The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1870, Page 4

THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE. Diplomatic Correspondence Between the United States and Spain. Mediation Diplomati- ly Considered, Strength of the Spanish Army in Cuba. American Frota the late diplomatic correspondence between the government of tae Unized States and the Spanish government im relation to the struggle now going on for the indepeadence oj Cnba we make the following extracts, which will be found to convey an intelli- gent View of the position taken by the two countries. FIRST PROPOSITION FOR A SETTLEMENT. ‘The first leer in the correspondence bears date Washington, Jane 2, 1849, aud ts addressed by Sec- retary of State Fish to Minister Sickles at Madrid. After referring to the situation in Cubs and calling attention to the conflict raging at that time for more than nine months, with no promise of a speedy ter- mination, the Secretary writes to Mr. Sickles:— ‘The President directs you to offer to the Cabinet at Maorit the good oMices of the United States for the purpose of bi kv to & Close the civil war now ramanlig the isiand of Cuba, on wwe following gjrizst—The Independence of Cuva to be acknowledged by pain, ‘Second Cuba to pay to Spain a sum, within atime and tn a manner tu be agreed upon vy ther, as an equivalent for the entire and detinite reiiu juisoment by Spun oi ail her rights Mp that inland, tacinatog the puolie property of every descrip: n. A€ Cuba should not be able to pay the whole sum at each the iuture payments, by insiulments, are to be ely aecurec by a pledge of the export and Inport cur iuues Under au arrangement to be azreed upon for lection, in trast, for We purpose of securing both the Princlpa! and Interest of those Instalmente until (heir Goal ischaryc. 71r/—vhe abalition of slavery in tho island of Cuba. Fou (i— An armistice peuding the negotiations tor the aet- Yement above re.erred ty. In case the good oMees of the United States are accepted by Spaiw you will request that such steps may be immediately tagen as will arrest the pro- gress of the fai; and you will communicate at once by telezraph with the department, using the cipier When necessary. Authority spould also be asked in (oat cuse for the representatives of the Tevoluiionary parry now iu tue United States to communicate through tie Spanish tines wiih those in command of the revolutiouary party in Cuba, im order tiat ail further destrucuon of life and pro- perly may be arresied a¢ che earliest possible uo- ment. Jt is proposed that the megotlattons for the setile- Mmenut of the several questions to be adjusted be- iween the contending parties shall pe conducted here. You will therejore, im the event of our good Offices being accepted, propose that a copierence ve ke. it (he city of Wasiington, at an early day, to be agreed upon between yourseif and the Caoinet of Maarid, between properly authorized representa- lives of the two partics, the representative of eact parcy to be clotued witb [uli powers to agree to wud toenier inty & coaventiou for w seitiement on tae bases above indicated, and to arrange, settie and sign all necessary details and other agreements inat May be thought proper on boiw sides. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. June 29, Secretary Fis, in anovher letter, writes to Minister Sickles tnat the proposal of the United States 1s “for the purpose of bringing to a close the civil War now ravaging the islan..’’ (Cuba), and cau- tions the Minisicr “of the delicacy to be observed on this point, so as not to arouse or excite any just sus- ceptibilities of the government of the Minster or of the people of Spain.” The same day the Secre- wary telegraphs to Minister Sickies to ACT PROMPTLY. An early decision ou the proposition to mediate ts extrewely important. fasten it. Spanish authori- ties in Cuba are 1a potent tor protection of tne livea of our citizens, Cuba aud Porte Rico should not ve connected in Lue suvmniss\0n Or HeZOLIBON. BICKLES REPLIES. ‘under date of Angust 1, 150y, that he has communt- cased to Prim intoripally basis ot convention. He pressed me to say how niuch Cuba and Porte Buco would give. Lsaid 1 had no imstructions, and sug- gested one handred and twenty-five millions as prov bavie. frim suid Spain might arrange prelimina- ries with United States and concede autonomy of Cuba and Porto Rico tor sutisiactory equivalent as soon 28 hostilities ceased. te promised to bring the whole subject before tue council to-night, INTERVIEW BETWEEN MINISTER SICKLES AND SENOR SILVELA. On the 3ist of July biinister Sickles met Sefior Silvela, the Spanish Minister ef Forelgn Affairs. During the interview Mr. Sickles proceeded Co ob- werve That the government and people of the United States felt a lively syinpathy im the recent edoris made by the people of Spain in the great work of their bavional reorganizauon, and that it was the earnest desire ol tue President to avoid anythiog that could embarrass tac ey aan of Spain at this time. In this relauon | mentioned the scrupu- lous observance by the government of the United States of aj) itv International oviigations, and the Strict enforcement of its veutraiity laws tp respect to the Cuban insurrection, ut the same time pointing out the ciose relauous by Winch the population ol the United Staiea i connected with Cuba, the near Beighbornvod and tae jarge commercial and soctal intercourse between ihem. It was bat natural, 1 added, chat a deep sympathy with the Cuban people should have grown up in tue United staves, espe- cially as 80 Many of our ciuzens regarded the Cu- bans as (ghting ior the sane principles of sell-gov- ernment we had ourse!ves adopted; wat i it were true, as is believed, cuat a majority of the peopie of Caba desired to terminate tei relation of colonial dependence upon he moiher country, it seemed to the President that in this (hey were only following the general course of events upon the Americ: Continent since ibe estabusnmene of our own tnd pendence. ‘this manies! and mevitabie ceade had been generally recogmized by the 7 Powers, including not only Spata hers Britain, France, NKussia and otter nations. SENOR SILVELA ON CUBA. After the Spanish Micister bad neard Minister Sickles out he replied by saying that The Cuban question Was one ot the utmost gravity | and deiicacy. Jt Was the intention of the Spanieit Niderals, who planved and executed te revoiuvon- ary movements Wiiclt Lave given bo Spain iis pew political tile, to make wt the earliest momen pro- vision for grapiing self-governieut to Cuba, But Unis fatal Jon broke out ab the yery moment when it Was becuming possible lo give to Cuba all tie riguts sie uesired, The cry of - Death to Span- qards’’ was heard tn Spain aad it became lupo bie, in the face of c war, to carry out tle benell- cent plan that bad oeen (ormed. ‘fhe liberal party in Spat finds itseif, wo its own infinite regret, Lorced uto a seeming symMpAchy With Lue reactionary party in Cuba; and the liberals of Cuba, wito ougit to ve fis firm friends, are couverted, by the fatality of the situation, into’ tts bitterest cnémies. There 1s no sentiment dearer to the hearts Of vhe lideral jeaders ian that of freedom to ali meno; yet tuey stand Defore the world, sn this Cuban confics, as opposed to seif-government abd resisting the wboliiion of siavery. He cousidered whe insurrection as a mort deplorable musiortuue and nnstake, both Jor Cuva and for Spain, Jf w way could be lound to settle ail these questions in such @ manner as to do Justice to Cava without isimuging upon the honor of spain the government would o¢ greatly gratified. ‘There is no intention or desire among the lverals of ever again 10 work (expluiter) the island of Cuba on the old selfish system. it has been their constant bope and wish to grant to the Cubans the adminis. tration of their own alfairs aud ihe fuil frvits of thelr own labor, preserving ue commercial con- nections and