The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY VAY AND ANN STREET. dAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York ‘Puparv, Letters and packages should be properly oaled. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. pars THE DAILY HERALD, gubiiehed every day tn the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. JOB PRINTING of every desorupiion, also Stereo- typing ana Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volame XXXII. —— AMUSEMENTS THIA EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tioker or Leave Man. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and sth strect.— ‘Tas Lancasume Lass. SIMONE GARDEN, Broadway—Epwin Forrrst 45 ‘Biowarp LL, BOWERY THEATRE. Soxngs 1x Lirz 1x Loxpo’ anne. OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and M84 street.—La BELLE HELENE. on, wary. —-AVTRR DARK; FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth stree: and Sixth ave Sue,—GENEYIEVE DE Buasant. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— FRAVENKAMPF—DI8 SCHAUSPIBLERIN. 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ALHAMBRA, 616 Broadway.—MUSICAL MOMENTS WITH Mgnzy Mouvs. ALLEMANIA HALL, No. 18 Esst Sixteenth st.—Lro- ‘wURE—EauTH AND MAN. HOOLEY'S OPERA ‘MINSTRELS—FEMENINE W Wiowaw. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSK, Williamsharg.— HOQLEY's MINGTRELS—BavE Batt, Ad, NEW YORK NUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIENOR AND ART. Brooklya.—Hoorry's: TRIPLE SHEET. “New ¥ York, Friday, November 6, 1868. ene The cable reports are dated November 6, and con- tain detailed accounts of the comments of the Eng- lish and French press on the American elections. The Queen has returned to Windsor trom scot land. A serious storm is raging in the Channel that pre- ‘vents the steatners from crossing. Mr. John bright ts elected honorary member of the Edinburg Chamber of Commerce. Herr Forcenbéek is elected president of the Prus- sian Chamber of Deputies, and Dr. Jacobt, of the liberal party, has resigned, The Paris Gaulois mentions that Napoleon will en- dorse the election of Don Carios to the throne of Spain. In Madrid report names a grandee of Spain Aor that exalted honor, We publish this morning the consular circular recently tssued by the provi- sional government of Spain. London, consols, 9434; five-twenties, 7414; Tlinois Central, 9744; Erie shares, 27%. Frankfort, tive- twenties, 7014. Liverpool, cotton, middling uplands, 114d. Havre, cotton, trés-ordinaire firm — 340f, Antwerp, petroleum, standard white, Sif. Chinn and Japan. Our Hong Kong letter is dated September 18, A Jarge fire occurred on the 13th of August, destroying @ vast amount of property and the lives of two ‘women and seventeen children. John Shatswell, first oMcer of the American ship Sooloo, had been held to answer in the courte on the charge of killmg Chinese boatman who was selling hquor to his sailors. The action of the commander of the British gunboat Bustard in bombarding the town of Choo- chi, by which several persons were killed, has caused much excitement. The Italian bark Provi- denza had arrived at Hakodadi with forty-two coolies aboard, no commander being on her, and evidences in abundance were foand leading to the belief, as she had sailed some time before with a cargo of coolies, that they had mutinied and de- stroyed the crew. Our Yokohama (Japan) letter 13 dated September 27. The Tycoon’s government had resigned all authority to the Mikado and all the adherents or ofMcers under the Tycoon had been dispensed with, The foreign legations are now located in Yokohama, the British aid sronch Ministers having armed forces of their own troops quarigred nedr théfil, while the American Minister has only a lame porter armed with a bamboo stick. The Japanese authori- tles have intimated their desire to the foretgn mints- ters to have the treaty of 180% revised, with a view to the readjustment of duties on teas and silks, The steamship Herman on entering Castries Bay in August lact burst a voter, killing three Chinamen and severely scalding twelve other persqus. Of these two, who were Americans, named Ge Herman, of Hudson, N. Y., and Prank Barnes, a Fran cisco, died a few days afierwards. South Americn. Our Panama letter is dated October 24. Correvso, with his forces, had tanded in the departs ot 1.08 Santos, and finding that the deparunent anthori- tes had pronou Ogainst him, marched on La V{l- Ja, gave his new enewy battle and completely routed | ‘hem, killing nine. hiriqui. He then embarked again for ‘The town of Panaina was ati! under mar. ‘al law and the sentrica about the streets had orders to chailenge all passengers and fire upon them if the The Socal and national are at answer is not gatisfactory. authorities in the State of Candinamure loggerheads with one another and t) anarciical condition in consequence Dates from Ecuador are to the 10th ait. War exceedingly dull on account of the scarcity of money. No news of importance haa heen