The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1868, Page 6

Li) NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIUMM. «1... esecceeeeeeeeeee eens Ne. 71 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 284 street, corner of Bighth avenue.—TROVATORE, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sav. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Rosopr's Davcuren. FRENCH THEATRE.—Tur GRanp DucuEss. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrty DoMpry. Matinee at Lis. NIBLO'S GARDEN, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ROoRvare, Broadway.—Tue WaHITs FAWN. Broad- BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Matinee. ‘way and Thirtieth strevt.—UNCLE Tom's Canin. ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—UNCLE Ton'’s CADIN—PALE JANRT, £0. STEINWAY HALL.—READINGS FROM SHAKSTEARE— Morning—THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—GYMNABTIOS, EQUESTRIANISM, &c, Matinee at 2's. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Boston COMIQUE BALLET AND PANTOMINE TKOUPF. Matinee at 2. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SonGs, EoorNTRICITICG, &c,—U RAND DUTOH “5.” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN ENTERTAUNMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &e. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery. Couto Vooattsx, NEGRO MINSTRELOY, &c.’ Matinee at 25g. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, BALLET, FAnCE, PANTOMIME, Ac. Matin Broadway.— $24, at BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street,—Tur Pruerim. Matince at 2 MRS. FB, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— CasrK. NEW YORK SomENCE AND MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Ant. TRIPL New York, Wednesdny, March 11, 1868. THES NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, March 10. The N! ai Ratiroad, Russia, is to be sold toa Russian company, existing American interests in the line being protected. The German Zollverein has concluded a commercial treaty with Austria. Prince Napoleon is to visit Vienna from Germany, The Emperor Napoleon will, it is said, soon visit the Czar of Russia. The report of Mr. Lefevre’s speech in the English House of Commons on the Alabama is con- tinued. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday considerabie discussion was had as to regulations for the adm n of the public. A resolution limiting the issue of tickets to one thousand was amended to reserve the seats of Senators for their own use, and provide seats in other portions of the chamber for members of the House, and after debate passed. A joint reso- Ivtion for a Post Office, Sub-Treasury and United States public ofice building at Poston, and appropriating: $500,000 for such purpose, was passed, ‘The Senate then went into executive session..oatt* shortly after the doors were opened gy¢onsidera- tion of the Diplomatic and Ce" clay Appropriation DUN. resumed. tion to Ecuador was stricken out, and the bill passed. The bill to facilitate pay- ments of bounties to soldiers was passed. The bill for the removal of the Navajoe Indians was called up, and the Senate, without further action, ad- Journed, In the House the bill for the admission of Alabama was ordered to be printed and made the special order for to-day. Resolutions were passed in relation to transfers of real estate to army officers and to replace soldiers’ clothing destroyed to prevent contagion, A substitute for a bill to authorize the building of a military and postal road between New York and Washington was recommitted after debate. A bill for the sale of lands and lots on the Sea Islands of South Carolina ‘was explained and passed. A substitute fora bill looking to the continuation of the Freedmen’s Bu- reau for another year, the morning hour expiring, went over tili to-day, The bill to abolish the tax on manufactures was then taken up, ond section being modified so as not to repeal or interfere with any iaw for the assessment or collection of any tax which may acrue before April 1, 1868. The third section is stricken out. It was explained that the receipts from the five per ce amounted to $146, being so expensive it had been thought better to abolish the tax on all manufactures except oils dis- tilled from coals, fermented liquors, distilled spirits of all kinds, tobacco, snuif and ciars and illumina- ting gas. The aggregate tax collected from these articles in 1867 was $61,429,019. After discussion as to the reduction and retention of the whiskey tax the bill was passed—yeas 122, nays 2, The bill in re- lation to the rights of American citizens abroad was discussed, but postponed till the morning hour of to- day. 3 THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bilis were reported for ti preservation of order in public meetings and for relief against tllegal taxation in Roche and Mon- roe county. Bills incorporating the West Side and the Whitehall Savings Banks of