The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1868, Page 6

6 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. price $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIVE Annual subscription price:— Annual subscription CENTS per copy. One Copy..... Three Copies. Five Coptes. . . - TON Copies... ..e.sseeeererseeeereee theeeeeerenes 15 JOB PRINTING of every descruption, also Stereo- typing ana Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volume XX XIII RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BEDFORD STREET METHODIST CHURCH.—Rev. AL- yeep CookmaN. Morning and evening, BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.—Rev. Day K. Lrg. Morning and evening. BROOKES? Afternoon. CHURCH OF 7B IOUY TRINITY, Madison avenue and Forty-second sireet. RIGHT REY. JOUN JOHNS. Morning and afternoon. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. W. Pore Yra- MAN, Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Morning—Bisuor Geeag. Kvening—Revy. G. H. MoKNiauT. ASSEMBLY ROOMS.—LaY PREACHING. EVERETT ROOMS.—SPIRITUALIBTS. MRS, ALLYN. Morning and evening. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH.—Rav. G. F Keorer. Morning and evouing. FREER CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Morning— Rev. W. E. ARMITAGE. Evening—-Rev. J. F, Porren. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Ruy. De. Scorr. Morning and evening. MEMORIAL CHURCH OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT.— Moraing—BIsuoP ‘of Mississippi. Evening—Bisuor of Colo- rado. AL CHURCH OF THE RE- ‘Morning and even- PROTESTANT EPISC! FORMATION,—Rxv. Anuorr Buows. ng. — rs ST. ANDREWS’ CHURCH.—Ruout Rev. W. H. Brssete anp Bry. T. C, Perkin. Evening. ST. ANN'S FREE CHURCH—Morning—Riant Rev. BISHOP ATKINSON. Afternoon—REV. PAUL MAZAKUTI. Evening—Rsv. D. GaLLaupet. TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. J. Srawronp UNIVERSITY—Washington square—Rev. 8. 5, SNOW. Afternoon. New York, Sunday, October 11, 1868. TH EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated yesterday evening, Octover 10. ‘The American Minister in Madrid assured the rev- olutionary government of an early recognition by the United States. The Spanish Junta added the freedom of the press, trial by jury, judges appointed for life, and the equality of all men before the law, to the constitutional programme sketched in the Herawp yesterday. The leading members of the Junta incline towards a monarchy, but will accept a republic if it is voted by the people at the elections. ‘The Junta appeals to the citizens to preserve order. Aroyalist official was mobbed in Madrid to such extent that Prim addressed the inhabitants in order to quell a riot. England ia to perfect a naturalization treaty with the United States similar to that of Germany. Napo Jeon remains at Biarritz, German merchants re- quest the Prassian government to despatch war ves- sels to Cuba to guard the interests of German traders. Consols 94% for money. Five-twenties 74% In Lon- don and 77% In Frankfort. Paris Bourse firmer. Cotton upward in Liverpool, middiing uplands crpsing at 10% pence. Breadstuifs improved. Pro- vistons dull. Bg steamship at this port we have highly interest- ing mail details of our cable telegrams from Europe to the 29th of September, including a report of the progress of the Spanish revolution and the opera- tions on both sides, republicans and royalists, to the day previous. MISCELLANEOUS. Senator Morgan and Representative Schenck have decided that there shall be no quorum present at the meeting of Congress on the 15th inst. The two houses will accordingly be adjourned until the loth of November. The Alabama Legislature adjourned at a late hour Jast night, In the morning session reports were re- ceived of the murder oy the Ku Klux of the probate judge of Russell county and his clerk, and resolu- tions were offered calling upon the Governor to de- clare martial law in the county and offer $5,000 reward for the murderers. The whole report, how- ever was denied later in the day. Judge Sharswood, of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, has dismissed the motion to compel Protho- notary Snowden, of Philadelphia, to show cause why he should not be attached for contempt in issuing Diank naturalization papers. The Judge, in his de- cision, holds the Prothonotary blameless and says that he believes the seal of the court has been coun- terfeited on false naturalization papers. It is be- lieved the election inspectors will, in consequence of this decision, throw out all votes on naturalization papers issued in September—about ten thousanc, The Indian Commission concluded its labors at Chicago yesterday. Resolutions were adopted favor- ing the treatment of Indians as if they were citt- zona, allowing them the same privileges and holding them to the same penalties, and aiso that the milita- ry should compel them to settle on reservations. The cases of Woolley and Kimberly against General Butler were argued inthe Superior Court at Balti- more