The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1870, Page 6

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Pace. 1—Advertisements. ‘Q—Advertisements, S—Washington: Another Senatorial Excitement Promised; Society Excited Over the Royal Visitor; Proceedings in Congress—Prince Ar- thur: His Departure from tnis City and Ar rival in Washington—The Princess of Wales— Lectures Last Evening on ‘Among the Adiron- dacks” and “Birds’’—Obituary Notices—Kid- Bappiug an Omcial—Naval Intelngeace—Fire at Bridgeport, Conn.—Local intefigence. 4—Polygamy: Mass Meeting of Mormon Women in Salt Lake City; Proposed Keststance to tne Suppression of Polygamy—City Politics ana Political Notes—Sudaen Death of Seuator Nor- ton’s Brother—The Peightal tragedy in Penn- sylvania, S—The New Heaven and the New Earth: A London Old Fogy on the Sunday Discourses of the HERALD—Reilgious Intelligence—The State Capital: Politicai Gossip About Everything— Smaltpox: The Duties of the Sanitary In- spectors—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts Yesterday—The Last of Lo- gau—leported Wreck of the Ram Atlanta— The Horse in @ Street Car—Marine Transfers, G6—Editoriais: Leading Article on a Bewildered London “Old Fogy"’ on the “Prophetic Omice of the New York HERALD"—Amusemout An- nouncementa. ‘9¥—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: M. Rochefort’s Sentence and ita Penal Etlects; Tho Archbishop of Paris Before the Council in Rome—The Gold Ring: Gould and Fisk Before the Congresstonal Gold Investigation Com- mittee—Personal Intelligence—Literature: Cnucisms of New Books—Tne Tracks of the Sneaks—One of the Strong Men of the Perioa— A Curious and Happy Reunion—Business No- tices. S—New York and Brookiyn City News—The Brook- lyn Election Frauds—Suburban Inteliigence— The Mysterious Visitor at Police Headquar- ters—Morrissey and Fisk: A Bohemian Ca- nard—The Custom House Cartage—Furious Snow Storm in Minnesota—Singular Suictde— The Black Flag: Desperate Confiict of a Ger- man Bark with a Pirate Prahn in the China Seas. y 9—Financlal and Commerciai Reporta—Marriages, Birth and Deaths—Advertisemencs. 10—Meeting of the Woman’s Suffrage Associauion— The, Ball Season—Thrown from the Track: Another Accident on the Long Island Rail foad—Onutrages on the Morris and Essex Rail- road—Ladies’ Physiological and Sanitary In- stitute—The Polish Exiies—Quimbo Appo— Shipping Intelligence—Adverusements. 21—Advertisements. 19—Advertisements. SOTICE TO HERALD SUBSCRIBERS. We will esteem it a favor if our readers will faform us, by letter addressed to this office, of any dereliction on the part of the carriers of the Henaup, either in furnishing the paper late, substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled abects. A Dismat Prorvre of the crimes of New York is printed in one of the Boston news- papers, but it is only the old story of kettle calling pot black. Moreover the gay old boys and fast women of ‘“‘the Hub” add their full share to our criminal list in their skylarking adventures in Gotham. A Lona Sreeton oy Imacination.—The Bohemians had an unusual sensation yesterday, in a rumor that Fisk, Jr., had shot the Hon. John Morrissey in Washington. As Morrissey was. in this city at the time, and Fisk in Washington, it would have shown more en- terprise than even Fisk is capable of, and more ill luck than generally falls to Morrissey’s lot, if the story were true. Tue SurFracE SEEKING Lapis at Wash- fngton knowing that it is not in mortals to command success, are determined, like Cato, to deserve it. A delegation of them, com- prising their brightest lights, advocated their cause before the joint committee of Congress on the District of Columbia, yesterday, and so pertinently that even Sumner was moved to aay that he had never heard a cause more ably advocated or more interest evinced by a Con- @eagional committee, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT. A & Bewildered London “Old Fogy” en the “Prophetic Office of the Now York Herald.” We have reserved for our readers to this Sunday morning a somewhat amusing, though doleful, review from a bewildered ‘‘old fogy”” of the London Spectator, of two of our recent editorial Sunday discourses—the one on the “‘New Heaven and the New Earth” and “the New Jerusalem,” and the other on King David's “handful of corn in the earth apon the top of the mountains,” and St. John the Divine's vision of the chaining and locking up in the bottomless pit of ‘‘that old serpent which is the Devil and Satan” for a thousand years. Our application of the discoveries and instru- mentalities of modern science as the agents destined to bring about the fulfilment of these sublime prophecies is confessedly beyond the comprehension of our sorely perplexed London contemporary. He is of the mind of the Church inquisitors who compelled Galileo to recant the heresy that the world moved; “but it does move, for all that.” He cannot under- stand how the fixed facts of science are to be reconciled with the teachings of the Old or the New Testament. He naturally enough recoils from the thought that the city of New York, redeemed and regenerated, materially