The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXII No. 254 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—FRENOH Como OPERA— BARBR BLEUE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—LiFE IN THE STEEETS— Sxow Bev. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Last NIGHTS OF Four Piay. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homrry Domrrr, with NEW FEATURES. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ELiZaBETU, QUEEN or ENGLAND. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th strect.— LirtLe NELL AND THE MARCHIONESS. PIKE'S MUSIO HALL, 284 street, corner of Eighth aventie,—McEVvoY's HIBERNIOON, BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street. ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, £0. 720 Brondway.—ETI10- KELLY & LEON’S MINSTR: reo RAUBER BLU. PIAN MINSTRELBY, BURLESQUE, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETU10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOLNG, Ac. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 21 Bowery.—Cosro Vocaui6m, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. E, 614 Broadway.—To® GREAT ORI- Lele ratte VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. GINAL LINGAKD AND y SEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and pons MUferaoon and evening Performance. DODWORTH HALL, 606 Broad SiGNou BLirZ, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—THEO, Tuomas’ POPULAR GARDEN ConcERT. ay.—THE CRLEBRATED NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOIENOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, September 10, 1 THES NAWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, September 9, ‘rhe workingmen of Europe are represented in a general labor convention sitting in Brussels looking to the organization of a world-wide trades union, Spain is anxiously guarding against revolution. The French duty on sugar imports has been reduced. A North German commissioner has sailed for Wash- ington to negotiate for the better protection of eml- grants. Jeff Davis arrived in London. The Pro- testant Archbishop of Armagh says that the dis- establishment of the Irish Church will render Ire- Jand a separate State. ‘The Doncaster St. Leger was won by Formosa. Consols, 94, money. Five-twenties, 72 in London and 75%; in Frankfort. Paris Bourse heavy. Cotton easier, with middling uplands at 105d. Breadstut!s and provisions without marked change. By steamship at this port we have special corre- spondence from Europe, with a mall report, in im- portant detail of our cable telegrams to the 29th of August. MISCELLANEOUS. The Citizens’ Association have published a letter to the public in reference to pauperism in the State. They assert that $5,000,000 are expended annually in private and public charities, and they propose to or- ganize the expenditure that it may result in more benefit and relieve taxation. For that purpose the Charity Commissioners have established a labor bureau, to which the association calls the attention of all interested. A correspondent of the HERALD recently hada talk with Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, The Governor says General Forrest is the great Cyclops of Tennessee rebels and that he ts atthe head head of the Ku Klux Klan, the military wing of the democracy. His own policy, he says, is to deal sum- marily, although by due course of law, with every Kn Klux found committing outrages. The rebels still cherish the idea of a Southern confederacy and are striving yet to restore slavery. If Seymour is elected they will make him carry out Blair's revolu- tionary pledges, and if Grant is elected they will ground their arms. Rey. J. W. Cracraft, of Gambier, Ohio, has with- drawn from the ministry and membership of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in a letter to Bishop McIlvaine assigns as reasons for his act his conscientious convictions against the efficacy of the sacrament and against the priestly functions of for- giving sins and offering up a sacrifice in the Lord’s Supper, which he claims are enjoined by the ordina- tion service of the Episcopal Church. He does not believe that a change will be made in these instances by the General Conference, nor does he believe that the ceremonials of the Church are consistent with the honesty and simplicity of the Gospel. He says that others in the Church feel as he does upon the subject. ‘The Massachusetts Republican State Convention assembied at Worcester yesterday. George S. Bout well was chosen permanent President and made a speech of some length. William Claflin was then nominated for Governor by acclamation, Dr. Loring having withdrawn. Colonel Joseph Tucker was nom- inated for Lieutenant Governor, and David Sears and John H. Clifford electors for the State at large. Resolutions were offered favoring the honest pay- ment of the public debt in gold and silver and adopted unanimously. General Butler was present and made two speeches during the lull in business, ‘The Nova Scotia Assembly sat in secret session on Tuesday and passed a resolution in reference to the correspondence between Attorney General Wilkins and Lieutenant Governor Doyle, condemning