The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD ead BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES QORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ae . . All business or news letter aga erp despatches must be addressed New York HeEpawp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, nage Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, rudlished every day tm the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Trice 812. Volame XXXV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NEW YORK STADT THEAYRE, 45 Bowery.— ORRMAN OPEtA—TuE POs TILLION oF conan GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of &th av. and 23d st. — ‘Les BRiGaNns, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—THe PANTOMIME OF Wee Wituir Winkir. WOOD'S MUSEUM Eroat: corner 30th st.—Perform~ ances every afternovn ana evenin, GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Vaarert Extre- TAINMENT, &C. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth #t.—Lon- DON ASSURAN BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—NFCK AND NEOK—YaN- KEE JACK. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2 Riv Van WINKLE. . between Oth and 6th ave,— WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana 13th street. 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Cuba the Pivot of Politice and_the Touih- stone of Grant. - As Congress openy gepsion Cuba comes 0 the front agaty. We believe Cuba to be the Giestion of questions at this crisis to the country and to Pres'dent Grant; to the Presi- dent In a very special sense ; for, by and with Cuba, we shrewdly suspect, will bis name and place in American story stand or fall. The political affairs of the Union are threat- ened only too plainly with a period of inco- herence and party anarchy. The issues on which the agus of \eh years have been conducted ard exhaus'ed for jfarty purposes, though history has yet much to do in develop- ing the great things done on the battlefield and in the council chamber since the first shot was fired on Sumter, At the present moment a standard is required and a trumpet call to rally the wavering ranks of politicians and call back stragzlers to their duty. Beyond everything else now the republic requires a great idea, a great action, a mighty hand; it T quires, as the very breath of its immediate lite, something which shall exhibit soul, fire, large generous activity of heart and brain; something which shall realize in outward things the consciousness of greatness, of an unique vocation among the world's nations, wuich lies so deep, fixed, and unwavering, in the breast of our people. It is weary of the day of small things coming after the day of such great things. And it is asking with no small anxiety what pause has come in the working of the great soldier brain, which restored the Union, that to the President it seems to furaish so iittle material for creating the enthusiasm which, as general in the field, he had the power so plentifully to evoke, We are satisfied that we are about this day to utter a word vital and decisive to the for- tunes of the President, and which, if attended to, will go far to redeem that appearance of anarchy which is coming over our politics—an anarchy that, taking shape, may deepen into disastrons confusion, There is a law in the life of nations which, it cannot be disguised, this Union has been lately disregarding ; and the disregard of which it is ‘that inyariably leads to political disorder ia every branch and part of the affairs of State, It is this, The uation that does not discharge actively, vigorously, unceasingly, unsparingly its duty in international affairs, outside its borders, becomes stricken with helplessness and inco- herency in its home affairs. Volumes might be written expounding history oa this princi- ple. The cause is plain. Great international action brings out a nation’s very soul of souls, and stifles all smaliness, all intrigue, in those microscopic souied politicians whose hour of profit always comes when a nation is not doing its work, as such, upon other nations, in a grand and unco upromising manner. This is in no slight degree the case with ourselves just now, and it makes plain to ihe disceraing many things in eur present con- ion otherwise obscure. We have for two 3 inform Tio hu of Their V Pnghone’s Homi 2raphic ‘The Coat counte: 6iers?—Im Mail Advices to the piiton of Le.ty: fh Iment to the th of Propose | 4¢ Revolut Makes the Spotration: | jer the vope— —Army Intelli- Broadway—l the South, G—Editorials: Levding Article, ‘aba the Pivot © Politics and the Touchstone of Grant’— Amusement Announce.nents, FeHdtiorlals (Continued from Sixth Pag goin Inteidicence—Washington: A 1s it the Senatoria’ ous; The St. Domingo Treaty Looming up; Opening the Way to the Resump- tuon of Specie Payments; Nominations Sent —Per- iy pars been in grievous default in the exercise of our duty as the guardians of American and republican destinies, in the ease of tortured dd unhappy Cuba. We have not been ing, in this matter, up to the standard of civilization and international duty, We have been passing by on the other side while our brothers were being gagged, garroted, plun- dered, murdered. We