The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1870, Page 4

6 BROADV AY AND obit pshrmiie tAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIDTOR. Volume xX x ay. SUAKSYRARR'S TRaGE- i 720 Browdway.—Lirr.e STADT. THE TANNUA UHH » 45 Bowery.-Gzann D OPERA Hy 7 2, Twenty-fourth at.—FEn- THEATRE, Gowery.--Nrek AND NECK—YAN- ti THOATRE, Brookiya.— "RA HOUSE, 20L Bowery.—Va~ adway.—Comie Voor. 5. No. 0s Broadway.— APOLLO Du HALL Coury’s Dio HOOLBY'S 0 loans & avr YOUR BYs Obex, Dion 6, b street.—Sorvns IN UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway, TRIP New LE Monén York, » Papacy: The Catholle nds of the Kur Votee from All the Solemn P est Against of the States of the on oe Indig- nprece cenes in an Chure pecia! Re of the Archbishop of West- Earnest Meetings in the Thirty Thousand Peo- phia Cathedral. Unfinished and led to; the Land | sO and Suumer; ward Island sion ry Robe- + - Ww Yor K HERALD |’ Tho Manssembiing of Congress—The Short j Cuba, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, '1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. Session and a Stim Prospect. The two Houses of the Forty-first Congress reassemble in the national Capitel to-day, The Congress with the session expires on the 4th of March next, when the new or Forty- second Congress, unless meantime otherwise ordered by law, will immediately take its place. A quorum in each branch will doubtless be present to-day at noon, the hour of meeting, with Speaker Blaine in the chair of the House, and Vice President Colfax in the Senate. A joint committee will then be appointed to wait upoa the President to inferm him that the two houses are in session and are ready to receive any communication he may have to make. The President then, we expect, will at ence, by his confidential sacretary, send up to the two houses his annual Message, with the usual accompanying reports from the several executive departments, With the reading of the Message in Congress the tele- graph will scatter it broadcast ever the coun- try, 40 that before sunset it will probably be as well understood in New York, Bangor, New Orleans and San Francisco as in Washington. We expect nothing very startling in this Message. General Grant, abounding in start- ling effects during the war, has, simce the picturesque winding up at Appomattox Conri House, been the very embodiment of peace. fe wiil give us a gratifying exhibit of the prac- tical results of his administrative pelicy of economy, retrenchment, reform and the re- demption of the national debt; be will show how with Sherman, Sheridan and the army on the one hand, and the Quaker peace commis- sioners and agents en the other, Red Cloud and Spotted Tail have been induced to abandon the war path; how the revenue has been increased from the reduced tax on whiskey ; how marvellous are the prosperity and devel- opnient of the new States aud Territories of the West; how quietly under the fifteenth amendment negro suffrage has been estab- lished; how peaceably the new election laws of Congress, with the conseat of Tammany Hall, were enforced in the New York city election; how friendly are the relations sub- sisiing between the United States and ‘‘all the world and the rest of mankind,” and hew small is our national debt compared with our amazing national resources. We expect allthis and much more ia the same vein in the Message. Nor do we think that it will overlook our shipping interests, or the importance of the acquisition of the island of St. Domingo, or the ced fisheries of New- foundland or the seal fisheries of Alaska. But we have no coneeption of what the President will propose or say in reference to free trade, Mexico er those aforesaid Alabama claims. We shall, perhaps, bo informed that our commercial relations with Cuba are still disturbed by the intestine disorders of the island, and that negotiations on the Alabama claims will probably be resumod after the restoration of peace in France or after the cle, “The Reassembling Session and a sity nountements. Battle on tue Marne «quorum of Both Houses in the Capital— usiness Notice sions and fr m the 5 Christiani Duty of To-day, the idea of God, the sity Of Prayer and Kindred Subjects Vartously ‘Treated. trom Eighth Page)—Finen- nerclal Keperts—The Cuban aval lntelligeuce—Marriages nd Deaths, acy (Continued frei Third Page)— on ed aie ‘al Rey ecient sI4zious (Cor clai and OC Bond Robbery 3. 