The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1868, Page 10

EUROPE. War Estimates and Taxation in Italy. An American Naval Lawsuit in France, The Revolutionary Movement in the Turkish Provinces, RUSSIAN MILITARY RECRUITMENTS, — ‘Tho French traneatlantic mail steamship Napoleon the ‘Third, Captain Lemarie, which sailed from Brest on the ‘Qsth of February, arrived at this port at an early hour (Yosterday morning, bringing a mail report, in detail of @ar cable despatches, additiomal to that published in the ‘Hizpay the same day. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia @ve birth to « prince at three o’clock on the morning of Pabruary 10, Contradictory rumors were afloat in Alexandria con- @eraing the conclusion of an important financial transac. ‘tron by the Viceroy of Egypt. Bussian vossels continue to transport Cretan familics to Greace. A Panslavist University is to be established at Warsaw. ITALY. SPECIAL MAIL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. The Financial Situntion—Provisions of the Budget—War Estimates. Fronence, Feb. 11—Evening, The report of the Committee on the Budget of Count Gambray Digny proposes an increase of the amount de- manded by the Minister from 649,040,264 to 730,228,344 dive, This difference arises principally from the expenses ertending the conversion of the ecclesiastical property, ao commiitee also prepose a reduction of 1,109,818 Bro in the administrative expenses and an increase of 2,250,000 hiro for supplementary circulation of treasury Bonds. The value of the remaining ecclesiastical pro- periy is exiimated at 1,027,000,000 lire, Tho cominittee Propose the institution of an Agricultural Credit estab- Mshinent, based on the mutual principle, and the aboli- tion of pensions, substituting for them a sysiem of yprvrate assurance banks, It is stated that Count di Pas- serunn0 bas boon appointed Prefect of Turin, To to-day’s sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the Gebate upon the estimates of the Ministry of Marine was concluded, and the House commenced the discus- pinn of the estimates of the Ministry of War. Tho Prefecture of Milan has been doctined by the Marquis d’ Afilito and subsequently accepted by Gount Torre. General Cialdini has arrived in Florence, Phe King’s Return—Naval and Military Extt- mates—The Income Tax. King Victor Emanue! returned to Florence. The Chamber of Deputies commenced the discussion @m the estimates of the Ministry of Marine, The first @oven articles were voted. Signor Danneo moved an order of the day, which ‘was accepted by the Ministry and approved by tho Chamber, engaging the goveriment to present within ome year an organized scheme for the reorganization of Ahe army. The Naziome of Florence, alluding to a rumor current en the Florence Bourse that the Minitry of Finaueo had resolved to propose to Pariament a retention of thoome ax upon the coupons of the reutes, says:—We exe uble ‘0 sinte that the Miaister bas hitherto refrained from expressing any opinion upon tnesubject’ Noto ng Bas been said by him to authorize these unfounded easertions. A Freuch steam transport arrived at Civita Vecchia to @mberk another squadron of cavairy for France. ROME. SPECIAL MAIL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Revision of the Austrian Concerdat—Ger- y Drawing Closer. Panis, Feb. 11—Evening, ‘The France of this evening says:—The negotiations of @asiria with Rome fer the revision of the concordat gmcounter serious difficulties Baron Beust has de- @mmnded the complete abolition of the present con- (@ordat ass preliminary step, but the Pepe wishes that % should serve as the basis fer the modifieations pro- paned. ‘Ihe Franee adds:—On the ethor hand, Prussia ts en- @eavoring to establish more intimate relatious with Bome, ani we believe ourselves able to state that ebe ‘bes taken steps to obtain the estabishment of an apos- tele nuncio at Berlin, TURKEY. SPECIAL MAIL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD, The Revolutionary Element in the Provinces— Russo-Servian Totrigues—Aciion of Fraucey England and Austria. Panis, Feb. 13—Evening. ‘The Patric of this evening says :—The news from Ser- ‘via keeps Eastern diplomacy in suspense. Woe believe ‘We may state that very energetic representations have gun been transmitted to Belgrade. Yesterday M. Cretzulesce, the Roumain agent in Paris eMeially communicated to the Cab!net of the Tuileries a formal denial on the part of his government of any Part cipation, direct or indirect, in Russian or Servian MMAn Bu vres Rogland, France and Austria are perfectly well in- formed of the character and possible consequences of Geese manwgrres, Tho three Cabinets are therefore ‘Beady to face any eventualties which might arise from a state of affairs the dangers attending which havo @lready beer pointed out to the Roumain goveroment, Couacil of Ministerint Representatives, * , Feb, 11 ) 1 of our eentemporaries anvounce that Djemit Paeba, Turcish Atnbassador im Paris, has been sam- Snoved to Constantinople, here the representatives of the Forte at London, Vieana and t. Petersburg are to The olject, according to those jourpais, is to ble @ conference, under the Presidency of Fuad a, destined to be the peodaat of that which was Beld recoutly ac St Petersburg We tearn from a sure @ource that Djemit Pacha was greatly astonished to bear from (he journais of his approacling departure for Con- = especially aa tie last despatches whieh he i received irom Fuad Pacha did not show aay sign of aiention, om the part of the l’orte, of calling together ors for auy purpose whatsover, ABYSSINIA. SPECIAL MAIL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD, Most of the British Transport ServicemAn English Onicer Suot by Accident. Bownay, Feb, 12, 1868, ‘Tho Times of India states auchoritativoiy that 238 ves. Pals aro employed in the Indian seas, and for the Abys- Sinian expedition, and that the monthiy freight, exclu. Bive of coal, is £392,000, ALexanpnia, via Matta, Fob, 10, 1868, Advices from Annesley Bay to the 20th ult, state that Sie bay was full of transports, which were lying idle, the bad weather rendering towage impossibie, Golone! Dunn has been killed at Senafe by the acei- Wenia! discharge of a fowiing piece. A great scarcity of water prevailed at Annesioy, and the daily ellowance was three quarts. Whe Line of March of the British=Commis- earint Adairs—Situation and Work of the Boldiers. The London Times has a letter from its correspondent Gated Jouuary 25. Heaith ana spirits of the troops ex- Sellent, The British forces stretch along a live about Seventy-seven miles in length from the sea, The writer depends for everything, except the ships on the Sonate arbor. er wae there ntry so unfavorable as thie for The very base of operal just be supplied Skb water ttom condensers and the shipping. Affaira, Dowever, are wuch more hopeful within our lines than Abey were abort time ‘The condition of the iand = ts datly improving. is uale ie being gradually overcame, The road to that jreee as being tapitiy made avaliable for wheeled Noaport, my Of carte bes already plied to K omay'c Ply of water a the Imdul wells— De Wire of 10 the pass—has bees doubled; and as Bore Wells are being sunk larger supplies atill may be Boticip ed. Grass is foyod near Senate, which the Mi and the cavalr; ¥ eee idle here, 4 * orses Dring im, for mo one is Bvory b.