received from the South American States or from Central Iinerce Cobn, We have letiers trom favana of various dutes, the atest being October 41, which giv ory general Aetall of the news tint we have hitherto received by the Gulf cable. On the 29th the Captain General re- ceived instructions from the provisional government totnaugurate in Cuba such reforms os liad been adopted in Spain. Lersnndi, up to the sist, had kept the despatch ag secret as posstiic. Numerous ar- rests are being made, the prisoners in most cases being supporters of the revolutionists in Spain. tt ‘Wan stated that ae ope implates leaving the fsiand for New iis Of the Aghting leads to the conclusion that ved insurgents are brave and fletermined, They are said to number 6,000 men, and fro favorable to independends 6 guyex? hie ei & Vailed Statpa The official accoduts, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. cen to the PORN yesterday, continue | Cuba can never - full bak onal dialiaeio eee The as Election ae cho Party favorable for the troops. Miscellaneous. ‘The latest phase of the famous whiakey fraud case is a letter to Judge Fullerton intimating to him that he cannot be paid out of any appropriation or fund in the Treasury for any legal services he may render in the prosecution of the cases which Binckley has heretofore been investigating. This letter 1s said to have been writren by Secretary McCulloch for the Purpose of intimidating Judge Fullerton, although no signature is attached. The President has a large lot of documentary evidence before him, and it 1s said intends to spare no official implicated, however high his oMce, Despatches from Georgia state that the negroes threatening Savannah were again assembling, They a armed with United States muskets. The excitement among the citizens isunabated, General Canby is to relieve General Reynolds, who will then resume command of his regiment at Aus- tin, Texas. We publish elsewhere to-day fall mail details of the great earthquake in San Francisco. The City. There was quite a lively meeting last eventng of the Union Republican Central Committee. Action was taken to investigate alleged frauds in the late election in this city. A proposition to reorganize the party through the mediation of the State Central Committee was voted down. Regarding arrange- ments for primary elections, the matter was referred to the Executive Committee. Ata meeting of the Union League Club last even- ing the naturalization frauds at the late election were discussed, and resolations offered by Mr. Gree- ley for the appointment of a committee to take measures to investigate the matter and requesting John A. Griswold and his associates to contest the election of Hoffman were adopted. Mr. Griswold was present, but an inquiry of him as to his inten- tion to contest the election was rejected by the meeting. Jn the Chamber of Commerce yesterday the report of the committee on the proposal of Street Commis- sioner McLean was adopted. 1t favors the appoint- ment of one person each by McLean, the Citizens’ Assocation and the Chamber of Commerce to inves- tigate the charges recently made against the Street Commissioner by the Citizens’ Association. In the Supreme Court, General Term, yesterday, the injunction in the case of Dolan against the Mayor and Commonalty, enjoiming the execution of a contract for the paving of Seventh avenue, from Fourteenth street to Fitty-ninth street, with Stafford pavement was argued on appeal from an order of continuance. Decision reserved. Two interesting cases in which objections were made to assessments irregularly levied on real estaie in this city Were ar- gued and the o»jections sustained. Judye McCunn yesterday discharged the partica, about twenty-seven in number, who were committed by Judge James on election day for alleged iljegat voting. In his opinion Judge MoGuna very concisely disposes of the question as to the validity of the commitment and embodies a copy of the rather pe- cullar tnstrument. W. W. Kinney, a man said to be worth $250,000, was centenced by Judge Dowling yesterday to two months in the Penitentiary and to pay a fine of fifty dollars for an unprovoked assault on Judge Alker tn a street car, Judge Dowling yesterday gave notice that he would hereafter hold no oMcial intercourse with Superintendent Kennedy except through the District Attorney, a8 he had insulted the judiciary of the city. The Metropolitan Fire Department wil! parade to- morrow and be reviewed by Governor Fenton. The Inman line steamship City of Antwerp, Cap- tain Mirenouse, will leave picr No. 45 North river at one P, M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liverpool, The European mails will close at the Post OMlce at twelve M., 7th inst. ‘The National line steamship Pennsylvania, Captain Hail, will sail at eleven A. M. on Saturday, 7th inst., from pler No. 47 North river, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The steamstip Britannia, Captain Laird, of the Anchor line, will leave pier No. 