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

6 EUROPE. ey Soe Mr, Gladstone on British folitics and English Legislation {or Ireland. ww hee REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTO IN FRANCE, Riots im Trieste and Attempt to Secede from Austria. ‘The German mail steamship Holsatia, Captain EBhiers, from Southampton on the 24th of July, ar- wived at this port yesteraay morning, bringing a mail weport in detail of our cable despatches dated to her @ay of sailing. Telegrams from Athens state that a convention had been arranged between the Hellenic government nd the firm of Langrand-Dumonceau for the con- struction of a network of railways by which the prin- cipal citles of Greece would be united and the coun- try placed in direct communication with the other portions of Europe. ‘The Journal au Havre, in guarded language, gives eurrency to a report that a letter from the French Emperor to M. de Moustier anda proclamation to the French people are in preparation for publication in Beptember, “If they see the light,” it adds, “they ‘will produce much excitement in Germany.” Constantinople journals and. letters of the 15th of July announce the departure of Prince Napoleon from the city, and one of them mentions that two aya before leaving his Imperial Highness visited the bazaars, ‘where he purchased two beautiful Persian earpets, and where, in spite of his incognito of an old brown surtout and @ ‘shocking bad hat,’ the illustri- ous tourist was at once recognized and speedily sur- rounded by a crowd of astute dealers, who mulcted aim of right imperial prices for every trifle he pur- chased. * The details of Mithad Pasha’s new scheme of a g@avings bank were announced in Constantinople. ‘The new, establishment, designed mainly for the penent of the working classes, will receive deposits of the very smallest amounts, on which interest will be allowed at the rate of six percent. The safety of ita funds will be guaranteed by the government, and ta immediate control will be confided to the Council of State, which has named an honorary administra- tive committee of four members—two of whom, Osman Rbemai Effendi and Balmoumdji Eshref Efendi, are Turkish merchants of repute, and the ethers, MM. Paspali and Puzik Tinghirzadé, Chris- tians of accepted responsibility—by whom the insti- tation will be immediately controlled and its ac- counts periodically checked. Advices from Macedoula report very favorably of the coming crops. The estimate is that the corn ‘@rop will be a third more abundant than last year. ‘The silk crop also promises excellently. Altogether ‘the prospects of the season, both for the Treasury ‘gnd the farmers, are unusually gooa. ENGLAND. Mr. Gladstone the Political Situation Cures for Irish Grievances, {From the London News, July 23.) Mr. Gladstone, who was unable to be present on Tuesday at the inauguration of the Palmerston me- rials, Visited Romsey yesterday and addressed a assembly in front of the Town Hall. The Mayor ed, and several members of the Corporation were present. The Right Hon. W. Cowper, M. P., also attended, The Mayor having introduced Mr. vone, @ complimentary address to the right honorable gentleman was read by the Town Clerk. Mr. GLADSTONE then said—I feel that it is my duty to make an apology to you, which you have been good enough to admit by anticipation. A severe cri.ic might, indeed, say that I appear here, in homely phrase, a day after the fair; for I do not sorget, nor did J forget throngh any portion of yesterday, the operation in which you were engaged—a work #o honorable to yourseives and so gratifying to ‘the community to which you belong. You have re- ferred in terms of eminent, of something more than propriety, for they are touching terms, to the high | Character and great services of Lord Paimerston. It has been my privilege in another place, not long after death had removed him from among ua, to endeavor to record at least some of the lessons, and some points at least of the example, that he has left, and perhapa it would be impertinént in me were | new to attempt to speak in detail either of his c acter, his powers or of his services to his country; for I should speak among you who have seen the man and known him in the whole truth and reality of his nature—who have seen all that was most justly and truly English in Lord Palmerston constantly ex- Bibited before you in the course of bis private life. (Cheers.) If he has filled your minds and memories ‘with sentiments of affection such as those which you esterday expressed, it is @ tribute no less valuable | those who can form a due estimate of its value than the great fame and celebrity which he has acquired throughout the civilized world. (Cheers.) No doubt you are right in stating that he would have wished his bones to rest among those of his neighbors and their ancestors, and if they rest, on the contrary, in the greatest of our tempies of national fame, it was because the unanimous voice of the whole country grudged you this honor and satisfaction, and claimed that he should lie among great and famous men in the very centre of the political and national life of Engiand whoin that venerable abbey overshadows, But his me, no doubt, will remain among you as & house- Pola word, and for ail of us i trust it will ever bea Bame recailing not only the acts and a career of un- exampled length, but recalling many of those cha- Facteristic qualities which we should all desire to honor, and each in our humble aphere, so far as we pd to reproduce. ~*~ It is to me a great satisfaction that you have been good enough to re- call the somewhat con heey period during which 1 had the advantage of being one of the colleagues of Lord Palmerston, and I will not disguise, since it is no matter of mere personal egotism, that J jook back with much satisfaction upon many la- bors performed in concert with him, and in the ad- ministration of which ne was the head—labors which I trust have not been wholly without advan- tage to the country, We, the people of the United Kingdom, are the stewards of @ great and noble inheritance, which it is our duty not only to enjoy but to improve—an inheritance with respect to Which it is our business to admit that there remains much which requires the application of effectual and ever Vigorous remedy in one portion iu particular of the Unitea Kingdom. (Cheers.) But after allowing for all this, it is a noble inberitance, and the one desire which anim: us all is that, if ‘we have received it as ® great treasure from our forefathers, we may be able to hand it down to our children a greater treasure still. (Cheers.) The cus- tody of this treasure is now committed, In @ measure now far exceeding the precedent of former times, to the hands of the people themselves, The responst- bilities of Parligmer 'y life have rarely been greater than they are likely to be during the Parliament that ‘Will assemble in the month of December next. The mind and intelligence of Great Britain have recently ‘deen addressed With a new iotensity to the condition of Ireland—(hear, hear)—and a profound impression has stamped itself on the minds of all in the first lace that Ireland {8 fl; and im the second place, hat if ireland be ili, and so long as