The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN JAMES YORK HERALD | STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d at., bewweea Sth and 6th avs.— ROMEO AND JULIET. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Boaursqu® Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF TUE FoRTY TutEves. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway aad 13th strect.— COOL. BROUGHAM'S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—PERY RO aioN—Mucu ADO AuoUT & MERCHANT OF VENICE. OLYMPIC’ THEATRE, Broadway.—Humery DUMrry, wit New Fratonss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe! OR, HARLEQUUN AND THE W Mk SEVEN DWARFS; WONDERS. BROADWAY THEATRI ay.—Mias Kate Reie- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY MARCH 25, 1869.—TRIPLE. SHEET. Secretary of the Intertor hoth expressed themselves | Shall the Senate or the President Manage Sympathy with Cuba—Meeting Satisied with the viows of the delezation. ‘The case of General Frank Blair against the Mis- sourt Judges of Election was taken up in the United States Supreme Court yesterday. The argument on both sides was commenced, Montgomery lair ap- pearing for his brother and Senator Drake for the Missouri Judges, The Democratic Central Commitiee of St, Louis has determined to meke no nominations for city officers at the coming municipal elections, but re- commends the voters, without distinction of parties, to unite upon a citizens’ ticket. se The Rhode Island Democratic State Convention at Providence yesterday nominated a full State ticket, Lyman Pierce, of’ Providence, was put in nomina- tion for Governor, and Willtam H. Allen, of North Kingston, for Lieutenant Governor. The Indians who lately run off the stock from Fort Steele, Neb., were surprised by # party of soldiers, who killed several of the savages and recovered the stolen cattle. A party of Sioux killed a soldier within a mite of Fort Randall on the 18th inst., and made good thelr escape. The late snow storm in Nova Scotia was followed by heavy rains, which caused great destruction of OLDS AS CAMILLE. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Aliernoon and jog Performance. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 120 Broadway.—E1i7x Hout's BURLESQUE COMPANY. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comic SKETORES AND LIVING STATUES—P1.010. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strect—Tux Horse Ma- RINEB, AC. 2 MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Scuoot. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broatway.—ETHL0> PIAN ENTERTAUNMENTS—SIRGE OF THE BUONDES. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mtb street,—ETHIOVIAN MINSTRELBY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO‘ISE, 21 Bowery.—Comto VouaLism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuesTnian AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—1TALIAN OrERa— Fra Diayouo. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, — Brooklyn.—Moo.er's MINSTEELS—Tuk HAUNTED Wid MAKER, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOURNOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, March 25, 1869. THE NEWS. Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated March 3. It was reported in London yesierday that the government intended to release the Fenian prsouer Halpin, under certain restrictions. “At the last council of French Ministers the Emperor introduced the project of a law abollsh- ing the whole system of workingwen’s registers. The project was approved and it wiil be submitted to the Corps Legislatif shortly. The proposed new Spanish constitution was sub- mitted to the Cortes yesterday. The dratt proposes ‘that the future form of government shall be mon- archical and will consist of a Senate and Congress. The reign of the King 1s limited to eightcen years. ‘The sessions of Congress are to be triennial. Uni- versal suffrage is to be the rule of voting. Liberty of tae press and the right of public meeting wili be secured. The Cortes yesterday adopted the new Military Conscription law. Cuba. Captain General Dulce has issued a proclamation declaring that all vessels foand in Spanish waters, near Cuba, with munitions of war on board will be treated us pirates, irrespective of their points of de- parture or destination. The captured brig Mary Lowell bas arrived at Havana. Parnguay. Lopez is now reported collecting an army at the mouth of the Tebicuart. Mexico, Colonel Palacios is said to be raismg forces to attack Culican, a city between Guaymas and Mazat- jan. He ts acting under orders from Placido Vega, who was on his way to joinhim. General Canto, the murderer of Paton, had been banqueting his friends in jail at Durango, Congress. In the Senate yesterday Messrs. Conkling and ‘Grimes made personal explanations in denial of cer- tain newspaper statements relative to the late can- cus proceedings. Mr, Tramball, from the Judiciary Comuvittee, reported the bill to repeal the Tenure of ‘Ofice act, with an amendment im the nature of a substitute. It proposes a repeal of the first and se ond sections of the Tenure of