The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. — JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIDTOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic espatohes must be sddressed New York Hera «No, 98 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coraer of Eighth avenue and 28d ot.—-Tue TWELVK TEMPTATIONS. * NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Pirrin ; On, TUR KiNG OF THE COLD LUNES. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.--O'NrAL, THE Gaxat— GrMnastic Exencisry—Mose, THR. TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Geanp VaxinrY ENTERTAINNENT. ROOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st., between Sih and 6th avs.— Bowis Booty as Macurzu. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th stroet.— MEM AND AcazEs OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosoway.—NEw VEUsiON OF ‘Banu. {FIFTH AVENUS THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—l200 Tuvv. scent eey ‘WOOD'R MUSEUM AND MESNAGERIPF, Proudway, cor- ‘eer Thistieth 6. —Matinee daily. Perormauce every evening. NEW YORK O8TADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Guanv Orsra—La Juive. MRS. F. B. 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Q~ Advertisements. @3—Woshington: Engiand Anxious for a Settle Ment of the Alabama Claims; Lively Breeze in Diptomatic Circles; New Postal Convention with the North German Confederation ; Georgia to Stay Out in the Cold for the Prosent; The Income Tax Retamed— Muscular Christians: War to the Knife in a Tersey Church—Meeting of the New York Founding Aid Association—The Stevens In- stitute in Hoboken—Toe New Charter En- dorsed in the Twentieth Ward. . 4—The McFarland Trial: District Atterney Garvin's Opening for the Prosecution; Examination of Witnesses; The Deathbed Marriage Ceremony Portrayed; Beecher and Frothingham Casti- gated in Court; Close of the Uase for the Prose- cution; Stirring Scenes in Court. G—The McFarland Trial Continued—The Metho- dist Episcopal Conference —Obituary—Custom House Affairs—Samo at Home: Report of the African Colonization Socioty—The New City Government: What Bureaus Are Abolished and Who Go Out of OMice—The New United States States Marshal—The Red River War—The Shadow of Death: Reynolds’ Last Hours; Ar- rangements for the Execution—Fires in the United States During March—More Clerical Scandal—Troubles of the Boston, Hartford and Erle Raiiroad—A Child Married—Old World Items. @—Editoriais: Leading Article on Our City Gov- ernment, the Mayor and Has Opportunity— Personal Intelligence—1..stailation of Collector Berlow—Amusement Announcements, ‘Y—=Telegraphic News From All Parts of the World: ‘The Spanish City Riota in Alarming vrogress, Witm Cries for the Republic; France to Vote on the Bonaparte Magna Charta; Premiere Giadstone’s Land Bill Again Affirmed; Rose Colored Despatches from the Captain General of Cuba—“The Day Jubilo:” Negro Celebration of the Ratification of the Filteenth Amendment—Obsequies of General Thomas: Arrival of the Remains at Troy—Congregational © Conference—Musical end Theatrical Notee—Lydia Thompson and the Watkins Divorce Sult—Army and Navy In- telligence—Extraerdinary Scene at a Funeral— Pigeon Shooting Match—Colonel Fisk, of the Ninth Marines: Admiral Jim Jubilce, Jr., Joins the Army—Resacniscences of a Merchant: Lectnre by Wm. E. Dodge—Jerrey City Repub- Hcan Convention—Business Notices, Yachting: Movements of Squadrons tn the Ola World—American Jockey Club—Horse Notes— Sectarian School Appropriations—Reception at the Sheltering Arms—Financial and Cemmer- cial Reports—eal Estute Sales—Marine Trans- fers—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisemonts. ‘P—Advertisements. 10—The State Capital: Passage of the State Excise Law; National Guards Seeking Appropriations; Passage of the Eight Hour Law in the Assm- biy—Proceedings in the Courts—The Rhode Island Eiection—New York City News—Ship- ping Intelligonce—Advertisements. AleAdvertisements. 19—Advertisements. M. Emre Oxtivier, Premier of France, has been elected to the vacant chair of Lamartine in the Acadomy of France, A woli merited honor, Tor Tax Levy.—Our fellow citizens, re Jolcing over their new city government, must not expect any material reduction of the tax levy. Great reforms always cost money. You can't do anything without money. Ruove Istann.—We had almost forgotten 40 mention that “Little Rhody” has gone re- publican, as usual. Unlike Connecticut, even when she goes by default ‘Little Rhody” goes republican and does not seem to care a bution for Senator Sprague. Tur Frexoa Rapicats—A Covnrer Pro- ‘OLAMATION THREATENED.