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Peace Prospects Again Brightening; pita Abandons all Hope of Final Suc- ight of the French Government from Tours: Probable Restoration ot the Empire apd the Bonaparte: Battle on th fi Heavy 1 Great § nounced : England De- Press; Russian nd Vieinity; Christianity ans ssed_m the Churches; pel on Land and Watet; The » Issien of St. John and the Immaculate Conception of Mapy; Elo- quent and Farnest Discourses; Impressive Ceremonies and Beautifnl Commemorations. $—Religious (continued from Fourth Page)—The Papacy: New Jersey Catholics’ Protest—Rev. Thomas §S, Preston’s Lecture on Purgstory— Music and the Vrama—Brooklyn Inteligence— Personai Noies. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “General Grant as President of the United States and as Head of the Kepubiican Party’’—Amusement Announce- ments. 7—Editorials (continned from Sixth Page)—Per- sonal Intelligence—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World—Prussia’s Disregard of of the Luxembonrg Treaty; Anu-Draft and War Kiet in Berlin: the Albama Claims Qnes- tion Before the British People; Speeches of the Kings of italy and Spam—Washing- ton: Senater Sumner on the Principle of Mixed Schools: How an fnterprising Corres- pondent Missed an Idea; He Declines to Fight a Duel—New York City News—Obituary— Business Notices. S—Europe : The Old World Crisis in the East, in Ger- many and at Withelmshobe; Bismarck’s Plan for Napoleon’s Restoration; Tumultuous ~cene in t North German Parilament—Charity : ‘opolis Substantially Asserting Its Right pee Cnarities”—Court Calen- ay. dars for 4 @—The Philadelphia Beast: The Shadow of the Gallows Upon Hanlon, Child Murderer— Spiritualism Triumphant: & Fair @lairvoyant prosecuted in Connecticut; Story of Her ‘Trial—“Shtop dot Sheep’—enerai News Items—Financial and Commereia) Reports— Marriages and Deaths. 10—Mormondom—Interesting Account of the Pres- ent Militia DiMiculty—Politiecal Notes and Com- Fight again—Jerry Dunn: Can Do and What It —Distinguished Sa’ ‘ewark’s Arrested Beermen in Co nipping Inteliigence—Advertisements. nd South America: Proposed Changes in the Colombian Constitution; the Revolution Crushed by the President's Deter- mi Affairs in Chile and Peru—Death on the Tae Hoosac Tunnel—Journalistic N ‘tisements. jou A@—Advertisement Witt Generat Brrver's Porroy in regard to the fishery question prove another Fort Fishery affair? “3 Wrere’s GERRIT irH?—It is stated that in fifty-nine counties in [Illinois the anti- whiskey or prohibition candidate for Con- gressman at large received not a single vote, How will Gerrit Smith reconcile this fact with a proposed temperance in politics party? “Rep Horsx” is the euphonious name of the “big Indian” of the tribe of the Ogallalas, in Upper Missouri. ‘Red Eye,” otherwise known as “‘tanglefeot whiskey,” has been chief slayer among all tribes of American savages for many years. Senator Drake won't take the position of Judge of the Court of Claims just now. He wants to remain in the Senate until he can get a chance at Carl Schurz on the revenue reform question and the general question of Missouri politics. Schurz is a pretty smart talker, and it is quite likely when the great occasion comes Drake will wish he had taken to the Court of Claims at once without wait- ing. Hayton, the Philadelphia child murderer, ‘was sentenced in that city on Saturday to be hanged for the most revolting crime that has been made public for many years. The sur- roundings in the court room were peculiar. Women comprised a large part of the crowd that came to be entertained by the horrid scene, and the wife of the prisoner, a mere girl of sixteen, and his two sisters came in, saluted him, and after a short and curt fare- well were hurried out of the court room. Taz Albany Journal (republican organ) favors the admission of ex-Governor Vance as the new conservative United States Senator from North Carolina. There is some such thing as making a virtue of necessity, of which the late election in Missouri was a alriking oxamples NEW. YORK HEKALD, MUNDAY, UKUEMBER. 2 G@eneral Grant as President of the United States and as Head of the Republican Party. General Grant, in the White House, has two importaat parts to play—that of states- man and that of politician; that of Presi- dent of the United States and that of head of the republican party. In other words, he is charged with the duties of the Queen of Eng- land and the labors and responsibilities of her Prime Minister. He is the head of the State and the head of the party in power. His tenure of office, too, as head of the State, de- pends materially upon his course as head of the party responsible for his administration. Elected for one term of feur years, and a cah- didate for another term, as the representative of the republican party, it is his policy, and is clearly his purpose, 80 to conduct his adminis- tration as to maintain the ascendancy of his party in order to secure his re-election. As President of the United States General Grant has proved himself, to the satisfaction of the ceuntry, a careful, thoughtful, honest and conscientious public servant, His