subs shadow of their politica) rela- ons. GENERAL PRIM OBIRCTS TO A CONFERENCE. The day after his interview with Seilor Silvela Minister Sickles had an interview with General Prim, tn refauion to whtch he tuus writes:— J then sounded the Marsliai upon the proposal for @ conierence in Washington, in which Spawn, the Untied States and Lupa should be represented; but to this ne at ovce demurred, saying Cuba could only be heara here through her deputies cieciod to the Cories; thas Spain wight treat with wwe Laned States, no. with Cuba, BPAIN'S OFFER, On the 13th of August Mr. Sickles telegrapus to Secretary Fish the followin, President of Council authorizes me to state that ) the good offices of the United States are accepied, He suggests informaiy, for your milorination, ‘ur cardmai propositions that will be acceptable, if of- ferea by tue United ctates, as the basis lor a conven- Non, the details to be settied as soon as practicavie: Firs—The inaurgenis to iay down their arma. ‘Sceond—Spain Wo grant simuitancously afuil and comptete amnesty. MMri_The people of Cubs to vote by universal suffrage ‘upon the question of their indepen ten Fourts—tbe majority baying declared for independence, Spain to grant ir the Cortve consenting; Cuba paying watie: factory equivalent, guaranteed by the United Siatus. As soon as preilininarics are settied, safe conduct throngh Spanish iimes to be given for communi ton with Insurgents, SECOND INTERVIEW WITH ©RNOR SILVELA. On tle 10th of August Mr. Sickles, according to @ppeinunent, waited on Scilor Silvela in the foreign office, and the subject of the former Interview Was re- Gumed. My. Sickles says he expressed the regret that Vv MARCH 6, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT: NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, “the Spanish government by choosing to treat the subject as @ purely legal question, to be setiled ao- cording to their own forms of procedure, had appa- rently closed the door to any arrangement by which the goodomices of the United States could be made immediately effective." Sefor Silvela repiied tbat such was not the mean- ing or intention of bis government, ana expressed the conviction ‘That by the friendly intervention of the United Staces @ great siep in advance bas been rendered possible, Mr. Siivela then envered upon a very fuil aualysis of artcie 208 of the Spanish constitution, sowing Was tt had two distinc! aud Opposite pases in 8 relation to the present question; that while, by its lerias, it precluded the government from mak- ing any detinive arrangement in regard to Cuba until the Cuban representatives shall bave caken their Seats in the Cortes, oa the otuer hand it authorizes the government to make any arrageinent that might seom expedient after tie Cuban Deputies arrive, the Spagist governuent and Cuamvers veing then free to negouate on tue basis of a liberal constitution, compleve autonomy or wmdependence; and that, although it might be said tue independence of ts islaud was pot contemplated by the constitution, yet, giving the article a somewhat lautudimarian construcuion, it was susceptible even of thas later- pretation, Mr. Sickles responded as foliows:— ‘That in dealtug with the events now transpiri in Cuba it was necessary to look at Lem tu a pra tical point of view; that unless some arrangement could be made at once the conMict migdt soon reach proportions and tuvoive complications that would greatly increase the cufticuities of usettiement; and that notWithsianuing the desire of the rresident to do all in his power to promote a satisfactory adjust- meut, the interests aflected and the strong current of sytnpathy in tae struggle felt tn the United States might cause no little embarrassment Uf polling more could be done untit the Cuban deputies toox their geais in the Cortes. SECRETARY FISH AGAIN URGES ACTION. On the 16th of August Secretary Fish telegraphs to Minister Sickles as follow: Urge acceptance on basis proposed by the United States, First proposition of Spain, that tnsurgenta lay down arms, 1s incapable of attainment as a pre- liminary. ‘The third, to ascertain the will of the Cudans by a vote, is Impracticabie because of the disorganizauou of society, and the terrorism that prevails, aud the violence wud iusuvordination of ie volunteers. There can be no question aa to the will of the majority; it bas been recognized and ad- mitted, An arimistice should immediately be agreed upon to arrest the carnage and destrection of pro- perty, aud opportunity ve yvantea to communicate with the insurgents, aud emauctpation of slaves be determined, INTERVIEW WITH THR PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL, On the 20th of August Sinister Sickles had an in- terview with the lresiient of Council, The sub- stance of the business trausacted was as follows:— The President of the Council said his dea was that the goveruments of the United States and Spain svould come to an understanding tn regard (o the quesiion—a full and completé accord; that then te Untied States should employ their tailuence with the Cubans to induce them to accept a basis of setile- ment Which should comprise Firt—A cessation of homilities, Second—An ampesty. Phird--The ewetion of deputies. Fourth—A project of law w be eubmitted by the govern- ment to the Cortes, settling the future of the (sland. It was Impossible to act clay In the matter while the tsurrection sill mainsained itself, But the arrangement which the two Kovernments were now trying to arrive at was ay caruest, a3 serious, and as binding as if tv were in form and manner a treat) 1 asked what would be the result if the United States accepted such a basis of agreement, and the Cuoans should reiuse to lay down their arins and proceed to the election of deputies, and vole on the question of their independence. The President of tue Council suid :—“In that case there would be but one sojution—continuiag the war «@ outrance.” THE CUBANS MUST BE PARTIES TO A NRGOTIATION. On the 24th of August Secretary Fish telegraphs to Minister Sicktes:— The propositions of Spain are incompatible with any practicable negouation. Tne representatives of the insurreciiouary government are necessary parties to & negotiation. Free communication Uorough te Spauisa lines 18 unmediately necessary. ‘The United States cannot ask the insurgents to lay dowa thelr arms unless we volunieers are simul- taneously efeccually disarmed, and lu goo. Laltn di banded. This, U pracuicabie, would require time. We want to arrest the uestruction ol life and property aud to stop the outrages and annoyances to our cli zens, AN armistice would edfect thls 1imediately, and the terms oF the compensation to be mace to Spain by Cuba could theu be arraaged between them unuer the tnediauon of the United dtates, You may say that we deem au armistice indispeusa- bie to the success of any negotiations. Spaia may in honor grant Unis at the reqaest of the United tates, aud in deference Lo the wisnes of a friendly Power, Whose good oilices she 18 Wililng to accept. ‘Thus being dove, negouations can munediately be opened that will probably resuls in peace and her receiving & fair coupensauon. MK. FISH AGAIN URGES ACTION. September 1, Minister Sickles is again urged as foliows by Mr. Fish tn the following despaton:— United States willing to mediate between Spain jute asmis- pperty bak ¢ Congress approve; daily Gestruction 18 steadily de- creasing Value of property for whica purchase money Js offered; tutrd, persons and property of Spantards remaining on téland protected, bat they may at option withdraw. To prevent difficulties, a8 weil as to stop bloodshed apd devastation. we Inust have early decision, These offers withdrawn uniess accepted before October 1. Say that anarchy pre- vans over much of the island. Muraers of American citizens are committed by volunteers, Confiscation of (heir property attempted by Spanish auchorities, DECISION OF SPAIN. Minister Sickles, vider date of September 16, com- municates the following as tne reste with the Sec- recary of Forcign Atfa.rs:— "ivst—Spain frankly and gratefully accepts good offices of United States, but cannot pt Dases proposed, and ake withdraws! of my note of September 8. Spain desires, wit out appearance of pressure, to make the concessions she offers to Cuba. mi—Permanent commirsion of Cortes now in session, representing all partios, Unantimousiy assure gi tue means at their disposal to put dowa e treating about Cubs with any foreign Power; not ob- Jesting, however, tou frieudiy understanding with the United States by which’ their gvod offices may help to end the struggle. 