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

6 NEW YORK HERALD BEOADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. * Rejecte? communications will not be re- turned. Volume XX XIUM, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaiway.—Humptr Douen, witt New Fratupes. Matince at 13g. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway—Tas Naw Dawa oF L'Auimy. Matinee at 14. ACA : OF MUSIC, Irving place.—MosENTHAL's Diama, GORAML NOH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- A UBANDE DUONRSSE, GARDEN, Broadway—UNDINR, THE WATER tinee at 1. THEATRE, Broadway and 28tb street.— Ez. Love's Sac ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—CRIMBON SHIELD, OB NyuPHS OF TUE LAINZOW. Matince at 2, THPRATRE, Broadway.—Tak DBAMA OF ¢ STREETS. Matinee. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth r VMOPIAN MINSTRELSY, &0., LUORETIA BORGIA, LLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—E.Tm10- ¥, BURLESQUE, &40.—BABDEB BLU. FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Brondway.—ETBt0- ENTEITAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &e, 22'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio ) MINBORELSY, Ac. Matinee at 23. UE, 514 Broadway.—Tae Gueat OnI- AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. Matinee. SEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth gtreet and Afwrnoon and evening Performance. ‘UM MALL, 806 Broadway.—THe CRLBBRATED Matinee at 2. IUSIC HALL, 28d street, corner of Eighth LYOy'S HIBRRNIC Matince at 2. IRVING HALL, | Irving place.—FALLON's STEREOP- TIOON. Matiuee at 2, NEW IRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuraTRian AND GYS ENTERTAINMENT, Matinee at 33g. cx jeventh avenue.—THEO. THOMA eR. pues CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. OUT HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—Hoourr's MINGTRELG—MASSA-NIELLO, OR THE BLACK FouKer. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6138 Broadway. BOIENO® AND ART. New Work, Saturday, October 10, 1868. cae NEWS. EUROPE ‘The ne t by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- torday € , October ‘Tue provisional Junta of Madrid declares in favor of civil and religions Mberty. Slavery will be abol- 1 (he Spanish colonies within ten years. «ns in Madrid demand representation in the Ex-Queen Isabella is to embark on at Marseilles for Rome, money. Five-twenties 744¢ in rankfort. in Liverpool, with middling uplands . Breadstufis quiet and upward. Pro- nationa a papal MISCELLANEOUS. Telegraphic advices from Mexico city to the Ist inst. are ved. Colonel Dominguez, one of the Vera Cru 1s, had been pardoned. Mr. Plumb, the American Chargé d’Attuires, had given a banquet to the Cabinet oMcers and members of Congress. The report of General Sibley on the Camilla riot has been 1 at last by General Howard, and is where in our columns this morning. of the riot is attributed to the inter- ence of a drunken while man at the meeting held by the radicais, Governor Bullock, of Georgia, and General Meade, comman ue inilitary district, have issued ap- peals to »ple of the State to maintain order on ihe Governor charges ail persons to from the county sheriffs if thetr per- for their political rights are demed, 8 does not tisven to their ap- report the facts to the Governor him- feade disposes the troops tn the State advantages, and direcis his officers to peace at all hazards, without, how- er z with the civil authorities or allow- ing political prejudices to sway them. The Alebama Legislature adjourned sine die yes- torday, wi ing passed an election bill. Itis generally wu xi that there is uo time for regis- tration t the White Hou y ed a naturalization treaty i 3 and Great Britain, limitation for the ratideation of the treaty with De: for the purchase of St. Thomas hav- tng expir 1ark, it is understood, has enlarged it, et the re for one year. ihe exa, on in the Gamble poisoning case was conur on Wednesday eveniug and Thurs- day, Mar, Winkiex, the German domestic, be- img furthe uned. She testitléd that Mr. Gam- F fea drink, which she believed from and smell tobe laudanum, and that Mrs. Hujus had worn portious of the aeceased woman's clothing. George L. b rison, & Boston banker, residing at Longwood, * laboring whder a ft of insanity yesterday morning before daybreak, cut the throats of his two sous, the eldest of whom was only tbir- teen years of age, and then fled. Me was afterwards found in bis barn. The eldest boy has since died, bat the other er. Mr. Richardson has boen compla is head for sume time, having been sunstruck last summer. John Perkins was hanged at Portsmouth, Va., yes terday, for comritting an out on a Miss Sarah 4. Ford some time ago. On the scaffold he met death fitinly, declaring that he was innocent. The case of epuine Brown, who is charged with complicity in the murder of her adopted chi, Angic Stewart, came up in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at sudeon, New York, yesterday, and was postponed until next term. Joseph Brown, her husband, ¥ d for the