and morally made clean, is to be the New Jeru- salem of the new age that is already dawning- upon a new earth; that modern science, in its applications to the good of mankind, is des- tined to effect a fusion of all the nations, races and tribes of the earth—Indians, Chinese, negroes and all—in the common brotherhood of one mighty confederation of genuine law and order, ‘‘liberty, equality and frater- nity;” that the press, the railway, the steamship and the telegraph are to do this grand and glorious work; that after the lapse of nearly thirty centuries the outgrowth from King David’s handful of corn is beginning to ‘shake like Lebanon,” with the top dress- ing of General Grant,in the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the constitution of the United States; that the lightning telegraph is to annihilate not only space, but the sea, and that the electric wire is the chain which is to bind the Devil for at least a thousand years. All this is rank heresy and ‘“‘the abomina- tion of desolation” to our London old school philosopher. ‘Yet, after all,” he confesses, “this sort of stuff” has something in it; that at the worst it is only ‘‘a popular caricature of a tendency deeply rooted not only in New York- ers, but in English women;” that “we are always hearing this nonsense in one form or another;” that even Dickens talks it, but with some reticence-and dexterity ; while with the New York Hérawp it is ‘“‘stark Manhattan- ism ;” that, in short, the materialistic tenden- cies of the day are towards ‘‘a form of modern idolatry of. the lowest type, which seems more and more likely to undermine Christianity altogether.” This admission gives us the victory. Our London philosopher, still groping as he is among the Church dogmas of the Dark Ages, has a glimmering of the ‘‘new heaven and the new earth” in the few age and the new dis- pensation that are even now breaking upon us through overland wires and ocean cables and a free press and free thought, fusing the differ- ent races and nations of mankind into a com- mon brotherhood. The Church of Rome in the Ecumenical Council has also a glimmering of this new dispensation, and is debating the feasibility of repeating ‘“‘the Pope’s bull against the comet;” the Church of England is shaking through all its fibres in its vain and aimless conflict with the progressive spirit of the age ; and so it is with all the Churches of the United States, from the o'd mother Hebrew faith to its latest Protestant bantling, It is the ‘‘irrepressible conflict” between old ideas of imagination and the stubborn facts and registless material and moral forces of modern science. Our London philosopher, despairing of reconciling these new moral forces with the dogmas of a past age, regards with ill-concealed amazement and horror the logical and consistent facts upon which we contend that the developments and instru- mentalities of science are but the fulfilment of the Scriptures looking to ‘‘the new heaven and the new earth” therein foreshadowed. But the clearer-sighted Father Hyacinthe is inspired with the sublime prospect which opens before him of science and revelation harmonized in the coming universal faith ; and so are we, Inspired with the same glorious vision of the unity of the nations through the press and the telegraph—of that new age when there shall be no more wars, fortresses, fleets or armies equipped for slaughter, no more famines or desolating plagues, no more communities of the rich getting richer and the poor poorer, no more prejudices of race or caste, or persecu- tions for opinion’s sake—we still hold to the dea that from its geographical and command- ing position New York is to be the New Jeru- salem of the prophet of Patmos. Allah/ mashallah! God be praised! Henrt Rocnerort’s SENTENor.—From a cable despatch, which we publish this morning, it will be learned that the editor of the Mar- seillaise has been tried, convicted and sen- tenced. The sentence is not too severe, although it implies six months’ imprisonment and a fine of three thousand francs. Six months is a long time to be shut out from the active world. In the course of that time M. Rochefort will be forgotten almost as a Deputy, and it will not be wonderful if the Marseillaise isno more. The Creuzot riots are put down. M. Rochefort is tried and sentenced. Paris is tranquil. The next grand sensation will be the trial of Prince Pierre. Like the trial of Rochefort, this will come and go, leaving the general impression that the reality was not equal to the expectation, A Praisewortay Cuarity.—The Young Men’s Association give their thirteenth annual ball in aid of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum at the Academy of Music on Monday evening next. These entertainments have alwaye been of the highest order of excellence, and the object is one toward which all the charitably disposed can conscientiously con- tribute their aid. Goxt—The influence of Greeley over the radicals of Congress. They don’t mind him a bit, even in pleading the cange of sound policy. “cratic majority in both houses. 