last annual Message amply illustrates his desires and his purpose to give in every department of his great office a goed account of hia steward- ship, We see that he has fixed his mind upon reform in the collection of the revenues, upon retrenchment in the expenditures of the Treasury, upon the reduction of our heavy taxations as fast and as far as possible, consistently with an encouraging redemption of the public debt ; and we see, too, that while not insensible (St. Domingo) to the universal American idea of “manifest destiay,” he wishes to maintain peace with all foreign nations, in order that with the largest development of our abounding resources of wealth and prosperity the public burdens may be lightened and the public con- fidence in our national credit, faith and capa- bilities strengthened from a still enlarging surplus revenue upon still diminishing taxes. This is General Grant's policy, clearly defined in his late Message, as President of the United States; and, as the policy of the chief executive officer and guardian of all the States and all the people, it is very good. In a word, the country is satisfied from the intrinsic evidence of this Message, that in General Grant we have a good, careful and honest President, zealously devoting him- self to the interests, the honor and the peace and prosperity of the couniry. As the head, the embodiment and standard bearer for 1872 of the republican party, we have only, then, to consider the merits and deficiencies of General Grant. In the outset it was apparent that he had resolved to try the experiment of ‘‘ranning the machine’’ without the aid of the politicians; but the experi- ment soon proved a failure. With the failure these important facts appeared—that the President must be the organ in his office of the party electing him; that the party electing him is controlled by numerous local leaders, and tbat they, in the distribution of the spoils and honors of the government, must be har- monized, or that the party machine must soon get out of gear and break into pieces. With these discoveries General Grant began to consider the claims of his party politicians, began the active apprenticeship himself of a politician, and, of course, as a new beginner, he has made many mistakes. The negro question being settled in the fifieenth amend- ment, there is ne great issue or great idea to hold the republican party gogether. The offices, too, are distributed so that ‘“‘the cohe- sive power of the public plunder’ with the outsiders has lost its force. The disappeinted local party leaders, therefore, are breaking away, and wrangling cliques and factions upon side issues and personal griefs are spreading disorders and demoralization throughout the party camp. e Where lies the remedy? In a general re- construction of the party machine, beginning with the Cabiuet. Since Jackson we have had no President fully equal to the management of his party. Van Buren was a master poli- tician, but he failed because he was only a politician ; Harrison fell a martyr to the rush of the hungry whig party for offices; Tyler, in attempting a third party, fell between the two stools to the ground ; Polk was brought in and went out asa temporary expedient; Taylor clean sweep, as a political sensation, would wake up the sleepy heads throughout the country; but even a partial reconstruction with some new pieces of timber of the Old Hickory quality would be » great hit, For example, John W. Forney, backed by that skilful, veteran politician, General Cameron, is spoken of for Postmaster General. Why not? Is not Forney, looking to the necessities of Grant and his party, the very man for the time and the place? Was it not Forney who saved the democratic party in 1856, by saving Buchanan in the Pennsylvania October elec- tion ef that year? It was; and how did he save Buchanan? By s. judicious application of some two hundred thousand dollars, mere or less, raised in New York in the buying up certain hungry Fillmore journals and cliques in the Keystone State. Those journals and cliques were in the market, and if Greeley had been as smart as Forney in securing that Pennsylvania Fillmore balance of power by a larger bid than Forney’s Fremont might have been elected. Who knows? Forney, as an active party engineer, at all events, would be at this time to General Grant worth a dozen Greeleys in the Post Office De- partment. Greeley has always been, is and always will be too crotchety and too full of what he knews about farming for 9 party manager. Lincoln smoked him and joked him in that Niagara Falls diplomacy and in other things te his heart’s content; and everybody was delighted with “Old Abe’s” hearty jokes, and Lincoln’s was the trae conception of Greeley. Even Thurlow Weed, with all his reminiscences and all his now harmless ego- tisms, has been a bungling political manager compared with Forney and a very small petato compared with Cameron. And who is John Covede, who insists that Cameron is not the man for the confidence of Grant? Covode, we believe, is the lexicographer who originally spelled Congress with a K, and is an old worn- out political fossil, defeated