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

— 4 EUR OPE. The Reform and Election Crises in England and France, Will Disracli and Napoleon Obey the Publie Voice? The French Loan----Its Amount, Terms and Plan of Payment. THE GERMAN SCHUTZENP IN VIEVNA. The German mail steamship New York, Captain Dreyer, from Southampton the 4th of August, arrived at this port yesterday morning, bringing @ mail re- port, in interesting detail of our cable telegrams, dated to her day of sailing. The Bordeaux journals announce the arrival in that city of General Cabrera, the weil known Carlist leader in the war of succession in Spaln, He is pro- ceeding to Barcéges for a course of treatment, ‘The Sultan of key received the new Greck Re- pfesentative, M. Mean Delyaunis, who presented his credentials, making at the same time a suitable address, His Majesty replied as follows:— Thave equally at heart the relations of friendship and good fe gz whic houlkt be maintained be. tween the kingdom of Greece and my empire, ‘The erest of boil these Powers ts to live on friend nuy causes of dulerence arose tr abnormal circumstances, J trast that on intercour Will speedily resiune it earier character, and be- come clo: the memory of tie events J allude to | shall become eflacead, The Duchess de Tet nell, is seriously ill at Madrid. Cardinal Anioueili replied to Baron de Eeust's | despatch relative to the confessional laws in Austria | by a simple acknowledgtaeat of its reception. | M. Rattazzi arcived in Florence from Germany and immediately had a prolonged interview with Genera! La Marmora, Baron de Malaret, French Minister at Flerence, signed on the 30th July, with the Minister of Finance in Italy, the fal protocol reiative to the partition of the Roman debt. Mgr. Cattani, lately appo' Brussels, was consecre op of | Ancyre i partibus injideiiwn. The ceremony took | place in the Church of Saint Jean de Latran and was | performed by Cardinal Pau Mgr. Cattani, who was formerly Papal !nternuncio at the Hague, will shortly proceed to oceupy his new post. The Moniteur de la Fiotle states that Rear ad- miral Bourgeois and M. Delaroche Poncié, French hy- drographical engineer of the frst class, have been designated to form part of a spectai commission charged with the task of examining a project for a submarine tunnel for a raiiway betweeu France and England. Six cardinals will be appointed at the Consistory to be held next month in Rome, The prelates desig- nated are Mgri. Merode, Clu Talbot, Randi, Fer- rario and Sagretti, All the vacancies In the Sacred College wiil be filled up prior to the assembly of the Ecumenical Council, A brother of Cardinal Antonelli has been dis- patched from Rome on a confidential mission to Germany. Some flying companies of artillery left Rome for observation of the frontier, In consequence of the existence of cattle plagne in several Russian districts near the Prussian fron- tier the importation of cattle was interdicted, At Heydekrug only cases of inflammation of the spleen have occurred. A veterinary surgeon of Gumbinnen sent across the frontier to examine into the truth of the alleged cattle plague in Russia reports that he found only infammation of the spleen prevatent, This disease was, however, very widespread. Sev- eral men had aiso been infected by tt, and five had died. A telegram from Constantinople of July 2 says:— A despatch from Midbat Pasha, commander of the Ottoman troops in Bulgaria, announces that the re- mains of the insurvectionary bands have been cap- tured in the Balkans. prisoners will be tried In public. Pertect tranquillity prevails in the provinces of the Danube, | m | 1an, widow of Marshal O*Don- Papal Nuncio at AUSTRIA. The Great Schutzeniest in Vienna, VIENNA, July 25, 1888, Imagine hundreds of Wurienbergers, Bavart- ans, Heastans, Saxons, Hanoverians and Silestans pouring into Vienna and exchanging ideas with hundreds of Viennese, Lower and Upper Austrians, Tyrolese, Styrians and German Bohemians, all equally writhing under the peace of Prague and equally discontented with the existing Prussian supremacy, and you May measure the anxlety with which oficial men in Vienna are looking forward to the apeeohifying thet will take place at the daily banquets in the Fest Halle during the Schutzenfest. and you may also conceive the irritability and ap- prehension which oficial men at Berlin are bringing to the contempiation of the proceedings of the third German National Schyetzeniest held in a city which the leading German Power bas, by solemn teaty, excluded from Germany. Now for the site of the fesilval and the construc- tions thereon, run up with laudabie promptitude by the oMcers of the Bund, for the use of the sharp- shooters and spectators. ‘The site or Festplatz is In the southeast part of Vien le and aliaost un- rivalled park, the Prates. Tlis portion of the Prater abuts on Danubign canal, Wateh rans through Vienna. The loealjsé is bul littie vistted by either strangers or those “to the Tnanner born.” It 1s one of striking bepty, being surrounded by noble trees, except whete, through an aperture, the observer from te Belvidere, spoken of W, catches & glimp/e of the eastern quarter of the town, led he iandstrasae, and through another, my at sunset see the golden orb sink beneath the Axahlenbe:g and the western range of hills, — It e S is fourteen hundred = yards King. and hundred = and ghty — yards broad, Scifiess Halle dive ts tt” from end to end. On the east of the Scitess Halle stand the butts and the shooting ground; on the west of the same stand the buildings, On tife shooting ground, or Schiess Platz, staud ninety-one butts (Fe!dscheiben), at the distance from the Scatess Haile of one hun- dred and fifty-eight klafter or three hundred and wixty-eight yards and sixty-nine standacheiben, at the distance from the saine of ninety two klafter or two hundred and fifteen yards, The Platz is girt around by an eartiwork and by gabions and com- bines safety and beauty in an eminent degree, The other section of the Festplatz 14 oecupled by the buildings and the approaches thereto, These buildings, which are of wood, are erected fn horse- shoe form as the visitor appre m from the main entrance. Forming the bottom of the horse- shoe stands the Fest Halle, and on either side thereof are the Gift Temple and the Scliiess | ‘The Fest Halle itself is an elegant structure, by far | the largest wooden buliding ft at has ever beea put | up in Vienna. It is calculated to accommodate no | Jess than six thonsand guests to dinner at the one | hundred and twenty-six tables which it con tains, Last Sunda atthe trial dinner, six thousand | n- | jaily sat down to table and queted comfortably, The galleries are built to jate three thousand spectators and tire musical bands or choira. The kitchens are on the same gigantic scale as the banquet hall. The ovens or ranges are able to Cook at one time six thousand pounds of meat in as many portions. Five hundred Waiters have siceping rooms under the roof of the Fest Halle. Outside the building Is adorned by the coats of aris of those countries which have rite | assoctations, by those of the various German States and free cities, and of the Various Austrian and Mune | garian provinces. From the side wails of the in- terior Wave tie fags of the said political divisions, ‘There 8 & monster open air resiaurant abutting © the Fest Halle, w The Schiess [atle is a long three-naved building, containing one hundred and sixty shooting stonds, | each of which ig seven and three-quarters feet long and five fect broad, Its outbuildings contain numerous committee rooms and a money exchange | office, The middie neve has a second story, which | serves a8 & Belvidere, Irom which a fine view of the | Festplats aud tie surrounding country is obtained. | Among tlie outhouses are to be mentioned the fire arm depots, the loading ditto, and the workshops | for the mechanic | The giit temp 