The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1871, Page 4

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KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— NOK AND ART. WITH SUPP New York, Monday, January 30, 1871. — = = — CONTENTS oF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pacs. 1—Advertisements. 2—Political Notes—Tnomas Garrett, the Great Slave Liberator—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ments, 3—News from Washington—Music and the Drama— Melancholy Sutcide—Trial for Attempted Mur- Ger—The Coal Miners’ Strike—Ocean Trafic: The Atlantic Steamship Lines of 1870—Hag- fetes Funeraj|—Tempest in a Teapot. &—Editoriais: Article, ‘The Fall of Paris and the Collapse of France—Her Great Humilia- tion and Her Future Position in Europe’ — Spain America—Miscellaneous —_Tele- gtapb—Views of the Past—Amusement An- Douncements, : Details of the Surrender of the French Capital; The Forts Occupied by the Germans; rations for Revictualing the Ojty—Map of the Campaign in Soe antl: of the ol ie War. @—The Crisis in : Who Will Rule France After the Fail of the Capital; Herald Special History of the Capitulation; The Causes Which In duced It and Its Probable Censequences—A French Ganboat in the Gulf of Mexico—The . Wayland (N.Y. : How the Murders were Committed—The Weather. ‘7—Advertisements. S—Religious: Sermons and Services Yesterday in the sats and Elsewhere; Free America and Unit Italy; Our Relationship with God; Our Children in Heaven; ‘The Beautiful Snow” Counteracting Piety. 9—Religious (Continuea from Eighth i Sree Notes—Knights of the ‘‘Jimmy’’—Real Estate: Interesting Account of the Waste Lands of Long Island—The Ball Season—The Jersey City Murder—acquittal of Dr. Neville tn Philadel- hia—The Fenian Reception—Skating. 10—Terms of the Capitulation of Paris—Movements of Bourbaki’s Army—The Effect of the War News in New York—Shipping News—Adver- tisements. Senator SuMNer, in a speech at the jour- Nalists’ dinner in Washington on Saturday, said he did not know where the government was. Evidently he has discovered that it is got within reach of his whiplash. Tuey Aways Do Tures ona gigantic scale on the Pacific slope. A deficiency of four hundred thousand dollars in the bullion fund of the San Francisco Mint is mentioned by the Chicago Tribune, and nothing has been done about it by the government. Taxy Have Bren Trine to get up a McFarland case in Altoona, Pa.; but, so far as the tragedy part of the affair was con- cerned, it was a comparative failure, for no less than eight shots were fired by the injured at the injuring party without fatal effect. Woman Surrrace makes little practical ad- vance in Boston. A recent request of the students of the Female Medical College for per- mission to attend the cases of female patients in the City Hospital was promptly and une- quivocally denied by the trustees of that insti- tution. “Tur GRAND TABERNACLE OF THE GALILEAN Fisnzrmen” is the novel title given to a society in a bill introduced by the colored Senator, Revels, in Congress. We have had for centuries a See of Rome; now, we sup- pose, we are going to have a colored Sea of Galilee. Verily, the world moves! Anotner Farat Nirzo-Giycerme explo- sion is chronicled. It occurred in Titusville, . Pa.; but only one man wae killed this time. Can not something be done to check these frightful occurrences? It seems to us that a State or general law might be passed requir- fing the exercise of more care in the manage- ment 0 this terrible explosive agent. AMERIOA AND Spain.—From Madrid we have a special telegram by cable, under date of yesterday, which assures us that United States Minister Sickles has concluded nego- tiations of an important character with the members of the King’s Cabinet on behalf of the American people. There certainly existed fn open international field for the exercise of the diplomatic talent of the representative of our government, The termination of the ne- gotiations was celebrated by a fine féte ten- dered by General Sickles to the Spanish ptatesien, The Fall of Paris and the Collapse of France—Her Great Humiliation and Her Fature Position in Europe. The crushing disaster to France, the fall of Paris, the most asteunding and momentous military and political event of modern times, is now a matter of history. Paris has fallen and France has collapsed ; for Paris still is Fetes be eer comps gt a she has suffer eavier losse et hemiliations than in all her previous wars of the last two hundred years. Her infatuation in this war and her appalling punishment are without a precedent in history, excepting only the consequences to Mark Antony of the fatal blandishments of his Egyptian syren. As ‘‘the serpent of old Nile” was