The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1868, Page 4

4 I BRITISH REVOLUTION. The Political and-Cabinet Crises ‘and Position of the Premier. Coming Conflict Between the Eng- lish Crown and Democracy. Queen Victoria’s Conservatism Disraeli’s Shelter. “ Jefferson Brick” and the New York Bohe- mian’s Anchors of Hope to All. By special correspondence from London we have the following highly important review of the politi- ‘val situation and the relative positions of the Crown, Cabinet and people of Great Britain on the 6th of May. ‘The Political Crisie—Serious Public Issues at Hand—Disraeli’s Cabinet Difliculty—Position and Feelings of the Queen—The Crown Against Democratic Revolutionism—Forced Votes and Unconstitutional Fusion—The Premier Sheltered by the Throne—“Abdicae | that policy tion” Thought Probable—Parliamentary Weare Loxpox, May 6, 1868. The present political crisis in England involves | ‘hat purpose his sovereign sat consequences of immense importance which are only Lo Soma dimly hinted atin the London journals, and im re- | cumstances gard to which Iam fortunately able to give you in- telligence derived from reliable sources. the cable despatches the readers of the HERALD have already obtained @ pretty clear view of the position of affairs. They know that Mr. Gladstone introduced aseries of resolutions disestablishing the Anglican Church in Ireland; that the government opposed ‘these resolutions, and were beaten on two divisions by majorities of sixty and sixty-five; that Disreali decided against a dissolution of Parliament, tendered his resignation to the Quéen and was asked by ‘her Majesty to continue in ofMice until an appeal can ve made to the new constituencies created by the recent Reform act, and that this unprecedented and ‘unconstitutiénal course has been practically acquies- ced in by the liberal party in the House of ommons, The point which requires explanation is, how this unique situation occurred, and the explanation in- volves statements concerning the Queen herself, Her Majesty, like all women, has her whims and caprices, her prejudices and her favorites. Placed in a position in which she is a mere figurehead, without practical power in the government, she regards with no pleasant emotions the party that has gradually succeeded in reducing the prerogatives of royalty, and is desirous of resisting to the utmost ‘any attempt.to still further cut down her practical and personal influence. The people of England have for years been growiug more and more democratic, and the House of Commons, which fs a representa ive popular body elected by the voted of the people, has usurped and absorbed all the power which was once in the hands of the sovereign and the House of Lords, ‘The Queen has arrived at that age when ono Is natu- rally conservative, besides havitig the conservatism of rank. She is fretful, nervous and ambitious, More inclined to insist upon than to relinquish any of her rights, she has from the first regarded with the utmost disfavor the progress of the lberal NEW YORK: HIORALD! MONDAY, “ACU 18) 1808.UT RTPI of the Soverelen who has seduced him tho a false and un ution! poal! . ie oni Higt orien has a ama the ues was too Tong ¢0 im full, and the liberal some said the over and rer wa ‘Ayrton i fal gam the Liberal sta‘oments, and in it will of course in pariia- frets which fhe rey ie eee eo the ueen's wi ve to the Qui interference with the -) before the House:— Mr, Ayrton, having listened to the right honorable gentioman. sir N) esterday, failed to understand pees no in bers and at the country ‘as it ought to be. He had been en! itened by se, ‘statement made in planations that had now ned to the further ex- 2 ae i Lm was ow more confused than he fore auy explana- tion was sale A was inclined to think this arose from the fact that the Prime Minister had given the House, not a statement of what took between himself and his , but a short summary of bis own idea of the communications which between them. (Oh!) He must repeat honorable — it agi A hon le leman dic account of the communications between his sovereizn himself, but he gave only the effect of it; aud the communications could uot have been of the brief nature he had described to the House. In attempt- ing to give a short version of what must have taken place he might have done justice to himself, but it was not so clear he had done full justice fo his sove- right honorable n's statement af ihe result ‘his communtoation with his was un‘ler- eed teas eisai or th Hon pe Se 80 seers e House m- mons had, after full discussion, deliberately resolved upon a poilcy*with the object of satisfying the people = ey and ee it Paint cerry Ong fe oni. ‘majorit louse, policy should be ly carried into effect? Did he tell his that he was determined to resist to utmost, and would use all the influence of the government for the pur- ‘at defiance the deliberate mee, of the House Commons? (Hear, hear.) he ask to be left in office for that purpose, and was it for he should not continue to administer pudtie agairs > must know something more of the cir- under which the right honorable gentie- man said he tendered his resignativn, which his sovereign refused to accept. Did tue right honorabie gentleman advise his sovereign to accept his resig- nation? (Hear, hear.) This practice of tendering & nation was unintelligible unless it was accom- ge ied by the most solemn advice to the sovereign accept it, and unless all the arguments were used which were necessary to induce the sovereign to accept it. (“Oh, oh!’) If this were not done, how could a Minister of the Crown suggest that the sovereign was keeping him in afice for the purpose of resisting the dcliberate judgment of tie. House af mons? It was absolutely nevessary to explain the whoie interview, and not the effect of it, when that effect was to give @ character to a tmaluisiry at the expense of the sovereign. ‘then, in aturther communication with the sovereign, lan- ange was used of @.most eguvocal cuaracter. ‘nis was when a suggestion was made that Parlla- ment should be dissolved as soon as the state of public business would admit, In the ordinary sense of those words they meant that Parliament would be dissolved within a fortnight, If such zo were addressed to any honorable member conversaat with public affairs, and he were told that Pariia- ment wus to be dissolved as soon as the state of public business would admit, he would at once understand that there would be a dissolution within afortnizht, Was that the sense in which this recom- mendation was made to her Majesty, or had it some digerent meaning? If so, it Was an ambiguous piece