murder last May. The case is known as the Canaan murder and is replete with horror. A party of tean ‘8 @'tacked a band of friendly Indians near Le Vaz, Arizona, a tew days ago, kill- ing fifteen of them, among whom was the Mojave chief Coshcocanna, It is thought this attack will provoke a retaliatory war. A fire in San Francisco on Thursday night ae- stroyed tho Fraukiin House and three Duildings. Several lives were lost, and bodies have already been found in the ruins, THE CITY. ‘The Unitarian National Confe:ence closed lis an- nual seesion yesterday. A motion to print Dr. Bei- lows’ sermon, after considerable discussion, was carried by a vole of 104 to 14. = At @ call for subscriptions or donations a bouquet was presented by @ young lady and sold at auction to Dr. Bellows for $200, Dr. Bellows then delivered an address in which he took occasion to withdraw his threat of secession, as he was satisfied with the action of the Conference. After other reutine business the Confer. ence adjourned sine die, Howell Cobb, of Georgia, dropped dead snddenty at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. His wifeand daughter and two Southern gentlemen were with aun at the time. 'he General Convention of the Protestant Episco- pai Church of the United States held its third regu- lar session and second business meeting yesterday at NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, Trinity chapel. The whole day was spent in ant- mated debate upon the admission of Nebraska a8 & new diocese, but a proviso being lost by a very close vote the diocese was admitted almost unanimously, and the House adjourned to this morning. Henry Ward Beecher delivered @ political oration on the “Issues of the Canvass” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last evening. One of the features Of the occasion was a scene on the stage represent- ing Grant as the successful and Seymour as the un- successful candidate, the latter with his countenance distorted with rage, and in his immediate back- ground a representation of negroes being hanged and houses being burned by a mob. Mrs. Bridget Walker made a statement at a Brook- lyn station house yesterday to the effect that her husband, John Walker, of No. 4 Rivington street, Now York, had assaulted her with murderous intent at Coney Island yesterday, He took her to an unoc- cupied shanty on the beach, shot her three times with a revolver, and then withdrew, locking the wounded woman in. She got out through the fan- light, however, and escaped, although he fired two more shots after her. He 1s still at large. Mrs. Walker has been taken to the City Hospital. A strange stabbing case is reported. An officer saw @ man holding up a woman in front of a dance house on Mercer street ata late hour on Thursday night, and on inquiring was told by the man that the woman was drunk and he was trying to get her home. A close scrutiny, however, disclosed the fact that the woman had been severely stabbed. ‘rhe man, whose name is Boyd, was arrested, and the Woinan was taken to Bellevue Hospital. The stock market was on the whole steady yester- day. Governments were dull but firm. Gold closed at 130 a 13034, The Fourteenth Amendment—A Southern View of Its Illegality. The federal constitution, under the latest official proclamations of the Secretary of State, embraces two amendments incorporated since the war—article thirteen, abolishing slavery, and article fourteen, proclaiming equal civil rights to citizens of all races and colors and that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens; ordaining that suf- frage and representation, as each State for itself may elect, universal or restricted, shall go together; that certain parties engaged in rebellion shall be held disfranchised and dis- qualified for office, federal and State, subject to absolution by a two-thirds vote of the two houses of Congress; that the national debt shall not be questioned; that all rebel debts and claims for emancipated slaves shall be held null and void, and that Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to en- force the provisions of this article. This, ‘‘the constitution as it is,” isthe great stumbling block to our State rights constitu- tional sticklers, North and South. In fact, they repudiate this amendment; and we dare say that the views held by the rank and file of the democratic party in both sections are the views on the subject which we publish from the Hon. Ben Hill, of Georgia, to-day, elsewhere in these columns. Mr. Hill contends that this amend- ment fourteen has not been legally ratified, and is, therefore, nulland void. He says that this amendment was submitted in 1866 to the Southern State governments set up by Presi- dent Johnson in 1865, and by them rejected, and that this proceeding in- volved a recognition of these State gov- ernments, by which Congress was bound. This is a mistake. The amendment was offered to the States concerned as embodying the conditions upon which, if accepted, they would be restored to Congress. Tennessee accepted and was