The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1868, Page 4

& NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSBMSNTS THls EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Iratian LETTO. Oraus—! OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Lirris Bausroor. NIBLO'S GARDEN, WALLACE'S THEATR®, Broadway and 13th atreet.— Carraut or tam Watcu—Woovcock's Lirtix Game, Broadway.—Tas Waits Faws. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Pxr or tus Pern- Coate—Famine Jans. by emmd THEATRE, Bowery.—Pemace Derective— Tust Bumsssp Basy—Bun, Tus Boatswain. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel— Grazers or New Yous. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. ‘way and 30th t.—licKur or Leave Man. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth astreet,—Granasrics, Beavesraianisu, &0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Hrovdway,—Haxtow Coxai- wariow TROUPE aMD Miniature Cincus. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRE (.3, 730 Broadway. —Sonas, Daxcus, Eoounrniorrins, &c.—Grano Durow “3 SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 545 Broad way.—Erato- Pian BHYRRTAINMRNTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUES, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowory.—Comia Vocarisa, Nuauo MiNSIRELSY, &O. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Baiixt, Vance, Pantominn, &c, BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tux Pucaim. Matinee at 2 STEINWAY HALL.—Gaanp Concarr. MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Srooklyn, = Tax Hippen anv, MHOOLEY'S OPERA MOUIE, Brooklyn, —Ermoriax Minwresisy, BALLADS AND BoRuesquas. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.—Ovn Amunioan Cousin—Focanontas. N Ladle Sek essen February 21, 1s6s._ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1868. a LD and by individuals during the recent revolutions. Re- Mabie private information leads to the belief that the revolution in Tolima is about at an end. ‘The President yesterday afternoon received, through General Grant, General Sherman's letter declining to accept the command of the new Military Division of the Atlantic, and that portion of the order assigning him to the new position and relieving him from his present command was revoked, ‘The Indiana Republican State Convention met in In- dianapolis yesterday, and adopted resolutions endorsing General Grant and speaker Colfax for President and Vice President, The present Governor, Conrad Baker, was renominated, The New Jersey Assembly yesterday adopted the reso- lution, which passed the Senate on Wednesday, with- diawing the consent of the Siate to the ratification of the Constitutional Amendment, Ta the Constitutional Convention yesterday several additional sections were added to the finance article and it was recommitted for final engrosament, as was the article on salt springs, A resolution was offered to appoint a committee of ten to prepare an address to the people of the State upon the proposed changes in the constitution, The Virginia Convention yesterday declared Mr, Mansry, the successful conservative competitor of Joho Minor Botta, ineligible to a seat, In the Florida Convention yesterday the late Prest- dent and a colored delegate were expelled, They imme- diately started for Washington with the constitution adopted b; ction, A negro mass meeting was held in 1 on Wednesday night, at which vio- lent speeches were made by expelled membors of the Convention, denouncing any constitution except that passed by the minority, In the North Carolina Convention yesterday a report was adopted fixing the boundaries of the Congressional districts, The only changes made are that New Hanover county has been placed in the Third district and Sterling in the Fifth, ‘The Tax Collector of the State of antes ‘was yester- day arrested by the military. He edie’ Wo give up the records or the money. A Cincinnati despatch states that navigation is now open from Pittsburg to New Orleans, Progress of Popul in Revol Ideas—England Agoia mary Action. No nation occupying a prominent position in the modern world has passed through so many revolutions as England, nor would any EUROFE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dacea yes terday @ ing, February 20. The Austrian government officially warns the clergy ‘against ‘‘fomenting discontent." The English captives in Abyssinia are reported in good health and “safe.”’ Bishop Colonso has gained his great Church property @ult at the Cape of Gooa Hope. Consols 93 in London. Five-twonties 72%; a 72%; In London, and 76 a 763; in Frankfort. Rentos strong and advanced in Paris, Cotton active at an advance of one-eighth of a penny, middiing uplands closing at 10% pence. Breadstuits quiet and steady. Provisions lower, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday bills were introduced provid- ing for the retirement ot volunteer officers on the same Conditions as if serving in the reguiar army, and for the ne'tiomemt of paymasters’ accounts. A bili for the catabliahmont of a national mining echool was reported. The reconstruction question was then debated at some Tongta, and, witn the onderstanding that the Recon- struction bit at present being considered shall be passed to-day, the Senate adjourned, In the House a resolution was adopted to inquire into tho receipts of Henry A, Smythe, Collector of the Port of New York, Bilis wore reported to regulate the dis- posal of lands granted to aid in construction of rail- roads, which provide that ali lauds hereafter Granted shall be sold to actual setilers at mot exceeding $250 per acre, the procecds to ve pad to the railroad companies; relative to the naturalization of sailors in the naval and marine sorvioos ; a large number in revation to pensions, and one for the removal of political disabilities, A report from tho Committee on Southern Railroads waa received, closing with a resolution, which was adopted, calling for acommittes toexamine into the subject of mail con- tracts and tne charges of corruption connected there. with, After some discussion upon the sales oi ten-foriy bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury the House went ito Committee of the Whole on the Army Appropria- tion bill, After debate the comimities ruse and the bil! was passed by yeas 67, nays 62 A resolution was reported looking to an amendment of tbe Iaternal Revenue laws, and the House adjourned, TH: CIty. ‘Tho Commitioe on Cities aad the Commitiee on Corn - morco and Navigation of the State Logisiature yesterday visited the quarantine stations in (he barbor on a tour of inspectios, The Commitise on Privileges and E1ec- ions accompanied them, as well as several other invited questa They proceeced in tho quarantine #8 Andrew Fletcher, under the care of Ur, Swinburn Red Hook. Quaranvine landing, 8. 1., and thence to the quarantine steamswp Iilinois, in Gravesend bay. The box point visited qagtbe now midwater station in the lower bay, which the main object of the trip, The committee, alter fully investigating the work, partook of @ collation provided by the Health Commissioners, at which peeches were mado. The National Board of Fire Underwriters held their Inst weasion yesterday, and adopted resolutions recom- mouding the appoin'ment of a committee to collect and collate insurance staustics, urging Legisiatures to pass laws punisbing as perjury ali falve swearing as to tn. | furance losses, approving of the working of the Metro. politan Fire Departarent, and requesting the abolition of tho tax of one and ahsif percent upon the gross receipia of fire insuravce companies, a committee of surse being appointed to proceed to Washington and iay the last resolution before Congress, A report depre- cating basty paymont of losses and recommending a rigid investigation prior to their payment was debated si some length and adopted, The time of aunual meet- (ng was Oxed for the third Wednesday in April, 1869. Tho caso of the United States vs. 1,209 quarter casks of sherry wine, known as the ‘great shorry case’ aad the counterpart of tbe celebrated ‘champagne casos," was commenced yesterday in the United states District Court, before Judge Biatchford. In the case of the United States vs, a distillory in Forty-ffth street and contiguous rectifying ostablishment a verdict was reudered condemning certain utensils to forfeiture, The merits of the caso being admittedly in favor of the claimants, thoy have applied to the Secretary of the Troaaury for a remission of the forfeiture, To the Superior Court yosterday an important deci sion was delivered by Judge McOunn in the case of Nel- son Smith vx. the Mayor Ac. The case originated in ® claim for compensation for services rendered by plain- Lif aa attorney and counsellor to the Corporation, which the Corporation refused to liquidate, on the that no Ppropriated for such object. ‘The lesue involves the constitutionality of the Tax Levy Iaw, The judge decided the tenth soction of said act unconstitational and void, and therefore gave judgment im favor of the plaintiff, Judge Blatebford will bear motions in the United os Distriot Court in Bankruptcy on Saturday next, ashington’s Birthday. The Distriot Clerk's office will De open. The jury in the case of tho people, &c., va Richard Casey, indicted for the murder of William Connell, in Bayard eirest, on the 4sh of January last, was dis. charged yesterday, boing unable to agroo upon a ver~ dict, although they bad been iu deliberation twenty-five boura, A writ of peromptory mandamus bas been issued by Judge Barnard, on tho relation of Frederick Creighton, & newspaper reporter, directing Cuaries Shurig, Register of Kings county, to permit the inspection of the deeds filed m ois office on the day on which they aro received if euch inspection is applied for, Tho Brazilian mail steamship South America, Captaln Tinklepaugh, will sail from pier 43 North rivor at three P.M. On Saturday, 22d instant, for St. Thomas aud Rio Janeiro, ouching at Pernambuco, Para and Bulls. The Black Siar line steamship Sontgomery, Captain Lyou, will eail for Savannah, Ga, at three P.M. on | “aturday, 220 instant, from pier 19 North river. | intelligence, existing nation be so completely justified in claiming that each successive revolution had proved a positive gain. The first great revolu- tion (not to go too far back), the effects of which must still be included in the positive blessings enjoyed by every branch of the Anglo-Saxon family, wherever in any part of the world their lot has been cast, was that which took place in 1215, when the privileges of Magna Charta were wrung from the reluctant, unprincipled, but helpless King John. To Magna Charta more than to any other instrn- ment are due the liberties now enjoyed by every people to whom the English language has become the mother tongue. This largo family now Includes not only the British isles, but the United States of America, the new Dominion, Australasia, colonies in’ Asia and Africa and in numberless islands of the sea. It would form, indeed, the theme of a curious as well as instructive essay, how almost all that can properly be called liberty as an existing thing in the modern world flows from the same rich foun- tainhead. The descendants of the Englizh- men of that day, and those who in any part of the world have inherited their principles, have never forgotten the rights which were then nobly won, and have seldom been slow to gird themselves airesh for the fight when these righis have been threatened or invaded. It is our object in what follows to confine our atten- tion exclusively to England ; and it ia not, as we think, too much to say that to the mainte- nance or expansion of the principles of Magna Charta all subsequent revolutions are trace- able. The revolution which took place in the reign of Henry the Eighth, and which is ordinarily spoken of as the Reformation, ranks next in order. It would not be difficult to show, though the interval was long between, that this religious revolution naturally flowed from the more secular revolution which had preceded. The revolution which took place under Henry the Eighth resulted in a larger expansion of the liberal sentiment and diffused over a larger area the love of liberal principles. The sne- cess of this revolution was by no means assured at the death of Henry, although his strong will during his lifetime was powerful in holding the reactionary forces in check. The reaction was terrific during the reign of the Bloody Mary ; but the Reformation principles which were fostered during the long and prosperous reign of Elizabeth could never again be overturned or resisted. Liberty at the ciose of the reign of the Maiden Queen was a larger thing in itself and rested on # broader and stronger foundation than at any former period. On the whole, perhaps, though no constitutional progress was mado, liberty was a gainer by the reign of the First Stuart, the Scottish “Jeames” and would-be Solomon of his time. At the time that Charles the First ascended the throne liberty had become a vast and powerful unit in English society. Intelligence had grown and spread over a wider area, and liberal principles had grown and spread with The English people knew they had rights, and they were prepared to defend them. Nay, more; the inactivity of James’ reign had developed grievances, and the peo- ple had become impatient to have these griev- ances removed. It was the misfortune of Charles that he did not understand the country he was called upon to govern, or it was hts sin that he would not understand it. With stupid notions of divine right, partly inherited from his father, and tollowing the advice of un- principled but servile counsellors, he set him- self in opposition to principles which for cen- turies bad grown with the growth and strengthened with the strength of the nation. He paid the penalty with his life. Liberty was too strong for despotic Charles. Whatever may have been the errors of the party who now succeeded to power, however the Com- monwealth may have proved a failure, this, at loast, must be admitted : that the people bad discovered their strength—a strength which had proved useful, and which might prove wse- fal again. The restoration of Charles was a re- action which was natural enough in the cireum- stances, a8 might easily be shown; but if Charles had been as opinionative and as aelf- asserting as (he other members of his House his reign would never have been tolerated. The trath of this last assertion ia manifest when | we remember the stirring events of the subse- quent reign, The conduct of the Second James proved that he had learned nothing from the misfortunes of his family. Blind alike to his | father's folly and to his father’s fate, and | stnpidly ambitious to imitate the réle of the MISCELLANEOUS. Py the arrival of the steamer Arizona from Aspin« wail wo have later advices from Panama aod Beliz the Colombian gover! ent Was @adeavoring to Tt wa war muaiions approptintod by the soveral Sines | Grand Monarque, who, by the revocation of @. io ‘ the edict of Nantes and by other measures, crushed out the aascent liberties of the French people, James fanned into fresh life the smoul- dering elements of rebellion; and the year 1688, with James an exile and a pauper, with 8 stranger on the throne of England, witnessed the termination of the struggle which com- menced when Charles the First ascended the throne, and the third and perhaps grandest triumph of liberalism in England. It