OMice bill, and a - stitution of clauses allowing the Piesident more lati- tude m the matter of removals, appointments and suspensions. In discussing it Senator Sprague made another of his startling speeches, in which he especially argued thai the country was politically and socially on the brink of a precipice. ‘The report of the committee was adopted by a vote of 87 to 15 and the bill was passed. The Senate then artjourned. In the House Mr. Garfleld, from the committee, re- property. The delegation of wives from Brigham Young's household who are on their way to Washington trusted themselves yesterday within the lmits of Chicago, where, from all accounts, they rested un- disturbed by the divorce lawyers. James Johnson, alias Cady Mathews, a noted bigh- way robber and counterfeiter, from Fulton county, N. Y., Was arrested at Fort Erie, Canada, by an omMcer from the United States, aided by Canadian authorities. Johnson offered a desperate resistance, Lieutenant General Sheridan arrived at Chicago yesterday, en route for his command, the Depart- ment of Missouri. The City. The mail steamship Ocean Queen, Captain Maury, arrived at this port yesterday from Panama on the 15th inst. There had been no mails received at Pan- ama from Central or South America. The Board of Metropolitan Fire Commissioners have recentiy been collecting samples of kerosene oi! sold in this city to test their inflammabie quality, and a scientific investigation shows that the mass of samples submitted are hardiy iess inflammable than pure naphtha or benzine. A respectable looking man was arrested in Hobo- ken yesterday for having in his possession various articles of value, such as@ pocket compass, silver watch, pistol, silver plated ware, jewelry, bottles of liquor, &c, He stated that he had obtained them by searching the sewers of New York, and he was allowed to go. Inthe Supreme Court, Chambers, tne case of the Board of Education against the City Chamberlain, involving in issue the forged check controversy, came up before Judge Ingraham, but was not pro- ceeded with, and the trial was set down for the first Monday in April next. in the Supreme Court, Special Term, yesterday, Judge Ingraham rendered judgment in the Roosevelt Hospital Bequest case, sustaming the will of the testator. In the Supreme Court, Trial Term, before Judge Barnara, the case of Quackenbos against Quack- enbos, was held and resulted in a verdict against the defendant, Mrs. Quackenbos. On this verdict a de- cree of divorce was granted by the court. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Jude Bedford presiding, Otto Krowell, who pleaded’ guilty to petty larceny from the person, was sen- tenced to the Penitentiary for one year. Charles Smith, who pleaded gulity to @ similar charge, was sentenced to the Penitentiary for six months, In the United States Commissioners’ Court yester- day, the case of the government against Bernard Hess, an internal revenue officer, charged with at- tempting to blackmail was again up. After some unimportant testimony was taken the examination was further adjourned. ‘The North German Lloyds’ steamship Hermann, Captain Wenke, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to- day, for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Columbia, Captain Van Stce, will leave pier No. 4, North river, at three P. M, to-day, for Havana. The steamship Fabkee, Captain Steele, will sail at ten A. M. to-day for Bermuda. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Ryder, will leave pier No. 8, North river, at three P. M. to-day, for Charleston, §, C. ‘The stock market yesterday was again excited over New York Cenirai, Which fluctuated between the ex- tremes of 16014 and 163%. The excitement induced sales in (he evening at the Fifth Avenue Motel, where the price was run up to 164, subsequently reacting to 163%%. Gold was firm during the board, but finally closed on the street at 1314. Prominent Arrivals in the City. W. H. Seward, Jr., of Auburn; W. Bingham, of Cleveland; ex-Governor Dennison, of Ohio; E. B. Jud- son, of Syracuse; ex-Congressman J. M. Pomeroy, of New York, and Judge G. F. Comstock, of Syracuse, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman T. 0, Stewart, of New York, and Lacutenant A. W. Constable, of the United States Army, are at the St, Denis Hotel. Captain Ernest Brower, and Lieutenant A, G. Kel- logg, of the United States Navy; W. Parkmun, of ported a bill for the taking of the ninth census on the ist of April, 1870. It provides for a census bureau In the Interior Department and a superin- tendent in each Congressional district, the basis of representation to be fixed at one member to every 170,000 inbabitants. The National Junction Ratlway ‘bill was passed, Mr. Butler, from the Reconstruc- tion Committee, reported a bill for the organization of a provisional government in Mississippi. It au- thorizes the immediate reassembling of the State Constitutional Convention, which shall appoint a provisional Governor authorized to make removals from and appointments to oifice. The constitution when framed shall be subimtte.. to the people, and