admitted; the others re- jected the terms of the amendment and were then rednced to the military State govern- ments and the white disfranchisements and universal negro suffrage policy of the Congress of 1867. Now, harsh, unjust and revolu- tionary as this policy may be declared, seven of the late rebel States have been reconstructed and restored to Congress under its conditions, It has, moreover, been decreed by the Supreme Court in the Rhode Island Dorr case that the State government, recognized by Congress, is the State, and that there is no appeal from Congress on this matter to any other consti- tuted tribunal. It may ‘thus be contended that, by whatever acts outside the constitution and by whatever trickery in their manipulation these States have been reconstructed, the recognition of them by Congress ends the argu- ment and makes their ratifications valid, there being no appeal from the decision of Congress in this matter. We may notice, however, the distinction made by Mr. Hill between the Southern State governments set up by President Johnson and those set up by Congress. He says that those governments (Jonson's) of 1865 were framed and assented to by the existing legal qualified constiimeney of the several States, How? Presilent Johnson adopted the theory that with the collapse of the rebellion the States involved in it were left without any govern- ments at all, and that in the matter of sulfrage for reconstruction, subject to his orders, the people of each State concerned were thrown back to their State laws in force just before the act of secession. This Jobnsonian policy, however, was sub- mitted to the people of the Northern States in 1866, in opposition to the Congressional policy of amendment fourteen, and the amendment swept the country from Maine to California, including Connecticut and New Jersey. The Northern States unanimously demanded for the rebel States something more than a restoration to their statua of 1861. The Northern States thus unanimously decreed that there was no such thing as an existing legal constituency in the rebel States on the collapse of the rebellion. They had abandoned the constitu- tion—they had fought through a bloody and costly war to overthrow it—and had thus for- feited all their pre-cxisting rights under the constitution, and hence the euccess of the four- teenth amendment. We are told, however, that the Southern | people (that is, the great body of the whites now joined to the Northern democracy) never will consent to this amendmert—that the creation of the Southern State governments of 1868, under the bayonet, was revolution, and that their existence will be continued revolution. This is true; nor have we any {dea that those governments based upon white disfranchise- ments and universal negro suffrage can very long exist; but it is the province of wisdom to coneider the best remedy. General Blair has unwhsely declared that if he were President ho wonld assume the responsibility and order the army to undo this Southern work of Congros- sional usurpation; but assuming (hat General Grant will be elected, and that ho will have a republican Congress at his back, where lies the remedy for these Southern negro and moagrel State governments? General OCTOBER 10, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. Grant will hold to this fourteenth amendment. What, then, is the remedy for these negro-gov- erned Southern States? The cultivation and gaining ovor of the black vote by the white latidowners and employers of negro Inbor. It canbe done. The horse that cannot be driven may be led to the water. This policy, more- over, will shame even a radical Congress into the removal of all white disfranchisements and disabilities, and then, with the negro balance of power secured, the coast will be clear for the restoration of white supremacy, even in South Carolina, The other policy, that of Southern resistance to this amendment fourteen, will, from all the signs of the times, be worse than useless for at least four years to come. Even if this amendment be brought before the Supreme Court we suspect that that tribunal will declare that it cannot go behind the official proclamation of the Secretary of State. In all this business there has been much done towards the late rebel States that may be denounced as wrong, vindictive, unjust and outrageous ; but we are dealing with the facts before us, Mr. Hill; we must take things, not as we would have them, but as we find them, and do the best we can under the circumstances to set them right. It is useless to be crying over spilled milk, Our only remedy is to await the return of the cow. The Spanish Provisional Government. The members of the Junta (which discharges provisionally the duties of the Executive in Madrid pending the call of Cortes and the ratification of a new form of government for Spain) evince a very considerable degree of energy in the performance of their duties. They appear to propound almost dally some new point of a comprehensive ptogramme to be presented as a whole for constitutional elaboration