The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1869, Page 4

4 THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Agitated Over Senator Sumner’s Speech, England THE SENSATION OF THE DAY. How the Press and the People Re- gard it. GREAT BRITAIN A2L4i5. By the Cunard steamship which arrived nere ree terday we received the English press criticisms on Senator Summer's great speech in the United States Senate on the Alabama claims. Our London corres- Pondent gives a vivid description of the effect which Mr. Sumner’s speech created when it was first made public inthe British capital. It took everyone by Surprise. It dropped in among this slow and de- liberative people like a bombshell and created quite 8 much consternation. Peer and peasant alike felt 1te influence, and the newspaper press opened its fires of criticism on this remarkable speech. In addition to the extracts from the English papers already published, by cabie spectally to the HERALD, we furnish our readers this morning with a résumé of the opinions of the English press on Mr. Sum- ner’s great speech, FROM QUA LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Senator Sumner’s Speech in England=The Alabama Claims Distinctly Stated to the English PeopleWhat the Recognition of the South Meant, LONDON, May 1, 1869, Senator Sumner has set all England ablaze. Al- though the text of his great speech, which arrived here three days ago, has been carefully withheld from the people, the summaries published by one or two journals and the comments in which all the papers indulge have conveyed to the general mind a vivid idea of the substance of his argument, and every body feels as though some great crisis were at hand. The excitement, indeed, is but little less in- tense than that which marked the first breaking out of the American rebellion, and everywhere—at the clubs, in the hotels and taverns, on ‘Change ana on street corners—the Alabama claims form the lead- ing topic of conversation. Even Ireland is tempo- rarily lost sight of inthe absorbing interest of this dangerous international dispute, and although events of the gravest significance are transpiring in that unfortunate portion of the United Kingdom, they scarcely elicit a word of comment. The Mayor of Cork, presiding at a Fenian banquet, extols O'Farrell, who slot at and wounded the young Prince in Australia, as @ ‘noble Irishman,” as thoroughly imbued with patriotic feelings as were Larkin, Alen and O’Brien, and his remarks pass unnoticed, Every day an {rish landlord is shot down like a wolf, and the people of England scarcely heed the Intelligence. The thorn in their western side pricks Geeper and deeper, but they scarcely feel ils sting, 80 absorbed are they in the danger that seems to threaten them from the other side of the Atlantic. It 1s not too much to say that the Alabama ques- tion now preseuts itself for the first time in its true light to the British people. They have never hereto- fore seen or understood the position in which they stand towarus tue American nation. In the early days of the rebellion it was known that Eng- land had recognized the beiligerents of the South, and tue action of the government was accepted -as @ matter of course, and scarcely a voice Wasgraised against it. With pro- bably a Single exception the English press treated Uhe recornition as an uncontested right of the Bri- usa government, and the fact that it had been for- mally protested ayaimst by the Amertcan Minister, Urat It Was accompanied by treachery and falsehood and followed by tusuit was known to but few among the Engiisn people. It was Known at a subsequent period that piratical vessels had been built, armed and manued in Eng and and sent out from English ports to seize aud burn American ships on the bigh seas; but it was not understood that the representative of the American government in London haa protested in vain against this viola- tion of England's neutrality; had supplied the British Ministry with proof of the character and de- signs of the pirates and had only met with insulting rephes from Lord Russell and insoient treatment at the hands of every subordinate official with whom his attachés were brought in contact. When the re- beliion was subdued and peace restored the assassi- natiog of Mr. Linco.n aud the subsequent poiltical turmoll tm the United States caused the Alabama question to be for a long time overlooked, and when it was revived it was placed before the Engiish people merely as a matter of individuai damages, to be set off against the claims of Confede. ate bondholders and other similar unwarrantable demands Wing out of England's encouragement of the rebel cause, For tne Orst time, then, we may bo h of Senator Sumner, which, ip tact, embodies the voce of the whoie American people, teaches the mass of Englishmen that the Alabama question is one of the greatest national importance and that the jes to the controversy are the American and English nations. The mere item of the depredations com- mitted by the Alabama and other private ships 18 but one of the incidents connected with an issue that must be setiied, peaceadly or by the arbitrament of war between two great Powers. When the rebellion first broke owt and (here were rumors afloat in Eng- land that the recognition of Southern belligerency was contemplated by the British government, Mr. Dallas sought an interview with Lord Russell, called these rumors to his atteation, and demanded to know whether there was any ioundation for them to rest upon. Tue reply of Lord Kusseli was at first evasive; but upon @ repetition of the taquiry in_ more pressing terms. he stated to Mr. Dailas that the British govern- ment had not considered the question of belligerency, adding that it would be highly indecorous and 1 roper to come to auy decision, or even to discuss he subject before the arrival of Mr. Adama, the Minister then accredited to the British court by the new American administration, Not long aiter this discussion news came to Eng- land of Southern successes, highly colored im ac- cordance with tue Wishes of the English nation, and then, before we arrival ot Mr. Adams, Southern deuigeres was recognized by the English government. ihe yidginent upon this act was pronounced ii advance by Lord Rus. sell; aud 't is irom this point. through all the long list of wrongs, that tue people of England will now have to consider the so-called Alabama ques- tion, and that the british government will be calied upon to answer for its acts to the nation it wronged and would have destroys Nor wili the attem, , press to implicate France at ail bs alone would be undignified aud unreasonable under any circumstacces; but when we remember t France never fitted ou: Alabawas or gave other ma’ rial aid to the rebels it becomes absurd, The assertion ofven made is that France desired to induce Eug- land to recognize the Southern confederacy as an established government, and credit is claimed for Engiand by a lewding journal because sne did not “throw her sword into the scale” agalust the Ameri- can governameut. But a mere tyro in politics will know that woatever might nave been Engiand’s dis- position, she did not dare to unsheath the sword against the republic in any hour of the American re- bedion, She would, in such an event, have found her battie ground on tie plains and in the mountain barriers of ireand, while the surging of the Engtish masses themseives would fave shaken the founda tions of her throne. It wili be seen that the general tone of the London press in response to Senator Surnner is de- cidediy beliigerent. Some of them admit the