7c d—Spain has not begun and doas not contemplate nego- tiutiona with any foreign ower about Cuba, or the proposed mediation of the United Btates, nor haw my note been com municated to any torelzn government. Fowth—Spain desires to terminate clvil war in Cuba, and will agree to armistice if necessary to peace. This measure wil be recommended to the Captala General of Cuba, but e left to his discretion. ain 18 ready at once to give Cuba ample reforms and. wider Hbertice enjoved in peninsula, also general amnesty ond gradual emancipation of suaves. These refused, war will be prosecuted with eergy and activity, pardoning, however, the van- guished and prisoners, and striving to prevent ail shedding of blood through revenge, and ali reprisals, Whaiever tue provocation from imsargenis. ‘Sicth—Reparation promised in casos of Sueakman and Wyeth, Orders given to preveat such crueities hereafter. sin regards Cuban question as purely domestic, and Wil not, mimy jndgment, accept mediation. IL our offer be Withdrawa, and frieudiy relatrons con- Unue, our good offices can mitigute the eruel citarac- ter of the War, promote liberal concessions, and per- paps bring about an arwisiice. SECRETARY FISiL BXPLAINS, in a telegram dated Seprember 25, addressed to Min- ister Sickles, that ‘The good offices of the United States were ten- dered ip a Sprit of mutual triendstip and im che im- terest of humanity, of Spam, of Cuba and of tue United states. Lf the tender be no: acceptante to Spain you may withdraw it, aud you may say that those good offices wili be ready Woenever they can tend toa settlement of the unhappy contest that 1s devastating Cuba and injuring the Commercial tuter- esis of this and of otaer nations. [HE SEIZURE OF THE SPANISH GUNBOAT In relation to te arrest of the Spanish gunboats in this city Secretary Fish says:— ‘The gunboats were arrested on the request of Peru, why claims to be at war with Spa We can- not devy the conaiuon of war as an abstract fact, ine asmuch as we have oifer and bow pares have accepled our mediation. Pera clains tat alihough these boats may not go to Peru they will release rom employment other portions of the Spanish Navy, aud strengthen her in cuse the pending me- dilations do not result in a peace, Our position of impartial neutrality compelied tieir devents in a communication from Minister Sickles to Mr, Fish, bearing date September 26, 1869, the former gives the discussions which took place between him and Sefiurs Silveia and Becerra, Mr. Siuvela re- ferred to ARMED EXPEDITIONS. Re spoke of two leilers whitch he had just received from America; one from the Spanish Const at New York, announcing the departure of an arnied vesse! from Ceaar Keys for Cuba with six guns, four thou- sand rifles and two huadred men, and the other from Mr. Roberts, detailing tae dimcuities which the American goverument threw in the way of the departure of the Spanish gunboats in New York. He eularged uoon the apparent uniriendliness of this action. Explanations veing made by Minister Sickles, Seior Sivela “very frankly admitted the zeal and good faith with which the American government had Tulfilled ics obigations; he only mentioued this cause because Uie two letters had come togetuer.”” # OUTRAGES IN CUBA. Thie snbject was aiso referred to in the discussion 2! the Foreign oiice, when General Prim stated Wai he “nad given very severe and posiuive orders on that supject to ihe Captaim General that those scandalous scenes shonld be prevented at all hazards, and that General De Rodas bad answered avowing lie intention of putting a stop to such oc- currences, And Of resoriing to the punishment of deuth, If necessary, io accomplish this. Minister Sickles begged to commend ‘to the con- skieration of the Spanish government the propriety of adopung the system of cartel and treatment of prisoners according to Uke races of ordinaty war- jave; that thia would at once divest the war of its suvage character, and make more practicanle tue projects of pacificaitou Which the goverment ea- tertained, General Prim said that tt was necessary to proceed gradually and surely, Tae government was now occupied with various decrees, carrving Ng Uberal policy into efect in Cuba, A decree would goon be tssued initiating the GRADUAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, by giving freecom _ all negioes born alter date. Tho government would also soon announce @ plan of administrative and municipal reform tor Cuba, All this without walling Jor Wwe termination of the war.’ THE SPANISH ARMY IN CUBA. On tho 29th of December Minister Sickles commu- nicated with Mr, Fish the following estimate of th Spanisn forces compowng the “Army of Cub: compiled from the statement publiianed ta La [beria of December 26, 1869, and trom sem}-oillctal sources of information, The strength ol battalions. baste: ries and squadrons, conforms to the regulationa of the Spanish service INPANTRY, Eight regiments of infantry of the line, two Daltailuas of eight hundred each. ve battalions of light tnfaniy, one thousand exc! Two vatialions 2,000 1,600 ia ee peuioaulne light Infautry) at 11,000 ee ponivewar ee oe — 6240 ARTILLERY. One regiment, two baitalious of four batierion |, a artilieey, two : taliona of four batteries each—eight companies. 1,000 cae Field artillery being organized, Jone not stated. Twenty-five (full atreng tm Spanish army), ENGINEERS, companies of 150 each. MARINEH,. ie eid 00 volunteer troops doing garrison duty. Grand total... RECAPITULATION. Infantry, fifty-aix battali rtitlery, four battalions, ‘avairy, twenty-five Englucers, one battalion, Marines, four battalion: Volunteers doing garrison duiy. TOL. cee e seer esee THE CUBIN A meeting of the ‘Cuban League of the United States'’ was held last evening at Delmonico’s, at which a large number of distinguishea gentiemen, including Generals Granger and Partiett and Hon. Cassius M. Clay, were present. General McMahon, the president of the League, stated that during bis recent visit to Washington he ascertained that the resulutions offered by General Banks in Yongress in favor of the patriot cause in Cuba would soon ve adopted by tie flouse of Kepre- sentatives, and aiso that General Banks, Generat Logan, Senaior Wilson, Governor Swann, of Mary Janda, and other promiveat members of Congress had expressed a wilitaguess to uddress & mass meet. ing in this city in behalf of the struggiing Cubans, ‘Tae proceedings of the meeting last night were con- fined to perfecting the details of organization and arranging fora graud Cuban mass meeting to be held in this city at an eariy date. Arraugements were alyo made to have slmiar demonstrations made tn otuer large cities on the same night of the meelng 2a this city. ‘The dave cf the proposed mass meeting 13 to be annonneed at tne regular meeting o1 the League next saturday nigut, A vote ol thanks wus given to Colonel! Rockafeiler, of the Seventy-first reziment, for lis oifer to tie League of the use of the regimental armory for the purpose of holding tts reguiar meetings; out it was decided to bold the next meeting at Dei- monico’s, 3 that place is more convenient to mem- vers of the League. ‘The finances and the progress 01 the League tn 11s work ot developing the sentiment of the couatry in favor of Cuban tndepea- dence were reported