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Brooxtyn Carniers ann Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Branca Orricr or tHe New York Hexarn, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn, ADVERTISEMENTS New York and Svsscriptions and all . letters for the Herarp will be received as above, THE NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated April & Marshal Nei! made a speech yesterday in the French senaic, in which he contended that the army might be pl on a peace footing, yet be ready for any emerge M. De Lavalette ad- dressed the Corps Legi tf, His speech was tem- perate in tone, and his concinding words were that “It is the policy of France to matmtain resolutely a dignifiea peace.” in the Spanish Cortes on Friday Olozaga urged the incorporation of a statute in the new constitu tion modifying the powers of the Ministry and re- ducing numerically tat branch of the government. A banquet was given to Charies Dickens, the nov- elist, in Liverpool last evening. Seven hundred per- sons sat down to dipner. Sir Henry Houghton, ord Lytton, Lord butferin, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens and others made speeches, Caba. The insurgent General Quesada is reported to have defeated, with heavy loss, the columa of troops guarding a train of supplies for General Lesca, on the way from the south coast to Puerto Principe, ‘The train was captured, When the volunteers at the execution of Leon at Havana fired into the crowd eight persons were killed, and a return fire wounded several of the volunteers. The Spanisi man-of- war Ferdinand Catolica récently overhauled tue Ameri- can brig Lizzie Major, ten miles from Carbarien, and took from her two passengers who were pro- vided with passports. Five Cubans who arrived in Havana on Friday, by the Eagle, from New York, immediately arrested and taken to Morro apiain Sheridan, a brother of the Lieutenant General, has arrived in New Oreans from Havana and ieports that the Spanisii authorities kept the strictest oiictal espionage over his movements while im that city, 1d the Peruvian monitor ing In Kaygea Island harbor, sends (8 of the log book since her departure from Key West on March 4. A Spanish war steamer accompanied the two iron clads and their transports until March 9, when a sharp gale separa- ted them. During a heavy sea the Monitor aud tie transport Reyes collided and the latter sunk, seven Of her crew being carried down with her. A few days were spent in Naranjo, a Cuban port, where the officers were Kinlly Ur d by Whe lusurgente, Congress. In the Senate yestorday, after an all night ses. sion, business was resumed at ten o'clock. The bill relating to the Attorney General was passed, and pending disciesion upon the resoluuon to pay Senators from reconstracted States from the cominencement of the se ond session 0} last Congress, the Senate Was declared adjourned without day. In the House Mr. Banks offered his resolution of sympathy with the Cuban insurgents, which was passed under @ suspension of (he rules by a vote of oS to 24 Bills and resolutions relative to a sile fora Bow State Department, for the relief of Rollin White, aod authorigng & subcommittee of the Census Committee to sit during the recess and report a bill at the next session were passed, and the House ad- journed witnout day, The Legistatnre, Bills were ordered to a third reading in the State fenate yesterday relative to the crime of arson; in- creasing cases in which jury trials may be had in New York city; incorporating the New York Amuse- ment Company (afterwards passed); for three ad- ditional Commissfoners of Public Charities, to be ap- pointed by the Governor, After & long discussion, during which numerous amendments were offered snd rejected, the Broatway Surface Rai road pill was ordered to @ third reading. Several bile of minor importance were passed. ‘The Senate then séjoarned until Monday evening. in the Assembly the bill to facilitate the tral of tedictments was passed, Resolutions of the P b.xchange for increa-ing the efficiency of the canais were presented. A memorial was received from one Of he new Capito! Commissioners, and @ reao\ution fate Wo the same was tabled. The New York bedergro sed Laliroad &d weveral other bills were “luce | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1869—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ordered to a third reading, after which the Assembly adjourned until Monday. Miscellaneous. A long list of nominations were confirmed by the Senate yesterday, among them Pinchbeck, @ colored man, to be Register of the Land Office at New *| Orleans; but at the close of the seasion fifty-three nominations remained unacted upon and conse- quently are no longer betore the Senate. Among these were the nominations of Batley, for Coliector of Internal Revenue for the Thirty-second district of New York, and Wadsworth, for Marshal of the Southern district of New York. Among the many office-seekers in Washington are General Stephen G, Burbridge and ex-Representa- tive Samuel McKee. The former apples for the mission to Brazil and the latter to Switzerland. Lieutenant H. D. Wallen, Jr., of the Third United States artillery, who Was & passenger on the steamer ‘Thames, has arrived in this city and gives a graphic account of the burning of that ill-fated vessel off Hatteras. Our previous report is confrmed, that a portion of the