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

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. . JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York ‘Herat. Letters and packages should be sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- Properly AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Donrry. FRENCH THEATRE. —] ish Opera—ManrHa. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— MASKS AND Faces. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tures Rep MEN—DON ‘CASAR DE BAZAN. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—ConnIE SooGan. —Tue Waits Fawn, NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. - Panis anv HELEN, \ ACADEMY OF MUS! Drwowdu—Vooar Con irving place.—MaRie STU ART— Rr. IRVING HALL.—Buinp Tom's Concert. Fatah COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BAter, Fancr, KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Brondway.—Sonas, Eoorntnicirtes, &c.—GRAND Duron “8,” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway,—ETHI0- IAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPE) HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio ‘VOOaLI8M, NEGRO MINATRELSY, &c. ¥ NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DES IGN, corner 23d st. and 4th av,—EXHIuITI0N OF Provunrs, &¢. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— UNDER THE GasLicnt. + HOOLEY'S OPERA HOSE, Brooklyn.—ETu10PrAan ‘MINSTEELSEY—BLACK CROOK. HALL, 954 and 956 Broadway.--PANORAMA OF THE WAR. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. New York, Monday, May 11, 1868. By special telegrams from Malta, by way of Lon- don and and through the Atlantic cable, we have ag- vices from China which report that the United States steamer Shenandoah, Captain Ferbiger, of the Asiatic squadron, had proceeded to Corea to institute complete inquiries as to the fate of the crew and passengers of the American bark General Sherman, who are said to have been inassacred there some time since, It is rumored | that dQ held in the terri- | tory. 1 re to be se by the wm nd Captain F mis s important results, ‘he news report by the cable is dated yesterday | evening, May 10, Lord Brougham died in a slumber. The Fenian Barrett, sentenced to death in London, has been re- prieved for a week, his alibi case being again con- sidered. Minister Bancroft leaves Berlin to-day for ‘South Germany. Vienna advices state that the persecution of the Jews in Moldavia is ended. A most interesting report of the proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of England, at the tenth meeting of the present session held in London on the 27th ult., appears in our columns to-day, including Sir Roderick Murchison’s statement of the safety of Doctor Livingstone, with a number of letters from imself, detailing his travels, dangers sin Africa to the Ist of March. Doctor bie , the late discovery in the Pacific vandoned as a coaling station by Ovean, the Pac Steamship Company. | MISCELLANEOUS, We have mail advices from Venezuela to the oth of April. Pres Was still in the feid with his army. ad organized with the election | the continuance n of the questions | s warmly appland- | ed on tts delivery, and has by his utterances placed himself at the head of the const nal reaction | party. The message of President Gil, who acts during | Falcon's aly ¢, had been read in the Senate, but on | the day of its recetpt in the House President egas, | insulted by the presence of armed parties in the gal- | aking twenty-seven members with ed the quorum and no business Some excitement ensue claiming that the ministr: we the House and the mini ‘The latter i of the civil war, It appears f ed some fear of age in the colony, for despatches had just from the Foreign Secretary in London ordering that the anti-Fenian Treason-Felony act should be pot in force in Sydney. Queensland was deeply a 1 by a covert attempt to introduce South anders as laborers, but really as sia bstance of Secre- tary Seward's financial ultimatum to King Tha Komba, of Fejee, already noticed in the HERALD, Our Mexican letters contain valuable information | relative to the character of the population of that | republic and the fundamental taws, acts, plans and | pronunciamentos adopted since tis independence. A gentleman of Nicholasville, Ky., Mr. W. Brow a personal and political friend of many years star ing of Chief Justice Chase, publishes a letter in which | he claims that the Chief Justice, in conversation with him recently, expressed views favoring uni- versal suifrage, universal amnesty and an imme- diate return to specie payments. He is no candi- cate for the Presidency, and thinks that Genera} Grant would serve much better than himself. His a iherents, it is stated, will certainly support the re- publican nominee. Our Washington correspondent, judging from the Janguage and conduct of Senators, inclines strongly to the opinion that the acquittal of the President is very probable. Another radical Senator