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6 . NEW YORK HERALD STREET. BROADWAY AND AN JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herap. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Qe street.—Tne Tepes. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe Founratn—Soar Fat Man. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28d st., between 5th and 6th avs.— OVHELLO. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. ‘TRAVAGANZA OF TUE Forry TH! th avenue and THE Sritir OF THE Tan BURLESQUE Ex- FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue aad Twenty- fourth sireet.—Banpe BLEUr. Broadway and Ish street.— GERMAN STADT THEATR Noo, 45 and 47 Bowery— Dex Corisr—Din Hoouzkr REISE, &0. Broadway.—Huaery DoMrry, Matinee at 19. OLYMPIC THEATR' Wirn NEW FEATURES. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—F1ize How's BueeKsevk COMPANY.-PANIS; OR, THR JUDGMENT THE TAMM, anv His MAN one F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— U8. 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BrooktyN CARRIERS AND Newsmxn will in future receive their papers at the Brancu Orrick ortHe New York Heraxp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscrrprions and all letters for the New Yor will be Teceived as above. THE NEWS. Heratp Europe. ‘The cable despatches are dated May 4. The case of the brig Mary Lowell was brought before the British Parliament yesterday. In reply to a question the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs replied that in the present imperfect state of affuirs 1t was undesirable to make explanations. The medal of the Geographical Society of Paris has been awarded to Dr. Haves, of the Unitea States, for eminent services in the work of Arctic explorations. Prince Aiexander Sergeewitsch Menschikort, Admiral of the F 1 Monday. The Spanish Cortes has decided in favor of the ew Muinist Cuba. The news by telegraph trom Havana is unim- Dortant. {t appears that a strict censorship ts ex- ercised over the telegrapme di es for New York, and that important n ished pre viously in the Havana journals whic ubject to the same censorship, has been refused transmission on the plea that it was untrue. Porto Rico. Advices to the 20th ultimo from Arecibo, state that Intense animosity exists there between the native Qnd Spanish population, the former sympathizing ‘with the Cubans and the latter with the Spaniards. The natives dare not express their views except to confidential friends, being in dread of the govern- ment. - The Legisiatare. In the Senate yesterday fourteen bills were Passed, the most important of which amended the Militia law and authorized the Comptroller of Brook- lyn to issue bonds. The bills providing for tue erec- tion of a public market in the Twenty-first ward; Hxing the compensation of the Sheriff and assistant Clerks of the county of New York; regulating the fare on the Troy and Boston Railroad, and tn relation to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, were ordered to a thirl reading. The annuai Supply bill was taken up, amended by giving $250,000 towards the erection of anew Capitol and ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly, the motion proposing an amend. Ment to the constitution authorizing the State to bor- TOW $10,000,000 for the enlargement of the canals, Was discussed, A message was received from the Governor vetoing the bill relative to certain high- ‘Ways and highway taxes in Mamiiton county, which Weto Was sustained by 85 to4, The annual tax and Charity bills were reported and made the special order for to-day. ‘The vote on the bill in relation to the Central and Erie Railroad was reconsidered and the bill was then passed. The resolution to submit the proposition of eniarging the canals to the next Legislature was lost. Duriug the afternoon session the Tax Com- missioners’ bill was considered in Committee of the ‘Whole and was passed, 76 to 46, after a very warm discussion, in the course of which the republicans Opposing the bill arraigned the others for acting Coutrary to the decision of the caucus. Miscellaneous, Minister Motiey’s written instructions are being Prepared at the State Department, although he will be allowed large discretion in all matters that may Come before him, The instructions relative to the Alabama claims, it is known, are based on Senator Sumner’s speech, which seems to have been made our ultimdtum, Mr. Motley is directed tu be in no hurry, but to wait a favorable opportunity for open- ing negotiations on the subject, The government has given Minister Rosecrans’ Messenger, Dr. Brink, no encouragement whatever, it has been ascertained from authoritative sources that the Juarez government does not countenance Ahi, propositions reiative to the sale of Mexican ter- ritory. In the Canadian House of Commons yesterday a resolution directing the rescinding of licenses issued to American fishermen during the last year was adopted. In the debate that ensued strong oppo- sition to giving any privileges to American fisher. men was indicated, and the member