination for the Presidency. ee by. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Tho Nomination of Grant for the Presidency iu Philadelphia. PatLapstrais, Oct, 15, 1867. ‘The nomination of Grant by the Henan for the highest office in the gift of the people mecte with a hearty re- sponse at the bands of the citizens of this commu- nty. His fitness and election are conceded on all sides, and to-day it is the general topic of con- versation im political circles, ‘Tbe Twelfth ward, as you werd advised by telegraph, led off last even- ing in the formation of a Gravt club, which sum- bers among 1ts members politicians of fame and iuflu- ence, The action of the-Twelfth bas induced the citi- zens of the Tenth ward—the banne Hoans—to imitate their will be held to-morrow the formation of another Grunt club, in this laiter movement is Sherif Howell, a gentleman of acknowledged influence and popalar with all parties, Assisting him in it are A. H. Franciscus, A Wilson Henszey and other men of stamp, and who are actuated by the purest of motives aud a dysire to free the county from the enthralments that now surround and retard its prosperity. The old hunkers and radicals are becoming alarmed at the popularity of this Grant movement. Thoy have Giscovered that Grant is popular with tho masees, and toat in a few bours he has awakened an entha iasim that no candidate since “Rough and Ready's’’? me bas been enabled to accomplsh. Conservatives ball the action of the leaders of the republican household iu thus early bringing Grant bafore the pubiic a4 a good omen. The movewent is not in the interest of any face tion, Itig the spontaneous expreasion of the peope which bas been richtfulty interpreted and given direc- tion by those wo are enabled to disceru, under Grant's leadership, victory and the utter routing wf those «bo k ouly the spoils, and who have httle or no sympathy wth the country in her present throes, Prominent OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune (radical), Oct 10.) in comuccuoa with Mr, Washburne's recent vis.t to Galena and the remarkable speech waite by hi at the Jo Davieas County Republican Convention the action of the Galena Gazette (General Grant's home organ) in nowinatiog him for the Presidency {3 signitl- cant, It sbows that General Graut’s fri-nds have tuily made up their miods to rao hin as @ Presidential can- didate; that they bave rece vod satisiactory assurances from tim tbat be will accept ® nomination ard that they are pow ready to commence an open canvass of his claims. We way now consider ail doubts which may have existed heretofore concernmy General Grant's willingness to become a Presidential candidate as set at rest, His friends have viriuaily placed him upon the course, and will undoubtedly use their best efforts to secure bis nomination, H» himself, bav- ing tacitly given tls cons nt, may now be presumed to be not an 1auifleront spectator of the coming Presidontial costest, but as‘oue of the veritable actors and priucipals tuerein. From the Illinois Staats Zoitung ‘German, radical).] Yo one who 18 acqua:nted with puvile opipion im the West can doubt that thy deciarations of the Gavette will find geveral support. Tlimmois, Wisconsin and Minnesota will be unan!mous for Grant in the Nationa: Convention, and this 13 a@ great step in advance, for of the other caudidates there is hardly one that can begin with more states than bis own, {From the Detroit Froe Press, democratic.) The party in opposition to the democracy are always hike the man in thsfable. ‘faay are crazy for the ele- phant, tuvest in ihe lovtery to secure it, and whea they draw itcavnot mauae it and don’t Know what to do With tt. sintary popularity is deemed essential to suc- cess ia the next olection, If oniv one of the two highest iii tary o'ticers of the army is nominated, he might robabiy be elected, The radicats can only tak: in that caso the democracy can nominate Sheru Grant aod his friends will vote for him, If they aon’s take Graut the democracy can take their choice and elect either, ‘@ have no doubt that, however they may ve elected, thoy are both democrats at heart, All true patriots are, {From the Toledo (Ohio) Commercial, radical. The republicans bave only to setile upon him (Grant) ag their standard bearer and g» forward with the work of orvanization and iabor, aud one yesr from this time they will have reason to rejoice im their present check as the skirmish of their outposts, by