has ex- Pressed himself opposed to conviction, stating that if conviction is @ party necessity it should have been set forth in the charges, Six republican Senators are confidently claimed by the friends of acquittal as sure to vote on that side, ‘The loss of the Hide and Leather National Bank of Boston by the late defaleation, itis now said, will snot exeeet 0. M has been © J from jail by a bank offers, and is un sherim, Martin, and whose failure to mect his obiivations exposed the defaication, has been arrested, A mob in Bridge street, in Brooklyn, on Saturday night, attempted to rescue two prisoners who were ‘being taken to the station house, Stones and brick. bats were hurled at the two officers who had them in charge, and several pistol shots were fired. A Man named Charles McHenry, who was in his own store at the time, was severely wounded in the thigh. ‘The prisoners were finally secured, however, th bed 1867 one hundred and nine new étiaes, five hundied dnd fifty-nine class dwelling housed, aad thirty-four public Gach 06 botels, theatres, £0. were com | recognized on the basis of universal equality pulsi¢ e3, | at the spigot and the bunghole, and thus, from | moneys; no more hobnobbings and nice little | arrangements between the Treasury and the | tion like that of the Sandwich Islands, nor that NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY menced in this city, The present year bids fair to Surpass this estimate, Pugiligtic circles are highly elated over the great fight between Joe Coburn and Mike McCoole which is to take place soon, Both parties have been in hard training, Coburn at Harlem and McCoole at some point out West. Coburn will soon commence mov- ing westward by easy stages in order to be at the scene of encounter at the appointed time. The Coroner's jury investigating the cause o7 the death of Mary Sherman, who was found lifeless on the floor of her room in 67 James street, returned a verdict yesterday charging her husbénd, John Sher- man, with the murder. He was committed, A tornado visited Hudson river, near Qold Spring, on Saturday, capsizing one vessel, throwing another on her beam ends and driving three others ashore on Stony Poigt. The gale came 80 quickly that the vessels were nearly all struck with their sails set, Elsewhere in our columns this morning will be found an additional statement of steam vessels at this port, with an account of the apparatus on cach for the extinguishment of fire and prevention of other accidents, The churches were, without exception, fully at- tended yesterday, and in all of them the services were of a character to interest and instruct. At Trinity chgrch evening services were held, and a sermon preached before the graduating class of the Columbia Law College, for the third time in twelve years. Detailed reports will be found elsewhere and will give the reader a very accurate idea of the Sab- bath of yesterday as it was observed by the various religious denominations, The American Female Guardian Society held its thirty-fourth anniversary meeting at the Presbyterian church on Fifth avenue and Nineteeath street last evening. One hundred and seventy-five children, mostly girls, inmates of the society’s home for the friendless, were present. The Union Theological Seminary also held its anniversary last evening at the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, The Students of the institution and a graduating class of forty-four meinbers were present. The Home for Little Wanderers will hold its anaiversary meeting this afternoon at Pike’s Opera House, Emigration to this couniry is becoming a vast united movement among the working classes: of the old countries, Since our war of the rebellion com- menced the yearly average of arrivals at the port of New York has increased from ninety thousand to two hundred and forty-five thousand. In an article on emigration, elsewhere in our columns this morn. ing, full and interesting facts in relation to: the sub- Ject will be found. Agang of workmen were busily engaged all last ight laying down a new railroad track in Printing House square. A family in East Newark were poisoned on Satur- day by eating shad which had been procured as usual at the market in the morning, The Impending Change in the Government— Radical Promises and Anti-Radical Expec- tations. ¥ Only one day's grace remains to Andrew Johnson. It has been agreed by the Senate that they will to-day determine upon the modus operandi, and that to-morrow at noon they will proceed to take the verdict of “guilty” or “not guilty” upon the several articles and specifications of “high crimes and misde- meanors” against the respondent embraced in the indictment of the House of Representatives. Adhering to the opinion that the result will be the conviction and removal of ‘the man at the other end of the avenue,” the first question that preseats itself is this:—Will this change in the administration from Johnson, the Southern conservative, to Wade, the