The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Ran AER _ All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Letters and packages should be proporly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ‘oie Volume XXXII.. — = AMUSEMENTS THIS & NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel — Nogwooo, Matinee, ‘ OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—A | Mipsuuwer WNicur’s Duxaw. Matinee at 1g. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th strect.— Maovv's Peni. ‘ GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 aud 47 Bowery.— Maxuacian, Exrznon or Mexico. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—T; May. Matinee at 13g. + glieer uate rags FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—Par Droit ve Conquets—L' Amour Que qu’ C'xst Qui Cat BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory,—Tax Buacnsuitu oF Anrwerr—Tue Pxorue’s AVENGER, 4&0. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.— \- pyre way.—Biace Croom. Mati. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSR AND MUSEUM, Broad- way aod Thirtieth street.—Davin's Auction. Matinee at 1. ! 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THE NEWS. Fourteenth atreet.—TavsNeLor, 4 Favors. EUROPE. The news report by the Atiantic cable is dated yester- day evening, November 29, The St. Petersburg Journal, not La France, of Paris, stated that “the present boundaries of Rome could not be maintained” in the Conference. The bailion in the Bank of France increased largely during the week. ‘Thirty-three persons were killed by the explosion of a ‘stoamahip boiler at Liverpool. Admiral Farragat’s ‘Squadron steamed out from Lisbon. A royal armory at Cork, Ireland, was robbed of a large quantity of rifles {and revolvers, supposed by Fenians. The Cunard Mail Steamship Company has obtainod a renowal of its con- ‘tract for the carriage of the mails to America. ) The now tariffof charges for mossages by the Atlan- tie Cable takes eect to-morrow, December 1. Consols closed at 95, for money, in London, Five- twenties were at 71 in London, and 75 11-16 in Frank- fort, Cotton declined 1-16th of a penny in Liverpool, the market closing weak with middling uplands at 7 9-164, Breadstas did not improve. Provisions without marked change. By the steamships Woser and City of Paris at this port yesterday—after extraordinarily rapid passages— ‘we have interesting mail details of our cable despatches to 2ist of November, including the complete English toxt of Napoloon’s speech to the French Le- gisiature, ‘The English journals comment largely on an unprece- Gented scene which was enacted in the Home Office, London, A deputation appointed at a meeting of work- mon at Clerkeowell, London, to intercede for the lives of the condemned Fenians at Manchester, waited on the Home Socrotary to present the memorial Being de- nied an audience, they held an extempore meeting in ene of the rooms of the office, where, it appears, the most treasonable sentiments and expressions were Mdulged in, They avowed their intention of “stump- ing” Eugland to inflame the Irish population and also to hold torchlight meetings. The London papers regard the affair as an evidence of the spread of democratic re- pubticaursm in England, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a jotat resolution was offered declaring strict neutrality in the war now pending bo- twoon Great Britain and Abyssinia, but objection being made, it went over, Mr, Morrill introduced a bill pro- ‘viding for the redemption of legal tender and national Dank notes in coin after Joly, and the selling of all gold. In the Treasury in excess of $75,000,000 after Janu- ery,.1869, It was laid on the table and ordered to bo printed, A resolution was passed releasing E, T. Dun- bar from arrest After some further business the Sen- ate adjourned. ‘Tho Louse was not in session. THE CITY. In the various wards of the city yesterday 2,387 voters ‘were registered, which makes a total, with those regis- tered at tte beginning of the month, of 130,900, Fernando Wood addrossed a huge mass meeting at Cooper Institute last night, on the interests involved ia the approaching contest for the Mayoralty. Tn the case of twenty-five barrols of whiskey, which ‘wore seized some time ago at 84 First avenuo, the jury yesterday rendered a verdict for the government. Notice of appoal was given and a stay of twenty days was granted. Similar action was taken in tho case of six barrela of whiskey soizod while in transit Phrough the city. ‘The caso in whith the Board of Health enjoinot batcher trom carrying on bis business in certain lim came up again yesterday on the application of the buteher to Jodge Barnard for an Injonction preventing the Board from so interfering with Dim, The case was adjourned until Monday. Tn the case of Clinch, who brings action