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Glasgow, touch- ing at Tondonderry to land passengers, &c. ‘The Merchants* lino stcamohtp Geucra! Meurte, Cap- tain Sampson, will sail from pier No, 12 North river at three P, M. on Saturday, 7th inst., for New Orleans direct. ‘The stock market closed in a pante yesterday. Goverament securities closed weak, after a heavy | docline. Gold closed at 13244 a Prominent Arrivals in the Clty. General 8. K. Dawson, of Pennsylvanii L, Jewett, of Ohio; Congressman W. i im, of Connecticut, and W. K. Miner, ot Detroit, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Vickers, of the United States Army: Na- thauiel McKay, of Boston, and Dr, Wheeler, of Philadelphia, are at the Metropolitan Hotei. Marshall Jewett, of Hartford; W. Williams, of Buf- falo, and H. Ames, of Massachusetts, are at the Fifth Avenue flotel. Rev. Richard Temple, of New Windsor, and Rev. | H. B. Sherman, of New York, are at the Brevoort ; How Mons, A. Berghman, of the Belgian Legation, and Baron Reubel, of Philadelphia, are at the New York Hotel. Colonel F. M, Averill, Captain Winants and Lteu- tenant Potty, of the United States Army; J. V. Gil- Jespie, of Missourl, and Commander J. R. Stebbins, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Charles Tlotel. Hi. B. Stanton, of New York; H. G. Cogawell and A. S. Haya, of earatogs, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Cuban Independence=The Naval Expedition of Spain to Hold the Island. The last stronghold of Spain in the New World is slipping from her grasp. The great central point from which her conquering expeditions were launched upon the Continent is finally giving way to the impulse which now returns to it from the mainland, So long as Spain could maintaio a large standing army ffpon the (sland she was able to prevent the culmination of the forces which were aiming at revolution and independence. But the troubles at home have unloosed the grasp which kept the free movement in abeyance, and now, with the island trembling in full revolt we may at any moment hear that the ial government ly overturned anda provisional one ésiablished in its place. This would have taken place long since had it not been for the fact that almost the entire power of Spain was devoted to the holding of thiscolony, The revolution of 1808, which gave the other colonies an opportuuity for freedom, yielded no such hope to Cuba, which was held asa base of operations to re- Spanish America. s brings, however, more promise, and the is are hard at work. “Prim and Ser- is the ery of the insurgents, and Old rano; Spain, true to her destiny, shouts back, “Don't disturb our treasury!” and hastily fits ont four frigates and a large number of transports, that je may cling to this key of her financial sal- \ vation, This alone isa sufficient recognition by her of the danger existing that she may | lose the great jowel. In the present disturbed condition of the Peninsula it is almost a neces- to the Spanish revolutionists that they cling to Cuba. From her they may draw the means to wage the desperate war against the y which they have boldly opened by their es agalast the property and privileges of theeo throughout Spain, The astute revolu- tionary leaders have carefully omitted to apply the sime decrees to the colonies, and cunningly promive “freedom of the press, provincial \ | Seepage aie and the suppression of unpopular inatliatigns.” We Suggest that the most ‘“an- popular institution” to be suppressed on the The revolution of | as this exists. It is simply ridiculous to sup- pose that a large naval expedition is necessary to carry great civil reform to Cuba. There still exists in Spain too much of the old theory which was enunciated there in 1810 -“*That while there was a Spanish shoe- maker or a Manchego mule living he had a right to govern the colonies,” It is an abso- lute impossibility for Spain to govern Cuba at the enormous distance of nearly four thousand miles across the ocean. Cuba is situated alongside of the New World. Its interests are entirely with it; its impulses are received from tho United States; its great future hangs upon our own destiny ; its ideas are shaped in conformity with our own; its sons are educated in our colleges; its geo- graphical position ntakes it a New World State of this century. It lies in the track of our future. Our ships and the commerce of the globe must pass it to reach the great Darien ship canal we have just undertaken to build. We have linked its magnetic system to ours by a telegraphic cable. Its rail- roads are the offspring of our own, With an irresistible force that Spain and all Europe cannot prevent Cuba gravi- tates towards the great civilizing Power, the United States, We cannot prevent her enter-~- ing into our national fold. We have gone be- yond the point where we can define our boun- dary line, which receives its demarkation from the progressive elements which are chaining the Continent in bands of iron. Cuba has been depleted financially beyond any parallel in the history of extortions from colonial possessions. The republican element has just issued in a proclamation a statement of the revenues raised for the year 1868 from the one and a half millions of people on the island. It is as follows :-— Government Maria General obligaiton, Extraordiuary (ue: Total. . Aad to Corona. 