errors committed by England, but at the same time pro- nounce what they cail the “new demands” of Amer- ica as prepos.erous and inadmissible. It must be remembered that these are now administration or- gans, and while compelied to denounce, as they have lormerly done, the scandalous policy of Lord Russell, they yet desire to get their own political friends ont of an awkward dilemma by endeavoring to moderate the views of the American government, But the impression among the people is that with the present Cabinet in power no War 1s ible under any conceivable circumstances, and that any demands that may be made will be acceded to rather than resisted by a resort to arms. While the Magority of those who converse on the subject of the Complication, and the greater portion of the press, persuade themselves that when the matter resolves Mself again into a diplomatic negotiation be- tween the two governments the American posi- tion Wil be found to be much more moderat the Sumner speech would {ndicate, there are not & few who believe that President Grant has resolved upon distinguishing his term of office by the practi- cal establishment of the Monroe aoctrine, a8 It is ed, and that he courts a war with Englan id surest step towards driving every vestige opean ownership from the American side of the AtMntic. Outside of its political aspect there is no question as to the effect of Senator Sum- h nie om, = watortunate claws of tish 8 e Confederate bondholders. They are in desp 0 hegotiations of Seward and “tne " great American Turtle Eater,” as the Herat happily de- had raised thelr hi NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET, from the American government A singte copper of the money advanced by them for the prolongation of the war and the slaughter of Union troops. The 7imes comes to their aid, tt ta true, by upholding that feature of the Staniey- Johnson ireaty by authority of which “certain Englishmen” were to haye demanded | “the Vaiue of immense quantities of cotton, worth ‘at the time of their seizure near two shillings a pound, Wwaich were then in the legal on of the bond- ho.ders.”” But this {rienaly egort will scarcely ald tne English speculators in che cotton loan, while it will prove to Americans the danger they have escaped and the soundness of senator Sumner’s arguments, The general Mutter, Nustration, fuss and tary which this new departure of the American gov- ernmeni las occasioned here wil:, however, be Lest appreciated and understood by the co.iection of te senuments expressed, Of ail shades 0 opinion, from the high tory and landownig whig, down or up, to the avowed radical and the organ of the dog hghters and bruisers, COMMENTS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS. The London Saturday Review, May,1, thus re- views Mr. Sumner’s speech:— If it were Mr, Sumuer's object to precipitate a war he could not be more bitter or more unjust. According to his own paradoxical statement ne de- sires not to inflame angry passions, but to promote peace and concord by rejecting a treaty which would not satisfy American deinands. He argues that it is useless to terminate a quarrel by an arrangement which would not content the oifeaded party. Mr. Sumner may perhaps believe that the re- cognition of belligereacy was a proof of uniriendly feelings, and yet nothing is more certain than that the English government issued tie prociamation with @ geauine and earnest desire to avoid any offence to American Sance pap iity. AS the motives of the act have been not unnaturally mis- apprevended, it is necessary to rely on the undoubted fact that the Engiish government was exercising an indisputable right. e biockade which had been previously proctaimed by the President of the United States 18 conclusive evidence of the existence of a war, although Mr. Sumner misrepresents the argu- ment of his opponents when he aftects to believe that their justification resis exclusively on a@ single admission, It was, according to Mr. Sumner, a mere verbal mistake to announce a blockade when the government nught have closed the Southern ports by Executive authority; but a decree by which the poris were closed could have created no right to capture on the high seas vessels which might be bringing munitions oi war to the Coniederates. It was for the purpose of guarding against saca a difil- culty that Mr. Lincoln and Mr, Sumner deliberacely proclaimed @ dlockade, estopping themselves, ac- cording to @ subsequent judgment of the Supreme Court, from a deutal that a state of war actually exist- ed. AS might have been expected Mr. Sumner leaves unnoticed the unanimous assent of all European gov- ernwents to the neutral policy of England. Tue French recognition Of belligerent rights was issued on the same day, tn the same words; and within two or three weeks every maritime Power, iicluding Rus- sia, committed in the same form the same wrong which is exclusively imputed to Engiand. At tnat time there was little dillerence of opimon on either side of the Atlantic that the disruption of the Amert- can federation was complete and final. It 18 true that the conclusion was erroneous; but the confede- racy heid undisputed possession of its own territory, and It was evident that, according to the universal opinion, State ties were more binding than federal allegiance. if any kingdom inthe civilised world had been split imto two parts tn simular circum- stances the American government would have re- oe not only is belligerent rignts, but its politi--| independence. The speech itself is from first to last thoroughly consistent in unjustice, The sécession was, as Mr. Sumner truly says, in the first instance partly en- couraged by the hope that land would recognize the independence of the Soi In the cant Ameri can pl cotton was king, and England would prove her loyaity to her economic sovereign by em- ploying her fleets and armies in aid of the cotton growing coniederacy. That the expectation was signally disappoint ‘no ignorant person could learn from Mr. Sumner, ia man complained thai a capital- ist whom he regarded as his friend had advunved money to Start against him @ trading competitor, it would be thought a safficient deience that the spieetan had been urgenuly made aad positively refused. In controversies with England American disputants regard fact and logic with umpartial con- tempt. in another year the passions which Mr. Sumner stimulates may have partially subsided, or they may have expanded into a declaration of war and un in- vasion of Canada, ‘here 1s perhaps no example of @ war undertaken solely for purposes of vengeance, nor would an attempt at territorial conquest be a disinterested expression of sentiment. There is no otber quarter in which England is especiaily vuine- rable im @ contest with Aluerica; but the great sources of the United States, unscrupulously em- ployed, would undoubtediy cause great injury and sullering, Lot without heavy cost to the wrongdoer, If Sach a result is to be produced, either by design or by the unforeseen operation of hostile feelings, reasoning would have no eflect in averting a lament- abie crime and misfortune, From the begining ot the discussion the only hupe of a solution was to be found in an appeal to the doctrines of ternational law, or in the discretion of an indifferent arbitrator. Although the arguments which induced Lord Kus- sell to decline a reference have never been confuted, itis now generally admitted that the concession which was afterwards made by Lord Stanley was judicious; but for every step which the English gov- erument has advanced, the Americans have receded