The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1871, Page 6

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Sofpfrertiscmenss. a—Ohangy's D "s Defeat: —o Special Report from of the Batue Field and Sur- iounainr country —The Battle ef Bapaume— Bombardment of Paris—The European legrams, ress—City Intelligence— e Magisterial Investiga- tion Closed at Last—Boo Notices—Custom House Affairs—London Fashions: ‘the Winter Season at the British tal—Rallroad Colli. sions in Jersey—The Matri vara Intelligence—-Another Unfortunate j—The Scare About or rpg ene r Famine—J S—reland's “Felon” Heroes : Gonditional al Release of the Prisoners; The Exile of the Pohtical Mistake—A Vir- pry : Extraordinary ‘Ghostly Antics and a Mysterious Demonstrations— Horse Notes— Confederated Crime: sentencing of Couvic- ted Crimmals in the Federal Courts—The Crowe Divorce Case—Kites and Kestrels : How Lawyers Victimize Their Clients—Course of Empire—A Little Scandal Among the Albany ‘Theatricals—Avother Terrible Warning—Skat ing—A —_— Boy Burglar—The Burns Anniver- sary Dinn 6—Eautorials: ead! Article, “The a Fall of Paris—The Prospect of Peace Europe’—Amusement Announcements, 7—Eait (Contunued from Sixih }—News from Wasbington—Au Revoir, Fechter: The Complimentary ‘Testimonial Benefit Last tut—Personal _Tatelligence—Miscellaneous Telegra nic Despatches—The British Navy— Views 0 the Past— Business Notices. S=—The Courts—The Albany Express Robbery— Negro Riot in sSrashear, La—Voice of the People—Religious Intelligence—Fatal Accident iu Brooklyn. @—Speciai Seasions : An Army of Martyrs—Finan- cial Report—The Dry Goods Market—an Unpre- tendi Charity—Lowell (Mass.) Manuiac- vores—Matriages and Deaths—Aavertisements. 10—Rapid Transit: Another Meeting to Agitate the ubject—The Rogers Murder: A Convict tn Auburn State Prison Confesses Himself the Murderer—Methodistical Muddie: Continua- ton of the Investigation in the Alleged Boek Cou-ern Frauds—Art Sales—The Parental Magistrate—Shipping Inteliigence—Advertise- ments. 11—advertisements. 32—Advertisements. Tue QUESTION once was, in earliest cable times, ‘‘De Sauty or De Santy?” It is now De Chauzy or De Chanzy?” In one case it was a sortie of peace ; in the latter one of the chances of war. Srm. Tuex Come.—Five of ihe most prominent of the Fenian convict leaders in Ireland, including Luby and Thomas Burke, who have been held in prisons in that coun- try, were released unconditionally yesterday. They will embark in the steamship Russia for New York to-day. Plenty of room. Over CANADIAN NEIGHBORS propose a most radical and comprehensive change in their school system. A bill before the Ontario Legislature provides that all schools shall be free and attendance compulsory. It is also proposed to introduce into the public schools more advanced courses of studies, including chemistry and agriculture and io establish industrial schools. Ex-Senaror HENDERSON, of Missouri, takes the old Seymourian method of securing a nomi- nation. He declines it beforehand. It is highly probable that the ex-Senator, who, it will be remembered, was one of the seven wise men who saved Andy Johnson from impeach- ment, will be nominated in the Missouri Leg- islature by the republicans, for the United States Senate, against Frank Blair, Jr. It would be an excellent nomination; for Mr. Henderson is an independent, fearless states- man, who will always do credit to his party and his position. Vs Prestoent Gravt, in an interview yester- day with » member of the St. Domingo Commission, expressed his desire to have everything pertaining to the negotiations which have been carried on with Baez probed to the bottom, and if any jobbing existed between any of the parties concerned that it be exposed without regard to consequences. The President charges the Commissioners to institute the closest investigation into the alleged allotment of lands around Samana | Bay, marked Grant, Babcock, &e. A full and impartial investigation wil! establish both the wisdom asd patriotiem of the President's course in regard to St. Demingo, and explode the nonsensical stories of fraud so unblush- Impending Fall of Paris—The Prom | pect of Peace in Europe. Not in many years—we do not forget Rich- mond—not, perhaps, since the battle of Water- loo, has any prospective event created so much expectation as does the impending fall of Paris, If it ever was true it is true to-day that expectation stands on tiptoe. We have not forgotten the Abyssinian war, whea the enterprise of the New York Herarp startled and amazed the world. We have as little for- gotten the inauguration of the Suez Canal, when democratic America, represented by the New York Heratp, chronicled the glori- ous movements of the hour—movements which, in their splendid surroundings, recalled the memeries of Sultan Saladin and the daz- ling days of Cleopatra and her magnificent Cesar or peerless Anthony. Grand as was the Waterloo sensation, out of the way as was the Abyssinian affair, full of world-wisdom as was the Suez Canal business, we must still claim the right to say that the impending fall