New York were no- ticed. Bilis were introduced for an elevated and cor- rugated railroad and for the transportation of pas- sengers underground in New York, and {or the exten- sion of railroad tracks from Atiantic avenue to Pros- pect Park, in Brooklyn. Bills extending the time for organizing and to increase the capital stock of the New York Mutual Gaslight Company, amending thé charter of the New York and Bay Side Ferry Company, dud fof other purposes, were passed. In the Assembly the first business transacted was the presentation of the report of the committee on the Raver-Worth contested election case from the Basterv District of Brooklyn, Mr. Raber is declared @lected by ninety-six majority. The report was t tax on manufactu Made the special order for Friday morning. In the evening session bi re introduced to Incorporate the Clinton Savings Bank and the Manhattaa Under- ground Railroad Company of New Yoru; to improve and extend Fourth street, Brooklyn, ay the charter of the Mutual Savin Bills to incorporate the Eleventh Ward s; of New York, and to protect consume New York and Brooklyn, were advyanc reeling; and the Assembly adjourned tv Thursday to amend of cou! in morning. MISCELLANEOUS. The New Hampshire election took place yesterday and resulted in (he State again casting her vote in favor of the republicans, Returns ha boon re- weived from one hundred and seventy-five towns, showing @ majority for Harriman of 2,88. It is estimated that the entire vote of the State aggregates ‘72,000—an increase of nearly 6,000 over that of inst year. Advices from Victoria, Vancouver's Island, to the 7th inet, state that great’ excitement prevailed among the officials of that place, caused by appre- hensions of @ Fenfan raid. A gunboat had beon stationed in the harbor and a large body of marines placed on board, and the powder mawazine opposite the city strongly guarded. A despatch recetved in New Orleans March 6 from Jefferson, Texas, states that three-fourths of that Place had been burned. In the Louisiana Reconstruction Convention & was reported by the commiitee appointed to wait on General Hancock that he woul’, if favgrgbly advised from Washington, order an clection for the ratifica- ton of the now constitation. The New York Democratic State Convention will be held in Albany to-day, 4 , ‘The South Carolina “Reconstruction Convention is striving to close its business and adjourn by the end of this week. A radical member of the Reconstruc- tion Convention was arrested charged with perjury, the indictment alleging that he held a civil office before the war and afterward engaged in the rebellion’ He was held to bail in the sum of $2,000. The Board of Aldermen yesterday rescinded the previous action of the Mayor and Common Council in favor of paving Ninth avenue with Belgian pave. ment, A resolution was adopted asking the Legisla- ture to appropriate $10,000 for the New York Dispen- sary and $1,000 for the Branch Homeopathic Dispen- sary. In the Board of Councilmen the resolution to print 15,000 coptes of the Corporation Manual was passed over the Mayor’s veto. Resolutions to pave a num- ber of streets with Nicolson pavement were adopicd. A resolution for the appointment of an Assistant City Librarian was passed despite the Mayor’s dissent. A resolution authorizing a reward of $1,000 for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer of the Seventh Avenue Railroad conductor, Thomas F, Lavelle, was adopted, The Croton Aqueduct De- partment was authorized to pave Seventh avenue with Stafford pavement, provided the expense does not exceed $5 per square yard, The Senate committee yesterday proceeded with the street cleaning investigation. Several witnesses were examined, the testimony elictted being seemingly against the present contract system, and the com- mittee adjourned to Saturday morning. Two of the largest sales of real estate that have ever been held in this city occurred yesterday, viz.:— 246 lots in the immediate neighborhood of the Park, by A. J. Bleecker, and’ over 200 Prospect Park lots, by Johnson & Miller, The Exchange Saicsroom was crowded throughout the day, and prices obtatn- ed when placed in comparison with p value of the property sold a few years since, almost extravagant. Particulars of the sales will be found in another part of the paper. The New Hampshire Election. The republicans have saved New Hampshire, after the most thoroughly and sharply contested canvass in the history of the State. After the State elections of 1867, culminating in New York with her fifty thousand democratic ma- jovity, there was reason to suppose that the popular reaction against the party in power thus made manifest would appear in the elec- tions of 1868, The opening election in New Hampshire it was generally believed would settle this question, and until within a few weeks of the time there was a fair prospect of a decisive democratic victory. What changed it? General Grant on the one side and