to twice the distance. Short of war it is um, sible to go further than Mr. Sumner in a hostile direction, Thé Lonaon Economist of the same date sums up the subject as follows:— We believe this to be the real state of mind indl- cated in Mr. Sumner’s speech. Indeed, he indicates it clearly enough when he complains that no apoiogy of England for her wrong doiug Is affixed to the convention as we have ailixed to former conventions when we bave admitted our own wrong doing be- foreuand. ‘To which we mignt reply, how apologize for what is to be sud judice, for what may prove to be legal innocence t e convention was bever in- tended to appreciate and Leal sentimental wrongs on either side of the Atlantic. It was a convention for determining what legal obligations were due on never hope to ether side and tor satisfying them. But this reply 18 not really to Mr. Sumner's point, because Mr. Sumner entirely ignores the legal doubts to be resolved, and tnsiats that we are absolutely out of court; that we have no case to = ‘that we are rather insulting America afresh y asking for a faar hearing, when we ought clearly to begin by admitting our gilt and submit to arbitration only a8 to the question of damages. If we had paid a few millions into court with a humble apology, then Mr. Sumner might have been satisfied to admit a convention to decide whether those few millions were or were not enough; whether they ought or ought not to be made many millions. But nothing short of that would sausfy the demands of his speech. It seems to us, we confess, a womanish — mixing up matters of feeling with mattera of law, and inveighing against a convention, the object of which waa to determine whether iaw had been infringed by considerations directed to prove that, whether it had been infringed or not, feelings had beeu grievously injured, It seems to us that after this reception of our overtures the time has come when Great Britain wiil act most wisely in jetting this matter alone, and Jeaving the United States to make the next move if they wish. The time for an impartial discussion of our legal labilities cannot be come when a body of men of business so acute as the Senators of the United States act in this weakly, susceptible and sentimental fashion. And when it is come we shall know from their own mouths thatit isso. Douvt- jess we inust remain in that terrible uncertainty, un the awini nature of which the United States seein to plume themselves, whether when next we get into a war we may not have Alabamas swarm- in of the American ‘ports, worse Still, @m American foe to meet in Canada in addition tothe European foe. We do not at all dis- pute that such a prospect is unpleasant; but we do Clearly see that we suall not in the least avert it by hurrying negotiations or evincing any reluctance to Wait, We are not by any means proud of the part the English middle-classes played during the Ameri- can civil War, It was, no doubt, somewhat of an ignorant and a jealous and an ungenerous part, But this is not the point at issue. We believe that our government, with the exception at least of one very doubtful case, were bincerely and «crupu- lousiy neutral; and this is the only thing for Which our government is still responsinie, We have done what we could to make concessions which might clear up this one doubtfal point. We have been repelled with very unreasonable and almost unintelligible disgust. It is the turn of the United States next. Whatever risks we may run in jeaving the matter unsettled, th no ter than we hi oiten run before, and less than would result from undignified anxiety to bring matters to @ conclusion. The fauit of the misunderstanding now les at the door of the government of the United Stat ind a8 soon as it is aware of this we shall be as ready as ever to the matter up with candor and good temper, Till then we hope our Foreign Office will have the good sense to act on Lord Melbourne's policy of ‘Can't you let it alone +" The London Spectator goes elaborately into the subject and winds up in the following seif-compia- cent manner:— out were so neg igent {a executing our own municipal Jaw ia the Alabama case, a great part of hs accusa- tions rest on ie assumption that we should have proceeded, in Violation of that municipal law, to slop vessels accused of being intended tor Southern privateers, ou wholly inadequate and inadmissible evidence which Bo fad or jury would have listened to for a moment. fa short, dir? Sumner’s legal argu. ment is a very poor ex parte atatement of the United States’ case, without even a pretence of a judicial discussion. But be that as it may, it is Loo Obyiwus that ez parte legal arguments, u they were the best tu the world are not why judgment should go for the pleader without” ever hearing the case on the other aside, Mr, Sui- ner bas nothing to say which has not been heard a hundred times before, tuough he sup- presses. great deal which bas aiso beca heard a hundred tines before and which seems Lo us of much greaier weight, but what he does say, instead of berg put forward aa proof that nere is something to dis¢uss—lor which onjy it wou.d serve—is un!or- tunateyy put forward as proof that there ts nothing lo discuss—which it not only dues not prove, bul disproves. On the whole, Mr. Sumner's speech impresses us very deepiy with the necessity ihere is ior greater candor on both sides of the Atiante. Those wav ice) keenly as we do the morai streugth of Mr. Sumner'’s case against England ought to favor every opportu- nity fur tuformaily expressing that keen sense oO! re- gret ana mortification which we heartily believe that tue great majority of che peopie of Great Britain aud Ireland entertain with regard to the conduct uf the Tuling class and the government during the drst four Years of the civil War, ‘Those, on the other band, in America who feel with corresponding keenness the utter unreasonabieness of such assuuiptions as Mr. Sumner’s—that England comuinitted in this case & conspicuous breaca of interuational law like the boarding of the Chesapeake or the raid of 1837 into the territory of the United States—should do their best to restrain such unreasonable and seil-contra- dictory denands a3 Mr. Suamer’s, which seem con- trary to ali the most obvious — principies of law. Of course, uw we are decided to have been guilty of @ breach of international law, let us, by all meaus, apologize; put to assume the very point in discussion, on the ground that we have certaily been guilty of ill-fee.ing, 18 43 monstrous as it would be for us to ground our own defence on the a that America has sympathized openly with the Fenian conspirators. Informal na- tional sins must be expiated, if at ail, by injormal national expressions of regret. We do not ask the government of the United States to apologize for the sing of its peopie in relauon to the Fenian matier. America cunnot ask the government of Engiand to apvulogize for the sins of its people in relation to the civil war. if, a8 we heartliy be- lieve, the oaly even disputable point as regards legal liapility is the negligence of the government in permitting the escape of the Alabama, how is it pos- sible to ask us to express formal contrition till it is decided whether even then we were not acting strictly within our legal competence? Mr. Sumuer’s real grievance, and te real grievance of the North- ern people, is that the English Parliament displayed @ hearty sympathy with @ cause naturally hateful to it, the slavery cause, out of some poor jealousy of the growing power of the North. Well, that is not a breacn ot. international law. By all means let