yesterday on a motion to vacate the service of the writ under the plea of illegality inthe arrest of a member of Congress. Caleb Cushing argued in favor of the motion to vacate. The argument will be continued next Saturday. A national convention of the advocates of the po- litical rights of women is called to meet in Washing- ton next December. The call is issued by the Uni- versal Franchise Commiitee, aud is intended to be a stirring oue. The (card of Managers of the National Aaylum for Disable Soldiers met in Gibraltar, Ohio, at Jay Cooke's residence, yesterday. General Butler was among the members present. Reports show that the aaylums are in good condition, new ones are being erected and the number of inmates are in- creasing. ‘The Secretary of War has issued a circular limiting the time to the ist of January next in which to re- ceive the names of new claimants to a share in the rewards for the capture of Jet. Davis, A Board of Engineers convened at Cozzens’ \and- ing on the Hudson on Thursday to fix upon a site for + the Highland Suspension Bridge. Horatio Allen was chosen chairman, and after an elaborate ex amination of the shores from Buttermilk Falls to Verplanck’s Point the Board adjourned to the 22a inst. Warrants have been isened in Piitade ‘or the arrest of Wormald and O'Baidwin, the 7 s, and their backers, who are ed to arrive to-night or to-morrow in Philade’ to have out their prize fight. Among the backers or tors named in the James Cusick, warrants are Harry Hill, Bob ! the two Diamonds and other brigit liaise amoug Metropolitan pugilists, The fight ts said to have been postponed in consequence by the main parties. Alaska advices to the 12th of September state that the Indians were quiet, and the troops were having comfortable quarters erected at Stycheon. General Davis had gone North, The birthday of Isabella of Spain was celebrated asusual in Havana yesterday, a large assemblage being present at the Captain General's reception. The late disturbances in Porto Rico have been put down and the insurgents have been dispersed or captured. Director Delmar 1s preparing 8 comparative state- Ment of taxation in the United States in 1860 and 1868, The amount per captta in 1860 was $4 82, and in 1868 is $23. In the Episcopal Convention yesterday # petition was presented asking a fuller explanation of the in- tent and meaning of section 6, canon 12, title 1. and canon 11, title 1, which refer to services of minis- ters outside their own parishes and for a viola- tion of which Rey, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., was tried and reprimanded some time ago. The petition was referred to the Committee on Canons. A resolution to appoint a standing committee to consider and report upon the inter- course or synodical union of the Episcopal with any other portion of the Church was offered and made a special order for Wednesday. A motion was made to continue the musical portion of the service during the session of the Convention and to request the sur- Pliced choir of boys of Trinity chapel to assist. Great difference of opinion appears to exist in regard to surplices, and about eighty members are reported to have waited outside the edifice on Thursday until the chaunting of this surpliced choir was concluded. In consequence of this Dr. Swopes directed the choir not to appear again, and thus arose the motion. A warm and eager debate on the question appeared imminent, but the President stayed it by declaring the House adjourned until Monday. An inquest was commenced yesterday in Brooklyn on the bodies of James Robinson, a colored man, and his wife, a white woman, who died from the effects of laudanum at their home in Carsville, near the cemetery. From the evidence heard yesterday It seems probable that both husband and wife com- mitted suicide, . Business in commercial circles yesterday was light, though in some of the markets there was con- siderable activity. Coffee was quiet but steady, while sugar was also quiet, but a shade firmer. Cot- ton was in active demand from all sources, and the lower grades advanced about c. per lb., the mar- ket closing strong at 26c. for middling upland, On ’Change, flour was in fair demand and firm. Wheat was fairly active, but at 1c. a 2c. lower prices, closing firm, however, with the decline recoverem. Corn was active, the demand being chiefly specula- tive, and prices advanced 1c., the market closing, however, with the improvement lost. Oats were freely sought after, and commanded Ic. a 2c. higher prices. Pork waa moderately active and lower, while beef and lard were quiet and steady. Petro Jeum was quiet, at 15\c. for crude, in bulk, and 29%c. @ 30c. for refined. Whiskey was dull and nom- inal. Freights were firmer. Naval stores were dull but generally steady. Prominent Arrivals. Judge Ward Hunt, of Albany; Marcus P. Norton. of Troy; Mayor Geo. Chahoun, of Richmona; F. W. Kellogg, of Alabama, and General Kilpatrick, of the pe so States army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. . B. R. Gifford, of