The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1869, Page 4

4 a EUROPE. The Korth German Lloyd steamship Hermann, Captain Wenke, from Bremen the 6th, via Southamp- ton the 8th, and the Inman steamship City of Wash- ington, Captain Jones, trom Liverpool and Queens- town, arrived here yesterday. They briog details of cable telegrams up to date. ‘he stream of emigration from the Mersey shows no sign of abatement. For the week ending June 5 ten steamers left Liverpooi for the United States and Canada with nearly 7,800 souls on board. General Prim has found it necessary to give an assurance that “individual rights shall be re- spected,” in consequence of certain abuses having been committed by the military authorities. The Vienna Presse states that Nubar Pacha, the | Egyptian Minister of Foreign A(fatrs, lias personally opened negotiations in thts capital for the conciu- sion of a treaty of commerce and navigation between Austria and Egypt. The preparatory commissions for the Ecumenical Counctl continue their labors in Rome. oral bishops aud missionaries and the Patriarch of Jeru- salem have arrived. In the sitting of the North German Parliament, June 5, the budget for the year is70 was definitively adopted, The revenue of the Confederation 1s esti- mated at 75,058,495 thalera, and the expendicure at the same amount. The Madrid Gazette of the 5th contains a decree of the Minmiscer of the Colonies, reaucing the direct taxes by Sity per cent in the colonial possessions, aud ordering that the decrease of revenue resulting from this measure should be met by a small export duty on sugar, tobacco and rum. From August, 1868, to March, 1869, the revolution in Candia cost Turke, 000,000 and 30,000 men. Great preparations are being made for military manceuvres on a grand scale, to be held near Udessa, and several regiments of infantry and cavalry have already arrived in that city An announcement in the English papers says that the negotiations for the purchase of the iclegrapls have been completed. The terms will msure the government trom tive to six per cent upon the capital. The Ind perdance Belge of June ys that two members of the Franco-belgian Commission came back to Brussels recently to consult with the govern- ment on certain proposais of the Preach Cabinet. ‘They left again after a conference with M. Frére- Oroan, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and ». Jamar, Minister of Public Works, and they appeared to be Satisfied with the progress of the negotations. The Teviiat’, of Vienna, published the Austrian Se NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. —_—_— eign or to people, has it im iis power to stand in the road of progress at any moment It see fit, and say to Commons and to constituencies. “Not another siep shall you advance.” it is no satisfaction to tae people to tell taem the Lords dare not do this—they cannot yenture to risk @ coafict with the Commons—they will even now down in terror at the fury they havo aroused, and will sufer the’ imsa’ Church bill to poms, The very fact tnat they have the power to leieat it, and tnat they sureaten Co use that power, is suificient to prove lo steadtast and sturdy re- formers that the very first step in the progress of human righis—the preliminary act to alt other action, must be the overthrow of uered:tary legisia- = and the substitution of an elective House of ers. ; © The conflict comes at a bad moment for the nobles #ngland. Time was when a Brittsh baron was ed with someching of tae diymity wiien ‘doth hedge a kimeg,” and when a peer of the realm was rerarded with reverance by the commou herd, But just now the people are made painfully s-psibie that the highes: titles do nov eXeaipé thelr inieriiors frou. those frailties, follies and vices to which all fesh is heir, They have learned that princes can be profigates of che Worst descripuon and of the nost depraved tastes; that duxes can play the oJucklox on the turf and the swmudier at the miming table; tuat noblemen can squander enor- s urtunes in a few years witue millions of peo- ple ar taround them, it scarcely adds to the re i for the tit ed portion of the com- matty to hear thas a marquis has died so nope- essly bankrupt as te leave his butcher's and grocer’s bills unpala, or Uhat the sheriif’s oficers are in pos- ry ota nobte duke’s furniture and piate, Yet unpleasant realities are too common in the prescut day, and tasy have their elfect upon the public mind when people begin do inqu're Wao are the men who place themselves tn the path of pro- gress and tmpudenty ciaim tue right to oppose and defeat the wll of a nation, The practical resu.t of the rejection of the Irish Cuured bil by Ue [Louse of Lords will probably be a prorogadion of Varliament, a session mm August, and ihe repassing of the iMeatical measure of tue ‘present speed and with the brieiest beers will thus gam but a ive to Wight the battle over r they will repeat ihe acuon it has been suggesied that Mr. sOnservaAtLves they now Uneaten, Gladstone might resigu and teave tie to for a ministry, 11 order to show the county Low utter y powerless and imsigniicant mis 0. poueuts ly are, or that varuiament might be dis- svived tor the purpose of Uguting the battle over again at the polls, and in the o inty of a yet more decisive victory than (aat so receatly achieved, does not seem probable, however, that either of these courses would be pursued. A defeated bil cannot be mtreduced @ second time durtag the same session, bat @ prorogation and a cail for a new session would remove this dificulty, aud it would be sufficient triumph for Mr. Giad- stone tosend back to the Lords, in silent contempt, the sume bil they had just rejected. if he desired to revenge limself upod them he could not put them wo a test more galiing to their pride or more hazard- ous than this. in the meantime, should the pill be thrown out now on the second reading, it will occa- sion ab agitation both in England and ireland that will have in tt the seeds of ruture, if not the fruits of preseut, danger to more interest than those of the established Courct i Ireland. Nearly three months ago the HERALD correspondence advanced tae opin- ton that while the irish Caurch bill was more of a War Budget for 1870, which amounts to 74,966,000 florins, or five millions more than m 1869 The same paper asserts that the Minister of War will have to move for an extraordinary credit of five to six millions of florins, The War Budget for 1870 is calculated ou the basis of @ strength of 800,000 men. The form of the oath to the consfitution, to be taken by the Spanish Deputies, 1s as follows:— ‘y religious faith, by my love for my country, aud my honor as a cab ro, to observe and cause to be observed this cou: on, the legitimate emination i ine national sovereiguty. The Liverpool Pos! says:— There is just now prevailing in St. Petersburg a Singuiar rumor with respect to what may ve calied the European policy of the rresident of the United tates. ‘ihe Russian journals have been publishing correspondence trom Washington respreseuting Pre- sident vrant as determined to inte e in European atluirs from a wish to extend American comm to compete With England 1n China and the | and with an idea of furthering these views to co-op- erate everywhere with Russia, Ihe r-t thing the President is to do 1s to require that American ship- Ping be exempted trom the restrictions of the treaty of 1556 adecting the pavigation of the Bosporus. ENGLAND. The Threatened Conflict Between the Lords and Commons, Lonpon, June 7, 1869, The © ALD correspondence several days ago pre- dicted that the inconsistencies and evils of heredi- tary legisiation must before long form a prominent topic of discussion in English politics, To-day that prediction verified. As the HERALD’s special cable despatches have already informed