they were warned of the enemy's approach and thus enavcled to make timely preparatios for the great and decisive baitlo, We deou it safe to eny t ach 18 the oral Sentiment of tho repubil aus in northwestern Ow (From the Pittsburg Commercial (republican), Oct, 14.) ‘The actioa of the Union Couvention of Maryland, ur- gently recommending 40 6.6 republican party of the couutry the somination of General Graat as their caudi- date for the lresidency, and tho briuging torward of [From the ‘Taker his name by thy Baltimore American as such candidate, are boib in accord with the sentiment of the great body Of tho repubitcan masses, The ¢/ections om Tuesday last virtually nominated Geneval Grant, When the result of the election became known to him a milion eyes gladly turned, It was no device of the politicians, but a spou- taneous movement of the people, cutt ng knots, dissolv- ing doubts, and, at the saine tine, disposing of aspirants who could not survive the drat chilling bins. {From the Syracuse (N. Y.) Journal (radical), October 11. ‘The results of tue elections in Peuusy!vauia and Obi substaatially settlo the question of the republican can- didate fo: the next Preaideacy, General Grant will be pouioated, and tuere can be no doud: of his election. However much the prope may be divided in reference to Stale i eas ne hegre coritiees caasing % ered porary reaction against the republican party, as in the late elections—they wiil never turn against the heroic chiefiain who led tho loyal*hosts to victory against the rebellion, General U. 5. Grant will be the next Chief Mupiatrate of the nation, {From the Albany Evening Shockoe hy grtone Oct 14.) On all bands it admitted that the recent elections wili bave a good result, They are uniting purty feeling upon General Grant as the wect republican candidate for Ue Presidency. Tust tus popular seutimout had becowe fixed 1 this direction was ,opg ago apparent But there ambitious elvilau politicians wie uadertook to doieat is by organizaii mn aud combination This there 18 no longer auy probability thar they can do, Those who bave failed to carry teir owe States apon a test Vas# cavnot clam recognition a8 national leaders. With General Grant at tue head of the beset, upon a plaitorm of national jusuce and impartial rigs, the Tepablican party wili sweep iLecountry ike we whirls nd. [From the Concord (N, EH.) Statesman (rad cat), Oct 12.) Tie ele-tions of Tue day muke Generas (aa! the next republican candidate jor DP vs de 18 airoxdv nominated in tue minds of the po suail neod a caudidare Whose Laine, Inscrived on a legion of repad- lican bagners, will cause one of thore groupdselis such as swept James Buchanay out o neoi Lue Mertyr inco, the Presidouey. Such an one will be Usysses & Grant, The democrais, wich bin as the re. publican Caudiaate, will shake in their aloes trom ye beginning tv the close of the campagn, if they do not anuany “come down” at ones, Lke avimal whet appreciated the foily of awaving the discharge of the cott. General Grant may now be re- ger dent of the United Suaies, the con- Ventional nomination aud the November ballot boing waiters of fora, (From the New Haven Paltadiy General Grant's name is be: the Presideucy wit ine: Chase, Ben Wade and Ben t a (repablican), Vet. 15.] ¢ brougut forward for 1 peowrnence, Judyo (ier, who never had any uieuy ignored, Toe \aryland re- their § Convention, adopted a very : equal suffrage and Genera! Graat At talk among republic joation, From New vines to U4 a8 tho ch uitra rasical Boston Com says it is ready to acgept bic. chance, seem to b pubiicans, 1 momceath The Zndepencent das not abosed Lim of indeed meddied mucu in politics fer soine weeks, Grant Resolutions Adopted Beside Those Betore Published. {By a Radical Senatorial Con-ention—Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben counties, New York.) Resoived, {bat our trust in peace, as it did in war, centres in’ the wisdom and patriotism of Ulysses S Grant, under whose lead, in 1808, © grander army than he ever marshalled before will rival with the ballot tho wonder achiovemonts of the bullet which at once mado his o # and tho republic a nation, The Union which bis vaior redeemed will crown him by which the &! qua! numbers from the Nort and the South, from the East and the West, The whole country, in alt its borders, will walte in ch great acclaim, and thon shai! the Guat battle bo fought aod Woo which will bring peace, prosperity and endure