the course of the Lieutenant Governor as interfering with free speech. The Governor immediately tn- formed the Assembly that unless the resolution was expunged he would dissolve the House, whereupon anotler secret session was held and the resolution was expunged. ‘The trial of Whelan for the murder of D'Arcy Me- Gee was continued yesterday in Ottowa, Additional evidence was adduced bearing severely on the priso- ner and the prosecution was closed. The defence will open to-day. In the Georgia House of Representatives yesterday @ message was received from the Governor, fornisi- ing a list of the miccessors to the expelled negro members, but containing a protest against the action of the House in expelling them. The latter portion of the message was returned to the Governor with a resolution informing him that the members of cach house, and not the Governor, are the judges of the qualifications of the members and the keepers of their own consciences. Several of the new members were then sworn in. The Democratic Executive Committee have issued an erdress to the people of South Carolina announe- ing that no one in the State is disfranchised either under the Reconstruction acts, the fourtenth article of amendment or the State constitution of isos, They therefore urge upon all citizens hitherto dis- franchised to vote in the Presidential election. The Board of Police yesterday investigated the case Of officer John Hamblin, of the Fourth precinct, for alleged improper conduct towards Justice Hogan and for entering into @ newspaper controversy on police business. Justice Hogan's evidence was to the effect that Hamblin had brought a prisoner before him against whom he retused to mkve any charge. Hamblin appealed to the Board for time to prepare his defence, and the case Was adjourned to Monday. John 8. Allen, Who Was convicted with Callicott and Buright for whiskey frauds and sentenced to one year’s imprizonment and to pay @ fine of $2,000, was released yesterday. The President some time ago remitted all of his sentence but the fine, and the amount was made up by his friends. The Chinese Embassy sailed yesterday in the etcamship Java for Europe. Minister Burlingame assures Governor Curtin in the fullest terms of the validity of a telegraph grant made by the Chinese government to the Kast India Telegraph Company. ‘The pedestrian match on the race course at Troy @nded vesterdav, Haydoox woa, having ivalked the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET. | hundred miles in twenty-two hours an’ fifty-four Seconds. Berdon, another of the contestants, walked fifty miles without a rest, but gave out ou the elgity- seventh mile, ‘The directors of the Elevated Railway on Green- wich street, it is said, expect to have the road com- pleted to Thirtieth street by New Years. In regard'to the perpetrator of the late horrible outrage in Philadelphia in which a little girl was outraged and murdered, a young man states that on Tuesday morning about four o'clock he saw a tall man on Sixth street, near where the body was afterwards found, passing along with @ bundle which it is believed contained the body of the little eithe Binckley Internal Revenue investigation was resumed yesterday before Commissioner Guttman. Mr. Binckley moved for an adjournment until the loth instant, which was opposed by some sarcastic addresses from the opposing counsel and concluded by United States District Attorney Courtney repudi- ating Mr. Binckley’s association with him as counsel in the caso on the ground that “his manhood, his self respect and common decency’ forbade it. A telegraphic despatch from the Attorney General's ofice at Washington stated that Mr. Binckley had no right to assist the prosecution ez oficio or in any way other than by sufferance of the District Attorney. Bunckley was terribly denounced by “all hands” and left the court in disgust, stating that he “would ap- pearin New York again.” The examination was temporarily adjourned. Aman named Duyvel, who is charged with mur- dering @ Mr. Keren on the highway between Pough- keepsie and Beekman on Tuesday night, has been arrested in Manchester, The North German Lloyd’s steamship Hansa, Cap- tain Brickenstein, will leave Hoboken about two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen, The mails for Europe will close at the Post Ofiice at twelve M. ‘The steamship Moro Castle, Captain R. Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana, calling at Nassau, N. P., going and re- turning, to land mails and passengers, The steamship General Barnes, Captain Morton, will leave pier 3¢ North river at three P.M. to-day for Savannah. The stock market was dull and heavy yesterday. Government securities were dull and drooping. Gold closed at 14434 a 14434. In the Connecticut Democratic State Convention yesterday Presidential electors for the State were nominated, Governor English and General William B. Franklin being named for the State at large. A procession of “Boys in Blue” was assaulted in New Haven last night with stones, bricks, &c., sev- eral of them being severely wounded. In the case of John Williams, the colored man who, it was alleged, was beaten to death by rowdies