of advice. (Hear, hear,) On the whole, the House had not had a fair and frank statement of what occurred between the First Minister of the Crown and his sov- ereign; and the name af the sovereign appeared to have been towards the House in a manner which was wholly unjustifiable, (oneeee} The right honorable gentleman cailed upon the majority of this House to abdicate the functions which they were bound to discharge, and for the sole purpose of keep- ing the present government in office. Such a propo- sition was an outrage to the House, and its only ob- ject was to gratify the ambition ofthe First Minister ‘of the Crown. (tear, hear.) * During the same debate Mr. Bernal Osborne, who is frank and outspoken toa fault, almost revealed the current political scandal, and quite revealed the spirit with which the Queen’s interference has been received in the following remarkabie declarations:— “Sir, what have we heard to-night? We have heard the personal claims of ministers urged as a reason for the forbearance of the House; and, curiously enough, power pose of sett party in the path marked out by such radicals as Jobn Bright, and to this sentiment must be added the personal liking which she entertains for Lord those personal claims have beén put before the peace of this country. What else have we heard? For the Arst time at least in this centary the authority of the Crown has been made use of almost as sympathizing Derby and Mr. Disraell, and the scarcely concealed | with the dipiculties af the administration. (Hear, aversion with which she looks upon Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone. These facts furnish the clue to the singular crisis that now bewilders England. Mr. Disraeli, a shrewd politician and an able man, would not for @ moment entertain the idea of his present policy were he not to a certain extent actively directed and sapported by the Queen in person. From the Queen he received his cue in opposing, instead of modifying, Mr. Gladstone’s resolutions, and from the Queen came the notes for that strange | Which, not co speech delivered in the House of Lords by the Earl of Derby, in which he denounced Mr. Gladstone's resolutions asa direct infringement upon the pre- rogatives of the Crown. It was the Queen who com- manded Mr. Disraeli to keep office in spite of the ad- verse votes of the House of Commons, and it is the Queen who prevents the leadi liberal politicians from forcing the Ministry to resign by a direct vote of want of confidence, The political situation in the United States is thus paralleled by the political situation here. You have a President who is accused of usurping the powers and disregarding the decisions of Congress, and who in turn accuses Congress of trenching upon the con- stitutional prerogatives of the President. We have a jueen Who in effect sets at defiance the decisions of ‘arliament and the constitutional right of the Honse to change the Ministry by an adverse vote, and who believes that Parliament is interfering with her sov- ereign = by destroying the Church in Ireland, The lish — has not yet spoken upon this matter as It will speak by and by: but already one may hear the mrutterings of the storm. § The Pall Ma Gazette has published an article in which it expressly declares that Engiand is Virtually a democracy, and that the only question is whether a person or @ Parliament shall be considered © sovereign. Lest I should be suspected of exag- Tation let ine quote the exact words of the article which I allude, The Pall Mall Gazeite says:— “That England is and must be virtualiy a democracy with all that that involves, is a a which nothfag but ignorance or folly can dispute, and there 18 very littie doubt ag to the sort of things waich are inciuded der that general phrase. If it were once made perfectly clear who is and who is to be the real — oa uae that "Zon n, be he who he might, id govern by special agents Htted for. the management of part leular de- partments, The continual change which goes on at prevent is due to the dimcuity of ascertamin who the sovereign is for the time being.” Talk ol the treason in Treland! What do you say to such utterances from a first class loyal newspaper in monarchical Engiand Other leading journals, not so bold as that from from which | have quoted, do not hesitate to attack the Queen indirectly. The London Neves, the official organ of the liberal! party, says that her Majesty has bec brought into the front rank of party confilct, and compares the present crisis to that in which Lor Temple handed around among the Paty} | note, written by King George III, stating that he would not recognize among his Friends any one who voted for Mr. Fox's Inoia bil The comparison is quite correct. Queen Victoria will not recognize as her friend } who votes for the dise gh yh -7 Church, and she is encouraging Mr. Dikraeli to fight that measure and _ to hold oifice while he fights it, no amatter what the House of Commons may say. her known wishes, if not her expre cl could Ue eT a8 Lord Stanley and Sir Stafford im the Cabinet; for they have reputations at stake and honor to be tarnished by oing in @ course which is directly antagonistic to he British A power greater than the love of office impels Cg to cling to thetr places, and that Poe the will of the Queen. That has muzz the London Times; that has forced the Parliamentary leaders of the liberals to consent to an arran, mt which they know to be tliegal and feel to you may rest assured that when the facta are known here the ple will be more embittered against the Crown than ever before, and the ular header outside of Parliament wiil not hesitate to attack the Queen through the men who have become scapegoats, Few can foresee the consequences of their conduct. ‘The Queen will love her power by being too zealous in preserving it. Mr. Disraeli, with consummate tact, but doubtful conrage, sheltered himself behind the petticoats of her Majesty by fulsomely entogising ¢ her graciousness and her vast ex ¢ of public aitalre. In both assertions he was a. The is not Now & gracious monarch, and she wae alwaye guided in public asfairs by Prince Albert, who had all the experience, and since his death she has meddled with nothing except to muddie ii, Mr, Disraell said in effect that if anybody was to be blamed for the action of the Cabinet it was not himself, put the Queen, and he thus succeeded in silencing ali attacks except from such irresponsible yy ae Mr. Lowe and Mr. Bright, neither of whom ever hopes to be Prime Minister under Queen Victoria, But in ehielal Rimeelf Mr. Disraeli showed where the blows o1 to fall, and thongh they could not be delivered