to be in & most satisiactory condition, A Jetter was read from Sedor Aldanra. presidcat of the Cuban Junta, expressing regret that he and General Quesada were prevented vy prior engagements from accepting tne invitation of the League to attend its meeting, and noped that they might on some future occuston avail them- selves Gi the offer, LEAGUE. THE THRTY-THIRD STREET EXPLOSION, The Theory of Boiler Fractures—Coroner’s In- vestigation Concluded—The Owner of tho Boiler Subjected to the Hacineyo “Censure” by @ Jury. Yesterday afternoon Coroner Flynn concluded the investigation previously commenced tn the case of Wilam 8. Wright and George Hussey, who diced from the e‘fects of injuries received on the 14tb ult. by the explosion of a steam boiler im the twanufac- tory of Messrs. Decker & Co., 517 West Thirty-third aircet. Only two witnesses were exanuned, and tho sbstarce of their testimony, together with the ver- dict of tne jury, wiil be found below, orman Ward deposed tat he had examined the exploded botler since the orcurrence, as he was giv. me exclusive aitention to the question of botier ex- plosions and their causes. The witness believed the case of the explosion to be unequal expansion; when the engineer teft the boller at tne ume of going to «dinner be bad left the furnace door Open, thus causing an unequal expansion of the boiter shell and crown sheet; indications of over. heating were detected, as the iron nad scaled, and the boiler was nnugually full of scales, thus showing that the engineer was at fault In not cleaning tt at reoular intervals; In the opinion of the witness the engineer was not to blame in misjudging the quan- tty of hot water in the bolicr, a3 he took the steain gauges as indications; these gauges are simply measures of bulk, and bot water was verv uneven and uncertain in its indications. Mr. Ward ex- plained the principle of unequal expansion by stat- ing that they had probably noticed that a tumbler could be constantly and safely used with cold water; when hot water was, however, poured into the tumbier tt would break, This was explained by the fact that a portion of the glass waa Instantiy beated, while the remaining portions were cold—nence the iracture. Charlie called, « E. Emory, consulting engineer, being re- osed that he had recently inspected the botler and had changed his opinion in regard vw the cause of the explosion; be nad believea that in- suMciency of water was the cause, but ne had dis. covered that when the boiler was patched several of une bolts holuing the crown sbeet to the crown bar had been removed; from this cause the crown sheet became overstraiaed fora space of fifteen inches, ag it had no support from the stay bars, and it was torn from the tube sheer; the boiler was in an explosive condition ever since tt was patched; Mr. Ewory thought the cutting off of the stay bolt heads passing through the crown bar permitved that part of the sueel (o buige dowa, and it taus¢ tave been broken by the strain on th flange of the tube steet, which was evidently nearly equal to the tensile con- dition of the irou, ‘The case was then submitted to the jury, Who re- turned the following VERDICT. “That the deceased perties came to their deaths by injuries received from a botler explosion on the idth day of 1570, at 617 West chirty-thira street. We consider Mr. Chapman guilty of culpa: bility in having such a badly constructed and deiec- lve boller on his prem ST. DOMINGO. Annexation—Baez Stumping the Rural Dise tricts—The Feeling of the People—To- bacco—Sugur—United States Coal Depot. St. Dominco Crry, Feo, 15, 1 Alarge part ‘of the people in the country have been very strongly opposed to the annexation scheme, having been told by those to whom they look for information that if the United States were to take their country they would be reduced to their former conditton of slavery and made to work fer the benefit of the whites as their bretnron doin Cuba, ‘This state of things has been easily brought anout by the opponents of Baez, who desire to sce bim overthrown by Cabral, by insuiling these false im- pressions into the minds of tie negro preachers aud class leadcis, Who are neariy as ignorant and narrow-minded ag their foliowers, by whom they are implicitiy trusted and believed, To counter- Act this feeling President Baez, with a party of gen- Uemen, hus spent the greater part of the last two wecks In goiug about the country, holoing meetings and speaking to the people, explaining to thein the nature of the plan of annexation and the advan- tages to be derived, by them tnrougi thia course. He said that by this plan a continuance of peace Wouid be assured to them, and that they neea tear neitver incernal nor external focs, “Tnat they could go into their elds and cuiuivate the crops, with which an ever bountiful Providence had blessed them, relying upon the strong arm of a powerful government to protect them in their peaceful avocations and provide them with a@ ready und profitable market for all the produce of their soll and their industry. His remarks were lis- tened to with eager attention by large crowds of the conntry people atevery place in which he spoke, and were received With cheers and appiause, nis hearers expressing the most satisied approval of his views on fhe proposed annexation. ‘The diftevences witch existed between this gov- ernment and the United States relative to the ad- justment of snunexation Das been satisinctorily arranged, and aa far as wo are cuncerucd aanexa- thon 1s @ fact. ‘Yen years of peace will make this island a very large sugar producer, and such is the ricaness of the soil that the om can be taken Jroi it for many years to come without the need for manure, particu. larly m the Vega Keal district, where much tobacco is grown of a very fine quality. ‘Iwo thousand eigat hundred bales of this topacco were taken to New York by the ‘Tybee on her last voyage, and as much more ta now ready for her, tis to be reshipped from New York to Hawburg. A large quantity of coal has been landed at the coal depot estapiished py the United States at Flag Island, aud @ schooner trom Philadelphia has just Onished discharging avout 260 tons more. BRITISH ARISTOCRACY. The Mordaunt Divorco Case—Scandal and Morale of the Testimony. MERITS AND DEMERITS OF THE CASE, Aristocracy, Royalty, the Senso of Public Decency and Democracy. ‘What the Dnglish Peoplo Say in the Lower Strata. Sir Charles Mordaunt May Visit America. By a special correspondence from London, dated on the 19th and 21st of February, ana pubiished ua- derneath, we have the HERALD report of tne Mor- daunt divorce case suit, ite merits, demerits, morale and indeceacy, with all lis social complications, aristocratic and royal. The comments of the ‘hard fisted” democracy of Britain on the grand scandal are aio presented. The Mordaunt Divorce Case—Groent Scandal in the Aristocratic Circles of Eaglaud—Inde- cent Nature of the Evidence—The Prince of Wales as a Witness—True History of the Case. Lonpon, Feb. 19, 1870, Some weeks ago I mentioned in one of my letters to the HERALD that a divorce case (Mordaunt vs. Mordaunt, Cole, Johnstone and Others) was pending, and that it would excite the greatest possible iaterest when it came to be heard. The preliminary trial, Involving the sanity of the lady, has at last come on. ‘fhe Divorce Court is crowded to the very roof every day witb ali the fashionable people of the land, and at our breakfast table each morning we are met with column after column of the most dis- gusting details printed in every newspaper, and making them no more ft to be read by young people than the most indecent books hat ever were printed m Holywell sireet. There never was, I care Dot in what country, a case which was more degrading to tbe nation in which it was tried. Not only have some of the first families of the land been washing the very dirtiest linen tuey tiave in public, but just Lecause those who are tius washing are tilled