The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1868, Page 6

6. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Wars Fawn. | BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Conniz S0oGau. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— ‘THe Waite Covkane, Md street, corner of Eighth PIKE'S OPERA HOU avenue, —LOst. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—OLivER Twist—AUNT CuarLorre’s MATD. ul FRENCH THEATRE.—Engtigh Opera—Marrua. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humery Domery. | NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. - | Yaw AnD HELEN, IRVING HALL.—B1. D Tom's Conornr. 9810 CONCERT, STEINWAY HALL.—' BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Taman: sree ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, ECCEN ay. —BAULet, Faner, | THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broad a . HKELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SOnGs, | ccoRNTaicitirs, &c.—GRAND Dutcu “8.” ISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—K7rHto- ADOMESIS, SINGING, DANCING, &e. SAN PRA Vian ENTES TONY PASTOR'S OPE: Vooatiem, Neuro MON HOUSE, 201 Bowery.-Comto MRS. FB. CONWAY tobe HR Gasiicht—-Mt AND Mas, Peren Wuire. A HOUSE, MPEAOHERS. HOOLEY'S 0! MINSTURLSY Brooklyn, —ETHtorian HALE, 954 and 255 Broadway.aNoRaMa ov THe Wan. | NSW.YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — SCIENCE AND Avr. Speqeeaar us co al 27] | HEET.| | | New York, Tuesday, May 19, 2282 NEWS. EUROPE. The gews report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday events, May 18, The news of tie failure of the impeachment Mana- gers in Washiig'on produced a profound sensation | in Lonac suction being favorable to American interests. (unt es securities advanced rapidly Jn Baglund wel ou tie Continent under the infnence of the reports irom New York. The following table contrasts (he prices prevatiing yesterday with the quotations of Sutueday:— IN LONDON. Mity 18. May 8. Five-twonties 10% 1 Tis Arie Rat 4g Milinots Center MY A O5ty | we Five-twenties........ ai 165 Count Bis: rk delivered a speech hopefal of German reunion. 7) yavict Fentan, Barrett, had the death sentenve ayain respited in London, The Disravii Cabinet was twice defeated in the | House of Commons on the Scotch Reform hill, Na- poleon had been iil. { CONGRESS. In the Senate Mr, Grimes was granted indefi | good, 8c. a 9¢., and inferior, 6!¢c. a 7¢c.; lambs, 12¢. | for declining is that he prefers his present position, | complished. on American ships at Havana and also to the | nite answer. NEW. YORK: HERALD, TUKSDAY, MAY. 19; 1863.—-TRIPLH:: SHERT: 1 ship Cimbria, Captain Hebioh, wilt teave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day (Tuesday) for Southampton and- -Hambarg. The maiis for Kuropo wilt close at the Post Office at twelve M. The Nebraska, Captain Guard, of the Liverpool and Great Western line, will leave pier 46 North river to-morrow (Wednesday) at two P. M. for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. ‘The stock market was dui! and variabie yesterday. Government securities were strong and experienced a sharp advance, Gold closed at 13954. ‘The market for beef cattle was very quiet yester- day and with about 2,000 head on sale prices were heavy and about xc. per tb. lower than they were last Monday. Fair to prime steers aold at 16%;0. & 18\c., and inferior to ordinary 16c. & 163¢0. Oc- casionally 183¢c, was obtained for extra quality. Milch cows were in moderate demand and steady in value, extras selling at $100 a $110; fair to good, $80 a $95, and inferior to common $45 @ $75. Veal | calves were steady, with a fair demand at 110, a 12c. for prime and extra, and 7¢.a 10c. for inferior to good. Forsheep and lambs there was a tolergbly active demand at firm prices. Extra sheared sheep sold at 10c, a 103¢c.; prime, 9a, a 93¢c,; common to aisc, Swine were in large supply and but little sought after, and prices were lower, heavy prime selling at 9%{c. a 10¢.; fair to good, 9c. a 924¢., and common and rough, 83¢c. a 9c. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The delegates to the Chicago Convention are as- sembling in large numbers in that city. Speculations are of course rife as to the probable nominee for the second place, General Grant being conceded for the first, A brother-in-law of General Grant, now in Washington,. is reporied to have said, however, that tae General had written # letter declining the proposed nomination at Chicago. That letter was in the hands of a delegate, who had instructions to place itin the hands of the president of the convention, The reason assigned and that Southern reconstruction, in aid of which he might have done good service, is now almost ac- ‘Telegraphic advices from Vera Cruz, Mexico, ou the Mth and from the capita! on the 10th state that it was rumored that Romero was to come to Wash- ington again, Sanchez Ochoa denies the authenti- city of his alleged confession. It was decided that no | more railway concessions should be granted by Con- | gress, and Mr. Anson Bangs, of New York, had started home in consequence. A large force of secret police were employed at the capital ferreting out conspiracies. An attempt to kidnap President Juarez and his family at Chapultepec ts reported. Further telegraphic accounts of affairs in Hayti are ved. Salnave on taking Port au Prince had only one hundred and fifty soidiers with him. A por- tion of this force have since abandoned bim and de- clared