The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1869, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Al) business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Tieratp. Loiters and packages should ba properly sealed. Rej turned. vill be re. not OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.-Unnra cite GAas- Liga FIFTH A Twenty-fourth #t,—Tur Doxe’'s M ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth strest—Hermwann, one Gnkar PURSTIDIGIZATEGR, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.-Tur DRAMA 07 Aavrrie Ew'ty. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND M ner Thirtieth st,—Matinee dail QERTE, Broadway, cor forinance every 0Yeu ing. BOWERY THEATRE, Pony THIRVE THREAT) i. ORBRRE—BAKTY away and Ith strect, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strest.—Tar BuRLESgut ov Bap DIOKkKY, GRAND OPERA Hous: nar ot Kighth aranue and ‘Wa wtreet.—LINGARD'S BURLESQUE COMBINATION. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234st., botween Sth ang 8th atn— GUY MANNERING. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA H¢ YOOALIGM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, &1¢ Bro 18M, NRGRO ACTS, dc. RYANT'S OPERA HOUS ¢.—-BUYAN'8 MINSTBE! 21 Bowers.—Comie | adwey.—Coute Vooar Tammany Bullding, 4th SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, (85 Broa iway.-Eruco- PIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGRO Acts. £0,—“Hasa,” WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 710 Broadway.—Kf\ro- WIAN MINGTRELSY, NEGRO ACTS, 40. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Equrstatan AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANCES, &0, Matinee at 2h. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklrn.—Hoo.ny's MINGTRELS—TaE PETRIFIED GIANT, AO. APOLLO HALL, corner 28th styeet and Broadwas.—Tnk Cappiry GIANT, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, O18 Broadway SCIRNOR AND ART. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.—FeMaLEs ONLY tN ATTENDANG New York, Friday, December 31, 1869. VAGR, J—Advertizements, 2—Advertisements, S—Hayt: the French and at Port au Prince to Proteciéd by the Nava! Forces of their Respective Countries— Jamaica: the La Have Case; Assembling of te Colontal Government—The Schoharie County Bank Robbery—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements. 4—Ldiortals: Leading Article on France, Cwsar- ism Ended, Responsible Government Inaugu- rated—Amusement Announcements. S—Telegraphic News from ail Parts of the World: Cabinet Crisis in France—Washington: Mr, wells Plan for Funding the Pubite Debt; roposed Annexation or British Colambla— Woman's Suffrage Convention in New Hamp- shire—Swindlers on Their ‘Trayvels—Meeting of the Tammany Hall General Committee—An Old Offender in a New Roie—Promotions and | Transfers in the Police Force—Personal Intelli- gence—German Aid Society Ball—Business Notioos Europe: the Ecumentcal Council and the Politi- cai Situation in Ireland—Proceedings in ihe Courts—New York City News and Police {ntelligence—Brooklyn City News: Edward Perry Committed to Answer for the Murder of Thomas Hayes. | ?—Rupert’s Land: the Rebellion in Winnipeg the Doom of the Dominton—The Spanish Corsair Fleet: Reason of Its Delay in New York— Financiat and Commercial Reports—Meeting of the New York Petroleum Dealers—The | English Residents Foretgan Postage Service Difficulty Settted— Highway Robberies in Chicago—Catifornia | Chinese Going South—A Marderous Sea Vlower—Remarkable Caves in low. S—The Late Railroad Raid: Mciienry's F Move- | ment and O’Doberty’s Coup—Collision of Steamboata on the East River—Lectures ; 7 Prism of Charity aud Mont Blanc—Proc ings of the Hoard of Aldermen—The Olympic Theatre Litigation—Suburban Intelligeuce— Visitors to the Yosemite Valley—The Union | League Club and Secretary Stanton—shipping | News—Advertisements, | of the Supreme | Erte Fo Court at | Ramsey directors of the Susquehanna Railroad were elected, and not the Fisk adherents \ heater, has decided that the Te Siakers axp We F number of Shakers attended the recent session of the Woman’s Suffrage Convention in Con- cord, N. H. The Shakers can very consis- | | for French honor and French prosperity. | bimself from dealing with the people, | double trouble will be certain to be aggravated \ perience of the Chamber, and by the stiffness | liamentary government, | seriously entertained NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1869, ernment Laauguratod, {n the matter of French news, so far at least | a8 the government reform movement is con- | cerned, we have got to something like firm | ground, Since September the 8th there has been suspense, uncertainty, doubt