have been so busy rrelling over our own reconstruction that we have forgotten that it is the function of this Union not to reconstruct itself alone, but total America, in all the sublime vast fulness of that term, which, on the lips of great-hearted men, means not a physical continent alone, but a new eraof humanity. Itis high time that this default should cease. We are all bound to make it cease forthwith under penal- ties, penalty of forfeiture of our political com- fori, because of some portion of that which is of all things most precious to Americans— to the seaate; Pum hment of the Colored Cadet-—Amusements—Business Notices, S—The Courts: ‘fue Wa | Street Gold Panic—Small- ox—Typho.d Fever—Depa tment of Dock-— Emigration Afiairs—Revenuc Revelations: How Joho Devin was Victimized by the “Ring”—Ihe Upera in the Bowery—tTrotting at Fleetwood Park—Diks Plucks a Crow— Jack sheppard Relivivas—Poiitical Notes and Comments—A Couvicied Murderer Wants to be Hanged—Murder at Astorla, Oregon. @—Meeting of the National Tobacco Association— Financial and Commercial Reports —Nationat Board of Trade—Kemarkabie Suicide—A_ Mur- derer’s Remorse—An Indians Free right-- Real Estate. 20—The Lousiana Sugar Frauds: Disastrous Col- lapse of the Prosecuuon—Lectures Last Night— A New Ritua Chapel—Shipping Intelii- gence—Adveit enis, 11—Mexico: Peace’ Inclined; The Candidate for the Presileucy—General News Items— Personal Notes—A New Yorker Murdered iu San Franciseo—Advertisements, 12—Advertisemenis. Tae War Sircation.—Our despatches this morning are very meagre. King William confirms the report of the occupation of Orleans, in a d-spatch from Versailles dated the 5th instant, A flag has been sent into Paris conveyieg the ill news, and also an- nouncing the rout of the Army of the Loire and the Feported death o} Tue Canapa Pare are taking umbrage at General Grant’s non- nce to Fenianism in his message. They 1 tas well object to his want of reference to the internal accom- modations of Noah’s Ark. Fenianism is about We dead as the first creature that left that ancient and venerable ins'itution. Appins Ixevit ro Insury—King Wi n'a sending a flag of tiuce to Paris with the infor- emation thot his forces had thrashed the French Army of the Loire, captured thirty guns and taken thousands of prisoners, We doubt if Trochu appreciated the courtesy, THE Present has sent in several nomina- tions to the Senate, among which ere Vice Admiral D. D. Porter to be Admiral, S. C. Rowan to be Vice Admiral, and Columbus Delane to be Secretary of the Interior. The nominations of greatest local Interest are Spencer Kirby as Assezsor of Internal Revenne for the Tuirty-second and James Jourdso for the Third district of New York. eee. Toe GupxesatoriAL SQuaBBLE in Alabama Sm brought forth a letter from one of the Governors—W. H. Smith—io regard to the negro militia, He denies that he employs them as a body guard at the State Capitol, and states that he even has dismissed a colored messenger in order not to give auy pretext for contention between the tworaces, How about this? Has not the poor African any rights in Alabama which aradical Governor is hound sysepent? our self-respect. See how this thing stands, and consider our whole attitude in reference net only to our dignity and destiny but to the international practice of civilized mankind. For two years there has been waged in Cuba a war simply of extermination. The case and cause, and mode of carrying them on, have been sharply and uneqnivocally defined. The Cubans, after ceaturies of such misrule as might make faithless men well nigh doubt the existence of a God, have determined to free themselves from Spanish sway; and the Spaniards have determined to kill every man, woman and child of the native inhabitants rather than submit. For two years has the conflict raged on these terms, until, at last, there has been placed at the head of affairs Valmaseda, one of those butchers who represents so faithfully the devil-in- spired Spanish conguisdatores who wrought ! suci evil in America; those evil genii who first possessed the fair, broad American land, | and who were expelled by the Drakes and Raleighs, who preluded our Washingtons and Grants. For two years we have stood by with our arms folded, passively abetting, by the shameful sileace of our mighty voice, whose lightest whisper would have been as effective to forbid these things as Heaven's lightning is to split mountains, the consummatien of this overwhelming crime. Now, let it be observed, that since we commanded the French to depart from Mexico we have virtually assumed, and Europe bas conceded to us, the whole moral and physical guardianship of the American Continent and islands. Europe has retired from America; at least in this sense, that never again will she dare to send fleets and armies to settle any American question, to crown the scion of a dynasty or settle a boun- dary line. We have assumed this guardian- ship, but, unhappily, we have not entered into the discharge of the duties thereof. Europe has abdicated in America, ond the great republic has not yet assumed her func- tions, And Spain takes advantage of this interregnum to slay an American people, and