of Paris is the greatest event which modern civilization has had to consider. Our theme is a large one—so large that we cannot hope to do it justice. Even in her sore agony France has the unenviable right to boast that Paris is not only the centre of the empire, but the centre of the world. Te-day, wherever men look for news and newspapers, know French, or German or English, or any civilized tongue, the thoughts of the thinking are directed to Paris, so long the centre of thought, of taste, of beauty, of valor and of art; and by all who think of Paris the ques- tion is put—How is it, and what is the prospect? We have no desire to say painful things, to utter painful truths; but we have no choice but say that the last hope of France fs gone, and that Paris must succumb to the inevi- table, or force or fate, or what the reader will. When this war began there were few who were not willing to bet on France. . It was known that the Emperor and his Ministers had been preparing for the struggle which they caw must come between France and Germany. It was known that money had been voted and that money had been spent in huge preparations for the conflict, Sadowa had frightened the empire and made Bonapartism tremble in its boots. The Luxembourg affair had revealed French ambition, Napoleonfe cautien and Napoleonic weakness. But Geereral Niel—who, unfortu- nately, as some people say, died too soon—had informed France and the world that at last he was prepared, and that Sadowa could not be repeated as against France. It is net our business to go into details. How this war was begun, and for what reason, all the world knows.’ Who has forgotten the baptism of fire, or Weissenbourg or Gravelotte? Sedan and Strasbourg and Metz all speak for them- selves. Most men who leve France and the French people are of the opinion that Sedan ought to have ended the war. The doubters donbted no longer when fell, first, Strasbourg and then Metz, But for a class of men who loved class principles and personal power more than they leved their country the war which has been so absurdly and ruinously protracted would long since have ceased. With the Emperor, four times the elect of the French people, a Prussian prisoner; with some three hundred and fifty thonsand of the picked men of France safely locked up in the enemy's couatry; with all the best generals of France swordless, imprisoned or paroled, it was not unnatural to think that further fight- ing on the part of France was useless. As the men who constituted themselves the masters of France would not yield, we have, after four months, to look upon the sad spec- tacle of to-day. What is that spectacle? It is a spectacle of hopeless despair. We have been asked to wait. Balloons, ballasted with lies, have come out of Paris and falsely taught willing believers to hope; armies, improvised north, south, east and west and led by unknown men, have made shows of power and pluck which inspired many of the hopeful; but army after army, on the Loire, in the north and in the east, have melted away before the German hosts. Paladines and Ducrot and Chanzy— where are they now? Faidherbe and Bourbaki—what have they done? The grand Army of the East, under Garibaldi and the others, has it stopped a single train or prevented a single recruit whose purpose was to swell the ranks of the invading foe. The failure of Chanzy after the failure of De Paladines, the success of Man- teuffel in the North and the incompetence of the French forces in the East leave us to-day no choice but to think of Trochu. That Trocha has done well all will heartily admit ; but that Trochu has been more useful in main- taining order in Paris than in driving the enemy from its walls no sensible man will deny. It is now notorious to all the world that Trochu has been waiting fer help. Pala- dines gave him hope, Ducrot gave him hope, Chanzy almost gave him confidence, Now the last hope is gone—gone at the very moment that the German forces have found themselves able to fling shot and shell into the long doomed city and among the impatient and famishing citizens. When Paris falls Trochu will have a place in the hearts of the French people which will never be given to either Ulrich or Bazaine. Even Gambetta will be a shade by his side when King William dictates the terms of peace in the Tuileries, or insists on justice in the gardens of the Luxembourg. We take it tor granted that within a few days Paris musi fall. With the powerful Prussian cordon around the city, and with the Army ef the Loire completely demolished, we can see no reason why Trochu should any longer hold out. More than that, we know no reason why the famishing and long tried inha- bitauts of Paris should longer submit to use- less torture, or should longer make unavailing sacrifice, The game is up; Trochu knows it; the hour of surrender must therefore be close at hand. Will the fall of Paris bring peace te Europe? There are those whe think it will; there are those who think it will not. Both parties reason well, and not on bad premises. The Eastern question and the first postpone- ment