The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1870, Page 6

6 EUROPE. How the English Swallow American Canards, POLITICS AND RELIGION IN IRELAND. President Grant's Message in Paris. Russian Entente with North Germany and Austria. ‘The German mail steamship Main, Captain Otern- orp, which lef Southampton, England, on the 21st f December, arrived at this port yesterday noon, @elivering our special correspondence and news paper mail reports, in detail of our cable telegrams, dated to her day of sailing. ‘The Bull published in Rome providing that, in case the Pontifical ghair might become vacant during the pitting of the Ecumenical Council, the Counetl should only reassemble at the pleasure of the new Pontify, is “a preliminary formality appertaining to all councils of the Catholic Church.” The Berlin journais speak slightingly of the Em- peror of Austria’s speech from the throne, ‘The Ottoman government has decided that after the month of March, 1870, the port of Soulina shalt be declared free for all merchandise except salt, gunpowder and tobacco. Mr. Watkin Williams, M. P., presided, on Decem- ‘ber 20, over a meeting of Welshmen resident in Lon- Gon, called for the purpose of organizing a metro- politan movement ior protecting the Welsh tnantry who had been evicted by their landlords for political reasons. "ENGLAND. The Alabama Controversy Reopencd—British Press Comments—American Canards and Hlow They are Swallowed. Lonpon, Dec, 20, 1869, It is amusing to witness the extreme sensativeness of the English press on the subject of the Alabama controversy. Every rumor that is set afloat, how- ever absurd it may be, is seized upon with avidity by the English papers and made the vopic of a food @1 editorials travelling over and over again the well beaten track of the merits of the discussion from the British point of view. When a penny-a-liner on the other side of the Atlantic being short of a para- graph starts a story that the administration at Washington are desirous that negotia- tions between the two governments snould be resumed; or when a correspondent of a London Journal, writing from America, throws in a similar statement as a sort of spice to a very insipid letter, straightway every London editor sharpens his goose quili and plunges over head and ears Into the oft told tale of what England will do and what Eng- land will not do in the matter of the Alabama claims. This industrious patriotism has recently been called into activity for the hundredtu time by a stupid story set afloat by a New York paper of very lumited circulation and less mfluence to the effect that General Grant bas expressed a wish that nego- tiations in regard to the Anglo-Confederate pirates should be reopened provided they might be car- med on at Washington instead of in London. Apart from the very bad compliment this Proposition would convey to Minister Motley, its Smprobability might have been seen at once, coming as it did on the heels of the President’s Message to Congress, in which Is clearly laid down the doctrine that America can afford to wait for justice and re- paration, and tat England, having been gulity of a “great wrong” to a friendly government in its hour of need, must be prepared to acknowledge her error and volunteer atonement before any satisfactory solution of the difficulty can be hoped. Yet this canard has sufficed to open the Alabama floodgates once again, and every London paper, from the Times down to the Pall Mail Gazette, has treated its readers to a rehash of the old story of England’s great generosity to the United States government during the Southern rebellion; of what England might have done if she had chosen to listen to the French Emperor’s proposition for the Teeognition of the Southern Confederacy; of the vile conduct of the American Senate is exercising their constitutional right to reject the treaty made by the ‘wary diplomatic dinner eater, Reverdy Johnson; of the willingness of Eugland to make any reasonable concessions in the way of damages for the depreaa- tions of the British built pirate vessels, and of the determination of that subborn old gentleman, John Bull, not to yield an inch to the buliying Americans 4o any other direction, Now all vbis ts no doubt very patriotic and praise- Worthy in an Englist journalist; but these gentle- men appear to forget that there is au American side to the Alabama question as weil as an English side, and that it is destined to make iwelf heard before any settlement of the diiliculy can be reached. Itis adie for English writers to deny that their govern- ment was unfriendly to the Union cause, and, as far as prudence would warrant, friendly to the South, during the American reveilion. The American Lega- tion at the Court of St, James is im a position to know the wortllessaess of such denials. The Minister has been changed, it is true, since the period of Kogiand’s wrong doing, winch cominenced under Mr. Dallas, was continued under Adains, and has been since passed over through the diplomatic records to RKeverdy Johnson aud Motiey. But the Secretary of Legation, Benjamin Moran, held the po- ition he now filis before the American war, and has retained it upto the present time. Jt ts his testi- Mony, repeatedly given to bis friends, that the en- Mmity of tue English government to the Union cause ‘Was shown at every turn aud ina Wiousand ways. In ihe matier of the Alabama, says Secretary Moran, is evinced itself in the cool mdiference, amounting al- most 10 insolence, that was exinbited by nearly every oilicial, with wnom Lhe officers of the Embassy came in contact during the collection of evidence as to the piraticai character of the new vessel. If proof was Yo be procured the American Embassy and 118 at- taches were expected to do the work of detectives, and when their sworn affidavits were produced taey ‘were received with @ supercilious indifference that mudicated how littie eflicacy tuey would have in pre- Veuting the escape of the pirate. The rebel ageats ‘Would never bave Succeeded as well as they did in raising money in Englana, Mr. Moran believes, had they not received so much semi-oflicial encourage- ment and countenance for their negotiations, How idie, then, must it be for the Britisn govern- ment to hope to open negotiations with an embassy go Well posted on Engiand’s “great wrong domy,”? with a meaningless diplomatic assurance of Eng. Jand’s friendliness to the republic during the rebel- Non, Indeed even among bugiish writers, despite aheir repeated declarations whenever the Alavama question 1s touched that the rebels received no sort of undue encouragement here, the contrary tact often peeps out iuadvertently. ‘The last Saturday Review, in & notice of Mr. Dallas’ letters from Lon- don, says that the “snarling and arrogent tone of Amertcan diplomacy had produced its natural impression wien the Northern States suddenly i to the sympathy of England,’’ and adas:—“if the people of the United States had favored the cause of justice in the Russian war 1b 1s robable that ve plausible prevensions of the Con- lederate governineut wou.’ bave been more severely examined.” The Review might be reminded t “American diplomacy” had up to the tine of the civil war been Mainly in tee hands of tne nen who made aud not Of thoze who opposed the rebellion, and that hence the ‘‘natural impression’ made by its “snarling ana arrogant tone” inighi rather have told against the Bouts than the North had not tke sympathies of England been with those