The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1869, Page 6

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Morning and evening, ELEVENTH STREET CHURCH, between 24 and $4 ave- nucs—CHARLES B, Smy2H. Morning. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. East- BUS) BENJAMIN. Morning and evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— EY. Di W. A. Soorr. “Morning and evening, FIRST MORAVIAN “p BROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—kev. Lovis F. ANN. Morning. JOE Ri ISCOPAL CHURCH.— d evening. STREET METHOL . Mornii BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rey. H. W. KNavr. PAL CHURCH.—Rev. Dr. UNIVERSITY, Wi Atternoon. square—Bisuor SNow. TRI PLE New York, Ae! June 20, 1869. = THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and ‘Newodeslers. Brooxtyn Carnirns anp Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Brancn OFrFice or tee New York Heravp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brookiyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscriptions and all New York Heraup will be deceived as above. letters for the Warepe, ‘The cable telegram: are dated June 19. Amid great excitement the House of Lords yes- terday morning passed the Irish Church bill toa second reading by @ vote of 179 to 146, thus giving a Majority of thirty-three in favor of the reading. The London Times yesterday considers the vote not #0 much a success for the Ministry as it is an acknowledgment of the power of public opinion. The London Post 1s quite complimentary to the peers for their respect of public sentiments. The House of Commons on Friday evening rejected the motion to go into committee on the considera- tion of @ new operative commercial treaty between France and England, The Spanish Envoy and Min- ister Pienipotentiaty to England has resigned. The Steamship Great Eastern has left Portiand for Brest, to engage on her transatlantic cavie laying mission. A large Orange demonstration was heid at Ennis- Killen, Ireland, on Friday. The funeral of those who were killed in the late election disturbances in Paris was largely attended. 4 number of persons arrested during the election troubles were released from prison. Serrano was sworn in as Regent of Spain on Fri- Gay. The members of the Cabinet, so far as an- nounced, are composed of Prim, Silveta snd Her- rera Grace. The new Hellenic Chambers have been opened. ‘The King was present and spoke the inauguration speech. The address is regarded as an important one. Mr. Delbruck, in the North German Zoliverein, yesterday, stated that he hoped to lay a treaty with Mexico before the Diet at ite next session. Cuba. ‘The war steamer Fernando Catolico has arrived at Havana with the schooner La Have, of Boston, asa prize. The schooner has on board thirteen Parrot guns, two feild péeces, 1,400 barrels of powder, 13,000 bells and a large quantity of other war munitions. er oMcers claim that she was going to some port fo Jamaica or Hayti. She is detained untiia prize court can pass upon her. When the La Have sailed 4rom Boston the United States Attorney made a per- @onal inspection of her and refused to detain her. José Lacunza, one of Maximilian’s Ministers, has ied of black vomit. Miscellaneoas, The Peaee Jubilee closed yesterday with the sing- ‘ng of 10,000 school children in chorus and an {informal presentation of @ gold watch and chain to the lucky Gilmore. A sacred concert to-night will be given by the debris of the grand chorus, which ts @iready well broken up by the departure of various @etachments. Over 1,200 coolies from Hong Kong arrived at San Francisco on Thursday last. In the White Pine district of Nevada forty-six new Geposits of silver have been discovered recently. ‘The shipment of bullion from the White Pine region has averaged from $70,000 to $80,000 per week, but ‘with the increased mining facilities it is expected ‘the product will be half a million in July, Extensive tobacco factories, which pay no reves nue tax upon their products, are in operation among the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians in the Vicinity of Port Smith, Arkansas, Ex-Secretary Seward and party arrived at Denver, *eio rado, on Thursday, aud were cordially received NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. by the members of the Grand Army of the Republic. ‘They left for the mountains on Friday. ‘The Bricklayers’ Union of Washington have ex- pelied the white members who are worsing in the Navy Yard with the two negroes recently set to work where. One of the expelled men retorts on the union with a sharp letter, in which he says they con- stitute @ political body, and be has seea many