—A cablo despatch qhich we publish this morning has it that the 44preconcilables” have made up their minds to issue a proclamation to the French people. Whis bids fair fora general election. It will * bearace now between the Emperor and the geds to be first on the field. We shall await swith some anxiety both programmes, Ler Ovr Law anv OnpeEr CitizeNa be patisfied concerning their charming pleasure grounds of our great Park. It is not to be changed into an open common for pigs, goats and bone boilers under the new Charter, and At is not to be open to settlement by squatters free of rent, The Mayor, they soy, likes the Park as it is, and thinks it worth keeping up as havhat oxpamens ond sel of te ot. —_—$$S$$_— —— NEW YUKK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1870.—fRIPLE SHEET. Our City Goevernment—Tho Mayor end * His Opportunity. The Mayor is the man with whom it now altogether rests whether we shall have a good ora bad government under the new Oharter. No system of government is 6o bad but good men in ita adminisiration may make it tolora- ble and even satisfactory to the people, while itis certain that the best scheme of govern- ment that human wit can contrive wilh be bad in the hands of bad men, If there is any fact made plain in the history of great cities it is that their welfare and the happiness, content- ment and prosperity of the people depend lees upon tho law that gives form to tho gov- ernment than upon the men who give the spirit, All tho grievances of which the people of this city had to complain could be summed up in the single statement that our system of government in its practical working favored tho introduction to Office of men who had not the respect of the public—men of notoriously bad character, sometimes even criminals, from whom it would have been absurd to expect honesty. Into the causes of this faet it is now needless to go. Whether it was that such mon were lifted into place by a controlling few, that the few might use them as confederats against the public treasury, or whether it was due to some inherent vice of free government ia great cities, matters but little just at present. The fact is that the municipal governme:.t offices were filled in a great dogree by men whom no merchant would have trusted with his purse; men who had long siuce blurred in their own minds all the force of moral restraint; persons in whom the public had no contidence—who had no confidence in one another, and no regard for public opinion; men who counted it as sim- plicity, not honesty, if any ono of their num- ber failed to improvo an opporiunity for pecu- lation. With such a tone prevailing in gov- ernment offices there could be no good govern- ment; and it was tho reproach of the old muni- cipal system and of the commission system that they produced and perpetuated this tons. Under these systems we gaw fully the trath of what was said by Bacon, that “the advanc:- ment of unworthy persons” is one of the main causes of sedition and discoateat. Popular uprising and the application of a violent reme- dy must have been the result if the evil had been much longer continued. Now, however, we have a prospect, under a new and wise law, for the most extensive and radical changes in the personnel of the city goverament; and for the wisdom, policy and propriety of the way in whichsthese changes are made the Mayor is responsible, His appointments are the most vital part of the enforcement of the new law. In the words of the now law, he is “respousible for the good order and efficient government of the city,” but in no point more than in the pri- mary organization of the departments. He has the power to appoint “‘all the heads of de- partments except of the departments of finance andlaw.” Under this authority thirty appoint- ments aro to be made, These are heads of departments only, and the law gives to the gentlemen thus appointed the power of ap- pointing their subordinates, Thus though the power the Mayor may have over the vast mass of placeholders is only indirect, yet it is suffi- cient to insure that they shall be capable, decent, honest men; and nothing less than this should be expected or required from any man honored with a position as head of a depart- ment. The power of the Mayor in the depart- ments does not cease with the appointment of the heads. It is made his duty at any timo to confer with the heads of departments, as the public interest may require; be may call upon the departments for information of their opera- tions as he sees fit, and he holds the power of impeachment, and can vacate any office by proving malfeasance. All this is at once the Mayor's responsibility and his opportunity. He has, we believe, the chance to prove that it is possible to govern well evon this much misgoverned city. It is his rare good fortune to be the first Mayor under a law which gives some scope to his office, and which passed both houses of the Legislature with a unanimity hardly known in these days of party legislation. He has to enforce a law which, though the people are certainly indebted to the democratic party for it, is still something much more than a