The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Naw York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor. ner Tbirtieth st,—Matinee daily, Performance every evening, BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—G10, THR ARMORED or Tyae—Tue Borie imy. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th sireet.— CENTRAL Park. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth atreet.—Tax BURLESQUE or Bap Dickey, GRAND OPERA AOUS t Eighth avenue and 23d street. —Lingarp's Bu SQUE COMBLN ATION. lbblinente BOOTH’S THEATRE, dat, between Sth ana 6th avs.— GOY MANNERING, QLYN?IC THEATRE, Broauway.—Uxpen THE Gas- LIGHT, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Dokx's Morro. FRENCH THEATRE, 1 LONDON. 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The American yacht Meteor was lost near Tunis Dn the 1sth inst. A}l hands saved. French newspapers assert that a Papal constitu- tion “excommunicates almost everybody.” The Pope wiil baptize the infant dauguter of the ex- Queen of Naples. The Committee on Discipline of tne Ecumenical Council embraces the Archbishop of New York and the Bishops of Quebec, Mexico and Bolivia, The Italian army will, it is said, be reduced. American affairs engaged the attention of the London journals, The lighthouse dues of Sweden are made more heavy on shipowners. Our mail reports from Europe and Asia, by way of Europe, are of a very interesting character. South America. Our Lima (Peru) letter, dated November 10, gives information of a threatened revolution in Bolivia. General Morales has appeared on the frontier at the head of a smail force, but the Bolivian Secretary of State was in the neighborhood with a part of the army. The concession of territory made to Brazil by President Meigarego is the cause of the trouble, Mexico, Our Tuxpau (Mexico) letter, dated November 14, giving an interesting account of the Terra Caliente, or hot land of Mexico, where it ia continuelly sum- Mer, will be found on the twelfth page. Also a let- ter from Puebla, giving detalis of the revolutions that are daily occurring in that vicinity. Miscellaneous, The {nsurgents in Winnipeg Territory nave insti- tuted a provisional government and published a declaration of independence, setting forth that the transfer of their territory to the New Dominion by the “adventurers” styling themselves the Hudson Bay Company was without tneir consent, and will not be recognized. Colonel Dennis, who organized the Indian forces to support Governor McDougall, bas issued an order disbanding them and calling on all loyal people to cease fighting. The stone fort has been abandoned by Governor McDougali’s adherents im consegacnce. Colonel Dennis ia still a fugitive. The stoves and stovepipes in the house where the insurgents captured Dr. Schultze and other Canadian sympathizers were found filled with gunpowder, so that an explosion sufficient to have torn the house to pieces would have ensued if the insurgents had lighted the tires. A meeting of Senators was held in the Capitol at Washington yesterday, at which resolutions of re- spect for the memory of Secretary Stanton were passed. A similar meeting of members of the House Was also held, Hon. Dennis Macarthy’s house in Washington caught fre on Friday night, and he, himself, nar- Towly escaped suffocation. The Unton Pacific Ratlroad coupons will be paid in New York as well as Boston on and after January 2, A policeman in Detroit was found on the sidewalk yesterday morning, dead, with his throat cut from ear to ear. The trial of Philip Steinmetz, at Toledo, Ohio, for the murder of August Heck, in June last, waa con- cluded on Friday evening. ‘The verdict was guilty of murder in the first degree. The City. Christmas was celebrated with the usual Jollity yesterday. Numbers of fantasticals paraded the streets, the places of amusement were thronged at the matinces, Trinity rang forth her chimes, din ners were given to the poor at the charitable inau- tutions and to the prisoners at the Tombs, and iunpressive services were held at the churches. Ten more of the Spanish gunboats sailed yester- day, and lay off Quarantine until the last three, which are short of men, can join them. The thirteen Will probably sail to-day, The city yesterday was noted for af unusual number of fignts, in which the pistol, knife and slungshot played conspicaous parts. In the First ward & man who drew a@ knife to defend thimeself from a highwayman was sho. A man named Moore Stabbed Johm Fiynn at No. 12 Baxter street. Wm. Mulligan was huried under a Grand atreet car and lost a hand by the reoklessness of one of the passen- gers. A robber namea Gilligan attempted to rob