The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1869, Page 6

6 EUROPE. Debate on tho: Irish Church Bill in the English Parliament. speeches of Mr. Disraeli and John Bright. Sad Colliery Accident in England. Dreadful Explosion in the City of Paris. The Cunard steamship Scotia, Captain Judkina, om Liverpool the 20th, via Queenstown the 21st, arrived at this port yesterday morning. She brings details of our cable telegrams up to date of sailing. The Minister of the Emperor's Household has ac- corded to: Mile, Déjézet an annual pension of 2,000 francs. An imperial decree published on the 17th in Vienna, Austria, sanctions the establishment of trial by jury for offences ayainst the press law. In the upper house on the 17th the Austrian budget and fluancial bill for 1869 were passed, with- out any ameudments, as brought up from the lower house, Count Cambray-Digny presented to the Italian Chamber on the 17th inst. a report upon the state of the Treasury for 1867-8, and announced that he should be prepared to make his financial statement aftes the Easter holidays. ‘The foreign journals announce the death at Paris of General O’Mailey, of the French army, The counctis of revision have commenced their sittings all over the French empire. The Dutch ‘Minister of the Interior has stated that the government had not sanctloned any convention between Dutch and French railway companies wfth regard to the junction of tueir lines. A grand relizious service had been performed in the Cathedral of Madrid in honor of Lanfartine. Advices from Copenhagen, Denmark, state that the marriage of the Prince Royal will be celebrated on July 27. The Indipendance Belge says the negotiations be- tween France and Belgium are making satisfactory progress, though the announcement of their having been concluded is premature. A The Gaulois gives unpleasant news concerning Mme. Patti at St. Petersburg. In playing in “Don Pasquale” she was suddenly taken ill and obliged to leave the theatre. An oficial intimation that Prince Arthur will ar- rive in Dublin on the 5th April, and remain there till the 13th, as been recetved by the Lord Mayor of Dublin. The King of Prussia has sent the crown of King Theodore of Abyssinia, which was bought at the capture of Magdata trom a common soldier by a Prussian officer, to Eugland, where it has just arrived, The Gawtlois states that preparations for a Carilst rising are being made in Spain. The Ministry ts about to propose measures of public safety to pro- vent the recurrence ot distarbanees. Letters from"Piymouth say that during the evening of the 19th a heavy north-northwest gale set in and blowed with great violence over the western cotn- ties and the Bristol aud Kaglish chanueis. Consid- erable damage to the shipping was feared. A large number of trawlmg sloops were caught at sea, and much anxiety was felt for their safety. Several steamers that had gone tosea put back, The Journal de Rowen of Wednesday, the 17th inst., says:—“Snow fell nere al! this morning in great abun- dance. The hills aud deids in the neighborood are covered, aud the cold has become severe.” At 2 meeting of the Giadstone Testimonial Com- mittee, held in Liverpool on Thursday evening, the 18th inst, it was resolved, in acoordéance with Mr, Giadstone’s Wish, to devote te funds in havd and ip course of collection to the erection of one or more Cottage hospiials, to be specially ideatufied wita his name, A battery of artillery is being prepared m Portugal for the expedition to Mozambique. Accortting to tue Revouwao de Setembro, whieh journal gives the details of the war ma‘eriel to accompany the guns, there are 280 rockers of a new kind, invented by a Portuguese named Tavares, Some are charged a8 grenades, while others in exploding throw out a brilliant tight, which lasts two or three minutes. Strikes have taken place at Ave of the cotton mills at Preston, and the number of persons out of work 13 3,000, In some of the milla the strike is only partial, and a number of hands continue at work. The masters have decided on not accepting arbitration, and many of thein are said to be of opinion tuat in the present depressed state of the manufacture they would best consult their own interests by entirel) ctosing their mitlis. On Priday night, the 19, Mr. Murphy, the noto- Tiows anti-Catsoue jecturer, appeared at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, North Shields, Eugiand, with the in- tention of delivering a lecture. The all was crowded inevery part, Itt said tiat 200 Irish Roman Oatho- lies, who hal come from Jarrow, armed with biudgeons aud iroa slags, attended. These Lrishmen attacked the lecturer and the audience. The seats iu the hall were torn up and used in defence. Sev- eral meu Were mjured severely. As the police and special constabies were not abie to restore peace tie miliiary-were called out and placed under the direction of the Mayor and the magistrates. Great excitement prevailed tnroughout the city. The money article of the London Morning Star of the l€th has the following: — The proposals to be submitted to the sharcholders of the Hudson's Bay Company at ther meoting on ine 24th are the followiag:—The government pro- poses that the company Shall surrender to ner Majesty all their rights of government, property, &c., ert'’s Land avd other parts of British North in kn America, Witich will be transferred to the Dominion of Canada, upon 'auada payiag the company £300,00) im compensation fur iweir territury and rights. It is proposed that the compauy shail retam thelr rigt 8 Of trade, thetr stations and blocks of ined ad- jolning tu nd they shall, moreover, be allowed vo claiat one-twenticth of the iand ta every townsip or district within what is called the fertilé belt, a8 tt is eet out for set taxes te ard serve, ceps these favoraire than an. si “ho at. Nor ate any excepiionai ie’ company’s land, trade or shareholders will ac- pe ENGLAND The Second Reading of th Bill—fve Vebate—Specches avd John Bright. tek Church it, Dieracti On the 18th test. the second read o> of the Irish Phurch pill was gone through. The motion was made by the Premier atuldst the cheers of the liberal party. ‘The House of Commons was crowded in every part im apticipation of the debate that was sure to ensbe upon the occasion. When the subject Was properly betore te House Mr. Disraci rose to move the amendment of Which fe hed given notiee, Reminding the House that When iniroducing the measure Mr. Giadetoue said thet he was sulmitdag @ gigantic issue, and hat a greater or more provound question was never Yel taken invo considericon by Parhament, the right homorcile gentieman observed that wita this view of the ster te eniliely concurred, and deduced it ever there was an in- stance in Witch tre as required to exercise the utmost ration and matnal for- bewrance the | ease in pow sure proposed to lish two objed sever the union between Gourch and State—that Was to say, to disestabiish and next to empower the State to seize the erly of @ ration, by Which was 1 tablishine and disendownent we ‘ent matters, though Mmequentiy mixed tow To disestapiisn- ment he was witerly oppose), vecause he was in favor of What wae ca! the union of Charch and State. Ry that We Hers God An Arrangement wince nr the State reagious vy inves! ing authority wits the higheat sanction