the Ameri- van people, the English journals of this morning are Giiled with articies In which the supposed aetermi- nation of the House of Lords to reject the Irish Church bill upon its second reading is made the occasion ou one side of defiant hints as to the un- certain tenure upon which the peers of the realm hold their legislative privileges, and on the other side of inflammatory appeals to the landed aristocracy to stand by those who would resist the levelling principles of modern reformers. The immediate cause of this sadaen outbreak of a conflict which, in the ordinary progress of events, could not be much longer delayed, has been the meeting of conservative peers at the house of the Duke of Mariborough. on Saturday night last, when expression was given tothe exireme views of Earl Derby, Lord Cairns and others, and when a decided majority of those present declared themselves ready to endorse the seatiments of the tory leaders aud to reject by a direct vote the bill which they de- nounce a$ a measure of spoilation and infamy, At this meeting, it must be undersvood, no ve inte line oi action Was actually determined upon—tuat is to say, it did not partake of the character of an Ame- rican party caucus, binding In its results upon those who took part in it, but was simply an informal gathering, ‘eld for the purpose of comparing views and eliciting tudividual opinion on the important measure about to come up for action in the Upper House of the English Parliament. It is therefore by DO means certain that tue Lords will actually throw out the Irish Caurch bul upon the motion for ite second reading, or will even defeat it at ail, either by direct or indirect means; but the indignation which the bare rumor of such @ course has excited is ail the more significant of the jealousy of the hereditary body with which the pavlic miud is impregnated. ‘The Lords e, indeed, done a most indiscreet act even if, a8 some well iniormed persons suppose, they bave only thrown out thus intimation of weir intention to bring themsecives into direct conflict with the Commons, in order to experiment upon popular feeling and to see whether vhey dare or dare not Venture upon an extreme position in this early stage in the battie of reform; tor they have given to the newspaper press the occasion to break ground in @ discussion which must, in the end, assume revolu- touary proportions, and which involves the very ex- mpd eir OWD House as au hereditary legisia- ave body. ‘The history of the Irish Church bill is familiar to every intelligent man op both sides of the Atiantic. ‘The principies invoived i is provisions have veen 18 ors, aud have been endorsed by them in a majority more decisive ‘than has been secured upon any political question in Great Britain jor a long number of years. A Ministry has been formed upon the basis of the measure, and has veen carried ‘nrough every stage of its work in the Commons with an unprecedented strengt io the last Parliament tie Lords put on record their personal protest agains: disestabiisimeut and disendowment, and in the face of their dissent the popuiar verdict was cast in lavor of the measure. If they now per. Sist in their opposition It can only be in detiance of | the people. They may say that they have it in tue | power to defeat the bili, and it is /or them alone to determine whether they shall or shall not exercise that power. They may use the paltry excuse that | alike the principié of disestabiisiment and disen- dowment bas been passed upon by the nation, the detatia by Which the work Is to be accomplished has not yet been submitted to the people, and that they therefore have a fair reason for interyosing weir power until this particular measure shail have been ‘vested at the polls, But the people of Engiand and of Ireland will fully understand that the opposition | of the House of Lords is simply @ blind and obstinate | Tesist 0 the popular will; jt it is a resistance that can ovually offered again and again, and tuat can effectually bar the further progress of r form. ‘They will anderstand, too, that this tron rier can be removed only by the strong hand; that it | is itself the stitusoual Obstacle to ile own re | moval by peaceiui and constitutional m and that they must choose between submission to thia | monster and its destruction by the sacred right of | revolution againss tyranny and cpacemin. The UkKALD has already advised such steadfast friends of reform as John Bright one cure for the evil, and unat is the sweeping away of hereditary jegisiauon. The events of the past few days point this lesson in & marked and wninis- takable mavner. evil throwing into the nest of bigots aud excia- sives Known as the House of Lords a ite peer or two every year is simply aosard. It must be dug up the roots. Jt may be said that the irish Church vill will probably, after ail, become # law; but this is now wholiy immaterial. The fact has been brought bome to the munds and hearia of the people toat @ body exists in the country wich, Claiming its fights irom the accident of birin alone, without any titie of merit or service, powsesses the power to hold te will of the nation in iron bonds from which there ts no legal escape, ‘They now feel, by a practical application, that ail their boasted ioerty and ail ther so-called revoring count as noting Wuen one branci of the national legislature, over which they haye no contro! and Wise weuvers ae not resyousible eller Wo sover- | “slighty msing there ts but | ‘To talk how about correcting the | sentimentality than a solid benefit to the people, its Value to the oppressed masses Would be found in its operation as the Keynote to real reforms, The words are likely to prove prophetic. The Lords and the frish Church Bill— Mecting at the Duke of Marlborough’s. (From the Observer.) A meeting of members of the Upper House—140 in number—was heid at the Duke of Mariborough’s residence on Saturday, the 5tl inst, to consider the course to be taken by the Lords as to the Irish Church bill. it was almost exclusively a meeting of lay Peers, and the large majority were strongly in favor of throwing out the bili on the second reading. Tius course was vigorously supported by Lord Derby, Lord Cairns, Lord Harrowoy (who wili very progeny move the amendment in the House of Lords), the Dakes of Marlborougn and Rutland, Lords Elienborough, Bandon and Redesdale, and the main strength of the conservauve party. This wmode of proceeding is advocated most strongly by Lord Deroy. A greac many Irish Peers—one, it 18 understood, a Roman Catholic—were present, and spoke strongly against the bill. Lord Carnarvon and Lord Stanhope were in favor of allowing the bill to be read a second time, and then proposing materia! ameudments, and were foviowed tu ibis opinion principally by younger members Of the louse. Lord salisbury seems to be as yet undecided as to which course 1s the best to pursue. Throughout the mecting there was the strongest feeling that the bill must be rejected. or altered in some eszentiai points; and there was a desiie at least equa'ly strong to ascertain, inthe course of the next few days, the rea: seutimeut of the who.e nation on the subject. Subjoined is a list of the Feera preseat:— The Arcabishop of Dubiin, the Duke of Abercorn, the Eart of Harrowby, Earl of Abergavenny, Eacl Amherst, Eart Bandon, Viscount Bangor, Lord Bate- maan, Marquis of Bath, Eart Bathurst, Eari Beau- champ, Duke of Beaufort, Lord Berners, Bishop of Gloucester, Lord Blaney, Lord bolton, Earl of Brad- ford, Marquis of Bristol, Earl Brownlow, Duke of Buccleuch, Duke of Buckingnam, Karl Cadogan, Lord Cairns, Earl Carnarvon, Lord Castlemaine, Lord Clesmsford, Lord Churston, Earl Clancarty, Lord Colchester, Lord Cvivuie, Lord Clarina, Eacl farl Couriown, Lord — Crofton, Earl Daraley, Eari Dartmouth, Lord de L’Isie, Earl