The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1869, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Rejected communications will not be ro- . turned. Volume XXXIV.......... sees RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.— Rey. Day &. Lise, Evening. CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Rey, ABBOTT Brown. Morning and afternoon. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, University, Washing- ton square.—RRv. De. DEEMS. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR, Thirty-fifth street.—Rev. J, M. PULLMAN. Morning and evening. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS.— ANNIVERSARY. Evening. CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION.—BRev. Dr. Pot- te. Evening. CHURCH OF THE ADVENT.—Rzv. A. B, Morning and a‘ternoon, Hagt. COOPER INSTITUTE.—Free PRrActina BY REY. AvGusTUs Woovuury. Morning and evening. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Rey. Da G. F. KnoTRL. Moraing and evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—Sriairvatists. Mus. C. FANNIE ALLYN. Morning and evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Bev. Dz. Soorr. Evening. FREE CH RCH OF ST. AMBROSE,--PAnTauQuagony WILL PREACH this evening FIRST: MORAVIAN P. E. CHURCH.—Morning--RRv. Dr. BiGuxk. Evening—Hev. A. R. THOMPSON. SOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rav. Ds. . D. Eppr. Morning and evening. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisnor Snow. afternoon,’ ~ QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, April 18, 1869. = = TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements should be sent in before eight o’clock, P. M., to insure proper classifi- cation. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. BROOKLYN CARRIERS AND Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Branch OFFICE or THE New Yorx Hena.p, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ApvenrisesenTs and Svsscriprions and all letters for the New York Heratp will be received as above. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated April 17. The Irish Church bill was again brought before the House of Commons last evening. The New- market Craven meeting (Newmarket races) closed yesterday. M. Thiers yesterday denounced, gislatif, what is called the ‘ France.”’ The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has ap- pointed Count Edward de Taape President of the Council of tue E.apire. A Directory is said to have been formed in Madrid. Mining riots nave occurred in Belgium. Fears are apprehended of a military rising in Oporto. It is rumored that the French troops will evacuate Rome in June, in the Corps Lé- Cuba. The Spanish war steamer Pizana had demanded the surrender of the Cubans who captured the steamer Comanditario, but the Governor of the Ba- hamas had refused to give them up. The principal ones had gone to New York, and the question is to be sabmitted to the government at Washington. ‘The British Consul at Havana had protested agatnst the condemnation of the Mary Lowell. The British mail schooner Ellen was recently boarded ty @ Spanish war steamer. The Havana press favors the expuision of all Cuban Americans. Tne confiscation; ordered in Dulce’s decree has been com- _Menced, and the permission of the government will be required henceforth to sell produce or property. Mexico. Advices from Vera Cruz are received to the 13th, General Palacios has exacted a forced loan from the citizens of Culiacan. Con- treras had pronounced against Juarez. Juarez bas recognized the rights of Consul Brink, Charges have been preferred in Congress against the Minister of War, and Colonel Caballos has been indicted for cruel and cowardly assassinations during the Puebia and Yucatan rebellion. General Vega has declared Sonora independent, and it is believedfthat he favors annexation to the United States. Other Northern States are considered favorable to such a movement. Colonel Mayers ts still in jail and 1 held, according to Leido de Tejada, in order that Americans may be snubbed, ‘The Senate. ‘The question of adjournment came up early in the session of the Senate yesterday, on Mr. Edmunds’ motion to adjourn on that day, Mr. Edmunds amended his proposition by making it Monday, but considerable debate ensued, in which Mr. Edmunds stated that he had reason to know that, beyond the treaties, there would be but little executive business before the Senate. A vote was finally taken, when it was discovered that there was no quorum present, whereupon the Senate went into executive session. The question of adjournment was resumed after the doors were ciosed, but was finally dropped without decisive action, Among the confrmations ‘Were:—E. M. McOook, as Governor of Colorado; Charles ©. Crowe, of Alabama, late of the rebel army, as Governor of New Mexico, and William A. Howard, as Minister to China, vice J. Ross Browne, Among @ number of minor nomina from the President was that of F. (colored), to