at the hands of the people. The outline, as sketched to yesterday evening, shows forth the agreeable and encouraging points of civil and religious liberty, free educa- tion, the emancipation of infant blacks and gradual abolition of slavery in the colonies, a reduction of the duties on imports and reform of the tariff, and freedom from persecution for political opinion, This expression of healthy revolutionary progress, afforded within a very short space of time amidst a perfect citizen quiet, gives good ground for hope that the Spaniards, in their unity of race and fine sense of national feeling and honor, will become the very legitimate expo- nents of republican ideas in Europe, provided their leaders possess that spirit of patriotic co- hesion and manifest that sense of personal dis- interestedness of object which are absolutely ’ necessary in men who seek to either regenerate or build a nation. Public crises of a trying character, requiring the exercise of great judgment and firmness for their treatment, may arise before the mem- bers of the Junta ; and our cable report from Madrid to-day prefaces, in our opinion, one of such character, and one which has proved em- barrassing to more practised, perhaps more ex- perienced, statesmen at different periods in the history of other countries. The present har- vest in Spain has proved to bea ‘“‘short” one in yield, and food was very scarce and unu- sually high in price at many points of the country just previous to the revolution. The depression prevailing in the agricultural dis- tricts impeded the collection of the public taxes toa considerable extent, and hence the non-pay- ment, or merely partial payment, of the Queen's army and navy fora number of months. The agitation of the revolution, these other causes still existing, has caused. suspension of indus- trial enterprise and labor pursuits, and ‘‘arge numbers of workmen are idle in consequence” in Madrid. To these the Provisional Junts has given the assurance that ‘‘work will soon be provided for all who want it.” This under- taking, natural and humane as it is, and simple asit appears, may be exceedingly difficult of accomplishment; but the assurance being once given in authoritative form it must be attempt- ed, for the promise will be remembered. There is, no doubt, plenty of work to be done in Spain—‘‘work and bread” for all Spaniards— but a fair distribution of both under govern- ment patronage, suddenly and at call, is a matter always thankless and frequently dangerous in effect. The attempt to organize national workshops in Paris was too much for the provisional government of France—in truth, it may be said that it destroyed the republic—and an English statesman and economist acknowledged, during the prevalence of the famine and pub- lic works syatem in Ireland, that ‘‘ao govern- ment could employ and feed a people, or part of a people”—truths which, it is to be hoped, the Junta of Spain will remember with profit. The Fashions. The great war which has been inaugurated between the rival opera houses, the Francais and Pike's, will be characterized principally by the efforts of the modistes and the belles on either side. Box, dress circle and parquet will shine with rich toilets and jewels, and long lines of carriages will be ecen on Twenty-third and Fourteenth streets, when the dashing Tostée dons her hussar jacket and the graceful Rose Bell appears in epira comigue. Dame Fashion has been rather chary of novelties this season, and with the exception of panniers, high-heeled boots and the Grecian bend, all of which she utterly disclaims, there has been scarcely anything new. The round hat is fast superseding the diminished honnet, as-it should; for what prettier ornament to the ‘*female face divine” could be designed than one of these bewitching little nonsensical round hats? The Grand Duchess has set all feminine hearts in a flutter, and we should not be surprised to see her bussar jacket decorat- ing the shoulders of our Broadway belles as well as her jaunty little hat on their heads, Chignons are worn larger and Wigher this sea- son, and the winter will bring out promenade suits of velveteen again on the avenue, The fall and winter promise to be prolific in balls, parties, sociables and other reunions, If the ladies would only abandon the injuribus prac- tice of wearing high-heeled shoes and panniers, which, after all, render the frightful Grecian bend a necessity, no one could find fiolt with the fashions of the present day, Our moe are sonsibly toning down the extravayon Paris and displaying more taste in thei tions of toilets than ever they did before, Let ua hope that this revolution will bo lasting and that fashions for the future wiil be the work of artista, not of caricaturists, The Annexation of Cuba as a Baim for Reconstruction, The Southern papers are already beginning to speak out vigorously on the subject of an- nexing the island of Cuba to the United States. Ono influential organ of Southern sen- timent {s especially solicitous and urgent upon the subject. It