that could influence the conewenta aad Co étions, and con ently the com qet of che State: while, on the other hand, that union Meaded covil authority With coclesastical n- fineneo, defined aad aefended the rights of the laliy and ented the Church from suvsiding into a wechiut corporation. “be first qnestou that arose here was whether {ley were coriain that, in effecting this severance | recourse to no more complete method than destroying the standard of folerasion. He did not mean to assert that there was no difference between rate property and private property, The State had relations with all property, but tts relations to private and to corporate property were of a diifer- evt character. Tue relations of the State to private property Were the relations of a jan to & ward, and the relations of the State to corporate property were those of a trustee, The duties of a guardian were merely to protect the interests of his ward; those of a trustee Were of & more complicated char- acter. It was the frst duty of the trustee to see that the intentions of the founder were fulfilled, a3 much as the varying circumstances of generations would permit; but under no circumstances could he appropriate to himself the property of wich he was the fiduciary, He condemned the confiscation of corporate property, then, first, because whatever might be its origin, whether the gift of the nation or the donation of mdtviduals, such property was from its use and par) essentially popular prop- erty—the pro} the nation, though not of the State. He disiiked contiscation, also, because no great att of the kind had ever been without most injurious consequences to 80- clety. Generally speaking, it had either led to civil war or to the establishment of that which was even worse—a chronic disaifection for ages among large classes of the people. But if there were corporate property the confiscation of which he disliked more than any otner it was Church property; because it was in a certain degree au tniellectual tenure and in @ very great degree a moral and spiritual tenure. It was the peopery of the at body of the people, the easiest method by which the sons of the middie and’even of the work- ing classes coald become resident ianded proprietors; and he bad tuvariably observed that when Church property had been confiscated it always went to the proprietors of the land. Touching, then, upon the causes of Irish discontent, which was said to render the measure necessary, the right honorabiegentieman di tuem as beiug 1 Martial’s epigi some true and e Jalse, and some partly true partly faise. No One denied that discontent existed, and that among its causes was the tact that a power ful clergy exercising its influence over numerous congregations had uo connection with the State. And the policy of the government was to regenerate the country by baying three churches not in con- nection with the State. All musi agree that this jure of itself was not suiticient to terminate Insh discontent, | one! im- a. political ‘There were other measures of equal or portance that were already canvassed circles. It had been acknowledged, even by the Prinae Mmmister himself, that che quostion of the jand was of the greatest importance, and he believed the re honorable gentleman had pledged himself to eit x hand. Pe) Pings hep the Leap ae passed, W ever pass, they must at pre- pared to encountor Irish discontent. For what would be (he action of the tree free Churches on the land question? He did not antic the immediate ces- sation of all atic di ces between them, thougn he Wat asperities arising from that source might be softened; but he ventured to say that there was one dogma upon which all three wouid thoroughly and which would be as unanimously ad as any that could be sanc- uoned by the lmpenaing kcumenica! Council; that was that the clergy of the three Churches, whether disendowed in the a Of Queen Elizabeth or Queen Victoria, would feel that they were eguaily ill treated; and he had no doubt that the general discontent of the country would find elo- quent, organized, and learned exponents of its wrongs without any reference whatever to the diifer- ences of religious ‘creed. Such was the prospect which disestablstinent offered of rendering a peo- ple contented anda government strong. Disestab- ishiwent offering & prospect of so ambiguous and unpromising 8 Character, how was it inveuded to act in the matter of disendowinent? It was proposed to deprive the Church in Ireland of its properiy ; and a natural inquiry was, why did the minister propose todo soft It was not because he believed that an; or Church would use the property to greater ad- lage, for be did uot propose to du so, Nor was tt because the tenure of the property of the Irish Church was either unsatisfactory or feeble, for it was quite the reverse. What, then, was the reason? So far as he could understand, it was that the feelings of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland were opposed to the Frot Church holdmg endowments. Tue Roman Catholic Church Wished to depend only ou voluutary contributions, and becanse tue Protestant Cawrch was endowed that was the reason why the Protestaut Church was sakl to be a comparative Jatlure. Sarely that was the ulost extraordinary reason ever yet adduced by aminister for committing & great act of confisca- tion. It Was an enureiy new principle to takeaway the property Of one corporation, simply because another body which did not alm at possessing it, aud to Which it was not otvered, was jealous of the corporation which had tha’ advantage. It was not only &@ Lew principio—it was also a prineiple that might be applied to all Kinds cf property, both cor- porate ant private; in sort, it wasa@ principle of ‘vifeiture without pretext that was worlty 0! the darkest ages. Andu it were adopted for Iceland, Was it impossible not to extend it to England Four oers were made by the measure to induce he insi Cuurch to concur in this act of contlaca- son—tirst, Uiat the vested Interests of every indl- vidual should be respected, which went for nothing, lor there was no combination of circum- slaaces upon which any human being could propose the confiscation of corporate property without ac cowpanying it with security lor vested interests. ext, the trish Church was ollered the possession of ius Cliurehes upon an Prey 3 to keep them in cool repair. By Wus policy the Premier might flad punelf one fine mormiaug with 1,590 churches to iaainGun, aad. as a prudeat man, he would be glad to find any persons ready to ta&e acertaiu number of them o% his hands, He did not think, therefore, that an oer of taese Churches would act a3 an in- ducement of @ paramount character in the trausac- ton, Nor Was it move iikely that the mext oiler Would be s0—namely, that the clergy of the Irish Church suouid retain the gicbe houses provided \ucy discharged # debt upon teu so great that the houses had become wamarkeiable, Tae last offer was per- mals#ion to tuose who possessed vested interesis to capilauze them, it Was esiliaated that to effect this operation would require not less than £6,000,000; and iuaay personas Were Under the impression that the Irish Caurch Woyld be left with aa endowment to that amount. is, however, was one of the greatest deceptions or delusions in the word. For dus part he