The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1870, Page 4

4 EUROPE. Papal Infallibility and French Opposition. The United States Debt and Value of American Bonds, American Shipbuilding--Why It Declines. Dmigration, Bankruptcy and Reli- gion in Bngland. ‘Traupmann in the Hands of an Outside Artist, Every-day Misery of the Czar Bussia. of The German steamship Weser, Captain Wenke, trom Bremen the 14¢ and Southampton the 4th of Janugry, grrived at this port yesterigy morning, Dringingour general correspondgace newspa- ‘per revbris in detail of oarcabie teieg from Eu- Tope, dated to her aay of sailing from England. The ‘Weaer delivered our files at the Hzpaup Building at 12:45 P. M. ‘The Journal de Gendve states that & fresh convoy of 120 emigrants, among them several from tne ‘Vaiais, lef that city for America. Advices from Zurich state that a roral postman mamed Brungger, of seventy-elght years, doing the service between Winterthour apd Rybour, was found mordered in a‘forest between those two localities. Inthe first half of December, 1360, the progress made with the Mount Cenis tunnel amounted to 1594 feet. The distance remaining to be pierced December 15, 1860, was 6,579 feet, so that at the pre- went rate of progress the tunnel will be completed tn June or July, 1871. The enormous quantity of anow sccuranulated on the crest of Mount St. Gotbara rendered the Alpine passage by that route Impossibie, ‘Traupmanu was transferred from the Conciergerie to the prison of La Requette, im front of which the guilloune 19 erected for capital executiqns. The Evitieh Australian Telegraph Company has put forward tts prospectus on ‘Change in Londen. Tue capical is xed at £600,000, in stares of £10 each, of which £120,600 will be taken by the contractors, lear- ing 54,000 shares, or £540,000, to be subscribed for by the public. Commercial telegrams from India, dated at Cal- eutta, December 29, repott:— Seven lb. shirtings, 39 in., 14 by 13, Sr. 11a.; 8% Ib. 4o., 39 1n., 16 by 14, Gr. 930; Masket firm, Fair Ben- gal cotton, wr. 84. Exchange on Lonidob-Six months’ bank bilis, Is. .11%(d,; 4 per cent. govern- ment securities, 9444; 5 per cent. do., 1084; 5/¢ per cent. do., 112%. ROME. The Infallivility Quostion—Opening of the Opposition Fire—Attitude of tie French Prelatee—American Episcopal Opinion—Car- dinal’” Huis—Fetes of Tumbled Down Royalty. Rome, Dec. 30, 1869. Bishop Dupanioup is becoming more hostile to the dogma of infatiibility and ls galning ground against the championa of the same. ‘'wo weeka ago it was like opening an oyster with an eggshell to get @ word about the same from bishop or priest. It 1g not 80 to-day. Many disprove of the business entirely and use no Doney in speaking of the zealots Who have rusied into primt im its favor, but the edberent of the doctrine are picking their teeth sans souet and are wide awake. There 1s a proverd which says that cardinals always die by three. Two have died during the past week—Relsach and Pantini—and all the others are Jookang out for number three. You have no wea of the influence of proverbs over the actions of the Italians, For that matter there are few nations in Europe but have tneir adages, proverbs, sayings, &c., but Italy is @ wonderful piace for proverbs, and the peopie believe in them, cardinuls included. Should another hat be left at the disposal of his Holiness, he will have elghteen to bestow. As the scarlet hatis s big prize there will be considerable Sguring for whe seventeen bats now locked up in the Pope’s dressing room. It is & pity the good Bisnop—Archbishop, I mcan— Of Baltimore cannot wear a red hat and stockings of the same color, The Archbishop of New York would look well with the rouge cappa, so would Archbishop Purcell—but your republican bishops cannot be car- ainals without special act of Congress or renouncing their ciuzensiip. This is unjust, We ought to have ‘as Many cardinals as Germany. Why not inves ti- gate the matter and the Heracp to lend its influence to have at least four cardinals in the United States— ene at New York, San Prancisco, St Paul and New Orieans? A littie American biood in the Sacred Coliege woul do the members in general a deal of good. Letthere be an American cardinal named to-morrow aud I wager you will see an American Pope of Kome and Father of the great Catholic @hurch before 1880. Recommend, by all means, Americans tor cardinals. The bishops of Ita‘y are following in the wake of the American aud English; taey have adopted the caucus, They meet at the house of Cardinal Tre vasauats, Patriarcn of Venice. ‘This caucus bust- ness, | fear, ia about to cause trouble. The Holy Father don’t ike tiftem; but the Americans tntro- duced the style, ava ibis becoming very popular and fasnionabie, The bishops have nothing to do at present but visit the differeat churches, which, at tuis season, have services pecuilar to each one. To-day being ‘Whe feast of St. ‘thomas, Arcipishop of Canterbury, there was a very respectable attendance in the church attached to the English Colleges as this ta the last time to see it Arcobishop Manning preached at the end of the service. I have just revarned irom the Farnese Palace. One of those littie—in our days very litte, indeod— incidents took place that fifty years ago were the occasion of grand séces, pomp aad show, but nowa- days are as Gui! almost ag ao alderman’s reception. The latest addition to the house of Naples was baptized thts afternoon in the old Farnese Palace, and received from her Uiustrious sponsors, Pius 1X, and the rmpress Dowager of Austria, the former being represented by Cardinal Antoueili, the latter by Klizaveth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hun- ary, the following respectable name:—‘Cristina- 1a-Maria-Guiseppa-Elisapetta- Ferdinanda-Natalina- EMfsia.” The ceremony was performed by Car- dinai Patrizi, aod the witnesses were the late Neapolitan Nuncio, the Archbishop of Minaco, and the Bishops of Sinope and Patrasso. All the formal- Ises of a royal bapusm were observed, but it wili be a long before tue babe in whose honor over 300 of She Neapolitan nobility assembled tn the Farnese Palace wears the crown of Naples. The attendance Bt the baptism was very large; all who condoie with Bomba over his lost kingdom were present in ail the ride of brilliant colors, and‘ feit jolly considering helr prospects to get achance at the exchequer of Naples, and the poor old fellows who would put back the world 200 years, the aposties of reaction, fans teeth, but unable to carry out their plans for Keeping themselves in power, The usual Kissing, bowing and scraping was indulged in by wholesale; it was aimost pve o'clock before the last carriage bad left. The mother 1s in good health and the bay us agg its rations like any other baby whenever it can. There is @ feeling of uneasiness among the cardinals that is highly relisued py the people. ENGLAND, Phe Vnivod