the ruin of Antony, so the charms of the Rhine have been the ruin ef France. And what a contrast have we from this insane infatuation between the gay, brilliant, happy and flourishing Paris, when Napoleon, in July last, in all The pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war, set out for the conquest of the Rhine, and the Paris of to-day, amid the terrers of famine, anarchy and subjugation, which recall the frightful scenes enacted in Jerusalem under the siege of Titus! Thus, with all our modern inventions of swift destruction, we have the barbarisms of war of eighteen hundred years ago reproduced in Paris, in the full blaze of our boasted civilization of the nineteenth century, What a subject is Paris and its surroundings, what atheme is Paris and France to the moral philosopher as they are to-day, shattered, mutilated, blackened by fire, and despoiled and laid waste by destructive armies! And all for what? All, as it appears, because Louis Napoleon would not have a Hohen- zollera as King of Spain. Was there ever such a bald pretence or such criminal folly? But it was not the Hohenzollern—it was the Rhine—-that drew Napoleon into this war, and it was Paris, it was France, that urged him on. There was he, in the Tuileries, the absolute master of France, ‘by the will of her people,” and the arbiter of Europe. There was his regalar imperial army of four hundred thou- sand effective men, supposed to be invincible with the chassepot and the amitrailleuse. There were his arsenals and military foundries and armories, equal to all demands ; there was his Eastern frontier, bristling with impregnable fortresses; there was hia iron- clad navy, hardly second to that of Great Britain; there was proud, gay imperial Paris, proof against a Holy Alliance in arms and unapproachable in the heart of France, with her forty millions of patriotic people. What ehance had Prussia and her feeble German allies against such tremendous forces as these ? France must have the line of the Rhine, and Paris shouted, ‘A Berlin /” for in Berlin the Rhine frontier of France was to be “rectified.” That wasin July, and here at the end of January who is Napoleon? What is Paris, and where is France? Her unapproachable capital—held by the enemy—looks to his charity against the pangs of starvation; the legions still alive of her late invincible impe- rial army, more powerful than the legions which her ‘‘Little Corporal” led victoriously to Moscow, are held as prisoners of war in a foreign land; her impregnable frontier fortresses have changed hands; her iron-clad navy against the German coast, rendered pow- erless by the torpedo, has done nothing, and her forty millions of patriotic people, bewil- dered, demoralized, cowed and exhausted by their unparalleled disasters and lesses, want peace, and have had enough of the Rhine. From Woerth, where MacMahon’s crack impe- rial army column ef fifty thousand men was all but destroyed; to Gravelotte, where Bazaine lest twenty thousand ; thence to Sedan, where MacMahor’s new army of one hundred and twenty thousand men was destroyed or cap- tured, with the Emperor; thence to Stras- bourg, where seventeen thousand men became prisoners, and to Metz, where ene hundred and seventy-three thousand were surrendered, with the fortress, by Bazaine, and thence from a score of smaller misfortunes to the astounding captures withthe surrender of Paris, we have the record of an unbroken series of defeats, anda schedule of losses in this astounding war, whereby France is practically disarmed and reduced to a second rate Power. Her losses in property all told, from August last, and within one-fifth of the area, will probably exceed in a cash valuation all the losses of our late rebel States in their ruinous four years’ war for a Southern confederacy. We see, however, from the evidences befere us in our Southern States, how rapidly an industrious people recever from the ravages of a wasting war. France, in her productive industries, may during the living generation repair her losses from these six months of the destructive work of the German armies, The beauties of Paris and of its surroundings laid waste may be restored, and in all her mutilated cities and towas and ruined villages and fac- tories her damages may be repaired; but as arbiter of Europe, and as the constant alarmist and disturber of the nations around her, France will be no more. Louis Napoleen’s grand idea of the unity of mationalities, as developed in Italy, has settled him and France in the unity of the German family ef States. Under their new empire, more powerful than France, they take the place of France, and they will bold it as the guardians of the peace of the Continent. Bismarck’s great purpese