Ireland is ill, Engiand and Scotiand cannot be well. (Hear, hear.) IT sometimes am tempted to wish that that sea which Separates us from our Irish countrymen could be for B time removed. It isa subject of old observation among intelligent men that distance enormously and inordinately alters the view which men take of pub: ic atfaira. It has been satd that to hear of a broken arm in our own house or our village would more im- resé the mind than to be told that a town of ten yousand men had been swallowed by an earth quake in China; and applying this principle upon a amore moderate scale, I must express my conviction | that this is likewise true of Ireland, separated | though it be from us only by a narrow strip of sea, | for | do believe that if we went backwards and for. | wards, from England to Ireland, from among Eng- | Hshimen to be amnong Irishmen, as you here may pass from Liarapshire to Wilts, we should long ago have acquired some true and just conception of the great duties that are stil, incumbent upon us with reference to the sisiet island, and of the responsibility that we have to diacharge. (Hear, hear.) Iv some consider- able degree we trust that within the limite of Great Britain it may be said we are a united people. We may have our diferencea, and we always shall, and they are serious digerences upon many affairs, but hotwithstanding that we are in the tain a united ple, The masses of t the lowest are attached to the Queen, to the tirone, to the government, to the laws, to the instititions of the country, and attached to one ahbther, But when we cross the Channel we unfortunately come, not to Bunited but toa very djvided country—a country fivided in itself, and a country a jarge portion of whose people, it is painful to confess tt, but it is for dur welfare aa well as theirs that We should not bind purselves to (he undoubted fact—a large portion of whose people are either dull or indifferent in their sttachment to the rest of the United Kingdom, and to j# Jaws aud institutions ag men positively estranged from them, Now, gentlemen, do not let us deceive ourselves, There is no deceit so pitiable as that q@bich @ man, or a that which @ people practice opon themselves, and there is no deceit so common, for if we could get rid of aeif-deceit, the deceit which others might practice upon us would produce but er} ignificant efiects. And allow me to tell vou that the ‘Wealth and power and security of the coun- try in Meelf makes the people of this country liabie to pelr-decet and especiaily with respect to the condi- Uon of Ireland, which is not immediately under our faily view. We are able to think tiat after ail we ave got on somehow, and that #o we still continue get on. are pleased when they are tuid he people from the highest | i because the exterior signs o! Eewes, therefore the disease 18 ex) © constitution. And that which 1 tell you i# paln- not on authority alone, but on the authority ry practical observer; resting, likewise, on the $uthority of the ministers Wer, aha espotially of now in the Minister for lre- land, who has previouaty told us that in large parts of Ireland the hearts or the masses of the people are not cl with us as our hearts are with one another, and that the occurrence of opportunity, which God forbid should arise, might be the means of plunging this country into dangers not alone for- midable for their extent, but grievous, painful, to the last degree in their character. (Hear, ‘or it is shocking, if it be true, that after seven hundred years of political action between Great Britain and Ireland—not of equal politieal connection, but of connection, up to a quite recent period, as between @ superior and a subordinate country, entailing nearly the whole responsibility upon the superior country, and taking it away from the subordinate country—it Is painfal, I say, to hear that after seven centuries of Such connection condition of fundamental estrangement should still, to a lamentable degree, prevail. (Hear, hear.) Well, gentlemen, we proposed what I, sphere, shall endeavor to do—what I believe my right hon- orable friend near me, if honored with your suf- frages, will co-operate in doing—is this:—We pro- pose to try no other medicine for the sister country than the medicine of justice. (Cheers.) We have no magical to practice; we have no special recipes or formulary, or fine phrases to dangle before you or before the eyes of Ireland, We propose to apply religious equality to Ireland—to remove the state church which now ex- ists there—(cheers aud cries of **No”)—and carefully to avoid, and if necessary to resist, the erection of any other state clrurch. (Cheers.) We propose to apply this method, not because it is a method neces- sarily suited to all circumstances and all countries, but because itis eminently suited to and required by the circumstances and the case of Ireland. We have the happiness of living under a state of things which undoubtedly is of a very different order. There are many non-conformists in this country, and great is the respect they deserve at the hands of us who are churchmen, for the zeal and liberality with which they make provision for their own spiritual wants. Nor do I feel myseif entitled in the slightest degree to stigmatize any of them who ray be 80 possessed with the doctrine of ecelesiastical inde- pendence as to think it their duty in Scotland, and all over the world, to protest if they think proper against any union under any circumstances between church andstate. Butif, while farfrom atigmatizing them, I do not adopt their opinion, I am sure they would concede to me, and to many more of us who hold the same sentiments, that ilberty which we ciaim for them. (Hear, hear.) Let England be judged by its own standards and measures according to what its pubac tnterests uire, Let Iretand be Judged upon the very same principles, but do not !et @ system because it is thought to be good for England be forced by British power upon Ireland, which de- sires to shake herself entirely free from such a do- minion, and which protests against our right and title to force it upon her by any other law than that Odious law, the law of force. (Cheers.) Well, to cone back to the point at which I started, it is our earnest belief that by removing canses of just although now inveterate complaint, we shall by degrees be per- mitted by the blessing and through the wisdom of Providence to bring about a better and a happier state of things; and my belief is that if you act as I believe you will, and return my right honorabie friend to the new Parliament and it should live some- thing like its natural term, you will, during tne Perioa of its existence, see this great controversy rought to a close. (Cheers.) Ifmy right honorable friend should have occasion to render to you an ac- count of his stewardship, he will be able, I trust, to point to some work done on your behalf, on behalf of ireland and on behalf of the great, and we hope it will be the united country to which we owe our birth and our best affections, and to the service of which our lives are heartily devoted. (Loud cheers.) After a short address from the Right Hon. W. Cow- per the proceedings terminated. FRANCE. shocki hear.) Alleged Revolutionary