Btatew Debt and Ite Payment— Sends and Ceusols, (Prom the Lusdon Times, Jat 4.5 Just twoive months ago we piiced bofure the pnb- Ne @ State paper, which, considering the quarter from which it proceeded and the proposais it was found to contain, might be described aa absolutely without paratiei in poiitical iterature. It was the Message of President Johnson to ihe Congress of we Unired States. In that address the Chief of the Anierican repudile deliberately recommended hig countrymen vo repudiate their national obliga- tions, not because they = unabie to discharge shom, Dut because the creditors bad received as much ey dir, Johnson reviewed with unimpeachable ti toe many inconveniences of indebtedness. He ouly forgot that such considerations ahould be taken {nto account before borrowing. Abova all, he ap- peared absolutely ingenetie of comprehending that She relaiious between debtor and cre lated by the formal terms of the contr: by both. When the ame: eugaged to pay the lend are regu- ct assented to faerie te money they tain rave of interess NEW .YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, as bor- it must worst they could have done, in their own tnteres! allow saapicien to fall upon their credit. ts quite certain that if, ag one speaker affirmed, the Americans have not ouly the means of paying their debt but the a@bluiry and disposition to do so without contention or abatement, they might they entered, markets of the ean ot surely occur Saag acute ii ers that annual charge, That their resources are abundant is rirom their own financial statements, and thet will t@ ng more wan! than way ought be equaily piain after this debate. But, besides tI mf Step of rep' a which Mr. Woodward, 0! Peanerivanig, ie led vo the mémory of the House, tl t agitation of thi ¢ among American poiiticlans has produced & mischievous effect. Contemptuonsly as the Amerf- Cans themselves rejected Mr. Al w Johnsen’s Proposals, 1t Was impossible that Kurop¢ readers should (ay i without emotion recomme! assem proceed! rom DO jess a personage than dent of the firton athe result is visible in the ae. tions of the money market to this very day. Though American securiues nave rigen considerably a public favor, they are still nog valued 9t one-! the worth of our ow, ech are at 86, while the British areat oz Twice the amount of interest does Hot suMice to put the bonds of Sp Uaioe on a level with apron here This enormo' ifferehce expresses ply he ait- terence of pale contidence i the two wove! ents. Thut the Americans can afford wo pay their Ch at least as well as we can is upquestionabie; t hey Will actually pay thew aa surely as we abal) do aitherto been 60 far doubted that the interest bas bad to be doubied before the security could be ren- dered acceptable, Gradually, after such resolutions as We have Dow recorded, we may expect these con- ditions to be changed; Dut it Was @ sad Diuuder, as most now be evident, to allow such impressions to be publicly received. The American Shipbuilding Trade and Its Decline. A Loudon journal publishes a lengthy articie under tue bead of “A Very Depressed Marine,” in which it says:— - Twenty years ago American built ships were to be found in every sea aud American ship- building stood unrivaled. Now an american engineer, giving evidence before the Congressional committee appointed to inquire into the subject, confesses With bitterness thet suipbuilding threatens, to become a lost art amoug his ge pee unless something i3 done apeedily to stop its deciine. The real cause of tnls deciihe is to be looked for in the jubsiitution of iron for wood in the construc- ion of ships. Waile wood was the material em- pioyed in shipbuilding the Americans had aa Moapproachs advantage over all competitors in the Ultmital ply their boundiess forcsts afford- edthem, The consequence is that 18 costs just as much now to build a wooden snip in an American port as it does to build on the Clyde or the Tyae an iron one, whicd will last twice as long, and will not need haf as many repairs; and it costa very nearly twice as much to build au iron ship. A New York snipbuilder, whose brother 1s ipbuilder in this country, stated before the Ci ional commitiee that an iron steamer which had been constructed in Glasgow for £70,000 could not be turned out In New York tor less: than gwice that sum; £14 @ ton Is the Olyde price for & mer, the Tyne price ia some- what less, while £22 3 ton is the lowestNew York price, and for Heer? fine steamers, the price ig about twice that of ni Ciyde. tie A 0 oir cumstances tye mercantile commyanity of the Unt States nag bedomne thoroughly alarmed. centers Thames qud Clyde Shipbuilding. The Glasgow Herald, contrastng the depressed state of the shipbuilding on the Thames with its prosperity on the Clyde, says:— Writers on question would lead a person unacquainted with tne subject to infer that the pros- perity of the Clyde is very materially owing to the decline of tradé on the Tuames—the causes attri. buted being our facilities in obtaming coal, tron and labor cheaper than they cun be had there, Admit. ting that we have coal and iron in conventent prox- muuly, the fact should not be overlooxed that other districts, suc as the Tyne, Tees, Hartiepool and Sunderland, are also highly favered 1m these re- spects; While, a3 regards the labor mark the ‘tyne and Wear (according to the Pall Mali Ga- zett’s report on & pamphlet by a Mr. John Giover) Haye the advantage of the Clyde. We believe the decay of trade on the Thames has had no great influence on that of the Clyde—the spe- cCiaity of the former being war ships, government work, and vessels chiefly tor London owners; white that of tue Otyde has hitherto almost exclusively been sailing ships, dredging plant, end passenger steamers for all parts of the im . athe referabie cause of our prosperity is more likely, in our opinion, to be found im the rapid increase of shipow: ing in Scotland, the extension of our foreign relations, and the requirements of owners generally who have ail along been our customers. Should any doubt exist as to this fact we may mention that the Cunard Company, Allan Company, loaman Company, Anchor Lwe, West India Koyai Mail Company, Pacific Steam Navigation Company, British India Steam Navigation Company, African Mail Company, North German Lioyd’s, Hamburg and American Steambpip Company, and the Frenca Transatiantic Company own 184 Clyde built steamers out of a total of 212. ‘The British Revenue and Taxcs. ‘The London Scho of January, writing on the finan- cial prospect and the resources ofthe Chancellor of the Exchequer, observes, “Even were there no gen- eral reasons to look hopefully at the condition of the revenue, we might observe shat, of Mr. Lowe's esti- mated remissions of £2,940,000, there would still bo a margin to be spent—a sum of £1,063,000—in the ro- maining three months ef the financial year; but it is scarcely