The New York Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1868, trous to the radicals in {ts train of conse- | for all this we are offered a brace of subterrene NEW YC RK HERALD [| t=rseest cnt se comecin BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. steeeeeeseee NOs OF “AMUSEMENTR THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bo —FemaLe Derective— BLacksMITH OF ANTWERP, OSSETIA, Sorel semen FRENCH THEATRE.—La Brute HztEne. OLYMPIC THEATRE, E Broadway. Humpty Dompry. NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘Broadway. —Tas WaiTk Fawn, + WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th streot— OLIVER Twist. | GERMAN STADT THEATER: 45 Broadway.—DEx Paimecuurrz. - Wiig Fourteenth street,—GYMNASTIOS, jatinee at 25g. } NEW YORK CIRCU BQuasrzanism, &c. Mek ! ‘, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLEr, Fazoz, KELLY 4 LEON’S MINSTR: OITIES, &c.—GRAND * saw FRANCISCO MINSTRE Plan ENTERTAINMENTS, SiN. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA H0' Sk, 2/1 Bowery.—Comro ‘Vooauiam, NEGRO MINSTREL», ec. TRE, 472 Broadway.— 720 Broadway.—SoNa! cn ge bs 585 Broadway.—ETHIO- i, DANCING, &. BUTLER'S AMERICAN 171i Bauer, FaRce, Pantour! BALL, 954 and 956 Broadway * MRS. F. B. CONWA‘'S ['*!.i A GENTLEMAN FROM Innis) HOOLEY’S OPERA Ho (MINBTRELSEY —BURLEBQL u COLLEGE HALL, 600 Bro NEW YORK MUSEUM OF AN ATOM, 613 Broadway.— SCIENOE AND ALT. VANORAMA OF THR War, V AYRE, Brooklyn.— AHONTAB, Prooklyo.—ETHIOPIAN ‘Tax Pirertm™. “New y Yorks 2 Monday, TERT SERS. nd that, in order on of their business enta for tusertion in the counting room by Advertisers should bear to insure the proper cla: announcements, all adver! the HERALD should be leit half-past porcane t o'clock P. M. r a B ONE BS] w Tr . EURO? The news report by the Atlant terday, April 6. Mr. Disraeli held a meeting of Cabinet Ministers to consider his future course in ave of the adverse vote of the British House of Commons. It was thought ‘the Premier will resign if the Giaustone party retains ‘its large majority after Easter. The steamship Hansa, at this port, furnishes mail ‘advices from Europe to the 24. of March. The re- tport includes the compleic text of Mr. Gladstone's sesolutions on the Irish Church question, which we ‘eprint, the cabie report bei imperfect. The Lon- don Mes of the 24th of March, speaking of the ‘Parliamentary consideration of the resolutions, maya:—“It may, perhaps, be safely said, after making every allowance for the e. geration we are all to apply to the circunistances of our own Ume, that no greater task Las been undertaken by Parliament since the Revolu‘ion of 1688, It is im- mense.”” MISCELLANZOU3, Our special telegrams over tie Cuba cable state that great activity is displayed in the dockyards and fortifications of Jamaica, and that the British Admiraity, in anticipation of troibie arising out of tne Alabama claims, have been caliing home seamen from the colonies to serve in -clads, ‘The vornito ‘4s represented as being very scvere in some parts of Porto Rico. By th® British steamer Danube news from Mexico ‘was received in Havana to April lL. The late smug- gling by this steamer created considerable excite- ment, and a bill had been brousht before Congress preventing all British cts from exporting po'ogy. A fresh con- The attempts to pacify the troubles in Yu 1sinaioa had met ‘with but litile success. Ne creic was about to levy a forced loan of $60,000 on Talancico. Advices have been received ti Paris from the Rio de la Plata to the sti uit., wittca » that General © cable fs dates jos ‘Lopes, the President of Parssyay, 1s mot in such a desperate situation as the Brazilian accounts repre- Sent. Only six witnesses have as ye! been summoned by the President's counsel in the hi chinent case, A despatch from Richr es Liat a squad of cavalry arrived at the Midlothian coal pits yesierday, and that the trouble amoug ite laborers had quieted down. No one was hurt. General Meade has desined natorial candidates in ¢ drwin meligibie and Ge omice, Palm Sunday was celebrated yesterday in the various Catholic and Ep! shorehes in the pre- sence of crowded & in St. Patrick's Cathedra\ the services were ua sually so’elun and stains of the guber- by declaring Judge i Gordon eigible to the dinpressivc. The Methodist hb in tariem was crowded in the afternoon to jisien to a sermon by Rev. Stephen Hi. ‘ty ". His remarks were con- fined to an expla on of the solenmity of the pre- sent season aud to the duties ubent upon all good Christians during the wook now commenced. Rev. Dr. Chapin p itoresting discourse at the Fourth Univ reh on the subject of Christ's definition of trac gree and the illus- tration of taal greatauss, in tic; i, fu Christ himself. Rev. Henry Ward ched tn the Brooklyn. cientide Rell was himself Comte,” in Music amorning and evening in P’ ‘The first of a course of lecture gion originally promulg delivered by Mr. Henry “one of the apostles desig Hall, before a large and attentive congregation. A new Presbyterian church Was