people the rest of the world flocks tn crowds to see the operation, Why the evidence upon such @ trial should be printed in every disgusting aetatl Icannor imagine. Meg are men all the world over, and #8 there was & traitor among the twelve Apostles, 80 there must, aud ever wil be, sinners— drunken sinners, carnal sinoers, and every otner kind of offender—unti! the end of time, But why parade their vices? Wiy make more of the details of such impurities? Ag your readers may not be induced to wade through the English newspapers in order to obtain & summary of this case, [ wul give you the outlines of it, with which 1 am unforiunately well acquainted, for 1 have known all my life the family to which Lady Mordaunt belongs, and remember her very jew years ago, @ very pretty little girl, laughing and running about like a young deer by the side of uer governess. Iam nota young map, and have seen, God help me, nota little of the bad side of life, as every one must do whose business it 18 to Visit much with the world in this great city. But tt makes me sadder than [ care to exprers to thax bow, in a 1ew siort years, the merry child I used to know tn Perthshire bas changed into what I do not lise to say, nor evento think about, here, nen, 13 3 thuc and s.np.e account O1 this unfortuna.e jauy, and of her jet young life:— LADY ORDAUNT 1s the daughter of Sir ‘Thomas Mo.creiffe, 8 baronet Of un old family, and owner of a tine old place in Perthshire, Scotiand, ca ied Moncreite House, near the Bridge of Earn, which many ot your readers must have seen when wey visited Scotland. sir ‘Thomas fas three or four sous and, 1 wink, six daughters, ‘ue latter are ail very good-.ouking. ‘The cidesc is married tw tue Duse of Acaol, unotuer to a Mr. Forbes, a very weathy Scotch genueuiuu, and third to the Larl of Dualey. Lady soruaunt is «the fourtu duugher, aud is about as handsome @ woman a8 you or any persou ever set eyes upon. she “was married ta 180d to sir Charles Mordauut, @ wealluy paronel, then only thirty years of age. The evidence on tue ural Biules that Lis unio took piace “wita the couseut Of ail paruics,’’ but which is not the tact, sir Char.es Was very wiuch iu love wita ber, but sae did Dot care for him, and, 1sdevd, Wauted to marry a re.acion of her own, a young man 0: fair means, out uot by many tivusands & year a3 yood a matca as Sir Charies Mordaunt, “But hee pareats ipsisied upon ber marrying tie latter, Ido not mean toat they suUL Ler Up and led ter Upon bread and Water; bus lataers aud motiers Dave always the means of Making tueir dauguters Obey them im tae matter of matrunony., Marries Moncretife (now Lady Mor- duuni) was only eigtiteen, ter motuer, Lady Mon- creiffe (& uaughcer of the late Karl of Kianoul), was & most worluiy minded woman, aud had a personal pride in getting bec daughiers Weil settled in ile. She insisied on we imurrage taking place, and It did take piace. Sir Charies Murdaunt 8 a young, thonghtiess man, much given to siovung, hunuag Gud oLier teid Bports. Alter the first lew muatns, although he kepe her in every poss.ble juxury, and denied her nothing, he letc his wite very much to herself. Mer delat was in balls the opera, garden parues aod the like; ali a8 pleasure was in yachuaog, tux tiuutiog, saooung, Msaing and ower @inusewents which Look un muca uway from home, She was very good-looking, very gay, very taougai- less, Very young and bud more tha one constant aitendant of tie male sex upon her, lt was tue o.d, old story. With no oue to guide or advise her she overstepped che bounds of pradeace aad modesty iu uer conduct, and then—to use the old expression—‘got tutked about’? Mer sisiers, tue Duciuess 0: Athol and the Countess of pudley, tried to advise her, vat sue deiled them. Her parents attempted to do the same, put only wita like resis, Sue became what in tae Loadon slang of the aay 18 catied “a fast woman.” In tne tasn- lonavle world there are * sets” and “sets.” Some of the e are brougtt together by political, others by religious, Others by lauuly ues. ‘There are, 1 need hardly say, good, bad aud inditferent peopie among + them ail. ‘Bue were ts a “fast seU!—a set of peop.e Who j0oK upon anusement as tue Arse duty of ie aud who care less for what others say of them tnaa you do wuere the ink wita whien 1 write these lues was manufactured. Laay Mordauut soon became an ackuowiedyed meu- ber of tms “set.” Sue drove the nundsomesc ponies in London, dressed “faster” than any vady in or out of (own, laugoed Lauer, Caccd more for pleasure and was surrouuted at all umes wie the “fastest” men of tuc “iaste. set. Tue one person who knew least of what she did or where sne went was herown husband, tle bad his eccu- pauons; She nud hers, Wacn tie season was over uhey Went togetticr to caeir magatitceat couniry house, Walton sail, near Warwick, but even taere it was the old Story over azau. ‘Tie house was ai- ways fui of visitors, Her fast’? lady iriends and her “fast? aduurers of tue other sex were there by the score. Siu Charles only looked to his owo amusements, He Was ausene two or Uirec Monts In the year for sporting in pcotiand or tor fisning 1m Norway. Lady Mordaunt got tess atid (ess respected and more add more wiked woout, ie was tie old, cid story repeated. Did she iail? God xnows, it tes uot for us to judge each ower; but | suould be sorry, Indeed, 10 Imave tne evidence against wite, sister’ or daughter which bas been brought up against this unfortunate lady. SI CHARLES MORDAUNT. Sir Charles suspected nothing, for ne knew noth- ing. Once ortwiee he told her that neituer Lord Cole (eldest son of the Bari of Bunisxillen), a boy of twenty-one, aud one of the wildest luds in London, hor Sir Frederick Jounstone, @ young feilow of twen- ty-four, and Notorious ad one of the greatest row's ever known (& Wora out man even at tnat early age), were fit visitors for @ young married jady to have datly, and evea twice @ aay, in her boudoir, and to be seen nigat after night at the opera; but she was deflant. Matters had got worse and she had become more obvstinate—more careless than ever Of her good name. On one occasion Sir Charies Was apoken to very seriously by his fatuer-tn-iaw, who vad overheard by chance, at White's Club (the most extensive cud in London and the only one co which the Prince of Wales belongs), some joking about the Prince of Wales being very devoted to Luday Mordaunt. Sir Churles questioned b's servants and found that the Prince had more than once vis- ited at his house and bad seen Lady Mordaunt alone. He spoke to his wile and told her tiat, however flat- terlug such visits were, they could not but cause her to be preatly ‘talked avout.” Lady Mordaunt seemed to have been affected with what wus sald, and aoout this ime she found herself to oe in a cer- tain conaitton, Her baby was born prematurely, and the day alter 1+ was bora she seut for Sir Charies and toid him he was not tne fatner o1 It, also that she had gone wrong with Sir Frederick Johnstone and Lord Coie. Lmust tell you that the poor baby was born blind, and was aficted with @ fearful malady; to which | need not more than allude, and which, 1 18 said in the evidence, Sir Frederick Johnstone has suffered from so much as to prevent hun marrying. At first Sir Caaries would not beiteve ais wife. He thought she was mad and that her sickness had brought on a kind of delirium, Bus again aud Aguin, at different intervals of several days, she re- beated the tale, until her husband began to believe that there must besomething 1a her atory. He oross- questioned the servants, he opened her desk. In the jattor he lound a number of letters which—well I MUBsE NOt anticipate the evidence that will be given in Whe Aivorce case—oud some of them were from toe Frince of Wales, otuers trom Lord Cole, Sir Freder.ck Johnstone, Captain Farquhar avd other faxiuonable but very ‘fasu” men, the fastest of the fast. te then came to London—ine confinement bad taken place at Walton—and