1,178,973 $33,000,000 Grand total AThid aincital Shows at oases tho we an the misfortunes of colonial Cuba. It also shows what wonderful resources there are lying at our very door. These, filled with the impulse to leap into our galaxy of States, should receive all aid. We have in the South a chivalric race who are as gonerous to extend help as they are bold to meet opposi- tion. For the moment the disorganized con- dition of the South gives no opening for their energics. Let them rash to the assistance of Cuba, There they will find wealth, honors, political preferment and occupation for their talent. It will not be called a filibustering movement. Jt will be America stretching ont her hands through some of her gens to aid an island which has fixed its future hop2s upon annexation to the United States. There is something significant that the authorities in Cuba prevented our Consul at Havana from sending a telegram to our gov- ernment asking for an additlonal naval force to be sent to those waters. There is revolu- tion in the fact that a great naval expedition sails from Spain to the West Indies. There is revolution in the scores of arrests made throughout Cuba, and in the fact that they dare not execute a single man, There is revolution in the fact that the same generals and statesmen who were organizing their forces in New York within a year are now directing troops upon the island. There is bloody revolution in the imsurgent cry of “Down with taxation!” There is revolution for Cuba in Spain herself, Now is the moment for the friends of Cuba to strike. Never was an opportunity more golden. Strike for the queen island of the world and cut the last great link that binds us to the retrograde past, ‘Tur Vick Prrstoes LECT AT PivTsbura.~ Speaker Colfax, the Vice President sae <a turned np at. Pittsburg yesterday, where he was received with great enthusiasm by ihe people. As Grant ix a first rate man to do things, Colfax is a Orst rate man to say things. He is one of the readiest and most winning of stump orators in the country. He is almost as irresistible with his tongue as Grant is with his sword, Colfax, too, seems to like a talk tg his ‘fellow citizens,” any- where, at any time, as well as Andy Johnson ; but, unlike Johnson, in “swinging round the circle” he never goes off half-cocked. The re- publican policy for the future, as defined by Mr. Colfax, is very fine—‘“‘liberty for all, jus- tice for all and protection for all.” We hope they will thoroughly Toarn it by heart in both houses of Congress and never forget it, We shall be seriously disappofuied if it turns out in its application to mean only the everlasting nigger. TINUED Sermwensey ayy Pant ithe per gent per day added. There was at the same time h Rérecg pante in govern- ment securities, which carried prices doWh from three to four per cent and a break ih railway shares of from four to ten per cent, the market for these stocks closing in a fresh panic. There is, unfortunately, no prospect | of Peotacll lata 4 out of a more abundant sup- ply of money, the money markets all over the country being equally stringent with our own, and a further heavy declive in the speculative stocks seems to be inevitalle. To the public interesied in doings on the Stock Exchange we say stand from under, The burst at last, storm has Thy Latesr Revor prom Spatn.--The latest rumor from Spain indicates that Don Carlos is coming into the foreground as the King of the reconstructed nation and that Napoleon will probably back him up. We guess, however, that Napoleon is hiding hie time, and that when the favoring moment arrives his iniluence will be cast in favor of some candidate moro nearly allied to the Napoleon dynasty or better calculated to meet tho interests of France than Don Carlos. Bat the troubles of Press. There is a grand exhibition of human nature in the several organs that rejoice over the republican victory or try to put a good face on the democratic defeat. It is astonishing tosee how the heavy radical organ glorifies and struts in the triumph of Grant—that same Grant whom it so bitterly opposed so long as it gave utterance to its own opinion, and whose nomi- nation to the Presidency it scouted from’ the commencement as the last of all possible party crimes. Fancy such an organ pluming itself on the triumph of such a candidate. Another radical organ draws the abstract teaching that ‘in American politics it is radicalism that always triumphs,” as if it fancied that Grant might be a radical; and the least positive of all our republican sheets looks to the fact that now “the reconstruction measures will have a fair