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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. }) business or news letter and telegraphic »s must be addressed New York Hera.p. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Volume XXXIV.... No. 248 AMUSEMENTS T “ROW EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2 etween Sth and 6th avs.— Rip VAN WINKLE, WALLACK'S THEA Viorias.-THR PROPLA'S way ant 1Sth street. THEATRE Biow. COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BLOW FoR TANY, Fourteenth strect.—Tuk QUEEN OF OLp Woman THAT LIVED iN A SHOR. WOOD's MUSEUM AND TH Broadway.—Aficraoon and eve airtieth street and ag wane. FIFTH fourth su NIBLO'S GARDEN, RatLaoap tO Rui U® THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- Broadway.—FoaMosa; oR, THR GRAND OPERA HOU ‘2d street. —THE SEA oF 1 CENTRAL PARK GARD 7th ay., between §8th and th sta,—OPULAR GARDEN RET. PASTOR'S OPERA HO 'SE, 201 Bowery.—Comro i, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRI PIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGRO 3, 585 Broatway.—ETu10- &c. 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The amentment to the Senatus Consultum proposing a reform in the constitution of the French Senate was rejected by that body. The imperiaiist journals again condemn Prince Napo- leon’s speech. A plan of a settlement of the Irish Jand question ts to be the next great measure of the English Cabinet, Cardinal Cullen’s pastoral on the Iriah educational system is severely condemned in Englana. The Duke of Genoa, nephew of the King of Italy, fs spoken of for the throne of Spain. A London Journal intimates beneficial legislation for Canada, The Byron “scandal” case was being still canvassed. China. vt . Minister Prince Kung has requested Mr. Bur- Jingame's intercession in behalf of the Chinese la- borers iu Peru, who are badly treated. The Prince expresses is vatisfaction with the American treaty, Miscellaneous. The proposition presented to Spain by General Sickles for the purchase of Cuba has not as yet been accepted by the government of Regent Serrano. It favored the payment of not more than $100,000,000 by Cuba for the public buildings and works in the island and the settlement of Cuba’s portion of the public debt. A counter proposition was sent to Secretary Fish by the Regent which favored a ces- sation of hostilities and an election among the people, universal suffrage being admitted, to see if independence was a popular demand, Secretary Fish has not accepted the last proposition and still urges the frsi. It is thought, however, that the Regent will leave the matter for the King to deter- mine when one is chosen. The steamship Hornet, which salied some time ago from Philadeiphia, has been seized at Halifax, as a Cuban Alibuster, on the oath of a sailor that see had arms stowed under her coal, whicn ts all to be unladen, The biockade runner Lillian slipped out of New Orleans on Friday night, and has beiore this pro- Dably taken on board the filibusters at Fernandina, Fla., and sailed for the coast of Cuba. Later reports from the election in California in- Gicate that the independent ticket has carried the Mayoralty and several imporiant offices in San Francisco, thereby, it is claimed, breaking up numerous rings. The democracy have been victori- ous in carrying other offices in the city and sweep- ing several repubiican strongholds in the intertor. James W. Gwin, Sr., is said to be an aspirant for Senator Coles’ place. Commissioner Thornton, of the Kearsarge, reports to the Navy Department that he had received a visit from the Duke of Edinburg at Taniti, when the usual honors were paid. Nothing ts satd, apparently, about the insulting behavior attributed to the Duke on the occasion in a previous press despatcn, A fire occurred in Philadelphia yesterday by which @ planing mill, five dwellings and a market house were damaged, and which is said to have been in- cendiary. Much alarm is felt tn consequence, as a Scarcity of water is still inflicted on the city. A private letter states that Senator Grimes, of Towa, has resigned, to take effect on the Ist of Octo- ber, owing to ill health. The strike of the coal miners along the line of the Delaware and Hudson works has ended and prepa- rations are maxing to resume work on Monday. We give in another column this morning Attorney General Hoar’s opinion in full on the test oath in the Virginia Legislature. General Canby will prob- ‘ably issue his proclamation convening the Legisla- ture on the 15th inst, ‘The foreman of the stonemasons at work in Fatr- mount Park, Philadelphia, was kilied yesterday by & discharged laborer, who further attempted to shoot the officers who arrested him. Secretary Rawlins’ health has Improved. Senator Fessenden lies at the point of death. ‘The ship