Massachusetts, and J. J. Pringle, of South Carolina, are at the St. Julien He Sionel Lucas H. Warren, of the United States army; Colonel Saunders, of Montana; Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, and Judge Hammond, of Maryland, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Religious Perturbations in Both Hemi. spheres—What Is the World Coming Tot For some years past, in the physical world and its surroundings, in meteoric showers, tornadoes, droughts, inundations, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, we have had a succession of startling perturbations well cal- culated to shake the faith of the stoutest be- Mrs. Amy Bradley (white woman) was intro- duced. She made an appeal for money in behalf of the forty thousand white people in North Carolina who can neither write nor read, and a collection for the object suggested was instantly raised. This, it strikes us, is practical Christianity. Here, tpo, although upon ‘‘a glittering generality” the Rev. Dr. Bellows and some others threatened the South Carolina ultimatum of secession and a separate confederacy, they were appeased by a compro- mise. Once upon a time a Frengh traveller in the United States remarked that the Ameri- cans “fare von people extraordinaire, for I find while dey have three hundred and sixty- five religions they have only one gravy.” The Unitarian Conference proposes the fusion of these religions—excepting, we believe, the Jews, the Mormons and the Free Lovers— which is an immense stride towards the Ser- mon on the Mount. Thus, in the pulpit and in the kitchen, in religion and in cooking, we are making some wholesome advances on this side the water. On the other side her Most Catholic Majesty Queen Isabella of Spain has come to grief. It was not long ago that she received, as the most devoted daughter of the Church, the blessed golden rose from the Holy Father ; it was hardly a month since that she offered his Holiness the security of thirty thousand Spanish troops, and yesterday we had the news that she herself had taken refuge on board a ship sent to take her away to the protection of the Yoly Father. What misfortunes have fallen upon Pio Nono! Garibaldi; Victor Emanuel ; the unification of Italy ; the dispersion of their in- mates and appropriation by the State of all those extensive Church properties, convents and monasteries; the dethroned royal family of Naples and all those expelled Italian dukes and duchesses mourning with the Holy Father and waiting for ‘“‘something to turn up ;” the distracted Empress of Mexico in her sore dis- tress flying for relief to the Vatican; the astounding heresies and remorseless cruelties under Von Beust of the hitherto faithful house of Austria, and now the expulsion of the most faithful Isabella and all the Bourbons from Spain, and the devoted Empress Eugénie ut- terly powerless to resist this heavy tide of disasters still accumulating against the head of the Church. Well may we ask, what isthe world coming to? We fear that under this Spanish revolution to raise the wind the nu- merous and wealthy establishments of the Church in Spain will have to go the way of those of Italy, and that with Spain the Pope ‘will lose his last crown among the potentates of Europe; for even Napoleon very soon may have other fish to fry. Nor is the Church of Rome alone in its troubles ; for in the agitation of the disestablish- ment of the English Church in Ireland a revo- lution is on foot in that quarter which can hardly be arrested short of a radical uprooting of Church and State. Political and religious revolutions go together, and in these latter days, under the combined powers of the press, steam and electricity, the work of a hundred years in times past is accomplished in a single morning before breakfast. Thus, in both hemispheres, the true Church, High Church, Low Church and all the churches, from turrets liever in the duration of this shaky planet. During the same peridd, in the Old World and the New, we have had a succession of political perturbations and revolutions equally surpris- ing, and they are still goingon. Nor have the religious systems of either of the four quarters of the globe escaped the consequences of the general upheavals and changes which have marked these disturbing forces in mind and matter, in things visible and things not seen. Some philosophers, especially the Millerites, contend that all these wonderful phenomena portend the near approach of the day of judg- ment; while others, through a brighter me- dium, fancy they can see the day break, or the “star in the east,” which is to usher in the millennium. But there are still others who hold that we are in the midst of those disorders and convulsions, material and moral, of that awful epoch of a thousand years, during which the Devil is to be let loose upon the earth. Looking at the stubborn facts around us in reference to the moral and religious aspects of the time, we are rather inclined to this theory of the Devil and his