for Congress in the late Pennsylvania election. And can any one suppose that with the republican rein- forcement of thirty thousand negro votes in the late Maryland election Forney, as Postmaster General, would have been as unlucky as Cres- well? No; for Forney would have carried the State. We know, from what we know of Tam- many Hall, how the thing would have been done, and Forney, a graduate of Tammany, knows how to do it. There is no use in being thin skinned in deal- ing with the rhinoceroses of party politics, A party, like an army, must have a disciplinarian at the head of it, or it will become demoralized and an easy prey to a disciplined enemy. Look at the Prussians and then at the French. Look at Tammany Hall and then at the repub- lican party of New York. General Grant, then, can do nothing better than to imitate the party policy of General Jackson, beginning with his Cabinet. His programme as a states- man is safe enough, but it has neither the sound of the trumpet nor the roll of the drum. As a politician, therefore, General Grant must look to the discipline of his party and call his best generals around him, or in his next ad- vance to the Rhine he may fail, like Napoleon, with all his troops of the line and all his Afri- can legions, The War Situation in France—Continued Dis- aster for the Young Republic. The reports from the theatre of war in France stir the blood again and revive the interest, which was droopiag over a monoto- nous story of defeat and disaster grown old. The defeat and disaster still continue, but the incidents have wrought themselves into new shapes or sought out new localities, and the faithful loyalty and heroic resistance of the French people isa record that will always re- main fresh and interesting. Now, Havre, which has been threatened, is reported cap- tured; the Tours government is packing its trunks to emigrate to Bordeaux ; Paladines’ suc- cessors in the Army of the Loire have already suffered the inevitable penalty of defeat; Gam- betta has suggested an armistice in order to secure an election for the National Assembly, and the restoration of the Bonaparte dynasty is strongly anticipated in London. There stands the situation in detail, and yet the people are hopeful; Gambetta is working vigorously to organize a new Army of the Loire and to raise fresh levies ; Ducrot, on the was a military availability, bat Taylor, in leaning upon the strong men of his party, promised to do well when he was cut off. Fill- more, like Tyler, the lucky Tyler, aspired too high in aspiring to be his own successor, and failed; Pierce, brought in with a rush upon Heary Clay's slavery compromises, was swamped, and nearly swamped his party at once, in the violation of his pledges; Buchanan was altogether too weak and wishy-washy for the terrible crisis of an organized Southern rebellion; Lincoln was borne into the White House a second time, not as the leader of his party, but as the follower of the will and wishes of the mighty North in the war for the Union; Johnson was Tyler No. 3; Grant, elected as the victorious cham- pion of the Union cause in the war, and elected to finish the work of Southern recon- struction adopted by Congress and approved by the people, has now, as statesman and poli- tician, to depend upon his administration as the candidate of the republican party for a re-election. The example of Jackson, then, is the exam- ple for Grant. Jackson, elected first upon what at that day was the unparalleled victory of New Orleans, had to make his capital and consolidate his party for his second election. He in good time raised a good popular issue against the United States Bank; but he did something more. He found that he had a set of old grannies or scheming conspirators in his Cabinet, and from his backwoods training as soldier and politician he bad learned the value of decisive measures. He promptly, thea, turned this rickety Cabinet adrift and gathered about him new men and vigorous and active politicians, up stairs and down stairs in the kitchen, and right and left he made the fur fly from the backs of his party mutineers. Hoe so fully learned the value of active, devoted and skilful party politicians in this work that he made Martin Van Buren his Bismarck and his successor, and the trenchant Frank Blair, of the Washington Giobe, the Von Moltke of the thoroughly disciplined democracy, General Grant, then, should try the réle of Old Hickory, for if he will he can fill it. Let him (exit and bexin with bia Cabinet. A outer edge of Paris, encourages his soldiers to another attack upon the enemy across the Marne, and Trochu, inside the beleaguered city, refuses to believe the news from Orleans and is preparing for another sortie. Was ever another such case of hopefulness, of simple faith, of unquestioning trust? Do French bayonets think ? The removal of the Tours government to Bordeaux, although apt to discourage the people, not only as an evidence of weakness, but as a very undignified display for a govern- | ment of France, would be a good thing in the main if it carried all the politicians with it, But Gambetta is to remain, and he seems to be