icdicaved in Roseville, N. J., yesterday. A fire in Franklin, Tenn., on Saturday night de- sBtroyed twelve buildings, involving a loss of $60,000, on which there Was no insurance. A fire in Detroit on the same night destroyed property to the amount of $70,000, A Warsine to tHe Strate Crvurcn Enotrand—Gladstone’s tremendous resolutions dismantling the Church in Ireland. There has been nothing done in England of a broader revolutionary meaning since the time when “Bluff King Hal” said, in reference to the mo- nasteries of his day which disputed his right of possession, ‘We will uncage those birds,” and forthwith proceeded to unroof them and turn them out of doors. That was the stormy and bloody beginning of religious ‘‘iberty in England, and after three hundred ‘years of revolutionary advances and draw- foeoks the work now resumed must go on to its ‘Gonsummation. , Tormey Leo anp Dut. Kytre Uncon- vinogp.—Turkey Leg and Dull Knife, with a force ‘numbering one hundred and seventy- five lodges,” refuse to meet the peace commis- sioners, and may be considered, we suppose, as on the warpath. These distinguished and amiable persons do not yet perceive the neces- sity of the Pacific Railroad, and insist that the work muet be ‘ suspended ” on the Smoky Hill route. It must, we suppose, till Turkey Leg and his friend shall have the light let into their Election—The Hopes and Fears of the Radicals. The Connecticut election for Governor, State ticket and Legislature comes off to-day; and never before has either party concerned, in the State and throughout the United States, mani- fested so deep an interest in any Connecticut election, Last year, with Barnum and his travelling caravan at the head of the radical procession, there was more fun, more fuss and more noise and confusion; but this year there is more system, more earnestness and more hard work on both sides. The impeachment acts powerfully on this election, and the result, one way or the other, will react upon the im- peachment, The issue is regarded as a matter of life or death to the radicals, and they have left no stone unturned to recover the State. Men with whom honesty is the best policy, and men with whom policy is the best honesty, are equally perplexed to account for the late dishonest and impolitic announcement in the New York Z'ridune, that General Grant had expressed the opinion that the safety of the country can be secured only with the removal of Andrew Johnson, and that, therefore, the only course left for the Senate is to hurry through this impeachment trial and get this obnoxious man out ofthe way as speedily as possible. Some imagine that this scandalous pronunciamento was intended to whip in certain Senators sup- posed to be weak in the knees; some suppose that this thing was intended to damage General Grant; some conjecture that the object was merely a bit of buncombe for the Connecticut election ; some imagine that Greeley, aspiring to a place in the Cabinet under ‘‘ Old Ben Wade,” is getting impatient of the law’s delays, and there are some who are inclined to think that this unseasonable and startling announcement of General Grant's opinion of this impeachment was, after all, stupidly paraded only as a news- paper sensational item, without stopping to consider the possible consequences. The truth probably is that this disreputable publication was designed partly as a warning to the Senate and partly as an electioneering item for Connecticut; for there are some snug little offices in Connecticut and some large ones at Washington and elsewhere dependent upon the issue of this impeachment; and “‘great expectations” among the rank and file of the Connecticut working republicans in this canvass are at the bottom of their zealous and industrious efforts to carry this election. They seem to think, too, that the result, one way or the other, will be apt to operate upon the Senate pretty much as the charge of a re- spected judge operates upon a confiding and weak-kneed jury, and that with the popular voice of Connecticut added to that of New Hampshire every shaky republican Senator will-be brought to a proper appreciation of the indictment against Andrew Johnson. It is thus apparent that, next to the popularity of General Grant as the universally accepted re- publican candidate, this impeachment, in view of the spoils and plunder involved in the final result, has operated and is operating in Con- necticut to bring into camp the republican stragglers from all sides. On this question the election of the new Legislature, upon which will devolve the elec- tion of a United States Senator in the place of Dixon (Johnson conservative), will mainly turn. Should the result be a democratic Legislature it will be equivalent not only to an endorsement of Dixon and a vindication of Johnson, but tantamount to instructions to Senator Ferry (republican) to vote with his colleague for Johnson’s acquittal. Nay, more; if the popularity of Grant cannot carry Connec- ticut in connection with the radical sine gua non of Johnson’s