in Parliament they will come fas! enough from The unpopMarity of the Queen i by her interference with Parliament io the ofa lar measure, and when Mr, Gtatetdne’s Biil—w! ich ie to follow hie resolutions—comes to be killed in the: House of Lords there will be such an outery for “the abdica- tion of her Majesty that it cannot possibly be resiste’, Pinte ste the fall of —— Chu wi yo ribl iow to monarchy I. dq tion has been trampled under foot, and the experi- ence of Americans, who now see the le results of di the supreme iw of their country, teaches us but too i the consequences of such an act of folly. Mr. has not resigned, but he has initiated an jon ‘Which will result, sooner or later, in the abdication disestadlishment of the ‘Irish } culiarly | bility abnormally keen, appear to us to h hear.) Nay, more, the name of the sovereign has been Jor tne first lime, I would almost say, beamirched in the arena of political conflict, (Cheers and cries of “Oh!) Now LIeay that this is a most unhappy state of things, not only for the Crown itself, but for the House of Commons and the other House of Par- iament. It would almost seem to me, listening to the enunciations made in another place, not by a noble duke, but a man who uses the purest Engiish and never is mistaken in his meaning, that there is @ power behind the throne which tenders its uncon. stitational advice (loud opposition cheers), and mten being the aii nt with ing ing gentus government, strives to control the rights and privileges of this House. (Renewed cheers.) Observe the loud cheers of the opposition arfd the omg which they cheered, and you will see that ‘he liberal party isnot to be turned from its chosen Roliey even by the Queen, and that her Majesty is likely to lose herself in aitempting to save the Irish Chureh. Charles Dickens’ Return“ American Notes” in 1868-The New ¥erk Dinner and Bohe- mianiom—Murder An Epidemic—Patti’s c- appearance—Other Celebritiee—Tke Actual Repert—A Fashionable Marriage. Lonvon, May 6, 1868, The HERALD has been severely attacked and con- demned by many ef its contemporaries for the view which it thought fit to take of the visit and the pro- ceedings of Mr, Charles Dickens in the United States. If the Hexa.o’s view required either justification or defence both may be found in the following article from the Pall Mall Gazette, which represents the sen- timents of all intelligent and sensible Englishmen in regard to the matter, On the day following Mr. Dicken’s return to London the Pail Mall said:— As Mr. Dickens himself on the one side and the Americans on the other are in a state of mutual ecstasy which appears to have risen almost to the boiling pit it would be ungracious to interfere between them; In the scene reported in yesterday's pevers {the New York Bohemiag dinner] on which it is natural to make an observation or two. In the first place, -Mr. Dickens’ own sensibilities, which are in e put him ‘on the occasion ‘in question in a rather a sunt posi- tion. It is abouta quarter of a century since his “American Notes” and “Martin Ch some part of the thin-skinned res m which they ridiculed into paroxysms of indignation. When he fe the other day at New York he praised the whole nation with an indiscriminate ardor which ex - cited rapturous delight. Everything (even Mr. ens himself to @ certain extent) had changed. 3 “T have been received,” he said, in sma.l places as well as large, “with unsurpassable politeness, delicacy, #eweet temper, hospitality, consideration, apd with unsurpassable fe ad for the pores dally enforced upon me by the nature of avocation here and the state of my health. This Ly, a8 long as | live, and as long as my descendents have any legal right in = books, I shall cause to be published as an — pendix to every copy of those two books of mine jn whieh’ have referred to And this I will do, and cause to be done, not in mere love and thank- fuiness, but because 1 Justice and honor,” America and Engiand, of which Mr. Dickens felt him- self to be the representative, they ought to be, and, according to Mr. Dickens, some respects were almost loverlike. A war between the two nations Would be something too horrible to think of. “It phar be better for this globe to be riven by an Copied , fire y a comet, overran a Sbamdoned to the Arctic beat ald 10%" tong, that t her | should present such a 4 This, we are flattered to learn, prodoced “tumultuous the company rising to thelr feet and sentiment with enthusiasm.” It strikes us as rather ‘pectacle, unjust; but | hard upon the world at large. A war between Bng- | land and the United States would be a terrible cala- | mity for @ thousand obvious reasons. Whilst | France and Germany, to say nothing of the British } islands and the North American continent, were be- ing riven by earthquakes and “overrun by loebergs’? the smal! remnant of mankind left as food for the Polat bears anc the Arctic foxes and as a subject of contempt for the Alpine Club might perhaps refiec that even the bombardment of Liverpool and N York, and the cvilision of English and Americ: fleets certain ny @ sinalier calamity itself. American ha ile A world “overr by iceberg: conception. thirty or forty of them risiing about ae jon drunk and disorderly and throwing whole at each other's heats, There has been no such fi #ince the well known American's deserip- on boundaries of hie country, as being “on the east the rising sun, on the west the setting ditto, en the north the aurora borealis and on the Sout jay of dudgment.” Almost ae remark- able, in rather @ quieter line, is Mr. Dickens’ account of the with whi mericane are re- | ceived in We fear there, some castles | in which the tation of an, American card would not act aean eon days when the puvite were n ited, and the wofMerful istary of the merican lacy before whom We Sue of CoE Ranbeiares Cane cen magically” dou! 1 NO tenti- mony inferior to that OM which on which Mr. Dickene related it—the , namely, of the ~ | herself, If he had told as of her youth po ed the Cig ee Ir i. ¢ with an ex. traordinaty em of ladies when ‘alone and self-i1 ed." its to have feit like tre coon in the r. to face With the American lady he had down and he 4 pila it. ia any use in - ner? The ‘rato, both as relates to the two nations and ‘to Mr. Dickens himeelf, is surcty almost obvious to be stated. England and United are natural friends allies, tf such expreasions have aay Doaning, and war between us wouid be a terri- ¢ eal a ’ Ne extent, Surely, ought to bear in mind the possibilll too much, and of step; 4 will ‘nom nts henley i, AS Dickenss’ own position in matter, it 1s as as possible. A quarter of a century ago.he ‘Amer- ica, Not certainly as an unknown man, but as a man much less known than he is at present. He went with @ very keen Ces for ail that was grotesque and urd; he ound it in rich abundance, and he worked ft op in his lterary workshop he came home, Being a caricaturis: aud humorist by pro- fession, he went to loox for materials for the exerelse of his talent, and of course he found them, ie is now twenty-flve years older than he Was then. He goes out with an immense, perhaps with a rather exaggerated, be ig his thin- skinned hosts are on their beha' and are intensely anxious to do him honor, he goes to pay compiiments and receive them, and the result is the speech about the icebergs and the bears. A man is likely under such circumstances to get two totaly ditferent views of all sorts' of things and peo- ple. If is one thing to walk about the country with a knay ‘k on your back, a five hpi note in your pocket, second class railway tic! for a luxury, and the parlors of public houses for your lodging, and quite another thing to be driven in tate from one great town to another, to be received in each as an honored guest to be Sree entertained or respectfully let alone, and to find every door open. to you and every person honored by your notice. ‘The Prince of Wales would have got r: different views of Ireland from those which he did get if he had driven about it in Bianconi’s cars. ‘This or something like this was, we take it, the principal dif- ference between Mr. Dickens’ two visita. He it find Hannibat Choilop and Esau Sit and Elijah Po- gtam ae rest Ke Saar a aillve if he had es a re) m to make for tesque instead ot being | in a positign to, utter of his own. It seems to us that, except that he has changed the sign from minus to plus, there is very little difference between his present and his’ past representation of America, Each isa caricature, though the two caricatures are in oppo- site directions, The first caricature, though singu- lariy amusing and successful in making a stir out of all parce ton, to its importance, never appeared to ‘us to impute anything very serious. The whole sub- stance of it was that In a new and rough country people hud grotesque and rough manners, and were lar more excitabie and less accustomed to restrain or conceal their. feelings than freee and more settled popalations. In a word, that a new country and a os country had odd sides to it. Mr. Dickens himself, we think, attached too much importance to the fact and painted it too glaringly; but it was his business to do so. He was laboring 1n his vocation. His present phase is equally exaggerated and con- siderabiy less amusing. ‘ An epedemic of most horrible murders is now aMicting England. I have recently reported for you several which have seldom been equalled for atrocity, but the list lengthens from day to day. Two boys, between twelve and fifteen years of age, are now ‘under arrest, charged with @ murderous assault upon an old woman, their reiative, who’ was the house- keeper in a place of business in the city. The city of London proper, like the business portion ot New York, is deserted after nightfall, and these two lads had secreted themselves in the house for the purpose of committing a robbery. The old woman caught them while they were breaking open her boxes and the boys deliberately beat her with a mallet until she fell lifeless, They were discovered at a hotel on the Strand, confessed their guilt and owned up to several other mysterious robberies. Patti reappeared at the Italian ra, Covent Gar- den, last evening, ard was received by the most bril- Mant house of the season with an enthusiasm which Was almost unprecedented in England. The opera was the “Barber of Seville,” with Signor Mario as the cotta. Patti was in magnificent voice and acted exqu! ls morrow evening Mile. Lucca reappears at Co- vent Garden im “Fra Diavolo,” and Miss Kellogg appears in “La Gazza Ladra” at Drury Lane. ‘The Japanese troupe at the Lyceum is an immense success, Paul Bedford takes his benetlt and fare- well of the stage o the Queen’s theaire a week from Saturday, and Mr. Sothern is to attempt the rdle of Othello on that occasion.. Mr. Dominick Mur- ray, hitherto known in such pi py Mann, has by a aingle the as Michael Fee! and made a_ decid sensation formance of “Shylock,” at Princess’. ‘hat theatre has pow cl and is for rent Mr. Boucicault’s new play, “Loudon by Night ” will be brought out there in August. “Black Sheep,” a dramatization by Mr. Edmund Tates of Ris own novel, is very successful at the Olympic. Mrs. Charles: Matthews has astonished the London critics by play- ing a serious pe’ in it most admirably, The Surrey theatre is for lease. Alfred Wigan has returned to the Queen's, There is some talk of the engagement of an American tragedian named Fairlcough at the Lyceum. Some persons will remember his perform- ances in New York. Mr. Odo Russell, the charming diplomatic represen- tative of England at Rome, was married yesterday to Lady Emily Villiers, dau, of the Earl of Claren- jon, Thave just learned that the government will short- ly recelve the transfer of the territories of the Hud- son Bay Company, and that a bill to this eifect will soon be introduced Into Parliament, RACING IN EUROPE. Events on the French Turf=Notes from the Stables. {From Bell’s Life in London, May 2.] On Sunday the card at Paris will comprise the Poule @’Essal or French Two Thousand, and from the latest Information we shall expect to see most of the following at the post:—M. Delamarre’s Virgale, by Saunterer; Mr. H. Jennings’ Bogue Homa, by New- minster; M, Schickler’s La Jung Frau, by Stockwell; M. Schickler's Trianon, by West Australian; M. Lupin’s Sardanapale, by the Flying Dutchman; M. Relset's ‘Alcyon, by “Fitz-Glatlator; "MDeldtrers Dutch Tar, hy ihe’ Firing Dutchman; 7 ying Dutchman; Prido- lin’s Anthee, by Palestro; Duke of Mamilton’s Gou- vernail, by young Gladiator; Count de Lagrange’s Capitaine, by Monarque; Count de Logrange’s Le Venetien, by Monarque; Baron de Rothschitid's Ba- tave, by the Flying Dutchman, At the time of writing there is a good deal of un- certainty béth as regards the strength of the feid and in the probabilities of selecting the Simon Pure, for as yet there has scarcely been a bet on the race, and therefore there is no indication to guide one as to which will be the dangerous Counts representatives A young French sportsman made a plunge into English racing last week by taking 100,000 francs to 1,000 francs that he med the winners of the Two Thousand, Derby, Northern Handicap, Oaks and Grand Prix, his selections being Rosicrucian for the wo Thouw™ Blinkhoolie for the hern Mandi- ». Lady zaveth for the Derby, Green Sleeve the Oaks, and The Earl for the Grand Prix; 1 will . seen, therefore, that he lost his het at a very early age. ‘The steeplechase horse, Roger Bontemps, was shot last week at ily. Bosphore II. has been renamed Sedan. We hear that Khalili Beg has purchased Guerrier, and that the same great Eastern sportsman js im treaiy concerning the purchase of the Grand Prix winner, Fervacques. Witikind has been added to the list ef geldings and sold to Count de Lauriston. The steeplechase jockey J. Riekaby has been en- gaged as first Jockey to T. ish’s stable, Ali sportsmen were pleased to see the reappearance of M.G. Flersheim at the races last Sunday looking hot mueh the worse for his late severe accident: and the reappearance also of the begin Cougs Talon, who has been in Italy recruiting his health likewise gave much satisfaction, 5 Latest Betting. THe Ferenc Denpy.