of the London Conterence for no satisfac- tery reason encouraged belligerent thinkers to believe in war—war on a still grander scale and for more revolutionary purposes than the war of which now all are so tired. It is not our ingly retalied by disappointed speculators and | opinion that the fall of Paris will mark the politicians. weonumcncement of » new struggle. We can see vothing in the present conditien of Europe which warrants it. Trae, the London Confer- ence was again pestponed; but the post- ponement was due to the absence of a good reason rather than to any, incipient belligerent tendencies on the part of” any of the Powers. It is our belief that the fall of Paris will bring peace to France, to Europe and to the world.” For some generations the French have been the most belligerent of all the nationalities. For the third time in sixty years they have had enough of fighting. As the Sultan is not indisposed to meet the Czar half way on the Black Sea question, as neither Austria nor England care to go to fight for a worthless point of fancied honor, and as France is prostrate, it is not unreasonable to con- clude that with the fall of Paris, what- ever be the form of government which France may prefer, whether republican or Orleaniat, or Legitimist or Bonapartist, will be inaugurated an era of peace which will extend over a couple of decades. It will be well for the world generally, well for the canse of human progress, if Great Britain has to reconstruct her iron-clads, and ifthe United States shall have built up a navy worthy of the country before another gigantic war disturbs the world. In spite of the vexed question of the Papal temporalities, it is our belief that the fall of Paris will work the commencement of a lasting peace. We are assured almost, indeed, in this hepe, by the contents of eur spectal cable telegram from London, which tells the people that the European Conference will assemble in that city on the 17th instant, to adjust the Black Sea difficulty at least; it may be to define the future of France, also. The Battle of Le Mans. We publish in this morning’s Hmratp the full particulars of the recent battle near Le Mans, received from our special correspon- dent in that city. For weeks past the Army of the Loire, under the command of General Chanzy, has been manceuvring in front of the forces by which they were oppesed. Move- ments were initiated by General Chanzy against the Mecklenburg troops, who at one time composed almost the entire force opposed tohim, which brought to the French army success and to the sympathizers with France hope. A glimmer of light had at length appeared on the horizon, so long dark and dreary. With many it was thought that the day was fast approaching when Chanzy, with his two hundred thousand men, assault- ing the German investing line out- side the walls of the doomed capital, would have been the signal for Trochu to mass his forces and strike from within, cut his way out and make a junction with the army which had come to his rescue. Sucha consumma- tion was notas remote as many seemed to consider it. The forces appointed to keep watch over Chanszy and stay his advance on Paris were unequal tothe task. The French commander was pressing them sorely, gaining little, itis true, but still gaining. The Ger- man commander-in-chief saw it, dreaded it, and resolved to check it, Chanzy’s mancu- vring so far had succeeded. It may be that the very success he attained surprised him. He rested—call it hesitation; but, whatever it may be, that delay cost him in the end defeat. That Chanzy’s movements were the source of considerable anxiety in the German camp we are well satisfied; for it was not until the very position of his forces, as well as the strength of the army under his command, became almost threatening that the German commander-in-chief resorted to the adoption of that policy which all through the war has proven so fruitful of results for the armies of Germany. Finding the army opposed to Chanzy unequal to the task of staying the French advance, Prince Frederick Charles, with his veterans, was ordered to assume the offensive, reinforcements were hurried on from investing lines outside Paris, and the German forces opposed to the Army of the Loire were not enly rendered equal in point of numbers, but made superior to it. This point gained, and the results may be briefly summed up for the French in these werds—checked and defeated. These details, however, are but the prelimi- naries ef the events which followed on the 10th of the present month. At nine o'clock on the morning of that day, within seven miles of the city of Le Mans, the Germans suddenly appeared in force and attacked the right wing ef the French army. Sudden as was the attack the French behaved admirably. Forming line of battle they awaited the struggle. Infantry, cavalry and artil- lery all appeared to be well handled, well posted and well supplied on the French side. It is almost needless to say that « similar remark must be applied to the Germans. It was in most respects a fair fight, judging from