to recover 057,060 feos white acting as Collector of the Port imme- Aiately after the death of Proston King, argu of counsel was beard jéstorday, had: Fale bialdat te served his decision, ‘ The Inman tine steamship City of Washington, Cap: tain Halcrow, wiil lenve pier 45 North river at noon to- flay for Queonstows and Liverpool. The mails for Ire- AM ‘The steamship Nightingale, Captain Broakor, of C.F. Mallory & Co's. line, will sail from pier 20 ast river, at Varese P. M. today for New Orleans. ‘The steamship Oty of Paris, Captain James Kennedy, of the Inman Tine, which arrived yosterday from Liver. i i g g : i made. \ ‘Tho stock market was dull and steady yestorday. y .) Governments were inactive, Gold closed at 139, = * NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1867. materially changed. Petroloum declined Lo. per gallon, with a modorate doinand, I ISCELLANEOUS., Oui? apron tolograme from Cube gontalp Interesting items of nows fréth Me: arid cisewhere, Togethoff had settied all claims against Maximitian’s estate. Gene. ral Marquez was to be reported in Matamoros. Princess Salm Salm had published a denial of the statement that sho was a daughter of an American General, Prince Salm Salm le still waiting at Havana for the Novara, with Maximilian’s remaing, Santa Anoa is still at Havana, sick. Half of the con- viets connected with the jail breaking attempt at San- tiago had arrived in Havana, bound for Fernando Po, An inquest was commenced in the case of the nitro- glycerine éxplosion at South Borgen, N. J., yesterday. Tostimony was taken showing that Burns, the foreman, who exploded tho oil, had occasionally been intoxicated and ‘was entrusted with the general charge of the oil; that the magazine containing the nitro-glyceriao was easy of access and the entrance to it was open; that one {and will olose at the Post Oitice at half-past ton o'clock | or two little explosions of the substance had previously occurred at the quarry; and that Colonel Schafaer, the sub-contractor working the quarry, had discharged the Previous foreman for having been drunk and loading the holes carelessly, Tho further investigation was postponed until this morning. General Hancock yesterday assumed command of the States of Louisiana and Texas, and issued an order de- claring that freedom of speech, the habeas corpus and the right of trial by jury must not be infringed. The civilcourts will take precedence of military tribunals {a trying cases pertaining to them, but in case of neglect or wilful injustice, the military authorities will take any steps deemed necessary, In the Alabama Convention yesterday the Franchise Committee reported back an additional section empower. ing tho Legistature to continue the work of distrancbise- ment, The Convention granted eight divorces and dis- cuseod one case Of bigamy, An ordinance was offered declaring void all marriages between white and black persons, and requiring the Logislature to provide against such marriages by severe penalties, The radicals strongly opposed the proposition, and it was tabled. General Pope has issued the necossary ofdors for the payment of the Convention. ‘The radical negroes of Richmond have called on the radical whites, whom they lately repudiated, for advice and assistance during tho session of the Convention. Horace Greeley was yesterday confirmed by tho Senate as Minister to Austria, Judge Storer, of Cincinnati, has decided that the legal tender notes of the government known as greonbacks are not taxable according to an explanatory section of an act of Congress providing a loan bill. General Wi'liam F. Barry, the new commandant at Fortress Monroe, arrived at that post on Wednesday. General Kousseau has assumed command of the De- partmont of Columbia, St, Louis was visited by a furious snow storm yester- day. The Presidenat’s Message and the Alabama Claims. Tho most striking and interesting feature of the forthcoming message of the President to the Congress of the United States, as we are informed, will be that portion of the doou- ment relating to the Alabama claims and the position taken by the British government in the important international controversy to which they have given rise. Tae allusion to these topics by President Johnson, while it will probably be clothed in language.glain and emphatic enough to prevent any miscon- struction of its import, and while it will be accepted at home and abroad as significant of the future attitude of our government, will, in fact, be only the procursor of a grand stroke of policy with which Secretary Seward con- templates crowning his public career, and which may yet enable the administration of his chief to make its exit in a blaze of glory only equalled in brilliancy by the variegated fire and dazzling pyrotechnic display in the midst of which the dull green curtain falls upon so many