did not see tat it was for the advantage of incumbents to eapitauze their imlerests by ex- chauging them for a security of less value; for if their vested interus's were capitaiized no perma- hewt endowment could accrue frei tie operation. ‘These offers, thea, bewg all futtie, did the manner in which the Rowan Catholic College of Maynooth was to be dealt with form an inducement to the Irish Church to co-operate in confiscauon? He referred te this parcalar part of the measure bo- cause it dia not seem to mete out equal justice, In this case they applied that priuctple to vested interests which under no pretence whatever could be esumated at fourteen or even seven years’ pur- Chase. ‘They applied to ali the students of tat hast- tution the same priuciple which they were applyin, tu the vested taterests of the Protestant Churc;; au that, he argued, Was not just. Te position of a stu- dent at Maynooth Was notin any degree aualagous to that of an fi mbent of the Churci. Furtly rg he undeistoud the Geciaratioan made oa.the husungs casiire lt Was not intended taat any of tus should be given to the ministers of any (© imperial purposss, Taat declaration was frequenily reiterated and on there was no doubt the vote of the country was taken. Sut the pi not boca redeemed by ihe measure on the table, although its preamble ex- piicitly set forta that the property of the Ciurch 3 should be app! to the advantage of the Irian peoyle, bat nol to the malntenance of aay Charch or cergy or guy other minwiry, por for the teaciiug of religion, One would have supposed ‘hat ihe @rrangemenat had been made «iter the Hill was drawn, and that, by some inwivertence, for hubedy ever took notice of a preambie, the old preamble remained. ia ten years’ tame the Irish ch woud be without @ sluiling, While they would see @ richly eadowed Roman Cathouc clergy aud a Very comtortabiy endowed Presoycerian body. And ting Would be an obvious injasiice. As to the application of the surplus, it was cear that the Whole bulk of it would go to the proprietors of the soil, aad of that he utterly disapproved. One of the curses of ireland was said to be the want of a resident proprietory; and bere was legislation would sweep away a gre st nuuber of proprietors. ver of he Curses Oi sreland Was its poverty, and of Wholesale confseavion of pro . As to tee fature he f redicted that if the prin- ¢ were appired to the Irish Church 1 would next e w be exteuded t tae Church of England. That sppeared to be inevitabie, and he did not believe that the disendowment of the Chureh of Engiand could take place without ieading to consequences that some might think remote, bat Which were near at band, England coald not afford a revolation, She had tad her revolutions (wo hundred years ago, beiore otuer nations, and had had » start fh Wealth and empire, What ehe had gained by those revolutions Was @ period of bwo handred years of great serenity and secured stability of the State, and he attributed vis happy characteristic of our history to the cur. cutnstance that in that feterval we had soived two of the profoundest problems in politica, We had ac- complished complete personal and complete political liperiy and combiaed ke with order, and had achieved Complete relytious liberty and united it with a na tonal faith. ‘Thee two immense exploits had se- cured © we cowitry ‘ated freedom ant tem- pered religion; and ho was bound to say tha: we had wecure | those gi biersings mainly by the aciion— macious aciion—of te two great im the State. In thisage weseewed y What hervle efforts tue stom and tempered re ised and how much they greatness and the glory of the try. Jn conclusion the right honorable gontle sul he beveved that the measure before the House Was & most dangerous one, and ne submitted its consideration With confitence tw the prudence and the patriotism of Pert ent. He moved as an amendment that the bill be read @ seound time that day six montis. After Mr. Disraelt resumed his the debate was taken up Wy ral other mem and afler the bil being digeussed for sorae Loe it was on motion laid over until next day. The adjourned debate was taken up the following y it was taken up by * Mr. Bali, who argued that the poicy now pursued by Mr. Gladsvone was utterly subversive of whe view: SEE Se Me tained se a large and same ples wi lied as were to the Irish Church there could be no doubt that their disestablshment disondowment must inevitably follow, tigman was followed by Sir Me ir Belg sa that he had no faith in politieal ro- Ngious esi ewe but he was willing to admit ‘that the Established Church in England had tae as- sent of the majority of the people, ‘Tue question, however, now before the house i whetner a Stato church Fae good for Ireland, and the opposers of the measure utterly fatied to show Mb was or that the opinion of whole civiized world, which condemned the Irish Church, was wi not ap; to the verdict of the nor to the declared opinion of the constituencies at the last election, but would be content to take the opinion of @ trusted leader of the conservative party who had been @ member of two administrations— he meant the noble lord the member for King's Lynn,» who certainiy was not given to heedless rhetoric, but was the most cali and detiverate speaker, perhaps, in the House, The noble lord, at a banquet of hls firm friends at Bristol with evident feeling described the unsatisfactory state of Ireland and declared that it was the question of the hour. ‘Those were solemn words, but pot more so than the occasion warranted. Weil, last seasion Lord Mayo, on the part of the Jate government, at great lengt h announced the policy which had been arrived at; but lt wag found to be so impracticable iat the noble lord, from the exigencies of his friends, was obliged to disown tf ib Was then foond that tue late government had no policy as regarded Ireland atall, Mark the difference now, The head of the vernment in his turn proposed a policy wards ireland which at once commended itself to the-whole of the United Kingdom—to England and to Protestant Scotland gas well as to Catholic Ireiand. The late government confessed itself unabic to deal with Ireland, but the policy of the present er. ernment had met with universal approval. speacnes of the op] mn in this de} confessed if. Noone knew better than the head of the late government, who had recognized the necessity of the case more than twenty years ago, but who, when in office, had not the power or the cout to grapple with the question in the manner in which he imself had years ago indicated. Jt was a fact that the Chureb of freland was the cburch of conquest, and Age bility could the church of @ smali minority Protestants have remained established for 80 many centuries in the midst of a nation of Catholics, Sxoane by the jorce of the same power which had established it. To estavlisa a chureh in such circumstances was a most flagrant violation of the principles of the Reformation, and conservatives fifty years heuce—for there always would be @ conservative party—wouid 100k back with surprise at the conduct of their predecessors in supporting in the year 1369 a Protestant State Cburcn in Ireland afier the experieoce of 300 years. He read an extract from a little work on Irelaud by Count Cavour, which pointedly described tae results of the State