the votes shall be counted by te provisional Gov- ernor and the commanding general. In discussing the bill Mr. Beck, @ democrat from Kentucky, pro- posed as an amendment that President Grant be au- thorized to appoint the provisional Governor, and made an hour's speech in support of his amendment and in eulogy of the President's fairness. Pending the discussion the House adjourned. ‘The Legisiature. Several bills were reported in the State Seuate yesterday. Bulls were mtrodaced relating to the es- tablishment of a public square in New York, and to confer citizenship upon Indians desiring it. A few unimportant bilis were passed. Resolutions were adopted for a select committee of nine to whom shail be referred bills or general orders, and in relation to the Fire Department. A resolution relating to the Central and Erie Railroads was laid over. In the Assembly Dr. Swinburne’s report was pre- sented. Several bills were passed, including the General Appropriation bill. A bill was reported re- Jating to the Sherif’ of New York, and several re- ported relative to streets and other improvements in Brooklyn. On motion the Committee on State Prisons ‘Waa directed to visit Sing Sing and Investigate the cause of the recent outbreak there, At the after. noon session the Metropolitan Excise bill wae dis | cussed, progressed and made the special order tor | ‘Toesday evening next. A number of unimportant bills were passed. Bills were introduced in relation to the Harlem Bridge Commissioners, to incorporate | the Pneumatic Railway and Dispatch Company, | relative to New York City and County Tax ‘Levies, and several others. Miscellaneous, Among a large batch of- norhinations sent into the | Senate by the President yesterday was that of Moses | H. Grinnell to be Collector of Customs of the Port of New York. In @ Conversation with the Mississippi delegation of republicans yesterday President Grant expressed himself as anxious to have Congress proceed to re- construct Mississippi, but as differing with that body on the feasibility of the plan proposed vy the Reconstruction Committee. A delegation, composed partly of Priends, headed by Mr. George H, Stuart, waited upon the President yesterday, and, in regard to his indian policy, | urged him to select @ commission of five or seven gentlemen, who should give their services gratuit- ously, to act with the Secretary of the Interior in the management of the jindians and the dishurse- peut of the appropriations, The President sud we ci rrr—C‘(‘CNCONCOC@w#“C( O(‘(‘#RNC(ON#NCO(#O(#(##CON#ON#UULULU U U U UUW eee | professions. Yokohama, and W. F. Saunders, of Montana, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Dr. Ed. Dunscomb, of China; J. Marshall, of San Francisco, and E. Giddmgs, of Washington Terri- tory, are at the St, Charles Hotel, Colonel H. H. Cox, of Minnesota; William Stevens, of Norfolk, and George A. MeOleaky, of Georgia, are at the Maltby House. 4.8. King, of Springfield, and D. E. Woodroe, of the United States Navy, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Judge R. Balcom, of Binghamton; ex-Mayor Innis, of Poughkeepsie, and Charles Hall, of Omaha, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departares. Wendell Phillips left yesterday for Boston; P. H. Ewing for Europe, per steamer China; W. M. Ramsay and Mr. Dessaulles for Canada; J. M. and R. M. Saxton for Washington; Jacob for Albany; Captain Kline, of steamer Missiasippi, for Rio Janeiro; Dr. C. F. Wemple for Peoria, Il.; W. 0. Singleton for New Orleans; D. C. Cornell for Ithaca; G. C. Engleseny for Mississippi, and Governor McTartish, of the Hudson Bay Company, sailed yes- terday in the steamship China for England, Tur New Spanisn ConstrreTion.—At length « certain order seems to be growing out of the chaos of the Spanish revolution. The committee appointed to draft a new con- stitution reported yesterday to the Cortes. It is proposed that the future form of govern- ment shall be monarchical—a result for which we were not unprepared. Provision is made for a Senate and a Congress; the Senatorial term to be thirteen years, the Senators, four from each province, to be elected by provi- sional councils; the Parliaments to be trien- nial and universal suffrage to be the rule; the King to reign for eighteen years. The majority of the committee favored a separation | of Church and State, while a minority advo- cated the Roman Catholic as the State creed, but with toleration towards all other religious The liberty of the press and the right of public meeting are to be guaranteed, Such are the main features of the newly pro- posed Spanish constitution, A conscription bill was passed yesterday by the Cortes. Stoven Proverry.