equivalent to Stanton anda dozen Hallecks in his political mismanagement of the armies covering the capital. His suggestion for a suspension of hostilities in order to hold an election fer a National Assembly indicates that even he, however, is losing heart. He must know that the same terms that were insisted upon by Bismarck before, or, perhaps, harder ones, will be insisted upon now, and when the sentimentalist, Gambetta, is compelled to ask for these, we may be sure that France begins to feel the sore need of her position, The reports from London, that the Napoleonic dynasty may possibly be restored, and that the people of France are anxious for it, is hardly worthy of credence. If France were left to herself she would try a republic until some man like Napoleon rose to the surface and wrested it from her, and if King William has any decisive word to say about it he will not stul- tify himself by putting upon the throne of France a usurper, who has been disowned by his own people, and who signalized the end of his brief reign by tnaugurating the bloody war that now makes the homes and firestdes of Germany desolate. Ovr CzyTraL AND Sour AmERioan Cor- RESPONDENCE.—We publish in this morning’s Heratp letters from our correspondents in the Central American republics, as well as from these republics in South America on the Paciftc side of the Continent. The general prospects are good. With one or two excep- tions the revolutionary spirit is tame, and indications of continued peace and increasing prosperity are many and hopeful, ‘The Lato Military Operations in Franco and Their Results. The recent desperate efforts of the French to relieve Paris from the strangling coil of the German armies may in a general parallel be compared with the closing scenes in the war of our Southern rebellion, both in the objects and their results. Towards the close of March, 1865, with Sherman gdvancing through North Carolina, and with Grant extending and tightening at the same time his lines ground the south side of Petersburg, it became evidentto Lee that his only way of escape was to break the investing line of Grant and then to double it up and demolish it, or to cut through and sec if possible, a junction with the army of Jo Johnston approaching through North Carolina, with Sherman in pur- suit. Accordingly, on the morning of the 25th of March, Lee detailed a heavy colamn against Fort Stedman, one of Grant's invest- ing line of works, carried it, and turned its guns upon Grant's forces. But the sortie was @ shortlived success; for the captured fort was retaken the same day, and the Union army was advanced along all that portion of the line, Then followed those charges upon the enemy’s works and lines which resulted successively in Lee's abandonment of Peters- burg and Richmond, in his retreat westward, in his surrender, with the remainder of his army, at Appomattox Court House, and in the surrender of Johnston’s army in North Carolina, which ended the struggle of the Southern confederacy. Now in these late operations of the French Trochu in Paris occupied the position of Lee at Richmond and Petersburg; King William, with his besieging army, the position of Grant, the Army of the Loire the position of Jo John- ston and Prince Frederick Charles tle position of Sherman. The object of the French army from the Loire was, through a junction with a sortie from Paris, to raise the siege of the city, and the object of Trochu in his sorties was the same. In both cases these desperate attempts failed. Trochu, finally repulsed at all points ‘and driven back within the line of his defensive works, is worse off than he was a month ago, and the Army of the Loire, though reported as num- bering two hundred thousand men and five hundred cannon, has been driven even out of Orleans, and from all appearances will next be driven from Tours. What else, then, with Rouen captured and Havre cut off, what else can be expected of Trochu but the final sur- render of Lee ? But while history, in the closing struggle for Richmond, may thus be said to be repeating itself in the struggle for Paris, the parallel ceases when, in the two cases, we touch the strength of the armies engaged. In March, 1865, Lee’s army for the defence of Richmond and Petersburg hardly exceeded, all told, eighty thousand men, reduced to twenty-seven thousand in his surrender, and Jo Johnston’s, in North Carolina, was less than fifty thousand, Grant's immediate forces for active operations numbered, perhaps, one hundred and twenty thousand men, and Sherman’s about seventy-five thousand. On the other hand, while the German forces in- vesting Paris are reported at two hundred and fifty thousand men, General Trochu is said to have within the circle of the city’s fortifications four hundred thousand solaiers. His late principal sortie was made with a column of one hundred and twenty thousand men. And yet again, the army retained by Prince Frederick Charles, from his army of Metz, is estimated at one hundred and fifly thousand men, swelled to two hundred thou- sand from the troops of the Crown Priuce, while the opposing French Army of the Loire is reported to be two hundred thousand strong. To go no further in the enumeration of the armies engaged in this war in France, there is no approach to these figures in any other war of modern times. Even the imposing army of four hundred thousand men with which the first Napoleon undertook his march to Moscow is eclipsed by the seven hundred thousand armed Germans new upon the soil of France, But if it is stilltrue that ‘Paris is France,’’ the end of this war cannot be far off, although, even with the surrender of Paris, there may still be left three hundred thousand armed Frenchmen in tho field. Such are the astound- ing results of modern science and art as applied in this barbarous business of war. ProsstA AND THE Bonaparte Dynasty.