Manifesto—“Down with the Emperer”—The Vintage and Wine Crop. A letter from Paris of July 22 says:—The Pays fol- lows up the Emperor's Fontainebleau lecture on po- litical assassination by publishing, with a great alarum and flourish of trumpets, a bulletin dated Paris, June 24, 1868, purporting to emanate from “The Central Committee of Action of the Re voin- tionary Commune of Paris,” and being an appeal to insurrection and the murder of the Emperor. The Pays asserts that what it now publishes is a ces of @ printed paper, “circulating from hand to hand in all Paris; but its prefatory article, written by M. Paul de Cassagnac, Is scarcely consistent with this allegation, for the writer says he has “just” received “tite factam by post ina sealed envelope.” low, then, does he know that it has been largely or at ali circulated in Varis? I never in my life saw a document looking more like a fabrication by one of that pecullar class of police agents called agens pro- vocateurs, of Whom ail Freuch governments have al- ways had a great many at their service. It is headed “Liberté! Egalite! Fraternite 1 Kepudlique Frane gaise,” and begins in this way:— Citizens—There is a fatal hour for citizens as well as for kings. ‘The irrevocable word which liberty in her wrath hurls at kings It may also #ay contemptu- ously to peoples—too late! ‘rhe time has come to in- quire whether or not France is to live. The tyranny of the second ermpire has borne the same fruits as the tirst—the natural fruit of every reign of a single tnd!- vidual. The country is in danger. Its danger fol- Jows upon its shame, and that is just. Loss of lib- erty, logs of honor, loss of capital and credit, 1098 of all our physical atid moral force, loss of our influence in the present, of our most noble traditions of the past and of our hopes for the fuiure, loss of our con- science aud of our confidence in ourseives. Fifteen miliiards of duvt in fifteen years! Such is the sche- dule of the second empire, worse even than that of the first, It is time to take counsel for the common safety. ce can endure no more, The coup q@etat brought her slavery; the Mexican and ous Roma: wars disgrace; the perpetual borrow- ing system ruin, and the military law death. Our rights, our glory and our purse are past praying for. Our very existence is in qucs- tion. Vive UE£mpereur means “Death to France.” What must we do’ Why, do,as he did. A single man made a coup d'état against France; a whole ‘opie may make one for her. Let our cry, then, be Vive la France, Down with the Emperor. This exordium contains the whoie substance of the bulletin. Reports from Parts state that @ violent revolution- ary manifesto published by the Paria Pays, which was circulated in London @ month ago, seems to be NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1868. that new art has realized immense ; cables hich, of lnnmense length, offer every Fetrentec of insulation and strength. Vessels, such as the Great Eastern, bave been built capable of corrzing sions all the plant neeessary for operations of ‘The new company will thus be placed in conditions of economy and suecess greatly superior to those of ite predecessor. GERMANY. ‘The Relations Towards Italy. ‘The North German Gazette had been instructed to State that the passages in the Prussian report on the War of 1860, which caused so much annoyance in Italy, owing to the disparaging manner in which ‘the Italian army is spoken of, have been incorrectly translated. It adds that all parties in Prussia do the fullest justice to the immovable firmness with which Italy refused a separate treaty of peace and to tife valor displayed by ber army. The explana- tion of the North German Gazette did not appear in time fo prevent Genera! della Marmora from bring- ing the subject before the Italian Parliament, and, as already announced by telegraph, the Prussian re- bore to be met by an Italian report, now in pre- paration. AUSTRIA. Telegraphs, Extension and Receipts—Riots in Trieste and Plan of Municipal Secession. The Debatte of Vienna publishes a report of M. Mahy, Director of the Austrian telegraphs, from which it appears that the extent of the latter in the Cisleithan countries is 1,913 German miles, with 4,617 miles of wire, besides 1,253 miles of lines used for railway signals: In the course of 1867 seventeen new offices and forty-six auxillary stations were | opened, and, in all, 858 were at work at the end of | the year. Those in Hungary are 135 in number. In ‘1667, a treaty was concluded with Turkey, and miber five others with Switzerland, in Virtue ha great portion of the English correspon- with Indta has been divented to the Austrian In tho year 1867 2,217,929 despatches were lines. sent off from the Cisleithan offices, producing a re- cept of 1,512,922 florins, The whole revenue of the telegraphs for that year was 2,330,000 florius and the expense 2,200,000, Acommynication from Trieste in La France of Paris has the tollqwin, ‘The party which is work- ing for » complete Itallfanization and an eventual separation of the town from Austria kuows very well that the moment is not yet come to throw aside the mask; provisioually it only wishes to obtain what is possible, and particularly the concessions which will lead towards its ultimate onject. ‘These are:—The transformation of the German Coliege into an Italian one; the disarmament of the territorial Slavonic militia and the dissotution of the military police, to be replaced by a municipal guard, The Hirst of these measures would give the finul blow to the German element here. The secoud wouid de- big the State of a vigorous support and alienate ‘om it @ pupulation which forms on the coast a powerial counterpoise to the Italian tendencies, at the same time, as tis people would be more access!- ble to propagandism, either Italian or Panslavist. Finally, the third item would place the powers of the police in the hands of the municipality, where already the influence of the Jtalian element, sup- esl by the public of the tribunes, is so great that the councillors of the Austrian party hardiy dare to Appear at the public sittings, Disturbances continue ail over Trieste. On the 14th of July numerous assemblages were formed; the director of police, Kraus, had his hat broken and was obliged to draw his sword to free himself from the crowd which menaced him. A rumor of the resigna- tion of Baron de Bach having spread, the town was suddenly illuminated, The windows of the Bishop's residence, which were not lit up, were smashed, as well as those of a merchant who several times refused to do as other people did. One of the territorial guard was wounded in a row and carried to the hos- pital, The same night numbers of peasauts were seen entering the place armed with guns. A young man Was killed the previous day near the Cafe ier- | rart. Mortuary notices were placarded on all the walis inviting the population to pay the deceased the last honors, An unknown hand wrote at the bottom of the posters, Vendetta. The police did not appear uneasy at these threatening symptoms, ‘The funeral took place and an immense crowd was present, but no disorder occurred, POLITICAL NOTES AT THE BRANCH. Lona Brancn, August 3, 1868. Although nodemocratic Mohammed was ever to