of the Members working side toate wee ogre ween, they were slaves. - Large quanuics of angar and aie were pbs gied through the New Orleans Custom House last Winter and distribated throaghout the West and Northwest. The reveaue oMcers traced a portion of these smuggled goods to Cincinnatt, and dealers in that city are compelied to prove that (he duties upon their stocks of sugar and@ coffee have Leen paid in order to retain possession of them. Sixty Uhett distilleries have been destroyed in Eas! Teonessee, North Carolina and tue border coun- es of Virginta within a few weeks past. ‘The City. The Board of Estimates yesterday agreed upon $5,554,007 as the total amount required for the sup- port of the Metropolitan Police force for the year 1870, This includes Brooklyn, Richmond county, Yonkers and West Farms, The fiftieth annual Convention of the Sweden- borgtan churches in the United States came wo a close yesterday, all the business before it having been finished. In the election for members of the Executive Committee a bolt was made against the regular nominees, especially against Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, who, out of seventy-cight votes, received but tweive, Henry Miller, alias David Marsh, was yesterday arresied on a charge of altering a check on the Ocean National Bank from $2,100 to $21,000. He was com- mitted to the Tombs by Judge Dowling without bail, The stock market yesterday was irregular, and at one time heavy and depressed, but recovered after the bank statement and closed strong at the ad- vance. Gold fell to 1964, and closed 186% a 1364. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General A. Ingalls, General J. Dimock and James B, Hateh, of the United States Army; Colonel J. D. Champlin, of St. Louts; D. Breeze, af St. John, N. B.; W. P. Dole, of Washington; G. J. Jourdan, of Georgia, and Judge G. W. Curtia, of New York, are at the Metropoiitan Hotel. Captain A. N, McDonough, of San Francisco; Otis Peck, of Pittsfield, and T. W. Park, of Vermont, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel, James G. Berret, of Washington, is at the Claren- don Hotel. E. P. Sargent, of Boston; J. N. Patrick, of Omaha; J, Terwilliger, of Syracuse; C. T. Hooper, of Sau Francisco, and 5. L. James, of New Oricaus, are at the Fifth Avenae Hotel, Henry Farnum, of New Haven; ©, 8B. Huntington, of Philadelphia, and W. 8. Arnold, of Providence, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Colonel Kensel, of the United States Army, and General F, A. Starring, of Washington, are at the Hoffman House. Lieutenant General Sherman and family; ex-Gov- ernor M’Cormick, of Arizona; Dr. G. &. Evans and Henry Wiison, of Boston, are at the Astor House. Colonel Harry Pearson, of the United States Army; Count Von Ronsky, of Baden Baden; A. K. Puller- ton, of Baitimore, and Dr. H. Steadman, ef Utica, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Captain Leggett, of Baltimore; H. M. Chandler, of Chicago, and Protessor Thorpe, of st. Louis, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Major J. Forney, of the United States Army, and Samuel Ward, of Washington, are at the Brevoort House. J. N. Bailey, of Salt Lake City; W. H. Cargill, of Detroit, and S. P. Connor, of Hartford, are at the St. Denis Hotel. George B. Farnsworth and Charles E, Reiss, of Boston, and W. Douglas, of Chicago, are at the West- minster Hotel. Prominent Departures. Str John Barrington, Wm. Barrington and James Stewart, for Richmond, Va; J. V. L. Prayn, for Albany; J. G. Chapman, for West Potnt; Congress. man W. liiams, for Buffalo; Jacob Sharp, for Albany; Charles R. Train, for Massachusetts; Horace Rublee, Minister to Switzerland, per City of Lon- don, and C, G. Dyer, per steamship Columbia, for Europe. Signor Blitz and General Waghorn left in the steam- ship Bellona for London, Bryan Laurence and F. 0. Dowd ieft in the City of London for Liverpool. The Irish Church Debate in the House of Lords—The Fate of Ecclesiastical Estabe lishments. After a debate which may be said to have lasted an entire week, which has called forth the talent of the Lords and which has com- manded the attention of the civilized world, the Ministerial bill which seeks the disestab- lishment and disendowment of the Irish Pro- testant Church establishment has been carried through the second reading by a majority of thirty-three. Since the passing of the first Reform bill no such scenes of stirring excite- ment have been witnessed in the House of Lords. On every night of the debate the gal- leries of the House have been filled with dis- tinguished commoners, with peeresses, with princes of the blood royal. It was everywhere felt