of our modern spectacular dramas. Following closely upon the heels of the Presidential message will come a peremptory demand upon Great Britain by the American Secretary of State for a full and immediate settlement of the Alabama claims, on the basis of the account rendered by the United States, without any offset or deduction. The volumi- nous correspondence in which both sides have already indulged has exhausted all arguments that can be advanced by either government in support of its views upon the subject; and it is by no means improbable that Secrotary Seward feels himself no match for the trained diplomats of England upon paper, and believes that he will find the musket and the bayonet more effective woapons than the pen with which to enforce a recognition of his country’s rights. If this demand, already too long evaded, shail fail to meet with a prompt and favorable response, Secretary Seward, by a sudden and masterly movement, may march an army into Lower Canada, seize upon Quebec and Montreal, and hold them as material security for the full indemnification of his government and its citizens for all losses and damages sustained by them through the aid ex- tended by England, or by British subjects, to the insurrectionary South during the war of the rebellion. In pursuing such a course we shall but fol- low closely the exampie of the British govern- ment, which, throngh a long carcer, has promptly laid its grasp upon the territory of nations against whom it has had oocasion to unsheathe the sword. Upon the first outbreak of hostilities with France the fleets of “England swept the seas and seized upon every French possession within their reach; nor were the occupied islands restored to the country to which they belonged until the policy of their captors was fully satisfied. The objection may be urged that this is no parallel case, since the United States are not now at war with Great Britain ; but the Alabama claims have reached a point beyond which there lies no medium course between immediate payment, voluntary or enforced ; and from the unmistakable indi- cations of the Prosidential message wo believe it will be evident that with England herself nmust rest the deciston whether peace shall con- tinue gp the crisis culminate in war. The mas- setibeobe Probably conlemplated by Seward will be nothing more than a preceguiogeey measure, like tho grat flai movemont of Bismarck on Napoleon, when, adopting the lat tor’s favorite doctrine of the consolidation of nationalities, the shrewd statesman of Berlin made Germany a uni and left the French Emperor in # helpless condition, destitute allke of the power to prevent and the courage to resent. It-must not be supposed that in following such a line of policy our government or people have any desire to obtain permanent posses. sion of the new dominion by forcible annexa- tion. We do not want those provinces at the present time. The transfor of British Colum- bia to the United States may prove all that England will bo called upon to yield ase full satisfaction of our just demands against her. It will be © cheap atonemont for ects that and devastating the aggrieved rectly, through the hostile attitude of England | The Southera Negre Supremacy Conven- | and other blunders have retarded her progress. and Canada toward us during our terrible struggle for national existence. But if our oceupation of Canada shall be the means of establishing tho independence of the new dominion and linking the chain of provinces together in a solid republic, England will only have her own Machiavelian policy to blame for the result, It would at least be a blessing te Canada, Freed from her useloss alliance with Great Britsi+. G0 longer the battle ground in any war between Faziand and the United States; im friendly relations with her powerful neighbor, and with liberal treaties established between the two republics, her population would increase, her resources be speedily developed, and she would grow to be a powerful confederacy under the wing of the United States. Her citizens, already seriously dissatisfied with tho manner in which a dis- tasteful consolidation has been forced upon them, would enjoy the right of self-government in reality; and if annexation should eventually follow, so that the waters of the St. Lawrence might no longer divide us into two peoples, it would come of the free accord of both nations. In these days of eruptions, volcanoes, mo- teors, earthquakes and tornadoes, and the upheaving of mountains, the public mind is prepared for great and sudden events, and such a masterstroke of policy on the part of Secretary Seward would -sérve to allay the restlessness and feverishness dis- cernible all over the country in business, politics, religious and soolal life, It would carry the heart of the people with it, and be the crowning feat of the