laborers’ strike in Quebec has ended by @ compromise. Hon. Judge Day, of Ottawa, has gone to Washing- ton on business connected with the boundary claims of the Hudson Bay Company. The City. Work on the Spanish gunboats in this city is still going on in Greenpotnl and Brooklyn. ‘Phe stock market yesterday was uregular through * NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. sympathy with the Vanderbilt shares, which were excited m consequence of various reports concern- ing consolidation. Gold rose to 137%, declined to 13545, closing finally at 187 a 137}. ‘The fluctuations of gold exerted a very banefal in- fluence throughout business circles yesterday, and in many departments nothing could be done owing to the uncertainty of values. Coffee was quiet but steady. Cotton was in light de- mand, but held with firmness, On ’Change flour was quiet, but firm, Wheat was less active and 3c. @ Se, lower. Corn was scarce and firm, while oats were in fair demand and better. Pork was duil and nominal, while other kinds of provisions were duil, but unchanged, Whiskey was dull and tower, In naval stores and petroleum the business was light, but prices were unchanged. Freights were quiet, but rates were very firm. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Count Colohiano, of the Italian Legation, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Colonel Alexander Provost, of Washington; Cap- tain J. G, Hosmer, of the United States Army, and Surgeon C. H. White, of the United States Navy, are at the Hoffman House, Colonel S, 8, Garwin and Judge C. W. Hereford, of Alabama; Judge 0. Welsh, of Syracuse; Colonel J. Stacey, of Nashville, Tenn.; Judge J. D. Smith, of Cincinnati, and Judge Gleeson, late United States Consul at Bordeaux, France, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel J. W. Fithian and Major B. M. Hughes, of the United States Army, aud Surgeon L, Tilden, of the Unitea States Navy, are atthe St. Charles Hotel. Henry Brobosco, of Cincinnati; D. ©. Littlejohn and Dr. Bremen, of Buffalo, and M, P. Bernis, of Maysville, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Peter B. Sweeny, Judge Connolly, Bryan Law- rence and a few other celebrities are expected to arrive by steamer from Europe, probably the City of Washington, barely due to-day. Prominent Departures. Major Greenlaw, for Alabama; Z. Pratt, for Pratts- ville; Mayor Black, for troy; Dr. 8. Lippincott, for Philadelptia; Colonel Stephen Dykeman, for San Francisco; Colonel Camp and Major A. Draper, for Washington, and Mra, H. Winter Davis, for Mary- land, Parliamentary Government in France. In the practical operation of the new legis- lative reforms sanctioned by the Senatorial Committee, and to be endorsed no doubt by the Senate, we look for an early solution of the important question whether or not France is rife for parliamentary government, and whether or not such system, in its workings, will prove equal to the demands of the party of progress. The Emperor has conceded much, and by his course is showing that he is actuated bya sincere purpose to advance the reformatory aspirations of the nation, As the ‘Messiah of new ideas” he has identified himself with the sentiments of the people, and seems now ready and willing to guide them boldly towards the end they desire to reach. This spirit will be appreciated by the peo- ple. The general amnesty to press, political and other offenders has been welcomed with unqualitied demonstratioas of gratitude throughout the couatry; France is rather in- clined to think that, after all, Napoleon is her best friend and protector; and we dare say the opposition, on the reassembling of the Corps Legislatif in October, will find the Em- peror and his government endorsed by a popu- lar sympathy but little anticipated at the late unpopular prorogation of the Chamber. Will the Corps Législatif be content with the points gained, and are they prepared to use and not abuse their new privileges? The situation is one of peculiar interest. The success of the parliamentary system depends in a great measure upon its judicious exercise and the sincerity and support of the parties who have been instrumental in inaugurating it. In acquiescing Napoleon throws the re- sponsibility of failure on his opponents, and if the experiment should not justify the expap- tations of the people he can say to France, “‘I have given you what you desired. Behold the result.” If the several factions of the opposition, after the late ineffectual attempts to arrive at some satisfactory understanding among them- selves in regard to their actionfor the future, should conclude it wise to accept in good faith the reforms obtained, and earnestly co-operate with the government in carrying them forward to desirable results, or be prepared to recog- nize their failure, as the case