party measure, We are of opinion that he would do well to remember this fact in regard to the law, and to remember also that ail enlightened people now regard with favor the tendency to that principle of strict representation which forbids us to ignore the minority. Our city is democratic, and the people want an administra- tion of democrats; yet they readily and most freely concede that there are some points of government into which the consideration of politics should not enter, and from places of this character they would not like to see com- petent officials thrust out. There are several of the departments in which it would be wis- dom to reappoint the present incumbents, and the Park Commission is pre-eminently of this elass. Taking no narrow view of the function he is charged with, accepting his responsibility and meeting it with full knowledge of its scope, the Mayor may give us a revolution in the best possible sense, Tar Riots 1v Spain.—Our latest despatches from Spain do not encourage the belief that the conscription riots are of trifling signifi- cance. It appears, on the contrary, that the distarbances are serious and widespread, Barcelona, in the northeast, is not worse than ig Andalusia, in the south. In Barcelona the uprising was of such a character that the Captain General found himself quite unequal to resist it, General Balrich had in conse- quence been sent to the scene to take com- mand of the national troops. At Seville, in the south, large crowds had come in from’the neighboring villages, The cry was loud, “Down with the conscription! Live the re- public!” A little more of this, and there will at least be some life in Spain, whatever the final result, Sunpay Wmiskry anp LacEerR Brer.—It appears that after all there is to be no such thing for this city as free lager and free liquor selling on Sunday, Genet, on the pro- position for open barrooms and free concert halls for lager on Sunday, stood solitary and alone. Is this the entertainment promised the young democracy? Has Tammany joined the Church and the temperance societies at tho same time? What next, we wonder? Tho English Uuiversitins Boat Rave—{fex- erosity and Justice of the Peoplos. The victory obtainod by the crew of tho Cambridge University boatmen over the Ox- onians on the Thames last Wednesday affords great satisfrction to the people of England. Our cable synopsis of the expression of the London journals yeaterday morning, published in our news columns to-day, goes to show that the Brilish public is gratified” at the fact that the “persoverance and pluck” of the Cantabs gave them the wreath of triumph; that the peo- plo had “‘wearied of the monotony” of Oxford's succes3 every year for ten years, and that tho public ‘‘satisfaction” at its present reversal “is genuine and unbounded.” The existence of this condition and state of feeling among the English masses is both naticoal and natural, John Bull, proper and per se, a8 a nationalist, away from or relieved of aristo- cratic direction and influences, is a lover of fair play and generous withal, He has traversed over India, oppressed Ireland and run the United States blockady of the Southern coast of America in the interest, and for the most, part under the inspiration, of the members of the feudal class in their respective capa- cities of diplomats, army commanders or land- lords; yet notwithstanding all this’ he could and now can sympathize with and rclicvo either an Asiatic or a Celt when engaged in the world’s life struggle, and we see at the present day, particularly from the special Lon- don correspondence of the Hgratp published lately, that he himself ig gdvancing hig system of government towards that of a complete radical democracy just as rapidly as he can do within the sanction of Parliament and under the rule of the constitution. The love of fair play between man and man is nat- ural to mankind; it is humanity, and conse- quently world-wide. The peoples, whether they be Saxon or Celtic, Asiatic or African, love it. Every man in his turn, and fair play all round. Sambo and Pompey, two West India negroes, found a bottle of brandy on the shore of the island of Jamaica. Sambo broke off its corked neck and took a “pull” or “‘long slug” of the liquor, Recovering his broath he sald to Pomp, “Oh, too strong, too ‘tong.” He then took another pull, followed by the same exclamation and = waruing. Pompey perceiving the contents of the bottle diminishing rapidly, said, “Sam, let me say too streag, too.” Pompey thus expressed the great principle of the fiat justitia just as it was implanted ia his hoart by the Creator. The same unalterable law of impulse moves the Britons proper to rejoice with the Cambridge men in the fact of their being able to say ‘too 'tong to.” Notwithstanding the fact that the Oxfords beat our Harvards and have enjoyed a triumph over the Cambridge boys during 60 many