thousand years, and’ yet we have an abiding weakness for the mil- Jennium, Pro-slavery and anti-slavery, our late Southern institution of slavery, in its des- potic power, split up the most powerful Churches of the country or made them sub- servient to its decrees. Since the extinction of slavery these divided and demoralized Churches are coming or trying to come to- gether again; but they are making rather slow work of it with their endless twaddle upon Church quibbles, riddles and conundrums. We have, for instance, a national convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church—High Church and Low Church—in session in this city, the largest and most imposing assemblage of the great guns of this Church, we believe, that has ever been known in the United States; but from its proceedings so far, on canons, and rules and regulations, and claptrap and non- sense, there is no sign that it will give the privilege to the Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., to preach the Gospel in a Methodist meeting Louse with- out the special permission of Stubbs, Dobbs or Scroggs. The belligerent propensities of the shining lights of this Convention, moreover, were brought out into pretty bold relief yesterday in some lively wranglings and squabblings on verbal and ritualistic enormities very perplex- ing to outside barbarians. In fact, the ‘white chokers” of this Episcopal sanhedrim, in their hot debates upon stupid abstractions, eclipse the democratic roughs of Tammany Hall, al- though the Doctor of Divinity piously restrains the old man Adam witlin him from ‘pitching in” 0 la Captain Rynders. We pass from this close religious corpora- tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the present to the Unitarian National Confer- ence, also in session in this highly favored metropolis. Here we find the doors open to the members of all sorta of churches, and “without distinction of sex, race or color.” The first motion on the meeting of the Confer- ence the other morning was that the represent- atives from the African Methodist Episcopal Conference be admitted to seata on the plat- form, which was cordially adopted. Thea, again, in the course of the day, after Bishop Payne (black man), of the African Methodist Church, had expressed his thanks for the reception given Lim aad his faith and people, to foundation stones, are destined to great changes; for we live in an age of revolution and reconstruction such as the world fifty years ago little dreamed of as possible for a thousand years to come. Chinese Prospects. The Chinese treaty, it would seem, is al- ready bringing forth fruit. Atcording to our latest news the Chitaung cos! mines, near Pekin, will shortly be opened to the engineers. The Shang Tung mountains have also been prospected by an old Californian, and the gold prospect is declared tobe satisfactory. Mean- while, as if there was a general brightening up, we are further informed that the Viceroy had abolished the war tax, which had lasted for eight years. We have been sorry to see that in spite of all these indications, which must be pronounced hopeful, the old exclusive spirit, which really is the distinguishing character- istic of Chinese policy, is not yet dead. The ministerial board of Foreign Affairs had is- sued an address to the foreign consuls request- ing them to forbid their respective subjects from going to the Chee Foo mines, The con- suls, we are informed, had complied. This we can regard in no other light than as a drawback to the generally hopeful aspect of things. It is not so that Chinamen have been treated in California. It is not so that they have been treated in Australia. There is a sense of justice which we caanot afford to dis- regard even in our admiration of Chinamen. We are prepared to lend them all reasonable encouragement. We shall be glad to see them take their proper place in the community of great and enlightened nations, and it will be a source of pride to us if the United States con- tinue to hold them by the hand and lead them to a higher destiny. But there must be fair play. The Chinese must not expect to get what they are not prepared to give. They come here and make money, and we have no objection that they continue to come and make what they can. But there must be no hin- drance to our going to China and seeking simi- lar chances there. After all, however, this is but a speck on a generallypromising horizon. We cannot expect our great neighbor to be- come wise all at once. We feel ourselves compelled to make these remarks, because if this Burlingame mission means anything at all American enterprise will find its way to China. It is well for the Chinese government to know at once that the go-ahead American people, once they are fairly started, will not be easily held in check. China has unquestionably a great future before her, and our people aro largely to benefit ; but the old Chin spirit of exclusiveness muat be extinguished. TWRepLeDUM AND Tween. ever, —The Epis- copal Convention, the first since the war and one of the grandest in the history of that sec- tion of the American Church, has just had its session in this city. We have been sorry to see how it has ed non-essentials to the high standard of essentials, Convention— Council; which is the best word? Who can tell? room meeting in Jerusale: It is long, long ago since the first upper Was it @ coun- cil? Waaita convention? Who can answer? Which is the better word? flave the Ep’ pal Synod no higher, no nobler work than this? If they have not they ought ba have NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER li, 1868.