to outrage the justice of the Almighty in deeds which make the whole heart of mankind almost stand still with anguish, indignation and horror, Suppose, now, Cuba were an island in the Mediterrancan—is it not certain that Europe would have interfered long ago? It has become fixed as a beneficent doctrine of the public law of the Old World that no struggle shall degenerate into a war of extermination without the peremptory intervention of the great European States te close it, We have warned Europe off from all intervention in Asuerlean affairs. We bave declared ourselves the “inheritors of the unfulfilled renown” of the illimitable American future, with all its bright promise to the myriads of sufferers in less favored lands whose eyes turn towards this republic as the eyes of praying Moslem in the doing of our appolaved work. We “pass by on the other side” whils the blood of Americaa brethers is being shed by the assassins who sigaalize their last hours of sway on the new lands they defiled for centuries by horrors that so ppropriately crown their long reign of darkness and sorrow, of crime andtearsand blood. Surely itis time that these things should cease ; surely there will come to vs a retribution if we, who represent peace, virtue, liberty and light, slumber se loag while the adversary is consummating his unholy work. The decisive moment has come. The new Spanish King will not dare to run counter to the wicked Spanish determination to hold Cuba at the cost of sacrifices, however heavy, to the ancient Moloch of their idolatry, And President Grant has entered upon that two years of critical time which will deter- mine his re-election to the Presidency of the Union he did so much to save, and his final place in the history of the magnificent nation whose headship Is the greatest prize that ever fell to the ambition of mortal man, He wields the irresistible power of a people that never failed to respond to a generous emotion, and whose fiat is hereafter to be as the very breath of God over the sick werld’s chaos, to create the long wished-for dawn when the | evil beasts of tyranny shall cease from vexing tLe men whom He made, Let him be wise in | time and speak in time, for the sands are run- | ning fast through the glass, and the scythe | i i | turn towards Mecca. Yot wo stay our hands | | Russia’ Attitude to Europe und a Kuss | Turkish Altgnce, Our Europcan despatches published this morning announce the imporant news that the notification given by the Russian govern- | ment to that of Great Britain has been repeated j tothe other Powers, including Turkey, co- signatory to the Treaty of Paris, and | that its general and unmistakable tenor | fees g. gompliange with Russian de mands essential to the peace of Europe. This | is very momentous Intel'igence, and, if rashly interpreted, the course ascribed to the Czar | might precipitata immediate difficulty, But we are coafilent that, for the moment, at least, every exertion is being made by the St. Peters- burg Cabinet to maintain peace while at this favorable juncture insuring its indubitable rights on the Black Sea, There are many 1n- dications of this spirit, and among them is Russia's magnanimity toward the Sultan. Other despatches, letters and mail advices indicate that Turkey, far from being very serl- ously alarmed at the receat demonstration of her great Muscovite neighbor for a repeal of the one-sided Treaty of Paris, is coquetting with the Czar upon a proposition from the latter broadly hinting an alliance, and, as an earaest of this feeling, cheeriully accepts the proposed conference to be held at London, This news may seem rather startling an even paradoxical to those who do not keep their minds fully alive to the rapid and won- derful political evolutions of our period; but upon close examination it loses its contradic- tory appearancs and accommodates itself readily enough to the spirit of an epoch which must necessarily becom> one of compromise and conciliation orend in universal warfare, While every candid observer admits that Europe is sick, deadly sick, of the straggle already waging, he must also perceive that the strict will be blunted ere loay in his hands, and tle | nigist will soon come when he will have privilege todo America’s work no mora, He may filly crown his career with a noble and a saving deed; or he may sink into that hell of mo- diocrity which never looks so lurid and bule- fulas when a great man’s great work is fol- | lowed by doubt, hesitation,’ vacillation and , feebleness which cast dishoaor on all that was previously dignified and great iu his life aud achievements, Come, President Grant, vic- tor ina hundred battles, respond to our call! | Let intrigue and hesita.ion cease, and say the word which liberates America from Spain at last aud stamps you forever in history as the hero who not only saved the Unioa buat re- mained glorious and faithful tothe end. Let it not be said, for the sak» of us all as for yourown, let it not be said by some caustic Tacitus of the future, “This soldier might have been pronounced a great man if he had not been President of the United States.” { The King of Italy tg the Naslonal Par« liament. 