1 and His Son: Interviews {th Kiciottt Gariwuidi and the Generai— Crime in the Interior—The Hoswell Murder Triai in Maiue—A New York Horror—Incident About am Houston—A Georgia Artist and King William—A Sad Drama tn Real Lite—In- eldent About General Robert E, Lee—Suicide of a Lady Recently Married—Miscellaneous: Foreign Items—Court Calendars for To-day— Advertisements, s2—Adveriiseiacnts, Special Gaout-LiKE—The raking up of some ima- ginary charges against the late Senator Blood, for political effect. Senater Blood, a democrat, was elected from a strong republi- can district; hence, if blame rests anywhere, sould not his republican constituency come in for a share? Ving Damage To THE East River Bripcz Caisson is very variably stated from two hun- dred doliars to two hundred thousand, It is relty evident, however, from the testimony taken by the Fire Marshal on Saturday, that no data at present exists to base aay calculation upon. The caisson being full of water the charebers where the fire raged are inaccessible, and there were reaily no meuns, up to last night, by which the damage could be definitely ascertained. The most serious damages from the conflagration, after all, may result frem delay. The work mast necessarily be threwn tack for a considerable time. Ono lesson was learned by the fire—namely, that caissons with roofs of yellow pine, calked with oakum and lar, are very dangerous constructions. For thig reason the caisson on the New York side ia to be lined with boilcr iron, “Tar Paren” is the Sealed name of a new first class democratic journal just com- menced in Pittsburg, Pa. The necessity for auch a journal in that section of that State has long been felt. The democrats seem to be opening te anti-pretection campaign in the very hot- bed of the high tariff oligarchy. Smacr-Boat Lanving at TOR BATTERY.— The necessity for the prompt construction of a ‘suitable landing for small boats at the Battery is becoming every day more and more appa- cent. Daring the last week or two a number of gar own national vessels, as well as several feraign men-of-war, have been anchored off the Batiory, and the officers and others have been obliged te go ont of the way, and at mach inconvenience, not to say danger, effeat a Jaading at the sickety oid steps in the rear of the tumblo-dowa Rerge Office, ‘The ownera anil officers of merchwtt vesaels ate contiquall making complainie upen the same gars We know the Board of Iublic Paris have had this improvement under alvisement for some time, and, as its neceasty Increases every hour, we hope there will & ne wore delay ia prerying it ont adjournment of the European conference which is son to moot in London to rectify the status of Russia in the Black Se Bearing in mind that ‘‘Let us have peace” is the motto of General Grant, and that ‘Slow and gure” is the legend of Mr. Fish, we anticipate a Mes- sage on our foreign affairs which the warlike feneral Ben Butler, we are afraid, will pro- nounce broad-brimmed, shad-bellied, slip- shod and flat, but which will be well adapted to the programme of economy, retrenchment, reduction of taxes and redemption of the debt. What, then, will Congress do? Very little in the way of legislation this short session, we apprehend, beyond the regular appropriation bills. There is a heavy budget of unfinished business on hand remaining over from the last session, including big railway jobs and small private claims, internal tax bills, tariff bills, postal telegraph bills and a great variety of other bills; but, from present appearances, the month of December will be occupied in discussing the late elections, General Grant and his chances, Tammany Hall, Fenton and Tom Murphy, Sumner and Motley, Fish and Cuba, Gratz Brown, Carl Schurz and the Mis- souri rumpus, the Alabama gubernatorial muddle and the free trade or revenue reform conspiracy for the upper hand in the next Con- gress. Tho ‘everlasting nigger” is exhausted in the fifteenth amendment, and the coast is clear for a free and full discussion of anything and everything under the Sun. The late elec- tions, General Grant and the money question, however, will firat have to be ventilated, though we suspect that in the interval to Christmas General Butler will make a power- fal sortie with Yankee fishermen’s rights against Canada and those Anglo-rebel Ala- bama spoliations. Nor do we despair of a tremendous effort by Mr. Julian, of Indiana. to bring into the foreground the sixteenth amendment, for woman suffrage. Inspired by the re-election of Governor Hoffman and the defeat of General Schenck, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Cox aud Mr. Wood may bring up in the House the question of federal bayonets in onr political elections and the tax on salt; but if Cox, Weod and Brooks move in these matters we expect that Joha Mor- rissey and John Fox, before their retirement, will give « counterblast that will exhilarate the Young Democracy. Surely Morrissey and Fox ought to de something te leave as their mark in Congress before they retire, and their time is short. It is supposed, however, that one of the most exciting debates of this session will be upon a bill to postpone the first meet- ing of the next Congress until the first Mon- day in December next. Under Andy John- son’s lively administration, when the Fortieth Congress was elected the conflict between him and Congress for the reconstruction ef the rebel States was at white heat. As the law then stood there would be the long interval from the 4th of March to the first Monday in December between the eutgoing and the inconing Congress, and if left to himself it was foared that Johnsen, by what he called ‘‘my policy,” might, in that lomg interval of nine months, Johnsonize the whole Seuth or get up another rebellion. So, to head off Johnson, the two