has never since been possible—it can never again be possiole—for an English mon- arch to set himself, on constitutional questions, in opposition to the will of the nation. Much however, as the revolution of 1688 did for England and for English liberty, it still lett the edifice—to use a modern expression—unfin- ished. It was a revolution conducted too exclusively by and in the interests of the nobles, It introduced new elements which proved injurious in the last degreo to the English workingman, among which we may mention certain nancial theories brought over by William from Holland. The financial regulations of Eagland from that time till the present have had but one tendency, and that has been to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The landholders have more and more monopolizad the land and the bankers have more and more monopolized the gold. The Reform bill of 1832 partially, but only par- tially, cured this evil. It was a relief, but it was only a temporary relief. The new Reform bill which is just passing into a law is ofa much mora sweeping kind, and it will certainly work a more effectual cure. Much, however, as it will do, it is not to be consid- ered a final measure. Th struggle will go on with everincre ising force. Disraeli, Stan- ley, Gladstone, Bright and the rest of them, will be found too slow and will be compelled to give place to other and more daring minds. Liberalism will continue to be in the ascendant; the people will go on adling victory to victory, and some othor adventurous son of Israel may bave the honor of crowning the popular edifice, or rather of bringing to a close the fourth great Eaglish revolution. More Papers. The growth of newspapers in New York is something wonderful. There are already about adozon morning journals and we know not how many evening journals. One would sup- pose that the public maw is ovorglutted with newspapers, yet the cry is “Still they come.” Another paper, it appears, is now about to be started under the auspices of a gentleman who once edited the Albion—an Anzlo-Saxon journal of the purest water, the roflex of all that is re- fined, elegant and aristocratic in London society, the court included, with a strong leaven of English policy carefully intermixed with what purports to be American statesmanship, but the former largely overlapping the latter. The new paper is to be conducted after the manner of the Pall Mall\ Gazette. It is, of course, to be highly I:terary in its tone, according to the model. Mr. Younz, having recently visited England since his disconnection with the Albion, returns brightened up and polished, and completely educated upon the point as to how a good English newspaper ought to be con- ducted in America. Therefore we may look forward to a grand eclipse of the Albion, and the rise of a new sun that will revivily all the interests of Great Britain, Alabama claims in- clnded, under the magic influence of Downing street, Whether the new enterprise is going to be a success we cannot say, but as it is to be an evening paper, with an exalted literary tone, it may do serious damage to certain other even- ing papers which occupy the same walk in post- meridian journalism. Tux Boarp or Supervisors Hevpina Tirem- SELVES.—At the last meeting of the Board of Supervisors the principal business which occu- pied the attention of the worthy dispensers of the public money was increasing salarics and creating new offices. One would have thought that the burden of taxation under which the unhappy taxpayers of this city groan had already reached a limit large enough to satisfy the rapacity of the most insatiate municipal harpy; but as long as political triends and supporters are to be rewarded, and the metro- politan goose is to bo plucked with impunity, we must not expect for a moment that the idea of retrenchment will enter the minds of those who control the city treasury. Yet wo may come to the “last feather that breaks the camel’s back,”’ and the mountain of debt under which the poor, patient metropolis trudges along may yet overwhelm the parties who are busily engaged in heaping iton, There isa limit to all human forbearance, no matter how far it may be capable of being stretched, and the worthy Board of Supervisors may find their system of expansion perilous in the extreme when the unavoidable crash comes. DristORBANCES AT THE SovuTHERN CONVENTIONS. — Almost every piece of intelligence we receive from the conventions heing beld in the Southern cities conveys some story of turbulence and brute violence. The Inst affair of this kind occurred in Tallahassee, Fla., the day before yesterday. A disturbance took place in the Convention, a mere conflict of words; but it was settled after the adjournment by a physical force demonstration out of doors among the negro delegates, in which one man was shot anda good number were arrested by the police. This is the incipient bud and blossom of negro rule which is one day to bear terrible fruits if the present radical legislation is to be main- tained. When power is placed in the hands of a barbarous element of society what can wo expect but violence and bloodshed? It mustbe remarked, however, that the conflict in most of these cases ts not between the whites and blacks, but between the unfortunate negroes themselves, deluded and elated as they are by the possession of power which they are wholly incompetent to ure in any other way than in accordance with their barbaric instincts, Pressta ano THR Unirep Srares—-Trovere in Jervsarem.