removal, the result in the Senate may be a failure to remove him. In this event we may look for an immediate disruption of the republican party into two hostile camps, and for the nomination of Chief Justice Chase as the conservative republican candidate against General Grant. Here, then, will be a chance for a democratic fusion upon Chase, or for a concentration upon Farragut, which will carry the Presidential election; and with such an opportunity the democrats will surely act upon the good old rule that even half a loaf is better than no bread at all. How far the dis- appointments and aspirations of party leaders have contributed heretofore to defeat and break down in their turn both the great political parties of the country most of our readers will remember with the mere mention of the names of Calhoun, Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Breckinridge, Douglas and Jeff Davis and his leading Southern confederacy colleagues. We know, too, that like causes produce like effects, and especially among rival politicians of the same church. In the present republican Senate at Wash- ington we know that Fessenden was an aspirant for the place now held by Wade; that Trum- bull will not be ruled over by Sumner; that Van Winkle and Willey, of West Virginia, are no ultra radicals; that Sherman is a cautious conservative, and that Grimes, a free trader, has no admiration for the high tariff notions of Wade. Here are disaffections which the chapter of accidents may yet aggravate to an extensive revolt, With Chase as an aspirant for the position secured by Grant as the radical favorite, we shall only need, perhaps, the entering wedge of a radical defeat in Con- necticut to bring about an independent repub- lican party and ticket for the Presidency with the acquittal of Andrew Johnson. The fears of the radicals run to this extent, and hence their unparalleled efforts to reclaim Connecticut. But their hopes are apparently sanguine that they will recover the State, the issnes being the same that carried New Hamp- shire. They have an abiding faith in Grant's popularity, they believe that Johnson will be removed and they are encouraged with the prospect of an early division of the spoils to the faithful under President Wade. The demo- crats, without a recognized Presidential cham- pion, are fighting at a disadvantage, and the loss of Barnum is a republican gain. More- over, the conservative federal officeholders in Connecticut are disarmed in view of Johnson's removal, and there is no enthusiasm in his defence; for even his acquittal will afford no margin of profit to democratic or anti-radical officeseekers this side of 1869. The issue in Connecticut, then, being dependent upon the small balance of a few hundred votes, we shall quences as will surely be the late defeat of Disraeli in the House of Commons to the tory party of England. Our readers to-morrow morning, over their chops and coffee, will find the solution of the problem in the actual results of this Connecticut election, The Arcadians of Albany. The philosophers and raiders of our State Legislature have now resolved themselves into a company of miners and mineralogists. Arrayed as Arcadian shepherds in order the better to disguise themselves, they have pros- pected our chief thoroughfare from end to end ; and their information is positive, both from personal observation and the reports of engi- neers, that deposits of gold, at the rate of two millions and ninety-seven thousand dollars per mile, exist under the surface of Broadway through its entire extent, and may be brought not only to light, but into their own pockets, by @ little scratching. The Arcadian miners of Albany, therefore, have resolved to ‘‘go in and win,” being further induced to this con- clusion by the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, cash in hand, paid to each approach- able Assemblyman for his vote, and the promise of a further sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per voter on the final passage of said bill by the Senate and its being made a law by the Governor's signature. Other induce- ments, it is said, have likewise been held out ; for it is nota little remarkable that there are one hundred and twenty-five corporators named in the bill as it passed the Assem- bly, and that exactly the same number of Assemblymen are recorded as _ having voted in its favor. This certainly is better than anything that Coloradian or Mon- tanese gold, copper or silver mining can offer. Even the famous Miles O'Reilly Mine in Nevada, on the line of the Pacific Railroad, cannot begin to exhibit such inducements. Here we have three hundred dollars in greenbacks for each vote, together with a certain stipulated part in a mining operation which must yield over two million dollars per mile all the way along from Castle Garden to Spuyten Duyvil creek! It is decidedly the biggest thing we have heard of— outside the walls of Sing Sing—for many years; and the old Latin phrase arcades ambo, or ‘‘both rascals,” must hereafter