honses passed the law, and passed it over bis head, requiring the new Congress to meet on the 4th ef March, 1, immediately after the ad- journment of the ~Sutgoing Congress. Thus Johnson was completely flanked and defeated in hia policy of reconstruction, and thus the new law worked te a charm. Now this law seems to be in the way of f republican harmony, It is known that there is a scheme on foot for the election of the Speaker of the next House by a coalition of all the free traders or revenuc reformers, demo- crats and republicans; and it is feared that if the new Congress be permitted to come to- gether on the 4th of March this coalition may be successful in the election of the Speaker. It is supposed, oa the other hand, that with the repeal of this law, which will postpone the meeting of the new Congress till December next (unless specially called by the President), this free trade coalition may be broken up or defeated. Hence the idea of a repeal, and as the anti-free traders in the present Congress have the power they may change the law. But the bill, if intreduced, will not pass with- out a lively debate, developisg all the ins and ou‘s of the political parties, cliques and fac- tions of the day. First of all, however, we awalt the mecting of the twe houses and the President’s message. General Grant has a fine opportunity in this message for the consolidation of the republi- can party; but we apprehend that in the excess of his caution upon the great questions of the day he will fail in this message to make any decisive impression upon Congress or the country. Papal Spolintion~-Protests of English- Speaking Catholics, Such @ spectacle as was witnessed yester- day ia this city and Philadelphia was alto- gether unprecedented in the history of the republic; and although the action of the London Catholics at the same tite was not without precedent, it was performed with a measure of vigor and boldness unknown to Catholicizm in England since the great struggle between opposing reli- gious ideas ended with the triumph of the Protestanis in the British Islands. Yesterday was, in fine, rendered memorable by the pro- tests then effered, by English-speaking Catho- lics, against the forcible seizure of the Pope’s temporal domains by the government of King Victor Emmanuel. For close reasoning and hard legic the protest of the Archbishop of Westminster is remarkable. We have heard the justification of tho Italian authorities for the seizure of Rome, and we now hear it at- tacked by Cathelics. Undeniably the ques- tion is a grave one, containing problems insol- uble to the ordinary intelligence, but the solu- tion of which is as much a necessity to the Catholic world as it is to the social and politi- eal future of Italy. The Archbishop of West- minster argues with great force against what he terms the “‘sacrilegious” spoliation of the Papacy. He reviews the question from all peints of view, religious, social and political, and his conclusions are naturally against the act of King Victor Emmanuel. If his argument is even not incontestible, it is at least entitled to respectful and thoughtful consideration as embodying the views of those who adhere to the doctrine that the temporal dependence of the Pope is incensistent with his office of Vice- regent of God on Earth, But the protest of the English Archbishop was, perhaps, of less significance than the protests of the Catholics of New York and Philadelphia, because in these cities they came from the laity almost without interme- The War Siiuation ia France. There is little in the news poblighod this morning which would lead to the ‘faference that any marked alteration has taken place in tho situation of the French or German armies from what it was two days ago. The news of the sevority of the fight of Friday is confirmed by telegrams this morning, The Saxon troops suffered terribly in the assault made on tho French lines, while attempting to recover their lost positions on the east bank of the Marne. The conflict must have been most fierce. The tempo- vary gain of the French resulted from the adoption ef the tactics employed by the Ger- mans througheut this whele war—that of being ready with reinforcements at the proper time and having them on the ground when wanted. From the report of the Prince of Saxony we find that Brie and Champigny are again in possession of the Germans. ‘Thus it would appear that most of the lest ground has been regained, and that so far as the French are concerned their victories were but neza- tive successes, which were now wholly neutral- ized. There is, however, one point gained by the late sorties. It is this: the forces within Paris are capable of accomplishing something worthy of the traditional fame of French arms. The question is, will they accomplish it? If the report that the soldiers who were wounded in the recent sorties, and who fell prisoners to the Germans, requested not to be sent back to Paris be true, it is, to say the least of it, a bad indication. Wounded soldiers, as a rule, prefer to be in the care of their own army, rather than in that of their captors. We