—Panis, May l.—oto | against Count de L wrainsf M. de Montgomer: 4 #6; IL to 1 aytuinst Duke of Hamilton's Goa verna' rs La Jung Frau; 20 to L against M. 5 26 to 1 against Duke ‘ e (th, and off); 100 to 7 against Bracken (tk. and off): 16 to 1 against Seville (tk.); 100 to 6 against Abergeirie (t 100 to 6 inst Treasure Trov: 3.25 to 1 again War and Viscount coupled (tk Denby.—1) t against Blue Gown (tk.): 15 to 1 against the Tom B Hine colt (tk.); 20 to 1 against the 0 against Paul Jones (tk), Dots on En Biron Bevw’s Liv Tuesday last to poor i (th); ish Race Courses, A fatal accident ovcurte: Crunden of Brighton w riding in the Isle of Wight Steeple Chase at through @ wretched cur having cro: path of the horees, Now, sir, you can turn this contretemps to an immense advantage. Use your powerful pen to insist upon the banishment of that horrible nul sance of dogs on race courses. Death under any clr cumstances is shocking, but it ie terribiy so when eyes are on the victim, ani a moment all was exuitation and joy. If the authorities insisted on it dogs might as easily be excluded from the race course a8 from churches, public poe | a . It may be fun to see a wretoh at gtr from pide to side on @ Derby Day: but iy one that has It would for- Thave the @u- jodeon, Crunden’s inaster, to say he ‘im oe} gg A ay mot with er jalf, ou) Oy sae THE GEMMAN IN BLACK. A DianortcaL OuTRAGE.—On Sunday night sacreligious wretch broke the door of the vai of Commodore ‘0, in St. Anne's , and despoited acofin of ite ‘and > mbert of the R. V. 8 mother, and Mr. Isle of Wight, will be pleased to receive “ OUR STEAM -FLEET. @ontinued Investigations—What the United Siates Inspectors Should Do, What They Allow to Be Done and What They Leave Undone—Bollers, Steam Chimneys, Pumps, Boats, “Bickets and Axes and Vessels Aguin, . ‘The recital of the principal defeots and omissio! in the character and fitting of the steam fleet owned in and trading with this port, as published recently in the HgRALD, has awakened an appreciating in- terest, not alone in the immediate community, but among the travelling public thronghout the sea- ports of the Union, in the inadequate provisions notice- able in too many instances and fhe criminal neglect apparent in others, of steam passenger vessels gene- rally, in the requirements of safety to those who en- trust their lives and keeping to the officers com- manding them. It has been clearly demonstrated to the minds of the most indifferent that one or more of the deficiencies already narrated have been primarily in part the cause of the loss of life at sea that has been the record of the steam feet of this country since its first essays. ‘The law enacted by Congress in 1852, before ad- verted to, wherein are embodied measurably wise and requisite requirements, starts boldly and appro- priately in its opening section to define the duties of the inspectors appointed under its provisions at libe- ral, adequate salaried, at the root, the primarycause of fully four-fifths of the appalling disasters at sca that ever and anon send the shafts of death among the households of our land—and that is fire. Icebergs may float down upon the comparatively pigmy hulls of steamships, crushing their tron bound propor- tions as if they were egg shells; frightful seas may lash a vessel, severing timber from timber; leaks may arise from imperfect mechanism or from decay of planking; but fire is the greatest of all ocean terrors, The section reads that such inspec- tors are appointed “to examine and see that suitable and safe provisions are made throughout such ves- sels to guard against loss or danger by fire; and that no license or other papers, on any application, shall be granted if the provisions of this act are not com- plied with,” &c, This is plain and comprehen- sive, and were its requirements conscien- tlously carried out, were the precautions which are subsequently noted in the same act and the remedial measures it suggests to competent men fully entorced, there would be but little cause to complain in this connection.. Can the pub- lic have contidence in the character of inspections of steam vessels when these are overlooked or ne- giected—whether from ignorance or complicity is not, perhaps, known—the all important measures to arrest or remove the principal causes of fire occur- ring on board? Can they feel safely when vessels are deficient in “good and suitable boats ?’’—when they are insufficiently furnished with axes, buckets, hose ipes, &c.? Are they willing to risk life where, instead of life preservers being adequate in number, suitable in material, well adapted for the purpose and kept in convenient and accessible places, they are criminally insuificient in number, character, Illy adapted for the purpose intended and impracticable of easy access? Will they not, on the contrary, tun aside to such steam vessels having suitable provi- sions for the preservation of life in case of fire or other disaster? And to this end, fully of the con- viction that the non-conformity to the laws of Con- just and measurably effective when carricd out, have been too long in vogue—that too many disasters have been the direct consequence of igno- rance or something worse on the part of inspectors, the di of owners, the neglect of trust con- fided to captains and engineers—this, previous and subsequent references are and will be made to this matter, that it may arrest the attention of ins; tors, owners, officers, and ail others interested in steam vessels, to the reg) ‘bilities of their respec- tive positions, causing them to reflect upon the na- oe of their duties, both to the public and them- selves. BOILERS—PROTECTION TO WOODWORK * AROUND ‘THEM—THEIR CHIMNEYS AND SMOKE PIPES, In addition