4 would thus appear that his going bail for Jeff Davis was as bad for him among the loyal leaguers as if he had assisted in clearing Andy dsobnson. Prince Arthur at Washingtoa—Diglematic Etiquettc, The red tape gentlemen of the diplomatic corps at Washington are in a great furry about the question of precedence at the dinner parties to be given by the British Minister in honor of Prince Arthur, who arrived in Washington last night. Mr, Thornton appears to have acted independently in the matter and without regard to the usual rule of giving precedence to the oldest foreign Ministers in Washington. This is all right. The British Minister is at liberty to issue invitations as he may please to his own private table, But amid all this flurry we should like to know where the colored gen- tleman from Hayti is to come in. Another matter relative to the entertainment of the Prince is creating a good deal of conversation and speculation, It appears the President has declined the invitation to dine at Mr, Thorn- ton’s with the Prince on Monday evening. Of course it was declined in the polite form of “official engagements” precluding the Presi- dent's attendance. But this does not exactly satisfy the diplomatic gossips. We rather think the President concluded that it would be proper for the Prince to dine with h{m at the White Honse first, and that Mr. Thornton over- looked this point of etiquette or propriety. Simple and plain as we are and as our highest Officiajs are, agreeably to our republican insti- tutions, the President of the United States is the equal of Queen Victoria or any other mon- arch or ruler, Yor he represents the nation. Should any foreign prince go to London witha view of paying respect’ to the Queen her Majesty would hardly go to dine with him at the house of his Minister before entertaining him herself, if atall, General Grant is not apt to be over ceremonious as regards himself personally; but he knows what is due to him as the President of this great republic. This, we suppose, is the secret of the President hav- ing ‘official engagements” on Monday evening. Sir Samuel Baker’s Nile Explorations Advices received per ocean cable from Lon- don have it that Sir Samuel Baker and his exploring party had been heard from. On the 1st of January, the date of the latest news, they were at the head waters of the Nile and all well. Of Sir Samuel and his expedition we entertain tho very highest hopes.. Of all recent African explorers, with the single exception, perhaps,,of Livingstone, and that barely, he is the greatest. But for Living- stone we should never have had Baker; yet, while we wait for the return of Livingstone and the result of hig final explorations, we must admit that Baker has solved the great problem of all the past—has traced to its source the father of rivers, the mighty and generous Nile. Baker is at the head of a numerous and well provided exploring party; he is armed with all the authority of a military chiet; his object is to explore and conquer and then annex to Egypt those glori- ous highlands that are watered by the tributa- ries of the Nile. It will not be wonderful if Baker and Livingstone meet in that ancient but slill virgin land, although the probability of their meeting is of late somewhat dimin- ished, At a recent’meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Roderick Murchison,. whose knowledge of African geography is something marvellous, stated that the presump- tion now was that Livingstone had failed to trace the Nile to a higher source than had been accomplished by Baker, and that in all probability he was now far on his way on the line of the Congo towards the Atlantic coast. In that case the two great travellers will not meet on African soil. We are glad to believe that Livingstone is well and that Baker has once more been so far successful. Let us hope that final victory will reward the labors and sacrifices of thé two great€st of modern travellers, that they may live long to wear their laurels, and that as the result of what they have done the area of civilization may be widened and our stores of knowledge in- creased. Crry Potrrios.—In another column will be found a very graphic picture of the political field and the various contestants struggling for the prizes to devolve upon the victors, These in the immediate present comprise the offices in the different commissions and boards, vacancies in which will be made by a bill now before the Legislature, and the final passage of which will be accelerated by the demo- A great deal of interest and excitement is also thrown into the struggle by the combinations of parties looking to the vacancies that will accrue in some of the most important departments in the municipal government next fall. The article referred to covers both eras and both contests— the present, over the Albany commissions, and the prospective one, in regard to municipal offices—and will be read by the politicians, in city and State, with great interest, as exhibit- ing a state of affairs few among them at present dream of. Stock IN THE FrEsER IsLANps LooxIna Up.