questioned the waiters aud chimbermalds a: tie Alexandria. and Palace Uotels, at bota of which Lady Mordauat had resided for a few dave reapectively, ‘when she bad come up to London for afew days for the purpose of consulting her medical adviser. On one of these Occislous Hho Wrote LO Sir Ovaries the following ie er— PAL ack Ho L, BOOKINGTAM Gatr, Nov. & My Dagiaine Cassin Hne t) aay I shalt not be able to reach home by tweive o'clock train, but will come by the one which reaches at 8:0, Send cur jo meet mo. I felt horribly duit by myself all yesterday evening. Ihave not hud much time as yet to-day, “I have seen Priestly and will Sell you a about when J Sosne hoon our aitect wile, HARRIET MORDAUNT. SUSPICION AND DIVORCE. After—in the {cliowing month of March, his child having been born in February—bis su<piciona were Suily @roused, Sir Charles found that the very even- Ing which his wife “elt so gorrloly duli” she spens with Captar) Farqutiar at the hotel, and went alone with hint to the theatre. Is it then surprising if Sir Charles resoivea then and there never to see his Wile, but to Bue for @ divorce? When be had fnatiy determined upon this step, her lather devermined to set up the plea that she ‘waa Insane. and that ber coniession of guilt to her husbaud were merely tne ravings of a mad woman. Aud this Is now the case tuat is being tried —whetner she is or ts pot mad, and therefore whevher, in the latter event, sne 18 not tit to answer for uerself. if she ts proved to be mad, or to have been mad when she dischosed her guilt (real or supposed) to her Lus- bana, of course the triai will not zo on, and she will be kept more or jess under restraint. It 1s not for me to anticipate the decision of the jury as to her stale of tnud, but the evidence given goes very far Lo disprove any such supposition, For tastance, here 1s the @, idence given yesterday by Vir. Cadogan. tae clergyman of Walton. a gentieman who could hardly ouve auy motive in trying to prove one thing or another, and whose sacred calling and excellent character ougit to place bun above suspicion:— The Rov, Abel Cadogan, examined by Mr. Inderwick, said: am vicar of Wa to. nd I have known Sir Charles Mordauat some tim ; {saw Lady Mordaunt on the 4th of March; t went to ba, ilzs the child privuiely .in th house; [had not much convervation with her; before the chid was brouht in I asked her how si et Very well; Fuiinotsee her again until E ry, the 28:4 Of March; [ then had converyation with her; at the time Mra. Forbes was not at the house; noue of her family + on that occasion ahe did not converse much; lester (rom Sr Cl les, stating his wi sorrow and troubie; bread the letter to her; Isaia [ could no: ex- presa waut ho wished better than ho himseif; she sat down, and cried, and Lexpreased myagif ready to be any com<ort jae avid “Yes; and I read her prayers of the 1 don't thinc ‘her mind was atfected; I could not aay the exact dates 1 saw ber, but I saw her {une or tive times; I saw her when Sir Charles Mordaunt was in Scotiand; 1 saw her on the 2th of April; called 01 own account; I found Lady Mordatnt in her own bondolr;-I asked her how but she she was, aud shi sald, “Very weil, been quite the thi Mrs, Caiog an, Wi ‘unt asiced wiry she n; Lady Mor.aunt said able to pro soneease that { spoke, au ever ace Bim f could set the matter rignt;" T bat 6aid to that remark, that I understood she was coming to [told her that nnder tae paincul efrcumstances of ler case i woud be beter not; I sald if she persevered I must do aomethiay to prevent her; it was fa answer to that that sho ike the words pave 1 ged the conversa on very AUEApLy ould you ike to take & waik jato the garden "Cu her; ob the Sth of April, in nse ence ot wietter from Mrs. Forbes, | weut up tothe Hail on the folowing day; {did not see Lady Mordaun consejneuee of my conversation with followlng day ani bad. conversation with Lady Mordaunt [told Ler I inierstood tat she wished the lithe baby to be pubiieyy received in church; Ttolt her that Mrs, Forbes had Written to me to eay 60; Laly Mordaunt sald “es; Tasked {she had god’athers and godmuthers {1 Mra, Forbra Would Le goumoter and Lont Dutiey got.ather; T said, “But you want © godinoth: ‘aod Lady Mordaunt aid, “Wil Ses, Cado an be one /” f said would ask her; thot'was the inst time {saw her. By Dr. Deane—1 had Ittie conversation with Lady Mor- dadot when f went to baptize the culld; Thave not the letter Ste Ubaries wrow me; Lthing (tis at home; Ldon't think L destroyed it; in the ielter Sic Charies sald that ue was going away, and then describe | bis dis ress; eb ope | that his wit alter serving him #0 vadly, would do bim tue justice to nc- knowiedge it; the \etter Was g ven to me before gotng to cure on sunday moraing; {received the letter on the 2b of Maren—Isuster day, To Lord Veazwnce—Ihat is the letter I road to her when she erie, ant made no remark, Mr. Cadogan, coutniing, sald--Between the 25th of March and the 25tn of April | saw her four or uve times at her own house; TL weutas parish minister; on the 5th of April she auked’ why Mra. Cadogan was uot there, and salt Charlie would not be abie to prove, .c.; { explained to her that I conli not admit her t+ church while she was under ad not such accusations; it was nutorious acandal; I as- med no:hing said “notorious scandal” to her; I did not the subject; “she changed the into conversation; {pave sald the whove of the couversation on the pat that tovk plave; when she chan,ed the conver. sation I cannot aay exactly what she changed it with; I Teally canpotsuy wha the words were; she walked to the door with me, as ahe always did, and gaid“'Goodby:” the laut time Law her was adou: the child being publicly re- ceived fu church; she uaid, “Yes, ob, yea” directly; she answered at once and touk no time to consider; gested the gomotber--her sister; Lwuggested coufathers and p.odmothers, an. then she ga 6 me the uames; it was the 2d Of May the last time f saw her. by Serjeant sauantine—Va the occasion. of the conversa. tion about the clurch there Was no indication that her mind asotad; to the best of my judgment nothing fa all her nyecsations made me think 6 I anda” [meant ber own statements: what I told her I ve- Heved it my wtaty to te io her bandwritt before and alter tb take. THE PRINCE OF WALES. The evidence that has come out on this trial re- specting tie Prince of “aes does not, as yet. and may ot Lo tae end, criminate bis Royal Highness, Thear that the case will not be over to-day, but is to be postponed until Wednesday next, in order to give the Hrince time to come to London, He is a witness for Sir Char'es Mordaunt, and must there- fore bave been cited in order to prove that tne lady was not mad. Whatever his evidence ts you tiave by the next or the following steamer, So far ag Sir Charles Mordaunt was examined yes- terday the following was what he satd respecting the Prince Were you (Sir Charles Mordaunt) aware that the Prince of Wales wa ualatance of yonr wife's? I was. 1 believe you had no persona: acquaintance with bis oyal Highness? { canuot any that { knew him well; 1 bave spoken him, Aut beyond that you had no acquaintance with him? He was never a (riend of mine. nut you were perfectiy we'l aware that he was acquainted with your wice's (amily? '. Andon visiting terms with her family? Certainly. Did he ever come to your house on any invitation of your own! Never. Did you ever have an; him? “We hal a conver: Did_you express continitiug the wea continuing th Intance. For reasons that governed your own mind, yon desired that she showid not continue an acquaintance with him? Lord Penzance—Can you tellus wh anid that ‘d frou varius quarters c which caused me to make that remark; [ full particulars, a zor did not wish herto retain his acquatotance? I did 01 Dir. Sergeant Ballantine—At the time you expressed that desire to Lady Mordaunt, had the frince of Wales to your Knowle jge been on one or two occasions at your house? I