who desired break up wwe republic. But wm is only necessary here to notice the admission that for some cause of.other the “plausioie pretensions of tue Confederate government” were not “severely examined” by the government of England. Now, tt may be very true that in all this weil- known sympatily with the Southern rebels Hugiaud avoided any overt act that might be estabiisned against her, according to the most approved forms of diplomatic red-tapeism, but the American peopie are accustomed to recogiize the mated g.ove on ihe band of an enemy, even though it may be covered with the soltest of kid. ‘they know at heart that England was their deadly foe during their struggle jor lie, aud they tusist, with General Grant, what an acknowledgnient stiali be made of the “great wrong’’ done to tue United States by England 8a preliminary to the settiement of claims arising ouro! the depredations of Anglo-Confederaie pirates. ‘Tuey wiake no biuster about it; they only suy that bey can afford to wait until England, perhaps by + bitter experience, shall be brought to a sense of her wrong doing aud prepared vo atone for it by # frank acknowledgment of Ler error. The truth may a8 well be known first as last, that be s0-vailed Alabama dilliculty staucs a poor chance i being settied in avy Way short of this, aniess ina moment of rasiiness the controversy should pro- duce che deploradie calamity of an appeal to arms, Of this it is to be hoped tuere is po danger; buat, cer- falnly, if the question 19 Hot Lo be leit au open one to bake vase Chagcos of tue Unverun lulure, apd Many _were liable at any moment to “orange” color. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JA settlement ts to be reached, the american press and here: mould be uo tale of @. Te be known, ere ali no openii Fab aye ‘unless they contemplate as a prel: e satisfaction of the honor and of the republic, To take a few beggarly dollars to cry quite with an enemy that lotied against the life of their nation would be a ion to Which it isto ve hoped Americans would never submit, A government that should attempt such a “settlement would be buried under an avalanche of public indignation.” It isto be regretted that apy American journal should be willing for any cause to misrepresent its own country by concoc! eanards which attribute to General Grant’s administration an anxiety to re- open the Alabama negotiations on any other terms than those 80 Clearly implied in the ntial message. The Pauperism of London—Bankruptcy—The Yacht Decrhound—American Shipbuilding. In the frat week of December 147,418 persons were receiving parochtal relief in the workhouses and unions of London, in the proportion of 36,537 indoor paupers to 110,881 outdoor, The total number showed an increase of 5,727 upon the Agures of last year. Lord A, P. Clinton, formerly M. P. for Newark, England, applied to the Bankruptcy Court, London, for his discharge. The toval debts were £34,134, and there was a deficiency of more than £29,000, His lordship made a proposal to nis creditors that he should get asize £100 a year out of bis Income of £400 until he snould have paid a composition of 48. in the pound, The suspension 18 announced of Messrs. Bradley Brothers & Leedham, wholesale Warehousemen, of Great Carter lane, Londup. ‘The award of commissions and prizes to the suc- cesstul cadets in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich was made December 20 by the Duke of Cambridge. In addressing the successful candidates his Koyal Highness tinted at the approaco of changes in the estabishment, ‘Toe Givbe of December 20 says the report trans. mitted by cable of the loss of the yacbt Deerhound 1g untrue, She arrived safe at Malta on tue 14th of December. Sir Staiford Nortcote was in Paris, aud 8 letter Was received irom hin, it was said, in Lon- on. ‘The 1088 book at Lloyd’s, London, December 20, told heavily on the underwriters and marine insur- ance companies. It notified no jewer than thirty- #iX vessels wrecked, three of which were steamers. The London Tires, commenting on the decline of the shipbuilding trade in the Uniled States, says:— “Native industry 18 protected 80 effectually in the United States that any American who wishes to buy @ sulp must employ an American shipouider to bud it for him, and yet, for ull that, American shipbullders have no work, and the oid carrying trade of the country 18 lost, In Engiand there are, unhappily, thousands of workingmen out of em- ployment, but if that efiect were due to the Freuch treaty, how is it the want of empioyment is just a3 great im France? The American system has been appealed to as proof of the soundness of protec- Uonist theories, but the report to te New York Cuamber of Commerce ig tull of compiaimts agamst the one-sided operation of the tari, IRELAND. Party Divis! and Political Disorganiza- tion—The Londonderry Excitement—Goveru- ment Precautions=Tbhe March of Troops Liberal Association. Lonvonperry, Dec. 17, 1869. ‘The celebrations in connection with the “shutting of the gates of Derry,” which are to take place with the next four and twenty hours, have been jooked forward to for several months past with great anxiety and alarm. Under existing circumstances I do not think that such apprehensions are altogether groundiess. Circumstances of recent occurrence, coupled with the present attitude of parties here, Justify, in my mind at least, the concern which exists with regard to the demonstrations. Party leeling throughout the country is high, par- ticularly in Ulster, The ‘ntroduction into Parliament of Mr, Gladstone’s Suspensory bill awakened the sectarian spint of the North; and what hag since taken place, I need scarcely say, is but lil calculated to allay it. Let me not be understood to insinuate that I regard Mr. Glad- svone’s Church policy as an evil; on the contrary, I believe it to be the most salutary measure, in regard to Ireland, which has ever received the sanction of the British Parliament. This, I have no doubt, will be seen tn due time. Notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary, I hold two parties here, and not Mr. Gladstone’s Church bill, responsible for the present agitated state of the country. These two parties are the Fenian party and the tory land- lords. Both were opposed to the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church, as tasy are now opposed to the settlement of the land ques- tion, and as they, doubtless, will be opposed to every other measure likely to promote the wellbeing and prosperity of the country. To the Fenian party I referred at some length in a former letter. As for the landlorde, I cannot heip thinking that, before long, they will seriously repent their present conduct. I do not hesitate to say that that they are domg every taing in their power to bring the Irish policy of the present govermment intg contempt. Tuey are at the bottom of all the disturbances which have taken place throughout the country. Through their exertions the Fenian candi- date was returned at the ‘Tipperary election. In Louth a tenant right meeting was disturbed, and the chairman, Lord Bellew, said that those who created the disturbance were not Fenians, but per- sons sent there for political purposes by those in high station. In Belfast, a tew days since, no less a personage than the Duke of Abercorn, Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland under the late government, de- clared that the agitated state of the couniry was entirely owing to the