in the unity of Germany is accomplished, and neither the German people nor their military system can be called aggressive. Strong in their new Western frontier defences, including the Vosges, the South German States will hardly be in line again of an aggressive war from France, and Prussia, no doubt, will take good care to maintain at least the neutrality of Luxembourg and Belgium in the North. Against this new Germany and against her possible alliances with Russia ia the North and Austria in the South, France—empire, king- dom or republic—must henceforward look for her support in the reconstruction of European affairs to England, Spain and Italy, Belgium, Holland, Deamark and Sweden. Her cam- paigns over the Alps, as well as the Rhine, are otherwise ended. In truth, however, in being reduced by this war to her natural boundaries and to a river system entirely her own, and in being permanently relieved of the Rhine fever, which has troubled her for the last fifty years, we think that the new departure and the new role of France will be peace and the develop- and the arts of peace. Such, at all events, it ought to be; for, lying much deeper than all these superficial or accidental causes of mili- tary critics, there are causes for the results of this war which mark the decline of the military “power of nations, and they reach the very foundations of the social system, Much, regarding the future of France, will i gue rserean st ie aah fiiont—the task immediately before her. If this government is to be the imperial regency or an Orleanist king, there will, at least, be a good long reign of peace, as there was after the final restoration of Louis XVIII.. Nor have we any fears from the establishment of the republic, emitting Gambetta and all of his tribe; for ii is probable that a republic, with its numerous political elections and clashing political elements, would for a long time furnish the French people sufficient excitements and novelties as substitutes for the more costly ex- citements of war. We fear, however, that Gambetta and the three Juleses of his pro- visional establishment have made a bad show for*the republic, and that the present probabil- ities are in favor of the recall of the Empress and the Prince Imperial from England, leaving the Emperor at Wilhelmshéhe for a fow months longer—that is, until the public mind shall have settled down again into acquiescence inthe empire. In that event we dare say the Emperor, too, will return, with all fol- lowers, just as the old Bourbons returned in 1815, France Since Example of 1814. Since the year 1789 France has periodically proved herself to be the focus of European revolution. The revolution of 1789, which was rather held in check than brought to a close by the establishment of the Consulate in 1799 and by the establishment of the empire in 1804, not only completely changed the char- acter of France, but convulsed Europe and gave birth to ideas which at intervals, more or less regular, have found expression in the political upheaving of the Continent. The establishment of the empire was-not less a revolution than was the destruction of the monarchy. The restoration of the monarchy in 1814; the downfall of Charles the Tenth in 1830 and the accession to power of Louis Philippe; the fall of Louis Philippe and the proclamation of the republic in 1848 ; the coup @'Hat of 1851, followed, as it was, by the re-establishment of the empire in 1852—these mark the great changes which have taken place in France since the commencement of the great revolution. Among all those revolutionary changes the enly parallel to that which now exists is that of 1814, Then, as now, the foot of the invader was on French soil. Then, as now, Parishad surrendered and France was prostrate. Then, as now, hundreds of thousands of armed invaders were quartered in and around the unhappy city. The question raised by the allies immediately after the occupation was with whom they should treat in arranging a peace. The Emperor Alexander, who was the mouthpiece of the allied sovereigns, at a meeting held in the house of M. Talley- rand, where were the leading members of the Senate and the most distinguished char- acters in the French capital, stated that three courses were epen to them—to treat with Na- poleon, to establish a regency or to recall the House of Bourben. France could have her cheice. Talleyrand rose and said that the first two projects were inadmissible, as the peace of Europe could not be considered safe with Napoleon or any of his dynasty on the throne of France. The third was the only course which would be generally acceptable to the Freneh people. On being questioned by the Emperor Alexander as to how he proposed to arrive at