The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1868, Page 4

4 EUROPE. The Chinese Embassy and Its Importance. STATE OF AFFAIRS IN SPAIN The American Minister's Speech at the Brighton Banquet, - The steamship Rhine, of the North German Lioyas’, Captain Meyer, from Bremen 21st via South- ampton 2th ult., arrived at this port yesterday. She ‘brings two day’s later mails. \ Advices from Cronstadt state that the communica- tion by sea was closed on the 18th ult. by large blocks of ice firmly massed together. Many steamers and galling vessels in the port are frozen in. . The Prince of Wales, while hunting at Compiégne ‘with the imperial party on November 21, was un- hhorsed by 8 stag. His Royal Highness sustained no Anjury. \ M. Havin, the late chief editor of the Si¢cle, leaves 6 fortune amounting to £570,000. Rossim leaves a fortune estimated at £7,000 a year, ‘which, after the death of his widow, who has 4 life Interest, will go to found musical prizes in Paris and a conservatorio of music in his native town of Pesaro, Galignant of the 24th says:—“The Emperor of Austria, the King of the Belgians and President Johnson sent their expressions of condolence to the Rothschild family on the occasion of Baron James’ death.” During the absence from Algeria of Marshal de MacMahon his functions will be exercised by Gene- ral Baron Durrieu, sub-Governor, It is announced that some members of the royal family of England will visit Berlin during the next carnival. It is stated that, after long hesitation, the Pope has contirmed the sentence of death upon one of the condemned men, Monti and Tognetti, nétwithstand- ing the representations which have been made by "the Italian government through foreign diplomatic ;channels. 3 The Prussian Chamber of Deputies adopted, in he first stage, without discussion, the revised fray of October 1%, 1868, entered into between (Prussia, Baden, ;Bavaria, France, Hesse and the Netherlands for the regulation of the Rhine navi- foe * The writs for the election of members in the new arliament were made returnable on Thursday, the (Oth of December. The new oath is much shorter jthan the former one, and the 653 members can be \sworn in within the three days, and the royal speech delivered, probably, on the following Tuesday. , The Imperial Review states, on unquestionable (Suthority, that Mr. Gladstone contemplates the creation of some fifty peers, in case of his accession jto the Premiership, to enable him to carry through ;tho House of Lords the measures required to effect ‘the subversion of the Church in Ireland. Anembassy from the Sultan of Zanibar has left for England, for the purpose of inducing the British @overnment to remit the tribute of $49,000 (over ‘gs,000) annually paid to the government of Muscat y Zanibar. If this concession is granted it is said iat Zanibar will consent to forego certain of its privileges in regard to the slave trade. Tne Manchester Examimer says:— We are informed that eight women recorded their Votes at the recent Manchester election, all but one Noting on the liberal side. Their names were, it Beems, left on the register by oversight, owing to tee resembling Lhose commonly worn by the usurp- hg sex of mun, and they avaLed themscives of the Opportunity tius given to demonstrate their interest ‘in politics. SPAIN. Montpensier—His Part in the Spanish Revo- lution and His Expectations—The Hotbeds of Repablicanism—False Reports and How Circulated. SEVILLE, Nov. 15, 1968. This charming and famous old city, the capital of he wealthy province of Andalusia, has played and 4s now playing a very important part tu the grand evolutionary scenes through which Spain is passing. Here, im a magnificent palace, on the banks of the ,\Guadalquiver, the residence of the Duke Montpen- pier, were conceived and developed the plans of the fJate rising, and from the Duke's purse came the unds that won over the marines and sailors in the vyal navy from their loyalty to the Queen and arried them im a body to the side of u6 insurrectionists. Bourbon gold overturned Bourbon dynasty, but the results thus far have 2eM anything but satisfactory to the Montpensiers, rin any degree what they expected. Gonzales ravo, though a great rascal, was no fool. He knew erfectiy well when the conspirators against Queen ‘Isabella plotted and worked, and he ad abundant ‘proofs that the broiher-in-law of the Queen was the ead and front of the conspiracy, which had for its ageahe object the expulsion of isabella and the as- sumption of the throne by the French Bourbons. lc waa, then, perfectly justified in sending out of the ountry the Duke and Duchess Montpensier as per- jeons dangerous to tue peace of the country and the Ptubility of the dynasty, which he served as faithfally he did his own interests, The generals that Wer ppanished to the Canaries were all in the plot, an hough they professed a total ignorance of fase fonzales Bravo had wo many of their letters, ia ‘wich he found testimony enough to hang a dozen en, to induce aim to accept their pleas and to allow hem to remain. So it was with the Montpensters, otwithstanding their affecting protests to the een, They had committed themselves so com- lovely that @ ¥, doubt of their guilt could not exist or@ moment in the Queen’s mind. Sater events Bint how correct were the decisions of the Prime inister, though in tie end the explosion was put iT for # short time and not prevented. The £50,000 hich the Duke gave to Topete and the other lead- r§ Was properly expended, no doubt, and it aecom- lished all tbat the most sanguine chief expected, tgaye the first impuise vo the revolution, which, turting at Cadiz, soon gatifted ovewhe! ning power and swept the peninsula from the Pyrenees ‘0 the sea; but it did not place the Duke de Montpen- bier on the throne, as he fondly expected, and as the deaders solemnly promised it should. ‘Ihe tempest fete in Cadiz was soon too sirong to be con- rolied, and while it carried the chiefs into power jt made them helpless to bring the great leader in ith them. Ii the Duke had accompanied the feet, s the leaders desired, und landed at Cad\a it ia not tall improbable th Would have hecome the tug of Spain by the jamation of the army and avy. But his constitutional Umidity whispered to iim to Wait and watch over the borders, and he lost rhaps the only chance he had to realize L ions, though luis friends in the proviston: ent, especially Serrano and Topete, tu! hope on in his cause. hile his pal: acant, and his popularity, e had apy in eville, rapidly waues. This is one of the very hot- yds of dernocracy. Andalusia, Catalonia and Ar- ‘Ayon are its strongholds, and ta these provinces the people really reign. Here they took tue control of fairé at the first moment and speedily executed tie ova far will. They struck at their oid enemies, e remains 1e Jesuits, at once, and even before all the cities had pronounced they had started out nd in Spain tie holy brotherhood had begun to demoiish heir convents and chure The force and vigor of public mind, When once unloosed, was never pompletely exemplified thaa in sévilie, It had e fury of the maddened bull, with none of its Dilnduess and stupidity, and the people at once Vented thetr on the buildings belonging to he t#, which they pulled down or reudered unten- e very first day, lest some power should in- e to save them, Some excesses were cou- ed on private persons and property in the first Bush of the revolution; but they were exceptional, Bt 1 (ie general conduct of the people was admira- be aod praiseworthy,to the highest degree. 