never saw him there but once; I dit oue ‘And was tt wfier that that you expressed that wish to Lady Mordauni? Yes, it was alter that. } oa were in Parifatsent, I believe? Yer, I represented the Soutuern division of Warwickshire up to the last dissolution of Parliament, in 1888, having been elected in 15%; Were you aware of tip fact until after your wife's confine- ment that the L'rines of Wales had been ® constant visitor to your house? Twas not. Were you aware tuat Any correspondence existed betweon your wive and the Prince? Ito, E was not, Are yon suying that literally that you were not personatiy aware of any ietiers passing between them? [have never seen any letters, Lord Penzance on known tho fact? that ta the nestion. fect that there was a correspon- jence. ling her manuer and demeanor ‘onunement it docs not alter the view I conversation with your wife abou 6 to your wife in relatoion to her 2 Ldid; 1 warned her against ju said to her? I jain circumstances did not enter into Had T cannot r noe—~That 1s not the question, » you aware that letters had Walesa and your wile Tam aware that sxe bad received Jotiers ad poken to her, ro you aware that before your wifo's ce you expressed ™ wish to her on A réceived fetters (rom the Prince of vollect having seen such letters, ‘That is notibe quewiiou. What we want that there was a corres- piinament. at ig whotber you were vesnondence of any wort, however een your wile aud the Prince of ng. pondence 01 ‘dhe question o aware that ther: trivial, going on be N how of not Wales hasbeon at your bouse on ser, you were diag the House of Comme Tacquainte shelack? 1 was wot, sion. cant Bal antine—And supposing the Prince of whea Did you know (rom any other source that ; Lever benrd of the trequent visit ly you can answer so simple aqueation agthat. You say th it his Royal Highueas was there, were you cver inted with the fact that he cailed there? 1 have beard that he did, but I never saw him, MF. Sergeant Builantine—Did you hear that be had called there frequently 2 { hened that he valled there ove sionally. From whom? Lady Mordaunt? N 1 do not wish you to name any nai Dnt was the fact mentioned by any members of your tamily ? Had something eeu suid fu connection with the Priace of Walus’ visits by connections of the famiiy? Yes. Dit you speak to La ty Mordauot after that 2 Yea; it was on the occasion when I aid T warned her not to continue the acquainta In the mouth of November, 1#67, Lady Mor- daunt went to Loudon with her maid, Jessie Clarke. 1 offered tg accompany her, She told ma she waa gotng shop- ping, and [ should rather be in wer way than otherwise, It may be as weli to explain here that Lord Pen- zance is the Chies Judge of the Divorce Court, aud Mr. Sergeaut Ballantive is the leading counsel jor Sir Charies Mordaunt. QUREN VICTORIA. Whatever may be the upshot of this trial, tt must prove the sowing of seed from which bad barvest WL be reaped, uot only by thos’ nearest concerned, but also by the Euglsh aristocracy in general. ‘The Queen, I was told yesterday by one of ter Jorda in waiung, is almost ont of ber mind that tha Prince of Waites should be mixed up in any way with such an affair, Pertaps I am wrong, bat I cannot help thinking that Lady Mordaunt’s family have ve- haved injudiciously in this matter. If she is proved not to be insane, toe whole afTair will have to be entered into again before the Divorce Court, inorder to prove that she was guilty oi adultery. If she is mad the evidence already given—and | have reason to know that worse is yet behind—will not prove her to be now, whatever the poor girl Was ouce, that any man would wish one of his female reiations to be Nor can I see how Sir Charies Mordauat could have behaved owerwiso than he did. AsIam about to close my letter the reports of to-day’s proceedings in tue Divorce Court have reached me. ‘Ive oniy item to note fa the col- lection Of letters from the Prince of Wales to Lady Mordaunt, in which, altnougn familiar, taere is cer- tammy Roving criminal. DICKENS AT WORK. To pass to a more agrecabic subiect I may men- tion that the name of Mr. Dickens’ sew ae announced this morning, and it 1s to ve called “Th Myalery of Edwin Di " Toe frst number ts bu) appear on Saturday, the 2d of April, in twalv montuly shilling parts, in the old form, like "PI0k- | Wick," “David Copperdeld,” and his old pubitoe- The Court Stauds Adjourned=Pubdlic Come mente on the Case—London Society, Its Moral Criticiam—‘Fast” and “Slow?—The Prince of Wales’? “Set?—Tho Sunday Pross und the “inard-fisted” Workingmen, LONDON, Feb, 21, 1870, ‘Tho proceedings of the Mordaunt trial are stayed until Wednesday next, the 234 inst, ana now comes the question, what does London “society” say of these proceedings? In the highest circles of tne land there are two very distinct “sets” or ‘‘cliques” of people. The one I may call “tne fast,’’ the other, for distinction’s sake, ‘the siow.’’ Now, to the “fast set belong most of those who are fntimate with the Prince of Wales, and what may be termed “the court” of the present day, in this *fast!’ act are Lo be found many persons who ought to know better, and whose age, if nothing else, should keep them in more respectable paths, But that ia their busmess, At the theaires, and also in private houses, Sir Frederick Johnstone, Lord Colo and Captain Farquhar are received, even by ladies, as if nothing had happened. As for the Prince of Wates—who, if not proved guilty of breaking tne seventh command- ment, has certainly got the imputation hanging over his head, and ts, or ought to be, all the more to blamne, from the position he holds ana from the fact of bia being a married man—on Saturday last some of the first men in England, peers aud commoners, dined at his table, their respective wives being with them; and on Wednesday next, the day upou which tue trial will reopen, there is to be ®& grand dinner party at Mr. Gladstone's, to which some thirty peo. ple are inviied to meet the Prince, and there will be an evening party after dinner, at which all we ladies of the highest rank in London wilt be present, I make no comment on this; 1 merely relate the facts. If anything could prove that a change has taken piace in the tone of Engish “society”? since the days when we really had a court (and when the Qacen and the jate Prince Vonsort set tne example to that * society”), 1 think that what [have told you will serve thatend, Talk of Italian or Freach mo- rality !_ In those countries, if there 18 slp, 2 is a6 any rate decently covered, not openly paraded. Moreover, in those countries, a3 with you Amert- cans, When a man discovers his wile to have com. mitted adultery be geucrally docs his best to shoot the aduiterer. But not so in this case—not so in England, from all I see, Taere i# in Londop but one vona Sunday newspaper, all the other weckly journals being pub- shed oa Saturday. ‘This 18 the Observer, and as 16 gives some hours’ later news than the Saturday evening papers Ib is very extensively read, more so, 1 am sorry wo say, than either the Bible or praver book, | although it does appear on sanday. Yesterday—Sunday, the Q0th--the Ooserver contained a fail report of the six days?’ proceedings in the Divorce Conrt on this mat- ter. “Nice reading for Sunday,’ you will say, But Tam told as 4 positive fact uiat several thousand more copies than usual were soid of the paper on tnat day. No less than nine columns were filied with all the diszusting details of the trial and were read with avidity. ‘’o-night Captain Dawson Damer, ibe member for Portalington, 18 going to call atten- tion ia tne House of Commons to the harm which these reports of sexual crime must have when soread over the land as they have been since this day week. Ove paper, and only one—namety, the Echo—has noticed ihe iniended motion, and here 19 what it sayson tne subject. Again J] make no com- ment, but merely state the fact:— Captain Dawson Damer ‘s going to auggent on Monday