have the rumor that the German officers are becoming downhearted, and lack the energy which they exhibited at the com- mencement of the campaign. This is but natural, and no doubt the general desire among the rank and file of the German armies now in France is for the war to end. With the fall of Paris the French cause will be lost, and the capitulation of Paris depends on the supplies within the city. So long as the people and the army can be fed so Jong, we think, will Paris hold out. It is purely a question of supplies, and those in control in the city will make them go as far as possible. It was so at Strasbourg and at Metz, and will be so at Paris. The Army of the Loire bas made no advance within the past few days, and is not likely to do so for some days to come. In other words, it bas been checked. Reinforcements from the South are passing threugh en route to joinit. The Germans hold their old positions at Pithiviers, Artenay and Augurville, with Prince Frederick Charles at their head. This is the situation as we regard it from the despatches published this moruing. The British Navy. This is a time when the flerce light of pub- licity beats dowa upon all things and shows them as they are with pitiless exactitude. Nothing escapes. We all live now with the privilege of going behind the scenes and seeing how emperors and «mpresses, as well as cob- blers, “make up” for the part they have to play on the stage. The ciphered despatches diate agency. Every Catholic church in this city was densely thronged to listen to and to approve the address to the Pope, prepared, it is said, by Mr. Charles O’Conor, himself an eminent American Catholic, protesting against the seizure of Rome, [t is neteworthy that at one church—St, Joseph’s—the pastor, Rev. Father Farrell, was the only person who objected to any part of the pre- test, and although his objections were merely to the wording, and were of much force, they were voted down by his congregation with marked unanimity. In Philadelphia the movement was not so general; nevertheless thirty thousand Catholics assembled in and around the Cathedral and protested against the ‘Italian usurpation.” Whatever be the effect of these protests, their moral and religious significance cannot be denied and should not be underrated. We have no apprehensions that American Catholics will ever be called upon to aid,. by force of arms, te replace Pius the Ninth on the Papal throne, nor are we at all sanguine that they would respond to any such call if it were made. Our age is too civilized for such a thing asa religious war. But there is a moral fact in the protests which is unmistakable. It is that the Catho- lies of the United States and of England en- tertain the liveliest affection and veneration for the Pope; that they believe that the cause of the Christian religion imperatively demands that the head of their Church be temporally independent of all earthly rulers, The alacriiy with which they responded to the summons to protest and the unanimity with which they protested demon- strate the unity of their minds on this, the most profound, exciting and important religious topic ofthe day. And we may say, without offering any opinion as to their merits or demerits, that the protests, made as they were, prove that the materialism of the age has not usurped the place of the religious sentiment of human- ity to as great an extent as ia popularly sup- posed, Sxorrrary Ropgson’s Report.—We pub- lish this merning the annual report of the Sec- retary of the Navy, showing the condition of the naval department of the government and making suggestions for its improvement. As will be seen the expenditures have decreased, but this has admittedly been at the expense of our position as one of the great naval Pewers of the Earth. Secretary Robeson, without making any complaint, shows how inadequate our squadrons are to perform the duties ex- pected of them, and compares their weakness, in point of the numbor of vessels composing them, with the strength of English and French squadrens, The report embraces numerous other matters of impgrtance, all of whieh are succinctly stated and will be perused with interest. Tax CABINET AND Our Navy w TH Brack Sxa.—It will be seen by a special Washington despatch elsewhere that the ques- tion of the right of our war vessels to pass through the Dardanelles has been officially discussed in the Cabinet. The result of the discussion, we are informed, ‘was a resolve that our geveroment would aot make that demand just at this time, as we were not in a position to go to war upon that issue. Cool and cqutious; received by a crowned conspirator against humanity are soon made public property by thunder strokes of calamity that search him out through the walls of his palace and the ranks of his guards. Nobody, nothing, can escape this dread ordeal. And it is well that it should be so. ‘Truth has lived too long at the bottom of a well. It is high time she came 2 little nearer the surface. The latest sham to be exploded is the British navy, conventionally supposed to be all powerful, but in reality, as is well known