—In the Supreme Court the other day it was decided that a bunker who had taken a gold certificate for five thou- | sand dollars which he had ben notified was | stolen was not responsible for the amount to the person who had been robbed of the certifi- | cate, becanse the notification of the theft was not accurate in the description of the pro- perty, and because it is not reasonable that cashiers should be required to remember such notifications in regard to articles 4o numerous | a8 gold certificates, the Executive Department? The Senate has passed a bill modifying the Tenure of Oiice law, for which we refer the reader to our Washington despatches. The President is said to be satisfied with this compromise, although the essence of the law is still retained. The harsher restrictions and exactions of the law are cut off, but the power of the Senate over the President's removals is not relinquished. Hence we have still to ask the House, shall the Senate or the President manage the Executive Department? This is a startling question, It suggests a change of the government by act of Congress. By act of Congress this change was mde for the benefit of President Johnson. The power which all his predecessors had exercised in the matter of removala from office was in his case transferred to the Senate. Down to the passage of this law the President could and did remove his official subordinates at his dis- cretion, the Senate being content with its con- stitutional power and duty of confirming or rejecting the President’s nominations. But under this existing law the Senate has the decisive voice over every removal from office. Thus the Executive Department has become a mere appendage of the Senate. The President is but the President in name, for practically his office is in the hands of an oligarchy—the oligarchy of the Senate. It so happens, too, that for the four years’ term of General Grant as President the radical leaders of this oligarchy reasonably calculate upon controll- ing the Senate, and, through its action, the whole machinery and policy of the administra- tion, General Grant, with the quick perception of a sagacious soldier, on coming into power made the repeal of this Tenure of Office law the condition of anything like a general system of removals from office. He does not like the drudgery of submitting to the Senate his reasons for the removal of John Doe or Richard Roe, with the chances of having his reasons voted insufficient. But the radical majority of the Senate have so modified the law as to relieve “him of this drudgery, requiring only that his removals in the absence of Congress shall be subject to the consent of ¢he Senate at its next session. This is the substance of the law retained—the material feature which makes the President a mere servant of the Senate, though he may consent to it forthe sake of peace. Let us suppose, for example, that this modification of the law is in force, and that the two houses have adjourned over till December next. The President begins to weed out the fishy office- holders. A radical leader of the Senate, who has his friends to look after, takes the alarm. He calls at the White House and says we think this man and that man ought not to be touched, but that such and such may be safely removed. What, then, isthe President to do? Surely, his wisest course is to do nothing; and if left in this perplexing posture he ought to do nothing for the benefit of office-beggars, great or small. The Senate, having gained this position of the French Directory through the folly of the House of Representatives, is naturally enough disposed to keep it, The House, from its re- cent action on Several occasions, is quite as anxious to rectify its mistake, under which a member of the House as an office-secker is reduced to a mere nobody. But in refusing anything short of the absolute repeal of this Tenure of Office law and in refusing to ad- journ without this repeal the House may re- gain its proper position of influence with the administration in enforcing upon the Senate a return to the constitution on this subject and a compliance with the manifest will of the peo- ple. The law in question is an insult to the people and an insult to the House of Repre- sentatives from the degrading position to which the House is reduced, with the Presi- dent, under thislaw. Nor can we expect any wholesome legislation from Congress so long as the House, the President and the people are compelled, cap in hand, to bow to the supremacy of the Senate. The framers of the constitution, in classify- ing the Senate so that one-third of its mem- bers shall be elected with every new Congress, unquestionably had their fears that otherwise the Senate, with its members chosen for six years, might become a sort of oligarchy in the government. But under existing circum- stances, with this Tenure of Office law, we have this oligarchy established to a moral certainty for the next four years. Give it these four years, and it may become impossible to disturb this con- trolling aristocratic branch of Congress in the position it has secured. Nay, more; through its affiliations with banks,. bondholders, office- holders, manufacturing monopolies, railways, whiskey rings and all the other material agen- cies of wealth and power, the will of the Senate may not only be the law of the Presi-+ dent but the law of the succession. Surely, with our experience in revolutionary changes during the last eight years, we cannot in our wildest conjectures undertake to cover the possibilities