The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1870, Page 8

Crime, Political Agitation and a Patal Colliery Explosion in Great Britain. The O'Donovan Rossa Said to Have Been Again Flogged. ‘tne American “Party” in the Papal Council. ‘The steamship Nevada, Captain Green, of Wiiiains & Guion’s line, from Liverpool ihe 16th and Queens town the 17tn of Febraary, arrived at this port yes- terday evening, bringing oar special European correspondence and & newspaper mali report iu Getail of our cabie telegrams dated to her day of galling from England. Captain 8. Osborn received the following telegram late on Monday night, February 14:— Bompay, Feb. 14—8:00 A. M.—The Great Eustern and Chiltern left at eight o’ciock this morning. They pene mnmediately. The splice to ihe sliore end Hoished, The tests of cuble are most saiisiactory, The Governor of Bomivay telegraphs from Malabar Point, February 14, 7:38 P. M.,, as follows:— Laying Of cable most prosperouely commenced. Please tO communicate ie iollowiny to Capiain Bherard Osborn:—“ihe splices Were coupieled at ve P. M. under weigh, and payiug out. weil,” & great robbery of diamonds and jewelry took place February 15 at Sir Robert Napier’s, The burg- jar entered Lady Napier’s bedroom while the family were at dinner. Sir Ronert gave the alarm, but the vhieves escaped. A dressing case was opened and jewelry to the amount of several thousana pounds sterling taken away. ‘The Birmingham papers are “enabied to pubiisi’? the latest wail news concerning the health of Mr. Bright, Since his removal to Norwood his lealty Bas steadily improved, but lt was feared that, uuder circomatances the most favorable, Mr. Bright would not be able to appear in the House of Commons for some weeks. The Liverpoo! Posi of the 16th inst. reports:— © Lora Derby has s00n broken slience In the House ef Lords. it is a yood sign tat he aj in the frst mmportant debate of the session, and it 14 & sill bet ter sign that he spoke very wisely. Tue topte was our colonial relations. The Thames was so blocked with ice on the 16th of February thai navigation was almost suspended. ROME. Pregress of the Councli—The Archbishop of Baltimore and «a Third Party—Platform of the Middle Men on Infallibility—Deaths and Departures Homeward—Holy Candles—May De Better in the Future—Hope of a Dissolue tion By Natura! Heat—The Art Exhibition. Roms, Feb, 12, 1870. On the Sd inst. again the general congregation of she Conncii held a meeting at St Peter's. Buc ai- though the fathers discuss a great deal they decide but very littie. The event most worthy-ef mention lately ts cex- tainly the formation of a third party, headed by Mon- eeigneur Spalding, Archbishop of Baltimore, whose policy will be to steer @ middie course with respect to the disputed dogma of the Pope's personal infallibility, between the ultra Romans, who favor it, on the one hand, and tue liberal Optbolics, represeuted by the French and German bishops, who follow Monselgneur Dupanioup aud Cardinal Rauscher on the otner. Like the pro aud anti infallipilisis, the middie men Bave drawn up their postulatun also, In this docu- ment the signataries express their conviction tnat ‘whe personal infallibility may be safely treated of in the Counctl, but they would wish the Assembly to mit ite action to a deciaration of censure against whoever shall profess erroneous doctrines hostile to the Pope’s primacy~aguinst those who maintain that “ while they owe an external veneration for the Gecrees of the Roman Pontif, they are by 10 means obliged to yield the internal assent of their hearts and minds’’—against those who see nothing impos- sible in the Pope's opinion aifering from that of the bishops, thus morally severing the head of the wvbarch from tne body and members—aud against those who maintaiu that the Pope may occastonaity condemn some proposition from the mere fact of not having thorougliy uaderstood it. So far the third party seeks to maintain the spir- imal prestige of the Pope without going to the ex- treme measure of deifying him. It assumes as tne bead and front of its position “ the unerring prerog- alive of the Roman Pontitl, together with the infaili- bility of the Church.” Butt does not consider pos- sible or advisatie the disjunction of these two attri- ures, any more than it would be possible for a haman head and body to function separately from and inde pendently of each otter. This seems to be the only practical compromise between the two extreme parties, and It is evident we many bishops who have not hitherto positively ven their adlerence to the postulata, for or agamat the dogma, as well as many Others who lave aireudy enlisted under one banuer or the otier, will be giad to become recruits in the Archbishop of Baltimore's spiritual battalion, which, at the outset, was princt- pally composed of fathers speaking eltner Kogiieu or rie ish. Itis evident that, with so many clashing interests and opinions to be reconciled on one single heat of 1i@ mattora tobe discussed and decreed by the Councll, 1 16 Nok Lo be expected that the entire pro- ceedings of the assembiy can ve completed within the proposed period. ‘The fathers of the Church who have come tu | attend the Ecumenical Council are, or ratuer were, 170 Innumber; but of these seven have died and Tour have returned home with the full approbation of the judices excusationum, Tae seven deceased are Cardinals de Relsach and Peatini and tive bishops; one Gallician (Premyolia), one italian ¢ a}, wo South American (Panama and Vera Uruz) and one French (Tarbes), The four departed are tne Archbishop of New Orieans and tue bishops of St, (Canada), Aneyra (Turkey 1n Asia), and Axyndéla, wn partibus, Of the opiginal 770 there Were 704 fathers of the Latin rite, 48 Auscrians aug Hungarigns, 84 French, two Scotch, 13 Raglish, 19 Germans, 20 [rish, 276 italians and Papal subjects, 41 Spauish, 6i subjects of the Snitau, 113 Ameri- cans, of whom 48 are from the United Siates. These figures suow that the Italians form & good part of the Council, and would pe just about half if the eighty sees now vacant in (he kingdom of Italy had been represented. ‘The Court of Rome always ov- | tained a majority iu preceding Councils by such # mass of bishops under its immediate influence, bus now-a-days thag§ infiuence has diminished apirit- | be Spe ‘Still more temporaliy since an hour's ride | on the Ancona railway takes the traveller trom the Eternal City ont of the luite of the Sovereign Pou- Bis civil Jurisdiction. | Yesterday the Pope went through tne customary splendid ceremony of biessing and distrinuting to the ecclesiasiicul military and diplomatic aignitaries, inclu rowned heads or royal rinces Wien preseus, ine wax candies, glit and ituminated torcoe or tive fees long, which All going | ) had been incessantiy legislating for | the occupier and peasant, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. porter Pa whe ore reacinttce bi having nothing wi roan Council. al consregution which has lately been Matters connected with ecclesiastical dis- bas now come to the weighty topto of “the and her Lng a the esa rp hansey gordi e assem: faunere, tan eat mail not be less thorny, ‘Of it will doubtless grow the whoie ol discussions inseparable frou the Gonsidl- eration of the relations between Church and State at ition Of Objects of Catholic Art and In- Guatry is in @ state of active preparation, and exhiti- tors are already taking jen of their stalis aud making arrangemencs for their respective show of wi French magufactures will be predominant, cases have already arrived Lyous silks and jewelry will tories of Maréchal at Metz, and