that the question at issue was much larger than it seemed; that it involved not only the fate of the Irish Church establish- ment, but the fate of Church estab- lishments generally, and in a very special sense the constitutional rights and privileges of the House of Lords. On both sides of the House the speaking has been able; the con- servatives have fought ably and well; but as the age is on the side of liberal principles the arguments throughout have been in favor of the Ministerial position. The bill has thus so far progressed favorably; but as it has yet to pass through committee and be read a third time its success as a whole measure is yet doubtful. It is manifest, from the spirit mani- fested by the conservative peers, that a vigor- ous effort will be made seriously to modify the bill. Disestablishment has not been so much combated as disendowment, and there can be no doubt that in committee the clauses relating to disendowment and to the distribution of the church property will be considerably modified. In such a case the bill will be sent back to the Commons, and the question then will be, How will the Commons act? In discussions on this Irish Church question in the public journals and in the speeches of some of the peers reference has frequently been made to the parallel situation of the Lords in 1831-2. As the situation then was really strikingly analogous to the present, and as we have not seen it anywhere properly pre- sented, we reproduce it for the benefit of our readers. Then, as now, a great liberal mea- sure had been carried by the Commons, Then, as now, the Lords threatened to rebel and did rebel. The Reform bill had been carried tri- omphantly through the House of Commons, Without delay it was sent up to the Lords, by whom it was read a first time, On the second reading, however, which took place October stages it was read a third time, and passed March 22, 1832. By this time the excitement in London and throughout the three kingdoms was intense. ‘Down with the Lords” and “Swamp the Lords” were on almost every lip. Sixteen new peers had already been created, but it was known that the majority of the Lords was still against the bill, A further creation of peers was threatened. Meanwhile the bill was again in the Upper House, On the second reading it was carried in conse- quence of the ‘‘wavering” of the Lords—some absenting themselves and some changing sides—by a majority of nine. Convinced that the bill could not pass throngh committee, a deputation from the Cabinet waited on the King at Windsor, advising his Majesty to create some eighty new peers. The King re- fused his consent. The bill in consequence was rejected May 7, 1832, Ministers finding themselves in a minority of thirty-five. Earl Grey resigned. The Duke of Wellington, having beer called to his Majesty's side, tried, but in vain, to form a Ministry. Earl Grey was recalled and the whigs returned to power May 18, 1832. The opposition of he King had given way, and permission was granted to “Earl Grey and to his Chancellor, Lord Brougham, to create such a number of new peers as will be sufficient to insure the passing of the Reform bill—first calling up peers’ eldest sons.” The King at the same time used his influence to induce their lordships to desist from further opposition, and thus render unne- cessary so extreme an exercise of the royal prerogative. The advice was taken; the greater part of the opposition peers absented themselves from the House, and the memora- ble first Reform bill passed into law—receiving the royal assent June 7, 1852. Such is the history of the struggle between the Lords and the Commons in 1831-2. In the present instance the situation is not yet quite so grave. It will be seen, however, that when the first Reform bill came finally before the Lords it was carried through the second reading by a majority of nine. The life-and- death struggle did not begin until the bill went into committee on the third reading. The Irish Church bill is precisely in that position now. It is not our opinion that the Lords will make any attempt to throw the bill out. There can be no doubt, however, that the bill, as we have said, will be very considerably altered. Will Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet, backed up as it is by the House of Commons and the people, adopt the modifications of the Lords? It of a trifling character they may. If of a radical character they will not. Much, there- fore, depends on the common sense which may guide their lordships. They see that the fall of the Irish Church will be a heavy blow at all the privileged orders, that it will put in peril the churches of Scotland and