and even dan- ger. How far the promised reforms were to be carried ont no one could tell, The suspense was somewhat relieved by the elections, and | later by the Emperor's address; but the elec- { tions created fear and the Emperor's speech did noi inspire hope. The question till | remained, How much of Cxsarism was to be abandoned and how mah of responsible gov- ernment was to be granied? It was difficult to believe that the man of December, the ! head of the house of Bonaparte, the author of the “Life of Julias Cesar,” the successful representative of the one man power, would ever consent to come down to the vulgar necessity of ruling France by means of respon- sible Ministers. This difficulty, which was great in spite of the promised reforms, was increased rather than diminished by the cau- tious and reticent character of the Emperor's speech, ft now appears that the Emperor really means to reduce his promised reforms to practice, and that if the edifice is not crowned with liberty the fault will not be bis. Ilis former Ministera have reaigned, and the resignation has been accepted. M. Ollivier has been requested to undertake the formation of a Ministry, The Emperor desires him to ame persons who, associated with him, would form a homogeneous Cabinet, faithfully repre- senting the legislative majority, and resolved to carry out, in letter and spirit, the Senatus Consultum of September last. According to liberal journals personal government is at an end, and the Emperor's letter is the ‘first chapter in the history of the liberal empire."’ As we have said already, this ia compara- tively firm ground. We know now what is the political situation in Frauce. The Emperor has abandoned his former position— a posilion in which he bas done so much He is no longer the Cwesar, the autocrat, the goy- ernment, Between him and France there is henceforth to be a responsible Ministry, With some slight modifications the government of France iwill be conducted substantially as is the government of Great Britain, The Ministers | will be responsible to the Corps Legislatif and the mombers of the Corps Législatif will be responsible to the people. If the new plan works well France will have reason to be proud; for the government machine will be one of the most perfect in existence. Nomi- nally an empire, with a trnly great man at its head, France will in point of fact be a republic, We must now honestly admit that Napoleon has come up to the high expectation of his friends. Less would have been disap- pointing, more would have been unwise, He has redcemed his pledges; and if he has provoked some impatience by what seemed delay, we cannot deny, in view of the result, that the delay has been fully justified, Deeper than ever is Napoleon's name engraved on the page of history, and nobler than ever is his record. If the First Napoleon must in all time to come be opuken or as the Julius Cesar of France, Wie LOI Wapuicvn eenerony ete membered as the Augustus. Mueby however, depends on the French people themselves, It is not our belief that this transition will be got over without trouble, To the present race of Frenchraen responsible government is a theory, not an experience. The people will persist in looking to the Emperor rather than his Ministers. The Emperor will for some time to come find it difficult to restrain This by the inexperience of Ministers, by the laex- of the new machine, In selecting M. Ollivier as his first Prime Minister the Emperor has fairly conformed to the requirements of par- M. Ollivier is the only man who in present circumstances can command a majority in the Corps Législatif. Ile is the acknowledged chief of the right centre, and the ground he has taken is such that the party of the Left will find it necessary to follow his lead, unless they make up their minds to be simply obstractive. To the Em- peror he is personally attached, and ata time when the idea seemed too preposterous to be he was bold enough to conceive the recouciliation of the empire with liberty. When the Left broke up M, tently countenance the movement, for they favor in the abstract an extinction of the human species, and the womman’s auffrage doctrine tends the same way. | | Ove Oogay Mars are at present on a very | uncertain footing. Postmaster General Cres- | well is still trying to make some permanent | arrangement, but has not yet succeeded. The | mails will go ou Saturday as usual, but the arrangement is only temporary, and at any | unlucky moment we may find ourselves cut off | entirely from communication with the Old | strong and acceptable Cabinet he has a fair World, except by the expensive medium ofthe | | tation, ocean cables, which, luckily, are not yet on a strike, Wu 4 ue Cusa ano tHe Women.