trial,” as if there was nothing in Grant's success but the possible salvation of those bad laws. These organs are still in the dust of the struggle, have received no party cue for the future, and thus aro without ideas. The copperhead sheet comforts Seymour with the suggestion that he will be spared all the bother of office, and expresses a definite opinion that he did right in accepting the nomination when he did, but that his real mistake was in declining it so repeatedly before. How ingeniously this disagrees with the conviction of the people of twenty-six States, who have decided that it was just the other way—that he was right in declining from the first and wrong in accepting when he did! This organ has decided that the Chase idea was a greaf harm to the party. There is no doubt of that. The mention of Chase's name as the democratic candidate raised popu- lar hope that the democracy intended to do a great act. Expectation was at a generous height, and this was thrown down terribly when the name of Seymour was posted on the walls of that grand policy shop in Fourteenth street, No question but that disappointment was a severe thing for Seymour with the . The ¢ organ of the red-h hot democracy the democratic future, and gives the alterna- tive of reduced “taxation or repudiation,” ad- vising Congress to ‘tax the bonds this winter or call ont troops to defend the revenue col- lectors next winter.” This, considering the provocation, is rather tame, and we must assume that defeat has a cooling and depress- ing effect upon even Brick himself. There is one hint of repentance for misbe- havior. The copperhead organ regrets that Seymour, who was disposed to ‘‘pitch the can- vass in a moderate key,” was not more suc- cessful in giving the tone to discussion. Per- haps, then, that sheet is ashamed of itself, ashamed of its disgraceful epithets and of its scavenger-like conduct towards the great leader of the American people. From the violent organ of the other side there is no evi- dence of compunction on this score; but as the great incentive to violent speech is now over it is probable that every man will not be a “liar” for three or four years to come. A Carious Coincidence About Rights. At the polls of the little town of Roseville, N. J., on election day, two women presented themselves and demanded their right to vote, under the provisions of an old constitution of the State of New Jersey. One of them is not unknown to that kind of fame which belongs to the rank of effete Bloomers and advocates of woman’s rights, being no less a personage than Lucy Stone, converted by the bands of matrimony into Mrs. Blackwell; the other was the dowager Mrs. Blackwell, her mother- in-law. They argued their case before the judges of election “‘with clearness and _pre- cision,” and were listened to by the crowd with the respect due to ladies on such an extraordinary occasion, But the hard-hearted judges could not be convinced either by the eloquence of the ladies or by the legal points which they cited, and hence they had to leave the polling place without exercising the fran- chise. It is a curious coincidence that about the same time—as the Atlantic cable informs us—the Court of Sessions in Edinburg ren- dered a decision, upon final appeal, that the women of Scotland had no right to vote. But although these two decisions in two hemis- pheres may appear to settle the question of woman's right to « vote, that is no reason why the strong-minded of the weaker sex should not persevere in their efforts to obtain a recog- nition in gine of the political rings, ig true that they have been sorely disappointed in the result of their canvass in favor of the incar- Woman's Tar Ce IN Watt Sreexr.—There is uo abatement of the extremo monetary stringency in this city, and loans were made yester- day on stock collaterals at seven per cont in purrency with a commission of young Spain have hardly yet commenced, and the end is yet far bevond tho reach of human {sland inthe Bvantsh government itesit and | foresight. cerated Train for Congress, and that their work generally has made vety slow progress; but the greater the difficulty the greater the virtue in perseverance. Let the strong-minded women and their colleagues, the weak-minded men, therefore, not be discouraged by the judicial decisions of the Scottish capital or the little New Jersoy villago rejoicing in the sweet and seductive name of Roseville. La Plain Valley and Emlaration. We notice that the new President of the Ar- gentine Republic is making a move in the right direction for the progress of the vast territory of his country, Measures are being taken to divide the public lands into sections after a aq mnewhat similar to that existing in This, powever, was first The aover N- syeicet na the tinited States, p proposed some ten years since, ment at that time offered a large amount at the best plan, and accepted a very elaborate and able report prepared by Edward A. Hop- kins, who accompanied it with