Northern ultra radical, be good or bad for the general interests of the country ? If we may believe the leading radical organs, philosophers and fanatics, the installation of “Old Ben Wade” in the White House will be the inauguration of the millennium, ‘‘ The im- peachment,” they say, ‘‘means peace,” like the French empire under Louis Napoleon. The removal of Andrew Johnson, they tell us, in removing the only serious obstruction to Southern reconstruction and sectional har- mony, will cause the people of both sections, and of all classes, creeds and colors, to clap their hands and rejoice. The ten outside States, rapidly and quietly reorganized and and negro supremacy, these good people assure us, will be all speedily reinstated in both houses of Congress; that there- | upon we shall have an end of Southern scenes of disorder, bitterness, violence and bloodshed, and that a general jubilee of happiness and harmony will prevail from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; that a new impulse will immediately follow to Southern industry from the general restoration of confi- dence in Southern law, order and progress; that European and Northern capital and emi- gration will drift in and build up the waste places of the South, and that the most implacable Southern rebels and traitors will soon be brought to proclaim the wisdom and benefi- | cence of that great and crowning mercy of the | h Congres. -the impeachment and ex- of Andrew Johnson, Nor are these blessings to be limited to the | South, for the North, we are promised, will largely share in the manifold advantages that will flow to the Southern people under the benign dispensation of ‘Old Ben Wade.” The whiskey rings and their whiskey frauds and leaks in the internal revenue will be stopped the savings of a hundred millions on the whis- key tax to the Treasury, the honest masses of the people will be lightened of their taxation burdens to the extent of a hundred millions. There will be no more pardons vouchsafed to embezzlers or counterfeiters of the public gold gamblers of Wall street. Honesty, re- trenchment, economy and reform on all sides will prevail, so that the out-going tide of gold to Europe will in short order be turned back upon us, and, with the consequent apprecla- tion of our national currency, beefsteak will become as cheap in New York as in Texas, and ham and eggs and hog and hominy will be drugs in the market, These are the good things promised us under the incoming ad interim administration of “ Old Ben Wade,” acting in perfect accord with Con- gress and ¢ 1 Grant and his subordinate commanders of the five Southern military dis- tricts. But it ‘was the remark of a celebrated Roman consul” that the promises of politicians are very apt to be forgotten when they have gained theirends. We have no idea that under President Wade we shali have a volcanic erup- we shall have the millennium, nor anything like it. We anticipate rather, in the first place, a most disgraceful and demoralizing scramble among the radical place-hunters and their camp followers over the spoils and plunder with the transfer of Wade to the Executive Mansion, We expect no relief to the Treasury in driving off a swarm of flies partially gorged to make room for a larger and hungrier swarm, no Be , supremacy, no reduction of taxes, or prices, or expenditures, or frauds, or embozzlements, but rather a grand carnival of radical riotings and debaucheries over the flesh-pots of Ezypt. We shall, perhaps, be favored with the mock- ery of a new epoch of prosperity by an exten- sive inflation of the currency, reviving. the memorable financial jubilee of 1835-6, and its shining bubbles of splendid fortunes secured from lucky speculations here and there and everywhere, but only to be followed by a more terrible and disastrous grash than that of 1837. We expect, in the next place, from this and numerous other causes of demoralization and disintegration, that a popular reaction against the party in power, more marked and dectstve than that of 1840, will end the reign of radical- ism. Thus the removal of Andrew Johnson, and the substitution by Congress of ‘Old Ben Wade” in the Executive Department, in clear- ing the track for the speedy fulfilment of the radical programme, will, in truth, acrve to hasten the day of the dissolution of the present ruling republican cabal, a new formation of parties, and the erystallization, around a new system of measures, of the dominant party next in the line of succession of party changes. Doctor Livingstono’s Letters, The letters addressed by Doctor Livingstone to a friend in Glasgow, reporting his progress in the path of African exploration to the Ist of February, 1866, which we have just published, with the communications from his pen con- tained in the report of the proceedings of the Royal Geographical Sogiety, which we pub- lish to-day, are of a most interesting char- acter, and constitute an important corol- lary to the Heratn’s special