to the requirements included in the act of Congreas before referred to, where the wood- work immediately surrounding a boiler, its steam chimney and drum, should be placed at the greatest distance practicable consistent with the capacity of & vessel, and properly prot hres} material and ei seeatetes alre Meaty and de. finitely made the subject matter of vious articles, the act imperatively demands that steam chimney rooms and the space about smoke pipes shoud be of that character to admit of the passage of a man around. them. These spaces or rooms should be without any floors, to enable a free communication for the up- ward escape of the heated air from the bolier below, also to adinit the introduction in any emergency of a hose pipe in the event of the woodwork around it being ignited. Whenever and wherever a smoke pipe passes through a decx, however light may be its character of construction, there should be an open ‘about it to admit a current of air to pass through and around it, and, asa further pre- caution, between this space and the woodwork there should be boxing of metal containing water to further guara the wood from ignition. Lhe the use of felting as an admirable and fine fa gf me phe USeecrip enough br gos said io show how essenttally necessary vent the communication of fire from an ‘Sverheated bolter, and yet in a, instances this great precaution is wholly neglected, : ‘ ‘4 in port in 1 an qttem, the beet the aaatiated that atta ‘he eae The continual neglect of this precaution, merely be- cause it requires a limited and immediate expendl- ture of money, and that upon boilers in passenger boats ing of ay rivers and sounds—where Sat asingle tis far! ed, and that inadequately fitted with an insufficient number of life preservers, and these stowed in such inaccessible positions as to be of little service in a sudden alarm—is diMcult to account for; and equally mcomprehensible is the reason why the inspectors do not enforce this effec- tive precaution. So well established are the advan- tages of felting bollers in aoe minds of well informed ”” of which there are many now cxtant—that they oftentimes refuse to go to sea without its es gree ge are ney its great to and its agency P vaceng fepered diMcuit is it to comprehend the persistent use of blowers in certain steamboats, Boilers are tmperfectly constructed, and as a consequence there must be additional draught, which can ony ob- tained by the use of blowers or jets. Better it were, in many instances, that the botlers suffer immediate annihilation than subject passengers to the risks which the use of blowers entails. So opposed to all prepricty and safety is their presence In vessels that a prominent engineer has sald that “so essenti: necessary to the requirements of personal safety the abandonment of them, I question if a iy, = 2 na of intelligent perso with the My helore them, could be found throughout the en- tire country that would not decide that a vessel im which they are used was unsuited to carry pas- sengers, even on a river or. and unseaworthy on a lake or the ocean,” Messicurs Inspectors stick a pin here? PU BOATS, BUCKETS, AXES. ‘Where ity in the boiler department of a 1 impe in the matter of m ill constructed boilers, b= hs rf sheathing, &c., greater rd should be had to the ‘provisions against it. Yet this require- ment in many instances ts not observed, and the dis- regard to the safety of life in this respect is suai the same with the other points referred to. That first, there is an insufficient number of independent steam pumps, with engine combined, in sea-going vessels. Steamers of yee piving an ocean route shonid be provided with two with an independent boiler to work them, and they shouid be placed upon the main deck, in that if fire occurred in the hold tt could be worked without its attendants being interrupted or choked by smoke. To this there #bould be a sufficiency of hose, leading to any and all rts of the vessel, ready at any moment for use, In he matter of the provision of this supply of hose, many of the steamers inspectéd have apparently com- y with the law, but omMicers and crews oft- Rimes allow it to be stowed in such inacessibie places that it can be of little service in emergent cases. Lifeboats and ordinary boats are provided in matter of number, in the majority of cases, as certificates call for, but the absence of oars, thole pins and the boats’ locations in many instances, on the upper or hurricane deck, is such as to nega- tive the provision of the act of Congress, They could not be launched with any degree of safety from such elevated positions, if there were no confusion, no ter- ror-stricken, helples* passengers to rush without ari ent or reason into them. Adding this and the known dangerous character of the apparatus ing put were al to avail one’s sel often. even if they could be reached, the thought ever dart through the brains of the United States inspectors that such boats, “piled aloft’? like old furniture in a garret, may be wauted to save hu- man life? Similiar remarke may be made reepecting the provision of buckets and axes. Of the former, where they were fonnd in numbers complying with the United States Inspector's certiheate many vessels had them piaced on the upper deck or perched. upon the roofs of oMcers’ quarters, approach- Je Mm either case only by meane of ske} lad. ere that would require one thoroughly conversant with the conetru of @ steamer, first, to find, and, secondly, to bea ay to make a flow asvel In such locations they are useless, Of axes the United States law aires @ cert 1 ided, reguiated by the tonni ly one or more will be found in engine sovng whe moe OF houres, far out of the reach a ordinary stature, and for oar whey are simply of no value MODATING PTRAMBOAT NEIGHBORS. ‘The bw that “I shall’ them: nelves ‘verse! submitted to their hy req of the law in tore hs howe, ite Se, in : tors is easy to answer. It were ible to reprehenail kery and a 7 ing bay cong rh it in unmeasured terms, to see thet it should be diq- ‘continued, and that at diate duty of the heads Under what conditions‘do a tos macuin and to at it edequa to ‘sel with te laws eviacted for. the idraectlon Owners fit their boats SHORPIY. contend wita shall possess strength, seaworthiness et Fp adopted and duty of their inspect! + ‘THE STEAM VESSELS VISITED. The Leo, on the route from this port toSavannah, of 893 tons burden, her certificate adv! has 360 feet of thirty-nine buckets, eight axes, and seventy-five life preservers in staterooms. So far as the hose is concerned, she apparently is furnished with the above amount; of buckets only thirty- fou! ry of which