1éd into a number of finall cells 60 as to show OMf thio Numerous gilts tothe | Dest advantage. In addition to these three main buildings, which | together form a horse siioe enreinte, are two others standing on either aide of the main entrance. [a | oue of these Is @ reading room, a cave, a telegraph | and post office. (The telegrapl wires, hy the way, | won brought to the Pestplatz.) In the other ia the room for the volunteer watchmen. Close to | the two entrances where the mouey Is taken are two | tpiatz has been open to the inspection of lor the last tro months on paymentof a gmail entrance fee, For the last three weeks it las been by day and by night @ favorite resort for the Vienua public, aud the treasury of the German Na- ley, son of Lord Staniey of Alderley, being also in- to tie seti selves ugatust the Irish Clurch establishment and in favor of Mr, Giadstone’s general policy, announce Liciisclves a8 unfavorabie to the baiiot, Gladstove’s Irish Chur meus” phrased, while at the same tlme Mr, Disraeli, by ofering two courses for her Majesty's adoption, sought to row upon her the responstitity of having retained her Ven advisers in her conjidence, really passed at that celebrated interview will prova- bly never be accurately known. | the libe: | tween change offices, | Ourselves afterwar NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. tional Shooting Band has profited prodigiously thereby. Fab uantities of beer have been salty Consumed at the restaurant attached to the ENGLAND. The Election Canvass—Preparations for Regs istration—Promises of the Prominent Poli- tclans. Preparation for the citizen registrations and elec- tions engaged the public attention almost completely The London Star of the 4th tnst., speaking of the Agencies set in motion with the view of controlling the new vote, says:—In many cases the new votes created by the Reform bill might almost as well be placed at once in the hands of this or that local magnate, without necessitating on his part any odious process of coercion or extortion. Wales, it seeems, 18 menaced by her landlord class almost ag. much as if she were another Ireland, We know of nothing that could stand so well between her and ! the consequences of such @ condition of things as ; the introduction of the ballot, which would set her tenants free, and deprive her landlords of their worst temptation. Mr. Edmond Beales, President of the Reform League, accepted an invitation to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of the Tower Hain- lets, He issued an address and expressed himself as confident of the resuit. Messrs. Pontifex and Wood expressed their belief that threatenmg letters which they and other em- ployers of iabor lately received from the “secre committees”? of trades unions are mere hoaxes, and tuis opinion is contirmed by Messrs. Potier and itartwell, who argue conclusively against the possi- bility of such letters emanating from any regularly constituted trades union, The London Stay of the 4th instant, speaking of the working of the Reform bill, says he father of the iodger franchise’ is being appealed co by the jodgers ina vein which, we believe, will evoke his Syiipaciues upon a point very terial to the weil working of (is new electoral privilege. Nothing in the history of the Reform bill became Mr, bisracli beiter than the grace with which he accepted » ‘Torrens’ proposal for enfranchising these lodgers; and there is a general — persuasion | that, when he knows what is wanted to render strikii indications. The _ firat pee 3 itwelf is not @ little extraordinary. Only one of the new seats created by the acts of the last two years can be sald to have been secured, and that 1s the seat for the University of London, Among @ crowd of candidates, ail distin- guished and popular, its choice has evidently, aua no doubt fnally, rested on the man who has the credit of bei the ablest, most determined and most sur opponent of parliamentary reform during two out of three years to which this sienguio has been protracted. Here tg a double paradox. The University of London has been regarded, ever since the foundation of the Yin which it was cradled, as the supreme effort fect work of liberalism, 1t was to be the frutttul p arent of secu lar ideas und popular movements, ty years ago it seemed more than conceivable—it ‘appeared highly probable to many educated men—that a uni- xeraity on the principles of Gower street wou'd revo- lutionize the country. Such @ university we have now, and the first name it is about to enroll in the ist of its representatives is the man who, til a few months since, was straining every nerve and eriling a* great reputation to turn back, if possible, the tide_of parliamentary reform, It 18 very true there was much to distin- guish Mr, Lowe’s opposition from that of most other men whom the chances of war had thrown on his side, -As the actual power of this great empire was in the hands of the House of Commons, ani there- fore very largely in the hands of the constituency, he urged the necessity of securing, as far as possible, the moral and mental fitness of the men to be newly invested with this immense responsibility. ‘That 13 avery different matter from the ola tory doctrines of mnate virtue and divine right tn every corrup- tion, every abuse, every abominaiion and every monopoly that could ciaim a prescription or answer @ purpose. The Great Reform “Experiment.” (From the London Telegraph, August 4.] The country is about to make a great experiment. The eftect of the reform tegisiation of the last wo sessions ts to change the constituencies of the United Kingdow and to put the supreme governing power into new hands; and, although the extent of the change Is at preseat very much a matter of con) ¢, enough is known to stamp the political revo- ater than any which the present gen- $ witnes: ‘The Keform act of 1%32 niially a measure of middle-class enfran- chisement. It created, for the first time, an uni- theiv enfranchisement real and eiicient, he will speedily tuke whatever steps are within his pro- | 0 to secure that result, What | ructioa to the various revising | y Should t he portions of tucir | 1 the lodg im in the evening, projongzing or resuming their sittings in order 4 ch depends upon this. Working men cannot gveat loss absent themseives from their | «i the requirements as to personal at- ve iminakiug these claims are, as we shail catly see, somewhat stringent, ‘On the o: hand, to revise te lodgers’ list in the eveoing hours, y from six to eight, will be no incouvenieace to the revising barrister, nm air mecting of the working classes of Edinburg ¥ heid on the Calton bid jor the pur pose of considering “the present position of political ies with reference to the coming Paiilament.” fovin property qualification in boroughs, and gave a predominating power to the ten-pound louse- holders—that 18, to & section of the population inter- mediate between the highest and the lowest in the social le. ‘That in itself was a vast amendment, ‘but it was by no means a return fo the most ancient ¢ constitution of England. [tis now cl yute that in the cariiest ages of Parlia- inentary gov the widest possible basis. Until the reign of VL, when the forty shilting freehold qualtfication was introduced im count we do not find the slighiest trace of any restriction of houseloid suf- ounty, * * * Por sev. may coucinde that for the on of the Sranchise will be tess aye in either town ov we ‘aul reason nt the ete was generally anticipated within the Jirst var, We e only just created a new and compll- cated machnery, and a cousiderable time is re- Robert Cranste preshd There was quired to get it Into full operation, It is therefore large attend nce. Mee Wallace movoa:—«That | We only in a iuited sense that the appeal is about tias meeting, beileving that the prosperity aad | 0 be made to the new constituencies, Even if the advancement’ of the nition cau only be eifecied | CUMbrous processos of the Reform act should not by having a liberal government in power, resvives | De slinplitted and amen ied hereatter—even if the tat It Will support oniy those candiduies for the | IW next year should be just the same ag it is now— representation of the city who are in favor of tue | tts talu that another Fegisiratioa wili be more roul liberal prinelpies represented by Messrs. Glad- | 280s 2 that whieh Is now impending, Men stone and Bright” Mr, Waterston seconded the | Mili be me ma ia mes lahts, will under. : »ted, Wit. | Stand better how to er en, \d ‘¥anizations inoiion, Which was ubanimousiy adopted, Mr, Wit. | Bland belter Haw bo ass ok moved, “Phat as the two candidates ior the rep- ntation of the city, Messrs. MeLaren andjMilic pprouch nearest to the views embodied in the iirsi | resolution, tis meeting expresses 1s coniidence in them, and pledyes itseif to do everything in iis power fo support ther in the coming élection.”