3 order has been maint a# Leen the favorite scheme of the ‘Alolica Journals to accuse the A #@ comiuiited the most fightful Oxcesses and out- ayes, all of which is pure myention. dhe other day, in Madrid, ft waa,reported by jour- wis Of that ilk’ (nat the people in Seville were so jovous Bhd lawieva that the military were calied out 0 suppress.the bets of violence comumitied in the treets by Clearing them of tie arnied bands., 1 mgy ave Deed misled and repeated the story inmy let f from Madrid, bit ata now certain that it Was, untrue aud the bage stoty of ye renctionists, oug! wt hose wishes areJathcr to une thy it. 1 Cap. po: ay, andsrepeat wiiat Ihave algeady mentioned, that he conduct of the people in Stvilie Lag becn in tue highest degree peaceful, quietdand “satisfactory, nore is less crime committed flow than unger the opie are in every way erty. And inthis one rguinenits anit con¥olatio bey point to ft to show that the poopie can be hap. Hi aod safe without all the exjense wud poinp of ing and court, They are quite able, as ias veen roved 69 BOTorR Pugindhives Abd We om label NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. withont Isabetla, Montpensier, or any other man, woman or child onthe throne at Madrid, ENGLAND. “The Chinese Mission. the Nov. 23. No dookoaee oop Pine Gaited states, has a tithe of the iiterest of Engisnd in promoting recip- rocity with China, We have endured wars to pro- tect our commerce there, we have colonized utah urbe pcg cape at rcourse must be the first to benefit from the enlightenment hep nd dawning aren ae nines eam, a8 vernment. m portant ar- oer im ween England and China. bet Of ‘Tien-tsin, the great of British’ trade in that empire, is of revision at Pekin, ‘The missi count may not have any to these negotiations; but Mr. would be able to exercise an influence in the settiement and ratification of the revised treaty that should not be ignored. So far, we believe, Satisfactory ‘orem has been made in this matter at Pekin. ten ears having expired for the continuance of the Treaty of Tien-tsin Sir Rut on the part of the British government, lately * with the Chinese Minister for Foreign the spnoine. ment of a joint commission for of the mes treaty; and, according to latest in- formation ftom Pekin, the Ohinese r had evinced such @ and liberal spirit that her Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary found little difficulty 1n accom) ing the desirea ‘Their readiness to comply with the British require- ments is the best sueanes of the sincerity of the Chinese authorities in their conversion to ‘a less restrictive policy, because they are mostly of a nature which confirms and extends the facilities to foreign intercourse accorded by that treaty, the evasion of which has hitherto prevented ter results being achieved In the furtherance of com- merce. The principles and designs of the treaty are po doubt well calculated to bring the Euro) and native producers and consumers into closer connection, But practically the obstacles to their fulfilment have proved in many instances insur- mountable. Hence it has been found desirable to have more stringent stipulations by which foreigners are to be exempted from irregular charges in transit and the diMculties of the passport system remedied, by which foreigners shall be permitted to buy lands or houses for any lawfu! purpose, to build boats and to go into the interior from the open ports, and by which the period for re-exporting goods limited. It has also been suggested by the foreign community of Tien-tsin that the whole of China proper and tts dependencies should be thrown open to foreign commerce; that a evety casé, however, fore.ga ers should a wed the right and privilege o go into Easterh Tir! stan, Mongolia, Kirtn and other dependencies of China, either ad traders or as pastoral oF agricultural setulers; that the Chinese government should pe fore ners to construct and aid the formation of faflways and telegraphs throughout China and its dependencies; that the Chinese government should aliow foreigners to own coal, iron and other mines in China and its dependencies, and work them on foreign principles, and that other impediments to free trade shall be removed. We are. not aware whether Sir R. Al- cook has deemed it advisable to presa these ré- comgnendations upon the commission at Pekin, Such astep would be a severe test of the change in the spirit and Roney which is alleged to have lately come over the government of the Oelestials; while if their demand were conceded, and no ob- stacle to carrying out the stipulations supervened, incalculable advantages wouid accrue in the utili- $5000, of the undeveloped resources of that vast empire. ‘The immediate and ostensible object of Mr. Burlin- game’s mission is to effect a treaty with each of the Powers which participate in its commerce purely in the interests of China. The United States govern- ment has already to the treaty; and if, as is alleged, this is to form the basis of all the ott , the European governments will be asked, not sim- ply to define the status of the Chinese people in their respective countries, but to acknowledge his im- pertal Majesty's right ofeminent domain over those portions of territory called “concessions” and occupied by foreigners within the dominions of China; to admit the right of the Chinese goy- ernment to grant or withhold such privileges of tradmg within ita boundaries as are not provided for by treaty stipulation, and to disclaim every right to dictate or interfere in the domestic administration of China inthe matter of ratlroads, telegraphs and internal improvements generally. Obviously these provisions involve questions of grave import. They would aimost imply a contradiction to the professed aspirations for. extended commercial interchanges with the rest of the world. Care must be taken lest they should hamper or neutralize our commercial treaty. We would not deny the Emperor of China all possible protection of his rights, but we should hesitate before, by any International compact, we foster his oid policy of isolation and monopoly, Aierica is favorable to @ protective system. That may account for its ready acceptance of the treaty. But England desires an uninterrupted intercouse with China, and the interests of the Chinese unques. tionably lay in that direction. The same appli also to France, Russia, North Germany, Austria, Italy, Beigium, Spain, Holland, Denmark ana Swe- den, to all of whose goveraments the Chinese treaty is about to be submitted, If there is the smallest chance of these advantages accruing from the proposed treaty, without any counterbalancing evi yy all means let it be rati- fied with the least conceivable a A In Laid case, we have no doubt, Lord Stanley will devise a plan alike honorable and satisfac- tory to bot governments. The Evrope and China are not conflicting ; of Great Britain and the ao the Chinese are identical* Commerce, wherever it has extended in China, has produced immense benefits, What would become of the Chinese if their trade with other countries