our knowledge born on that part of the Jersey coast known as Long Branch, that delightful summer re- sort has nevertheless become the Mecca of New York democratic politicians, who flock to its Mansion House and Stetson House and Metropolitan as per- severingly and numerousiy as the Mohammedans throng to the Caaba, or “Square House,” of the holy Arabian city. This season they are more plentiful “on the beach” than ever, and politics have almost entirely usurped the place of firtations, fashions, gossip and hops, or at least cast them temporarily into the shade. Politics are talked at the breakfast table, by groups on the long piazzas, in circles on the broad smooth lawns, by pedestrians on the splendid promeuade along the seashore, on the sum- mit of the clid?, and by kuots of bathers and Idlers on the sandy beach. Why do the New York politicians go to Long Branch and indulge so liberally in sea bathing? Is it to wash off the sins of the fall, the winter and the spring? Or, that class of individuals is not famous for repentance, 18 it to strengthen and invigorate their frames for coming campaigns, with their pow- erful accompaniments of strong whiskey and heavy lager beer? NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. Opening of the August Term. Belore Recorder Hackett. The August term of*this court was opened yes- terday morning, the Recorder presiding, and District Attorney Hall appearing for the people. The panel of grand jurors was called, and a quo- rum not belng present those answering to their names were discharged till Wi 1" with a request to be punctual in thelr attendance, After the list of petit jurors was called by the Clerk, the Recorder stated that no excuses would be feceived for non-service except certificates or proof of iliness, A few prisoners, against whom the evidence was not sufficiently strong to warrant the Grand Jury in finding indictments against them, were arraigned and discharged from custody. Death of Register Halpine. ‘The Recorder then announced the sudden demise of Mr. Charles G. Halpine, the Register of the city, stating that it was eminently due to the distin- guished character of the deceased and to the high official position which he held that some public notice of his untimely decease should be taken, Out of Lees rgd for his memory he ordered that the court should adjourn and a minute made by the Clerk of Mr. Halpine’s decease, SUPREME COURT—CHAMBENS. Another Councilmanic Litigation. Before Judge Barnard, The People ex ret. Ivans, Perley, Lamb, O'Brien and Heinrick vs, The Board of Councilmen.—This was an application for mandamus to compel the pmsent Board of Councilmen to admit the relators as members of thelr Board and to the full privileges and duties of such membership. ‘The relators claim that they have been ex- cluded by the respondents on the ground that. in the judgment of said respondentg but five Council- meu can be elected from each Senatorial district. ‘The relators claim that six can be elected under the fourth section of the act of 1857, and that the twelfth section of the act of 1866 is unconstitutional and void, for the same reasons which influcnced the Court of Appeals to adjudge the act of 1867 uncon- stitutional and void, There was no epporition oftered to the application and the Court directed mandamus to issue, CITY INTELLIG! Founp DrowNep.—The body of an unknown man was found inthe river at the foot of Murray street early yesterday morning. BITTEN BY A SHARK.—A boy named Cornelius Har- graves, while in the water bathing near the Battery, was attacked and bitten by a shark in the ieft ankle. The boy was not seriously injured. Dgatu oF 4 Convict.—Warden Fitch, of the Peni- tentiary, Blackwell's Island, yesterday sent word to the coroners’ office that Joseph F. Hopps, one of the convicts of that institution, hal died in the fever pavilion. An inquest will be held on the body. SunaTroxe.—Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest at No. 891 Second avenue, on the body of Herman Schupnau,. a German, nineteen years of age, Whose death was the result of being sunstruck on Saturday last. No SMALLPOX AT QUARANTINE.—Dr, Reid, Deputy Health Onicer at Quarantine, contradicts the report of the existence of smallpox among the passengers on board the steamship Ariel. One mild case of varioloid among the emigrants was all that came under his notice. SUSPENSION OF OPINION.—John and Hugh McGov- ern, who were arrested on a charge of highway rob- bery a few days since, ask for the suspension of public opinion until after their trial, when they feel contident of being abie to prove their innocence of the charge preferred against theth. FATAL SCALDING CasUALTY.—An inquest was yes- terday held by Coroner Rollins at No. 394 East Thirty- third street, on the body of James Murphy, aggd five years, whose death was caused by severe scalds received on Saturday last by the upseiting upon him of a pot of boiling coffee. A verdict of accidental death was returned by the jury. BuRNED TO Deata.—During the fire which oceur- red in the premises No. 222 West street, at an early hour yesterday morning, @ man named Rogers, oc- cupying @ room in the garret, was suffocated and very badly bursed after death. Coroner Flynn was nctifled to hold an inquest. Deceased ts said to have been a resident of New Jersey. APPOINTMENT OF TAX COMMISSIONERS.—Yester- day the announcement that the Governor had made his selections for the positions of Tax Commission- ers caused a flutier among expectant politicians, Not a little disappointment was experienced when they learned who were the lucky ones. The follow- ing are the names of those who were appointed:— George H. Purser and Thomas H. Creamer, demo- crats, and [ra O. Miller and William Stewart, from the republicans. SuppgN Dearus.—An Irish woman named Honora Burns yesterday morning died suddenly at her late residence, No, 246 West Twenty-eighth street, from compression of the brain, the result of @ fall or vio- lence received in sowe other manner. Yesterday morning & woman named Healy died suddenly in a shanty in Fourth avenue, between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets, Coroner Fiynn was notified. Coroner Keenan was yesterday notified to hold an inquest at No. 3 First avenue on the body of Frede- rick Brener, a native of Germany, thirty years of age, We do not care to inquire too closely into the rea- gon; but certain it is that Long Branch is now the spot where battles are planned and bargains made, and where, cooled by the delightful sea breezes and relaxed by the magnificent surf, the leaders take counsel together tn good temper, or watch each ee movements with a view to fature opera- tions. For the past three weeks they have been as bus: aa buzzards, each on his own particular “lay. Here ab the Stetson House we have been surrounded by a motley crowd of them, working, bathing, eat- ing, dancing and occasionally even’ crinking, but always with an eye to the main chance, Let us see who we have under review, Here is Hoffman, smoothing his exquisite mustache, now diving into the surf and now into the sentiments of the peo- generally looked upon asa mere fabrication, The Avenir National suggests that it has been manufac- tured for government purposes