crew is missing. It appears that when Lieutenant Wallen and his companions landed on Chicacomico Beach, Hatteras Banks, they were very illy-treated by the inhabitants, who demanded all the money they had for the poor accommodations they furnished. ‘The fire in the Gold Hili mines is still raging, and it 1s believed that, owing to the intense heat, the Wood-work and hoisting apparatus outside is in danger. Sieam ts being forced down the shafts to smotaer the flames. No more bodies nave been recovered, The dispute as to the proprietorship of the Kalaly- sine Springs at Gettysburg, experienced a ratner novel phase on Friday night. A representative of the New York claimants, unaer pretence of visiting the spring obtained admission to the bottling estab- lishment, and then proclaimimg himself agent of the New York Company, cooly took possession of the key. No further disturbance occurred, but the proprietor of the property proposes to dispute the right of way over his land by fortifying and obstruct- ing the route, Dowey, convicted of murder, was hanged in Char- lottetown, Prince Edward’s Isiand, on Friday. The rope broke twice, and the third time he was uauled up bodily by the Sheriff and his assistant, The City. A portion of the Fifth United States artillery sailea yesterday in the George Cromwell for New Orleans. The Police Commissioners were served with an order from Judge Cardoza yesterday to show cause why tbe judginent dismissing Captatn Young from the detective force should not be vacated. The Military Commission investigating the prac- ticability of the East river bridge are to visit Pitts- burg, Cincinnati and Niagara, in order to examine the bridges at those points, aiter which they will make out their report. The ofMcials of the Board of Health report that members of three families living in the same row in a street of the Sixteenth ward, but at some distance from each other, were stricken with smallpox at the same hour on Friday night. The intervening resi- dents have so far escaped, and the board yesterday had the whole population vaccinated. Margaret Redden, for a long time keeper of a disre- putabie house in West Houston street, dled on Friday night of heart disease, accelerated by excessive drink- ing. John McMahon, well known to New York politi- cians, had been living with her for a long time, and on ihursday, for some insult she gave him he struck her in the face. Coroner Rollins consequenuy held an investigation yesterday, but the verdict in no way Impiicated McMahon. The total loss by the fire in Forty-seventh street yesterday morning was $175,000. The stock market yesterday was steady at the open- ing, but declined during the Boards, There was a better feeling In subsequent street transactions, but the market closed dull, Gold was very excited, touching 133% upon the announcement that one of the banks was unable to meet its certified gold checks, and finally closed at 133'g a 13344. The aggregate amount of business consummated in commercial circles yesterday was moderate, though some of the markets exhibited a good degree of activity. Cotton was freely sought after, chiefly by exporters, and the market was firmer, closing at 28'4c. for middling uplands. Coffee was frm, with a fair demand. Sugar was active and Yc. a Kc. higber, raw closing at 11\c. a 12c. for fair to good refining. Cuba and refined at 16\c. for hard. On ‘change flour was dull, but prices were more steady, Wheat and corn were quict but firm, while vats were du!l, but held at fail prices. Pork was in fair re- quest, but at lower prices, while beef and lard were moderately active at steady prices, Whiskey was dull and heavy at 92%. @ 3c, tax paid. Naval stores were 4c. lower for spirits turpentine, but quite steady for rosin. Petroleum, though quiet, was frm rude closing at 17/4¢c. a lige, and re- fined at Pr inent Arrivals in the City. General Lafin, of North Carolina; Major F. C. Crowley, of Westport; Captain J. 8. Dawley, of But- falo; Captain Clark, of Toronto; 8. C. Pierce and H. 8. Davis, of Albany, and C. B. McClellan, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel S, M. Johnson, of Washingion; James Surget, of Mississippi, and J. J. Pleasants, of Huants- ville, Ala., are at the New York Hotel, Paymaster Theodore H,{Tilton, of the United States Navy; ex-Mayor George C. Chandler, and A, L. Mor- gan, of Detroit, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Colonel Hall, of Montreal; J. M. Courtney, of Washington; ex-Congressman W. Windom, of Min- nesota; Colonol A. Piper, of West Point; M. B. Be mus, of Mayville, and W. A. Wood, of Hoosack Falls, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Stewart, of the United Svates Army; B. Woolman, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Anderson, of Toronto, Canada, are at the St. Jalen Hotel. John E, , Peterson and Charles d’Westerman, of Boston, and 8. L. Wadsworth, of Calais, are at the Hoffman House, J. B. Earley, of Massachusetts, and A. Waish, of Lan-ingburg, are at the Astor houve, Promivent Departares. Judge Parker left for Aibany, A. J. Dallas and H. A. Risely for Washington, J. ¥. Tracey tor Chicago, Judge Clifford for Boston, C, U. Goddard for Ohio, and Dr, Shattetuck, Rev. V. H. Cole and 4. BB. Alley sailed yesterday in the steamer City of London for Europe. Ove Berpensome Taxation is supposed to have the definite object of making a citizen's life safe and