for the revolutiotists, and it is reported that they had made him their prisoner, Our Cuban correspondence is dajed May ti. .Cap- | tain eral Lersundi bad returned to Havana from his tour of the island. The public festivities attend. | ing his visits were very grand, but the people are not well satisfied wiih the Captain General or his visits, He promised nearly everything that the pcople required, but they doubt the eficacy of promises 80 readily made. The captain of the brig Selma had paid the $900 fine mulcted at Ma- «8 under protest and placed the case in the Is of the American Consul there. Mr. La Rein- tree, the acting American Consut General, had called the Captain General's attention to the fines imposed per- sonal assault upon him by the Shipping Master cia, but In the latter case he awaits instructions from secretary Seward before demanding redress, In re- gurd to the ships the Captain General gave no defi- ‘The steamship New York arrived at San Francisco loave of absence by reason of illness, A request Mouse fo tarnish it with an oficial | edings of the last two days of the was made to take up the Ar a bul, which was, however, lad aside and a concurrent resolution to adjourn | until the 26th insiint was adopted. Mr. Bu a4 # privileged quesiion, referred to Lhe proposed in. | vestigation into tie conduct of certain Seaators on the part of the House as inproper and eutirely out- | side the duties of ihe House, He objected to the re- | quest for a copy of the proceedings which had just | been received. Considerable debate ensued upon it, | pending which the sie, in aecordauce wilt the | regolution, adjourned until Thursday. In the House, under the Mouday call of States, Mr. | Robinson ofercd « bil proposing an amendment to | the constitution making foreigners eligible to the | Presidency. Mi. Cobb offered another amending th constitution so as to vacate the oiices of alt Judges of the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of _ the United Slaics who shall have held their offices for cight years, and providing that Congress 4 shall elect all Judges of the Supreme Court, and prescribe the mode of electing or appoiuting judges of the inferior couris. Mr, Eggelston, at the request of & Missouri m ©, introduced a resolution pro- | viding for a comauiit(ee to inquire into the wed use of improper means to infucnee Senator LHe reon's vole, which was adopted. Mr, Bover introduced a resolution providing for the appointment of two democratic members on the commiltee of the Impeachment Managers to participate in the investigation of certain charges of cor- ruption in influencing the votes of Senators; but the House retused ta consider it by a vote of twenty-eigut to sixty-eight, A bill making an appropriation to carry out the Alaska purchase was reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, A minority report | was also presented. Mr. Ingersoll made a five muinutes’ personal explanation in regard to the ports of certain correspondents of New Yoi papers. Another proposition to withdraw the im- | peachment charges was raled out by the Speaker. Mr. Stevens presented a resolution requesting the Senate to furnish oficially a copy of the proceedings during the last two days of the impeachment trial. Considerable discussion ensued and the resolution Was finally adopted. A message was received from the Senate agreemg to the concurrent recess with an amendinent making the day of adjournment Monday. couse was about adjourning when Mr. Butler tad the motion withdrawn, and as a question of priv e moved that the House do not | concur, urgin hat the authority of the House would be ueceeary to compel the attendance of wit- nesses before the \inpeachment Managers, ‘The cou- current resolution was then laid aside and the House adjourned until to-day, THE CITY. A public meeting was held last evening at Cooper Institute, presided over by Peter Cooper, to take into consideration the best means of protecting and elevating the Indians of the United States and 1 tories, Resolutions were adopted favoring the ore guntaation of a soviety for this object! and a general committee was appointed to carry (he same into eifect. The Excise report on adulterdted liquors has just published, it shows that alcohol is the strong. cat Ingredient and pure water the most used in adul- terating liquors, Leger beer is more aduiteratat than any other be 5 lo the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen yeaterday a resolution was offered and referred authorizing a | special comimitier to visit Cincinnatt and examine | the bridge over tne Ohio, with a view to facilitate | action in regard to the proposed East river bridge. | A lectare was delivered last evening by Dr. T. % | Lambert, before the Society for the Advancement Of Seience and Ari, at their rooms, Cooper Institute, the subject being “Weaith and Longevity, which | was tilustrated by numerous anecdotes and other wise ably treated. There was a numerous attend | ance. William Kelly was sentenced in the Court of , General Seasions yesterday to twenty years in the + State Prison fora daring robbery from the person of William $, Gavey on the Ist inst, { In the Supreme Court, Part 2, yesterday, an action was brought by a stage driver named Cantwet) i against the Merchants’ Union Express Company for injuries sustained by him through the alleged neg). gence of the defendants’ servants. Verdict for the platntifl, $5,000, recetved fromm the ule ‘The fine steamship Denmark, Captain