may be, we may expect a most harmonious session, tending to tranquillize the country, restore confidence and atthe same time again popularize the Napo- leonic régime which promises to reconcile liberty and equality before the law with an hereditary monarchy—a monarchy surrounded by repub- lican institutions. In the interests of peace and order we can but hope it shall be thus. If, on the other hand, there should be lurking behind a few sincere apostles of parliamentary government the more numerous partisans of revolutionary propaganfism, the no-compro- mise fanatics, determined to carry out their peculiar schemes, to abuse privileges accorded and provoke a serious conflict with authority, we shall witness a struggle whose results it were difficult to surmise, and whose duration will be commensurate with the strength of the opposing parties or powers. Backed by public opinion, and while yet largely in the minority, the opposition have obtained a victory from which is to result the experiment of parliamentary gov- ernment. Will they be satisfied with this tri- umph, or, rather, is it notto be apprehended that, emboldened by it, they will return to the fight in October undismayed by the increased popularity of the Emperor's government? When fairly in the way of reformatory demands and under the enlarged liberties now accorded, who shall prescribe the limits of a zeal which may become immoderate and offensive? There is no doubt but the progressive ten- "| dencies of the nation are opposed to the con- tinuance of personal government; but it is quite probable that the projected parliamen- tary system will be accepted by the majority of the people as preferable to any which might originate from the discordant interests or am- bition of the contending factions. Thirty years ago, when in exile, Louis Na- poleon wrote:—‘‘Governments have been es- tablished to aid society in overcoming obsta- cles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the maladies they have been called to cure, according to the epoch and according to the character of the people they have provided for. Progress in government never disappears, but it is often displaced; it goes from the government to the governed, The tendency of revolutions always is to restore progress tothe governors.” Such are his sentiments to-day, and while willing to promote reform he is no less determined to be the guiding spirit in the movement, and to direct and control the progressing impulsion of modern ideas according to the needs of the governed. It is scarcely probable that the concessions he has made or may seq fit to make will amount to anything like an absolute surrender of authority, or prevent his reas- suming the reins of strong government should the Interests of the nation, the exigencies of State or his personal safety require it. It is all well enough to make the experiment of more liberal institutions, If a success it will give a quietus to the spirit of opposition springing up in France and tend to accommo- date the nation to the peaceful succession of his son, Napoleon IV. ; if a failure, what better system could be resorted to in order to pre- vent anarchy and confusion arising from the aspirations of rival factions than that which, inaugurated in 1852 and continued to this time, has given to the country “tranquillity, devel- opment of education and increased wealth,” and under which France, to use the words of the Senatorial Committee, ‘thas passed from the dictatorship to complete liberty?” While public opinion in France has more than once called for a diminution of executive power when considered necessary for the interests of the nation, it has quite as often demanded its augmentation when it became evident that this power was tutelary and remedial, and so again an unfortunate abuse of privileges and liberties obtained from the Executive may necessitate a return to strong government as the safest means of guaranteeing those “‘essential conditions of a power which protects order and society.” We look forward with much interest to the assembling of the legislative body in October, and while expressing sympathy for liberal ideas and institutions in progressive France we are constrained to hope that Napoleon’s efforts towards reform, if sincere, as we are now led to believe, will be generously appre- ciated by the people, the zeal of the opppoition be moderated, and the bitterness of contending factions appeased in an earnest co-operation to advance good government. City Politica=The Work of the Past Week. The political element has been greatly stirred during the past week. Republicans and democrats have entered into the contest with renewed and with something like the old vigor and earnestness. There are, however, still many differences to be settled among the republicans before they can