us do what we can to wipe out a blot on Enylish national character, wich many of us always marvelled at and sorrowed over, But, on the other hand, let the more moderate and sensible statesmen of the United States restrain their sensitive politicians from the undignified weakness of confounding an act of mar- vellously bad taste and bad feeiing—though one which unfortunately is too often imitated by america itself without any formal reproach from us—with an international crime. The Paul Malt Gazette has also had its say in the matter. In that independent and sophomorish style which it almost invariable affects, It brings in the Irish question with the Alabama claims and Senator Sumner's speech. Here is what the model paper has to say:— The insults and threats levelled at us from the other Side of the Atiantic by one of the most promi- nent public men in America are ecnved at home by @ man holding an important public position, waile the old standing wounds of Ireland breax out in riot and murder, coliecuive and individual, and vader circumstances which make it impossible to doubt that there 1s a close connection between the crimes which we witness, the threats which we hear and the impression which 1s created in Irelund by tue course of policy which we are pursuing fortie express pur- pose of conciliation, These are facts which ought to make us think a little. What has been and {s the cause of these insults? We need not go very far to look for it. Itis to be fouad in the opinion which prevails widely, both in the United siates and in —- that the Engiish nation is afraid of them oth. With regard to the Irish, again, many people in this country, some of them men in high autuority, have most undoubtedly been irightened, not, as we pointed out the other day, at the prospect of being defeated by an Irish rebellion, but at the prospect of having to suppress it by force, such force being em ployed to deiend some things which are distinctly in- defensible. So far we must submit’ to the imputation of having been afraid. Unwelcome as the truth is, there is no good im denying it. The future, however, is still in our power, and che ques- tion whether the English nation ought to permit itself to be insulted is one which, when stated in plain terms, answers itself. Of course no one would say yes to it, but there is considerable reason to fear that many en will give an answer which, though not an affirmative in terms, will have ali the effect of one. They will seek, as cowards always do, to avoid the necessity of vindicating their charac- ter and ition by denying that it has been attacked. They will try to extenuate the importance of such langui as Mr. Sum- ner’s, and to deny the significance of such acts a8 are continuall, ot taking place in Ireland. ‘They will treat as an al age? the notion that any one can suppose that the British nation ia trignt- ened, or act upon the supposition of the existence of such a feeling. Ina word, er will do their best to induce us all to pocket the ronts put upon us, and to manage matters In such a way as to show a3 little a8 possible the nature of the load which we carry in our pockets, This is the well established and well understood procedure of every bully Sd coward who finds himself overmatched; and those who do not wish their country to play that part among the nations of the world would do well to consider how brave men usually act under diflicuities. Whatever else they do, they invariably do three things—they acknowledge the existence of their diMculties, take their measure and march straight up to them, with aciear determination in their own minds as to the kind and degree of resistance which they mean to oppose to them. This isthe proper course to take im the present instance. e ought clearly tq acknowledge that there is danger which, under favorable circumstances would become pressing, of foreign war with the United States and of civil war in Ireland. It is also true that, except in so far as it puts us morally in @ better position, our policy with regard to the Imsh Churen will for the moment rather sar wate than diminish these dangers. It will be attri- buted, and not quite incorrectly, to fear, and it will thus encourage our enemies. Unfortunate as this is, itis not, as we have already pointed ont, an arga- ment against the measure, though it certainly is a consideration which detracts from its vaiue. With regard to the course to be taken for reasserting our position, we can speak only in very general terms, As to Ireland, we clearly ought to punish and sup- press in the most determined and unqualified way every act or word which fails within the province of the criminal law; and we shall have abundant op- portunities at no very distant date of showing clearly what it is which we do not mean to concede to priests on the one hand or to rebels on the other, With regard to America, mere violent language and outrageous demands made unofficially by individuals, however jnguished, call for no notice on the part of the nation at large. But the line of policy to be followed* has the advantage of being perfeotly clear, ana Mr, Suinner’s speech will at Jeast enable our government to draw it with th most unmistakable piainuess. We ought to be wi dng and ready to discuss the question of individaal losses immediately caused by any act which can be regarded as negligence on our part; but as to en- tertaining the question of paying general damages tor recognizing the Confederates we ought to be pre- pared to fight rst, at ali hazards aud disadvantages. The London Daily News, & paper of liberal views, of the Ist tust., reviews the speech of Mr, Sumner as follows:— Mr. Charles Sumner one of the great orators if not one of the great statesmen of the United States Senate. He is great in speeches if not in measures, is a power in counsel if not in action. On any great question his speech is usually looked for, and is read with adiniration if not with convic- Tue material claims Mr. Sumner bases on the old argument. England granted the South belligerent rights “without any of those condi tions which are essential perquisites of such @ concession.” After this premature recognition fole lowed the escape of the Alabama, her reception im our colonial ports, and the igence which te mitted English soil to become in fact une basis of Warlike operations against American commerce. These acts form, Mr. Sumner 4, the triple cord which binds upon ua our liability. They make England responsible for cumulative injuries which, Mr. Sumner says, “stands before us mountain high, As regards Mr. Sumner’s argument to prove that we were guiity of a breach of international right, that we did violate the laws of neutrality in our icy toward: not say much. u th, ie things he said which are fair arguments to lay before an arbitrator; others he said which seemed to us colored ] erat and prepossessions so ex- traordinary that we read them twice before we couid credit him with having made any statement so monstrous (such, for‘instance, as the assertion that the fitting out of the Alabama was as much the fttin out of @ hostile expedition “aa if she bad sailed fort! from her Ln ag dockyard"); but the great feature of his speech is that in treating the legal ques- tions he does not even condescend w grapple with any one ‘a 4 more werful con. 0 the point that the acknowledgment of t t belligerency at 6¢& was essential to give the United States the pe wer of blockade in the Sense in which they wan is on the = Korth tone. 101 \o1 whether the br of any municipal law like our Foretgn Mnitetment ‘act © Tightly mad matter of