Thompson, , of the National Line, will leave pier 47 North river at 12 M. to-day (Tuesday), for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, ‘Tue Hamburg American Packet Company's steam. | ing @ loss of $50,000, , deney. | voting to postpone the verdict upon the ten | main issue before the people, yesterday from China and Japan, She brings dates from Ifong Kong to the 19th and Yokohama to the jof April, The Japanese oficial who fired upen The foreign consulates had committed Hari Kari by people in tho several Territories (‘squatter sovereignty”) to seitlé the question of slavery or no elavery for <hemselves, Between these opposing factions and ideas the party was broken to pieces, and between Breckinridge and Douglas the republican party, under Lin- coln and on the platform of no further exten- sions of slavery, came into power. The democratic radicals of that day were the Southern slaveholding oligarchy and their Northern pro-slavery adherents, The most conspicuous of all these was Benjamin F. Butter, of Maasachusetts, who, after voting fifty-seven times for Jeff Davis at Charleston, | rallied with his Northern confederates at the adjourned convention at “Baltimore, under the Southern slavery extension: banner. of Breckinridge. This same Butler is now the most implacable of the Northern radical leaders for Johnson's impeachment, against such of the founders and builders of the republican party as Chase, Fessenden and Trumbull. Butler and his faction of impeachers, however, ruling in Congress, will rule the convéntion, and they have resolved upon Johnson's removal through | the application of the screws and pulleys in their party platform, Assuming that they will sacceed in making the removal of Johnson under this impeachment the party shibboleth for this Presidential campaign, what will follow? We say that we may look for a.party crash like that which followed the Charleston Convention, or for an independent Presidential ticket which will at least carry off the balance of power, as in the case of Van Buren in 1848 and of Fillmore in 1856, provided always that this election is | conducted in the usual way. But if this impeachment test of party allegi- ance shall be adopted at Chicago, it will cover the purpose of effecting Johnson’s removal at all hazards. If this thing, thus resolved upon, cannot be otherwise done, it will be done through a postponement of the verdict upon the articles pending until a dozen new radical Sen- ators, more or leas, shall have been added to the Senate with the restoration of the recon- structed Southern States, Tho task of substi- tuting Wade for Johnson in the White House, ad interim, will then be comparatively | easy. Then, the last obstruction to the radical programme * being removed, the Presidential election may be reduced to a mere formality through an enlargement of the mili- | tary powers of General Grant, or it may be indefinitely postponed, together with the elec- tions for the next Congress, upon the convenient plea of necessity for the public safety. The suspension of the voting upon the impeachment articles, after the failure of the experimental vote upon the eleventh, is a proceeding so extraordinary and so suggestive, under the cir- cumstances, that we may build upon it the most audacious revolutionary designs without strai ing at our conclusions. The postponement beyond the Chicago Convention can only be interpreted as a party appeal to the conven- tion and in view ofa fixed design to remove Andrew Johnson. The vote taken Has dis- closed the vote required to consummate this object, and the convention is expected to sup- ply the deficiencies in declaring the test of | { order of the authorities, Charles EK. James and Silat James, charged with | the murder of Joseph Clark in Worcester, Mass., last | 'y,and David Dore and Josephine La Flamme, iwith the murder of the latter's husband at Dudley in April, were igned in Worcester yester- day. All of them pleaded “Not guilty’ and their triuls were set for the next term of the court. Pike, alias Ross, the prisoner charged with the mur- der of Mr, and Mra, Brown, at Hampton Fails, N, H., | was urraigned before a trial justice yesterday and | pleaded “guilty on both charges. A fire at Bridgeport, Conn., on Sunday destroyed the buildings of tue Deroy Lumber Company, invoiy- | On Sunday night a fir of the Oswego and Syra ‘The loss is $40,000, ‘The prisoners in Port Point, Sad Francisco tat. | bor, forty-five in number, mare (heir escape on Fri- day night. None of them have been recaptured, though some were heavily ironed. lestroyed the machine shop Ratiroad in Oswego. The Chics Convention—Tho Tmpeackm the Main Qacstion. The Republican National Convention for the nomination of the party ticket and platfori for the next Presidency meets in Chicago to-mor- | row. Most of the delegates are already on the | ground, and in squads as numerous as the States concerned they are canvassing, caucusing, com- paring notes and counting noses upon this, | that and the other candidate for the Vice Presi- | As for the first place on the ticket | not a dissenting voice is heard ; General Grant will doubtless be nominated by acclamation— that is, if the statement afloat in Washington relative to the General having wriiten a letter positively declining the nomination, be not cor- rect. But the Vice President, since ‘the Senate | vote of Saturday last on the impeachment, has become exceedingly doubtful. The prestige | and power of “Old Ben