Deabign, Lord Denman, Earl Derby, Lord de Kos, Lord de saumarez, Viscount de Vesci, Earl Devon, Lord Digby, Marquis of Downsbire, Marquts of Drogheda, Eari Dunmore, Lord Dunboyne, Lord Dunsany, Lord Egerton, Earl Egremont, Earl Eldon, Lord Elphinstone, Earl of Buuiskillen, Viscount Ex- outh, Faversham, Eari Fitzwilliam, Lord Yiscount Gough, \iscount Gormaustown, ae Earl of Haddington, Viscount Hardinge, Earl Hardwicke, Earl Harewood, Earl of Harrington. Viscount Hawarden, Lord Headley, Lord Hen- niker, Viscount Hereford, Lord Heytesbury, Earl Home, Earl of Huntington, Lord tylton, Lord Kesteven, Lord Kilmaine, Eari of Kin; a, Earl Lauderdale, Eari Leitrim, Earl Levin and Melviile, Bari of Limerick, Earl of Longford, Earl of Lons- daie, Fariot Lucan, Lord Lytton, Earl of Maccie- Held, Lari of Malmesbury, Duke of Manchester, Baril Manvers, Duke of Marlborough, Viscount Meiviile, Viscount Middieton, Earl Neison, Lord Northwick, Lord Ormathwaite. Lord O’Neili, Marquis of Or- monde, Lord Venryn, Bishop of Peterborough, Earl Portarlingion, Lord Kaglan, Lord Ravensworth, Lord Redesdaie, Duke of Kicamond, Lord Kivers, Earl of Romney, Earl of Rosse, Duke of Rutland, Lord St Leonards, Marguis of Salisvury, Lord Sal- toun, Earl of Sandwich, Lord Scarsdale, Earl of Seikirk, Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Sinciair, Lord Skelmersdale, Earl Stanhope, Lord Sondes, Eari of Stradbroke, Lord Strathui Ear! of Tankervilie, Viscount Templetown, Lord uriow, Lord Trede- gar, Earl Verulam, Lord Walsingham, Earl of War- wick, Duke of Weilington, Marquis of Westmeath, Eari of Wilton, Marquis of Winchester, Lord Wyn- Otten tat of the of he representatives press were not, course, admitted to the meeting, but the following version has been furnished (by @ friendly hand) to the Jonn Buil:— Lord Cairns addressed the meeting at considerable length, urging that the best course would, under all the circumstances, be to reject the bill on the second reading. The leaders of the party were mosé anxious not to fetter the judgment of the Peers, but he thought the Earl liarrowby was the bes: peer Ww take the initiative from nis inde- pendent position, and that he deserved the support of the party. The Marquts of sailsbury spoke in op- osition to this course, as did the Karl of Carnarvon, jut it Was generally thought that, under the very fair and honest cloak of a desire for the interests of tue Irish Church, the interests of their order were not overlooked by those peers, or by Earl Stanhope. The Earl of Derby spoke mnost eloquently and warmly in favor of the rejection of the bill. The Eari of Denbigh, a Roman Catholic peer, alone declared his intention of voting for the bill, Besides the two noble lords previously mentioned. it is thought that the Bari of Limerick and Earl Neison, from iheir de- sire for a free church, will abstain foom voting, and the former will probabiy vote lor the bill. The ‘Duke of Rutland and others warmly advocated resistance to the bill. The tone of the meeting was most firm, and the unwillingness to hear any but men of great mark against Lord Cairna’ advice very determined. As became such @ meeting no allusion Was made to the language used out of doors. No formal resolu- tions were come to, the independent jndgment of each peer being carefully guarded; but the result Will be that the whole strength of the opposicion will be brought to bear ag inst We bili, the reection of Which Wii be moved by the Earl of iarrowby. fhe wajority Will probably be 90, Coventry, ‘The Musical Tornado at Boston. {Prom the London Standard, June 7.j When Lord Metcalfe was ta the United States Winter storm took place, and au Awerican asked bun Whether it Was not @ “fine fail of snow for a young couutry.” The young country, like the 1 mortal gods of oid (who are dead) is nothing if not tremendous. It boasts of its tauader; it uw unweary- Ing in its extollations of lilimitabie prairies, which, indeed, lave their limits not less than New York; it parades the income tax of its newspaper aud hotel proprietors; it as Lhe bigaest ships, Lae most fearful fires, the greatest number of win births, most astonishing murders, and the most grotesque misadventures of nature of any nation io tie world, Yet ali this fades into insigniiicance in comparison with the monstrous tornauo ot which has been announced at Boston, ft inp! worthy of the people Who speak of the Alps a6 round; who vaunt that they can row a voat over their morning dew; who assert that their locomotives are so awit that milestones re- semble tombstones in a churchyard, and who, from their transatlantic heights, look down upon the Himalayas in pity, They are going to give a concert, however, in contrast with which the shrili conco of the 5,000 chiidren who last Wednesday at St. Paul's would be merely as ‘the lascivious | pleasmgs of @ jute.” Jt is to be called a | Harmony festi It is to be held In a capable of containing 60,000 persons. Of these 30,000 are to be the audience and 20,000 choristers, er Will open the proceedings, Then ail that army of vovalists Will burst into a hymn of peace, . panied, appropriately enough, by @ symphonetio dis cl 2 of artilery and rifles. Nexta national is to be roared forth, while every bell in the city add its clangor to the tune. Afterwards 1,000 flddies, with drama, tamborines, cymbals and all else which is barbaric in brass, cat and parchment Will swell the angelic harmony, and shoo * Hail Columbta’’ will roata in Boston, | Bot even yet as a climax, | poured forth from ali the brazea th And now arrives the grand finale, No other coun- try on carth assaredly could afford such a sensation. The thousand beaded orchestra and the twenty thousand headed chorus are to rise from such trifles as (he national anthems of Europe; from such minor works a3 those of Handel, Beethoven, Haydn. Men- delssohn, and Mo art, the glorious company will Pass into the grand, unparalicied, unique, aud over- Wheliming Union Pacific Railroad Gallop, or March Telegrapiic wires on the platform will be set at work firiug every cannon, ringing every dell, and raising every echo within a decent distance of Boston. Upon a hundred iron anvils as many hammers will beat an awful uproar, watil we siould taink anybody present with ordinary nerves would giadly exchange places with Tom Hood's old woman Who was Deaf to adverb and deaf to particle, Aud eren deaf to the definite articlé, The only ob which ¢an be served in any notice of this tadated exaggeration is fo point out that & tendency exists, and not tn America alone, towards aworship of gigantic proportions in everything. Englishmen can remember the day when they were roud ot having the biggest national debt of Surope. We nad that monster, the Great Bastern, which was to eclipse all creation, and now it 1s glad to go about carrying eleciric telegraph cables tor anybody who cau pay tor the freight, The gigantic ig the tdea!. Here in Boston we are told, or at any raie an eminent vocalist ts assured that she is to sing in Cy and loftiest concert room ever erected; tuat the ns themselves will open that she will be hon- paniment; as her last 4 up by the tintinabulation in the her armony aroun o-ed with an arttilery a notes fall they wil! be tas of ail the city’s bells; and that when she ascends fromm that littie composition, “The Heavens are telling.”’ to “Hail Columbia,” her glory will pe so great that she ought to accept the engagement on reduced terms. Well, let us not envy the good folk of Boston, They intend to make a splendid noise. They live under tue teaching of that excel- jeut Elijan Pogram, who told them that England was a minnow, while America was the setung sun. How the eagle WH fap its wings Wher: those an- thems of liberty are shouted forth in the realiv creat and jistorical capital of Massachusetts, But alter ail there ts someting in it, A nelioa which can send invitations for a concert to its own subjects across all the magnificent breadth between the At lantic and We Kocky Mouutaius has, peruaps, the rignt to be noisy. FRANCE. Figures of the Late Elections, The France publishes the following table of the Votes at the late elections Electors inserted. Pure government votes, + 10,315,523 8,098,505 4,445,287 Dynastic candidates, ‘Tiers Parti, and others not recommended............