England, and that the spirit of which it is the expression will not rest satisfied until it has accomplished the overthrow of the aristocracy and the crown. They will not, therefore, tamely yield. But the Commons are united as the Commons have not been united in many long years. Con- vinced of the righteousness of their cause, and led by an able and skilful leader in whom they have the utmost confidence, they are not ina mood to yield. We are not, therefore, by any means assured that the fight is ended; but we are satisfied that the Commons must ultimately triumph. The Lords may resist as long as resistance is safe, but they will not render necessary now what they did not render necessary in 1832—the creation of as many new peers as shall be necessary to in- sure the passing of the bill. There may be some delay and much stir and excitement through- out Great Britain before Mr. Gladstone's bill becomes law, but justice must prevail—the popular cause must triumph. The Swedenborgian Convention. The fiftieth annual Convention of the Swe- denborgian Society was adjourned yesterday after a session of four days duration in this city. The proceedings, which have been re- ported in our columns, were of an exhaustive and interesting character, so far as the efforts of the different speakers in review and incul- cation of the peculiar affirmations and tenets of the philosopher and religio-literateur are concerned. Following his example, although ata great distance, the members of the Con- vention came forward with a consider- able amount of philanthropy, evidently imitating his well balanced mind with its fine blending of poetry, science and devotional feeling. A little more material, however, in accordance with the spirit of the present day, perhaps, the cash accounts were closely scrutinized and ‘‘legacy funds” only noticed. Less confiding in the directing mo- tives of mere mortality than was Swedenborg, the members came very near to giving the lie direct in contradiction to a report from the brethren in Laporte, Indiana. The examina- tion and translation of Swedenborgian manu- scripts, both in England and Sweden, have been carried on with energy and perseverance, and = = general =work of considerable utility accomplished in this direction. The Church was evidently divided during the election for members of the dif- ferent executive committees for the ensuing year on the question of ‘‘rebel” and “Union” men—a point which, to say the least, appears slightly unchristian in spirit, particularly when urged ata period of time so long subsequent to the close of the war. The adjournment was voted in excellent harmony and the wembers separated each perhaps convinced of his election to grace in the words of the expiring Swedenborg. “I have written nothing buat the truth, as you will have it confirmed here- after all the days of your life, provided you always keep close to the Lord.” New Inga on Gas.—Gas men have bad some keen fellows arrested for their benevo- lent attempts to make the gas bills smaller, This is & new offence, but we may be sure that the gas men will make it as bad as pos- sible and have it punished with all the severity necessary to make it an example, Inside a 3, 1831, it was thrown out by a majority of | meter there is a wheel that most turn forty-one. The Commons replied by passing a vote of confidence in the Ministry by a majority of one hundred and thirty-one. round a given number of times for the paseage of @ thousand feet of gas. It registers ite turns, and the amount Parliament was prorogued for the purpose of | of gas that has been used is indicated by the introducing another Reform bill. On the 6th of December, same year, Parliament reassem- bled. On the 12th of December the Reform number of revolutions registered. We be- lieve the delinquents “fixed” the meter so that the wheels did not turn so many times for « bill, slightly modified, was reintroduced in the | thousand feet, and, therefore, less was regis- Commons, Having passed through ll its | tered than was used. It is a Gueer case. Attorney General Hoar and the Cubans. When Mr. Hoar was appointed as one of General Grant’s Cabinet the question was asked everywhere, ‘‘Who is Hoar?” And when another Cabinet officer was taken from Massachusetts besides the Attorney General people opened their eyes with astonishment, and were inclined to think there must be some extraordinary merit in Mr, Hoar, or he would not have been retained in the Cabinet under the new shuffle forced upon the President. Well, we have waited to know what would come out of this heretofore obscure individual— to know what could have been the merit in him that led the President to