ing stability to the free and ro-Uni\ed States of America, {By the Union Club, of Columbus, Obto.) Resolved, That the Union Club of Colambua concars the Unionists of Maryland in the U, 8. Grant as their candi« Gavenat, Forrest axp tus Mayon of MEMPHIS. — After the adjournment of the Couueil = afier- ‘oon & conversation occurred between General and Mayor Lofland. Our attention was firat directed to it from hearing the Generai’s tease unsor is, fegurd. vo the paring, toode, db o Mayor in reg: to the pay A ¢ question, re a fads false ctatomonte, seat tews, and Forrest y Suakyes “in tye hervous twitchings of lip. le board not @ word in answer, and ggaeal Foren { euikod away, —Memphie Avalanche, Och 2s NEW YORK CITY. THE CoURTS, COURT CALENOAR—THiS DAY. Supreme Conrt—Circuit—Part 1. Held judge Ingraham. eTme,Court of oper and Tein be in session, No Heid by J. we Com oen aS, 'b66-—Perkine ot alive. McDee Het—Eigan Not. Be, of N. vitt. ’. ve. Murphy, 1788—Pigmotear ve. bey By Bx, lulliner vs, Bowen. 1304—Kaln ver 424 strest and sighve Souwrartd- ‘Grand st. Co, ‘ve. Morelia. 1742—Ortega v8. McG binson va. Living Ise pater ee hori wr Wot—Wandesie va, Robin jainen v5, Sehmidt, . ‘ogg v8. Bassford. 1788—Wynkosp vs. Howell, Kc. 1760—Montgomery va, Lava. ar ne Eracevie Tete, H.R. oo Supreme Court—Part 3. Held by Judge Pullerton. Court ‘open ab ten meee M. Wig—-Kens va, 24 Nat, Be. Miay. pag Rp veortis vs. Kelly, tal, ve. Pare SCN vatey vas Murrey ast _cSint ated Mv0—Gey va. Hudson Riv, 1602—Reckbow vs. NomAlm, Ow Ts. 1470—Beebde va. Glacnizer. 314—Angnin va, Gumpert, 1Bi6—Pi pey ve. Pond, 14— Roy. Wood et al. 150—Hecker vs, Schinid 1558—Allen vs, Boach, Ro. enoteae ame al ve, Cas. sidy. tar—cornall va Culver C 471—Indiauapolis and Cb, B, R. Co. vi Stage va. Alexander, 4 % hyo 1651—Mayor vs. ‘couly, Surse, 1683—Osgood vs. Marx. Supreme Court—Special Term, Held by Judge Clerke. Court Opens at ten o'clock A. M. Tasues of law fact:— Nos, Non 141—Ouff vs. Dorland, 335—Henry Asseo vs, Gar- 176—Wells ner 154—Mart 226—Mutler vs. Haller. —Baush vs, Hannyton et al 228—Giles va. Turner et al. ‘229—Griiith va. Alexauder et i. 230—Thurston vs, Douglas et air—corten Campbell. 219~1 uce va. Taylo etal. 220—Davies, J al al, ns. ‘31—Silliman et al vs. Austin 222—Truax itewart, etal. 24—Peoplo ex rel Houghton 232—Ha'ske et al vs. Merrill, vs. Weed 224—Nelson vs, Watts et al, Supreme Court—Chambers. Hold by Judge Sutherland, Court opens at ten o'elock |). M. Cull of'the calendar at welve M, fou. 57—MeGuinness vs. Devlin, 165—Nicholson vs. Stenton. —Koos vs, Wemschenck, 202—Sperry vs. Berry. LAi—Grover vs. Strong. Call fis—be Comeau vs. Jit—Kuoepfel vs, Bursch, 146 —Wyuie vs. Caybry Supertor Courr—Trial Term—Part 1s Held by Jadze Monell. Court opous at cievn o'clock A. M. Noa, 4 Suv7—The National Shoe and 312l—Brown Leather Banko N.Y. 8423—Odell v: 233_Giles vs. Solomon @ al, Nack, vs. $427—Lewett va, Chandi UéBi—Levy va, Godtrey et al. 8439—The Bridgeport Fire and Marine Ins, Co, 3415 Sil7—Heilly va. S4l9—Steplens v. Superior Court—Trial Term—Part 2. Held by Judge Jones, Court opens at eleven o'c.ook A. M. Noa. $220—Graham va. Hamill. Mitel 2540-—Lovs va, Lynoh, igi2—Wood vs, Van Win S544—Sulzbacher vs, Selig- man. 8546—Law: ence vs. Tilman. va, Ceutral babé—1ylor Awsterdam, Fire Insurance Uo. 52_—Drew va. Waitzfelder, hes, b—Sachen vs. N.Y. & HH Avenue n. R a 0. Court of Common Pleas=Trial Term. Adjourned for the term. Court of Common Pleas—Part 2. Held by Judge Daly, Court opeas ai eicvea A. M. Nos. Nos. 386—Underwood vs, Gray, _&40—Huinphreys va, Knight. 761—Alevset va, Stewart. Sil—Cnen va, Shankland, S3—Frauk va. Bromhurst, 81/—Quinn va, the Mayor, de, 7-5—Noberis va. Levy. $14 —Dillon vs. 4 W—Novle vs. Lei 821—Bubeock vs. Hutton, S$—sieea vs. Shankuind, —-822—Brets vs. Kelly, Sheriff. o4—Fosier va. Metuire, 853—Dorian va, Saunders. 