policy of Mr. Gladstone. In the same place, and at the same time, Mr. Johnston, M. P., advised the men of Derry to hold their proces- Sion 1n commemoration of the “shutting of the gates.” It is really disgraceful for persons holding high and responsible positions to falsify in this fashion the conduct of public men, and to incite the multi- tude to acts which may bring them into personal conilict with the government and even endanger their lives, But, besides the disestabiishment of the Irish Church, which came upon them iike a thunder clap, the Orangemen of the North, and particularly those of the city in which I now write, have nad recently other matters of a local nature to embitter and sour their temper. One grievance, people say, never comes alone, and during the last few months the Orangemen of Ulster have had their share. It has long been a specia! privilege with the Orangemen or Derry to return a member to Parliament, whose political opinions were of the “true blue” kind, and be changed into But at the late general election a Derry man of sound liberal opinions and of very humble parentage deteatea the son of the Lord Lientenant, a tact which his viceregal parents are said to have felt very acutely. ‘Ine retura of Mr. Sergeant Dowse was indeed a severe blow to Orange- ism in Derry and a great triumph io the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian electors, who united themselves to secure his election. ‘The riots which took place when the Queen’s son, Prince Arthur, visited Derry some few months ago, have also becn very unfortunate for the Orange party. ‘They gave his Royal Highness an opportu- ity of seeing and feeling what a detestable tung Orangeism is, though hig royal father had once the misfortune to laud it highly. A commission was ap- pointed to 1nquire Into the canse of the riots on that occasion, and the commissioners, within the last few days, have strongly condemned the annua ceiebra- tion of the ‘closing of the gates” and ali ovber demonstrations which occasionally take place’in this city of @ party or sectarian character. But, notwitustaadiog the humiliation whicn the Orange ‘party during the last twelve montis have undergone, in regard to religious ascendancy, to their local politics and to the blow that ts aimed at their party demonstrations, they nave still tbe same disposition to Tide rough-shod over their Roman Catiolic Iellow subjects. . They have always been favorites with the british government, and have been aphetd as the dominant caste in this country by the strong arin of English law; but now, when stripped of thetr power and no longer protected in an ascen- dancy msultung to the great bulk of the people, they cauuot entertain even the idea of placing vhaemseives on ao equality with the old population of the coun- try. Iti8 not @ Characterisuc of Uraugeism to be humble or subimisstve when it meets reverses or is wuttering from defeat, ‘Tne reverse, I believe, Is nearer to the trath. It would appear that, as it de- cliaes In strength and power, it increases im viru- Jence and ma ni indeed, if the testimony of old and respectable inhabitants of this city be worth anyting, both pariies—tue Orangemen and the Ko- man Catholics—approach the celebration of the 16ist anniversary of “the shutting of the gates’? with feel- ing no less bitter, no less intense than those hy which they were actuated on similar occasions in the past. A society here cailing itself the ‘Liberal Work- ingman’s Defence Association” has, it appears, done not a little to arouse the spirit of the Orange party. indeed, the temerity and the defant attitude which the association assumed are, in my opiuion, whoily inexcusabie, A week or two ago this association memorauzed the Lord Lieuteuaut, praying nis ex- cellency to adopt such measures aa may prevent any breach of tie peace at the celebration of tie ap- proaching anniversary, Tie memorauste then de- clare that, in case the government do not protect them, they are determined to taxe the law tnto ther, own hands and to protect themselves by physical’ force, ‘This 13 ® threat to tue governwentana & chalenge to the Urapgemes, ‘Yue Lord Qieulenant replied by saying that “he learns with deep regret that nob an basociasion should have been formed, and he cannot but strongly deprecate any attempt on the part of an association or number of persons to take the Jaw into their own hands. and he thinks it right to warn the members of that assoctation, snd all other persons, that any recourse on their part to physical force will lead to deplorable conse- woeneee § and cannot, under any ciroumstances, be it ba will be seen how the Apprentice Boys, or Orangemen, regarded the address of the association to the Lord Lieutenant, At @ meeting of the city magistrates the following resolution was passed:— “That the Apprentice Boys dispense with music and banners, and that they burn Lundy anywhere but at Walker's pillar, and if they do the magistrates will not interfere with the rest of the programme.” The Apprentice Boys then held a meeting to consider the resolution passed by the magistrates. The conclu. Me ehetbon made oy tue nlagisteates it Was 1apOssi- a jons made by the ma; at Wi - ble for them to comply with their request, because vb reeing to any concessions they wouid only be sleidfng to body of men who have declared that Uhey are prep: to resort to physical force in order to suppress oyal demonstrations, and that such sub- mission to the will of persons who have been de- scribed by the laie royal comanissioners as ignorant and uneducated would lead to re- sults that cannot at present be contemplated, and would on thelr part be a surrender of both princi- le and honor, In this resolution they retort with fearful effect to the memorial addr to the Vice- roy by the Giberal Association, and { must confess that they have the vest of the argument. By their temerity the members of the association have dam- aged considerably the liberal cause and given to the Orangemen an opportunity, of which they were not slaw to@vail themselves, of obtaining an easy vic- tory over them, Tdo not believe that the memortalists had any intention of resorting to physical force, and that they merely expressed themselves to that effect for ‘the two-fold purpose of intimidating the bial aed and of inducing the government to adopt such mea- sures as would prevent any celepration from being held. The government have, it must be confessed, done everything in their power to prevent any breach of the peace, On Wednesday evening a force of seventy men of the Royal irish constabylary, precy Ore of whom were mounted, were gent down trom Dublin to Derty by 4} train. On Thurs- day morning a troop he Eighth huzzars, numbering about seventy men, arrived hel Dundalk. A detachment of the Forty-fourth rege ment, from Enniskillen, arrived here yesterday. Besides these a very large namber of the Koyal Irish constabiary have been sent in from the neighboring counties, indeed, with such an overwhelming force, 1 do not see how it 18 possible for any disturb- ‘ance to take place. But, in case anything does happen, it is certain to be set right in & very short time. If voth parties were left to themselves { feel certain that disturbances would ensue, but, under existing circumstances, the case is different. Two proclamations: from the association above referred to were extensively posted on the walls of this city @ few days back. In one of these prociama- tions the members of the association request their friends from the country to meet in the Dia- mond of Londonderry on December 18, and to enter the town’quietly without any manifestation calculated to lead toa breach of the peace. Tne other contains some very pertinent remarks which I consider worthy of insertion here. *Protestanis,’’ they say, ‘‘we appeal to you. Is it fair thas tne vic- tories obtained by the Engiish over the Irish, or the Protestant over the Catholic, centuries ago should still every succeeding anniversary be fought agsin by you over the imaginary foe who has so long ceased to exist? Is it not disgracetul in these days of peace and progress tbat you siould aliow these matters to continue? If the victories of the past were reversed what would be your opinion it the Catholics would treat you in @ similar manner?’’ Indeed, I cannot help thinking with the association ‘that it is by no means fair or right or 7 that these demonsirations of party feeling should be allowed to continue. Were they put an end to es some means or other it_ would @ happy day for the peace of this unfortunate city. My residence here, short as it has been, has convinced me that all re- spectable and loyal men in the city are quice op- posed to their continuance. ‘hey express their opinion freeiy that they ought to be abolisned, and to this opinion, { need hardly say, I most readtly sub- scribe my own. ’ FRANCE. * President Grant’s Message—Radical Propn- gandism—Newspaper Edorte—Srish Emigra- tion to Algeria. The Paris Devats quotes that passage m President Grant’s message which says (referring to Cuba) that the United States are the sole judges of the moment for granting belligerent rights, whether to a people struggling for deliverance from @ government it deems oppressive, or to independent nations at war with each otner, and remarks that this theory seems rather in contradiction with the one the Washington Cabinet never ceased to profess respecting the recog- nition of the Southern States as belligerents by the English government. ‘Such an assertion,” it says, “might well furnish the Chief of the Foreign Office with an argument in the interminable negotiations to which the Alabama affair will give rise.’” The Paria Constituttonnel directs attention to the fact that the “Yellow Book)’ is gradually losing its importance, and seems likely to die out altogether. ‘The Panis Dédats observes that letters from Rome speak of the formation within the Council of a nu- cleus of opposition to make head against what might be called the ‘right,’ or, Lf the word be permissivle, the ultramontane Arcadia. The Paris Liverte publishes a long article to prove the danger attendant on the exercise of personal wer, and for that purpose institutes @ comparison ‘tween the reign of George Ill. in Englund aad tnat of Napoleon III. in France. Some of the Itaitan papers having declared that the dissolution of the Anti-Papal Council by the au- thorities of Naples was due to the intervention of the French government, tne Paris Patrie thougat it necessary to announce that “the statement is en- turely without foundation.”? * Prince Napoleon is preparing for publication a his- | tory of the Bonaparte dynasty. ‘Two new journals made their appearance in Paris—La Marseliaise, edived by Rochefort, ana La Cioche. “Neither one nor the other,” says a Paris letter, ‘“‘at present gives any signs of an improve- ment in our newspaper literature; personality and vanity, but no news. As stated by cable telegram, the French govern- ment, acting on the representations of Marsnal McMahon, the Governor General of Algeria, is en- deavoring to divert a portion of the stream of Irish emigration to that province. Tne capabilities of Algeria as a tleld tor Kuropcan emigrants have been hitherto almost ignored by all except the Spaniards. ‘The country 18 uuder-populated. In the days of - tue Roman empire it exported corn to an enormous ex- tent alter leeding @ population of 17,090,000, Now 1ts population 1g oniy some 2,400,000, and itd exports of corn are almost nil, To remedy tiis state of fairs the French government proposes to introduce an agricultural population irom ireland and offers favorable conditions to une settlers. M, Aris Deiour has Copdenized Paris, and formed a large “Free Trade League.”? Baron de billing, of the French Foreign Office, who knows Engiand and Ireiand, it is said, as well ashe knows France, is commissioned to draw up a report on the Irish question jor Napoleon. SPAIN. Government Relations to Rome—Precautions Against Council Decrees, ‘The Madrid Gazetle of December 11 publishes the document referred to by cable as having been writ- ten by the Spanish. Minister of State, Sefor Martos, respecting the Hcumenical Council at Rome thus:— TO THE SPANISH CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN ROME, Your EXORLLENOY— ‘The meeting of an Ecumenical Coun- cil in Rome in our days fail to arouse the attention of the Powers of Europe, ‘this it has in reality done, and the in- terest with which the ‘governments and peoples have looked upon this tmportant point corresponds to the gr: of the ease and the strangeness of the circumstauces, The novelty of a Council promoted by the spontaneous call of the Hol See—little favorable generally to such meetings of the uni- versal Church—the general terms and indirec form ot the convocation, the probability that the abnorma® mtustion of Rome may lessen the authority of the decisions of the Kpis- ilar "congregaiione, ‘have “enveloped "Wace premarascry gregations have envelop: labora, on te oue side, the altitue “of the Church in these the rigid intolerance of the Roman Court, the frequent ‘intrusions of the religious authority in matters’ essentially proper to civil juriadiction, the doctrine sustained by ecclesiastics of high position, the protest of tho Holy See against certain political acts founded on popular sovereignty, base of all modern pubic rights, the anathemas fulminuted’ againat ideas which are cardiual points in the civilization of the nineteenth century, and, more than all, the recent honatingn. of n celebrated ret glows society in publloutions invested with a semioilcial charsster, have veen suilicient to arouse suspicions and grave fears in some governments who consider the proximate Kcumenical Council hostile to the secular powers and dangerous iu a high degree to the internal peace of the uations. ‘Tue Spanish verninent on their part have not deemed it necessary to Intervene in the matter so iong as these anticipations of evil were not contirmed and mig) exaggerated. Among the propoaitior 1» with or without reason, are attributed to the promoters of the Council, two priuci- pally have alarmed the temporal Powers—the declaration of the infallfbllity of the Pope aud the sanction of the anathemas fulmmated in’ the us agalnat the ideas of modern elviil- zation. remature, though, poss ded. It would not be prudent of the Holy Pontiif totry to augment an authority, almost omnipotent of itself, nor would it be likely that a Council, by recognizing the infallibililty of the Pope, should close for ever the door of all future gatherings of the Church; neither iw it natural, on the other side, for already absolute Powera to seex the ‘augmentation of thetr force in the vote of delib- erative assemblies; this much, as regarda the drst point. As regards the second, it ts’ not to be supposed that the heads of the universal Church, whatever their proceedency, united together tn such erittcal’ momenta and on an occasion