ve Minister to Liberia. The Legislature. Bills were ordered to a third reading in the Senate “yesterday abolishing certain punishments in State prisons and penitentiaries; and several other bills were passed to amend the consolidation of Brooklyn and Williamsburg; relative to the correction of as- gessments in New York; for the widening of Wall street; creating a new judicial district in this city. ‘The Governor's annual message was made the spe- gal order for Thursday evening next. "Bilis wore passed in the Assembly relative to ‘widening Fourth avenue, in Brooklyn; to consolidate ertain churches in New York; relative to attorneys’ costs in Surrogates’ Courts; requiring the Brooklyn forty. companies; to run certain boats in the night- time; relative to the New York and Brookiyn Tubular Tunnel Company and several others. The Annual Tax bill was presented—the tax is jour-ffths of a mill less than last year. The Committee on Rall- roads was discharged from further considera- of the Senate bili relating to the nip of the Erie, Central, Hudson and Railroads. The bill was considered in Com- the Whole and ordered to be engrossed for ing. Bills were reported punishing the evening. 2 id re The strike on the Second Avenue Railroad line CH.—! ‘s . coutinues. Not a car was running yesterday, and Deena both drivers and directors declare their determina- tion not to recede, 'Y-FOURTH STREET REFORMED — ne SrRyxer. Morning and eestee cage Aheavy defalcation was discovered on the Pro- ‘commercial liberty of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1869. _QUADRUPLE SHERT. Revolution and Rottenness in Mexico, pone teiusu mated raat tesuing and sing of fraudulent certificates of natu- | Cuba—The Forthcoming Proclamation from / ment envelopes are very large and may en- alization and amending the acts relative to evidence, Miscellancous. Rumors of @ startling character were prevalent in Washington yesterday relative to the Cuban question, It was stated that President Grant had bimself directed an immediate demand to be made for the surrender oft he Mary Lowell and the release of the passengers taken from the Lizule Majors and, in case of either demand being refused, had direcied that hostile demonstrations be {mixed ately made by our feet in front of Havana. One of the remarks which excited the wrath of Senator Ross on his recent visit to President Grant was, that persona have accepted office under Andrew Johnson within the last two years caunot be very good republicans. The President held a levee yeaterday, at which & crush of Congressmen, Senators and other office seekers were present. Matters were so arranged, however, that the crush was thickest in the imme- iate neighborhood of the President, so that any little words for his private ear were sure of being overheard by a score of listeners, In this extremity the .ofMice-seeking pressure upon him was consider- ably abated, A fire broke out in Baltimore last evening, and nine firemen were injured by the falling walls of the building, while three were buried under the ruins. One fireman was impaled on an tron railing. A Dumber of discharges from employment in the Treasury Department took place yesterday, mostly of democratic employés, some of whom were wounded soldiers, and algo of lady employés, at least one of whom was the widow of a soidier and nad four little children to support. The City. Numbers of men are actively drilling im this city preparatory to expeditions to Cuba, and reports have gained currency that @ large expeditionary force is on the eve of sailing. A meeting of the Tammany Society was called for last night in their Wigwam, in Fourteentn street, for the purpose of receiving the report of the com- mittee appointed to make out the slate of Sachems, &c., to govern the Society for the next year, but from some unexplained cause the report was not ready, and although the incumbent Sachems and the red men of the order assembled in large force they were compelled to adjourn over until to-morrow duce Exchange yesterday. It appears that a large amount of grain stored in an elevator in Brooklyn was sold by one of the storage agents, a Mr. Peck, for $163,000, with which amount he absconded. A number of the merchants affected by the loss will Probably have to suspend. The Military Commission examining the proposed East river bridge have approvea of the calculations of Mr. Roebling. Operations will probably commence at an early date. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and buoy- ant from the easier state of the money market. In street transactions, after the boards and subsequent ta the bank statement, which was very favorable, the whole lust experienced a further advance and New York Central touched 166%, the highest tt has yet sold at. Gold was fitful between 133% a 13374, closing finally at the latter figure. With but fewexceptions the markets were extreme- ly quiet yesterday. Coffee was sparingly dealt in, but held with firmness. Cotton was in moderate de- mand, chiefly for export, and steady in value, mid- dling upland closing at 29c. Sugar was in active re- quest at full prices, On ’Change flour was dull and heavy. Wheat was dull and nominally 2c. a 3c. lower. Corn was dull and nominal, while oais were slow of sale and weak, Pork was almost neglected and a shade lower, while beef and lard were dull and heavy. Naval stores were dull and generally heavy, spirits turpentine closing at 473, cents, and rosin st former prices. Petroleum was in better demand and higher, crade closing at17c., and refined at 32% to 33 cents. Whiskey was dull and nominal. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel J. Taylor Wood, of Louisiana; Major E. Wil- lis, of South Carolina; Colonel R. Snowdon Andrews and Colonel T. S. Reid, of Baltimore, are atthe New York Hotel, Juagé Abboit, of Boston, and Captain Hubert, of Montreal, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel Lioyd D, Wardell, of Washington, and Dr. F. D. Gould, of Nevada, are at the St, Denis Hotel. Colonel L. B. Grigsby, of Lexington, Ky., and W. H. DeWolf, of New Jersey, are at the Maltby House. Coionel E. Bannister, of Missouri; Mr. Folger and Mr. Cheeseborough, of Albany; Colonel D. V. Hor. man, of San Diego, and Colonel E. Higgins, of Chicago, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Postmaster General Randall, of Washington; A. Van Vechton, of Albany, and E. B., Morgan, of Aurora, are at the Astor House, Colonel Blood, of Philadelphia; Colonel J. Sharp, of Rome, and Horace Fairbanks, of St. Joins, N. B., are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A. L. Merriam and F. W. Brooks, of Washington, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Prominent Departures, Count G. d’Auchnot, General Schenck, Congress- man Samuel Hooper, Colonel S. M. Johnson and Paymaster Van Alstein left yesterday for Washing- ton; Colonel Oswaid and J. D, Lyman, for Albany; R. Hannigan, for Nevada; Colonel J. T. Barbour, for Virginia; Colonel R. G. Hazard, for Providence; Judge Clifford, tor Maine; Judge Meredith, for To- ronto, Canada; Major W. W. Leland sailed in the steamship Ocean Queen; Mr. Sanchez, Peruvian Minister, G. Munger and Dr. Belt, in the steamship Ville de Paris; Captain Brooks, J. Mitchell and W. F. Orr, of Washington, in the City of Brooklyn, for Europe. ResvscrraTion.—Science might have been benefited if the manipulation of the body of Gerald Eaton had been carried a little further, just enough further to have told us the state of the cervical vertebre and of the spinal mar- row where enclosed by those bones. From the fact that certain vital phenomena were manifested not directly due to the electric force we are inclined to believe that the man might have been resuscitated if the parts re- ferred to had been uninjured, Their injury it was, perhaps, that rendered life impossible, Tt would, at least, have been instructive to know this, yea or nay; for if the communica- tion was interrupted there the failure of the experiment does not put future success out of question, Sourresme 4 Gaso.—Sodgi A Gaya.—Judge Bedford's action in sentencing the scoundrel Brennan to fifteen years is rather better than an ordinary instance of severe sentence. It goes a great way toward breaking up a known nucleus of crime, One ruffian of a notorious party cannot return to his haunts to renew his offences after thirty days, and there is hope that the fear of fifteen years may keep the others away. Some DirrrreNce.—In a murder case tried in this city in the year 1799 the accused was defended by Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and Edward Livingston, do not appear in our criminal cases now, is the millennium of shysters. Names of this class It “TABLED ON ‘oN Mortoy,” "Senator Folger led off for a very effective onslaught against the tremendous Sheriffs office robbery to which the consent of the Legislature is asked, He moved to call upon the Comptroller for a state- ment of the money now annually received by the Sheriff, knowing that the mere statement of the sum would answer all demands for an increase of the Sheriff's foes; but the Senate would not hear the statement, ~ Washington. Events are evidently culminating, both in this country and in Cuba, which will call from the administration of President Grant at an early day a proclamation of our status on the Cuban question, The revolution in Cuba is too patent and the movements of its friends in in thiy gountry eine too active to render cgenee | much longer possib! In this condition of things it is well for us tolook at the record. The ex- perience of the past will, if rightly accepted, afford us valuable light for our future course. Proclamations affecting the Cuban question have been issued by two previous administra- tions—that of Genoral Taylor on the 14th of April, 1849, and that of Mr. Fillmore on the 25th of April, 1851. The first of these was issued a short time previous to the sailing of the first