were suddenly cut off? And how much greater would be their wealth and prosperity if the whole empire were opened to the capital and energy of the world? But England especially has an inter- est, political as well as commercial, in maintaining its position in China, and its amicable relations with the goverament and people ; for, while Hong Hong forms the portals for its commerce with that emptre, India and China are linked together by an indtvisible bond in the north of Hindostan, Banquet at Brighton to the American Minis- ter—Mr. Johnson’s Speech. Let me repeat what I have already distinctly stated, that whatever fears may have arisen in the minds of some, Whatever apprehensions they may have entertained that the causes which have dis- turbed our amicable relations might eventually re- sult in our gliding intoa war, and whatever hopes the wicked may have indulged in that such would be the result, those apprehensions muy be dis- missed and the hopes considered ag blasted. The two governments aud Lord Stanley and inyself, acting on the humane and Christiaan doctrine announced at the Convention of Paria in 1896, have settled all, First by agreeing that the laws of citi- zeuship between the two countries shall in the fu- ture be the same, and thatthe naturalized citizen | fn either shall in gil future time enjoy in all respects the rights of a native citizen. So that an irritating cause of disturbance, a cause Which has more than once threatened imminent war, ts closed, and closed, thank God, rere) The next question is that of a disputed boun: i—® question which no two individuals could have brought into court until they had submitied tt to the arbitra. tion of a friend uniess they were willing toincur the risk of censure from the judge, That boundary ts to be ascertained by an urpire, if tt can be ascertained, and by the terms of a treaty so far back as 1846, an ifhe cannot do that he is to draw a line which he thinks will approximate nearest to the point, And to show that your government is not unwilling to trust to one Who is not at the head of @ monarchy, they have agreed, and agreed cheerfully, to submit the question to the President of the Swiss Confedera- tion. The other question waa that of the Alabama, and J must confess that italmost made me wish tiat we had never had a State caled by that name. Now, you will understand, gentieman—for J am speaking to educated men, and if possibie to still more educated women—that there were two ques: tions imvoived in this matter, The frst was the right of your government tu re period they did the Southern confederation ast ligerenta ‘The second was whether, havin cognized the thern confe teration ag belli they exercised due and proper vigilance a4 to guard against your citizens or Oihers vi gations of your r Foints should be dec States, I know—everyt! ft of the American ave seen and heard ince I came to FE maeures no people in will more ly aecept that than the of England, if be decided favor of your government, 1 know the honor or my own people so well as to that thay willbe content, Buti say udship | have tendered that advice to Lo at if | were a British citizen, and had lustvely in my own hands, 1 would pay every Collur of Whai ave known as the prinelpie which wil Alabama claima at once, by wwe the established tf t 1s no such payment will bea ve Which tn ature may operate most injurlousiy and most commerce of gla inaw ‘ suntry and any other your vessels, w every sea, and that vast and enor which ts carried under your flag, woul? to the ravages of any free a commission frou any t your joss, your loss racter, (or your char Jose in money will qu unable to calculate whoie bama ciaiins. Upon these topics, gen bear ionger to speak. We have had a have been within the regiou whe ved you can hardly even tn imagination rora—the numver of houses, just veto abode of innocence, of refinement, of beauty, religion, given to the Names, and the inmates turned out into the naked world without a dollar to buy themselves even @ crust of bread, their negre once their slaves, declared free and their apprenen sions awakened to the possible immediate conse quences of that sudden freedom—a se insurrec- | tion, Those apprehensions were unfounded, for fortunately they did not realize the nature of the négro. Instead of the violenc hands, the wegro, 80 long as the wa Ans icipated at his lasted, seth at home, and protected, as well as he was aly labored: for, as well a# be could, the mastes, we mistrses and the children for whom he or ahe had from time to time acted ag nurse or playinate, But the war ts over, and what havo we accom: plished? We have accomplished thas which, Inde+ pendent of the blood that has been mpilt, almost Compepsasca Ud U ty dog not more thum compen ognize at the early ante na foe | the Seagore we have oe own wot our government possesses an inherent power which is ‘adequate and will con- tinue to be adequate inatt time to come, not only to protect itseli agalust foreign invasion, but, how- ever dreadful it may be, against any domestic inaur- We have rection. But it has accomplished more, You have a arta oon poe bet T8e, al. But we have disestablished au establishment which our common ancestry founded in America; and we have disendowed it too, of "an eadewment game by the game common ancestry. We have one away with the establishment of sla’ cheers)—and hay endowment ever it, and for wi our common forefathers. are eq Tespon- sible—we have disendowed it of total and hopeless jorance—(cheers)—and we have made them that which, if we are mitted at to scrutinize the of God and nature—that which God and re intended be—Christians. The gallant officers who they should répresented your gallant army, navy and volunteers, in rema) 5 a ryt oes ‘with all who pleasure them, s tictpated, have 5; oxen of the deeds ‘of shel ator. ent services, No one is better ted with those deeds than the people of the and none are more unwilling to a ag nal hace thei ( San we ny unmpniy fear—(cheers)—! unwil to take the lives of men with whom we de it to associate and whose hands we delight fograsp, And let me remind my galiant friends, if they will permit me go to ate them, of the army, navy and volunteers of Old England that there is another army, another navy and another band of volunteers almost if not the army, nav; = we ag ib banat of the ated of Cg ee i valor mn written upon many fields and the ocean has been too sien lightened by the blaze of our mutual victories, and the American volunteers especially have done such good service during the American war that no one in the tuture will doubt that either country, ‘while protected by its army, navy and volunteers, impregnable. There is another t] , Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, which has evet been strongly timpressed on my mind, Whatever may be the case other countries, in this country and in mung with institu. tions founded upon principles of fhimanity and freedom, 80 long ag the ople are Soll ened, so long as they value and apprec! ate the blessings of freedom, so long will it be almost unnecessary to train up men to arms, because every man at the sound of the trumpet wil 7 at ance whe his un danger to the suppoft of her standard. You mier, Mr, Mayor, whose personal acquaintance it was my good fortune to He) f’ few days aftet