7os—Collius vs. Richard, Marine. Court=Trial Term. Heid by Judge Gross, Court opens at tev o'clock A. M, on. 31—# leok vs, Koehler, 63. Bernard, Lyman. as. Nos. — King vs. Tucker, M4—Pay va, West, of—Haley vs. lia 58—Flyun vs. Willta: i8—Linn ve. Lowenstein, &—Dunne va, Jounsion, I—Hateh va, Kana, — Marun va. Keibler. — Greenuer vs. Marx, 86—Lartzog vs. Reod. UNITED STATES DISTAIGT COURT—IN BANKAUPTCY, Injunction to Restrain Selzure of a Bank- rupv’es Pi Before Judge Biatcnford, In the Bankruptcy of L. Duryea,—The petitioner hav- ing flied bis petition for an adjudication of bankruptoy, several creditors, under proceedings in the State courts for claim and delivery, bad seized merchandise belong. ing to petitioner's estate to tue amount of $11,400, through the Sheriff. Mr. Edwin James, counse! for the petitioner, upoa aifidavits settiug forth that all ihe goods so seized bad besa purchased im tho due and regular course of trade, and that they formed part of his assets toner's creditors, applied for ‘an injuaction restrainiog the Sheriff from disposing of or soliing the goods seized by bim under judgment in the State courts, Judge Bisichford took the papers and will render a decision at an early day. Petitions Filed Yesterday. Levi Duryea, city. Referred to Register Dayton. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Obarge of Prese Fraudulent Bounty Papers. Before Commissioner Betts, The United Slates vs, Seagus @ Goetzel—The de- fendants, who are charged with makiog out and present. ing (aise bounty papers, were again up yesterday for ox- amination, Ali the poluts beariag on the case b thi LD. Two witnesses wero ‘riaay next, Ex-Judge Beebe appeared for the de fendant and ar. Joseph Beil, Assistant United States Devrict Atioraey, for the prosecution. SUPREME COURT~CHAMBERS. Mandamus Against the Pacific Mail Steam. ship Company for the Inspection of Stock Transior Books, &e. Before Judge Satherland, The People, dc., e@ rel. James Munson, vs. the Pa- ciyjic Mail Steamship Company ¢ al,—This was an appll- caiion oa behalf of the rejator, upon the reiarn of an order to show cause, fora writ of peremptory manada- mus azainst (he respondents to compel them to exhibit to bias, as @ stockholder owning fity shares, such books as they have im their possession showing the lists of present stockholders in (ue corporation, The Pacific ‘tau steamship Compaoy vas incorporated by au act of (he Lo.tstature passod ip 1343 with a copital stock of $600,000, $300,000 of which was to be paid in before the company went into operas (ion, The cxpital bas since been increased at various until tm amounts to about $20,000,000, Seé riginal act of incorporation reads as fol- f be tho duiy said corporation to cacse a book to be kept vy t surer or cierk there of, comtaming the wanes o ali p 9 Who are or shail within two years have been stocxhoiders of aaid corpo. ratiow, and Bowing (ho puces o residence, the mamber ol sures of stock held by them respoctively, aud the tume when they respectively vecame the owners of such shares; which book shall al all reasonable times be open for the inspection of the creditors and ckbolders of tno said Corporation At (he oilice or principal place of business of said corperatioa.”” [i is provided by ir genera: the State that for the apace of thi days prior t election of officers of the corporation the stocknolders shail have access to the stock book. Un Lehaif OF the respoudents it was ciaimed that the section of the act Of incorporation referred to wae lu- tended to apply omly woul the original sivck, $500,000, paid ip, and that as (hore was no election at present ing or approaching, tho eral law was inappli- cable, It was further cont that no such bouk as tue relator claimed the right inspection to was in existence, aud no meave of furnishing accurate list Of presout stockholders, for tho reason that transfers of siovk wore sometiines made without being transierred vn the books; aud that tho relator im the present in- stanco was not tho roai party in interest or tho owner of the siock, but was acting on behalf of an- her hod og largo interests fn the company amounting to $2,600,000 worts of the stock, aad woo desired to obtain coniiol of the stock for speculative Pithe court, f Passing upon the questions presented, held that independento al utes, the joers were fm fact but the ageuts or servants ‘the corporation and the stockholders connected with it were at all reasonable hours and times entitied to access to the books, to enabie them (to ascertain the actual condition of the orgavization, It was not a sufficient excuse that ‘the officers of the company had no! ik book oF ‘that it would be inconvenient for u to exhibit their stockholders, they stock ledgers oF stock transfer books to In the event of the existence of such book. must exhibit any books in their possession whieh would furnish the ini tion desired, The court directed mandamus to issue, the precise form of the writ to be determined upon at A. M, to-day, For thi ‘M, Whiting; for the