—TR Public Fanctionarios axd the Prose=— Advertising Ratse. Much advertising has to be done in the transaction of the business of our various pub- lic offices, and the rates that the authorities are authorized to pay for it are fixed by law. We have repeatedly called atention to the fact that they are fixed far too low, and have com- mented upon the ridiculous position of a pub- lic officer who is directed by a statute to insert acertain announcement in that journal in his district having the greatest circulation, when, perhaps, that journal would not give it place for less than ten times the amount he is author- ized to pay. What shall the officerdo? On which side shall he fail to obey the law? He will not pay more than he is empowered to, for the excess above a certain figure would come out of his own pocket; so he only fails to put the advertisement in the right paper. Instead of putting it where the law intended he puts it in the journal that will take it at the terms, which issome obscure, unknown sheet ; so that he might as well put it in a pigeon-hole, 60 far as the matter of publicity goes. Here is another document on this subject :— Custom House, New YoRK, WAREHOUSE BURKAU, Oct. 9, 1868. Sir—I am directed by the Collector to offer you the advertisment of the sale of unclaimed and aban- doned merchandise which speeered im the Evening Post of the 7th instant. It isto be published three times a week until the day of sale. ‘The rate of pay- ment therefor is fixed by law at fifty cents per tollo of 300 ems, for each insertion. Respectfully, J. H. STEDWELL, Deputy Collector. Publisher NEw YorK HERALD. The note is quite correct, and the Custom House authorities have only done their duty in the proffer. Our answer is that we cannot publish the advertisement at such arate. It is but little more than we should pay the printer for setting up the type; while the paper on which this advertisement would appear, cut from the sheet through our whole edition and sold by weight for white paper, would sell for more than the advertisement would bring in. In this we may take the measure how far Con- gress is behind the age in regard to practical facts. It leaves these laws to stand as they were in that gone-by time when the rates above named were remunerative—when newspapers lived on a circulation of fifteen hundred copies. Now they circulate a hundred thou- sand, and other things are changed propor- tionately. The Heravp, in particular, has such a vast and such a constantly increasing advertising patronage that government terms sound ridiculous beside the rates it receives from the people. The National tame, The people of every nation who have any desire for physical development and perfec- tion have some outdoor game peculiar to them- selves; some game which, while it develops the body, partakes in a marked degree of the mental characteristics of those engaged in it. The games of base ball, cricket, hurling and La Crosse are the most prominent games at ball looked upon as national institutions, and each of these will be found to possess points which agree with what might be termed the idiosyncracies of the people to which they be- ay ball, now universally admitted to be the national game of America, requires for its proper conduct a large amount of life and spirit mixed with a plentiful supply of risk; it re- quires the nerves and muscles to be ever ready and the faculties in active operation, to appre- ciate in an instant the entire situation and grasp at any opportunity for profit that may be offered. Cricket, the national game of England, may justly be considered a more staid game than base ball. It partakes of the Englishman's steady, wary, cool, calculating and oftentimes tricky disposition. There is not as much vim required for cricket as is required for base ball, as may be seen from the fact that good cricketers may be found who have passed the age of forty, while first nine base ball players of forty years of age are very few. Hurling, the national game of Ireland, is a rough, noisy sport, partaking in a certain de- gree of some of the traditional accompaniments of Donneybrook fair, such as wounded heads and barked shins; and yet an amount of skill and science must be observed to carry the ball safely to the goal. La Crosse, the game of the civilized North American Indians,'is somewhat similar to hurling, but is played with much lighter and less dangerous implements. Hurling