The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1868, Page 4

ee ee en 4 EROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PEOPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broatway.—& Mipsumen Nicnr's Davam, WALLACK'S THEATR 4 Broadway and 13th street. — Over Twist, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Mary Srvanr. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Uxaat or Tux Great Cirr—Kiven Pinares. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. 1.4cK CROOK. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. Unper tue Gasicut, | ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Mariraa, THEATRE FRANCAT ry 10. MANIK ANTOINKITE, Fourteonth street and Sixth BANVARD’S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- way and Thiriieth street.—Oun Murvat Faisyp, STEINWAY HALL.—C ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Brooklyn—Tauswepe. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fou Equusrmianism, &¢, Metines at 2 Dickens’ Reapixgs, ih streot, —Grawasrres, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Waire, Corton & Swaneisy'y MinstReLs, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 729 Broadway.—Soxas, Dances, Kecuntaicrrims, Boriyseces, &C. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadwar.—Ermo- rian EXtgRTalnments, SINGING, DaNciNG aND BuRuxsquas. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic ‘Vocauism, Necuo MinstRensy, & BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, (2 Broadway. — Batvur, Fauce, Pantowrr, & BUNYAN HALL, Broadway Pivarim, Matinee at 2, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Enuortay Minstacisy, Bactans aND Bunixsques. Fifteenth stroet.—Tax NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Science any Ant. Now York, isdanuadha bebe aacadad = Pa Fs) w ZB w 3s. YUROPE. ‘The news report by ihe Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, January 2, | Napoloon received the foreign Ministers at the Tuilerios on New Year's Day, whon tho most friendly end pious assurances aod aspirations were uttered by Wis Majesty, Baron Marochotti, the sculptor, is dead, The bonds of the Fanama Railroad Company were placed on tho London money market Austria forbids recruit- «ments for the Papal army in the empire, The residence of Mr, Charles Mathew, brother of Father Mathew, uoar Cork, Ireland, was attackod by Fenians, Ao armod party concealed in the house met the marauders with ® galling fire and routed them, wounding some of tho men. } Dr. Livingatone, the African travolier, is reported alive and weil in Africa, Our European files by the Cubs furnish interesting mail detaiis of our cable despatches to the 2lst of December. MISCELLANEOUS, Our special telegrams vin the Cuba cable contain further nows of iwterest from Mexico. General Diaz “had beon ordered to take the feld in Yucatan, Three ermed schooners of the nutional goverument were WDlockading Sisal. Sant 8 charged with setting * {the rebellion on foot, Active measures will be used to quell it } The steamer Morro Castle, Captain Adams, from “Havana December 28, arrived at this port yesterday. Among ber passengers is Senor Pablo Pujol, Minister of [the Treasury in St, Domingo, now on a special mission 4othe United States, Tae news by the Morro Castle ‘has been anticipated by our special telegrams over the ‘Cuda cable, | The Citizens’ Association have written @ letrer to Comptrotier Connolly, calling bis attention to what the ‘association decl ares to be @ monstrous financial system ‘vy which three or four hundred thousand dollars are nonually lost to the city and county. During tho last ten days of tho old year there wore 580 doatus in New York and 210 in Broekiyn, There ‘wero during the yoar 29,710 deaths in New York and 6,225 In Brooklyn, Patrick Grennan, a patrolman of the Seventeenth pro- cinet, ts now in Essex strect prison, on a charge of as- ‘saulting thro citizens and mortally wounding anotbor at various hours on Wodnesday last, No explanation of his strango conduct is given except that the unfortunate policoman must be insane, The most severely wounded Of the citizens msde a statement yesterday that at the timo of the asrault upon bim the peliceman seomed to bo drunk. In tho Chamber of Commerce yesterday a communica- tion wos recoived from the Boston Board of Trade invit- ing tho appointment of delegates to the commercial con- vention to be held in that city on the Sth of February, Delegates were accordingly appointed. The report of the commiltee in Secretary Stanton’s eas0 is said to have been completed, ‘The negroes in Washington celebrated the tion anniversary by a large meeting im the P church on Fifteenth street, Speeches were ma ator Pomoroy, General Howard, General Butlor and Pro- fessor Wilson, Governor Chamberlain, of Maine, was foangurated + yesiorday, In his address he favors the paying of the obligations incurred in our national debt fairly and squarely, but not all in one day or one generation, Ve thinks it would be better to let those who come after and reap (he bonedits bear some of the taxes, ‘The new State officers wore ewora in at Albany yos- terday. 