could not three of wood, were on cranes and covered with canvas; a portion of the life preservers were found as rep. the bal- ance being “‘stowed away.” Has one boiler, built in 1865; 1s partially felted; the woodwork 1n places about it and the steam chimney has but ttle protec- tion and is too near. The independ: steam fire is below in hold, which is objec and bilge pump, tlon- able, and that this vessel carries at times deck loads of cotton is reprehensible. The Virgo, on the same route, of 1,143 tons agen" her certificate says, has 400 feet of hi forty-eight buckets, nine axes, four boats and 100 life preservers. Part of the hose was seen, but only forty-four buckets could be found, aud these on the apper deck, or rather over the saloon cabi which were only par*ly filled with water ; two of the nine axes werefound, the b lance were searched for, bat not seen, The boats were in good condition, although some of the thole pins were not in position ; the life preservers it is impracticable to speak of, and those on board did not vouch any explanation of their whereabouts, The boiler, of low pressure, built 1865, 13 not felted, and. the woodwork, which is too near it, has no protection at the sides. The steam chimney, very imperiectly felted, is surrounded with woodwork only partly sheathed. It was observed that the felting near the point of connection with the chimney and botler was burned badly, and the woodwork {s too near this portion. The independent steam fire and bi pump 1s also below in hold; the woodwork about the auxiliary boller 1s not sufiicient- Wy protetted. Blowers are uséd to her furnaces, and the power of the engine is moderate compared with the resistance of the null, The engine-room steam- gauge was not in position at the time of visit, prob- ably being repaired or about being replaced. ¢ Shippan, Stamford to New York, of 418 tons, has, per certificate, 235 fect of hose, twenty-five buckets and five axes. The hose may be correct; twenty buckets were found on the upper deck; four axes, two in pilot house and two in engine room, were found. Has two low pressure boilers, built in in 1866, partly felted; but the woodwork around them is too near and has no protection; the steam chimney is not felted. There are two boats on board, one aft of each wheelhouse; one of these is attached to davits, but the ropes around the blocks are en- tangled; the other boat lies bottom up with no facill- ties for launching. This boat uses blowers to fur- maces and carries deck loads, that effectually block up the Of Wi light furniture, &c. This ‘of freight, encumbrance particularly when very combustible, is to be censured. a ‘The Osseo, New York to Flushing, when visited had no certificate. “it was at Inspector's office, and had been for a month,” said ber captain. Upon ex- amination it was found she ‘had fifty life im racks under the deck, two boats aft of wheel houseg, with no launching a} ‘tus; fifteen buckets on upper deck. Has one boiler, with water bottom, not felted, and no protection to woodwork surround- ing it. . A bower is used to fur! and the same censurable practice of carrying deck loads as above referred to was ol le. e security and pro- visions against fire of this boat might be greatly im- prov The Elm City, New York to New Haven, of 1,049 tons burden, certificate has 450 feet of hose, six boats, sixty-two buckets, twelve axes and 360 life preservers. Part of the hose was in position and the rest 1s prop- ably on board as required; there are three boats on saloon deck, three on upper deck, one with no means of lowering, nor could the others be made available as desired in case of alarm and accident; the buckets were found after a long search on the of the hur- ricane deck, only approachable by a the axes could not be found; Nock 1088 promenade deck, out of reach; twenty-four were found on the deck and where will never be found by astranger the boston the hurricane deck; the a were on Put this ts above the boi’ers, which are . Gauges required, uses blowers to , and carries di loads of cotton, light » &c., blocking up WAYR. ons spection autho: e of hose, buckets, tive es, two boats, 193 life ie fin nineteen cork jackets, The hose was seen; the ets Were so far out of reach they might ‘a8 well have been overboard; three axes were found; the boats on cranes were on the apper deck; 106 life presetvers were counted after climbing over barrels, ‘ight, &c., and if there are more on_ board, as re- quired, they were “stowed” a’ le pressure boilers, built in 1864, felted; there is space between them and: the woodwork, but several wooden stanchions with no sheathing; are too near them for safety; uses blowers. Fire riske could be easily improved. ‘The Northampton, New York to New Haven, 450 tons, same authority says, has 250 feet of hose, thirty buckets, six axes, three boats and 100 life pre- servers. Portion of the hose was seen In a box; Stok ‘and twelve were hanging ‘under: the saloon welve were deck, the balance required ead nok be found: axes were seen; two the boate—only one on cranes—are on the hurricane deck and it is questionable if reached by the skeleton ladder in an alarm, which ts the only approach to it, if tne ro) subject to the influence of weather, connect! them, Would now, in, thelr condition, | al ex passengers; of the life preservers were found, the number required, many of the berths destitute of anything of the semblance of a cork jacket. Has one low pressure boiler, part- ly on deck, not felted, and the woodwork, which is too near it, has no protection; the steam chimney is poll uses blowers, and carries deck loads of ay John Gibson, New York to Washington, of 445 tei a ano Seat an Vv sroeurece: Portion of the hose ‘was found in boxes aioe aety with ropes; none of bra found after @ Vigorous search; axes were found in thee Toom, one and a hatchet in il the honse, leaving still one nnaccounted for; the boats are on skeleton frames abaft the smoke pipe: f dozen of the fifty life preservers ad that only. Hae one low built in 1864, not felted; at sides but no to woodwork. be to the connecting m chimney with the shell; ash door in- suMiciently secured, thereby inc! the risk of anently | too near the up. rt, had no ‘por ‘Ag lgnty life ers were found on upper and lower decks, three with oars, &c., sixteen buckets, partiy Miied, on upper deck. Has one low pressure ¢! byllt = 3, Woo ‘or with no water bottom, partly felt mesides and top of shell too peer ans not protected; haces, abd another practice econdelanatcry is her ex- er practice co rex. edeck loads,» “me J. B. Schuyler, New York to Bridgeport, 508 crtificater has 300 feet of Nowe, titty 