The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1869, Page 4

4 EUR oO P E “ Liessed toon to the North. the Lory and Livoral organs, the Sanderg and Star, eee has already been given to the American ler im the colnmans a bag om ‘nel? sx (‘itil ble telegram; but the articles them Tho English Press Criticisms On the | ives tre feserving a pince in ‘that Journal ‘They are simnificant in their several ways, The Star, which speaks for brizat and the more advanced liberals in the Gladstone administration, takes the labama Claims Treaty. opportunity afforded by Forster's speech to dec'are MR. FORSTER'S SPCECH REVIEWED, that the power of the English aristocracy is broken torever: that while they hate the Irish Church dit they will have to swallow it, and that the dose wi'l be followed by one yet more nauseous on the Irish Iand question. The tory, on the other hand, tnso lentiy dee! of the country, and the masses of the people merely the rabble that follow them, The liberal endeavors to conciliate America, because he balteves that the cause of radical reform, now progressing so promisingly in Frg'and,cannot afford o breach with the great republic of the West. The tory. isallinsolence and defiance towards the United States government. Some interpret the unyielding tone o: the conservative press to mean a desire on the part of the British aristocracy to invite a war as a means of stopping the prorress of radicalism at home. This is an error, No one knows better thao the educated Englishman that the time for war has passed for Eneland, but tt ts essentially necessary for the preservation of the power of the aristocrar: that there shon'd be no yielding or avparent vield- ing to America’s demands, The Britvah government aS at present constituted cannot afford that the great power of the American republic should be brought home to the British “masses,” who are ar present only the biind followefs of aristocratic rulers. « An Insigit into the Interior Workings of the Pritish Army. Important Educational Conference in Germany. RUSSIAN ADVANCES IN THE EAST. We prezent tne readers of the Hexaip this morn- ing With an unusualiy varted and interesting budget of correspondence from our correspondents in most | 4 Porritie Tory Oualand vat U; Mr. F of the prominent capitals of the Old World. In the marae een jenates British capital it will be seeu that the excitement [From the London Standard (tory ot ), May 24, which was inavgurated when Senator Sum- I seems Cae noeniss poe bring home to the " oe! he ent of the Alabama | radical ming ie impolicy—not to use a etroncer = speech for te ranted a vet died out. | Word—of addressing the American people at this lamages Was made known, has 3 crisis in langnage of affectionate admiration. We fancied it must have been growing clear to all men that much of the diMeuity tn which we had become involved was due to the fact that for years past a large number of public speakers and writers in this Iv has aiorded pienty of food for the literary appe tites of the London press, and the newspapers are making the most of 1. ‘The letter giving an insight into the present coudition of the | country nad conveyed to the Unitea States the ‘English army wili be fouad an interesting and | impression that we regarded them with mixed . ‘The picture which our Madrid {| @e!0g8 of fear and love. Most assuredly the an instructive one. he picture pCa Our present menacing attitude of the American govern- correspondent gives of Spain is not one esiculated to | ment and people has heen taken up in conseenence of this curtous delusion, of which the radical party at large is mainly the author. While no immediate danger seemed to arise from the flattery with which the Americans were so abundantly besmeared by their poids adorera, the bu'k of the nation looked bach iat = f tge ap | On antetly enol at these worshippers of th nt Bertin, St. Potersvurg, Coustautinopie and other | ronnysic, wooreversine the Monametan, ie, places we give communications of interest, kneeled as they prayed with their faces to the “ hi Con But ON gate oe pines nae arisen which forbids any further toleration of this eccentric ENGLAND. fanaticism. The worshtppers of the Wést have as Heuais bel fo pres) brink oe a war with the ob- s as ects of tnetr idolatry, ‘eceivel into the db The Alabama War Cloud—Sir Franc ie Ball | joe that a people ‘who loved and revered Head on the Situntion—Mr. Forster’s Speech | them so intensely wou'd meckly ondure tnsuit and —Tho Liberals and the Tories. humbly accept chastisement at ther hands, the gov- Lonvon, May 24, 1869, The London journals, having exhausted their first ‘umpress tue reader with a very hopefui idea that the mrepressi)i9 coufiict of dissension at present agita- @ng Spanish parties will shortly terminate and allow the work of reconstruction to proceed. From ernment of the United States has all hut committed ‘o & message which, addressed to a nation like ‘at Britain, contd only be answered by a chal- Gnanimous expression of indignation against Se: z Ma) Bae of oe Bagiieh Lage has, we = ek Ar ST re: en awakened in time to “warn th: man ator Summer's clear and forcibie exposition of the t geew too late.” but th risk of a rete eee Alabaina question, are now beginning to examine | been so imminent that we are hardly disposed as and argue the case from put standpoints, ace | Yet to sccept with patience tho renewal of that cording to ir respective " pa |! tone which brourht us near to a very dia- ood sé necessity, For this reason ft seems to thies. Thus, cue more liberal papers adopt a concilt- Mr. W. E. Forster's speech at brad. atory tone, afiitting sins of omission and comm poten 7 taean petal sub Roy phecart ‘contipatsie i h gor s 0 the disens ™m € ity. sion on the part of the british government tn r: It is dimeule tol cnndertand | tier ar name to the escape and non-captu with Engitsh blood in his veins cain deat with Mr. apologizing { es aera Cree the me agearme hay renscally vards the ad Ste ae. such a fecble and unmanly strain. ‘This sprrite classes in Uo sland towards the United States during ber Of the Giadsinne poverciaens Beas aot the rebe : as of the aristocratic peat Mr. Sumner altogether in thinking that e t untry: putt on an in Great Britain ought to roi in the dust at the bidang Serrent, OF ane) Conny 0 Ra eteenee of the Washington Senate, No, Mr. Sumner ts a pers reot 6w gad breathin ferce de sonal friend of his own—what a time to choose for against th ming Y! All, however, con- | putting this fact fo ward—he is a man whom tt ts Tat diMenit to pratse, love and aimire sulicientiv: bre cur in still deciaring the entertainment of an either for apolozy or compe! mM on account of the concession of belligerent rights to the Sonthern Mr. Forster ‘ventures to think he Is iistaken’? in his view of the Alabama claims. If Mr. Porster must roar, he wil! at any rate roar as rebeis, a thing not to be thought of. Two individual | #¢Mtly as any sucking dove. He “yventares to we ae 2 | (mink? that (ais monstrous impertinence of Mr. fepresentatives of the opposite sses have made | cym 8 13a Tolstake, and he crawia towards his themseives heard during the one, Mr. Forster, a radical member of Parliament, who was 8 friend of the American government during the re- bellion, and the other, Sir Francis B. Head, who was Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada during the so-called “patriot war’ of 1837. The effort of the latter gentlemen is by no means brilliant, but it must be remembered that 1ts author’ was born ten years or so before the close of ine last century and qhat since he fliled the office of Lieutenant Governor Of