the proper plans for the division of the national domain, It was never carried into effect, owing to the civil wara which have swept over the country. Southern Europe has a great interest in the proper division of these Argentine lands, There is now an immense emigration annually from Italy to the Plata valley, which is making great Industrial and political changes in South- ern South America, While we drain North- ern Europe of its surplus population South America appears destined to furnish a home | for emigrants from the Latin nations of the Old | World. | Eun Tur Resvist RY Srats. —We give our read- ers this morning some additional returns of the Presidential election; but they do not mate- rially chang@ our figures of yesterday and are alill very far from being complete. For prac- tical purposes we have enough, although the amoke of the battle still hangs over many por- siona of tho eld. The California Earthquakes. In another part of this morning's Heratp will be found an interesting and detailed ac- count of the earthquakes that were felt in San Francisco and other portions of the Golden State on the morning of October 21. The losses, although great, do not appear to have been as extensive as at first supposed. The buildings thrown down or damaged were chiefly such as were defective in construction or builton made ground. Well built houses, whether of brick, stone or framework, stood the shocks, and the only mischief done them was confined to windows, fragile furniture and plastering. The shocks seem to have been horizontal and from southeast to northwest, and it has been noted that chimneys on the north and west sides of houses have generally escaped, whereas those on the opposite walls were thrown down or badly shaken. One eye- witness states that a decided commotion took place in the ocean, and an impetus was given to the tide, which sent it well inland, say fifteen or twenty feet above the usual mark. Passengers aboard vessels thought they had got aground. In several places the land sank several inches, and in some cases about a foot, while large openings were made, out of which water sprang. The printing offices suffered severely, as their types and forms were scat- tered about or knocked into ‘‘pi,” and no litile trouble was experienced to work off the news- papers, owing to the above fact and the fears of the men to enter the buildings. There was a pretty general stoppage of clocks and a lively commotion among horses, dogs, cattle and fowl. Some strange incidents are related in connection therewith by our correspondent. The shocks of 1865 produced a different effect upon buildings from that of the late earthquakes. In October, 1865, glass was broken and shivered to atoms by the perpen- dicular oscillation, while comparatively few walls were shaken down or badly injured. The late shocks, however, broke very little glass, but shook off cornices, plaster, bricks, &c. The weather was warm anda perfect caim reigned just preceding the convulsion. After the earthquakes the atmos- phere became extraordinarily fine and clear. The first intimation of an earthquake was a low rumbling sound, as of rushing waters or of the wind through the tops of trees, followed immediately by a rolling motion, as of waves at sea, and in a moment the motion was changed to one of a circular nature, that emptied pans of milk and tubs of water almost in- stantaneously. Trees were whipped about like straws. Fortunately the loss of life is small, and speedy measures were taken by the Chamber of Commerce and merchants to re- pair the damage and examine into the state of all the buildings shaken by the convulsion. The recommendations made by the press as to the manner of building houses so as to guard against the effects of such freaks of nature in the future are worthy of all attention. Mme. Olympe Audouard Her Lectures, Mme. Olympe Audouard (the Countess de la Morlitre), who adds to her noble title the double distinction which she has acquired as a writer and as 4 traveller, announces to-day in the Heratp that on Wednesday evening, No- vember 11, she will begin at the theatre of the Union League Club a series of six lectures on “Victor Hugo—his Political and Literary Ca- reer," “The Civil and Political Rights of Woman,” ‘‘Tragedy and Comedy,” and “The Condition of Turkey and Egypt.” The lec- tureon ‘Woman's Rights” will probably be based on the article which Mme. Olympe Au- douard wrote for the Revue Cosmopolite (a magazine edited by her at Paris), but which, for political reasons, the Minister of the In- terior would not authorize her to publish. She ingeniously took her revenge by leaving seve- ral pages of the magazine blank, with the title of the article at the head of each page. The personal relations of Mme. Olympe Audouard with the most brilliant literary circles in France will lend special in- terest and value to her lectures on ‘*Victor Hugo” and on ‘Tragedy and Comedy.” How well qualified she is to treat of ‘‘The Condition of Turkey