Mr. Pendleton on the other for the next Presidency—the one re- presenting the Union party, principles and issues of the war, and the other the obnoxious and seven times rejected principles and peace fallacies of the Chicago Convention of 1864. The battle in New Hampshire was adroitly di- verted by the radical managers from the great issue of universal negro suflrage, which revo- lutionized Ohio and New York last October and November, to the old. issues of the rebel- lion, upon which alone the republican party were sure to win, foathird | But has not the impeachment’of Andrew Johnson turned the eezie in favor of the repub- licans? Wetaay here be asked. We answer that the"impeachment has evidently been no draw- back to the republicans. But why? Because the democrats did not boldly and manfully mect the issue in behalf of Andrew Johnson. To be sure, they contended that his couse was the cause of the constitution against the revolu- tionary and despotic measures and designs of a usurping radical Congress ; but still, the demo- cratic managers and stumpers in New Hamp- shire were a little too careful to wash their hands of Andrew Johnson. For the work which he had done for them and for the perse- eutions and prosecutions which he had suffered and was suffering in their cause he was enti- ted to the approbation and admiration of the democratic party ; but still, he was not a Presi- dent of their choosing, he was not a democrat of their pattern, he had gone off to the worship of strange gods: they did not want him, they would not have him and they whistled him down the wind. This support of Johnson's policy against the radicals, while repudiating John- son himself, involved the admission from the democrats that he was not to be trusted, and so the testimony of General Grant against him had its full weight and the impeachment its justification from the democratic party. So they have contributed to make the vote of New Hampshire appear as a judgment in favor of the impeachment. But this, after all, was merely an incidental issue in this election; for this New ilampshire canvass was really fonght upon the broad and general issue of the Presidential succession, | Thus Grant as the republican candidate stood forth as the conqueror of the rebellion, the representative of the Union armies and the Union cause, the’champion of Congress and a sworn repudiator of Johnson; while the over- shadowing candidate of the democrats was Pendleton, whose record of the war was just what the republicans wanted. The democratic stampers in New Hampshire and copperhead cast, It will be remembered that jn 1862, in going for ‘‘a more vigorous prose- cution of the war,” the democrats carried all the great Central States, but that the copper- heads in 1863, assuming that they had don the work, forced again their obnoxions heresies into the foreground, and that the republicans sovered all they had lost and swept hing befure them till 1867, Then, upon issucs of universal negro suffrage and 1 negro political balance of power, tide in the Central States was turned againet the dowinant party once more, Butogain the repulsive outcroppings of cop- perheadisin react in fayor of the radicals, ‘and thus New Hompshire opens the Presidential campaign This result in New Hampshire, therefore, copperheads have erippled the democracy the name of G trant as the Presidential can- didate of the icans has been a tower of strength to their State ticket; that the im- peachment of Andrew Johnson has not hurt them, and has perplexed the opposition, and that the best thing thet Mr. Johnson can now do to save himself is to resign his office and let the radicals have full swing in the Executive as in the Legislative Department, in order that the country may be fully enlightened as to their schemes aad purposes. Give them full scope and they may yet work ont the provlem of thelr owh dcstrtetion before November, espe- | cially with “Old Ben Wade” as pro tem, Prost- dent of the United States. could depend for success and upon which they | their speeches were also too much of tie old | leads us to these conclusions :—That while the | The Politica) and Financial Deadlock in Congress. No lost traveller in the deep snows of the Alps or the Sierra Nevada was ever more bewildered than Congress is, both with regard to political affairs and the national finances. As tothe former, the radical majority know not which way to turn. They have devoted the time which should have been spent in legislating for the welfare of the country to measures for perpetuating their party power. The whole scope of their legislation, in the Reconstruction acts, in imposing disabilities on the white people of the South, in elevating the semi-barbarous negroes to political supre- macy, in stripping the Executive of all power, in establishing a military despotism over the Southern States, in the impeachment of the President, and in all their other acts, there has been but one object, and that is, to