on the Hunterfly road, Long Island, on Sunday night, the Coroner's jury yesterday returned a verdict that le died from paralysis of the heart. The evidence went to show that the excitement produced by the rough usage he received produced paralysis. The two prisoners, one of whom was identified, were dis- charged. The Presidential Contest=The Coming Sep- tember and October State Elections. Vermont having set “‘the ball in motion” the Presidential campaign is becoming exceed- ingly animated throughout the country. In their grand mass meetings and parades by day and imposing torchlight processions by night the enthusiasm of ‘the Boys in Blue,” ‘the Tanners,” and the ‘‘Grant and Colfax Legions” of the great West recalls the stirring pageants and singing multitudes of the memorable Har- rison and Tyler carnival of 1840. The late gathering of fifty thousand republicans in In- dianapolis is an event which indicates a thorough awakening of the great Union war forces en maage beyond the Alleghanies. It is apparent, too, from the extraordinary Grant and Colfax demonstration in Trenton, New Jersey, the other evening, to go no farther, that the republicans are as thoroughly in- spired on this side the mountains. The demo- cracy have made the contest substantially the contest of 1864, and hence the same popular elements that rallied around Lincoln for the suppression of the rebellion appear now to be as cordially concentrating around the banner of Grant for a solid and enduring peace. There are no indications anywhere of any losses on the side of Grant of the supporters of Lincoln; there are many indications that there isan end of the defections in the republican camp from which they suffered their suggestive defeats of 1867. Those defeats and their causes pointed out the way to.a great conserva tive political revolution in the nomination of Chief Justice Chase by the democracy, involv- ing the recognition of certain issues established in consequence of the suppression of the rebel- lion and the extinction of slavery; but with the reunion of the democratic leaders and managers of the North and South in their late National Convention came back the old democratic spirit of the epoch of poor Plerce and fuchanan. Thus, in con- temptuously casting away the half million conservative republicans ready to fall in with the nomination of Chase, and in taking up Seymour with a platform declaring all the reconstruction doings of Congress ‘‘unconsti- tutional, revolutionary, null and void,” the democracy reduced their popular strength to their Northern minorities of 1864 and 1866 in reviving again the same issues, That many of the reconstruction proceed- ings of Congress thay be pronounced arbitrary, unconstitutional and revolutionary we have all along contended ; but if they are all uncon- stitutional and void it follows that Congress can apply no pains and penalties to seceding and rebellious States, but that they can con- spire, secede and make war upon the general government whenever they please, and that when they fail to secure by fighting a separate confederacy they can come back again into the Union on their own terms. This was substantially the great issue of 1864, and it has become, from the stupidity and folly of the democratic managers, the great issue of 1868. The “Boys in Blue” (and there were a million of them discharged in 1865) are in such a con- test, as the rule, inevitably on the side of Grant, and every Union soldier has his friends behind him moved by the same causes, The result of the late Vermont election may be reduced to this explanation, and four days hence in Maine we shall bave in all probability a simi- lar result, But what will this signify? It will signify that the causes operating in Vermont are not local, but general ; that they pervade the coun- try, and that in this Presidential year the result in © single State, even in September, on the Governor, foreshadows the national result on the President in November. In short, if Maine goes as Vermont has gone, with a majority indicating that the republican lines of 1864 are unbroken, we may look for corresponding returns from the Octo- ber State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. From the enthusiastic republi- ean revival under Grant and Colfax in Indiana, and from the intimation from Mr, Pendleton that the crisis in Ohio to the democracy for- bids his services in any other State, we may conclude that the Octabagsauly is not doubt- ful ip this \ my t thon, will be the great October battle field, | and if Penasylyania goes republican in Octo- ber the election of Grant and Colfax in No- vember will be reduced toa mere formality, induding even the vote of New York. What, then, is the prospect in Pennsylvania? In her October election of last year the dem- ocrats carried the State by nine hundred ma- jority; but the total vote in that election was some sixty thousand less than in 1866, and the republican deficiency was over forty thou- sand, This reserved vote will come out in October, and from the shaping of the canvass by the democracy on their old issues of the war, and from the result in Maine, and from the general spirit of unity, zeal and