my arrival in London, and whoth f Knew long before by writings, some of which he may, perhaps, now wisi he not penned—(a laugh)—but which will probably tive longer than statesmanship, in 2 speech which he delivered the other day, admirable in its tone, felicitous in its ex- préssion and patriotic ta its spirit—but which, I think, showed that he had not altogether lost his powers of imagination, ventured to say that the Eng- lish had more liberty than any other country in tue world. Now 1 leave it to others to spray of their own countries, but if my right honorable friend will honor the United States by paying us a visit, he will see the first moment he lands upon our shores, and, if he doubts it then, will become more and more con- vinced every day of his residence among us, that there are no people in the world who have more liberty than the people of the United States, f Mr. Gladstone’s Pamphlet—A Chapter of Autobiography. The following extracts are taken from Mr. Glad- stone's recent publication, which has attracted much attention throughout England. The liberal leader in its pages tells the story of his conversion to liberal- ism in afrank, unaffected manner. Of the relations between church and state he says:. ‘The one master idea of the system that the State as it then stood was capable in this age, as it had been in ages long gone by, of assuming beneficially @ responsibility for the inculcation of a particular religion carried me through all. My doctrine was that the Church, as established by law, was to be maintained for its truth; that this was the oniy prin- ciple on which it could be properly and oeaneany. upheld; that this principle of good in England was aiso good in Ireland; that truth is of all possessions the most precious to the soul of man; and that to remove, as I then erroneously thought we should remove, this [ale treasure from the view and the reach of the Irish people would be meanly to purchase their momentary favor at the expense of their permanent interests, and would be a high oifence against our sacred obligations. He closes with the remark that, after all, ft is a practical rather than a theoretical test by which establishments must stand or fall. An establishment that does its work in much and has the hope and likelihood of doing it in more; an establishment that has a broad and living way open to it into the hearts of the people; an establishment that can commend the services of the present by the recollections apd traditions of a far-reaching past; an establishment able to appeal to the active zeal of the greater portion of the people and to the re- spect or scruples of almost the whole, whose children well chiefly on her actual living work and service, and whose adversaries, if she has them, are in the main content to believe that there will be a future for them and their opinions, such an establishment should surely be maintained. Mr. Laird on ?Change. The London Sar, of November 19, si Mr. Laird bapa ten accompanted by Mr. Chris- topher Bushell, visited the Liverpool Exchange news room. Mr. Laird’s appearance in the exchange was the signal for a rather stormy demonstration, and he was greeted with cries of “What about the Ala- bamay?” “the Turkish rams,’ and other significant re- marks. There was no roughness, beyond the hooting and the hissing, exhibived towards Mr. Laird. The news room during the day was densely crowded by the adherents of the liberal and tory candidates for Liverpool, and an occasional intercliange of political “tista” took place between the hours of twelve and two, when te polling was at tts most vigorous } point. FRANCE. The Baudin ProsecutionsErroneous States ments and Corrections. under date of November 23, saya:— M. Cremieux having stated in his speech for one of the parties charged with exciting to hatred and contempt of the government during the Bandin demonstration in the cemetery of Montmartre that at was Lucien Bonaparte who “humbly” presented to the Chamber of Representatives the abdication of his brotner the Emperor Napoleon in 1814; and, moreover, that the coup d’<faf of the 18th Bramaire was the overthrow of the republic, Prince Pierre | Fesenrs ined the youngest son of Lucien, has written the following letter to the eminent advocate:— My Dear M. Crrmreyx—With all the regard which Towe to whe generous Deputy of the Left, wlio, before the revolu- tion of February, demanded so earnestly’ that an end should be put to the exlle of my family; with the gratitude which I shall ever feel towards the members of the Provisional gov- crument (1845), who did not oppose iny election in Corsi¢n, and who named me chef de batailion, Lam yet bound by respect \d for the memory of my father, to protestagainst your words in the Correctional Po; t. "The 18h Bra- Talre was not the overthrow bat the organization of the republic. stitotion than that of th Utes of glory for Lucien Bonap oh to it. I contradict moat p 0 Was the bearer of t nber of Representatives, wi what an admirable attitude—to causing the right of Napoleon 11. to be recognized and proclaimed. Zhe word humbly must you; yo cate mind would certainly have found it outof place w: ha ma times my father deacrive of his brother's # ydicatio no availhe broke his pev write out that fatal resolnts was Bassano who wrote it, Carnot ended by charging him- wel’ with that melancholy ‘m @,and it was he, and not ii to th ~ Ifyou thin tt roneous, . Who bt of the er im comfidentia: oversation with | ® on who was then «child? PIERRE BONAPARTE, This form of government never bad a better con. gt, In Spain there are 81 dukes, 746 marquises, 557 counts, 74 viscounts and 76 barous, besides 62 native Spaniards who bear foreign titles. A‘ a proof of the disastrous state of the finances in | Tunis, an obligation of $10,000, payable on demand | by the public treasury, was recenuy sold in Paris | for $100, | The son of the once famed Schamy! ts second cap- ard of Alexander IL, aad is at present He speaks ussian, fre- and clubs and in fact has adopted of an imperial hunt recently held at the following:—Thirty-nine bucks and 6 hares and 465 woodcocks and pheasants, he Emperor Napo! iy ead of game end bie Count ot Nieuwerkerke for 2 j ton of the Korapean Commussion of the Da roluce of the navigation dues, origi 1 mated at 1,071,000f for the current year, € 1 Of 1,200,000f., show 4 surplus of Lie which will be devoted to the forma. tive reserve fund, (acuity of Paris are puzzled by the new disease, which, for wani of a name, they have christened la | crampe de ns, or writer's crainp, It 1g | Canaed by the trical action on the muscies of the jingera by tie coustant use of steel pens, aud no | remedy has yet boou discovered for it. | King Cha V. of Sweden has recently refnsed to | figu a death warrant against a woman Copvicted by be of the tribunals of poisoning. His Majesty de- ciared at the same time that for the fueure no capital execution should take place tu his kingdom, and fu the denth penalty was not abolished by law j he red It to cease ti fact, | ‘The recent riots in Rotterdam, Holland, having | given rise to many conjectures respecting the cause, | the Uirechtache Courant solves tne problem by stat- | ig che following police regulations to have been the { orizin of afl the tronble:—-“By order of the Bargo- | master and Coancil bathing th the puuile rivers } wad canals ts forbidden afier the 1st of October next.” Kveey effect must wave ite cause; perhaps tua is too right versiom, The Paris correspondent of the Loudon Yimes, | FINE ARTS. Notes on ce Winter Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. No. 1.