+... 1,124,598 Total. 5,579,885. Monarch clericais. &c. Democratic can ‘Total opposition. Lost votes....... . Thus there are dynustic votes. OppOsiton .......06. ROME. Royalty in the Eternal City—The Ex-King of Naples—Increasing Popularity of Switzere land as a Summer Resort—Ecclesiastical Talk—Witl Rome Be the Capital of Italy— A Monument to Commemornate the General Council. ROME, May 29, 1869. Since his removal from the throne of the Two Sicilies and the annexation of his dominions to the kingdom of Italy, a period of elght years and three months, King Francis I. has been a constant resi- dentin Rome or the neighboring towns of Albano and Frascati. The Queen has visited her relations in Bavaria and been occasionally absent from the Eternal City, but his Majesty has constantly kept up the semblance of @ court at tne Farnese Palace, and from political motives principally has deemed it im- prudent to remove very far from the irontiers of his quondam hereditary States, Since the announcement, however, that Queen Maria Sophia will probably have the satisfaction of giving birth to an inheritor of the rignts and expec- tations of the House of Bourbon it is asserted that the King has determined to leave Rome and accompany his consort to switzerland, where a residence during the summer months has been considered advisable for her Majesty. People who attribute every trifling event in royal families to political motives suppose that the King of Napies has been alarmed at the increasing cor- diality between the French and Italian governments and the probabic establisnment of the much desired modus vivendi to be initiated, accurding to report, by a customs jeague between the Pontifical and Italian governments, and that he prefers leaving Roine of his own accord to waiting until the Pope, acting under the pressure of France and Italy, should request his Majesty to select a residence elsewhere. Whether the King has any such intention or whether he merely contemplates a Swiss summer ramble will be shown in the sequel, but meantime his announced journey nas afforded the Neapolitan emigrants here and his partisans pay, an op- portunity for making a demonstration of loyal at- tachment by geting up and signing an address praying his Majesty not to deprive them of the con- solation of his presence by quitting even temporarily the Italian peninsula and withdrawing from the dis- interested protection of the Supreme Pontiff. It is suspected that this address has been suggested by per-ons interested in keeping the ig here, and that it will be accepted as a political expression of feeling strong enough to detain his jesty in the Eternal City. ‘This summer will witness @ general migration of the upper classes. Foreigners have already taken their fight from Rome, anc the local magnates and diplomatic corps will go next. The Roman princes are getting fond of Switzerland, which they find cheaper than Paris or Baden Baden, and the ambas- sadors are going back to their respective countries to recruit their health and obtain mstructions from their governments wherewith to commence the ap- roaching campaign of the general council. The arquis de Banneville has obtained leave of absence, have Counts Arnim and Trautmansdorit and Barons Sigmund and Pyke, the representatives of France, Pra: Austria, Bavaria and Belgium; 80 that Rome will be unusually guict this summer—a lull before the stormy bustie of winter. Even ecclesiastical business 1s being deferred, for the Consistory, which was to lave been held shortly at the Vatican nas been put off tili September, when, it 18 said, Monsignors ope Pal Merode, Faleinelli aud Chigi wil! o¢ made Cara: I doubt whether these nominations will prove correct, espe- cially the latter, as it will be dificylt to find an eligible successor to bim as Nuncto at Paris. ‘Two subjecis have recently been discussed in gov- ernment cles here with @ Considerabie feeling of uritation:— First—The declarations of the French Minister for F Affairs, M. de la Valette, respecting the evacuation of t Poatineal dominions by the ‘French troupe aad the revara to the Convention of be “a Second—The tax of eight anda half percent inflicted by the Italian government upon the coupons of the transferred Pone titeal debt, in common with the other categories of Italian public debt. ‘The Pope claims immunity from this tax in Jisue oF the stipulations contained in the protocol of July, The Civitta Cattolica geo earnestly against the Pope being abandoned by the French to the tender mercies of the Italian government, and refuses to acknowledge any simi ity in the case of Austria and Prussia, who, afver a sanguinaty war, are now living in peace and harmony with each other. [ quote the following remarks on this subject trom that journal:— The government of Florence, besides the wickedness of perfdious aris and violence continually used from 1940 to 187, Without excepting the bribing of emissaries, and assumin; officially in the Caambe r, and diplomatically, through # ainbagsadors, the protection of notorious aasassing—besides all this, it does not cease to cry out that it that Rome ta its proper capital, thyt it will nm trying to get possession of Rome, that it oni; doing 90, by force because Fraiiee forbids i which offends the national dignity ang infringes on the rights of the Italian government, Austria lost her predominance in Germany and the [tailan provinces through having wilfully engaged in war against Fraace and Prossia. On the other d, the Hi ifthe of ite Prohibition See was despoiled of four. chery, and only in virtue in some manner, aay mor ¢ aad desiring nothing belonging to any o fod like w traveller by a rovber. 4 With such trust in the good faith of Itaty, it is not surprising that “ae Holy see should f rmed at the substitatiou of moral instead of material protec- uon by France, and the initiation of the modus vovends by a return to the Septemoer convention of 1KO4. ‘The Baron Visconti superintended the conveyance of his ancient column of African marble across the ‘Tiber, from the Emporium to the Kipa Grande port, on Saturdey alternvon. ‘Tle column is to be erected 1 commemoration of the Council, on the Janiculum, vefore the charch of Sau Pietro in Montorio. It will pc ave oe nerares, representing the per ie world, and Wili bear On ita si Poe of St. Peter, cmap: e excavations at the Emporium continue to yield vaiuable blocks of ancieue marbles, chiefly colored. Nineteen masses were ht ti ht last ‘week, of which the last, of giallo anticn, the finest yet discovered, was exhumed In the presence of Oar- dial Saccon!. The Pope, dcliuthtesiat this treasure, has presented the proprietor of tt soll, Prince Tor- Jonia, who yielded it to the government, a bronze statue of the Saviour and a fine specimen of Gove he wine and brandy lin tapestry. CALIPORNTA WINE. rodnct ifornia 1s at least 4,000,000 gallons. France, which has @ 1¢88 area of good vineyard land than Catifornia, produces an aver: of 600,000,000 wal lons yearly of wine and spirits, worth about $160,000,000 at the piace of production. About one third of tuis juct I8 exported, representing @ value of from 000,000 to $100,000,000, It is quite Probable that Wine product of California inside ton years will ‘ane it gold pro pl by stag tbsoniy that it bad rise in time, |, @ yearly value of 60,000,000 or $60, 0 at least, “ = ee PARIS