the particulars we have before us. On the two hills which loeked down upon the valley below, clothed with a covering of snow, were arrayed the armies of France and of Germany. Fer hours did the German cannon belch forth their iron hail upon the enemy, and for hours did the French reply with equal gpirit to the murderous missiles, Shot and shell fairly rained on both combatants. At length the German commander ordered an advance. Then commenced the movement of the Ger- man infantry, No way loth to meet the foe, the French, equally gallant, also advanced, and down the hill sides and across the plain which separated them marched the oppos- ing ferces. Midway in that valley, which but a few short heurs before was covered with a mantle of spotless snow, the two armies met in hand to hand conflict. Fierce, desperate, impetuous and bloody was the struggle. Man to man the tried veterans of Germany and the hastily gathered levies of France met Calmly and determinedly fought the soldiers of the Red Prince; with deter- mination equally strong, but lacking the cool- ness of the Germans, fought the republican soldiers of France. On the one side it was a struggle of cool, collected soldiers, directed by officers whore ability they had proven and whose tactics they understood; on the other side it wae the dash of equally brave men, lacking the discipline of their opponents, bat fighting with an impetuous galiantry, directed but by the individual judgment of the soldiers themselves. A contest equal in some re- spects, yet so unequal on the whole, could only have terminated in one way. The French were forced to retire, witha loss, we are told, of fifteen thousand men. What the German loss was we are not informed—a discrepany we regret. By six o’clock in the evening the battle ended, and the snow which covered the valley in the morning served as the winding sheet of many a brave fellow that cold night of the 10th on the battle field near Le Mans. Our News trom the Gorman Headquarters. We have information from our special corre- spondent at Versailles up to the 11th inst., and from that we learn that General Trochu has made another sortie and has been again repulsed. This time he selected the north side for his attempt, and on the 10th sal- lied forth from St. Denis, only to meet defeat. The troops employed were under the personal superintendence of Trochu him- self, but it does not appear to have been a sortie of any considerable magnitude, At least we come to that conclusion from the reading of the despatch. On the following day another attempt was made by the besleged army, but it met a similar fate to that of the one on the day previous. This sortie was meée on the south side, from a point between Forts Vanvres and Montronge. This attempt would also appear to have been of no very considerable strength, and possibly may prove to be only a feeler thrown out by Gen- eral Trochu to ascertain the strength of the Germans in the directions indicated. If such should preve to be the case, we think it rather late in the progress of the siege to begin this kind of work. Trochu must do something quickly or may not have it in his power even to make an attempt. The bombardment of the city continues. On the 11th twenty-one batteries were pouring forth their storm of shot and shell on the besiege @ capital, new batteries were being prepared, and all along the investing lines the dreadful preparations for dealing death and destruction to the doomed city were hurried on to con- summate the work just begun. Congress Yesterday—An Act of Justice to the Federal Judiciary. The House of Representatives, while in ses- sion yesterday as a Committee of the Whole on the Legislative Appropriation Bill, per- formed an act of justice which, though too leng delayed, still deserves and will receive commendation. It increased by two thousand dollars a year the salaries of the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, making the one eight thousand five hundred dollars and the other eight thousand dollars. A contrast between the pelicy of the English government and of the United States government in reference to the compeusation of the judiciary was drawn, much to our own disadvantage, by Mr. Potter, of New York, and by Mr. Hoar, of Massachu- setts. A couple of New Hampshire members opposed fariously any increase of the Jadges’ salaries, and « New York member (Mr. Kelsey) seemed to fear that the floodgates of extravagance might thus be thrown wide open and the vaults of the Treasury submerged. But the good sense of the House was proof against the arguments of the small economists, and the salaries of our federal judges have been fixed at a figure which, though not liberal, is on an equality with those of the Cabinet Ministers. An effort will be made when the bill next comes up in committee, which will probably be to-morrow, to increase the compensation of the Circuit Judges from five to six thousand dollars. In view of the immense fees exacted by our leading lawyers the salaries of our judges ap- pear miserably incompetent. The latter should certainly be