be made to read arcades omnes, or ‘‘ they were all Arca- dians together,” in regard to every member, ex- cepting two or three, of our present Assembly. It is proposed by these Arcadians to scoop out Broadway between wall and wall, making of the present street surface an ornamental fres- coed ceiling, supported on pillars of gilded iron, and turning the present cellar fronts and foun- dation walls into a gorgeous line of subterra- nean store windows, radiant with dry goods, ablaze with jewelry, luminous with gems of art, and patronized by myriads of eager pur- chasers, who are to descend from the upper regions into this new locomotive catacomb by means of several thousand spiral staircases and other hoisting and lowering inventions too numerous to be mentioned. The sidewalks overhead—the present sidewalks—are all to be changed from flagstones to plate glass, so that light may thus be furnished to those who would other- wise walk in darkness below stairs—an arrange- ment, we rather fancy, which may compel some changes in the present style of underclothing worn by such ladies as will persist in preferring to walk in the free light and air of heaven on the plane of the present Broadway. There will be ‘high life below stairs,” however, and no mistake about it. There will be no less than six separate railroad tracks, with six separate sets of locomotives and trains plung- ing and whirling about in all directions, their enormous reflector lamps gleaming, their flues belching out soot flakes and black smoke, their oil cans exuding a rare perfume and their fur- naces scattering red hot coals for the delecta- tion of such promenaders and storekeepers as shall prefer the sidewalks and show windows of sub-Broadway to the old fashioned, upper air Broadway as it now exists. Of course here, asin all other great pro- posed improvements, there are certain difficul- ties to be overcome ; but of what account are “difficulties” to the Arcadian miners of our Legislature? In the first place, all the gas and Croton water mains and pipes and all main sewers and private sewer pipes along the backbone of our extended city must be interrupted and rendered utterly useless for some tenor a dozen years—the least time it could possibly take to build such @ road as is proposed. In the second place, all | the front vaults and cellars now in use by present property holders along Broadway must be con- fisgated in n perpetuity to the use of these Albany miners, In the third place, except the Heratb Building, whose roots are struck down thirty- six feet into the earth, there is scarce another edifice along Broadway that must not be under- mined and brought down in crashing ruins by such an excavation as our Arcadian legislators have proposed. Their line, for example, would go six feet lower than the foundation stones of Mr. A. T. Stewart's building at the corner of Chambers street and Broadway; and the amount of machinery and tackle it would require to underpin and prop up that gigantic marble front ig a problem which we gladly leave for professional engineers to solve. Of the older and smaller butldi along Broad- way, the foundations of which, as a general rule, vary from twelve to eighteen feet in depth, scarcely one would be left standing. Every fine building in the more elevated por- tions of our main thoroughfare would be under- mined and bronght to grief; in addition to which let us just consider, as the chief portion of the proposed catacomb will have to run through rock, what an amount of subterranean blasting and gunpowder earthquakes will be daily and hourly required before a passage can be forced from the Battery to Spuyten Dayvil. We are thus promised ten or twelve years of artificial earthquake in gunpowder shocks a8 @ preliminary, to be succeeded by the permanent earthquake and roar of six locomotives, with six trains of baggage and freight cars, tearing along under Broadway through all future time. We are to have nearly all the present buildings along our main thoroughfare de- molished. We are to have plate glass side- walks in the present street, compelling our lady promenaders either to adopt Bloomer eos- sidewalks, illuminated by locomotive reflector lamps and red hot cinders, warmed by explo- sive boilers, perfumed by a thousand oil cans, and to be rendered salubrious for consumptive invalids by the belching black smoke and flying soot flakes of half a dozen locomotives in Perpetual motion. It is one of the most pleasing prospects of ‘‘high life below stairs” that the mind of mere humanity has yet con- ceived, It recalls the wildest imagery of the Italian poet’s ‘‘Inferno,” and promises to give us at home and under our very feet that succession of earthquakes in pursuit of which, a8 @ necessary ornament or appanage of a great nation, Mr. Secretary Seward is now preparing to purchase on our account nearly half the West India and other volcanic islands. We hear it boasted by the Albany Arcadians and their fellow conspirators of the copperhead and radical press in this city