to those who have followed the ignoble story of British naval maladministration, a quite untrustworthy instrament of power in point of fact. This exposure bas been made with crushing effect by that brilliant sailor Captain Sherard Osborn, who has spent years of energetic, but fruitless, attack upon the Board of Admiralty at Whitehall—an office which has been for a century standing before the world wearing a fool’s cap and bells as complacently as though they were a laurelled crown and a sceptre. In a letter te the London Times of November 15 Captain Osborn states facts which are humiliating and shameful to England, and, in view of possible complica- tions, ought, just now, to be really alarming, First, it appears, incredible as it may seem, that this precious Board was in possession of the most complete analysis, mathematically ceriain in its terms, that the ill-fated Captain, which went down like a stone a little while ago, drowning ail her crew, was quite unfit to cope with a gale of wind under canvas. This thoroughly reasoned statement contrasts the sailing qualities im heavy weather of the Monarch and the Captain, and amounts to a plain warning that the latter unfortunate ves- sel was absolutely unfitted to sail in company with the first; in fact, amounted to « elear prophecy that if she attempted to do under canvas what the Monarch could easily do there would be a tremendous catastrophe. This warning was not communicated te the commander ef the Captain, and, accordingly, he and his ship’s company perished, slain vir- tually by the criminal negligence of the British Admiralty. But Captain Osborn’s letter contains far more serious matter. He charges upon the whole British fleet ef iron-clads that the un- equal thickness of their armor plating, their full rig and their high freeboard, or side com- bined make them quite unfit to keep the seas in heavy weather, and expose them te certain destruction at the hands of foreiga artillerists, who knew, in fact, far more about them than British naval officers. The Captain quotes from a letter to himself of one of the ablest of Britisn naval officers the startling statement, “I de not kelieyg that we have to-dgy six vos- sela that could keep the sea and sail together in @ very ordinary winter’s gale.” So much for their seaworthiness and power to sail to- gether as consorts and afieet. But what of their armor plating? Thé Captain is even more decisive on this head, sas states facts which throw light upon the powerlessness of the French navy in this war, as well as upon the certain helplessness of the existing British navy in any war. The high freeboard, or side, of the British ships-—and the French are similarly built—has rendered it necessary to cover them with plating of unequal thickness ; Seneienrenel ea ms sea at all, from sheer dead weight, Therefore considering the gumber of policemen pat they have soft places and hard places, Parig of their sides are regtly pr Protected by adequate iron plates against the powerful rifled ordnance of lund batteries and small ships of the Monitor type. But all the rest is as vulnerable as paper to thé tremendous guns which every Power possesses, The result being that such ships are worth, as Captain Osborn pronounces them with bitter sarcasm, the French vessels just the value ef old iron; the English ships » small percentage, perbaps, more, But more, and here comes a striking illus- tration of the marvellous prescience of Prus- sian military administration. Captain Osborn vouches for it, on his own personal knowledge, that every Prussian officer in charge of a gua on @ Prussian ship is furnished with diagrams showing precisely the condition of the side of every French iron-clad, where its weak parts are and where its strong, so that it would be certain destruction to the French fleet to ex- pose itself to the flre of the Prussinn batteries and smaller vessels, at which the French naval officers have, therefore, been obliged to con- tent themselves with gazing ingloriously und to no purpose, This is not only so with the French vessels, but, the Captain alleges, also on his personal knowledge, that the Prussians are furnished as well with diagrams of the sides of the British vessels, telling the story of their condition with the most scientific accu- racy and precision. So that in point of fact the upshot of this remarkable criticism and dis- closure is that England is practically without a navy at this most momentous crisis of Euro- pean affaird, Could anything more effectually point the moral ef what we have elsewhere said con- cerning the duty of England just now to hold her own peace and not break the world’s peace? And what has come, let us ask, to the first naval power of the world that in spite of ten years’ trials and warnings she cannot get a fleet in which her leading naval officers can feel any confidence? Tho disorganization and imbecility that prevail in British politics and administration are positively startling to impartial observers. How will they ead? Certainly in some deserved catastrophe, if sho persists in spending upon impertivent attempts to set