? 1 nsield and Mr. Akroyd, Mr wrest Jones and Mr, Serjeant Simon have been in- vited. Both, however, déclined—the former in favor of Manchester and the jatter in favor of Dewsbury, & constituted borough, ‘The Reform League are y with Mr. Henry Vincent, and it is siated is a probability of the Hon. Lyulph Staa- vited, At stroud the issue of Mr. Horsman's address led ting in of electioneering in earnest. Mr. H. ‘Lothain, one of the present members, 4.8. Dickinson, of Brownshill, both issued se us liberal candidates, Both deciare them- Both also but as prepared to support it if the result of the ex- erunent of the coming elections should show, it to. indispensable. In English aquatics Doggett’s coat and badge were won easily by a young waterman named Lagleton, Messenger was second and Hawkins third, It seems the two latter wil receive more money for being in this order tian Eagleton will for being first. The winner gets but a guinea besides the coat aud badg the second, under Lue will of Sir William Joie, ceives £4 173, od, and the the third £2 188. 9d. Even. the fourth nan gets a guinea and a half, and the fith and sixth receive a guinea each, provided they row the distance, Disracli’s Programme Annodaced from the ‘Throne. {From the London Post, August 4.) The language which Mr. Disraeli put into the mouth of his Sovereign when proroguing Parliament dispels all doubt as to the line which will be taken. by (hat maitoster aud his ot? peop at the forthcom- ing @lectioha, The cry will be not merely “fhe Chureh is in danger,” but “Civil and religious Itberty are in danger.” In other words, Mr. Disraeli wiil solicit the support of the new as well as of the old constituency on the faith of the assurance that if the policy of the leader of the liberal party 1s persisted in, all that an Engiishinan holds dear wili be inevitably sacrificed, As a piece of eleclioneering tactics most persons will feel ineiined to condemn, as unworthy Of Mr, Disrael’s astuteness and avitity, 80 barefaced an attempt, and even those who might otherwise be predisposed to endorse the policy of the conserva- tive clhiefiain will Bud themseives compelled to cor uemn @ Minister who has for a second time In t! course of the Jew months during which he has oceu- pied the post of First Lord of the beg placed his Sovereign in the van of the battle, and sought to concentrate upon her the odium witch he knew would not fail to be excited by his doubtful tactics, The public have not forgotten the account which the Prime Minister gave of his famous interview with her Majesty at Osborne after the defeat of the government in the House of Commons on Mr. resvlutions, ‘go et Rew if not deliberately rae was accurate What Mr. Disraeli toid the Hlouse of Commons that her Majesty had empowered him to dissolve Parliament, and that he would do 80 as soon a3 the necessary business of the seasioa would be disposed of But he did not say What course he would pursue in the event of any obsiacie being thrown in the way of completing the very considerable mass of business which then rematned to be disposed of. He did not say what he would do if supplies were stopped or if the Irish or Scotch Keforin bills were not passed. In the Hous of Lords the Duke of Richmond was more explicit, and quietly stated that it depended on Parliament whether the old or the new constituency was ap- een to, Meanwhile days passed into weeks, and he end of the session approached, The battle of the Irish Church was fought over and over again in the House of Commons, und the materials gathered on which the government were to base their appeal to the country. The speeches made from the ‘Treasury bench were addressed rather to the country than to the House of Commons, and now, at the pro- rogation, that spirit which Inspired them bas once more made itself manifest in the speech from the throne. * * * Reform has been disposed of, and Ireland, with its Estabitshed Church and its land laws, comes prominently to the front, The question which electors throughout the United Kingdom wili be called upon to answer 1s, whether it ts expedient that a conserva tive or a liberal policy should be adopted towards Ire- land? Is the alien Church, the acknowledged monu- ment of injustice and sectarian prejudice, to be per: petuated, aad Is it to be propped up in the name of civiland religious liberty? As Carlyle said of the French monarely during the time of the Revolution and before the death of Louis XVI, it is lke a cone standing on its apex and necd- ing support on all sides. By itscif the Irish Charch could not stand for a single day. What propose is that the props in the shape nactinents and rich endowments should , and that the Church should then be left ed by those who are alone interested in maintaining It. Against this course of proceed- ing the conservatives prot ‘The union between the Irish Church and the State, the maintenance of a wealthy ecc esiastical establishment for the sole use and behoof of a minority of the people, the per- peu ion of au institution which occasions perpetual peart burning and makes four-ffths of tue irish people disavected towards the government—all this is necessary, in their eyes, to promote the cause of liberty, to inake all classes satisfied with their insti- toexcite the respect of foreign nations ney and regard for the feelings of our fellow cluicens irrespective of theit particular creeds. Ail we can say ts, that if the conservatives propose to teach these doctrines, and hope to do so with auy success, they have very up-lill work before them, Of Apert be remove to be supped The Electoral Crisis. Trom the London Times, August 4.) have ne vod on an interval whieh has Jong been lovked forward to with the most anxious Intere —too long for a general tion, short indeed for a revolution—are given to the Brilish people, in wv greatly altered aud enlarged sense of that title, to choose the new rulers to be entrasted, it must be added, with a new task and a new respoosibiliiy, As everything else has changed, it cannot be dou that the work will change, Snel that this Interval 19 an interregnum be- ‘no old and ® new order of things. Accorling to some prophets we have “shot Niagara,’ and now comes the question where shall we find It is a point on which we have not ourselves been so desponding as many liberal politicians, but We must confess to @ natural invented to assist them in € really know very litle number aud char- Is the residaum Will the great class of £12 t enrotiing their na constituencies, nm be but vaguely guessed, in boroughs ¢ exclude householders in counties be to territorial influence? essential facts of the problem which is to be worked outatthe next general election are at present un- kKuown quantities, Bul, after all, the ignorance ts many other matter of degree only. We are certain that the co stituencies are made larger, though how much larger we cannot tell, We see distinctly that the governed and governing