seize and hold all the powers and spoils of govera- ment—to perpetuate the rule of a radical faction in spite of the will of the people. But they see by the elections that have been taking place in every section of the country for some time past that public sentiment is against them, and they are greatly perplexed. They cannot recede, for they have gone too far, and, though afraid of the consequences of proceed- ing farther in their revolutionary course, they plunge into the most desperate measures as the last and only hope of saving themselves, To stop will be ruin and to go on will be ruin. The conservative portion of the dominant parly is disposed to go no farther, and would rather retrace its steps; the ultra radicals are deter- mined and desperate, and are making every effort to drive their timid colleagues to ex- tremes; while the democratic members are powerless, Such is the deadlock in political matters at which Congress has arrived. The situation with regard to financial ques- tions is much the same, only they have no party character; parties have not taken ground upon them. Indeed, Congress and the parties in Congress are all at sea about the finances, cur- rency, banks and debt. Hardiy a day passes that some proposition is not made in the Senate or House of Representatives to doctor the finances, but the greater part of them are but quack prescriptions. Almost every member deems it necessary to offer his nostrums, yet scarcely one knows anything about either the disease or the nature of the remedy pro- posed. Never before was the legislative body of a great nation so divided and bewildered on such questions, Up to the present time these questions have assumed more of a sectional than a party character, and yet not altogether sectional; for we sec such great leaders of the dominant party as Thad Stevens and Ben Butler from the -Atlantic States taking as broad ground on the currency question and the paymént of the debt in green- backs as the Western members of both parties. Still, in a general way, both the democrats and republicans of the Eastern and Central States, where capital is mostly concentrated, are in favor of a contraction of the currency, of forcing specie payments, of paying the five- twenties in gold, and of the bondholding and national bank interests, while generally both parties in the West are for an expanded cur- rency and payment of the debt in legal tenders. There is, in fact, a perfect deadlock among the representatives in Congress on all the ques- tions pertaining to the national finances, There are no leading minds, no statesmen of compre- hensive financial views to propose such measures as any party can rally on or upon which the majority could agree. The tendency is, however, to the broadest and most liberal measures, so far as the inte- rests of the taxpaying masses are concerned. The premature and Shylock demand of the bondholders to be paid the full face of their bonds in gold, whether so j expressed or not, has aroused widespread opposition. The efforts of these bondholders to contract the currency and force specie pay- ments, in order to increase their own wealth thirty to forty per cent and to keep up for all time to come the burden of an enormous debt on the productive industry of the working classes, have alarmed the people. They natu- rally look to the amount given for these bonds, not on the whole more than fifty to sixty per cent in gold, perhaps, and ask why they should be called to pay a hundred. They want to know why there should be one rale of pay- ment for the bondholders and another for all ihe rest of the community. Let these bond- holding Shylocks demand their pound of flesh, let them demand the full face of their bonds, no matter how their victims bleed; but let them beware of the fate of Shylock, who lost all his money. The significant vote in the | House of Representatives on Monday on Mr. Burr's resolution declaring ‘‘ that sownd finan- cial policy requires the gradual withdrawal of the interest-bearing bonds and the substitution therefor of greenbacks” ought to be a warning to the exacting bondholders, When Mr, Spald- ing moved to lay this resolution on the table the vote stood sixty-five to fifty-five against | tabling it; that is, there was a majority of ten against the bondholders’ attempt to smother the resolution. But this is only one of many incidents in Congress, significant as it is, showing the growing tendency | to repudiate the greedy claims of the bond- holders, Let them howare how they ggt lest a more sweeping repudiation should follow. | The heavily burdened taxpayers wiil not be trifled with or bend to unreasonable exactions. The bondbolders must he’ as well ae others to relieve the country of the weight of our stupendous debt, or they may meet the fate of Shylock. Mr. MeCullocu hes been the moct active agent in the bondholding int t, but we rather think, looking at the curvent of public } sentiment, that he has been its