by government agents, and says itis not the first time that docu- ments of an equally alarming character have ap- peared on the eve of an electoral contest. It is surprised at the facility with which such papers cir- culate, They reach the journals, it says, almost Without disguise, and whe police, who are so clever on occasion, know nothing about them and cannot discover the authors. The avenir National, however, warns its readers from keeping & collection of such documents, as they might ental! opon the possessor the suspicion of belonging to a secret society or of desiring to ns- sassinate the Emperor. Scarcely any notice of the manifesto is taken by the other Paris jdurnals, the Temps had neither seen nor heard of it un appeared tn the Pays. According to the Paris Figaro, the French govern- ment is reported to have it in contemplation to avol- ish the second ballot, which is now pecessary In all elections When no candidate obtains the absolute majority of the votes at first polled, The reason for the measore is believed to be that at these secoud ballots all parties coalesce against the oficial candi- date, A Paris correspondent says that the change Would amount to a coup delat, and that, if carried out, it will be ome pep pent cag as an gudacious robbery in extremis of the people's rights, The vintage of France, which in average years does not take place till the middie or end of October, is expected to begin on September 1. Most fourish- ing anticipations are formed of the wine of 1968, Cable Communication With the United States. The Paris Union, adverting to the concession lately made by the French government for an elec- tric cable to the United States, gives the following explanations on the sabject:— The line is to be divided into two sections, the first comprising the part between Brest and St. Pierre. Miquelon, about 2,698 nautical miles, and the second the space between the stations at St. Pierre and New York, or 950 miles. This route has the doubie ad- | Vantage over the existing telegraph of serving for the French dsheries of Newfoundland and of being | less costly in construction. The straight line, in | fact, offers almost insurmountable difficulties, in | consequence of the currenta and depths to’ be met with at every step, while that adopted by the new company follows almost invariably a line of table land, the known bottom of which atfords a certainty of success. The French cabie should, according to the terms of the charte inaugurated by the ist of August, 1860. The con- slonists have consequently alt placed them- | Selves in @ position to fulfil their ho = pe | taking into association the most eminent | cal men of England and France in the sctence of electric telegraphy, The laying down of the cabie | will take place Inthe months of July and August, | 1860, the two best of the year for such an operation. | The studies of the project are terminated, and an Additional guarantee ts furnished by the fact that the persons who will invest their capital in this really national work have conducted their exami- | nation with ogee! taveliigence and prudence. The | trace which has been preferred assures success, whilst the other was full of peril dun. | certainty. One of the great defecta of line’ which unites Bngiand to America is | the high rate charged, but the new one will not have the saine inconveniences, The charter, in maximutn tariff at one handred franca for iy Words, as established & competition which will be it to the new enterprise, This fact has tked.on the other side of the Chanuel. A complete success may therefore be counted on, | When the English company laid down ite cable the science of submarine telegraphy was in ite infancy. The consequence was a number of ruinous exper | ment @u: fruitiews wrovings aod eesaye, At present [sd on the question of Governor. One remarkable fact is that he has no cliques around htm, and ap- pears to be left alone, much to the surprise of those of us who recollect the days when Ike Fowler, then & great Tammany Sachem, osed to draw strin; of politicians after him wherever he moved on the Branch, as the fishermen avove the Mansion House draw after them their long ropes strung with fish. But Hoffman has left now to look after Murphy, of Kings, who ts busily engaged iu makiug capital in the interior of the State agaiust the meeting of the Democratic Convention. The two competitors will meet at Utica on the 13th inst., when the State Com- mittee assembles, and then will come the reel mea- suring of swords for the nominatior Here is George Wilkes, offering bets on @rant, but generally with # safe proviso as to the pumber of States that will go for his candidate or withsome other anchor to windward, known only to sport- ing gentlemen. George ts very anxious to make hitnself aquare on the Impeachment flasco ; but sup- puse luck should desert him a second time ? We have Stieridan Shook here, saucy and inde- Pendent, hanging on between the Seymour demo- crats and the Grant conservatives, and spending like @ prince the money he was fortunate enough to re- cover through the good services of Raps Van Vaiken- burgh and another friend during the impeachment trial. To have kept $17,000 out of Butler's clutches is enough to make @ man feel liberally di fora | season, Shook drives fast horses and more than half | believes in the success of the democratic ticket this | fall. He is @ colleetor of internal revenue, and hence has the credit of being @ three-milllonnaire, Here also are Thompson, of the Erie, who has re- cently Won so mitch renown asa legislative finan- cler; Judge Barnard, cool, easy and confident of renomination by Tammany and a victory atthe ey! Dowling, the popular Police Justice and Justice it Sessions, who Wants nothing, but can get whatever he pleases from the party be serves so abiy; Judge Jones, who is ag independent as & porpoise at high tide; James 1. Nicholson, the Commissioner of Charities and Correction, who is said to be the [rish- men’s favorite for Mayor on Hoffman’s elevation to the Governor's Chamber; Chauncey Depew, great census comptier, who is striving to taik frien ship and the Tax Commissionership with all leading democratic politicians, and Hugh Hastings, who be- gins to display mysterious symptoms of having already taken Weed's place in political management and barter, ag le already has in the lobby and Journalism, Who cise is here at the other honses, what they all Want, how they all talk and what they ali think we Will gossip about hereafter. YACHTING NOTES. The various yachts belonging to the New York Yacht Club are now returning to the city from their Pleasure trips to the eastward and from down the coast for the purpose of preparing for the annual squadron cruise, ‘The New York Yacht squadron will rendezvous on Saturday next, the sth inst., at Glen Cove, L. 1, from which place it Will then sail upon its pleasant cruise to the eastward, Races, clambakes, pig chases, music, hops and 9 variety of other entertainments ‘too nusmerpus to mention" are a part of the programme laid down for ‘the approachi! The Palmer me through from @ cruise to the eastward via New London. P from the eastward and dei from w they took their departure for Portiand and Penob soot Bay. Among number is the new yacht of I. M. Ward, spreading 285 yards of canvas; also the handsome and trig sloop yacht Mist, Captain Pit- man. These yachta are reckoned the fastest saliers ip the feet, who died suddenly. PostHUMOUS LABORS OF THE SCHUETSENFRST.— The several committees of the Schnetzehfest organi- zation have been at work ever since the close of the festival to settle accounts and make up & correct balance sheet. When all claims had been fully audited it was found that the cash on hand was some six thous: dollars short to pay all just de- manda, It was then resolved to appoint a commit- tee to take into consideration what would be the best and most efficacious mean to. procure money suificient to cover this deficit, and atthe last meeting of the committee it was agreea to have another shooting festivai in September next, at Jones’ Wood, not exactly local in its character, though it will not be as extensive as the last one. it will last from two to three days, and itis hoped that sharpshooters from adjoining States will attend in large numbers. The committee in charge of the subject is comprised of the following — :—Max Morgenthau, R. Katzenmaier, Weorge Kuester, Gustave Stein, Joun Gerdes and M. Baruch. CASUALTIES YRsTeRpay.—Patrick Leary, while at work in the new building corner of Twenty-third street and First avenue, fell from a@ scaffold to the ground about three P. M. and broke his leg. He was taken to bis home, No. 304 East Twentieth street. Andrew Breslin, residing at No. 111 Essex street, had his right leg broken ny being run over by truck 1,289, atthe corner of Centre and Duane streets, about two He was taken to Believue Hospital, John twenty-six years of age, residing in between 165th and 166th streets, and Broadway, en to Bellevue Hos- insensible from sanstroke. pital. George Lee, of 154 West Fourth street. Taken to Rellevue pital. Anupknown man (lame), in Bethune street, satfering from fits; about twenty- feet eight inches in height, x, drab pautaloons and black . Vincent's Hospital. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, ONE WOMAN A®STEMPTS TO SHOOT ANOTHER.—Ro- sana Mclutee was yesterday brought before Justice Kelly, of the Fourth district Police Court, charged with attempting to shoot witha revolver Mra. Mc- Mullen. The would be murderess was required to ve bail in $1,000 to refrain in future from a repeti- ion of such murderous manifestations. A Case OF ALLEGRD Picking Pocgrts.—Jane Laughiin, a woman twenty-six years of age, living at No. 9 Pell street, was arrested by oMcer ha bag of the Sixth precinct, on the charge of picking the ocket of Mary Donovan of $80 in United States legal nder notes while sitting in the room of the latter. Search was made for the missing money, but it could not be found. The accnsed was taken before Justice Dowling and committed to the Tombs for trial. A YOUNG SHOPLIFTER.—Thomas Norton, a youth of fifteen years, yesterday stepped up in front of the store Nos. 64 and 66 Lispenard street, occupied by Mr. C. F. Borrell, apd seizing a piece of cloth, worth ‘about $50, ran napidiy down Church street. ‘Thomas was pursued by officer H. W. Cole, of the Fifth pre- cinct, and arrested with the stolen cloth in his jon. Justice Dowling committed the delin- quent to the Tombs for trial. ALLEGED EmpezzieMent.—James H. Drake, re- cently a clerk and barkeeper in the employ of Mesars. Curtis & Nelson, No. 95 Maiden lane, was yesterday arrested by detective Stilwell, of the Second inct, on the charge of embezzlement. It is alleged that on the 13th of June the accused collected $20 76 from tne New York Packin, 4 Fitting Company, No. 33 Park row, and appropriated the same to own use instead of paying the same over to his employers. Justice Dowling committed Drake for trial. A STRIKER.—Matthew Cummekey, alleged to be one of the brick mason “strikers,” was arrested by omMficer Mooney, of the sixth precinct, on the com aint of Henry Deas, of No. 61 Mulberry atreet. It Alleged by the latter that while he was at his work, gorner of Canal and Mulberry streets, the accused threw a stone at-and otherwiké interfered with him, without any cause or provocation. Justice Dowling committed the accused, in defauit of $500 to keep (he peace for six mouths, Lanok MAUL BY A PicRrooRET.—On Sunday after- noon Miss Mary Van Riper, of No. 137 West Tenth street, while in a Sixth avenue car, when near Nine- teenth street, had a wallet containing $830 taken from her pocket, Suspecting Joseph Meads SO Laurence, who had been sitting near her up to Nine- street, of having committed the robbery, she ited him out to the conductor. Boyd jumped oif car and ran down Nineteenth street. Officer of the Twenty-ninth precinct, pursued him igh several blocks, when Boyd took refuge in a Wood shed opposite the Sixteenth precinct station Williamson, who saw him go in, ar- he prise oner was arraigned at Jefferson Market yesterday officer Clark, and committed for trial in defauit of bail, ARREST OF 4 StRamBoaT THiEF.—On Sunday evening Mx. Michael C. Daly, a member of the theat- rical profession, took the steamboat James. Baldwip at Roundout for this city. The boat being eresved to excess, Mr. Daly, being unable to obiaif & state- room, took aberth in the lower cabin. During the night Mr. Daly’s pockets were rifled of his trunk key, check for his baggage and a few other articles, which lows he did not discover till the boat arrived at tne foot of Harrison a Nosth river, yesterday morn- Mr. Daly immediately made search his trunk, which contained wear- img apparel, theatric: wardrobes, &c., val- ued in all at about $600, Detectives Tilley and McGirney, of the Third precinct, were made ac- quaint with the facts of the robbery and took active measures to secure the thief. By dint of va- rious fo Syed the detectives learned that at five O’O1OCK the morning a uns man known as Jo- seph Nathans had engaged Henry Spear, an express- man, to convey a trunk from the steamer Baldwin to Eas? Broadway, near Jefferson street, after which a stranger had assisted Nathans to remove the trunk to hig (Nathans’) apartments, corner of Jefferson aad Henry streets. On going to the place detectives Filley an MoGirney found ‘Katnane in the act of ri- pus the trunk of is valuable contents and seized both him and the stolen property. ‘Ihe prisoner on being confronted with Spear, the expressman, was identified as the man who employed him to carry the trunk from the steamer to East Broadway. Nathans was taken before Justice Dowling, and on Mr. Daly’s complaint fully committed for trial. He is twenty —. of age, born in Gerinany, lives at No, 124 Norfolk street, and is a butcher by occupation. Mr. Daly, who lives at No, 27 West Thirty-aixth street, has recovered all his property. FIRES IN THE CiTY. In West Street—One Man Burned to Death and Another Seriously Injured. About half-past five o’clock yesterday morning officer Hickey, of the Fifth precinct, found the body of aman very much burned in a garret room of the house No. 222 West street, where the fire occurred on Sun- day night, the particulars of which appeared in yesterday's HERALD. It was identified as that of one Rogers, belonging to Columbus, Ohio, but recently working in New Jersey, who had obtained lodgings there ou the previous day; but nothing further could be learned respectiny ie deceased, During the progress of the fire John Cregan, of Engine Com- pany 27, fell from the roof of the adjoining building, where he was at work, and was severely injured. The Josses and insurance, as far aa could be learned, are as follows:—John Brown, dining saloon, No, 222; loss about $500; no insurance. Isaac Klein, sugar dealer, No. 2a gs Gamage to stock about $1,000; insured for $800 in Hamilton Insurance Company. Samuel Mud- gett, dining saloon and lodging house, No, 221; loss about $600; no insurance. The fire was discovered in the rear of the saioon, but its origin 1s unknown. This building is owned by Patrick Fay & Brother, and is considerably damaged; supposed to be insured, bat the name of the company aad amount were not earned, In Seventh Street. Shortly after one o'clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the grocery store No, 144 Seventh street, occupied by Bertha Crook, originating from a lighted match carelessly thrown into a small keg con- taining waste paper, It was extinguished by the occupants with trifling damage. Insured in Germa- nia Insurance Company for $600. The Burning of Oil Works at Harlem. The loss occasioned by the burning of the cotton oll works at Harlem on Saturday night last was very much over estimated. We now learn from the owuers, G. Oppenheim & Co., that their loss amounts to $97,000, and the insurance upon it amounts to only $31,700, in the following compan 8:—Me- chanics’ and Traders’, Franklin, of Philadelphia; Grocers’, Commonwealth, Mechanics’, of Jersey City; ee City, = New Amsterdam, Firemen’s, Jersey City; St. Nicholas, Greenwich, Putnam, of Hartfora; insurance Company ef North America, Philadeip! Phoenix, Philadelphia; In- surance Company state of Pennsylvania, Exchange, United States, of Baltimore, and First National In- surance Company, of Jersey City. Leases by Fire for the Month of July. Ex-Fire Marshal Baker's statistics for the month july show fifty-two fires and alarms in this city, involving a loss, as near as could be estimated, of 06,765, upon wheih there were Insurances of 386,300. Five of these fires are reported to be of incendiary origin. THE NATIONAL GAME. Atlantic ys. Orienta’ The game between these clubs played yesterday at the Union grounds proved to be decidedly uninter- esting, and notwithstanding the apparent disparity in the score was, as a whole, unworthy of the Atlantics, Ferguson again distinguished himself as catcher, and besides him Chapman and Crane were the only ones at ail worthy of note on the Atlantic side. Openheimer and Cook on the Oriental side did pretty well in the fleld. Reference to the detatis would be decidedly uninteresting. The score of the game is us follows:— ATLANTIC. L.0.R, | Players. F. L. 0. R. oa a8. oo3a 56 0 2 -hogea 140 3 13 131 30 130 3d 221 10 ost a0 o23 $3eh os 006 647 9 AS 997 86 NNT! Aa, M4. BL |. th. Oth. Oriental. A BE q 9 Atlantic, 20 7 1 288 Home rune. ne 1. Crane 1. Qut on bases Oriental # times, Atlantic 18 times, Foul bound eatches—Bennett 6, Fergueon 6. Getches on strikes _Fergusos 1, Bennett 1. Double plays: Mille Start; Cook, Holmes and Butler. foe Pana Sy eh eo mas ire—Mr. imum, of the Eckford Club. Scotere—Mesnrs, Johneon and Monk. Time of game — Two hours twenty-dve minutes. Empire ve. Eagle. Another of those games into which pecuniary con- siderations do not enter and which are played for the credit of the contest and the love of the game came off yesterday between the above named clubs. The Eagle presented @ good, well trained and steady working ‘‘team;" but the Empires were minus the services of three of their best players. In the field, on the Eagle side, there were very few errors of any account, aud, in fact, on the Empire side there were few errors; but the former batted powerfully and safely, while the Empire seemed out of practice with “the stick.” Miller, Wilson and “the Doctor’’ espe- olally distinguished themselves, as also did Norton, Hieks, Stevens, Gaughan and Gailaguer, ‘The score was as follows: f. &, Pipe OO ys OT 1 & Norton, ist b. ad 10 8 8 N.Shaler, x. gi 0.8 2 2 Hicks “a i | 103 oe font reg 1 240 oo Voege, r. £ aig Lo Sebring: 004 21 Foster, "8d b, 006 it Totals. 10 6% a 94 if Cube, . Bd. a. Empire. ie 4 le 6 3 0 impire Reorert Time of Exercise ve. Americus. The return game—an exceedingly well contested one—between the above clubs was played yesterday afternoon on the grounds of the Exercise Club, near Bas new York, and resulted in @ victory for the Americus Club, awmnicus, ot INSINGR. Jat. Bd. Se. 40h BHh, GHA. THD. 8 OotitvtLs 6e@%¢38 t ch 5 sre ar. Henters—J. Pe Euereise; Edward Cuskley, Americus Time of game—Two hours and thirty minutes. Matches to Come Of, ‘To-day—Fekford ve, Unique, at Union grounds, Mutual va. jaymakers,’’ at Troy. Wednesday—Mutaal vs, Irvington, Union grounds, Social v&. Chaurpion, Hudson City, N. J, med HAYTI. Attack on a Government Position—Ravages by the Piquets—Salnave Still Firm—Tbreats Against Foreigners. Por? av PRINCE, July 11, 1868, Yesterday afternoon a party of Normel’s troops surprised the government's bivouac on the road of Bizoton and routed the men, taking a few muskets and some ammunition, General Ve) Lubin, com- manding Fort Bizoton, informed the President of this defeat, who ordered aa immediate attack on Normel’s camp wv divisions tried the game, but wereseverely repulsed and compelled to take refuge under the walls of the fort, where a heavy musketry fire was kept up for a long time, Vessels are leaving this port daily in ballast, no freight to be had hore. The “Piquets,” a set of robbers, have taken up arms in the south of the isiand. They are in possession of the seashore of Leogane and the little town of Grand Goave. The other seaports are still in pos- session of the revolutionists except Gonaives, Port au Prince, Cape Haytien; but these places are closely besieged. Three respectable men of Leogane we! arrested and brought here under escort. ry were shot the next day, President Sainave is still firm and determined. He has fortified this city very strongly. His partisans ERD ea the enemy will never succeed in storming e city. 1 have no reliable news from Jacmel. The report is that the town is besieged by the “Piquets,” who are in favor of the government. There is also a strong reaction against the cacos in the plains, which brings no tidings of success. Foreigners, especially English and French citizens, are constantly threatened by the “lazzaroni” of the city. ‘Mir. Achille de Courthral, acting Chargé d’Affaires: of France, arrived some days ago. He is to replace Count Mejean, who has leave of absence. The hab. lic feeling {8 much in favor of this man, as it is generally believed that he will be firmer than his predecessor as regards protection, Her Majesty's steamsiip Mullet and French war steamer Surcouf are in port. The United States steamship Penobscot has gone on a cruise and is ex- pected to return to-night, ST. DOMINGO. The Alta Veln Question—Tone of the Demint« can Cabinet—Position of the Foreign Minie- ter. Sr. DOMINGO Crry, July 20, 1868. ‘The tone of the United States press on the Alta Vela question excites the surprise of the Dominican Cabinet, but no apprehension. The