Church in keeping up disatfection and religious animosities in Ireland, and declared that the state of the peasantry in Ireland was worse than that of the staves in the Antilles. For 800 years tne Irish people had every day and every hour protested br jb the existence of the State Church in ireiaud, In England the State Chureh was not the symbol of conquest; but If ii had been forced on the country by a Power across the Channel, those who were opposed to it would not have rv it with the same equanimity as they did now. ‘The it honorable gentioman (Mr. Disraeli) said that {t was the only security for toleration, but he eppepred to make his history as he went on, and, like Voliaire, wrote history betcer without facts than with them. It was uot to the State Church, but to the Puritans and to their descendants the nonconformists, that the religious liberties Of England were owing. Nations wouaded in thew religious susceptibilities never forgot until the cause was lutely removed, ‘They would tolerate alien governors and alien judges, but not a wound in this tender point; and until the ranesig nore that it created was reinoved a per. fect union between England and Ireiand was utierly impossible. ‘The result of this policy was that at tus moment ireland was not only more Catholic, but what was worse, more itoman than any otuer country in Europe. The policy oi a State Church had not only tailed but the result of this Protes:ant asccndaacy was thai they had made Cauholicism not ouly a taith but a patriotism, for wiuch the Iriah people were not only ready to suffer but to die. since we Union, during the seventy years which this House nad gov- erued Ireland, it had always been restless with dis- turbances and insurrections pei ly cropping up, and they could only come to the cunclusioa that the Protestant Church, instead of veing a neal:hy light of the Reformation, had been nothing bur a burning fire, scorching up everything good énd in the country. Tue result was tiat peace and loyaity, industry and charity had cisappeared under ats pilates influence. eo was for a union, bat a true, just and solid union, such as every culigitened staicsman for the last seventy years had hoped ior but ieared he coud never accomplish, Such @ Uutom he was ovnvinced would be infinitely better for tae real interests of both countries than aay severam.. byvery Irishman in Austraita and America Was watehi with interest for the result of these debates. Tue Pentan agitation was led, to @ certain exteut, by the sympathy of Americaus, Who believed that be: ud had never done justice to Ireland, and there were no bitierer foes to Engiand in America than those who went there from the shores of ireland. 16 musi there- fore point out that it was not only for the sake of peace and tranquility in Ireiaud, but for the sake of the foreign relations and we integrity of the empire, that they were now caited upoi to do justice to Irel Ridicuiing the policy of endowing the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian religions, he referred in terms oi strong praise to the efforts made by the Free Church of Scotland in the short thine that bad elapsed since it had ieit the Established Church, whtch tad been deciared to be one of the bappiest events that had ever occurred in that country, He anticipated the same result in Ire- land—that the Protestant retigioa would become the true light of the Reformation and the koman Catho- lic would lose somethmg of its Romanizing and iWiberal teadencies. In conclusion, he descriped with great force the results which he anticipated from the bill, which would Insure peace and tran- quilltty and prosperity in Ireland and wouid ad new lustre aud dignity to the Crown. On this av- count he beiteved that it would have the support of all good peopie within the bounds of the British empire, and that it would have the approval o1 the Supreme vent tor it was founded on the princt- ples of mercy aad justice, which were the atirivuics of His glorious reiga. (Cheers. On the motion of Sir Rounde'! Palmer the debate ‘was again adjourned. Terrible Colliery Accident—Supposed Death of Thirteen Miuers. English journals of the 18th contain thrilling ac- counts of @ dreadful colliery accident. From one of the London papers we extract the foulowing ac- count of the disaster:— On the morning of the 17th one of the moat serious colliery accidents which ever occurred in the Wolverhampton «istrict happened at the Karl of Dualey’s No, 29 Pi, Waliows epee Lock’s lane, Brierly bill, Suadenly and in the middle of we night the water burst ito the pit, where there ven meu, tavee boys aad six horses at work; and it is be- lieved that every life has been lost. ay evening the dvomed mea and boys descended the my w work a night turn, The No. 29 pit is situated jn Lock's lane, near the great water-pumping en- wine—ihe strongest by far in the district—aud within a few feet of tae road; while at its rear 1% the trough pumping, engine, and the wind- ing engine of the pit iisell Is also in Close proximity, Shoruy alter one o’ciock in the morning the engl. neer of the great water-pumping engine observ great rush oi vapor Up the pil shalt, This must have ea caused either by an latentional setting fire toa ‘ity of petroleum by the men as @ signal that something Was Wrong, or by the rush of water over the lights in the pit a ahuge fire at the bottom ured ior purposes of Ventilation; but as such an hour it Was @asiiy mistaken for the effect of a fire in the pit, Tue engineer at once communicated witn nly brother tenter at the winding engine, and both, in company Wiki & DANKSiNAaN aud doggy, proceeded to the pit shaft, Two men courageousiy Volunieered to descend and ascertain what was the matter, The engine Was set in motion and the two men were lowered. Two or three strokes of the cagine brought them to collision with the water, which was higt up the shaft. They immediat cried out that it Was water and not fire; but before the engine could be reversed tuey Were piunged teu or cievea fee. te the water. When the men returned to the sur’ace messengers Were sent out for the Karl of Dudiey’s agents iu the district, and a very short time saw them standing round the sha't, discussing what had best be done. ‘The great water engine was set to work at the rave of nine strokes @ minute, instead of five or six; the though pumping engine was got into r and at once commenced vo work, and @ barrel instead uf a Sop was attached to the end of the pitrope. The Whole of these arrangements were made, and water ‘St the rate of 260 tons per boar was raised from the Pe: 5 Dut such Was the f of the eletnent that at Weive o'clock, noon, the water had only sunk aoout e.xieen inches down the shaft. About Dail-pase three o'clock Mr. J.P, Baker, the pector of Mines for the district, came to the ath of the pit. The sinking of the water had been carefully registered, FRANCE, Vatal Explosion in ParisSeveral Lives Lost=—A Number of Buildings Injured. A dreadful explosion took place at the chomical works of M, Pelletier, at the Piace de ia Sortonne, on Monday night, the 16th lost, Seven persona, itis ascertained for certain, were killed. The corre spondent of an English journal furnishes the foliow- tng account:— The catastrophe in the Sorbonne quarter wi more dreadfui than the drat reports led one to