from Nova Scotia favored thelr rigid exclusion from Canadian Dsheries altogether. The ladies of Washington Insist upon the ballot, for regtatration, and the nie! of rd informed them that he would reply to then by letier, They withdrew, satisfied with haviay set an example that they hope wili be followed 80 generally a8 to con- Vinee the people that woman really wants to vote. The idea of Quakers as Indian agents it appears Wnolnew, Pf ent Lincoln appointed a Quaker to the position, who, i is said, although bankrupt when appomted, cau out after a short term of service worth $150,000, with a heavy indebted- ness paul om, It isalso said that a “Quaker ring” is pbeimg formed, and some sharp fellows have already humbugged the Friends to a considerable extent. us. nt returns an income to the assessor in Washington of 3560, General Lee left Washington yesterday for Alex- andria where he intends visiting some relatives. ‘The last tie to be laid on the Centra! Pacific Rail- road next Saturday bas been forwarded from San Francisco. Itis mounted on both ends with silver, 1s accompanied by a spike of solid gold and cost $200. John Dorsey, an Irishman, who was furloughed for Sunday from the House of Correction in Wil- Hiamsburg, Mass., to attend to home affairs, beat his wife’s brains out on Saturday night during his visit. Joseph Holmes, a negro, formerly member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention, was killed at * Charlotte Court House yesterday by John Marshall, ason of Holmes’ old master, Both parties opened fire with pistols daring some slight altercation; but Marshatl was reinforced by his friends, ‘The coroner's jury rendered a verdict of death by vio- lence at the hands of some person unknown; but an order of arrest has been made out for Marshall. Mrs, General Grant’s reception yesterday was probably her last this season, It was largely at- tended, and the President himself paid his respects after the Cabinet meeting was over. The City. A great mass meeting was held at Cooper Insti- tate last night in favor of the insurgents in Cuba, Speeches were made by Messrs. McKeon, Woodford, Townsend and others, The fresh strike which broke out among the car drivers on the Second Avenue Railroad on Monday ended yesterday, the directors acceding to the de- mands of the drivers, and in addition increasing their wages to $2 50a day. In the United States Circnit Court, Brookiyn, the Grand July reported last evening having found fif- teen indictments for assault with dangercus weapons against the carpenter, boatswain and third mate of the ship James roster, Jr. Lady Thorne and American Girl trotted at the Fashion Course yesterday for $2,000, Lady Thorne coming out winner. The best mile was made in 2:26, The steamship Germania, for Hamburg, takes out $96,090 on freight. The stock market yesterday was heavy and de- clinec, Gola opened at 1361, and closed at 155%{. Prominent Arrivals i the City. Mr. Frederic Hudson, of Concord, Mass.; General c. Kmg, General Edgar N. Wilcox, Colonel Henry Custer and Professor Samuel Gardiner, of Washing- ton; Colonel Montgomery Hunt, of Chicago; J. D. Campbell, of San Francisco, and Judge J. S. Kerr, of Philadelphia, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Congressman T. M. Pomeroy, of New York; T. A. Scott and J. Edgar Thompson, of Philadelphia; S. Whitney, of Niagara Falls, and H. H. Emmons, of Detroit, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. John D, Sarbour, of Lisburn, Ireland; Samuel L. White, of Philade!phia, and Mr. Gont, of Washington, are at the Brevoort House. Lowell D. Allen, Albert T. Ames and R. W. Robin- son, of Boston, and John S. Newbold, of Philadel- phia, are at the Westminster Hotel. Professor Davis and James C. King, of New York, are at the Clarendon Hotel. E. L. Plumb, United States Consul General for Havana; Dr. Moses, of Georgia; R. H. Pruyn, of Albany; D. Dougherty, of Philadelphia, and Ex-Con- gressman F, E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A. G, Pierce, of New Bedford; Oaks Ames and Peter Butler, of Boston; J. M. Francis, of Troy; Hugh White, of Cohoes, N. Y., and Moses A. Dow, of Boston, are at the Astor House. Captain J. Hosmer, of the United States Army; Captain Thomas Kimber, of the United States Navy; W. T. Pitt, of Baltimore, ana ex-Congressman J. A. Nicholson, of Delaware, are at the Hofman House. Prominent Departures, Mr. J. L. Motley, Senator A. H. Craigin and Con- greasman Samuel Hooper, for Boston; W. Lyman, for Hyde Park; General Harney, for St, Louis; W. S. Church, for Albany; W. L. Rice, for Terre Haute; Paymaster Clark, for Watertown; R. H. Boyd and A, Gonzales, for Washington; Samuel Laird, for Long Branch, and General B. Latin, for Little Falls. General Fremont sails from this port to-day for Paris on business connected with the projected Memphis and El Paso Pacific Railroad. Professor F Lemercier, Mrs. Adrienne Ben- ney and Dr. W. Rapelje sailed yesterday in the steamship Germania for Cherbourg. Deve Crerss.