Canada, thirty odd years ago, he has lived under the impression that he is a retired monarch and has lost sight of the advance @ad progress of the world, It will be remembered that during the Canadian rebellion of 1837 one of the princtpal ragamufins concerned therein, McKenzie by name, escaped to the United States, Sir Francis b. Head made a requisition upon the Governor of New York, the late William L. Marcy, for the rendition of McKenzie on charges of murder, robbery and arson; but Governor Marcy, acting under the advice of Samuel Beards- ley, then Attorney General of New York, declined to surrender up the fugitive for the reason that the crimes alleged against him were committed while a stath of rebellion or insurrection extsted in the | bersonal friend with amorous gestures, and as “nm- ble” as Uriah Heap, tofreason with him affection- ately and try to prove that he is too hard upon us. ® position fora man who, in spite of his affect- tatmer of all responsibility, will be listened to ag the exponent of the views entertained by th itish government, We do not care to travel with Mr. Forster along the beaten path which he follows through the familiar labyrinth of the Alabama controversy. It is irrelevant at the present stave of the subject to be hammering afresh at the old story concerning the necessity of the neutrality proclamation. and the manner in which that proclamation was isaued directly in the interest of the Northern Stetes, That Mr. Forster, the faithful and devoted friend of Mr. oner, the stanch aclierent of the federal party uring the war, the gushing enthusiast who stands among his constituents at Bradford longing that they were Americans, should himseif have been the first independent member who at the outbreak of the war called for the issne of the neutrality procia- mation, is an amnstng little fact, the publication of which ia well timed, bot over and over again jor years past our objection to . recognize the belligerency of the South, in order that we might be enabled to accept the blockade, has been explained just as clearly, to say the lehst, as Mr. Forster can put the matter now. The ttme for inter- national discussion onthe point has long since gone by. Mr. Forster's “excellent and dear friend. Mr. Adams,” discussed the matter drv with Lord Russell years ago, and to try and repeat the well worn argn- province and were the result of a collision between * now, when argument has given piace two hostile forces, one endeavoring to overthrow t on the other site, is to manifes: and the other to maintain Jritish rule in Canada, | & sort of patience which might go by several Now Siw Francis Bol) Head regards this | less complimentary names. Some points in the as & complete parallel to the concessston | speech. however, do call for notice. Mr. Forster, of bellige t rights to the Southern rebels by | it ts true, may have a right to put any complexion the British government, and a satisfactory set-off | upon the civil war in America which harmonizes agatost ail claims for Alabama dam Because | with his view of contemporary history. Parsuing you Americans, he says. ref i to deliver up a po- | bis policy of conciltation he endeavors to please the litical re ‘at my demand thirty years ago, yon | American andience which he addresses over the declared that astate of warexisted in Upper Canada, | heads of his Bradford constituents by revresenting and you decided to act 98 a neutral between the war as a pure-hearted crusade azainst slavery. Ultunate sues es often gilds the motive with which els and the government. answer to your au coterprise Is undertaken, and many people who off your re would have laughed at Mr, Forster's asacrtion when against © the civil war began may listen gravely now to the same bold theor; ce ani your refusal to send out 3 to prevent the sending « enc our but the savave onslaught against ain public men who are conspicuons for having ina, and ir is settied. Even Englishinen v | taken @ verv different view of the great struggie taae the troubie to read dirt 1's document ex- | outrages good taste altogethe ciatin Wi head jor a statesman In saying tat Mr. Roebuck “disgraced his name, The sp Forster on the Ala- | his life,’ because he sympathized with the cause of bana com quite a different mat- | Southern independence, Mr. Forster descends to the ter, Mr. I earnest friend of th use of snch coarse Invecttve as {s happily unusual Amerie e rebellion | among the public men of this country. If his abuse stand of Mr. Roebuck and Sir John Ramsden ia designed untrt stigma | to appease the wrath which is still cherished in the Northern States against all Englishmen who sym- self-intere with the Soath during the war, the attempt lot among t ed as the whole speech. The Americans that the doy t the plain facts of the war, and vanuot America, s¢ ied now by* the sweening assevera- cracy, Wou tions of @ raficsl speaker into the belief easive par that the buik of the English people ap- pimself ¢ | proved of the subjngation of the South while Forster no the war was going on, Such assertions simply he himeelf desires have the effect of making them belleve that we are belligerency to th now afraid of the consequences which may ensne that uniess her from the things we sard at the Lime, and are telling fssued = coucerning hes on the subject to escape a thrashing. There has South, it been, it t# trne, a great and remarkable change of power of opinion in this country concerning the rights of the vent British subject Amencan ctvt! war. Many persona who were enthu- the service of tt siastic partisans of the South, when they thought the from fitting out vexse South was going to win tts independence, became marque against th convinced that Jefferson Davis and General Lee English journais a assatling (4 were the ieaders of a tyrannical slaveholding ol.- can govecument i giect of warchy when the sapremacy of the North was estab- fering expeditions to leave tue United Stat lished; but as far ag tne liistory of the past is con- the Cuban re and they chi d it ie abeurd for Mr. Forster to mi with inconsi e, aa th facta, as he does grossly, in declaring t claims dar 1 on one side for having | iM favor of Southern tnaependence wet aided and sym the Southern rebe buked by the opinions of the majority. and on the other s ‘The struggle is long since past; the voices of those who sympathized with the Southern ca.se have jong been silent, but we at all events will never be guilty of the meanness of denying the sympathies we enter- tained, in order that by cringing now to the success. fl party we may endeavor to avert its displeasure. We will never attempt the extraordinary mancuvre which Mr. Forster adopts when be tries to screen the upper and middie classes of this country from Amnencan anger by begging that they may be par- doned for the sake the crowds which were gathered together m the manufacturing districts to cheer the utterances of Northern zealots. “Do not jndge of England by her fashionable clubs and drawing rooms,’ Mr. Forster says; “go to the workshops of the pie!’ Has Mr, Forster, then, Mr. right, had Mr, Cobden and the other pnb- lic men of England who escape disgrace by agreeing with the Bradford orator, nothing to do with fash Jonable clubs and drawing rooms? Oan any tri of the eancated radical gpeaker be more childish than this affected contempt for the edncated classes en masse? Will any one fue that if ithad not been for a certain talented clique of Northern aym. aid and sympathy tothe Cube Now, if Mr. Forster's argument is sound, and England would really have had no right to prevent her subjects from making War against the 1 States under the cover of Confederate letters of marqne, unless she first conceded belligerent rights to the South, then, as the American government las never cohced belligerent rights to the Cuban revolutionists, it can possess no authority to prevent lt subjects from en- gaging in the service of the Cubans and fitting out expeditions for their aid under Cuban commissions, But tt must be borne in mind that Mr. Forster's party 1s now in power, and if his sense of England's unfriendlivess to the United States government seems les acute now than it was seven or eight years ayo the change may be attributed to the eager- ness of ® politician to protect lis own associates, and not to the conviction that England was then in the right and Mr. Forster in the wrong. Another argu- ment advanced by Mr. Forster is that the hostility to the government of the United States came from the “fashionable society’ of England, and not from the workshops, and he expresses astonish- ment that ‘American republicans shoukt show | pathizers which emerged from the fashionable chins so much sensitiveness over the hatred of | 404 drawing rooms and created opinion in the work- British artstocrats. The liberal organ, back. | shops of the people, the Yorkshire and Lancashire ing up lis speech, adds:—"it is surely not | Crowds would have arrived unaided at Mr, Forster's view of American questions’ The edu the part of high minded republican statesmen to NEW YORK HERALD, MON grace, but which he now declares to bave been & The tone of two articles which anpear to-day tin ‘res that the aristocracy ts the real ruler ed classes: Sumner’s svecch. Can any one concoive a reset less worthy of the eloquence of so disiinguished & friend of freedom? Mr, Forster says tae people of Bradford have studied Amertein affairs, and they “know abont Mr. Sumner’? The peanle of Freland have probably as a rule studied Ameri can atates very little, “bat they Know about Mr, Sumner," enongh to recognize tne justice of Mr. rster's description of him, He ia “oue who has uffered in the cause of right—one who has suttered persecution, injury and outrag? in the canse of the slave’’—one, in fact, who embortes, to the English mind, all that the iriendts of the North wished lo see trmmph in the war, 4 all that even those who were not friendly to the Norch were glad to se tr umphant when the great etrite was condinded. 108, Such @ man was the last who shoud turned round upon ns with inturious repro: Mr. Sumner shoul! have rememberea, w probably well knows, that there was a tims wor the frienda of the North in this country were more Northern than the Northerners, more anxious for the suppression of Southern slavery than tia North. evn Untonists apneares; that the allege t lukewarm. ness of the North as to slavery waa, even wild those who telt least deenty on the subject in Kngland, an oceaston of hostility towards the Union; and that even among thgse who scemed to care for littie olse than the dismemberment of the United States @ change of feeting favorable to the North took place when Mr, Lincoln ceased bis blank doclarasions in favor of Union and proclaimed emancipation as essential to peace and the restoration of the republic, * * © No other victory than this sorry one was ever gained by the Southern party, and Mr. Forster is justified in pleading that England saved the United States from a vastty tnoreased expen ltture of life and money by stea lily refusing to accede to the a1 tons of the Emperor of the French that we shodld acknowledge the South. Against ail this ! Mr. Sumner must place. if he chooses, the hostility of the beau monde to the Northorn cause. Ia ‘eis conntry we are used to ths hat monte, We under- stand if, Weare not disturbed by 1t, Above all, we know, as Mr. Forster says, “ihat fash- fonadie men do not govern the destinies of England.” That same ‘society’? which hated the North and made the South seem Dopniar, hated parliamentary reform. and drove Mr. Gladstone trom oftice for proposing it. To all ap- arance the cause of vepe, lar suifrare was more opeless in 1886 than the Northern caus9 was at any period of the war. But society had to accept house- hold suffrage at the hands of its own conservative idol, and to see Mr, Disraeli banished into opposi- tion by the force he himself had evoked. Is society even now in favor of the great measure of religions justtee which we are passing for Ireland? Probably not, tuough its recent reverses and diappotntment have greatly humbled it. This at least is certain, that society 18 not prepared for that ample, suilicient, and states maniike settlement of the Trish land ques- tion which is certain to b> the next great act of the strong government which, in socicty’s ite, has been established. Perhaps itis too much to expect that an American statesinan should understand all this as well as English libera's understand it; but Mr. Sumuer was at least bound to have recognized the general il success of the Southern party in England and in Parliament as a set off for the viatancy of the Insults they continually offered the North. Mr. Forster proves most trre- fragably that, shameful as was the partisanship of the slave power among our upper classes—melan- choly a3 was their defection from the princinles of liberty—petty a3 was the jealousy which animated them, and galling a3 are the recollections which their conduct left in the consctousuess of English liberals, the hearts of the people at larze were soundly in sympathy with the cause of freedom and American Unio®. Itissurely not the part of birh- minded republican statesmen to spnra the iruiitul fidelity and good wishes of the millions while claim- ing fabulous danages for the futile avronts of our fouled and abasied “upper ten thousand.’" The British Army—How Commissions nro Obrained=What is Necessary to Obtain Them—No Miiltary Knowledge Necessary— Baying Rank—IneMciency of British Ofi- cers. LONDON, May 2%, 1869, In my last letter I drew your attention to the great t of experienced leaders in the British army, nis remark may be applied to every rank of the service, from the general‘oMcers down to the cap- tains and subalterns, the only exception to the rule being those who hold commisstons in the engineers and artery, and who are obliged to undergo a good military training, very much the same as ali the oNcers of the United States army have to gothrough at West Point. For those two corps, and for such oificers as wish to serve upon the staff, as also for such infantry and cavalry officers as desire to receive a military education, there are the colleges of Woolwich and Sandburst. Bat England is the only country in the world that allows men to command her troops without having been trained aa oMcera; for in the cavalry and in- fantry and Guards the number of subaiterns, cap- tains and fleld officers who have been taught their daty as soldiers before they get commissions is something very small indeed, perhaps not more than ten per cent. But in order to make you and your readers fully understand what I mean—and I do not think our system of appointment to and promotion tn the army ts understood on yoar side of the ocean, for that matter there are thousands of well educated men tn this country who know nothing whatever about tt—I must tell you how it is that commissions are given away inthe army, and by what rule officers are promoted atter they enter the service. Say that I, Mr. John Smith, want to put ason of mine in the Guarda or the cavalry or the infantry. If 1am a wealthy man, of good interest at what is called “the Horse Guards’—that is, the headqnar- ters of the army, now presided over by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge—I