\ad whe cam work and eyery beast thet can NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. walk must do his detty labor for his daily breed, The obiel Kets the example. A telegram irom Aden, dated on the 20th of January, reports letters have been received from the ta, caphives daicd December we baving 001 very quick, Ibey were a but very much potted at Mintek, Privo) of $ having. alter being aciually in sight of Magdala, returned to is own ooun- try without doing anstking towards capturing it, Tt Temains to bo seon whether the Wagshun will attack Toeodorus or not, Ai tho time the Inst letters left Annesley Bay thoro Were one bundred and fiftcen vessels at anchor there, aud since then a large number of sailing transpor With commiseariat slores of every kind, have pas through this aed added to the number, Sev ral steam- 18 have towed sa/ling iransports down to Berbera, on the African coast (due porth of this), to load ap with camels, the tailing vessels returning to Annesley Bay under sail while the steamors either took back # deck Joad of sheep for the expedition or proceeded to Bom- bay for further service, Eeveral reconnoisances had taken place from Senafe. The treops were in excellent health and spirits, The Ainerican tube wells, it appears, are ding well; they were of no use in the piains, but at Koomayloo they have succeeded admirably, and clear, good water bas been obiained. ‘4 ‘Tbe communication at Jibbel Teor is still very un- certain, . EGYPT. SPECIAL MAIL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Taxatiou and Distress—Emigration to Syrin. ALexanpaia, Feb. 10, 1868, Great distress prevails in many of the Egyptiaa vil- Iages in consequence of excessive taxation. Many landowners are emigrating to Syria. Cattle are very scarce, FRANCE. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. United States Laweuit Against Bordeaux Shipbuiiders=The Rebel American Naval Contracts—A Constitutional Question at a Panis, Feb, 18, 1868. The action brénght by the United States against M. Arman, shipbuilder of Bordeaux and Deputy in the Corps Legislatif; M. Erlanger, banker of Paris; M. Voraz, engine builder of Nantes, and other persons, to obtain from them sums they received for building vessels-of-war for the Confederate States, has been tuscribed on the roll of the First Chamber of tho Civil Tribunal, but will probably, from the business before the court, not be heard fer a month to come. The umount claimed vy the United States excecds £319,000, A large indemnity is also demanded, ‘Tho defendants have pleaded ‘bat the matier, being a political one, concern only the government, and that the court has co juriediction int. The action ia based on the ground that tue money in question was national property, of which the Confederate States had no right to dispose, the United Stares having, by the constitution, the sola power of forining a maritime force, ENGLAND. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Lord Derby’s Resignution Advised by the Lendon Times=The Mysteries ef London— Street Aendicancy—Apartments for the Middle aud Ludastrial Classes—A Monster Iron-Clad and Another Naval Failure= ‘Theatrical acd News Items. Lonpor, Feb, 14, 1868, In a very claborate leader the mes of Wednesday morning argues in favor ef the resignation of Lord Derby on account of his il) health and the onerous datios of a Premier, The gossip of the London ciubs has long since declared that Lord Derby’s retirement was close at hand ; but whether the article in the Times is a mere echo of the club gossip or is inspired by some better authority remains to be soon. I beheva that the Zimes speaks by the card aud anticipates events and that the Promier- ship will soon be vacant, Who will succeed Lord Derby is an open question, No conservative nobleman soems to be credited with any special fitness for the position, The conservative evening orga2, the Globe, coptradicts the Zimes in regard to the matter, but I have usually found that concerning English politics the Times 1s gen- erally right and tbe party organs wrong. Witness the predictions ebout the recent Referm bill, when both lib- eral and conservative organs blundered day after day, While the Zimes hit the nail on the head, The indepen- dent rank of the great London journal and the social relations of ite cdnors give it marked superierity in all sucn aflairs. Scores of persons are coming forward with narratives of disappearances or personal misadventures similar to that of Mr. Spoke. One ef these isso curious that I give it in full, only prefacing it with the remark thatthe potice, it is rumored. found a sham meat block in one of the houses in Westminster which thoy were searching for Mr, Speke, and that this block concealed an opening large enough to admit a mau’s body and leading directly t the sewer, The lates: story, that Mr, Spoke bas been kiduapped by Fenieas, who mistook him for Mr. Hardy, the Home Secretary, is absurd, since ‘she two geutiomen do uot resembie each other and Mr. Hardy is old enouxb to be Mr. Epeke’s fatner, Here is ihe narrative to which I have referred. A correspond- ent says:— Between five and six o'clock on the night of March 2}, 1867, I leit the city in an emeibus, got out just before the Elephant and Caatie 10 the middie of the road (a: that lume there was a great deal of houraing up), gave the man sixpence, and received the foarpenco Out; the rest is bank, until about o’clock @ wan came, shook me by the arm, and said, “We are going to close.”’ I, heavy with “p Or some- thing else, looked up, and supposed [ was in a cofiee Sauop from one ygbt then burning Bod the wood in froat of ihe window. ’reseutly be cawe agen and said, “Yor jaat go, sit;”’ at whieh I got up and M of the door, 1+ being then quite dark, treet Jamps. Shortiy I found myseif sitting io a cab in front of the Eiepuant and Castio, diresting the wan where we drive m bich was cen miles a 1 got safe beiween four aad coid and snowing, paxl the mau, ¢ drink, got bis card, &c., reliwvea the of frends, bad some tea myself, wa: sick, weot to bed ™ an hour, and off to business as it nothing Bad happened, And yet, sir, Something very mysterious aod frightful bad taken piace; from tbe time | sot out of the omuibus woke in the coffee house I rewemoor 5 id watch, gor and siver near £8, all but Is. Everytning else was sae, My pocketbook, Hel heer sete m, jovi kel tot and clutues sate aad aot soiled takve ua the jnside of my coat cullar were some spots of tallow greang, as though my cou: Bad been off, and my ehuirt sleeves bore the priot of sone fair creature's hair net piain enough, | vad not drack anything to cause this, and had appatentiy oevbing givou me, such aa irits, Ifett Thad escaved with my life, and w ity I feitas though 8. id sei4) me from beviad, Which did ao: we @ week ortwo, For Wwirty ‘3 1 have kuown inch of the neighborhood. Oa that might Tl neve into any piace to drink with any one, and the mystery ‘always seems to me how with go slight afer sickness I was rendered #0 “jnstaatancously seaseless’ as not to know “bow and by wiouw’' I was led juto the place ia whch I found myself A rad ® about to be mace upon the beggars of Leodon, ‘ibe journals, iu ding articles, wara the public wet to give al wyvedy Oo the sirests, and she magisirates are di ail offenders, Sir Robert Carden, an aid rman who sent @ batch of eihty-oue vagabonds t risou (bree weeks « letter io which ho he trios of One ragged boy ba ot £40 4 year from this money, t be allowed to continue Ler imposition’ unl she bad bougit stock enough to give her £10 a ear more, When she prowtsed to rere, Begyars ure enougo in Now York, but no American cay furm any Conception of the amount of beggary in London, unless he bas been here, As you walk the streeis it seems as if everybody were avking you for pennies, and you are forced to yield to importunity, if not to charity, Toe Marquis of Townsend is a nobleman who bae devoted bitnseif to the task of arresting beggars, but ne gew few thaaks for bis pains and ws abused by the papers wh he bappeni Ket hoid of a sad case, Nevertheless ne perseveres, a he that he will clear tue streets now tl . Two years ago an at introduce the French » upon the su! ject. It will be seen from the following interesti: paragraph in the Pail Mail Gacetie that the idea has bee: adopted here, The Pall Mali says:—'A social experi. ment of wome interest is now being tried in Belgravia, ‘There are many people in good circumstances, bach»- lors, single ludies or married coupies without family, who are afraid to froe the trouble and expense of be- coming householders, e<pecialiy as smati Rouses of the size that would suit them are rarely to be obtarned is o good situation, even at a bigh rent, and who, on the other band, fad an irksome sacrifice of independence Jn ordivary lodgings. An attemps is now being mado— with what success remains tw be ssen—to provido ae. commodation for this Class romewaat after the Freneh fasmion, A large pile of building», exiled -Bolgrave Man. sions,’ has been built vn Lord Westuwinster’s estate, The jot singly of in suite as unfaruished apartmente, wa the liberty, of course, to furniwh and fit them up ashe peasos, The company provides all necessary wervice, aud (uere is acee room tor the use of the tenania, There is no obligation, implied or Understood, that the tevante should take thei the house; they are free to live just as they 1 4 can procure their wing, tea, ¢ 6 wherever they choose; im short, it is provosed that they bali enjoy as Privacy and independence as §if they were in & hous of their own, Much will, of Course, depend on the way in which such establishments are conducted; but there cam be no doubt thas there ie A want to be supplied, and that the club systeu is apne of unolui development in this direction.” ‘he Kogwsh have backed down squarely in regard to their sron-cloda. The new monster, te Heroules, wae jaunched yesorday; but ae sie is a broadside ship aud can carry only thepe days’ eoai, nobody bas any sath ip her. The Times of this m comes ont flatly in favor of the American turret tem and cails upon tbe Admiraliy to build scores of snon vessela, This 9 ‘Quother ‘eather iv the cap of American inventors. Boucicautt’s piay, ‘Lhe Octoroon,”’ was brought out at (be Princes’ theatre oo Monday evening with great success. The dénviment is vhan, now, and the Octoroon is kuppuy married of A new go be fight between MoCiusky and the Indian in the 0 brake, sensation of tie piecs. alr, Boucicault plays the with wonderful power. Mr, J. > Clarke appears us Salem Scudder, but is completely outacted by Vining as MoClosky and Mr. Leeson as Pete, A new drama by Robertson, caiied ‘Piay,’’ and founded upon scenes at Baden-Baden, will oe produced at the Prince of Wales’ theatre om Saturday ‘The taveru keepers in London are selling tea because the grocers wii! sell wines and liquora, This retort cour- teous might be introduced with advantage in tue United ptates; for, very singularly, the publicans gel! better tea than the grocers, and at lower prices. Indeed, the grocers are getting it botly and heavily allaround, The tore system Is coming into vogue, the already got into a squabble with wholesal dealers on the subject, half of tue grocers’ prices is found to pay well in the co-operative stores. mot Oi woapeteie Maw Xone me ug & few items in one paragraph. Menk ill leave for California soon, The Ox- ford ic Halt was burned yesterday morning from 8 cigar ight dropped the night before, The cabbies in- ‘end to hold another grand meeting, to protesi net cruelties from the police, Twenty-two thousand Irish- men—many of them named Wailker—signed the loyal address to the Queen, which was presented by Mr. Digby Seymour yesterday. Financial Operations—The “Winding Up’? System and Ite Fruits. m the Londen Times (city article), Feb, 13, A further tilustration bas just been furmished of the way in which large commercial defaults may be passed through ail che requisite formal stages, and thencefortn put out of sight without leaving # single result in the pe of public experience caiculaced to lessen the ances of urrence of guch evils The mercantile firm of Gillespie, Churchill & Co., which tailed in April, 1866, a fow weeks beiore tie commencament of the Qnancial panic, with lHabulities for more than half a million sterling, bas just declared a firet dividend of six pence in tue pound, acd the ther three pence will compl estate. ‘The whole of the losses were four years’ trading, and some informati Procoases by whicu crodit to that excent could have been fained, and the amount dissipated might have furniane @ lesson, 8.cd as in @ public sense uid have partly compensated for the damage occasioned. But noth of this kind iw te bo looked for, and the ease will merely be a sup- plement to that of Fox, Halliday, & Co., whe stopped im jovember, 1854, with liabilities estimated at two mil- Hons sterling, after