says:—‘Cuba is actually astray, and her people, feeling the want of stable government, are in favor of annexation to this country ;” that ‘they know that, what- ever the result of the Spanish muddle, they will get nothing advantageous from it, after being left without government and at the mercy of their garrison for many months,” and that “now is the proper moment for the prompt offer to Cuba of immediate annexation to the United States.” The Southern States have always been in favor of the annexation of Cuba to the United States. When they were slave States they advocated annexation, even to the extent of forcible seizure, because Cuba was slave territory, and its possession was desirable for the purpose of extending southerly their pecu- liar institution, And now that slavery is abolished in the Southern States they favor annexation because it is likely to be substan- tially abolished in Cuba through the liberal policy of the powers now ruling in Spain. The geographical proximity of our Southern peninsula with the island of Cuba naturally lea ds to an identity of commercial interests as well as to a fraternization of political senti- ment between the people of the two sections, although they have been reared under differ- ent forms of government. And wedo not know but it would prove a balm to the lacerating wounds opened in the South by the radical policy of reconstruction to have Cuba annexed with all practicable celerity. It might also soften the asperities or change the bitter cur- rent of the pending Presidential campaign to have an issue like that of the speedy annexa- tion of Cuba introduced into it. Moreover, it might justify a pardonable spirit of acquisition on our part for us to accept this precious gem in the diadem of Spain in retaliation for the lack of good faith and honor the government of that country, under the dethroned Queen Isabella, exhibited during our direst national troubles, by attempting to re-establish monar- chical power upon American soil consecrated to liberty. But after weighing all these con- siderations, without touching upon others per- haps more potential, we cannot avoid the con- clusion that it is the best policy of the United States government not to attempt to take the island of Cuba by force, not to accept it if offered by the free will and consent of her population under the present posture of affairs in Spain, but to make an offer to the ruling powers at home in a good round sum of money for its purchase. Thege would be nothing dis- honorable in this, nor could the people of Spain take umbrage at it; otherwise they would ignore the experience taught by our purchase of the peninsula of Florida from the Spanish crown itself; of the acquisition of Louisiana from Napoleon I. by paying cash for it, and more recently of the purchase of St. Thomas from Denmark, and more strik- ingly still of the purchase of Alaska from the powerful kingdom of Russia. But unless an offer in money be made by our government for the early purchase of Cuba, and unless that offer be accepted, there is every human proba- bility that that bright and beautiful island will not remain forlorn forever, but speedily fly to sturdy and congenial arms for protection—to those of her nearest neighbor and eldest kins- man, her natural guardian, Uncle Samuel. More of the Earthquake. From the Panjaub in India we hear of earth- quake shocks felt on the 20th of August. Those in South America, it will be remem- bered, occurred mainly on the 13th and 18th of that monih. Such a relation intime is atleast very suggestive of a relation in cause. The Punjaub is as nearly as possible—if not ex- actly—the opposite point on the earth’s sur- face to that point in South America at which the shock was most severely felt. If we fol- low the surface from the South American shock eastward we must pass, before reaching Hindostan, across the whole width of South America, the South Atlantic, the Continent of Europe and half the Continent of Asia. If we go westward there is the whole width of the Pacific and the Chinese empire between. It is pretty certain, then, that the blow from South America was not communicated by the crust of the earth, or we should have heard of the disasters round the world that must have been the result. It is equally certain that the different events were not due to similar electrical or other atmos- pherie conditions ; forin that case itis not pos- sible that the effects should have been felt only asthey were. There is still open the possi- bility that the shock from South America was communicated directly through the diameter of the earth—that the vast explosive force which broke up the crust on one side was felt at the exactly opposite side of the sphere, Perhaps this fact in the history of the recent earth- quake—thot shocks were felt in the Punjaub— may yet stand in the catalogue as the best of many arguments for the fluid condition of the centre of the earth. Reverdy Johnson's Diplomacy. By our Washington correspondent we learn that a letter recetved ‘from a leading English liberal