—Our cable despatch from Ber- lin which appeared in the Herary of yesterday, relating to the trouble in Jerusalem, we do not profess fally to understand. To us it appears to be valuable chiefly for two reasons, First, it illustrates the old theory that a woman Is at the bottom of all difficulty ; and, second, that a circumlocution government such as that which now exists in North Germany is in cer- tain circumstances extremely awkward. A beautiful Jewess is at tho bottom of the whole affair, Redross is sought from Prussia; but Prussia—whether from terror of the name of the great republic we know not—shifts the responsibility over to the shouldera of the North German Confederation. Wo may hear wore of she afar. The Western Union Telezraph Company— Rulnous Character of Ite Management. The Western Union Telegraph Company claims that it possesses assets to the amount of forty-eight million dollars, against forty-six million dollars liabilities, The main item in these assets is the sum of forty-six million eight hundred thousand dollars, which the Executive Committee calculate as the value of the telegraph lines and equipments, The balance is composed of such unsubstantial property as stock in their own company, doubtful debts and bills receivable, with the exception of one hundred and forty thousand dollars’ worth of real estate—mortgaged for fifteen thousand dollars—and one hundred’and fifty thousand dollars cash. We have already shown that the value of nearly forty-seven million dollars placed upon the property of the company is altogether fictitious, and that on a liberal calculation the whole of the lines, equipments and franchises owned by the Western Union are in fact worth less than thirteen million dollars. These statements do not reat upon mere as- sertion. The estimate of the company is based on the amount of the capital stock, which is forty-one millions, represented by four hun- dred and ten thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, This amount bas been reached, not ina legitimate manner, but by repeated waterings of the stock and the purchase and consolidation of other lines, sometimes con- nectng and sometimes competing, on terms enormously above their actual value. The company commenced in 1851 with three hun- dred and sixty thousand dollars capital and six hundred miles of telegraph line from Buf falo to Louisville, by way of Cleveland, Colum- bus and Cincinnati. Tho stock was watered on two occasions between that time and May, 1864, by doubling it up from three to six mil- lions and from eleven to twenty-two million dollars, the directors’ own statement being that this questionable policy was adopted to lower the then high value of the stock. Between March, 1863, and May, 1864, the capital stock was increased five mil- lion dollars by the purchase and con- solidation of the New York and Mississippi Printing line, which embraced the Erie and Michigan route, the Atlantic and Ohio, and the New York, Albany and Buffalo lines, consist- ing of less than two thousand miles of route. The stock of the Western Union, whon this additional five millions was issued, sold at one hundred and fifty to two hundred; and the price patd for the New York and Mississippi line was, therefore, equal to seven millions and ahalf in cash at the minimum price of the ‘stock. The real value of the line was less than one million and a half dollars on a liberal calculation. Instances of similar purchase of lines at prices eno:mously above their actual value are numerous ull through the history of the com- pany, but we need only refer to one or two more. The recent roport of the Executive Committee shows that in 1866 the capital stock of the Western Union was increased nearly twenty million dollars by the following three operations :— ++ 11,818,800 The issue of thirty-three thousind three hundred and thirty-'hreo shares of new Western Union stock to buy tho United States Pacific lines was @ gross fraud upon the stockbolders of the former company. Little or no work had been done upon the Pacific line, and very little money had been spent by those interested in the project. It was simply voting away so much of the property of the Western Union stockholders for the privilege of con- structing a line. The consolidation of the American Telegraph Company was equally improvident. The nominal capital of the American was tour million dollars, having been watered from two millions in 1860. Whea con- solidated with the Western Union it operated in all eight thousand seven hundred miles of route and thirteen thousand miles of wire, a large proportion of which was only leased, and not owned by the company. The actual value of its lines, owned and leased, at the time of consolidation was less than two million dol- lars, For that amount new lines throughout the company’s routes