necessary to say that there is no probability of further declension. On the contrary, the whole year’s income tax will now come mj; the new Itcenses instead of taxes will be taken therefore under the heads of pro- perty tax, excise and stamps we may look for @ large additon to the revenue for the quarter end- ing with March mex * * # © case, there- fore, stands thus With the Cnanoellor: of the Ex. Chequer. He had caiculated upon a diminution of the revenus, in consequence ef remissions, to the extent of nearly £3,000,000 on tb9 fiscal year. Almost the entire weight of those reaiissions have fallen upon the third quarter, and snet decrease on the revenue of the nine months of £1.876,617. At this moment, then, he has a virtual surplos of £1,003,000, and for the reasons we have mentioned thefe is ground for good hope that the income of Rate quarter will add to this sum in Emigration to AmericamRuskh to the Bankruptcy Court—Starvation—Keliglon—A “Blow? at the Peerage. During the year 1960 the number ef emigrants who left Liverpool was 172,731—a larger total than had been witnessed since 1852, Of the whole number 138,382 left for the United States, in the proportion of 57,320 English, 7,231 Scotch, 20,056 Irish and 44,775 “foreigners.” The comparative insignificance of the Irish figure is accounted for by the fact that the great majority of emigrants in that country now sail Irom Irish porta, A London journal of January 3 reporta:—The effeot of the rush to the Bankruptcy Court on Friday wili be apparent in to-morrow’s He, whICh, it 1a De- lieved, will contain the longest list of bankrupts that ever appeared in ita columns. Inguests were held upon the bodies of two men, one filty-two years of age and the other twenty-nine, who nad starved themselves to death, Tne London Times says that at no time since that date when virtual announcement of hostilities was implied in the “compliments of the season,” has the new year broken upon @ world wore free from all immediate apprehension of international migunder- standings than it does m 1870. About ¥,000 people assembled in the Exeter Gathe- ral January 3, 1% having been announced that Bishop Temple was to occupy the pulpit. ‘The Bishop selected for bis discourse verse two, chapter three, First Epistle Generat of Jobu:—‘‘Beloved, now are ons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we 6! be; bat we know that when He shall ap- pear we shall bg like Hrm, for we shall see Him as He 1s.” He commenced by pointing out that the home imfuence upon children had @ much greater effect upon them than any influence which might be brougant to bear in after life, olther at school or at charch. This, he said, was the same with man. ‘The inevitable consequence of men being associated together was that whatever was in the spirits and soals of some passed into the spirits and souls of others, and so there was, as it were, a community of life and feelin The John Bull announces that the opposition to Dr. Temple wili not now cease. It 18 asserted that “no lapse of time can make Dr, ‘Temple a rigntfut bishop, according to Church principles aud Quureh law.” Lord Onmpbell and Strathaden addressed a meet- ing of the Liberal Registration Society at Harwich lawt week, and In the course of nis speech referred to the subject of life peerages. He said that the Project of life peerages nad been rejected because it Was thought likely to distury the House of Lords rathor than reform it. AG the outside 1t wauid euanie legal dignitaries to escape what they sometimes regarded ag the burden of an hereditary peerage. Imperfect as it was he had supported y. It had.brought the whole question of ihe House of Lords under Parliamentary discus- Sion. ‘The mind of that House had been awakened to a@ kind of self-examination. “If they destred change to be effected in that House ts was essential to follow up the blow which had boen given.” gu rf which Mr, Stansfeld aad two of his col- le at the Treawury have lately been conducting at the Custom Hddse of Eugland is naturally exct- {ng toe attention of the mercant! rid, On Whom the burden of thogpresent cumbrous system presoos wily. According to the report one-fourth of the clerks tg ag by (ho wholesale houses of business are engag' wuged labor entaliod by the Custoua rogulauodb, White tue expoanoe oF the Beate establishment 1, 700, 000 sorta peter py to £1,700,000 a yoar out o FRANCE, ‘Traapmann Made Ready for the Guilledue— An Artistic and Official Outrage on the Con wiot, : A letter from Paris, of January 2, © @ London says:— jo canvas nny and 8 ‘strals S aisvoges van ‘which he must Wear iil the moment ‘of, is exouuon. Buia interval between 08 wa ala Saget ra ak hin, and au artist proceeded to ‘take his porsrait a8 a@giadiator. He ee veho! against this oat e willing to quietly to all the rules, but that he did nop ye sar could mplain 0 bi consisted in thi te tpdscen fe ave CO) nt vous t aggra- ‘yason Or the misery of & prisoner tinder pentane of ea Tn the short interval between the dock and scaffold which pow for Pepipmsan hie condition will be greasy chavged for the Worse. No moro ‘‘jolly Companions” to play at cards with him now; no More chicken and salad breakfasts; no more ing ‘Bt leap-frog in a courtyard. Birict prison diet in the condemned cell of the La Roqueste prison, to wi ‘Ae bas bee rere, Sf tne strait walstcoas band day not await M. Lachaud paid him @ Visit yeatarday, and put before him the appeal to the Court of Cassation, which he signed—only, as he said, In the hope shat the short delay, which he aid oF desire on nia own account, might give time forthe discovery of bis accomplices. M. Lachaud ‘Says he believes there are accomplices. 1 caunot un- derstand the delioacy of the pr! Who refuses Yo mention their names, wale he says he would, if taken to the forest of Cernay, point out a spot where @ pocketbook lies buried, in which their names Would be found. ‘here is after all, however, @ mys- not cleared up concerning the motives which led the elder Kinck to go with Traupmann to @ se- cluded spot in the forest near the ruias of Herren- bis Castle. {thout accepting Traupmann’s imputation on the elder Kinck that he had ugreed to join in coin! false money—an imputation which M. Lachaud, knowing how likely 1¢ was to increase the indigna- tion of the jury, sirunk from adopting—it is certain that Jean Kinck had some seores project in conjunc- tion with Traupmann which his famuy did not Know of, which the evidence given in the trial aces not reveal, and Which is inconsistent with all the rea- sons dilegea for Kinck’s journey to Alsace. New Year at the Tuileries—Napoleon’s Re- ceptions—Keplies to the Congratulations. By mail from urope we have the following com- plete reports of the imperial receptions at the Tall- ertes on New Year's Day, and the specches delivered by Napoleon in reply to the addresses of congratu- lation presented to him, both of which were