1 The Italian Parliamont assembied in s-wston on the 5th instant in Florence. Kiag Victor Emmanuel delivered a speech from the throne. A synopsis of the royal address reached us by cable telegram yesterday. The anuounce- ment was evidently the most imporian: wiich hes fallen from the royal lips since the days of Charles Albert and Cavour. King Victor Emmanuel appears to have arrived at a com- plete understanding of the national position, He expresses himself ta words of justifiable pride on the perfect accomplishment of a national consolidation. His Majesty referred to the initial exertions of his deceased father for the perfection of I‘alian unity, He then presents the fulfilment 0° the idea to the world in the words :—‘‘The edifice which was commenced by Charles Albert is crowned and the freedom of Italy complete.” Sta:.ding on a secure neutral centre ground the King | turns his eyes to the condition of the surround- | ing peoples and says :—‘‘I'wo nations, glorious | representatives ef civilizstion, are engaged in | a horrible struggle; we persist in our efforis to induce them to end the couflict, We will | prove that united Italy is an element of ; order, liberty and peace in Europe.” Tais is indeed a glorious national mission. The enjoy- ment of the ability to assume its responsibility may well compensate Iialy for her endurance of much doubt, distraction and gloom during a number of years past. Of the Cuaristian centre in Rome King Victor Emmanuel aszures the world that the | head of the Catbolic Church shall enjoy an \ unresiricted exercise of his religious functions | | | anda complete freedom of communion with the universal fold, Spain has “honored” the dynasty of Savoy by the invitation given to Prince Amadens to rule over her people. Tialy wiil remain anxious that the Spaniards shall receive a beneficial equivalent. The royal speech was hopeful to the termi- nation. Its concluding words were hailed with enthusiastic cheers by the assembled lezislators. It is quite evident, judging from even the brief cable report of the proceedings, that Italy has been fully awakened to a sense of her im- perial dignity, notwithstandin< the present ap~ pearances of the fact that his Majesty the King did not refer to the Eastern question or the proposed European congress—a serious omis- sion, if it occurred, at the present epoch in the history of Europe. GENERAL MANTEUBFEL is reported moving on Havre, in order to obtain supplies by sea. This report is an absurdity. It ought to be remembered. that the French navy is at pre- sent absolute mistress of the ocean, so far ag the Germans are concerned. Consequently no supplies could reach Havre by water. The Cotokzp Caper Smits, who escaped the punisament award:d by a court martial for insubordinate conduct, because the Secre- tary of War cousidered the punishment ridiculously inadequate to the offence, is not to go scot free. The Secretary of War has now ordered Smith to be confined to the cadet barracks until February next, and has administered a severe reprimand to him—all for this same offence. “A Goop Exoven Morgan Untit Arter Exxcrion”—The proposition of Representa- tive Kelley, of Pennsylvania, to abolish the and honorable neatrality observed by Ruasia, surrounded as she is with temptations to break it, were she really aggressive, has aloue pre- vented the war from having become general ere this, On the other hand, the treaty whjch | was feigned by the Western Powers to be the defence of Turkish independence has, in fact, placed the latter under the tutelage and protectorate of France and Eaz- land. Numerous dictatorial assumptions on the part of the allies have shown this since the conclusion of the Crimean war, and, in view of the scarcely concealed desigas of both the French and the Eaglish in Exypt, Syria and even at the mouth of tue Dardaaelles, the Sulian would goon have had good reason to implore deliverance from his friends. Russia, wuile more suspected and more feared by the | Grand Turk, has been far more open and | above-board than tho allies, after all, Sue comes out now, and, while ‘rankly owning her difficulty and asking release from it, she offers a safe alliance to the Ottoman empire. The latter would find the living inspiration and the cementing force of s2ck a compact in | the thirteen million Christians of various communions living under the Turkish sceptre. Toe lot of this C)ristian population has become a matter of creed with the entire people of Russia, through the sympathy that its peenliar relations excile, aud no govern- ment cou'd long retain its hold, either at St. Petersburg or elsewhere, on the aff-c'ions and reverence of the Muscoviie race, which relin- quisbed the herediiary claim to interpose ; whenever these Curistians may be really menaced or oppressed. Yet the Treaty of | Paris very greatly eripplod tie Czar ia this direction, and herein, we think, has lain the real danger of a sudten collision between the two Powers—a danger engendered by the very trealy itself. Would not the part of statesmanshbip, then, be for Turkey to so | reorganizy tue status of her Christian pepula- tions as !o respond, in some measure, to their necessities and their aspirations for something | | i | but tuat bili