confidence in the republican camp, we look for the vir- tual closing of the Presidential contest in the Pennsylvania October election. The idea that General Grant would not prove a popular can- didate is exploded. He is stronger than his party, and this was the secret of his nomina- tion. The radicals adopted him from neces- sity. In accepting him they surrendered from necessity to the republican conservatives, No dispassionate, thinking man entertains any fears as to the consequences of Grant’s elec- tion, On the contrary the conviction is gen- eral that he is perfectly safe, and that his administration against Northern and Southern fanatics will give us peace; and herein, after all, lies his greatest strength among the peo- ple, He is no poor Pierce or Buchanan, to be led by the nose, nor yet a belligerent Johnson, who delights in fighting windmills. The Dominion Repeal Agitation, The speech of Attorney General Wilkins in the Nova Scotia Legislature, threatening nulli- fication, secession and fight as the result of any attempt on the part of the New Dominion to coerce the lower province into remaining in the confederacy, has not yet received the attention which its importance as the initial ut- terance of a great revolutionary movement calls for. By mail advices from Halifax, pub- lished in our columns to-day, we find that the parliamentary utterance of the first law oflicer of the province has alarmed the local authori- ties. Major General Doyle, Lieutenant Gov- ernor of the colony, speaking in the name of the Queen, has, with all the adroitness of an ex- perienced cabinet adviser, and the peremptory bluntness of a court martial president, officially requested the Attorney, General to define his position—to say if he is a traitor to the Crown or a loyal citizen? Mr. Wilkins is asked by the General to acknowledge or deny a news- paper report of certain portions of his address enclosed from “Government House.” With the ready perception of a good British law- yer, the Attorney General saw at once that to ‘hesitate was to be lost.” General Doyle wished to know if the ‘disloyal sentiments attributed to him were really uttered by him.” If Mr. Wilkins replied simply ‘‘yes,” perhaps the constitution would be suspended next day, martial law be proclaimed and the enemy of confederation find himself in prison as an armed traitor. If he answered ‘‘no,” he would at once lose his political capital and be classed as a confedera- tionist. With excellent judgment the Attorney General informed General Doyle that he is “actuated by the strongest emotions of loy- alty,” and as proof of his feeling says he is en- deavoring for ‘‘the restoration of the constitu- tion of Nova Scotia,” for the reason that con- federation with Canada ‘“‘will ultimately lead to annexation with the United States.” This very neat manner of blunting and turn- ing aside the edge of the sword with a stroke of the pen renders Mr. Wilkins’ standpoint un- assailable by summary measures on the part of the Executive. His famous speech will be re- vised by authority, but enough will remain to show that it is no idle threat of an excited orator. The Assembly, of which he is the leader, are wholly with him, and on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning the Lieutenant Governor for his action in this matter; and although the Lieutenant Governor yesterday quelled this additional rebellion by threats of dissolving the Assembly unless the resolution was expunged, that body is doubtless of the same opinion still. Nova Scotia was by means and’ agencies thoroughly familiar to politicians of all coun- tries entrapped into giving its adhesion to the scheme of confederation with Canada; but no sooner was the act accomplished than the Parliamentary opposition, strengthened by the very means used to crush it, became all-pow- erful in the province and set about the task immediately of undoing the work that had been performed and recovering its lost au- tonomy. Every effort of conciliation was attempted on the part of the Canadian authori- ties to seduce the leaders in this repeal move- ment from their allegiance to the people; the whole weight of the imperial influence was thrown into the scale, alternately threatening and cajoling without effect, and at the last general election in the province but two union members, as they are called, were returned to the House Here is ‘‘a cloud no bigger than a man's hand” obscuring the effulgence of that great luminary which is grandiloquently by British orators said never to set on England's empire, and in this rebellious attitude of Nova Scotia there is a most per- plexing question for England's rulers—for England's home rulers—for so far as Canada is concerned that province is powerless to attempt anything in the way of a military movement, Between it and the lower province lies the province of New Brunswick, itself but luke- warm in its adhesion to the new s/gime, and far more likely in the event of a war to cast its lot with Nova Scotia, and, by checking the forces of the central government at its border, protect Its fair flelds from the devastating march of hostile armies. The Nova Scotians are a sturdy