and Egypt” is manifest from the sparkling pages of “L'Orient et Ses Peuplades,” a work embodying the results of her travels in the East, and which will be supplemented, we hope, by a narrative of her recent travels in America, and especially in Utah. Aside from their intrinsig merit, which can not fail to be ‘appreciated by the most highly cultivated classes of our public, her lectures will afford the pupils of our New York col- leges and schools a rare opportunity for familiarizing the ear with the purest Parisian accent. In a few evonings they may learn more of the Fronch language by hearing it apoken by a lady of the highest gifts and ac- complishments than they could learn by three months’ study of all the grammars of all the Fasquelles and Ollendorffs. The Elections in Great Britain. A late telegram informs us that. the British Parliament will be dissolved on the 11th of the present month ; that in boroughs where there are no rival candidates the election shall take place on the 16th, and where there is oppo- sition on the day following. The county elec- tions will be ay or two later, P will mest on the 9th of December, when the Queén’s speech will be delivered. This speech will, as usual, reveal the ministerial pro- sstime, It is believed that the present Speaker of the x erise of Commons will he re- elected and that the Tioiie wil! proceed to business on or about the 14th of Decsteiy ft is now all but certain that the Queen's speech will furnish the opportunity for a test debate which will seal the tate of the present Ministry. Mr. Gladstone will then be called upon by her Majesty to form a Ministry. An adjournment will be the result. No real work will be done until we are fairly entered upon 1869. Then, however, Mr. Disraeli will be found a stronger man in opposition than he has been found in office. Tis Exorisn Press on Our Persiwentian srion, —We have this morning somo of the comments of the leading English and French journals on both sides on the issues and the result of our Presidential election, The most prominent points of these opinions are that Tho Peace Question in Europe. Two of our latest telegrams show how strong is the desire in Europe for the maintenance of Peace. King William of Prussia has openod the Prussian Diet with a speech from -the throne. The relations of Prussia are declared to be satisfactory and fears of war groundless, Baron Beust, since Sadowa the leading spirit in Austria, advises a peaceful solution of the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty. ‘This does not mean much from one point of view, but it means a great deal from another point of view. Austria is not able to go to war with Prussia, and Austria is the only party which has just cause to feel aggrieved by the non-fulfilment by Prussia of the treaty of Prague, But France, though with less reason, is more in- censed than even Austria with Prussia, be- cause of her conduct in this matter of Schles- wig-Holstein. The danger is that if Prussia and Austria cannot agree in the premises Aus- tria may lend her influence to France. Thig would create at once a serious difficulty. Prussia would be alone unless she could call in the aid of Russia, which it is doubtful whether she could do on this particular ques- tion, Meanwhile we learn that Napoleon has been employing his leisure hours at Biarrite in planning a map of Europe. What is the particular purpose to be served by this new French map we have not yet learned. The hint has been thrown out, and it will not sur- prise us if it has hit the truth, Napoleon has his head full of reconstruction and contem- plates once more a European Congress. It is manifest that the nations wish peace, but it ia not less manifest that the horizon is not clear.” There are too many outstanding questions to allow us to conclude that continued peace in Europe is a certainty. Ovr News From Cutna AND Japan.—The special correspondenco from China and Japan which we publish this morning the reader will find very interesting, particularly the letter from Hong Kong in relation to Mr. Burlingame and his mission. The great trouble with the multitudinous Chinese and Japanese is that the admissiqn of foreigners, with their steams era and other labor saving appliances, throw the natives by hundreds and thousands out employment, and the peaceable settlement of this question, we fear, will be found imposafe ble, because it threatens the upsetting of manual labor to an extent which will reducé millions upon millions of people to beggary. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. Professor Thatcher, the astronomer of St. Paul's church sidewalk, has been consulting those flery old circumnavigators in space, Sirius and Mercury, and announces that there will bea good many fires in this city, notwithstanding the high price of coal, tween the 234 and 30th of this month. Shoulda’ wonder. He also predicts robberies of gold, bonds and other valuables from January 24 to December %& Happy thieves! tee! Umbrella merchants are following mm the footsteps of the cigar veuders gnd are placing wooden statues before their doors, their duty being to hold expanded “parac nites! '} over their wooden sconces. Well, their's are not the first wooden heads tat have beet covered with the umbreila. There tsa visible change in the countenance of “ye gentle savage” who stands watch and ward over Tammany Hall. The “big Injun”’ wears a smiic on his left cheek for Hoffman, while his right is as long as the moral law, covered with tears, possibly from sorrow for the defeat of Seymour. Since the judges of some of the conrts have looked into the matter and informed grand juries that the thoroughfares of the city were not the exclusive prog perty of builders, to be used and abused at thelr dis- cretion, a marked improvement in the principal avenues 1s noticeable, Builders and architects are bnt mortal, aud, like the rest of the world, must obey the law. ‘The next movement for the “improvement” of the city will be the removal of obsiructions of every character from the sidewalks, These, like the cary riage Ways, are public property, and no person has a right to occupy them permanently In the pursuit of vusiness and to the exclusion of others. A particularily verdant geatleman is suMecientiy curious to ask ifthe “bridge to Brooklyn ts going to be built’ and “if arrangements to that end have beer entered upon?’ The verdant gentleman 1s assut that for the present arrangements to let the oridg@ severely aloue have been made. For further par- ticulars inquire of the Union Ferry Company. WUSICAL AND THEATAICAL NOTES. The “Lancashire Lass” is in rehearsal in Toronto, Lotta is doing “Little Nell’ in Baltimore, Fanny Jauauschek plays in Buialo next woek. “Camillo,” aa done by Miss Charlotte Tompson, ta still the great attraction in Memphis, ‘The Galveston theatre 18 at present running throngh a series of standard comedies. The blunders of the aciors evoke more laughter than does their artistto let ri i clowe adherence to the he thew eco 4 os! oro’ itary ” with Winiam J. iu the saponacious villain, Obenreizer, a tree 2 Never d evening next at the Natloy We're “so glad” that Wash = int sl tae, fin opportunity of witnessing some ing. rome ‘pation or enteitathinerta ‘at Apollo Hau ver ion are a recon qincgs Ait tnt aa Dl a i lor, ict jarge and fashionable fatten ‘The inimitable Alf takes a benefit this eve who inany new novelties will be presented. The droll awn be greeted upon this occasion oy etal Pas 4 Ba gl by — citizens of New ve a urday evenings, afer which he gogs to Philadel 3 where he will en- deavor to uproot the Quaker bias against 0; bouge an ~ Aujac will do Barbe Bl iss Kell ings. at tho Boston Music ra tug evening. “she wil be assisted by tops tists’ bei TK) ee be in this ci Hub unquestionably extend to the mal orien On Friday of last week Mr. Edwin Forrest paid through Jay Philadelphia $65,000, th smnoune in fallof the accumulated alimony due his late wife under the decision in the divorce the decree of which has at last been made final, Mr, Forrest has expended, it is estimated, upwards of mR in this vag e sult. 1, ir, George er, formerly & mi I. tnck’a compan I ttgatre, Wa teehee i Thy FP VATE enix. ‘ard, Mr. Fiat Pam regen Sant wien eal tte hia attainments full ¢ wry ment. —_ AMERICANS 1h WW PARIS. ayy ‘The following is a lat st gt Ameri ans registe: the banking house of DIX, Hares i woreda Rue Scribe, ans 4 the week @nting Gelber Fyom New ¥: Vv. D, Malrs, Mrs. Ds ML. Mi ahd faintiy, Nee. Ernest Melia, str, VD. Wood and fami hy HO, ‘Ogden, Miss Julia rouge Mr, and Grymes, Mr. Jolin Bonve 8. Cochrane, ate James M. Bllts, Mr, Mr. 8. J, Ciarke, Colonel B. Kt. ame Mrs, J. W. Suyth, Miss Smyth, Piitadelphia- Mt Mideorge "tart, Mra, Penn Gask lizet, Mr. and Mra, Pemberton Stulth, 6 jomrasdere Inman and family, Scheppers, Mra. M. Eb. Benneti, Miss Alexander, Mr W. Goodwin, Mrs, Goodwin, slr, aud’ Mra, Maxw Sommervilie, Mra. Lydia G. Parish, Mise Parish, Dre J. Paul Quinn, and family, United States Navy, Me. Mr. John A, Wright any Boston—Miss B. ‘Adams, Sam. W. Kopes, Jr. W. Onandier, Mr. Randoip! Mr. B. 3. Osbon. Cincinnati ie hicago—Mr. 8. 8. Bilas, 5. Blas, Mra. A Oh Shomvay and child, Miss Willams. Wilmingwa, Del.—Mr, Hegty pane Sau Francisco—Mr. F, ry, Mr. P. Ord, Mussachu- € in @ pool o ’ it was found iyh Lawrence Dunn * vA jl fractured at blood, with his back brokeu and sku the foot of a pair of stairs leading to the residence of e pa named Lamphier, in Rochester, last Sat- the election of General Grant, being generally expected, creates no sensation abroad, and that from hia sound and practical patriotism ® | good administration is expected. urgay t. He had twice ascended tip stairs We intexisated ant atiompted to gan admission, Dut both tintos the duor was aiut in his faco, ane the st with puctt force that he was fell to the foot of the stairs. Frank Pénny waa rested chat with pushing fin down gla it waa not belloved that could tive. pated backward