aap. . it was for sone minutes thought in the neigh: vorhood that an earthquake liwl occurred, Almost all the shop fronts of the Rue de ia ¥ervonne, tie Kae Vievor Cousin, and the adjoining parts of the Boulevard hael vers, The Padres wea ae ming before the Lae he Lous ‘In the Harcourt and Takeniee teaahon The oy did pot 2008 Goat i , first stated, Tnarnery the So! but ine warehouse in the nborhood belonglag to M, Fon- taine, where e.auandty of longt 1p cotton aud other ex- rere stored. M, Fontaine was tely decorated with the Legion of or for the ‘h caused the plosion was a quantity of picrate de polasse which Was to have been aent off to Toulon the next day. ‘The loss of life occasioned by the accident 13 not yet ascertained, Seven persons at least wore killed, among whom were two children playing in the street. Some of the victims were blpwn to atoms— ‘& head was found here, & leg there, and a. arm 1 Hupp , the Sorgoune school was empty at the time. Had the explosion occurred two hours sooner scores of lives must have been sacri- ficed, In the Corps Legislatif a question will be asked touching the imprudence of government per- mitung the existence of such warehouses a3 M. Fontaine's tn the heart of Paris, M, Fontaine him self was wounded and his son was killed. The Succession to the Throne. (Paris (March 18) Conrgendnaence London Morning There {a no reason why the Emperor should not be spared to witness the majority of his only son, and in seven years’ time many events may have taken place by Which France might become endowed with a form of goverament less personal and conse- quently less dependent on the individual will of ‘the sovereign than the system of rule practised by Napoleon HL Ii on the death of the elected of the people France were to find herself governed by @ responsible Ministry and a Chambers exercising real control and real independence it would be more easy forthe he to ascend his throne and for the French pation to acclaim him, Soca modifications of the imperial constitution may take place. ‘The Emperor 18 underatood to desire a gradual advance towards the old parliamentary system, with its old liberties; such, ia fact. as is now at work in most States with more or less success. If France obtains liberty, wisely wears liberty and practices liberty during the lifetime of Napoleon Lil. there will be n0 question about the rights and heir- ship of Napoieon lV. Tadd 9 statement of the visions made by the Emperor for the succession to the throne:— "The succession to the throne of France { regulated by the Benaius Consulta of November 1, 1868. 17 tas jecree the In) iigaity is beradi fegitimate desecadant 0 ater of primogeniture. poleon nh has the right to seendants of the brothers of Napoleon I.; but this privi- of adoption does not belong to the successors of the + Emy fieeioen gyn leave no. ailaee, '® successor, ‘Coane State, together Presiden.s of the Senate and the to Bereilied by therrdte of the poopie, By ase i 2 cree of December, poveoa TIL. nominated. to. she present nor nomin: en he Princess ing of Wurtembery, pro- vided no 6 OF adants suould at the death of the Em . It was ordered likewise that th descendants of Jerome Napoleon were alone to be inolud in the “inperial family,” .earins all the descendants of the other broti of Ni: on I, ty be placed tn the ‘family of the Emperor,” with prevedence over the high dignitarics of State, but otherwise simple subjects of the aovervign. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The Giornale di Napoli states that a large number of roads 1 the Calabrias and the Basilicta are blocked up by snow. The Roumanian population of Transylvania hag decided not to take part in the election of Deputies to the Hungarian Diet. M. Félicien David has. been appointed librarian to the Imperial Conservatotre of Music, Paris, in the place of the late M. Bertioz. The Duke de Broglie, formerly winaiee of Louis Philippe has just terminated the uscript of a volume bearing the title of “Quand j’étais jeune.” M. Leo Lespés (Timothée Trim) the smartest writer on the Petit Journal, has just left that newa- paper. His successor has assunied the siguature of jomas Grim. It ia reported in Berlin that an faquiry is on foot respecting the conduct of the Count d’Usedom, who 1s accused of publishing diplomatic documents previous to having received due authority. The amendment on the bil! relating to the annual contingent. proposing that every individual bora in France of joveign parents shall bo deciared Hapie to military service, has been rejected by the com- mnttee. The Belgian Chamber has adopted the bill for the abolition of itaprisoumen: for debt by an immense majorit7,.and retused to exempt from the benefits of its provisions even editors unable to pay weir damage. The Duchess de Panffremont, who played such a prominent part in the receat mysterious case of at- tempting to poison the Duke vy means of poisoned sweetmeats in Paris, has sulicited the:Pope’s permis- sion to enter # convent. ‘Tho anniversary of the accession to the throne of the Emperor of Russin was ceicbrated with great ceremony at St. ig angry Mareh 5. A charity concert was given for the beneni of poor students, im whica Madame Patti took part. The pablic plaves: were ligated by huge stars in place of lamps, and in the evening an amuceur theatrical pertormauce took place in tie Patace of Anitcakoil, Asingular suit bas been commenced against tho Preiect of the Seiae. The exotic dowers with which the public squares and gardens are orzamented during the summer are ia winter placed ia the greennouses belonging to the city. ‘hey are, bow- ever, frequentiy lent ior the decoration of vatia and soirees at the Tutleries, ministries, embassies, a3 well as at the opera ball, aud for certain ceremonies at the churches. the fiortsts and horticuiturists of Paris have now brought an action for antair compe- ttion, on the ground tiat the Prefect by so doing 13 employing the municipal tuads ior purposes which do serious injury to thor trade. The comparatively iitlic success of the German Norta Pole expedition of lass year bas vot proved any discouragement to a similar enterprise ext summer, vr suups are to take part in it, namely, two steamers, the Albert and the Bienenkorb, aud two sailing vessels, the Hudson avd the Hanover. The Bieneakorb, Captain Hagens, bas left Bremen, and Dr. Dorst, of Julich. a learned meteorologist aud natural philosopicr, has saled with ber. A part of the present programme is to make the expedition pay for itself. Captain Hagens wili e ye an tne seal fishery near Jan Mayen, and afterwards steer eastward, endeavor 10 gain some accessibie point on the coast of Greeuland and thea proceed north ward by sulp or boat as tar as he is able, leon Bonap: his ene ott) AQUATICS IN ENGLAND. Tho Oxford and wbridge Bont Race—The Oxford Crew Winners, ‘This great aquatic eveat came off on the 17th of March, on the river Thames, in the presence of an uamense number of spectators, The coatending crews were as follows:—Oxiord—S, H. Woodhouse, R. Tahourdia, T. 8. Baker, F. Willan, J. C. Tinné, A, ©. Yarborough, W. D. Bensoa, 3. D. Darbisuire (stroke), D. A. Neiison (coxswain) Cambridge—J. A. Rushton, J. H. Ridley, J, W. Dale. J. F. Young, W. F. McMichael, W. H. Anderson, J. Suli, J. Goidie (stroke, H. 0. Gordon (coxswain), ‘Of