worst enemy. From the statement of the public debt just published it appears that he has increased the coin bearing debt in the course of one year over four hundyed and sixty millions, and has reduced the debt bearing currency interest in © corresponding proportion; while, aa we all know, he stupidly made the greatest efforts in reducing the legal tender debt, which bears no interest and is no burden at all. How many millions he has paid to Jay Cooke or others for making these changes, which only increase the weight of the debt, we do not know. His absurd and disastrous manipulation of the debi fad dost the couniry ah cdormous amount and is fast leading us to ropudiation or some other terrible financial catastrophe. Which- ever way we look, whether to Congress and eevee COOL LN a eee NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH i, 1868-TRIPLE. SHEET. the administration of the Treasury Department or to the demands of the bondholding capital- ists, we see nothing but incapacity a-.d ruinous exactions upon the industry of the country. The Impeachment—Mr. Johnsons Course of Action. Tt seems to be the universal opinion at Wash- ington that the impeachment trial of President Johnson will end in his condemnation and removal.- This result is believed to be certain, not upon the weight of the charges against the accused, but simply because the acquittal of Andrew Johnson will be the condemnation of the republican party out of its own mouth. He must be sacrificed to save the party from imme- diate demoralization and dissolution. What, then, is the course which he should pursue in regard to this trial? It is given out tnat through his counsel he will first declare his readiness to. go on at once with the trial; secondly, that he will object to every Senator asa juror who has pronounced a judgment already upon his case; thirdly, that he will object to being tried before a Senate in which ten Stutes have no representation; and that, lastly, in being overruled on these-points, as he will be, Mr. Johnson will ‘firmly refuse to proceed with his trial, asserting that in such a court justice cannot be done him, and will then hand in his resignation and appeal directly to the people to sustain him against the radical House by which he has been impeached, the radical Senate before which he has been called to answer as a prisoner at the bar, and against the republican party at large and its revolu- tionary measures and schemes.” Such, it is reported, is the course which Mr. Johnson has concluded to pursue, It will give him the opportunity to place upon the record of the court his justification of the acts for which he stands indicted, his objections to his judges and jury, and his opinion of the incom- pleteness of the tribunal in which ten States have no voice. It strikes us, however, that all this can be done in a resignation of his office at once, embracing the reasons for the step. The resignation would doubtless be at once accepted and the indictment quashed. This proceeding, perhaps, would involve an import- ant gain of valuable time to the radicals; but in this view the margin of time gained would be of greater importance to Mr. Johnson. As regards the Presidential contest, the republican candidate is already as good as nominated, and Grant is the man, The democrats are all adrift; but they are busy in the work of com- paring notes between this man, that man and the other. This is the time, therefore, for a movement. on the part of Mr. Johnson which will cause the democratic managers to consider his claims; and in giving up, his office and appealing from the Senate to the people he would compel the democratic managers to make his vindication, his policy and his cause in the Presidential fight; their cause against this radi- cal Congress and the party of which it is the embodiment. In this view time is everything to Mr. Johnson; for he may lose his last chance by delay. Curious Evidence About Cleaning the Streets. While we do not think that the investigation of the Senatorial Committee upon the condi- tion of the streets will-exercise many beneficial effects, it has certainly elucidated some curious evidence that may account for the unsgatis- factory manner in which one important branch of our sanitary affairs is attended to. Mr. Jackson S. Schultz, for instance, ex-President of the Board of Health, stated that in his opinion no contract could be drawn up by which the streets of New York could be kept clean under all circumstances; that no use of words could bind the contractor to any bargain which might not be violated under various conditions of weather, sickness, epidemics, and so forth. It is not the first time that similar views have been expressed, nor are we without examples that the contract system has failed to give us clean streets... But why should it be so? Why should this city be in a worse plight than any other; with all its facilities for being clean and the liberal outlay which the