having figured among the most ex- tensivo importers of East Indiam produce, and who jast ear paid nine pence im tue pound asa first and, itis eved, a final dividend, At its date this latter stop- page was of course attributed to the ——— policy of the Bank of Bngiand, and the refusal of ‘iogitimate banking facilities.” No history of the working of the house has ever transpired, al of experieuce on that head is concerned, there is Teasou Why a new set of uperators equally bold and fluential’’ shouid uot at any time repeat it Possibly an eiicent system for insuring fuli publicity in ail these affairs would demonstraie to the community that the crediiors, including Joint stock banks and uis- Counters iu general, wore quite as greedy and reck- less as the debtors, and it is apparently by this as- sumption tbat the anxiety usually observable on both sides to keep everything quiet can most easily be ac- counted for, f=} Oxford University and the American Untiver- * sities. In a convocation at Oxford University on the 13th Insiant it was agreed, after a provest from Mr. Goldwin Smith, to make a grant of books from the.University press to the University of the Soutnern States of America, A decree was thea brought forward to grant irom the University ctest the sum of £350 towards Tertoring tue buildings of tho said university, which were destroyed during the late war. On a division the decree was rejected by 63 votes to 60—three majority. ‘The opposition seemed to rest partly on geuoral financial srennds and partly on the fear chat such a vote would taken im America ag aa expression of sympathy with the soath, RUSSIA. Army Recruitments During 2 Month. A lever from St. Petersburg, dated the 8&n of Fobrua- ry, says:—The recruitiag for the Russian army during the last month bas furnished the foliowing results:— 92,104 men have been enrolled, and ef these 78,283 ‘were ever twenty and under tweaty-flvo years of age, and 13,821 between twenty-five and thirty. The mon enlivted may also be divided thus:—According to social @as:es—6,314 citizens, 38,390 peasants and cottiers of the crown domains, 41,867 agr.cultural laberers and peasant proprietors, 987 citizens aud odn»dvortsi (unre- ooguized nobiemen), 93 Moldavian emigrants, 181 ef the Priviloged classes aud 4,512 Cossacks of Minor Russia, According to their religions—$2,487 of the orthodox Greek Church, 4,644 Reman Catiolics, 2,170 Lutherans, 126 Dissenters, ‘$64 Jews, 1,787 Mabometaus and 26 heathens, According 3—55. ton mor proper, 2,167 trom Minor Rusaia, 1,167 froia Waite sting 209 Litbuantang, 436 Poles, \9 Eathou'ans, 107 Get nd, 420 Jews, 1,667 Tartars, 302 Circassias, 318 Votiacks, 47 Moidavians and 3 846 of various tribes, Of tne total mumber of recruit, 7,851 were abio t) read and write. Tue kingdom of Poland furnished 10,198 mea accord. ing to tueir retigions, which aro ded into 8,269 Cato slics, 662 Uaited Greek Churco, seven orthodox Greeks, 685 Luiheransiand 8 doubtiul, 1,029 of these recruits were able to read aad write, French Estimate of the Imperini Policy in the East—The Agitation in Servia=The Great Powers Looking to the Danube. [From the Paris Dévate, Feb. 11.) Holy and wetortunate Russia, more holy and unfortu- Bate then ever, has become, no one knows how, or at least these Journals comprehend nothing, an object of ‘distrust, or even, one might say, of antipathy to Western Burope, - Efforts aro being made to reuder her responsi- ble for the perils and embarraesments of the present political situation, and abe 1 accused of enveloping the Principanties and the European provinces of Turkey in @ network of intrigues, Nevertueless, Heaven knows bow incapable they are at St. Petersburg of contriving ery body feeis that the Kussian policy bad, as the phrage goes, ils heart on its ve, open abd nodisguised Even the amicablo relations of that Power with Prussia have been Diamed, as if friendsip wore not one of the ee.est and inos: bouorablo sentiments that iriure. ius we flud that not ow wpjust repreaches accumaiated against Ru: sno is even denied the Fr ef atender sympainy and the bosom of a true friend. compared at this momeut to those unlortunate victima @f judicial errors who have left in the miads of men tho painful reminiscence of am evil fortune as cruel as un+ Merited, such ts the style in which the principal organs @t the Muscovite press raive lamentations iu concert, 1 Journal and Garetie of St. Petersburg, the Kussian Cor- aud the Invalide Russe uli spoxkiog ia the saine tone, Assurediy we are touciied by these com- plaints, aithough they are vot entirely new to us; but taui iveling ought not to prevent us from cailing public a@tiention to the cubject. {From the Independance Beige, Fob. 11.] ‘The accounts received from the Danube are more and Wore coutradictory, The semi-oflicial journals contribute much to the contusion which prevails in the informa- tion given by the press on what ix taking place in the Prive: paiiiies Buojeet to Turney. Lhe Etendard, accord- from Bucharest, republisied by the er. bout which has alto been ad- ieged formation of bands on ¢ Roumain territory for the purpose of invading Bul- garia. ihe Patrie, on the contrary, deciares that, ac- cording to accounts from Beigrade, the organizat: ot such bodies of men continues, and thas all ievers agree in ind:cat: the action of Russiaa age Tais Metle note ts of the article, hostive to K aut to appear In Lae Const tusionnel, but of whick ao further mention had been made siace the pacific protestations of the Rus- Bian jouroa:s, Tho Correspondance Générale, a semi-oflcial Organ of Vienua, also states that the Cabinet of Vienna has remiaded the Roumain goverament of the responsibility it is incurring aud bas expressed the hope tuat it will bmmedsaroly disarm the bands now being orgaaized on its tarritory ayainst Turkey, There ts the same contra- diction with respect to the repieseniations addressed to Prince Michael Via respecting bis armaments, the wanimout in afirming that these ions bave atiracted the attention of the Powers, ana © been the subje ry energetic Topreseutations Th airmed that Russia bad eee ind ver, denios that jor Prussia rn Powers Those contradticiions ed 9 existence of trigues, of which the DVanubiam Priacipali theatre, by the fact that each Power is ming to further is own views and {nterests, As to the move. Ments or projects referred to, thers is probably a great @Xaggoration in all (ho statements in question, SPAIN. fuland Co Pol Law. pa Chamber of Deputies has a bm Against vagabondage, It deciares that ( lowing per- Persons thoi tachi wh wi hegittm jn any Seuae t the sole moans bavitually follow it up. 8, Persona withou means who frequent gambitng houses of otner pecied places Al eighieen years of age the vagabond is to be