of the future. In this experience we have learned practi- cally, under the terrible array of an army of a million of men to begin with, that the reserved strength and sovereignty of our national gov- ernment are in Congress; but we have learned, too, that if we are safe against a despotism from the White House we are in danger from an oligarchy in the Senate. Here lies the latent mischiet of this Tenure of Office law. The executive supervision which it gives the Senate, even as modified, and the temptations which it covers for the spoils and plunder, wealth and power, are too large to be trusted or to be trifled with in shallow compromises. This law should be utterly cut out of the statute book. It is not wanted. It is an un- sightly excreseence in any shape. There are many reasons for its removal; but were there no other, the subordinate position to which it reduces the House of Representatives should sufficeéwith that body for a firm demand for | nothing leas than absolute repeal. Repvetion tv Cante Rares.—The direc- tors of the Attantic Cable Company have resolved to reduce the tariff! on messages to four shillings sterling per word, which is about one dollar and twenty-seven cents in currency. The redaction will commence on the firat of June next, The present rates are nearly two dollars and twenty ceuts in currency for each word, way Hall To-Night. The movement in favor of Cuba begins to assume a practical and important character. A number of the most prominent gentlemen of New York have called a meeting of our citi- zens at Steinway Hall to-night to give expres- sion to their views with regard to the state of affairs in Cuba. These gentlemen, who are among the most influential in the country, say in their call: ‘We are fully satisfied that the present struggle of the Cubans for indepen- dence is based upon principles of eternal jus- tice; that the revolution which begin five months ago has been growing in power ever since, and now includes the great body of the Cuban people, who are giving their money and blood freely for the attainment of indepen- dence. We would in @ public and formal way express our sympathy for a people living on our very border, and almost a part of us, who are pledging their fortunes and lives to obtain rights unjustly withheld from them.” These sentiments will meet with a hearty response both in New York and every section ofthe republic, and no doubt there will be such a mass meeting to-night of our citizens, including those most conspicuous for influence, intellect and wealth, as will give impulse toa general movement throughout the country in support of the Cubans. It ought to spread far and wide, and from one end of the republic to the other, and that rapidly, too, as the fire on the prairie spreads ; for the bloody and savage char- acter of the war which Spain is carrying on against the revolutionary patriots calls for prompt sympathy and aid to the Cubans. These people are Americans, are our near neighbors, are identified with us in feeling, principle and trade, and ought to belong to the republican system of this Continent. It would be a dis- grace, an everlasting stain upon this great republic if we were not to protest against Spanish tyranny and cruelty and give all the aid possible to the brave people who are fight- ing for independence. But there is reason to believe the Cubans will receive the sympathy and aid of republican America, and the meet- ing to-night gives assurance of that. Wewill not anticipate the eloquent argu- ments of such orators as Henry Ward Beecher and others who will speak at the meeting on the subject of Spanish tyranny, the heroism of the Cubans and the justice of their cause, but will briefly advert to the duty of our govern- ment on the question. There is no doubt that President Grant and Congress sympathize with the Cubans and desire their independence. There may be, however, some hesitation as to taking any decided action at present in con- ceding belligerent righis to or recognizing the independence of- Cuba. Questions of an in- ternational character and difficulties surround- ing the Alabama claims may have weight in deterring the government from immediate action. Still we hope not. There is no par- allel between the recognition of the Southern rebels as belligerents by the European Powers and the recognition of the Cubans as such or of their independence by our government. The cases are entirely different. Then the long standing policy of the United States, em- bodied in what isknown as the Monroe doc- trine, is a perpetual protest against European govérninent on this Continent. And though we may not go so far as to force these Euro- pean governments from America, where they have held possession all along, it would be in keeping with this well established national policy to seize every reasonable opportunity to bring about the emancipation of every part of America from European rule, That opportunity occurs now, as far as Cuba is concerned. We owe noth- ing to Spain or other Powers of Europe. Several of them stepped out of their way to break up republican government here.and