that ‘three hundred millions of capital” are already em- barked in this metallurgical and explosive enterprise, but an examination of the seventy- six corporators named in the original bill re- veals a beggarly account of empty purses in the ragged pockets of desperate political and politico-journalistic adventurers. Of the sev- enty-six names thirty-six cannot be found in the City Directory, nor caf any one we have yet met assign them'a local habitation; these are the ‘‘dummies,” pure and simple, for more important conspiratorial miners who stand be- hind. Twelveare ‘gentlemen from the coun- try,” who drop their carpet bags, containing each an extra shirt and half a dozen paper collars, at some hotel in Chatham or Canal street when visiting our city. Twelve more are reporters or editors attached to such of our city papers as support the Arcadian project. Four are lawyers representing prominent poli- ticians. Seven are presidents of existing city railroad companies, or banks with city railroad affiliations; while the tagrag is completed by five political merchants and speculators, who buy and sell in dry goods, or legislative votes, or political principles, on the strictly commer- cial basis of invariably purchasing in the cheapest market and always selling in the dear- est. At Albany, as we all know, votes can be purchased for a mere song; and these votes, when transformed into a charter for the ruin of our main thoroughfare, may then be black-mail- ingly converted—at least so these speculators would seem to think—into quite a handsome profit for each miner by applying the proper thumbscrews of fear to the alarmed property holders of Broadway. It is but justice to our five city Senators to say that they are opposed to this measure; but Tammany Hall cannot escape responsibility for the votes of her twenty Assemblymen who “‘ went solid,” as the phrase runs, for this gigantic swindle. The bill comes up this evening for consideration in the Senate and will then be consigned, we rather imagine— unless its originators spend money very lav- ishly—to the limbo already seven times heated for the purgatorial expiation of such attempted outrages. Last Saturday Night’s Snow Squall—Im- portance of a System of Weathcr Re- ports. The little snow squall which passed over this city last Saturday night appears by our tele- graphic reports of the same dqte to have been the tail end of a great stor. ,éoming in from the great plains of Kansas, It may have started from the Rocky Mountains, the vapor, nevertheless, being supplied from the Atlantic Ocean. We have heretofore, on various occa- sions, adverted to those heavy nor’east storms which strike in from the Gulf Stream and come up from the capes of Virginia or Cape Hat- teras, and have shown how infallibly the tele- graph at Fortress Monroe warns us some twenty-four hours, more or less, of their ap- proach to New York. In view of the general law of these storms which we consider thus established, we have suggested the importance of a regular system of telegraphic reports of the weather, from day to day, along the whole line of the Atlantic coast for the information of our seafaring people and shipping interests, especially those engaged in the coasting trade. We shall probably, in default of any move- ment on the part of our commercial and ship- ping interests in the direction suggested, un- dertake before long, for their information, a system of regular daily telegraphic notices or signals of the weather from Halifax to Havana and New Orleans; for we are sure that thereby many a vessel outward bound or running the coast within hailing distance may, by a timely warning, be saved from shipwreck. In the cause of science, too, we are satisfied that such a system would soon become exceedingly in- teresting and invaluable in more clearly re- vealing than wg now understand them those sublime laws which govern the movements of the currents of the air and the currents of the ocean with the vibrations of the earth on its axis in its orbit around the sun. The Impeachment Show and the Tickets. Impeachment is in a most unexpected dilemma. It cannot get an audience. People actually will not go to hear the eloquence of Butler, and deliberately refuse to be curious as to the testimony that is given from day to day, seeming to impugn its freshness or to doubt that itis of any great consequence. To the impeachers there are two classes only of the American people—one made up of those the impeachers can trust, one of those they cannot. Among the first class they have distributed their tickets to the show, and these men are apathetic; these, their chosen friends in the hour of the great necessity, absolutely stay away. But it seems there are plenty who would like to go; hundreds outside would like to push in and fill the untaken seats, so the play might not be done to empty boxes. But this will not do, There is danger in the very thought, And what is the danger? Why, if this man were admitted the whole thing might end in arow. Impeachment might come to a sudden close, visited by the wrath, impatience and disgust of a delegation of the people. So argued Senator on Saturday. ‘Thus con- science does make cowards of us all.” Con- scious of the true character of their tribunal, Senators fear the natural justice of the people. Goops Coma In.