under the survoillance of the police, Above tiftt age he will be imprigooed fora loug or short period, wo circumstances, possess some property, HUNGARY. The New Lenn asd Mate RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ISMS AND §(HSM3. To ra Epiror or rau HeraLp:— The Swedenborgians hold free love in abom- ination. Lord Chesterfield’s “ philosophy of the vulgar,” when teaching that “every one loves his like,” was never intended to apply to religions, With a downcast modesty very charming in @ body so evangelical, the dis- ciples of Swedenborg accept, however, the soft impeachment of free love when put spritually. ‘The ground which they occupy between that sys- tem and matrimony is a reality eapable of estima- tion in terms of acres, roods and perches by & fourspole chain of metaphysics. A nice system of mensuration is, however, as necessary in that case as in the case where St. Ernulphus, of blessed memory, undertakes to ascertain the number of angel~shouris without pads, chignons, or hoop skirts—who; can dance @ cotillion, with- out damage to their wings, on the point of a cambric needle, “Bond” love, the Swedenborgians regard with abhorrence. In this they do not stand alone. Their inspiration does not recognize the gift of tongues. Their spirit-mates belong to another heaven than that of angels coming down to break- fast with heads wrapped in halos of curl papers and legs in clouds of rumpled stockings. They deny that, “like that of things, the harmony of sound” or of anything else ‘“‘from discord springs.’”’ While the Benedictine entreats his counterpart— Oh! be an angel at morning; But pray be a woman at night! the Swedenborgian holds his morn, noon and night to be an uncorked essence which goes plumpers lily, white and all slap-dash into sponta- neous combinations very much after the fashion of chemical simples.’ Certain affinities say the fol- lowers of Swedenborg draw the sexes together— an.article of faith te which so far we are ready to make affidavit—and whether in what the Yankee girl called ‘‘the tickle and scare”’ of first love, or in the more enlightened combination of the tenth love, resnlt, for at all events’the time being, in a unity of very pleasant concords. Esthethics and pathetics arrive at, wo suppose, the same thing in the end. Chernbim and sera- phim continually do cry through both systems and troop up and down them like urchins on the Elgin marbles, save that they kick unclassically in baby- jumpers, and grin less like little Greeks than littie griffins at soothing syrups. The glorious bond of board and bed differs in one respect from the Swedenborgian conveyance of those privileges, Marriages are, wo suppose, made in heaven. The record, we know, is kept here below—an arrangement convenient to ene of the parties when it becomes necessary, in any failure of the affinities, to obtain proof of the heavenly fact by subpene. The preliminaries of the esthetical fusion begin and end in heaven, and are all the more difficult of proof on the greund that they may have taken place in any one of seven! That the eyes of angels only should be looking on at the time would, no doubt, be very sanctifying if the affinities were, like those in chemistry, constant. “A-lnss and a-lack-a-day!”’ is the wish of thous- ands besides a certain India-broiled chaplain, whe drew his. pay in rupees. As these affinities are likely to expend their attractive force on any one simple after a whilo, ’twere a pity that a fusion of such delicious spontaniety should be destined, after all, to make the angels who smiled upon it as sridesmaids, spoil their pretty eyes by joking on it, in a few monuth subsequently, throug! tears! “Free love’ is regarded by the Swedenborgians with the bitterness proper to @ schism‘from their own body. In answer to an Anglican bishop Lord Byron said, “Othodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is your doxy.” The sarcasm is true in reference to the fierce jealousy of the love with which a man regards his own doxy when she happens to be a church. The case, however, is very different when, instead of applying to creeds, the answer is made to apply to warm, breathing, embonpoint creatures of flesh, radiant as rouge and bloed, ardent as brandy peaches. Whether in cassock or in breeches, a man, be he Swedenborgian ever so canonical, isin that case given shockingly to heterodoxy, to another man's doxy. Under the possibility of a mistake or of failure in the force of the affinities, the very erthodoxy of Sweden- borgianiam implies in itself a Christian charity sattenty dnck-tile to cover new combinations— spiritually, of courge—with some of the ripe and ruddy doxies over the way. In the more material mode of thonght characteristic of this country it is, therefore, not at all to be wondered at that the hair-splitting gathetiog of the Swedenborgians gould ane the naked form that they have received from the evan- gelizers who kneel down to worship the tough di- vinities of free love. Swedenborgianism declares itself distinct from spiritualism. The differences between the two are very marked; the mysteries of the one are, for example, practised in the congregation of a church; those of the other in the circle of a “seance.”’ And, mark you, differences not half 80 wide—we speak on the testimony of all the sec- taries—have before now sent, aud with the bless- ing of Heaven and a clear conscience will again aon) millions of our fellow men headlong to the evil, The Swedenborgians disavow spiritnaliem with an earnestness that smacks of gennige religion. Racy of the mediwval it gives out thus the savor of atrue church. Christians, in all ages since those very remote days in which they are said to have loved one another, have left behind them an exam- ple which teaches us to reject as a false pretence any “New Jerusalem’’ so new as to forget that its first, if not its highest, duty is to put in proof its own divinity by declaring all other Jernsalems, big ‘and little, old and new, anathema maranatha. Swedenborgian- ism, then, we have no hesitation in declar- ing to be, if not one of the seven charches which were long ago in Asia, one of, at all events, the seven hundred which are to-day in Europe and America; seeing that, in Ltda Be Sa ipritu- alism, it presents, in common with the whole of those seven hundred, that internal evidence which Bri Sheridan describes in an impious antithe- sis as‘hating each other for the love of God.” Swedenborgianism is not identical with the Spiritualism of mahogany. The Honduras raps fre not the spirits with which its founder held communion in his exquisite, though somewhat in- tangible, transcendentalism. Passed through the alembic of Bostonian materialism, through me- dinms who are seldom mere essences, through