Lopez expedition, and is a calm and dignified State document. Cuba was at this time in peaceful subjection to the Crown of Spain, and General Taylor's sets forth in moderate terms the fact that persons undertaking to make war against the territory of a triendly Power will “subject themselves to the heavy penalty denounced against them by our acts of Con- gress, and will forfeit thcir claims to the pro- tection of their country.” The proclamation of Mr. Fillmore was issued on the occasion of the preparations for Lopez’s second expedition to Cuba, and is remarkable for the antagonistic feeling which it breathes against the general tone of American thought, and which at the time caused universal censure in public and in private circles. We give the introductory portion of this curious document as a land- mark instatecraft. If it had been prepared by a Spanish satrap it could not have echoed more perfectly the views of Spanish colonial despotism :— Whereas there is reason to believe that a military expedition is about to be fitted out in the United States with intention to invade the island of Cuba, & colony of Spain, with which this country is at peace; and whereas itis believed that this expedition is instigated and set on foot chiefly by foreigners who dare to make our shores the scene of their guilty and hostile preparations against a friendly Power, and seek by falsehood and misrepresentation to seduce our own citizens, especially the young and inconsiderate, ito their wicked schemes—an un- grateful return for the benefits conferred upon them by this people in permitting them to make our coun- try an asylum m oppression, and in = abuse of the hoapitaity tus extended to and whereas such expeditions can only be pols garded as adventures for plunder and robbery, And must meet the condemnation of tne civilized world, while they are de! tory to the character of our country, in violation of the laws of nations and expressly prohibited by our own; now, therefore, &c. This document is the last that has emanated from an American administration. Its chief peculiarity consists in its rejection of that political hospitality which is the boast and pride of every land where the English tongue is spoken, and in branding as ‘‘adventurers for plunder and robbery, who must meet the condemnation of the civilized world,” of that glorious list of names led by Lafayette and which includes a Dundonald and a Porter, an O’Higgins and a De Lacy Evans, The ground on which the friends of that administration defend this proclamation are that at the time when it was issued Cuba was ina state of peace and had not shown, by any overt act of the people, that they desired separation from Spain. Whatever may have been the condition of Cuba at that time it is widely different now. The sword has been drawn. The Spanish gar- risons have been driven to concentrate in large masses by the ungoimous uprising of # people without arms, without military organization and without skilled leaders, Every mail, every pulsation of the electric telegraph from that island brings tidings of battles fought, of captures made, of executions performed with unheard of cruelties, of depor- tation of shiploads of political sus- pects, of murderous shootings by mad volunteers into crowds of unarmed people, of the murder of women and children because their husbands and fathers are in the field, of the burning of towns, villages and planations, of the fleeing of the inhabitants to the woods and mountains, and of the ever varying tide of success and defeat in the unequal battle. In the midst of this terrible picture stand the undaunted Cespedes and his noble bands, striving in their country’s behalf with admi- rable heroism, and pleading for the sympathy of every freedom-loving heart; while the myr- midons of Spain clamor to their Crown for more men, thousands more of men, to suppress the revolution, appeal to the binding effect of treaties which they of late so willingly ignored. Cuba has drawn the sword and cast away the scabbard. This fact must be taken fnto consideration by the administration in its con- sideration of the terms of the proclamation which, in the natural course of events, it will soon be called to issue. The entire field of diplomacy is to-day agitated with the ques- tion, for it touches nearly almost every present national existence. But it must be resolved on higher and more permanent prin- ciples than those embraced in the wordy falla- cies of diplomatic reasonings or the weak clauses of existing treaties. Had these pre- vailed a Stuart would have still ruled England, a Bourbon France, Italy remained a geographical expression, Prussia be limited to the duchy of Brandenburg, Bomba sovereign in Naples, Isabella still on the throne of Spain, and not a republic in existence from the St. Lawrence to Cape Horn, The throes of national birth are governed by higher laws than commercial treaties and international arbitrations, We call upon the President