Minister’s territorial acquisitions, casting all others into the shade. Tt would not only settle at once the Alabama claims, without a war with England, but it would finally swallow up and dispose of Feni- anism, finance, military rule, niggerism, im- peachment and all the agitating issues that are giving 80 much trouble to the incompetent blockheads who are showing their folly in Congress, and go far towards verifying the predictions of Dr. Cummings regarding the approaching millennium. Our Charter Election—The Muddie and the Mystery Clearing Up. The complications and combinations of poli- ticlans on our Mayoralty election contest have made of it a muddle and & mystery which honest men have been sorely puzzled to under- stand. Moreover, in preaching about in ward meetings and in the highways and byways of the city, each his own virtues and the bad reputation of his democratic adversary, the highly respectable Hoffman and the highly respectable Wood have been making them- selves the laughing stocks of the community. And what isitallabout? A squabble between several democratic cliques for the city spoils and plunder of twenty-four millions a year. The insiders, sleek and fat as Mitchol’s Ala- bama niggers, are not yet satisfied, and the outsiders, lean and hungry as unpardoned rebels, are clamorous for a néw division of the provender. This is the muddle ; and now for the mystery of this demoralizing contest. In the outset a republican organ or two, dead set against Mr. Chase for the Presidency, struck out boldly and earnestly for the respectable Hoffman as the only escape from the clutches of the dread- ful Fernando Wood, while tho radical Chase organ par excellence leangd rather to {he tor rible Fernando a & choice of evils. 0 democratic muddle, however, under the mani- pulations of the contending cliques by Poter Bismarck Sweeny, is clearing up. He has beon worming in these little outside cliques after the fashion of the great German Bis- marck’s scheme for the unification of “Vater- land.” Likewise, in certain comfortable sops, he has been successfully manipulating the republicans. With the retirement of Anthon this squabble for the spoils is clearly developed into a game for the Presidency. There is in this city a Seward-Weed-Raymond-Rufus Andrews ¢on- servative republican faction in opposition to the Fenton-Greeley-Spencer-Chase faction. General Grant is the Presidential ticket of these conservatives, but asa last resort they will probably join the democrats on McClelan or Seymour rather than play second fiddle to Greeley in supporting Chase. Weed and Ray- mond, therefore, are playing for Hoffmanas the representative of McClellan or Seymour, while Greeley prefers Wood as the represerta- tive of Pendleton and that extreme copp:r- head wing of the democracy, whose successin this Mayoralty election would be too muchfor these delicate and tender-footed republian conservatives. In othor words, as this municipal contest mw stands, the election of Wood, in giving ‘he ingide track to Pendleton and the inflexile Simon pure copperhead democracy, will, iis thought, make the Presidential fight an emy matter for the republicans, even with Mr. Chase as their candidate ; while the electionof Hoffman, as the representative of the Intia rubber democracy, will probably force ‘he republicans to tack ship and compel Greeey to play second fiddler to Raymond and Ruus Andrews. So it is that on both sides he ground is slipping away from under the feelof the amiable Mr. Darling. What are charactr, qualifications and loyal antecedents, and wiat is retrenchment or reform, in this contest, to Mozart or Tammany, or the Citizens’ Assoca- tion floaters, or to Greeley or Raymoni? Fiddlestioks. ie Th6 lato Ohio election gave a powerful ift to Pendleton, Vallandigham, Wood and thir wing of the democracy; the late New Yok State election was s damaging blow to Chav and his ropublican followers. In this Nev York city contest, with the success of Wood a Hoffman, the one wing or the other of tie domdsracy will get the inside track for te Prosidency; for the vote of this city now em- trols the State, and the vote of the State shape our national politics, With Wood's election Greeley will feel reasonably certain of Chas as the republican candidate against a regule democratic copporhead ; with Hoffman's elee tion the India rabber democracy will come it, and against their flexible ticket Chase, f nominated, will probably be beaten with th assistance of the Seward-Weed-Raymond n- publioans. So, then, Mr. Darling, as the republican cat didate tor Mayor, becomes a mere stalkin horse, behind which republicans, radicals ant conservatives are playing bo-peop with Tan many or Morart for Holfman.or Wood ant the “arfand.arf” or outand-out copperheat demooracy, as a starting point for the Prest qgntest j casing upon those seerecny Pee