requires & heavy crooked wooden implement in the hands of each player, while La Crosse requires a light yet tough implement of cane and net- work. The same wild excitement character- izes both hurling and La Crosse, This wild- ness increases the confusion and is itself augmented by the confusion which ever attends a spirited contest at either; but when one party in a contest succeeds in driving the ball beyond the goal the excite- ment and interest instantly droop. Just such are the temperaments of both the Irish people and the Canadian Indians—soon sroused and sent up to the boiling point and almost as soon back again to the level. The Imptements used show the difference in tactics of the Irishman and Indian; for while the former endeavors to hit hard the latter gives a lighter and more springy blow and repeats the dose with amazing swiftness. With this concordancy between bodily and mental activity appreciated and admitted it is not to be wondered at that cricket has failed to strike root in this country. Repeated ef- forts have been made to cultivate it; but its non-agreement with the American go-ahead- ativeness has held it back, while the game of base ball, fully agreeing with the American activity, has sprung up, has been successfully planted in all parts of the country, has met with popular favor and has stalked away from its Anglican consin. The advent of the All England Eleven of cricketers some years ago in this country created a slight fever in favor of their game ; but base ball was then quite young and could offer no strenuous opposition to cricket. As season after season passed by, however, the men and boys of America abandoned the older game and joined the ranks in favor of the more vivacious one, until now cricket has few participants or admirers except among the English portion of American residents, An- other and very strong eleven of cricketers from England are at present travelling through this country giving exhibitions in the princi- pal cities, and yet have not succeeded in cre- ating any excitement other than such as arises from curiosity, whieh soon dies out. In inarked contrast to te last mentioned IPLE SHEET. fact are the circumstances attending the con- tests at base ball between any of the leading clubs in all parts.of the country. The games between the Atlantic, Athletic, Mutual, Union and others seldom fail to draw together as- semblages numbering fr¢m five to fifteen thou- sand, while games between such clubs as the Emplre, Active, Eagle Knickerbocker, Go- tham, Star, not aspiring to the title of cham- pions, can at all timespucceed in calling to- gether crowds of interested spectators. In these assemblages be found gentlemen holding high positions in the professions and in society, while ladies often grace the scenes of contest in large numbers and even’ aspire— asin Peterboro, N. Y.—to wield the bat and sling the ball in a style remarkable and praiseworthy. Attempts have bee: made lately to show that the game of bam ball is depreciating, that its associations an¢ surroundings are not the most choice, and tlat it is fast becoming nothing more than a medium for gambling. To @ certain extent, unfertunately, it must be admitted that there ar grounds for this last accusation. But is the game to be condemned because persons see a chance to speculate on the contests and staky money on the result? Horse racing is not yc Ab and yet it is and always has ben a medium for gam- bling, The game of base Jall possesses all the re- quirements for building up in America an agile and robust race of nen, who will be quite different in physical development to the Ameri- cans of some years agy. When the only draw- back to the game a present—professional- ism—shall have dwinded down to very narrow limits—and it is rapidy going that way—base ball will keep its positon as the game of Ameri- ca wherever a score (f Americans can be got together, while crickit will be forced to keep its place at home andamong only those having a plentiful flow of English blood, English ideas and English tardiness Mr. Disraeli and the Pope. Mr. Benjamin Dpraeli, Premier of England, has issued an adiress to his constituents in Buckinghamshire, seeking a re-election by their votes to thy new British Parliament. Judging of the language and tone of the paper by the report trananitted through the Atlantic cable we have thj almost certain assurance that the great Thaalite statesman will not avail himself in any form, either as a newly baptized Christian or a descendant of Abraham, Mpses, David and Solomon, anxious to reafftm the law in the teeth of error, of the invittion contained in the Papal pastoral by attenling in person or by dele- gate at the Churca Council in Rome. Indeed, itappears as ifhe fears that the visit will come from the other side, and that the poor old Pope may ¢ventually and at no distant day take atrip »wr to England and oust him from his high position as ‘“‘adviser of the Queen’s conscien@,” besides accomplishing an infinity of misclief in