years the turn of the Cambridge men has now come. We are glad of it for many reasons. The Harvard men can now look out for the triumphant Cantabs and invite them to a friendly contest, A race between the men of the two colleges, American and English, under present circumstances would constitute quite an exciting international event, Let the Cantabs come over, If the Harvards can beat the Cambridge men now they can, consistently with the rule of square, claim to have beaten the Oxtords for almost ten years. Congress. The most interesting discussion in the Sen- ate yesterday turned on the proposition to con- tinue the collection of the tax on salaries, dividends and interest paid by corporations as provided by the Income Tax law. The proposition was passed. In the House the tariff was discussed nearly all day, and the tax on cigars, after fluctuating between two dollars and a half per pound, or twenty-five per cent ad valorem, and fifty per” cent ad valorem, was finally loft as it is at present. Among the propositions that, it is stated, will soon be laid before Congress is one by General Butler to open a reolprocity treaty with Prince Edward Island, and another by Judge Lawrence to negotiate @ similar treaty with the whole New Domlalon, In regard to Mr. Butler’s proposition, which in itself is not very unobjectionable, as Prince Edward Island is mainly devoted to agricul- ture, the English government, if we mistake not, has once before vetoed the arrangement, informing the Prince Edward Island authorie ties that they could not euter ipto treaty nego- tiations in their colonial capacity. As to the other arrangement, looking to a renewal -of reciprocity with Canada, -the steady tendency of that country toward annexation is largely due to the abolishment of reciprocity, and we hardly think it is our bounden duty to go out of the way to retard her in so commenda- ble a consummation. Sanpwich IsuaNnps.—Our correspondence dated from Honolulu, which will be found on another page, is interesting. It will be seen that the free labor pariy are making rapid strides in advance of their opponents. Even in districts where the influence of the planters, who as a rule are the advocates of compulsory labor, predominated but a short time since the progressive party has won victories. For a long time the labor question has been a vexed question in these islands, but the steady ad- vance of the liberals of late leads to the hope that differences on this important subject will be finally adjusted by legislative action. Tue MoFARLAND TRIAL.—This case was fairly commenced yesterday, the jury panel being completed the day before. The prose- cution presented evidence relative to the inci- dents connected with the shooting and death of Richardson, and there rested their case, making no effort to show any animus malicious or otherwise on the part of the prisoner. The defence were evidently astonished at this abrupt ending, and asked until to-day to pre- pare for the opening of their caso, Bap For IrgLAND.—The new English Coer- cfon bill for Ireland was put in force in that country for the first time yesterday, The police soized and suppressed the entire edi- tion of a Farmers’ Almanac, having found that it contained treason, A ‘“‘snake in the grass.” The Bible informs us that a certain diabolical personage is like unto a snake in the grass, which “bites tho horse’s heel, that the rider ‘may fall backward.” Queen Victoria declines to inaugurate the Albert memorial in Belfast, Ireland, as sho at first intended. The Green Isle mugt be, 96 usual, in a bad way generally. The Navy Appropriations. When a nation is marching to prosperityeand its resources are rapidly increasing it [s nada- ral to provide for tho defence of its commerce in distant seas and for the protection of its coasts and harbors, by supporting a navy which should be in proportion to the size of its mer- cantile marine and the population of the coun- try. It cannot be expected that a commerce extending ag ours does all over the world can protect ifsclf, particularly as our merchant vessels carry no guns and have a smaller num- ber of men than the vessels of foreign nations, No one who has not been a witness of it ean realizo the joy that is felt by Americans In distant places whon the flag of our country is seen floating at the poak of a national vessel. Our merchants abroad welcome the fiag with an enthusiasm that we at home cannot appre- ciate, and the offlcers of the navy are received with those kind courtesies which only Ameri- cans abroad know how to bestow. It Is.a long time since our national vessels have been sent abroad in such numbera that they could show themeeives in ptaces where the commercial and missionary interests of our country demand their presence. In former days, besides the vesscts attached to the dif- ferent stations, we wore in the habit of sending through the