agreeable in a handsome city, For these things we pay our money, The com- plaint is not that the price is high, but that though the money is freely given the goods are not delivered. We pay for it, but do not get it, Corynioanr L imit. Judge ibe decided the other day in favor of the English owners of a trade mark who sued for violation of their right this side the Atlantic, There is law for the protection of copyright in so small a piece of intellectual labor as a label, but not in a great labor like a history. The difference is that in the history there is a supposed benefit to the people by cheap sales. In other words, the law asserts that we may thrive by theft, Public demorsalization has its very fountain. head in such law. Tuk Stone Bioox at ADE. - During the war we heard a great deal of the stone blockade in Charleston harbor, and now we know how to feel for the sufferers. We have got a stone blockade in Broadway. For block after block the citizen is aided in physical development by the necessity of climbing over vast accumu- lations of stone, All the roadway is taken up and two-thirds of the sidewalk. Worst of | all is the fact that there is no prebability now that we shall ever have an open strect again, for the wear of this new pavement is such that by the lime the paviers are done at the uppor end of Broadway they will have to begin again at the lower end. Congress, the Administration and the Cuban Question—Action, Action. The House of Representatives, just before the final adjournment of the first session of the new Congress yesterday, passed a joint reso- Iution authorizing the President to recognize the first de facto republican government that may appear in the island of Cuba on the plat- form of the independence of the island. The resolution, for the want of time, has failed in the Senate; but the action of the House will be safe enough as the guide of the administra- tion. Is General Grant aware of the overwhelming popular sentiment of the United States and the general expectation touching his duty in regard to the island of Cuba? Has the thought occurred to him that upon this question an opportunity is presented for the initiation of a foreign policy, on the basis of the. Monroe doc- trine, morally certain of the grandest results achieved under any administration or in any epoch of American history? Has he con sidered the dangers of temporizing inactivity and wasteful delays? It is our opinion that his answers to these questions, if he were tq answer them, would be satisfactory. We think that he, as a Western man, is inspired with those great progressive and expansive ideas of the West among which the idea of the absorp- tion of the whole North American Continent and the islands of the Gulf of Mexico is pre- dominant. His inaugural looks in this direc- tion, and from the hints here thrown out, and from other remarks that have fallen from him on our foreign affairs during the last four years, the impression has become fixed in the public mind that before the expiration of General Grant’s present term of office the boundaries of the Union southward and north- ward will be greatly enlarged. How is it, then, that at this inviting juncture in the affairs of Cuba our Gulf squadron seems to be supporting the revolutionary government of Spain instead of enforcing the rights of our citizens and fair play to the revolutionary cause of the island? How is it that just now achilling conservatism prevails in tho State Department? They tell us that it is because Mr. Fish belongs to the epoch of John Quincy Adams, and is thus far behind the advances and spirit of the age; that he thinks the island of Cuba is better as it is than it would be under any change, and that he is apprehensive that any active manifestations from our government in behalf of Cuban independence might involve us in serious complications with England and France. Accordingly we are told it is the poli- cy of Mr. Fish rather to support the cause of Spain than the cause of independence as the safest course upon this Cuban question. If this be true, with all our respect for Mr. Fish as a worthy citizen and a public man, we must say that he is not the maa for this crisis in the State Department. No man holding the views indicated is the man for this place at this time. Serious complications with England and France! The idea is preposterous. The issue of Louis Napoleon’s Mexican adventure while we were involved in our late terrible struggle of life or death to the Union has settled the position of France in reference to any future interventions in North American affairs involving the danger of serious complications with this country. Napoleon and France have had enough of such interven- tions. If it was otherwise the present com- plications among the great Powers of Europe are, in any event, a guarantee of peace be- tween France and the United States on Amer- ican affairs, As for England, she is just beginning to comprehend the powerful scope of her recent construction of belligerent rights and of her examples of neutrality as an active ally of our late so-called Confederate States. England, as it has turned out, has had quite enough of such applicatiogs of beiligerent rights and neutrality. She dare not move a finger against any intervention from Washington for the settlement of this Cuban difficulty, We have heard nothing from France or England on this subject, because