respondenia, A, * veneers" SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM, The Alleged Ligistntive Confiscation of Pri vate Whar al Pi al on tm a jore=Important to Carn Before Judge Ciorke, J OV. & Roosevelt and Twenty-om- oirere { Godard, Captain of tvs Port, og m0. ‘Wdentified ihe knii was brought by a namber of private ind'viduals owning the two East river piera Nos. 9 and 10, w obtain ap im ~ Junction against the Captain of the Port and the Harbor Masters, restraiuing them from faking posession of the Tue plaintifls allege that tne law is unconstitu Decause it is an attempted confiscation of their pro} without compensation; (that it violates the coniract mad@ by the State in granting the nght to erect piers, &o. The defendants urge that it is a police regulation, which the State is competent to enact, The Judge, after full argument, took the papers, The result is wa'ched wich the greatest anxiety by the Private owners of wiarves on buth rivers, as it will settle the question as to whether the Le. s ature own take the property of one individual and bao: i) another, COURT OF OYER AND TEAMINER. Trial of Thomas A. Lumbert, Charged With Arson in the First DegreemA Curious Chain of Circumstantint Evidence. Before Judge Ingraham, The Perple, dc., vs, Thomas A, Lamber—Thomas A Lambert was yesterday placed upon trial before this court upon an indictment for argon in the first degree, . acrime formerly puvisbabdle by death, but at present subjecting ® person Convicted to imprisonment for @ term of not less than ten years in the State Prison, The offence with which the prisoner stands charged consists in his having, it is alleged, wilfully set fire on the morn- ing of the 10:h of August, 1807, to the sallors’ boarding house No, 66 Oliver street. The opening of the.case, as presgnted by Assisiant District Attorney Gunning jelford, Jr, detailed very minutely the facts upom woicn (he prosecuiion relies, and was as follows:— Your Honor Gevreeaen ov THs JuryY:—Tnomas Lambert, the prisoner at tho bar, stands Indicted tor the high’crime of urson in the first degree, which, ip plain Japguage, Means the wilfully setting fire to au in- habited dweiling louse sa the night time. Tue facis of this case are fow, but telling aud presont what is knows io law as circumstantial evidence, This evidenco, g temen, Wien consistent 10 all its detaiis and the fects iu harmony the one wita the other—eaci fact coustitute ing a sol.d ‘nk inthe chain—is regarded by jurists ag the strouge . and most ivtible species Of testimony, If I be not greatly d ed, ibe crime charged agamst the prisoner will be demonstrated beyond a peradven- ture, and in rendering your verdict, you will have the Satisfaction of feeling that you have been guided in your delioerations by the unerring light of truth—truth made up of facts so plain and tntelligible that “he who runs may read.” Aliow mo, genilem-n, to call your atten ion to the following facia which will be swora to by the witnesses for the prosecation:—First, it will be proved on thts trial that the boarding hore No. 66 Oil- ver street, containing fourteen grown persons and three chikiren, was wilfully fired about half-yast two o'clock on the morning Of the 10tu of August last; second, that Thomas Lambert bad becn a boarder in ibis house, and at the time of the fre his indebtedness amounted to $28, The landlord iniormed Lambert that unless the Dill was settied be could rewain no longer in bis house: Lambert thereupon remarked, “You Dutch ——, i will square with you within twenty-four houra;’? and thirdiy, it will appear ip evidence that on the morne ing of August 10, about one o'viock, Lai was seen, accompauied by a man, stauding in front of No, 66 Ole ver sireet; and between the bou sof two and three o'clock he'was distinctly observed climbing over the fence and entoring the yard of thai house; after- warda it will be shown that the inmates of the house were awakened by the smoke and fire. And fourthly, (iat in the yard was found a bundle of clothing, which ciolbing kuown Lo have been hung up in one of the 18 of tho house the wight bei and an geutiemen, the telling tact that this very sash the souer was in the habit of wearing, and o1 rested be admitted that it was bis On the fitted the closet in which were bung the clothes alluded to, @ chisel which fitted the indentations made gp = trunk in the adjoiwing room to the closet containin; cloibes, and a pocket knife, which identical koife, it wii be shown, was put by