—The news from the Feojee: Islands is interesting. English settlers from Australia are flocking into the country with the intention of engaging in the raising of sea island cotton. Within the past few years the number of set- tlers has vastly increased. A’ petition has been numerously signed by the islanders and forwarded to Washington praying the United States to establish a protectorate over the island. Here’s another fine chance for the American government. How Seward would rejoice at such ® prospect!. By the bye, ifwe mistake not we have a small account with these Faejeeans, and possibly King Thackamoon desires to settle our claims by giving us ashare of his dominions. In this he sets an example to England in the way that that‘island might settle the Alabawa claims, If we go on in these real estate speculations it may yet be the proud boast of the American that the sun never sets upon the dominions of the republic of the United States. Tus Best We Can Do.—We tave been asked what reason can be given for the propo- sition at Albany to abolish the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” and to clear out Mr. Bergh. Well, the supposi- tion that those brutal fellows who must be cruel to something, if allowed to be cruel to horses, cows, dogs and cats, will be apt to spare their wives and children, may be the reason for the proposed repeal. It is not much of a reason, we admit, but it is the best that we can do on the subject. ‘The Mormon Wemes in Council. In another place in this day's Hzracp will be found a long but most readable and instruc- tive article on the present state of things in Utah, Cullom’s bill, now before Congress, seems to have frightened the Saints, male and female, out of their propriety. The letter is chiefly occupied with a report of a mass meet- ing of the women of Salt Lake City, The meeting, was held in the old Tabernacle. It was, perhaps, one of the grandest female assemblages in all history. The audience was non-masculine, and the speakers one and all were female. We refer our readers to the speeches and to the resolutions; and we ven- ture to say that, whatever may be the individ- ual reader's opinion of the merits or demerits of Mormon institutions, it will not be denied that Mormon women have both brains and tongues. Some of the speeches give evi- dence that in general knowledge, in logic and in rhetoric the so-called degraded ladies of Mormondom are quite oqual to the women’s rights women of the East. In these days, when women threaten to become tyrants, it is refreshing to read such earnest pleadings in favor of the rights of men. After reading this report we have come to the conclusion that there is sspirit ‘in Salt Lake valley which no legislation can crush. It may be necessary for the Mormons to fight. They will fight if they are forced toit. It may be necessary for them to emigrate. They will emigrate if they are forced to it. It may be necessary for them to leave this country and even this Continent. But after they ‘have fought and after they have emigrated and after they have left this Continent they will live and they may prosper. As they survived the first exodus the presumption is they will survive a second. Whether we admire or whether we pity or whether we condemn, it must now be admitted that the inevitable con- flict is at hand. The one twin relic is gone; the other must follow. . George D. Prentice. The telegraph informs us of the death of Mr. George D. Prentice, who in himself repre- sented the leading characteristics of the style of personal journalism peculiar to the West. He at one time exercised strong influence over the people of that section, and managed their politics to suit-his own views. At the com- mencement of the war he, with the aid of Crittenden, Rousseau and other statesmen of Kentucky, possibly saved that State to the Union. But in later years his in- fluence waned and his voice became of little account in the councils of the State. His style of editing was peculiarly terse and sharp. Paragraphs were his especial forte, and they were always witty, generally pointed, and often obscene. His invectives were mer- ciless and his satire was bitter. He spared no one and had no consideration for age, sex, color, race or kin, He would violate the dearest confidences for a paltry joke and as- sail the closest family ties for an invective. On the other hand, he was genial and earnest in his laudations, warm and sincere in his friendships and hones: and clear in his convic- tions. As a politician he has declined the highest honor that the State could give him; as a patriot he warmly and zealously sup- ported the cause of the Union, and as a states- man he cordially welcomed back the returning States. His faults were fully atoned by his sterling Unionism and the evil fortune of his closing days. Financial Condition of Russia~Its Loan on the Money Market. A telegram from London informs us that the introduction of the Russian loan in that city had caused a depression in the money market. This loan, it appears, amounts to about fifty- five millions of dollars in gold, and is intanded for the completion of the Nicolai Railway con- tract, This seems a comparatively small sum for such a vast empire as Russia to raise. We