is still before tae Senate, with- i While Senators and membsrs of Congresd, | additional vitality to the real evil— namely, the publication, at © enormous | expense, of public documents that are Congress Yestercay=Atolitien of the Frank- ing P-ivilege. The proceedings of both houses of Congress , thus far have been rather preparatory to the , hard worl of tho session thas actual practical | businass. Tho Senate bas spent in the work | of lezisiation but fous oF ie as bed | aggregate, and @ porilon of me was devoted to Ka} important neatlon of regu- | ating thé tnlnfoitsa aid ninxlmum age of the | Precocious youths whom it employs as pages. , But it had some matters to arrange, also, in | caucus, particularly as to the rearrangement : of committees, Yesterday moraing ono of those little matters turned out to be the dis placement of Senator Patterson from the Committee on Foreiga Relations and the substitution of Senator Conkling in his stead, But the sagacious Sumner imagined that he saw in this movement an ingenious device to strengthen the St. Domingo treaty in that committee, and he stormed about it 80 much that, in the interest of moderation and harmony, the proposition was withdrawn, and the Committee on Foreign Relations was ar- ranged to consist of Messrs, Sumner, Cameron, Harlan, Morton, Patterson, Schurz and Cus- serly, Tie mind of Sumner fs, therefore, set at rest, and the question of St, Domingo must stand or fall on its own merits rather than on any ingeniously contrived ald in Senatorial arrangements, The House was engaged yesterday, as it had been the day before, on @ bill, prepared by ' the Post Office Department and reported from the Post Office Committee, to revise and con- solidate into one act all the existing statules relating to that branch of the public service, This afforded an opportunity for striking at the franking privi- lege—a relic of antiquity and absurdity which we derived from the British government at a time when there were privileged classes among the English people, but which has been long since abandoned by that and every progressive country but our owa. For many years past the abolition of tae franking privilege has been a favorite idea with reformers, in Con- gress and out of Conzress, and although whenever the question has been presented to a direct vote of either house the result has gene- rally been in favor its abolition, still there bas aiways been found a means of preventing final action upon it by both houses. Last session a bill passed the Hoase, with only thirteen opposing votes, for the r»peal of the privilege ; out action, and the use and abuse of the franking privilege is still possessed and enjoyed, Tus chairman of the Post Office Cominitiee, Mr, Farnsworth, recognizing the slimness of the prospect of the Senate passing that bill at the present session, proposed a plan by which ths President, the various de- partments and the two houses should have all official correspondence and documents stamped in order tg be carried free throw zn tha mails, tas * pot Rees 7 whose documsnts and speeches would thus bo circulated without cost to them, should have besides an allowances of one hundred dollars for postage on their correspondence at each session, A majority of the House, compris- ing most of those who ave in earnest in their oppositioa to the fravking privilege, took the very sensible view that there was but little reform in that measure, as it retained and gave of no practical value, and only encumber the mails, to the great embarrassment of the ser- vice and to the disgust of the Postmaster General, who sets down the anaual deficiency of nearly three millions in the postal revenue to that cause. The proposition was defeated. Thereupon our Jersey Congressman, Mr. Hill, who has assumed the championship of that like a national autonomy? At present they are subjected to an administration which is | entirely Mohammedan and which treats them with contempt. Hence their complaints rarely obiain pure jnslice, and hence Russia has continually before her eyes a maas of suf- ferers, chiefly of her own creed, to whom she can point the gaze of Christendom as to a race outraged and downtrodden by the infidel. | Tarkey, wisely correcting this evil, if but as & measure of quiet and security for herself, will have liid the basis of a firm and lasting alliance with her great neighbor on the North. This we, moreover, believe is the very point of the rapprochement between the Czar and the Sultan to which our latest despatches allude. If it ba not, the Hrratp> suggests the plan as one worihy of two mighty States whose collision would arrest prosress ina favored quarter of the globe and throw | all Europe into fresh mourning, but whosa honest, hearty union would fling wide the por- tals of trade and civilization, pioneering the way for the Evangel of peace and faith to the recesses of the still barbaric East. St. Peters- burg is the hand and Constantinople tho key of the Orieat. A Dzsparon From Brrssens reports that De Paladines’ army is marching up the left pank of the Loire. It adds that the object is to form a junction with the Army of the East and resume the advance on Fontainebleau; but this is nonsense. A