260 jife p ‘h four missing; ‘axes On eck and fn pi jouse; the outs ‘were not well provided for, as the tackling, &c., was Sepeereiy mares eas of them was half full of , With no thole pins nor oars; in their condition ede of examination they would be of little service, Hes built it 1885, situated F not felted, ‘andy on deck, covered with canvas; the ro} attached to them looked Father rotten, te est of rain, “The Hooked life preservers in, but the berths were ‘of such a precaution of . Hae two bullers, built In 1866, not felted, but core ered Ww! Se, Ranging Whe ote over 3 the aides of the nll are partly. prosacted, eas the ash doors are insufficiently The practice in this ninety preservers wi wer eareswo on uppewdeck, with twelve missing, one low. ure boiler, built in 1866, the: boiler; loa chimney felted, uses ler; sl chimney i door insufficiently secured and Carries . The Old Colony ditto, under general treatment for fl health, 5 The Equator was about laying up. YACHTING. ley, Bart., for the Thames; 29th, Leda, Colonel H. We Verschoyle, for Dublin. Yachts at the station Fiqrence, the Duke of Leeds; Urania, W. Wise; Cay- man, R. B. Baxendale; Maia, J. P. Ellames; Eleanor, the Duke of Marlborough; Rosi }, Sit Bruce Ohiohester, Bart. ‘The aa aie EF are titting out:;—Myth, Viscount Lismore; fy, Sir H. Ogiander, Bart.; nda, Inglis Jones; Fastnet, Hi. Beecher, Bart., Luira, Earl of ‘Statford; R. B. Sheridan, M. P.; Panther, P. L. Powys Lybbe’ Gelert, Colonel E. Loyd; Nuketus, R. Batt; sea Bird, Count F. Du Monceau; Dream, schooner, G. Bentinck; Northumbria, G. R. Stephenson. Royal Harwich Yacht Club. {From Bell’s Life in London, May 2.) The annual meeting of this club was held on Wed- nesday, the Commodore, J, Goodson, Esq., M. P., im the chair, Mr. B. P. Goodwin, the honorary treas- urer and secretary, read the financial statement for, the year ending April 1, 1867. ‘Tne subscriptions and: entrance fees received amounted to.£215 4s., and the total receipts were £389 lis. 4d. The irre | including the purchase of £50 more consols, w: £313 Lis. 6d., leaving @ balance to the credit of the Club of £75198, 10d. The club numbers 251 mem bers, and has'107 yachts, with an aggregate tol of 4,133 tons. The committee expr their cation at Harwich having been: selected on se occasions as the terminal post for the Thames clube’ ocean matches, and trusted those and other clubs! would be induced to repeat them. Victoria Yacht Club—Opeuin the Season. [From Bell’s Life in London, May 2.' On Tuesday last the above club opened their season. by arace for a silver goblet, for first class models. The following boats entered:—} Bins, Moagutte tie Site Holl Kebul Margaret, emily, , Nellie, Blue Bell, fc Hope and the Heatherbeil, thirteen ot was ¥en strong wind blow4 sea. Fg water (recently ictoria Park. Stations and pumber been drawn for, Nellle, Kiss me Qui losquito, comprising the first heat, we sent away to an even start, all the boats keeping close together, until nearing the club house, wh the fast mudel Nellie, followed ie Nebula, also a boat, drew ahead, and reached the flags first, working back Nellie drew further away, and eventu- ally won the heat. A Tace ensued for sec place between Nebula and Mosqi cane slightly in favor of Nebula, yy jose The for the second heat, Albert, Blue an Alarm and Hope, were now started, the ih over the ) in heats Nebula and tt off very badly. in, wor! back, an @: faa Took place, Min All rE eindwart ond drew up to Alarm, which boat again sailed away and, reached the winning post first. Hi The Eliza, Nancy, Wiliie, Wasp and in the third All got very well away ex Wasp, who becalmed to leeward, Eliza rai away first, followed by Willie, Nancy and and these positions remained a exce| Wasp, who soon felt the ener, was ones or geet Margaret won, Willie 3 Bprror oF BEuw’s Lire:—May I be allowed maki Dog gm IEW | rae Yad Qlub on behalf of a class of y: that 1 ad ‘to is that between fifteen and twenty-five tons, com~- of such yachts as the Syren, Kittiwaki, Vam- Lema and Wavecrest; and 1 think in naming’ such vessels, and stat that, unless some altera~ tion is made in the usual programme of the Royalj St. pores 1) the whole of these vessels will be com-~ pletely shut out from all participation in the sports’ ee, 1 can hardly fail to secure sympathies of the yeenting men of this fourish- ing club. Men who seen, id yacht racing! must know that it would be the height of folly for a yacht of eighteen or twenty-five tons to te 23 run against Such vessels ag the Niobe or Glance, or from forty tons and Ly they have i asked to do the Royal St. Yacht Club, which really, ris to be hi |, Will show some consideration for the numerous fleet of on whose behalf 1 have ventured to make thi Deal. I can only assure them that should the not be in vain, and should they now adopt the fication of the Prince Albert Yacht Club on the more porn tigen Tan result RJ Ps vast improve- ment in the shown, Yours, &c., APRIL 30. ns A YACHTSMAN. THE LATE FIRE (N FALL RIVER, MASS. ‘ , May 16, {From od on River Lope News, a “ val ‘The fire was White Mill, 8 ily communicaied to the maim building, and if-past three o’clock the mill was in flames, The walls fell in soon after, ruins remain, ae were Meutroyed. Suimi'gnd machinery (0,240 spindles at $12 WE) ver ast? ot? seeeee cotta house and in process ‘pieces at $4 each) wa gpaee e «$116,500 of man- Goods on hand (5,000 Total.... Deduct the value the loss will 000 in the following offices, viz.:— ~3 * ay and Marine Insurance Co. City Fire Insuran e Merchants’ Fire Insurance Co., Hi Putnam Fire Insurance Co., Hartford Aina Fire insurance Co., Hartford. Bay State Fire Insurance Co,, Worcester. Home Fire Insurance Co., New Haven. ie's Fire Inaurance o,, Worceste National Fire Tnsurance Co,, Boston. .. « Pacifo Fire Insurance Co,, Aan Francisco. Norwich Figg Insurance Enterpriee Fire Insurance Equitable Fire Insurance Co., Atnerican Fire Insurance Oo. Roger Williams Fire Insurance Co. Narraganset Fire Insurance Co. Firemen’s Fire Insurance Co., Hxoelsior Fire Insurance Yonkers and New York New York...... wee ‘The White Mill wi A the exe ception of the Anawan, which was built im 1826) w: the oldest in the city. It originally contained about 3,600 apindies, buf in 1841 it was enlarged to the ea- pacity 4 indies, with 186 looms, 10) ion ‘and turning out anny ,000 yards of print clots, The White are also informed, celebrated Sharp & the 1 Te the second to int the berts mule into this count, nawan being the first. ‘This was in 3841. Bes Creme escent ae amelied smoke oom —n ine @’clock Er cat fon tn the ploker house. ‘The watchman but wis unable %} discover W'