no solemn, would forget their own interests 40 tar as to de- clare their apirit incompatible with the spirit which gives life id vigor to the modern world, At all events, for the improb- 1 cage that the Cathole Church, passing the natural limit fis high jurisdiction, should seek to invade the domiuion ihe temporal Powers, the Spanish government will as- suredly find In reason, in’ public opinion and in the :aws the Means Hesesxary to repel, without malevolence or ity, ail intrusioas of that nattre, and of external authority, a8 also to maintain ail (ty subjects in respect, and all ite inne tionarles in obedience, without distinetion of class or p tion. In this confidence, though reserving the proper exerci of their right e Spanish goverament bave not for the moment judged it necessary to adopt any preventive ia, as a liberal nation, has no wisn to piace legal acta of any religious community, and ple zealous for their dignity tears not the intrusion oreign element in the sphere of ite ipetitutions and or ite public powers, ‘Such are the motives of ite went cade, Your Excellency wil manifens xpresaing at the same ime the hope sat We government of bis Uigboces the Regent indulge that the wisdom of the See and the prudence of Catholic episcopate wiil maintain ‘this be- Bevolent dlaposition, and render aan ‘all measures capable of altering the harmony which bas ever ex- isted In Spain between ; Powers. sal God guise your ASRIBTING MARTOS, Minister of State. CRIBT! RUSSIA. The Entente with Germany and Austria~An " Imperial Correspondence. ‘The Invatide Russe says:—‘‘ In giving a2 account of the first Gaya of the centenary séle forthe Order of St. George, stated that the Emperor had chosen that day for sending the insignis of the frat class to King William of Prussia, his Majesty aa- dressing at the same time the following telegram to the King:— petty a, | 1th f affectionate letter, which has heen vemiljed to me by" Prince Alber. about to celebrate our military festival I pray you, in th Raine of all the Klchta of, Bt, George, to accept the the First Class, which devolves on you we shail see with pride om your breast. Receive it as a fresh testimony of the friendship which unites us—a friendship founded on the souvenir of a grand epoch, ever memorable for us, in which our united armies fought for sacred and commin object, At the same time I am able to, con‘er the arth der on M. - oe your aidedecRmp te ame Ordet UEXANDER, 'The King of Prussia replied by telegram in these terms:— Profoundly touched, and with tenra in my eyes, T thank ou for the honor you have done me, and which I could not Tave expected, ‘The terms in which ‘you announce it to me 6 me still more happy. I wee in your words ® new testi- mony of your friendship and of the memory of the grand pe- riod In which our united armies fought for the same sacred cause. In the name of thut friendship, and of the memory Of that time, I request you to accept my order of merit. My army willbe proud to see you a Knight of that Order. May 1 God protect you, WILLIAM. The day before the 7éte his Majesty received the following telegram {rom the Emperor of Austria:— return to Vienna the announcement lace in honor of e part in it, a8 1 jo yon on this I received,only on of the festivities whic! the Order of ‘oer saietn unable to hould have with at occasion my lively sympat! share in the sentiments which the day valiant Russian army. I will be, in thot the Knights, the insignia of which I hay an honor to bear, and which are to m¢ Srigndahip. ‘The Emperor of Russia replied by tne following despatch:— - * Inthe name of all the Knights of the Order of St. T address to you my ratulations on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of its foundation, The terms in which your kind telegram is conceived have profoundly touched me, aa also the reminiscences of = never to be for- otten: Lee jnce which malttary. Onder bas tac the onor of counting you amon; ni MALEXANDER, are about to take § FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The river Arno has recently overfowed its banks, causing much damage at Pisa, Bologna and Mantua. 'The chief magistrate of the town of Andelfingen, in Switzerland, has defrauded the community of $22,000, The new French coinage 1s to bear the profiles of the Empress and the Prince Imperial alongside of that of the Emperor. A segmatire deputy has recently fed from Pesth, after forging bilis upon all his aristocratic acquaint- ances and leaving enormous debts, ‘The site of the town of Saintes, in Belgiam, 18 on fire. The soil is mostly peat and is burning several feet deep, driving the inhabitants betore It, Austria was prevented from occupying the princi- pay of Montenegro, during ihe late revolution in (remaed by the united interference of Russia and ance. The French guests who attended the inauguration of the Suez Canal have drawn up an address in which they express their thanks for the hospitabic reception afforded them by the Viceroy of Egypt. THE DEATHBED MARRIAGE, Interesting Correspondence Between a New Jersey Lady and Horace Greeley on the Richardson- MeFarland Marriage. * The following correspondence between Mr. Greo- ey and Mra. Arelia Selover concerning the “mar- riage’’ cerernony which took place at the deathbed of Albert D, Richardson will be found of interest to all those who have paid any attention whatever to What seem to be the real merits of the case, Mrs. Selover’s sole object in writing to the venerable philanthropist was, as she says, to ‘serve the cause of tratn.”” Whether she has attained that object by her correspondence with Mr, Greeley the reader can be left safely to judge for himself. MRS. SELOVER TO THE HERALD. ELIZABETH, N. Dec. 22, 1869, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I do not particularly desire to open a new vein of controversy on that painful topic, the Hichardson- McFarland tragedy, nor the actors in it; yet it ts due | to truth that one of them at ieast should be excul- pated from the obloquy cast upon him by the public press. I refer tothe Hon. Mr. Greeley. Of course that honorable gentieman is apundautly able to vindicate himself and refute auimadversions that mmaybe heaped upon him from any source; but some public men, like Mr, Greeley, overlook the opinions of others, and when so disregarded an adverse view of their actions is the result. We have a little com- munity or circie here having for its object tho dis. semination of truth and the elevation of woman, socially and morally (yes, politically, if you please), and as president of this circle I addressed Mr. Gree- ley to elicit trom him how far he sustained tne par- ties who took part in the scene in the Astor House. His views (which 1 herewith enclose) are clear and succinct on the subject. There are some of the stster- hood who dissent from his views, yet are open to conviction when the true facts,shall be made known. It is proper for me to say that no secresy was en- joined in this correspondence by .Mr. Greeley, our only desire is to serve the cause of truth in the case. AMELIA SELOVER, MRS, SELOVER TO MR. GREELEY. ELIZABETH, N. J., Lec. 16, 1869, Hon, Horace Gregvisy:— SIR—At a meeting of our social circle held here last evening, for tue purpose of disseminating truth and elevating woman in all that pertains to her ad- vancemeat, policaliy @ud morally, tt was resolved that in view of the part which you took at the bed- side of Mr. Richardson, and tae criticisms of the press in charging you with