Dideron at Sowe ffpe speciinens of the latter are im the pesees- sion of Cardinal Antonelli, The exhibition 1 to open on the 15th of this month, ‘The prices of ad- mission are fixed at five francs on Thursdays only, ing; one fran diabed in Italan ana French, ENGLAND. Premier Giludsieuc’s Speech op the Itisk Land Question—The New Platform of ‘Tore riterial Lease Resolutl In the House of Commons on the Lith ot Febra- ary—as already briedy announced by the cavie— Mr. Gladstone, rising to move for leave to bring in @ bill to amend the Jawa relating to the occupation and ownersitp of land in Ireland, aaid Ulat twelve Months bad not yet fully passed since it was his duty to submit to te Houge a measure of the greatest consequence and diMcnity with refer- ence to the Churel of Ireland, At that Ume he etaved tbat that important question did not embrace all (he legisiation that they had in contempiation jor the contenument and prosperity of ireland, but that sbere Jay belund tt a still more dif- Hoult and equally important question afecting the social condition and weliare of the genera! por- tion of the Irish people. He did pot disguise irom linselt thas the dificuities of this quesuon nad t greatly aggravated by the delay that bac taken place, But that was anavoidable, and he trusted that in the end tt would be found to have conduced to & ore sucisfactory aud permanent settlement of t nestion. It had jong been under the atvention of Parliament, for it was in 1833 iat Mr. Sharman Crawlord Orst brought it under the notice of the House, In 1843 Str Re Peel was struck with the statement made by Mr. Crawlord, when he agwn brought it forward, the resuit being that a com. mision Was appointed which elicited much Vaiuabie information, and a bill brought for- ward in 1843 by the Lord tie organ of the conservative government of Sir Robert Peel. Most unhappy was it that the ques- tou was not then settled by a resolate efort; but for that all parties alike were eguaily respousibie. Seeing the disastrous result of tie delay which nad taken place, he trusted that the question would now be dealt With 1M & more Vigorous ADIN, Rud that success Would not fail to crown theiriabors. Ail parties he believed, now admitted the necessity of a setulement Of the question; not only In this country, but the civiuzed world jooked upon cue etior which they were now Inaking WW that spirit; and, #0 mucb had the question engrossed the tention of the public, that bob only menibers of ‘hat House, bat every man of eminence in pubhe hfe or literavure hud lately devoted. their tt ime and leisure to @ soluuon of that vexed spirit, put with the desire | sult bad been certamly at ed, for the irish peopie Midst see that the English Parhament did not grudge one year or four vears, if by #o doing they could at- tain'a beter and more satisiactory Knowledge of the subject, aud provide the better for its settlement, Sull prejudices Hugered, and it was with those that their chief dificuity even now existed. He deemed that the agrarian outrages which had excited fo painful @ sensation lately ought not to be at- iributed te that question; Jor, on inauiry, 16 would ve found that they were Jess frequent iu the agricultural counties, and not at all prevalent im the purely Celtic ones, The occupation of the land in Ireland, as founded upon tenure, was Cy ed different i 4S spirit nd tenure to that in England and Scotland. The ountry was fail; in England it was nut so, In tre land the landlord generally differed from the tenant in politics and religion. ‘He did not fina Lhe capital required, and the improvements were eljected by the tenant and not by the landiord. In Jreland the jand- ‘ord Was in most cases an absentee; but the worst feature of all was that 10 Ireland the Jaw, i tue ai- setice OF eu agreement, did not recognize the right of the tenant to anything that he had put in cue ground; but in every county in Kagiand that rigit Was recognized by custom; and that state of things Was further aggravated in Treland by the tra- dition that tne soil belonged people and bad been taken from them by conquest and confiscation, it was, therefore, idle to maintain that the law, although osteusiirly 40, Was practically the same m England and in Ivelaad. He then pointed out, with great emphasis, the uatu- ral effect which the loss of hardly-effected impruve- ments—if they came to be evicted even for legiil- mate, although bard reasons—could not jail wo have on the temper of the ish peasantry, Ie, fur one, should be sorry to be #0 tried when he saw awept away ail the labor and value of past years. Since 1860, while the value of labor m Iveland had been aimost stationary, the cost of subsistence bad greatly increased. The abolition of the cora laws, 80 great @ boon to the English public, had not been wo to the irish Occapier. Wheat was less in price, but that Was his great resource from the market; while the to the whole cost of oats and potatoes, on witch he lived, had materially Increased. The re. sult Was that the progress which had been previousiy taking place had beea checked since .1860; and it really Caiue to this, that although they had been Jegisiating for Ireland during the last hail century with the most benevolent intentions, as re- garded tha: country they bad really effected ilttie Jor the social aad national uuprovement of the small occupier and the peasant, He reviewed the cha. racter of the legtalation sme tiie Union. As affect- ing the subdivision of the land and the tenure upon witch it Was hela the acts of 1793 and $829 hid greatly aggravated the evils which existed, and that, too, Was the effect of the Tncumbered Estates Court, which had for its object the great ane indis- pensadle object of gettiug Tid of the impoverished proprietors who had previously cxissed over @ great proportion as the country Under that act the estates were Sold with the improvements which had been effected by the occupiers, and not by the ruined jandiord, who got the benefit of the Jabor and outiay of tis tenants. Thus tt was that their very remedies, with the pestiintentions, had operated prejadicially to the cultivator of the land; and so in- directly had been the operation of the Poor law, while tie remedy of emigration—valuable as lone as it Was voluntary and free, bat whea tt was cem- pulsory on one Who Wisked to s8tay, who Was pas- siovately attached to the land—under these circom- stances it was but avotlter word for banisnment, and a country 80 Med did not deserve and would never get Lhe atfoction Of thoge $0 treated by it, Sull ib was true that for nlnety-eight years they he peneiit of Ireland, Pney had abolisved all civil and religions dis- Aoulitics; they had endeavored to piace Leland upon an equality with sngland; but Bull alter all is was doubuul whether the social condition of the Irish peopie was materially better, This was a startling faradox, In only one tiing bad they done good— they had placed wiinin the reach of the Irish peas- Aut @ national system of education. Bat education wishout the removal of social grievances only made the sense of them more embiticred. The evect of new statutes intended to #etile this quesrion hud been hurtful, for they ansettied the old relations, and, by the changes imtroduced into the law, had introduced new processes, of which the practical efect—aithough hot ivteadeu to be so--tad been really for the advantage of the landowners. Par- Hament was, therefore; now being calied upon to deal seriously and radically with thia ques. (jon; and they wual bear mm mid tuat the resuic of therr Jegisiation, bitherto oeneficlal as it was tn- tended to be, bad really been harat and lurtful to He would now explain what the propositions of the government were, Lhe. did not intend to sak Pariiament to laterfere mer to reverse We previons prescription—that in the ad. sence of a contract the occupation was from year to year. They did not tutend bo interfere with the most perfect ireedow o! contraét; unless, inceed, av hat pecu tue case in certain manufactures in Engtand, It Was necessary to dy so for (he benctt of he weaker party, who could got, from hig circumstances, enter into a fair bargain. fn Ireland tere was & grtat de- niand for land, and & great desire io make large Jari; 80 that ihe freedvia of the Irian peasant uve tO thie Annus mass tue nar Jandelora.’