circles of Wallstreet brokers, New York politicians and broken down sensualists of hoth sexes, the theories of the great Swedish visionary have taken the form of a precipitate at once stupid and gross. Asachurch holding more or lesa closely to the Bible, Swedenborgianism takes higher ground thaa Spiritualism; and is, in all trath and fairness, not liable to have its inspiration put in question by the fact that Its m am has been degraded, in the hands of the schismatics, into jugglery or trick, whose Lindley Murrays are utterers of atrocious ammar, whose Noah Websters are authorities fr infamous spelling, whose John Miltons are per- petrators of cuters’ pectry, whose spirita gener- ally have suffered terribly in culture and intelli- nce by disembodiment, and whose heavens, ‘om the first to the seventh, are each neither more nor less than a paradise of scullions and fools. SPREADING THE TRUTHS OF THE GOSPEL. During the past fortnight intelligence has been received of the dedication of thirty-seven and the organization of twenty-two churches of different denominations in various parts of the country, and nine more in process of erection. Of the number dedicated nine are Presbyterian and nine Baptists. Two free Episcopal churches have been opened in this city—one on East Filty-fourth street, an off- shoot of Christ church, and another, with twenty- five members, at the corner of Forty-second street and Fifth avenue, At Astoria the new Church of the Redeemer was opened for divine ser- vice, the 16th inst. The Irving Episcopal church at Tarrytown, intended as @ memorial of Washington Irving, and which has been two years in course of erection near Sleepy Hollow, was formally consecrated on Sun- day, February 6, tho rector, Rev. Mr. Gilbert. tring the sermon. The edifice is constructed of blue granite, trimmed with olive sandstone. In Zanenuie, Ohio, a new Episcopal church, at $55, and capable of seating seven hundre: persons, was lately opened for Divine service. On the 4th and 5th of February, at Campbelltown and Corning, in this State, Presbyterian churelics, costing $11,000 and $35,000, were dedicated. The Firat church of Joliet, Ill, reeently dedicated & new house of worship worth $5,500. At Petersburg, Mich., January 23, @ church edi- fice of equal valuo was dedicated. The Lumber Bridge church, Robeson county tA was burned to the ground in the apring of 1805, during Bher- man’s march to the sea. After three years the 00d people have succeeded in completing a new use of worship, In Philadelphia, the 13th Feb- ruary, a beautiful Sunday school chapel, costing $50,000, was dedicated for the Bethany mission. It will seat 1,700 scholars. A Presbyterian church was constituted at Holton, Kansas, last March, and late in December its twenty-three members consecrated a house to the worsl ip of God. The North eburch, dilaghens, Pa., under the pastoral care of Rev. Dr. A. Hodge, dedicated their new edifice the 16th February, A house of worship just been completed in Solon, Iowa, at a cest of $3,500. The first United Presbyterian church of Western Missouri has been lately erected at Greenwood, in that State. Of the Baptist churches dedicated twe were in this State, al and Randolph Centre; two in Connecticut, one at Middleville, Mich., January 22, and another at Clinton, Wi the 19th ult, The new chapel for the Bethel ion in Hartford, Conn,, has been consecrated, Rev. Dr. Turnbull peceching the sermon. The Bethel church of arion county dedicated their honse of worship early last month, and at Cumings City, Nebraska, a Baptist church edifice has just been completed. Congregational churches have been dedicated at Castine, Me.; at Bridgeport and Traverse City, Mich.; at Wittemberg, lowa; Geneva, Ohio, and at Guelph, in the Dominion of Canada. Five of these seven churches cost, in all, $60,000. Three Methodist churches have been dedicated at Bainbridge, Ohio; West Union, Jowa, aud Inde- penconne, 'o. Two are in course of erection at jaginaw, Mich., and Waverley, Iowa. A new Lutheran church at Casstown, Ohio, was consecrated the 2d February. The mission chapel of the Reformed church in New Durham, N. J., was dedicated the 4th ruary. A new Presbyterian church has just been formed at Cayuga, Ill., by members from the church at Pontiae. At Decatur, also, in the same State, fifty-three members of the Old School Society have united to form anew,ciurch. At Big Rapids, Mich., a church and Sunday school, under the charge of Rev. B. B. Miner, has just been organized. Sixteen members of the Han- ever street church of Wilmington, Del., recently united to form the ‘Olivet Presbyterian church.” At the first communion nine were added to the number on profession of their iaith. In Omaha, Nebraska, a United Presbyterian church of eleven members has been formed. It is a noteworthy fact that of these five new Presbyterian societies three were colonies from other churches. <4 ‘The First Colored Regular Baptist church of | as Allegheny City was recognized by a council the 13th ult. It is composed of eighteen members. A new Baptist society at Chittenasgo, in this State; two in Iowa, at Grand Meadow and Council Bluffs; two in Missouri, at Greenfield and Ver- sailles; one in Lisbon, Michigan, and another near Huron and Kennekuk, Kansas, have been duly recognized. In all, the formation of eight Baptist churches is reported. Congregational churches have been lately gathered in Reyalton and West Dover, Vt.; in Frankford, Mich., and in Augusta, Wis, A colored church of twenty-two members was formed-the 2d ef February in Memphis, Tenn. f A new Episcopal parish has been organized in the towns of Boonsboro and Montana, lowa. It already contains fifteen communicants. About twenty members of the Reformed church in Montville, N. J., have united to forma new society at Boonton, and a committe of the Classis of Passaic organized the church on the 2d of Feb- ruary. In Saginaw Valley, Mich., and in Janesville, Wis., Congregational, Bapti: and Methodist churches are building at a cost of $250,000. THE GREAT CHRISTIAN STRUGGLE FOR THE POSSESSION OF THE WORLD. The Methodist of this city has an elaborate statistical article showing the progress of tue great Christian struggle for the possession of the world. It gives the total population of the world, as com- puted by one of the best writers on geography, as abont 1,350,200,000. Of these, a population, in- cluding the children of Christian parents, of about 369,400,000, sustains some connection with one or other Ohristian Church, and may be put down, in this sense, as the Chris- tian population of the world. The most numerous of the Christian churches is still that of Rome, which claims a population of 195,000,'00. About 77,000,000 are counected with the Greek and other Eastern churches. It was formerly customary to use for all other Christians the collective name of Protestants, but it is well known that a large portion of the Anglican church as well as partes in some other churches, protest against being counted among the Protestants. Re- taining the name for convenience sake, as no other collective term has been proposed, the total num- ber of Protestants is about 97,000,000. In the several large divisions of the world, the relative number of Protestants and Roman Catholics is about as follows :— Roman To'at Catholics, Population, 42,700,000 72,800,000 000 146,200,000 287,000, 4,600,000 789,600,000 1,100,000 188,000,000 Australasia «= and » Polynosia....... 