people do not grumble to make? It must be becanse corrup- tion so thoroughly pervades all public depart- ments that no confidence can be reposed in any quarter. Mr. Whiting is anxious to give up his contract because it does not pay him and because his. family are annoyed. Very good reasons. It certainly does not pay the city to make what appeared to be a liberal contract and yet have impassable streets. The remedy which Mr. Schultz proposes is that the Commissioners of Police should be empowered to keep the streets clean through the large force of policemen at their command, who could act as inspectors, and being always on the spot would be in a position to exercise a constant supervision over the sub-contract- ors, workmen, carts, horses, dirty streets and all. Perhaps they could; but have not the police enough to do already? It is their duty, we believe, to see that the city ordi- nances against placing obstructions on the sidewalks are observed and to enter com- plaints against those who violate them; yet the sidewalks are constantly blocked up with bales, barrels, rubbish, and often more offensive material, for doys together, and nobody seems to take the trouble to remove them, Though the police may have the best opportunities to observe the filthy condition of the streets, it does not follow that they would desire to improve it by any active exertions on thoir part. Many other suggestions were made also about the use of Croton water, and so forth; but we do not see any reason to hope for better things from the labors of the Senatorial Committee, Our streets have been taking care of themselves for a long time, with the occasional assistance of a shower of rain, Now, we presume, they must depend for im- provement upon a good thaw and a kind Provi- dence. TisxNesske—Roum anp RaproarisM.—There is a whiskey rebellion in East Tennessee, So strong and determined is the resistance tothe revenue authorities that the collector has to call upon the military, and the tax can only be gathered with the assistance of cavalry. At the same time the elections in the county in which this whiskey strife rages show the only strong radical majorities that have been heard of for & year or so, Republican majorities and resistance to law are thus seen to go together, | and despite the canting notion that that party The Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, in attaining the object of his ambition, the Pre- miership of England, has not found his new po- sition, proud and enviable as it is, altogether a bed of roses. It would have been strange, in- deed, if he had. Disraeli, we may rest assured, is neither disappointed nor made unhappy by the furious storm that rages around him. His is the coolest and most indifferent, as well as the most daring and ambitious brain in either house of the English Parliament at the present moment, * It is not the less to be denied, however, that Lord Derby has left to his successor in office a sufficiently Herculean task. There are Scotch reform bills and Irish reform bills, bribery bills, Church rate bills, education bills, pub- lic school bills, with all their accompanying difficulties, Reform is the watchword of the hour, and it remains to be seen whether Dis- racli can prove himself equal to the situation or whether it will be necessary for him to yield up his place to some more fortunate rival. The Scotch reform bill has been introduced. Its provisions are substantially the same with that whieh has been passed for England. In boroughs every householder rated and paying rates is to have a vote. The lodger franchise is omitted because, in the opinion of the gov- ernment, the system of registration in Scot- land renders it unnecessary ; but if the Scotch members think differently a lodger clause will be introduced. In counties there will be an ownership franchise of five pounds clear yearly value and an occupation franchise of twelve pounds rating. It is proposed to give to Scot- land seven additional members, the number of members in the House of Commons being to that extent increased. Of these seven mem- bers two are to be allotted to the Scotch Uni- versities, three to the counties of Ayr, Aber- deen and Lanark, one to the city of Glasgow and the seventh to a new group of boroughs, ; To the bill ag it stands the Scotch members have two very serious objections. The first is that the new grouping of boroughs is a practi- cal gutting of the counties—a robbing of them of what liberal elements they have and leaving them entirely in the hands of the tory land- lords, In this they discover a Disraeli trick— a liberal concession in the interest of the tories. The second is, that in place of re- ceiving seven additional members Scotland onght to receive twenty-five. In addition to these local objections to the bill there is a gen- eral objection that the membership of the House of Commons is already greatly too large, that it ought to be diminished rather than increased and