barely synopeized in the capie telegrams:— * ‘The Emperor and Empress held the usual recep- tions on tie occasion of New Year’s Day. At naif- past eleven thelr Majesties were visiied by Prince Napoleon, the Princess Clotilda, Princess Mathilde, Princess Lucien gnd Prince Joachim Murat. After. wards all the high dignitaries of the court paid thelr reepects, and at twelve o’clock the imperial party proceeded to the chapel of the palace to hear divine service. Their Majesties then withdrew to their apartments until one, when tne Emperor pro- ceeded to the Salle du Trone, where the diplomatic body were assembled. The Papal Nuncio, in the name of hia colleagu santametite Majesty in the following words :— ” S1uz—The members of the Corps Diplomatique present, through me to your Majesty their respectful compliments on the ithe New Year. We are happy, sire, when fforded us of expressing the pings of your Majesty, of the Empress, Sad of the Prince Imperial, aid for the prosperity of France, The Emperor replied in these words:— Your presence, gentlemen, around me, and the words which Lhave just heard, are anew proof of the good relations which exist between my government and the foreign Powers. ‘The year which {4 now commenoing can only, I hope, consoll- Y date good understanding 101 f rd and civiizadion,. 1 thaux the “diplomatio body: for civilization. the kind wishes which they bave been pleased to address to me for the Empress, the Prince iaperial and myself. After the Emperor had spoken to the various diplomatists present his Majesty placed himself on the throne, having the Prince Neg iron on his right and Prince Napoleon and Prince Joachim Murat on the leit, while at the sides and behind stood all the great functionaries of tue Crown and of the imperial household. Tne several great bodies of the State were then introduced 1u succession, followed by a deputation of the Grand OfMcers of the Legion of Honor, the members of the various courts of law, the Anstivate of France, the ciergy of Paris, &c. On the members of the Senate coming forward, M. Rouher, the Preaident, said:— S1n£—The Senate comes to offer to your Majesty, the Em- press and the Prinos Imperial their sincere good wishes and Tespectfal compliments. Your Majesty is pursuing with a onerous courage political transformation, not exempt from iMculties, but bearing an tmpross of grandeur. ‘The Senate will afford to that laborious task th on of its de- votedness, experience and intelligence. In the conviction of fed maind the developinent of pubito liverties, te. ‘and glory for a country when such a boon and to base itself on order ‘and social respect, 2 The Emperor made the subjoined reply:— In thanking the Senate for the good wishes which it has addressed to me, I am happy in being able to congratulate ft on the manner in which, a few months back, it fulfilled the Liberal task which I had coniided to it of modifying th ailtution. I feel perfectly certain that in the new path on ‘which we have entered I can always reckon on the tion of ite ehlightenment and patriotism, M. Schneider, President of the legislative body, merely said:— members of this body lay at the foot ef the ‘of its respect and devoleduess to yourself, ‘and the Prince Imperial. The Emperor, in answer uaid:— S1ee—The throne the hi the Empress 1 to hear the which you address to me ieee iipeeae wetran, weuerencttgen ies good understanding between us more necessary or more useful, New circumstances have augmented its prerogatives Without diminianing whe authority nation. In sharing the responsibility with dodies of the State I feel more eonidence for the task 01 \f the When a traveller ‘over petrecmeb ee ten tts eevee eaines, fresh strength to Sete onward: course. * The Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, presidi the Council of State, algo pronounced a com Be peas to which bis Majesty replied 783 The "body which you presid empire mymprable servidee. th of eur institutions the over over has rendered to the Jn the liberal transformation be nnportant, for in its ranks jon will alwaya find sound traditions and the lessons of experience. I thank qu for the kind wishes you have addressed to me for the Etipress, the Prince Im; ‘and myself. His Legos: f also made short replies to the on of Parts and the Court of Cassation, after which the rest of the receptions were continued in the usoal form, Youthfal Royalty—The “Ins and Outs.” The Prince Imperial of France, on New Year's Day, sent to the Prince of the Assurias, as a present, @ Mechanical organ, the keys of which, when pressed, set in motion figures of personages richly attired and in every variety of attitude, grouped in the upper part of the instrument. The Infante Don Alfonso, on hla side, presented to the Prince a mar- velious specimen of Spanish mechanical art, dating Irom the end of the sixteenth century. it isan eques- triau statue of a knight in a complete suit of armor, Me pisces of which are admirabiy chased in gold and alver. Revolutionism—Railroad Extension. ‘The Correctional Tribunal, of Paris, sentenced M. Felix Pyat, who was in coniemps of court for want of appearanse, to three months’ imprisonment and a fine of 200f. for having uttered seditious cries at an electoral.¢ It was proved that as M. Felix Pyat was leaving the meoting after making a speech there were loud cries of ‘‘Vive Felix Pyat.” and that he said repeatedly, ‘‘No, my friends, don’t say ‘Vive Felix Pyat,’ but cry ‘Vive la Republique.’ The aggregate increase in French railway traffic last year exceeded 21,000,000. The six companies are now working between them upwards of 650 additional miles as compared witn January, 1869, GERMANY. Hollday CelebrationsTerritorial Consolida- tlon—Monastio Ascociations—ismarck Him- eelf Again. A Berkn letter in the Inde; Ohristmas holidays have not any salient political inclaent. The affair ofene Celle monument for the soldiers who fell at Langensaiza, which the military authorities, in opposition to the Pprovistonal civil jndgment, had caused to be de Molished, has terminated in the condemnation to a fine of 100 thalers both the officers who cominanded Gt Celle and their superiors at Hanover, It has been mentioned that two States of Southern Germany, Baden and Hesse, resolved to conciude with the Northern Confederation a treaty of jurisdic tion in conformity with the federal law co cerning the mutual assist nee says:—The the invitation yarial government, in replying to ved red 1 ras Teady to by the éPai Yyancellor, deciar enter into an ernent for a fimllar convention with the North, e Cabinet of Munich not having indicated the basis on which It would treat the Coun- cll authorized the Chancelior to open negotiations, A report was publishod at Beriin by M. Gneist, in the name of the Committee on Petitions, addressed to the Chamber of Deputics, relative to convenis, The document expresses the opinion that the duty of the government requires it-to apply to religious societics the restriction and control imposed by law on incorporated bodies, and eapecialiy not to accord any authorization or rights to orphan asylums, hoxpices, establishments for instruction, an others rounded by eccleslasticy, in order ‘to pre- vent by means of superintendence the members OL the religious orders from taking part in the direction and administration of suck institutions.’’ “The statement,” saya the Worth German Corres- pondent of Berlin, “that Count Bismarck tntends to resume the whole of his former duties in the course of from eight to ton days ts conarined. e report of his intending to give wp apart of tuem 9 entirely without foundation. en interrupted by ‘ AUSTRIA. English. journalis ry ine and wanien TY Hee eee eee whion the Mute Peror of Russia is guéfering is hypochondriasis—a Malady which is hereditary ta be ae family of Rosais, 40d whion tw moult to combat, Ie has ‘@ gloom over bis existence. It 1s said thas the Bm; pearance and fine aspect of are considerably altered, oiten food ehuts himgolf up ll outer 18 moe the year in ihe Empire of Russia ted to. 86,766,877 roubies trance each), OF ap increase ‘2,891,022 roubles on the same period in Industrial Exhibi- 1 yo wi to reductions, varying irom twenty ave to ‘ity cent on their usual taritfs for the carriage of sent for show. FINE ARTS. Tae Thompson Collection of Oil Paintings. The eccentricities of picture collectors have never been more signally ilustrated than by the late Mr. ‘Thomas Thompson, ® wealthy Bostonian, who left the Trimountain city about ten years ago, on account ofsome cause of complaint which he had, or fancied that he had, against the municipal aathorities. Never returning to Boston, he died in New York in the spring of the present year, Originaliy educated to bea clergyman, he preached a single sermon, and retired from the profession in disgust. Thencefor- ward he devoted his leisure and great wealth to the purchase of pictures in this country and in Europe. In 1852 he lost by the burning of Trement Temple a fine art collection which had cost him upwards of $92,000. But this misfortune, insteaa of extinguishing, inflamed his passion for pictures. He atonce set about gather- ing & new collection. This became, in haif a dozen years, larger than the one which he lost, and until he leit Boston in disgust be was continually adding to it, 60 that at his death he left the largest collec- tion of oll pamtings ever formed in the United Staves. But he kept those paintings hidden away in piles and covered with dust in several rooms over an old store near Boylston Market. No eye was permitted to see thom untilim November fast Mr. Young, of the Fine Arts Department, in the Boston Athenwum, was appointed by the widow and execu- trix of Mr, Thompson to examine and catalogue them. They nave now been brought to New York to be exhibited and sold, Boston having forfeited the chance of retaining the collection as the nu- cleus of an immense public art gallery, according to what 1s said to have been the original intention of Mr. Thompson. it comprises, indeed, not a few “iife-size nudes,” which, of course, Boston pradery would have rejected with holy horror except as decorations of the many mysterious barrooms ac- ceasible only to the initiated by side doors, or hidden behind screens in the rear of the ‘fruit stores,” tnat, thanks to the pronibitory liquor law, abound at the Hub, These ‘‘nudes,’’ however, are but a small ele- ment in the bewildering variety of the Thompson collection. Mr. Thompson would seem to have purchased pic- tures with two different views. The first was to be- come the possessor of undoubtedly fine pictures. The second was to assist young and struggling artists. Is was with the latter view that he bought the earlier land- scapes of Bierstadt and of Griggs, Of these there are more than sixty in the collection. Bierstadt’s works will, of course, command at least a success of curiosity and sell well, while those of Griggs will stand nowhere. But Mr. Thompson's patronage of youthful as- pirants counts for ilttle in his plan of extended encouragement to art. It was manifestly his am- bition to organize ® vast gallery for the future. Nor can we deny that he evinced both a sagacious taste and @ thorough critical perception of what would be wanted. If he died too early to succeed com- pletely in achieving so noble a purpose we can only regret it. Let it suffice to know that he-worked with this object in view. So rare is such an am- bition at the present day, in this or any other coun- try, that were Mr. Thompson alive we should be inclined to offer him @ crown of laurel. The collection which he has left consists of about eighteen hundred canvases. Of these some eight hundred require no criticism. Some six hundred are very good, and at least four hundred are literally the finest pictures of their class which we have seen in America, When we mention that there are two Rubens, three Jordsens, three Btttys, an Annibal Oaracci and a Ludovico Caracol, a Greuze, @ Turner, ®& Jaques Stella, an undoubted Reynolds, a Law- rence, @ Bordone, an Earl, a Diaz, a Fragonard, two Copleys, Peter Van Blomen, two or three Knéllers, @ couple of Lelys, two Angelica Kanuf- nfanns, 8 Pietro Cortona, a copy of “Titian,” by Sully; two copies by Jackson, the English acade- mician; au Opie, s Romney, & curious and authontic portrait of the ‘Prince of Wales” (George IV.), and “Mrs. Fits Herbert,” by Hamilton; s fine crayon portrait by Eliott, excellent Cropseys, a good Vanloo, two genuine Honthorats, a De Witt, a Campbell, two Bartolomeo Sckidones, and many other familiarand distinguished names, more than we have time or patience to enumerate, our readers wilt entertain no doubt that tne collection is worthy of special attention. One of tne Bartolomeo Schidones, “The Triumph of Galatea," ima nobler and grander specimen of the Italiam school than has been seen on this Conti- nent for alongtime. The flesh is painted witha roundness and pulpy freshness rarely equalled, while the heads are even more fresh and startlingly alive. ‘There is ® Zauffaly, which is an exquisite picture, full of force and, singularly enough, of refinement, There is a delicious but unfinished portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence, the “painter who pleases everybody,” as Southey used to say. There ts “The Discovery of Calisto,” by Rubens (it is signed by him), which is one of tne freest and most fluent pictures by the great Flem- Ing. Mr. Wight, of Boston, is represented by a paint ing called “The Sleeping Beauty,” which is entitied, in color, to high commendation. Conrad Roepel offers a splendid ‘Flower Piece, with a Lady and Chiid,” end—bot what is tne use of cataloguing tediously even a fow of the prominent pictures in this extra- ordinary collection? It 1s enough to say that after @ careful examination ot but @ tithe of this large and (notwithstanding its many tnforior works) this magnificent collection, we are not sur- prised at the sensation among connoisseurs in Europe and in the principal cities of the Unived States; in view of its approaching exhibition and sale at the galleries of Messrs. Leeds & Miner, on Broadway. The exhibition will open next Monday, January 22 Tho sale will begin on Monday, February 7, and is expected to continue for eight or ten days. Judging from the demand for catalogues there will be no lack of purchasers. So much has been said about the pictures, and so de- servedly have they awakened pubilc curiosity, that an unprecedentedly large attendance of visitors, as well.as buyers, may be anticipated. A dona fide Rubens, @ positive Reynolds, an indubitable Etty and @ genuine copy by sully of Titian’s Venus—to say nothing of the two Angelica Kauffmanns, the Wie- mar, the Jordaen and other fine works by many of the greatest masters of the last four centuries—are attractions rarely offered at a public sale. Whether the sale may produce what may be con- sidered asum total commensurate with the merits of the collection may, perbaps, be questionable. Eighteen hundred pictures, of which neariy one-half are of a very high order, are a great number to bring at once under the auctioneer’s hammer. Whatever our Apprehensious may be, let us nope that enougn virtuosi may be present to justify Mrs. Thompson in offering the pictares for sale, and that the proceeas may realize her reasonable expectation. Tuere are at least 400 works in the collection wnich might well tempt speculation with an eye to the European market; but it would be a pity to let them go abroad ‘when there are so many that would riobiy adorn prt- vate dwellings or puplic insiitutiqns /m our own country. JANUARY 18, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. SPECIAL POLITICAL NOTES, Answers to Political Queries. Frereenry WAtp,—1—Richard Riker was District Attorney of Now York from 1801 to 1810, and afterward from 1811 to 1814. 2—He was Recorder from 1815 to 1819; 1821 to 1623; 1824 to 1638. His name finally became a household word. B201n.—1—There ts no record of an exeoution for political offences in the history of New York. 2~In old times the common gallows was located in the City Hall Park, nearly Opposite what ls now the Tribune Bullding. ManwatTaN.—1—The first Sherif of New York was Jan Lampo, ¢ Hollander, He served from 1626 to 168, 2—The Present Sheriff (O'Brien) fs 9 native New Yorker. Raropiation.—1—The United States have praoilcally repa diated their debts three several times—by the Bankruptcy ‘acts cf 1800, 1846 aud 1863. 2—Tho continental currenoy was never considered worth a continental — after tho Revolutionary War—thenee the woll known phrase. BULLION.—1—The Alleghanies are literally and estarally the backbone dividing the bondbolding from the greenback section of the country. 2—The West, the South end the nig- (gers are supposed to be in favor of repudiation. The Kast and North wise. ‘Vernsve—“Bondbokiers and “slavehokiers” are words that have not yot been ueed in Congress to express the same meaning. Lecal, State and National Politics. General Butler was at the Astor House yesterday, He has just returned from trying a lead pipe case in Salem, Mass. The General expresses the opinion that there is no.use for the republicans to commence lay- ing pipe for the next Presidency, or any other Pre- sidency, unless they radically change thelr Qnancial, pollcy. General Butler thinks that eventually the colored Popalation will go for repudiation. They have sense enough to see, he argues, that it is not to their inter- eat to help pay an enormous national debt which they had no hand in creating, Ingratitude, thy name, is ebony | The man who threatened to ‘shoot Foley as he files” around the Albany lobby 1# not, it is stated, the author of “Shoo, Fly,’ Wanted—Aa democratic leader in Georgia. The Allanta Intelligencer says the party has not go sadly needed a sensible leader within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, “Tne Universe removed from Chicago to New York.” That's bad for the rurals of New York. 1¢ is a female political dodge. Women can move any- thing, from the universe to the heart of a stone giant. Amorning contemporary says last Saturday (Jan- uary 8) was Old Hickory’s birthday. Shade of St. Patrick! Jackson was born March 15, two days be- fore the immortal patron saint of old Ireland, but in quite a different age, Another “fall, my countrymen,” of the same sort has just been witnessed tn the selection of Mr. J. B. Howell, editor of the Gate City, published at Keokuk, Towa, to fill the place of Senator Grimes in the United States Senate until Mareh 4, 1871. Now for the sixteenth amendment. Sweet sixteen ! A national woman's suffrage convention meets this week in Washington for the purpose of urging the adoption of a sixteenth amendment to the constitu- tion, giving the right of suffrage to women. A Texan editor says he don’t like the “skipning”’ process of the Northern carpet-baggers. Wait, old fellow, until the ‘frying’? time comes along. Radical majority in Texas on joint ballot—13. Texas Electi ‘Anecdote of Tom Jefferson and tho Virginia Politiclan—“My Name's Haynes.” The Houston (Texas) 7imes says if John L. Haynes had been put up for Governor of that State, instead of Hamilton, he would have been elected over Davis by thousands. This reminds us, as the lamented Lincoln would say, of a little story:— Many years ago # Virginia politician riding along ® public highway overtook @ red-haired, common looking individual travelling in the same direction, They at once entered into conversation, the subject being politics, the discussion of which was then ap fovor heat all over ee country. Jefferson was President, and our Virgidia friend, aitnough Jeflerson was a native of lis own State, pitched into the author of the great Veclaration rignt and leit. To call bim a sheep stealer, a midnight robber, a Heaven-defying reprobate, were mild terms com- pared with those AL bed upon the devoted head of the unfortunate Jeiferson. Bye and bye the travellers came toa point where ‘the road forked, and tifeir routes lay in different Girections. Tue politician spoke:— “Stranger, we've travelled a good piece together, and understand each otuer pretty well about that old heathen, Tom Jefferson. May ask, before we part, what your name may be?” ae companion politely raiscd his hat and re- led :— » “My name is Tom Jefferson, President of the United States, at your service. What may your name be?” “You Tom Jefferson—that red-headed old cuss? W-e-l-l! w-e-l-l! M-y—m-y name’s Haynes,” and putting spurs to Old Dobbin the way he went down the north fork was a caution to Virginia gravel. The Joke became the pun of the groceries in the neighborhood for # long time, and when any one Wished to make tracks unusually fast be had only