increased to a respectable figure and some steps taken to mederate the exorbitant demands ef the lawyers. - Promise of the Coming Week. Pleasant greetings to fair prospects in the world of histrionic art! New York deserves congratulation from her sister cities, and has it from her faithful annalists, for a season of truly brilliant and effective drama. The recent Shakspearian nights at Niblo’s; the sparkling music and burlesque of Offenbach at the Grand Opera House; the separate performances of Mrs, Lander and Mile. Janauschek ; Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle; the hearty merriment and summer sunshine of “Saratoga” in Daly’s boudoir dramatique, and a score of other dashing entertainments only less remarkable than these, have led right on to the reappearance of Edwin Booth in a réle so grand as Richelien, and of Madame Seebach in her great succession of first class tragedies that have now won the plaudits of the New as well as of the Old World, For the coming week the promise isto place our metropolitan stage in higher rank for the time being, with regard to the number and variety of its attractions in the upper sphere, beyond all its rivals at home or abroad, Booth’s representation of the renowned Cardi- nal will be continued, with its splendid accom- paniments; Mr. Lester Wallack will brighten his own beautiful theatre with a series of ster- ling comedies, in which he personally assumes the leading parts, and Mr. Grau has invited the public to witness the efforts of Madame Seebach’s versatile and ever-brilliant genius in a,whole repertory of new dramas. In two of these at least she has never stood before a New York audience—viz., ‘‘Dorf und Stadt” on Tuesday, and ‘‘Joan of Arc” on Satur- day, her benefit night. Opening with “Romeo and Juliet” on Monday, the remain- ing evenings promise such an array as Schil- ler’s renowned tragedy, “Die Riiuber” (The Robbers), “The Tamiag of the Shrew” and “adrienne Lecouvreur.” Where is there a city in the world which can present such week's programme as is thus suggested at a glance? Talent and celebrity of the highest order in the loftiest walks and in every diversity of phase! Thus, in art, as in all things else, the Empire City claims the head of the column. Tho Dramatic CoxFIpinc PENNSYLVANIA.—Philadelphia politicians went sorrowing to their couches last night. President Grant was expected in the City of Brotherly Love yesterday, and it was determined that he should not be permit- ted to depart from that suburb until he had agreed to make a place in bis Cabinet fora son of the Keystone State. But the President failed to put in his appearance, and the schemes of the place-hunters were spoiled. ‘Toe StRAMsnip Ciry oF BRooKLyN is re- garded as being still safe by the officer and few passengers who have been landed from her in North Britain, Good news. NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY, 15,, I87L—TKIPLE SHEET, London—The Black Sea Navigation Quee- tion. By s special cable telegram from London published in the HERALD to-day we are en- abled to inform our readers of the highly important fact that the European Congress, or Conference, on the subjects of the Black Sea navigation question and the revision of the Treaty of Paris of 1856, will assemble in London on Tuesday, the 17th inst. The day originally named for the meeting was Tuesday, the 8d of January, Since then the proposi- tion or plan of a conference has been debated seriously and with anxious attention by the monarchs and statesmen of the Old World. European democracy, in the shape in which radical referm is represented by the French, canvassed it also. There were motives of attraction tending towards a calm and friendly aggregation of the dele- gates, There were also actaal prevalent causes which impelled towards division of sentiment, a disunion of interests and & general diplomatic distrust. France, radical, “red,” and in arms, was a new Power likely to knock at the door of the Con- gress hall, The resolution which was taken by the French leaders, to the effect that France would have nothing to do with the conference, appears to have effaced a point of difficulty, Eurepe is thus to have a conference, The duties of the plenipotentiaries will, it is said, be limited to a solution of the Black Sea navi- gation question. The extentof their task will be understood by the American people after they have read the re- vised copy of Prince Gortchakoff’s cir- cular to the Russian Minister in London on the subject, This document we pub- Tish im another part of the paper. If the Conference delegates confine their efforts solely to the Black Sea question it is well; but we can hardly imagine that a body of the most enlightened statesmen in Europe— men who will represent the most powerful governments—can or will meet and adjourn at the present epoch in the ‘history of their respective countries and not say a word about Paris and Prussia—Paris under a rain of shot andshell, Paris with its dying children and unburied adults, Paris partially in flames ; and of Prussia with her iron-clad heel on the