ree tlone—Pregress of the jack Revelue tlouiste. The Alabama Negro Supremacy Convention commenced its sittings in Montgomory on ihe 5th inst It has therefore ben in operation some twenty-five devs, The sittings of the Louisiana Copyéntion began on the 231 inst, and itis as yet scarcely under full headway. Bat ilready @ white member has found it necessary to repudiate in toto the violent and incendiary language of one of the organs of the Convention in New Orleans, used in an article “high we reproducd in gnother column. The Virginia Convention, which will probably be the most importaat and exciting of them all, will commence on the pf December—next Tuesday. The Convention in Georgia has been called for Monday, December 9. No date has been assigned for holding the converitions in the remaining unreconstructed States. Indeed, it is not positively ascertained whether in one or two a sufficient number of votes have been polled to authorize the District commanders in calling tho conventions in those States at all. This is the case with Arkansas, and, perhaps, with Florida, In South Carolina, also, the vote is very close, the total showing so far only a slight preponderance in favor of holding the Convention. That wo are justified in designating these assemblages “negro supremacy conventions” will be readily conceded by any candid person who has kept the ran of the proceedings of the pioneer convocation—the Convention in Montgomery, Alabama. In that body the radicals—black and white—have an overwhelming majority, and they have gone to work with all the zealand hot temper of men who have suddealy become possessed of some signal plece of good fortune or have been magically invested with some extraordi- nary power and influence. Their leaders are of the tar, pitch and turpentine style of talk- ers, rabid, prejudiced and ignorant; of brutal inatincts and entertaining an intolerable aver- sion to the white population in the State. The few moderate men in the Convention cannot withstand this torrent of St. Domingo radical- ism, and are obliged to give way before it or submit to vile personal abuse and insult, Personal violence has evon been resorted to for the purpose of coercing an anti-proscrip- tion brother into the radical way of thinking. Among their first acts was to cmdeavor to abolish the existing Stato government—which is yet clothed wita some of the garments of reason and is willing to see justice done the white race—and erect in its stead a government with Sambo in all his glory as the chief—the head, body and soul. Then the most intolerant ordinances were passed, outstripping Con- gress in the extent of disfranchising white men. It was even impudently urged that the Military bill did not go far enough in wreaking vengeance upon the overpowered Southern white people, but new tortures in - the shape of confiscation, expatriation and disability to enjoy or exercise the commonest rights of citizenship were among the degrading devices of these princes of darkness in conven- tion assembled; and toned down, as some of their incendiary and revolutionary schemes have been, by hints from the central black organizers in Washington, the leaders were, according to our correspondents at Mont- gomery, at last accounts still engaged in cau- cy 2 | one of these caucuses & t was made by one of the leaders that if the majority repor!, which disfranchises all who attempt to defeat the new constitation by declining to vote upon it, and, in addition, proposes an oath in all future elections which will practically disfranchise a great number more, were not accepted by the party, he should himself bolt and use all his influence to defeat the work of the Convention— in short, do himself what he was anxious that others should be disfranchised for attempting to do. The scheme of making the white citizens pay the blacks for services from the date o! emancipation proclamation is among other pre- posterous suggestions which this motley assem- blage has given birth to, But it is unnecessary to multiply evidences of hatred and malignity, united with the most egregious ignorance and downright impudence, which the leaders in this Alabama convocation have displayed in their efforts to degrade the white and elevate to an utterly unfit position the black race of the South, It remains to be seen whether the con- ventions that are to follow will adopt the course of this pioneer black radical effort at Montgomery and subject themselves to an equal measure of opprobrium and disgust, Fanny Janauschek, the German Trage- dienne. We have rarely seen on the stage a more striking example of what genius, courage and porseverance can effect than in the caso of Miss Janeuschek, the German actress, who has been playing for some time past at the Aca- demy of Music. She came to this country com- paratively unknown and without any flourish