! ‘ith upwards of 700 1a0re bishop usual to give candies to it may be imagined what » consump. | tion gf Wax tlete Was yexte morning, i BuB there was no suosequent pubic seasion of the | Ecumenical Couucil, as it was unders'cod tuere would have been it the fathers bad bee at ali of the | unaoimous wode of thinking Uitherto 40 lauaed in | she Catnolic Church. It is 10 thougit that the next | public sesgion will be On the 26th of March, anotoer | grand festival of the Madouaa; but if Cardival Billy's | aeputation of revision does not #90n make the pro- | positions de fide sunoottier for (ae cunsciences of the jwhops they will be rejected a second time, aud 1 there will be no canons vowed, aad consequently 1 decrees ready to be publicly announced by ine Bu. preme Ponti itappears singuiar that with such anexample ofthe working of this Ecumenical assembly Mous: | Strossmayer wuould Rave proposed the convocation | uf regular Ecumenjcal Councils every teu years, German newspapers aifiria that he did 80 In one of the general congregations heid at the beginning of | jast Week; Dut I do not credit the report, although | wertaimly similar suggestion occurs in diou- | seigneur Maret’s celevrated work on the subject. | What renders the operations of the depuration de ade so siow im the remodeling of tne rejected propositions is the eo opinion between the swenty four members of that commission. It ia a ireely elected body, and therefore does not submit entirely to the control of the cardinal President, | Bilio, named by the Pope. The not unanimons, nor are the depu- tations either, so that the Ecumenical business drage on Wearlly and undecidediy, and when the simmer heats give the Pope a fair excuse for dismissing hiv brethren no douvt a great those whose missions ted beyond the eae; @, will shake of the dust of th | industry. to the Catholic world, {* | either oy the vala and occupier io enter into a contract was onl) anowipai one. The greateyil of Ireland was Inse- ty oftenure, This was pointed out years ago by the Devon Commission. if not only interfered with lus comfort, Dut paralyzed IMs efforts and his for years le bad been excited by the Lope that his condition would be amejoriated; aud 1 Was nov erful that witer so long # perio lad at jast become despondent and depressed, He did not wigs to confound securliy of tenure with perpetuity, By securily he meant enoug!i to enable aman 0 enjoy the fraile of his ontiay aad Mdusiry, but bot a transfer to Bim of the righia of property. Vorpetulty of tenure was the exproprii- tou of the tandiora; and, if thoy es. abushed a rate of rental according to the vaiue of e produce, tie landlord would have @ fair claim to peDaution, lur Wiick he Was afraid tims tue only source avalavie would be tuelr old familar Iriend, He exanrined mto the result 0 Dinle penstouer, and the State uad an undoubted right tdowo it itwas for te public good. This plan woutd seoure tothe occupier the right of holding aa long tafair rental, to be ixed of the produce or a State tribunal; but iv would veduce the jandiord to the state und condition uf the fundolder receiving @ certaim in- come for the iand, while it would destroy tis social status, and all the rights and duties which dovoived upon hin as the owner of jand. He could not think that tis would be a social revolution, absoiving wealth and property from ail social di ond increasing that lounging clasa which po: sessed money ANG noting else. ‘The occupiers aud peasantry 0 Ireland, aithough @ most unportant jot the whole people of the country, aud he did not bette’ ai it Would be fer the benefit of the whole to trangier to them ail the proprietary rights of the soul. Perpetuity in this sense would destroy all energy aud enterprise; 1t would lock up Bouropean rat! fees agalust the Mternal City aud take (yor al) (he se, ROW AL jeNHLL CHUN jroat strange and anomalous regal ment would have and aggravated Irigh Jand circumstances in Ireland whi: / legulation, but the perpetuity of tenure in Ireland must result in perpetuity of tenure in Scotland and nglaud. ‘The oniy reason for 11 would be that It would be good themselves, but the resuls of the perpetual and jong ieases in Ireiand was by favorable, They had, therefore, to deal with security of tenure—not perpetulty—and to effect this taey must, to some degree, trench upon the privileges of the landiords—privileges the abuse of Which, be was sorry to say, had been the moat pain- ful source ofall the crime, agitation and disaffection of {reiand, Ulster the tonure was secure in the rest of Ireland it was insecure. In Ulater the rents Bad, with atability of tenure, in the | Dore than trebled; but in the reat of Ire! the power of the landiord waa the gi tenant the least secure, it had not even douvled. England, where the power of the landlord was leas tan it was in lrejand, the value of the land rents 10 the same period had increased tareefold; but in Scotland, where, owing to the general prevalence the most secure of ali, lan the ieast power, the value of the land bud sextup lie potated out that the manufactures of Ulster had not tended to increase the agricultural value of tne Jand, while that province was greatly poorer in hatural resources thau any of the other three, The government did not intend to give effect to this or Wat doctrme or this or that tueory, whether the tenancies would be longer or shorter, whether ihe holdings should be large Or small, or whether the uaprovementy should made by the landlord or the tevant. ‘They wished to be guided by experience, totake the circumstances of Jrejaud as they Jound them, and, guided: by experience, make the best of them. ‘The bill would dea! with the ocoupatton anda with the acquisition of land. First, with respect to the acquisition of land, 3% would bave to be deait With as regarded the owner and the purchaser; but the whole of the provisions would not be coutatned jo this bill, but another Dill, which would extend to England and scotland ad weli aa Ireland, aud embrace such points ag the facility o: transfer and disposal of land In cases of intestacy, All the other rovisions of the pill wouid refer exclusively to Ire- and, while the Jirat provision, regards the owners, would reiaie to the of hmived owners With respect fo lease and gale, aud asstst- auce Would be given by loans of public money to occupiers disposed and able to parchase trol the landiord who wished to tntroduce this practice on his estate, It would ouly apply in cases tn wich the tenants were willing to bny and landlords to Kell, and he had. not been very sanguine a4 Co Chis provision being extensively used until be heard of wecase of the tenaniry on the Watertord estate, Which they wore anxious to buy up. This privilege would be conned Lo the occuplera, but @ relaxation Would be allowed in case of occupiers combinlog to purchase, but not able to bay the whole esta‘e. if they could buy lour-filth or