neck of France, and her steel-gloved hand about to strangle a nation and ready to knock down any power which may avow its friend- ship for that nation. The action of the Belgian government, as it is reported by a cable telegram which we received from Brussels last night, appears almost in confirmation of our first anticipation that the Conference will be universalist in its scope for the attainment of peace; for we are told that the King’s Minister will be specially instructed to diplomatize towards that happy end. Should he be successful the diplematic triamph will place his Majesty ef Belgium firmly on the exalted pedestal which was so honorably won for him by his deceased father, King Leopold, who was in his lifetime a royal philanthropist, and the friend of regulated pro- gress, quiet, industry and popular fraternity. General Graut and the Union League. We publish among our Washington de- spatches this morning « very interesting one touching the call ef a national committee of the Union League upon the President at the White House. In response to Governor Geary’s complimentary remarks upon the administration General Grant very clearly and cordially defiaed his position. His faith was in the mission of the Union party, and until its work was completed he would be the enemy of all dissensions or plans to divide this party. He had such faith, too, in the Union League that he hoped it would re- ceive the support of the republican party throughout the country. These expressions from General Grant, at this time, cannot fail to have a powerful effect in harmonizing the party and in silencing or weeding out the republican mutineers against his administra- tion. But there was another thing in connection with this Union League visit to the White House worthy of notice. Governor Geary has been considered for some time past as the man chosen by the new labor reform party as their candidate for President in 1872 against the field. Now, it appears that the happlest ac- cord exists between Governor Geary and Gen- eral Grant, and that Geary is pledged as a Union League man to do all he can to bring over the labor reformers to the republican party. This is a very important matter, for these labor reformers already in several States are said to hold the balance of power. Yet, again, it 18 given out that Penmsylvania is soon to have a member in the Cabinet. If so, will it be Governor Geary or Colonel Forney? .Who can tell? Tae Battie oF Bapavmr.—We publish elsewhere full particulars of the battle of Bapaume, from the Heratp special corres- pondent at the headquarters of the German General Ven Gocben. We have already spoken in reference to this battle, when the first intelligence of it was received here. In the account which we publish this morning it will be seen that the French are rapidly acquiring dissipline and that steadiness under fire which discipline alone can produce. It is this which has secured for the Germans the great results Which the campaign has afforded them an opportunity to achieve, BrroagEp SENATORS.—Georgia has more than a fair share of patriots. Already has she elected seven of her self-sacrificing sons United States Senators, and the Senate Judiciary Committee is sorely perplexed con- cerning which two of the seven shall be admitted to seats in that body. It is said, however, that Foster Blodgett has made his “calling and election sure” by crowding through the Legislature of his State a law preventing the Legislature chosen last fall from electing a Senator, and securing the office to himeelf for six years from the 4th of March next. Vimansia is contributing her full quota to the internal revenue. Tho collections from tobacco in that State since the incoming of President, Grant’s administration to December 81, 1869, amounted to $7,220,517, being $5,739,871 more than was collected during the forty-four montha previous-—a gain of nearly one thousand per cent, Navy. ‘That the government of Great Britain anticf- © pates a war trouble ulterior to that of the Franco-Prussian struggle, and it may be of almost immediate inception, is indicated very clearly by the contents of the telegram from London which appears in our cable report to- day on the subject of British naval reinforce. ments, The Lords of the Admiralty are mak. ing unusual and extraordinary efforts to place the entire naval force of the United Kingdom on @ sea-going footing and in a sea-worthy condi- tion, Setting aside their own recently uttered argument of national economic necessities, and actually reversing their lately issued rulea for dockyard retrenchment, her Majesty's Ministers have ordered that all the war vessels now on the stocks, either new or for purposes of repair, shall be “pressed to completion” and finish without delay. This work will in- volve @ very enormous expense. Parliament is notin session; the extra charges over the amount of the Admiralty estimate now ap- proved will be incurred witheut legislative authorization, so that it is quite apparent that the public servants—men so cautious as Pre- mier Gladstone and Earl Granville particu. larly—must be in possession of facts which they know will justify their action before the assembled lawgivers when they do meet. That our readers may be enabled to under+ stand the magnitude of this British naval work we present to them a complete list of twenty- seven vessels of war which are just now in process of construction for the Queen’s service, They range in classification from a gunboat to the most powerfyl iron-clads, turret ships and armored rams. Some of them are being built by private firms outside of the dockyards; but as this part of the work has been also ordered by the government it is to be presumed that ali the new vessels are included in the word “dockyards,” as reported in the telegram. When this new fleet is turned out what is England going to do with it? Where will its services be required—at home or abroad? Questions such as these are not solved readily at a distance. Perhaps England anticipates a rapidly approaching opportunity for an at- tempt at renewing her ocean dominion lease for “the flag which braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze.” The Fenlan Pardons in Ireland. Our special letter by mail from Dublin pub- lished in the Hxratp to-day is of quite an interesting character. Departing from the ugual routine of writers in Ireland in present- ing dead issues, such as the land and Church questions, agrarian outrage, religious party displays and ‘faction fights,” the Hzraup writer speaks of a living subject, which is at once national in ita bearing and likely to be of international consequences—the amnesty and exile of the Fenian convicts, He regards the measure, as it has been treated and accom- plished by Premier Gladstone, a grand Cabi- net ‘‘mistake” for Great Britain. Her Majesty the Queen is made to “‘strain” the “quality of mercy ;” the fountainhead of consolation has been muddled by a half-paralyzed motion of the rod of persecution. Instead of being returned to their homes with their crimes condoned by royal grace, the lead- ing men ameng the convicts are really transported from the country during the remaining terms of their respective sen- tences; those who were sentenced to im- prisonment for life are banished from the British realm for life. They go not to a foreign land, to be sure, not foreign to them, for they are sent ‘‘among their own to rest”—that is, if they are so pleased, but most likely, as con- veyed in our special letter, to agitate afresh for Irish independence. It is intimated, indeed, that such will be the course of their mission, such the first consequence of their “conditional” pardon by the British crown. The Fenian exiles are represented as being men of nerve and purpose, and it is hinted that, although they will soon be “far away beyond the Atlantic's foam,” in “true men their spirit’s still at home.” Too Muok oF a Goop Tuinc.—Radical Congressmen give up reconstruction as a bad job. Reconstruct the late rebel States as they will, they cannot be depended upon, politi- cally. Southern whité republicans are “mighty uncertain,” and the negroes don’t vote the straight ticket. The sorrowful fact is at last forced upon the leaders that in 1872 the South- ern electoral vote will be almost unanimously democratic. Republicanism at the South was smothered by too much reconstruction, ConsoLipaTion oF NEw York CoLigotiow Disrriors.—The President yesterday issued an order consolidating the First, Second and Third Collection districts of New York into one district, to be called the First dis- trict; the Fourth and Sixth are united and called the Second district, and the Fifth and Seventh will be known as the Third. The Ninth and Thirty-second districts are unchanged, The officers designated for these districts are: First district—James Freeland, collector, General James Jourdan, assessor ; Second district—W. H. Treadwell, collector, Max Weber, assessor; Third district—John M. Haig, collector, Morris Friedman, assessor. The Ninth district retains its present officers, and in the Thirty-second district W. A. Darling has been appeinted collector and A. P. Ketchum assessor. Axoruer Boeus MurpERER.—A convict in Auburn prison is trying to make people be- lieve that he is the Rogers murderer of two years ago. This mania for counterfeiting atrocity will have some man hanged yet. Several persons have tried to expiate under false pretences the crime of murdering Mr. Nathan, and as this new impostor has had to fall back on so ancient a horror as the Rogers murder we suppose the Nathan mine is about exhausted. A Weex or Prarer.—The week of prayer assigned for the several Protestant churches and just closed has, ‘as we learn from our re- ligious contemporaries, been eminently suc- cessful. A great many persons were blessed with heavenly light, and even a spark of con- science was discovered in the adimantine heart of a well known but non-professional political city missionary, We do not, how- ever, notice that the criminal record, as a general thing, was materially diminished during the week, nor that the demand for sack- cloth and ashes haa essentially increased,