of Bohemian trumpets, and, although the prospects were anything but encouraging, she grasped the situation at once and made her- self an artistic, if not a pecuniary, success, The obsiacles she had to encounter were enough to daunt the boldest mind. The build- ing itself in which she appeared was under the incubus of stockholders, who formed ® narrow-minded clique, monopolizing one-third of the best soata Bhd “di- couraging ever} exertion 3? art and in- dustry. Again, the house is most unfa-orable for dramatio performances, on account of its size and dreary appearance, and the company that supported Miss Janauschek was below mediocrity in every respect. The ostensible manager had too much to attend to in keeping himself afloat ip other respects to bestow the necessary i i his Inte charge, and she had to assist herself as well as hé? manager. In addition to these drawbacks sho had to present toan American audience a language which is by no means grateful to their ears on the stage, Yet, notwithstanding such terrible disadvantages, Miss Janauschek continued to make herself a favorite by the sole force of her genins. Her imposing stage appearance, her beautifully modulated, sympathetic voice, and her wondrous acting, that recall the days of Fanny Kemble and Mrs, Siddons, bore her through in triumph as an artiste. Without tho artistic finieh and claasic school of Ristori, she has the (rae, nataral, soul-touching ides of her art, and her warm, passionate of the difficult characters she essayed swayed her hearers with » power rarely felt on the stage. But she has not yet had s fair chance before In the cosey little ThéAtre Frangais, with noth- ing but her art to absorb her attention, Miss Janaugehek would oreate an unexampled furor {n this olty. Germany has already sent us three great artistes—Fanny Janauschek, Bogumil Dawison and Alida Topp; and the management of the two last contrasts with the bungling administration of the season of tho first of thess artistes, Peter Cooper and the B Ivish Boy. The terrible Peter Cooper is after tho Bould Trish Boy, O'Gorman, with another sharp stick, but one so long as to lose much of the damag- ing effect of ita ugly point. A letter of five miortd! coigm@s Of the subject of a few thou- sands, more or leas, of municipal extravagance would be but dry reading for the million, even when proceeding from the pen of so accom- plished a political campaigner as Peter Cooper, and the space of the Henaxp is too valuable to be abandoned to such an extent to the poli- ticlans or to the squabbles of the “ins” and the “outs.” It must suffice to say that Peter Cooper reiterates the charges made in his first pronunciamiento against the Corporation Coun- sel, and cites the records of the city to show that he has good grounds for his former s!ate- ments. He quotes liberally from the old law cases in which heavy judgments have been obtained against the city by obscure journals whose names are unknown to nine-tenths of the people of New York, and prefers to hold the Corporation Counsel responsible rather than to shift the. blame on the courts. We have no doubt Peter Cooper makes out his case very satisfactorily, but we question whether his eloquence will induce the retura ofa dollar to the city treasury that has already been taken out of it, or prevent the taking out of a great many additional dollars next year. Mr. Dickens. Mr. Dickens seems to have profited by our suggestions, and declines to accept the ovations which the chronietoadyism of Bostonians was eager to inflictupon him. He has a single eye to business, and is quietly preparing for a suc- cessful lecturing tour and for such uninter- rupted observations of the prosent aspeotd of our country as shall. cab‘. lim to issue, on his returr te. Zngland, a second edition of “Ameri- ‘can Notes.” He will not lack for fresh ad- ditional material. He will find abundant food for his amusing satire, because our faults havo grown with our growth. Ifwe bave become less thin-skinned than formerly, it is not be- cause we have got wholly rid of the faults that originally provoked his criticisms, nor because we have not acquired others that equally merit censure. Itmay be a great disappointment and calamity for the toadies, flunkies and fools of Boston, and for their cousins in New York who happen to be surviving members of the reception committees that bored him and made themselves ridiculous at bis first visit to America, but it will bea great relief anda gain to Mr. Dickens that he has taken our ad- vice and turned a cold shoulder to them all. His agent, Mr. Dolby, seems to have been needlessly timid about putting the prices for seats at a higher figure than that announced. But Mr. Dolby might be reassured on this point by the readiness with which all the seats in Steinway Hall were yesterday sold before three o’glock for the