retain him in the Cabinet when there was another one’in it from the same State of Massachusetts; and we have discovered at last his qualifications. He belongs to the old tory and liberty-hating set which have clung to Massachusetts from the colonial period and through all the phases of our government. While they have made a great fuss about freedom for the negroes, for political objects, they have no sympathy with any other race struggling for liberty and inde- pendence. They are tories in heart, and never lose an opportunity of fawning upon whatever is monarchical and aristocratic. Mr. Hoar is a representative of this class, and, as a matter of course, is the ready tool of Spain in per- secuting the patriot Cubans. Hence his vin- dictive proceedings against the Cuban repre- sentative and Cuban Junta, and his instruc- tions to the district attorneys to prosecute Americans who are active sympathizers of the Cubans, under the pretence of maintaining the neutrality laws. It is said General Grant does not agree with Mr. Hoar in his views. Why not turn him out of the Cabinet, then? The acts of the Attorney General are the acts of the administration, and we must hold the President responsible for this conduct of his subordinate, which is in manifest conflict with the public sentiment of the country, as well as with our national policy and interests. Mr. Hoar evidently is not the man for the place or times, and the President, having another Cabinet officer from Massachusetts, should at once send him back to the obscure sphere which suits his talents, and from which he ought never to have been taken. The Negro Question in the Trades Unions. Having effected an incalculable amount of mischief, political and social, in the country at large, and brought about a temporary disrup- ion of the Union and government, the in- terminable, and apparently eternal, negro question is cropping out again, and in a very perplexing and irritating form, in the regular Trades Union organizations and at the cen- tres of artisan and labor employment, particu- larly those under the control and in the pay of the government. We have already noticed agitations brought about by the employment of one or more colored men to work side by side with white folks, and have now to record a difficulty which has been produced in the Washington Navy Yard in consequence of the enforcement of a government idea to the effect that negro brigklayers shall be employed to lay bricks on terms Of equality with men claiming a Caucasian origin. The Trades Union executive in Washington lately re- ported that the colored men were at work in the Navy Yard, and that six white tradesmen agreed to work with them in defiance of the rules, and had, therefore, incurred the punishment of expulsion. A re- solution to this effect was carried and pro- mulgated. Thomas Mahoney, an aged work- man, speaking for himself and his associates, refused to obey the order to quit the work, alleging that such proceedings are calculated merely to embarrass the government, if, as hie leaves it to be inferred, they have not been originated with that view. Mr. Mahoney comes down on the members of Union No. 1, of Washington, like ‘‘a thousand of bricks,” in every sense of the word, arraigning their motives of action in the question of color, and charging them with political bias and in- fluence in very direct terms and plain language. Mr. Mahoney asserts that he stands on his right, and cares not for a sentence of expulsion. The whole subject is important, as illustrative of the fact that the negro is not now “‘in the fence,” as of old, but out In the fields, in the workshops, in the government yards, printing offices and national bureaus, and that he intends to remain there, as ‘a man and a brother,” if permitted, but asa man at all hazards. The difficulty, from present appearances, is likely to extend, and evolve a sentiment respecting the difference of race which will intensify as it extends, “With a Band of Music.” ‘Nowadays people go to Newport in splendid style. They can almost fancy that they are going toa Rockaway clambake or a good old Coney Island blowout on cheap whiskey, or a fifteen cent moonlight excursion to the Fishing Banks, where nobody goes home till morning, and they don’t all go home even then. They can fancy, in fact, that they are on any sort of excursion that has become memorable in local annals for the freedom of thought, speech and manners it develops. Formerly people had not thie advantage in their yearly trips to Newport. They went stupidly, on handsome boats, to be sure, but with dull respectability and the abomination known as ‘“‘a quiet sup- per.” They went as if they were afraid of noise and merriment, which they were apt to call vulgarity, and as it they were only de- sirous to slip off as silently as possible to the sea shore and indulge the exclusive recrea- tions of elegant life. Fisk is the great magi- cian who has wrought the change—Fisk, the loud, harmonious, seif-asserting mortal, who seems to express in the concrete all the fine peculiarities of the Boston Jubilee, and who, now that Boston is quiet, will be known as Jubilee, Junior, Fisk bas put a band of music on the Newport boats, and in a short time he will make Newport second only to Coney Island as @ desirable resort for the fashionable world, Asornen Friesn or Ecosomy.