it, assistance py loan would be giveu to other ries, Rot occupiers, to reclaim waste land by making roais and erecting buildings upon it. The management of the loans would be entrusted to the Board of Public Works in Dnbiio, whose duty it would be to see that a fair case Was taade out for it and that the public was amply secured for ite advance. ‘The next point was the sil more important one of compensation; but rst of ail be had to state that the new lbw woald be administered by @ distines judicial machinery, which would be twofuld—the Court of Arbitration andgthe Civil Bid Cours, as they were calied in the bul, The former would be 2 court voluntarisy cou- stituted, invested with powers to enforce the law; #9 that in ashort time Parita- deal with @ still wore dimoult juestion. There were ch justified exceptional for the parties "J S the latter would be the civil side of the Court of Sessions, But there would be powers to reserve causes for # higher tribunal, which would consist of the judges of agsize, and for this asaizes would, if necessary, be held tavee mes @ year. This court would also re- serve cases for What was called in the bill the Court of Land Cases, In Dublin, which Would be consti- tuted from ibe judges of the superior courts of com- mon law and equity, aud this court would be in- vested with yery great powers and latitude. He now came to the question Of tenant right, of which wey had four kinds to consider; the firs, was the Ulster system, the second was the custonfry right hich prevailed in certain parts, but bad not the detinite character of the Ulsier system; the third was the large class of eccupiers who bad no protec- tion whatever, and the foarth waa the case in which the jandiords, sensible of the evil which prevatied, had vowmtarily «granted leases, cither im the Englist or Scotch fashion or in the Irish fasbion, for periods of long daration, without covenants as to the buiiding and improvements py the landiord. With respect to the Ulster question, tue bt would reler exclusively to holdings held for agricultural purposes, and the court would have nothing to do but, after examiuing the facts of each case, tO stamp it with the approval of the law, sub: ject to two exceptiona—first, uf the landlord haying poaght up the cusiom, and that the tenant taking the benefit of the Ulster custom, should not be en- Litled to the beuetits of the other clauses of tho bill. Tue other jocai customs were more dificult to deal with, ihere was geueral usage for the wmeomplug venant to make payments to the outgoing, elfMer With or without the consent of the landlord, aud it was considercd only wise to recoguize these vus- tos, and the court Would pay a certain regard to them, The landlord could bar these cuswinary Tights by granting a icase for tlirty-ope years, In the case Of & great majority of occupiers who, being unprotected, felt the great evils of insecurity of tenure, taey would be dealt with on a scale of damages Tor eviclion, With limitations 1m case of jion-payiment of rent. In some cases of sub-letting or subdivision there were special provisions in tenantcies of fifty pounds value @ year aud in those of £100, wad in cases of eviction he explained thas he cotut would regard tue natur@and value of improvemeuts elfecied by the tenants, which were of avery minute character. The presampiion of the present law tbat ihe lnprovemenis bad been made py the landiort would be reversed, but In ail improvementa if would be essen- ual that they were suitable to the or purposes Jor witch the Jarm was Jer This change would hecessariiy be reiospective. but no claa could be made for lprovemcuts of more Han twenty years’ standing, unless jor permanent baild- ings or the reclamation of land, or if made under leases or contracts existiug, @0d sue court would consider the time avd the terms on when tue tenant had enjoyed the benefits. There would de no claim for improvements elfected contrary to fuiure con- tracts. Voluntarily entered into which were not re- quired for the due cuitivation of the farm and toe jand, ‘The landowner, under certain imits with respect Lo leased lauds, the goverument did not wist to compel, but to encourage leases so that the land- jord could bar aii claims for damages by alving leases for turiy-one years, except under the Ulsicr system; bat the tenant would sili have a rmgit to compensation for permanent buildings anc for the re- clamation of Jand. In oluer respects Gis jearos, a4 regarded the rent and the naiure of the covenant, mist be subject to the approval of the court tu order to secure the leases belug entered mto upon terms ofequality. Powers would ve reserved to the own- ers to recain the good wilt under jeases of thirty-one Jeara, if the tenant made ihe improvements; of twenty-one years, if they did it themseives, “The government was Teluctant to interfere with rents; but he cited cases Of exorbitant renta boing usked and agreed vo be paid, wWhicil it was impostbie couid be fairly paid, Every man, Iriahtman or aot, ought to be bound by bis Voiuntary Contracts; hut, considering the state of things in Irejana, it was desirable to give the court powers to declare that im such casey ibe landlords were not evtitied to come within the advantages of this bij]. In casas of eviction the notices must de for twelve mouths, and not six, a4 pow given at the iast gale day of the year, and bear a stamp of ad Value. in accordance with the report of the select committee, the coumty cess, m ail cases of new tenantries, would be divided alike—the poor rates between the owners and oceuplers; but those under the value would be at once reileved. The govern- ment were Well aware that the meaeure was not a perfect one; but they sincerely desired the co- ‘operation Of ali parties to make tt 80, as Sar as pose wibic, during Its passage through Parliament, ‘Chey wish it to respect the righis of property and secure vo the occupiers the due enjoyment of the fruits of uidustry. —‘Lhey nad ggiven toe landlord better ee- curtty for bis renta and @ just but qualified power of ion, with due provisions against the great of sub-letting und sub-division, whiix to peasant they 4 secured the only great boon Parliament couf provide for him—tie better und steadier demand for bis labor. In couclusion, the right bon, gentleman remarked shat if, with asaisiance of the Nonse, the provisions of this bill were fairly adjusted and to the satisfaction of the | Irish people, he trusted they might live to ae@ their work prosper mgheir hunds, and that in Ireland, which they Wished to unite with Kuglaud aud Scot- land in tes of googwil! und amity, they might find | peace, order and cheerful industry difusing thelr biessings from year to sear, and from cay fo day, over a smiling ud, (Loud cheers.) Mr. GaTHORNE Hanby, ip the ebsence of Mr. Dis. A that the d{scTasion showid be post. second reading, GLAad tone stated that he hoped the arrange. 8 of (h® oh, members on both #idesy would ¢ second reading ty be taken about the Tih vil Was them read a dret thus, The Wheat Crop—Fatal Colliery Exploston= News of O'Donovan Roxas MW. P.