select the first of these corps—the Cuards—and make all the in- terest [can to get my*on inte the corps. If lam moderately weaithy and bave @ fair amount of in. terest I tryto get him imto the cavairy. If my wealth and my interest is only third class lam glad to get him into the infantry, although even that is a boon which many men of good position cannot ob- tain for their sons. Let us suppose, however, that [ am only a third class man—say a country squire, who has not much Parliamentary influence, and whose estate does not return more than to or three thousand @ year—in that case I select the infantry. I ask for ® nomination, and in due time, after @ vast deal of troabie, I obtain it. But it is given conditionally upon my son passing a cert exammation, of which one {s he'd in Lonron every six months. The young mi colves several weeks » before the examination ts to take place, and ne meantime I get him “coached” up by some tutor who knows exactly the siyle of questions the youth will be asked, and has to be paid a consider. abie sam for ‘putting the lad through’ the ordeat. The examinations are fairly enough conducted, and are such that any commoniy well educated Youth can got through with the greatest ease. They relate to the English language, to writing from «ic tation, and a certain knowledge of one foreign lan- nage, also mathematics ag far as the first three pks of Euclid. But of military knowledge, mfl- tary science, or even any test as to whether the can- didate is morally fitted or trained tobe a soldier, there is none whatever. If he passes his examina- tion, I, as his parent or guardian, have to pay the sun of £450; he la then appotnied to acorpa, joins it, or if it is abroad, he Totus the depot, without any more knowledge of his duties than the Youngest recroit who has just enliated. pOUTRe be must learn his drill, and to do this he ts placed in an awkward squad with the recrmts; but in other matters whieh regutre no drill he does hie duty aa a commissioned oMecer, Thus it is that an anomaiy, which may be witucssed any day in any one of our barracks, has ceased to be regarded with wonder in our service. A young oMicer, or four or five young orflcers, Mav be seen m the awkward squad learning the goose step, or the manual exercise, or battalion drill, or how to march, aud an hour afterwards the: may—and do—take t! Places as members of mili- tary eourts martial, and sit in jadgment upon oid soidiers of perhaps twenty years’ service, who know their Cuty thoroughly. ‘Thns from the very com- mencement the oMeer is expoved as ignorant of bis work before the men he wili bave to command, and loses respect in proportion. Inno other army in the Wor'!d Goes aa officer fom bis regiment without being thoroughly well drilled in bis daties and Knowing Whathe ought to do. in our service, however, le joins @ Corps, hos al) the authority and holds the commis flop Of @0 officer, but Bas to go through fis military training With recraita, At one moment the drill ser- meant 4 showing him bow to handie a musket and an hour Mater has to touch his cap respretfully to hia when he posses, Surely, here, at the very out- Bel, Is Ou Auemaly Which Ought not to exist. Let us suppose that the young man has jeerned his drili and risen by degrees from junior to senior en- sign of b ps. He then unde an examina- tion Spon bis military duties before committee, con 1 Of officers of his regiment. This done he awaits the first vacancy in the higher ranks. put before le can become @ lieatenaut he must pay, or his friends mast for him, @ further sum of £250, If he cannot do thi , @ 18 passed over, the second en- Spurn the fraitm) fidelity and good wishes of the | of @ nationare the nation, and the masses are thelr | sign getting the step over his head. He iy line: Tuillions, while ¢! ng fabulous dam for the | followers, following = 7 Which they inay cok | #UMr¥ Son) may be the best officer in the revi uent, futlie affrouts of our folled and abashed upper ten | Shows us, into ® morass, in which they inay ‘Waa | S80 the ensign next to hit may be the greatest dolt thousand.” ‘This might be ail very well but for the | mately learn to take new views ot ile Ratterers ant | ic ig possible to taagine, No mater: without money fact that the upper ten thousand are t rulers of | Sales guides by whom they have been led. there gon be no rcwmotion im the British army, ex. Engiand, while the millions in the workshops are cepting only when the vacancy is ca: mere political setts, without a voice im the govern. Liberal Defence of Mr. Forster, M. P. Seata of @ eunion, y, used by the ment or a vote to cast in behalf of their own destiny, Indeed, the organ of the ten thousand venta ite wrath upon Mr, Forster tor the tmpolicy—not to use @ stronger word—of addressing the American people at this crisis in language of affectionate ad- miration,” and reminds hii that the upper class are the rulers in England, while the masses are only their followers. Mr, Somner is per- fectly justifiable, therelore, in holding England responsible for the action of (From the London Star, Liberal organ.) The success of Mr. Forster's American speech a! the Senate at Washington. As it ts evident Mr. Sum ner did not wish for war when he made that speech, it is dificult to imagine at what he aimed, But the recious—t good understanding between Pradford 1s the measure of Mr. Sumner’s failure ti | reeuit bas been, not, indeed, to endanger the peace of the world, but to destroy what waa hardly = je In potnt of fact, the promo- tion in @ corpa may be said to be ont of the hands of the authorities, If a tentena wishes to retire he must get back what he has pi for lus commistion—viz., £450 to start with an £2°0 for his step. This mnst be repaid htin by the ensign who gets his vacancy and by the young man from outside Who takes the ensign's place, + the one who ig next to him in seniority cannot pay the second gets the step, if the second cannot the third the governing | United Sta and the masses of the English | gets it, ff the third cannot the fourth weta it, and 60 classes, for they caused the concession of Deiligerent | people, headed by those advanced liberals whose | onto the end. Remember, ton, this rule holds rights to the rebels who Were striving to destroy the | opinions they usually share, Mr. Forster is one | good throughout the regimenial ranks up to lea American nation; they Atved out Alabamas to prey | of those advanced Tiber ‘als, and he speaks with | tevant colonel, Inclusive. If a captain wishes to Te- upon American commerce; they cheered on and sup. good right, not only a tried friend of the great | tire from the army the senior Tenant gets the atep piled the pirates who were reddening the sea with the burning of American vessels; they adva.cea money on cotton loans to enable the rebels to carry on their rebellion, and Mr. Forster and the good ‘workmen of Bradford, who cheered his speech, were if tod to prevent this sort of “neutrality,” which + Forster thea looked 9a as @ burmilg sip and dis merican republic, bu tive of the ieulings people, And his tone is that o! Tost cherished snaceptivilities, misconstrued by those whose feelings he has most considered, 48 an accurate representa- of the majority of the English ‘one wounded in bis urned by those to whom in their hour of need he wa SULA noel ot ae, it he can pay for it. The reguiation price, in addi tion to what he has = before, is £1 foo, toeking in ail £1,800, or somewhere about $9,000 in gold of yo inoney, ff the senior lieutenant cannot pay this rtep goes to (ae second on the List, if the second can- dat rermouabe ‘a thw Teun a0 