complains that our newly installed representative at the Court of St. James has snubbed every liberal member who has ap- proached him.” The same letier also predicts that Johnson ‘will be completely bamboozled by Disraeli and Stanley unless he speedily cuts loose from the cunning aristocrats into whose seductive meshes he has fallen.” This is of a piece with a great deal more that has been said against our new Minister since he went out. Itis notable that all this noise on this side the Atlantic comes from the long- haired Down Past politicians, and on the other side the Atlantic from the party of political philosophers that affiliates and sympathizes with these Down Wasters. And the noise is mostly bosh. Did we send a representative to the English liberals to take part in their oppo- sition canvass, or did we send him charged with husiness to the British government? We have a notion that it fe not bad diplomacy on the part of Reverdy Johnson to be on the best possible terms with the government party, and even to let the government party and any other party suppose that he ia heing bamboo- | sled. Aso fact in diplomatic history, the | it. It will not surprise us if, asthe recult of party that turns out to be bamboozled is not always the one that felt surost of its success in overreaching during the progress of nego- tiation. Let us have some better reason against our new Minister than the fact that he is not hand and glove with the party waging sie to the government he is scat to deal with, The Parliamentary Canvass in Eugland. The canvass for seats in the British Parlia- ment becomes more animated and excited every day at the still nearer approach of the moment for the formal dissolution of the present Logislature and the opening of a new and most important era in the political history of Great Britain by a general choice of representatives under the new Reform bill. The turmoil and confusion produced in the clubs by the great party revolution which en- sued on the assertion of the claim of the Disraeli-Derbyite tories to be considered as the promoters of all healthy measures of change have ina great measure subsided ; pub- lic men have taken sides under an order of affairs tending to complete reconstruction ; the leaders are coming out with bold and still bolder bids for popular support, and the point for issue is being narrowed near to the terse and intelligent question of who will do most for the people. Our cable telegrams from London render the situation plain in this light ; but it must be confessed that the despatches are very obscure—muddled, it may be said— when they come to treat of the probable result of the contest by speculation. British mail reports of a late date and reli- able character indicate that the Gladstone liberals will, on the platform proposed by their able leader, have a majority in the new House of Commons ranging between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and thirty, the Church question generally, and the Irish Church ques- tion in particular, being the grand test point at the hustings. A late cable telegram, however, asserts that this estimate is likely to be re- versed, as ‘‘the liberals generally oppose the Trish Church bill’—a manifest contradiction either in the wording of the despatch or the assumed policy of the ‘‘liberals.” Working- men’s candidates are favorably received by the people. If returned as such they of course will vote with Mr. Gladstone on the principle of a reduction of public charges by the sweeping away of ecclesiastical endowments in Ireland, as so must all the old whigs, the juvenile aristocratic progressionists, corn law repealers, Manchester ‘‘school” men and modern radi- cals, unless it should happen, as it may, that Mr. Disraeli matures and tenders a ‘“‘bid” em- bracing a reform of the temporalities of the Church Establishment of the whole United Kingdom, and the application of its rich sur- plus revenue to the support of the poor and the maintenance of the Board of Education and national schools, A project such as this would render the Pre- mier exceedingly popular and enable him to execute, in our view, a successful flank move- ment on the Gladstone oppositionists and thus retain his place; and no person can assert with any degree of certainty what Mr. Benja- min Disraeli may or may not do, having this object in view. Ireland will be his great elec- tion “difficulty,” just as it has presented a legislative difficulty to all English statesmen since the year 1782. The Gladstone Church bill plan finds much favor with the Irish, so much 80, indeed, that we should not be at all surprised to learn that the voters of the island, influenced by that question alone, returned seventy-three members out of the one hundred and five sent to Parliament, pledged to support the opposition—a very effective working ma- jority or “balance of power party” in the House of Commons should the total from Eng- land, Scotland and Wales be nicely balanced. The Catholic clergy of Ireland will work with great energy for the Gladstone