could have been con- structed and equipped, and yet to absorb the old lines the stockholders of the Western Union had to issue and pay out nearly twelve million dollars of their own -tock. These facts are sufficient to show how it is that the capital stock of the Western Union has been inflated to forty-one million dollars and to prove that the asset of forty-seven mil- lion dollars, based upon the pretended value of the lines, equipments and franchises owned by the company, is altogether fictitious, It has nothing to substantiate it and no foundation ia fact. Upon any such valuation the company is the merest bubble, and nothing but the most reckless management’ would ever have suffered an enterprise which could be completed and operated with twelve or fitteen million dollars capital to be inflated to the extent of forty-one millions, It is ques- tionable whetber the officers of the company had any legal right to make these consolida- tions, and their action certainly affords ground tor a searching investigation. That the s'ock- holders--every one of whom is personally liable for all the debts and liabilities of the company to the extent of one-fourth of the stock he holds in bis possession—have derived no benefit, but only injury, from the policy pursued by the management Is evident. That policy has resulted in destroying two-thirds of the value of their stock already, with the cer- tainty of a greater deprociation. Before these consolidations, purchases and watering of stock prevailed, all the telegraph lines were paying handsomely and making money for the stock- holders. Telegraphing then was in its infancy. At this time, when the business of telegraph- ing has multiplied fivefold ; when the press is paying an enormous amount annually to the lines for news reports ; when the gross receipis of the Western Union reach ten million dollars in eighteen months, the stockholders of that company, under iis present management, got not one cent of dividend, and the stock tum- bles down from one hundred to thirty-three. Tax Berets Arwy in Aprssinta—Ovn Spe- cra Corresronprnce.—The correspoadence which appeared in yesterday’s Henan, from the pen of our special correspondent at the headquarters of the British army in Abyssinia, sets at rest two questions which are not with- out interest to the Amorican public. It is no United States as compared with that of Europe, of the preas of New York as compared with that of London, that it is deficient either in enterprise or in literary ability. For the first time we now really know something of Abys- sinia, of the country as as whole, of its soil, of its climate, of its products, of its inhabitants and of their manners, customs and institu- tions. Our future correspondence is certain to be more and more interesting. Bla Tyog on Little Tyng—A Heavy Scold. Unfortunately for the dignity of churchmen, and even the respect due toward the Church, the great case of Boggs and Stubbs versus Tyng and Tyng was gone over again on Wed- nesday night in the pulpit, the orator being the father of the juvenile delinquent recently on trial. Dr. Tyng the elder had, it seems, writ- ten what he supposed to be a scathing review of the whole case, which he intended to deliver in court as one of the counsel for h’s son; but the court adopted a rule that shut him out He was not, however, to be silenced in that easy way. He could not afford to let his words die, His finely rounded sentences, his bitter irony, “his well pondered invective should not, as he fancied, be lost, and he car- ried it all into bis own church, and desecrated the temple of God by making its walls re-echo the utterances of passion and spleon. In the court that recently tried this case it went low enough; but in the pulpit of Dr Tyng it went lower still; for the reverend Doctor did not pretend to argue the case—he merely berated his opponent— merely indulged the instinct of a violent tem- per to revile and vituperate with a wealth of malevolent and vindictive epithet. In the course of many things bitterly said we aro told that “the spirit of Dr. Stubbs is not the spirit of St. Paul.” Perhaps this is true of Stubbs, and eke of Boggs. It may be that if Boggs and Stubbs were stewed and distilled not an ounce of the spirit of St. Paul could be gotten by the process; but we are afraid that even Tyng himself is like them in this respect; forhehas not that charity without which, if Paul wasright, all knowledge, all faith and all gifis are nothing. “Charity vaunteth not. itself ; is not puffed up; doth not behave itself un- seemly ; seeketh not her own; is not easily provoked ; thinketh no evil.” Suchis the true spirit ot Christian charity; and how much of this can be found in Dr. Tyng’s discourse? Never was there an utterance of common brawl that had less, Dr. Tyng leaves the world to hold strange opinions of the Episcopal Church, and would evidently prefer that the Church should suffer rather than suffer himself. He practically ac- euses the whole Church of mentacily. He charges bishops, pastors, laity with hypocrisy— with making an issue, no} to try that issue, but by it to crush himself and his son. Well, suppose all are thrown