drawing there the Rey. Mr. Beecher and te Key. Mr. Frothingham to min~ ister the holy rives of matrimony, &¢., tnat if such was the fact, it was presumed that you acted in the spirit of Christian charity and true benevo- lence, and from no unkind or ungenerous feeling towards McFarland, If not inconsistent and time will permit, picase furnish a line or two on that all absorbing and pain- ful topic. Very truly your friend, AMELIA SELOVER. MR. GEEELEY TO MRS, SELOVER, TRIBUNE OF ¥ICE, Dec. 19, 1869. My FRIEND—I have yours of the 16th to-day. Pos- sloly your circle i3 better informed in the mater pro- pounaed In your letter thani am. If I knew ali the facts [might form @ correct judgment thereon. [ win quile aware that @ very cowardly murder was perpetrated, since that was done in my office and near where I now sit; but with regard to the incite- ment or pretext tnerefor I hear contradiciory stories and have formed no conclusive judgment. When the facts shall be fully deveioped I shail be sattatied. At present I wait. 1 donot know that | cherish un- kind feelings toward murderers, though your letter suggests them. I only feel certain that they should be pat and kept where they may not have opportu- nity vo comuit more murders, I presume you do not dissent from this opinion. HORACE GREELEY, ‘M18, AMELIA SELOVER, Elizapeth, N. J. MRS, SELOVEX WANTS HORACE TO COMB TO THB POINT, EIzaBeta, N. J., Dec. 20, 1869. Hon. HoRack GRBELEY:— Sir—I regret extremely that you should have mis- taken the aerate th note of the 16th inst., 80 a4 to H draw the inferel that our little curcle would sus- tain-the ualawftl acts of any man, and eae one who violated the commandments. , We fuily be- lheve it is not in your beart to cherish an uokind feeling toward any one. It was simply desired to know how far the criticisms of the press were at fault in charging you with mcroducing the reverend gentieman to the bed chamber to minister the rites of matrimony. Your opinions on this and all other subjects are all potent and receive our highest re- gard, Respectfully your iriend, im AMELIA SELOVER. HORACE COMES TO AN AWFUL POINT, TRIBUNE OFFICE, Dec, 21, 1869. Mrs. SELOVER—Mr. Beecher has alreaay publicly , contradicicd the story that 1 asked him to marry the parties in question. {introduced no one to the bedside of my dying iriend Richardson, and did not myself arrive till the marriage had taken place and the persons who performed and witneased the ceree mony had leitthe room. Buti do not wish to be ‘understood a8 condemning the marriage, and have already said what l think on that subject. You H. GREELEY, A “LITTLE DIFFICULTY iN GRORGIA, Two Persons Killed and Two Wounded. {From the Augusta ((a.) Constitutianalist,” 29.) ‘The city at an early hour yesterday morning was excited over the report of a most tragic occurrence, on Monday afternoon, at Dearing, on tl orga Railroad, in which Mr. A. N. Hodo, a former resi- dent of Augusta, and Mr. Ellis Adams, residing about a mile [rom Dearing, lost their ves and two other received ugly wounds. About half-past two o'clock Monday afternoon, at the store of A. N. Hodo, connected with which was luis brother, Dyer Hodo, and J, B. Lambert, w dift« culty, the cause ef which was not stated, arose between Lambert and Eilis Adams. ‘The latter drew his knife, which was foilowed by the former ylso drawing his knife and waraing Adams not W ape proach uia. At this Jancture Adams drew his pistol, when Lawovert walked mio tue store and gathe NDARY 1, 1870. Id to As Lambert was in he was intercepted by A. N. ‘him to give up the gun, Inthe aa i" mes, clerk in the store o of bus brother, exelstinad that he was shoc. With this A, N, Hodo stepped to the door with the gun, before which Elis and Kinchen Adams were stand- ing. when Elis Adams fired upon him without effect. Hodothen fired lis gun, with what elfect is now known, when another shot was fired by one or the other of the Adama brothers, the bail taking effect Just above tne lest nipple of Hodo, when he fell and exp! 5 Seeing his friend and business associate thus shot down, bert immediately left the store and pro- Ceeded to the house of Mr. James Harris, where he rocured @ gun and returned tothe scene of con- ict, As he advanced upon the brotuers Adams they were each firing, @ shot by one of them wounding him in the lip. Lambert continued to advance, when the brothers becomtn; separated, he followed Ellis adams, whom he fh upon a few hundred yards from the store, and it is supposed shot him down, as a party who went in the direction a few minutes after the discharge of his gun found Adams wounded and stretched upon the ground im an apparently dying conaition, In the excitement of the occasion Adams was left in the condition in he was found. A short ume after he was visited again, when it was found that some unknown person, to hasten the work of death, had plunged a dagger three several times into his throat, and that he was auite dead. His body was then taken up and sent (> his residence, about a mile from Dearing, no inquest having been held. No arrests are reported. The wound of Lambert 18 not regarded serious. Dyer Hodo was severely wounded in the side, and while his injuries are not regarded as necessarily fatal he 1s lying im quite a critical dition. THE KIDNAPPING CASE. ered @ gun, one barrel of which was have been loaded with small shot, retu with tho ind the Hodo, wi Domestic Troubles—Little Corinne—Argr- ment of Counsel—Crowded Attend- ance—The Case Submitted to the Court for Judgment. "The Special Term room of the Supreme Court, Juage Cardozo presiding, was crowded yesterday mora- ing as it never was before, the audience being com- posed of all classes and conditions of society, the most interesting portion of which was composed of @ Jarge delegation of ladies, drawn thither by the natural curiosity of the sex to listen to the proceed- ings in a case of the peculiar and interesting char- acter of the one about to be brought before the court. The case to be argued was that of ‘‘Little Corinne Lewis,” whose father, Dr. Wm. H. Lewis, of Boston, is charged by his wife, Mrs. Serene Lewis, with having kidnapped the chiid from her custody, thereby violating the order of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, which had awarded the custody of Corinne to her at the time of granting her a divorce from Dr. Lewis on the ground of adultery. Mrs. Lewis and little Cormne were in court, ac- companied by their friends, and attracted a good deal of attention. Dr. Lewis sat beside his counsel, ex-Judge Birdseye and Mr. Crosby. ‘The counsel for Mrs. Lewis, Mr. Howe, in setting forth his argument. sald:—If your Honor please, the testimony upon the issues joined in this case have been completed and the evidence in this sult closed. I have merely to submit to tne Court i support of the prayer which we made, that this child, Corinne, be accorded to the custody of her mother; that tne testimony taken proves that the child Cormne, being a girl under the age of seven years, was, on the 22d day of April, by a decree of the Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts, accorded to the mother, the relator in this proceeding, as its custodivn and uardian, upon a writ then instituted by the mother, rs. Lewis, inst the respondent in this proceed- ing, Dr. William H. Lewis, for alleged aduitery, said to have been committed by him in the State of Massachusetts. ‘Ihe decree I now present to the Court, and I will simply reaa that portion of it