have individuals and private corporations in this country who could get such a loan on any great public work, and as to the government it could. raise hundreds of millions if needed, notwithstanding our large debt. How is it, then, that the great Russian empire, with seventy millions of population, finds it diffi- cult to effect a loan of fifty-five millions of dol- lars, or that the introduction of it on the market caused a depression in Russian securities? The credit of Russia used to be better. There appear to be several causes for the decline of Russian credit, First, the enormous military and naval establishments of the empire consume a large portion of its resources, The cost of the War Depariment alone is over a hundred millions of dollars a year. The great and costly public works, particularly railroads, have required vast sums. Then, the Russian government has been borrowing money every year, at the rate of thirty-five to forty millions of dollars on an average, for some years past, to make up deficiencies. Of course these con- stantly recurring financial expedients shake the confidence of capitalists and depress the credit of Russia, No doubt the empire has vast internal and natural resources, but many ofthem are undeveloped, and they cannot sup- ply the extraordinary expenditures. If Russia would improve her credit she must reduce her enormous military establishment, emerge from her comparative isolation and enlarge her foreign trade. But inorder to do this she must march with the spirit of the age, adopt free institutions and, by doing so, increase the ambition, activity and industry of her people. Afree people are the most productive in the world, and generally the productiveness and wealth of a nation grow in proportion to the liberty which a people enjoy. The United States present a remarkable example in this respect. England affords another example. The Russian government would do well to ponder over this fact and adapt its institutions to the liberal ideas and progress of the age. Law ann Arms 1N Gzoroia.—Gencral Terry’s argument, which he forwards to Presi- dent Grant, that he, as military commander, has power to unseat members of the Georgia Legislature who are disqualified by the four- teenth amendment, on the ground that they rank as other disqualified persons—idiots and women, for instance—is a very good legal point, but it is a useless ‘argument. As mili- tary commander, having absolute control, he has possibly greater powers than that. Presi- dent Grant seems to think go, at least, and it is understood he will instruct General Terry to that effect, 4 Blower Wanted in the National Capitel, The National Capitol is a magnificent struo- ture. On the crest cf a commanding hill and in the midst of a pretty park of green trees, summer or winter its appearance to the eye, approached from any point, is excecdingly beautiful and imposing, Its position gives it all the advantages of an abundance of fresh air from whatever quarter the winds may blow; and yet it appears our national law- makers in both chambers are somewhat in the condition of a mouse in an exhausted receiver. The two chambers are so enclosed in such masses of masonry as to be excluded from tho air, and the required oxygen has to be pumped in by machinery. The folly of this sort of architecture, ignoring ventilation and fresh air, may be detected in the new Parliament buildings of London on the margin of the filthy Thames; but tho stupidity which hag placed our two houses of Congress each in the centre, as it were, of a great stone monas- tery of numerous walls and cloisters on every side is unsurpassed. Of course the atmosphere in both wings of the Capitol is considered unhealthy, owing to the insufficient supply of oxygen from the pumps below, and to its rarified condition from the action of the subterranean furnaces. In this extremity a New York engi- neer has come to the rescue with a proposition to supply a blower to both houses. A blower! A grim joke, this, A blower! As if we had nof had a surfeit of blowers in the House and in the Senate since their first opening! As if these blowers who had blown upon the country @ raging four years’ tornado of fire, sword, blood and chaos were not equal to any require- ments of blowing! But they are not; and soa New York engineer proposes a steam blower, a blower of a thousand horse power, embracing a system of blowers which will blow the fresh air int through the openings overhead and blow the exhausted air out through the openings in the floor, and regulate it to the temperature and moisture of a pleasant summer day. So, then, let it be, But the Western men, who are blowing for the removal of the seat of government, will recoil from this preposterous idea of making laws in an atmosphere sup- plied by a steam blower. Men from the boundless Western prairies will naturally recoil from the thought of consenting to be cooped up in a place where the bounteous air of heaven has to be supplied by machinery, and whereby it must be adulterated like our modern confectionery. Men of the West, what say yeto this steam blower? And yo wise- acres at Albany, in