and his Cabinet to bear these in mind in preparing to meet the question which the sword of Cuba is forcing upon them, and we hope they will meet it in a truly American spiritand in consonance with the march of the American idea, Spain, ag an unnatural stepmother, has driven the Cubans to the last appeal of peoples and of kings, and the great republic should lead the world in admitting them to the rights ond sympathies of honorable warfare. The Spanish Mission. We have received an unusually large nam- ber of communications on the subject of Mr. Sanford’s appointment ag Minister to Spain, all denouncing it. Evidently this nomination, ia the peculiar circumstances that attended it, haa excited public {ndignation, This is all that we can derive from the communications in question. One point that many of them make is worthy of note. It isa point in re- gard to lace. Brussels is a great place for lace—very fine lace, Is it true that many Senators have received presenta of lace sent in government envelopes by mail? Govern- close pretty fat packages, and a lace veil, nay, perhaps a lace shawl, could be gotten into one with squeezing. Were such things ever sent in that way? We should be glad to know that culture was spreading in the country to such @ degree that many Senators’ wives had got up to the taste for lace. It is an evidence of the highest reflnement, As itis ‘‘on the carpet” to withdraw Hale from Madrid on an allega- tion of corrupt practices, ought not the gov- ernment to exercise the most straightlaced discrimination in the choice of his successor? Is not that our delicate point in Madrid just now? Christianity=The Preachers and the Phi- losophers. It is now some time since we an- nounced in these columns the approach of 4 great religious revival. We did not use ‘the word then—we do not use it now—in the com- mon and vulgar sense. Revival, to our think- ing, does not mean crowded meeting houses, the brimstone declamations of demagogues, the tricks of ventriloquists, swoons, trances and the rest, but a deeper and more general inter- est in spiritual things. In this latter sense we used the term, and in this sense our prediction is being fulfilled. The widespread excitement which has been produced by the HzRatp’s Sunday articles on Christianity, our volumi- nous religious correspondence, and the Sun- day sermons reproduced in our Monday’s edi- tion, all prove the growing interest which is taken in religious questions. Rich and poor, high and low, preachers and philosophers, all give evidence that they feel religion to be the grand absorbing subject of the hour. The preachers are bestirring themselves, and al- though we still desiderate much we have had occasion more than once of late to compliment them for the increasing power and practical- ness of which they are giving evidence. It now appears, however, that the work is to be taken out of the hands of the preachers, The philosophers, following in the wake of the HeEpatp, have taken the field. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the sage of Concord, has been en- lightening the Bostonians on the subject of re- ligion generally and of Christianity in par- ticular. Other New England lights are to follow, the next in order being no other than the inexhaustible and ever ready Wendell Phillips. If Mr. Phillips and those who are to succeed him follow in the vein of Emerson the preachers had better look out. Emerson is a typical New Englander. The old Bay State and the Hub are proud of him. He has written some good verse—some dreamy essays, more easily read than understood, and has published some lectures which have a merit of their own. The merits of his productions aside, Mr. Emerson has acquired the reputation of a philosopher. He has long been known as a rationalist, or rather, as he would have it, @ realist. It is now many years since he found it incom- patible with his individual honesty to continue in the discharge of the duties of Christian minister. Mr. Emerson's retirement from the pulpit, however, did not necessarily imply that he had abandoned Christianity as a whole. The Christian students and professors of Har- vard have more than once honored him by flocking to his lectures. Nor can we say that he has hitherto openly expressed hostility to the Grin jllglen, _Jt fp Siete op now on what princ ples he can be called the friend of the Christian religion, The Horti- cultural Hall of Boston was filled on the occa- sion to which we have referred with not only a large but a highly respectable audience, The élite of the city were present. To this audi- ence Emerson spoke in a vein which, if it was not infidel, we do not know what infidelity means. ‘Other world!” he exclaimed. “There is no other world! Here or nowhere is the whole fact.” We do not linger to cha- racterize such language. Mr. Emerson did on the occasion utter some good, whole- some moral sentiments, but he evidently overlooked the fact that national morality has never yet