Versailles telegram tells the story of De Paladines’ recent defeat. He must have been terribly beaten, Ten thou- sand of his men and seventy-seven pieces of artillery fell into the hands of the Germans. There is but little probability of the Army of the Loire taking the offensive again for t weeks, if ever. We suggested yesterday that its retreat to the left bank of the Loire and up the river toward Bourges and Lyons would be a necessity. The despatch merely con- firms our opinion. It now remains to be seen if Von Werder can get between De Palddines and Lyons. If he can and does, the days of the Army ef the Loire are numbered. Our Apvicrs From SouTH AMERIOA, by way of Lisbon, indicate the continued successes of reform, moved to strike out of the bill all the sections reiating to the franking privilege, and that motion, which was equivalent to an abso- lute repzal of the privilege, was carried by a vote of ninety-eight to seventy-nine, It will thus be seen that the reform has been losing ground sinca last session, when there were only thirteen negative votes in the House on a like proposition, which means, not that the reform was any more cherished then than it is now, but that the fall elections were pending and that that question might have its influence on the result, The House has two subjects specially assigned for Tuesday next—th> report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the sub- ject of Minister Washburn’s official course at Paraguay, and the General Amnesty act, reported last session from the Reconsiruction Committee. The first has ceased to ba of any public interest, or to have any practical bear- ing. The last is of the deepest imporiance to all the people of the Southern States. We hope that the bill will be so matured and passed as to wipe away all technicalities on the way to grace, and tbat an amnesty, in its fullest, broadest and most generous terms, shaltbe, not offered to, but conferred upon, every man inthe South, burying forever all hostile feeling of party or section and cementing the States in an indissoluble union or nationality. A MerropouiTaN Parapr Grounp.—This subject was again discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Brennan Society of Bloomingdale on Wednesday evening, anda strong interest was manifested in the matter. The entire First division of our State militia are moving in line in favor of the project, and the Board of Public Parks are expected to take some action. in the premises immediately. Mounrorean. Exgorion at “Tae Hus.”— This interesting event occurs in Boston on Monday next. There are a baker's dozen, more or less, of candidates in. the fleld. The regulur candidates for Mayer are—Gaston, d.mocrat, with republican affiliations; Car- penter, republican, with no particular affilia- tions, and Knights, with labor reform affilia- tions. There is a ‘Merenntile Hall” ticket, the robels in the Argentine Confederation. Montevideo was besieged by them and the authorities of Buenos Ayres were negotiating with their leader, General Jordan, Nothing could be more fatal for the republic than the overibrow of Sarmiento’s government. It has been the mest liberal and progressive that the Internal Revenue Department. This will serve as pretty good electioneering clap-trap for the republicans until after the next Presi- dential question is settled, when it will be consigned ta the ‘tomb of fhe Capulets’, Argentine Confederation has ever had. We trust that fortune will not desert President Sarmiento atter all he has done to elevate his country te the height attsined by other gations tn more) aud material promperilte — which will be supported by all those lively youths who wish to be censidered pious. Gas- ton seems to be ahead. A Very Goop Inta—That of Governor Walker, of Virginia, to submit to arbitration the question of the séttlemaat of the debt of the State and the share West Virginia shall take in its liquidation, This is much better than resorts to law courts, and is a peaceful and rational way of settling controversies Ddetwean Statos, aud. indeed, of whole nations, | Tee United States, Masiand so the iw Dominica. , That portlon of tho igen'’s Mi 7 shoe be gion af te esl rlat goverament fo the “iinfrlendly” measureg adopted by the New Dominioa ence { Mp Borepiarn fisheries and the navigatio of th River St. Lawrepoe had, we aro pleas to see, created a wholesome sensation in Loi dop, We are also gratified with the assurancoq that quarter that England wilt certainly, refuse to stand by Canada unless there is th clearest evidence of right on her side, and that the aforesaid unfriendly measures of tha’ provincial government are severely condemned in the British metropolis. The Canadian journals, on the contrary,’ treat the complaints of General Grant in thd premises as unjust and frivolous, and seem think that the grievances, if any, are all o: the other side. The Canadians and their con federates will surely, however, be required ta! modify very materially their “unfriendly”, regulations against the ‘Yankee fishermen," if we may rely upon these pacific assurances from London, disagreeable as the duty may bq of receding from the high position of a sove-| reign In this mattsr to tho