the Oxford eighs three rowed tn the University race last yeur, With the exception of the stroke, the weigiits of the avove named men had slighty, though only shghtly, decreased in comparisou wiih last year. Three of the Cambridge crew also repre- sented chetr university last year. Of these tree old hands Mr. Still ts slightly heavier and tie others siightly tighter than last year. Taxing the two crews all round Oxiord averaged within a frachoan eleven pounds a man heavier than Cambridge. At the stare Oxford nad the first grip of the weter, bat Cambridge in hall @ Gozen strokey had assumed the lead, of which they were not dispossessed tor the next two miles. As they passed the Duke's Head they ied by a quarter of alenzth and at the point had imereased it to one-third of a leagih. Here the Oxonians came up a litle, bat the coxswain, keeping too close inshore as they approactied Dang Wharf, gave the Cuntabs an advan- ave and they again assumed & lead of nearly hata iength, The Oxontans came atihem again as they neared Nose Bank, where the Cantab cox- held a fine course, and as he steered over to aw ‘ai wet falrly through the ceatre arch of Hammersvutin bridge the Oxoolaus gave Wey, So Uiat the old halla lenvih was still to the eredic of the ligat bines, crew began to break Here, however, the Cambridg: up, and graduaily, althousi great determination, they were Ineramith brite a few feet vas all they had to their cred. After tars Mr. Goldie wade almost superha- mac effort to wura the tide in hiy favor, but the Oxontans evidently heid toeir own, aud though at the bowtom of Chiswick Byot they Were dead level at the centre the Oxonians came clean anda the top led oy a clear levgth. ‘he race over; Oxford vot farther away and Won by four lengths Time, by Benson's chronograph, twenty imines six and @ half seconds. Tine lat year, twenty min- utes thirty-seven seconds. Tue scene was one of great excitement. The moment after tho start twelve steamers fol- lowed. One tugbost Was nearly capsized, aud it is not yet kaown whother any lives were lost. Three other vessela wore th collision, and as the little steam feet rushed on, throwing up o tremendous sweil, nawbers of rowing many of tiem deeply Jaden, were huriwd on the shore like stelis, Both crews rowed back some diaiance, but the ‘Wash Was 80 great that i becane dangerous to pro- ceed, and they were taken 0a board steamers, tne Cambridge men being conveyed to Putney by tue steamer Woich carried Prince Arthur. ‘The benks of the Fiver Were lined by Mousands of spectators, cpownng, jondly, and he sympatuies of the public were evidently with Uan.bridye, general fas eeas expressed tha: fortune uid nov favor tue ues The recent race was the twenty-sixth between the two norversities, Tho first took piace im lesa, vat there Was not another woul ise. The tatra was in 1640, and they Were continusd in 1840, 1841 atid 18d2, ‘There were none m 1944 aud isi4, In 1846 wad is4d there were races, but none in isd? or 1% In i849 there were two (Mareh 29 and December 15). ‘There Were none in 1960 or 1861. There was ono ia iv, Dut none ta 1963; one in 1864, none In 1865. Prom 1866 to 1868 (both inclusive) there has been no break, Of the twentyaiXt races Which have taken piace sixteon have been Won by Oxiord. ten by Campriage, Oxtord having been Victorsin ism thu, Loty ee NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1869.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. 1684, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1954, 11 1868 they LITERATURE. Reviews of New Books. ee or THB nae By don tee rage or iw YORK FOR 1863, joseph Suaunon, Clerk of the Common Council. The municipal authorities of this city having solemuly resolved that a “Corporation Manual” Is a necessary adjunct to their dignity gnd importance, it naturally became necessary to prepare a book in every way worthy of this great metropolig of the American Continent, Mr. Shannon, who modestly admits in the preface that this is his first attempt at “book-making,” need have no fears that adverse criticigm will pursue his compilation. The volume before us’is excellently compiled, the subject mat- ter arranged with skill and care, the typographical execution faultless, the illustrations, excepting a few of the colored ones, artistically finished, the pa- per good, and the binding and gilding on the cover elegant, though somewhat heavy. On the whole, the Manual is, in point of mechanical execution, tie best that has yet appeared, and if the taxpayers are to be yearly compelled to pay for a like work, we trust their money will always be as satisfactorily expended as appears to be the case here. Reterring to the contents of the Manual, we dis- cover but little to condemn and much to praise. The maps are faithfully drawn, enabling one to ascertain atamere glance any particular locality in the city he may wish to discover. The original charters of the city, granted in 1686 and 1730 (Dongan and Montgomerie), and all the amendments from the last named year to fnguss 31, 1868, are given in the opening pages, iext follows aD ac- count of the city government during last year, with portraits of the leadi members, names of all the olciais in reguiar , Logether wi eign of the “Chamber of the men,” ‘“Onamber of the Board of Councilmen” and others, as welias minute details of the “working and management of the more prominent aud use- ful institutions in the city.” Del of the progress and working of the various State and metropolitan are also given. ae illustrations ge he ba Public idings st juoDs rity drawa, the execution ft, With each is given a list of the ouicers and a brief but interesting sketcu of He bla tory and mission. ‘here 1s nothing of yalue, either tor iniormation or reierence, that cannot be found in these pages. The clection statistics will be found especially ivterestiug, being Olicial Historical reminiscences covering one hundred pages com- bie mutosting and in many ‘Teapeels curious read. yy an mg mnatter. ‘They will delight tose old citizens the metropolis who re to memory New York as she existed in 1810, with something of bewilder- ment and doubt as to the reallty of her present mag- nitude and importance. y Under Mr. Shannon the work began by his prote- cessor, the late ir, Valentine, promises an able con- tlauance; amd we fee! assured that the “Corporation Manual’ will lose nothing of its “enviable re} tion” and importance with the present Clerk of the Common Counel! as coupler. We might question the taste exiinted of iniroducing the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention held in Tam- many Hall on the 4th of Juiy last, did we not con- sider the event of sutiicient importance im the history of our city to warrant introduction; besides which, Where almost everything 18 80 weil Gone it fs hardly fatr to cavil over @ small matter. We must not omit stating that the present volume 13 considerabiy larger than any of is pre- decessors, being octavo and not duodecino pages, a8 1s the size of all former editions, The type is also smaller “and more compactly arra) and printed.” The volume contains over 90 pages aud has ‘nearly double the amount of matier em- braced in any former compilation.” My RECOLLECTION O¥ LORD BYRON; AND THOSR OF WITNESSES OF His Lirs. New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers. Unless