New York courge of read- ings to commends on the 9th of December. The box office had to be closed, and there can be no sale of single seats to-day, inasmuch as there remain no seats to sell. The shortness of the notice thwarted the plans of the specu- lators, who were unable to organize their forces, as only six tickets were sold to each in- dividual. Such auctions as those which we have suggested would enable both Mr. Dickens and his agent to reap a still more plentiful harvest of gold—or greenbacks, UNION LEAGUE CLUB MEETING, Hall on th itive Fe War for Specch of the Rev. New: Origin aud Causes of tl Towards America During Union. Although the special meeting of the members of the Union League Club was summoned to take place at eight o’clock, it was nearly nine before the business of the evening actually commenced, The President of the Ciub made an introductory speech, in which he re- ferred to the principles on which the Club was founded, and said that tho Rev. Newman Hall had beon one of those Englishmen who believed in the integrity of the Union and had befriended it in tts peril, The Reverend Newman Hatt then spoke as fol- ows: Mn. Paesivest anv Gentismen—I feel proud of the distinguished honor which you aud the members of the Union je Club have paid me to-n! I know on what foun mn that institution rests; that it isa gociety that was formed of the intellect and worth of the country at the moment of that country’s greatest peril. I never ex) guch kindness in my life as that I have re- coived since I bave beon in the United States, but I do not hatter myself sufficiently to take it all to myself. I know that it is meant towards the great body of the English people that espoused the cause of American in- dependence against the encroachments of a faction; the cause m and liberty against slavery and its downfall, Mr. Hal! then went on to state that he thought the contest which had occurred in America arose through the idea of social self-zovernment from whence, in fact, had arison the American nationality alt The idea of self government in America was not like what it was in France—morely an idea to be written out on paper and then virtually abandoned in a part in government, Ho remembered well all that had occurred in England during the civil war in the United States, The government micht have red to have been to the cause of the North, but the whole heart of the English people were identified with the which was then going on. Numbers of meet- ings were held in behalf of the Northern party, but not one public meeting was held in bebalf of South, was attempted to be upheld as ‘one of those oltar mstitations {ndispeoaable for a free bat ‘iiberforce and others had shown bevter. It wasa the famo of tho States, and if England bad ‘eon ri the side of these upholders of slaycry tt would have been aise me Seles ica time itself could ener [ST Secuiaeon Wawa a Loe wad ~_ ae the feng of the ink gently of those who in England appeared to be on the side of the Southern States and slavery, Ho said that Mr. Dolles and others of the American rej resentatives appointed by the Buchanan cabinet had ad- vooatod the cause of Southern independence, and com- ing aa it did from these, their representatives, {t was no wonder that a certain portion of the aristocracy and oth. ers in land advocated the claims of the confederacy, For mont beforehand tho press of London had been weaned over to this way of thinking, and it was no wonder that the genorality of fo seid took the course they did, Tho speaker thon mentioned what John Bright, Mr, Chisholm, of the Morning Star, and others lone on bebalf of the Northern poople, and con. jaded with hoping that the American sad English na- tions would be united in heart as they were in interests, and thanked the President and mombers of the Union League for the consideration and attention thoy had bestowed on him, The Rev. Dr, Tuowrsoy thon spoke at some length upon the unity of intoresta between England and and mentioned that he had heard Mr. Newman aot twice before on the subjoot of Americaon the ot! be and siete = bad : ca game sentiments an: ‘en in the same fearless, sponen Manor at be bad done last night before the al Some contlemen spoke at the conclusion of Mr. ‘Thompson’s pe the meeting did got break ap ‘until a late hour, & supper othor festivities olosed the proceedings, WHEW STORM SIGNALS UNDER CONSIDERATION. (From the Hrening Telegram of yesterday | prestota nor be oh he aaah dati a aegibteateci ates commchadd ah dadel tet lepbdace dal 8 RR aR tae St Dl a AD SRR RM ARTO SAG hg eke Na RA a Ls ss Hg clo SIR a DEAD Be Da aE Pe A nc “TRLRGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS 9F THE WORLD. MEXICO. SPECIAL TELEGAAM TO THE HERALD, Claims Against Maximilian Settled—Where- abouts of General Marquez. Havana, Nov. 29, 1867. Private correspondence from