—Mrs. Julia Howe, in a speech at the Woman's Suf Convention in Concord, N. H., denounced Senator Sumner as an enemy of caste, for bis opposition to the recognition of Cuba, have a m riad of good advocates in the woman voters and woman lawmakers were woman suffrage only a fixed fact and Mrs, Howe a Senator in the place of Mr. Sumner, Ta PosraL Committee heard Mr, Mull the supervising architect, yoster n favor of curtailing the original plan of the new Post Office by twenty-five feet, leaving that space clear between the front wall and the boundary of the Post Office limits, The committee ara | sald to oppose the idea, They have not con- sidered the proposition to change the site of the building, as such a buge job is rather above the limit of jobbery that they have set for themselves, Coat, —The latest auction sale of Scranton coal indicates nearly the same prices as the November sale—except for stove coal, which is now a trifle lower, It is conceded that this sale will effect no change ia the prices, which yesterdiy, | The cause of Cuba would no doubt | Olliver set himself to work, and the pro- gramme of the right centre--a programme broad enough to command the support of the main body of the moderate liberals and to be satisfactory to the party of the Left—is the result of his labors. The Cabinet criais continued at a late hour yesterday even- ing. The new Ministry had not been consti- tuted, and Paris was slightly agitated by speculative comment. If the Prime Mivister designated is successful in forming a chance of hopefully launching the new consti- For his own sake, for the Emperor's snake, bul chiefly for the sake of liberty, we wish him all success, It is a new era for France. May she prove herself equal to it. Tux ArLantio AND Great WasTeRn trovures.—The office of this company, at No. 10 Broadway, presented no unusual aspect H lay, beyond the presence of two or | three rough looking individuals, who claimed | to be deputy sheriffs of the Supreme Court—a mythical designation. L¢ seems the original trouble grew ont of a difference between Melfenry, the President, and Mr. O'Doherty, Vive President and Receiver of the sd, The owners of Erie, of course, could not keep ont of railroad trouble, if there was any going on, ond Judge Barnard, of course, could not stay ont if Erie went in. That was probably the sole reason why Erie was implicated, although there has lately been ; a good deal of litigation going on between the | two roads, St was stated yesterday that the a in the Camp. There is trouble evidently brewing in the democratic happy family at Albany, They have a splendid opportunity for the reconstrac- tion of our city and State affairs on a broad and liberal soale; but in their very organiza- tion they are threatened with discord. The leaders of the party, for instance, including the Tammany and the Albany Regency, as it is reported, have agreed upon their man for President pro tem, of the Senate—a Brooklyn man at that—and upon their man for Speaker for the Assombly, looking first to experience and capability, But the Brooklynites, it seems, don't like this arrangement and won't stand it; and, still feeling sore over the original nomination, which gave the inside track to Hoffman for Governor, they are resolved to fight Tammany with a popular candidate of their own for the Speakership, ‘This may seem a small matter; but it may be the beginning of democratic discords which will run through the whole term of the Legis- lature, spoiling many nice party coleulations. The city of New York has given the democrats possession of the State, and the city, it is claimed, has been managed to this end by Tammany Hall. But let us suppose that the Brooklyn democratic managers have resolved to fight and do fight Tammany to the extent of 4 break in the party cauous for Speaker of the Assembly, and that in the Assembly they are joined by the republicans and thus elect their candidate over the Tammany man, where will the mischief in the party camp be likely to end? The republicans have played this game with some success heretofore, and they may, probably, have a chance to play it again, It matters not how meritorious or otherwise the Brooklyn or the Tammany candidate may be, if the Assemblymen from Kings county are determined upon putting their man through, make or break, they may be able to do it, Between this and Tuesday morning, when the Legislature meets, the Assembly caucus of the democrats will have to settle this matter, and there is a chance first, that there will be a hot fight in the caucus, and second, that it may result in giving the balance of power to the republicans, The Red River Rebellion, Whatever