they feel that they can have nothing to do with it, and that there can be no more tripartite propositions touching Cuba on the basis of a European balance of power over the Gulf of Mexico. We have, then, to say to General Grant—and we say itas the common voice of the Ameri- can people—that he cannot intervene too boldly for the pacification of Cuba. Sound policy, peace and humanity call for prompt and decisive action. In acting up to the House resolution he will be right. Or if he were to order the Gulf squadron to be anchored in front of Havana, with a demand in the name of civilization and humanity for the cessation of the barbarous atrocities of the Spanish volunteers; if he should demand the instant release of every American citizen held a3 a prisoner by the Spanish authorities, and immediate indemnity for the property of such citizens confiscated or destroyed; or if he should apply Lord John Russel’s neutrality and belligerent rights to Cuba, or follow the Mexican example of Napoleon by landing an army and establish- ing a protectorate over the island in the inter- ests of civilization,+thore would be no foreign Power that would have the right or the hardi- hood to call him to account, England's neu- trality or Napoleon's intervention precedent will do. In theabsence of any de facto govern- ment among the Cuban mountains the short cut of Napoleon would be the best for Spain, for Cuba, for us and for civilization; for there will be peace no more in Guba under Spain, and none to the world on the high seas if France and England dare to intervene; and they know it, We would next submit to General Grant that a short settlement of Cuba will make a short and easy settlement with England on the Alabama claims, Her belligerent rights and neutrality cost us at least a thousand millions of money, and a quarter of a million of human lives sacrificed through the prolongation of our late costly rebellion, That is the bill, and there can be no satisfactory equivalent short of the cession of her Britannic Majesty's North Ameri- can possessions, These things are to be. They are coming. They aro as surely coming as anything in the future of human affairs, They may be realized under General Grant. They must be undertaken by him, beginning with Cuba, or they will become the winning programme for the Presidential succession. The first term of General Grant was secured at his famous Appomattox apple tree; but the route to his second term leads through the evorgreen island of Cuba. The House of ‘of the clergy. But this is not enough. Representatives has pointed a way. Action, action is the word. The Ecumenic.1 Council of 1869. Our latest news from Kurope shows that the utmost activity prevails in the Holy City in view of the approaching Ecumenical Council in December. There is so much novelty about this affair that—considering the characteristic of our race, which is older than even the Athenians, who were ever in quest of some new thing—it is not much to be wondered at that it should be a subject of interost far be- yond the limits of the Catholic Church, We have had nothing like it for three hundred years—nothing at all approaching it in the world-wide reach of its attractiveness since 1851. “The London Exhibition of 1851, how- ever, though a novelty in the highest sense, and in its gorgeous magnificence unparalleled in the previous history of the world, was a cold and secular affair. It was the deification of materialism—a setting up of a dumb, a blind and deaf god, who was quite as impo- tent and in every respect as unkind as Baal of old. The world was delighted, dazzled, as- tonished; but the heart of man was not touched, the sympathies of man were not drawn out, and all the higher and nobler instincts and wants of humanity were crossed and disappointed. The ‘‘good” Albert realized a@ grand ideal; but the ideal, when bodied forth and adorned with all the achiove- ments of art and science, was cold and lifeless as a Grecian statue, and the na- tions, though pleased, refused to worship. Materialism gained its greatest triumph, and although the experiment has on several occa- sions been repeated there has not been and there will not be for many generations a similar success. Grand expositions have been tried and they have failed. The unsatisfied heart of man cries for something truer, grander, nobler, The Bishop of Rome is moved by the ery, and the result is the Ecumenical Council. The pendulum has oscillated, and we are back again in the middle ages among popes and cardinals, conclayes and councils, canons and decrees, On the. 9th day of December the Grand Council will hold its first session under the dome of St. Peter's. ‘Lhe representatives of the Catholic Church, gathered from every nation under heaven, and numbering scarcely less than one thousand, will take the places as- signed them. On the evening of the first day St. Peter’s will be gorgeously illuminated, thousands upon thousands will throng the sa- cred edifice, and there will be presented a spectacle which for bulk, grandeur and solom- nity has, perhaps, never been equalled in the past history of the world. Rome is the Mecca of the Christian world, and this year Chris- tian pilgrims from all the ends of the earth will crowd the sacred city. It will not be St. Peter’s alone that will put on its best attire. Every temple and every shrine, every spot made sacred by religion and every