—The law to secure the em- ployment by druggists of competent prescrip- tion clerks requires that such clerks shall have had a certain amount of experience or study, and lays a penalty upon the employ- ment of others in this special vocation. This penalty is not its best point, and is one that perhaps will seldom be enforced, though the law will commonly be violated. The effective feature in the law is that iu cases of death re- sulting from its violation there is a basis for proceedings against the delinquent. Some- body can be punished, and a few punishments will do good, Hanxsom Cans.—A Hansom cab company was incorporated in our State Senate on Mon- day, and as soon as the bill of incorporation shall have been signed by the Governor the introduction of Hansom cabs in this city will be attempted on a larger scale and under more favorable conditions than ever before. But as every previous attempt to introduce them here has failed, and as our citizens have become wedded to the conveniences and even patiently endure the inconveniences of the present sys- tem of street railway cars, it is doubtful whether this new experiment of importing the very con- venient but more expensive Hansom cab from London will succeed. Although two persons may ride comfortably for forty cents in one of these cabs, from Union square to Wall street, escaping the annoyances of the crowded omni- bus or car, yet they cannot forget that each of them has been acenstomed to make four trips in the omnibus, and at least six in the car for the same price. Perhaps if street railways were as numerous and as cheap in London as they are here Hansom cabs would already have lost their popularity in the British mo- tropolis, Some Dirrenexce.—These words from Judge Bedford's charge to the Grand Jury summarize completely our status as to crime :—‘“The bold and daring recklessness which but a few weeks ago characterized our criminal record has been palpably very much diminished.” Woman's Vencrance.—The Excise law has served one honest purpose in a household, ruled apparently by a woman who knows more than Lucy Stone about woman's rights. Elizabeth Baker repeatedly warned a liquor dealer not to sell rum to her husband, and he repeatedly langhed at her and sold the rum all the same. Then Elizabeth determined to close his career, and sent a little girl to buy rum ata time when the dealer was forbidden by law to sell it. He fell into the trap. Elizabeth laid the facts before the Excise Board and the dealer lost PNoiuer delewation presented themseives yesterday | his license, NEW YORK’ HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Pacit oicaut Belt Around the World. For more than forty centuries the world has been reaching towards Asia. Eastward or westward has made but little differeace ; the great commercial and maritime problem has been to shorten the distance in the direction of the countless milliona of India and absorb their trade. In the attempt to solve this problem Portugal doubled the Cape of Good Hope and Spain launched her pinnaces west- ward into the unknown sea which lay beyond the dreaded portals of Hercules. The Portu- guoese effort gave a tremendous impulse to Western Europe and infused such a civiliza- tion into its Atlantic coast that no commercial enterprise was too daring and no geographical exploration too difficult to be undertaken. Man learned what the world was, avd set about the task to make it bend to his energies. Barrier after barrier went down before the sturdy pioneer. Those nations which led in the conquest became the most powerful in Enrope. Portugal and Spain floated their flags over more than a third part of the hab- itable globe. England followed, and the rickety kingdoms of India, rotten with wealth, went down atthe touch of her sword. Half of the New World came under the shadow of the English Cross of St. George and the Fleur de Lis of France, Those were grand filibustering days, and under their action the world ceased to be flat. The world’s mania to reach India has constantly increased. The Continent which Columbus found between Spain and China has been subdued, populated, bound together with iron bands and finally bridged. Over three thousand three hundred miles of continuous rails link the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific. To-day New York and China are connected by steam on nearly a straight line. Under the grand Asiatic movement France, as well as ourselves, has undertaken a gigantic work—in an engineering point of view far greater than our Pacific Railroad. Ithas been pushed forward with an energy which in no respect is inferior to that which has characterized our own movements. As here, so there, capital has been lavishly expended. The object has been to complete the connection of the Medi- terranean and the Red Sea at the earliest moment. It is now supposed that the canal will be opened to commerce before the close of the present year. In this immediate opening we see something more than the mere desire to reach India. Were it to be completed ten years hence it would perhaps fail to meet the full measure of its object. It would scarcely answer for