islands in the Pacific &ying equad- rons of discovery and protection, whioh pene- trated to all accessible places; but when the rebellion ended we were left in no condition to pursue a policy of so much importance to our citizens abroad. It might not be expected that our government should at once enter vigorously upon the reorganization of the navy after having just emerged from so stupendous acontest, with a depleted Treasury and matters and things generally in disorder, although we possessed.a large number of vessels which many people were of opinion could bid deflance to any navy on the globe. Mr. Secretary Welles, on the eve of his retiring from office, asked for the appropriations which were to enable his successor to successfully continue the re- organization of the navy. THe transmitted a good report to Congress, representing the necessity of providing means for the proper sup- port of the naval service and to provent the deterioration of vessels on the stocks and lying up in ordinary. The only notice, however, that was taken of this report was to cut down the appropriations to one-third of those asked for, and from that time to the 4th of March, 1869, it may be said that nothing was dono to prevent the ships that were not sold out of the navy from going to destruction. As we have remarked before, the present head of the Navy Department has Isid the actual condition of the service before the coun- try in language not to be mistaken. His report has destroyed the illusion under which nine-tenths of our people have been reating, viz,—that wowere a eréat naval Power. Never since the war of 1812 has our navy been in so poor a condition as regards the number and force of’ our ships. When steam was intro- duced into naval warfare it was an actual weakening of our navy, instead of adding to its strength and efficiency, as many persons have supposed. Before the introduction of steam our mercantile marine exceeded all others in the sailing qualities of its vessels, and we built a hundred clippers where other nations built one. Our merchant ships could outaail the fastest foreign frigates, and they could also carry guns that would have ren- dered them a mratch for many fighting ships of foreign navies. We had thus a source from which to draw in case of a war, and ia our merchant officers and seamen we saw the means of increasing our navy with a rapidity known to -no other coun- try. We were, in fact, the strongest naval. power in tho world; for with the means at hand we could have swept the commerce of an enemy from the ocean, and would have com- pelled goveraments like Great Britain, France and Spain to sue for peace in less than ‘six months. All this is very incomprehensible to people who know nothing of naval matters, but it is well understood by our merchants, who in a few short years have seen that maritime power which was our protection against the navies of Europe swept from the sea and transferred to our greatest rival. Who does not remember how we crippled | the commerce of Great Britain when we had but half a dozen frigates and the samo number of sloops-of-war, assisted by the numerous pri- vateers that we sent ont in quest of our ene- my’s merchant vessels? All that power is lost to us; the days of privatcering are over, for no country can successfully war with pri- vate armed vessels against another whose navy numbers five hundred steamships, and whose steam mercantile marine is so large that hun- dreds of yessels, equal to ships-of-war, can be. converted into means of annoyance at a week's notice. Privateering will not be undertaken unless it pays. To make it pay the prizes must be got into port for condemnation. This could not be done on a coast left to the mercy of a foreign foo, and in case of war we should have to look on and not only see our mercan- tile marine entirely obliterated—while that of our enemy was harmlessly pursuing its. voca- tions—but should have to submit to the humili- ation of seeing our coast blockaded from Maine to Texas without a chance of preventing it. We could no doubt in time put forth our resources and drive our enemies from our shores, but that would be when our com- merce was destroyed and all our small seaboard towns laid in ashes, Let our people imagine how they would feel if such a humiliation should overtake us from a power we consider so insignificant as Spain, which at this moment has double the force in Cuban waters that we have in our entire navy. How absurd, then, must it appear, in the face of facta like these, to seo members of appropriation committees cutting down estimates made by the Secretary of the Navy and tie chiefs of naval bureaus— estimates that have been carefully considered and are based on the actual wants of the navy, It will naturally be asked upon what princi- ples members of committees act when they underiake to go in direct opposition to the estimates of