Wade” as the coming | man ad inferim, in the place of Andrew John- son, are gone; and, reduced to the common | level of his competitors for the honor, the odds | appear to be heavily against the disappointed | Ohio radical. The New York delegation are | working like beavers for Fenton; but our last November election will, perhaps, rule him out. | Speaker Colfax, with the consent of the East, | will most likely be the man; but should the | East demand a place on the ticket Hannibal Hanlin, to right the mistake of dropping him | in 1864, may be taken up again. But whatever may be the difficulty and the | tettlement on the Vice Presidency, it becomes | 4 subordinate question since the failure of the | ruling radical faction at Washington on the eleventh article of the indictment against An- drew Johnson. The paramount and controlling | issue before the convention will be this im- | peachment, The radicals of the Senate, in | remaining articles, voted an appeal from the High Court of the Senate to this party con- vention ; and upon this issue the radical mana- | gers will make a desperate effort to shape the party platform s0 a8 to make the removal of | Johnaon the test of party allegiance and the We look, there- fore, for a conflict in this convention somewhat | similar to that which broke up the old and | powerful democratic party at Charleston in | 1860, and for a similar result. Atthe Charles- | ton Convention the Southern slaveholding oligarchy put in as their ultimatum the right of | the slaveholder, under ‘‘the constitution as it | was,” to take his slaves and settle with them as | his slaves in any of the Territortes of the United ; States. Against this dictatorial sine gua non the Northern democrats, under Douglas, de- Manded the recognitiga gf the right of the | radicalism is ramp party fidelity. In any event, as a complete defeat on the | impeachment will be a complete vindication of President Johnson—a vindication which will entirely disarm the radicals, so far as he is con- cerned—we may safely assume that they will still put offthe decisive vote till they are sure of their game. For the time being his fate | and the fate of the republican party are in the hands of the Chicago Convention, where ant and conservatism is | almoat invisible. Dickens Back Again in England. If we needed or desired any confirmation of | our views of the recent visit of Mr. Dickens to | this country, and particularly of the ridiculous mutual admiration dinner to which he was invited, previous to his departure, by certain New York Bohemians, professedly representing “the press of America,” we should find it in the comments of London journals on the same subj One of the lettera of our London correspondent, which we published yesterday, | con! dan article the Pall Malt Gazetle fully justifying the news which we nh xpreased. The Pall Mull Gazette alludes to what it terms “the rather absurd position” in which Mr. Dickens’ own sensibilities appear to have put him at the New York Bohemian from | twenties abroad is controlled mainly by the -evidently a very unsettled state of feeling dinner. A few extracts from the article will Suffice to indicate its drift :—‘“‘It ‘is about a quarter of a century since his ‘American Notes’ and ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’ threw some part of the thin-skinned population which they ridiculed into paroxysms of indignation. When he spoke the other day at New York he praised the whole nation with an india- criminate ardor, which excited rapturous delight. * * *, About a quarter of a century ago he visited America, not, certainly, as an unknown man, but as a man much less known than at present. He went with a very keen eye for all that was grotesque and absurd ; he found it in rich abundance, and he worked it up in his literary workshop when he came home. Being a caricaturist and humorist by profession, he went to look for materials for the exercise of his talent, and, of course, he found them. He is now twenty-five | years older than he was then. He goes out with an immense, perhaps with a rather exaggerated reputation; his thin-skinned hosts are on their good ‘behavior and are in- tensely anxious to do him honor; he goes to pay compliments and receive them, and the reault is the speech about the icebergs and the polar bears, * * * 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 Amer- jea, Each is @ caricature, though the two caricatures are in opposite directions. The first caricature, though singularly amusing and successful in making a stir out of all proportion to its importance, never appeared to us to im- | pute anything very serious, * * * His present phase is equally exaggerated and considerably leas amusing.” The fact is that Mr. Dickens has simply personated himself the character of Martid ‘Chuzzlewit, a poor fellow who comes to America in search of the ‘‘almighty dollar.” A poor young fellow on his first visit, Mr. Dickens contrived, on his return to England, to convert his ‘“‘American Notes” into pounds, shillings and pence. An older fellow on his second visit, but poor again, he succeeded by his “readings” in making a goodly pile of greenbacks, readily convertible into gold. On his second roturg home bo carried back two or three hundred thousand dollars more than on hie first return home, and it is not surprising that he seems 60 much more amiably disposed towards America now than he was then, But his present flatterics are as much too aweet for the American palate as