race, thoroughly imbued with a military spirit, and, thanks to the fostering in- fluence of the parent government, with a thoroughly organized, armed and equipped militia force, composed of men of mixed Irish and Scotch descent, who, having something to fight for, would be diMoult of subjugation. What will England do in this crisis becomes, then, the great question to he considered. Will she give mortal oifence to Canada and alienate the affections of the Canadians by in- terposing her authority to aid in the disrup- tion of the great rival confederacy created by her as a counterpoise to the United States, or will se sock to trent Nova" poe lic Peruisyivaniny” | Bogtin ‘as ahe has hordtofere trated Ireland @ | Can she thus act in view of recent political changes among her people and in her Parliament? These are difficult questions for British statesmen to consider; and not help- ing to their solution come the vengeful Fenians, whose multitudinous forms assume terrible proportions, as seen in the blazing light of an enemy’s camp fires, a sleepless Nemesis on England's track, with all the will and means necessary, but waiting only the oppor- tunity to strike. How the United States may act respecting these British provincial complications we need not now discuss, ‘‘Manifest destiny” will settle all these problems in the fulness of time. Weare in no hurry, for when the fruit is ripe it will fall into the capacious basket of the “Great Republic” under the Newtonian law of gravitation. The British Scientific Association. The reports of the proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which reach us by mail from the seat of ses- sion of the body in Norwich, present such a medley of subjects, extraordinary in incep- tion, aimless in object, and for the most part profitless by treatment and in inference and cogelusion, that they almost compel the com- pound inquiry—Is there an exact limit to the power of investigation of the human mind as to natural phenomena and their causes, has that limit been reached, and does man in his en- deavor to exceed it illustrate merely the finite of his own reasoning power, leaving the occult matter just the same and making himself ridiculous? We confess that the progress of the uminati assembled in Norwich, like as did the results attained in Chicago, go far to strengthen an inclination to an affirmative. In the English scientific assemblage within a few days Professor Newton read a paper on the “Extinction of a Copper-colored Butter- fly,” which was atone time familiar in Britain, and which may have been preserved in that country with proper care, the learned gentle- man alarming, we presume, the few American visitors present by his prefatory remarks lest he was about to demonstrate how copper- colored political butterflies and reptiles may be tended and perpetuated in this coun- try during Presidential elections. In his treatment of the subject, however, he did not expand beyond the insular limits, and kept closely to his first regrets concerning the defunct British fly, althongh not very clear as to tho date of its existence, its particular use at the time or in what man- ner society loses or is injured by its absence. Miss Becker, a strong-minded lady advocate of woman’s rights, attracted a great crowd to listen to her paper ‘‘On the Supposed Differ- ences in the Minds of the Two Sexes of Man,” in which she said that if we cast our eyes over the various subjects debated in the field of politics, literature or science, as they affected the interests of humanity, it was impossible to avoid being struck by the entire omission of all direct reference to the feminine portion of the race, asserting that whether any dis- tinction existed between the minds of men and women seemed to be a proper subject for investigation by a scientific society, more especially as the ques- tion involved practical consequences of a very important nature to many millions of British subjects. Miss Becker, ‘‘a learned lady, famed for every branch of every science known,” rolled up her paper without saying a word concerning the sewing on of odd shirt buttons, the darning of stockings, cooking of a beef- steak or washing and dressing a baby, leaving all such small affairs to the British matrons who did not attend in Norwich and who have not yet heard of the “Two Sexes of Man,” The next paper, as if in happy mean between the “‘Copper-colored Fly” and Miss Becker, was by Mr. E. Charlesworth, F. G. S., “On the Substitution of Hand for Shoulder Guns,” illuatrated by an explanatory exhibition of an elevator hand gun, calculated to destroy a greater number of men in battle and thus afford a wider fleld for the exertions of en- franchised ladies, This paper was somewhat in the deadhead advertising line, as was one by Professor Zenger, of Prague, who went to England purposely to exhibita new automatical telegraphic apparatus. Professor Huxley took up the much vexed question of whether life can be sustained at the bottom of the sea, and produced some slime brought up from the bot- tom of the Atlantic by the first telegraph cable. He had re-examined this substance, and what he had discovered was sufficient to convince him that life existed at the bottom of the ocean; so that mariners and shipowners may set their minds at ease as to infusoriw and where timber-cating animalcule come from. Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, Jr., reada paper on the ‘Irrigation of Upper Lombardy by Now Canals to be Derived from the Lakes of Lugano and Maggiore,” a work which will searcely be undertaken in our day unless the Italian Treasury should become suddenly and most unexpectedly flush of cash. A paper on the cattle plague was brought forward by Mr. W. Smith, honorary consulting veterinary surgeon to the Norfolk Cattle Plague Associa- tion, in which he pointed ont that treatment Board of Health is just now as far ahead on that subject as are the agricultural societies of Great in, The only really useful matter, strange as it may read of an English scientific association, came from Rome and from the pen of a Jesuist, Father Secchi, who forwarded to the section on mathematical and physical science an in- teresting paper described as ‘‘On Some Meteoro- logical Results Obtained at Rome and on the Relation which Exists Between Meteorological and Magnetical Phenomena.” Setting out with the principle that meteorology is a local as wellasa general science, and comparing what is going on in different countries, the Father finds relations of opposition and of similarity. The cases of opposition are very rate; but in this year while the summer was hot and dry in higher latitudes of Europe it was wet and rainy in Rome, contrary to the ordinary rule. These results, although oppo- site, can be due to the same origin—that is, to a different limit which has been reached by the aerial currents. The author thonght, therefore, that investigation “might be made whether certain storms which are said to be periodical at the same time of the year are and as these storms ‘ate, generally accompadiod by a grer* sapistion Of tempera- | ture this was taken asa base of discussion.” This is in the proper vein, and if Father Secchi’s idea were more closely cultivated by assembled savane in all countries humanity, instead of being impelled to doubt by the pub- lication of trashy puerilities, would be en- lightened and elevated. The British assem- blage in Norwich illustrates the prophetic ken of the writer of the famous nursery rhyme in which we are told, ‘The man in the moon came down too soon to inquire the way to Nor- wich.” France and Prussia=The War Prospect. Our latest news from Europe is to the effect that the war fever «has not subsided. King William of Prussia was on a military inspection tour throughout the Northern Con- federation, the Emperor Napoleon was at the camp of Chalons, anda report of a war speech (afterwards contradicted with salutary results) made to the anumy sent the rentes down alarmingly. Military inspection made by the chief of North Germany throughout the Con- federation and protracted visits to the head- quarters of the French army made by the chief of the State do, at the present moment, say the peacemakers what they may, mean something serious. Supposing, however, that our belief in the peace prospect of Europe was much stronger than it is, and that we could afford to explain away the King of Prussia’s visit to Saxony and the Emperor Napoleon's visit to the camp at4 Chalons, we should still feel perplexed by the extraordinary sensitiveness of the Paris Bourse. If French capitalists have faith in the peace intentions of the Emperor wherefore this fearfulness at the Bourse, this extraor- dinary trembling of the monetary balance? The excitement at the Bourse on Tuesday is explicable only on the principle that French capitalists, whatever faith they may have in the empire, do not believe in peace... We have already on several occasions of late stated our reasons for believing in the probability of an early war between France and Prussia. For the present, therefore, we do not deem it necessary to repeat them. In yesterday's HERALD we gave it as our opinion that war was avoidable only on one condition, yiz., that Prussia relinquish her hold on the Rhine provinces. As there is little likelihood of Prussia doing this, and as there is just as little likelihood of France being contented with anything short of this, the question becomes of paramount importance. In the event of war breaking out between France and Prussia on which side lie the chances of success? The question is nice, perhaps too nice in the opinion of some persons to be definitely an- swered. Still it is the question par excellence of the moment and deserves attention. If France is in every respect stronger in herself, better prepared to begin and better prepared to carry on war, there are few who will hesi- tate to say that France must be the victor. If, on the other hand, Prussia is in every respect stronger, better prepared to begin and better prepared to carry on war, there are just as few who will hesitate to say that Prussia must be the victor. Which, then, is in most favorable circumstances for such a struggle— France or Prussia? Of the two we hesitate not to say—and we say it not because we are influenced by any pro-French sympathy, but from a simple regard to