act unitedly against their hereditary opponents. In the democratic ranks there are the usual splits, but the seceders from Tammany were never more insignificant than they are at present. Within the Tammany camp there is some danger more threatening than any that lies outside. An old feud has broken out between a few influential supporters of the Tammany ring, and unless this is healed in time and in a manner satisfactory to the contestants there may occur a very serious disruption of the party. We give in another column, under the head of City Politics, the usual résumé of the progress of the campaign. From this it will be seen that there are several candidates for the coming vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court. In the Senatorial contest a very warm fight is anticipated—not between republicans and democrats, but between the Tammany candidates themselves. It is a pity that when such as these fall out the usual result in such cases does not follow—that the honest citizens might receive benefit thereby. The number of candidates for Assemblymen and for Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen is almost unprecedented; but an enumeration of them and their claims must be held over for another article, Free Schools in Ireland. The latest piece of bigotry is the fulmina- tion of Cardinal Cullen in regard to Irish schools. No doubt there are, from a religious point of view, some exceptions to be taken to the government schoolsin Ireland. Education should be free from sectarianism as well as free in other respects, and the tendency just now of what is called ‘‘justice to Ireland” is toward ‘that result. Disestablishment of the government Church in Ireland must eventually free all schools supported by taxation from church influence and leave the priest and the schoolmaster to their several separate spheres. {n the meanwhile, however, it isa revival of a medieval atrocity—an abuse of his position and a piece of outrageous ecclesiastical terror- ism—for a Cardinal to use the holy sacraments of his Church as a weapon against a political institution. If this dignitary believes that the sacraments are necossary to happiness here- after by what power can he give or withhold them for any other reasons than such as relate to sin and repentance? Must a people be made to believe that it is a sin as bad as any in the Decalogue to send their children to a school not managed as a Cardinal wishes? Ireland will not be free till she witnesses some other disestablishment beside that of the Irish Church. Seizure oF AN AMERICAN VESSEL AT HALI- FAX.—A very considerable excitement pre- vails in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in consequence of the seizure of the American steamer Hornet, hailing from Portland, Maine, by the Cus- tom House authorities of the New Do- minion, acting under information from the Spanish Consul. It was alleged by this gen- tleman that the Hornet had on board arms and other munitions of war destined for the use of the Cubans. The Hornet was in con- sequence boarded by British officials, searched and overhauled, notwithstanding the protest of her commander, Two pistols only were found. The Hornet remains in custody, how- ever, and the cage will not be heard legally before Tuesday. It looks just at present very like a high-handed outrage, instigated by British sympathies with Spain and an English dislike to Cuban independence. Tug EUNADELPAA, or the United Sisters, is the latest shape assumed by the female man- agers of the Woman’s Rights movement. The plan of the new sisterhood is to give break- fasts of new laid eggs to newspaper editors of the male persuasion, and to turn their heads by filling their stomachs. ‘They commenced the treatment with Greeley; but as he has not yet got Sambo out of the woods, the ladies will have to wait, and their breakfast to Gree- ley was love's labor lost. Sambo and Phila- delphia, or brotherly love, is his ticket. Euna- delphw is not in his line. A Great Discovery 1x Brookryn—That of its Citizens’ Association, that the city is governed by selfish politicians, and that re- form is desirable.. Brooklyn ia waking up. a second time. right in setting down the disease in the num- ber of those that occur but once in the life- Attorvey General Hoar and the Virginia Test Oath. Whatever doubt may have been enter- tained of Attorney General Hoar's opinion upon the question raised as to the status of the Virginia Legislature as a legislative body is at last set at rest. The opinion in extenso printed in another column does not legally recognize the Legislature as endowed with its proper functions until after certain conditions are complied with, the principal of which is the actual taking of the ‘‘test” or iron-clad oath, the whole bone of contention in the issue. The Attorney