a Broadway storekeeper, by smashing in a window, and was arrested. Two pickpockets were captured at Wood's Museum, Michael J. Kelly, of Second avenue, was Knocked down and severely injurea by a siungshot, The tugboat J. G, Neame blew up at the Atlantic Dock on Friday night, and was nearly torn to pieces. There were three men on board, aud they escaped without injury, except one, who was badly scalded. Dr. F. J. Randall, a veteran sanitary imapector of the Board of Health, died last night, Prominent Arrivals in the City. General R. B. Wallace, of Connecticut; Lieutenant ‘YVaotine, of Idaho; Colonel B. P. Burke, of Utica, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. and Colonel F. Williams, of El Paso, Texas, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor W. Hutchinson, of Notwich; Senator Alex. McDonald: Congressman L. H. Roots, and yhomas M, Bowen, of Arkansa3, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Major Frank Taylor, of the United States Army, and Professor Sanderson, of Liverpool, England, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Professor James Williams, of Sandusky, 1s at the St, Elmo Hotel. W. K. Hyer, her Britannic Majesty's Consul to Pensacola; Numa La Costa, of Paris, and Dr. Hug- gins, of the West Indies, are at the New York Hotel. Senator George BE, Spencer, of Alabama, and J. H. Currier, of St. Domingo, are at the Everett House, R. C. McCormick, of Arizona; Lieutenant Com- mander J, H. Rowland, of the United States Navy, and Benjamin C. Tgaman, of San Francisco, are at the Astor House. The Council of the Vatican—The !nfalli-+ bility Question, It is something deserving of notice that interest in the Ecumenical Council died out with the conclusion of its opening ceremonies, As we had said again and again, the first day was the grandest. Yet the first day was much tamer than we had been led to expect. Com- pared, indeed, with the great councils of the past it was a dull and uninteresting business. But since the opening ceremonies were reported to us by telegraph how few of ua have been giving a passing thought to the Ecumenical Council! This want of interest is no donbt partly explained by the fact that the Council adjourned almost as soon as it met, We cannot deny that interest in the case of some is only suspended, and that it will revive again when the Council reassemb!es on the 6th of January, This, however, is true only of a few. In the case of the great majority, in all lands, it is a dead concern. Not much was expected from it, and less has come from it than was looked for. There were many who were slow to believe that what we said of the plan and purpose of the Council was true. The Syllabus was so ab- surd in itself and so antagonistic to the spirit of modern times that Catholics, as well as Protestants, concluded that there was too much common sense yet remaining in the Church to allow of its dogmatic confirmation. The bodily assumption of the Virgin was not more in favor, and the personal infallibility dogma had but few friends, It was not to befool good men or to make a laughing stock of Catholic Christianity that the Council had been convened. It was well, we were told, for the ungodly to sit in the chair of the scorner and Jaugh; but the result would put the ungodly to shame. Other, higher and nobler purposes had led to the convention of the Council. The Council has met. It is now on all hands admitted that it is intended to dogmatically confirm the Syllabus and to pro- claim the bodily assumption of the Virgin and the personal infallibility of the Pope. It is notorious that the liberal bishops of Germany, France and Italy are as little reconciled to the Council as ever. It is just as notorious that all the Catholic goverttments of Europe are stubbornly standing aloof. It is undeniable that the protesters were not ignorant of what the Council meant to do, and it is the general opinion to-day that what the Council meant to do it will do if it can, So far as can be gathered from outside efforts and from rumors of inside doings it appears that the infallibility dogma ia to ha the real stumbling block in the Council, The oppasition to it is widespread and includes some of the most eminent churchmen and not a few personal friends of the Pope. Since the publication of ‘M@he Pope and the Council” by Von Janus, a work of great ability and re- search, and evidently the work of many Catholic hands and heads, and which has an immense circulation both here and in Europe, a marked change has been visible in public sentiment. In that work, by the skilful array of facts, the infallibility dogma is reduced to a simple absurdity, Other German works of a