might have been thought of (his movement in the start, there is now liltle coom to doubt that the settlera of the Red River region are seriously determined to resist to the bitter end the assumption of authority attempted to be exercised over them by the Dominion government. People laughed at the idea of a handful of half-breeds flinging down the gauntlet of deflanco to a Power like Canada, backed by its burly patron, England ; bnt it appears there was something deeper in the thoughts and temper of those free born residents of Rupert's Land than simply offering annoyance to Governor McDougall and refus- {ng to recognize his official character. They believed the time had come and the opportu- nity was offered them to tell the Canadian government that its jurisdiction had a limit, halting on the boundary of the Red River country, and that any effort to assert its claims beyond this dividing line would be met in a _ apiril . The revolution they have started is an accom- plished fact, and its effects, itis easy to realize, will be as far-reaching as they are pregnant with the inevitable destiny of sanexation. The Dominion government must have long since discovered the blunder it has been guilty of in the thoughtless, cavalier fashion with which it despatched McDougall to com- mand the allegiance of these Red River people. There was something so arbitrary, and auto- cratic in the manner of the thing that, dull of sense as the “‘half-breeds” are supposed to be, they were unable to shut their eyes to the palpable imposition of the conceit, and their protest is now on what promises to be a per- manent record. That the movement will tend to revolutionize Canada there is much likeli- hood. All the means of the Dominion and all the assistance which England could spare would be inadequate to coerce the people of Red River, because they are almost inaccessible from Canada, and an army could not be sus- tained there a month, The now republic can snstain itself without difficulty, and will not be likely to take a step backward, Hayti—Prorgotion To Formtaners.—-Mat- ters are reaching a crisis in Hayti. Salnave’s last stronghold is threatened by the rebels. Fearing that the Haytien President might attempt any measures likely to jeopardize the lives or the property of foreigners, the cap- tains ofthe French and English men-of-war lying in the harbor of Port au Prince have notified Salnave that in case they see any sus- picious movement on the approach of the insurgents they will land troops and resist such aa attempt. Are there no Americans doing business in the doomed city, or is that the reason why American naval captains have not interfered ? Tor Narionat Banks.—Treasarer Spinner, in reply to an Eastern capitalist who complains that the national banks are insolent mono- polies, says they can be keptin bounds by the Secretary of the Treasury if he enforces sirictly the National BankingMlaw. But is the law strictly enforced, and are not national banks insolent monopolies ? A Worp of Apvice To THE GroreraNs.— We learn that the conservatives of Georgia are very much excited over the new recon- struction law passed by Congress and ap- proved by the President tor the benefit of Georgia, and that there is some reason to apprehend that Governor Bullock has placed his life in danger by his labors at Washington in behalf of this measure. If, however, parti- san vengeance should take the horrid form of assassInation against Governor Ballock, the consequences will not soon be forgotton by the Georgians. Their only course is submis- sion to the laws and the acceptance of the terms of restoration laid down to them by Con- MecHeary, having seized what documents he needed from the office at No. 40 Broadway, had disappeared. | ‘Tite Brar Sias for the peace of Europe is ; found Ig the; fact that the Powers ~— | parfag themselves ao splendidly for war. Cere fs good news for the people; since, as it was , is the wick man himself a buyer in our markets 3 could go lower, annot go higher, soarcely expected that pri it Se good to know that they of three hundred and fifty thousand Springfield | muskets gress. Further resistance is worse than useleas, and any manifestations of violence | against the constituted authorities will surely | bo pnt down, If the conservative party of | Georgia would act wisely they will seck rather to repress than to encourage or wink at any mensures of violence against any indi- vidual representing or upolding the lawa or tho ostablishod anthorities over the State, Scandal. We published yesterday the initial chapter of Mrs. Stowe's forthcoming book on the Byron scandal, Without deeming it necessary to reiterate our expressed convictions with reference