tho. Caevongts DAY, J UNE 7, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET, snant Of & regiment became a captain over heads of his twelve seaiors, simply cw1se be could command the £1,100 which hart tg be patd for his step—tnat is, for the difference between the rack of leutenanr and captain—and tho oluers coud not, And in our West tndian regi mens | have known cases in which not ous of the Noutenants could par for promotion, ant were con sejuently superseded by somo wealthy young man from another reetment who could pay the price. And ib 18 the same with (as two majors of a rest ment. If one of thein selis ont the senior captain gets the $ ep if he can pay for it; if nov, the second, or the third, or any other the senior of those who cau pay che pre’. ‘The command of the corps ts no exception to the rule, If the senior major can pay for his Heaienant colonelcy he gets it, if not the Junior steps over bis head, becomes heutenant colonel, ant commanits the one who was his seator, It ts needless to asx the quastion, which every soldier will answer for hunself when he reads this statement—namely, can an army in which this ts the system of promotion: be Paper commanded? And, recollect, | have tod but half my tale. 2} have hurr ed y sketched the purchase syatem as it is worked In the moss econoinical regiments in the service in tae invantey of tho line i have sud nothing respect- ing the extra revatation money that 1s pald for every step {n promotion, and whioh if an olcer does not pay he cannot get his proinotion: for the oificer want- ing to AGlt ont will not retire if he doos not get the amtouné he de:nands, but exchanges to some other corps tn which there are men with money, aa! sells outin that regiment, fo round figures no oMeer can ever hope to become the lisatenant colonel of un iofautry regtinent aniess he tg able from first to Iast, iucluding regulation und extra regulation prices, to pay about £6,50) for his rank. In tas same way a lieucenant colonel of cavalry will have to pay at least €10,U00 for getting to tne top of tao tree, It ig true that ft these gentiemen leave tae army they get their money back again, but if they remain aud are promoted to be genera! officers they do not, a. never can recover What they have paid; tt 1s loss fo them aud their farniies forever. Heuce 1% follows that none save the weaithy can in Englaniever hope to be generais, or tocominand in the field. The im- meuse majority of feild officers cannot afford this, and 80 revre be ore they get higher than regimental: rank; aud thus but few remain from which any se- lection can be made. and our general officers are a8 a body whoily unit for active commands, “But,” your readers will aak, “do mon who have no money never enter the nglish army, and if they do, how are they promoted? 1 will answer this question and terminate this already tuo long letter ut the same time by astory which you may rely upon as coming under my own. observation, and tue sora! of the tale 1s applicable to all si:nilar cases in the English army About thirty years ago two young men joined as eusigns the same corps, & reviment then stationed i India. I will, for distinctions sake, call them No. 1 and No. 2. No, 1 Was the senior, Nu. 2 the junior, No. 1 was the gon of an old offtcer who had died ta Indi; No. 2 was the sou of a wealthy London merchant; No. 1 bad but eauugh money to pay for his outfit, No, 2 had some tweive or fourteen thousand pounds at command, ‘They were both capitat soldiers, Where are they now? No, 2 has beea w tull colons for some years and has commanded an excellent regiinent for a iongertime. fe will be a major gen- eral next year, aad may reap honors wherover hard biows are going. No.1 is & major on half pay, a heart-broxeu, discontented man, hating the review in which he once took so muca pride, and only look- law forward to the day wheu his many years’ service will entitie bira to a pension. Ho was longer in be- coming a captata (because he had no money) than his former junior was in getting the rank of heu- tenant coionel, How, | ask, Gan a1 ariny in which promotion 18 on such & footing ever be well com. ded?’ In my next Isha give you some tea of t tue privace soldier ts in the Britian service, SPAIN. ‘The SituationSuccess of Kepablican Tace ticoForm of Government—Probnbilities of Civit War—A Ministeriai Crisis—Freuch Watechfainess. Maparp, May 12, 1569, This country is s!owly drifting either to a haven of refuge or lato a Charybd.s to be engulfed. Spain's position just now 19 very snteresuing. The wisest political Brophet could not foretell the end and final settlement of the questions about to rise to- morrow or the day alter. The various parties— whose number ts legion—nove had reantons, secret caucuses, mass mectiags, with transcendental ora- tors to address them, a3 well as chilling, frigid po- litical speakers, whose crantums were as white as she saows of Nova Zembla; aad while the former urge Costellanoa to action the latter advise them to be patient. But though anctent political hacks cry patience, there 1s uot a party in existence here that could govern its conduct accordingiy. It is a period of activity to all, of active brain work, of imtriguiog with might and main, as well conducted as by auy parcel of experienced lobbyists at Wasning- ton. The republicans especially have their wits su- pernaturally sharpened at this crisis. It is the most ably managed party in Spain. The chieis are cool, experienced persons; but tuey have plenty of tne fiery stu: in their composition as weil which spurs them to necessary action. Knowing well that the longer (ime the Cortes waste over the constitution the better for them, they have been very busy im- peding the progress of the House in the discussion of the several articles. They have either made long speeches or inuendoes which invited rectifica- tions from those persons whose characters were at- tacked, and in Very many ways they have been frait- ful in devices and expedients to retard the Chamber, All this deiay bas served to gather whole hosts of reputlicans together, and to their standard several of the progresistas and unionists have attached themseives. They have also been very skilful in tritlag but telling tactics in the Cortes. Being de- feates overwhelmingly on one point they knew well was too bold for tie present epoch, they would gracefully yield, but would advance on another point Almost Ssymonymous Wit) that at which they had veen defeated, and so on from point to point —re- treating siowly, skilfully, at bey the while, until, though the majority were the victors, they could not pride themselves upon the slimsy skeleton of an act they had pi . Up to tne present time the republicans have been snecesstul in eras- ing the word monarchy from tbe project of the constitution. So here Spain stands to-day. Next week these —— Will be materially chanced. No donbt the lorm of government wili have been decided upon, Ifit has been decided to have a monarchy, we im: see any quantiiy of candidates brought forth, ‘and rhaps it might be jast as well to watch General Prim’s conduct then. There will be Bourbons and Coourgs, German, Italian and French princes w out number, ail striving to get tie Spanish crown, and there will be such ap olio of sweet intrigues of the various factions of the monarchists never be- fore heard of in Spam. If a ency 18 esta’ lished, Prim may be seen figuring tn the foreground, with four and tweaty outsiders, and the most glorious staf in Christendom, mimicking the toyaity he helped to overturow. it a directory, Serrano, Prim, fopete, Rivere and Zorrilla will conduct affairs very much a# at