kindred nature and evidently from the same source have followed. Catholic Germany, in fact, may be said to be against it. The French are more indifferent, as is their wont in all matters that relate to faith and morals. But some of the French churchmen have spoken out plainly. Witnesa Father Hyacinthe, the Archbishop of Paris and tho Bishop of Orleans. There is not a single Catholic government in Europe but is opposed to the dogma. We have just learned that to the bishops of Russian Poland, now in attendance on the Council, instructions have been sent to the effect that they must vote against infallibility, Even in Catholic Anstria the feeling is strong. One Austrian archbishop, himself a cardinal, is reported to have said that if he finds himself compelled to accept the dogma of infallibility he will resign his position and retire into private lite; for to go back to his charge would be but to go back to a schismatie clergy and a Protestant flock. The men who are opposed to this dogma are not rationalists or sceptics or Protestants, They are, on the contrary, men who have the good of the Charch at heart. Like Savonarola and Erasmus and Fenelon of the past, and like Dolinger and Hyacinthe and Montalembert of the present, they honestly and earnestly seck té reconcile faith with reason, knowledge with belief; and of such men there are not a few. In spite of all this opposition it is confidently believed that there is power enough in the Council to proclaim the dogma, Dr. Manning, of London, a pervert or convert, which the reader will, is its most enthusiastic advocate, It is his determination that the dogma shall be proclaimed. Hecan count on the support of the whole ultramontane party. The American bishops, it is said, will go with him to # man; and among the bishops of Great Britain and Ireland there will scarcely be a single dissentient, On the 6th of Jonuary the Council will reassemble, and then must come the tag of war, Will the Pope and his friends push their purposes in spite of all opposition? It will not surprise usif they do, It is the confident belief of many good Catholics, who are opposed to the dogma, that they will. It is not likely that the Council will break up before St. [Peter's Day, June 29, 1870. Between that time and now we shall in all likelihood learn the fate of Papal infallibility. This Council has forced a crisis on the Roman Church. Wise and temperate action on the ‘part of the assembled fathers may not only give the Church a new lease of life, but help her to put on something of her ancientstrength and reclaim something of her lost domain. disregard of public sentiment and of the indi- vidual conscience will inovitably hasten her downfall. We promise to be attentive observers of the coming struggle. Red River War—A New Republic Declared. In our telegraphic columas will be found very stirring news from the soat of war in Rupert's Land, or Red river territory, There is a “Prince Rupert's” ring in the tele- gram which gives an assurance that its echoes will ‘never die till tho sought for liberty of the people of that region shall have been achieved. Following up the guc- cesses—which we announced a few days ago—the leading revolutionists have estab- lished a provisional republican government, fonnded upon the immortal principles em- bodied in our own Declaration of Independ- ence, that ‘‘all men are created free and equal.” In their instrument—the text of which is given in the telegraphic despatches referred to—they also recite, as our fathers did ‘‘in their day,” the grievances under which they suffered, and which are briefly summed up, as all such grievances must be, in a denunciation thereof, and setting forth as a de- duction the necessity of self-government as the right and perogative of freemen. They, 100, have established a republican form of govern- ment, for the maintenance of which they plelge “their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.” That pledge the men of Rupert's Land will nobly preserve. Revolutions never go backward, especially on this Continent, and more especially, again, where those engaged in it are in the right and have estab- lished their claim to belligerent rights. The signers to this new declaration of indepond- ence—the chosen leaders in the revolution— are John Bruce, President, and Louis Rullie, Commander-in-Chief of the new republic. The President Grant on tho ™. In his announcement to the people of the United States of the death of Edwin M. Stan- ton the President says, ‘‘He was distinguished in the councils of the nation during the eatire period of its recent struggle for national exist- ence; first, as Attorney General, then as