candidates; but even now it may be seen that the astute Prime Minister intends to appeal directly, by a valuable “bid,” to the Irish voters at their firesides and hearths, as against the clergy in cathedra and on the altar. By cable despatch we are told that the government will bring for- ward a measure of land tenure or ‘“‘tenant right” reform for Ireland in the new Parlia- ment, and if this prove true Mr. Disraeli will almost certainly vanquish the pricsts, the learned Israelite taking charge of the bodies, breeches and brogues of the citizens of Ireland, while the hierarchy will be left to look after their souls—a duty which they have been dis- charging all the time and which is, consequent- ly, no novelty; whereas a good land lease bill from London would be both novel and bene- ficial at the same time. In this exciting can- vass in England Mr. Gladstone enjoys a wide- spread popularity andinfluence. Mr. Disraeli, however, wields vast power and immense patronage; he has the support of the Church, the extreme tory nobility, the army and navy and moneyed interests to a very great extent, and the ‘no popery” party, and if with these he can weld the frieze-coated tenantry of Ireland his victory is certain and the ‘‘glory” of his name athand, is General Prim in Madrid. General Prim is in Madrid. His reception in the capital city was enthusiastic beyond anything which has been witnessed since the commencement of the revolution in Spain. It is but just, however, to say that the reception was not unmerited. If this revolution prove a success the result must be credited to the per- severing energy and unquenchable hopes of Prim. He has made, it is true, more than one abortive and, it may he, ridiculous effort ; but great men before his time have miscalculated, and the worst that can be said of miscaleula- tion is that it was abortive and ridiculous, There is at least one great man who now holds away in Europe who made abortive and ridicu- lous attempts before success crowned his efforts, The world will not soon forget the ridiculous exhibition made by the nephew of “his uncle,” when, with a live eagle*in the one hand and a different sort of eagle in the other hand, and with food for one of the eagles on the crown of his head, he effected a landing on the coast of France, The nephew of “‘his uncle,” even with the help of the eagles and the eagle's food on the crown of his head, was not successful then, but he was successful after- wards, If General Prim failed before, he failed in good company. If he is successful now, it only shows the folly of being too easily dis- couraged. ‘Try again” is a good old standing advice, Prim has not erred in giving heed to the appeal to the people, General Prim is pre- claimed President of the Spanish republic, Avormer Port Orsxep ty Camra.—We learn by news from China that another port has been opened to foreign trade in the empire. This port is Chifau, on the Gulf of Pechele. Tt has been opened, we suppose, in conformity with treaty stipulations; but whether se or by the voluntary action of the Chi- nese government the fact shows that China is advancing in liberal and friendly course towards foreigners. It tends to upset all the arguments of the old British and India party, which asserts that China will not advance or observe her treaty obligations. China has taken steps from which she cannot recede if even she would; but we do not think there is any disposition to do so under the liberal government of the Regent, Prince Kung. The Chinese themselves must see that their old exclusive policy is no longer tenable in this enlightened and progressive age. With liberal treatment they will become more liberal, and that, happily, is the new policy inaugurated through the Burlingame mission, One TAKEN AND THE Orner Lerr..—A telc- graphic despatch from Norfolk which appeared in yesterday's HeraLp announced that Gov- ernor Wells, of Virginia, had commuted the sentence of Benjamin Jefferson, a negro, te imprisonment for life. This negro had been sentenced to be hanged on the 8th of October for an outrage upon Miss Sarah Ford. Perkins, a white man, who had been condemned to the same penalty for his partici- pation in this outrage, was hanged yesterday. Thus the white man was taken and the negro was left. A political pretext for the difference in the fate of the two men has been assigned— “the Congressional district in which the out- rage took place gives a seven thousand negro majority.” In view of this extraordinary case who shall say that the negro now has no rights which white men are bound to respect ? Tar Street BrooKkapE.—The street block- ade is still maintained, notwithstanding the protestation of the press. The upper part of Fifth avenue, for instance, is almost im- passable, as all citizens who daily drive out te the Park can testify. In a few years, perhaps, the avenue will have been built upon both sides as faras the Park. But by that time the lower part of the avenue must be rebuilt, and if the same obstructions shall be tolerated which now occasion so much annoyance this splendid thoroughfare will be proportionally reduced to ten feet in width. It is very strange that the public submits to an evil which is equally dangerous and unnecessary. A CHANGE OF BASE AND CIROUMSTANOES.