FASHIONS. The Fifth Season—The Empress’ Last Dinner Dress—ExeQueen Isabelia’s Tableaux— Madame de Pourtales? Fete—The Palace of St. Germain—Roses—Eveniug Coifure=Swur Patrocinie=How Exiled Spanish Naus Eme ploy thelr Hours, Pants, June 1, 1869, Of unusual lengih this year has that favored period been which tn the fasttonable world 1 cailed “the season,” A traly fantastic duration of time 1s this fitth addition to spriag, summer, autumn and winter, Had I been gifted by nature not to de a fashien writer, but a poet like Thompson, I should have made a good deal of the ‘ifth season—in fact, have done my best on all the feet poets use to proclaim its charms. As it 1s, it being my auty to say something for the departed, I will only try to do my worst in plain prose. Firstly, | hope it 18 not unrighteous on a Sunday to say I like it better than the almanac seasons, because tt reigns supreme over all and decks itself with the spolls of each, It takes the crisp icicle of December for its brow, the glistening dewdrop of May for its bosum, the light, vaporous clouds of April for its skirts; the sunbeams of all summer sport in its stiken attire; the blossoms of every clime fes- toon round it and cling all the closer through wintry nights, when snow lies chick outside and gasligits shiae witnin; the fruitof our orchards, bound in garlands or tied in sprays, tempt the waltzer and keep him buzzing round she belle, just asa bee would round the sweet berry; and as to the music of na- ture, really are some of our volatiles much superior to Adelina Patti, in “Somnambula,” or the howling of the wind more inviting than the band of Strauss playing the final galop in “Petit Faust?” Some peo- ple I know do dance to any tune or fiddle; others cannot; and of the two 1 do think that the harmony of a strong east wind, with descending chimney pots, is not so pleasurable as the hurricane of “Felician David,” or ascension of the dead in “Robert the Devil.” Then, again, people who like to listen to coniending elements, even ai the expense of a new hat, have but to walk to some playhouse where Kichard Wagaer’s “Rienzi” is being executed. More- over, [contend that ‘the season’? combines every bit of poctry and vexation of spirit found in the Dominical seasons. Talk of the coming up of green peas as being a vexation from the time they are sown till battered to pieces by halistones, why, it is no worse than the coming out of a young lady in her teens to be the victim of some lover whose title ts his only fortune; however carefully she may lave been reared she 1s sure to be crusued down some day. ‘Talk of snares in the Wheat fields, Why, one would think they are all in reserve for the poacaer, whereas we have them in the shape of gamblers, and courtiers, and old maids, and stepmothers, at every bow window. Landscapes and waterscapes. Well, have we not our land scrapes on the turf and water scrapes, tou, withyachiing and rowing? Pastorals look at our watteaux at home in sky biue trimmed with muslin founces aud Valenciennes; elegies? look at our widows in plaited grenadine, black tuile veils and flowing golden hair; truth? look at the painting of Henuer at the Bxposttion tats season and see if the lady recitning on @ black satin couch has a tread of clothes on her. I say we have everything In tue filth season; then it goes about and stops at diferent places, and those who list may run atter it, which is a thing | propose as soon as ugenie leaves for Fontainebleau. it will be very arduous, to be sure, as féLes are to be given for the Viceroy and the Prince and Princess of Italy, and the programme says “strictly private.” f have ascertained, how- ever, that “tableaux” are to be tue gala spectacle and huntiug the daly sport. Belore quite leaving court news I will, en pas- sani, deseribe the hmpress’ last dinuer dress, It was @ nasturtium-cuiored ponit, made high, but with revers and trimmed round with tulle plaiting and Muted flounces between, Her head dreas was white Iilac. Tne nieces of her Majescy wore wiute masiin at the fuileries on Sunday even- ing, with paniers of muslin ruched with pink taffeta. Many guesis having been invited to tea in the even- ing, Which was served at ten, ladies attended in high robes, wita large, Wide revera on their sleeves, aud bodices much trimmed with lace. Large gold crosses on black velvet were worn so universally that thoy looked like the uniform of the evening. Tae Empress retired to her aparaments at eleven. The first “tavleaux” looked forward to are to be given by the ex-(ueen of Spain for her house-warm- Lng at the patace she has purchased. Her son, whom she calls Asturias, 18 to personate Philip Il. He has a strange likeness to this monarch, even down to a spot or mole on his neck. ‘The other tableaux are to be taken trom rege of the Spanish arcists, those of Velasquez having the preference. The “iableaux” at the ballot Madame de Pour- tales wene of aumirably; but better still the little picnic, composed of four, in which the lovely hostess and her husband and Madame de Metternich and her husband alone figured, av St. Germain. ‘This square party had long determined to enjoy a day by themseives without witnesses. Lunch was to be laid outin one of the pavilions at the Palace of St. Germain. The forest was to be explored in the aftervoon and dinner takea in the evening at Paris. The programme was carried out, with ne Xception, namely, that a witness—one only—stood at the gates of the Embassy to see what the ladies had put on; the unit felt_ much tempted to scrambie up behind the chaise with tue champagne basket, when the Ambassadress shooé her fluger at hun for being caught on the wacch, but stern duty tarned about like a weapon in lus inside, and he bowed her Eminence off without aay apparent iingerimg round @ more elevated position. “Pray, don’t put us this time in print,” was what Was said as tue last of the ladies’ heels had van- ished from the early watcher’s enraptured gaze. in obedience with this injunction I will only describe the two toilets, leaving your readers to fancy which belonged to which, One, the blonde ({ mention no names), Was in black, without a sign of auy crino- lime; indeed, there was none. The costume was made with one deep flounce, headed by a boullonne frilied on both sides. The white underpecii- coat was bordered with Valenciennes, which was much seen in front, but not oehind; the front breadth of the biack poult had beea cut short intentionally, for the display of the wide lace. the bodice was plain and high, with coat-shaped sieev: revers edged with white Valenciennes lace upon tn cuffs; a panier or pouf of biack silk wita a narrow Mounce edged with Valenciennes. A Spanish hat made of biack lace was enitvened in trone by a cluster of streaked carnations of difforent bright colors. The earrings were of the newest shape, pure golu and crystal de roche mirrors. These muir- rors are ovals, surrounded with @ worked gold mounting. Under the handle is the hook which attaches tiem to the ear. ‘The other lady, the brunet, was in the new foulard material called celeste em It ts thick and iossy. The costume was made of two shades now Eeown as ‘Paris mud”—a kind of yellow clay with brown on it. The petticoat was of the light shade, with ten narrow flounces ali round of the darker; over this to the tight bodice @ tunic of the light, edged round with ruching and & flounce, with bows of the dark going down the middie of it. The bonnet was a pouf of biack Jace, with @ tiara of lines of the val and roses mtermixed; over the face a strip of white tulle pinned on the chignon be- hind; very large bail earrings and five rows of neck lace to match of black cut jet. Roses are ail the mania still, the loveliest being catled t impress of the French and the newest the Lion of Combats. They are copied from nature, the first