in the world’s history flourished away from religion, If there is no religion but natural religion—in other words, if there is no revealed religion, then Christianity is a lie, and the churches are swindling institu- tions, one and all, When Mr. Emerson speaks of the good influences exerted by Buddhism and also by Stoicism of old, and whon he speaks of ‘‘the electric telegraph” as having “immensely reduced the size of our planet, as if it had put all nations in one chamber,” he but reiterates sentiments which have again and again been expressed in the columns of the Heratp. In all this he is right enough; but what shall we say of the religion of New England? Alas! alas! How are the mighty fallen! The descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers bowing to such gods as these ! We look at these Boston lectures from the point of view to which we have already re- ferred. Itisto usa proof unmistakable that an era of religious inquiry has set in. We shall have all sides of the controversy fairly and fully presented, The result, we can have no doubt, will be a positive gain to the Chris- tian religion. We are advancing with railway, even lightning speed towards the great future, Civilization, having marched across two con- tinents and two seas, is already close upon its ancient home; and Christianity will be com- pelled to show herself side by side with religious systems which were old before she saw the light, It is for the parsons and the priests, the bishops and the patriarchs and all who fill the sacred office to rid Christianity of the rust and incrustations which have gathered upon her during the ages, and to set her again before the world in her native, artless and unadorned simplicity. We wish to see her as she was seen of old by the lake of Galilee and on the hills of Judea, We want progress; but the progress must be from complexity to simplicity, from human dogmas and decrees to Gospel precept, from artificial ceremonies to artless worship, Tue Briner.—A frightened ‘taxpnyor,” who is probably interested in ferryboats, has two objections to the bridge. First, it will not be much used when built, and, therefore, there is no use building it; next, it will inter- fere with navigation, because ships above cannot go below it and ships below cannot go above it, and so it will damage river front property on the cast side. Ie ought to know that when the bridge is built Hell Gate will bo open, and there will be no occasion whatever for ships passing the bridge It will be saen by our telegraphic despatches to-day that the report we gave some time since of an intention to establish the new republic of the Occident in Northwesteru Mexico is confirmed. General Vega has declared the independence of Sonora, dis- missed the Custom House officers of the general government, and the revolution is reported to be spreading. Our City of Mexico eapremanidenos is to the 29th of March, It represents the country to be still in a disturbed condition. Sinaloa is torn by rival factions, and a goneral reign of disorder marks the period. The Mazatlan Custom House is in the hands of a set of hungry officials, who are filling their pockets at the expense of the public treasury and credit, Tamaulipas is in its usual state of commotion. The wise measures of the butcher of San Jacinto, Escobedo, can always be counted upon when there is a “‘hell broth” brewing. General Cauto, who shot Governor Patoni in cold blood, is at large enjoying him- self in Durango, Certainly Mexico must be the paradise of assassins, Ceballos, who s0 lately committed the wholesale butchery at Merida, in Yucatan, is to be replaced by a civilized Mexican. It is stated that after long search the government has found such a man. General Zerega is this Mexican Agamemnon. An indignant Congress of virtuous men is to demand very soon a history of the Merida massacre. Iglesias, the Minister of Gober- nacion, is very ill. Were he to die his powers of deception are so great that he will slip into heaven unless St. Peter is very careful. So the country moves on. Bad bloodslowly works to the surface a kind of revolutionary scrofula, So it will continue. The present government (the liberals) will no doubt long cling to power. They will gradually, in the course of a century, show some stability and inclination to accept progress and modern civilization. No great internal revolution can disturb them—nothing but the stench which arises from the blood bubbles of old political issues. The country enjoys a comparative peace, probably as much as should reason- ably be expected after so terrible a struggle between the clergy and liberalism. We await results with patience, feeling, however, that by witnessing so much crime and not inter- fering we are somewhat culpable also. Toe GoveRNMENT oF Spain.—A cable despatch from Madrid, dated yesterday, states that Generals Prim, Serrano and Olozaga have framed a directory of government of which they are the only members. If this be true what becomes of the constitution of Spain which we published the other day? Poputar ExcrreMENT IN Portveat.