—The receipts from cus- toms at this port for the last week of March last were #3,903,487. No wonder Senator ‘The War in Paraguay. Out latest intelligence from the seat of War on the Parané is interesting, though quite ui- intelligible. There appears to be no doubt re- garding the evacuation of Asuncion by the Paraguayans, but the despatch does not state clearly whether Humaité has been captured by the allied forces. The telegram states that “the allied army stormed the redoubt at Hu- maitd, and after a desperate struggle succeeded in carrying the work.” We are not informed if the entire position occupied by the Para- guayans was stormed, and we are inclined to think that only an outwork of Humaité has fallen into the hands of the victors. But, be that as it may, it is quite evident that the allies have gained a decided and substantial success. Humaité, if not yet taken, must now be closely invested, and as its defenders have no forces in the interior with which to raise the siege its downfall becomes merely a matter of time. The Paraguayans could, it is true, by suddenly massing their forces, cut a passage through the besiegers; but in so doing they would be neces- sitated to abandon the greater part of their artillery, trains and other equipments for an army. Their position would therefore be scarcely improved. ll things considered, we are reluctantly compelled to admit that, if the news be true, the prospects for a final over- throw of the Paraguayans are very strong. They have been contending against such great odds for so long a time that we hoped to see them triumph eventually over Brazil and her allies; but it now looks very much as if they must succumb to overwhelming numbers. Believing, then, in the probability of the war being nearly at an end, if it has not al- ready practically closed, and that the allies will be the victors, it remains to be seen what will be done with conquered Paraguay. Brazil has been charged with a design of absorbing the little republic, and it has been asserted that she has designs upon her present allies also. Dom Pedro’s government will probably have soon to inform the world what its pur- poses are. To elucidate this matter we pub- lish elsewhere a résumé of the origin and progress of the war to the present time. With Paraguay crushed the Argentine Con- federation and the Oriental Republic can offer but a feeble resistance to the Brazilians, and if the latter design their conquest also nothing but a coalition of all the South Ameri- can republics will prevent it. We very much fear that Brazil is not satisfied with her present gigantic extent of territory, but is ambitious of reducing the entire South American Continent under her imperial rule. Happily for the foil- ing of such a scheme, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and some other of the republics have for some time looked jealously upon the encroachments of the neighboring empire, and may come to the rescue before the finishing blow is given. Still, it would be a kind of retributive justice if the Argentines and Orientals were to wake up some fine morning and find themselves sud- denly transformed from citizens of free repub- lics into subjects of his Imperial Majesty Dom Pedro, They would richly merit such a fate, for they entered into the crusade against Para- guay with scarcely a ground for so doing, and if in destroying the liberties of their neighbor they should lose their own we should feel no sympathy for them. We had written the foregoing under the impression that the news telegraphed from Lisbon and published in our issue of Saturday was substantially correct and that the cause of the Paraguayans was hopelessly lost. From a telegram which we publish this morning, it will be seen that a leading French journal has received despatches from Rio Janeiro stating that the position of the Paraguayans is not so desperate as the Brazilian accounts represent. We shall be glad if the intelligence prove to have been an exaggeration of the facts. It is not altogether impossible that the reported triumph of the allies will prove a falsehood. It may have been manufactured for the purpose of favorably affecting the elections which are being held in the two republics and in Brazil. Should this be the case the Parguayans may not yet be helplessly defeated. At any rate, we trust that something may transpire that will change the present unfavorable aspect of affairs. The London Press on Disracli’s Defeat. The ‘‘wild cheers” with which the liberals exulted over Disraeli’s defeat last Saturday morning proclaimed, as it were, the recognition of public opinion as the new sovereign power which is henceforth destined to rule Great Britain. These cheers were at once loudly echoed by