— Acouple of months since and Queen Isabella of Spain was about to despatch an army to Rome for the protection of the Pope and te guard the Eternal City after the departure of the French, Yesterday 9 Papal war corvette was ordered to Marseilles to embark the ex- Queen from France for Rome to find shelter at the hands of the Holy Father. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, Inspection and Muster of the Thirty-seventl Regiment. The Thirty-seventh regiment, Third brigade, as- sembled yesterday at Torapkins square for inspec- tion, muster and review. Being the fifth regiment of the brigade brought out for review, it was expected that the mistakes of its predecessors would bo avoided, and that the hundred and one little points in drill, discipline and devortment, which being ob- served make the reputation of a regiment, but when neglected bring more prominently into view graver errors in tactics, would be carefully atiended to. ‘The expec'ation was, unfortunately, ill founded. Al- though the men marched well and were very steady, the behavior Of some of the oMcers detracted from whatever credit the regiment might receive on that account, The Adjutant did not know, and was very doubtful when he would know, how many men were on the ground, the number of absent or the strength of the regiment; many of the line officers could not tell, except by guess work, how many men were on their company muster rolls; the accoutrements were shamefuily dirty, and the uniforms looked as if they had been through the Wilderness, After the line had been formed for some time General Varian, in the absence of General Liebenau, who had not yet arrived, signed for the review to commence. The salute was given very well and the other movements incident to the opening of a review were falriv executed, Of the march past the most that can be said 1s that the men were 5! > did not crowd one another, and were tree from besetting sin of “crack corps,” stiffuess in marching. Per conira, few of the oMcers sainied properly, and the majority etther recovered too soon or neglected to look towards the reviewing oMcer in passing. Some of the companies lost distance early In the march and were unable to regain it before the column halted at the end of the review, and other companies followed their leading company too ine showed eae ‘The consequence was that the gaps in s laces, and at oiher points companies caomioes throwing files to the rear. Company in Cox, was the larest paraded, and was wal in every movement. At the con- clusion of the review General Liebneau came on the ground and assumed his proper position. ‘The no tae was made by Major 0. F. Went- worth. The arms were in good order, but, as has aircady been said, the accoutrements reflected litiie credit on the regiment. The brasses on the belts of some of the men were marked with the namber of the regiment, while others bore tne letter of the company to which they were attached. The car- tridge boxes and belts were ina worse condition than if the men were compelled to polish them them- selves. Atthe conclusion of the inspection Major Wentworth mustered the regiment. From causes already explained it was difficult to ascertain the actual strength, pres ind ausent, but the follow- ing figures are correc! ‘ad agaut aii SOs Field and Start, . ~-- -] 4 -] 6 Non-Com, Stat | —-] — =) 6 —) 6 Company A. 2} 6} 26) 33) 20) 63 Company B. 2} 4) 55) 61) 11) 7 Company C 2); 4] 15) 21] 28) 40 Company D 8} 6) 17] 26) 6} 33 Company B 8} 1) 18} 20) 14) 34 Company @ 8) 4) 26] 82] 13] 46 Company H. 2] 6] 16] 23! 23) 46 Company K 2] 6] 25! 36) 22) SB 36] 198] 263} 137) 400 ir being he regiment was again put in order of battle and was reviewed by General Liel nau, ‘There was very little improvement in the second attempt over ‘that of the first, as far as the officers were concerned, but the men marched better and were steadier in the ranks, When the salute was made at the termination of the review the ment marched off the one to the armory and proceedings terminated. Captain W. Green, company K, Bighth regiment, states that im the mister roll of his regiment, an ab- stract of which was published in the HERALD on the Sth, twenty-eight men were entered as the strengtl: present of his company, instead of thirty-five. FIRE IN NEWARK, Ne J. Detiween ten and eleven o'clock a Merce fre broke out in the whee! factiory in the rear of the Quimby property, on Broad etreet, formerly occupied by Phinias Jones, The flame was got under by the fire- men, but not before a portion of the roof had fallen mount of property destroyed. vnc yor the ‘ire wan blazing fiercely, anothor broke out in the vicinity of High and Wiliam aurea rhe trainee on catherine sect was come : nh Ine = Ao ve ved. Tio fame tad communicated 10 hour were tel otter, bilities at a lata that vo Wew oak woula bo saved, %, &