specimens being produced at tue hothouses of the city of Paris—la Muette, The Empress of the French, before which all hats should properly go down, 194 full, very full rose; its petals outside are of the orighiest carmine, but within the ike pale pink satin. Tne Lion of Combate is 4 Tose, Which on coming out of the bad is of a brig! rns purple, and when ker, readening as it red, but as the hours pass it tu old it crimsons dee; and 4 were, to be defeated by the land o: decay, up to the very end of its life. Few select this ruse for bonnets, but it i# Much sought on tulle robes of pale citron. The Fiag of St Louis is another favor- ite rose; each petal hangs loosely, and, ike @ banner fans the breeze. It 13 @ Spiendid pout for evening headdress on the top Of waved hair, and of a deil- cate China pink. Tne Glory of Dijon 1s a fall white rose with pink and salmon tints, Other approved Uaras for fanchoas and hats are black currants mixed With moss rose buds, white lime tree bios- soms, much elder blossom and berries, also tue white narcissus, With black currants. The black cherry is in great favor, with a crimson velvet bow on black straw hats having @ biack flowing veil behind. ‘This mention of black reminds me of a haif mourning totlet worn by Mine. Dubois de l’Btang at the Jast reception held by thilde in her salon of the Rue de Courceiles. It was biack net, trimmed up to the knee with flounces edged Ww! black satin, and having between each Nounce rowleauxX Of biack satin. Over this fell @ tunic looped with white azaleas of the most parent kind, and from the back of the waist fell a wide black satin Sash. ‘The headdress was a trail of asaleas. At this same reception Mary, the daughter of the Duchess of Hamilton, wore a gold bird in ner light fowing hair; and her white talle robe, which Was one cloud of bowilionne, was trimmed emg vodice with goid Iringe, a8 also her sash behind. of des mixed with carls is the pre- A mass vailing evening Neaddress, to which ap on tne side is vadaed ‘The next revived fashion is « trimming. 1018 the old Scoteh work up again, like young barley corn that never would die. course every one remembers the mania for this openwork ‘ars ago—the hours and hours spent over ing; well, it is the ornament of all on the new flounced styles. It is mostly used as yet on the unbieached lawn and linen seaside cos. tumes, on brown hollands and tussor foulard, on all corn fabrics, in one word, but is struggling up taeta robes also Over ounces and frills, whico shine through the open work underneath. Here ts some- thing Valopert misses to do inetead of an endless pair of sli rs, I must not forget to say that sum- mer taffetas will be fhuunced ¢n tablier, having mua- lin frill# of the same width as the flounces over th thas forming double founces, necause husbands complaining that single ounces do not cut away enough material. One Word about religion after all this superficial lore. Sister Patrocinio has set a convent of nuns at work over artificial flowers at Montimoreucy. Ac- tually, the Spanish sisters would sit a8 moan all day over the misfortunes of Isabella If. of Spain, ‘They could do novhing but dream of their deserted clomsters, sigh for their grenade bushes within the walls of their garden, and pray—ou, they would By, ull they did not know they were doing 80, ter Patroctnio burst in gmmly upon them one day, and, standing w| a iiigtt stool, asked them how long ey meant to go on offending the saints with their useless sioth, She fold them how she had set a whole con- veut of nuns, in her palmy di at work selling and churning butter, and threatened them with a jot of Roman bulls if they did not begin to kee themseives by industry. One of them could speal French and make flowers; she was to teach the others, and tf when sister Patrocinto came back oie they had not made sometiing to sell for their daily food she would tell the Pope, They ali set to work, und the result 18 that the artificial flowers these Spanish nuns surpass any yet seen. They copy nature, When sister Patrocinto came vack to Montmo- rency the Queen of Spain was with her, who bought @ complete set for a toilet, They were rose laurels, The Empresas next came, and she found the howers 80 perfect that she proposed every visitor should pay a money forfeit if embarrassed to say at first sight which was the artificial and which the natural flower a3 soon as a natural and artiictal one were placed side by side, She said she would be the first to pay a fine if they wouid let her try; consequently the natural models and their imitations were held up, and the &mpress paid no ead of fines, for she always mustook the real for the unreal—on purpose. Her carriage Wheeled away with her, full of artifictal ipwers, 80 ladies will be walking parterres tor some ame, THE FRENCH TURF. The Races in the Bois de Boulogne—Early Freuch Racing. Paris, June 5, 1869. Tshan’t bore your readers to-day with anything about the elections yet to come, and for the single reason that I must go into that more fully in my next. There are still fifty-nine deputies to be elected, as (hat number failed to get in on the last tour du scrutin, as an election Is called here, To- morrow and Monday the final struggle will come for the last chance to get into the new Assembly, and I will tell you all about it the day after. Meanwhile, let us have a little chat about Paris, Tne end of the season is approaciing rapidly, for it begins and ends as in New York. No one here 1s obliged to entertain before December, and the ultras of the fashionable world rarely put in an appearance before New Year's day. Before the end of June all are on the wing. To-morrow comes off the last festival, as it may be called, of the season, and after that the “upper ten’”’ of Paris begin to scatter and dissolve. To-morrow is the great race in the Boisde Boulogne. It is fa- miliarly called the Grana Prix, because among the rest a prize of 100,000 francs 1s run for, together with @ work of art given by the Emperor. This, of course, is @ prominent feature of the day; but another not less interesting and more exciting is that to-mor- row 13 set apart for the contest between Eng- land and France on the race course. It is an inter- national race, and the jockey world of England comes over in force. The horses victorious at the last Derby and Oaks severally appear. The arena and the sporting world in France trot out their best bits of blood and bottom to maintain the national reputation for breeding—I mean horse breeding. lremember, but that is already some years ago, when racing in France was a cold and insipid thing. It was only the upper class who frequented the course, and they looked bored to death. There was none of the middle or lower class there to the num- ber of thousands, as seen on the English courses, all full of fun and excitement, betting, swearing, crowding and joking, and enjoying themseives like people bent on a frolic. But a great change has oc- curred since then, and due, like many other changes, to Napoleon ILL. He has, from love of horseflesh, used all his influence to build up racing as a national pastime, and as the best mode o! developing the nest qualities Of these noblest and most useful of animals. Under this impetus the race course in France 18 fast rising to the dimensions of an institu- tion, and the races that annually take piace at this season in the neigiborhood of Paris, the Bois de Boulogne, begin more and more every year to ac- tract Vast numbers and arouse a strong and genuine interest. Above all, this struggie between singlish and kg! horses stirs up to a lively pitch the na- tional {éeling, and many an excited Frenchman woud to give up coffee and flirting for a year just to secure the victory of a duy over Jolin Bull in a field so long his own, 1 might as well while on this topic give you