Sec- retary of War. He was unceasing in his labors, earnest and fearless in the assumption of responsibilities necessary to his country’s sucogss, respected by all good men and feared by wrong doers.” This brief statement covers the salient points of the character and services of the great War Minister. ‘‘Unceasing in his labors.” Yes, he worked night and day for months and for years, we may say, without re- Death of Edwin Stanton, ’ laxation, and his plan‘in everything he had to do was “short, sharp and decisive.” ‘Fearless in the assumption of responsibilities.” This was the distinguishing point of his character, The war with him was a struggle of life and death. He was working in a house on fire, and intent only upon putting it out he had no time for ceremony, or for apologies, or explanations to people coming in his way. He cleared them out or shut them up, for he was terribly * in earnest. ‘‘Respected by all good men.” The President means in this, no doubt, all men unwarped by sectional or party dislikes or personal grievances, ‘Feared by wron; doers.” Yes, and cordially hated by, Them, too, If it were not that General Grant is a man who rises above all merely personal considera- tions in judging of men in their public capacity he could hardly have written the foregoing unqualified endorsement of the public services of Stanton, for Stanton was no respecter of generals when falling backward, or when their armies, to him, appeared to be doing nothing. Our Turco-Egyptian Correspondence. By special correspondence from Con- stantinople and Cairo we have the interesting exhibit of the condition of affairs existing in Turkey and Egypt on the Sth of December, which we publish to-day. One communication supplies an important statement of the opinion of the Greek Patriarch on the subject of the Ecumenical Council in Rome, as given orally by that venerable gentleman during personal interview which he accorded to our representa- tive. From this it will be seen on how many and important points of belief do the members of the Eastern religious communities differ from the Holy See, and of how little force are the disciplifary orders of the Papal Pontificate in that part of the world. The Patriarch is himself styled his Holiness, and, if we are to judge from his simple style of living and freedom of access to persons from abroad and people of every degree around him, is much better entitled to such designa- tion than is the successor of Saint Peter, look- ing merely at the temporalities and sovereign claims of the Pope and acknowledging fully the suaviter tn modo of Pius the Ninth, Our writer in Cairo describes additional scénes and incidents which occurred during the Viceregal fétes at Ismailia, so that the budget is, as usual, witty, entertaining and instructive, Loss or tur Yacur Merror.—-The report given in the {gRAxp of Friday last of the loss of the yacht Meteor, the property of Mr. Loril- lard, of this city, has unhappily been con- firmed. Later despatches are devoid of par- ticulars as to the cause, and merely state that the vessel was lost off the coast of North Africa, near Tunis, on the 13th instant. All hands saved. In another column will be found an interesting sketch of the vessel from tne date of its launch to that of its departure, with its owner on board, on a trip around the world, From Evropr we have our special corre- spondence and a mail report in varied and most interesting detail of our cable telegrams tothe 12th of December, Church and State, struggling democracy and radicalism,’ the Irish question, reform under a mitre, sport on the ocean, the Burlingame mission and British newspaper enterprise are all treated of and shown in their existing force and tendencies for healthy popular progress or aristocratic reaction. A Frenou Sreamsarp reached Suez the other day with the mails from China, Japan, Mauritius and Reunion, She had one hundred and forty passengers anda cargo containing one thousand bales of silk, two hundred and eighteen chests of tea and one hundred pack- ages of sundries, The whole was passed on to French ports, chiefly for Paris, The trade and traffic of the world is, it appears, likely to ‘‘go round,” as does the earth itself, in a Unwisdom, rashness, hasty action, a reckless | very wonderful revolution. The State Game Laws. Those who indulge in the pleasure of shoot- ing wild ducks and geese on the seabeat shores of Long Island are somewhat discon- tented with a certain section in the Game law passed by tho last Legislature. But we fear that the people who grumble are not sporta- men, but persons of a less chivalrous class, or they would not object to any provisions of law which would