other people at right abroad, any of the energy which is all required for settling her much diserdered house at home. Chaorch Sermons Yesterday. Yesterday nearly all the churches were well filled, sinners and saints agreeing to take advantage of the fine weather to display their costumes and their piety, As is usual, Rov. Mr. Hepworth preached before a fashionable congregation, upon whom he impressed the good policy, aud even necessity, ef entering into closer relationship with God than they had yet done, Rev. Mr. Smyth, at the American Free church, lectured on the European war, reminded his hearers of the verification of the prophecy which he had uttered at its incep- tion, and proceeded to predict the extermina- tion of Mohammedanism.as the ultimate result of the renewed agitation of the Eastern ques- tion. Upon Dr. Chapin devolved the task of pointing out the duty of to-day and the attain- ment of atruelife, Rev. J. M. Pullman demon- strated that the God of philosophy was hy no means the God of Christianity, in which he was doubtless, in «a measure, correct, Father Aubriel, at the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, urged the necessity of prayer and meditation, while, at the close of the annonal “retreat” at St. Francis Xavier's, Father Bapts delivered a short and interesting address, The dadication of a new Catholic church at Kingsbridge was also the occasion for an instructive sermon delivered by Archbishop McCloskey. Returning to the Protestant places of wor- ship we find that the Rev. W. S. Mikela, at the Nineteenth street Baptist church, dis- coursed on the happiness and value of Qaris- tianity, which soma members of his congro- gation seemed to find in flirtation and loud talking, much té the scandul of religion. In Brooklyn Apostle Beecher did not attract his acoustomed large congregation, the reason for whic! is stated to be the absence of those jokes and their consequent hilarity which have made the tabernacle famous, But Brother Beecher has, temporarily at feast, abandoned the merry jest and confined bimself to the elucidation of solemn truths solemnly spoken. There was certainly nothing to laugh about in the subject of salvation, which was discoursed upon yesterday nnderstandingly and acceptably. At St. James’ Catholic Cathe- dral aiso, in Brooklyn, Bishop Loughlin preached on the subject of scaadal, the enor- mity of which and iis meretricious effects ho eloquently described, In Washington Dr. Newman administered a sharp rebuke to politicians and slanderers, arguing that the last, in muny instances, proceeded from the first, Even in Jersey City evil doing and acting was rebuked, and at the Third Presbyterian church Dr. Har Ruess amote a deadly sin in the shape of “a large lump of tobacco” in a godless chewer's month, Such, in brief, were the religious topics of yesterday, We commend te the public a care- ful perusal of the sermona published in the Herarp this morning, believing that from them there may be derived much spiritunl aad moral consolation, Mysterious Deaths, Mysterious deaths in different parts of the city bave become very frequent of late. There was the case of Mr. Dovghty, who was arrested for noisy conduct in the street and sent to the hospital on Black- well’s Island, where he died. There were marks of blood upon bim when arrested, yet nobody appears to have taken tho trouble to discover whother the maa was hurt, The result of the coroner's invostigation is that no one knew anything about bis condition; but that after the. unfortnuate man was dead it was d’scovered for the first time that kia skull had been fractured, when or how remains o mystery. The death of a notbar’ man tat Bellevue ios- pital has just been reporied to the coroner. He was picked up ia front of his owu house, battered and bruised. Tle bad some lucid intervala, in which he spoke of being attacked ‘and besten by three men; but it seems that the police can get av clue to any such partic There is hardly a day that some unfortunate does not slip out of life ia this mysterious way, either ta ihe hospitals or (ue station houses, | parishes yesterday. We have specially telegraphed, verbatim, the Atlantic cable and present it 6 ng the atroots and the general vigilance, Rody. The Catholic Centre of Religtous Uni. Law, Order, Divine Right and & ‘Tiara. His Grace, Archbishop Manning, of West minster, England, speaks to the Christle world in defence of the lay sovereignty and the integrity and authority of the Holy See an episcopal protest directed against th occupation of Rome by King Victor Emmanuel, bis rule in the Eternal City and, the means of its accomplishment, Thi powerful manifesto was read in all the Cath! churches of London and the the transatlantic peoples in the columns o the Heratp to-day. The issue of this pape will produce a great effect in Europe. Th Archbishop makes the call on the surround} ing crowns to revolve around the centre unity in Rome; he founds the claim of diving right as the exemplar of law and the guar dian of soclety on the words 0 the inspired volume, and then places the sacred word for exposition and the