that to increase it would establish a dangerous precedent. The House of Commons is already the largest legislative body in the world, numbering as it does six hundred and fifty-eight members. When it is remembered that in the United States Congress there are only two hundred and sixty-one mem- bers, in the lower French Chamber three hun- dred and seventy-six and in the Parliament of the North German Confederation two hundred and eighty, it is not much to be wondered at that it should be urged that the balance of expediency is rather in favor of reduction than | of increase. Such is the portion of work which Scotland gives to the new Premier. Not to speak of the various English ques- tions which loudly demand solution, what shall we say of Ireland, with its unsuppressed Feniauism, with its suspension of the Habeas Corpus law, with its prospective reform bill, with its Church and land tenure difficulties, with its numerous and contradictory remedies, from that of Earl Russell down to that of John Stuart Mill, and with its other thousand and one questions, all of which must in some form be setiled before the inhabitants of the Green Isle can be expected to settle down into a condition that shall promise lasting peace and prosperity? We have already had by telegram outlines of reform which Mr. Disraeli is disposed to grant to Ireland. Whether his means of cure shall be acceptable we must wait to see. Meanwhile, it is well to remember that so far as Disraeli is himself concerned he is the last man likely to fail through want of knowledge of the actual requirements of Ireland. So far back as 1844, a3 Earl Russell in his recent letter reminds him, he uttered the following remarkable sen- tences:—‘‘ That dense population (the Irish), in extreme distress, inhabited an island where there was an established Church which was not their Church, and a territorial aristocracy the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absen- tee aristocracy and an alien Charch, and, ia addition, the weakest Executive in the world. That was the [rish question. Well, then, what would honorable gentlemen say if thoy were reading of a country in that position ? They would say at once the remedy is revolu- tion, But the Irish could not have a revolu- tion; and why? Because Ireland was con- nected with another and more powerful coun- try. Then what was the cunsequence? The connection with England thus became the cause of the present state of Ireland. If the connection with England prevented a revolu- tion, and a revolution were the only remedy, England logically was in the odious position of being the éanse of all tho mis¢ry in Ireland. What, then, was the duty of an English Minister? To effect by his policy all those changes which a revolution would do by force. That was the Irish question in its integrity, * * * The moment they had a strong Executive, a just administration and ecclesiastical equality they would have order in Ireland, and the improvement of the physical condition of the people would follow.” If Mr. Disraeli will follow out this policy—and the present is a favorable opportunity for doing it—Ireland may be saved to the British Crown, If he will not do so, or if he fuils in the attempt for the want of sufficient support, no other proving equal to the task, the best thing the Jrish can do is to emigrate en masse to the United States. Hero there is room for them all. Looking, however, at all the facts of the case, taking into consideration the troubled condition of the three kingdoms, with a due regard to their external difficulties, and not forgetting Disracli’s antecedents, we are by no means without faith that he will prove equal to the occasion and thag he will leave an impress has all the morality there is scen tobe an | on the Pritish constitution moro visible, unequivocal relationship hetween free rum and | deeper and morg enduring than that made by roaring radicalism any statosmpa since 1668 ‘ its rival in Irving place, where hundreds of voices are entombed forever. A promising débitt will take place at Pike's to-night, Madame Eliza Lumley, sister of the well known London impresario, will appear in “Il Trovatore,” as Azucena, for the first time in opera in America. She comes with many flattering endorsementa of her abilities by the European public and press, and in Italy and London her success was. of a character which must at least excite atten- tion and interest in her American déblt to-night.. The part of the gypsy in the “‘Trovatore” is one well calculated to display the singing and acting abilities of 4 contralto; and as the management has already surprised and gratified us with such an artist as Madame States there is every reason to hope for similar surprise in the contralto line. If Messrs, Pike & Harrison carry out to the fullest extent their arrangements for the pro- duction of “Lurline,” Wallace’s magnificent work, they will create the greatest sensation that has ever taken place in the annals of opera in New York. They purpose bringing ont the opera in Italian, English and German succes- sively, and having the chorus, orchestra and mise en se2ne of unexceptionable power and effect. If they do so there is not the slightest doubt of the success of the opera; but if such a work is brought out in a parsimonious and ineffective manner there cannot be any doubé of its failure. The well known enterprise and business talent of* the management are, how- ever, a hopeful guarantee of its success. On Monday next La Grange, Brignoli and Orlan- dini return to the Academy, and such a trio of artists may justly receive a warm welcome back to the metropolis. The spring may exer- cise a beneficial influence on the financial prospects of Italian opera in the metropolis for the balance of the season. Effervescence in Mexico, “The rival claimants were about to settle their dispute by battle.” Such is the latest news from Mexico. This has been the latest news from Mexico for about thirty years. It seems to describe the operation of a pecu- liar institution. Men change, but the habit remains, No matter what the dispute is about, no matter who disputes, there is only one plan of settlement, and that is ‘by battle.” As Mexico is seldom without disputing politi- cians, disputing governors, disputing generals, and as all these have the national inclina- tion to settle their differences in the same old way, the country never sees a day that it is not menaced with war or has not a war in progress. And these effervescent ‘‘ wars” are the only signs of vilality the nation gives. Banditti wars are the phase of national life that goes last before absolute failure. Law can protect no one; there is no strong hand of power to give security to property or protec- tion to peaceful industry, and society stands still in regard to peaceful development, men only banding together for mutual protection, and eventually for mutual robbery. Such is the condition of Mexico, and the American people exerted their moral influence, not in favor of freedom, but only against order, when the empire was driven out. An Important Bill, The House of Representatives, by an almost unanimous vote, has passed a bill exempting some thousands of home manufactures from the internal revenue tax, the only articles not relieved being manufactures of tobacco, alcoholic spirits, wines and beer, distillations from petroleum, coal, &c., crude petroleum and gas. - The effect of this bill will be to give a new impulse to home manufactures of all descriptions, and thereby, no doubt, a consider- able lift to the republican party in all the manufacturing districts of the country. The bill will doubtless become a law, and is in- tended to go directly into operation, the Ist of April being named as the day. Mr, Van Wyck proposes another bill, reducing the tax on whiskey from two dollars to fifty cents a gallon, 8 a revenue and temperance reform measure, and from the facts which he dis- closes on the subject we are inclined to think that the reduction proposed would be a good thing, in reducing the temptations to those frauds which have made this whiskey business a repulsive stench in the nostrils of all honest men, The Claims of the Alabamas, It is perhaps fortunate for Congress that there are two issues of importance before them bearing upon the name ‘ Alabama.” One is the question of the ‘ Alabama’, claims against England, and the other the question of Alabama’s claims for complete restoration to the Union, The former has absorbed a large portion of the attention of the State Department, thereby relieving, in some measure, the anxiety of Congressmen on that point; while the latter has been exclusively confine’ to Congress, thus correspondingly <i. 9 see repre Farms relieving the anxieiy of the Secretary of States In the meantime the people are kept upon the tiptoe of expectation regarding final results. Shall the claims against England for the depre- dations of the rebel cruiser Alabama be enforced? Shall the claims of the State of Alabama for rebabilitation in the Union be acknowledged? These are the questions. It is somewhat singular that while a liberal spirit is manifested in the British Parliamect concerning the former, an illiberal spitit should be exhibited in Congress against the latter. A fair solution of both questions would be for the British government to admit the claims of the sufferers by the ravages ot the rebel cruiser on the seas, and for the radicals in Congress to admit the claims of the Stata of Alabama to fall affiliation within the bonds of the Union. Mr. Sumrer’s Eatest Folly. Mr. Sumner announced to the Uniled States Senate on Monday that he had ‘ accomplished his purpose.” lil purpose was aparently to show the Senate how Hitle common sense much study hed left in him; atleast we must assume that to have beon his purpose, a8 he“ sccom- plished” nothing else. This legislator had the insane imyudence to ghigot to the ndigission of