Europe to give us ten years the start, commercially or politically, on a short route to India, The two hundred millions of dollars foreign com- merce of China and the growing importance of the trade of ofher Indian countries demand that Europe should cling fast to what she has, Young America threatens to give the Old World a rough race for empire. Bone, sinew and energy are the competitors against wealth and established power. The Suez Canal was undertaken upon foreign territory by France. It has none of those great local national advantages attached to it that our Pacific Railroad has. No great unde- veloped territory lies upon its flanks; nothing but desert sands. Our great trade artery sets in active development not less than a million of square miles of territory unsurpassed for fer- tility of soil and mineral wealth. The Suez Canal, however, is to the Mediterranean na- tions what the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to India was to Western Europe. It will give them extraordinary vigor and a new commercial existence which will place the European Latins more upon an equality with the great Saxon-English element which has rolled so irresistibly westward. We are dis- posed to believe that the great idea of France in the cutting of the canal was the same that we found underlying the invasion of Mexico and the oft-repeated attempts to gain control of South America—that is, the development of the Latin race, and the consequent building up of all those nations of Europe whose cradle is the Mediterranean. These nations already feel the movement of the French dredges in the Suez Canal. Venice, alone, has raised a very large sum of money to repair her docks, The whole of Italy must take a bound forward. Marseilles and Toulon must become the Indian and Chinese ports of France. The first ship of fifteen hundred tons that passes the canal will be the signal of a victory greater than any that France ever yet achieved. At the same moment the European Latin races will double their strength. The whole world will gain, for it will be the completion of a steam belt around the world on the shortest practicable route, but little longer than the equatorial circumfer- ence of the earth. The construction of the Suez Canal will cost about half the money that our Pacific Railroad’ represents. Naturally in these dgreat under- takings one of the great moving forces is indi- vidual profit. We have no doubt that upon a thorough examination it will be found that certain individuals have made vast sums out of the Suez Canal — enterprise. We have heretofore demonstrated what gigan- tic swindling schemes have attended the con- struction of the Pacific road. Our great highway would, however, be cheap to ns at a cost of five hundred millions of dollars. Com- mercially it places the United States in con- tact with Asia; internally it will make North America sparkle with cities ; politically, as a national binding force, it is invaluable. It will be the great passenger route between the civilized world and Asia, We must not sup- pose, however, that it will be used for the through trade of India and China, This is a dream. None but goods of rare value, de- manding rapid despatch, can pay such prices as will, of necessity, be demanded. From Canton via San Francisco to New York, ten thousand three hundred miles, it will be difficult to ship a ton of freight for less than one hundred and fifty dollars. From Canton to New York via the Suez Canal, about eleven thousand five hundred miles, the same ton of freight can be shipped by fast freight steamers for less than one-third the above amount, The Pacific Railroad will supply our Mississippi valley and the Pacific slope with Asiatic goods through San Francisco. It cannot supply New York and the Atlantic slope. Now that we have the great steam passenger belt around the globe it is of vital importance that we cut a Darien Canal and complete a trade belt also. The Atlantic coast of the United States and itvead and the Sucz Canal commercial greatness is until this is done. The Cusiom House. Affairs at the Custom House have almost reached the culminating point; and within the present week, probably, the guillotine and seavenger’s broom will be at work lopping off official heads and clearing out the official fungi that has accumulated during the past few years, In the past ten days a number of appointments and removals have been made, but these were merely such appointments as were very necessary to be made to enable the department to perform its functions efficiently. Collector Grinnell has been for two days at Washington and will probably return to-day, and his return will be signalized by the per- manent organization of the staff, The most disastrous havoe, it is expected, will accrue to the brood of harpies who hold sinecure posi- tions, drawing large salaries for nominal, and, in some instances, purely imaginary services, and among this latter class are many Bohe- mian and other pretended oditorial writers and magazine scribblers. Retrenchment will be the watchword of the new