present, with more or less fermentation in the laterior from Carlisis risings, dissonant republicans. and priestly cabal, It was reported and generally believed taat the republicans would resiga their seats im a body if the monarchy was voted, but lately they had areanion, whereat they decided that they should remain to fill the duties to which they were appointed by their constituents. This general resignation weant to imply something serious, very proba- bly civil war. Several cities have sent etitone to the Cortes that they adopt a federal repal form a mimsterial crisis is mevitable after the of the article in Page oot elretes the French Am- bassadtor to ved in France as well as everywhere eise that as the Vortes neared rapidiy the lively debates to be pas oe the form of [Sp ny aed infinences of every ‘would be brought to bear upon the Spanteh re; ¥ the arrival of Baron Mercier is very o; une here, a 1 a4 a stroke of policy on the part of IIL. that he might have something to putin the acale agalnst those m favor of a ib lic, aad adverse to th Napoleonic and Bot n chains. ROME. Henith of the PopeA Novel Project to Pre- vent Ware—Arbitration as a Substitute tor Vighting—tie iMoliness on Agrarinn Out- rages ip Iroland. Rome, May 16, 1809, ‘The Pope's last pubite venediction for the season was conferred by his Holtness to his faithful troops and subjects and such sight-seers as atill hngered at Rome for this closing fosttval on Thursday, the oth inst., from the balcony of St. John Lateran, as custo. mary on Ascension Day. Pio Nono was in excellent volee, and the #laht was very brilliant on the irregaiar bat picturesque piazza of St. John, which, with ita background of the old Aurelian wails, the aqueducta, Campagna and A) yan hills beyond, ts Infinitely more attractive than the plazta of St. Peter's, in spite of the formal grandeur of the latter. ° Although his Holiness appeara to enjoy eapital health, his medical advisers are anxious that he should get some change of alr this summer; but he has hitherto resisted their suggestiona, at any rate with reapect fo Porto d'Anzio, where they wished him to inhale tho mtid sea breezes of May. A few days since, however, the Pope allowed himself a day in the country, having invited a few cardinals and ecclest- 1 ray newt sumer” blac of Gaia | olay Gandolfo, fourteen miles from Rome, Pio Nono Says that if he were to leave the capital this summer he should prefer going to Frosiaore to dink the mineral waters, nt his Holimoss adds, jokingly, “We are too poor for such excursions.” A movement in the direction of doing away with wars, and constinting the Pope arbiter ant peace- maser between quarrels me nations, according to a sort of code of international law, whic it 1s pro- posed anall be drawn up-by the Cathoiic Bishops as- fembled in the Keumenical Council, has been initiated by several French ant Engi Catholic journals, ana aome appeals and adiresies from Pro testants to tae Pope have also been publishet tend- {nx to the game purpose, To do away with expen- Sve standing armies would bo dondtiess an tmn- Mense advantaze, but it is to be doubted whether the Pope's arbitration will auMce to establish auch a feel- ine of reciprocal xoo4 will and good faith between Tival nations ag to allow them to convert thelr can- ons and rif_es into ploughshares and reaping hooks, although the Orserna‘ore Romano of the Tth ad- vocases the scheine in an enthusiastic article en- Ut.ed “The best means of preasrving peace.” I hear that Cardinal Barnado, Prefect of the Pro- Paranda, has written in the Pone’s name to Cardinal Cullen, come that the influence of the Catholic clergy in Tretand is not more powerfully exercised in preventing the commission of so many agrar‘an murders a3 the Irish peasantry have been indulgiug in of tate. If thls ts correct, the measure is a step towards tho realization of the oNce of peacemaker proposed to bs conferred on the Pope, and it ta to be hopel thatthe Lrish glergy will act according to his suggestion. GERMANY. Aunnal Congress of Pedagoguvs—Vast Asseme bly—All Parts of Germany Roepresented— Liberal Spirit Predominant—Separation of Church and School—Absence of Sectarian- ism~Fraternization ef Teachers North and South—lLilness of the King. BeRwin, May 20, 1869, During this week a Teachers’ Congress has been held in this city, being the eighteenth annual gather- ing, which was very numerously attended. Not less than 4,000 pedagogues from all parts of Germany have joined in it, The position and interests of this ciass being 80 vastly different from that of pubilo teachers in America, a detailed account of their pro- ceedings would hardly be relishea by the reader. ‘Sudice it to say that the discussions and the resoiu- tlons drafted mainly tended towards separation of Church government from that of scholastic institu- tions. It being generally understood beforehand that liberal principles with respect to educational questions would be strenuously advocated in this assembly, it is no matter of surprise that Herr von Miibler, Minister of Public Instruction, and his par- tisans kept pretty well aloof, and that meagre civilities on the part of governaent, such as atford- ing conveniences for sight-seeing and two gratut tous performances at the royal theatre, were ail that were extended on the ovcasiou. At the close of the conference the President, Herr Hotfnann, a school director from Hamburg, an- nounced that seven teachers from the United States of America had been preseat during the sittings, which announcement was greeted with applause. On .eaving the building, the public Tarn Haile, my atiention was attracted by a crowd of young teach- ers Listening eagerly to a gentleman wito styied him- self “Proiessox,” 1rom Rochester, N. Y., and who was enlarging upon the fine chances which would open up to teachers disposed t> emigrate to your bores. Inside tne hali one of the speakers, having insisted on the beneiicial inf_uence of church govern- ment, had been listened to very patiently tor some litle ume, but waen the audience discovered tnat he was a simon pure discipie of the Von Miller tribe, their disapprobation knew no bounds, and they recaved to :svea to htm any farther. A similar fate awaited our friead outside; for on being closeiy Tease | by the Luquis.tive teachers he was at lengt! foreed to udinit that he was connected wiih a ti logical establisument purely rgigious—a fact which had scarcely transpired when his audience rapidly ‘thinoed, A reireshing symptom worthy of notice in this meeting of 4,000 {fnstructors of youth, the greatest bevoaeine. of its Kind ever Known as yet, was the abse.rce of sectarianism, ali shades of reli- gion being represented, and even any allusion to tenets of faith carefuily avoided. We might mention @ case in potnt—tuat of Wiesbaden, with three- fourths of tts intabitants and a corresponding num- ber of teachers being Protestants, and the authort- ties of which town had, nevertheless, delegated a Catholic teacher as their representative. ‘The list of those present cont also the names of many Is- raelites, and though last, not ieast, a number of pre- ceptresses, who took a lively interest in the pro- ceedings. How little the Von Mihler doctrine of strict sectarianism found favor in the eyes of the assembled thousands of pedagogues Waa at once evident when the ee. Idee Ly ag conveyed his tort a with a ol - 4 fiberatt of sentiment hi raung the pervading his section had avowed thereby eliciting en- thustastic applause. We shor also menuon that, apart from the oppositional bearing so strongly pronounced against the drift the gov- ernment educational department, all remarks