-Yreae sory Report. Phe yield of the corn crops, saysithe stark Lane Express, certainly coufrms the worst itopressions tat were entertained of them—not one up tothe average, aud oats even Lelow it, Barley proved much under estimate, and, as rds pulse, only wintec veaus were favorably reported, Of above 600 returne received 148 only returned an average of 53 above and 307 under, Taking these returns ae fairly reprosenting the whole acrenge grown and deducting 63 over ah ayerage from 307 below, we bave a4 Jeft, or nearly one-half in thie porkion, which, representing 1,771,678 acres at one-fourto each, bhows a# many acres short of an average crop. This brings she yield vo the low estiuate Of 11,000,000 quariers. Ail explosion of ate cemay took place at Moria cobteriea, neat Noath, The bodies of several wen were recovered, and upwards of twonty men re. mained iv the pit. The coal seame were on fre, aud the danger of a second explosion considered immi- neat. Messrs. Vivian & Son, to wlom the pit belongs, Biate that, aa far as ascertained, tuirteen men are killed and twen! ? Mr. Candiiah, Of the Abyssinian Committee on Friday next. onan Prince a aig) of Wales honored the ‘mpic theatre by ir presence. ny new naner correspondent been informed, “on trustwot ny watnority,”” that, it having boon roported that O'Donevan Rossa nad been gotlly of ae P., will move the Soy Celina | insubordination, he lately received ten lashes in » ‘The Treasury issued a retarn of the receipts and rage y ont of the exchequer between 1, 869, and February 12, 1870, and announce that a simiar account will hereaiter ve published weekly in the London Gazette, The statement shows an in- | crease 1p the recelpte as compared with the seme | Period leat year of £467,700, and the ments are | sone tan those of last year vy £288,001 IRELAND. BeditionTrade “Strikes —Te Radicalism. Our reports from Ireland of February 16, atate as foliows:— t Right Aman named Daly bas been arrested at Water. bre aera the seditious song of ‘‘itory of the n ey Mills, Newry; and the hoase of Owen 0" carter for the 3} Gonmpaags, wes. estanked day night we ken, shots fred, and han tl ened that if ue continued work he be again viaited, va A grea! tenant right eee has been held at Toome, near when 4, persons were pre- sent, and a resolu Was passed that the govern- meut should confer on the peopie of Ireland both the means and the power to purchase back their soll at ite value, The Dubitn Amnesty Committee have resolved not to give @ padilc reception to the released Fenians from Augirala, bat they are to be respectably re- ceived and suitably entertained. % FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Vienna is to have @ statue of Schiller, and Gratz one of the Archduke John of Austria, ‘The aged Emir Schamy) has left St. Petersl for Mood ) Where he tutends to pags the remaider of his ay M. Emile de Girardin, editor of La Liberté, has deen appointed one of the commissioners for the reorganization of the munictpflty of Paria. Baron Adolphe de Rotnachild recently rought a duel at Monaco, respecting some racing matters, and wounded his adversary in tue arm, The King and Queen of Greece are to visit Den- mark and Kussia in the spring, and Prince John, of Glucksburg, the King’s uncle, will act as regent during their absence. : The Bombay Government Gazette reporta that in India there are 3,253,060 acres devoted to cotton cul- ture, showiug an increase of thirty per cent during the year 180% ‘The Shah of Persia nas appointed Mr, Nazare as Ambassador to Paris. This gentieman is @ Chris. an, and the first one that has ever flied an omcial position under tne Persian government. The {International Railroad Conference that has baen had at Munich bas been dissolved, owing to the impossibility to finish ite labora. A new meeting will be convoked at an early date. Itis reported that the Prussian government has sequestrated che sum of 100,000 chalers, being an investment made by the ex-King of Hanover iy ap fron foundry near Osnaburg. SERVANT GAL-ISM. How Jobs Are Put Up—lIntelligence Offices as Aids to Burgiars—Suggestions for the Le- gislature—The Case of Emma Bloom. itis an axiom generally received as true by the lowest but goverming class in New York that villany 1s blamable only when 1t is found out; that honor ts merely sentiment and honesty au idie word. In ite progress up ward or in ite descent toward the jowest atrata of society this dogma of the incorrigivies has left its mark. ‘The will of the mob 1s universdily respected; the protest of the quiet citizen 1s toler- ated while it 1s sneered at. Complaints are fro- quently made through the press that through the loose relations that exist in political matters the proper domestic opservances between employer aud servant are disregarded. The hired help, whe- ther native or foreign, regards his or ner employer 46 & person to bieed, and acts accordingly. Seeing the general public feeced to the tune of thousands of dollars Melissa and Biddy have no quaime of consclence 11 despolling thelr empioyers to small amounts, The system of employing servauca ts utcerly wrong. Prostitutes tired of the monotonous work of the street, Woluun hardened in crime, girls lost to shame, but naving a purpose in view, seek for do- Incatic omployment, ‘The means are ready to thelr hands. For the outlay of a few dollars they are able to obtain @ number of recommendations and to gain the active assistance of persons of apparent respectability in the prosecution of their plans, The batural reentt is that in hundreds of houses in this city to-day there are Women engaged ostensibly ax servants who are as cancers iu the family in which they serve, and the paramours aud assistants of thieves and burglars. A great number of the foreign born aud newly arrived scrvants are faith. ful to their employers; but the ‘police assert tat wherever 4 onurgiary or theit occurs suey can trace it to servant gal-ism, And the reason why the police .prociain thetr animosity toward the “hired belp? of families ta that their efforts to ferret out and detect erlme are generally defeated by ihe paramours and @ssistants of bur- giars and Uveves who are employed in private houses, The intelligence offices are the foet of pros- tioution aud thievery, In these establishments recommendations are “sealed, sold and delleved,’’ and men and women are recommended into families. Cue police have no control over the mat- ter, When a servant parpetraies a robbery and suddenly takes her departure the guardians of the eace ave RO Cue Lo go UpOL. They do tacse things petter in France, stuce the revolution, and perhans. since the reign of the Grand Monargus, employ- ment offices have been tu Paris wonder the supervision of the police, No woman of bad character can poa- sibiy Mud an opportunity tor the exercise of a bur giarious act a a respectuvle family, aud no wadton Jemale room for vreaking the peace of a honscnold. Aud wheoever a robbery or purgiary does occur the police ure generally prepared to iay thetr hands upou the gulity parties or tue assistants, It is diferent here. ligence oMces are “run” by parties who are iu with thieves, and robbery and the burglaries which occur nightly are the result of arrangements made between the ruftians who “haug around” the employment ofices aud tae giris. While the present system exists burglaries and robveries will con- tinue, ine police should haye con- trol of these oitiv always. They should know whi o pe employed, where and by Witom; the antecedents of the women, thelt char- acter and a fail Knowle tes recom mending thein. Lett this power to the polloe and tnere ‘Ames tor the 4 f0 # casein point. A woman named but who rejoices na dozen aliases, is now under arrest and awarting final efore Justice Scout, of Essex Market. barged vy Mra, bu of Brookiyn, with A dollars’ worth of property, ‘This leugtiy p She bs Stealing several bunrtr th and a dozen totimuzed by her are ready to iesilf erity in criminal trans actions, Through t of Intelilgence oflices she obtained piac esin iamilies, Won the confidence Of the inmates, si ayed Tor some Line, and Dhally got rable pun ue 13 Charged with nuiuder