to the whole disgusting subject, we may note as suggestive the statements by Mrs. Stowe that she was astounded at the storm of indignation and controversy provoked by her article in the Atlantic Monthly, purporting to be “The True Story of Lady Byron's Life ;” that she has no apology to make for the alleged inferiorily of that article asa literary effort; that she has purposely abstained from reading any of the criticisms to which, never- theless, she now intends to reply; that she thought it her duty to write the article in de- fence of ‘‘a beloved, revered friend,” whose memory had been unjustifiably charged with the most repulsive crimes by # writer in Blackwood, July, 1869, and by writers in other British periodicals, who recommended “the Guiccioli book” as interesting from its being the avowed production of Lord Byron’s mistress; that Lady Byron’s intimate personal friends had remained silent notwithstanding the accusations which at length constrained herto speak; that she claims and declares she will prove that Lady Byron was the victim of a concerted attack begun by her husband during her lifetime and coming to a climax over her grave; that she claims and will prove that it was not berself who stirred up this contro- versy in 1869, but she ‘‘will show who did it ;” that she has violated no promise or seal of se- crecy in making her extraordinary disclosures ; that she appeals to “her fellow countrymen, the men of the press,” for a fair hearing of her response to the “abusive attacks” which have been made upon her both here and in Europe ; and that she promises to substantiate what she has already asserted and to add to her “‘true story” such facts and incidents as she did not think proper at first to state. Mrs, Stowe is certainly warranted in asking for a ‘fair hearing” from the press, although we believe that the minds of ‘the men of the press” and of the public are not only pretty well mado upasto the meri(s of the Byron controversy, but also gltogett er tired of it, In this connection we may allude to the an- nouncement of another new book—‘‘Medora Leigh: A diary and autobiography”’—to be edited by Charles Mackay and published by Bentley, of London. The veteran publisher recently telegraphed to Mrs, Stowe an urgent request that she would postpone the publica- tion of her book until she should have had an opportunity of correcting her impression and of learning the origin of the slanderous charge of incest brought against Lord Byron and his half-sister, the Hon. Mrs, Leigh. Medora Leigh was the fourth daughter of Mrs. Leigh. At the age of fifteen, while living with her elder sister, the wife of ‘the scoundrel” Tre- vanion, she was seduced by her sister's hus- band, who, after separating from his wife, carried Medora to the south of France. There the seducer and his victim lived together for several years before, in order to retain his hold upon her, Trevanion invented and told her the horrible story that Lord Byron was her father. This story Medora communicated eq y of the story, hunted up Medora and brought her home, but afterwards, in one of her freaks, sent her away. Such, according to this ‘Diary and Autobiography,” which, brief and meagre as it is, Mr. Bentley believes to be authentic, is the story which crazed Lady Byron and which, repeated by Mrs, Stowe, has scandalized the world. Perhaps Mrs, Stowe will tell us something more about Medora Leigh in her forthcoming volume. Onr City Schools, At an extra session of the Commissioners of Common Schools in the city of New York, on Wednesday evening, the annual report of the City Superintendent for 1869 was presented and ordered to be printed in document form, We published yesterday the interesting report, which shows that, on the whole, our city schools are in an encouraging condition, The total number of pupils taught has been 237,325, and the average attendance 102,970. But the Superintendent complains of the lack of accom- modation in the schools, and says that from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand - children roam the streets and never attend school. Measures should be promptly taken to remedy both these great evils, The aggregate amount expended during the year ending Sep- tember 30, 1869, was $2,961,361. The esti- mate for the ensuing year is $2,382,000. The whole number of classes examined was 1,514, of which more than five-sixths were found satisfactory. This is creditable allke to pupils and teachers. The Superintendent is mani- festly imbued with modern humane notions of discipline, inasmuch as he expressed his belief that no absolute necessity exists for the con- tinuance of corporal punishment, as that mode of discipline is liable to abuse, and he recommended the adoption of rules providing for the suspension or expulsion of vicious and contumacious pupils, It is nevertheless oer- tain that there are exceptional cases to which only Solomon’s wise old rule, ‘Spare the rod, and spoil the child,” is still applicable. Tae Nevrrauitry Laws Enrorogp.