tend to preserve game and pre- vent indiscriminate slanghter by cay and night and at improper seasons. Your true sportsman, all tixe world over, has a nice sense of discretion in the 6xersise of his peculiar passion, Hs will not have birds kilied ia breeding time, nor nestlings shot down before they have become mature birds; nor will he have inexperienced anglers, with net or rod, make incursions upon the finny tribe at spawning time, or when the “fry” are seeking their native waters for recuperation and natu- ral growth. It has become too much a custom in this country to wage indiscriminate warfare against birds of all kinds. The unfortunate robin, which adds a new beauty to the woods; the various kinds of woodpeckers—the conservators of our forest trees—as well as the prairie chicken, the quail, the woodcock, the partridge and the duck, are the victims of every Goth and Van- dal who can carry a gun. Hence it becomes necessary to make soine law to restrict this kind of barbarism. It is difficult now to find any game within a hundred miles of a city, even out as far as tho Western prairies of Mis- souri or Kansas. In the latter State prairie fowl and wild turkey and a small amount of California quail are to be found in the vicinity of a few of the growing cities, such as Topeka, Lawrence and Salina, but in a few years they will disappear from these localities, as they have already abandoned, to a great extent, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, which were once fine hunting countries, In our own State game has diminished most notably, In the Western counties there are yet some chances for the sportsman, in the higher order of game, but in the vicinity of the city, with the exception of some deer in Sullivan county, and a fair share of woodcock and quail in the lake por- tion of Orange county, there are little induce- ments for the true sportsman, The coast of Long Island is the exception for duck shoot- ing, and it is to préserve this that the law now objected to was enacted at the last session of the Legislature. The wholesale destruction of wild duck by means of night batteries is prohibited, and we think very properly, Moreover the law now in force, which proscribes the shooting of this kind of game from the 10th of June to the 20th of October, did not emanate from the Sportsman’s Club, as may be supposed. It was suggested by the sportsmen of Long Island themselves for their own protection, The value of the law may be seen in ita opera- tion. Aquatic game was never so plentiful on Long Island as it is this season, The absence of restrictive game laws In the Western States does not seem to make our markets any cheaper, In fact, prairie fowl are as dear to-day as ever they were. In England, where the game laws are very stringent, the markets are still well supplied, because the owners of preserves make sale of the surplus game, after home wants are catia fied and the sportsman’s ambition is fulfilled. In this country the wasteful destruction of game by the “market hunters” is immense, Probably not half the Wirds killed by batteries and other devices are put to useful purposes, and not 9 thousandth part of the fish destroyed finds better use than for manure. There can be no objection, therefore, to any law which restrains within reasonable limits a wanton slaughter of game and fish. There was a time, not many years ago, whon an area of the Potomac, embracing, perhaps, twenty acres, has been seen covered with canvas back duck ag thick as reeds on the river bank; but now itis aday’s work to bag a dozen brace in the same locality. The birds have been driven from their feeding grounds by masked bat- teries and other methods of destruction. It would have been the same on Long Island and the south shore of Staten Island had the Game law of last session not been passed, Christmas in the City, Christmas Day, so generally, and we hope happily, enjoyed, not only brings the year 1869 to a close in the way of church and social festivals, but closes the decennial year of its inauguration as the great festival which celebrates the grandest and most sublime epoch in the Christian world. It was most appropriately observed yesterday in all the churches of the city and at the festive boards of our citizens. The aeceticisms of the early churches and professors of the Christian reli- gion have passed away, and people now think more of the phrase—doubtful in its mean- ing as it may be—‘Eat, drink and be merry” than the injunction to put on sack- cloth and ashes as a penance. No doubt all willingly accept the benefit of the doubt, and rather the injunction to ‘“‘live to enjoy the goods the gods provide” than