— In the London clubs and other high places there seems to be a growing feeling that the Prussians intend to restore Napoleon to the throne of France. The Situation, a Napoleonic journal published’ in London, begins to speak out very plainly. ‘The Senators of the empire, the Empress presiding, must now meet and make peace with the con- querors.” Now that Havre is besieged, that Tours is threatened, that the government has fled to Bordeaux, that Gambetta asks for an armistice, that Paris is powerless and in despair, it will not be at all wonderful if the Empress and the Senators meet at Versailles and sign @ peace treaty with King William. The anarchy must be brought to an end. If the present self-elected rulers are incompe- tent, we see nothing for it but for King Wil- liam to invite the Empress to Versailles, and, with her consent, force a peace on the French people. It is not at all likely that Bismarck will grant an armistice at this late hour. “Too late” for that. But Germany is tired of the war and so is all the world. Why should poor France be crushed to death because blundering incompetents love office more than their country? “Foouisanzss” Down Souta.—The Mobile Register thinks the game practised by ex- Governor Smith in “holding over” as Governor of Alabama, after he had been thoroughly whipped at the polls, might be repeated once too of‘en, and relates a homely anecdote in this connection, The people of Alabama, it thinks, are like the trJl and pious negrt who, deirg vaptized with a number of others on the bank of the Mississippi river, was accidentally thrown off his feet, and after scrambling to the shore, half drowned, said to the officiating minister, ‘Look here, Mass ness you'll drown some of these niggers.” The people of Alabama, observes the Register, are in no mood to stand any more ‘‘foolishness,” It is to be hoped they will have no occasion in the future to complain of a repetition of the grievance under which they have lately Jaboreds Preacher, if you don’t quit that d—d foolish- * 1870, TRIPLE SAKET. European Despatches by Mail. ‘The European mail of the 24 of December supplies an ample and varied report of the progress of affairs in the Old World to that day. The résumé appears in our columns. The peoples, as will be seen, were kept in a state of agitation whieh was rapidly demoral- izing their very best social interests. War prevailed from Berlin to Paris, and there was rumor of a new in the East. Napoleon's recall to the .of France was spoken of in some quarters cure for the first and most pressing e: , and probably with the idea that it serve te stave off the second. Bismarck 1d the movement for @ Bonaparte restoration, as we are assured, at Versailles. The blbhday féte of the Crown Princess of Prussia was celebrated in right royal style by the bluff old King William and his courtiers in the ancient palace of the kings of France. His Majesty of Prussia stood forth, glass in hand, to toast the health of the reyal lady. His Majesty ap- peared just as expressive of faith in love, with his flagon in hand, as he is “‘dauntless in war” when he grasps the falchion. Queen Victeria appears in her true character, that of a Christian lady, in her affecting, and no doubt consoling, attentions to the Empress Eugénie, Russia was doubtful of the good faith of England’s diplomacy towards the Sul- tam and the Czar. The mail record embraces the details of 9 couple of fatal, frightful acoldents on railroads ; so that we find human- ity till suffering and in dire agony in Europe, with only a few and very faint gleams of do- mestic sunshine to lighten the domestic hearth, Tho Political Outbreak from Point of View. The Chicago Tribune, after rapping the Tammany leaders over the kauckles for their supposed intention of running Hoffman for President in 1872, remarks that the ‘republi- can party must slough off a good many excre- sences that have accumulated upon its back during the past ten years in order to fortify its positions for the next Presidential campaign.” It avers that there has grown up during that period a newspaper press, having its repre- sentatives in almost every large city, “strong enough to be independent, firm enough to maintain its own opinions, discerning enough to know an honest measure from a dishonest one, and to recognize a rogue by his tricks.” That is all very true, although it may be rather difficult for our Chicago contemporary to reconcile its present declarations of inde- pendence with its former condition of radical party subserviency. Every day brings some- thing new—new ideas, new machinery, new lights in all the great affairs of mankind—and an independent press is just the channel through which to spread them before the world. But if the Chicago journal desires to make a great man of Governor Hoffman let it keep on abusing him and his friends, a Western OPERATIONS ON THE Lorre.