—There are always thrifty fellows eager to eave the gov- erament the useless expense of representatives abroad and who orge the abolition of our whole diplomatic establishment. It is, per- bapa, quite etural that the latest of these economists is & man who has been uncom- monly anxious to represent the government at the Court of France. Here is another fox who weats to change the fasbioa in regard to wah The Coming Eclipse of the Sen. “Demonstrated, next to Omnipotence,” o1'0¢ said the philosophical Abraham Lincoln, ‘i * the greatest word in our language ;" and the great truths of the science of astronomy are demonstrated in the precision with which for months and years ahead eclipses of the sun and moon are predicted, and the line of the moon's shadow across the earth or of the earth's shadow over the moon. Of course these cal- culations all depend upon the precision of the sublime clockwork of our solar system, which has been demonstrated as absolutely infallible. No human chronometer, for instance, has yet been made to run within its small compass the circuit of the year with the precision with which this rolling globe we inhabit completes its yearly circle of six hundred millions of miles around the sun. The delicate perfec- tion of such stupendous machinery is simply inconceivable ; but it is demonstrated, and we must work from that point, because we can go no further. And so, on the 7th of August next, we are promised that sublime phenomenon, when the sun— In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nattons, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs, The eclipse will be a total one, beginning at sunrise of the 8th in the Pacific Ocean, east of Japan, in latitude thirty-six degrees and fifty- three minutes, and the line of the total eclipse crossing into Alaska runs thence southeast- wardly across this Continent, ending in the At- lantic Ocean off the North Carolina coast trom Beaufort at sunset. It will be the sunset of the 7th on this coast, while it will be sunrise of the 8th on the Pacific, near Japan, In this city the eclipse will be begun at twelve minutes past five P. M., and will end at sunset. Extensive preparations are in progress by a company of government officers for an expedition to Iowa under Professor William Harkness for the purpose of observing the eclipse ; for very interesting and important demonstrations are made from these eclipses, reaching even to the materials of the sun itself. Professor Harkness will set up his ob- servatory near Des Moines, and will be pro- vided with all the necessary instruments, in- cluding three telescopes for photographic, spectroscopic and meteorological observations. Various colleges and observatories of the different States along the line will also take part in these scientific observations, and we expect some savans from Europe to assist on the occasion. A general storm, however, may spoil all these arrangements between Towa and North Carolina, and so the govern- ment should have an observer stationed well back on the lofty dry plains of Dacotah, where the sky is almost certain to be clear. As for Alaska, ‘‘where it rains and snows always,” the chance will be very slim. Last year, on the 17th of August, there was a total eclipse of the sun in the Eastern hemis- phere, crossing India to Aden, on the Red Sea, and thence over the Continent of Africa. Very gratifying results were obtained from the scientific observations made at Aden, Bombay and other points, and from those ex- periments and the new instruments employed therein still more valuable and instructive facts, it is expected, will be established from the more elaborate preparations for the coming eclipse. The government at Washington has the instruments and the astronomers, and in their behalf every possible precaution, with the surest localities for an unclouded sky and a pure atmosphere on the line of total ob- scuration, should be adopted to insure for the observations the fullest attainable success. Exposition