his object, Talleyrand replied that he would answer for the Senate, and that their example would be speedily followed by the whole French people. On the Ist of April the Senate assembled at the call of M. Talley- rand and appointed a provisional government. On the following day (April 2) the Senate for- mally dethroned Napoleon. The Corps Lé- gislatif, which had also been convened, en- dorsed the action of the Senate. In the course ef a protracted sitting—which cem- menced onthe evening of the 5th and lasted till seven o'clock inthe morning of the 6th— the Senate agreed to call Louis XVIII. to the hrone. On the 3d of May Louis, by the gate of St. Denis, entered Paris ; and amid scenes of joyeus excitement such as have seldom been witnessed the King took possession of the halls of his ancestors. Whatis particularly interesting to us now is that the allied sovereigns and their representa- tives recognized and treated with the Senate and Corps Législatif. They accepted and dealt with the constituted authorities as they found them. The pecullarity of the situation to-day is that King William has two governments to deal with. There is a government de facto— a government self-constituted, with which he has had no choice but treat in the matter of the surrender. There is also the government de jure—a government legally constituted, and, so far as election goes, formally repre- sentative of the French people. King William, we may rest assured, will not recognize the revolutionary goverament. The question now is whether he will convene and megotiate with the Senate and Corps Législatif, or whether he will convoke a general assembly. It is more than likely that he will follow the ex- ample of 1814, thus recognizing the. properly constituted authorities, and yet leaving France free to decide upona form of government. At present, so far as we can see, the choice lies between the regency of the Empress and the restoration of the House of Orleans, Revolutions in 1789—Tho Toe Hoty ALLIANcE oF PreacnERs have opened their crusade against Tom Murphy with great vehemence. They have sent a delegation to Washington to see to hia re- moval, if this ‘holy alliance really open eut in this way upon the Collector, merely on a religious basis, we think they are doing a very foolish thing, which will have no effect beyond degrading their own religion. Tue Wire Marker in California is evidently overstocked. A callous-hearted jury in the Golden State fixed the price of wives at twenty-five hundred dollars—that being the amount Owen Dale was called upon to pay J. A. Berringer for stealing away the affections and person of Mrs. Berringer from her hua- ment of her internal resources. foreizo trade | band NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Capitulation of Paris—Occupation of the French Forts—Rejotcings in Ger- many. Tho Emperor of Germany, in a telegram from Versailles dated yesterday, informs the Empress Augusta in Berlin that an armistice for three weeks has been agreed on, that the forts around Paris are occupied by German troops ‘and that the National Assembly of France is to be summoned to meet at Bordeaux in a fortnight. This, in brief, is tho whole story. The struggle, so far as Paris is concerned, is over. The Germans hold the city, though they have not yet occupied it. The negotiations, which were opened by Jules Favre on the 25th, have closed with the surrender of the capital, and yesterday morning the German troops took possession of the forts surrounding the city. From the Heratp’s special correspondents at Versailles we have fuller particulars of the terms upon which the capital surrendered. For three weeks an armistice on land and on sea, for the purpose ef arranging a peace, has been arrived at. Tho Army of Paris are for the present to remain prisoners ef war within the city. No doubt by this time the fall of the capital has been announced through- out the whole of France, and _ the leaders of the armies in the provinces have already been made aware of the arrangement agreed upon between Jules Favre on bebalf of the government in Paris and the German Chancellor. As yet we have not heard how the news has heen received or what effect it has produced. In the terms which Bismarck submitted to Favre he sought not only the surrender of Paris, but submission throughout the length and breadth of France. The German Chancellor looks forward not alone to the capture of the capital, but to the attainment of peace, and peace on such terms as Germany is prepared to demand; not what France is willing to yield. With that characteristic promptness which distinguished the German leaders throughout the whole war, mention may be made of the fact that on Saturday night the terms of