—Duck and young.” Good, and just like ‘Tait; everybody knows his style, No, 5.—"Jenny Wren” by Miss Herrick, Very fair for @ young miss. No. 6.—A rooster standing on a negro’s breast crowing. Barely passable. No. 10,—A girl reading to an old negro. Good, as nearly all of Mr, Edwin Whites’ pictures are. No. 11.—‘Landscape” by Bristoe. A good sketch. No. 13.—Portrait byan N. A. Aboutasbad as it can be. No, 16.—By another N. A. Is very trifling. No, 11.—Wild flowers, by W. H. Beard. Is @ most beautiful study. An unpretentious name but a good picture. No. 22.—By Oranch. Very Cranch like. No. 20 is one of Mr. Baker’s clever portralta, From 36 to 44 we have the pictures of S. A. Mount, deceased. We have already alluded to them. . No, 47 is “Get Up"—a horse, ‘so called,” drawing cart. Franz Breitkopf. It would do to hang up in a country inn, but should have no place in the N. A.D. No, 60.—‘The Orphan,” by O, Wilson. In compo- sition, drawing and feeling this picture ts good, but in the face there is too much bluish gray. This is the Orst appearance of this young artist at the Academy, and he certaimly gives promise of distinc- tion» No. 52.—Landscape, by G. Inness, N. A. Not one of his best. No. 48 (we had almost overlooked it) is a charming landscape, by Mr. Brevoort. No. 51.—Landscape, by Mr. Wiles, Not an old artist, but a young one of rare promise. We look for great things from him. ‘No. 58.—Death and the Gambler,!’ by Ehninger. Painted we presumed by this excellent artist just | for fun; theré is nothing in it. No. 56.—Landscape by T. A. Richards, N. A. In his usual style, but a reminiscence of a foreign tour, No. 67.—A “Blacksmith Shop," by J. F. Wier, and a good one. No. 58 to 61.—Rubbish, No, 66.—"The Raw Recruit.” Very good. By C. ‘C. Ward. No. 67.—"‘On the Campagna,” a Fart tending a flock of badly painted sheep, by Yewell. No. 70.—A dreadful chalky, fresh green picture ‘of a gentleman,” by Scott Wallace. 10. 71.—Passable. No. 72.—New York Bay, by Samuel Colman, a right good picture. No. 73.—"“A Study of Thistles,”” by Wiles. Good. No. 78.—“Atter Hot Weather,” by T. C, Farren, 18 & funny picture. When will poor Farren’s delusions cease, Such a pieture, such a title, we never saw. How long must the public endare this art heresy? Nos. 75 and 76.—Two smal) “Landscapes,” by L. R. Pyne. We are not familiar with Mr. Pyne’s name, nevertheless we should like to see more of his works, they are exceedingly clever. From Ear to No, 88—Trash, —Bad. —Fish,’? by Cafferty. Good; both of his fish are good. No. 101.—‘andscape,” by Church. Don’t amount to much notwithstanding the artist’s famous name, No. 102,—“Sunshine,” by 0. Wilson, Rather cool for sunshine; still it has good feeling, and, moreover, the quality of being carefully painted from nature. Both of this young artist’s works have attracted considerable attention, No. 104.—A portrait of Martin Van Buren, by Hunt- igton. One of the best heads we have yet seen by A. D. ‘08. 106 and 106.—Two big landscapes, neither of them worth much, No. 107.—‘The Swell of the Summer Ocean,’ (see Byron). A badly chosen by on Coney Island and too high sounding a title. Not a bad picture. No. 110.—By Sonnener, Landscape, with good at- mospheric effects. No. 113.—Portrait of the Immortal and Inevitable P.N. A. D, (who has “Gentleman,” by H. P. Gray, V. fe more letters to his name tl ‘any other man” in the Academy), is as bad as the portraits of the 1. A. I. G@. usually are, and all around it there seems to be a fearfull bad lot of “works.” The first one just above “the gray’ is No. 114, called «The Heir- esa;” the figures consist of a large, beef-headed man consulting with a horse-faced looking lady of doubt- ful age. This “work” has a good deal of the sign- painter’s shop about it, In looking at pictures of tis caste we realize how low art may in some instances. No. 116.—“Summer Three Thousand Years Ago.” ‘Whoever heard of a more ridiculous name for a pic- ture? Was summer weatier different then from summer Weather now? What grudge has Mr. Ben- son against “the girl of that period,” whom he has libellously caricatured in his pictare, or rather daub ? Let us call things by their right names. If such pro- ductions as this and its companion piece, No. 149, ‘Lhe Golden Age in France,’’ are suffered to go un- rebuked, there is no telling where the absurd “artistic” affectation which tuey illustrate will end, It is not stated whether “The Golden Age in France’’ was 3,000 or 5,000 years ago, although certain sug- estions of modern costume indicate a more recent late. A big, ungainly brassy frame surrounds this “precious gem’ numbered 149, and it is difficult to decide whether No. 149 or No. 116 should be the most severely condemned. Neither one nor the other should have been allowed a place in the Aca- demy exhibition. No. 120.—The Strange Beast.” This is a tp just what the author intended it for. The owls are awfully frightened, No, 140.—"The Grave of Aaron Burr’? NN Ag eight lines of poetry in the catalogue), by Telfer. Why not the grave of Tom Tinker? What business have such pictures in a public gailery? No. 126.—‘*A Harness Maker,’’ by Gilbert Burling. Well drawn, tells the story, and shows talent for such subjects; but we object to the color. aS 131.—Landscape, by Eaton, A clever little picture, No. 155.—“Avarice,” by J. Roy Robertson. A forci- ble and life-like representation of a muser. No, 184.—By Shaughnessy. This is @ good, quiet ot very strong, but full of sentiment. No. 187, Weary and Worn.’ Very good. There is talent here which should have encouragement. tis by Miss C. W. Conant, No, 189.—Portrait of an old man, A little raw, but still a good likeness. By J. 0. baton. No. 190.—By J. Koy Rovertson, entitled “Folly.” It might well answer for a bright personification of fuerry oper vouge, which is how bewitching the own. No, 191.—“The Porta Della Carte, Venice." By D. D. Neal. A very good picture. No. 194—Napoleon Ill. By J. Roy Robertson. There is the Man of December 2 with his impenctra- bie mask. The peculiar compiexion of the Empe- ror, bis strange eyes aud bis waxed mustache are fatvafully rendered. NO, 128.—"'The Swamp Angel.” By A. W. Thomp- son. A very fair picture, but not 80 good @ one as this artist 1s now painting. No. 163.—Portrait of Hon. J, A. King? By W. 0. Stone. Pretty good. mis j No. 164:—By De Haas, A fine marine. 165.—"Duck Creek Inlet.” A strange looking picture, by Blakelock. & Nos, 169 and 167,—Two good portraits by Hunting- n. No, 172.—“Long Island Shore.” 4 very fair pic- tu?e. By T. C. Grannis. No. 177.—A really good lanéscipe. By Bircher, who has lately removed from Boston to New York. No. 178.—**The House of Representatives in 1823,’" By Professor Morse. This is grand in color and adds much to the exhibition. “It was painted in 1822, and the artist himself had not geen it for forty years until the other evening. No. 196.—A portrait of Dr. Stephenson, by A. Fisher, is one of this artist’s best pictures, No. 199.