of Fine Arts at Paris. Two encouraging features have marked the Fine Arts Exhibition at the Palais de I’Indus- trie, which formed the subject of a letter from our Paris correspondent in yesterday's Heratp. The first is the fact that in the distribution of prizes the young generation is justly triumphant. Out of the forty medals eighteen have been received by artists who have hitherto never attained this honor; five by artists who won prizes in 1867; six by the médaillés of 1866; three by those of 1865; two by those of 1864; one by the winner of a prize in 1863; one by another in 1861; three by médaillés of 1857, and one only by any from among those who were rewarded before 1857. It is manifest both that old fogies in art can no longer monopolize its honors and that a rising pleiad of artists is about to illuminate France. It is earnestly to be hoped that the new aspi- rants for renown in French art, while preserv- ing all the thoroughness and finish in execu- tion which has distinguished their immediate predecessors, will infuse a spirit and power into their works, a life-blood of thought and sentiment, vainly to be sought for in the most exquisite productions of many celebrated French painters, who have yielded to the in- fluences of the materialism and luxury of the age. A second encouraging feature of the exhibi- tion has been the extraordinarily large num- ber of lady exhibitors, one of whom—Mlle. Nellie Jacquemart—has been cordially recog- nized as entitled to the front rank among liv- ing portrait painters. The success of this lady, like that of Rosa Bonheur, will very properly stimulate many young women of taste, culture and genius to enter upon a career at once more fascinating, profitable and honorable than various other untried paths less clearly within ‘‘woman’s sphere,” but to which injudicious advisers, of the strong- minded class, are inviting their ambition. Tue Great Works or tor Day.—The King of Greece, in his speech opening the session of the new legislative chambers in Athens, threw out the idea of an important public work by recommending the cutting of a ship canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. Inferior both in magnitude and consequences to the Suez canal, the effecting of a navigable pas- sage through the Isthmus of Corinth would pro- duce consequences of much utility to com- merce, besides aiding the great movement towards a closer communion of the peoples and nations, which has been going on since the moment that steam was first made a subsidiary agent of civilization. The Isthmus of Corinth unites the Morea with Attica, between the gulfs of Corinth and Egina. It is narrow, and the proposed work would be of comparatively easy accomplishment, When completed it would facilitate trade and travel to and in the south of Europe, European Turkey and the adjacent countries, As this is the ago of electricity and steam, cables, railroads and canals, the King of Greece should have a immortalize himself by this new to immortalize ES Capitalists will make a note, The Fashions, Our Paris fashions correspondent, in the letter which we publish to-day, ingeniously adds to sting, summer, autumn and winter a fifth season-~that truly fantastic duration of time which in ‘be fashionable world is called pre-eminently ‘“‘The Season.” Its bits of poetry and vexation 2f spirit belonging to it, in common with all the Pominical seasons, to- gether with its peculiarly cuaracteristic fétcs, picnics, tableaux and toilets are fully and minutely described. The prevailing mania for roses—among which the Empress of the French, the Lion of Combats and the Flag of St. Louls are special favorites—is subjected to a scientific diagnosis. These roses and various others are closely copied from nature, and they have become so popular that with something of the spirit which made Wesley confiscate and consecrate to pious hymns many of the liveliest and wickedest tunes, saying ‘it was too bad that the devil should have them all,” Sister Patrocinio has set a convent full of Spanish nuns to work over artificial flowers at Montmorency. “The Spanish sisters would sit and moan all day over the misfortunes of Isabella II., of Spain. They could do nothing but dream of their deserted cloisters, sigh for their grenade bushes within the walls of their garden and pray—oh, they would pray till they did not know they were doing so.” Sister Patrocinio grimly reproved them for their sloth, and bidding one of them who could speak French and make flowers to teach the others, threatened that if when she came back again they had not made something to sell for their daily food she would tell the Pope. The result is that