Mr. Jorningham, the translator, bas sup- Pressed parts of this book—something scarcely possible when the circumstances of tie case are considered—we must confess to a feeling of agree- avle surprise on reading its contents. We had been assured by “Our Paris Correspondent” for numerous newspapers that the celebrated Countess Guiccioli had furnished the materials relating to her inter- course with Lord Byron to the late M. de Lamartine, who had given to the world a work at once sensuai and suggestive of many improper subjects, which, however legitimate in French literature. are rigidiy exciuded from the literature of England, whose pious natives, moral souls! tnink it bad enough to indulge in forbidden pleasures without tilustrating or depicting them in books, These censors of “My Recollections of Lord Byron” had evidently not taken the trouble of reading the book before pro nouncing judgment. We have given it a careful perusal, from the first to the laat page, without dia- covering auything tat could bring a blush to the cheeks of an angel. ‘The most that can be said of this recollections is that they endow Lord Byron with atiributes which few or no mortal men ever possessed, To claim for him the possession of every cardinal virtue is an ab- surdity. There were many thousands of better men than the poet contemporaneous with him, and there were betier men before and have been better men since. But we can readily excuse these exaggera- tions when we reflect that between tue osiensibie autitor and the subject there existed at one time an —- — if not ae. by ad was possedse: eat sirength—a dl, im rate, which fon Vina rit marks indelibly graven upon the heart long after Byron was dead, and even long the Countess Guiccioll aitér axe had tamed “the hey-day in tbe biood.’’ But if, ignoring the enthusiasm wiin which the great poet is made wnuaturaily perfect, we look upon tris work soiely as a liverary production, we cannot fairly deay its merits or refuse to accord it the praise it justly deserves. It isa graphic, brilliant defence of Lora Byron. Asa Literary composition It is written with ail the ease and elegance characteristic of Lamar une, Everything that relates to the amours of tie poet 3 referred to with great delicacy, while no ¢h- portumty is lost in making most of every good or virtuous act he performed. It will doubtless disappoint many to tind but littie said of Is intimacy with the Countess Giuccioll, and that little merely introduced tn connection with certain traits of character claimed for Byron. It must be stated, however, that the book broadly hints, with that comical but not unnataral display of eee ee Pr nae RS, porn fh eae and perhaps of a large majoriuy sex, that the poct never truly loved @ woman uutl he met Madame G——. There is something chrrming', ning in this conceit, for wo know by Byron's letters to Moore and others that there was nothing in his love for the Countess Giucciolt of @ warmer nature than he felt for half a dozen other women during his tife- time. The fact is notoriovs that Lord Byron was in- capable of constancy in his aiections for the genuer sex, and we wre not su’ at this fault 1 character, The man that heard women of standi m society virtuaily offer to become the slave iis pleasures—women ready to sacrifice their honors and repatations for a verse or for a smile from aim— was not likely to reach the age ofgtwenty-five, with - ‘filled with those tender, famnful, delicate 10688 Of the sex Which all Of ua more oF less entertain. e have spent several very pleasant hours in the | of “My Recoliectious of Lord ” There ig much im the book that we do not believe—the story of there being in existence five unpubitshed cantos of “Dou Juan,” for instance. But on the Whole it ts @ work of marked merit, and is @ vaiu- able contribution to the number of volumes written on the same subject, whether consiaered as an agreeable romance or a8 @ de'ence of the great eee ee a aha mat and 1800, since Which shoy have not Wolle by Oue Whose present Was luked to the past by the tonderest of recoliections, AMERICAN INTERESTS IN AstA. By Celso Cesare Moreno, New York: C. 8. Westcott & Co, The author of this highly interesting and sug- gestive brochure bas given us more vainabie tnfor- mation about Asta, the tnterosts of America in that part of the world, and the poiicy the Untied States ought to pursue with regard to it, in forty pages than can be found In volumes of superficial trave!- Jorg or theorists. He writes from experience, having been fifteen years in India, China, Siam and other parts of the Asiatic continent, and having taken a prominent part in events there. Besides, he is a scholar, @ close observer, and takes a com rehenaive view of both present affairs aud we futere of that region of the world, Perhaps no man living hag seen more of Asia or understands ft better, and he has boon fitiy called a secon! Marco Polo, [is object in pubitsh- sng tits pampnict Ia to arouse the attention of our governinent and people to the vast trade of Asia, which, as fat a4 We are concerned, remains unce- veloned, and to show that, from our geograpnicat jro- sition, enterprise and the pros before us, the trade of the United States there ts capable of almost unl mited extension. fle sees that we may eclipse Ky and and ali other commercial nations m the race of commerce With Asia, and has, it is said, submitted propositions to the bai gee} “I Washi mn for & policy to omplish that obj “American Inter+ esta fo AS is a volnable, timely and vory interest. ing peop and should be in the hands of every pubde maa aud merchwat in the country, THE PENNSYLVANIA COAL Thapr.—The anthracite coal trade for the week ending on Tharsday vast, by atl incipai coal carr’ companies, amounted to na, Against ) tons in the corresponding week last year, an increase of 59,157 tons; and for the seKKON 2,266,204 tons, sgainst 1,704, 248 to the same time last y snl showing aa in- crouse of 474,062 tons. ‘These ge show that the trade ia steadily improving, if remain at moderate rates there will, no doubt, be a fair demand for during the year. ‘The preparations made for cumini Lust Wilder Was not 40 great as formerly, and business @t uuro- there is no desire to push ti Danerating rates, . —") SAVIGATION OF THE HUDSON. event of no ordinary importance, not only to the people of this cliy and State, bus to countless in- habitants of States east, north and west of us. The Hudson is something more than a maguificent river, that has become world renowned for the unsur- passed beauty of its gcenery, Its broad, waters are the highway by which, duriag a large part of the year, preducts of countless value are conveyed to and from the metropolis—hitner- ward the rich products of fertile lands and thither- ward the thousand productions of the cunning brains and skilful hands of the busy denizens of this vast commercial and manufacturing mart, Aste the beauty of the “lordly Hudson,” that has been the theme of enthusiastic description wherever our rest- lessly energetic countrymen have bent their foote stops, and notwithstanding that ifs banks may lack the charm of weird legend and of frown- ing castle, where in feudal days semi-barbarous chiefs held sway over enslaved pevples, its natural) beauties challenge comparison with the beauteous, Roine and other historic streams of Kurope. To the myriad inhabitants of this great metropolis of tho Western World the Hudson is the golden gate that leads to lanas of tairy beauty, and teng of thousands yearly look forward to the time when they will be able to hie away for a few delicious weeks from tho busy haunts of men to revel amid the glories of the Hudson, ita ever varying charm of hill and dale, ang rugged promontory, and deep forest, and broad vistas of mountain, vale and ailvery waters. The wearled toiler has but to take one the magnificent steamers that navigate the of the Hudson, and in a few hours he can give self up to the enjoyment of nature among the Dioy turesque Catskills, the grander and more Adirondacks or amid the delightful haunts that! border iakes George and Cuasaplain ; or, his adventurous steps still further, may gaze upon the vast expanse of waters that make up the great | chain of lakes, listen to the mighty roar of Niaggya, or loke himself in delicious ‘reyery amid the Thou sand Isles of the foaming St, Lawrence. 