—“Tue Good sisters.” By 8. J. Guy. This is agem. A gallery full of pictures of this ciass Would be worth a year's hard work to see, 0. ade of a Cathedral in Lombardy."? Henry. One of this artist's happiest efforts. Cartoon, “The Fall of Carthage,” by ‘enino, with Scipio Africanus in the centre, wile pillage and murder are going on all around, A work of great powel From Nos. 211 to 226 are engravings and designs. Conspicuous among them are several adimiravie 3 by the celebrated brothers Linton. 221, Driving Catue,” engraving after Luminais; Monk,” after @ phovwgraph; “Kntombment ol rist,’? after the Titien in the’ Louvre, are by Henry D. Linton; 224, “Long Branch by Moonlight,” & Superb proof engraving. atter ©. Rosenberg’s powerful picture with that fitle; 225, Head of Christ, ou wood, by W. J. andi, D. Linton. No, 2 “Ready for a Walk.” Angels and minis- tera of grace, defend us! Is ft possible that over $100,000 have been eapent on the building of the National Academy, besides the toil and trouble of forty years in establishing tt, and all to baag on its Walls such “works” ag No. 220? No, 2s4.—Portrait of Theodore Tilton, By William ‘age. ‘This puts the reputation of Mr. Page beyond all criticism, It is the realtzation of the subject, and long after Mr. Tilton has passed from earth tho artist and jan of science Will be able to read his character better in this head than tn all that can ever be writ- teu by Lhe pen of man, If the sword 1s not mightier than the pen the pencil Is. No. 286.—"Last of the Ice." By C. ©. Griswold. It fhould be the last picture of this kind that Mr. Gris- ever paint, ‘Moorish Watch Towers.’ A grand pic+ muel Colman. Portrait of Mra. Catherwood, By Constant Mayer. The mavagement of the color and accesso. ries in this work make it one. of the best of this arlist’s portraits, Of the statuary We can say but little, there ts snch QO meagre show. Mr. Pickett's bust of ‘Bishop Hop- kine,” O'Donovan’s bust of “Wilson,” the artis Bearen’s statyg of Pandora,’ “young Columbus,” and Mary Brddshaw’s “Peri,” are the only Works in this room that are specially worthy of note. In this rapid bat carefal and impartial survey we have not atwemptedsto pein ail the works of merit e nor ail those of demerit, We have only noted those that particularly struck our attention, We regret to ay that in the most faworable light in which we can place the present fall and winter exibition it must recorded a a cruel failure, ion of the works of f An incomplete colle And of Leutze takes up most of the space in the soutt Lwalierr. Some of the very Dest of Liiott's porte are not included in this collection, but there are three or here which amply evince that if he had been as skilful in painting aa he was unrivalled in certain other y, for instance, in ovpconening, tues of mi: Elliott id rank forever Cg be test ters in his of art. Six of ize’s WOrkS on exhibition and to could be 001 Tiger. na none of them deceased acadel Leutze and winter exhibition of the Academy of pee would have been still more unsatisfactory and terest ing than it is, THE SKATING SEASON. ‘The New ¥ork and Brooklyn Rinks and Ponds—Programme for the Winter—Popu- larity of the Sport—The Metropolis on Skates. ‘The advent of winter brings with it its pleasures a8 well as its sorrows. The unprovided poor who burrow in alleys and exposed places. and who know not where from day to day to look for bread to appease the morrow’s hunger, tremble at its coming with a fear that knows no equal horror. To them it is anguish, made all the more poignant by pre- vious acquaintance, certainly prolonged suffering, probably lingering death, Without fuel to give warmth by day or covering to shelter from the storms of the night, and, it may be, without strength to seek for the food which begging may obtain, many of them will go down before the wintry blast this season, a8 Many have gone down before, unwept and uncared for. The rich and the well to do, on the other hand, rejolce over the coming of the bleak north winds. Jack Frost to them is aright welcome guest, for his appearance is hailed with shouts of gladness, and a jingle of merry sleigh bells that drowns even the faint death cry of the starving man next door. Winter, this much feared tyrant, this greatly wel- comed guest, is now in our midst, and the busy pre- parations for the enjoyment which he affords the welltodo are many and active. Sleighs that have lain in lofts for months, all dusted and stained, are being painted and brightened, and the men who deal in skates and skating ponds are straining every nerve to oblige everybody who wants to be obliged and pay well for the favor. Indeed, skating has been for years, and will be for many years to come, the pleasure, the exercise, the sine qua non of enjoy- ment of young New York at least, and the skatlag rink and poud managers are working with prodt- able ambition to have their resorts in readiness for the present season. ORIGIN OF SKATING. Like that of a great many other sports of which much issaid, traditionally and otherwise, the origin of skating 1s rather in the dark. There Nave been in times gone by men of a very commendable spirit of research, who have gone so far as to make of it an antediluvian art which, with many other arts and artificés, was engulfed in the “‘rage of waters.” How or by what means this sage conclusion was reached, which has never as yet been denied by any person who may have known anything about the art pre- vious to Noah’s little boat excursion, is rather a mystery. People, however, who have never put much faith in the antediiuvian age of the skate have contented themselves with believing written works on the subject rather than pinning their faith to tra- ditional evidence, and they generally coincide that only @ little over 200 years ago the skate was quite a slippery infant. At any rate it 18 a well known fact that skating made its appear- ance in England for the first time about that period, and was practised in St, James’ Park, London, and is supposed to have been imported from Holland by the Cavaliers. It is recorded in the quaint diary of Pepys, under date of December 15, 1662, “To the, Duke, ‘and followed him into the park, where, though the ice was broken, he would go slide upon nis skaits, which I did not like; but he slides very well.” The rude beginnings of the art are thus recorded by the historian of London:—‘‘When the great fenn or moore or watereth the walls of the citie on the north side) is frozen many young men play upon the ice; some stryding as wide as they may do slide swiftly; some tye bones to their feete and under their heeles, and, shoving themselves by a@ itttle piked staffe, doe slide as swiftly as a birde fyeth in the air or an arrow out of a@ cross bow.” Genial old Cole- ridge was evidently au fwit in the art, According to him, in skating there are these pleasing circum- stances:—‘The infinitely subtle particles of ice which the skaters cut up, and which creep and run before the skater like a low mist, and in suarise or sunset be- come colored; second, the shadow of the skater in the water, seen through the transparent ice; and third, the melancholy undulating sound from the kate, not without variety; and when very many are ating together, the sounds and the noises give an impulse to the icy trees, and the woods all round the lake tremble.”” siti THE PARK PONDS iva will, naturally enough, be the attraction for the great majority of skaters during the season, The masses, who think themselves Just as big and as im- portant on skates ag a ee of exclusives who can enjoy themselves within private enclosures for a good round sum, will frequent them as they have done in previous seasol and the fun and enjoyment will no doubt be fully as great as any that can be at other of the Known winter resorts, pay tue ot: Every preparation is being made by the Park m- inwsioners toward making the season a successfui ohe. Of course they cannot make tce, nor have they ag yet invented any process by wilch the heavens cad be induced to forego snowstorming during the winter; but they are, nevertheless, determined to fight the weather as well as may be so long as Jack Frost keeps his bridge over the lakes clear and smooth and not too yielding to bulky butchers," who have a bad habit of involuntarily testing the solidity of ice by force of concussion. 