which relates to the custody of the child, (Mr. Howe here read tne portion according the child to the mother during the pendency of Jegal proceedings.) Under the act of Congress, which gives fall effect to the proceedings in a sister State in this State and in ail others, | have introduced that record. The evidence will be found to declare that while that child was in tbe possession of Mrs. Lewis, pursuant to this de- cree, the defendant, im violation of thht order and in contempt of the Supreme Court, took that child, and [ think I may be justified in using the word, kidnapped the child and brought it to this city. Under this state of facts, we sued out the writ of habeas corpus now pending before your flonor. A traverse was interposed, testimony was taken and the result is simply that we have dis- ciosed that the plaintiff is by that court appointed guardian of the child and that that suit is still pending. Itis not denied by the respondent that this order has its full eifect. Itis not denied by the respondent that the complaint against him was for aduitery and not yet disposed of, and it 13 admtuted that under that order Mrs. Lewis was duly consit- tuted guardian of the child. I do not propose at this stage of the pi i nor do I deem {t necessary before your Honor esvecially, to discuss the various decisions that have becn given im this State as conflicting between the right of father and mother. But 1 may here say that the last settlement and decisions universally recognize that this Court acts upon its discretion in cases like the present. We have made a prima facie case that ‘the custody is in-the mother, awarded to her by the solemn decree of the highest court of the State of Massachusetts, and if for no other reason than that of commity between this Court and the other, | simply invoke this Court to sustain the Suprome Court of Massachusetts, Knowing as 1 do how ex- tremely jealous the Court is and the associate judges of this court are when a decree of this kind as been attempted to be violated even in the most insignificant decree, but when the solema order of @ court has been treated as so much waste paper and violated on its face, { think it would be an in- sult to your Honor’s understanding for me todo more than simply to ask that the custey of the child be awarded to the mother, Mr. Crosby replied on behalf of Dr. Lewis. He said it had rarely been his fortune in the course of @ somewhat active professional life to have the honor of presenting to any tribunai a question which, In all of its lights and shadows and bearings, presented so much supreme gravity and itaportauce as the one now before him. 1f was a question of gravity and solemnity, because in its discussion and decision were involved many of the gravest ance which underlay our system of society. the sacred relation of parent and child, of mother aud father was to be devermined in this case. He knew his Honor would decide that question, as one of the highest lgw officers of this State, a3 you believe it to be right. He knew that there was no power tiat couid be brought to bear on his Honor, except the issues in the cuse, and whatever his Honor’s judge- ment, deliberately formed, shouid deem to, be«jamh Mr. Crosby then went on to give a résumé of the case, and contending that the Court kad no power to award the custody of the child to the movher, on the following grounds:— : First—That the writ issued by the Court was statutory writ, on which Judge Cardozo had no power to make a die cretionary order as to the cure and custody of the child. Secont—That it was not a writ at common law. Tiird—That it could not be sustained in thi Mrs. Lewis is not an mbabitant of this Btate, living {n such a state of separation from her bi recognized by the statute. Mr. Birdseye said that when he showed the Court the grandmother of the child, Corinne, using blasphemous language, appealing, with an apparent act of devo- Uon to Almighty God, iastantly to remove from her whe and the world the respondent in this case; when he showed him the sister of the petitioner, corrqborating such language and such acts on the part of her mother; when he showea that Dr. Lewis said ho wag using every possible exertion vw com- ose and settle the difficulty between himself and is wife, that Mr. Richmond had said to Dr. Lewis, “Sir, 1 am Ene this thing against you, and I I will do my damndest to beat you,” he asked his Honor to savy whether it was proper that the child should be removed from the custody of the father, Mr. Birdseye, having alluded to the disgracefal manner in which the grandmotner cursed and swore in the presence of the child, proceeded to review the testimony taken in the case, and which has already ‘been published, and conciaded his remarks with an eloquent appeal to the Court on behalf of his client. He asked his Honor as a Justice of the Sapreme Court and the successor of the Chancellor, would ne be consulting the true interests of the chiid if he permitied her to grow up under Mrs, Allen’a influ- ence and example, This litue child, piastic, with her character unformed, now devotional aud claim- ing that nothing shall separate her from her papa, and objecting to the blasphemy of her uncle—was his Honor going to piace that child where she would receive proper instructions? If he delivered the child to Mrs. Lewis, his Honor wou'd deliver it to oue whom he could not Sati to see (even if she were conceded to be affectionate and kind and desirous of living with her husvand) yet was so plastic and eas @ disposition that asingle conversation with P er sister, Mrs. Richmond, caused her to tail in her urposes and to cry out with an agonized jeart, “My daties to my inother and sister and friends cause me to give up Dr. Lewis and all my earthly happineas.’? Ue, tierelore, under all the circum- #sances, asked lis Honor to award the custody of tne chtid to the father and at some future day the wife and husband might again come togecher ana biess his Houor ior the course he had adopted in their case, Mr. Howe Sg to Judge Birdeyes’ argument in an able and telling speech, which evidently | tonched the sympathies ef the ‘spectators, tic ar- gued that Mrs. Lewis, since the time of her mar- riage to the doctor, supported him and her own fam- 1iy from her income and that she was a kind and aifectionate wife until the mnisconduct of her husband } came to ner knowledge and lacerated her Heart to {| such @ degree that sie, dast, though with reiuc- tance, obtained a separation {row lim. After read- | 10g portions of the Lestunony, Mr. ilowe concluded by earnestly supplicating tne Court to give the chiid to the mother, He said he stood there ag a futher, 100, and he implored it, Judge Cardozo took ihe papers and reserved bis docmon. The large audicuce then withdrew. CORONERS’ STATISTICS. Annual Report of the Business of the Cort oners?’ Office for the Year 1869— Homicides, Suictdes, Infanti- cides and Casualties for 1869, _.. HOMICIDE, January 2.—Charles M. Rogers, born in the States, stabbed in Twelth street, near Univeral! place, by unknown person on the 3ist day of ber, 1868. . ‘. JaNvARY 3.—James Shandley, aged eighteen, in New York city, stabbed by William McOut on the 30th day of December, 1888, Janvany 17.—John Kennedy, aged forty, born Tretand, death hastened by alcoholism supplied wi criminal intent by Thomas Lorkeep, alias Dr. Walt Powers. H JANUARY 26.