correspondence from Abyssinia in enlightening civilization as to the interior—an almost forgotten world—of the most ancient continent on earth—its people, resources, climate, topo- graphy and wants. While: our correspon- dent at Lake Ashanghi describes how Napier, “plunging forward like a rhinoceros,” as the Abyssinian chief Welda Yasoos forcibly describes the English march, substituting a rhinoceros for the “lion,” was opening up a fertile region to British trade and Christian influences, Doctor Livingstone writes, in his peculiarly refreshing tone, from the Chipeta country and other pcints, to inform us that where the native African has net been brought in contact with the foreign slave trader he is accessible and hospitable to strangers, enjoys many rude comforts and inhabits a territory studded with villages made up of plastered huts, and that in many instances the people have a full supply of blankets and food, with articles of comfort and luxury in plenty. Doctor Living- stone was hopeful in his own persistence, and evidently, like Napier, believed firmly that British endurance and “pluck” would carry | him safely through his work and that much | good will be accomplished, not only for Africa, but for the world at large, by the “opening” of | the country at an early day. Sir Roderick | Murchison, who never despaired of Livingstone, expects the great explorer home in England, safe and sound, about the nronth of September. Doctor Livingstone calls attention to the fact that, coastwise, Africa is really demoralized by the presence of numbers of slave traders, chiefly Arabs, These men fled, universally, when they heard of his approach, saying ‘“‘the English are on the road;” so that he was at one period completely deserted by the natives. The conscience stricken traders were seized with fear and panic, and it is highly complimentary to our American nationalism and literature to know, from his letters, that the Doctor could | find no English words to convey to his Glasgow friends, in a short space, a description of their | trepidation and retreat, so he used one of our most recent vigorous and healthy engraftments on the Anglo Saxon mother tongue in the word | “skedaddle.” ‘Right parties of slave traders thus skedaddled,” says the Doctor. The Afri- | can explorer is a man of acute observation—a | philosopher in his simplicity. He must have | only just heard of the American expression when in England, or, it may be, had it from his son, who served in the Union army during the war; but he did not forget it, and away there in the country of the Chipeta he finds it useful-- more useful than any which he had previously learned for his purpose. It is thus that great peoples aid each other, By means of American boring rods and pumps Napier found water for his men in Abyssinia, and the Jef Davis rebellion soldiers of the | Union supplied a new word to Livingstone in | Africa, | Tuk Lovey Monru ov May.—English bards and Scotch reviewers are responsible for con- necting with the month of May the most incon- gruous traditional associations of a poetical order, May queens, May poles, May flowers and all that cling absurdly to the memory, even amidst the moving scenes of the first of May in New York. During the lovely month of May in 1868 we have enjoyed mighty bad weather, asa Virginian darky would say. In this city it has rained almost every day since the Ist inst., not to mention occasional slight threats of snow. At Albany, at Boston and at several other points not very much further north, it has snowed in earnest. Cyclones in Ilinois, tornadoes in 'Pennessee, waterspouts in Arkan- sas, volcanic eruptions and thousands of earth- quakes in the Sandwigh Islands, and we know not what storms and convulsions in Alaska, are among this year’s claims of May as alovely month, No wonder Mra, Lyon testifies, in her suit to recover the sixty thousand pounds sterling which she gave away to her adopted son, Home, the spiritualist, ‘I can't tell why I wrote about poetry in May.” Surely there has been little poetry in May for many a year, and spring almost always, as Hood says, | sets in with its usual severity, Svrowk AND THe PaAINtERs.—A_ corre- spondent of the druggist profession complains | of our comments upon the fact that the fre- | quency of suicide by the use of Paris green should be attributed to the carelessness of | druggists in selling this deadly poison, He states that while druggists are restricted under heavy penalties of fines and imprisonment from selling this compound and other poisons, painters sell it as freely, without any responsi- bility to the law, as they sell putty or white lead, and that venders of paints rather than | the works of the devil. | supreme at all seasons, with intervals of high venders of drugs should be held to account in this matter. Well, then, the only way to cor- rect the evil is to put paint sellers on the same Southern rejoicings between whites and blacks | footing as the druggists; and