providing a new State Capitol, beware of the blunder which can only be remedied by a blower. Cardinal Antonelli on Church and State. We have had several interesting items of news from Rome regarding the Council. The Freemasons of Germany have openly objected to the tendency manifested by the Council in the matter of the Syllabus. In this we dis- cover no cause for wonder. The only thing in the affair worth noticing is the fact that Free- masons, men notoriously “excommunicate,” should give themselves any concern about the Council now held at Rome. It is a far more serious matter to learn that Cardinal Antonelli, who has been the Pope’s righthand man and who has stood by the temporal power during all these years of trouble, has openly declared that the Pope will never hesitate to maintain the rights of the Church as equal to those of the State. What provoked this remark we do not know. It shows us that Cardinal Antonelli has not much changed, and it leaves us at lib- erty to infer that on this great question there may be some serious trouble before the Council is ended. Antonelli was never in favor of this Council—he apprehended no good—but now that the Council is a fact for good or for evil he is not the man to allow himself to be sold. He does not care much for infallibility, but he cares a great deal about the time-honored though now dying principle that the Church is greater than the State, the Pope mightier than kings. Tue Gotp Rina Investigation Commit- TEx.—Gould and Fisk, Jr., were yesterday examined before the Congressional Gold Investigation Committee, and the former, in decided language, exonerated President Grant and Secretary Boutwell of all knowledge of the great gold speculation, Fisk, Jr., how- ever, indulged in a long statement, from which it appears, if he speaks truly, that Corbin led him to believe that Grant would back up the ring. Between Fisk, Jr., and Corbin on the one side and Grant on the other the country will not hesitate to believe the President's assurance that he knew nothing of the move- ments in Wall Prraoy IN THE Catne se S#as.—Piracy is not yeta thing of the past in the waters of the East. By reference to another part of the Herarp an account of an attack on the Ger- man bark Apenrade, now in this port, may be read. On the 24th of last September the vessel was attacked by pirates in the Chinese seas, and but for the unexpected appearance of a steamer the crew of the Apenrade would pro- bably have been murdered and the vessel itself scuttled and sunk, The pirate was subse- quently captured by a Chinese gunboat, but not until after a bloody conflict, in which twenty of the pirates were killed. * Cure Justice Cuask AHEAD o¥ TAM- MANY.—The following is given as a letter from Chief Justice Chase toa member of the Ohio Legislature :-- WASHINGTON, November, 1869, Hon. THOMAS YEATMAN:— My Deak Sik—The eyes of the whole country are upon the State of Onio. On your vote depends the passage of the fifteenth amendment. lam for un- versal suffrage and universal amnesty. ‘Ine amend- Ment must be put through the Legislature at all hazards. S. P, CHASE, Now, constdering the recent ati of the democratic Legislature of New York on this fifteenth amendment, and of other Legislatures ofthe same faith, the Chief Justice has cut himself loose from the democratic party, and no doubt ho had enough of it in the Tammany Convention. Who speaks next? AN Hoxest LEGISLATURE, —The only appa- rent attempt at taking unauthorized money out of the people’s pocket that the democratic Legislature at Albany has yet made was in the shape of a favorite plan of the Common Council of this city for the same purpose—namely, increasing ‘the compensation of the clerks. But eveh this mild fraud was defeated yester- day. The Legislature is evidently on its good behavior, and hag reason go far to be proud of ita honesty. Emigration from the British Isles and Gore many—The Material Necessities ef the Old World Peoples, ‘The emigrant rush from the British {islands and Germany to countries abroad increases in volume and, apparently, in intensity of spirit and earnestness of purpose. One hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-one persons embarked at the porteof Liverpool during the year 1869—a larger total of voluntary British exiles fleeing from the land of thelr birth than that which has been seen there eince tho year 1852—the year of the most extreme sooial suffering consequent on the effects of the Irish famine, Ninety-three thousand six hundred and seven of the gross number were subjects of Queen Victoria, Forty-four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five are classed as “foreigners,” being for the most part natives -of the Continental countries—Germans par- ticularly, who went to Liverpool to take ship. Fifty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty of the whole number were English, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-one © Scotch and twenty-nine thousand and fifty-six Irish. The Irish figure appears small; but we must recollect that the great bulk of -the exodus from Ireland is just now conducted directly from Irish ports. Some