to exclaim, ‘My name's pare and “git.” Hence, if the Texas democrats wish to win at tho next elec- tion fet them nominate a candidate who can ejacu- bene fsraggaseaed Haynes.” He wili be bound to run wol Texas Congressmen. The Houston Telegraph of the 9th inst. sums up the foliowing ag the result of the election for Con- gressmen in Texa: To the astonishment of every ono Whitmore is led over Armstrong in thi ict. ong Was considered the most popular democrat in @ district that was thought to have @ decided demo- cratic majority. In the Second district, t , Captain Con- inited States oe ner, the democratic canaigate, tain, was arrested and confined m the military stoc! ade in Jefferson, This secured his election by 2,644 over his highest competitor. in she Third district Colonel Elliot, democrat, beaten i ae Clarke, Who hasa majority of ove! 8,000 In the district, In the Fourth district the San Antonio Express claims that Degener (radicai) is anead; but our foot- tug up gives ‘nes,(conservative) a small majority. ording to the Gaiveston News Haynes has a majority of 514, Tho Texas Logialature is composed as follows:— The Senate has two negroes, G. T. Ruby, of Gal- veston, and Matt Gaines, of AE ton. There are seventeen radical and thirteen couservative Sen- ators. AS > party, lines between the républican supporters 6f Hamilton and Davis were not very closely drawn, we have to await the develop. ments of the future to know who are liberal repubd- licans and who gre radicajs. In the lower House there are elgut ne} rats and conservatives and fifty raditais. Ina good many awrtricts the vote was very close, and several have mixed delegations—part radical, part conservative. Cr lap a Ac VENEZUELA. The Rebelliog Against the Regular Govern- ment=Defeat of the Insurgents and Death of tho Rebel Commander—The Nationat Troops Moving Against tho Remaining Rebels. By a Inte arrival at this port we have received interesting news from Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, to December 20, 1869, Iutelligence had reached that city by telegrapn from Moron, a town sitnated between Caracolar and Palmasola, dated December 19, giving particulars of the capture of the town by the government forces. At six A. M. of the 18th, at600 yards from the Sabana de Moron, in a place called Caracolar, the fring began and continued til the contending parties reacied the town of Moron, which was taken possession of by the government forces at three P. M., the insurgents being dispersed in all directions. The goverument troops captured nine fortifications b by the insurgents between Moron and Caracolar. Simultaneously another body of government troops were operating in the direc- tion of Palinasoia, and entered Moron almost at the game time thas the town was invested py the forces before mentioned. ‘rhis combination completed the triumph of the government party, the enemy ab- ruptly retiring and icaving bebind them twenty guns and 4 large ainount of ammunition. On December 20 the insurgents, having recruited their forces, re- turned towards the town, when several skirmishes took place, Next day the revels retirea and took up a fortified position on a neighboring hull. Additional forces will be required to dislodge them aud to que!i the outbreak. From Valencia, under dace of December 23, a tele- gram was received by President Monagas te the effect that @ courier had just arrived from General side in command there, asking for reimiorce- men On the 2ist, the government troops under General Herrera encountered the insurgents uncer General Manrici Salozar, the result being the complete dis- comifiture of the latter, with great loss of lite, Gen- eral Salozar being among the siain. Another despaich from the same district from M. Romero to the Minister of War says that on the 1¢tn the government iorces occupied the town of Moron after heavy fighting for nine hours, the insurgents being utterly routed. Several were killed, many Wounded, ‘and much amunition waa left behind, ‘The loss on the government side was 1aconsiderabie. General Herrera is now operating against the tn- surgents under General Mateos Salozar, brother to the late rebel commander of tie same name, and expects soon to vanquish them. werything was quict at the port of Coro. Com- Munioation is cut olf betwoon Porto Cabellg and the interior, aud husineds enerauy 18 doy. CUBA. Nothing Trustworthy Heard of General Puello’s Column. Contradictory Reports by Spaniards and Cubans, The Insurgents Said to be Short of Ammunition. Notting Heard from Puello—News from Va. rious Polnts of the Insurrection—Dispasition of Polktical Prisoners—Seduestrations. . Havana, Jan. 1, 1870. We have nothing as yet, positively known from Puello in Camaguey. Insurgent sympathizers, with- out furnishing any details and affecting a profound mystery us to their sources of information, tikst that he has been worsted. The coasting steamer Cuba arrived nere yegterday, morning, having left Nuevitas on the 8tn. The cgrrespondatice of the Diarto de la Martina, dated Nuevitas, the sth, says:—~ “It ta stated here by persons worthy of credit that one of the columns into which the forces of Puetio were divided had suprised af encampment of the rebels, causing it numerous losses, and that our troopa continue thelr march to she interior without hindrance.’ The other journals have similar very Unsatisfactory statements from which is may be in ferred nothing is known. From Puerto Principe the 8th a few incursions in small force are reportea, but without further result than the capture of came in considerable numbers. From Santiago de Cuba dates tothe 6threport no additional military ope rations, 5 From Gibara the 7th we learn that the troops which went out from Holguin bad returned. From the fact that but seventy.two of the insurgents are reported killed itis inferred the troops revurned without annihilating them, as was promised, Mang Jamilies were met witn in great destitution. ‘The Trinidad imparcial of the 7th has accounts of additional encounters of like result with those nere- tofore reported. £1 Alba, of Santa Clara has some captared correspondence between Brigadier Qull- lermo-Lorda and General Rolow, from which it is seen that the former was @ candidate for Governor 1v an election which was to take piace, but was pre- vented by inditary operations. He had been mexeeee in burning estates throughout Trinidad and Via Clara. A letter of Roloff mentions the disiodgment of Villamil from @ coffee estate and its occupation by a force of the Spaniards, Yelegrams from the Cinco Villas mention one or two encounters, some 7 sentations and the repairing of the telegraph line between Santi Espiritu and Ciego de Avila, and that to Trinidad the line is nearly completed, By the steamer ae whitch arrived at Batabano on the Oh, came eight political prisoners, amoug ‘hem Brigadier Castillo, aged seventy-two years, and anotuer chief