General says in sub- stance that the Legislature may come to- gether, organize and act upon the fifteenth amendment to the constitution, but that until Congress shall have .approved the con- stitution and the action under it, and shall have restored the State to its proper place in the Union, &c., “the Legislature is not enti- tled to and could not without violation of law be allowed to transact any business, pass any act or resolve or undertake to assume any other function of a Legislature if the test oath has not been required of its members; and that no officer elected under the new consti- tution oan enter upon the duties of his office without taking the oath while the military government continues.” What is the conclu- sion from this? That the Legislature of Virginia, as at present formed, must, as a con- dition precedent to its becoming a Legislature, do the things and conform to the requirements set forth. The only thing seemingly within its power to do without taking the test oath is to convene and pass upon the amendment, submit the constitution, and, after all this, should even Congress approve of their measures, then take the oath. This is a most roundabout way of coming to a most lame and impotent conclusion. Why not insist on the test oath at once, draw up the constitution according to order, and permit the Old Dominion to file into line and take its old time-honored place among the States of the Union ? The Question of Vaccination. Now that Jenner’s great labor bas made smallpox a comparatively rare disease, and a comparatively trivial one when it occurs, it is strange to hear men questioning whether the world is after all any the better for vaccina- tion. There are men who doubt everything as a matter of course, even in medicine. There are physicians who are fond of displaying a little left-handed logic by minute argument, mainly aimed to show that they know rather more on every subject than all other physicians together, and these have originated the idea that vaccination is worthless, No one, how- ever, who can reason plainly and straightfor- wardly on a body of facts will question that vaccination is as complete a protection from smallpox as is smallpox itself. Persons some- times have the smallpox after vaccination ; but some persons also have the smallpox for Yet popular knowledge is time, for that is therule and the other the ex- ception. So they are right who are not moved from their fajth in vaccination by some excep- tional cases. Undoubtedly the great benefits of vaccination go in company with some dangers. What boon so great is not purchased at some such aprice? Vaccine virus taken from system in which there is some blood disease may communicate that disease as well as the vaccine disease. But this must only lead to the greater care on the part of physicians. Doubtless also there are constitutional idiosyncracies that render the vaccine disease as bad in some systems as smallpox itself. There are persons to whom an egg is a poison. Vaccination has banished to the hovel and the tenement house a disease that within a century had its victims in every home, and that isa great deal. Wisely used, it might erase the disease altogether from the number of human ills. Is there no valye in such a discovery? Cuba anv THE Unirep Srares.—By tele- gram from Washington we have a synopsis of the main points of the proposition relative to Cuba which Minister Sickles is said to have delivered to the Regent, Serrano, in Madrid. It appears as if our representative set out with the important preface that the Cubans should vote their governmental future under @ universal suffrage franchise, and that if the popular voice should be unfavorable to a con- tinuance of the Spanish rule on the island Spain should retire therefrom. In the mean- time the liberated Cubans should compensate the Spaniards for all existing property of solid value to the amount of one hundred millions of dollars, the United States government guaranteeing, as we are told, the payment of the money. This appears an excellent plan. Spain wants the cash. If Serrano accepts it we presume he can have it. Tne Suez CANAL AND THE IsRAELITES.— We publish to-day from the Jewish Messenger a remarkable article on the Suez Canal, looking to the restoration of the Israelites to the land of their fathers, in fulfilment of the pro- phecies of Isaiah and Ezekiel and others of the “old masters.” Nor do we regard this “‘reha- bilitation of Palestine” as an idle dream. The revival of trade in and across that country will attract the faithful Hebrew from all quar- ters to the ‘‘sacred soil” of his kings and prophets; and the extension of religious free- dom over Asia Minor, which is sure to follow the opening of the Suez Canal, will be apt to create a general emigration of the Jews to that land which is their Holy Land as well as the Christian’s—an emigration, we say, which may before long restore the line of David in the city of Zion, under the protection of the Great Powers of Europe and of the. United States. Who knows? Not So Great a Demooratio Victory arrer Att.—Later reports from the election in California show that the democrats have not gained so glorious a victory after all. They have been defeated in San Francisco by the independents, who have not only succeeded inf electing their Mayor, but also a number o supervisors, effectually breaking up the rotten old democratic ring. Eastward the star of such s movement might take its way with great benefit to the community at large and taxpayers in particular. Sarety or Tae Yacut Metgor.—We learn that the yacht Meteor, which left this port on the 20th ult. for England, put into Bermuda, pe Oo Aa Seren Geneval Prim at Vichy. General Prim, who stands forth as one of the most prominent leaders of the Spanish revolutionary movement, ran over to Vichy, France, the other day for the purpose, it may be, of toning up and ‘‘cooling off” by the use of the waters of the springs. General Pezuela, Count of Cheste, another distinguished Spaniard and well known to the American people since the period of his rule in Cuba, ran after Prim and went to Vichy also. The place was too little for two such liberators at the one moment, so they quarrelled, in Madrid fashion, and, as we are told by the cable, the Count of Cheste is likely to challenge Prim. Vichy is a favorite resori of Napoleon, but, as his Majesty was not there just at the moment, Prim started for Paris. Napoleon refused, it is said, to see him. Perhaps he did not wish © to have the Spanish ‘‘question” fought out in his very presence. The waters of the Vichy Springs were known to the Romans for their healing properties. They called them the Aque Calide, which means ‘‘hot waters ;” 80 Napoleon, being deeply read in Roman history, may have been averse to be placed in ‘hot water,” according to the modern meaning. in Paris, by either Prim or Pezuela. It would have been a great fight had it ‘‘come off,” but it was not exactly in the Emperor's ‘‘line” at present. Modern Exploration in Africa and Asia= Sir Burtle Frere’s Address. We published on Thursday last the address of Sir Bartle Frere, who presided over the Geo- graphical section of the British Assoeiation for the Advancement of Science at its in- augural meeting in Exeter, England, on the 18th of August. In this address Sir Bartle Frere did not attempt any systematic summary of the progress, present state or prospects of geographical science generally; but, in briefly stating the course of the proceedings in his section of the association, he nevertheless gave much interesting information as to the most recent results of exploration and as to the re. sults ere long to be expected from the restless spirit of research which is yearly bringing additions of vast importance, in the aggregate, to our stock of geographical knowledge. Special allusion was made by him to what may be hoped from the attempts like that of Mr. Lamont to extend our knowledge of the regions adjacent to the North Pole and to solve the great Arctic problem as to the existence of a great open Polar basin. He also alluded to the interesting narratives of recent discovery by Livingstone, Speke, Baker and Palgrave, aJthough he could not promise that such im- portant statements as those by which these ex- plorers had in former years enchained the attention of the association would be presented atthe present meeting. He referred, more- over, to the recent discoveries in South Africa, which would be made known to the section, and expressed a confident belief that Dr. Liv- ingstone is alive and will eventually make his way from the interior of the country. The greater part of Sir Bartle Frere’s ad- dress was occupied with Asia as an immense and important field of modern exploration. The vast space intervening between the south- ern frontier line of the Russian empire and the northern limits of the British empire in India was described as a region which has little changed in anything save in political condition since it was a nursery of great nations, and not only the cradle of many a conquering and ruling race, but in comparatively recent times acentre of civilized, active thought. It isa guarantee for progress in geographical science that the thoughts of two great civilized neigh- boring nations are at length earnestly directed to this vast region. Mr. Douglas Forsyth, who was present at the meeting of the association, was eulogized as having con- tributed, with Captain Montgomery and his fellow laborers, to lift the veil which has for many generations separated the inhabitants of Tartary and Thibet from those of India. Mr. Forsyth, it was hoped, would speak of the trade routes towards Thibet and Eastern Chinese Tartary, and give the latest intel- ligence of that enterprising traveller, Mr. Shaw, who is at Yarkand, a special favorite with ruler and people. Times have changed since Adolphe Schlagintweit, only a few years ago, became a martyr to his zeal for science, and was put to death at Kashgar. A paper, it was announced, would be read by Mr. Tre- lawney Sanders on the general geography of the Himalayan range. Other papers were announced which would throw light on the disputed question whether the Sanpoo is the upper stream of the Brahmapootra or of the Irrawaddy, and on the doubtful course of the four great rivers—the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Cambodia and the Yang-tse-kiang. Sir Bartle Frere attributed to the French the glory of being the first in modern days to traverse the almost unknown region between the Hin- doo-Chinese races and China proper. He enlarged upon the scientific novelty and in- terest of these attempts to traverse the regions which separate India from China. Nor can it be doubted, he said, that these attempts “‘have a political and social aspect of the highest im- portance. It is clear that the time has arrived in China when we may witness one of those great social movements which in all ages have 80 powerfully affected the destinies of nations and the geographical distribution of races.” The address of Sir Bartle Frere offered a wide and attractive programme for the proceedings of the Geographical section of the British Association. The British Press on Cotton. The British press continues to be very much exercised about the supply of cotton. Every day or two there are leading articles and any amount of correspondence on the subject, and there is hardly any conceivable plan for in- creasing the production of the raw material that is not discussed. The insufficient supply is termed a calamity, and is said to be owing to an increase of the consuming power at a time when the raw material is decreasing. A writer in the London Times takes a very sen- sible view of the matter when he argues that the true way to increase the production of cotton is for the manufacturerers and capital- ists of England to co-operate with the grower. That is, we suppose, to employ their capital in connection with the labor of the planters in order to stimulate a larger growth. This writer remarks, too, that it would be folly for the American planters to grow five millions of bales at double the expense of land and labor when the same profit can be realized from half that amount. But where are the English manufacturers and capitalists to use their money in co-operation with the growers? India and other countries have been tried, and @ vast amount of capital has been sunk in the experiment. There is, however, one place in the world where raising cotton is not an un- certain experiment, and where planting never. fails to be successful and profitable. In our Southern States there is a vast area of cotton lands yet uncultivated. If there were capital and labor enough ten millions of bales or more could be raised. This is the country, then, for the British to invest in if they would get an ample supply of cotton and a handsome return for their capital. Prvus IX. anp Naporgon III.—If the tele- graphic report be correct that the French gov- ernment has declined to send a representative to the Ecumenical Council Pius 1X. will have to content himself with the more or less ‘‘in- telligent bayonets” which Napoleon Ii. has already placed at his disposition. It will be a significant fact if it shall prove true that “‘the Eldest Son of the Church” can do no more on so solemn an occasion than to provide “‘the Head of the Church” with a military guard. It is improbable, however, that the interests alike of the Gallican party and of the Ultra- montane party in France will be wholly un- represented at the approaching Council in Rome. Tue Return or THE Empress,—The Em- press Eugénie has returned to Paris, having abandoned for the present her proposed trip to Constantinople. This is another sign of the delicate condition of the Emperor's health and of the critical condition, too, of France. The Emperor, however, appears to comprehend the political situation, and that he is preparing for the worst contingency, and with a view to peace with the succession, we may readily believe. The Fashions. It would be superfluous to repeat our Paris fashions correspondent’s lively description, which all the ladies will read, of the travelling costumes worn by Parisiennes, whether of the countess or of the Théobaldine order, on their way to Baden, of the Empress Eugénie’s opinion of prevailing and prospective fashions, of the eccentric Briton’s talisman, and, finally, of the mousquetaire costumes, hats turned up and feathered above the chignon, and men’s light gray frockcoats, under white or yellow alpaca dustcoats, which are in vogue at lovely Baden. Suffice it to say that there, as well as here, the travelling suits for autumn are almond and maroon Scotch plaid, with shawl fringe all round. We may add that since the cold snap of Thursday made so many of our summer birds of passage suddenly wheel about and wend their flight back to town, Broadway begins to be as bright with all the gay plaids of the different Scottish clans as Catskill woods will soon be with the warm autumnal colors of an Indian summer. The palatial dry goods shops and stores of New York, each of which was almost a lonely desert not many weeks ago, are now thronged with customers. Before the new fall hats and early winter modes are released from the Custom House, before the fashionable modistes have returned frome their annual trip to Paria, and before everybody has deserted our summer resorts, this is the very moment for purchasers of moderate means to lay in at reasonable prices. their stock of such goods as are serviceable at all seasons of the year. Tue Otp Story.—For the last dozen years orso we have been told, from one source or another, that a steamship line between this country and Italy was about to be established. Just now we have the old story repeated by cable telegram that a line of steamers is about to be started between Naples and New York. How is it going to pay? There is no passen- ger traffi¢ between the two countries, and we hardly think that the freight prices on marble and fruit would pay a steamship line. Tae Cuingse Mission.—It will require, perhaps, another Cabinet council or two to settle the Chinese mission. Meantime, in addition to Horace Greeley, we perceive that General Banks, John Bigelow and George Wilkes are talked of for this important post. If the administration, however, desires to har- monize the republican party in New York and to tickle the Chinese, Greeley is the man. MUSIC IN THE PARK. “Why Do Summer Roses Fade t” Towards the close ot the summer season the at tendance of visitors at the Park seems rather to increase than diminish. The few glorious days of clear blue sky and warm sunlight, tempered by cool, vigorous breezea, remaining to us in the fading of summer are fully and gladly availed of by every- body with the least ble leisure time on hand. ‘Yesterday in the early afternoon the walks and drives of the Park were peopied from end to end by what should seem a8 bapey ‘& multitude as ever got together. ‘The dresses of the women were brilliant, ‘and the gents for the most part were attired in fresh and fauitiess ap |. Standing by the Fifth avenue entrance of the Park, the spectator felt as though he could linger for hours watching the ceaseless and varying roll of vehicles pouring the avenue into the Park. Many carriages were freighted with as much of beauty and splendid drese as might be seen at Longchamps or in the Row of Hyde Park. To the initiated eye it was easy to observe that no small number in the throng belonged to the Class of shoday—a class that ts every year becom! more and more vulgarly promment on the avenue ‘and in the Park, And yet, peraaps, there 1s no need tor initiation or long acquaintance to detect in the occupants of those magnificent shoddy vehicles the absence of that refinement of which blood and edu- cation are the basis. Year after year the character Tuey Won't Stay Down—The surviving but dormant politicians of the epoch before the flood. Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Treasury nearly thirty years ago, is out with long letter on the fallacies of Boutwell’s financial policy. We may next expect a long letter from the venerable Amos Kendall on the wisdom of Jackson's pet bank system. of the equi to the Park unde & change which all the time Is showtug & more utiful and Beran AND THR Pottos.—During the trial | versatile turn of artistic taste among the carriage manufactortes. of @ policeman the othér day Mr. Manierre remarked that “the Police Commissioners were determined to compel all officers of the force to co-operate with the society over which Mr. Bergh presides.” This hint from headquarters ought to be worth a great deal to the humane friend of the speechless mem- bers of the community. ‘The drive in the Park was crowded to excess yes- terday. The Mall was thronged with promenaders, and the neignborhood of the music stand where Dodworth’s band filled the air with the inspirations of Meyerbeer and Auber was one grand mass of decorous and delighted humanity. The gondoias and barges on the lake were occapted throughout the day, and in every nook and shady by- path the pictures of rustic amoura amtd rural scenery, Which Claude Meinotie of all men knew so . wa to draw, were reproduced in endless