Classes are brought nearer together, though how much nearer is as yet conjec- tural. About the tendency and direction of the late reform there is no unceriainty whatever. It has rendered tie constitution more in unison with the general body of the eommunity—that is to say, rulers and statesmen now become more directly sub- ject to the observation, criticism and control of the people, As a necessary consequence political lead- ers of all shades of opinion wili henceforth be com- pelled to be more distinct in their policy and more emphatic in their utterances. The actors in the po- litical theatre will have to speak in the clearer lan- guage and to follow up their professions with the more emphatic and practical action required by the increased numbers and the awakened mtelligence of the pation. What the People Demand, from the London News, August 4.) Tt Is because Ireland Ras & nominal equality of rights with wiand that she is branded with the stigma of religious and social inferiority. So long as Unis system prevails stie Wl aspire to itie position of a province, She wilt feel that as a dependency she would be more independent than as an integral part of the United Kingdom, and she will deman:l repeai, -with all its consequences. The argument is unan- sWerab!’e, and the couciusion can be avoided oniy in one or other of two ways—by more bayouets, which is the response Mr, Disrael! would make, or by com- plete justice, which is the answer Mr. Giadatone wouldreturn, More bayouets are not, we freely admit, Mr, Disraeli’s sole specitic. He would offer largo bribes to the ultramoutaue hierarchy. He wouid put the education of the Irish people into their ods, He would improve their status in some un- detined but intelligible way, which would elevate them to the lovel of the Anglican ciergy. To botu these devices the English peopie liave, we believe, a rooted aversion, They object to govera treland as a conquered nation, evea through the iuterveution of the Vaticaa, They do not like English garrisons, military or clerical, An eudowed uitramoniane unt- versity and a subsidized Roman Cxtaolte priesthood areas Little to their taste as an acimed and drilled native police—soiders in all but name. Justice to ail sects and favor to none wiil alone cut the tangled knot of these complicated devices, Allegiance to a designated Icader and the common purpose to re- move a great abuse, which is fatal to the internal peace and real unity of the empire, are the necessary conditions of liberal union. No one who fails co pledge himself to these has any right to ask the support of a liberal constitueacy. They are, how- ever, Utde more than a preface to the great work of the future. Great social problems remain behind, and to these it is indispensable that the public mind should be carnestiy addressed, The battle of parties wiil be fougit Out probably on the Irish Church ques- tion. But when the liberal party comes, as before many months it almost certainly will do, into oMve, tt wilt have other things to do than to avolish the Trish Church Kstablishment, and to make provision Sor the vested interests of its present incumtenis. Even the settlement of the Irish Land ques- tion will not exhanat its duties, The mission of Engiand is not confined to the righteous government of Ireland, It inciudes this in the future, though it does not seem to have included tuis in: the ast, It comprises, however, much more than this, ‘he Irish Church question is but the selected field of battle between the forces of right and privilege, of progress and reaction. But the issue of that contest will decide much beside the Irish Church question. The address which Mr. Stansfeid has to his constituents and fellow townsmen in Haitfax con- veys the opinion of ry competent observer, of an experienced oificial, and of a politician who not only enjoys the thorough contidence of the radical section of the liberal party, but who must be an influential member of the next liberal vernment, On the questions which the new ‘liament will have to determine in detail, but which the how constituencies must first determine in | ae There is first, as Mr. Stansfela points out, the great question of national education, The people of Eng- land, and especially the working cl who are newly introduced iato the constituencies, have to de- cide between the petty scheme proposed by the Duke of Mariborough and the large and statesmantike measure which Mr, Bruce aud Mr. W. BE. Forster have introduced, The reiativns af lavor to capital, in so far as they adiuit of legislative adjustinent, need to be settled on principles at oace of sound economy and true freedom, Theextinction of pau- ris, in so faras it can be extinguished, and its humane and consiterate relief where it 18 tie pro- duct of inevitable necessity must engage the new Parliament. Te conversion of the army Jrom an aristocratic and plutocratic cid jor apicers and from an Alsatia af pauperisin and vagabondage fur the men, intoa truly national service, by the abolition of the system of purchase and the establishment of a just system of promotion by merit, i# another task which has to be accom- On these and many similar questions, 100 arty, the con- nding sive plished, often lost sight of in the conflict of stituencies will vote for or against reform a as they give their support to liberal or co candidates, Government by aud for ti government by a mob for a class; large, » vet administrative reforms, or such cobbling of abuses as will serve the turn of oitcehoiders—th and not merely or principally the iri Chureh « tion, are the issues on which the geueral © will tora, As A social and administrative reformer Mr. Gladstone has b confidence of the nation. Mr. Disraeli also has beea tried, and the result Las be iiferent. lew the “Spoi (From the Manchester 1: The present government, wi of Derby or Mr. Disraeli, have one meri, which, ta the eyes of a “considerable” —to use a favorite thet of the Premicr—if not of a very jarge class, Wii | cover a multitude of sins, if they a their principles they are faithful ¢6 their friends. If they cannot carry their measures they are by no means unsuccessitt! in thrusting thoir adherents Into all kinds of anug berths, or in covering them With honors ranging from the modest civic Knighthood (0 the almost princely dukedom, has certainly been very Kind their diaposal a number of the bos. things In tie State, and they have exhibite’, to say the least, a proper appreciation of the favor Ny not lavi those Who have no better claim to uF for commonplace hard w The rw has attended the lawyers of ¢) " most inconvenient. Attorney lave been carried off to aminer, August 4] tuer under the Parl them in placing at ma than merit of nek Witlel fies boen al Fa and bett curiosity to see the turn things will take, A straw wili tell Which Way the wind blows, but by the time tho straw bas yoved there ere generally moro the world of the bench with ar no slight dimcuity in Niling th oven mod competcus men, y whieh has cats t vacant places by Kwing wilks have bloomed into judges almost before they fairly budded at the bar, And although, just as it were for the look of the thing, two appomtments have been thrown away upon men who had nothing to Tecominend therp but at learning and eminent judicial abilities, it still remains the fact that, with the exception of one weil known Q. O,, who wastes more than usual sweetness upon the desert air, there is not a man of that rank who has made what are called “sacrifices” for the Party who has not either got something or has something in almost im- mediate prospect. ‘The clergy have not been so for- tunate, papeios have drop} in slowly. ‘The Ear! of Shaftesbury had an unfortunate predilection for comparatively young men; and the prelates of the Palmerstonian era seem Iikel long to vex the spirits of High Churcimen and to block the avenues of preferment in the Establishment. Still the con- servatives