régime, and to this beneficent end, in addition to the abolish- ment of individual offices and the reduction of the clerical force, some of the subdivisions or departments will be consolidated with existing bureans. There will be the usual rejoicings and discomfiture at the prospective changes, but those who rejoice, being the greater part of the community, will largely outnumber the weepers, who are to be known by the hapless appellation of the ‘‘outs.” The Gas Bill in Danger. People are not to have protection against the abuses practised by the gas companies for the asking. Such is the appearance in Albany just now. The Gas bill passed through the Assembly without difficulty, much to the sur- prise of those who did not reflect that the gas men, being good financiers, would naturally prefer to buy up the !ess numerous body where one would suit their purpose as well as another. The bill is now in the Senate, and there is a ,| suspicious tendency to defer action on it. Judging by the past it will do nogreat violence to the fame of the legislators to see a connection between this tendency and the hundred and fifty thousand dollars belonging to the gas com- panies that is now on deposit at the State capital. Shall the public interest be now deliberately and coolly sold out by the Senate? This bill embodies in its provisions a pro- tection to our citizens that becomes daily more necessary. Without it we shall still be, as we have been in the past, at the mercy of corpo- rations that hold a monopoly on the supply of the best artificial light practicable for use. Without gaslight we cannot live in cities. As the law now stands we are compelled to pay an excessive price fora poor article, we have the most vexatious rules imposed upon us, and we have no redress anywhere. This winter the people have forced the Assembly up to the point of enacting a law that promises improve- ment. Shall that law now be bartered away by the huckstering legislators of the other house? We fear it will be unless the popular will is expressed in a way to make the Senate forget for the time that money on deposit. CanapiaN RETALIATION.—The members of the Canadian Legislature, in session at Ottawa, have commenced their annual attempt to re- strict or prohibit the fishing trade of the United States on the coast of the Dominion. In this course they have the support of the Nova Scotians, one member going so far as to advo- cate the total exclusion of foreign fishermen from the colonial possessions. This Parlia- mentary exhibition of jealousy towards us may with great truth be classed as “‘scaly.” The only remedy, however, for our govern- ment to adopt is the Christian one of annexa- tion, from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia and Ottawa, of the entire territory, ‘‘aook, bob, line and sinker.” Tne “Barp” of the Atlanta New Eva must be largely engaged in the grazing busi- ness. He kills a “Bullock” every day. House AGENts.—One class of persons who fancy they have full right and power to do just what they please with the people and the peo- ple’s money are the small house agents, and we are glad to see that one of these has just been brought to his senses in court. He had shown a honse and it was taken ; but he made out the lease for another, received the rent and refused to make the correction. All these men ought to do business on license, and the fact of a decision against them in a suit like this should revoke the license. It is not enough that they are compelled to refund the money they have wrongfully kept. Tue Macon (Ga. ) Journal states that “Major George Anderson, of Laurens District, 8. C., had thirteen sons in the Confederate army. Match him or them who can!” Unfortunately, too many of those matches are made in heaven! Damaces.—One good way by which to control the temper of policemen and make them reason like other mortals is shown in one of the court reports, Plaintiff! was roughly handled without provocation by an imperious policeman. He remonstrated, and the reply to his remonstrance was to arrest him “for disorderly conduct” and lock him up all night. Verdict against the captain on suit for false imprisonment—one thousand dollars, Paying at this rate for lessons policemen will soon learn the limit of their powers. Discrpuixe WANTED IN tHE Fire Derarr- MENT.—It appears that in the reorganization of our Fire Department the commissioners did not purge outall the ruffianism that contami- nated the old system. Half a dozen men in one of the companies seem to have made up their minds that they are subject to no au- thority and will do as they please, regardless of all regulation. If there is to be any order or discipline in the department the commission- ers will find it necessary to take hold of this matter very sharply. IsconsisTENt.