to destroy the United States. It is a duty we owe to ourselves and a question of high national policy to spread and strengthen re- publican institutions throughout America. Spain and the other Powers of Europe could have no just ground of complaint and would be too wise to come in conflict with the United States should we recognize the Cubans as belligerents or independent to-morrow. It is, as we said, a question of high national policy, and our government should take the bull. by the horns, Do not all the great nations of Europe act in this way? Did not Prussia put her grip on the German States when she had a great policy to carry out? Do not France, England, Russia and the rest do the same? We hope our government will lift itself up to the magnitude of great national interests and policy in the case of Cuba. The Cubans have been fighting five months and gaining ground all the time. The desire for independence is universal among them. Is it not time, then, that both the people and government of the United States should aid Cuba and prevent the ruin of the island, a prolonged war and the bloody horrors which threaten the people ¢ Co.tector or THE Port or New York.— Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, the well known mer- chant and a gentleman of excellent reputa- tion, has been nominated by President Grant for the post of Collector of the Port of New York. The varied and extensive commercial and government interests which are directly affected by a faithful or dishonest discharge of the duties of this office render it in every way desirable that Mr. Grinnell should accept the responsible and important position. Tue Workinemen.—The workingmen re- solved the other night that labor “does not receive ite just and equitable share of the joint profits of capital and labor.” What they propose to do in the premises is to organize and act from their etandpoint on the legislators to produce a workingman’s millennium, They demand that they shall have the right to ‘‘com- bine” for the regulation of wages, that the Eight Hour law shall be enforced, and that one class of workers shall be allowed to oppress another class by dictating how long they shall be kept in apprenticeship—requiring the waste of seven years for learning trades that ean be | mastered in one year. Broxens.—The bill to lay a State tax on brokers similar to that now paid by anc- tioneers is a good one, Brokers have in- creased in number far beyond the wants of the community for their services, and it is proper that the class should receive sonie legislative attention. Legitimate brokers can well afford to pay such a tax, and if it reduces the number of the other olass, very woll, at Stelm- | The Irish Church Debate in the Heuse | Isles only, but the whole Continent of Europe, sis ? At an advanced hour on Wednesday morn- ing‘the: debate on the second reading of the government measure for disestablishing and disendowing the Church in Ireland was brought to aclose. Mr. Gladstone’s speech in summing up seems, like the speech with which on the 1st of March he introduced the measure, to have been a masterpiece of Parliamentary oratory. highest kind of success, In a House full almost beyond precedent the second reading was carried by a majority of one hundred and eighteen. The enthusiasm with which the result was greeted, not only in the House but in the lobbies and on the street, shows how completely in this matter of justice to Ireland the people are in sympathy with the govern- ment. It certainly was crowned with the In due time the bill will come up again for a thirdreading. That the government majority will diminish in the interval there is not the slightest probability, There is just as little chance that the bill will, in any important particular, be altered. In its present shape it may be taken for on an early day be sent up for the con- sideration of the Lords. the upper house is a question as yet ex- tremely doubtful. tirely to the taste of that class of men of whom the House of posed. measure, although, perhaps, no revolutionary measure was ever conceived in a spirit so obviously conciliatory or took a shape so little calculated to offend. The presumption is, however, that their lordships, yielding to the all but unanimous wish of the people, will make no stubborn resistance. resist we are quite satisfied that Mr. Glad- stone has this matter so thoroughly at heart that he will strengthen his hands by a fresh appeal to the people, and, if necessary, will create as many new peers as will give hima majority. granted it will How it will fure in It is not a bill en- Lords is com- It is a sweepingly reyolutionary If they should On almost all hands the excellency of Mr. Gladstone’s bill is admitted. The English press has been warm and enthusiastic in its praise. Nor has this praise been confined to the liberal journals only. tory and even High Church in sympathy, have confessed its fairness, its comprehensive- ness, its completeness. triumph. It argues the very highest kind of statesmanship to be able to disestablish and disendow an ancient and wealthy religious corporation