speculate upon any provisions they may have made for thefuture. The ‘‘watchmen on the tower” give us warning on every recurrence of the Sabbath of the perils to us in the time to come; and while their doctrines may be ortho- dox 8nough, still we are not prone to see them in that light while the other text is just to our taste and fully lived up to, The churches yesterday were well attended, and thence from noon till eve the bounties which God pro- vides were fully enjoyed. So may it ever be. The discipline of the Church for the soul never enjoins or suggests an injunction against & corresponding enjoyment of the good things which support the body. Tue Great Question at Wasninatox,— It is simply this, will Hoar resign his place in the Cabinet because he has been laid on the table in tho Senate as a nominee for tho Supreme Court? Why don’t General Grant give something better to the newsmongers than such small game? A Pavan “Constitution,” having a terribly difficult title in Latin, which has been issued in Rome, excites the attention of the French journals vastly. The writers allege that ‘it excommunicates almost every one.” If this be so the next comet had better ‘look out,” and Professor Loomis may become more puzzled thas ever on the subject of eclipses, Lincoln and Stanton, and Stanton, Grant and Jehneen. Stanton was the strong right arm of Lincoln in the great work of suppressing the rebellion. When Stanton entered the War Office, January, 1862, not only was the city of Wash- ington, with the army of McClellan, belea- guered, and the Potomac river effectively blockaded by the rebel army of Joe Johnston, but all the Union armies elsewhere appeared to be on their good behavior towards “the confederacy.” A month or two months later and the country was electrified by the victory of General Thomas at Mill Spring, in Kentucky; the great victory of Gengral Grant at Fort Donelson, in Tennessee, ‘and by Burn- side's victories in North Carolina, and by,the rebel evacuation of Manassas and the retreat of Joe Johnston to Richmond. By these Union successes and that of Pittsburg Landing the Northern rebel line in the Mississippi valley was broken up and moved down from the heart of Kentucky into Mississippi and Ala- bama, while on the east side of the mountains it was moved from the line of the Potomac down to the line of the James river. Then came, after the advance of McClellan to the very gates of Richmond, his terrible reverses, and then those of Pope, But Stanton’s initial series of successes as War Minister established him firmly in the confidence of Lincoln against all reverses. Lincoln and Stanton became like the nega- tive and positive poles of the battery—essen- tial to cach other. If Lincoln was constantly urged forward by Stanton, Stanton was con- stantly held under a tight rein by Lincoln, The one would have been too slow and the other would have been too fast, had not each been somewhat governed by the spirit of the other. If the amiability of Lincoln would have forgiven everything, the remorseless wrath of Stanton, would have destroyed everything opposed to the Union cause, Lincoln often, when rough work was required, left the responsibility with Stanton, and Stanton, in the matter of clemency, as the rule, sent his applicants back to Lincoln. It was, however, on the slavery and the emanci- pation questions that these two men differed at first most decidedly. Lincoln had still some of his Kentucky conservative ideas on the subject, while Stanton was an Ohio abolition- ist in his war policy. After the issue of the emancipation proclamation the President and his war minister thoroughly understood each other, and the war on this grand revolutionary idea of emancipation went on bravely to the end, " Lincoln’s assassination and the terrible wounding of Secretary Seward on the same night by one of Booth’s confederate murderers cast upon Stanton (until Vice President John- son was sworn in next day) the grave respon- sibilities of the active head of the government. He was, in fact, the master spirit of the admin- istration until the assassination conspirators were executed and the rebellion was wholly suppressed. In this fearful interval, if he gave us a touch of the terrible will and earn- estness of Cromwell, it cannot be denied that the results were positively amazing in strength- ening the public confidence in the government, But after a while, when Johnson began to shape his reconstruction policy as a candidate for the Presidency on the Southern conserva- tive tack, he soon found that Stanton was in his way. Stanton, however, was an ugly cus- tomer as an adversary, and so Johnson labored first to