4 ‘The winter refreshment houses at the lakes will be As in former seasons, of commodious size. The Ter- Truce House will be 160 feet in length by 25 feet in width; the Beach House 125 feet in length by 26 in width, with skate room and ladies’ sitting room at- tached, 47 feet in length by 20 feet in width, two stories in height. The houses are nearly completed’ and in a few days will be ready for the arrival of the “freege"’ that is ea expected to take place some tifge befo jaristmas, At the lower Jake, that just inaldé th Park wall that runs along Fiffy-ninth street, there to be this year, in addition to the housés which were erected for the accommodation of skaters last year, a new and commodious building, which, it ia thougitt, will afford elbow roomi sufficient to satisfy the pers cravings of the most nervous of skaters, male or otherwise. The house will be furnished with not exactly all the “modern improvements,” but with everything that 13 necessary to & skater’s comfort. Ic will be well heated, ventilated and furnished after the manner of the houses on the Spee lake, with plenty of seats fashioned from the softest side of pine trees, and tables where coffee and cakes and other highly desirabje things of the edibie and drinkabie Kind will be furnished for the mere asking and a quantum supicit of the genus stamps. The Com- missioners are also perfecting methods by which ahey hope to keep the ice continually free from ob- structions. Ordinarily but @ small portion of the period lo winter to skaters can be said to be “perfectly satisfactory,” all the atmospheric condl- tions required to perfect it being rarely combined— snow, sleet, rain, wind and temperature varying daily and even hourly at times during the winter. Artificial modes of improving the surface after it has been severely cut by skaters, or houeycombed to the depth of one or more inches by @ fall of snow fol- lowed by a warm rain, have in seasons past been used with a great degree of success, and the inven- tions for this purpose, some of which are quite novel in their contrivance, are undergoing improvements, and will probabiy be perfected by experience. Tie average expense of keeping the ice in the various lakes [ree from snow during past seasons las been about $6,000, the expense of the erection and care of the buildings being included in this sum; and the Commissioners hope that in time the methods to remove the snow from the ice will be such as to cut this figure down materiaily. It wy ! be mentioned for the sake of Harlemites that the jake near 126th street has not been forgotten, and that a comforta- bie house has beep erected on its borders for the en* jJoyment of its patrons. The little lake heretofore re- served for the special use of canny Scots who have @ Weakness for curling will be kept im good order for them this season, THE NEW YORK RINK. The growth of the city in the upper part of the island since last winter has in several in- stances compelled pond managers to move out of town entirely in search of sunken lots which po profit-loving alderman has seen fit to buy, that the city might Hill at public expense in years to come, Oatman’s old pond, corner of Fifty-uiath street and Sixth avenue, is amere duck puddie now, so nar- rowly has the extension of the streets hemmed it in on all sides; and the same may be said of ail the other ponds in its vicinity, Everybody knows, tat no matter how commodious the Park lakes may be, there are slways a large nuin- ber of people, young and old and of both sexes, who prefer a sort of exciusiveness even in their out of aoor exercisea, For euch people the Fifth avenue pond was, in days gone by, just the thing that was needed, and now that it has disappeared a new re- sort has sprung up in its stead in the shape of the rink in Third avenue, near Sixty-tiird street. A rink in the Ufiited Siates is no novelty, but a rink in this city 18 not only @ novelty, but sometuing that even the most sanguine skater had never dared even to dream into existence beiore this season, The dif. ficnity has always been, heretofore in the fact that the Would-be promoters of the rink had jess mohey than ambition to do a good thing. By some means or other the diificuily Was eot aside this year by & moneyed Block vompany, and the result bas been the magnideent siracture on Third avenue. It 19 ventilated and the ico frozen by the same methods which are adopted la ali otter riuks ja Vue county, Whigh ace ell known that they need no description,” T root bs eupported by several strong arches tod Pr eg NE fora band, and latforms with e along the reserved for skaters, neve u i are an abua- | Z £ i : E i i & over a couple of il ies at no one time be to sl 8 8g BROOK! Ek, : ‘e fne Ink in the City of , be the attraction for ce. state that this e largest pond in Brooklyn, and alth it: find the rink a formidable rival the excellent wi which it has always been mani will be coreatn, insure for it no small amount of patronage. Messra, Weed & Decker are the managers of this resort. which, strange though it may 6 draws" 0 may seem, draws & part of its custom from New’ York, as well as ‘illiamsburg, ia being put in readiness by the prietor, Mr. Cammeyer, ‘The arrangements for Ar season are all perfected, and the system pra last year of separati the bothersome boy from the adult skaters will be persisted in wia- ter. It is the intention of the proprietor during season to give several entertainments for the cation of his patrons, such a8 masquerades, oarnis vals, ball matches and tournaments. ‘THR PROSPROT PARK POND. The Commissioners of the Prospect Park, have aside about fifty acres of “ice land’! which the intend to improve for the benefit of all skaters w! may concern themselves about the slippery sport. Houses are to be erected for the accommodation of the million, and everything that is needed to make the pond an attraction will be attended to by the promoters of the project. OTHER PONDS. Tne New York Skating Club which seems to be in rather an impecunious condition just now, intends to skate itself on the small pond corner of Fifty- ninth street and Fifth avenue. ‘he dimensions of the pond, added to that part which is to be used on the easterly side of the avenue, will afford the club plenty of space to exercise its limbs freely, but will hardly be sufficient to attract much outside