—The thirteen Spanish gunboats are still detained at Quarantine, not by stress of weather, but by | Mr. Delamater, the builder, who holds them until } his little bill is settled, Thus he is enforcing, for his individual benefit, the neutrality laws which Secretary Fish would not enforce for the honor of the country. It is stated that the crews are barbarously treated, and many of them are deserting. Tox Nomsrovs Buroarms chronicled in the Police Court records during the holidays should stimulate the police to redoubled vigi- lance at this season of the year, and citizens should take special precautions against the hordes of sneak thieves who now infest the eity. Tax Case or Joun Ruat in the General ‘Term ot the Supreme Court no longer binges on the probabilities of a hieroglyphic. The stenographer who took notes at his frst trial testified yesterday that an exception was taken to the question in reference to Real having been in the penitentiary, by his counsel at that hearing, and the question of granting a new trial on account of that exception Is now | the important point to he argued, | Peance—Cwsnrlan Knded—Responsible Gov- |The Now Democratic Loexislature—Troubie | Mrs. Stowe’s New Sook on the Byron! Tho Board of Houlth on Polsoneus Coss motice. The Board of Health of this city shows that it comprehends its duty to the public in exposing the destructive effacts of cosmetics to the lives and health of the large class of People who use these insidious poisons. In the abstract of a report of the Sanitary Superintendent, Dr. Harris, to the Board of Health, which was published in the Hmnatp yesterday, attention is called to the unre- stricted sale of poisonous solutions and pre- parations oflead, under the name of cosmetics, bloom of youth, hair dyes, hair invigorators, &c. Dr, Harris, after referring to two casos of death by such lead poisoning, read a letter from Dr. Louis A. Sayre on the subject gene- rally. This distinguished surgeon sent a report of three cases of poisoning by the use of cosmetic known, as he says, by the namo of “Laird’s Bloom of Youth,” which many of our fashionable ladies employ to beautify their complexions. Dr. Sayre adds in his letter :— “It seems to me that the suppression of this dangerous cosmetic is a duty devolving on Se vase REE Ua ace daetbeh mae 2 a your Board as much as that of any other poison, Thousands are using it-daily in ignorance of ita composition, and 1 think its sale ought to be prohibited by the strong arm of the law.” The Sanitary Snperintendent remarks that Dr. Sayro does not exaggerate the danger that is experienced by all persons who apply this class of cosmetits to their faces or other portions of their bodies. Dr. Sayre has had several cases of fearful paralysis under his treatment produced by the use of this‘and other cosmetics, has paid particular attention to the subject, and has determined to make relentless war on this great and dan- gerous evil. The Sanitary Superintendent notices one case of death from lead poisoning, which ocourred in one of our city hotels, It was that of a merchant of some distinction, who was killed by the daily use of a hair wash that is believed to have contained large quan- tities of acetate and carbonate of lead. Some very excellent remarks are made, too, in the report upon the importance of using iron or ‘tinned pipes instead of lead ones in our dwell- ings for conveying the water we drink. We hope the Board of Health and the doctors gihocelly will Et this wiles thoronghiy, 80 as to influence the Legislature to pass a law to protect the public health. Anornen Kyook at tHe Door.—Mr. Vincent Colyer has returned to Washington and presented to General Grant a memorial of the citizens of Victoria and other towns in Vancouver's Island asking for annexation. The memorial in full is published elsewhere in our columns, It was shown by Mr. Colyer to Senator Sumner, who said that it was im- portant and could have but one termination, Here is another instance of the fact that the great Canadian Dominion 1s a failure. New- foundland and Nova Scotia are stoutly pro- testing against being confederated with it, Rupert's Land is in armed rebellion against it, and now Vancouver's Island demands immunity from it. All these colonies are tending irre- sistibly towards annexation with the United States, and there is a splendid chance for President Grant to settle the Alabama claims with justice and satisfaction to all parties by North American possessions. Tug Larest Bovrson Manires10.—Henri Bourbon, Count de Chambord, represents the legitimate line of the Bourbons, He is one of the two pretenders to the French throne. The other pretender is the Duke de Chartres, grandson of Louis Philippe. Count de Chambord sees the changes which are taking place in France. He could tolerate the empire and Cresarism; but he cannot tolerate the empire and liberty. Napoleon’s reforms have frightened him. Hence the Count’s loud talk about hereditary rights. For seventeen years the Count has been watching the empire. Now that the empire enters upon a new phase the Count feels called upon to reiterate heredi- tary clalms. If France prefers to remain & monarchy, why should not France be as happy with a Bourbon as with a Bona- parte? This manisfesto of the Count re- veals one of the difficulties of the hour, Napoleon cannot live always. So soon as he is dead the Bourbons, younger and older, will have as good a chance as the gon of the Third Napoleon. But France must be allowed to judge for herself. ese Don’t Like AMERICAN Cruisens.—A London newspaper is troubled on the subject of the present organization and force of the American navy. The writer ‘‘blames Secretary Robeson for confining his attention to cruisers,” and advises him to build line-of-battle ships after the fashion of England, the British Admiralty being satisfied that the latter class of vessels afford the greatest offensive and defensive qualities, Secretary Robeson may not see it, perhaps, in this light. The Alabama was exceedingly effective as a cruiser, as were the American cruisers of the war of 1812, even against British line-of-battle ships, Tor BrookryN Murper.—There has just been killed in Brooklyn a man resolute in the honest discharge of a trust, and the appear- ances are that he was killed because of his determined honesty, He knew and declared before his death the name of the man who shot him, It now appears that this man had pre- viously tried to tempt the victim, and that he had offered him five hundred dollars to be con- veniently blind to his operations, and had threatened otherwise to take his life. The operations in question were stealing junk from the premises the watchman was employed to guard. This makes the story pretty plain, The watchman knew the rogue as well as one man knows another, and it is not possible that he could have mistaken him. Over where this happened the District Attorney has recently given good evidence of honest purpose, and this rogue will hardly escape the halter. In the examination before Judge Troy, yesterday, the testimony was very damaging to the prisoner. American Waar accumulates in great quantity in the ports of London and Liver- pool, The cargoes at sea yerterday bound for England from the United States were seventy- four in excess of thoso afloat at this season last yoar. Excellent news for the working- men aud paupers of Great Britain, and with the certainty, too, that there is plenty moro, with “plenty of toom,” where the supply comen from, . Seusatioual Art, and « Artista, It is a very blear-eyed sort of taste that sees much humor in the parade made a few days since at the Jefferson Market Police Court of the domestic difficulties of the Lingard-Needham family, with all the maudlin sentiment of the husband and the spiteful temper of the wife. That a wife more or less attractive should give occasion for jealousy, and that a husband should thereby be driven to the oblivion of a quart of sherry, and still be sober enough to have more thought for his children than his spouse, is a sufficiently commonplace story, and one that may, from its triteness, have little interest for the public. Neither would it be of much public account that such events occurred among public per- formers that have come to us fsom the London slums, if it were not from the fact that just such performers seem at present to be the especially favored ones of this metropolis, and their art that which the people accopt with the loudest admiration. But it is a point of interest to get at the origin of what amuses the people, and to view the atmosphere in which their favorites are at home, since this helps in the estimate of the moral scope and refining influence of the amusement and the favorite, Out of this reeking vulgarity, then, arise the syren songs that have taken captive all eara, and from this disgustingly low life comes the Captain Jinks which invades half our parlors. These coarse, quarrelsome and degraded persons are the dis- tinguished ones in an art that has well nigh driven all other art from our stage—that has thrust the grand old drama of