make him an ally, and next to secure his neutrality. Failing in both experi- ments, it became necessary to Johnson’s plans to get rid of Stanton—peace- ably if he could, forcibly if he must. Ap- prised of this design, Congress, looking to Southern reconstruction, strengthened Stanton with the Tenure of Office law. Johnson, after the retirement of Congress, suspended Stanton and put General Grant in his place, not caring to risk at first a fight with Congress on this new law. With the return of Congress Stanton, under the law, was declared by the vote of the Senate reinstated, and on his appearance at the War Office Grant retired in obedience to the law. General Grant having thus knocked in the head the calculations upon which he was ap- pointed, President Johnson declared war against him and against Stanton—a war which culminated in Johnson's impeachment and resulted in his escape from expulsion from the White House by one vote. Now, the inquiry is suggested, what would have followed had Stanton or had Grant consented to play policy with Johnson? It is probable that the recon- struction system of Congress would have been upset in the South, and that such a state of disorder would have resulted down there and in the government as to throw the political parties in the country and in Congress into such confusion as to make Johnson a first rate democratic candidate for the Presidency. Thus it may be said that it was Stanton’s opposition to Johnson’s policy in the Cabinet, aided by Grant, that swamped Johnson and cleared the track to Grant for the Presidential succession, A Merry Caristuas.—We are quite sure that the most general, most extensive and the most hearty celebration of Christmas ever known in this country and on this Continent, and in the Old World too, was that of yester- day. We are sure, too, that the celebration at Rome was the grandest ever known, Tue Fantasticars.—These jolly fellows created great amusement in the streets yes- terday, and as the diversion gives general pleasure if the boys only keep steady we do not see why the innocent sport should not be encouraged. Exrotion Corruptions ix Franog.—From the exposures of frauds committed in this country during the recent elections it might appear to some that the United States is espe- cially favored in that, respect. Fortunately this is not the case, for the Paris journals are rejoicing over two cases of corruption that wore attempted during the late election for members of the Corps Législatif. In.one case the bribe offered to a voter reached the sum of six thousand francs, and in the other—a five franc piece and a pair of wooden shoes! From the fact that both bribes were refused it would appear that there was a want of tact on the part of the canvassers, and it would not be amiss for a few of the French political oan- vassers to study for a term under some of our looal professionals. Material Progt’ss in Japan and Chine. By mail from Yokohama, Shanghae and Hong Kong we have a newspaper illustration of the ‘material advance which is being made in Japan and China, and generally in the Far East, towards a more intimate communication with the European world, and a general utili- zation of the Ciyilizing—there revivifying— agencies 4f modern sclence, Japan ratified the Austro-Hungarian tréaty lately Sonéluded with the Emperor Francis Joseph, the diplo- matic representatives of his Apostolic Majesty being received with imperial éclat by the Mikado and despatched to Vienna laden with valuable presents destined for the Emperor and Empress. The statement of the Russian march towards Japan, as well as the many interests which induce the Czar to come still nearer to the ancient empire, may ac- count, to a certain extent at least, for the evident disposition which the Japanese government thus shows to lean towards the great military Powers of Europe. The Church and State separation question was in debate in Japan, while the matter of the’ philology of the non-Asian races of Asia was being read in the lights of the electric tele- graph and a newspaper press approximating slowly but surely towards a complete freedom of expression. - Cotton is cultivated attentively in Central India, the certainty of a future revo- lution in the trade supply sources of this im- portant staple being rendered still more con- vincing by the packing of every bale for export, Central Asia was disturbed by the Khirgis rebellion and the open exhibition of the desire of the Russians for territorial acquisition in that part of the world, The situation of the British empire in Hindostan was thus becoming more precarious daily. Our readers will, for many reasons, do well to read this