scene hallowed by ancient memories will be clothed with attractions which art might mar but could scarcely improve. The memories of London and Paris in their gorgeous exbibi- tion adornments will fade away and vanish before the living and ennobling realities of this greatest of world spectacles. The triamph of Pio Nono and the Christian religion will in some important particulars be a far grander triumph than that of Albert the “Good” and German materialism. As, however, we are little likely for a long time to come to havea great exhibition, so also, many think, we shall have no more ecumenical councils, This one will, no doubt, be the grandest; but it is almost certain to be the last. What does the Council intend to do? This is the question which many are asking, but which no one seems to be able satisfactorily to answer. We are all well aware that the times are out of joint; that though there is a large amount of nominal Christianity there is more of it nominal thau real; that the love of individual liberiy all over the world is proving destructive to Christian unity; that the Church is not in perfect or even in growing harmony with the times, All this we know, and more than this, that the Church must make some great effort if she would maintain even a shadow of her authority. Men are not opposed to Christian doctrine, but they are everywhero in an atti- tude of hostility to church dogmas. They are not opposed to the freedom of the Gospel, but they are bitterly opposed to the tyranny of ecclesiasticism, What does the Council mean todo in the matter? How does it intend to grapple with and to solve these difficulties? Is the Church able to solve them and yet maintain her position and her power? We have seen nothing to convince us that the members of the approaching Couacil will nut prove themselves far behind the age; nor have we any evidence that their decisions will not be reactionary rather than progressive. It will not be diffi- cult for them, considering the ultramontane tendencies that now prevail at headquarters, to confirm the decision already given by tho Pope in regard to the immaculate conception, to declare the Pope himself infallible, to make suitable arrangements for the next Papal elec- tion and to denounce any and every attempt that may be made to put an end to the forced celibacy Some- thing more is wanted. If they do not accom- plish higher things than these the Ecumenical Council of 1869 willbe a grand spectacular demonstration—a big show ; but it will be noth- ing more. As our expectations are not great we shall not be disappointed, Devetorixe A New Powsr.—Napolcon's proposition for abolishing the quasi slavery of the real industrial classes in France gives him again a really strong hold in the gratitude of the great mass of the people, and this will more than balance the discontented clamor of the party that has always called itself the people, though only an outcast scrap of loafers and idlers, living on theories and isms like the long-haired nuows this side the water, Goop FRoM aun Marine Cover, —Indgo Curtis, in deciding in favor of a chemist receiving for his labor the pay he deemed it worth, said:—‘‘The time of starving profes- sional men of learning and talent has passed away, and it is the duty of courts and juries to compensate intellectual labor lib rally, and not upon the basis of mannal labor.” Words fitly spoken are as apples of gold in pictures of silver, though generally they won't sell at the same rate in the market. The Adjournment of Congress. The first seasion of the Forty-first Congress, beginning on the 4th of March last, ended at noon yesterday. For the closing proceed- ings, embracing the very important resolution passed by the House of Representatives in reference to the island of Cuba, we refer the reader to our Congressional reports. Among the principal bills passed at this session and now laws of the land are the modified Tenure of Office bill, the bill defining certain rules of practice in the courts of the United States and allowing judges of the Supreme Court to resign on full pay if seventy years of age or more and if they shall have served in the court for a period of ten years, and the bill for the. reconstruction and restoration of the three outside States of Virginia, Missis- sippi and Texas. An immense calendar of Pacific Railroad land and bond jobs and various other jobs is left among the unfin- ished business, and will so remain till Decem- ber next, unless ‘‘great and weighty reasons” may in the interval require, in the judgment of the President, a special reassembling of the two houses, The Fashions. The managers of our principal theatres gave yesterday ample opportunities to the ladies of New York to display the spring fashions at a dozen different matinées, But notwithstand- ing the bright sunshine of the day March winds prevailed, and most of the comparatively few early blossoms of fashion appeared premature alike at the theatre and on Broadway. We must, therefore, content ourselves with refer- ring our fair readers to the description, by our Paris fashions correspondent, of the black velvet casaques over black or purple poult underskirts, and of the black velvet trains with which Parisian ladies rotated to their seats at the cathedral of Notre Dame during Passion Week. We hardly need to invite their atten- tion also to the inquisitive Abbé Deguerry’s verdict against fashionable evening dresses. The Emperor, it seems, was to attend a solemn mass in a plain frockcoat, instead of his usual uniform as a general of division, and the Empress in black poult and black cashmere tunic. But this piece of Lenten news comes too late to be particularly useful, and one novelty mentioned by our correspondent—a tea table improvisatrice, who appears to be an imitator (although ‘‘of high birth”) of the vulgar singing girl Thértse—is altogether un- likely to be duplicated in the most rapid circles of our New York society. There are some Parisian fashions which, it is to be hoped, our New York ladies will never tolerate. Brisery Prevention.