truth, after a careful examination of all the facts. of the case—France is unquestionably in the most hopeful condition.” In the first place France is a homogeneous and compact nation, while Prussia in her new conditions is a heterogeneous and ill-organized confederation. So far, therefore, as union is strength, the chances are in favor of France. In the second place France has a larger popu- lation, a larger army and in every respect larger resources than the North German Con- federation. The area of North Germany is less by a fifth than that of France. In 1866 the population of North Germany was little over thirty millions, while that of France was thirty-eight millions, The standing armies in the two countries are perhaps very much the same; but while France has always six hun- dred thousand in reserve the reserve of North Germany does not exceed three hundred thou- sand. It is difficult to conceive how King Wil- liam could get together at once and without placing society in peril the nine hundred thou- sand men on whom Napoleon can count with the utmost confidence. Much has been made by the too enthusiastic friends of Prussia of her superior chances at sea; but the truth is that here P russia com- pares even less favorably than France. Her tonnage when the free towns are included is greater than that of France; but she has only three iron-clads and some five hundred and forty-nine guns with which to confront the greatly more powerful navy of Napoleon, So far, therefore, as immediate resources go the chances must be regarded as in favor of France. In connection with this part of the subject it is always to be borne in mind that for rapidity of execution the French have no rivals on the face of the earth. It took Prus- sia twenty years to turn out her one million needle guns. France has manufactured her one million two hundred thousand Chassepots in a couple of years, In a protracted struggle Prussia might prove herself the most enduring ; but as a protracted struggle is impossible, as the fight, if it takes place now, must be short, sharp and decisive, the chances are infinitely in favor of France. There is but one consideration that can induce us to modify this judgment, which is that Russia and Austria may be dragged into the contest, The neutrality of Italy, of Spain, of Portugal, of Switzerland, of Belgium, of Holland may be taken for granted. It is not so easy to decide on the probable course of either Russia or Austria, That there is a good understanding between King William and the Czar Alexander is an opinion which has been generally entertained since their late meeting at Schwalbach. It is doubtful, how- ever, whether this good understanding amounts to an alliance offensive and defensive. It is our opinion, as we have sald before, that If Napoleon asks no more than that France shall have the Rhine for her northern and north- eastern frontier Russia will not interfere. Russia is not in a position, financlally or otherwise, to court war, Austria, if she does interferc, will take the side of France; but Austrian interference can only follow that of Russia, and Austria has even stronger reasons thap those of her powerfol rival fo dosite,the ¢outinnance of poacem Russia aad Austria out of the field the gontest would be brief, brilliant and conelusive. iti!8sia_ and Austria in the field it is impossible to say where, when or how the struggle might end. Great Britain bas a deep national interest in Bel- gium. It is a kingdom of her own cr2ating. To her absorption by France she cannot he in- different ; but as she did not fight for Hanover, the ancient throne of her present royal race and until recently a virtual part of ihe empire, the presumption is that she will not fight for Belgium. In this struggle the proba- ble course of South Germany must not be taken into account. Pauperism in New York. We publish to-day a communication from the Citizens’ Association of New York dis- closing a plan for the abatement of pauperism in this State which cannot fail to awaken the liveliest interest in this community, The subject itself is by no means new. The pauperism which prevails here has for years pressed itself upon the attention of our citizens, but no really practical and beneficent scheme of amelioration has been brought forward until now. Eleemosynary charity on a truly regal scale has been extended by the ever open handed citizens of New York to the poor and unfortunate in their midst, but this very spirit of unquestioning liberality defeats the true ends of generous relief. The report properly observes that the indolent, the vicious and the thriftless all drift toward large cities to prey upon the industry and capital they find cen- tralized there. To counteract this fast accu- mulating element of wretchedness, which since the close of the war has been developing itself in serious proportions, the Commissioners of Charities and Correction have organized a Labor Bureau on a plan recommended by the association, in,which applicants for employ- ment and applicants for laborers are brought into communication and the wants of both parties supplied. The Western States will doubtless co-operate with this movement, and