have had the disposal of two or three of these nice things; and although, of course, we would not talk about Spofforth in connection with appointments of this sacred nature, W ould be disposed to hazard the guess that they have not fallen to men who have been in the habit of consorting with whigs, much less of Keeps company with radicals. ‘Moreover, there is no lif what the next three months may bring forth, If we should call no man happy until he is dead, 80 we ought to describe no Minister as unfor- tunate until he has gone out of ofiice; and without indulging in any speculations that would be justly open to objection, we may note the fact that the venerable age and the infirm health of more than one right reverend prelate makes it more than likely that political orthodoxy will yet receive one or two more rewards from the versatile statesman who protects Christianity, is on the side of the angels and Spologizes for Pontius Pilate, But lawyers and parsons, although influential, are after ail not the most intluential mombers of the conservative party. The broad-acred squires are its back bone, And, as taey are the most powerful, 80 they are the least tractable supporters of a tory government, which has a ‘.ruly liberal policy.” ‘Their managemeat has, no doubt, cost both the Jute aud the present Prem many an anxious hour and required the application of many adexter- ous expedient. Without, however, endeavoring to lut the veil of that tory holy of holies, the Cariton Olab—into which no “stranger,” to say no ling of a liberal stranger, 13 ever perwitted to intrude—it is evident that one resource has been most lavishly, not to say unscrupulously, employed. ‘The “fountain of honor” has been turned on ina very {ull steam during the last two years, Iu that time Lord Derby and Mr, Disraeli, between them, have made no fewer than fifteen new peers; and we really cannot unde: take to Say how inany baronetcies ive, in additi: been called into exisience. * * * ‘There is, or ought to be, a decency even in political jobbing; aud, on the most charitable view, that decency is outragea by such sppoint- ments as those to Which we are now referring. ‘That Mr. Disraeli himself fee's he has, in the instance im- mediately under consideration, gone at least oue step too faris tolerably evident from the fact that the announcement has been delayed until it is too late to bring it under the notice of Parliament. When our Premier exhibits something approach ng to shame no one can doubé that it is amply j fied by a nature of the transaction which calls it orth. Liverpool Opinion of Citizen Duty. [From the Liverpool Mercury, August 3.) * * Mr, Disraeli lately insulted the under- standings and outraged the conse ences of is coun- tryimen by declaring that the state of Irelanit 13 one that ought to afford us the utmost congratulation,” For aught we can tell there may be minds of “over- refinement and over-education” that may not be re- volted by this insolent paradox; but the plain com- mon sense of the common run of Englishmen with heads on their shoulders will indignantly reject and resist the shameless fiction, Ireland is ina state that ought to cause us the deepest anxiety, the most painfal self-reproach and the most eager solicitude to redress all grievances which are capable of re- dress. Ireland ig at this moment the weakness and the danger of the British empire, and the very first a with every Englishman not wholly devoid of political prudence wiil be to remove every removable source of Irish discontent and disaffection. We have contidence in the sense of justice and fairness which animates the masses of our country- men; we have confidence in their political common sense, and therefore we believe that they will pro- nounce an equitable and rational verdict on the great question which will shortly be decided by their suffrages, Engiishmen can understand the duty of doing to others as they would that others should do to them; they can also understand that a divided empire 1s weak and @ united empire strong, and to understand these two things is to understand the Trish Church question. We have faith in our country- men, and, in the language of last Friday's royal speech, we “look with entire confldence to their proving themselves bela of the high privilege with wiich they have been invested.” FRANCE. Election Preparations—Opposition Electoral Meetings Dispersed by Government Forco— Public Indignation and Agitation. opposition candidates at the two piaces—M. Cazot at the former and M. de Larcy at the latter—issued notice of electoral meetings, and a number of per- sons assembled, but were dispersed by the police and armed force, on the ground that the prescriptions of the late law had not been observed, An account of the proceedings, taken from one of the local jour- nals, will be found in a subsequent column, but the democratic journa!s of Paris speak of the whole mat- ter in terms of great indignation and insist that the liiegality is on the side of the authorities and not of the citizens asseinbied. {From the Paris Presse, August 3.] The independent press will be unanimous tn de- man‘ling the most complete explanations as to these facta; for the question is one of extreme gravity. The point at tssue, in fact, is not to know whether citizens will be able to exercise the new right conferred on them by the law lately voted, but whether a backward siep has not been taken since the passing of that measure. What guarantees have the people that they will be able to hold public meotings and call electoral ones, if they not even have those private assemb'ies, on personal tnvita- tion, which were the common right before the new act, as M. Roaber has recognized and the Supreme Court has affirmed by tts decrees? The privilege whicl we possessed was but trifling; but if force and violence can deprive us of it, what use can possiviy be made of the new o.es with which the law invests us? If, in the midst of an election, private meetings are dissolved by the bayonet, what Prefect will re- fugo himself the satisiaction of interdicting a public one? Jie the Opinione Nationale of Paris, August 5) etusa establish the point of law. Article eight, which declares that electoral meetings cannot take place during the five days preceding the ballot, ap plies only to public assemblies. As In the pres case persons were only adinitted on presenting a card or letter of invitation, the meee was a pri- vate oue and the Commussary of Police had no right to be present, and the armed force committed a vio- lation of domicile. If that doctrine ts doubted refer- ence hag only to be made to a decree of the Court of Cassation, Criminal Chamber, of the 4th of Feb- ruary, 1866, That body declared that what charac- terizes smyyoeee a oe meeting was the liberty of admission permitted to all comers, Such was not the case in tue present ins‘ance, as the invitavions were personal, and the Central Commissary could only penetrate into M. Breton’s house by surprise or by Torce with the aid of his agents, The totality of those facta, thereiore, constitutes a double violation of individual liberty and privacy of domicile, as weil 48 au electoral manwuvre, ‘From the Paris Temps, Augnst 3.) ‘The entire liberty of private assemblies has always been recognized by every one and by the Ministers of the Second Empire themscives in the tribune, Consequently, if the recital of the Courrier du Gard is exact, the dispersion of the persons collected by M, Cazot ts illegal and would constitute a flagrant breach of electoral liberty. We trombie at thinking that the caprice of an administration, uneasy as to the future results of the election, should thus suitice to bring face to face the armed force and citizens strong in their right, and consequently inclined to restst. August a4 cratic candidate at Nimes, pears, to evade the law, t is to say, four days be- —they dosired to as- semble in contravention