Mr. Brown in ois coat and bung up by himeeif, the uight bel in the closet, The coat was found in the bundie, with the pri- soner's sash, and remember the knife itself was found on the prisoner, And lastly, gentlemen, we will Prove that there were foot prints near that the fence over which the prisoner was seen to cil The beots were takeu off from ihe praoner on bis arrested, and the soles of his very boots, though z acelin: New pais ’ e ints. Now, gentlemen, I propose to witnesses cach and ali of these -allegaiions Teierence has just been made, and if I shail cooded im satisfying you, beyoud all that the prisoner at the bar is guilty of leged against him, I know it will afford you pleasure to be Power, of rendering commend—a verdic' something appalling arson, It diflers from almost all other crimes in e-sential particular, No one can ‘oresee how soon may be the victim of the midnight torch. Zou when you leave this court wiil retura to ye ones to enjoy tue pleasures of the ily crole, You are happy with your family and litile ones; the for repose approaches, the leone aa aod says to the oiber ‘Good wigut! night!” soparate and, after luvoking the biessing of Heaven, re. tire to their couches aud gvek the renovating influence of sw-et aud unbroken sleep, That ven! is Suddenly interrupted by the doings of the midni assassin, The match bas been appiled to the.d: conflagration ensues, disaster and death the conse- jueuces, This sad result, g nilomen—whicb, may kind jeaven avert—may hay] to any one of you now im that jury box, You see, refore, huw, by @ peradven- ture, you all may become personaily ioteresied in the rogress of crime; its Course is ouward fu this commu- nity, and the commonwealth looks to you, for protec~ tion agains the dark deeds of the evil doer You have been sworn to do justice im the case now on trial, and under (b@ solomnicy of that oath, which has been re corded in high wen, ask you to examine the evi- nce With scrupulous Care, and witb the single purpose of oliciting tue trai, The Uirst Witness called for the prosecution was James W. Reed, the keeper of the house in question, who tem tifled in relation to the Indebtednoss of the ner, the threat ma‘o by bim and tue subsequent firing of the house, On the cruss-exam aation it was olicited that he had at various times endeavored to induce the prisoner to ship 0” various Vossels, and that on one occasion 16 wns agreed that eh roped would ship a# ® seaman oa certain vessel the debt should be cancelled. The next witvess calied was the Mr. Brown alluded to in the opening, who testified that he owned (ne cost found fa tho oundie; thas it was bat ip by bim (wit ness) in the ciose. the night preceding the fire, and found ov the prisoner as bis (wit- Besa’) property; tue knife being peculiarly notched Witness On One Occa<ion whie opeuing bis watch with It Margaret Welsh, calied also for ibe prosecution, tesul- fled thas about two o'clock on the morning of tho 10th of August last sno saw the prisoner climb over (ho fence of the ies No, 66 Oliver street, near the par- ; war piace Where tbe footprinta were discovered ia Ne var. At this stage of the proceedings the Court adjourned, at about bat-past one o'clock 1 M., watil bali pas tem this moraim, HH Si H Hic a crime all y a 3° 2 HI SURAOGATE'S COURT. In the Matter of the Kstate of Willlam He Leary. Before Gideon J. Tucker, Surrogate, William H. Leary departed this itfe im the city of Now York, leaving a last will and testament, which wae duly admitted to probate by the Surrogate of the couniy of Now York on the 2itn day of November, 1865. By tho said will the testator directed, after the payment of his debts, thet the remainder of his estate bo held im trust by Lis executor, to collect the renia, fesues and Profits thereof, and therefrom to pay to his wife, Jobam Leary, the sum of $700 annum during her natural iife, ead, ip case A. mboutd have issue by sald tesiator hvihe ae the time of bia death, to pay her tho sum of $1,000 per aunam during the same period, which allows ance waa to be in full her dower; and, in further sent romain ‘of the said ren the same to any child or cbildr wo him surviving. Aud the that In he should leave no issue at the tine of his death, that the trustee should pay to the Society for Promoti the Goapel amor mf Seamen in the Port of Now Yor’ surplus of the tehts, issues and profits of his state, aiter paying the oxrowame to bis wile ag ato and Ime mediately al et nee Goat