—Por- tugal sympathizes with the efforts which are being made across the border by the Spaniards in behalf of self-government. A military rising is looked for in Oporto, and the authori- ties are seriously alarmed and on the gué vive. NAPOLEON AND THE Porz.—The Emperor of France again threatens to withdraw his troops from Rome. Can Cardinal Bonaparte receive any assurance of the reversion of the tiara after the death of PioNono? If so, per- haps the soldiers of the empire will remain in the Eternal City. __ANTI-LMPERIALISM 1 PNOE The French Leg: minh parlag to make a sins Te dyldendly bre stand against the ‘‘one man power” which the Emperor has so industriously endeavored to concentrate inthe Crown. During the session yesterday M. Thiers assailed the commercial policy of Bonaparte in direct terms, asserting that the trading ‘‘tiberties” of the country wore ‘‘like the political liberties of the French people—a farce.” The Prosident replied, which brought on a warm ‘argument with M. Thiers, and it was feared the sitting would break up ina row. M. Quertier claimed that the Crown had no power in the matter of com- mercial treaties, it being vested in the legis- lative body, Appigtons’ JourNat.—Number four of this new paper sustains well, as all its predecessors have done, the promise of number one—that it would be the handsomest and in general character the best weekly yet published in the country. It is not often that such very fine engravings as the illustrations of New York that are in the present number appear in any paper. Tae Groriovs UNceRTAINTY OF THE Law.— For a long while there was a suit in our courts to ascertain to whom the Christy estate belonged. Now the point in the suit is to ascertain where the Christy estate has gone. Learsiva tuk Trapg.—When the war began our generals had to learn the trade, and as the beginners blundered they were cast aside and later comers profited by their experience, Grant was, fortunately for him, one of the later comers. Now in another sphere he has to learn another trade; but the difference is that he cannot be cast aside for a blunder, He is sure of the place for four years, and he will learn the trage long before his term runs out, Ovr Case 1X Cuna.—When Mexico was recently all at sea with regard to government we plainly indicated our hostility to the re- establishment of monarchy so near to us, In Cuba the case is substantially the same. In common with the Spanish people the Cuban people have thrown down the Bourbon domi- nation, and while in Spain the people deliberate whether they will choose a repub- lican or other form of government, it is for us to guarantee to our neighbors the same right of choico and to see that European monarchies gain no new power here, This is the Monroe doctrine. Theso are American ideas, This doctrine and these ideas must be asserted at the Spanish capital by a man fresh from the American people. The Cotton Spinners’ Strike In England, We published recently an interesting letter from our London correspondent in re- gard to the cotton spinners’ strike in Eng- land, In Lancashire, the principal cot- ton centre, some five thousand ‘mill hands,” as they are called, were out on strike. By this time the number may have swelled to twenty or thirty thousand, In Lanarkshire, Scotland, where there are many thousands of families dependent upon the cotton mills, some mills were already standing. The discase may sproad until it begets great political PE 3 trade have never done the workingmen any good. As our correspondent truthfully re- marks, “capital in Englaad always starve labor into submission.” It does so not ia England only, but everywhere. The money which has been actually lost through the sys- tem of striking, or “‘standing out,” is incalou- lable. In too many instances the workiagman in such matters is but tlfe tool of designing political demagogues, Men who live and fat- ten on the gains of their fellows, and who never themselves suffer, unscrupulously bring thousands to misery. K is time that the workingman in all lands understood that sup- ply and demand are, after all, the only regu- lators of wages. Mr. Disraeli and the Church Question. On the evening of Monday last the conserva- tive party held a meeting in London to hear from the lips of their chief, Benjamin Disraeli, an account of the policy which he intended to pursue on the Irish Church question when the bill is brought up for a third reading in a com- mittee of the House. The party was woll represented, over two hundred members being present. Mr. Disraeli’s plan is substantially comprised in the following sentences :— According to the ministerial plan the Irish Church is to be formally disestablished on the 1st of January, 1871. Mr. Disraeli’s plan is to sever the union between the Irish Church and that of England in 1872. Mr. Gladstone's bill provides