every direction. The Premier, réerring to the Irish Church disendowment prgect of Mr. Gladstone, passed by the House of Commons and endorsed by the throne in he Majesty’s reply to the ad- dress of Parliamat, asserts that if carried into complete effect ly the new Legislature “‘it will unsettle property make confiscation contagious and, worse tha: all, give England over to Popery and pretically to the rule of a foreign Power.” Thisis avery dismal picture indeed, and must be aarming to all good Britons when sketched by swh a versatile, ready pen as that of the author »f ‘‘Coningsby.” The Gladstone party, howeve, will not be likely to view it in exactly the sme light, recalling, perhaps, the facts that tk celebrated Lord Eldon pro- phesied that the ‘sun of England's glory would set” jhe day Catholic emancipation passed—whic: it did not—and that the late Sir Robert Prel,in the House of Commons, characterized the most ardent Congregation- alists of the Irih Church establishment as constituting merey a ‘‘miserable monopolizing minority” in Irelnd. Mr. Disraeli, ha, however, paid great atten- tion to the subjectof religious revolutions and their consequenc¢. So, if he is quite con- vinced that Englad will be given over “‘to the rule of a foreign ewer,” and if that Power is likely to be the Kcpe, Minister Johnson had better see to thi payment of the Alabama claims bill at onc, as Secretary Seward and Wall street mus certainly prefer a draft signed by Lod Stanley and verified by Queen Victdla to one drawn up in Latin by Cardina Antonelli and sealed with the seal of the-Fiherman, and which few of our bankers coul read without the assistance ofan archbishop, As mental afflictions, on ac- count of religionand political wrong, have al- ways some little pnsolation and compensation, we already perceve a grand opening through which Mr. Disraii’s people can almost effec- tually flank his blinessthe Pope should he attempt to invad England—that is, by return- ing, as they will,in vast numbers to Spain, from which hey have been so long excluded, mairy through the influence of the prests; Notwithstanding the im- mense hear of gecie which Isabella carried off from st. {Sebastian and the reputed poverty of the <ingdom, there exist some of the rithest ‘‘placers” of revenue if industrious’ wored by the more humble brethren in Spair, The churches and royal palaces am amazingly wealthy and pos- sess any mmbir of “‘trifles” in the way of gold ornammts, jewels and precious stones, of whieh the revautionary leaders, being for the most pat pliin soldiers, will not know the value whencastis required for the treasury unless instuct#l by good solid ‘business men.” Soif he Pope wishes to try his hand at a qurel revival in England the only direct wayso ‘vorner” him is by holding a grand = “‘alint-ger-shent” revival all over Spain, commencing in Madrid, from which the “faithful” ad the race have been excluded and disapparedsince the year 142, Cena Arter.—Evidently the new position of old Spin has awakened the long latent spirit that-as onve so uneasy in the Queen of the Antille Otba has long seen how great would be te advantage to her if her tendency to gravital towatd this Union would assert it- She knows how self in sor irresistible way. much rickr she would be as an equal State in this Uniorthan ag the last colonial gem in the shabby of Spanish crown, Doubtless it is this perceptiothat now stirs the demand on the one | hand for representation at Madrid and, on the other, for independence. As slavery is abol- ished here the slave Interest might have kept Cuba for Spain indefinitely ; but since the revo- lution lays its hands on slavery there is finally no reason why Cuba should not come over. The Late Hanging at Portsmouth—A Curi- ous Case. The annals of crime fall to furnish such other examples of brutality as those which were per- petrated on the persons of a widow named Mrs. Elizabeth Ford and her daughter, Miss Sarah E. Ford, on the night of the 9th of June, at Bowden's Ferry road, about eight miles from Norfolk, in the State of Virginia, The facts of the case briefly stated are these:—Tho night in question John Perkins, a white man, Benja- min Jefferson, a negro, and another colored man named Fawlkes repaired about midnight to the house of Mrs. Ford, and while mother and daughter both lay wrapped in sleep the rascals burst the door open and forcibly en- tered the house. The affrighted women, dis- turbed from their slumbers, were nearly para- lyzed with fear when they beheld the three men within doors. They screamed for help but received none, They were then seized by two of the three men, and while the negro Jef- ferson held Mrs. Ford, stifled her screams and nearly strangled her in his grasp, the white man, Perkins, giving rein to the very lowest instincts of his brutal nature, criminally as- saulted the struggling child in the presence of her mother, The following day Perkins and Jefferson were arrested. They were subsequently brought to trial and condemned to suffer the extreme