1), Weller, Jr, was appointed Deputy Secre- tary of Staie; 8 H. Swett, Jr, Depaty Sime Engineer, ‘Oscar Packard Deputy State Treasurer and Pailip Phelps Deputy Comptrolior. Thomas Walsh, a boy of nineteon, was hanged at Nowark, N, J., yosterday,gfor tho murder of Patrick Jormay, on the night of tho Fourth of July last, Ho met his doath boldly, having taken a cool view of the gellows the day before while he smoked acigar, Nota movement was noticeable in the body when the trap foli, aud he divd apparently without a stragglo, One of tue temporarily appointed eheriff's assistants fainted at the sight of the hanging mao, The firm of Brown & Gillespie, wholesale morchants of Hamilton, C. W., suspended yesterday. ‘The term of office of Goveruor Pierpoint, of Virginia, ‘expired ov the Ist inst; but as no provision has been anede in tho way of a successor, he continues to hold tho mancipa- torian by Sen- position A guard in charge of the goods eaved from the wrock of the steamer Frances at New Inlet, N.C, was attackod by negroes recently, aud a portion of the goods was carried off, Tho First National Bank of Bay City, Michigan, baa {niled, with deposits amounting to $75,000. The receipts of beef cattle yesterday were 37 head at the Hudson City yards and 500 at the National Drove Yards, The demand was tolerably active at prices rang- ing from 140, to 18, for common to good, Tho swine smarket was active and excited, and prices wero \yc. por Ib, bighor, common to prime gelling at 71¢0. a $e, per Ib, The rbceipts wore 2,560 head—1,760 at Communi. paw and $00 at Fortieth str Tus Crus’ MATION AND THE Comr- TRoLLER.—It will be seen by a communication which we publish in another column that Peter Cooper is out again after our city officials in the name of the Citizens’ Association. This time he issues a gentle reminder to Comptroller Connolly of the evil doings of bis predecessors in the monstrous system adopted in tho man- agement of the finances. The statement shows that the city and county loses annually between three and four hundred thousand dollars upon # very carious priaciple of lending and bor- wing. Mr. Connolly is urged to reform this whole system, and we have no doubt that be will dowo, He bas an opportunity now of be- coming another Bismarck. Richard Bismarck Connolly would be @ most acceptable title for #9 emipble god ebl¢ a geutioman, a NEW YORK HE ERALD. | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1868. Le Oar News Across the Pacific from China and Japan—New York a Now Centro of the World, The telegraphic letiers forwarded to us on the Ist of Jaguary from San Francisco brought news from our special correspondents at Hong Kong to the 26th of November, at Shanghae to the 27th of November and at Yokohama to the 6th of Decomber. Those dates will suffice to indicate the revolution which has commenced in the transmission of news from China and Japan. It is obvious that New York has al- ready assumed ils new position as a central point for the distribution of the news of the world. Half way between Jeddo and St. Petersburg, New York must now daily increase in importance, When the Pacific Railroad shall have been completed, and when a ship canal shall have been opened across the Isthmus of Panama—and both these events must be expected at an early day—the world will recognize in our metropolis a grand centre of all the activities thas pervade the politics, the commerce and all the other spheres of modern civilization. “Westward the course of empire takes its way” was the prophecy of Bishop Berkeley, and it will yet bo amply fulfilled with results far beyond his kon. Meanwhile the marvellous change in the direction of the currenis of news and trade from East and West to West and East must strike every philosophical observer and enlarge his views’ of the prospective great- ness of both San Francisco and New York. The circuitous and tedious overland route to the East from tie old European centres, such as London and Paris, must ere long be com- paratively of little account. The climatic difficulties that render them impracticable for six months in the year, the improbabillly that railroads will ever be constructed across the deserts which portions of it must traverse, and the unquestionable conveniences of the route via New York and San Francisco, must prove docisive. ; Note the variety, fulness and importance of the news which has just reached us so speedily from Hong Kong, Shanghae and Yokohama— thanks to the enterprise of the New Yor« Heratp. From Hong Kong we learn that Mr. Anson Burlingame, the United States Minister, who, significantly enough, has been chosen by the imperial government as a special envoy to the great European Powers with which China holds treaty relations—a selection which evi- dently shows that China regards the United States government as her “noxt best friend and neighbor”—is about to visit and inspect all the Chinese ports open to foreign trade. We learn also the progress of Christianity in the most ancient and enlightened stronghold ef Paganism from the facts thata church is about to bo erecied at Hankowa, the homo government baving made a grant for that pur- pose, and that s mission school and chapel have been opened by the Casle Missionary So- ciety. On the other hand, Christian incon- sistency has received a reproof from the natives of Canton, who, we are told, urge the granting of the Hong Kong gambling house license by the Christian authorities as an argument with the missionaries in favor of their superiority over the system of the foreigners. Then we have accounts of severe repulses sustained by the im- perial troops from the Nienfei, and of disastrous floods in the Shan Tung province, in the country around Tientsin, and along tho borders of the Han, involving in the latter case, it is feared, an inundatioa of the city of Kan- kow. The lefest market review is given in de- tail, and we are informed of the salety of the Prussian corvette Vinola, which had been grounded on an aaknown rock in Spex Strait, and also of the death of Mr. L. B, Calfeld, Consul of the United States at Foo Chow. From Shanghae we receive an equally full budget of Chinese news, duly noticed else- where, including the facts that ten ships had lately left and five oihers were siill loading for New York. From Yokohama we are advised that the Tycoon of Japan has resigned his governing power into the hands of the Mikado, and that the government of the empire will hereafter be carried on under the Mikado by a council of Daimios or nobles. We leara also that Osaca and Viogan, on the ialand sea, were certainly to be opened, in the presence of the United States Minister and several of bis col- leagnes, on the lst of January, 1868; that tho opening of Joddo is deferre1 until the 1st of April next, and that tho new port to be opened on the west const of tho om pire is Neagara, according to the original treaty; but inasmuch as the harbor at that place unsafe for foreiga ships coming in, that of Ebisuuito, on the island of Sado, thirty miles distant, is to be made tho port of entry in its stead. Several American mercantile houses in Yokohama are preparing to establish branches in the various places to be openod soon to foreign commerce. Many American hands were wanted to go to these places. The American Minister, General Van Valkenburgh, has recently married at Yokohama tho widow of Ruphael Schayer, of New York. Tho death of Commodore J. T. Watkins, on board the steamer Costa Ries, is announced. Stephon Massott was giving his “Drifting About” enter- tainments. Aconcert had been given for tho benefit of the poor in Yokohama. Other de- tails, including the market reports, are fur- nished, which show bow important the Ameri- ean colony bas already become and how rapidly Yokohama itself is recovering from the effects of the great fire which took place last winter, In short, our tglegraphic letters from Yoko- bama, Shanghac and Canton have brought us fuller and nwre minute news, giving us a more complete picture of the actual condition of Japan and China, aud more speedily besides, than the news from Europe which used, ony a few years ago, to be received in Now York. In view of these facts it is interosting to reflect on what a .evolution in journalism may ere long be expected. John Frederick Cota wrought a vast change in journalism by the establishment of an indopoudent newspaper at Augsburg in 1798 Tho Allgemeine Zeitung became a power recognized by all the poten- tates of Europe. But an indepeadeat journal at New York must wield a groater power on avaster scale; for if Augsburg was on tho highway, as it were, to all the countries of Europe, New York will henceforth be on the highway of all the continents of the globe. Through this ceutral point must all news from the uttermost parts of the earth be transmitted, and all human activities must tend to converge here. Internationa Newsraren Courrestes.—The London Pall Mall Gazette is s very good paper | in its way, and very dignided when it is con- venient to boso; but if it persists in transfer- ring to ite pagos important information an st.- ustles from the columns of the Hpratp without making any reference to the source from which the articles were obtainod it will be likely to lose caste among its older contemporaries. Such practices are violations of newspaper courtesies on both sides of tho Atiantic. Tho Lato Disturbances in Kogiand and tho Fenians. All that portion of the world which devours stories of human demoratization, as exhibited in assassination, blowing up fellow mortals by the explosion of nitro-glycerine, the placing of detonating substances in letters and #0 forth, has bad a feast of late in tho cable “news” from Great Britain; in fact, it has had a@ surfeit of these so-called “Fenian out- rages,” Now and then we notice that a festi- val of outrago—a perfoct carnival, in tact, of this ghastly busincss—is reported in the British | press, During last summer it was the trades unioas of Sheffield, Birmingham and Man- chesler that supplied tho material, We may recount them briefly and their cause. No political grievanoe nor tho semblance theroof was made a pretext for the cold-blooded and well organized system of murder which from April to August last horrified the whole world under tho leadership of Broadhead and in the name of the rights of trades ‘unions, In one case & package of gunpowder was thrown down the chimney of a house, whore one of the pre- destined victims of “ Broadheadism” was sup- posed to reside, In another case a house was attempted to be blown up for the same reason, and in another a poor wretch had somo ex- plosive material placed upon bis grindstone and was killed upon putting it in motion. And all this was done because “ the rules” of the trades union were not complied with. Men accepted a lower rate of wages than tue “union” prescribed, and some men employed too many appreniices (a custom which the “union” did not approve), all of which could not be permitted; so gunpowder and other explosive substanoys were used to correct the evil by destroying life. Tho crime was not deniod, but admitted and ratier justified by Mr. Broadboad and his associates on examination before the commission ap- pointed to examine into theso atrocities; but they were not punished, Now, this kind of thing appears to have cropped out again in England, but it is called “Ienianism” this time. It is an atrocious business, in whatever quarter it may find its inspiration, Sv also was the Orsini bomb explosion in Paris, de- signed to assassinate the Emperor, but which succeeded only in killing and maiming certain innocent parties. Bat it has been proved, as we know, that these bombs were furnished to tho assassins from England, and that Mr, Stans- field, one of her Majesty’s Cabinot at that time and still a member of Parliament, was 50 deeply implicated in the matter that he had to resign his position in the Cabinet and justified bis connection with tho affair on the grounds that it was a “ business trans- action.” Justso. The furnishing of piratical vessels to prey npon the commerce of the United States during the late war was a busi- ness transaction also. English merchants and manufacturers, like Mr. Stansfield and Mr. Laird, aro always roady to enter into any business transaction that pays, whether it bo a bombshell or an Alabama. Morality makes no part of “business” nowadays. Somebody probably made a profit out of the barrel which blew down tho wall of Clerk- enwoell prison and killed 80 many of the poor Irish residents of that tenement house locality. The nitro-glycerine explosion at Newcastle-on- Tyno, which tho cable reported as anothor Guy Fawkes affair, turns out to be the result of an accilent as stupid, but not so fatal, as the nitro- glycerine explosion in South Borgen, New Jer- sey, the other day. We notice that “the London Commitios of the Fenian Brotherhood” have disclaimed all connectivn with these explosions and letter bombshells and nitro-glycerino alarms. They say that these things arc no part of their plans, and they denounce them and the parties concerned in them altogether. Tho body which is supposed to represent “Ie. nianism” in this country, we observe, likewise officially denied yesterday in our columns all knowledge of or relationship with these transac- tions. Whence, then, do they come, if not from a general spirit of discontent and dissatisfaction with the governing powers and the feudal aris- tocracy and a growing lawlessaess among the laboring classes in Great Britain and Ireland? Our late news from the latter country is that the residence, near Oork, of a gentleman whose namo alone might endear him to the- people—a brother of Father Mathew, “the Apostle of Temperance” — was attacked at night by some unknown par- ties, who were received with A galling fire and driven off, the proprietor having been apprised of the attack beforehand. If this act could bo fastened upon the Fenisns it would seriously damage any sympathy which might exist for them among the temperance societies (which are a largo body) and perchance the Catholic clergy, and would be an admirable stroke of policy on the part of the government. However, the news comes by cablo from London and we learn from the London journals that the Fenians are not regarded as Irishmen, but as “Yank e rowdies.” So says the Loudon Times and other papers, and they advise the expulsion of all aliens from England. It was but the other day that the courts decided that certain Ameri- can cilizons or “ Yankeo rowdies’” wore not aliens at all, but British subjects, and were de- nied the rights of aliens when they demanded a mixed jory. This attempt to charge the recent atrocities upon Americans will not do, in view of the fact that not single American has yet been found connected with any of them; batif the Bng- lish government can only be taught that it must pay its just debts to this country arising out of the Alabama transactions, koep its bands out of the business of all other countries when they aro in troable, and cease fomenting in- surrections and encouraging assassination abroad, peopl may feel some sympathy for England's misfortunes at home, Turkoy and tho Knst. In the Herann of yesterday wo printed an interesting lotier from the pen of our special correspondent at Constantinople. It appears from tno letter that Turkey ia in danger of revolution, not alone from the disaffection of the Obrisiians, but from disaffection among Turks themselves. The conservative party of course is powerful, and as stubborn as powerful; but young Turkey, headed by Mustapha Pasha, brother of the Vicoroy of Egypt, is full of hope. ‘Tho old conservatives seo no'bing but ruin in modern progress ; young Turk +y sees in it the only hope of national salvation, What with the movements of Turkish reformers, the clamoring disaffsction: ot ihe Christian popula- tion and the intrigues of Russia, the Sublimo Porte has certainly enough to do. It appears also that the Emperor Npoloon is expected to make a visit to tho Sultan in tho easly spring, and thathe will be accompan'ed on the occa- sion by the Empress Euzt¢nie, If this visit take place as announced it will be the event of the year, Such a visit will be a revolution in itself. If Turkish rulers will only accept the lessons of the hour and yield themselves up to the current of modern progress the Moham- medan empiro revivified may yet havo before her an honorable and illustrious future. Tho Situation in México. Our telographic news le:tors of yesterday— one from Mazatlan, by way of San Fran.isoo, and tho other from the city of Mexico, by way of Havana and the Cuban telogfaph—give us late details of the condition of the neighbor- ing ropublic. From Mazatlan we have a char- acteristic recital. For three weeks the Legis- laturo of the Stato (Sinaloa), which elects the Governor, had been unable to make a choice. At the end of that timo the people of the capital city assembled en masse, and the Legis- lature found its senses as the hero of Gadshill would not give reasons—“under compulsion.” In fear of their lives the legislators performed tho fanotion of freemon and named an execu- tive, and “General Martinez acquiesced in thoir action.” This latter circumstance is particu- larly fortunate. If General Martinez had not acquiesced, and tho assembled crowd of the people had insisted, we know not what might have taken place, Perhaps the legislators, between the uppor and nother millstones of the General and the mob, might have furnished some new illustration of republicanism and free government in the land of the Montezumas, From ths city of Mexico we hear of the fur- ther discussion of the changes in the constitu. tion and a definite statement of what they are. The changes are proposed by the President, and are principally modifications ov the rola- tions between the Legislature and Exccutive— adapting thom especially to the principles of our own government. An important point is tlio proposed provision for the succession to the Prosidency in caso of the death, resignation or removal of both President and Vice Presi- dent. In no country is it more important to have this point tully determined. The decree banishing all persons from Mexico who bad been active imperialsts, including the par- doned, and which is said to have been induced by tho troubles in Yucatan, gives a certain vitality to what all the world bad supposed to be absolutely detunct. It recogniz:s imperial- ism as etill a possible cause of trouble. Taken in connection with the state of facts existing in Yucatan, it implies that tho republic is not only not supremo but is not even cenfident of its power or sure of the people. Tho Social Condition in China=Floods, Fam. ine, Fenians, Explosions and a Rebellion. The special telegraph letters from Hong Kong and Shanghae, China, which appeared in the Hrraup yesterday, reveal the fact that the hoary empire of the Central Flowery Land, with all its rigid- exclusiveness, walls, gates and river barriers, is not exempt from the in- fluences of the great upheavings, natural and social, which have 80 disturbed the equilib- rium of the globe by their shakings and belchinzs, from the islands of the West Indies away tothe crater of Vesuvius, thence to Cal- cutta, India, and back to the scene of-the recent earthquakes in Ogdensburg and Oneida county, New York, and which are also pro- ducing such signal yet silent revolutionary changes from London to Constantinople and in the very interior of the Roman Vatican. Our correspondent reports that in the prov- ince of Shan-Lung the Yellow river had burst its protecting banks and Inid the surrounding country under wator to the extent of thirty miles; the river Han was so swollen that the great city of Hankow was threatened with submersion; two most destruct've fires raged at Shanghao; a powder magazine was ex- ploded in the city of Wychung, by which an imperial palace was blown in the air and many lives and @ vast amount of property lost; Si-Wang, an aged rebel chief—a sort of venerable Jeff Davii—was suddenly arrested and sent to prison, but ho had scarcely been fitted to his irons whon it was announced that a formidable rebellion, under a more modern loader, was advancing on Pekin, tho capital. In addition to all this we have tho facts that the Cuinese police are given to “squeezing”— a term applied to the taking of bribes by the officers—so that criminals are permitted to escape; that the Christian authorities license gambling houses all over the towns of open ports, to the great scandal of the moral rule disciplinarians of Confucius; that trade is dull, and that the Emperor is obliged to send an American as his envoy, bearing an olive branch message to the “outside barbarian" Powers. ¢ This fine pen and ink sketch of the oxistent condition of affairs in China, conveyed to our readers by steam and elociricity in a won- derfully short space of time, goes to prove that the Brother of the Sun, setting in Pekin, {9 placed in a@ situation just ag fall of anxiety as is that filled by his royal sister in London, who presides over a territory on which the sun never seis, that of his royal and most venerable brother in Rome, who 0 influence oxtends urbi et orbis, or that of the sublime potentate who occasionally greots him from the Bosphorus. Not only are tho effects identical, but the causos are almost exactly similar. Mind and matier—tho matter in most instances direcied by mind—are rapidly changing tho face of the globe ; and away off in China the puff of the steam engino “blowing off’ in one of her rivers does much to dissipate traditions handed down from an almost forgotten past, while every revolution of the printing press in her ci.jes sends forth material which obliterates a rocord or relutes a theory written, perhaps, in tho yoar 2204 betore the birth of Christ and re- ligiously nourished and transmitted since. ‘Thus far the revolutions produced by science and natural phenomena, Of the polilical agita- tion, of that aged rebel and the younger rebels, the corrupt police and gamblera, the fires and explosions, we can only say that the China of to-day is jus! about in the same condition as London and Now York. No doubt there aro seditious porsons, “treason-felony” men—in fact, Fonians—in China as in Great Britain; and the Mongolian, we prosumo, makes just se “ugly” a Fenian as does the Celt. Then thoy have native “copperheads” and secessionists, just as we have, and after them, or with them, come the gamblers, unfaithful police and other Social visitations, The case is al:nos! the same in Asia, Europo and America; and our tele- graph letiers from the East add just another attestation to the fact that the world moves and that it is very likely to be kept in motion. Mr. Dickens as a Render. Mr, Dickens has had far more than what tho French call @ success of curiosity since he began his readings in this country. He is such & capital story teller, and he personates so ad- mirably the characters of his own creation that each of his readings has been as good as a play. The public has heartily applaudod his display of gifts that might have made him one of the best comedians of the age. As a reader, howover, Mr. Dickens, it must be admitted, has somewhat disappointed the public. Of vourse an author who reads his own productions has a prodigious advantage, other things being equal, over any one clse, He has @ thorough comprehension both of his subject and of the effect which he wishes to produce by his presentation of it, He can hardly fail to analyze well, as the elocutionists call it. Mr, Dickens has ingeniously trans lated, or at least transposed, many of his writ- ten passages into more effective colloquial lan- guage. Some‘imes for a single printed phrase he has substituted an entire little scene of fine dramatic power, happily set off by inimi- table by-play. And to almost every word he gives such unerring emphasis that the meaning is conveyed at once and completely to tho minds of the hearers. Sometimes, especially when he does not confine his eye to the book, we cannot help saying that he reada naturally, for he does not seem to be reading at all ; and this art of concealing art is confvssedly the highest that can be attained. But the first and indispensable requisite of a reader, strictly so called, isa voice of. great compass, flexible, clear as @ bell, pure in tone, and so perfectly well trained as to be under the absolute con- trol of the reader’s will. The most extrava- gant admirers of Mr. Dickens will not claim that his voice answers to this description. The first impression it makes upon tho ear is almost disagreeable, although its huskiness, and, in fact, the voice itself, is soon forgotten in the interest excited by the story to which we are listening. Moreover, not a few of those seated abremote points in Steinway Hall, however attentively they might listen, have failed io hoar, and have been compelled to fall back on the convenient litile “diamond Hurels” and study them as carefully as if they wero trying to follow Rachel, Ristori or Jan- auschek m French, [talian or German. The lisping indistinctness of utterance in which Mr. Dickens occasionally indulges, and the jerking, rising inflogtions with which he is par- ticularly fond of concluding sentence afier sen- tence, surely cannot be admired. For the first fault nature may be partially to blame, but the latter strikes us as an inexcusable cock- neyism. A greatreader is bound to eschow ail local peculiarities unless when these are required in the personation of certain charac- ters. Excellent as Mr. Dickens’ impersonations generally are, he not unfrequently fails to pre- serve throughout the dialogue the sharp indi- viduality of voice and accont which he knows so well how to give at first. Perhaps he deems it sufficient to indicate or outline, as it were, and leave the imagination of the reader to fill up the rest. But in this case the illusion can- not be so complete as he can make it and often does. On the whole we cannot regard Mr. Dickens as an incomparable reader. We ave even in- clined to believe that there are several readers who, at least after having heard him read and having thus mastered his own conceptions of his personages, could vastly improve on his readings. John Brougham could both astonish and delight him and everybody elso by reading “ David Copperfield,” for instance, Vandenhoff and otbers who might be enumer- ated would prove formidable competitors for Mr. Dickens on his own chosen field. As for Mrs, Fanny Kemble Butler, her Shakspearian readings in this country have never been equaled. It may be that in the seclusion in which Mr. Dickens buries himself during the intervals be- tween his readings in New York and Bostoa he has been reviewing his early studies of Ameri- can manners, and will yet surprise and amuse the public by reading selections from “Amori- can Notes” and “ Martin Chuzzlowit.” He has introduced us to somo of his favorite types ot English life, from Samivel Weller to Doctor Marigold (who, by the by, made his first ap- pearance in New York last night), and we do not see why he should not also introduce us, for instance, to some of the “ remarkable men” whom Mark Tapley mot on his arrival “at the port of New York, in the United States of America.” Mr. Dickens’ impersonations of Colonel Diver, and his war correspondent, “a small young gentleman of very juvenile appear- ance,” Mr. Jefferson Brick; of Major Pawkins, Professor Mulliit and other choice spirits whom he has presented to the world as American types, would be extremely curious, to say the least of them. Receptions in Berlin and at Washington, In the Henaty of yesterday we published accounts of receptions at tho American Lega- tion in Berlin and at the White House in Wash- ington. We notice these two receptions under one head chicfly for the reason that to us they are suggestive of one important lesson, It is something to know that at the reception in Berlin Mrs. Bancroft presided with matronly grace, that Gorge was unusually witty and brilliunt, that the party was large and that the toilets were select. It is something to know that at the reception in Washington Mr. John- son looked well, that Seward was in good spirits, and that the evening was a complete success. All this is no doubt of sume im- portance. To us, however, the chief point to be noticed is this: that both at Berlin and at Washington we were exhibiting the United States to foreigners. Never was there so large ® representation of foreign nations at tho White House, Never did the United States mako @ grandor figure at Berlin; and Berlin is but one of the many Europoan centres in which Americans do congregate in thousands. More and more are we towering up before the world as a mighty people, Tho time is not far distant when the groat republic will put the grandest of tho old monarchies completely into the shade. American energy is everywhere boing felt, and Americen beauty everywhere arte ce perenne bears away the palm. May tho nation fourish more and more! Mr. Burlingame in Luck aad the United States Ahead in Chiva, Mr. Burlingame, Minister of the United Statea to China, has, it appears, been appointed by his imperial Majesty of the “Central Flowery Kingdom” as his special ambassador to the great Powers touching thoir relations with Chiua, It is presumed that the purpose of tho embassy is to revise tho treaties existing be- tween said Powers and the Chinese empire and to setile the numerous and delicate complica tions which have arison under said treaties during @everal years past. It further appears that Mr. Burlingame has accepted this appoint- ment, that thé diplomatic corps resident near Pekin cordially approve of his selection, and that he will leave immediately eastward on his new mission by way of San Francisco, This is an extraordinary ‘case. There is hardly a precedent for it in the history of the international affairs of any two nations of modern or ancient times. We send out: Mr: Burlingamo to China to look after the interests of the United States in that quarter as our rep- resentative before the Emperor ; but our agent becomes so much a favorite with the Brother of the Sun and Uncle of the Moon that he is ap- pointed as tho special envoy of China to all the great Western Powers of the “outside bar- barians” in the very important matter of a set- tlement of all the treaty difficuliies existing be- tween them respectively and the ChitfSse gov- ernment. Our Minister to China, therefore, in ac- cepting thfs Oriental appointment and in setting out upon‘the responsible mission thus assigned him by way of San Francisco, will make his first call upon his own government; and in dropping in at Washington—should he dropin as he now officially stands—ie will appear before Presi- dent Johnson In the double character of Min- ister of the United States to China and Minister from China to the United States, But what says the constitution bearing upon this matter? It says (article 1, section 9) :—“ No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, wiih- out the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign State.” The consent of Congress, then, is re- quired before Mr. Burlingame can positively announce his acceptance of this Chinvyss ap- pointment. We presume that he has so stated the case to the Emperor, and that, trusting to the consent of Congress, Mr. B. has agreed to try the experiment. In this view he will pro- ceed first to Washington and lay his case be- fore the President. If the President, then, shall approve the undertaking, (as he doub!less will, in recognition of the high compliment to the United States involved), he will transmit the facts of the case to Congress and ask the consent of the two houses as required by the constitution, A joint resolution then, we ex- pect, wiil be passed yriving the consent of Con- gress to the acceptance by Mr. Burlingame of the office tendered him, and of the title there- of and the emoluments and presents thereunto appertaining, be they large or small. Assuming that this reported sppoiniment has been made by the Chinese Emperor, we cannot doubt that ii will be approved by Con- gress, in view of the new epoch close upon us touching our commercial and political rela- tions with China, Japan and all those Oriental nations lying along tho eastern and southern sides of Asia, and with Australia and all the countless tropical islands, great and small, of those Indian seas. In this view this Chinese appointment of Mr. Burlingame offers diplo- matic advantages to the United States which we cannot imagine either the President or Con- gress will be slow to accept. Christian Civilization at the Bar of Chinese Morality, The “Christian authorities” at Hong Kong have licensed gambling houses, and the Chinese moralists of Canton protest! So says the Heratp telegraphic letter from Hong Kong. “Riches and honor “acquired by unrighteous ness are to mo ase floating cloud,” said the Father of Chinese philosophy, who never ate a meal without ginger. As to his particular definition of uorighteousness we need not in- quire, for he is a philosopher who leaves us sometimes to do a little thinking for ourselves, Hath he not distinctly declared that a hint must suffice? He says:—“When I have pre- sented one corner of a subject to any one and he cannot from it learn the other three Ido not repeat my lesson.” We may guoss, there- fore, that the worthy Confucius meant that no man could substantially enjoy life on money not honestly his own; that cash not come by in accordance with the notions of fair dealing that prevail with the people is cash that can give only delusive delight. Confucius evi- dently intended to provide that “old sledge” should never becomo naturalized in the middle kingdom. He meant to rule out euchre and lay down the law against faro, monte, rouge et-noir, keno, poker and sixty-six, and, in short, all those devices by which money changes hands through some man’s staking his own in the dishonest hope that ho may securo his neighbor’. Hence it is but natural that the Canton crape philosophers schooled in the lessons of Confucius should raise their voices against the demoralizing fact that gamb‘ing receives the sanction of the law. Here is a fine commentary on an atrocious piece of sham. Our Christendom pulpiis aro eloquent against false gods, and missionaries without number are sent out to ground the deluded Ovientals in a knowledgo of heavenly things, and here, in the nineteenth century, those pigtails meet Western enlightenment with an argument against the degrading im- morality it not only permits but protects, How, then? Haye we no fine texts against this sort of vice? Plenty. Our moral law teems with precepts and commands that do- clare and threaten on this point. But hero is a little difference. Our civilization is eo fine and high that we value words as words, and words are but wind ‘Too teeble implements te bind, Our precepts are precepts only. Woe listen to the lesson and then do what we like, while thoso poor deluded Chinamon are actually trying to shapo their “daily conduct in accord. ance with their abstract notions of moral right. Much is yet to be dono in those countries, therefore, and we, ought not to spare our mis- sionary efforts. ARREST OF A DEFAULTER, (Feom the Evening ‘Neen ot vestertay.! Bostox, Jan. gen se awa Clork who ran away from Dor. week with op oa @ frail woman, bag, é