his former satires were too bitter. In both praise and censure ho seems bound to exaggerate, ‘for ‘tis his na- ture to.” Impeachment and Our National Securities. There can be no aurer indication of the good effect upon the public credit of the vote of the | Senate on impeachment than the unusually large advance of five-eighths per cent which took place in the price of five-twenties on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, and the, corresponding improvement in all classes of United States stocks in our own market. Gov- ernment securities in such a case as this are a surer barometer than ia the gold premium, which is influenced by commercial and local | causes, and therefore less likely to respond to sudden changes in public sentiment. In ex- planation of this advance the telegraph advises us that the demand for our bonds, both in Eng- land and Germany, has been greatly qnickened during the last forty-eight hours, and the same is certainly true here; for the investment de- mand for them in Wall street yeaterday was larger than it has been at any time for many months past, and people are neglecting other stocks in favor of these, which, for the rates of interest they bear, are cheaper than any other securities in the country. But althongh five-twenties are now selling at 71-+ in London, | British consols are twenty-three per cent higher, notwithstanding that they pay only | three per cent interest. The price of five market on this side, and the fact that these bonds are so low should direct the attention of Congress to the improvement of the public credit by judicious legislation upon the tariff, the internal revenue and public expenditures. The growing abundance and cheapness of money in Wall street are favorable to a furth considerable advance in our securities, now that the suspense with which the result of the impeachment trial was awaited has been relieved. Vancouver’s Island and the New Dominion, It appears that an effort is being made in that portion of the Brilish American posses- sions known as Vancouver's Island to get an- nexed to the Dominion of Canada. There is exisling in that region. The people seem to | want the maternal protection of some govern-" ment more stable than that which now prevails | in that interesting section of country. Upon the point as to whether it shall be the New Dominion or the United States it is pretty clear that popular opinion is divided. It is not long ago since we published in the Heraup a peti- tion from the people of Vancouver's Island to Queen Victoria, asking permission to annex themselves to this country, and prosper under ils free institutions. This, we take it, was the voice of the: people proper. The last docu- ment, tending towards an affiliation with the Canadian confederacy, probably emanates from the officials and bureauists of the resi- dent government, It may be a movement of the British party against the American party; for there are @ great many Americans on Van- couver's Island, whose democratic tone of | thought and opinion has doubtless permeated the general sentiment of the people there and | fostered the idea of annexation to the United @irtes. Indeed, if the geographical condition of the territory is considered, we ought to'own this portion of the Continent. Under our goy- ernment its people would be more content than they are now. It possesses elements, | too, which will enter largely into the com- merce of that portion of the Pacific. It has considerable coal mines, which would be in- valuable in supplying steamers on the northern route to Asia. In addition to these advan- | tages there is a harbor at Nootka Soynd, not | exceeded, perhaps, by any harbor in the world, Its wealth in the fishing business is almost unlimited. Asa portion of the United States of America the dependency of Van couver’s Island would be very valuable. As an adjunct of the New Dominion of Canada it would be lost. The sooner it comes into the United States, then, the better for iis future prosperity. This Way or That, In the Senate on Saturday Mr. Henderson declared it would be fatal to “make impeach- ment a party question. It was no party ques- tion, and the moment a party should put itself in the position that its membors must perjure | themselves that party ought to and would | crumble into dust.” This is a fair, high- | minded and true view of party—a view sus- tained by the history of the democracy and | its fate, with Ben Butler in the ship, at | Charleston and at Baltimose. Mr. Trumbull, referring to the ruinous con- sequences that must follow an unjust verdict, said :—“‘I cannot be an instrument to produce such a result; and, at the hagard of the ties even of friendship and. affection, till calmer | times shall do justice to my motives, no alter- native is left me but the inflexible discharge of | duty.” These words are to rule men like Trumbull and Henderson out of the republican | party, it is said. And who is it that makes the party law by which such men are to be ruled out? Butler, | the aforetime pro-slavery zealot—the very man who was fierce on the other side when the men who are now to be ‘‘read out” were | giving life and ite firat repute to the republican party? Perhaps the voting masses may de- mand the Ifberty of some judgement in this matter. When the party splits, with the im- peachers on one side and Trumbull, Fessenden, Hendergon and such men on the other, the voters may decide for themselves whether they will go this way or that. A Lerrer erom Poor Pikror.