of the formal text which pro- Hivtts all meetings Qureng the five days immediately preceding the election. The government, of course, Whose duty is to execute the law, neither could nor Would clude the Laperious duty of causing its pro- visions to be respected, and the more so that tits Was the first time of bringing it ato operation, The ordinary legal summonses fo disperse were made, | Aud tue meeting Was dissulved. | (from La France of Paris (govern ment organ), August 3.) Resistance outside the is always to be regret- | ted, and we may useiuily ‘all to the mind of out wors the principle w as #0 deeply {From the Paria Pays (government organ), M. Cazot, the det tried and he has gained the | What Manchester Thinks—tfow Diseneli Dis faithless to | fortune or cuanoe | shing them pon | oglish habvts and which lays do rule that must be given in an ti panuer to | sleps i lity of whica even ts contested. Has | the Prefect of the Garde, In derecting the dispersion of the ¢| ora assembled at Nimes ta the house of M. Dre conformed to the prescriptions of the law? oint Which will be decided by the eompe- rity, and the question really merita all ate enee of an election, lor the point to be r the precise ue of demarcation & tween @ private and a puvile meeting, | The New Imperial Loan=Amount and Condle ‘iption, pre inigates the the Chamber, iperial decree Minister of Fi he alienation of such ag Will produce a and & supplemen. 1 xeeed 21,600,0008., In con. forimity with (he bill in question, the atd 'reate to be sued lih interest reckoning from nIstor follows, tay. ton is to om, and on the places:—ln Pars, the ane last day until Hv | atthe irowsury; Oontral Pay Ouloo, 6 rue Loujg-ie: e in th at the fo ing t et Consiguations, 56 rue and Mairies of the twenty the Grand; Caisse des Dey de Lille; Hotel de Ville arrondisser of rente; above that amount it must be for ten france and multiples of ten francs. A deposit equal to the yearly interest of the sum gpplied for must be made at the moment of subscribing, aud for which @ re- ceipt with counterfoil will be given; thus, for five francs of rente the sui to be paid will be five fran and soon, Should the total subsoriptions exce the sum of 429,000,000f. and the supplement of 21,600,000f, fixed by the law a proportionate reduction will be made, except the app!ication for five francs of rente, which will be granted in ‘The payment of the capital will be eifected as fol- lows:—One-tenth, including the provisional deposit, on the exchange of the receipt delivered on sub- scribing for the certificate of loan; the remainder in eighteen monthly instalments payable ‘on the 21st of each month, from the 2lst of September, 1868, to the 2ist of February, 1870. ‘The dividends of the 1st of October, 1863, 1st of January, 1st of April, Ist of July and ist of October, 1869; and Ist of January, 1870, will be deducted from the instalment of the 2ist of the preceding month. Payments in advance, @t the moment of subscribing, will only be received on demands for five francs of rente, which are not subject to reductions; a discount of two per cent per annum will then be allowed from the date of the closing of the subscription; after the allotment, an- ticipated payments of one or more instalinents will be permitted only on certificates of less than 100f, of rente, and the same deduction of two per cent will be accorded. ‘the discounting of the calls on scrip of 1u0f. rente aud upwards can only be au- thorized by a decree of the Minister of Finance in- serted in the Moniteur. Tnstalments not paid within one week after the periods appointed wiil be charged with an interest of five per cent from the day of their falling due; and if, after a lapse of one month, the cail has not been met the whole amount of the certificate may be required. In addition the Minister of Finance may declare the hoider to have forfeited his right and order the sale of the rente represented by the certificate for the reimbursement of the sum due to the Treasury, Napoleon and the Geueral Election—British Opinion of the Imperial Ditticulty. {From the London Times, August 3.) It is tinpossible not to perceive that the imperial government of France looks forward with as much uneasivess as our own to the forthcoming Partia- mentary elections, though, happily, for very different reasons. There is, as we believe, much ground for regret that the Emperor Napoleon should be so anxious to identify his policy with his dynasty—that he should obstinaiely insist on confounding What by the nature of things must needs be perpetually changeable with that which he naturally wishes to be and which ought in reality to be ab- | Solutely immutable. To whatever causes the votes of 1843 and 1851 may have been owing they ought to be looked upon as __ irrevocable, ‘The imperial goverument derogates trom iis dig- nity when it atlows itself any allusion to what are calied the “old parties.” Republi- canism, Bourboniazm and Orieanism cannot be directly or indirectly recognized; they cannot be looked upon as lawful opposition; they should never be addressed or mentioned as such, ‘The Oriflamme or the Red Flag could only be brought back into France by a violent revolution, aud a revolutionist, till he is successful, must always be dealt with as a public enemy. ‘The Kinperor Napoleon, however, cannot overlook the fact that not oniy do anti-im- persis parties actually exist, but that, 80 long as hey keep witiin the law they have a right to exist; that, so long as they accept the empire as an ac- complished fact, they are entitled to oppose impe- rialiam by all the means wich its own Institutions place at their disposal—that opposition to the im- perial government may not only be perfectly con- sistent with allegiance to the empire, but may also be the best and only means of providing for the em- pire’s safety. Were there a possibility, however remote, of a general election resulting in a large majority of anti-Dynastic deputies, We do notsee what weapons agains the dynasty they could tind in the powers with which they are invested; for in seif-defence even a power originally grounded on force is by the mere right of possession authorized to repel force by force; and no respect need be shown to lawgivers who place themseives above the iaw. But it ought to be otherwise if the result of the popular vote were only @ majority against the government—if the Deputies returned were merely to declare their hos- tility to some of the government measures—say, for instance, to the perpetual occupation of Rome, or to the annual wd of one hundred thousand conscripts in times of peace. Any attempt to screen the imperial policy behind the shield of the imperi dynasty would incur @he unnecessary risk of involving the dynasty in the ruin of the policy, Unfortunately the Emperor Napoleon has claimed infallibility as well as inviolability. He un- dertook so to rule France that not only violent fac- tion, but even legal and peaceful Me need a should never find @ vulnerable side in the imperial govern ment. Free fo i he sanctioned and even organ- ized, open criticism he countenanced and even chal- lenged; but it was upon the ee condition that he should eventually always be in the right. Any chance ef either the country or its representatives passing a vote of want of confidence in him was never contemplated, Nothing m the least degree ap- rs a siinilar vote has mn passed at any time during the score of years that have now nearly elapsed since his first accession. It took some time, at first, before the French could be reassured as to their being allowed to have any real opinion on public matters, It took still longer before the ascendancy of the Napoleon name and of the Napoleon star allowed any other opinion than the ruler’s to spread widely among the multitude, But when the time came in which the Emperor him- self avowed the power of “irresistible circum. stances” and acknowledged