the London press, with but one dis- sentient voice, according to the cable telegram. The London Times is; particularly jubilant, It regards the rejection of Lord Stanley's amendment to postpone consideration until the next Parliament, and the adoption of Mr. Glad- stone’s resolution to go into committee, as merely the first steps of an operation resolved upon by the Commons—the removal of ‘‘this cancer of the empire,” the Irish Church. The 7imes confidently predicts that the national will is soon to be expressed and in no uncertain sound ; “it will insist that the work so happily begun shall be thoroughly performed. This morning's vote is the dawn of a reunited empire. * * * ‘The wrongs of ages are to be ended and right done amid the acclamation of the nation. This must guarantee peace.” The London Post con- cludes an editorial article on the same theme by saying :—‘‘This vote is the death warrant of the Irish Church. No fairer trophy has been won by the liberal party since the Eman- cipation act of 1829.” The journals which we have cited unquestionably indicate what the Times calls ‘the vast balance of opinion in the United Kingdom.” Butthe London Standard, the organ of the tory party, remains obstinately steadfast in its incredulity as to the progress of the latest revolution in Great Britain, and de- clares ‘‘the effect of this vote will be to waste the session without advancing the object pro- posed a single step.” None are so blind as those who will not see, and, Sonover doedptae | 58 tories may shut their eyes to the fact, this vote is in itself ‘‘a single step” of vast importance as the longest and most majestic stride which Britannia has taken for many a year inthe path towards justice and liberty. Disraeli’s defeat involves consequences far more important than any possible change of ministry. It shows that the British people, by their Parliamentary rep- resentatives, refuse to postpone any longer ble, J len tke Qiocndgeseant of the Iriab Church will be an immense cont {t#i0n to the voluntary principle and will exercia:. a0 106<!culable influ- ence on the future of the British e expire, The Spring Trade—A Tendency to Concen= tration. We publish in another column a réliable sta te- ment of the condition and prospects of trade ix the city, from which it will be seen that the’ croakers about bad times are out of tune. The fact is that we must always have a good trade here in this great business centre, and we are not likely again to witness the disastrous events of 1837 and 1857. It is true that the wickedness of Congress, with its impeachment farce and Africanization of the South, has laid a heavy hand upon progression in all kinds of business; for there is nothing which checks activity in trade so much as uncertainty. But in New York, at all events, there is no reason just now to complain of depression. Our ad- vertising columns furnish evidence enough that business is as active as can be expected at this season, There is a remarkable feature, how ever, about trade in the metropolis, and that is the tendency to concentration in a few hands. Large capitalists are disposed to absorb almost every branch of business and to govern it tothe exclusion of people of smaller means. What with exorbitant rents and heavy taxes, small dealers are gradually dropping out of many kinds of trade and succumbing to the force of capital. This isa phase which busi- ness in New York is assuming more and more every day, and which will probably increase with time. - Our Peace EstasiisumMent.—The expendi- tures for the War Department for the month of March last are set down at $13,960,000—a greater sum than the whole yearly expenses of the government under John Quincy Adams. So much for radical reconstruction. One hundred and sixty millions a year for the War Office om a peace footing may do for the present; but is it to be greater or less next year? That is the question. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. The twenty-seventh Sunday concert at Steinway Hall last night drew an immense house, both in con- sideration of the merit of the artists and the excel- lence of the programme. Madame Gazzaniga sang Dachauer’s “Priez Pour Moi,” accompanied by the wmposer, and the finale from “Saffo.” Each brought an encore, the second a doubleone. The “Ppriez Pour Moi” impressed us more favorably than at first hearing, for on this occasion all the delicate shades of coloring and expression were brought out. Leopold de Meyer played his charming waltz, “Sou- venir d@’Italie” and his “Grand Duchess” potpourri. He appeared to much greater advantage than we have heard him before tiis season. Signor Albano harpist, and a large orchestra also assisted in the concert. Madame Parepa-Rosa, the great prima donna, and Carl Rosa, one of the first violinists im America, give a concert in this hall on Easter Sunday, There is not much novelty promised at the theatres for Holy Week. Many of the bills remain unchanged, the public being perfectly satisfied with the feast prepared by the