international with a base as broad asthe nation, and @ mass as stupendous as the rebvilion itself.” In round nam- bers we may reckon that the Alabama claims, ac- cording to Mr. Sumner's ntestinate, amount to nearly $50,000,000, and Mr. Sumner res us that ‘the attempt to close this Int debate Without @ complete settiement is little short of pueriie.” But it is surely far worse than pueriie to carry on a great international debate with Such arguments a@ these. In what coyrt of law could Mr. Sumner get even a hearing for clatins Which rest on the assumption of profits that might have been made? Yet he not only reckons sucl spective profits in his estimate of | but ia to them the possible increase which iN Place during the years of the war. ‘Ihe yet farther claim of some 400,000,000 ta probably only @ rhetorical omen eg |! — fancy of Americ: but ol Englishmen only the 4 @nti-climax. Mr. Sumner is Mf penton, OF He has ably stated the American the argument on the questions which are allowed to be open between us. He has given ex: pression to that sore feeimg which can neither be Imatter of argument nor of arbitration. But his Og- ures simply remind us of more vulgar and common Rist Scafoe is Gt" tay a erat wih soe Tease metas it an humble . bill of five should pay tt on our knees. But such discussions as these are mere waste of time. itis one misfortune of the reopening of (his question that it remits the whole dispute to rhetorical discussion by trresponsi- bie persons. Mr. Sunuer may represent an infuen- tal American opinion on this subject, or he may not; but ne does not represent the American government. We have referred to lus speech mereiy as letting us know what a great rhevorietan could make of the argument In audience of the American People, Such discussions can, however, have but che result, They retard tne settiement instead of advancing tt, They surround a business question with all the complications and distractions of ex- cited feeling, What we want to settie is, how far we areresponsibie for certain injuries inflicted on American commerce, aud when that 1s settled we Wii pay the bul, ‘The London Times of the ist inst. again returns to the subject of the Alabama treaty, after discussing Mt at length the day previous, In this later article it dwells especially on the neutrality proclamation of her Majesty, and goes on to say:— The proclamation of neutrality made by the Queen of England in May, 1361, was, according to Mr. Sum- ner, the source of aimost every evil of the war. It paeee the rebels in the position of an independent ‘ower; it encouraged them to persevere in their treason; it conferred on them, as belligerents, rights they had not previously ssessed. Mr. Sumner so far admits the cogency of the arguments urged on this side that he is disposed to coufine the oilence of Engiand to the recognition of what he calis “ocean belligerency.” There is a dominion of the land and @ dominion of the ocean; but whatever power the rebels possessed on the lana they were always with- out power on the ocean. Admitting that they were belligerents on the iand, they were never belliger- ents on the ocean. But what mght had we to draw any such distinctions? What we saw clearly was & great confiet on the other side of the Atlantic, which afected every relation of British commerce with the Southern States, and was extended over the ocean and close Up to our own waters by the Yresident’s prociamation of blockade, under which British ships alleged to meditate the breaking of the blockade could be seized even off our own coasts and taken into Amerioan ports, If, a3 we confident: maintain, the penclnmenen. was justifiable, there nothing more to be said; but, even were it not 80, 1¢ would be absurd to argue that the issue of the pro- clamation caused the blockade running and 80 lengthened the war. Blockade running 1s not legal- izea by the Queen’s proclamation; on the contrary, it is expressly prohibited, and those guilty of it and the other offences enumerated are told that they wili do so “at their peril ana of their own wrong, and will in nowise obtain any protection from us against any liabilities or penal consequences, but wil!, On the contrary, incur our high displeasure by such conduct.” The whole tenor of the prociama- tion is prohibition, and it is dificult to understand how itt can be accused of sanctioning, much less of causing, the very acts against which it was directed. Surely experience is not wanting in America to prove that the recognition of ligerency or the eeemeton: of neutrality 18 not necessary to au- horize blockade running? It is Said, on good au- thority, that at this very time the Cuban insurgents are being enpelieg, by American vessels, and yet these “‘rebels’’ have not received the character of belligerents either on land or ocean. The only real evil inflicted by the proclamation was the position given by it to the Alabama tn tne ports of the British empire, and this part of the American grievance would have come within the operation of the reject- ed treaty, NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. / UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN BANKRUPTCY. Decision. Before Judge Blatchford. In the Matter of F. Comstock and James W. 0. Wheeler, Bankrupts.—Judge Blatchford, in deciding upon the order of the Register on the case, says:— ‘The order made by the Register, however, on the 27th of January, 1369, ought to have been made vy the Court, and not by the Register. Condemnations. The following described property has been con- demned, by default, on motion of Assistant District Attorney Emerson, in the United States District Court, before Juage Blatchford:— One barrel whiskey, found in Fulton street; 1 bar- Tel do., 503 Pearl street; 9 barrels do., prer 31 North river; 6 barrels do., 360 Greenwich street; 2 barrels do., 488 Pearl street; 6 barrels do., 210 Fulton street; 7 barrels do., 140 West Seventeenth street; 3 barrels do., in Dey street; 6 barrels do, in Oak street; 5 bar- rels do., at I. J, Keitman’s; 5 barrels do., pler No. 1 North river; 4 barreis do, 83 Cedar street; 5 barrels do., 128 Maiden lane; 4 barrels do., 164 Fulton street; 5 barrels do., Bridge street ferry; 10 barrels do., Eighty-seventh street anfl Tenth avenue; 3 barrels do., Bridge street terry; 15 barreis do., 30 Dey street; 6 is do.,in Brookiyn; 2 barrels do.,on Long Island; 4 barrels do., in Flushing avenue, Brooklyn; 4 barrels do., 36 Abattoir place; 2 18 do., 71 Maiden lane; 8 barrels do., 40 Cor: 2 barrels do., same place; 2 boxes, containing 43 packages of precious stones; 34 bales marked *J”? (in. acircie) “1-34,” containing rags, and 30 bales, marked “P" (in a circle) 35-65," containing rags. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Before Judge Benedict. A number of cases on the calendar were called yesterday, and days assigned for their trial. In the case of the United States vs. J. D. Keech, charged with forcing @ passenger ashore at a foreign port, from the ship Sumter, the defendant did not anawer, and an order was entered to forfeit his recognizances. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COUAT. Alleged Bounty Fraud. Before Commissioner Betts. The United States vs. J. Nelson Luckey.