the imposition of some check oa the publication of proceedings in the Divorce Court, We think be may well save himself the trouble. ‘I'he publication of criminal literature, whether from that or any other court, aifects society according to the consutution of society. Hvery year there are a certain num- ber of thieves made by mnitatfon of notorious trials, Bus tho balance of good is, we are convinced, on the side of pub- ‘Any people will have tha: for which their taste Solong as our hihest class in wealth and social in found as itisto-day, throngiag tho doors of the Court and listening with eagor appetite to the details Ww, perhaps, to much to the evidence will be areat vores of the Mordauat case, it by that wholly fraught with utiity in ie publi docs not—and everybody 1s not—turn away from the seducer and aduiterer, from the destroyer of the happiness and the purity of an Hnglish home, as it would from a less guilty fe.on, there is surely some uselul punish- ment reserved for such wrongdoers in the disgust and con- tempt which the af.er-mention of their names excites in the better and sounder porsion of the community. They woul ao fauity ts our law, altogether eacape punishment ware it no for the terrible pillory in which this pubitcity bolds them to the scorn of decent men and women, ‘This, a3 you will say, 1s curious morality, and a still more curious picture of Kuglish society, taken frou @ paper edited and written by certain well known gentlemen oi the anper miadie class, But what say the working classes—the people of Eng.and—ot this trial? Frou this journal, catied Reynolds’ Newspa- per, one that ts far more read and nas a tar greater circuiation than any other priated among the artt- sans, the workingmea and the more intelligent of the lower orders. | extract the following. 1 do a06 endorse all taat tt says, but 1 give it as a specimen of what the people think of that now going on In the Divorce Courc, Whether It is true that Sir Charies Mordaunt was offered a peerage if he would not briag the Prince of Wales' naine into court Teanuot say. I can hardly beneve that Mr. Giadstone-— through whom the offer of 8 peerage must nave come if such an offer was made—would pave lent hinseif to anything so numihating. But this | do know, thas bir Charles Mordaunt was sent for by toe Qheen about two months ago, and she made tt © personal favor that the Prince should not be called upon to give evideuce, and to-day I beard that he will not be called upon. Here are the remarks of Reynovts’ phir oH the organ of the hard-tisted f London: the publication of good results, IN THM DIVORCE COURT. , 4uF. Pet The grat socia) scandal to which we have frequently al- Inded has now beco ¢ world through # instrumentality of the Divoree Court. Nothing was lett dons that might hush it up, ao thet ihe Prince of W: fume should not figure in so discreditable a business. Every Fort was mace to siieseo Sir Charies Mordaunt, A peers was, we believe, offered him. Any place of emolument he asked for would willingly bave been siven him, All the honora and dignities the and government have it im their power to bestow would readily have been prostituted to silea ‘Lord Penzance, ut the last moment, rneatly strove to keep the name of the Prince from hefore the public, Sir Charles Moraunt, however, ‘Was deaf to every pornuaston, like a noble minded map dod bizb spirited gontieman, scouted nil attempts to abut his mouth; and, with contemptuous indliference to the eutren- ties of the judge, and disrezarding the course adopted by bis ‘at once told the whole story of hia supposed without blinking facts or concealing numes. He told the court that he foroade his wifw continuing her ac- Quinintance with the Prince of Wales on account of hia charac- ‘He intimated to the Prince that his visits ahould cease. howeyer, aliezes thet, despite this {ntimation, they wore aurreptitiously continued; that letters of a compro- mising character were found; and that other circumstances occurred ieading him to suppose that an improper intimacy: existed between ibe Prince aud hie wife. It skouid be borne in mind that when all this 1s anid to haye occurred the Prtoce of Wales was a married man bimeel!, and the iather The question, therefore, rewatoy to be xolved, ts er or not? Can he dixprove the appare: he an aduit demuatory allegations of Sir ©. Mordaunt? Of coun do nut wish to prejuizo the case. We hop, for bis own and for his wife's sake, that he can completely refute the heavy dt hin charge, and that he will do so at the unity, But we have 29 hesitation in declaring that i the Prince of Walca ia an accomplice In bringing dia "tothe homestead of an English gentieman; if he has ped the wife of an ani if he bas norable man ble for iif; i bun to violate the lawa unbridied seasie ot honor and of hospitaitt sition he is, should not ut is aleriy untit aud oven ait in ite leglaature. ‘Thus, you see, ioyalty is in England somewhat at adiscount just at present. Nor is the writer iu the poper rom which | have quotet the above the only person that believes both tue Prince and the aristo- Cracy of Engiand to be greatly damaged vy this exposé. It 13 considered to be the most tnjurious and damaglag Diow at our present mstinuions thas has been struck for the last uhirty odd years—since. indeed, the days When George |. aud Ins companions used to carry on they feared neither God nor man—as, deed, they really did not. J have made mention of the “fast” and the “slow! sets of people im “society” ne Lam told—and £ hope for the credit of Eugiand it 1s true—that a great number of noblemen and geatiemen of the “slow? set have resolved neither to alow their wives and daughters togo to court, nor to go Chere tiiemselves, if tue drawing rooms are held by the Prince of Wales— that ia, provided be i fornd to be guilty in thia marter, ‘fiat there i# some foundation for tug I have not the least douot; aud my reason for Saying 80 18 that Queen has moved 8 eariter than usual this year, aod itis given vot Wat she lotends to recetve at the drawnus coonis hergeif this season. How dif- fereut is the present state of affairs atthe English Court from the days when--tn 1845 or '46—the orfl- cer commanding one of the revimnents of goaras was told, by the Queou’s eXxprers orders, that be Tost never show his face at Court again, because he had beea gulty of a erin. com. Oar with @ married woman! sit ‘S MORDAUNT AND AMERIUAN SPORT. 1 mentioned i my last Leiter that Sir Charles sor- Gaunt 19a good rider, an excellent shot aad very fond of all outdoor manly sports. A triend of his tells ig that so soon as his divorce case 1x over he Ia tends sigruag for America and dio at least & couple of years savoung in ine far West. THE UACKEHSACK AND NEW YORK RAILROAD. The extension of the New York and Hackensack Railroad, which was commenced ten months ago, 1s at iast completed, and yesterday the opening day was celebrated by an excarsion of railroad men and parties interested im the road, besides a large number of invited guests from New York. At tele o'clock @ special tram, comtaimng a large pum- ber of guests, Jett, Hillsdale, the northern ter minus of the road, aud arnved at Hackensack about an hour afterwards. Here they remained tlt the arrival of the party from New York, who lets the Long Dock depot at half-past twelve o'clock. The whole party then proceeded in one train over the road, and haviog arrived at the residence of the Presiveni. Mr. Patterson, they were invited to par- taxe of the hosplitalities of his mansion, ‘The tain then returned to Hackensack, where & sumptious dinner wag served up in tie depot. Amovg tose present were Senators Rrinkeruo? and Liopper, Supenmtendent Kucker and other oMcials ov the Ente Railway, and many prominent men trom MacK- eusack. Speeches were made, congratulations were tendered, tue entire party seemed picased and happy, and ail separated tmbned with tue lecitig that was aureat day for Lackensack, to Windsor some t