we hope it will over the temporary success of Southern negro | be done, reer {iy had vany ¥ 1M. ‘The Religions Anniversaries in Full Blast. The list of religious anniversaries this week includes those of the American Seamen's Friend Society, in the Fourth avonue Presbyterian church; the Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers, at Pike's Opera House, where the singing of the little wanderers will be alternated by music from Grafulla’s Seventh regiment band; the American Missionary As- sociation, at Steinway Hall; the Conference for Tax Reform, a very practically religious re- form, at the hall of the New York’ Historical Soclety; the American Tract Society, at Dr. Hall’s church on Fifth avenue; the American Anti-Slavery Society (whose occupation, like Othello's, we had imagined, with Mr. Garrison, was gone with the abolition of slavery), at Steinway Hall; the American Home Mission- ary Society, also at Steinway Hall; the National Temperance Society, at Cooper Institute; the Institution for Deaf and Dumb and the New York Institution for the Blind, both at Steinway Hall; the American and Foreign Christian Union, also at Steinway Hall; the American Congregational Union, at the Acad- emy of Music in Brooklyn; the American Equal Rights Association (the vague mystery of its name may stimulate public curiosity), at Cooper Institute ; and last, but by no means least, the Universal Peace Society, which will meet ata most inauspicious moment, when Ku Klux Klans and Union Leaguers seem to be awaiting either the conviction or the acquittal of the President of the United States as a signal to plunge the country again into civil war; when our Western Indians have just started afresh on the warpath; when Mr. Pike wants to send a naval squadron to the northeastern coast of British America; when Mexico is rent with revolutionary convulsions; when Franco is hesitating whether it is yet too late to insist on the dismantling of the formidable fortresses of the Prussian quadrilateral; when the Eastern question is as far as ever from its ultimate solution ; when, in fine, the whole world is full of wars or rumors of war. Perhaps, how- ever, the Universal Peace Society may miracu- lously usher in the long expected millennium, At all events the anniversaries will, as usual, attract a vast number of visitors to the city. Our theatres, including particularly Niblo's Garden, will doubtless be thronged as well as our churches, Business will be transacted in- volving immense aggregate sums of money in connection with religious and benevolent en- terprises, which have already extended their field of operations wherever commerce can carry the influences of civilization. Anniver- sary week is of no inconsiderable secular as well as ecclesiastical importance. We hold these religious anniversaries to be eminently right and proper and New York the most suitable city on the continent in which to hold them, Here is a fitting place to study Here Satan reigns carnivals when he is in especial good or evil temper. Here is a more precious field for missionary labor than among the Hindoos, for here we have religious mockeries, official cor- ruption, widespread inebriety, alarming social iniquity and a general tendency to demoraliza- tion, accelerated by an impure infidel maga- zine literature, a debauched stage and utter corruption and faithlessness in the administra- tion of the affairs of the municipal govern- ment. The devil has had a lease of the City Hall for many years. He warmly sustains his many children in their official misdeeds, and the bigger the crime the more unctuously he smacks his lips in expectation of a fine fat roast sometime hereafter. Our lawyers’ dens are Satan’s abiding places. Here crimes are condoned and criminals mock at justice. Your prime lawyer is one of Beelze- bub's favorite auxiliaries, He is, per- haps, more valuable t a hypocritical or licentious parson, for while the parson preys mainly upon his own flock the lawyer has entire man and woman kind to prey upon. Satan supplies every lawyer with a six-pronged pitchfork to stir up litigation, raise mischief, breed scandal and produce the Old Harry gen- erally. But few of our churches are free from the machinations of the devil. For ex- ample, the work of Presbyterian reunion was going on prosperously, when Satan tempted a Brooklyn divine to interpose objec- tions; he was supported by others, and now the famous old brimstone church is again in trouble and the congregations at loggerhead, The devil has also put it into the head of a dis- tinguished New Jersey divine to inject the spirit of the Gospel into the constitution of the United States, as if that poor old battered in- strument had not been banged away at suffi- ciently without infusing into it a notorious ele- ment of controversy. Satan has likewise put it into the heads of some of our superhuman Christian philanthropists. to organize a society for the conversion of the Hebrews. That work has prospered