the exports who have spont a lifetime at the business and know all the wants of the service. What can a man know of the requirements of the navy who, without con- sulting a chief of bureau, cuts off all the powder asked for, when powder is short, and grants the appropriation for guns, or gives the appropriation for steam and outs off that for construction and equipment? ~ We donot state mattors recklessly, for we pro- feea to know whatyre aresaying. Knowing tho interest our people take in naval matters and the necesslty of preventing tho deterioration of our navy by those who cannot bo made to understand its value, we have taken the trouble to post oursetves In every matter con- nected with the service, The estimates of the Navy Department ars before us, and also the reduction proposed by seme of the mombers of the Committee on Appropriations, and it is evident to the most ill-informed person that if the Naval committees of the House and Senate do not rise in their might and protect the interests of our navy, by granting the neces- sary appropriations, we shall find ourtelves reduced to the condition of a tenth rate naval Power. The navy should keep pace with the advance of the country and increase of its commerce, The recommendations of the Sec- retary should be entitled to respectful con- sideration, for his annual report has convinced every one who has read it attentively that the only fault he committed was in not recom- mending a larger increase. The Annexation of St. Doemingo—Geucral Grane Policy Made Plain. We published yesterday a joint cue prepared by General Butler to be offered in the House ‘of Reprosontatives om tho first opportunity for the annexation, as a beginning, of all that portion of the splondid island of St. Domingo embraced in the Dominican republic. The resolution provides that Dominica shall be annexed to the United States and governed as @ territory; that with the incorporation of the soil its inhabitants shall be adopted as citizens of the United States, and that the sum of $1,350,770 in gold shall be paid by the United States for the settlement of the debts of the Dominican republic, and in full considoration of the territory and other property ceded to the United States. Yesterday General Butler endeavored to get the general proposition before the House, but, objection being mado, his resolution went over under the rule. Now, with this movement by Genera! Butler, who seldom acts in important matters unless certain of making a great hit, no shadow of a doubt, we think, can be entertained a8 to tho policy of General Grant on the subject. His treaty for the au- nexation of Dominica having stuck fast in the Senate, a vote of two-thirds of the members prosent being required for the ratification, he has fallen back upon the plan of a joint resolution which will secure the annexafion proposed by a majority vote of each house, History here repeats itself. President Tyler first irled tho &tinex- ation of Texas by treaty, but failed of a two- thirds vote in the Senate. A joint resolution of annexation was then introduced in the House, and being passed by that body, it was next passed by the Senate with an amendment, which was concurred in by the House, and the bill as thus passed was signed by the Presi- dent, and a messenger was sent down post haste to Texas to make sure of the work with- out loss of time. General Grant, having been baffled with his Dominican treaty in the Senate, simply proposes to adopt the alternative of Tyler on Texas, and we have no doubt of its complete success. It is well understood that General Grant is very desirous to seoure the annexation pro- posed. He has been and is earnestly working and is anxiously interested in this matter; and his reasons for the acquisition of St. Domingo, looking to the balance of trade in the sugar, coffee and other tropical products of the West Indies, are, as we hold, perfectly satisfactory and conclusive in favor of the enterprise. It is quite possible, however, that he has another reason, about which he has said nothing, and is not likely to say anything, It is this: The annexation of Dominica will not only soon be followed by Hayti, thus giving us the whole of the rich island of St. Domingo—an island which, under France and Spain, produced one hundred and fifty millions of products in a single year— but the emigration which will go down from the United States to Dominica, with its annex- ation, will soon settle the Cuban question. The distance between Cuba and Dominica— a few hours’ sail—will settle it. In a word, this Dominican annexation scheme of General Grant is a flank movement upon Cuba, which if carried throngh will most probably settle the Cuban difficulty at once, in a proposition from Spain to sell out cheap for cash. They want at Madrid now only a plausible excuse for abandoning Cuba, and with Dominica, next door, in our possession, a very plausible excuse will be provided. We feel satisfied that General Grant so understands it, and it is probable that General Prim entertains a similar view on the subject, with all the beat- ing about the bush of Mr, Fish. Reyrxoups’ Last Day.