1,000;000 400,000 3,800,000 Total........++-96,900,000 195,000,000 1,350,200,000 In America the immense majority of the popula- tion in every country is connected with either the Roman Catholic or one of the Protestant churches, and no non-Christian organization of either anci or modern origin has anywhere a prevailing influ- ence upon soclety. In Surope ene single country, ‘Turkey, remains under the rule ef a Mohammedan rince; but in the European provinces of the urkish empire the Christians largely outnumber the Mohammedans, and the expulsion of the Mo- hammedan sovereign and the overthrow of the Mohammedan political ascendancy have for many years appeared to be imminent. Whenever this expected establishment of a Christian country on the ruins of Sublime Porte occurs, Europe, like America, will contain none but Christian countries. e same will be, within ao few years, the conditior of Australasi: The only civilized States in that part of the world—the English colonies—are all Christian, and the pagan population in the small islands of Polynesia is rapidly disappearing, either by con- version to ‘istianity or by extinction. Africa and Asia the Christians ferm as yet only a minority of the aggregate population; but a look at the wonderful political transformation which is going on in both divisions of the world at once establishes the important fact that, even at this moment, Christian nations control the destinies of both Africa and Asia, and that Christianity and Christian civili: tion are triumphantly advancing most remote recesses of these countrie eat Powers of Asia Russia and England. he whole of Farther India is passing under the rule of France. In Africa the English and French possessions and the Christian republic of Liberia are extending their territory. Of all ‘the non- Christian countries that remain—such as China, Japan, Persia, Turkey, Egypt—not one is equal to any of the great Christian nations in America and Europe. In every one of them the number, and still more the social influence, of the Christians are steadily on the increase. EPISCOPAL, The American Church Union, an association lately established for the maintenance of law and order and for the promulgation of the principles of the Episcopal Church, has inaugurated a series of sermons or lectures on subjects suited for the day, The first two sermons ef the course are to be delivered at Trinity cuurch and at Zion church on the evening of Sunday, March 1. Christian Singers in Jewiss Synagogues. The Jewish Messenger of this city has an article in regard to the question of employing Christian singers in a Jewish synagogue service. It asserts that the matter has been clearly and distinctly met by conservative Israelites on the simple basis of common sense, and continu It is unnecessary and superfiuous to assert biblical or rabbinical anthorities on the subject; omly perverted scriptural texte have been introduced in support of the @nt+Judaic practice, and rabbinical jority is, on other points, disregarded and coniemned by the men ‘who have discovered part 01 « verse that seems to palliate such a departure from common sense and our veucrable custom, If, im ® Catholic church, Protestant choristers were habitually empioyed—if the jage would tolerate Hiadoo singers in their service, it might be per- tinent to inqeire, why not adopt alike course in the eynagogde? But Chi ol donomine- jon, are consistent enough to demand that all taking Dartin their ritual shali be at least confessors of their oreed—where(ore shall Jews atuitify themselves by having hymos and prayers addressed to the one God chaunted by those who believe ina frivity? That is the ontire question. In no sy: ‘ue io the world— Outside of America—do Christian part im toe eer vice, beyoud, perhaps, playing the org! ‘We are un. der no obligation to betra: Hous liberality can only excite surprise anda laugh from imteliige Christians, MiTHODIST EPISCOPAL. In reply to one who asks whether or not the “practiog of infant beptism is dying out of tbe Methodist Church,” the Advocate, gives the following official figures of ears:—In li e 863 there wer- 32,211 infants baptiaeds in 1864 there were 32,190; i 1865 there were $2,891; in 1866 there were 35,536; in 1807 there were 42,658. The number of infant baptisms re- turned last Te was the largest ever reported, presenting also the largest annual increase. ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Rev. Father McKenna, who has labored so untiringly to afford to the namereus Catholics on the east side of the town requisite accommoda- tions for attending divine worship, will open the temporary church of St. Rose of Lima, Cannon street, near Delancey, this morning at ten o'clock.’ The most reverend Archbishop McCloskey w: preach on the occasion, in the evening gran: Vesper service will be givea, at which the Rev. Father Quinn, pastor of St. Peter’s charch, Barclay street, will deliver an appropriate dise ete ‘Roman Catholic Council assembled at Bal- timore a year ago, aud took action in regard to coelesiastioal eaters, wich was submitted to ther Pope at Rome. Tue Calhutic Mirror announces, that in answer to the petiion of the prelates come posing the Council, the Holy See has erected nine new episcopal sees and four apostolic vicariates, and has appoiated fourteen uew bishops, three of them to fill vacant sees already established. besides one promoted from vicar apostolic to & regular Episcopal see. ‘Tis is tue Right Rev. Dre O'Connell, Vicar Apostolic of Marysville, Califore nia, who has been made Bishop of Grass Valley, in California. fi The following list will exhibit the names of the: new sees, or vicariates, whch have been eregt:ds and these of already existing gees which hive been filled, with the names oi the ecclesiastics who have been promoted:— 1. The vacant see of Buffalo has been filled by the }. pieph Vingeot igang) jon, new residing 12 . an, 2. ‘Ihe vacant see of Louisville, by the Right Rev, William McCloskey, D, D., rector o¢ the American Col¢- ' Ee by tho Right Rev, Tobiag ‘ne vacant see ef Erie, Loft li sburg, rected of Columbus, Ohio, " yivester H, Rove rama, D, D., auxitiary as been traus.