—It is said that members of Congress feel under no obligation to the Bx- ecutive for appointments, inasmuch as he has systematically neglected their recommenda- tions; and also that he has appointed persons too freely on the loose recommendations of members. Where is the truth? Has the President elighted members or heeded them unwisely ? Wha: will He Do with Them? The republican managers, through their vari- ous newspaper organs, east and west, are dis- cussing the important question, ‘What shall we dowith General Grant? They arealready begin- ning to look upon him as their white elephant, or as asort of second Andy Johnson more dangerous than the first, They are hard to please. What just ground of complaint have they against General Grant? None in the world. Has he not faithfully adhered to the Chicago platform? Has he not actively sup- ported the ratification of the fifteenth amend- ment of the constitution for the establishment of equal suffrage to all male citizens over the age of twenty-one, whites, negroes, Chinese, Indians and all? Has he not, in his appoint- ments to office, established the doctrine of equal rights to whites, blacks and reds—-in a black man, for instance, as minister to Liberia and another to Hayti, and another as internal revenue assessor in New Orleans, and another as postmaster of Columbia, S. C., and in an Indian as Commissioner of Indian Affairs ? He has done all these things, and with the consent and applause of the Senate. Nor has he forgotten women’s rights, for, beginning with Richmond, late the Confederate capital of Jeff Davis, he has appointed a fair propor- tion of women as postmasters. In all these appointments he has certainly labored in good faith to carry out the extreme radical dogma of equal rights of men of all colors to vote, and of equal right to hold office by white women, along with white men, red men and black men. He has, moreover, gene- rously done the best he could in the division of the spoils to satisfy the republican members of both houses of Congress, and especially the managers of the Senate; and all this for the sake of peace with the party electing him and with Congress. At the same time, in behalf of peace and harmony in the South, he has turned adrift the men of Andy Johnson and has put in their places not only white republicans, known as carpet-baggers and scalawags, but reconstructed white rebel soldiers and repre- sentative loyal blacks; and, above all, he has caused it to be understood in every section and among all parties that, whether he likes or dislikes this or that law, he will faith- fully execute all the laws of the United States. And he is faithfully executing them, Tenure of Office law, all the amendments of the consti- tution, and all the reconstruction laws of Con- gress included. Could mortal man do more in the White House as the embodiment of the Chicago plat- form and the republican party? No. Did anybody ever expect General Grant to do so much? No, Why, then, all these discords in the camp and all this clamor against General Grant from the party organs and managers? It is simply because in giving out some three thousand offices General Grant has failed to satisfy the thirty thousand men who had ex- pected these offices. To the twenty-seven thousand who are disappointed and their backers we are indebted for all this hue and ery against General Grant. Spoils, spoils— it is all about the spoils. But the seed is sown, and a good crop of weeds is already beginning to sprout among the spring wheat. The truth is that, as the republican party has gained its extreme demands, and has no longer any great principles to fight for, it has nothing to do but to wrangle and squabble over the spoils, which is the beginning of a general dis- integration and break up. What, then, will General Grant do with the republican managers? It is evident that whatever he may do now to harmonize them around his administration he will fail. His proper course is no longer to attempt to har- monize their conflicting claims, demands or suggestions, but to pursue his own policy; for by this course, whatever may befall the republican party in the interval, the adminis- tration party in 1872 will be master of the field. General Grant's services as a soldier settled the election of 1863. His policy asa states- man during his present four years’ term will settle the election for the succession. Having fulfilled the republican programme the party is adrift; and the democratic party, from the complete defeat of its Tammany platform, is adrift; so that the best materials of both these parties may be fused by General Grant into the great party of the future, leaving the intractable managers, cliques and factions on both sides to shift for themselves. China and Modern Progress. From our Washington news it appears that J. Ross Browne, our present Minister at Pekin, is of opinion that the Chinese are not in love with modern progress, and that he has trans- mitted to his government despatches accord- ingly. It is only a few days since Sir Ruther- ford Alcock notified the British government that the sentiments of the Chinese people and government were not the sentiments repre- sented by Mr. Burlingame and his colleagues. Mr. Ross Browne and Sir Rutherford Alcock thus both agree in saying that the Chinese are opposed to modern progress. As proof