penalty of the law for their offences. The 9th of October was set apart for the day of execu- tion of both men, but the night previous a reprieve from Governor Wells changed the sen- tence of death on the negro to imprisonment for life. Perkins was allowed to suffer his fate and was hung next day. As soon as it was ascertained that the pre- rogative of the Governor was exercised in be- half of the negro, who was equally criminal with the white man, considerable excitement prevailed, especially among the white people, throughout the district. Indeed, the commuta- tion was and is regarded by many in a politi- callight. It is openly asserted that the fact of the district giving a Congressional negro major- ity of over seven thousand votes contributed largely to influence his Excellency in the step he has taken. Perkins was a Northern man, or “‘carpet-bagger,” and this was also urged as a reason why he was not spared. - That both men deserved the severest penalty the law could inflict in atonement for their crimes no person will deny, and the apparently one-sided dealing out of executive clemency in the case of the negro demands that some explanation be given to account for the discrimination of the Governor in his distinction between the black and white man, both of whom were implicated in the commission of the same offence. Mr. Grapstone’s Appress.—At last Mr. Gladstone has issued his address. A large part of the world was waiting for it. We had had Mr. Disraeli’s address. We knew what he meant todo. Mr. Disraeli has a big game to play. Some days ago we knew his ticket. Now we know Gladstone’s. Up to the last hour Mr. Gladstone has a right to count on some one hundred and forty of a majority. Mr. Disraeli, however, is so cunning a master of casuistry that we shall not be surprised if Mr. Gladstone is in the end outwitted by his more clever rival. Mr. Disraeli has laid his hand on the land question of Ireland. If he only knows how to play his game out it will not be difficult to beat Mr. Gladstone. This, after all, so far aa Ireland goes, is the question. It is the land versus the Church. Is Szymovr to BE Sotp Ovt ror Horr- MAN ?—We hear that Tammany Hall is becom- ing alarmed at the political prospect, that it has given up all hope of Seymour, and that to save Hoffman the Sachems of Tammany and the directors of the Manhattan Club have already commenced the selling out of Seymour to save Hoffman. Is this the way to save Hoffman? Call you this backing your friends? Was Sey- mour nominated only to elect Hoffman? Will not some one competent to do it explain all these mysteries for the information of the honest democracy who think Seymour of greater importance than Hoffman? Like Ajar we call for light and ask no more; but we can’t defy the lightning. Who speaks for Hoff- man? German Guarp ror Cusa.—Transatlantis advices having reached Berlin of the disquiet and lawlessness in Cuba in consequence of the revolution in Spain, the merchants of different cities in Germany have preferred a joint re- quest to the Prussian government asking the despatch of war vessels to the island to guard the interests of German traders and ‘‘others.” This movement, although founded on a ground- less alarm, presents a novel idea for the fusion of Latins and Teutons, contending in the Old World, on this side the ocean. The Cuban question will require settlement at an early day. Ox tHe Borpger.—Napoleon remains at Biarritz, where he received the ex-Queen of Spain, and “defers his return” to Paris. His Majesty is thus just at the fortress of San Se- bastian. Nothing like having early and relia+ ble news, particularly in times of revolution. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. ALLEGED Grand Larceny,—Thomas Anderson, Aged eighteen, colored, was arrested on Friday by detective McDougall, of the Central office, on the charge of stealing valuable jewelry from his em- ployer, Mr. John N. Genin, No. 121 West Fourteenth street, When searched a cluster diamond ring, estt- mated to be worth $250, was found in his posses sion, Thomas, who was a house servant, is now im custody, lamenting his peculiar affection for jewelry of thia character, ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE ON A FeMaLa.—Thomas It Hurry, aged twenty-five, residing at No. 108 Mott street, was arrested last night at the instance of his wife on the charge of attempted out- rage on the person of a little girl, Mary Ann Taylor, aged about nine years, living in the same house, When this monster (aud monsier he is tf guilty) was accused of the heinous crime by his wife in the Fourteenth precinct station house ha covered his face with his handkerchief and re mained = aitent. The wife felt her shame, caused by the atrocious action of her hus- band, very keenly, and when tears had dried, retired from. th officers with the w that the « ‘ves, if ¢ruilty, the ab punisin »" T irl 18 weak Woks eclinen, w t foolish im her aypearance, vue when questioned stated positively sft tae oleuce had been courmitterd.