—The murderer of the old man Townsend dies to-day. Townsend was taken off suddenly, without 2 moment for preparation, amid the helpless cries of his wife and children, while his murderer goes to his doom after weeks and months of hearty devo- tion and prayer, with the hope expressed that he is ready to meet his God. It seems hard to take a strong, lusty young man like Rey- nolds out of the sunlight to the dark doom of the scaffold, but can we not say that his death is easier than Towneend’s ? Premier GLapstone’s Iris Lanp Brit is stoutly opposed in committee of the British House of Commons. The tories and more aristocratic whigs made a warm assault on its most vital principles—security of tenure under the lease, with compensation for outgoing tenants—yesterday, The Premier was sus- tained by « majority of thirty-two in a house of four hundred and sixty-eight members. The Irish tenants have a good many friends. Their Parliamentary enemies are also powerful and apparently united. Tar Coronation “or tHe Negro in Lie beria according to the report of the African Colonization Society is a failure. Instead of reforming all the savage tribes in their vicinity and converting them to Christianity and the ways of peade, it is said the darky colonists themselves are relapsing into barbarism, Exxorion Repgaters.—The new Election law to head off repeaters was adopted as a Tammany measure of reform, Verily, Tam- many is shaking off hor ‘“‘old clo’” and appears like a big Indian preparing fora visit to the White Houge, ‘Tie Alabama Claime~A Now Prospect for a Sottlement. From our Washington despatches fr another column it qvill be seen that Secretary Fish has displayed more diplomatic acumen in his con- duct of the Atabama claims negotlations than he has generally received credit for. He has pursued a policy of masterly inactivity whiok is just now having its effect, Lord Clarendon, it seems, has looked suspiciously for a lowg> time at the apparent nonchalance with whiokk: Uncle Sam pooh-poohed the payment of that little Dill, and the indifference with which: Uncle Sam treated the fatnous Johnson-- Clarendon treaty. Senator Sumner’s thunder-- ing argument convinced him that something: must be done, but as that something was not particularly stated, he could not, of course, know what to do. But he has felt all along that there was some cloud pending over him in’ this Alabama claims matter, and, - with British shrewdness, he comprehended” that the Yenkee nation would not be so indif- ferent unless they held a sure hand, And. now Lord Clarendon, wearied out with his” anxieties and his doubts and suspiciona, shows an unmistakable desire te close up the matter forever. Hoe has tried to draw out of Mr. Fish some definite demand whiek might be either acceptable or insulting, se that he could pay the bill or take refuge ft « British indignation. be caught with euch bait. He made no deft- nite demand, merely intimated that the merits of the oase were fully known in England, and desired that the English government would take its time and open negotiations when it had fully decided on the highest price it could pay for its neutrality resolutions. We could afford to wait, and our waiting has had ite offect. Whatever Lord Clarendon may offer fa atonement for the Alabama will come with a better grace from England, in the absenoe of a formal demand, than otherwise, and will leave us freer In our final acceptance or rejec- tion. The atonement, it is probable, will he ® courteous acknowledgment that the Ala- bama way of remaining neutral was uot exactly the thing between friends, and a pressing request to accept the Canadian provinces as a present in view of the evil that was so unfortunately done us by that process, England can do this freely, for we have not demanded it of her, and we cai accept, for it is all wo want, and then Lord Clarendon will be relieved of the anxieties that now distress him. Jae Lecat Tenper Deoistoy,—It te rumored that one of the new Judges of tha United Ststes Supreme Court (Bradley, of New Jersey) declines to elt on the legal tender case in consequence of his having’ been counsel in several cases bearing upon’the sub« ject previous to his appointment as Judge. If this should prove true the Court will probably be equally divided: on. the question, fa which case the former decision will stand. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Judge J. G. Abvott and ©, H. Dalton, of Boston, and Willtam Scnults, of London, are at the Brevoort House. Judge Watnright, of Kalamazoo; Colonel Fred. Tompkins, of Boston; Captain G. Bates, of the Unttea States Army; Judge S. D. Doykendall, of Rondout; Colonel J. D. Stafford, of Virginia; Colonel FE. W. Spaulding, of Washington, and Dr, E. Tyler, of Massachusgtts, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Admiral Montgomery and Captain William E. Le Roy, of the United States Navy, and Josiah Cald- well, of Boston, are-at the New York Hotel. Judge R. Meeker, Colonel W. H. Owen and General George Spaulding, of Minnesota, and Chester Snow, ef Boston, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Henry Wilson and James D. Parker, of Maesachusetts; Moses G. Farmer, of Boston; Gene eral H. J. Hunt, Generai Gordon and Colonel Beach, of the United States Army, are at the Astor House. Colonel W. Mason, of Massachasetts; J. A. Green, of California; General Chapman and Colonel Crosby, of the United States Army; Geo. R. Blanchard, of Baltimore, and T. T. Crittenden, of Washington, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. E. W. Rolling and Quincey A. Shaw, of Boston; J. 1. Herrick, of Colorado, and R. W. H. Jarvis, of Hartford, are qt the Hoffman House, Personal Notes. A hearty youth of ninety, in Maine, wears mourn ing for his fifth wife and wants another. AFrench gentleman has prociatmed himself King: of Patagonia, which 1s considered rather cool ia Chite. A Penonsyivania white girl who married 8 negro @ few months ago now wants @ divorce, darkies are getting so common. is Biacque Bey, the Turkish Minister at Washin; 1s, like his wife, a Roman Catholic, aud neither them are of Turkish parentage. ~ President and Mrs. Grant will visit Stetson's, at Long Branch, next summer. Tho new race course will be in operation at that time to afford the Presi- dent amusement, General Butler's new cadet is the son of s demo- cratic editor. So says the Springfleld Repubdtican, Thera is no need of an investigation. Ben Butier won't be caught like Roderick. Misa Louisa M. Alcott, authoress of the new work, “An Old Fashioned Girl,”’ has sailed for Europe ta search of health and recreation. She is accompanted by her sister and a lady friend, the trio tending to make the European tour without male escort, A Philadelphia dete publishes a hitherto un. printed letter of General Anthony Wayne, dated October, 1788, in which he says Arnold's treason does not surprise him, as he always knew he never pose sessed personal courage or fortitade, but was o coward naerely and never went into danger ex- cept when drunk. - It is whiapered in Washington that Mr. Connor, of Texas, 18 bighly indignant at the manner in which his name-.was used on Thursday last, when thé ques- uon of admitting Texas Representatives was under discussions; and that Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, rene dered himse!f #0 particularly obnoxious that he has received a chailenge to fight a duel from the offended arty. To this invitation to ‘come out,’ it ts said, ir. Connor has, as yet, received no answer. The London Court Journal of the 26vh. of March reports ag follows:— “ Garibaldi is Ukely to inherit a large fortune, A young lady residing at Binningen, near Bale, aied a Tew days since, aged twenty-five years. She has bee neathed @ large fortune in the following manuer:— eventeen thousand francs to poor painters; 5,000 francs to M. G., residing at Bale; 40,000 francs to the towns of Neuf Brisach and Lauterbourg, in Alsaci and 500,000 franca to a Garibaldian officer nam Luigi Franzoja. ‘Tne testatrix states in her will thas. she does not Know whether Fravzoja is alive ana directs her executors to make inquiries at the Hotel de Geneve, at Florence, where he restded during 1862 and 1963, The testatrix also states lis movler lived in the Ponto Provolo, at Venice, in 1868, If Franzoja is dead his wife and children are to receive one-half of the bequest and Garibalat the other halt; and if Franzoja lett neither wile nor children Gart- bald! 1g to receive the 500,000 francs, _———$$$— INSTALLATION OF COLLECT OA BARLOW, Ex-United States Marshal Samuel R. Harlow took the oath of office as Collector of Internat Revenue for the Thirty-second distniet before Judge Biatche ford, tn the United States District Court, yesterday. He gave 4 bond in $100,000, Messrs. Moses Hi. Grins neil, Thomas Murphy, @x-Senator of this citys John Tf. Parsons, of the Albany Journals Tnomas Madden, ex-Senator of Orange coutity, and Joseph Lee, of Brooklyn, becoming his sureties. They each certified in $40,000, Mr. Hariow subsequently appeared before Commis- missioner Shieids and gave & bond 1n $10,000 as dis- bursing officer. Messrs. Hugh J. Hastings and ieaag Dayton signed the last mentioned bond as sureticy, Mr. Harlow left tor Wasnington last evening tor the purpose of procuring his commission. fe will not take formal charge of hia new oflice until Movuday, Deputy Marshais Oliver Fiske, Gregg, Ohrignie uo: ‘Winslow will resiga their present positions tn ord to nocept appolyjmonts uuder bisa But Mr. Fish was not to