—Phwbe J, Lyons (colored), ‘ thirty, born in United States, peritonitis, supe! duced by the birth of a child, but whether said birt! was produced by violent means or not the jury unable to determine. ° | FEBRUARY 14,—Margaret McLaughlin, . ag twenty-five, born in Ireland, tnjurea vy Catharin Shay, a lunatic confined at the lodge of the Lun Asylum, Blackwell’s Island, on the night of Fel ruary 12. FeBRUARY 16.—Ellen O'Hara, aged thirty-ont born in Ireland, rupture of uterus caused by instr ments, FeBRuARyY 16.—Thomas Dunn, aged twenty-thres born in Ireland, stabbed by Mic! Maguire 1 Twelfth street, near First avenue. 4 Fesruary 20.—Peter McDonald, aged forty, bora Y in Ireland; fracture of the skull by a blow on head with a pair of blacksmith’s tongs at 441 W Forty-first street, January 25, by James M. McDonal MaRcH 9.—Eliza Callahan, aged forty, born Ireland; beaten by John Hilbert March 7, at Sixty: sixth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, MAaRcH 9.—Madeleine Philllpi, born in Germany; death from abortion induced by Gabriel Wolff, of 25% East Tenth street. . Marcu 26.—Charles H. Lockwood, aged thirtya four, born in New York; shot by pistol in the abdod men by Charles Sullivan, a keeper of Sing Sing prison, March 19. Joshua Manney held’ as access sory. MARCH 20.—Thomas Nisson, aged thirty, born im Denmark, at New York Hospital; stabbed by Jona Jones, March 27, APRIL 26.—Patrick McCormick, aged twenty-six, born in Ireland, stabbed with a knife by Williang Nicholson Apri! 22, im front ot premises No, 82 Mul- berry street. | APRIL 26.—Thomas Hughes, aged bbe ad 0) istol shot at the hand ofr buts, bregen er at No. 15 New Chambei gs cs twenty-nine! bon In Bronce, stabbed with & iio on those ' April at No. 104 Vesey street. i ‘AY 20.—Alexander Lippmann, aged forty-fonr, born in Germany, death from injuries from béin; struck onthe head by some person or persons a ey a OAIEa Kiernan, aged thirty-two, bor in Ireland, death irom a pistol shot at the bands: bie UNE, a Margaret Burns, aged fifty, born ti Ireland, CREE ee hands of her Long] ee Ae etohare Gerdes, aged thirty-six, born | Germany; death from pistol shot wounds at hands of Michael Carney, in ‘Third avenue, ni Twenty-fourth street. ; JUNE 12,—French Woodall, aged twenty-sevel born in United States, found floating in the Eas river, with skull fractured. JUNE 22.—James Strappe, aged twenty-two, dorm in Ireland, deatn from overdose of carbolic acid, p scribed by Desire Amand, of No, 142 Bleecker atreet; heia for culpable negligence, JUNE Lieb pega aged thirty, born in Gery many, stabbed by John Hastings. JULY 4—Mornis Long, aged ilfty, born in Ireland shot by officer Campbell, 1n Greenwich. street, Otter ere Adam Gesell, aged thirty-two, ‘bor. im JULY 7.—Adam a Germany; death by stabs in the heart at thenandg of Frederick senlee; Christian Senlee held as access sory. TULY 12.—Susan Lamoreaux, aged seventy-st born in New York, killed by a blow. with a hatche' by Rosanna Dearn, while insane, at No, 432 W ‘whirteenth street. SEPTEMBER 1.—Bridget Woods, aged forty-four, born in Ireland, death from tajuries at the hands of James Woods, August 31, 1569, SEPTEMBER 8.—Joseph Friedlander, aged forty- seven, bornin Germany, beaten to death by une known persons. SEPIEMMER %.—Theresa Bruening, aced three years, born in New York, death from injuries by being thrown down a flight of stairs by Louis Ulricn, at 431 West Thicty-ntutn street. SEPTEMBER 9—John Hickey, aged forty-three, porn in Ireland, death from peritonitis, caused by a kick by Mary Anderson, September 2. SEPTEMBER 15.—Thomas LU. Barret, aged thirty. three, born in Ireland, at New York Hospijal, stapbed by Elizabeth Utt, September 12, OcToBER 6.—Peter Rooney, aged twenty-five, born in Ireland, shot with a pistol at the hands of overt Fry,.and the jury ‘urther say said shooung wae justifiable. ° 4 OctosER 7.—Charles Archoe, aged twenty-six, born in China, siabbed by Henry Aceng at66 Cherry street, October 6 OcToBER 7.—Sarah A. Aceng, aged eles born in England; stabved by her huskand, Bepry. Aceng, at 65 Clierry street, LS ee oa OcTobeRr 19.—Patrivk Mo! 8evi ax, born in Ireland; death from violence at the hands: of Joseph James, at 590 Ninth ayeaue, October 18, OcTosER 21.—Henry Grant (colored), aged twentye; eight, born in New York; death from fracture of the’ skull by a stone thrown at Kim by Lydia A Grifin, corner of Canal and Baxter streets, October 1q | OCTOBER 24.—Josephine Weiss, aged twenty, bort, in Switzerland; death from stab wouads at the! hands of Henry Vazquez, at No. 99 Crosby street, | October 22. NOVEMBER 3.—Archibald Douglas, aged thirty, born in Georgia; deata irom pistol shot at No.2 | Washington sireet. ‘fle jury cousider said shooting, was done partially in self-defence. NOVEMBER 5.—Corneiius Shay, aged sixty, born Ireland; death from kicks by Peter Pazali, at No. 3: Baxter street, November 2. - i NOVEMBER 17.—William Keane, aged tweatyeight, born in freland; death froma pistol shot In the head at the hands of Janae Lee, at the saloon 398 Grand street, Novewber 15, Caan ee an riaget Wright, aged thirty-four, bora in Ireland; death (rom bemorrhage, caused by violence at the hands of her husband. » DECEMBER 6.—Albert D. Richardson, aged. thirtye: six, born in Massacausetts; death from pistol shot ound, at the hands of Daniel McFarland, at the office of the New York 7ribune, November 26) DECEMBER 23.—Ann Griffith, azed thigty-eight,: born in Ireland: dcaca from violence at the banda of her husband, at 195 Mots street, ‘is SULCLDES. 1 Men, Women. Shooting. . + 2 — Hanging ...... one 18 PI Cutting throat. 6 z Drowning..... » & s Jumping Irom window _—_ » Stavbing......., + 2 3 ‘Taking laudanum. » & - Taking arsenic. . 2 Ri ‘Taking Paris green. 4 10 ‘Taking cyantde of potassiuin. a) a Taking strychnine 2 _ Taking morphine. . aor aes Taking opium... a i 4 Taking corrosive suvitinate. 1 oon Taking mineral poison - 3 yy Taking oxalic acid are | — Inhaling chloroform. ae - Infanticides. .. seveeeeee 9 NATIVITIES. ' United States, 25; Ireland, 20;.Engs : land, 4; Jand, 1; Canada, 1; Frau , 4; ‘Spain, | 1; China, 1; Unknown, 5, tea { Sex—Men, 77, women, 33. i SwASON OF YBAR—Jauuary, 7; February, 6; March, | 4; April, 12; May, 7; June, 10; July, 8; Augyst, 95.4 September, 6; October, 15; November, 9; UD 7 ry 13. : Drowning, 175; accidental suffocation, 20; dental scalds, 42; xccidentat burns, 443 ‘accld burns from kerosene, 15; injured by steam cars, S07 by city cars, 30; by other Vehicies, 27; acct } falls down stairs, 35; falls out of window: | through hatches, 29; off roofs, 21; from se: | 14; misceilaueous, 60; accidental poisoning by mor- | phine, 53 gelshuin, 1; phosphorus, 1; Inaian hemp, 1; opin, 5; tobacco, 1g atropia, 1; inhaling chloro- form, 3; explosion of boilers, 1; blasting, 1; acci+ dental shoouny, 8; crashed by ferrybuats, 5; crushed by machinery, 14: kicked by horses, 6; muscella+ neous injuries, 74; causes unknown, 11, AFRICA. Affairs on the West Const. ‘The steamship Calavar arrived at Liverpool, Engs land, December 20. Her dates are—Old Calabar, November 17; Cameroons, 18; Fernando Po, Bonny, 21; Benin, 23; Lagos, 25; Jellah Coffee, 2 accra, Cape Coast Castle and Cape Palmas, Deceme ber 1; Sierra Leone, 4 and Bathurst, 7. Old Calabar was heaitny, but trade dull. The war continued at Bonny, and there was no t le. At Benin oll was scarce, but kernels ~~ and be > pubuc heaicn telerable. Irhhaponiid Lagos, Jeilan Gollee, Accra, Cape Coast me *s Paimas, Perso healthy, buttrade rie ‘rhe war at Almiog vetween the naulves v | anions, ves and Durch: