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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’ HERALD, Pace. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisementa, 3—The War in France: HERALD Special Reports from Versailles and Paris—Rome and the Pope—Spain—Prim’s Funeral—Holland and Englana—Deep Sea Telegraphs—The January Statement of the Public Debt—Cock Fight in lovoken. 4—The State Capital: Opening of the Ninety-fourth Session of the Legislature; the Governor's lessage; a Short Session Very Little Legisiatioa Recommended; Reduction of Taxes Necessary and Possible; the Governor Favors Rapid fransit tn the Metropolis—An Elevated Ratiroad Through the Blocks the Best Plan; the State All Right; the Condition of the Union the Important Question. 5—The Governor's Message (continued from Fourth Paye)—Finances of the State—Volce of the People—The Cold Snap—The Latest Fugtuve from Paris—The Nation's Orphans—Work of the Indian Ring in Washington—A Murderer Murdered— ings in the Courts—Admi- rai Porter—Westward, Ho !—Brooklyn Intelli- gence. 6— Exitoriais: Leading Article, ‘‘The Governor's Message—The State Legislature’’—Amusement Aunouncements, ‘Y—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—Pers »nal Intelligence—News from Washington—Tele- phic News—The Tunnel Railroad War—A mnessee Railroad Horror—Views of the Past—Business Notices. S—Europe : The Second Change of Base an Advan- tage to the French Armies; Why Paris Is Not Bombaraed; Earl Russell on the Military Re- sources of Great Britain; King William’s Ad- dress to the Armies of Germany; Father Hya- cinthe on the War—Table Talk with Count Bis- marck—New Year's: Celebration of Ladies’ Day—The Shakspeare Monument—Army Intel- ligence, 9—Carnival of Crime: First Grand Array at the Tombs in 1871—Captain Eyre, of the Bombay— Financial and Commercial Reports—General News Items—Marriages, Birth and Deaths— Advertisement? 10—Taking of the Vell: A Lady of the Ton Re- nouncing the World—Desperate Burglars— Suicide at Highland Falls—Vagaries of Jersey Justice—Amusements—Strike Among Labor- ers—The Blockade on Barclay Street to be Re- moved—Lecture by Professor Youmans—Thae Houston Street Wife Murder—The Historical Soctety. 11—A Wounded Frane-Tireur’s Story: Melancholy Legend of the House of Chiselhurst—Among the Criminals: Visit of a HERALD Reporter to the Philadelphia Prison—fhe Couut Joannes as a Detective—Advertisements. 12—Adverusements. Concress REASSEMBLES To-Day.—The mem- bers of the two houses, like the boys of our schools, after the pleasures of the Christmas and New Year holidays, it is supposed, are ready for busin GENERAL Priw’s remains were honored with an imposing funeral in Madrid yesterday. A “multitudinous” congregation of peeple wit- nessed and attended in the cortége. There was no disturbance, at least so far as our present despatches report. Within a short period of time we shall be told The scuiptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns proclaim who rests below. And so Marshal Prim will have passed into history. Rabinenrcece zi Iv Has Been Reportep that Mr. Carey’s seat in the Legislature is to be contested by Mr. Twombly. Can't ‘Mother Cary "—Tam- many—take eare of her chickens? Tue FRENCH ADVANCE IN THE East,—The recent defeat of the Germans at Gray and cap- ture of the town by the French? indicates that the latter are pushing forward in the direction of Belfort, probably with the intention of rais- ing the siege. Since the movement began the French have made considerable progress. The distance from Chalons-sur-Saéne, whence they started to Gray, is some seventy miles. They seem to have freed the departments of Cite d@’Or and Haute-Marne from the presence ofthe Germans entirely, and unless a stand is made at Vesoul, the largest town in the Haute- Sadne, the Fremch will soon be in the depart- ments of Haut-Rhin and Vosges. Treasure FRoM CoLorapo.—The embryo State of Colorado during the year ending December 31, 1870, shipped to the East over. five million dollars’ worth of gold and silver. “Winning Ways.”—The Philadelphia Press, organ of the Pennsylvania iron-mongering, high tariff republicans, says, by way of a joke, perhaps, that “‘the champions of slavery were always determined free traders.” The cham- pions of slavery being ‘‘out of the way,” pro- bably the ‘‘winning ways” of the editer of the Press may be tending toward a gentle sever- ance from the Pennsylvania republican cohe- sive affiliations. Forney in the democratic ranks in 1872! What a spectacle! No one, however, will question his ‘winning ways.” Tue Puaperpata Age, a consistent demo- cratic organ in Pennsylvania, announces that the revenue districts in that State are to be remodelled, and avers that it would be better to remodel the incumbents. Trovste IN THE Horizox—Democratic schisms in the Twelfth ward, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4 1871-‘TKIPLE SHEET. ie Gevernor’s Message—The State Legis ture. Although the present session of the Albany Legislature will probably develop little work ofimportance to the State—no leading ques- tions of vital consequence being before it, such as those connected with the remodelling of our city government and the laying out flatof certain disorganizing elements in the ruling party, which rendered the session of 1870 re- markable above all others as a battle field of shifting scenes, full of excitement and pregnant with the future interests of the metropolis—the message of Gover- nor Hoffman, which we print in full to-day, is worthy of much thought and con- sideration. The Governor, partially ignoring the past of our local legislation, goes deeply into the future not only of the State but ofthe country. He regards the legislation of last year as having accomplished so much good for the State—in the discouragement of special legisla- tion, the modification of the excise laws and the restoration to the people of the great cities of their municipal rights, including the Charter for the government‘of New York, all of which have commanded the popular endorsement— that little is left for the present Legistature to accomplish, and that, therefore, it should not continue beyond the time absolutely necessary for the labor required to fill such deficiencies as may remain from the legislation of last year, or such new measures as the progress of events may demand. That the terrible bore and ob- struction to business involved in special legis- lation—which simply means the capital upon which the disreputable lobby trades and grows fat—has been in a great measure killed off is owing to Governor Hoffman's judicious vetoes of last year. We cannot expect, however, that the lobby, that hungry and greedy excres- cénce, will be deterred by the opposition of the Governor from pursuing its occupation. On the centrary, it will probably endeavor to revive many of the bills passed last year in private or corporate interests, with a view to their repeal, unless the parties interested, and who have been” already bled profusely by the lobbyists, come down with fresh gratuities. The Governor will, therefore, have an opportunity of exer- cising the veto power with the same discretion and vigor which for the past two years con- signed to oblivion so much rotten legislation. But even should it happen that some of his vetoes shall be overridden, which is the pos- sible fate of all execuiive privileges in this regard, the Governor will at least have a chance to expose the corruption of such jobs as by undue haste or evil influence may find their way through the Legislature to the Execu- tive chamber for endorsement. Governor Hoff- man is remarkable in the exercise of the veto power, in this, that he dissects the obnoxious bill with a sharp scalpel, and, by giving his objections in a clear, full and logical fashion, exposes its enormity or its absurdity at once, 80 that, whether the job lives or dies, the public are put in possession of all its corrup- tion, and they know where the veto comes in appropriately. We do not mean to discuss the Governor's message in detail. There are many points in it bearing upon the immediate interests ef the State and of the metropolis which will com- mand attention. In the laws relating to mur- der, for instance, he asks for such changes by the Legislature as will enable juries to render a verdict of murder in the second degree, which involves the penalty of imprisonment for life, instead of the existing law, which on'y leaves them the option of convicting for manslaughter. The necessity for such a modification of the law is severely felt in this community, in view of the increase of homicides in our midst. Upon the question of rapid transit between the two ends of Man- hattan Island the Governor favors the HzraLp plan of an elevated railroad, built through the rear of the blocks, and thus aveiding the dis- figurement of the streets and the obstruction of travel on the crowded highways. This is the most available way of obtaining an easy and speedy transit to the upper end of the city, and we are glad that the Governor recommends it in preference to the impracti- cable schemes of underground and arcade and surface railroads, all of which will of course be up in due order again this session, to meet with the same fate that awaited them last year, The Governor, evidently regarding the affairs of the State to be in a pretty flourishing condition, and seeing that they are.in the hands of the democratic party, with a majority in the Legislature just sufficient to make straight the path for the democratic leaders, devotes the most serious portion of his message to the affairs of the federal government and the general interests of the nation. Herein he looks into the future, beginning with a squint at the Presidential democratic prospects for 1872. The course of the administration is subjected to severe criticism. Its financial policy is denounced as a system designed for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. The Governor undertakes to lecture Secretary Boutwell and to point out to him the way which the democratic party mean to pursue when they get into power in order to relieve the country from all its monetary diffi- culties, including the payment of the public debt, by slow degrees instead of the present mode of rapid reduction of the debt, and the consequent increase of the heavy burden of taxation upon the present generation. Upon the question of free trade the Gov- ernor’s pronouncemeat is explicit. It is the old broad democratic doctrine that ‘the prin- ciple of special protection is at war with the general sentiment of the world,” and there- fore finds no place in the democratic heart. ‘*Piecemeal amendments to the tariff,” says the Governor, ‘‘are of little value. What we need is that a rebuke shall come up from the people, se strong that it cannot be overlooked or forgotten, of the practice of impesing taxes fer any purpose, save the one of procuring necessary revenue for the public treasury. No compromise should be made on this ques- tion; nothing accepted by the peeple short of the establishment of a tariff, as moderate as the necessities of the government will permit, applied to as few articles as will yield the required amount, and adjusted strictly to its only lawful purpose, that of raising revenue.” We could hardly expect that, in following up the federal government with a sharp stick, the threatened interference of United States troops at our recent election in this city would escape censure. The Governor rebels against that foolish and unnecessary action of the government at Washington, as many thou- sands of our wise and thoughtful citizens do; but as the affair proved wholly innocuous and the attempt is not at all likely to be repeated, it might perhaps have been as well if it had not been alluded to, However, as a matter of principle, seriously involving municipal rights, the Governor doubtless thought it his duty to refer to it in the following strong language. He says :— The police and civil authorities of the city and State, whose duty it 18 to preserve order, were ig- nored, under instructions trom Washington, a3 completely as if the people of the State were in re- bellion against the government of the United States. lt was a bold attempt on the part of the federal go- verninent to assume absolute control of the State and local elections tn order to accomplish partisan ends; and officials, both judicial and executive, seemed determined to prosecute it without any re- ate A the rights either of tae local officers or of the In all this portion of the Governor's Mes- sage touching upon the national finances, taxation, the tariff and the legitimate limits of federal authority have we not presented to us the stoutest planks in the democratic platform for the Presidential contest in 1872? Whether Governor Hoffman is the spokesman of the party by authority of the party or not, he has undoubtedly foreshadowed its policy. Hoff- man, as the re-elected Executive of the State, by the grace of a handsome democratic majority, and probably the chosen standard bearer of the party in the Presidential battlo of next year, if the stalwart democrats of the West will accept him, has a heavy weight of responsibility to carry. His words will there- fore be esteemed as oracular, as utterances, indeed, coming from one who assumes the right to speak for the democratic party and lay down its future policy. In this view the Mes- sage possesses more than a mere State or local interest. The News from Paris. The news from Paris which we publish this morning is quite interesting. Our corre- spondent in the besieged city sends an account of the last sortie, the result of which the reader already knows. It will be noticed that a great deal of straggling is reported, but that is something which all raw troops will indulge in. Aswe understand it, the sortie was the result of demonstrations made by the Germans against the northeast defences of Paris. The French official reports claim successes, but it is evident that the contest favored neither side at best. One despatch from Paris, dated December 31, reports children dying for the want of milk. This statement must be taken with many grains of allowance. It is probably true, however, that the supply of coal is exhausted ; but there is no need for the people to suffer to any extent for want of fuel, as the Bois de Boulogne and the forests at other points contain enough wood to last six months. An explanation for the evacuation of Fort Avron is given, to the effect that the garrison voluntarily left it to escape the Prussian shells, This isnot bad. Troops defending a place seldom leave it from any other cause. Paris continues in good spirits. Reports of General Chauzy’s successes are received with enthusiasm, and, althongh the press censure the military authorities in the eity for their inactivity, it is evident that the peeple are as satisfied with the situation as they well can be, circumstanced as they are. Of course they are elamorous for another sortie, and doubt- less there are plenty of street-corner generals in Paris who express themselves able to break the investing line if they were in cemmand. Trochu, however, seems determined to bide his own time—or perhaps he is preparing a grand coup. de main, as our Versailles cor- respondent suggests, which will astonish the Germans and the world at large. The New German Constitation. The German crown has been offered to and accepted by William of Prussia. Among the monarchs of the hour King William is the most prosperous. Under him the old German empire is restered. Since 1806 the German or Holy Roman empire has been defunct. Now that the old name is revived people ask what the restored German empire means. In few words let us explain. The new con- stitution comes under a threefold division. It consists of the crown, the princes and the Par- liament. Of the Parliament, or Reichstag, we must speak well. The power is distributed in accordance with populatien. The Reich- stag is to consist of three hundred and eighty- two members, elected by ballet and universal suffrage in the proportion of one member to every one hundred thousand of the popula- tion, In this House Prussia will be repre- sented by two hundred and forty, or nearly two-thirds of the whole. In the Parliament, or Reichstag, Prussia will, therefore, be master of the situation. The Imperial Council is to consist of the twenty-five Princes of Germany. The votes are te be as follows :— Saxe-Altenburg, 1 1 1 Reuss-Schlei Schaumburg- Fg everererereyey Saxe-Coburg~ In the Council of Princes, a new House of Lords, Prussia will only, as the figures prove, have a one-third vote. As the Federal coun- cil has the right of proclaiming war, it is natu- ral te argue that the new German constitu- tion must be peaceful in its tendencies, This new experiment in the art of govern- ment canenly be judged on its own merits, and time is necessary te make a judgment just. We are willing to wait; but we are by no means satisfied that the new constitution is perfect. Germany will have to make some changes before she can say she has reached millennium perfection. GastonapE IN Bostoy.—Mr. Gaston, a resident of Roxbury, was inaugurated Mayor of Boston on Monday. In his opening he ignores old projects of city improvements and advises a close scrutiny into new ones, Is this progress ? Kine Witt1aM has tickled bis phlegmatic fancy with a New Year's reception at the Palace of Versailles, He can be excused for a little conceit in this matter, but he will very likely have a much warmer reception when he goes to Parise Christmas in| Rome. The Herarp correspondeat in Rome sup- plies, by a telegraph letter addressed to us in London and forwarded from the British capi- tal by special cable despatch to New York, the celebration of the Christmas festival in the Holy City as it was observed on the anni- versary day which has just closed. It is a mournful report, particularly so when we con- sider the glorious occasion and reflect on the surrounding circumstances. The dawn of the day of the nativity of the Saviour faund social gloom, discontent, public distrust and popular alarm existing in the Capitol of the city which has during many centuries been styled the centre of Christian unity and the fount of con- solation for the ‘orphans of the heart.” Chris- tianity appears to have lost its faith for the moment in the presence of the fleeting tempo- ralities of the lay power of a throne, and under the influence of their pressure. His Holiness the Pope absented himself, voluntarily, from the altar of St. Peter's. In the recesses of the Vatican Pio Nono may have reflected on the majesty of the courage which was displayed by Daniel in the lions’ den, remembered the patience of holy Job, reverted to the dogmatic definition of the apostolicity of the commission which was given to St, Peter, and renewed his fortitude and moral strength by a reperusal of the nature of the glorious apparitions of Christ walking on the waters and calmly sleeping on the deck of the storm-tossed bark; but, if the Pope did so we fear that the mortal man pre- vailed for the moment ever the immortal spirit, as it did with Peter himself in the hall of Pilate. Nature was in accord with the terrestrial situation. The weather in Rome was most disagreeable, unusually and particularly so. Political discussion was carried on on all sides, Every day rivalries and jealousies, accompanied or enforced by vituperative crimi- nation and partisan recrimination, were heard in the streets and in the press. Men quar- relled concerning the executive claims of King Victor Emmanuel and the counter claims of authority by the Pope-King. The Church remained firm. Democracy was inclined to be fierce. The interchange of family greeting wasalmost suspended. The King of Italy was expected (we have reported his advent and exit since), and many of the people were inclined to side with his Majesty. In such fashion was the Christmas Day of 1870 passed in Rome. Im after ages, when the seat of religion has been restored with all its simple brillianey perhaps in Jerusalem and the future historian turns up the musty record of the present hour, he will wonder in amaze- ment and inquire, What manner of Christian men endured in Rome—Rome so distracted and uncharitable ? ‘al of the Duke of Mecklenburg—A Glance at the Military Situation, The Heratp correspondent at Versailles sends the information that it is reported at the headquarters of King William that the Grand Duke of Meekleaburg has been summarily dis- missed from his command. The Duke com- manded the right wing of the army of Prince Frederick Charles. The task assigned to that army was the annihilation of the Army of the Loire, if possible, but at all events te push it back, and thus reduce its chances of being able to give Paris the slightest assistance. In this, however, the Duke failed. It is plain, then, that this French army, which we were told by bulletins was badly beaten at Orleans, Beaune-la-Rolande and other peints, cut in two, forced to retreat in a disorderly condition and almost completely ‘‘used up,” was in reality not so badly beaten after all ; and as for being demoralized, the best answer to that allegation is to point eut that, notwith- standing all those disasters of which we have heard so much, the Army of the Loire was able to preserve the stores which had been accumulated for the relief of the capital. If more is meeded to convince us that this “routed, demoralized and undisciplined army of Frenchmen” is not only a formidable force, but now a threatening force, it is the removal of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg from his command for not being able to stay its ad- vance, For some time past the Grand Duke and General Chauzy have been manceuvring, with advantage accruing somewhat in faver of the French general. There is no impetuosity, no seeking after grand dramatic effects, no grand charges, as have in many campaigns distin- guished French movements, but instead there is'a steady, solid, almost slow movement for- ward not at all palatable to the German com- mander. France has now too much at stake, and from the very nature of circumstances must act with the greatest caution. The life of the nation is set upon a cast which the French armies must shortly throw. The French generals appear to realize this and are acting accordingly. It may seem a little strange at first sight that the Germans do not pursue the same policy which rendered their strategy so successful in the early por- tion of the campaign. It now appears evident that the successes of the Red Prince and the Grand Duke and the Bavariaus of Von der Tann did not accomplish as much as their royal master intended the world should believe they achieved. We see no more of the hurling of heavy masses of troops against inferior bodies which snatched victory frem the impe- rial forces of Napoleon. Suppose this plan were now attempted. Fancy that in order to crush Chauzy’s force Prince Frederick Charles marched to the assistance of the Grand Duke, as he formerly hastened to the assistance of Von der Tann, what might we reasonably anticipate as a censequence of such a movement, Bourbaki unwatched would most certainly advance and possibly appear somewhere close to Fentainebleau. The army of Bourbaki, with the late reinforce- ments which it has received from Marseilles, Lyons and other points in the southeast of France, cannot fall very far short of one hun- dred thonsand men—a force, it will be admit- ted, which requires watching. Regarding the army commanded by General Chauzy, his force is vastly superior to that of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, and is daily increasing in aumbers, figuring up to between one hundred and twenty-five and one hun- dred and fifty thousand men, It is the slow but steady approach of this large army to the investing lines around Paris which causes anxiety at the Prussian headquarters, and the inability to drive it Rei back has lost, if report speaks truly, the Grand Duke his command, It is noticeable, too, that the German soldlers have lost mueh of that vim and spirit which formerly distinguished them. They have grown tired and weary of the campaign and are anxious to return to their homes. In the next great battle near Paris, which we believe is imminent now that the Seine is frozen over, this lack of spirit may tell against the investing armies now threat- ening the capital of France. is Blurt from the Black Repub- lican Trombone. The chief wind instrument of the black republican orchestra in this city, the Z’rom- bone, seems to be giving itself a great deal of uneasiness just now about the Heratp. This, no doubt, in part arises from the HgRALp’s recent brilliant news victories, an uninterrupted series of which has followed ever since we fairly entered upon the business of reporting the startling occurrences hourly taking place in the great theatre of war in Europe. It is true that at the outset the Z’rombone, having a little surplus cash on hand, made a spas- modic attempt te get up a sensation through its special cable despatches from Europe. It was greatly aided in this effort by the fortu- nate circumstance of its having an enterprising and accomplished correspondent in London, who, however, seems to have exhausted the black republican Trombone's funds just about the time the Emperor Napoleon surrendered his sword at Sedan. As on that occasion the defeated Enaperor said to the conquering King William, ‘‘Having'no army at my command, I lay down my sword at the feet of your “Majesty,” so the defeated Z'rombone, having no more surplus funds to spare, lays down its sword to the conquering HERALD, and has been encountering a Woerth, a Gravelotte, a Metz, a Strasbourg and numberless other defeats ever since. It seems to have wrapped itself into a sort of Wilhelmshéhe of lazy ease and indifference, with an impecunious money chest, while the Heratp, like the Prussian hosts, has been plunging on from one grand victory to another in the field of enterprising journalism. This sudden cessation in a newspaper enter- prise of the magnitude initiated by the black republican Z'rombone, (begun, as some banking houses and insurance companies begin their impositions, by erecting extravagant and un- necessary structures at the expense of divi- dends due stockholders), may be ascribed to a variety of causes, the most potent of which is, probably, the necessity of reducing the expen- ditures in order to appease the apprehensions of the Trombone’s timid stockholders, no little squeaking being heard in the joint stock or- chestra at the expense already incurred by the cable war telegrams. On the reputation earned for enterprise during a couple of weeks atthe beginning of the war the Z'rombone, with eharacteristic cupidity, has been strutting and blowing ever since. It has been uttering boast after boast at its lavish expenditure for cable news, when the greatest portion of it has been paid by its contemporaries. In the meantime, the Heratp has estab- lished permanent correspondents at all the principal points at the seat of war, as well as in the capital cities of Europe, It has been permitted to enjoy private interviews with all the great actors in the momentous drama new going en in Europe. This is a privilege which could never be enjoyed by the black republican Trombone ; for its name is as much unknown in the armies as {t is in the Cabinets of Europe, while that of the New York Heratp is a talisman that opens alike the castles of the distinguished and the mouths of emperors, kings, grand dukes, cabi- net ministers, marshals of the empire, prominent prelates and both republi- can and monarchical leaders. The Heratp special cable despatches have been the marvel of newspaper enterprise of the day. They have been transferred to the columas of Euro- pean journals just as our despatches from the seat of war in Abyssinia made the London journals acknowledge the superior enterprise of the Heratp. From the remarkable inter- view with Napoleon at Wilkelmshéhe to the latest information, including the battles in Orleans, the sinking of the English ships in the Seine, the gorties of the French from Paris, the recent operations near Havre, the rumored removal of the Duke of Mecklenburg, the pending tremendous bombardment of the capital of France, and numerous other im- portant events, is the New World and, no doubt, a large portion of the Old indebted to the Hzra.p cable specials. We have no objection to the black republi- can Zrombone takiug advantage of our enter- prise and using our special despatches, on the terms agreed upen by the Associated Press, thus giving it the benefit of the extensive corps of correspondents which we have estab- lished at immense personal cost all over Europe. But while it uses them, and thus shares in the benefits of our enterprise at a comparatively meagre outlay to itself, we protest against its envious blurtings at our continued and brilliant victories in the field of news. An Envi Toe Caprain oF THE BomBay.—We notice that Captain Eyre, ef the steamer Bombay, whose conduct at the time he ran into and sunk the United States steamer Oneida caused his suspension for the term of six months, has, at the expiration of the time, been notified by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Com- pany, his employers, that his services are no longer required. This to Captain Eyre has probably proved a more severe punishment than the mere suspension. Tue Game oF SonvyrEerR Corrax for the next Presidency, it appears, is the old game of Horatio Seymour. Colfax, in other words, has peremptorily and positively. with- drawn from the course in order to make a flank movement upon all his rivals, not except- ing General Grant. We fear, however, that this trick of Seymour is played out. What thinkest thou, Horatio? ARoyat Carret-Baaaer.—The Washing- ton Patriot, edited by the American ex- Minister to Portugal, speaks of the new King of Spain as a “‘carpet-bagger.” American ideas are progressive. Drvision oF TENNESSER.—Southwestern papers are agitating the question of dividing Tennessee into two States. Better make it three; then the Tenmesseeans will know where they ara,“ eh oat ' rat | readily, glthough it can bardly be sajd The Philosophy and Relicion of the Euro pean War—Pere Hyacinthe’» Lecture. The European friend and lately honored visitor and guest of the American people, Pere Hyacinthe, is, as will be seen by our mail report, in London. Emerging from the gloom of the monastery into the open light and warmth and glow of our everyday humanity and democracy, the naturally vigorous mind of the reverend gentleman has expanded under the influence of the association and become vastly utilitarian in its effort and application, This fact is made ap- parent by the report of a lecture which Father Hyacinthe has just delivered in Hanover square, London. His subject was France and Germany and the war. Striking off from, ignoring almost, the beaten and bat- tered path of the mere brutem fulmen which has prevailed in the narratives of the war his- torians pretty much since the day of the song of the ‘homicidal, carnage-crimsoned, wall- battering Marsa” of Homer, Father Hyacinthe ranged upward in his ideas. He pleaded the philology of our race generally, the antagon- isms of its ethnological divisions as the causes of local conflicts, and then pointed out the amalgamating influences of science as tending towards a universality of senti- ment and of love and of religion among men. The lecture was a very excellent and most learned effort. ‘‘Although modern science does not agree on the origin of races being ene,” says Father Hyacinthe, ‘‘I did not fear ita researches, and even if the result were the negative, the unity of races would still exist, if not in one man, at least in one God. Later the races will all join in universal brother- hood and civilization.” And again :— “Tt was said that the present war had two positive causes—the antipathy of races and the opposition of religions. His object was to prove the contrary, There was no antagon- ism of races; there were certainly two dif- ferent races, but that distinction was in itself noble and just. God Himself had recognized it in the Revelation, There were two concep- tions ef races—the one ancient or pagan, the other modern or Christian. The first thought itself a superior race. Even its gods were of a distinct character. It waged wars of religion atthe same time as of conquest. But the Gospel had changed all that. The Christian races had distinct features and different mis- sions, but they were no longer isolated, and, consequently, no longer enemies.” Toward Napoleon’s mistakes Pitre Hya- cinthe is tolerant and forgiving, as becomes a Christian gentleman. He said he thought “justice had been denied to the second empire ; for that government had made the unity of Italy and caused that of Germany. It was @ generous policy, well expressed by Napo- leon III. during the Italian campaign in the words, ‘Every one kuows that before the flag of France there goes a great idea and behind ita great people.’ But later bad advice had forced the Emperor to change his policy.” In speaking ef the eveutualities and consequences of the present struggle Father Hyacinthe proved himself to be a political economist of the first class, an able scientist and a catholic of the great and coming Church of the world. He said:—‘The loss of Lor- raine will not hurt France much, for the people are French in heart, ifGerman in blood, Let them remain as a link between the two races ; fer was not France herself in some way of German descent? This war, when peace came, which must be soon, will havehad three beautiful results, for good is ever in evil— viz,: The unity of Germany; the regenerae tion of France and of the Latin races; the freedom of Rome.” A grand, sublime idea; the consummation of the fruits of the Saviour’s precept when He commanded Peter to put up the sword and healed the wound which he had hastily inflicted with it. Important Rumor From Wasninator.—f is reported that the administration is perfect- ing a plan whereby the government shall re- sume specie payments before the 1st of Jan- uary, 1872. OpERATIONS ON THE LoirE.—The German army which is reported to have retired upon Gien must not be mistaken for that confront- ing General Chauzy. It is the ‘“Third army” which pursued Bourbaki across the Loire in the direction ef Bourges after the French defeat near Orleans. This force is now con- fronted by what is known as the Army of Bor- deaux, which recently began an advance movement towards Orleans. The forces ope- rating against General Chauzy are at a consi- derable distance northwest of Gien, which place is situated om the Loire, some miles east- southeast of Orleans. It is evident, however, from the fact of General Chauzy having returned from Le Mans to Vendéme, that the two French armies are operating to effect a junction. Enoiish GovERNMENT SALE OF A TELE- GRraPH.—The English government has just seld its property in the deep sea cable which communicates between Malta and Alexandria. All the stock and material, submarine and on land, connected with the undertaking has been purchased by an incorporated company. The line cost the government, it is said, over two millions of dollars a few years since. It has realized one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars by the sale. Somebody loses, Tae New Eprror of the Washington Chron- icle enters the field with beaming modesty. He says that “‘mo man can ride well until he is firmly seated in his saddle and knows both his horse and the road.” We hope he will not find Washington a ‘‘hard road to travel.” Tne Siens oF THE TiMES are full of mise chief. Christmas Day was a dismal day in Rome, New Year's was a dull day in Washing- ton, and Christmas and New Year were any- thing but cheerful in Paris and anything but “merry” and “happy” days in Madrid. The ball of war and revolution, set in motion by Prim and Napoleen, still keeps reiling. Mr. GREELEY AND THE PreEs:DENT have: become friends again, if we may judge by the fact that the two were in cerdial conversation at the White House yesterday. The President sent for the philosopher to hear his views on telegraph monopolies and steamship subsidies apd the future of the republican party, and the ever-ready philosopher came once and gave his views quite