—This case, the particulars of which were previously re- ported, came on for examination. Assistant District Attorney D. F. Phelps introduced evidence for the government to the effect that John Cody, the complainant, resides at No. 690 Third avenue; that he served in the Sixty-ninth regiment of this city during the war; that in July, 1866, he ap- lied to L. N. Brown & Co., claim agents, to obtain for him the $100 additional bounty he was entitled to, bat was put off from time to time until March, 1868, when he wrote to the Treasury Department in Washington, and was tnformed that the money had been paid to J. Nelson Luckey, the defendant, and that he had made frequent demands upon the latter for his money, but had obtained no satisfaction, ‘The further hearing was tuen a/\journed to the 25th instant, Counterfeit Case. The United States vs. Charles Henry.—The defend- ant was arrested by officers Dwyer and McKay on a charge of Le 4 fee & ten doilar counter- feit bill on Charles T. Ulman, at a concert saloon In Chambers street. He was held on triai for an ex- aminauon to take place this morning. Another Counterfelt Case. Before Commissioner Shields. The Uniied States vs. Fritz Trotter.—The defend- ant, who was charged with passing a filty dollar counterfeit bill at Mitcheli’s saloon, was discharge yesterday, there being no evidence that he kuew the character of tne bill. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, Decision Rendered. By Judge Ingraham. Goddard vs. Mallory.—Case settled. SUPREME COUAT—CIRCUIT—PART 3, ‘t Mercantile Suit—“Our Relations with China” in the State Courts, Before Judge Cardozo. Heineman et al., vs. Heard et al.—The plaintiffs are an extensive firm in this city, and the defend. ants are the well known Boston and Canton (China) traders. The action is brought to recover damages im the eum of $85,000 for an alleged failure on the part of the defendants to fill an order given to them plaint in 1864, for teas and re-reeled silk, and A the defendants accepted. it that in December of that year the plain- tiffs sent an order to the defendants to purchase for them @ a pe] of tea at nine pence sterling and re-reeled silk at eighteen shillings sterling. Ac- the order was a letter of fg ler Impor wnt was to expire July 1, 1866, ring ex) gon the iat of July. pied rinse that they could not fll the order under the limitation of time of the order of credit at the prices named. ‘The tiffs introduced evidence to show that during th month of June the order, or in any event the af modified, relating to Moyune teas could have been filled, and that if filled it Would have re- sulted in &@ profit to them of $85,000, 4 pence of this evidence was the circulars of Heard & Co. them- eel issued to their customers each steamer day. At the close of the plaintiite’ testimony the de- fendants moved for a nonsuit on nee mainiy ‘that the plaintiqs’ testunony had failed to make out Orr Court allowed the plaintiffs to amond so as to make the second order a cause of action, aud 60, ‘as to cover the 9th of July, amie defendants took the point that the letter of credit red each draft made ander it to be accom- wha bill of lading and an abstract of invotce, that the ery a) had fatled to show that 4 was to be had during the month of June by whic! weve caret sent, A which @ lading been obtained, contrary, the proof, so far as it went, Hi delays would or might have thrown the filling of the order beyond the 1st of July, and tha: efore there wasno proof whatever that ‘hoy couid have illed the orders, with ordinary mercantile diligence, in tle for shipment according to the terms. Judge Cardozo tinaily granted the non suit, but allowed the plainuif exceptions to be heard in the ‘Orst ustance at the General Term, SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Application to Open Detault in a Divorce Suit Denied. Before Judge Clerke. John Britten vs, Mary Brilten.—A divorce suit had been commenced on the ground of acta of adultery committed by the wife of the plaintitf. The parties are English, and the adultery is allegea to have oc- currea with apprentices and clerks in the empioy of the husband, A motion had been made to open the detauli, on the ground that the defendant, who had originally put in an answer and withdrawn it, had been influenced to do so by the intuaida ion and threats of the plaintiff, After hearing atidavits by the varlous parties and their witnesses the Court dismissed the motion. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TERM—PART 2. Action Against the United States Telegraph Company, Before Judge Barrett. Riohard 8. Waring and Henry H. King vs. The United States Telegraph Cvmpany.—The hearing of this case was resumed yesterday morning. The action 18 brought for $9,384 damages, sustained by plaintitts in consequence of the alleged negligence of the de- fendants in fading to transmit messages in Decem- ber, 1864, The compiaint averred that the messages were leit by plaintids at deiendants! oitice in Pitts- barg, between one and two o'clock, insiructing their agents in New York wo sell two thousand barrels of standard petroleum oil, as the market was then at eighty-two cents. At half-past two o'clock plaintiiis found that wey could not deliver some of the oil ear- her than January, owing to sue wantof cars, Ac- cording\y they again instructed the defendants to forward a mn to their agents to the effect that they coutd not deliver 1,000 barrels until January. Plainuits received @ reply trom their agents stat- ing that they did not understand the teuure of their message. On making inquiry plaintitts ascertained that the first message had not been sent, Several experts were examined as to the canse of the breakage in the line which the defendants alleged oaused the delay. A motion was made for a non-suit, but was denied by the Court. During the opening by counsel tor the defence an allusion was made to the influence which the speech of plaintifs’ counsel might exert with the jury, When the foreman siood up and upon the part of the jury repudiated the stateinent, aud said that they could not be tufluenced in any way by all te wealth of the sompany. or by any other means, and that they would give the results of their own judg- ments, Judge Barrett observed that the foreman had mis- understood the statement of counsel, ne having re- ferred only to.the e\oquence of his opponeat. Counsel on both sides having summed up, the case Was adjourned tili this moruinz. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Decision. Judge Brady rendered judgment in the tollowing case yesterday :— Hildebrand vs. Bull.—Motion granted, but without prejudice to the right of the piaintiir to apply upon for ao attachment on further proof if su advised. MARINE COURT. Pawnbrokers in Court—An Alleged Assault Case. Before Judge Gross, Jeremiah O'Keeje ve. Marks Rinaldo,—This was an action brought to recover damages upon aa alleged ‘assault and battery. It appeared that the plaintii” awned his bed with the defendant, and when ie weut to redeem it the defendant demanded, together with tae principal and interest, storage on the bed. The plaimtif refused to pay storage, and pg to the Mayor for protection. The Mayor ordered the delivery of the goods on payment of principal and interest, and mistakingiy sent to the defendant the plaintii’s ticket. The plaintiY on demanding his ticke. at the Mayor's Ufice received a letter froin one of the mar- shals, directed to the defendan, ordering him to deliver up the ticket. The plaintiff testitfed that on presenting the letter the ticket was delivered to lim, and that the defendant and his son struck him with clubs, causing him to become senseless for some tune. In this he was partly corroborated by two female witnesses, one of whom was leaving the pawn office as the plaintiff was entering, and the other about entering wuen she saw the defendant and his son assault him, Both testified they heard the plaintiif halloo murder. One of them testified she saw him struck, and the other saw him Jeave the office with blood trickliag down his neck. The defendant—corroborated by his son and a young man who swore he was in the office at the time— swore he never stiuck the plaintiff, and tnat he was not struck in his oflice; that he came into his office with his head cut and used insulting language. He also produced a witness who testified that the plain- ud assaulted him in the street, and that he (the witness), in self-defence, struck the plaintiff. The testimony being entirely of a contradictory character, Judge Gross charged the jury on the law appertaining to assauit and battery, and sub- mitted to them the questions of iact. Verdict for plaintiff in tae sum oi $150 and costs. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Judge Bedford. District Attorney Garvin and Assistant District Attorney Tweed appeared for the people yesterday. A number of cases on the calendar for trial were moved off by counsel for the prisoners. ROBBERY, William Finley pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with robbery in the first degree. The complainant, Rudolph Raven, testifled that on the ‘80th of April, while he was ing through Green- assaulted and knocked down b; an im valued at fifty dollars. Howe said he could establish the pre- vious good character of Finley, and the Judge remanded the prisoner till Friday. The complainant could not identify Peter Doyle, who was jointly in- dicted with Finley, he was discharged. Josep! Mathews, who was charged with stealing thirty dot- tars’ worth of boots from Adam Peth, on the 25th of April, pleaded guilty to petty larceny. there Were mitigating circumstances, and as the accused enjoyed an excellent reputation for honesty, judg- Ment was suspended. James Gallagher, who was jointly indicted with Mathews, was tried and ac- quitied, witnesses proving bim to be an industrious and honest man. Edward Riley, who was charged with stealing a silver watch and @ gold chain from Mary Dyker on the 16th of February, was tried and acquitted. There was no legal evidence against him, and he showed an excelieat character, COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY, Unrrep StaTes District CouRT—IN ADMIRALTY.— No. 143, P. ©. Mockler vs, Steamtug Unit, &¢.; 47, Robert D. Simmons vs. Steamtug Spray, &c.; 90, Camden and Amboy Railroad Company vs. Steam- boat America, &c.; 202, Cornelius vy vs. Liver- ol and New York Steamship Company; 69, Jonas mith vs. Russell Sturges; 180, Robert Annet vs. eteamboat Paterson, &c.; 162, D. M. Munger vs. Steamer Vicksburg, &c.; 274, P. A: Griffin, et al. vs. Schooner Colonel Jones, &c.; 109, William K. Davis et al. vs. C. F. Pendegrast; 265, Charles A. Hunt, vs. Schooner Protector, &c.; 170, John Bayard, et al. vs. Steamtug Dave Brown, &¢.; 115, 0. C. Wilson vs. Steamboat Cayuga, &c.; 273, B. Jackson vs. Steam- tug. G, 0, Pierce, &c. UPREME Court—Crrcurr—Part 1—Oyer and Terminer.—Nos. 1501, 613, 1207, 1417, 1325, 89, 937, fe 1165, 1275, 1357, 901, 1457, 1459, 1461, 1463, 477, 1485, 1491. 1504 2—Nos. 12 a im 1302, 1342, 1360, 1% 372, 1412, 656, 1060, 1062, Part t—Nos 252, 814, 1430, 1166, 1320, 1767, ‘824, 802, 1120, 1316, 1006, SPRCIAL TERM.—-Nos. 279, 11, '12, 115, 168, 280, 281, 282, 284, 286, 287, 288, 289,'290, 20054, 201, 202, CHAMDERS.—Nos, 184, 47, 93, 101, 103, 10 Eg 14, 116, 144, 1" 16, pt Met 181, a tat 400, G1T, 18, 881, OF, 800, Tabr 200, ADT ODI ad, 9h , 707, 86, 735, ; 796, 967, Part 2—Nos. 960, 0 dou, i800! 830, 332, 394, 336, 786, 856, 678, 562, 772. 1d, 808, O21, 1101, ey ry ‘ian 0, 674 675, 678. Part.2—Nos. 437, 570, 203, a 641, 647, fs 1 444, 627, 517, SManike “Cooerctaic —Nos. 2480, 2752, om 31, 2776, 2771, 1, 2670, 2692, 2688, 2708, 2731, 2508, aig Big ae 2775, 2776, a, 2778, 2770, 2780, 2781, Court OF GENERAL Srestons.—The Peopie vs. James Buckley, robbery; Same vs. John Dunn, rob- bery; Same vs. John Reynolds and James Cum- mol robbery; Same vs. Patrick Hanley, burglary; Same ‘vs. Charles Cohen and George Fischer, bur: jary; Same vs. George Grey, burglary; Same vs. Weish, felonious assault and battery; Same va, Emanuel Gottschaik, bigamy; Same va. Floyd Frankl na larceny; Same vs. Francis Murray, Charles mm, Jobn Kou and Charies McGonigie, rovbery. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tae Wrarnen Yestervay.—The following record Will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the cor- feeponding. 4 of last year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy, Hexatp Build- ing, Broadway, corner of Aun street; — 1868, — 1869, 1868, 1800. 3A. M, 43 68 8PM... » 4 60 6A. M. 46 oy 6PM 78 A, M. og 65 OPM “4 . 60 72 12P.M a perature yesterday. ao Average lay Average temperature for correspondii y Average temperature Sundi verage Vempersture ior bh. Sreerereer errr renin Pound Drap.—Yosterday morning ® man memed John Nugent was found dead in the cellar of preml- 8e3 No, pti Tenth avenue, death having ensued somewhat suddenly, Coroner Flyan was calied 0 hold ao inquest on the body, Miitazy PaRape.—The Fifty-fifth regiment (Garde Lafayette), Colonel W. B. Alien, will parade to-day im their new gray uniform. Line will be formed in Tompkins square at half-past two P. M.; {rom thence the line of march will be taken up, and the regiment will proceed through the principal streets to the City Hall, where they will be reviewed by Mayor Hall. DzaTH FROM INgvRies.—Coroner Flynn was yes- terday called to Bellevue Hospital to hold an inquest on the body of John Corkery, forty-five years of age and a@ native of Ireland, who died from the effects of injuries received on the 24th ult. at No. 51 Green- wich street, by a bale of cotton falling on him, His right leg having received a compound fracture was subsequently amputated by the hospital surgeon, after which the patient failed graduaily ull deata ensued, THe NEAR APPROACH OF MaRS AND REGULUS.— ‘The planet Mars is about two hours west of the me ridian at elghteen minutes to nine o'clock in the evening, in altitude sixty-three degrees above the southern horizon, In its ponmognads motion, it was Ou the 2otu of March six degrees nortu-norta- west ofthe noted lunar star Regulus, and now three degree8, nearly due north, and on May 18 it will be but two degrees. It presents a fine contrast in coior with Regulus but changes the configuration of tue constellation eatirely. VESSELS OF WAR FOR SPAIN,—It 1s stated on good authority that the Spanish government has con- tracted with Mr. Delamater, of the Delamater Iron Works, at the foot of Thirteenth street, North river, for the buliding of fifteen gunboats, which are also to receive their armament here. The plans aud models for the gunboats have been made by Joun Ericsson, Five of these vessels are to be built by C. & R. Poillon, shipbutiders, of Brooklyn; tive by Mr. Theias Stack, in Williamsburg, and dve by 0. H. Mallory & Co., of Mystic, Conn. THE COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE’S Srgamen LAFAYE?TE.—Yhis above fine steamer ar- rived in this port on the 6th instant from Havre, via Brest, which latter port she left on tae 24th uit, bringing a cargo of 450 tons of merchandise and 116 paasengers. ‘le Havre papers mention thal notwithstanding the early hour of departure, a gre: hamber of persous ussembled on the jetty to’ witness her departure and admired tne ease and pr ecisiou of ber movements, By the assistance of her two screws she turned completely on her own pivot on leaving the quay, and then swept majesticaily through the sluice and the outer port. Johe leaves this port again On next Saturday, the lta, wilh a fuli cargo and complement of passengers. ‘THE FIRE IN BROADWaY.