managers. Mr. Bateman keeps “La Belle Héiéne"’ still at the French theatre as bright and flourishing as ever, and fally as attractive. ‘La Grande Duchesse” will be presented to the Brooklyn people at a matinée on Saturday. At Wallack’s “Rosedale” gives way for “Oliver Twist” to-night, with a fine cast, but Mr, Wallack’s play will be reproduced at a matin¢e on Saturday. The “White Fawn,” of course, is still at Niblo’s, with her attendant ballet corps. “Humpty Dumpty” performs his funny tricks and transformations, as usual, at the Olympic, and is not likely to depart for many weeks to come, At Barney Williams’ Broadway theatre Chanfrau winds up the last week of his engagement in “Our American Cousin at Home.” Mr. and Mrs, Willlams will follow next week in their admirable Irish and Yankee specialties, and wiil, no doubt, be wi weicomed after their long absence. The New York theatre is closed for Le pom 59 ratory to the production of a grand burlesque Worrell sisters. An engagement has been made with Miss Fanny Herring at the Bowery theatre, where she will appear to-night in six characters. A new, feature will be introduced this evening at the Théitre Comique, in the person of Mr, William Lingard, from the London theatres, who represents # photographic gallery of celebrities, said to be a very wonderful performance. German opera resumes its place to-night at the Stadt theatre with ‘Der Freischuetz” and hansen, Habieman and Formes | in che cast. The dog-headed baboon continues his equestrian feats at the New York Circus. He is a curious crea- ture and provokes plenty of fun. John Brougham, after a long present himself this evening at Mrs. Conway's thea- tre, Brooklyn, in “A Gentleman from Ireland” and “King Powhatan,” two of his best characters. Brooklyn is aiso enlivened this week with a age Mme. Jo- rovincial tour, will circus and procession of camels in, the sireets. fine time for the boys. The minstrels present an amusing variety for the week's enjoyment. The San Francisco boys havea ~« rare bili, Kelly & Leon, while they keep stul on the stage the favorite burlesque of the “Grand Duchess,"” announce a nuinber of new pieces in their lively styie of performance. Tony Pastor offers a new musical ex- travaganza, alee veaghe in ance fm sped ue py varieties, including the capital clog dancing of Sam Collyer and his protégés, some of the best dancers in America. Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard and their won- derful dogs appear at Butler’s American theatre in a new play, whe Felon’s Doom.” A ballet divertiase- ment, with a large troupe, follows. Hooley an- nounces a novelty at hts Brooklyn Opera House to- rson of Fernando Fleury, & ‘musical night in the verything ‘at this house is Well done, wonder.” ~ SUNDAY AT THE PAiK. Spring this year with us us seems to be a period of strife between sun and rain, cold and heat, wind and calm, frost and warmth—a protracted struggie, en- ivened by very frequent visitations of that most disagreeable morning and evening caller, that “an- bidden guest,” the chilling wind. A few days since there wasa feeling among us that winter was gone e and that spring was upon us, and in the genial’ sunbeams = th greeted the residents <4, New York there was heralded a season of In these few days the wanderings of ther feet almost unconsciously tended towards the of our clty—the Park—and there, ami uudding trees and — bag Mad, a onte winter, the; ith Solonton. “Lo! the winter flowers ay ved the frosts of ture, ready to sing, with is past; the rain is over and the earth; the time the and the voice of the turtl But the storm of Saturday night a4 an ar OD come, apps in ht a chan; wind of yesterday wrot acl spi ig that nature had agai in in this s Matas, on its carnival hg Every t ent under the weight of a cae of snow ee with icicles, C4 = = ss evergreens mi with the o1 others, weaving as a whole a rich ieeto.w work. cree ‘wind wailed through the rustic bowers; the lake had no patrons but the er byt the boats rode lazily ‘at anchor, undisturbed by the chilled attendants. Here and there solitary pedestrians t have been seen gazing at the contrast of winter ‘aa everywere apparent around ips but their ‘was brief, as shrugging ulders, sve rippling water even at the 5 but at ete fleecy clouds Bilin COUNT CALENOAR—THIS DAY. 1—Nos, 4 rman Count rnc —Part 706, 1 67, 1161, 511, 493, ‘SUPERIOR Cot TRT—TRIAL TRRM.—Part 1—Nos. ‘9915, 3201, 3277, SUT, San 28%, AT, 408,258, 3737, 3367, 2111, 3071, 2—Nos. 3852, 3000, 3012, Eaten Baa, 73 002%, 9004, 30%6, 3028, 8000, S002, 3036, My ged ME. 606, MARINE, TeRM.—Nos, £3 be 346, 448, 635, 360, 200, 84m; Sot Sr oe, Yo ety OT, aon; bad, G1, ho the arm by Michael Lawler, who was also badly cub by failing on the stove. to by a neighboring wounds were a hysician, The woman was ‘a § nd | sen, 6 aud Michael Lawler was locked up. queer brains; and it is a queer thing, but true, | not be surprised if the result is a republican | tume or walk in the carriage-way. 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