Minister of Foreign Relations, in speaking of it among his friends, takes this position:—When the American occupants of Alta Vela were brought prisoners to St. Domingo City, the Dominican republic was in treaty with Spain for annexation to the Spanish monarchy, and the fact was known at Washington as well, or better, than it was here. No step was taken, no protest made adversely to the act converting the Dominican republic into # Spanish colony. In the progress of the transition the Spanish offictals, then present at the capital superintending the details, would not permit the permanent 1k ent of American citizens so near the Dominican coast. The guano workers were con~ sequently brought away from Alta Vela and their works broken up ¥° Spanish direction. On raising the Spanish flag at St. Domingo Alta Vela was ceded to Don Pedro Delgado upon condition of there being paid $2 50 per ton for all the guano taken from it, and this charter remained his private and exclusive property until 1866, when he sold it to an American firm—Webster & Co., of New York, nie 3 all this time, from 1860 to 1867, when Web- ster & Co. entered vigorously yoo the ge of the guano deposits, it is said here that the Wash- ington Cabinet Mag ered in the action of the Span- igh government, both on the question of sovereignty and the private use and possession of Alta Vela by Spanish subjects. Seven years with- out @ word of complaint or remonstrance Spain the Dominicans consider an evidence that the Washington Cabinet wiil not now move in the mat- ter against their own citizens. be Alta Vela was taken possession of and the ‘a tion of guano commenced and carried on b) r~ son & afaguinder of Baltimore, in 1860, un what 1s called the Guano Island act of 1856, th Ir from the island ata cans, on the 24th of employés were taken forcibl few hours’ notice by the Domi October, the same year. Jeremiah Black, then Secretary of State at Wash- ington, had the affair investigated and insisted that the occupants of Alta Vela had been improperly ejected. Mr. Seward, his successor, did not take the same view of the matter, and it is now tobe brought beiore Col and may yet lead to se com- plications. The Dominican Cabinet, besides the gen- eral piea that the right of Let moe my and covered the action of ejectment, insists that the loi and complete acquiescence of the American Cabinet bars interference for the future. The Revolutionists Inactive=Baez’ Opportus nity—Ladies in Prison—Opposition Very General—Murders by Spanish Deserters. St. DomINGo Ciry, July 20, 1868, I have to report the inactivity of the leaders of the revolution, who strangely remain idle along the Hay- uen frontier, giving no signs of energy and no en- couragement to the thousands ready to ald and assist them. Baez has profited immensely from this unac- countable respite offered him by President Cabral and partisans,and has adopted many tyrannical measures to strengthen his administration, As usual, he has resorted to renewed persecutions, and again to be counted among the ob- Senora Francisca Santana, wife even ladies are into exile within the last ten di all on account of the jealousy and tli-will of the ent. I give the names of a few, to wit:—General Curiel, of San- tiago; Coloneis Chala and Aguerrero, Captain Sanu citizens Castillos and Santa Maria. The Supreme Court has sustained the appeal made to itin behalf of General Cristobal Moya, despoti- cally sentenced to death by a court martial, ked by orders, and has remanded th vil court of this city for trial. The truly republican’ doctrine that citizens unconnected with the army do not come within the jurisdiction of courte martial was ably elucidated by our highest tribunal and Pec ie julting Senate isformed. As was anti ted, the ten members are all blind partisans of the jent, and will act as faithful echoes to his spoken desires, ablest and best nan of the lot is Gen- eral Eugenio Garcia, of Samant The 14th inst. being the President's birthday, all his retained followers, all officers on duty here, a few merchants and the diplomatic corps called upon him and Laorny their felicitations, Baez replied to these hom: as weil as he could. The r of Finance and Commerce has gone to the Cibao on an important mission, and his secre- , Manuel Guerrero, fills his place. ‘he oficial organ publishes what purports to be a letter of submission from General Polanco. This gallant officer does not despair of truth, justice and the revolution, as Baez’ supporters will soon prac- tically realize. Not long since three deserters from tne Spanish army, who had been floating about St. Domingo for some time, took passi for Azoa On @ small coasting sloop. When night came they murdered the native crew to selze the craft and make their way to some other place. They were overhauled the next day by the Capotilia and conveyed to prison. Crimes of violence are rare among the Dominicans, and this one caused a great sensation. The criminals have been tried and are under sentence of death, and will be executed within @ month from the perpetra- tion of their cold-blooded murder, ALLEGED HOMICIDE. Coroner Keenan was yesterday notified to hold an inquest at Bellevue Hospitai on the body of William Hughes, a lad seventeen years of age, late of Second avenue, near Thirty-fourth street, whose death ts alleged to have been the result of violence inflicted upon him by Timothy Ahearn, a butcher, of 201 East Twenty-fifth street. It appears that on Saturday evening last the deceased and a number of other young men were in @ wagon standing In front of Ahearn’s shop, using the most profane and obscene language. Ahearn’s patrons protested and threat- ened if he did not disperse the young ruf- fians and abate the nuisance they would be compelied to go elsewhere for their suppites. Accordingly Ahearn went out to the wagon and re- monstrated with the offenders, ail of whom left quietly; at deceased and one of his boom com- panions, Hughes, in his obstinacy refused to go away, and said it would take a better man than Ahearn to make him go. The two then became in- voived in an altercation, during which, It is aeged Ahearn kicked Hughes in the lower part of the 10- men. Hughes waiked away and was subsequently admitted to Bellevue Hosp: Subsequently @ poticeman, of the E recinct, arrested Ahearn for the assanit, It being thought, however, | that Hughes was not mach imjured, Ahearn was dis- charged. Hughes, much to the surprise of the hos- ital surgeon, continued to fail tii yestel jeath ensued. Sergeant Banfleld, of the recinct, then rearrested Aheart, and ined im to await the resuit of the inquisition. Several Witnesses were examined before the Coroner and | testimony was elecited going to show the above state | Of facts. Ahearn, in kicking deceased, De of the small intestines, but it 18 not supposed +4 had any intention of inflicting fatal injuries. — to the absence of Important witnesses the investiga- tion was adjourned tl to-morrow (Wednesday) thorn: ing, at eleven o'clock. | It is said t ay 4 a young man of exceedingly bad character and as- sociated with a gang of young rumans who infest the east side of the city, committing nightly depreda- tions and.striking terror to the quiet inhabitants of that neigfivorhood.