like the Episcopal Church in Ireland, and to do so in a manner which leaves that Church in possession of a freedom she never enjoyed before and substantially as comfortable as ever. Many journals, It is no small Mr. Gladstone has had to deal not only with the Episcopal Church, but with two more religious bodies—the Roman Catholics and the Presbyterians—and the skill with which “he grapples with the difficulties in the two latter cases is quite as conspicuous as that which he manifests in dealing with the first. Mr. Gladstone's pro- posed plan of dealing with the Church question in Ireland may be stated in a few sentences. The time required for settlement is to cover three separate periods. The frst period will date from the passing of the act until January 1, 1871. The second period will extend from January 1, 1871, to January 1, 1881. The third period is to streteh indefinitely from 1881. Directly the bill becomes law a com- mission, appointed by the Crown, is to enter into the technical ownership of all the tempo- ralities of the Irish Church and to assume all the functions now exercised by the Ecclesias- tical Commission, which will no longer exist. Vacancies occurring during this preliminary period will be filled up as formerly; but all such incumbents will hold their offices subject to the provisions of the act, and the archbish- ops and bishops then and so appointed will have no right to seats in the House of Lords. It is expected that during this period the Church will appoint a representative body, which will fairly represent the bishops, the clergy and the laity. By the end of this first period Church and State will be fully ready for business. On the Ist of January, 1871, the Irish Church will be disestablished. Irish archbishops and bishops will no longer sit in the House of Lords; ecclesiastical courts’ will cease to exist; the Crown will appoint to no more livings, and all private patronage will be a thing of the past. From that date the Church will assume the character of a voluntary organization. It is not to be imagined, however, that indi- viduals are to suffer. Every incumbent is to receive an annuity equal to the clear yearly sum he has been receiving formerly, No pro- perty is to be taken from the Church which has been gifted to it from private sources since 1666, or which has no marketable value. All other property shall be taken up by the gov- ernment, The income of the Irish Church is about seven hundred thousand pounds ster- ling a year. About seven millions will be given the Church as compensation for the loss of its property. The Presby- terians in the shape of Regium Donum re- ceive some fifty thousand ponnds a year. Existing incumbents among them are to be treated like the Episcopalians. They are all to have life annuities, provided they con- tinue to discharge their duties. In addition to this the money now given annually in aid of the Widows’ Fund and of the Belfast College is to be represented by a sum fourteen times the amount, paid down at once. Maynooth re- ceives some twenty-six thousand pounds annu- ally, For this the Roman Catholics are to receive a suto fourteen times the amount. By the year 1881 it .is expected that the separation of Church and State will be com- plete; that the Church will have fairly entered upon her new career; that the government will have converted the Church property into cash, will have met all its obligations and will be in possession of seven millions of surplus money. This surplus seven millions is to be devoted in a variety of ways to the benefit of the poor of Ireland. Such in brief is Mr. Gladstone's bill, Passed into law it will have o certain effect in reconciling the Irish people to English rule. The great lesson which the introduction of such a bill into the British Parliament reads to the world is this: That the State Church system is doomed. What is about to be done for Ireland will ere many years roll past be done for Scotland, and England will follow. The revolution will swoep over not the British La Nor fs the time far distant when a privileged aristocracy must make up their minds to share the fate of a privileged Church. Important from Cuba. We give to-day in another column the state- ment of an American gentleman, who has just arrived from Cuba, uarrating his personal experience in a ride of three hundred miles through the insurgent districts from Puerto Principe to Havana, and who was shown through the revolutionary camp with the express injunction that he should come and tell the Heracp what he saw and heard. He has complied with his promise, and our readers now have his statement before them. It isa plain narration and is entitled to credit and consideration. From personal observa- tion he is impressed with the belief that the Cubans will succeed in driving the Spaniards out of the country, but will want more and better arms than they now have before they can capture the fortified ports and harbors. Inasmuch as the armament for these ports and the ammunition are largely sent from here by eveny steamer for Havana, it will be no more than common justice that we let