the citizens of New York will have ample cause to rejoice at the prospect of getting rid of at least some portion of its idle and impoverished population. The Amity Street Mystery~Good Suggestions, The inquest on the body of the young wo- man whose mysterious death at a private lying-in hospital in Amity street, on the 27th ult., has caused so great a sensation, was con- cluded on Tuesday. The coroner's jury ren- dered a verdict that the deceased came to her death by metro-peritonitis, the result of child- birth. It was shown that no abortion had been attempted. The jury, however, most properly censured Dr. Grindle for the irregu- lar method of conducting his business relative to taking in patients, and also to giving out children for adoption. They, moreover, recommended the Legislature to enact a law whereby all such establishments shall be under the supervision and control of the Board of Health or some other recognized authority, and condemned the practice of any regular medical college recognizing students connected with such establishments. All these recom- mendations are amply warranted by the facts in this revolting case, The jury might well have gone still further and recommended the pas- sage of a law that should do away with all irre- sponsible private lying-in hospitals—which are but so many nests of infanticide—and require all institutions of this kind to be regularly chartered and subject to thorough supervision and control. Ay Irish ARonsisHop oN REPEAL.—The Protestant Archbishop of Armagh, who is Primate of Ireland, has solemnly’ assured his clergy in assembled visitation that the dises- tablishment of the Irish Church will cause a repeal of the legislative union with England and make Ireland a separate State. This appears to us as a desperate sort of argument for an elevated dignitary of the Church to use in the crisis; for its publication is quite cer- tain to render the great bulk of the Irish all over the world zealous supporters of the Glad- stone measure, and as they cannot vote “early and often” at the November elections in Great Britain—in consequence of absence and attendance, for the most part, at elections in America—they will most likely vote the leader of the English opposition Head Centre of repeal, with full authority to act in their name. WEWSPAPER CHANGES AND CONSO.IDATIONS. The cheap democratic morning paper, the Sun, announced semi-ofMicially few days since the forth- coming consolidation of two of its ce-laborers, the Democrat and a copperhead organ of this city, into one paper, to be conducted under the chief manage- ment of Brick Pomeroy. We understand that another change in city journalism is about to take place, and that before long the 7r/)ne and the Sun will join their fortunes together and become a single organ, This will bea very powerful combination, as each journal has a distinctive character of its own, and can bring into the copartnership qualities that unitedly must make the consolidated paper a great success, Politically the two organs represent the two extremes which have frequently acted to- gether before and since the war, both in this city and tn Congress, the 7rfdwne speaking for the ultra radical portion of republicanism ana the Sun for the unterrided democracy; and hence, combined, they must necessarily command a large support. Since Mr. Dana took the control of the Sun ft has been one of the best of the political dailies, sparkling with wit and brimful of humor. Under the management of John Russel Young the Tribune has increased wonderfully in spirit, and he has infused into it, despite the stupidity and obstinacy of the stock- holdets, an enterprise to which it was before @ stranger. We understand that the new combined paper will be under the twin management of Messrs. Dana and Young, the former presiding at the coun- cils and dictating the policy, while the latter will have the general executive business editorial control. Mr. Young will write the strong, vigorous leaders which, since he has filled the 7ridune editorial chair, have given that paper a high political reputa- tion all over the rural districts; and Mr. Dana will continue inthe new organ those keen, witty, pun- gent paragraphs that render the Sun so read- able in a horse car or on a ferry bot. The city department will be piaced under charge of Mr. England, now of the Sun, and only the best of the writers on both papers will be re tained in the new joint stock establishment. As Horace Greeley, of the Trine, expects to enter upon What we fear he will find the harassing per plexities of @ position in the Cabinet, he will retire from active editorial duties; but we understand that he will occasionally appear in the columns of the new organ as an editortal contributor, and the public Wil not, therefore, entirety lose his strong Saxon style of argument. The old readers of te Trivune will rejoice at thia, while they will aiso lad with pleasure the return of Mr. Dana to the accustomed chatr in Which he used to write his tnapiriting war articles witile our gallant troops Were frst marr iing. “on) to Richmonay”” We BAKE th dows Tus now P paper Wil, dynidve elite success 84.4%, poiutioal ' orgom