amazingly under the patronage of Beelzebub, for we find that in one instance the society expended thirty thousand dollars for the conversion of one Hebrew and sixty thousand for the conver- sion of two others, thus showing that the devil's market price for a Jew’'s soul is exactly thirty thousand dollars, Satan has succeeded in establishing the sacred opera upon a sttb- stantial basis, and our churches are now, especially in the Easter season, the favorite and fashionable resort of all lovers of the divine art of music. Satan made an effort to modernize or devilize the psalmody of the tight-laced Presbyterian Church, but did not succeed very well, although there are still hopes of some little renovation in the dusty choir books of that ancient religious body. In short, the devil is continually at work in this city. He is the patron and inspivation of the corrupt politician, the public plunderer, the over-sanctimonious Christian, the votary of fashion, the prostituted stage, the infidel periodical press, and is at the elbow of all con- templating acta of folly and wickedness, He has tempted the greedy officescekers to place Old Bea Wade in the Presidential chair, He has secured Ben Butler, Thad Stevens and other rampant radicals—soul, body and breeches—and he is now chuckling in Satanic ll, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. F ¥ ae Se Tho Albany Howicty Tale The result of the Cole-liscock #38° at Albany, while it may not surprise many 2% ple, presents, certainly, singular pvidenr® of the demoralization of the times and the a parent indifference with which public opinton views great crimes, This, it is true, is not an exceptional case. We have seen of late years many tragedies similar to that of the killing of Mr. Hiscock by General Cole which have reached the same legal termination. If juries did not acquit they disagreed, as in this case, and the accused was relieved from the respon- sibility of the act. All this may be accounted for by the demoralization into which our public men have fallen. Examples of crime in high quarters have produced their natural effects, and we cannot be astonished to find immunities granted in the jury box which aro freely as- sumed in the Senate of the nation and in almost every public office. There is, perhaps, no country in the world where political station ranks so high as it does here; and yet there seems to be an absolute void of principle and morals in all our public men, Let us take as an example the recent disgraceful scenes in Jongress. Where, except in Washington, could the representatives of the people, who are supposed to be the pick and choice of the communities from which they come, exhibit the ill-breeding, the disregard of parliamentary decorum, and the total absence of principle and* morality as presented in the debate on the 2d inst.? It is unfortunate for the country, but it is nevertheless true, that the conduct of our leading political lights is on a par with the lowest stratum of State Prison life. Frauds in every shape, turpitude that would stain the reputation of public criminals, are the common events in political circles, while the complete abandonment of all moral principles is as much the ordinary rule of this class of society as it is in the slums of the cities of Europe. Hence we see licentious magazines and in- decent illustrated papers patronized by the highest as well as the lowest order of intellect. Indeed, these publications find their largest support in those classes that claim a nobility of respectability. The politician of loftiest station and the vilest vagabond in the commu- nity dispense equal patronage to this class of literature. From these facts we infer that pub- lic morality is at a very low ebb and that vice rules the hour. Where, then, is virtue to be found? Wecertainly have some virtue among us, or society would become moribund and hideous, It is to be found in the various reli- gious congregations and institutions, among the Catholics, the Episcopalians, the Method- ists, the Baptists, and all the other denom- inations, each enjoying freedom to worship and do good in their own way under the wise laws of this country. These congregations are comprised, for the most part, of the middle cla —people who attend to their business and aspire to no political office, These classes are numerous, and in private virtue outweigh the public immorality of the politi- cians. It is they who keep the country to- gether. Were it not for them it would fall to pieces from sheer demoralization. In this great modern Sodom of ours there are still ten righteous men to be found in the lower stratum, ten, perchance, in the upper stratum, and a fair leaven of righteousness in the middle layer of society, which save us from perdition. If we had to trast our salvation to our public men and politicians we should stand a very bad chance. es of socle! The London Press and the Merald’s Tele- grams from Abyssinia, The steamship Deutschland, at