—As details of the operations on the Loire reach us it be- comes more certain that the result of the bat- tles near Orleans was to split De Paladines’ army in two. Our despatches from French and German sources alike report a two days’ engagement near Meung, not far from Orleans, The first day’s struggle was indecisive ; but on the next day the French were defeated with heavy loss; not, however, before the Germans had suffered severely. These engagements have nothing to do with the battle at Nevoy, a small village northwest of Gien, on the right bank of the Loire. Here must have been the rear guard of the severed right wing of the French in retreat towards Bourges. We learao from Tours that the government is trying to reunite the corps ; but it is doubtfal if success willattend the effort, the Germans at Orleans having a short line of march, by which a junc- tion can be prevented. It would appear, besides, that the French left is entirely on the right bank of the Loire and that the balance of the army is on the left bank. This decreases the chances of their reuniting, As matters now look we must conclude that the French have been as badly outgeneralled on the Loire as they were on the Moselle and on the Meuse. Tun CAINESE AND THE CHRISTIANS AGAIN.— From London we have it by cable that intelli- gence has been received there to the effect that more hostile demonstrations have been made against the Christians. If Napoleon had still been master of France it is undeni- able that this thing would not have happened again. It is unworthy of the United States, of Great Britain, of Russia, to allow this state of things to continue. The President, we know, is sound on the question. Let him call upon the British government and the govern- ment of Russia to act with him in putting down this Chinese barbarism. It will be too late to act when a general massacre has taken place. These repeated onslaughts on the for- eigner are the result of a spirit which is gene- ral all over China—a spirit which is fanned by the religious teachers of the people; and no- thing but might can prevent them. The pio- neers of Christian civilization must be pro- tected. A CoNUNDRUM FROM THE INTERIOR.—The Rochester Democrat (republican), referring to the telegraphic announcement about certain removals in the New York Custom House, accompanied by the statement that ‘they were all appointees of Senator Fenton,” remarks :— if this is given as the reason of their removal the conundrum which presents itself to our mind 18 easily answered. And that conundrum ts this:— “What is to become of the republican party in the State of New York if tenure of ofice is to depena upon fealty to Senator Fenton or Senator Conkling, respectively, as official superiors may chance to own allegiance to, for the time?” In the absence of the direct answer to this conundrum we suppose the republicans who take an interest in the subject will have to do as some obnoxious persons have been com- pelled to do in regard to office, ‘‘give it up.” Doxw Pratt, the correspondent, and Clin- ton Rice, the councillor of McGarrahan, of claims notoriety, came within an ace recently of having. an old-fashioned duel at Bladens- burg, one of the kind we used to read about when men did not care for their skins at all, but would rather have them perforated than take a nose pulling. Rice challenged the cor- respondent, and but for one thing a bloody duel would have taken place. The corre- spondeat would not accept, and the Chief of Police interfered, ‘Theatrical and Other Sermons Yesterday, Yesterday Brother Beecher abandoned the sombre style of delivery with which he had surprised his fashionable congregation for some weeks past, and was himself again. Perhaps he bad grown alarmed at the ap- proaching revival of the “Black Crook,” and desired to give sinners a counter attraction which would wean them from the meretricious influences of that pestiferous drama. But whatever his reasons were, it is certain that his sermon was not only serlo-comical in tig language, but that it afforded a sublime oppor- tunity, which was not lost, for Brother Beecher te exhibit his powers as a comedian. Indi. vidual responsibility in religious and secular affairs was the theme of the discourse. Roars of laughter attested the powers of the preacher and the joy of the congregation. And when the swagger of the Popinjay of Europe was described in pantomime the enthusiasm was immense. One pious individual encored so loudly and persistently that he had to be squelched by a volley of ‘‘sh’s!” Thus passed the Christian Sabbath at the Brooklyn Taber- nacle, We cherish the hope that many souls were saved. At the New England Congregational church the ‘Promethean sparks” of Rev, Mr. Richard- son’s thoughts flashed out spontaneously and brilliantly upon his hearers, illuminating their hearts with the light of salvation. The preacher illustrated self-reliance by the “Eagle's Nest.” He held that the young eagles utter screams of distress because “it was good for them”—an opinion which comes somewhat in conflict with the science of nature, though, for all we know to the con- trary, it may hold good in theology. How- ever, the idea developed was that man to be self-reliant must take the career of the eagle asan example. If not irreverent, we would suggest a qualification in the matter of prey- ing. Rev. Charles B. Smyth, at the American Free Church, preached eloquently on the zeal of Christ, and besought the clergy to be as cosmopolitan and unsectarian as He was, At: the Swedenborgian church Rev. Chauncey Giles discoursed on the resurrection of the soul, while at Lyric Hall Mr. Frothingham held forth on the importance of possessing a good character. Bishop Snow pitched into the Pope as usual and had much to say about the beast and the dragon. Rev. Mr. Hepworth dwelt upon the necessity of believing with all one’s might, and Rev. Mr. Tracy, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, delivered an eloquent sermon on the coming of Christ. Atall the Catholic churches the Feast of the Immaculate Conception was cele- brated with great pomp, and able sermons delivered touching the day. It was observed that all the churches were well attended. Nor was this unexpected. The present season is the greatest known to Christians. In less than a fortnight Christ- mas Day willbe here, and it is but natural, as the anniversary of the birth of the Saviour approaches, that the minds of the masses will ba directed to the contemplation of religion. An event so great, so momentous as that which will soon be commemorated cannot fail to profoundly move the Christian heart in all parts of the world. The British Premier and the Pope. _ Premier Giadstone’s note in reply to that of Edmund Dease, M. P. for Queen's county, Ireland, imploring the intervention of the British government in the interests of the Holy Father, has, as was to be expected, created a considerable amount of excitement jin the British Isles. The Premier stated that the government had already taken measures to protect the Pope. In what way it is intended to protect the Holy Father it is not said. Personally the Holy Father is not in danger. But his tempo- ralities are gone. He is no longer the master of Rome. Premier Gladstone is a warm per- sonal friend of the Archbishop of Westminster. In spite of the change which has passed over the mind of Dr. Manning Mr. Gladstone re- members the time when their religious senti- ments were the same, and loves his ancient friend. Considering the peculiar condition of the nations of the Continent, and not forgetful of complications which might seriously embar- rass Great Britain, Mr. Gladstone has very wisely flung out a sop to Ireland. At the same time it will not be wonderful if the “no Popery” spirit of England breaks forth against’ the Prime Minister, and if the cry is raised that Gladstone is too much under the influence of Manning. It will not surprise us if the British government promptly helps the Pope out of his troubles; but meanwhile we shall expect a loud outery in England against Popery in high places—great fear and trembling being every- where in prospect of a Popish invasion. Earl Russell is almost certain to be out with an- other letter—if not from Durham or Edinburg, from some other place just as deserving of renown. Tae Srrvation at Havre.—A rumor pre- vailed in Brussels on the 8th instant that Havre had been occupied by the Germans, but it was undoubtedly premature, as yesterday we published a despatch from that city, dated also on the 8th, which reported that French iron-clads had been ordered to repair there im- mediately and aid in its defence. Further- more, a despatch from Lille of the same date announced that communications had been re- established with the town. It is thus evi- dent that the city could not have been in the hands of the Germans on that dey. A despatch from the city, dated on the 7th, mentioned a battle as having been fought near by, but did not give the result. On the fol- lowing day an investment was expected. Havre is not only strongly fortified, but all the fortifications are of modern construction. These were begun in 1856, and only recently . completed. They comprise a series of bastions completely encircling the town, with detached forts in advance, as at Paris. Hence, if the place is occupied by the Germans, it will be because it is voluntarily surrendered. Tue Ramway Lap Jons or THE Forty First Conarrss.—We give a list of them im another part of this paper, and a start- ling exhibit it is, too, of the appropria- tions of the lands of the American people ¢ by these railway lobby jobbing combi- nations in Congress. General Grant has broadly hinted in his Message that these greedy railway land sharks have had enough; but how are they to be prevented from taking more and more, ufltil the laat acre of our once