that private bequests made to the Irish Church since 1660 shall not be disturbed. Mr. Disraeli proposes that all grants made to the Irish Chureh since the reformation shall remain intact. Mr. Gladstone's bill provides that glebe lands may be retained by the Church by the payment of a nominal sum. Mr. Disraeli proposes that such property shall remain in the hands of its present holders without purchase. Mr. Gladstone proposes that all present incumbents shall receive annuities equal to their present salaries. Mr. Disracli proposes that out of a capitalized sum the clergy shall draw ‘their incomes. Mr. Glad- stone proposes that so much money shall be given respectively to Maynooth and to the Presbyterians that the Presbyterians and the Catholics shall find themselves better off than ever. Mr. Disraeli’s plan is to leave Maynooth and the Regium Donum as they are. If the cable has given us a correct account of the conservative meeting and the speech of Disraeli on the occasion, it appears te us that in this matter the conservatives find them- selves in a very forlorn and helpless condition. The debate on the bill for the disestablish- ment of the Irish branch of the State Church was continued in the House of Commons on the 16th instant with much animation, Mr. Disraeli again opposed the plan of severance of the Church, this time by specific resolution, Mr. Gladstone canvassed the effect of the resolution if adopted, and met it by a counter resolution and division, which resulted in the rejection of Disraeli’s motion and the susten- tion of the government by # majority of one hundred and twenty-three votes. Church establishments are doomed, not in Ireland only, but in England and Scotland as well; and not all the genius of Disracli can save them. Danaxrovs.— Brennan who yras conoerned in thd Topbery of a a man fos Chatham street den, gets fifteen years in the State pisog he ro the man who killed Rogers Thus our ruffians are ‘taught aot Fa fe theie point of view, it is better to kill than to steal, Srrrrtvat Puotocrapns.—Judge Edmonds on Friday presented in the cage of the persons charged with swindling by so-called spiritual photography a statement of the case, arguing that they practised no trickery or deception, that pictures of spirits actually were taken, and that it was a mystery. This, then, is an argument that spirits are material things and that they have form and substance; for a photograph is a printed shadow, and nothing not having form and substance can 60 inter- cept the light as to cast a shadow. Tae Tax Levy was four millions and a half, and has been cut down by half million in the Legislature; but Peter Cooper's party thinks it could be cut down at least two mil- lions. This may be an exaggerated economy; for Peter's party, like other parties, makes very low estimates when it has not the spend- ing of the money. There is no doubt, how- ever, that the levy is much too large, ‘The Fashions in Paris and in New York. Our sprightly fashions correspondent details in the Paris letter which we publish to-day the information acquired during recent visits to Fancy and Taste, those influential relatives of Fashion. While Fancy delighted in a model spring costume, consisting of a bright green faille skirt, with a flounce of chantilly at the bottom, a pannier of two flounces rounded, very full behind and looped with green rosettes, an alms-pouch chatelaine, a aquare bodice, a high lace jacket, with falling sleeves and enamel jewels, rivalling those for which the Japanose are famous, Taste was jubilant over the failure of Longchamps, the return of cashmeres, put on in peplum style across the back, and a new fanchon trimming for hats and toquet drapery with these cashmeres, The Van Dyck red, an Alengon ruff, the Diana toquet and the Canova headdress are described, together with othor novelties adopted by Fashion herself, The letter concludes with a description of a toilet lately presented, enclosed in a large ebony egg, with silver rims and silver edgos, by a banker's son to a banker’s daughter, In New York, no less than in Paris, Fancy and Taste preside over the spring tumes worn by the fair subjects of Fashion, “our sovereign lady.” With a charming inde- pendence the belles of New York have now fairly established their right to modify and improve fashions imported from Paris, Thoy make, in public on Broadway and at church, a more liberal display of brilliant toilets than their Parisian sisters; but at least the bache- lors, who have no milliners’ and mantuamakers’ bills to pay, cannot complain of this custom, which contributes so much toward enlivening both church and street, American éligantes do not feel constrained to conform to tho strict sumptuary law that seems to oblige the ladies of Paris to wear black for outdoor costume, the only variety being in the jupon, which, even when colored, is partially black, This, according to the Ladies’ Gazotte of Fashion and Monitewr de Paris, is the goneral rula,