this port, fur- nished our European files of the 27th of April, containing the English reports of the capture of Magdala, the death of King Theodorus and the termination of the war in Abyssinia. The Lon- don Zimes of that date published a few brief special telegrams, embracing the chief points of the all-important news received at the War Office. The 7/'imes was the only paper in the British metropolis which exhibiied such indus- try, and the Times, with its contemporaries, printed ulso the four special teleg®&ph news letters forwarded from the scene of action at Talanta by the correspondent of the Heranp to our agent in London for transmission to New York, and which appeared in our columns in this city on the 27th ultimo, In the same spirit of liberality with which we rejoice that the British people were en- lightened on t of. such immediate mo- reputation by means of our outlay | and promptitude, we are glad to tind that our | courtesy and liberality in supplying the intelli- gence to their newspapers has been fully ac- knowledged in this instance, the London Zines registering the Herato’s telegrams as numbers “one, two, three and four, from the repre- sentative of the New York Heraty.” This is as it should be. The war news from Abys- sinia would not have been known to the bulk of the people outside the London Times office for the greater part of a day were it not for the gratuitous supply of .the ample and detailed reports of the Heratp to the leading English journal and its morning and afternoon contemporaries. This free intercommunion of news benefits the cause of progress and civilization, and in this respect the thanks of the people of Eng- land, expressed to us through their press, is @ well-timed complimentary reward for our enterprise. We have not been yet informed of what “Bull Run” Russell said of the | HERALD's “new system” on the occasion. Tho Impeachment Sensation in Europe. The impeachment farce, which has given us for so long a time so much amusement here, seems to have been taken much more seriously in Europe. In those monarchical regions we are as yet but very imperfectly understood. It is not understood that we can impeach, try, acquit or depose a President, and go on as quietly as if nothing of the kind had happened or were happening, The impeachment of the executive in Europe is associated with the fate of a Charles the First or a Louis the Six- teenth. It cannot be thought of but in con- nection with blood, general sorrow and rain. glee over the magnificent harvest in store for him in this city on the 4th of July next—the period of the assembling of the National Demo- cratic Convention. In the meantime the religious anniversaries will keep him busy and enable the country parsons to study his works Reasoning from their own experience, they have foolishly concluded that what has followed in Europe must follow here. In England thoae of the liberal school hope for the acquittal of the President, because they believe that repub- lican institutions will thereby ba vindicated in this great and wicked metropolis as they | and justified. ‘Those of the tory achool, on the cannot be studied in any other city in almost | other hand, will not be sorry if impeachment ony other olime, should prove « pucgess, becayne it is their he- Nef that the failure of fe; Ublican inetitutions would by this means be demonstrated and monarchical institutions approved. Such is the view of the case taken not only in Great Bri- tain, but all over Europe, At the Lefsic fair, which really is the fair of Europe, the 9Fo- te tionist proclivities of Old Ben Wade were freely CaBVassed, and the general opinion was that we sere “riding s very wild horse.” Ina few weeks ..¢ Will be found that the horse is not so very wild a YF all, and that whichever way the impeachmens °248 the nation will be little better, little worse, Europe wondered at the war. Europe will wonu'®? More at the result . of the impeachment. The x0Vereignty of the American people will be more a." more a fact. The Great English Spiritualist Wo"! Case— Lyon vs, Home. We published yesterday four columns of the* report of the great spiritualistic will case of Lyon vs. Home, which was opened before Vice Chancellor Giffard, in London, on the 23d of April. The plaintiff, Mrs. Lyon, is a widow, about seventy years of age, who seeks to re- cover money and securities to the value of sixty thousand pounds sterling, which, she alleges, were improperly obtained from her by the defendant, Mr. Home, the well known spiritualist. Without repeating all the details of this interesting report, we may mention that Mrs. Lyon, on her cross-examination, testified that she had no attachment what- ever to Mr. Homo; that her intimate relations with him were due simply to “the power he had of bringing her into conversation with her dead husband ;” that at her first in- terview with Home her husband's spirit had communicated with her through the medium- ship of Home, when, as she informed another witness, Mrs. Fellowes, the spirit ‘“‘had knotted her handkerchief,” and that at a subsequent in- terview “‘the spirit, with Home’s assistance,’ communicated the tidings, ‘I love Daniel,’”, meaning, presumably, Mr. Home—‘‘he is to ba your son, he is my son, therefore yours,” The table then ecstatically kicked up its legs and the spirit continued, ‘‘I am happy, happy.” According to the report the defendant Home | further informed her that she should adopt him as her son, that a friend of Home's, named Hall, should be sent for, and that she should produce stock réceipts for the sum of about twenty-four thousand pounds.’ Under the influence, as Mrs. Lyon alleges, of Home's spiritual powers and ascendancy, she went, on the 10th of October, 1866, to the Bank of England and there transferred the sum of twenty-four thousand pounds stock to Home, Shortly after this Home, at another interview, assured her that it was the spirit’s will that she should destroy her existing will and make an- other will, bequeathing everything she pos- sessed to Home, and that a Dr. Hawksley and a Mr. Ruder were to be the attesting witnesses. The will to this effect was soon afterwards prepared for the defendant by William Wilkinson, a solicitor of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and was executed by the plaintiff and attested by Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Hall. Further sums of money were afterwards trans- ferred by her to Mr. Home, The plaintiff's property is said to be worth nearly one hun- dred and fifty thousand pounds sterling. Mrs. Lyon said in the course of her cross- examination: —‘“‘Can’t tell when my eyes were first opened. I always disliked the deed by which [ was made an annuitant. My husband would never have made me an annuitant under a spiritual adventurer. I disliked it from the first. My spirits were always reminding me that I must execute that deed. That was the first point that opened my eyes. Another point I disliked was that Daniel told me I was not to go to other mediums.” Mrs, Lyon gave the date ‘“‘when,” as she said, ‘Daniel denied that the spirits had anything to do with my giving him the money.” She added, “He denied there had been any manifestations during the first seven days of our acquaint- ance.” Mr, Druce, Q. C., in his address upon the plaintiff's evidence (of the nature of which, as well as of the case itself, the preceding ex- tracts will afford an idea), animadverted with justifiable severity upon this denial of Home that there had been any ‘‘manifestations” previous to the 7th of October, and upon his denial that those of -this date were produced by him, together with his suggestion that “whatever communications there were at any time were caused by the plaintiff herself.” Mr. Druce also declared, in alluding to the deed of the 19th of Jannary (the a: the mortgage security), that the reci the thirly thousand pounds were transferred to Home, ‘of her own free will and pleasure only, and without any influence, control or in- terference of the said Home or of any other person,” and again that the settlement “‘is ab- solute and irrevocable, and shall in no wise be disputed or controverted by her heirs, executors or administrators,” were fraught with suspicion, and showed conclusively that Home well knew at that time the transaction would hereafter be impeached and had the instruments framed so as to meet the anticipated objections. Nor did Mr. Druce spare Mr. Wilkinson, the solicitor, whose own spiritual proclivities seem to have prevented him from asking, as he was in duty bound to ask, when he listened to the plaintiff's narra- tive and her account of the enormous benefits she had been induced to heap upon this forta- nate young man, this acquaintance of niné days, at the dictation of her husband’s spirit—is not the whole thing an imposition, a trick and a fraud? “From the views that he entertained he was unable to suggest that first and material question which alone would have thrown the necessary protection around this poor, super= stitious old woman.” Mr. Matthews, Q. C., opened the defence ia favor of Home, and the evidence in behalf of the defendant, consisting of thirty-seven affida- vits extending over seventy-three folio pages, was put in and read. Mr. Matthews seems to have relied mainly for the defence upon Mr. Home's affirmation—“I do not profess, and never did profess, to have the power of evoking the spirits of deceased persons or of putting other persons in convaunication with themyg what occurs is without any volition whatever. of my own;” and upon the assertion that “ap to defendant’s connection with the plaintif he had not made one single sixpence by his apirit- ual belief.” Spiritually blind a4 outsiders may be, they will find it difficult ether to contradict the orthodoxy of the affirmation by ‘‘the great master of spiritualiam,” or to see any miracus lous virtue in his forbearing to make a single aixpence until he scoured = chance to mekm