o! iz6n3, and ft is stated by the poitcs thas her operations for the last six months have net der $10,009, exclusive of gratul- Hes to outsiders. “The aliegations agains’ this wo- ut the Wounan has political Jafuence, and of course Will eacape the meshes of the law. Sue } Taay be punis: but while the inteilie gence office sssteia remains uncontroied aud un- regulated by the police the rootot the evil will ve reuiain ta toler cehne and encourage burl: | PQUTICAL NOT-S, \ Avcounts of democratic successes al Los town olections in this State continue to come in, Wyoming county elects a majority of tae Board of Supervisors. Warsaw elscls 4 democrat over a republican incam- bent by a majority of ten. Order, merefore, reigns in Warsaw. | Attica and Baaington, The Bumtalo Courizy states that the Collector of | Castoms at that port, Mr. Samuel J. Holley, does not propose to submit to official decapiiation without paving @ show for his itfe, to haa telegraphed that he will soon be in Washington to disprove any | charges that have been made against him. | A large Sock of blackbirds have just tak fight from Wasbington to New Hampshir | tou Maren 8. Congressmen propose a way of wiipplug the } frankiug privilege around the stamps by making w } special donation of the latter for tneir private us Western farmers’ wives keep up their supply of | tinware py exchanging for, it with pedier@ dil | the old documenta, papers, books, 4 which Representatives in Congress sena home to thetr constituents, : Tue Hon. Ben, B. Hill, of Georgia, in & Jenert | saye:~'Toward the colored race iet us redouble our eforss to ve just, kind @ud forbearing, They are not the authors of our Wrongs, Nine ont of ten of them ‘wish to do right. Idoabt whetaer the same number of any other race or color of the hurman famity could pass the same ordeals through whien they have | passed during the Jast four years and do as well as they have done. With a few wicked or deluded ex- Ey cee they will join us in bringing ta resis all these Congressional iniquities and on their au- bors,’ the: Ls r i ' ear aud precise, dud ure eupporied by aM. | undisturbed and tie plague of servant gal-ism will | Democratic victortes are claimed tn | EGYPT. INTERNATIONAL GONSULAR JURISDICTION, Progre ~ of the Commis- sion at Cairo. FASHION ON THE NILE, The Administration ef Jastico—Interuationnl Commission for Reform—Rights and Dimi- culties of Foreignere—The Executive Pian of Redrese—President Grant’s Authority to Commissioner Hale—Gessional Progrese— ait Aa is CarRo, Jan. 28, 1870. The readers of the Brraup were fully posted as long ago as 1868 in the plans of the Egyptian gov- ernment for simplifying the administration of jus- tice in this country i cages in whica Franks are concerned. The existing system 1s complicated and in many respecta unsatisfactory. Every Consulate practically has full and complete jurisdiction, crim- inal as well as civil, over the people of its nation who may be resident or travelling in Egypt. For in- stance, if any person, native or joreigner, bas a complamt against an American, he must carry bis complaint to the American consul, who judges the agalr; and the same with regard to the othér foreign nationalities. If, onthe other hand, avy Frank bi @ complaint agaiust a native he 1s practically with- out any adequate redress. His consul cannot help him materially, There isa ‘tribunal of commerce,”” so-called, establisned for the decision of commercial cases brought by Franks against natives, composed of an Egyptian presiding judge, with an equal number of Frank and native assist ant judges, chosen from among the principal merchants; but this tribunal is viewed with suspl- clon and dislike, and most frequently the claims of foreigners are made matters of diplomatic action to be pressed by the consuls general directly upon the attention of the Payptian government itself. From all this muiwplicity of juriadichous aud uncertainty of the mode of procedure there arises the greatest contusion and a feeling of distrust which embar- Tassea very greatly the transaction of business, Everybody wants to be in such @ position that if a iaweuit arises he sali be defendant, pecauec in that case he wiil be tried by his own consul, while tho preservation of public order is well nigh impossible 80 long a the police caunot make an arrest without the permission of the consul of the nation to which the alleged criminal belongs, and there are no regu- olice courts. Some of the foreign powers, nota- ‘rrance, Great Britain and Italy, send to Egypt comanlian indees, regularly trained to judicial busi- niss, wi bold lar courts and deyote ter whole time to judictal affairs. But in the Consulates of the other Powers, of which agreat many subjects are residents in ‘tgypt, tho Jadictal business is very apt to be neglocted; it i often entrusted to subordinate officers Who have no especial qualifications for attending to 1, and who, at all events, lucur @ general suspivion of partiality 1n favoring their own countrymen. Under these circumstances tue Egyptian govern- ment ne ly two years ago proposed a plan of re- Suri to substitute a singlo new Jurisdiction for ali the consular jurisdictions ana for the native courts in cases to Which Franks are parties, ‘I'ne plau as at first broached met with so outery of opposition from the Frank residents of Egypt. It reccived some degree of support rom the British goveruinent, but was not very favorably regarded by the French goy- ernment, The Kgyptian government nevertheiess wered in pressing its plau upon the attention of he principal foreign Powers, and obtamed the ac- cepiance by Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Prossia (oe rather the North German Union), Austria and the United States, of the invitations waich it addressed to those seven Powers, requesting them Ww send representatives to an international commis- sion to be held in Egypt to consider the plan and suggest such modifications as would tend to make It acceptadie, All of these nations accredited their Vonsals General in Egypt to attend the Conference, an some of them appointed also a second Commissioner to sit with the Consul General m the Conference. Thus Great Britain appointed to sit with Cotonel Stanton, their Consul General, Sir Philip Francis, who is the Judge of ther Supreme Consular Court at Constantinople; France Species to sit with Mr, ‘Tricon, their acting Consul General, Mr. Pietri, who is the Judge of thelr Consular Court at Alexan- dria; Austria appomted, besides their Consul Gen- eral, Baron de Vasque, Aulic Counselier, and Italy, bestites their Const General, Mr, Giaccone, Coun: sellor of the Royal Court of Appeal at Brescia. ‘The United States were represented by, inelr Con- sul General, under @ full power from’ Presideut Grant, of which I give a copy ayit fell under my eye the ovher day:— ULyases 8, Gunz, PREsiORNT OF ‘tHE Unive STATES Ov AMRBIOA— To all whoin theee presenta shall come greeting. Know ye that, reposing special trust and coudldence in the Integrity, discretion and abilities of Charles Hale, Agent and Consul General of the United States in Exypt, I have invosted Dim with fail apd ail manuer of power, tor and fa the name ‘of the United States, to meet and confer as their Commis. with the Commissioners of other nations in Egypt, for of taking into consideration acu changes in the tem of that country as inay affect ihe rights and f forelgners. In testimony whereof [ have cansed xed. (Seal. the seal of the United tates to be hereunto afl 1 Given under my hana atthe city of Washington, this 22d day of November, in the ear of our Lord 1968, and of the