of this we are told that jealousy of foreigners is even more general and more intense than of old, and that Christian missionaries and native converts to Christianity are more in peril than ever. In the province of Sechuen, where there was ® prosperous, mission station, several Catholic missionaries and some hundreds of converts have just been massacred. Attempts have been made in England, and: attempts will be made here, to deny the truth- fulness of those reports. For ourselves we have no doubt that they are true, That Mr. Burlingame very correctly represents a party in China we have no donbt. This, in fact, is proved by the high social standing of the men who accompany him. Mr, Burlingame’s party, however, is the advance party—the party of progress. Honorable and influential these men wnaquestionably are; but it would be strange if they represented faithfully and fully the four hundred millions of China, In speaking and writing, as well as thinking about China, we ought always to bear in mind the exceptional character of this people. They are numerous—the largest nation by far on the face of the earth. The territory they occupy is compact; their language, more effectually than their wall, has kept them apart from the rest of the world; and their religion antedates Christianity by some five hundred years, They area people who have advanced far in the science of philosophy; and though their ma- terial civilization is essentially different from ours it is by 0 means to be deguised, They this whole Continent will aever know what | General Graut and the Radical Managers have lived and prospered and been contented for a period the commencement of which must be sought ages before the Christianera. Is it wonderful that resisting and reactionary influ- ences should make themselves felt when the powerful pressure of modern civilization ia disturbing their ancient habits of thought and driving them out of their ancient grooves ? Thousands of Chinamen have found their way to Australia, and thousands more have sought: and found a home and wealth on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains; but while those thousands are exercising a powerful in- fluence at home in favor of progress the resist- ing, stubborn, interested, unreasoning multi- tude remains, and nothing but a fierce agony of revolution can force the nation within the pale of modern civilization, Rome was not built in a day, and as we have not yet reached that period described by the prophet when nations are to be born in a day we must not be impatient with China. It is our duty, as one of the greatest nations of modern times, to take this big and backward sister by the hand, to lead her fofth as gently as possible, to insist on advancement, but to use no force until force has become an actual necessity. Mr. Burlingame has perhaps blown the trumpet a little too loudly, but that is no sufficient reason why we should despair of China. In tae Custom Hovse.—Reform has began wellin the New York Custom House, in the interest of the merchants and not of politicians and office-holders. This is the first time in a long while that reform has begun in that par- ticular way. Vistetx Prorores or Ixvisinte Tainas.— In a police court we generally see too much of the rough realities of life—a too broad reliance upon facts. But in Judge Dowling’s court there is not enough of this, as we have just seen in the ridiculous investigation before him of the spiritual photograph humbug, and in his most ridiculons decision, discharging Mumiler with a grand advertisement and full freedom to inveigle all the countrymen he can into his gallery. Justice in police courts has avery peremptory prerogative to protect the people against rogues, and it has this in its favor, that it need not always stand upon the nice and embarrassing formalities of the law. Upon the complaint of the Mayor that Mum- ler was getting money on false pretences, and upon the showing by experts how the pictures could be made, Dowling should have decided the case, unless the accused could affirma- tively show that his pictures were made in some other way. Common sense and reality are not to be departed from in such tribunals, or every bedlamite can give his own crazy reasons for misconduct, and there is no safety whatever. AMUSEMENTS. Amateur Entertalument in Ald of the Halleck Statue Fund. Yesterday afternoon, in the elegant private theatre of Dr. Ward's residence, in Forty-seyenth street, an amateur entertainment was given, under the auspices of Mrs. Hamilton Fish, Mrs. John A. Dix, Mrs, J. D. Sherwood, Mrs. C. A. Bristed, Mra. Paran Stevens, Mrs. Judge Roosevelt, and Mrs. Vincenzo Botta, in aid of the Halleck Statue Fund, of which Professor S. F. B. Morse is President, General J. G. Wilson, Secretary, and Mr. B. H, Field, Treasurer. A majority of the audience were ladies belonging to the highest circles of fashion and culture, The foreign tourist, who said that with compara- tively few exceptions only, the women found time in America to read poetry and tocherish the memory of poets, would have