« Prod. ¢ ‘The see of Ruches er, N, ¥., is filled by the: Right Rey. Bernard McQuaid, fresilent of Seton Halk College, New Jersey. fi @. ihe now sve of Wiimingwn, Del., by the Right Rev, Thomas A. becker, ).\/,, 01 Richmond, Va, 7. The new see of Scranton, , by the Right Revs! William O'Hara, Vicar Gevers) of Podagelptira. 1 8. The now seo of Harrwvurg, Pa, by the Right Rev. Jeremiah F, Shanahan, recor of ive preparatory semle nary of St Charles Borrome), J .ocess of Pbiladelobia, 9. The new see of Given Bay, Wisconsin, by the Bight: Rey. Joseph Meicuer, Vic ai of 3t, Lous 10. ‘Tie cow aoe uf La isconsin, by the Right’ Rev, Michaol Heisss, sec f the Bishop of Milk- waukee, 11, The new see of st Joseph, iiissourl, by the Right Rev. John Hogan, of Miseous 12, The per vicariate aposiolic of North Coraline, yt the Right Rev. James Giboous, secretary of the bishop of Baitimere ik ‘rhe mew vicariate xpestolio of Idaho, by ther Rigbt Rev. Louis Lovtens, vt tie archdiocese of Sam San Francisco. 14 The new vacarite avesiolic of Colorade, em- bracing also Utah, by the (iga: Rev, J, Projectus Max icar General of Santa Fe. * rave aportviic of Montaca, by the Rignt Rey. Augustine Ravoux, Vicar General of Paul, Minnerota, The erection of the vicrriate of Arizona, for which the preiates had petitioned, is delayed for the present, probably as premature; as is also the appointment of & coadjutor t» tae lamented iy Rev. Dr. Buraga, Bixhop Marquette, lately czased. Ns Desperate Fight in [tniy Between Priests an® Peoples A Venetian journal gives ihe following partien~ Jars of an alarming disturo.nee in Padua on the Bist of January:— It was iatended to periorm @ Ze Uewn in honor of those who fell at Mouiwns oa ine Pope's side. The Clergy were besily employed iu prepariug the ceromony, and the bells were set ringiag at au early hour, At noo op the 31st of January, however, ino sudents issued & manifesto invoking maledictions on those who should Tejoice over tne innocemt »ied which was shed on that occasion. At jour @ceck they mbled in the ¢athedral where the cerem uy wi and woot up to the priests, wio wet he appointed hour to bein. thay roared in @ manner that baile: description; tht ed, the curtaisp they did not make dressed some sympa students, which were weil received, but the excite was too great to allow the matior to tw tae They went in a body to the cburches of in Franéiseo,, Santa Luc'a, and others. At the seminary the matier assumed a more grave axprct, Here tue priests, arme@ ith candlest'cks, crosse#, and O.her implements which Sno. ot be distinguished in the dark, resisted and Ime flicted WOdDas 2 Soversi of the students, Tue ecole siastical students weie wrowea to pass by without imger.- roption, but the priests were mot 8», fertana:e for they’ were struck at without mercy. No fife was loet and ner serious injury was done. Tre only object removed from the church was a dvor, which the people through the streeis, The Temps of Vence says that an ecclesia addressed the peovle in the cathedral and tol them that the order for the religious ceremony lad come from Rome. {he Osservatore Roma: however, denies that any orier of the kind bad. been issued to the Ituliau bi-hops by the Pope. ir Apna UN.VERSALIST. The Rov. Dr. Thom's J. Sawyer, of New York; has gone to Washingion, D. C., for the purpose ef assisting in the organization of a new Universalist society there. Rev. J. M. Pullman assumes duty in the Charch. of our Saviour, in this civy, on the third Sunday im March, A local paper says quite a revival is in progrese’ at the Universalist church in Muncie, Ind. A number of persons buve counccted themselves with the church. The Universaiists of Springfield, Mass., co-ope- the Unitarians in 1 series of religious ‘or the million,” in the Opera House of that city. The Curistian Ambassador has an aversion to Everywhere it hears of extraordinary efforts to draw children into the church. Boys and girls, not thinking men and the conversion of iniauis. women, are relied upon to swell “the work of grace.” For exempie, in Dabnque, Iowa, of twelve who joined tie Congregational church, the average age of six was but tiirteen, the youngest being eleven and the oldest fifteen. Not a few of these childish victims of priestly imposition, ae+ cording to the Ambassador, will live to imbibe @ deep prejudice against all avligion, The Universalists come in for their share of abuse from other sect. A correspoudent of the Covenant gives an account of the situation in Mar- shalitown, lowa, from which we learn that that place ‘‘is in a blaze of fa-atical excitement conse~ quent upon the holting o five different series of protracted meetings, three of whieh have been in operation for a mouth. As msual, sectarian feel- ing is wrought toa high pitch, aud the Universale iste are assailed most furionsiy, The Baptist mine ister prayed that God would strike brother San~ ford, the Universalist minister, speechless and paralyzed. Another minster prayed th he might be converted or removed, each calling -him by name in their petitions. This course has re« multed in an increase of the Universalist congre- gations, so that their capacious audience room overtiows every Sabbath ALONG THE AUDSON. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD, Firo nt Fishkill Vilinge=Ten Horses Burned=Miraculous Escape from Doath. Poucukssrsia, Feb. 28, 1868, Afire broke out im the tivery siable of David Fecor, Fiabkill vista about ope o'clock yesterday morning, Betore the flames could be subdued the entire building ‘with its contents was destroyed. ei aes wore also consumed, The property was advertised to be sold tov day under achatiel mor gage and levy by Sheriff Kea, worthy, It was fuliy insured Some think it was an incendiary fire. A large barn adjo was also destroyed. ‘A miraculous escape from death happened on the Budson River Railroad to-day. As a (rain of gare drat the locomotive Albany was pi og northward the engine ly broke loose from the tender, when the 6: uke Sweeney, was preoi a, tated to the track beneath, With great presen mind he sprawied himself out and lay cage to ti when the entire train passed over Sys at im him, His escape (rom @ borribi indeed. y, who, it will be remembered, attempted to rob the office of the American Express Com| a Kingston, wae thie weok fouud guilty a oon te sb five years and mx mi 8’ imprison: .) Lefioer ts tytermes 4 it Wil . Sanders, the murderer of the Woodward J Orange county, Indians, has ‘orteited hie ball Deft for parts ungnowa, He wee under $25,000 Crm a thes. oa answor the charge of marder in the impined After the deo ory and ex to imp! Mmnocen: es im Be secure his own aq jor Rot since bee heard