a little history of French racing. Tne first one recorded ‘was run in 1776 (famous, besides, for our Deciara- tion) between a horse of the Count d’Ariots, brotuer of Louis XVI., and another of the Marquis de Con- flans. Another was run in the same year between an Engiishman and the Duke of Nassau, or rather their horses, The sport was then dropped tll the year 1783, when several sweepstakes were run in the Bots de Vincennes, near Parts. The great revolution soon after this obliged amateurs of the turf to think more Of taemselves than of horses, and no more was heard of racing till Napoleon I, set to work in his energetic way and established the pastime firmly by ordering racing in Paris and the provinces at certain periods of tue year. From then til now it has steadily developed. An eccentric Englisninan, Lord Henry Seymour, brother of the present Marquis of Hertford, and who was born and died in Paris with- out ever going to England, leaving all lus large for- tune to the city of Paris—this generous lover of the turf, Lord Seymour, did wonders for racing in Paris aud France. He tmporved the finest horses froin England and gave the greatest attention to breeding the best stock, He establishea Ve) his betting book was open to all comers, and he frequently got up matches with those of his own rank. For nearly twenty years the tur? was his passion and pursuit, and his splenaid apartments were filed with trophies of his numberiess victories in the shape of goid cups and vases. At last, somewhere in i845, he got offended at what he regarded an act of unfairness on the part of some of his Freach rivals, and he tndig- nanuy withdrew from the turf, seiling all his racing stud, and never went to the Bots de Boulogne in. The present hero of the racing world is the Count de Lagrange, who has the finest stable in France, ‘To-morrow he runs four of his horses against four English horses, who figured on the Epsom Downs last month, and belong to the celebrities of tue 8 world of Engiand. The favorite of the feild 18 a horse, Vrummer, who ran tor the Derby, but caine in second. One of We best jockeys in England, yclept Fordhain, 1s over here to ride him, and the Tace ts sure to be excit I wonder some of our umateurs, or Jerome or mont, do not nt themselves, at least for once, in the Bots de Bou- rr and try the best mettle of their stabies against af Engiand and France. Should they De vlad enough to carry off the Grand Prix they wow lity at @ bound, and envelop our a world in a blaze of glory. In the jays, When the North and South met in ese encounters on the Long Island race course, and when the whole country waited with eager impa- tence for the result of the four-mile heats between Eclipse and Henry—in those days there were both men and horses that would bave crossed the Atlan: tuc at double quick, though Atlantic trips then were not matters of some ten days, had such a chance been offered them a$ an International race in the Bois de Boulogne, with all -* the fashion of Paris in er juipages speingling of the Engish and force, with a splendid aristocracy gloriously de- corated, with a number asiways sonages from Russia, and above all with the Emperor, —_—— nt) aul Ls 4 ow oo giiti img. gs aed with any quant outriders—yes, I repeat, ha such a chance for renown as this ted itself, and before such an audience, the North and South of that day would have united their forces, chartered a ship and set sail, resolved to win or perish im the conflict, tantamount, the latter, to never going home in case of defeat. ‘The weather in Paris this has been cold, wet id unseasonable, The ci owners, who at this = reap largely from the crowds that always ine the front of their houses, at little tabies three and four feet deep, and above all the open air froantng loudly, ‘not to say swearing protansly, at groa '. say aw profanely, at the chilly state of the atmosphere which 1s involving them in great losses. The theatre managers, on the other hand, are chuckling over their good luck and praying the rain may never cease. To-day ts the welcome hi of @ diferent state of things, For the first time @ soft, balmy temperature pre- sides; the thermometer has made a sudden jump upwards; the clouds have ail disappeared, and the sky looks serene and settied. There is every pros- of @ magnificent day for the races w-morrow, hat i the exclamation I have heard repeated over and over agam during the a OF which shows very plainly that the weather and the races are the oaly two things the Parisians are thinking of just OW. HORSE NOTES. Among the incidents connected with the trotting at Mystic Park last week was the fine trotting of the Bashaw stailion Danvers Boy. It is ® remarkable Tact, in connection with this horse, that he should have been bred and owned in the vicinity of Mystic Park and no one be aware of his superior merits as @ trotter until the recent meeting there, when he astonished everybody and rose to such a high value in public estimation that $20,000 was unsuccessfully offered for him. The breeding of this horse is one of the few instances of far-sighted discernment on the part of breeders, his owner several years ago having conceived the idea, which he carried out suc- cessfully, that a cross of Basnaw stallions on Bast ern mares, by infasing into thoir progeny great con- stitutional vigor and lasting qualities, would pro- duce trotting horses of superior excellence—horses that would combine speed with stoutness, and do cllity With beauty Of appearance, In pursuapas of this idea the owner of Danvers Boy selected the fine trotting mare Lady Danvers and bred her to a son of George M, Patchen, with the satisfactory result. of producing the fine specimen of the trotting horse alluded to above. Under different names the Basnaw family of trotters seem to be gradually spreading throughout the country, and are datly heard from, in the Far West and in the remote East, radiating from this vicinity as from @ common centre in every direction, Their stoutness is equal to their speed, which is so great that in all the late contests on the turf they have provea themselves swifter than the swiftest. ‘The June meeting of the Narraganset Park Aaso- ciation. at Narraganset Park, Cranston, KR. L., wilt commence on Tuesday next with two trotting con- tests, the first betug by horses that have never trotted for money, for which there are eight entries, the urse being $1,500, ‘wards there will be a trot for stallions for a $2,000 purse. For this George Wilkes, Rhode Island and Bashaw, Jr., are entered. On the second day thirteen horses are entered for a $1,500 purse, for horses that have never beaten 2:33, which will be followed by @ contest for a $1,590 purse by horses that have never beaten 2:50, In tius purse there are eleven entrics. On the third day @team race will take place. Five teams have en- tered for the purse. Ten horses have entered for the purse for Lorses that never beat 2:38, nearly ail of which can beat 2:30, On the fourth day of the meeting there will be two grand trots, the first by horses that have never beaten 2:29 before the closing of these entries, and the purse for all horses, im which George Wilkes, Al can Girl, George Palmer, Rhode Island, Lady Thorn, Lucy, Bashaw, Jr. and Goldsmith Maid are entered. tain Rynders met with a very serious loss last Sunday morning. He was ariving his Hambletonian colt, dam Widow Machree, over one of the bridges of the Hackensack river, and the draw being left open and unguarded, the colt feli into the river and was drowned. ‘he colt was one of the finest got by oid Hambletonian, aud combining the Diomede biood through Widow Machree, would have been a torvune to the captain, had he lived, as a stock horse alone. He would have brought $10,000 at any time previous to his death, BALTIMORE COURSE—REUNION STAKES.