—Senator Hale's bill against bribery must be worthless—a bill that promises complete immunity to offenders, We judge this by the freedom with which the legislators vote for it. A¥FAIRs IN WALL StreET.—The money market has undergone the usual stringency attendant upon the making of engagements at this season of the year, and the banks were taxed to the extent of their utter- most capacity, especially as the buoyancy of the stock market was not repressed by the high rates of interest, Two prominent bro- kers failed during the week—one through speculation in gold and the other from unfor- tunate ventures in stocks. The latter had cal- culated upon the expected depression of the market which has generally attended the activity of money, but the rule was very sin- gularly reversed this year. A great deal of interest was manifested as to the course of New York Central in consequenco of the action of the Legislature on the subject of the scrip dividend. Government bonds were much higher, and the '62's yesterday touched 120}, the highest figure they have ever attained. Spanish Gotp.—The Spanish authorities perhaps have an agent here spending money on certain portions of the press. We have not seen the man, but we have seen the papers, A Gtanoz at New Yorx.—In another column will be found some remarkable facts of the condition of the city as to population, police, &c., digested in an article of more than ordinary interest to dwellers here. In the great increase of our population, as shown, will be seen the rapid growth of the city, and in the greater proportionate increase of the worst elements of population it must be ap- parent to all that there is much to be done be- fore our city can hold the same rank for the comfort and good conduct of the people that she holds for enterprise and commercial spirit. Reriuputive Jvustice.—That was a high- tempered wife who, in argument with her hus- band the other night, used such startling ex- pressions as to cause her own death. She evidently had exhausted her vocabulary. Shé had no words equal to the requirements of her wrath, and so eked out her meaning with the teapot, the stove lid and the lighted kero- sene lamp. Striking her husband in the face with this last it exploded and burned her so that she has died since. Next.—Fessenden was wrong. The words “12th day of April next” may properly be used in April of a day in the same month of April. The word “next” does not merely qualify the word April, but it qualifies the whole expression, ‘12th day of April.” April iiself is not a more definite division of time than the 12th day of April. If we are speak- ing on the 9th day of April, the “12th day of April” that comes ‘“‘next” after that time must be in the same month. Grant was right, therefore, and his Senatorial critics not so ac- curate as they thought, MEM. FoR THE Mayor's Manstat, on Any Orner MAN.—Around the very head centre and seat of municipal power—on the great stone gateposts that open to the sacred pre- cincts of the City Hall—we see an exomplifica~ tion of the way license runs riot in the city. Certain of said stone gateposts on Broadway are covered from top to bottom with posters, All the length of the stone base of the Park railing is in the same state. Thus to deface public property is a misdemeanor; but the offender evidently had not the fear of law or justice before his eyes. He knows what toothless old creatures they are, He, the said offender, is doubtless a ward politician, and to prosecute him would be damaging to the chances of party men next olection in the bill-poster’s ward. Our Trotters and Our Drives. It is a well known fact that many of the speediest and most valuable trotting horses of this country are in the possession of private gentlemen of this city who never exhibit their powers on the trotting track for money, but who nevertheless are anxious to speed them whenever an opportunity offers on a sultable road. Harlem lane has been one of theis principal resorts for years past; but a wider field of operations has now become necessary, as the number of fast horses is daily augment- ing and pleasure riding becoming a greater specialty among gentlemen of leisure and for- tune. As Harlem lane will soon be closed against fast driving by the march of improve- ment and the impediments oreated by Seventh avenue we would suggest that a new drive or avenue be created for the express accommodation of such as delight in speedy travel, and that the upper part of Sixth avenue be devoted as a dirt road to their especial use, as this avenue runs directly from the Park to Harlem river. It being a wide avenue and very level, makes it peculiarly adapted to the purpose suggested, and would draw off all the lighter class of vehicles from