4 ‘The realization Ae this ners Fer peer i Tudaon. ‘Daring te winter the immens@ shee! Xtonding from the river Cee the Adirondacks to within @ fe) ot this city is entirely frozen over. l stream, but his reign is now poe weather ts fast breaking clear of ice as far bat few obstructions as o's ‘as Albany, week the regular lines of x‘eamers w: out the wi STEAMER ALREADS AUNWIYG. Already navisation has and steamers are running of tar as Poughkcopate. aes Peter G. Cofin and adelphi are from pier 34 North river Doubs? Fi ‘1 wi Jonker, Muller and semi-weekly trips to Por From pier 36, too, @ number of small river We already rauning to point cit we ors at 8 ‘The Wyoming goes twice @ week to e ie sen Nag Cozzeus’, Cold pring, Cornwall, ewharg and [hag seg the Wal sori Ltd ek to . a few days, a Now Champion ‘Thomas Poweil will comunence thelr wips ta Catskill and intermediate points, # COMPLETE OPENING OF NAVIGATION—CONNECTING But it is the opening of aavigation as far as All : and Troy that 1s of euch vast importance to travelling public and to the commercial interests this city and Binie. Extensive preparations have been made by all the companies! runing over this course,. Ticir boats have been {nang cases entirely refitted, and in all thoroughly ove! hauled an‘ repainted, and at present really the name they‘have received—“floating Three limes of steamers will, as in the past year, carry passengers and freight to Albany and Troy aud to all pots east, west aud northwest, for thé sieamers councct at Troy with the Rensselaer Saratoga, the Vermont Central, the Rutland d ‘Irunk Ratlroads, aud at Burlington and Grand ‘I Albany with the New York Central, Rensselaer and Saratoga and Albany and uehanna Kauroads, By means of these roads also the steamers of the Hudson connect with the steamers of Lake Cham- plain, ‘the steamboat companies iasue through Uokets both for passengers and freight to all pots along the railroads with which they connect, THE XBW YORK, ALBANY AND TROY LIN i of steamers consists of the Vanderbilt, Cai C. Hancox, and Connecticut, Captain iA these steamers are weli known for their speed an exeelient accommodations. Both have undergone exunsive improvemenis both in machinery and in interior arraugoments, The Vanderbilt has been overhanled from stein to stern; a a new machinery from the works of Roche this city, and has been redecorated and upine manner to make her one of the est aod: most commodious boats on the river. She made her trial trip a few days ‘wish a result that seems to that she will even former Pye Ng soaed. The mg a6 ear read will sail, a3 in past years, from pier 44 North river, at six & M. daily, siopping at Thirvy-sourth etrect to receive passengers. THE PROPLE’S LINE Of steamers between New York and Albany consists, as lormeriy, of the St. John, Captain Christopher, and Drew, Captain Roo, botti of which have w lugit ae for the exce'lent accommodation they ford. The Dean Richmond ts an extra steamer. These steamers will start at six P.M. datly irom ier 41 North river. They have been repainied and lecorated, and preseut a sirikingly handsome ap- THE ALDANY DAY 1IN® of steamers starts from ihe foot of Desbrossca ‘There are two tine steamers on this ling, tue Dal Drew and Chauncey Vibbard, which start every morning for Albany. ‘The amount a me, botl ne a freight, of oger and fre’ these three lines is'immmense, ‘the boats accom from 500 to 800 peopie, and in the summer months are usually Hlied to their utinost capact', 3 I Sa that the see Seno carri yy the three lines averages du season neat’, @ million of dollars 1a value ‘daily? ™, SANDWICH ISLANDS. Annexation Again Bronched=A Royal Spec lator—I.nbor Sopply. Howo.ve, Feb, 2, 1860. 4 We are in the midst of dali times and foretgners again talk of annexation to the United States of America, This ts thought to be the only panacea for all our {lis and mishaps. A correspondent in one of our local papers, speaking of the ills which exist under our present form of government, says:—TNere are many evils Which can ouly be remedied by a pop- war form of government, one emanating from tho people, and it does not seem likely that such a ons will ever come to bless this nation until in the couree of human events the glorions old “Stars and Stripey’ wave over us, Tie coumuatcation is written to corabat the idea that the natives of this group would be more heavily taxed in case Of annexation and pate Me the majority of natives woald tind thelr er, in talking with parties here T fied that the tdea erally prevails tant his Majesty and some mem- ot pad —— are preparing for some radi. au nge. ey are purchasing | tracts of Janda and otherw! shaping their business to the % = end. o Inet: i e “Board of immigration” have deapate! the Hawaiian bark Mauna Loa for ‘isiands mm the ‘ Pactfic, north or south of the equator,” tor the pur- ] ine to these islands what they are pose of bring pleased to style “free wamigrants,” but in reality 5 oureiak thaee ones or, aon “cooties.” Among a porken ir community 4 strong feel revulis against the moraiity of the ‘iierpriac, oy te The custom house statistics have been published % by the Collector Genera’ of Castoms tn tabular form, ———- pe Py — which @ decrease ¥ nove ‘The tuports sow a tall from last year, se 2i Rarp Crow a ParLavELratA Cock prr.—The dent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Informed the Calef of Police on Savucday that there would be @ cock fight iuet evening at a house in Market street, above Ninereouth, kept oF Michael Johnson, About nine o'clock a number of oeers, under the lieutenant of te Kleventh Police f Gistrict, vistted the Pg ea, and While & portion of thom remained outside, the rest made their way into & room back of the bar, where they found a com plete cockpit, surrounded by over 100 men, witness. ing @ fight between several game chick-ns.’ As soon as the ofcers made their appearance there was @ general scramble among the party to escape, some succceding by Jumping out of the windows, and ' others by rashing out Oo. the door with such &peed ‘ aa to escape arrest. ‘The officers, however, suc- ceeded in securing forty-two new all of whom were Marohod to ihe central station house and looked er er cr | ‘Up Wo awalt @ hearing thin morning.—Phrilctepala » aaron wo.