the Cubans have some also, with the bel- ligerent right to use them. These are what Spain was in haste to grant to the Con- federates in the late war, and it is our turn now. The Purity of the Fountains of Educa- ¢ , tion. We have a large number of public schools in this city. For their support and maintenance the taxpayers have to be largely assessed. Over three millions are demanded for the educational fund the present year. What are our citizens to expect from this outlay? The fountains of education must be kept pure and unpolluted, else there will flow therefrom a stream whose poisonous waters will permeate and damage every relation of political and social life. Hence arises the necessity for the exercise of discretion in the selection of members of the Board of Education. That Board should never have been allowed to become a partisan organization. The matter of educating the rising generation is one that attaches to no particular party; but any party that ignores or tampers miserly with the subject must suffer ingominious failure. In order to secure the advantages which the expenditure of a large sum of money might demand for educational purposes the people expect a Board of Education composed of gentlemen of solid substance and personal responsibility. The proposed new Board may be an improvement upon the old; but the very movement for a change shows that reform is necessary. In Governor Hoff- man we have a sensible chief magis- trate who will not allow his prejudices to lead him astray in this matter of educational reform. He has the ability to grasp the sub- ject and the good sense to use that ability to the advantage of our municipality. The Tam- many ring is divided. There is a rift in it that will require time and exquisite manipulation to heal. It is a fight between Fifth avenue and Water street—between the Sixteenth and Sixth wards, ringing in the First by way of giving Supervisor Hank Smith a word to say. Now why cannot the Board of Education be constituted upon the plan on which the Cen- tral Park Commission operates? That com- mission has given extraordinary satisfaction to the whole community and added largely to the prosperity not only of the city and of the State but to that of the whole country. A Board of Education might be selected from such men as Royal Phelps, Moses Taylor, Moses H. Grinnell, Marshall O. Roberts, A.T. Stewart and a number of others who would stand the test of scrutiny and present aninvulnerable bulwark against all sorts of corruption. With such men as these at the head of the fountains of education there need be no fears that the stream flowing therefrom will not be one of social health and political prosperity. The eyes of the friends of our great educational system rest upon Governor Hoffman. Tue Ivorgase or THE PoLice Forcr.— The bill for the increase of the police force, which was reported favorably in the Assembly some time ago, was on ,Tuesday recommitted to the Committee on Cities. The Governor lately vetoed a bill to appoint a president pro tem. of the Commission, and the referring back of the Police bill to the committee is said to be aruse on the part of certain individuals to have a clause appointing a president pro tem. tacked on to it, As Mr. Acton’s leave of absence will expire in a month or two, and as the Com- mission have got along very well so far with- out a visible head centre, there does not appear to be any necessity for the appointment of any such official at present. The bill for the increase of the force’is a good one as it stands, and should be passed; bat the action of the “‘recommitters” may kill it effectually. After all, if the Commission cannot well live without a president pro tem., why not appoint one of the present Commissioners to the posi- tion and thus end the matter? Better this than to load the bill with a clause certain to’ cause its veto, A Descenpant or the Verrrane ‘“Honger Jonx Davis.”—The new Assistant Secretary of State, Bancroft Davis, is a son of honest John Davis, of the Worcester district, Massachu- setts, His father was the original honest John in Congress. ‘Blood tells.” A New Prase or tHe Paciric RAtLRoaD Row.—Suddenly the scene changes and the whole interminable, inextricable and almost incomprehensible Pacific Railroad dispute is maved to the wider sphere of the United States courts, That railroad originating in Congressional enactments and being @ national institution altogether, a federal court would appear to be the proper place for the determi- nation of any questions of right concerning it, and so far its removal on the mandamus of Judge Blatchford looks like progress, But finally shall we there get at the right of the dispute with more facility than elsewhere? Will the heavy swearing be reconciled or the false swearing exposed, so that we shall really know whether the Crédit Mobilier is a grand swindle or whether the public is only assisting at another of Fisk's theatrical enter- prises? We doubt it, and we fancy that a conse like this is one more evidence that there are tao many lawyers. There is too much ‘darken- ing counsel with knowledge.”