news from the Far East attentively, as both its matter and point may soon be re- quired for reference in the making of the history of the day. They Manage These Things Better in France. The brutality and indecency of the ruffians who disturbed the recent ball at the French theatre, in Fourteenth street, have deservedly met with universal reprobation. The press has expressed the indignant surprise of the public at scenes more disgustingly lewd and violent than anything similar which ever pro- voked the invectives of ancient Greek and Roman satirists, The committee of arrange- ments, however, had taken all possible precau- tions (except not giving the ball) against the outrages which they did their utmost to check. Nearly all the members of the French colony in New York who hap- pened to be present in the earlier part of the evening left as soon as they saw the invasion of “‘roughs” who afterwards converted the ball into a horrible orgy.’ None of these “‘roughs” were Frenchmen, and among the ringleaders were several deputy sheriffs and city aldermen, with whom, as representa- tives of the city government, the policemen did not venture to interfere. 1t is wnnecessary to repeat the details of the night which these “men of the baser sort” and women equally lost to shame made hideous, But we must protest against the misapprehension that such vile conduct would be tolerated for a moment in any masked ball fn Paris. ‘They manage these things better in France,” where, accord- ing to Mr. Burke’s famous phrase, ‘‘vice loses half its deformity by losing all its grossness.” Some severe moralists may contend that vice thus becomes more alluring if less odious, but even they could not recom- mendg in the interests of public morality, a repetition of the revolting revels of last Wednesday night. Toe Workine oF the Inu Cauron Bin IN Ingranp.—It has not conciliated the Irish national party and it has alienated the Orangemen. Next will come the Irish Land bill on the tenant right system; but if s liberal bill of this sort can be given to Ireland why not to Great Britain? That question is already coming up in England and Scotland. There are great events impending over the three kingdoms. Dorina THE LaTE Srreet Riors in Mar- seilles, France, caused, as already reported by the Atlantic cable, on account of the citizens illuminating their windows on the occasion of the féte of Immaculate Conception, the police in “‘one dash” in the crowd hauled in four ex-convicts just liberated from the galleys, M. Rochefort says to the ‘“‘free thinkers” of Lyons that ‘‘religions of whatever nature they may be constitute a permanent outrage on all liberty and progress"—utrum horum ? Tuk Eayrrian Bupert.—The London Times asserts that the financial proceedings of the Viceroy of Egypt are of an unsatis- factory character. His Highness is about to issue a large quantity of Treasury bonds after having contracted heavy foreign loans and with his money ‘commitments hawked about” in the European markets by persons not at all “golid” as to their power to deal with them, His floating debt is set down at six millions of pounds sterling, a sum which the Viceroy is very anxious to raise “‘to ten millions.” The “prodigal ceremonies of the Suez Canal,” and a desire ‘to fortify himself privately” against eventualities from Turkey, are set down as main causes of the Viceregal embarrassmenta and treasury policy. The Viceroy don’t, according to this exhibit, ‘‘stand well” on ‘Change or ‘‘cut up” good in Threa dneedle street, Warmina Ur an Orp Disn or Hasn—The Washington newsmongers, in their reports of the bribery of Senators to vote for Johnson on the impeachment question, DEATH OF A SANITARY INSPECTOA.. Dr. Harris, Sanitary Superintendent of the Board of Health, last evening paid the following tribute to. to an esteemed associate who died last night:— METROPOLITAN BOARD OF HEALTH, OFFICR OF SANITARY SUPERINTENDENT, 301 MULBERRY SrRERT, VEC, 25—9 ©, M, TO THR SANITARY INSPRCTORS OF THE MRTROPOLI- TAN BOARD OF HmALTH:— GRENTLEMEN—It 18 my-sad duty to announce to you the death of your esteemed associate, Dr, F. J. Ran- dail, After five days of severe suifering from an in- curable attack of ugh ts complicated by lesiona that bamMed all medical skill, this ‘fatrhfal officer breathed his last, His funeral wil be at- tended by the medical oMcers of this Board in w body, and I would respectfully request you all to meet me at three P, M. Sunday to confer in regard to this solemn event and the character of the ex- egy We should give to our sentiments of esteem for this remari faithfat and laborious sanitary inspector. Ki ally, yours, EB PARKS, ‘danltaty Superjntendent.