our language into the shade and put to silence the voice of true music. As water does not rise higher than the level of ita source, and as art is very like it in this respect, we may, lu the nature of its chosen exponents, view the promise of the theatrical art that now flourishes most among us. Perhaps when we have accepted alto- gether the British burlesque and the comio song as the types of all our mirth and merri- ment, we may rise to a general emulation of the manners and the morals just shown up at Jefferson Market, View of the Our Evropean Correspondence. Our special correspondence ‘from Europe embraces letters recording the progress of the Eeumenical Council in Rome and of the radical agitation for land tenure reform in Ireland; the one of interest to the world at large and, as alleged by the Catholic bishops, of the highest importance to mankind, both in the present and hereafter; and the other of the really vital consequence, to the temporali- ties at least, of some millions of people who, remaining falthful to Rome, have at length adopted the motto recommended by Sydney Smith to théir forefathers, of ‘Erin go bread and cheese, Erin go pantaloons without holes. in them.” His Holiness the Pope was person- ally “merry” and joyous, the attendancp at the Council being numerous and brilliant, the lettera of credit from abroad duly honored, and the American treasure boxes emptied in safety and ‘‘all right.” The question of personal infallibility remained as a distracting embarrassment, and with Antonelli, omnipresent and haughty, as its visible per- sonification and untiring advocate, —, force to Ireland. The people remained, how- ever, still more persistent and, if possible, more deflant in their demands for industrial redress and the obtainment of a legal security of their right to live on the soil of thelr birth after the payment of a fair rent. Both these matters will receive the attention of the American public, as they are presented ably and in very agreeable > form by our writers, Goop Rervst.—In the frnit-growing coun- ties of Delaware the farmers gather up the refuse and unmerchantable peaches and apples and make them into brandy worth three dollars a gallon. Practica Work For Mx. Brnen.— Mr. Bergh can only enforce such a law as that he acts under when lie moves in sym- pathy with the goneral thought of the commu- nity. Otherwise he excites opposition. We doubt the wisdom of his assaults on anything that passes for ‘‘sport” to a considerable number of intelligent persons—as pigeon matches and cocking mains; but there could be no doubt of the praiseworthy character of anything he might do to improve the condition of the “‘live stock markets” in our neighbor- hood. Two Srrines to His Bow.—The potiey business and swill milk make good team. Who would have thought that the great policy dealer, responsible for so much of the degradation of the city poor, could also have upon his soul a swill milk iniquity—that at the same time he sells to the father a delusive chance for fortune he sells poisoned food for the child? Yet in the Board of Health report of a swill milk stable we find that the name of tho owner is set down as ‘Ben Wood.” Women 1N Tae Case.—According to an old saying there is a woman at the bottom of every quarrel, and the correspondent of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse illustrates the truth of the assertion. From inquiries instituted on tho spot during his late visit to Cairo he dis~ covered the real cause of the difference between the Sultan of Turkey and the Viceroy of Egypt to originate in the harem, It appears that on the occasion of the last visi: of the Viceroy to Constantinople he was accompanied by the ladies of his harem, all dressed in the latest Parisian style, The Sultan's ladies were in raptures and-begged. to be allowed the same privilege, The Com-: mander of the Faithful knew no peace from that day. Perplexed at the expense that such proceedings would incur, he vented hia rage upon the Viceroy, upbraiding him for his lavish extravagance and spendthrift. habits. Every effect must havea cause, and if this version should not be quite correct.there may yet be some truth attached to it, Tut Leorarp ann His Srorx—A London paper says:—‘‘The Eoumenical Council would do us a service if they would propound and answer the question, ‘Why is it that Christianity and civilization have failed to give us tho mannera of gentlemen ?'” This is aaid apropos to the story of the yood manners and courtesy of the Arabs aud the boorishness of the Epglishimen at the late gathering at Oalro, The diffoulty, however, is not with Ohris- tlanity, nor could Christianity mend tt till tt oonld torn Englishmgn to Arabs.