—The following are the losses and insurances at the fire at No. 620 Broad- way on Monday night:—Measrs. Kingsbury, Abbott, Gay & Co. sustain a loss of $20,000 by water; in- sured for $182,000. L. & M. Glaser’s 108s 18 estimated at $100,000, and they are insured for $62,5vu, as fol- lows:—-Greenwich, $2,500; Cleveland, Ohio, $5,0005 Phenix, $2,500; Putnam, $2,500; Lumbermen's, Chicago, $5,000; Hide aud Leather, of Boston, $2,500; insurance Company of State of Pennsyiva- nia, $2,500; Mechanics and Traders’, $2,500; Ho:ne, of New Haven, $2,500; International, $5,u00; Wu Lamsburg City, $5,000: Reilef, $6,000; Atiantic, of bei ,000; Insurance Company of North Ame- rica, Philadelphia, $2,000; Franklin, of Philadel; a, 12,500; Aloany City, $6,000; Coiumbia, $5,000, an jarket, $5,000. The building belongs to an estate, and is damaged to the extent of 36,000; fully tu- sured, Mayor's Ov¥ice.—The business at the Marshal's department in the Mayor's Oftice was comparatively lugut yesterday, but in the License Bureau there was @ goodly rush of hackmen, cartmen and others to rocure or renew their licenses, At the compiatat Ooo Marshal Daly, acting temporarily for Marsnal Looker, twposed tines on several residents of New Jersey who owned or were driving vehicies tarough the streets of the city witaout having them properly marked or numbered, A chap who had been fleeced out of thirty dollars at a gambling house im the Bowery, near Bayard street, was transferred to the Ceniral Ofice detectives and by their aid the money was recovered. The case of Reilly vs. Malready, brought by the Carmen’s Protective Union, was up again and after a little sparing between counsel was adjourned until Mouday next. A number of cases were disposed of by Marshal Tooker, but none of special importance, Tue RECENT INFANTICIDE CasE.—Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest, at his office in the City Hail, over the remains of the male infant of Eliza Hetzel, recently living as a domestic at No, 239 East Forty-seventh street. The mother and child were found 10 the coal house of the above named premises on the evening of the 4th inst., soon after which the infant died. Subsequently Wooster Beach, M. D., made a post-mortem examination of tae body and found the skull badly fractured; but the witnesses not being at hand Coroner Kee- nan postponed the inquisition till yesterday. ‘The testimony showed that the woman Hetzel and the child were seen in the cellar under circumstances which lett scarcely a doubt that she was the mother of the babe, although it does not appear that she ad- mitted the fact to any pne; neither could it be shown that she inticted the injuries which caused deatn. From all the circumstances, however, the Wd be- lieved that Eliza wilfully sacrinced the life of the child, and rendered a verdict to that effect. The ac- cl is yet under the care of Warden Brennan, bat as soon ag able she will be transferred to the Tombs, on Coroner Keenan's commitment, to await the ac- ton of the Grand Jury. The accused, although un- married, has had two children previously, one of whom, it is alleged, is now dei provided for by the Commissioners of Charities an Correction. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, ATTEMPT TO TAKE A WOMAN'S LIFE.—At Jefferson Market yesterday, before Judge Dodge, appeared Ann Mitchell, of No. 33 Grand street, who charged that on Monday mghta@ negro, named Henry Car- rier, of No. 63 Suliivan street, stabbed her severely in the neck with a knife. Oarrier protestea that he had never seen the woman until after his arrest by officer Schute, of the Eighth precinct, He was com- mitted for trial. THE GREENE STREET INCENDIARISM.—Before Jus- tice Dodge yesterday appeared oMcer Meschutt and Sergeant Lowery, of the Fifteenth precinct, with Richard and Rosa Peter, accused of firing their house at No. 196 Greene street, on the 7th inst. The Fire Ln dag submitted the evidence and a written confession made by Mrs. Peter, in which she admits that she fired the premises in a fit of rage when in- toxicated. The Justice committed both prisoners on the charge of arson in the second degree. ALLEGED Rospery.—Before Justice Dodge yester- day was arraigned Christian Studer, a young Ger- man of honest countenance, on the charge of steal- ing ninety-five dollars from James O'Flaherty, a fel- lowing lodger at 67 West Sixteenth street, The com- plainant charged that the accused and he occupied the saine room on Monday night; thaton yesterday morning, While dressing, the pocketbook containing the money accidentally fell upon tne floor, He started for his place of business, missed the money, returned to the room, found Stuber absent and the empty pocketbook under a pillow. When arrested by officer Mead, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, the prisoner had upon his person $107, which, he stated, were the proceeds from the sale of a butter stand. Stuber was comnuitted for trial. A COMPLAINANT WANTED.—A few days since a man named Isaac Kane was arrested while recitning, In a state of intoxication, upon a stoop in Market street, near East Broadway, After his arrest he missed @ silver watch and silver chain from his pocket. Yesterday oMicer Shalvey, of the Seventh precinct, arresied a boy who adinitted having stolen the watch from the person of a man answering the description of Kane. The officer also arrested one Michael Daffy, residing at the corner of Rivington and Pitt streets, on a charge of receiving stolen goods, he having bought the watch of the boy forthe sum of $3. The man Kane could not be found, but the oficer took his prisoners before Justice Shandiey at Essex Market Police Court, who heid them upon @ temporary commitment, Ratuer A COOL PROCKEDING.—The desperate chances which some wide-awake thieves take to replenish depleted exchequers was pertinently illus- trated yesterday before Justice Dowling at the ‘Tomba. Philip A Hill, In. behalf of Bamberg & Co., No, 441 Broadway, clrarged Obaries Johnson, a young Jooking man, but whose tace has been seen in police courte other than the present, with entering their store at noon and stealing therefrom a box of rib- bona, valued at $40 60. The circumstances detatied exhibited either great boldness on the part of the thief or confidence in his ‘“taking" abili as he walked into the piace when In the fall tide business, deliberately picked up the box and just aa deliberately waiked out with It under his arm, as- fuming meanwhile @ business air quite commend. able. The accnsed pleaded not guilty; but was held to answer the charge at the Court of General Sea- sions, in default of $1,000 bait. THE HARLEM YACHT CLUB. ‘This juntor clad are making extensive prepara. tions to pleasantly inaugurate the season of yacht ing on the upper end of Manhattan Isiand, ana from the interest cach of tte members seems to have in the resuit there are Indications of a grand success, Within a week they have held their anngal meeting, when they unanimously resolved that their first re- gatta for the Commodore's pennant should be eatled on the uth inst, The course decided upon was from the ciub house at the foot of 126th street ground Stepping Stone buoy, sailing through the Kills, and return, the distance being estimated fully twency miles. In June they will have rye bed regatta, the same distance, for a splendid se: of fe how in process of manufacture, At this meet~ ing the following itlemen were é officers for the ensuing year! sinh Commodore—O, H. Longstreet, Fice Commodore—David Fitagerald Beoretary—David Fields, Treasurer—Stephen Vi Keaurer—Maurlep Camobel,