respecting South Germany and a united Fath- erland were hailed with stormy ee The unich, Augs- —— delegates from Vienna, urg, &c., found it an easy task to arouse the sympathies of thelr northern brethren. Fraterni- zation was the order of the day; the word “Vater- land" at every recurrence was pathetically ap- piauded, and by unanimous acclamation Vienna xed upon for the next annual gathering. ‘To-day’s oun press reports a slight tndisposition of his Majesty King Wiiitam, to which, however, we must attach a little more importance, masmuch as the projected royal tour through tie annexed prov- jaces, Which Was to commence on we 2ud tust., has been postpoued for fully eigut days. Such an alter- ation in the travelling programme, already pub- lished in all its detail, the couniermanding of extra railway trains, reviews, &c., to say nothing of the contreemps arising from magistrates having to shelve their arcues of triumph, bottle up their loyal and congratulatory speeches, &c., 18 assuredly no sinali matter, and when We consider the advanced age of the royal tucugh yet hae patient, we might induige ia sundry refiections were it not that if an thing serious should happen you would be imme ately advised by wire. TURKEY. Progress in the Ottoman Empire—The Speech of the Sualtnn-Liberntion of Political Offend= ers=A Nice Trick of a Thentrical Manager— A Conspiracy Plot for a Consideration. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 16, 1869. ‘The Sattan’s speech has been the topte of interest for the past week. Ithas been the custom for the Sultan to go to the Porte at the commencement of each year to hear his Ministers report upon the events of the past year and the state of the country. These reports are never published, and the public is consequentiy unabie to judge if the tnformation given to his Majesty is borne out by facts, The Sul- tan’s annual visit to the Porte has, therefore, hith- erto possessed no interest. It has been looked upon as amore formality and allowed to pass with the mere record of its having taken place. Last year for the first time in the history of Turkey his Ma- Jesty, after receiving the cnstomary report, made a speech, in which he expressed sentiments and made promises which for good, sound common sense and liberality mughs compare most favorably ‘with the royal declarations of his Buropean tellow sovereigns. This speech was much commented upon ‘at the time, and nas been quoted and referred to con- tinually ever since as a mark of progress on one hand, and as a species of text hook against oppression and mjnstice on the other. The speech dehivered the other day ts not less important as » mark of progress in civilizattongand as such a “sign of the times,” and @ matter of hearty congratniatron to the Fo Mong and the country. The speech, though delivered by his Majesty, mast of course, in accordance with usage, be considered as the mere dictum of the Divan; bat even so its publication in the bile nals and its submission thereby to eritic! ae mark of enlightened liberality that few couid have foreseen or believed in. At the ciose of the Cretan affatr many of the In- surgent chiefs were brought up to Constantinople and Imprisoned. y were all set at liberty a few days so and sent off to Syra at the government expense, ‘the famous Hadjt Michaeti excopted. He fs at large in Pera, apparently preferring Constantinople to his native mountains. You will have heard of the supposed attempt on the Viceroy’s life, which turned ont to be a scheme concocted by Monsieur Manasse, the director of the theatre at ° to secure the eternal gratitude of bis Highness and ite still more valuable ana weighty fruits, This worthy had an imfernal macnine placed in the Viceroy’s box, and just before his Highness drove up to the theatre was fortunate enough to discover the ee and loyal enough to at once Gisclose it and prevent the fatal co) juences that must inevitably have ensued but for M. Manasse's timely interference. At first it was endeavored to foist this clumey plot upon the Viceroy's uncle, Halim Pacha, who has already been accused of more than one atiempt on the Viceroy’s life, and some arreata took place. M. Manasse, as may be sup- Pong Was most active and most anxious that the culprit should be discovered, and his Highness Was about to bestow mpon him the due reward of so mach zeal and falthfalness when the truth leaked out, ‘The resvit ia that M. Manasge has been sent for change of air and scene a few hundred miles np the White Nile, @ “bourn whence few travellers return,” es. pecially such travellers ag the unfortunate opera dt- rector, and travelling under similar cirenmetances, Discouraging a8 might have been thonght was the result of this mad enterprise a counterpart of tt hi Pho attempred at Stamboul. The hero is an nglishinan by po Yankee by apoech. He by the name of Captain Paimer ‘and came to Ntinople some time since to offer the Porte an invention for the destruction of the Greek navy, after, it 18 aid, making @ similar proposal for tl jestruction of the Turkish fleet to the government at Athens, He fatied here, as he had done in G) anid nothing more was heard of him a eae Weeks ago, when he reappeared in Perg but with no $$$ $e — rofessed mission. Last week he called upon the rant Vizier and with much secrecy intormet bis Hirhness that he could disclose fora consideration, @ plot to blow up the Suttaa and ministers, his Atghness inclusive. He toll the Grand Viger that if he woul! sead to seh a house, there would be seized the bombs or shells with which the ere was ta be perpetrite |: or, said Our worthy, tf no’ too late, these instruments of destruction might yet be fount in the house of the carpe ter aad metal worker who had been entrusted with theit manu!ac ture. A’alt Posha, of course, at once saw through such an unilkely story, but nevertuciess arered the suggested search at the carpen er’s, where the bombs. were found, but which, a3 tis Highness hal fore- seen, had been ordered by the “Cap!ain" himself, ‘They were simply boilow wooden bal'a, painted black, with tin fuse tubes, The case was then pub into the hands of the police and “'aptain Palmer'* was arrested and committed to prison, where he now hes awaiting his trial, It ts too udicrous an wiar to result in any other verdici against the gallant cap- tain than one of an attempt at swindling sad the expulsion of the fellow from Turkey. RUSSIA, the EusimAf- ghanistan—Educational Measures=-Develop= ing the Language—The Princo of Monte- negro. Sr. PETERSBURG, May 10, 1869, ‘One of the questions which most excites potitical circles just at present is wha of “what is to be done with Afghanistan?’ Considering that tals country ig the last barrier, and by no means 8 vast or impaas- able one, interposing between us and the British dominions in India, t¢ must be admitted that the question is one of anything but secondary interest until it be solved, The late troubles, ending in favor of Sheer Alt, and the support awarded him by Engiand, implying direct English interference in the affairs of one of our neighboring, nay, bordering States in the East, coupled with the reticence ob- served on the question by Mr. Gladstone in the English Parliament, of course lend additional eum- phasis to the curiosity and uneasiness with which the Afghanistan question is regarded here, altnourch it has not been as yet the subiect of any very animated debate in our press, It ts much spoken ‘of, however, and some good and sound remarks have been made on tt in the Moscow Gazette, on the occasion of cer- tain hints thrown out by several Eoglish papers as to the opportunity of making of Afghanistan @ neutral State, something like Belgium, or, sila worse, like Turkey, guaranteed by treaties, thus drawing the khanships of Central Asia into the in- extricable maze of European international right, and spontaneously adding one more complication to the vortex of Fasternintricacies, “Notwithstanding tnese rumors,” says our Moscow leadiag paper, “we can scarcely believe that English statesmen would think of proposing to Russa to bin) herself by any obligations concerning her boundaries ia the Kast or her intercourse with the people of Central Asia. The political good sense for which English statesmen have always been reaowned would not, we believe, aliow of their selecting aga basis of the intended uegoiations a ground on which no practical resis can be expe ted.” The Gazette then goes on enorgeticaliy pro'esting against any self-imposed constraint on either par., and to prove that the preservation of fall Itverty of action is the best line for both parties, @ lding that If is better in an extreme case to trust toa gvol, hoaesi, plain war than embark upon & new $24 Of aipiomatic cavils and perplexities, the baneful results of whiea are suicicatly exemphfed ia the miserabe and well nigh hopeless state ot the southeast of Europe, The progress of ‘tussian sympathies in the Slavoni¢ lands subject to Austria aud Turkey is golag steadily though prudently forward. The import- ant question of adopting the Russian ian guage as the cotamou ilterary language of all slavontc races and common link between them ail, which at one time raised some rather vene- ment jealousies aad invidious discussion on the part Of some of those races possessed Of 8 literature of their own, foremost among whom are the louechs (Bohemians), appears to be imperceptibly advancing towards a natural and satisfactory soiation, The eating men have ad spontaneously toour nich and beautitul, as well #3 couvement language, which forms a bappy medium between the western S!avo- nic idioms —Tenech, Polish, Slavack—and the south- ern and southeastern ones--Littie Russian, Buigarian—equally accessible and intelligible to those two very distinct branches of the great Siavo- nic family, which find great diificulty to understand each other but through our intermediate language. In Vienna a Slavonic circle has lately been established for the purpose of studying the Kussian language and propagating its study, not only throughout educated Slavonic society, but among the Slavonic people generally and especially the lower classes, The society has entered into commu- nication with Russian editors and authors, most of whom agree to send them their pertodicais and books as an encouragement. At the same time our Slavonic committee Is instituting a special commission for the pul of [eg 8 inviting and facilitating the edition of books tending to im- rove our knowledge of our kindred Slavonic na- ‘ions, to shed a light on their wrong their present state, &c., and to strengthen the triendly teeling which bas been springing up between us these ten years. Another circumstance which is likely to bear some very good resuits of this kind is the appoint- ment of @ distinguished Russian lady to the post of governess for the Prince of Montenegro’s four ia- fant daughvers. As the Emperor 1s godfatner to Prince Ntcolas’ little girls (to all of them), the choice has been of course subjected to the appro- bation of himselfand the Empress. This lady is also expected to organize and superintend a higher sort of school for Montenegrine girls (the first in that more than half savi little country), and, further, having served several years in the telegraph depart ment, she is to establish a telegraph line from Cetigne to Cattaro, and instruct some of the natives in the management of the apparatas. The fact is the Prince while here was pre- sented with a hundred versts of wire, which he 1s very eager to put to some practical use. At the game @ it is expected that we will shortly have a Mon- tenegrine minister residing here, and the person even is tamed. fhis gentleman, who was private secretary to the murdered Prince Danilo, has spent year among us. in & private capacity, is m q FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. {t is said the Sirdars of Southern Turkistan have resolved to submit Ahan. At Cabul, it ts believed, the Russians have de- termined to entirely prohibit the importation of goods from India inte the parts of Turkistan where tuey possess power. Private correspondence from Rucharest mentions that the Jews are being persecuted with great se- verity in several parts of the provinces, and in several communes they have been expelled. The Progrds Pyyptien has been suspended for fi Gays for having published a criticism on “What Now Belng Done in the Country,” with @ view to weaken the action of the authorities, Orders have been issued by the Austrian govern- Ment that, on her journey and during her scjourk at te baths of Maricubad, ex-Queen Isabella shall bs treated with all the honors due to a sovereign, At the annual meeting of the Abo Protec- tion Society, recently heid in London, vehement accusations were made against the boers of Sonth Africa, for Kidnapping the children of tho Cafres and holding them (An? very. to Ameer Shere Alt CURIOUS CASE OF LARCENY, Four Gentlemen Robbed at 2 Water Cure Establishment. {From the Buffalo Courter, June 5. Thursday afternoon Superintendent Henry ¢. Fisk, of the Erie Railway; Merritt Brooks, book- ten for Pratt & Co., of this city; Dr. J. W. Potter, of Canandaigua, and Dr. Babcock, of Milton, Wis., visited Dr. Burdick’s Hygienic Water Cure establish- ment, on Seneca street, to obtain a bath, Li? did not go ther, but all went into the |: path- room together. Dr. Daniel Ciark, who had chai of the baths, decided to enter the bath with the four visitors, but lingered behind two or three minutes after the others had entered the bath- room. The gentiemen hadaleposited their clothing in the dressing room. A. enjoying the bath they proceeded to dress, Mr. Brooks, upon dressing, dis- covered that twenty-nine dotlars in currency, which he bad had in his ‘ket, was inissing, He called to Dr. Clark and told him that he had been robbed, When Clark at once seized his coat and said he ‘would go and see Mra. Bu; lick. | ‘The other, gentie- men hearing of Mr. Drool began to examine their pockets, and were somewhat surprised at the result. Dr. Potter missed over $20,000 worth of cer. Hileates of deposit on the First, National Bank of Warren, Pu, and on Grandin'’s Bank, of Tidioute. Pa., and Dr. Babcock found that dfteen dollars of his money was gone. Dr. Burdick, proprietor of the estabilshment, was informed of the robbery and no- tied Captain Cook, of t No. 2, Who soon made his appearance. In meaultme Dr. Clark haa returned to the establishment. When Captain Cook arrived on the spot and spoke of the loss of the money, Clark at once pointed to a boy, or rather yaung man, named Henry Campbell, and wails ‘phere is the person who took the money.’ Captain Cook then arrested Campbell, and took him to the station hon Upon ques. tioning the boy he came to the conclusion that it would be ag weil to orrest Dr. ¢ cord= ingly that gentleman was secured and locked up. He manifested considerable surprise at the tura affairs had taken, but Captain Cook coneldered there were ted gee ad for arresting him. The prison: Were brought before Justice Vanderpoet yester morning, When Campbell was discharged and Cl was held for trial tor grand larceny, in Cg twenty-nine dollars from Mr. Brooks, and was hel to bail in the snm of $1,000, In the afternoon Clark Was arraigned on charge of stealing certificates of