igdepandence of tue United tates of America the ninty-fourth. By the President, HAMILTON Fisit, Secretary of State, ‘The Conference hus held a number of smvetings and has at last agreed upon a report, whica bi signed by the representatives of all the coverameuts takmg part in the Gonference, This report goes to the several home governments by this week’s mails. On the suggesiion of tue Commissioners, the Eyypilan government has accepted very important notifications im tie plan as originally preseated. it was proposed at first by the goverument that the new courts should be composed partly of native and partly of Frank judges, the natives to have tne U. 3. GRANT, majority. This is now reversed and the rank judges are to have the majority in every court. It ‘Was proposed at first that the lower courts suould be composed of three judges; at the request of the Commissioners the number of judges in these courts ci to five, of whom three will be are to be three of these lower courts. is also w be @ Guurt of appeal, the government ut — first proposed 1 consist. of five judges; is Dow agreed that it shall cousist of on Snares. of whom four witli be Franks, The origiual pian of the Egyptian government stopped with (he three lower courts and the Court or App it at the missioners a Court of ievision has beeu added, to at also Of seven judges, of Whom four Will be Franks, The precise aitrivuies of this Court of Revision are left to subsequent arrange- ments petween tue Egyptian goverument and tor- eign Powers, but in @ general way it 1s understood that it Will ve ita function to correct nustakes walch may have been made in the adjuMistration of jus Pvt auy of ths lower courts or i tae Court of Ap- peal. The Frank judges are to be appotnted by the Egyptian government, but ouly after consulintion With the Ministers of Justice or equivalent olticer, as Lord Ohancelior, Attorney General or the like, of the foreign governments, and no persou can be ap- pomted without the sanction of hts owo govern- ment and 4 certificate from it that ne is a tt and proper person to be judge. The Egyptian govern- dient is bound to select them, as far 48 posstbie, from among persons actuully serving as judges in foreign couniries or holding positions which would entitle them to be appointed judges in their own countrics. Yhe judges are to have fixed saiaries paid by the Kgyptian government and @ permauent tenure of odice; their promotion or removai (for cause only) 14 Wo be regulated entirely maependentiy Bgyptien goverainent. ‘The judges are to appoint the officers of the court, auch ag clerks, Interpreters and constables to serve processes, &c. and it Is to have the power of re- moving them for misbehavior; but at the beginning the Commissiouers suggest that the governinent may appoint these officers, subject to their removal py | the court, lo avold ninecessary delay in setting the | courts in operation. in any case they are to be ap- } pointed principally from Franks alreatty accustomed | 10 the duties they will be called upon to fulfli in con- } nection with the courts, | The execution of aentersss to be done under the order of the courts themselves by their own ofl- cers, without auy interference on the part of any | administrative authority, eliher of the Egyptian | government or of the Consulates, Butas a security against mistakes, tne Commissioners have exacted, | and the government has agreed, that the consn! of Me party interested shall be notified of the day aud | hour when @ sentence 1s to be executed, The Egyptian government itweif, the private house- hold of the Khedive, those Of the princes and all public functionaries and oMcers are to be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts, Government oficials can be prosecuted tn the coutt#, and tis withont previous authority of the government; but the | Commissioners say, and tus ts agreed to by the | government, that this ciwnse is not to be understood as exempting the | for the acta of ite officials. | _ ‘fwo important questions are left by the Commi: | sloners for the decision ol the home governments wexestion Of the Con Oret, whether the jurisdiction of the new courts shall be limited to cages arising between Franks and natives or shail be extended tween les 8 of different whether tue jurisdiction of the new courts shall be, lunited, at least at Mrat, to civil and commercial Of ahali be extended also to criminal cases, The general opinion of the Commissioners ts in favor of the moro extended jurisdiction, but some of een think e Bee bear LY Bat) Cp ranean iy new ays ion by degrees, On the otber Naud, 1c is admitted that in this way there id be no danger of conflict of jurisdiction be- ween the new courts and the Consulates. iso to cases arising be- tions; and secondly, Jt i agrees that (he new aysteu Would be consid- | ot the { an engin Verninent from responsipitity | ne end of ered an established only for , at thi whico period the overn nei fwouls com to an agreement with the were either continue Jt, to improve it or to, ion it a b the tereien ee eewamtte * anit code form of cedure aud of civil‘and criminal law will be y da lished ag @ necessary preuminary, in concert by thd, Egyptian government and foreign Powers, Such I# ao outline of the features of the report agreed pon by the Commissioners, The re- rt ie signed by ail of the except, Pr Nereuz, the Associate Commissioner of the Nort’ German Union, who is seriously and Baron de Vasque, Associate Comm!ssioner of Austria, who left untry before it was ready for signing, Dut who part in all the proceedings. It ls also signed Foote, Minister Ce ened Affairs, if jan govern Grecaisaies ia not considered as dissolved. e Will probably be no furcber proceedings au present. The pian rests for consideration with the cabinets of London. Paris, Floreace, Beriin, Vienua, St. Petersburg and Washington. Fashionable Movements in and frow Calre— Royalty Up the Nile=Scene in the Bay- the took Nubar of the ish miute Court“ Bull Run” Bus- sell and the Modern Babel—American Towr- fete. CarBo, Jan, 29, 1870. 1 devoted so mueh space to the important subject of the International Jurisdiction Commission that f must dismiss very briefly the incidents of the fort- night since my last ietter. All the various séfes which I then wentioued, the races, the marriage ball, the State ball at Gizeroh, came off accordlpg to the programme, and were duly enjoyed, The Kuiedive has received a visit from the Im perial Archdukgs of Austria, and the Archduchess, in whose honor he gaye @ dinner and concert at Kase-et-Ni. ‘They bave now gone up the Nile, ‘There was au interesting trial lately in the Britian Consular Court—a case of homicide, The British Consul, Mv. Rogers, took advantage of the presence of Sir Philip Francis to have the caso tried before the Supreme Jucge; aud what gave an es jal in- terest to the case was the circumstance that the Court assigned tie defence of the prisoner to Dr. W. H. Russell, the famous war correspondent of the London Tunes and chronicler of the travels of the Prince and Princess of Wales, The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Costeilo, the most eminent resi- dent lawyer practising in the British court. As Dr. Russell and Mr. Costello are both Inahmen—s majority of the jury happened to be Scotchmen-— the prisoner was Maltese, and the judge English, the trial affordéd a singular instance of che diversity of natiobality possible even iu a single court. The wit- nesses spoke half a dozen languages, Which were 1p- terpreted to the jury. The offence charged was homicide, and the jury found the prisover “not gulity,"’ on the ground that the homicide fin! ex; cusable, Indeed, he and the other man (an It any had each burtod ‘a bowie kuule, apparently at the same moment, in the beily of the other at@ dance house; the other man died, but the prisoner lived to be tried for the homicide. Bowh Mr. Costelio and Dr, Russe!l made able speeches on their respective sides, and the summing up of the preading judge Was able and lucid. ‘This week occurred the starting of the caravan of pilgrims for Mecca, with the sacred carpet and other religious embiems, As usual on this occasion, the fanaticisin of the Moslem muititude was ram; and one or two Franks were insulted; gravel and stones were thrown, but no bones were broken, Atnong the American travellers arrived in Beyp: since the lists previously sent are the following:— Mr. and Mra. Henry £. Pierrepont, Jr., of New York; Mr. and Mrs, David W. Bishop, Mr, J. A. Dresser and fanily, of Boston; Dr, Edward Gage, Rev. Daniel March, Mr, Jobn P. Howard, Dr, dore S. Evans, Mr.’ Samuel ‘I, Willlame (late Uni States Consul at Hamburg), Mrs. Williams and a Rives, of Wasbingtou; Mrs. Faitoute aad party, 40, iy Ny, he General Thaddeus P, Mott bas returned to in company with Gouerals Loring and Sibley, late Confederate army. *They have all three entered the military service of the Egyptian government, GERMAN IMMIGRATION. ‘The Gernmno Immigration Society—Intereste ing Details of the Report of the Past Year, ‘rhe Board of Directors of the German lnmigra- tlon Society have just completed their eighty-sixth annual report, to be submitted at the annual meet- ing of the society to-day. The report presents an lnteresting account of the onegationa of the society during the past year. It a that $9,376 were expended through the Relief Committee in aid of German immigrants, and 1,838 letvers were re- ceived, i which were enclosed $18,885, Medical ald was afforded to the sick free of charge, by an association of German physicians connected with the society, and 3,141 prescriptions werepee for. From the treasurer’s report it appears. that $15,251 were received into the treasury a# con- tributions from members, for iuverest, > tions, &c., to which added @ balance of $10,000 in rhe treasury last year makes a totul of $23,851. The expenses amounted to $15,243, leaving a surplus of $8,608. The assets or the society are as follows:—Astor fund, $20,000; general fund, $13,600; new extra iund, $2,000; Lua- Wig fund, $1,000—total, $36,600. During thé past ten years 695,177 German immigrants were landea at this port, bemg over torty per cent of the whole immigration since 185% While ten years ago only 87,946 German = im- migrants were landed at this port, the whole numbers of German immigrants Tan led at this port during the past year amounied to 101,671, the majority of whom proceeded to the Western States to found new homes and settlements, Oniy eleven per cent of the whole number arrived on board of sailing vessels, It is stated that no improvements have been mude concerning the transportation of immigrants to their places of destination in the interior.” Immigrants are transported in trains with il-ventilated cars and with a great deal of trouble and delay, At tho stations they are without shelter, and nothing 13 done to provide for their comfort. Concerning emigration tothe South some dikcourag- Ing detajls have been furnished, SOUTHERN SPORES. ‘Tue Cockpit in the South—South Caroline anu rain ngainst Alabama and Tennnessse— The Former Win the Main. [From the Augusta {G>),Geseerele and Sentine!, The birthday of George Washington and the pa- rade of the Augusta Fire Department are not the only great events which occur apon the 22d of Feb- ruary, Upon the last return of that day especially was an encounter commenced which caused the glories of Trenton and ot Yorktown to fade, and aimost overshadowed the great tournament of tho ‘boys wie ran wid the rasheen.’? At Is, we presume, a well known fact that if South Carolina, Now gometimes spoken of as Africa, ever excelied Jn any one of the noble arts more than an- other it was In that never-to-be-enough-admuired-or- suMciently-praised-art of cock fighting, [n Jormer days the contests aud the achievements of the vari- ong valorous and victorious roosters of that State were matters of grae importance, and learned commentators have uot hesitated to assert that it Was. this interest taken and those laureia won in the pit which caused the nawe of the Game Cock State to be conferred upon the litte commonwealth. While our neighbor bas thas been foremost in Matters of this character Georgia nas not been jeft fay beliind, and we, too, have our own great cock figuters, whose memories will be venerated in fucnre ages along with tbose con- querors who acquired renown in warfare more bloody, perhaps, out certainty not so difficult or re- munerative.* Therefore when 1¢ was announced, some tine since, tiat one of the heroes of the cock- pitolonel Thomas G, Bacon, of Edgefield, 8. 0., had arranged the preliminaries for @ main on the part or South Carohna and Georgia, with Dr, Geo, of Kelma, Ala., the representative of his own State and Tennessee, one of the most brilliant encounters of the age was confidently expected. The main was to be fought at Lafayette race course, commenci: on phe 220 of this month. Twenty-one cocks were to be fought on each side, with @ stake of $100 on each side and $2,500 on the main. In accordance with the terms of the agreement the contest was commenced on last Tuesday place agreed upon, with a large crowd of love! the sport from the diiferent cities in the South in at- tendance, ‘he fret day was almost wholly con- sumed In making the array and matching the bird: but one fight taking place. On Wednesday the sport was resumed, and notwithstanding the bad weather, conducted with unabated zeal Nine tights were made, and atthe close of the day the contestants stood even—five figh 8 having been won by South Carolina and Georgia, and an equal num- ber by Alabama and Tennessee. o yesterday was understood to be the last day of the main and the namber of the spectators was unusu- ally large. Money also appeared plentiful and the netting by the partisans of both sides was very spirited—one genticman from Macon, we learn, having 28 much a4 $1,000 wagered onthe result. Small betters were also numerous and a good deal of money was deposited with the atakepolders, The fighting Jasted antil nearly three o'clock in the aiemoott and the eleven remaining batties were Huished. « At the close of ihe contest it was announced by the judges that Soush Carolina and Georgia had won by one Tent the score inte Ad follows:—Soutp. Caroima and Georgia, eleven; Alabama and Tennes- see, (en, Colonel Bacon Won the $2,500 stake on t main add $100 on vhe single fight, making, a total, the anug little piie of $2,600. “Raip UroN GAMBLERS.—Tho greatest raid ever made in this city on gamblers was that of Thursday evening upon the piace of Joseph Gardner, known as ‘Biack Joe,” @ notorious gamoler In the ssioons of Boston and conspicuous in the crowd arrested 1p the recent raid in that city. Marshal Ayers, Captain Richard ¢. Hale and officers Goodwin, Morrill and Moynaban of the night police, went at about half-past ten on that evening to No. 6 Inu street and giving the private signal gained entrance and toox the party, ten in number, seizing all the gambiing im- piements consisting of fara lay-out, deal box, cue box, check box, 200 five dollar chips, and 100 two dollar chips, the whole valued at $1,000, The va 2 arties Were before the police court yesterday morn: fog and were fined $13 25 eaca.—Vewmouripart MGs3,) Herald, Feb. 20