n confirmed in his im- pression by witnessing such a numerous assemblage of female admirers of the late Fitz Greene Halleck, the author of Fanny,” of “Burns,” of “Alnwick Castle,” of “Marco Bozzaris,” and of many others of the finest poems for which the world is indebted to the American muse, ‘the receipts must have made a handsome beginning towards the sum requisite for erecting a statue of Fitz Greene Halleck in tne Park. The balance of tne sum is to be raised by subscription. The programme of yesterday*s entertainment, consisted of a duo, from Campana, by Miss Annie Powell and Mr, Fossati; ba'lad, from Wallace, by Miss Burton; romance, from Ward's opera of “The Gypsy's Frolic,” by Mr. Bart- lett; solo, from “Z?Africaine” of Meyerbeer, by Miss Fannie Powell; grand duo—del” Jmago—from Rosa- sini, by Miss Henne sna Mr. Fossati; readline—Hi leck’s “Marco Bozzaris"—by General J. G. Wilson author of a receniiy puolished memoir of the por duo, from Ward, by Miss F. Powell and Miss Burton; solo—Beatrice di Jenda—from Doni- by Mrs. Guiager, who was encored and sang “Waiting.” from Graham: duo, from Ricet’s “Crispino,” by Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Nath: solo, La Stella Confdante, from Robauldi, by M Annie Powell, who was also encored and sang Ward's ‘Trust Not the Happy Houra,” and a quartet from Verdi's “Rigoletto,” by Miss F. Powell, Miss Burton, Mr, Johnson and Mr, Fossa, The musical director was Mr. Gtorza. This concert afforded ad- ditional proof of what we have often had occasion to remark that among American amateur singers there may be found voices so fresh, flexibie and sweet as to give promise of a brilliant musical future for the New World. Musical and Theatrical Notes. “Robinson Crusoe” holds forth with his parrote and his monkeys at Wood's Museum to-morrow evening. It 1s whispered in musical circles that the wharf matinées, which are given every afternoon at pier No, 28 North river, under the direction of Fisk, Jr.— “Count of Erie’ and “Wizard of Narraganset Bay"’—have frightened all the wharf rats away from that immediate vicinity. If the gorgeous Wizard could only command some sort of music which would frighten the inngry Bohemians from his pre- sence as he has the wharf rats, he would soon find It to his advantage. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wiliams on Monday and Tuesday evenings of next week, at the solicitation of @ number of prominent citizens of Brooklyn, wil give a performance of the “Emerald Ring” at the Academy of Music in that city, with the original cast of characters and with its original mechanical effects and paraphernatia. John Brougham will start for California, overland, about the Ist of June. Before leaving this city, the “genial John” will be the recipient of a complimen- tary benefit, which wili take place at Niblo's Gar- den, and at which ntatives from every theat- nical company in the city will assist. The entertain- ment bids fair to last all night. The Rizarellt Brothers are now nightly induiging in their new mad breakneck acts at Tammany upon the trapeze, to the infinite delight of all who witness: their pertions rformance with the expectation of seeing them dash the life out of their supple bodies as they dash throngh the air. Luckily no accident has yet befallen these daring gymnasts, but shouid they continue to be encouraged in their mad efforts to gain the applause of their patrons, there is no tell- ing how soon one or both of them may by some mis- hap meet the death which they both now seem to be so lovingly courting. “The Forty Thieves” at Niblo’s, unlike ordinary vulgar thieves, are winding up their career with @ brilliancy and ¢clat that speak wel! for their TOL larity. They are the pets of the non-petticoat Dor- tion of the town, and wring applause as readily from their admirers as does the management the price of admission from those who want to see them dance and nimbly caper in their fancifal moods and fantastic caprices. Tie nights of “The Forty" are numbered however, and they will revel in their gor- geous cave for but two weeks longer. On the 17th inst, “Sinbad the Sailor,” a new spectacular bur. lesque, will be brought out at Niblo’s, tn which piece the Thompson troupe, with new additions, wit appear. SMASH UP ON THE SOUTHSIDE RAILROAD, Yesterday morning information was receive, the office of the Southside (Long twinud) Mtatirow Withamsburg, that an aceldent had ecourred te the mail train bound east at a point near tHietwink, In the haste to go to the wititance of the dt abled train the person in charge sent a locomotive up the road on the track on whiten an Ox press train ‘was nearly due and coming in an oppoutte direc. tion. The locomotive had not procecded far when the expresa train came in sight, when at once the whistle of the latter to put on the brakes was sounded, but too late. ‘The enginos collided, and considerable damage was ‘The affair created Lexcitement among the passengers. Some of m jumped ont of the windows of the car and others were considerably frightongd. nately nobody Was Wiucgd, ——s