of the British emigrants went to Amstralia; but the great majority of all, no matter of what nationality, came to the United States. These highly interesting statistioal returns go to prove still more conclusively the grand politico-economic and ethnological facts that man will and must move in the direction which presents the most profitable opening for the exercise of his industry, as well as the greatest certainty for the attainment of an equitable compensation for his labor. The Gladstone disendowment of the Irish Church does not serve to keep the Irishman at home. He is very well content to permit Protestantism to go ‘‘to the deuce” ia its own way and according to Parliamentary fashion, so that he can get off to a land where he is sure to obtain ‘a fair day’s wages for» fair day’s work.” The “man of Tipperary” does not wait to learn the result of the ‘great thing”. of the return of O’Donovan Rosss to Parliament, but hies away to New York, determined to qualify himself as soon as he possibly can for a seat in the New York Municipal Council or the Legislature at Albany. It is the same case—in cause and result—as was 80 well put by Sydney Smith in the words :—‘* ‘Erin-go-Bragh’ ponsenso; let the cry.be, ‘Erin go bread and cheese; Erin go pantaloons without holes in them.’” The extension of the Parliamentary franchise to the masses, the reduction and equalization ‘of the public taxes, the reform of the crim{nal law, the abolition of the law of imprisonment for debt, with the personal condescensions of the Queen and aristocracy, do not serve to bind the Englishman to a home in which the. fluctuations between the earning of a bare competency for to-day and the prospect of » domicile inside the walls of a poorhouse to- morrow, are too sudden for his present home comfort and too sharp in the realistic extinction of his hopes for the future prosperity of his children. German consolidation, with © its accompanying and pleasing attestation of the popular national power, does not serve to restrain the educated, industrious, plodding Teuton in the land of military draft, of royalty, of complex taxations and feudal baronial service and rents, and hence he flees to that of free churches, free schools, fres democracy, afree army organization and free lager, with plenty of ‘‘stamps” and “‘greenbacks” pouring in from free labor. We announced in our issue on Friday morning that the ice was broken up in the Elbe, the Weser, and off Brunhausen on the 3d of January, and that it remained drifting, with the rivers still opening, on the 6th inst, This important meteorological fact will give a great impetus to an early, steady and voluminous emigration from Vaterland to our shores, so that, what with a great flow of people and money from abroad, New York may prepare for an early and profitable spring trade, and the Heratp for the accom- modation of still increased and increasing advertising patronage. This grand movement of the European peo- ples westward is vastly aided by the working of the penny postage system and cheap ocean postal charges. It comes from the evangelism of the pen, the newspaper press, steam and the telegraphs. Every mail steam- ship which leaves an American port for Europe constitutes a moving propaganda of modern enlightenment tending to elevate the foreign peoples, and at the same time neutral- ize the consequences of the stationary or reactionary propaganda in Rome. This diffu- sion of knowledge serves to render the era more glorious, The only regret which we experience in con- nection with the subject of the European emi- gration comes from the fact that it is entirely conducted under foreign flags, and that the exile does not commence his career of per- sonal regeneration on the very shore of his old home by stepping on board steamships showing the Stars and Stripes from the main— the emblem of his hopes and coming citizen security. A Novel “Remedy for the Existing Dis- tress”? fn London. We have received from London a copy of a handbill or poster proposing as ‘‘a remedy for the existing distress” in the British metropolis “that proper and lawful means be adopted to effect the annexation between Great Britain and her colonies and the United States of America.” In support of this vast and com- prehensive proposition it is declared in said handbill the results of. such a measure. would be:— First—Jealousy and bad feeling wourd be removed, risk of war would be taken away, and peace would be extended, Second—Naval and military expenditure could be reduced, ana the money applied to ameliorate the condition of the poor. Third—Increased power would be given to the reformation of abuses in England, and feelings ot manhood would be invigorated, We are finally informed that ‘‘a projeet is afoot to form a movement to promote the above object by meetings, lectures, pamphlets, the press,” &o. This comprehensive pronuncia- mento may come from some far-reaching reformer in London of the school of Colorado Jewett or George Francis Train, but still there is something init. Ifthe author of tho handbill had confined himself, a8 a beginning, tothe annexation of the New Dominion, or