the presence of “dark spots on the horizon,” or, in other words, threw doubts on his power to control events by his sole omniscience and omnipotence, it became natural for people to inquire whether it would not be desirable that other men should give him the beneft of their assistance, or, in other words, whether it was not necessary that the nation should take its share in the government and make the constitution a reality. On the ivth of January, 1867, the oe himeelf Prepared the world for some substantial change of that nature. +" Hut the question still remains—if the result of a fair appeal to the popu suffrage and of @ free dis- cussion in a new legislative body were to be that the Emperor's goveroment has been in the wrong—that, for Instance, the prolonged occupation of Rome an the perpetuation of an armed peace must be ranked among those blunders which prove more fatal than crimes—to what should we have to look forward? Wonld the irresponsibie and inviolable, though no longer infallible, sovereign leave the blame to his ministers and reappear before the representatives of the people at the head of a new Cabinet and an- nouncing a new policy? The answer is, in the first ance, to pro- | place, that such a pes | can never arise; in the second _ place, i must never arise. And there precisely lies the main point at issue, Tho government maintains | that the opposition can never have # majority; that no change, elther in men or measures, can ever be needed of which the Emperor himself has not be- fore all men seen the Opposanny, and which he is not ready to propose his own free will. The Emperor need never yield to @ vote, because he can, @ ail events, always forestall a vote; the opposition, on tl ther hand, objects that the Emperor's gov- ernment never need be swayed by a vote, simply be- cause itcan, under all circumstances, command a vote; because for such men or measures as tt may feel disinclined to disavow or abandon it has it ways in its power to obtain the support and sanc- tion of @ packed majority. The goveenment goes to the poll with @ real or atfected consciousness that it deserves the public suffrage. The opposition votes with a sincere or pretended misgiving that ita vote can be of no avail against the administration. * * * Whatever may be sald of the imperial government, the Emperor himseif takes care to place himself above all parties. So long as his presence at the head of afaira answers any of the designs of Providence, his life, he says, is sure to be spared; and were he even to fall, the French people would not fail, in the interest of ublic order, to od ge the sovereign wor in bis family, ‘he imperial dynasty is, there- fore, placed above discussion, the only uestion 18 whether or not popular elections or ‘arliamentary discussions are to be allowed to in- fluence fairly the imperial policy. There would be little objection to letting the administration canvass for the imperial government if they did not too intedly affect to canvass for the Emperor. The Emperor cannot kee a Cabinet and be his own min- ister Without declaring the constitution a pretence and giving hia government that personal character which deprives the opposition of all legal utterance, jeaves it no room for discrimination between the sovereign and his rule, and justifies it im any length of violent Hostility against both. FONEIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. At the recent execution of the murderers of Prince Michael a bali rebounded from one of the posts to which the criminals were attached, killing the oficer tu command of tue firing party. During a recent violent storm that passed over Tarbes, Hauies-Pyrenees, France, haiistones fell that were ad large as hens’ ome. Madame Alexandrine Bris has passed a brilliant ex- anination before the Faculty of Sciences in Paris and obtained the degree of Bachelor, She now in- tends to study medicine. ‘The brigands infesting South Italy recently cap- tured tho’ revelver of taxes of Fontecchia, but re- leased Lim on his family paying @ ransom of $1,000, ‘The amonnt awarded by the jury of appropriation in Pars for the prolongation of the Boulevard | Haussmann ia $2,200,000 to Whe landlords, and $312,550 to the occupants, The keeper of the Park at Bieberich, who struck | the Turkish Ambassador for refusing to throw awa his cigar, has been sentenced by the Wiesbadeu Tri- | banal to four weeks’ imprisonment. ueral Fleury will superintend the education of the second son of the Viceroy of Egypt, who is intended afterwards to enter the military school of St. Cyr. Tie number of immigrants landed, at Buenos Ayros during (he year 1867 amounted to 18,046; of wiieh the following, is =o Fong heey ane, #456; Prench,3,001; Spent ; Portuguese, 105; Pagliah, 1,856; Swise, 1,098; German, 620; Belgian, 245; olber RATIONS, 444, The Pigaro of Paris roports that a duel has been arranged, between Mr. Jeoker, Whose name has so icequently figured in the Franco-Mexican question, nat Mr oy Barrot, on account of an article pub- 4 Tenod by the tntier dh the Liderte of Paria, Thy | meeting 18 to take pinoe at and the arog | chosen are pistols.“ FRAUDS IN THE PAYNENT OF BOUNTIES. Important Disclosurees—How the Frauds Were Committed—An Tuvestigating Come mittee Appoiuted—The Swindlers White- washed, Wasuinoton, August 15, 1868, In view of the near approach of the Prestdontiat election and the vital importance of its result upon the future of the country, to give an account of some of the frauds and connivance at fraud of which the party now in power has been guilty would, perhaps, be time and trouble well expended, If ali the recorda of the several departments of the government could be thrown open to the inspection of the public, that credulous and much abused body would stand speechless with astonishment as the number and magnitude of the peculations that would thus be revealed. The great success these public plunderers haye met with in their “little games” for large winnings has deprived many of them of the cantion with which they have been wont, in times gone by, to carry them into execu. tion; and now, rejoicing in their enormous strength, which utterly defles all attempts to check them, they dip into the public coffers with the most refreshing effrontery and in the broad glare of day, trusting confidently to the universality of the guilt for their escape if brougnt to an account, The boldness with which mauy of these frauds are perpetrated fre- quently discovers them to the public gaze, and an emphatic demand for Inquiry and prompt punish- ment in case of guilt generally creates but a tri- fling derangement in the lucrative operations of the accused. To meet the ends of jus- tice @ committee 1s spoken into existence. Sometimes it is a committee of Congressmen and sometimes @ committee of clerks of the same de- partment; but whether the one or the other, for cer- win reasons best known to themselves, good and substantial ones, no doubt, these committees alwaya have among = their ce furniture whitewash buckets and brushes, When the commitices have completed (heir labors it is generally found, too, that they have used those linplements quite liberality. A few weeks ago the Secretary of the ‘treasury was informed of a system of frauds that was being carried on by some of the Treasury cierks in league with other clerks in the War Deparinent. ‘The evi- dence brought before the Secretary was snfictently clear to tnd hii to lay the matter before the Con- gressional committee appointed to investigate charges of fraud against the Pay Department, ‘the chairman of this committee, Mr. W. 5. Lincoln, sup- posed, as the charges involved aile, frauds in the payment of bounty, that his comimiitee was author- ized to take cognizance of the matier, and at once entered into an investigation with remarkable zeal. A prominent oficer of the Treasury Department and one from the Adjutant General's office, since