transmission of its precepts in the hander of the Sovereign Pontiff. Ia this view of the case the production of this Church paper becomes of vast importance, particularly om the eve of the assembling of a European lay Congress in London, near to the tomb ef Wolsey, and not far distant from the shrine of Thomas » Becket and the footprints of St. Augustin, We shall learn of its consequences at an early day after its frst principles have been discussed by the sovereign delegates to the Congress. A European Congress, Pope Pius Pre- siding. Our despatches from the Cabinets of the Old World, coming in simultaneously with those which emanate from the military camps | and headquarters of that disordered and | happy region of the Earth, disclose so: sense of returning, if it be but tardy, reason The wand of Gortchakoff has summoned u; the spirit of compromise from the vasty deep of monarchical contentions, and all the Powers cosignatory to the Treaty of Paria, along with others who stood outside of that Convention, manifest a willingness to meet by delegate at London, there to rearrange tho map of Europe in a sense consistent with the altered relations of States and the demands of our time, 'rhis is great, good news to the world, and it comes at an auspicious peried, when tho wonderfully eventful year of 1870 is waning to its close and the holidays of the blessed Nativity are approaching to remind Christen- dom of its grand privileges and its imposing duty. No such critical moment, no sich glorious opportunity, has been presented to the enlightened nations sinco the signing of the Treaty of Campo Formio, which gave a new life and a fresh lease of existence to modern liberty. On the 10th of December, 1797, or within a few days of seventy-three years ago, the First Napole-n,~ amid the splendid surroundings of the Luxem bourg Palace, in responding to Talleyrand’s speech on the occasion of the delivery of that treaty, said that the French people, in order to be free, had kings to combat, and in order te obtain a constitution founded on reason had the prejudices of eighteen centurfes to over come. Feudalism and despotism had gov- erned Europe for two thousand years. ‘From the peace which you have just cencluded,” continued the Dictator, ‘dates an era of rep- resentative governments.” France was, at that moment, emerging from a frightful con- yulsion, as she is while we write, and her greatest mind believed that, with her happi- ness secured by sound organic laws, the order and safety of Europe would bo established. To-day the area of the case has been im- mensely widened. The whole Continent is now where France was in 1797. It is in the agony of that parturition which precedes a mighty birth. The conference at London will be but preliminary to a congress in which all the elements of order will have to be repre- sented—the Church, the monarchs and the people. Claiming their places by divine right and “‘the grace of God,” the kings must recog- “ nize the authority of the divine law on the one hand and the sanction of the Third Estate, or people, on the other, and they must, for the sake of prestige and precedent alike, so arrange their congress that these high ele- ments shall be admitted in their appropriate places. When, very shortly before his downfall, Napoleon HI. was negotiating for a European Congress to assemble at Paris, it was on all sides deemed appropriate that Rome should have her distinct ond prominent representa- tion in that body, and Cardinal Antonelli was the delegate selected by Pins IX. to sustain the dignity and interests of his vast Church before the conclave of sovereigns and depu- ties. Now that the idea, then crude and incomplete, is taking real, living shape out of the clouds and turmoil of the hour, let the Powers proceed to a still grander initiative. Let them invite Pius IX. to preside ovor the European Congress, whether it be held at London or elsewhere. Thus will the Pontiff, with the vast influences he represents, be identified with tho new era of reconciliation ; prejudices will be softened ; differences will be explained, and, we honestly believe, the con- vocation will be harmonized with both order and liberty under the broad banner of the Prince of Peace! Tae Commtrree oy tae Founpiinc ASYLUM Farr, while returning thanks to the public, the press and the officers of the Twenty-second regiment for the aid tendered to make the falra success, announce that they will soon publish a fall report of the proceedings, in which will be furnished tha complete returns ofcachtable. This will be very gratifying to the ladies, and will, no doubt, be very iaterest- ing to tho public, The receipts of this chari- twhle enterprise have reached the munificent amount of seventy thousand dollars; bui there remain thirty thousand to be raised by contribution before the Asylum can claim the hundred thousand promised by the Legisia- turo for the purpose of a new building, How- ever, the charity of New York is mighty, and -] gthorwise they would got he capable of going ta i It acema curorisipg that this ghould be so, 4 ity Wmmgt ie big will bengvolenge,