the artificial flowers these Spanish nuns make surpass any yet seen. They copy nature. They have already secured a host of customers, headed by Queen Isabella and Empress Eugénie. Here isa fresh example of the pious usea which even fashion may be made to subserve. We may add that a decent regard for the claims of fashion can never have been either unnatu- ral or irreligious since fig leaves first were worn. This may surely be inferred from the allusions which are made, without the slight- est condemnatory hint, in some of the oldest books of Holy Writ, to the fashions of the period. Isaiah devoutly rejoices that God hath clothed him with the garments of salva- tion and covered him with the robe of right- eousness, ‘‘as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth her- self with her jewels.” Jeremiah exclaims, “Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?” Not much, would be the answer to this question if it were put to the spectators of the splendid variety of toilets displayed at recent fashionable weddings and dinners in New York and Brooklyn, at the Park, and on Broadway and Fifth avenue yesterday, in Grace church and Plymouth church to-day, and soon to be displayed in drives and at balls at Newport, Saratoga, West Point, Long Branch and other summer resorts. War Among the Newspapers. A little republican sheet of this city, which assumes ‘‘to shine for all,” and which is owned by and represents certain leading radicals of this State, in and out of Congress, has taken a surprising warlike attitude against both the administration and its radical contemporaries. Its editor was all along one of the most ad- vanced and bitter republican partisans, and at one time was a prominent colaborer with the party editors he now mercilessly assails. His former friend and fellow worker, Greeley, he sneers at and ridicules in a refreshing style, as the godfather of the republican party, and for the bran bread and other theories and isms for which that distinguished radical editor is famous. He is severe on the Miss Nancy class of political writers and leaders, and, in fact, strikes all round upon the active and promi- nent republicans. Nor is there any harmony among the other radical newspapers or sym- pathy with the administration. An incipient war has commenced, indicating the breaking up of the republican party and the fall of Gen- eral Grant’s administration. This is the more apparent from the fact that the particular newspaper referred to is owned by and the organ of one of the United States radical Sena- tors from New York and other leading radical politicians of the State. We need not inquire here into the cause of this party newspaper war and war on the administration. It may be disappointment in the distribution of the spoils, or it may be a sort of preparation for a new political shuffle and deal with regard to the future, At all events it is a significant sign of the times. It shows that there is no principle or friendship in politics, and that there is no cohesion among party editors but that of office and the spoils. Tue New Dominion.—Some of the loyal subjects of ‘the New Dominion” resident in Nova Scotia have just resolved “that every legitimate means should be‘used to sever the connection with Canada and bring about a union on fair and equitable terms with the American republic.” Nova Scotia would make a splendid maritime State, and is welcome on this side, where her future lies if she desires greatness, On THe RampaGe.—Everybody with Spanish blood in him seems called upon to be excit- able and destructive in these days, and a resident Spanish editor with the rest. This gentleman made an assault ona very wicked and, no doubt, dangerous caricature hanging on a barber's wall, threatened to annihilate the barber, and is probably wanted on a charge of leaving the State to fight a duel. THE VIRGINIA ELECTION. Letter from General Lee. The Baltimore Southern Metropolis of the 1%h prints the nae Teak ‘The following im it despatch from Virginia rea us just as are going to ere: ———, Va, June 18, 1869. eral Robert FE. Lae, in response to 9 prominent ‘will come out in @ letter ina tew days the election virginian, of the Walker ticket in t! fare — FONSRAT, OF CAPTAIN HeNRY A, Wis8.—The re- maine of woe s cisungaishea omMicer, the son-in-law of the late Edward Everett, arrived at New York on Tuend Jast on the steamer Palmyra from Na- feasina, and were brought to this totane on eany evening, Wh funeral services are to afternoon nex pase sont’ mien a cng in om im iret, Chari. town, ay the asoern a a aviation of Taited States marines, with the Ni d, and buried with mil honore ae om Mr. Kverett.—Hosion A '.