Mexico states that Vice Admiral Tegethoff before leaving the capital ~ settled all outstanding accounts against the late Emperor, including even many that were well known impositions, fei, ‘The Princess Salm-Balm had published a fiat de- nial of the statement that she is the daughter of am American general, 4 General Marques was again reported to be ia Matamoros. a CUBA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Iitness of Santa Anna—Convicts for Fornande Pe. care ot hae AY, “ Havawa, Nov, 25 Via Key Waser, Nov. 29, iBer.f Gante Anna is sick here. He has two physicians attending him, but is not considered in danger. * Sefior Aranatave, inspector of telegraphs. ia Cuba, has been sick for three days. -He is still dangerously ill. - The steam frigate Gerona has brough' hither one half of the convicts who were sented for the late murderous attempt at jail breaki:.; in Sante ago. They are to be transported to A‘rica, there to serve out their penalty. Some oft}: < convicts are reported to be respectably connecied on the island. Birthday of the Prince of the Asturias—Prince Salm-Saim Awaiting the Arrival of the —— Havana, Nov. 29, 186%. Yestorday having been the birthday anniversary of the Infante Alfonso-Francisco-de-Asis-Fernande> Pio-Juan-Maria de la Concepcion-Gregorio, Prince of the Asturias, who is now ten years of age, was celebrated here by a grand levee at the palace. ~« Prince Salm-Salm did not sail by the Panama for St. Nazaire, as expected, but is still here awaiting the arrival of the Austrian steam frigate Novara, with Maximilian’s remains. BRITISH GUIANA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALDS. Arrival of American Emigrants—City fae provements. . Gsonazrown, Demerara, British Gui “ Nov. 10, ser.” One hundred and eighty persons, emigrants from the Southern States of the United States of Amer- ica, have arrived in this city. They come as set- tlers, and are likely to make a valuable addition to the population of the colony. 3 This town, the capital, is to be lighted with gag immediately. * ‘Wo have had very little rain during the past week. _ The weather is hot. RUSSIA. The Italo-Reman Conference and Temporal Power. Lonvon, Nov. 20, 1867. 4 Tt now seems that the statement that “ it will be im- Possible for the proposed conference to maintain the present boundaries of Rome” was not the utterance of La France, one of the government organs of Paris, but of the St. Petersbarg Journal, an official newspaper, and regarded quite as good authority usually on dipiomatie questions, FRANCE, Increase of Bullion In the Bank. Paria, Nov. 20, 1867, The regular returns of the Bank of France, pubiuhed to-day, show that the bullion in that institution has ia- creased twelve hundred thousand francs since the last report, ENGLAND. Fatal Disaster on Board a Steamship=Thirtys three Lives Lost—The Cusard Mail Con« —_— Livenroot, Nov, 29—Eveniag. While the steamship Bonbonlina, which plies between this port and Greece, carrying the British mails, was leaving her wharf at about noon to-day, en accident oo curred which resulted in foarfal loss of life, ‘ Ono of the boilers of the steamer exploded with a loud report that was distinctly felt throughout the whole city. Thirty-three persons were killed outright and many othors injured. The steamship was entirely de- ‘cease Loxvox, Nov, 29, 1861, ' In the House of Commons this evening Mr. George W. Hunt, the Financial Secrotary to the Treasury, im reply to inquiries om the subject, made the statement that the government had concluded a contract with the British and North American Royal Mail Steamship Com- pany (the Cunard line) fora regular weekly mail ser vice between Liverpool and the United States, the steamships of the company to stop at Queenstowa, as heretofore, to tako up the latest mails. PRUSSIA, Awerlcan Thanksgiving in Re ™~ The citizons of tho Snited States im this city held « festival yesterday, in omtervanes of the National Thanksgiving day. : Sy org A banquet was given in the afterm@0m, at which some hundred and seventy American ladies Sod gentlemen Wore prosent, besides a number of eminént foreign Guests and friends of America, + Mr. George Bancroft was Chairman, and made a speech, which was replied to by Herr Forkenbeck, the President of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. Both speakers gave eloquent expression to the cordial state of feoling existing betwoen the American and German nations. ‘The festivities concluded in the evening with a bail, which was a brilliant affair, PORTUGAL. Farragut’s Squadron Out From Lisbon. . Lisnos, Nov. 29, 1867- ‘The United States naval squadron, ander the com- mand of Admiral Farragut, #iled from this port yes- terday, and miutes The usual courtesion were wore fired as the fleet steamed out of the harbor, headed by the flagship Frankiin. IRELAND. A Royal Armory Robbed