the danger of contact with the more cumbrous carriages which daily throng the drives in every direction. Such a dirt road is absolutely necessary for the sake of the legs and feet of fast horses, and is just the place to speed them without danger to horse or man. Fast horses do not like to bo confined in their gait; they like to give vent to their exuberant spirits and to fly along the road ata gait that none but themselves can equal. To restrict them to a Park gait is little less than cruelty to them, for it makes them ner- vous, restless and disagreeable to handle, The boulevards now in course of construction will be little if any better than the Park for fast horses to be driven upon, as the roadway will be so hard that, even should there be no restrictions upon travelling, no gentleman would like to speed a valuable horse upon its flinty surface at the risk of seriously dam- aging his legs and feet. The boulevards will be well adapted for carriage driving, and will, no doubt, be extensively used for that pur- pose; but for light vehicles and fast horses we want something different—a good, wide and level dirt road, on which the horses can extend themselves and trot to their hoarta’ content without dangoer of collision or mishap of any kind. These horses represent an ag- gregate of great wealth ; their owners are men of standing and position in society, and their demand for a new road to be opened for their recreation is not more than reasonable and just. We should have roads adapted to every style of driving, where all parties can enjoy themselves with safety and take such recrea- tion as suits their peculiar temperaments. It is to be hoped, in laying out the boulevards, that special drives will not be neglected, and that the general convenience of the public will be attended to. Sixth avenue is pecu- liarly accessible, from its contiguity to the upper end of the Park, opening at once into an expanse of area where the pent-up ener- gies of the horse, after his snail-like progress through the narrow defiles of the Park, can find scope and verge for their full display. By the way, the demand for widening the Park avenues is increasing daily, as theit insufficiency for the pressing requirementa upon their space becomes more apparent, Operations to that effect may as well commenco at once, for sooner or later it must be done, The danger now from collisions is very great, and serious accidents are almost daily oc- curring which do not reach the public press, as the police in attendance upon the grounds carefully suppress their publicity. Dangerous as they now are, what will they be in the fu- ture, if timely measures of precaution by widening the drives are not taken? Tho Park belongs to the public, and we see no rea- son why they should not have things just as they desire them, irrespective of the whims and caprices of officials. Do not the people pay for them? A New Club, The prevalent velocipede mania has led to the establishment, in New York and in seve- ral other cities throughout the country, of amphicyclotheatrons, gymnacyclidiums, ve- locipedromes and bicyclocurriculums by the score, and also of numerous clubs. For tho nonce the horse seems to be as much no- where in the race for distinction as it was pre- dicted that this noble animal would be when he was first exposed to competition with the railway locomotive. But the locomotive failed to extinguish the horse, and it is altogethor probable that he will survive the rivalry of the velocipede, although it must be conceded that the latter enjoys the economical advantage of not eating its own head off at the expense of its owner. This probability is strengthened by the en- couraging fact that Mr. Bruzzesi, one of our most accomplished professors of horsemanship, has started, with a fair prospect of success, the project of establishing a ‘‘New York Riding Club.” His appeal to a number of ladies and gentlemen in behalf of this project has been very favorably received. We are glad that this is the case, inasmuch as the contrast be- tween the superior qualities of the many splendid saddle horses which may be daily seen in the Park and the inferior horseman- ship of not a few of the riders is often equally amusing and lamentable. Bad riders make the finest horses ungraceful, disobedient, and, finally, vicious, To be a rider in the best senso of the term it is not enough to be able to sit more or less gracefully on the horse with- out falling off, and to let it carry one more or less rapidly from one place to another. Thero must be correspondence and union between the horse and the rider. The two must bo, asit wero, one mechanism, each and every part of which harmoniously reacts upon the other, while the will of the rider dominates all. Every move- ment and every step of the horse thus*come under the direct control of the rider's mind, Tho equilibrium of both rider and horse is thus secured, Both attain grace and ease of action and share in improved health, strength and spirits, Thorough horsemanship is not only an elegant accomplishment, and, as such, an indispensable part of a complete education, but it is also the solo means of preserving and im- proving saddle horses. To promote thorough horsemanship and its enjoymens under the most favorable circum- slances is the object of the proposed “New York Riding Club.” Tho value of horseback riding as a healthy exercise is fully appro