attitude of. colonial submission. We fear that tha, authorities of the New Dominion, in thesa fishery and St. Lawrence river regulations,{ have been too much influenced by a spirit o} retaliation against the Fenians, when they, ought to be overflowing with gratitude towards, General Grant for his stringent enforcement, of our neutrality laws, whereby Canada has. escaped the horrors of an overwhelming Fenian invasion. Unquestionably had Gen- eral Grant towards those Fenians adopted, the very flexible neutrality of England, ag applied in our late civil war, the Canadiang' would have been in a bad way last summer, | We dare say, however, that a hint from her. Mojesty’s government on these fishery difficul-. ties will bring her somewhat ras), not to say presuming, provincials to a satisfactory atone~ ment. ‘ As to the navigation of the St. Lawrence,’ they ask General Grant if his claims for our, eight Western States concerned extend to those lateral canals through which only the ascend-| ing navigation of the St. Lawrence can be con-| ducted, This is a difficulty which cao be overcome only by the process of annexation. From Lake Erie to Montreal we believe tha, descent of the river is some five hundred and’ twenty feet—some three hundred fect of which, areovercome by the lockage of the Welland Canal between the Lakes Erie and Oatario, From the Ontario outlet of the St. Lawrence to Montreal the descent of the river is over two hundred feet, embracing four or five picturesqua and extensive rapids, dangerous to descending craft and utterly impracticable to the ascend- ing boat with the most powerful engines that could be put en board. The lateral canals re: which these rapids pro Germouniod afford,” therefore, the énly channel for this upward navigation, Hence the government holding those canals holds the navigation of the St. Lawrence, and the oly satisfactory solution for our eight tributary Western States is annexation. European Despatches by Muil~The Old World Drifting to a Radical Chauge. The European mail of the 26th of November supplies a varied and really important history of Old World events to that day. The despatches exhibit Europ2 surging and seeth- ing towards a mighty, and it may be radical, change in its governmental situation, The peoples were agitated and alarmed, their rulera hesitating and distrustful. A variety of impelling and peremp'ory causes tended to hasten a grand crisis. If we look, indeed, to the various capitals we perceive the existence of unmistakable symptoms of the imminent advent of very serious complications. From Berlin away to Warsaw and thence to St. Petersburg the military spirit was kept in wonderful activity. Russia was aggregating her troops, organizing armies, drilling, and moving the military enthusiasm of the different populations, Prussia watched these move- ments carefully and anxiously. Her agents endeavored to analyze their motives and to estimate the exact value of the prepara- tions. They performed their task skilfully, no doubt, for we find in the mail reports sufficient evidence to show that Bismarck inclined towards an alliance with the Czar in the event of a general European war. Then, again, we have the Austrian Blue Book. This executive and parliamentary compilation affords knowledge of the fact that the Vienna Cabinet had considered the Esst- ern question, the Franco-Prussian .war diffi- culty and the Italo-Roman action with very deliberate care, and that the government of his Apostolic Maj*sty had determined to treat each, either singly or as a continuous whole, exactly in the manner which, in the judgment of his Ministers, will more completely inure to the benefit of the empire, both in the present and for the future. Austria is medi- atory, but mediatory in the sanguine hope that something beneficial will “turn up,” either on the shores of the Black Sea, on the Danube, the Pruth or the Tiber. Cardinal Antonelli protruded the crozier, as is usual with his Eminence in all cases of surrounding international difficulty, among the sceptres of the lay monarchs. The Cardinal is ond with a protest against the action of King Victor Emmanuel in the matter of the Italian officers having forced the doors of the Quirinal, The case looks at first sight as if it were one which should be argued in s congress of lock- smiths, but it is not so by any means, The careful annotator of passing events in Enrope will be more likely to find in the oceurrence of this incident in the Hely City en event which may serve to complicate the work of adjustment of a key to the Eastern question by the general congress. England was considerably agitated ia rela- tion to thé general aspect of affairs. Political party arobition, parliamentary rivalry and financial alarm pressed on her statesmen and tended to weaken her Cabinet action. Prnssia, the King and Bismarek, stood forth solidly. Germany had achieved her position ; she was mistress of the situation, From under the walls of Paris she contrelled the destiny of the Porte. King Willliam’s speech to the North German Parliament, with the re- ports which we have of the diplomacy of Bie- marok and the very serious negotiations which were carried on with the Premier by gome of