called Carbonel. The cominittee acting for the volunteers of Matan- zas have consented to yield tu the volunteers of Ue- vado 1,000 of the 2,000 Peabody rites contractea for and expected to arrive on the 13th, The Asvurce ans of tnis city have contracted for 1,000 to coms later and to replace those given up by the Matanzas committee. This will enable the volunteors of Cova- donga w take the Meld, which they have been pre- vented from doing owing to their poor armament, The following disposition has been made of puitti- cal prisoners:—Piaced at liberty, D. Jaan Rodrigues Casas, D. Clemente iradi, D. Severeno Rosello, D. Benito Capote; subject to councilot war, D, Juan Bautista Latta, Camilo Hernandez and Juan B. Oo- loma; sent to Peninsula and placed at disposition of superior goverament, D. Cayetano Palon, The em- bargo on the property of D. Juan Bautista Latta han beeu ruised, he being a prisoner and awalting trial. ‘The following embargoes are published:—Un pre- perty of D, Emilio Marquez aad Domingo Mora. Nothing Heard of General Puelio in Onama- guey—The Insurgents Reported in Good Spirits and Wanting Only Clothing—The In- surgent Goverament Reported at Najasa— Condition of the Country-The Chances of the Robels=The Spanish Comnriesariat Soll. ing Supplies to the Enemy=—Foraging Expe- aition. Noeviras, Jan. 8, 1870, Notwithstanding the many rumors afloat it 1s-cer- tatn that no news whatever has been received from the column of General Puollo since its departure, No one of the command has returned, and we are completely in the dark concerning it. It ts known that when Puello marched out to- wards Gualmaro a column of about 609 rebels took the old road to Puerto Principe © @ point near Las Minas, on the railway, thus escaping Lim. A email force went out in searok of them from the later place and’ a few shots were Ored, but without farther result than the capture of a@ few women, who were by no means favorably disposed towards their captors, one of whom flercely seserting that had the commander of the insurgents been near she would not{have been molested, and otherwise expressing the universal hatred and coa- tempt towards the Spantarde, As tothe condition of the insurgents, it would seem they must be short of ammunition, as they have received no supplies of late, A lotter, however, was recently received here from withia their lines which stated that they haa everything n xcept clothing, that they were in good spirits and had no thought of giving up tae contest. Nevertheless, tue prevailing impression among thetr sympathizers here 13 that their folding Out against the large forces brought against thom ts very aouvtfal. No conclusion can be formed as to the result of Puello’s operations, though it 1s certain the rebels can keep out of his way if they choose to do so. I¢ is inderstood here that their present stroag- hold and where the seat of goverument is established is at Najasa, fourteen leagues southeast of Puerto Principe. This consists of @ coileotion of small stock farms, and is what remains of a colo! lished there on the free labor system by Kuown patriot, writer and phianthropist, Gasper Betancourt Cisneros, otherwise called Gasper Najasa, and who wrote under the nom de plume of “Home Bono.” I may remark en passant that this man, whose great object in life was the freedom of Cuba, died some two years before the preaking out of the insar- aud that his iast words were “Two years, two years,’ ofttimes repeated; and that many of his countrymen regard the present revolution as the tul- fiment of & prophecy thus expressed. Najasa @tuated within a very ragged and mountainous dis- trict of great extent, embracing immense virgin forests, withia which are craggy precipice huge caves and winding paths, known even to but few of those born and reared near them. The country is inaccessivie to artillery, aud if there is a grain of #pirit among the iokarkents they can hold it against any force in the isiand, ‘There is a rumor here that this locality is besieged by Puello; but this 1s ridicu- lous, a3 1¢ 18 60 extensive that it could not be be- sieged by 60,000 men, it is thought here that the insurgents are supplied With many articies of luxury by the Spanish officials of the Commissariat, who will do anything for money. As an evideuce of this 13 mentioned the fact that @ small column which recently went out from along the line of railroad found, im @ hut in the woods, @ pipe of wine, many boxes of sardines and aconsiderabie quantity of bread, having the mark of toe commissariat upon them. ‘Luis is the more suspicious ag no capturea of supplies lave been re~ cenily nade by the insurgents, A foraging expedition recently left Puerto Principe and returned with 450 head of catue, The enemy ‘Was not seen, from which it is argued that Re is con- centrating his forces to oppose Puello. The weather is pleasant and the goncral health ts improving. AN ARGUMENT FOR DIVORCES. To Tus Epitor OF THE HERALD:— ‘Tho question of divorce, which is now agitating the public mind to such an extent, 1s certaimy a subject of inflnite importance. Tuat great misery ia caused by the forced cohabitation of two persons Who are wholly unfitted for each other cannot be de nied, It scems essentially wrong that an entire life should be biasted by the one faise step of an unfor- tunate marriage. All other early mistakes and Iin- prudences arising {rom ignorance may ta @ great Measure be reinedied, and a better, nobler existence achieved; but the sad, youthful error of a mistaken marriage proves too often a lifelong curse. It seems to me that a woinan should not be compelled to re- sign all future hope of domestic happrovgs; tat she should not ve forced to consider herself irrevocably doomed to a life of hopo.ess wretcheaness when she finds hersaif bound to # Man Wie afier marrage develops into a bruial husvaad or ao Incurabie drunkard, or, what 1s almost if not quite as bad, one of those mousiroaitics of Dature whose constant dl temper, Irritability sod tyrannical disposiucn convert thelr home into a purgatory, Also, & woman Who grows into aa inveterate scold, whose semper becomes 0 unbridled that 1€ must needs veut itself in throwig aruickes of furni- sure, or anything sve can lay her nands on, ac her husband or whoever vexes her; who beats her chy drea and sends ruinous bills to her husband because she knows tuatby law he is compelied to pay then— LT repeat that women of this description, a8 well a the mea above mentioned, neither of whom src aa rare in ‘good sgcicty” asthe uninitiated may /aucy, suould be divofced from their unlappy partners ‘with quite as much reason as by cause of adultery, ‘The evil consequences arising from the one are fully as great as those that spring from the other. ‘It ie, indeed, & most vexed question, well deserving eurnest attention, requiring the Wiscst legislation, and ne which avoLvas tramieuse interests. JOKN GUILFORD.