over on his word, and Tyng only is left; then, in Tyng’s own words, we find that he also is ahypoorite. Thus it comes to the point that all churchmen are hypocrites till we reach Tyng, and he is a hypocrite too. In the opening part of his dis- course he pretends a respect for the court that he does not feel. He speaks of Boggs and Stubbs as “conscientious men,” engaged in “the solemn exercise of a painful duty.” Do these words really express his thoughts toward those men, or are they only ‘hypocritical pala- ver? If these words do not express his thoughts he was not speaking the truth when he uttered them; and if they do express his thoughts, how comes it that in another part of his discourse he speaks of these persons in such different terms, as follows : “The prohibition of the preaching of the Gospel in a city in which they are appointed to minis- ter without their consent, assumed by these gentlemen as their right, when not a particle of mischief, inconvenience or disadvantage aecrues to thom, shows conclusively that this prosecution has been set on toot from personal hostility, from envy and spite ; and no mind in this community will be deceived by the flimsy pretence of @ reverence tor order or a care for the honor of the Church with wich they seek to cover it” Here is a point, certainly, on which Tyng on either one side or the other bears false witness, In this, as in fact all through the discourso, there is an overflow of ill-temper and wounded pride and personal vanity, but not @ syllable indicating that charitable spirit that “thinketh no evil;” and it cannot be that this forensic se-mon has im- proved the case in the interests of the Tyng family. If the Tyngs are no more reason ble than this people at largs will not think it strange that Boggs and Stubbs could not get on wiih thom. In fact, Boggs and Stubbs will have the popular sympathy if they can only induce the Legislature ot New Jeracy to change their respective names, The Mud of New York. A very talented modern dramatist, seeking 2 good idea as well as a title fora semi-sensa tional drama, hit upon “The Streeis of New York” as embodying the one and the other. The result of his labor showed us that, by a series of untoward circumstances, the most estimable young persons may be driven to starvation ani the use of charcoal even in this flourishing city, of which we are all so justly proud. We are a little sceptical about the correctness of this dramatist’s deductions, but do not purpose now to argue the point with him beyond remarking that the title “On the Streets of New York” would have been more appropriate, as that little preposition begets a distinction as great as it is importan‘, and takes the mind at once from things inanimate to people very much the reverse. For those on the streets of New York we are never tired of legislating, but for the unhappy streets themsclves it would seem that “the powers that be” bave no thought or anxiety. Whether they be impassable by reason of their icy covering, or the still more dreadful watery sheet that follows with a natdral regularity, they excite to the same degree the wonder of the stranger and the indignation of the citizen. A heavy fall of snow and an invasion of locusts may be classed together as inflictions of parallel horror, The listless apathy that dreads to combat with the snow could hardly be deeper in the presence of one of Egypt's plagues, and the idea of vanquisbing the former is apparently as far from our minds as the possibility of destroying the Intter could have Yeen from tho thoughts of tho ancient Exyptions, Sweeping @ crossing here and there and clearing the sidewalks is a feat only dreamed of by those possessed of shovels and the most resolute wills, while tho possibility longer possible to aay of tho press of the | or even the advantage of removing the snow from the centres of the streets and em- banking it at the side is a matter left for the consideration of generations yet to be. What little law we have on this subject must lie far beneath “truth” in the proverbial “well,” for the exercise of those statutes relating to the preservation of cloan- liness in the streets depends almost entirely on the interest that may be taken in the matter by individual policemen, and is commonly postponed fora more convenient season, Were it locusts instead of snow and mud some excuse might be found for the paralyzation that exists on all sides, from the authorities of the city to the governors of houses; but as we know exactly when the snow is coming, and can form a tolerable estimate of both how long it will continue and how heavily it will fall, there is no excuse for our streets pre- senting the appearance they do during the greater part of the winter. © Dramatic and Operatic Develop- ments in the City. New York is the greatest cosmopolitan city in the world. We have here large classes of people of all nationalities and languages, and they bring with them the peculiarities, tastes and babits of their native countries. The con- sequence is we have tho drama and opera in various languages and in every conceivable style. London is a village compared to New York in this respect, ond Paris, which has been considered the most cosmopolitan of cities, is overshadowed, This winter we have bad the Ttalian classic drama with Ristori, the German classic drama with Janauschek, the French drama, English drama in various styles, and the Greek or naked Black Crook drama, and there have been English, French, Italian and German operas, Now we are having, or are to have in a few days, @péra bouffe at the Frenea theatre again for all classes and particularly for the French; Italian opera for tho stock- holders of the Academy and the people on the east side down to Mackerelville ; Italian opera at Pike’s for the fashionables on the west s da down to the denizens of the fat and bone boiling region on the North river; and last, though not least, Murray Hill opera, or opera di camera, at Lyric Hall, on Sixth avenue. Such is the bill of fare in the way of amuse- men's which may be seen served up daily in our advertising columns—something, in fact, to suit the tastes and localities of all our citl- zens. It must be remembered, too, that this costly luxury of opera thrives here under all its various phases through the support given to it by the people alone, whils in the metropo- litan cities of Europe the governments have to keep it up by subsidies. But, more than all this, we are creating a school of music and singing which will not only make us independent of Europe for artists, but will ensble us to supply the Old World with «ll tho warblers of this most delicate and rara avis genus of which it may stand in need. We have sent the Euro- peans already Patti, the queen of song; besides Van Zandt, Kellogg, Harris and others, who are growing in popularity. Then we have at the present time in process of incubation any num- ber of the finest quality of singers, with some of the most accomplished trainers to bring them up to high operatic pitch, America bids fair to rival I'aly as a echoo! of the divine art. The material is here, and there are already some of the best masters with us to work it up, The opera di camera at Lyric Hall is in- tended, we understand, to bring out some of our native talent. In the performance last Friday of “Lucretia Borgia” Miss Merrifield, an American, took the part of Lucretia, and Miss Lindeman, another American, took the part of Orsini, The singing of both was en- thusiastically applauded by a full and appre- ciative audience. We might name a number of other ladies here, amateurs as well as those who are becoming professional, having the finest voices and best education in music. Miss Hauck, the pupil of Errani, one ¥f the first masters in any country, is well known as @ successful débutante in opera. Miss McCul- loch, the pupil of Torriani, another famous maater, has also met with success in opera. It will be remembered that she took the part of Adalgisa to .La Grange’s Norma in excel- lent style. We understand it is likely that Mrs. Lumley, the niece ot Mr. Lumley, the well known London opera manager, who has a flae mezzo soprano voice, may shortly make her début at Pike’s Opera House. So we go on manufacturing artists and bring- ing them out, both for our own use and the European market. But we are making great progress in musical art in other respects as well. We have some of the finest composers as wellas performers. We may mention, with- out being invidious, Giorga, whose waltzes are equal to those of Strauss, and whose other com- positions will compare with those of the first composers of any country. This gentleman, who is at present an organist at one of the Brooklyn churches, should transfer his labors toa wider sphere of usefulness in this city. In fact, all around us there is an amount of musical talent developing which promises to make the United States, and pre-eminontly this metropolis, the centre of this kind of art, just as this country is becoming the centre of trade and ideas, George Francis Train has not astonishe! the British more by his Young America audacity than we shall astonish Eu- rope by our prime donne. Sin Tue Canaptan Parat Zovaves.--The con- trast between the intense excitement mani- fested in Montreal over the Ccparture of the Canadian Papal Zouaves for Rome and their comparatively unobserved arrival in New York is striking and suggestive. Strange, in- deed, it may seem to us, amid the rash and whirl of modern activities, that even a han- red volunteers can be recruited in Cani at this critical period in her history, when sho ie herself in a condition to need the strong arms of all her sons, for industry if not also for de- fence. But wo can readily account for it if we remember how strongly the descendants of the early settlers of la Nouvelle France ad- here to tho old religions convictions which they have inherited, and how eompletely their minds are controlled by the influence of the successors of those zealous Catholic missiona. ries who accompanied their French anoestora to Canada. Moreover, the large Irish element, as well aa the French element, in the Canadian population has doabtless contributed fis fall quota to the gallant band who, aro hastea- ing to offer their services to the oly Father, We wish them all a pleasant exoursivoa lo Rome.