—A sweep- stakes for three-year olds, $500 entrance, $100 for- feit, $1,000 added; dash of two miles, to be run at Baltimore fall meeting, 1871; to be entered as year- lungs; the stakes to close on the Ist of August, 1869 The following are the subscribers:—A. Belmoat, Bowie & Hall, F. Morris, R. W. Cameron, Denison & Crawiord, Peter R. Davis, Thomas W. ‘Doswell, the Jerome Park stable, J. F, Purdy, Hunter & Travers, J. J. O'Fallon, The above gentiemen will name one or more horses at the time of closing. Entries from other gentlemen are invited. Mr. Raphael is driv: Mr. Phillips’ brown mares. They are stepping very fast this season. Mr. Wilkins is driving his black trotting team on the road, They trotted close to 2:40 over the Fasnion come and certainly show the same gait oa tie roi Mr. Van Cott is driving the fast gray horse Moody onthe road. He has a record of 2:30. Mr. George B. Curtis is driving his bay roadster to Oy Alo He steps very stylishly. Goin odore Vanderbult is driving his team, Post Boy and ea Burns, rank Work is driving Skinenaha and the Kerner mare to pole. ‘age is driving a very fast black horse to a Mr. trotting wagon, Mr doun B Dye is driving his famous mare Black Mary to a top wagon. Mr. Cornelius Voorhees is driving a very fast en horse called Frank. He also drives a black orse Called Benton. Mr. Jesse Marshall is driving his new team, Shark and the D. B. Allen mare, Mr, Littel is driving a very nice bay team. Mr. Wm. Arras drives a very handsome bay and team to @ park phaeton. ir. J. R. Reed is driving a pair of chestnut trotters to atop wagon. ‘They step weil. He also owns tle gray trotting horse General Dix. Mr. Henry Sacchi drives a very handsome bay horse to a park Wagon. He 1s a good stepper. Mr. Earnest Sacchi drives a very fast roan horse to a road wagon. “Biliy,’? the wonderful blind pony, formerly tne property of the late Professor Hamilton, has been sold to Professor D. Magner, of Buitalo, tor $2,000. Mr. Adams is driving his gray mare Norma on the road. She 1s trotting well, and looks a3 good as sie an five years ago. She is bali sister to old Prince john. * John P. Son is driving Kitty and Flirt. They are stepping weil. ir. Wm. Humphreys is driving a very handsome black and bay team toa top wagon. MILITARY NOTES. The Seventh regiment has received oficial invita- tions from Albany and Troy to visit those cities in July, as follows:— Crry oF ALBANY, Mayor's OFFICE, ALLANY, June 18, 1849. Colonel EMMoNs CLAux, Commanding Seventh Regiment Dra Sin—tI have the pleasure to hand you a copy of = resolution passed unanimously by our Council on Monday evening, l4th instant, In relation to your proposed excursion up the Hudson in July next. T also have the honor, in behalf of our citizens, to extend to you «na your command an invitation to visit us, and assure you thit our people will give you « cordial and’ hos pitable'welcume. I have the honor to be, with the greatest Tespect, your obedient servant, CHAS. E, BLEECKER, Mayor. CITY OF ALBANY, ’ CLERK'S OFFICE, ALBANY, June —', 1895 In Common Council, June 14, 1889, the following reaola- tion was adopted: Resolved, is Honor the Mayor extend an invitation to the officers members of the Seventh regiment N. UG. 8. N. Y., to visit this city upon the occasion of their conten: pisses excursion to the principal cities on the Hutson river In July next, and that he by = oe a especial committee of five from this Board to act In connection with the miuitary im giving U proper reception. The Mayor oe a# such committee Aldermen Comba, Osborn, Quian, Thacher and Judson. Thereby certify the foregoing to be a correct extract from the minates of ie Commoa Council of the city of Alban: KTIN D: ANTY, Clerk of Common Coun: Mayor's Orrtoe, t Troy, N. Y., June 1, 1360.5 Colonel Emmons CLARK: — : My Dean 81 ‘ords me great pleasure to extend to the Seventh regiment, N. G.S. N. ¥., a cordial invitation to visit the city of Troy.’ T do so in ‘Accordance with » resoin- tion unanimously passed by the Common Council, a certified copy of which I have the honor to enclose, Very respectiully your obedient servant. MILES BEACH, Mayor of Troy. Ata meeting of the Common Couneil of the city of Troy, held on the 10th day of June, 1869, the follow- ing action was had:— Whereas the Seventh rejiment of the New York State Rational Guard, so distinguished by prompt and patriotic ac- tion in the early stages of the late war, contemplate an excur- sion to thie vicinity, Resolved, That his Honor the Mayor be requested to extend to such regiment an ollicial invitation to visit this city. F. B. HUBBELL, City Clerk. Itis probable that both these invitations will be accepted and that the regiment will leave New York on or about the 224 of July. Whether the regiment will extend its trip to Saratoga Springs ts not yet deciaed, as Its absence from the city is limitea by general consent to two days and three nights, The “Old Fourth” Company of this regiment wilt leave the city on the 25th inst. for Glen Cove, L. I., there to celebrate the sixty-third anniversary of their organization in a manner which the company knows best about. The “boys will leave the armory at hall-past seven A. M. and take a steamer atfoot of Eighth street, East river, at eight A. M. The uniform will be fatigue with white pants. The Seventy-first regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Rockafellar commanding, will have an evening parade on the 23d instaut, and on the same evening ‘the competitive drill for the prize musket will be had. No non-commissioned oMcers elected in this regiment hereafter will be allowed to take their post- ae they have passed the Examining Board. cellent. The Forty-seventh regiment goes to New Haven on the 23d instant for a day’s enjoyment; and they'll t it, for the New Havenites are noted for their ospitality to the stranger, ‘he regiment will parade through the principal streets of the ‘“burg"? Pagcad to embarking. On reaching New Haven ‘he battalion will be received by the New Haven Grays, The Common Council .and authorities of Brooklyn have been invited to accompany the regi- ment, In the afternoon the Second Connecticut infantry will formally receive the command, ‘The Twelfth go to Al in the fall to enjoy them- selves as best they may. They will be warmly wel- comed by the Albanians. ‘The Thirteenth regiment attended church on Sun- & last in full uniform. The Thirteentn are good a First regiment has changed or ts about to change ita uniiorin, It will retain a portion of the old familiar zouave style—that is, the blue fall pak leggings, which the regiment has since its organization, the vote on a change in this respect having been lost by a large majority. The coat ts of a frock rn, cut short in the tail, and of viue cloth, an ue fatigue cap will take the place of the old zouave skull cap and tassel. A company is about to be organized, and since ol in the uniform recruiting has increased The regiment will parade on the 5th of new uniiorm. A regimental court mat- tal a ry )Fegiment hp ote to convene at the armory of the regiment on Monday, 24th Major Pat 1 has been. wppointed ald-de- camp on the staff of Major General Woodward. ‘The following circular, addressed vo assessors, in- terests every member of the National Guard:— State or Naw Youn, Coenen LBANY, Gince Jenne of the ctroular from May, Rotifying asseaso! the Usual G sevon years and ton ned" it has Deon siggested that the re: peal was that the acta jogialation. — ‘all embarrassment, and enable cane, (ears, esenness at fee tuder the law, it in thong roper to to the case of the People va, Roper, Bh New ork ‘page 629, in whieh the rt of Ap. jn decide that Fepeal is constitutional and effectualiy ‘the exemption, and that the acts the ex ‘not contracts in Sunaeiae apenas SALk oF Tite Buia ©, O. 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