—[t is no rare treat for the American people to hear from an ex-President, and # |- )-vent letter of President Pierce on the Des National Gonvention startles no one; '). 1's mention of General Hancock ia that letter siiows that the calm retirement of Concord bas been con- } ducive to sound and satisfactory thinking. Pierce does well to put that soldier's name prominently before the democracy; for he is the only distinguished name 5 ‘he war it can centre on with any hope of success, and he is one of our few great soldie-s who has also tho lod of @ statesman. | which is now , the hands of the “‘fierce” democracy. Pall Mall Gazette, first class journal, a | | a democracy.” The Crisia in Haytt. . ' The crisis which has long been threatening in Hayti has at last arrived. The degro Presl- dent, Salnave, has managed to elude the Caco rebels, who have for some time so effectually hemmed him in, and escaping from Cape Hay- tien he has found his way to Port au Prince. His retura to the capital has brought out certain unmistakable negro characteristics. {n conjunction with his minister Delorme he has found out and taken summary vengeance upon his enemies. Many of the citizens were arrested and some of them were immediately ordered to be shot. This, however, is not the worst. Foreigners, and especially Americans, became the objects of Sainave’s wrath, The stores of six American merchants were robbed by the troops, Americans, besieged and fired at tn their own houses, were compelled to flee to the consulate for refuge. On appealing to Sualnave and his minister the American Minis- ter and his attachés were insulied and rudely repelled. Despatches had been sent to Havana for an American man-of-war. In prompt obedience to a request the British gunboat Phoebe had gone to the assistance of our Minister at Port au Prince. Later advices inform us that the whole country was in revo- lution, the Cuco rebels in the north being com- pletely successful. Our patience with these barbarians can no longer endure. It is time for us to give this Haytien nigger a similar lesson to that which the British have given to his brother of Abyssinia, We have had enough of talk; we must now have action, We cannot permit our merchants to be robbed and our Minister to be insulted. Punishment must be inflicted. Weare to blame for allowing this fair country to continue # prey to anarchy and ruin. By our latest special telegrams from Havana, published in this morning's issue, we are in- formed that the remnant of Salnave’s troops pronounced against and even took hii pri- soner, If this report be a correct one it is to be hoped that the miserable creature will re- ceive his deserts, He has proven himself | almost as bloodthirsty a wretch as Soulouque, and deserves punishment for the numerous murders committed and the many outrages perpetrated by his orders. At the same time it will be best for our government to take Hayti and her negro people in hand; for if even Salnave has been got rid of, it is almost certain that his successor, backed by the Cacos, will prove himself as decided a savage as nearly all of hia predecessors. The Political Crisis in England. In our issue of yesterday we published a letier from the pen of our speeial correspondent in London relative to the actual political con- dition of the country. Our correspondent lays much stress on the fact that through the cua- ning of Mr. Disraeli and the democratic ten- dencies of Mr. Gladstone the Queen has been brought into anawkward and painful position. It is undeniable that the political condition of England is in many respects more serious and alarming than it has been at any time since the days of George the Third—more serious and alarming, perhaps, than it has been at any time since 1688. Queen Victoria has done much: to grace the throne and make it re- spected. But for her many and unquestion- ably high personal qualities the revolution imminent would have been hastened on years ago. It is not too much to | say that the Queen has saved the Crown and saved the country. The long pent-up reyo- Intionary tendencies have, however, at length burst forth—burst forth with a violence aggravated by the protracted resistance— and it is now doubiful whether the personal popularity and good sense of the Queen or any other existing means will be able to prevent the British nation from falling into The journal got up for the special benefit of elegant readers in the clabs and at the West End, pro- claims that ‘England is and must be virtually If such language is trathful now, how much more truthful will it be twelve months hence, when the new constituencies M be Yn full blast within the walls of the House of Commons! England is passing through a crisis which involves many more difficulties than those inseparable from the settlement of the Irish Church, and which can- not be pronounced to be without danger to the Crown and tife Rumors of Cabinet Changes. Rumors of impending changes in the Cabinet are again in circulation, It is given out, among other reports from Washington, that in the event of a defeat of the impeachment on the remaining ten articles of the House indict- ment (on the 26th instant) Mr. Johnson will reconstruct his Cabinet on a conservative republican basis, that he will cease to oppose the Reconstruction laws of Congress, and undertake the overthrow of Ben Butler, Ben Wade, Old Thad Stevens and the whole radical camp by a cordial co-operation with such patriotic republican conservatives as Fessenden, Trumbull, Henderson, Grimes, Rosas, Van Winkle and Fowler. Very little confidence, however, is to be placed in any of these rumors of Cabinet changes by Mr. Johnson, Had he changed his whole Cabinet three years, two years or one year ago, he might have saved himself a world of troubles, including the troubles of this impeachment; but now it is a maiter of very little moment whether he changes it throughout or changes it not at all. All other experiments however, failing, to remove Stanton, he may, perhaps, if finally cleared of this impeachment in time, try the last experiment of appointing a new Cabinet out and out, with General Cox, of Ohio (a republican), in Stanton’s place, as recommended by General Sherman; bus we opine that it is too late even now for this ex- periment. If they cannot relieve him of the White House the radicals of the Senate will hardly consent to relieve Johnson of Stanton. They will still have that drop of comfort left. Ravteat Porrttos aNd Raptoat Puaxs.— Impeachment seems to touch the very depths of all that is vile in our political fife. The latest possibility is that the more furious of the impeachers will move an indefinite postponement on the present articles to save their bets, They have wagered all they can scrape on the success of the articles; they feel | certain, from the fate of the eleventh article, that they oannot carry the others, and if these are voted down these ‘‘statesnen” lose their monor, If the artiols ere aever doally acted 4 upon the bete-aredragn, So the prosecution, convinced by such high reasons, will move to postpone. * But impeachment will not be given up. No; it will be tried on another article, framed from the experience of the Managers, and will be put upon its passage and rushed through after the admission of the Arkansas Senators. Such is the newest plan in the “party of great moral ideas.” Disragit AGA DergaTEp.—The Reform bil! for Scotland presented to the English House of Commons by the Disraeli Cabinet wea debated with considerable warmth last night. The opposition offered two most vital amendments by resolution—one to the effect that the number of members from Scot- land be increased at the expense of email English boroughs to be disfranchised to am equal amount; the other, that the rating clause gamed in the bill as a atand- ard of qualification for registration be rejected. The Ministry opposed both motions, but both were carried and the Cabinet defeated in each instance. Mr. Disraeli addressed the House, acknowledging the importance of the opposition victory and stating that the Ministry must ‘consider its position.” The crisis is thus really upon the Premier, A resignation may take place, Has the American impeavh- meat verdict news aided the cause of the British liberals? AMUSEMENTS. THE New Yor« Musica, Frstivan.—a festival ts pretty much the same in music as @ revival in reti- gion, It comes in appropriately at the present time, when everything in the way’ of music is reduced te the lowest ebb, and our best musical entrepreneurs are pecuniarily prostrate. Of all the gentlemen of this last mentioned class we have had in this city there is none who deserves more of the support of the New York public than Lafayette Harrison. He has been for years past the soul of oratorio and concert, and his short and pecuniarily disastrous season of opera’ at Pike's was the best season of Italian opera we have been favored with for many years, in an artistic point of view. Last night, close following on the heels of the * Hubites,” he yed a musical festival. Handel's sublime work, jah,”? was the initial performance, Long be- fore the conductor, Mr. Ritter, mounted his erches- tral and choral throne, the hall (Stcinway’s) was filled to overtowing. After all, the fact that the oratorio of the “ Messiah" draws the largest house im New York avove everything else, theatrical or musi- cal—and this fact is indisputable—is a cheering indi- oi n of public tasts in music in the great metropo- ls. The audience last’ night was not only in the most boundicss sense of word, but, it was nt and fashionable, ‘The eréme de la eréme (for toliets and bright, sparkling faccs spoke them as such) were present in large nntubers, each with the seore of tie oratorio under the arm. Now a word regarding the performance. First, there was the best oratorio quariet for solos which we know of on this side of the Atlantic, although it must be con- fussed that some of them were laboring under the disadvantages of sickuess. Madame Parepa-Rosa, soprano; Mrs, Jenny Kempton, contralto; a Simpson, tenor, and J. K. Thomas, baritone, are the recognized leaders in oratorio in this city. The Hatmonic Society supplied the chorus and the orchestra was composed of the best musicians in this city. The “Messialv’’ is a worn out subject as far as writing goes, but we must say a few words about it. We think that in order to give this great work to the public in proper style there must be at least five times the number of voices and in struments that dny pubile ball or this coantry can ‘convenient told, belongs to an old school, utterly at vari- ance with what composers nowadays think of, nevertheless the school is cosmopolitan. to all ages and all climes, Still it is luust be treated as such. We have heard if. in Exeter Hall with a chorus 4 adruple that which we heard last night. It is the hymn of the New Testament, the Jubilee of a regenerated world. It apperla to every Christian heart, not ag an individual testimony tothe awful mystery of the redemption, but as the expres- sion of ait nature in the belief of a Re- deemer. So far for the theory of the con- ception of the oratorio; now for its practical exposition, as shown last night, The chorus was excellent as faras its comparatively limited numbers went, except in one respect that the altos were too weak and were overpowered by the other three parts. Mr, Simpson sang the opening recitative and aria, “Comfort ye my peopie’ and “Kvery valley” correctly and with all the expression that his pecu- larly schooled tenor voice would admit. » Te ‘Thomas was not in as good voice as we have heard him before, owing to @ manifest cold, but he descrves all praise for his rendering of the quaint solo, * The people that walked in dark- ness.” We have never heard the beautiful “Come unto Him,” and “1 know that my Redeemer liveth,”* sung better than last night by Madame Purepa-Roaa. ‘There is a limpid sweetness, ease and thorough ap- prectation of the subject in everything that thia lady sings which place her deservedly at the head of all oratorio singers, Mrs. Jenny Kempton sang “He shall feed Tis Nock” in superb style. Phe choruses were well sustained with the exception of “And He shall purify,” which was evidently not rehearsed and therefore @ failure. The unrivalled = “Halleiujah”” was given with spirit, cnergy and elim suc as we deemed should animate the breasis ofa tine honored oratorio soci- ety like the Harmonic, Mr. Ritter deserves a word for his improvement in fenpi matters, He haa, on previous occasions, injured the rendering of the “Messiah” by dragging the time, but last night he left nothing to be desired in that respect. We would only suggest to him more decision and command over his orchestra and chorns, He nearly placed soine of the solvists, in one or two places, hors de combat by the want of these necessary qualifications. To-night a grand orchestral con ‘t will be present- ed. Mendelssohn's “fcformation symphony” will be given for the first time. Madame Parepa-Rosa will be the only soloist. FRENCH ‘THEATRE.—The second and last week of the Richings English Opera Company began weil yes- terday evening, notwithstanding the most discourag- ingly inauspicious weather, with Gounod'’s grand opera, “Faust.” This is perhaps too decidedly “grand opera” for even the trnly excellent company Which is the present attraction at the French theatre. Miss Richings, however. sustained the ré/e of Mar- guerite and Mr. Campbell that of Mephistopheles with more spirit and sticcess than might have been ex- pected. Mr. Castle as Faust, and Mrs. Seguin as Siebel, justified the claim of the former to be called one of the best English tenors and that of the latter to be called one of the best contralto siugers of whom we can boast. The orchestra was necessarily augmented last evening, and with a larger proportion of stringed instruments and more skilfully conducted would have done better jnstice to the diMecult and superior orchestration of Gounod’s admirable opera. The choruses of the Richin; belo we have already remarked as exceptionally good; and it is but fair to say that few Italian opera companies have ex- hibited finer acting than iis company. This even- ing “Martha’’ will be presented for the last time at this theatre. To-morrow (Wednesd: evening, at the benefit of Mr. Edward Seguin, “The Bohemian. Girl” will be revived with incteased chorus and en- larged orchestra, “Martha” will be given at the Brooklyn Academy on Thursday. The Lily of Kil- Jarney" will be brought ont at the French theatre on Friday evening, at the benetit of Miss C. Richings. The “Doctor of Alcantara” is promised for the Sat- urday matinée, and the “Bohemian Gir!” will be re- peated on Saturday evening. Surely this attractive programme onght to make the week at the French theatre particularly successful. Bryants’ Ovexa Hovse.—The Bryants formally opened their new place of entertainment last even- ing under most auspicious circumstances. It was & Incky thought of the brothers to secure the first floor of the new wigwain, now alinost compicted in all its parts, for their arena of fun and jolitty. They have anticipated the Sachems of Tammany, who will not open their doors to the pnblic til! the 4th of July next; but long before then the place will have become the resort of thousands, nightly holding conventions and adjourning from night to aight, se- lecting tickets round which all Gotham will rally, The new minstrel hall is «most tastefully de- corated, is roomy, eaay of access an capable of howling comfortably even such tences aa the Bryants can bring together at all times, and on the whole is really the most el it, im every respect, of the many beautiful minstrel halis in our city. The uew Opera House was crowded to suffocation last. evening, and very many were present who could oni, by straining their ears catch @ word or a note of wi was going on; but eyen outside the barriers there much laughing as in the of the. Tall, for the merriment of those inside was contagious, and, the “outs” laughed ag the “ins.” An opening address waa spoken bpd Mr. Dan Bryant, very witty, full of teilt tite, and mirth provoking to an extent that wou! have left one to sup} where could be hardly thing to follow wort ughing dipess was given in rhyme, 0} at. The opening which the follow! | closing lines will give @ good idea of the whole: — Here we shall struggle in the public race it wa're black in the face, i i]