de- ceased, were appointed to assist the committee in their labors. The charges of fraud involved one or two rooms in the Second Auditor's office, several clerks and oiticers of the Colored Bureau of the Adju- tant General’s oMce and a number of clerks in the oilice of the Seconda Comptrolier of the Treasury. The investigating committee waited upon Secretary Schofield, who at once entered into the examination with them, and the Colored Bureau was closed, aa Was aiso the two suspected rooms in the Auditor’a office. The cominittee applied themselves vigorously to work. For a few days the provis of overpay- ments to colored soldiers and of much confusion Aone the vouchers were discovered in great abun- ance, Suddenly a marked falling off was observed in the zeal with which the committee and their assistants ferreted out the fraudulent cases, and very many of the strongest and clearest cases of fraudulent deal- ing were thrown out as oe immaterial and trre- levant. Thus the investigation progressed slowly with @ prodigious show of labor, but with no- thiug satifactory done until the adjournment of Congress. The chairman of the committee had tuken no part in the investigation for several pa before the adjournment, and on the last day of the session Mr. Cobb, one of the committee, made a briet report to the effect that although irregularities exist in the payment of colored bounties, and discrepan- cles between the records of the Adjatant General’s and the Second Auditor's ofices were found, yet no evidence of fraud was obtained against any indivi- dual in either department named or against any Coe doing business with them. jow your correspondent, having had access to the same evidence that was laid before tie commit purposes to give his understanding of the same, an will endeavor to Wy eeineny Oy the irregularities and discrepancies discovered by the committeo, In accordance with a law of Congress loyal owners of Slaves who enlisted in the volunteers were paid $300 a3 indemnity for the loss of their property. To carry out the provisions of this law a Slave Clatm Oom- mission was appointed, which examined and settled the claime, @ first commission settied most or these claims coming from Maryiand apd Delaware. The law also specified that every colored volunteer who had been a slave was entitled to only $100 bounty; and in order that there shouid be no of overpayment in these oases Mr. Stanton direc! that as each clatm of a loyal owner was paid the remark that the colored soldier was @ slave should be entered on the muster-out roll filed in the Gat tant Genetal’s oMce. When the second Slave Ci Commission was appointed to adjust the claims loyal owners in Missouri, Kentucky and other West- eru States, no order was given by the Secretary of War to have the data entered on the muster-out roils, and, borin tag the entries were not made. Now, between the radical clerks of the Second Audt- tor’s Office, the Bureau of Colored Troops and certain firms of claim agents in this city a strong political amnity exists, which is very natural, all being dis- tinguished members of the Grand Army of the Re- public. Itis, therefore, but consistent that this raciicad ring. which has only the welfare of the negro at heart, should wish to favor their colore] brethren to the best of their ability. Besides, to obtain $200 for a colored claimant who by law 1a only entitled to $100, not only lays the colored claimant under a debt of gratitude fo his radical guardians, but resalts tar more proiitably to the claiin agents, and, doubtiess, to ail others concerned, In order the better to understand how the afore- said trregularities occur, let us present a claim and follow it up to its settloment. We will take & case from the records of the Colored Bureau, which will save the necessity of su posing one. A favorite firm of claim agent doing business here present the claim for bounty private John Smith, Company G, Nineteenth United titates Colored Troops. The clam is taken up in the Second Auditor's office; but before a certificate can be made out @ statement must be had from the Bu- reau of Colored Troops to ascertain whether he was asiave. If he was he is entitled to $100, If he was free he is entitied to $300. The following is a copy ol the question written on the back of the claim:— TREASURY DEPARTMENT, (cSzeom Avpiron's OFF nt reer, ily ret wi piane fara tement of the service john Smith, Company G, Nineteenth United States ‘Troops. He claims to have enlisted December 27, 1 ‘was subsequently transferred tothe navy. Is there auy evt- dence that he wae a slave? The reply came back from the Adjutant General's office, “There is no evidence on the rolls of the com- = on file in this office that he was a slave.” On his oy Som cortificate was given that the claimant had due hima $300 bounty, and the money was ae. While it is true that the rots furnished no evidence that this claimant was a siave there was at that time on file in the same oMice the claim of the owner, duly sworn to and subscribed, that John Smith wad his slave at date of enlistment, December 27, 1563, and this owner had been patd his $300. Here, then, is one case where @ consultation of the slave claim records would have saved to the govern- ment $200 that was frauduiently expended. If this were an isolated case there might be some reason to suppose that it was the result of care. Jessness, but When we flad a large number of similag cases the matter is deserving of a more serious tern than irreguiarity. Many more like cases can be riven. The claims of Robert Blake, Company 0, fhirtieth Colored Troops; Stewart Pitts, Company B, Ninth Colored Troops; Benjamin Anderson, Com A, Thirty-ninth Colored Spake and hundreds of others. This ls not the only method by which frauda- lent claims are paid; there are many others, if any- thing, of @ more aggravated character. Take, for exainple, the case of William ©. Boxer, Company K, Sixty-seventh United States Colored Troops. Loker was discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disa- bility, and could have been pald on the information ven therein, When his ciaim came up in the Sirona Auditor's office the usual question woe asked, was he a slave? The answer was roturned from the Burean of Colored Troops that he was a slave When enlisted, February 2, 1464; bat it wae evident that the clerks who bat cuarge of this case wanted to have It settled favorably to the claimant. Avother application was made the Colored urean for a con” of his certificate of disability, which — contain no evidence that he wae a slave. The claim was made up from the latter document, and the Lao, and arrears of were granted. Cases where fraudu- jent payments as gross as any of those here cited were made may be found by thousands in the ofices having charge of their set\lement, and in every case the government has been robbed of sums 200 upward, and the committee report nothing more than irregularities have been discovered. ‘One of the officers appointed to ald the committee in Lm ty tn vold on Ofte wine stated 1 amin vy the comuntttee, and tl under oaih, saat he had been offered Ye since © EXainination began to su the evidence of swindling ne ellt the investigation has been made and the iene bl a8 reported nothlag wrot te Rg are ‘eer’ contented with the manner other pub we and nee by their reproventatives on people must remain , wrung ‘rom them in onerous taxes squande; through fraud and corruption, while they are power- less to stop the leaks, ———— ADrwocnatio Campatan OLva at YONKENS.—A Seymour and Biatr ctub for the approaching contest, has been organized at Youkers, and the following persons have been elected permanent oMcers, vit.:—~ Pregl hive; Vice Presidenta, Michact | ae aaa Coyle ad Frederick mt, Reoord- ing Seoretary, . Childs, jun.; Trawsurer, itaph 1. Boat Re piatormy of tne Nadal Oct Senon meeting 198 momhers vention, At the close of the enrolled thelr names. |