patrons! age. It is under good management—Mr. Hi Mitenell—and will no doubt carried on with success. * A society to be known as the Staton Island Skatt Club was formed at New Brighton on Tuesday by anumber of the most prominent residents of island, Some forty young ladies and gentlemen joined the club. Mr. Frank Parker was elected pre- sident and Miss Carman directress, In conclusion it may be safely said that, if the weather prove favorable, the skating season of 68-"69 will be fully equal, if it does not surpass, that of 164-"65—the most successful one that has been en- joyed since skating tirst became one of the fine arts for New Yorke CITY POLITICS. A Reviow of the Late Field of Contest—The Mayoraity—Corporation Counsel—Assistant Aldermen and School Trustecs=The Fedex ral Offices in tho City, ‘The charter election, held on Tuesday last, passed off very quietly, leaving, in fact, hardly a single rip- ple behind on the surface of the political waters, agi+ tated by the slight opposition given to the throug: out democratic ticket that was presented to the peo- ple for the offices to be filled. It needed “no ghost!! to predict at any time since the Mayor elect, Mr. AL Oakey Hall’s nomination for the office that he would be the next Chief Magistrate of this great city, and what is more to the purpose, not only to the elected but to the electors, the prediction, certain as it was, was in itself an assurance that the municipal affairs of the city were to be entrusted to the hands of one in every respect qualified for the discharge of the important duties devolving upon him. The fact ad- mitted and acknowledged by friend and foe, that the democratic candidate was the ‘man of the peo- ple,’ tended, of course, a great deal to divest the late charter election, so far as the Mayoralty question came in, of much of the partisanship and politica} rancor which more or less mingles in all political’ contests. There were, of course, many local quea- tions under discussion, but che weight and prevae lence of opinions, as shown by subsequent majori- ties in favor of the Tammany candidates, was, and naturally 50, to be attributed, wherever there was anything like an equal contest between candidates xy rival political organizations to the overwhelming influence of Tammany Hall. The great Saint was never more himself than of late, and his earthly representative, Peter Bismarck, was never in greatet odor with the faithful than at present; never more influential and omnipotent. There ccriainily was not much need of the omnipotency of the Saint, the prime minister being all sumMcient to make tninga serene in the iate contest, and otherwise, however, the standard bearer of the party was in himself @ host that, single handed, would have discomfted the combined political Horatli of democratic Unton, Mozart and republican, though Horace himself, Ben’ and Ely had joined lances and sought to unhorse him, @ senseless effort, as the Tammany candidate was, by the natural course of events, certain to be tha next Mayor. CORPORATION COUNSEL. : ‘The vacancy by the eMuxton of time in the Corn poration Counsel office has been again filled by the re-election of Mr. Richard O'Gorman. Circumstances contributed vastly to this lucky result, for the pre- sent incumbent could not possibly have had suct easy triumph—if he could have secured a ti “2 at all—had not Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence, Jr., notninee of the democratic Union and Mozart par- ties, retired from the contest. It was not, es Mr. Lawrence's fault that he did so retire; 01 Wonder is that he accepted the nomination in the first instance. But certain it is that in his latter action in the premises Tammany’s anathemas of threatened ‘‘bulis of cxcommunication” had no terrors for him and had no influence in his retires ment from the field. He actepted the ee of the opposing factions in good faith, and only tired from the contest when the popular leader of the opposition under whose banner he was to serve had himself abaudoned the field. alk THR LATE CHARTER ELBCTION, ‘The fact, however, is, that our late charter elede tion, locally speaking, can hardly be taken as a teat of the popular feeling, either as regards the candi¢ dates or the yey, the he ge leaders represented, it was asort of interbelium fight, when both par. ties, having previously put fortn their full belligerent powers, had neither the inducement nor incentive to. again rally all their strength or iorces in what might be term ikirmish, and on which the booty to be acquired was not commensurate with the trouble or expense of afresh muster or @ fresh struggic on ® grand scale. The democratic Cnion party and that of the Mozarters, 80 far as either ex-organization can be called @ party, Lave, in regard to their action im the late campaign, followed precedents in the histor .of other than poiltical wars, where forces brow together in the ie of gain merely have for @ lime watched the fate of tne day, and then gone over to that party upon whose colors victory was Just descending, So with the democratic Union and Mozart partis they have been playing the 76 of free jances, or, in More common parlance, strikers, most unprofitably, to be sure, with one exception, in the person of an Old leader—Justice (now Register elect) Connolly; bat as regards Savage and Water+ bury and the rest of them, they are ali played out; cold water hes been thrown upon Waterbury an the rest of them vy the redoubtable Peter B., who, according to the derivation of his name, should have fung himself or a rock or shower of rocks at them— the latter metaphorically would have been just the thing they ed—but he didn’t, and of course they are very “Savage” over it. Peter has played tue deuce with them any Way, and there ts har y anytuing left of Mozart or the democratic Union, ASSISTANT ALDERMEN, AS We before stated, tae nominating conventions put forth the best men that could be selected and who would run for she office of Assistant Aldermen. Of course the great majority were Tammany iaen, and as to a great extent the election went by defaul’ 60 far a8 republican Opposition was concerned, ‘tam- many wen Were elected to be City Fathers in petto. No doubt they will prove themselves in time worthy ‘3 of the Councilmanic ring they have sup- planted, and be as equally a necessity in carrying out a big job to fruitiog as the board they have suc ceoded. SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS AND TRUSTRES. | In the great majority of cases the old incombent Were re-diected, ‘This Is a better proof that St OF men arein the rigut place titan i the per enore School Commissioner or Trustee were one 0 eunlary proiit. Ly Fede CITY FROERAL OFFIORS. ie for ‘There is littie chauge to note In the strug f a cers iro yaition last given of city federal oMicers from the posi vatdy most parties in these columas. 4 Prominently spoken of for each of the undermen- tioned posts are:— 2 . tor, MSolioctor—Mr, Moses innel!. or Uulted States Disirict Attorno: «i. Delatetd Binith. For PRostmaster—The present incumbent, Mr. James Kelly, Por appointment io the Surveyors ship of the Port and Navy Agent there is a groat struggle going on, vit ho oneds Spend 8 holentiy ta make % prediction. The dispenser o| aro: only vee ‘dle wad ib is uevdious Co aud be yon’ ie 1"