capitulation were signed, and on the following morning the Ger- man troops entered and took pos- session of Forts Noisy, Rosny, Nogent, Charenton, Montronge, Vanvres and Bicétre. To many persons within the beleaguered city the fact that Paris was on the eve of capitula- tion was unknown, and the first news of the surrender was broken to them from the altars where they went to pray to God for that peace, perhaps, which is, let us hope, near at hand. In glancing at the position of Paris and the condition in which that famous city has been in for the past few weeks back we cannot help thinking that the day of relief comes not a moment too soon. The very worst elements within the city were beginning to make themselves evident. For a time the strong arm of the law was able to awe them into silence and keep down the utterances of the base and desperate men who are ever ready to inflame the passions of the miserable. wretches who compose street mobs, The demonstration in front of the Hétel de Ville, the forcing open of the jails in which Flourens and other desperate political leaders were confined, the demands for a sortie in force, all serve as indications to show what desperate measures entered the minds of a class of people who form no inconsiderable portion of the population of Paris. Even now fears pre- vail that riots exist within the capital. We hope these fears are groundless and that with the surrender of the city will end all the calamities which the citizens of Paris have been compelled to undergo. Now that Paris has fallen and the Kaiser has won the great prize for which he struggled, let us hope that the armistice just concluded will be the forerunner of good. France stands not alone in her humiliation before the world The destruction of her cities and towns, her devastated fields, her ruined homes, her desolated hearths and newly filled graves is asad and mournful picture for a brave, chivalrous, but defeated people to reflect on. But look to Germany and see with what a price she has bought her triumph. Ask the German mother for her son; inquire of the German widow for her busband and the father of her little enes; ask the German orphans for their fathers. Where are they? Aye, Ger- man victories have been won at the expense of the best and most valuable blood of Ger- many. On French soil lay thousands of men whe were torn from their homes and all they loved most dear to build up the glory of the German empire. Berlin and Frankfort re- joices over the fall of Paris and the triumph of German arms; but for us, let us thank God that the end of this dreadful struggle is near at hand, and, with the Emperor of Germany, express the longing that ‘“‘may peace soon follow.” “Dear Paris,” and the Ladies?’ Fashions Aiter the War. The ladies of New York, in common with their sisters of the whole civilized world, who think that they ‘‘might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion,” are dying to have Paris, ‘‘dear Paris,” reopened again with its latest fashions free te all comers, We fear, however, that the Paris fashions, immediately after the reopening of the city, would be somewhat out of date, like these of Richmond after the departure of Jeff Davis in pursuit of his vanishing Southern confederacy. Nor is it certain what will be the prevailing tone of the Paris fashions with the restoration of peace. During the brilliant feminine dispena- sation of the late empire under the magnificent Eugénie, beginning with the jupon, the Paris fashions were gorgeous and glorious; but, strangely enough, they reached the pinnacle of female glory under the immortal Worth, a man milliner, and an Englishman at that, Worth, when last heard of outside, was still alive in Paris, and his precious life may still be spared to resume his triumphs in his levely dresses; but we are afraid that this long siege, with its horse beef and its republican simplici- ties, has completely taken the starch out of Worth. At any rate, the tone of his fashions hereafter will depend upon the tones of the court. If Paris is to have a republican court her republican fashions will most likely be too common and ugly for our Fifth avenue, and so the Ger- man imperial Court at Berlin, with its splendid styles, may cut out Paris in New York and the United States. With the return Paris, of the Bonapartes, including the magnificent Eugénie, we know that Paris will again rule the four quarters of the globe with her fashions. Equally brilliant will be the ladies’ styles from “sweet Paris” with the restoration of the Or- leanists, for the young wife of the Count de Paris is said to be a very pretty woman and very much devoted to the prettiest personal decorations from head to foot—from the bon- net tothe shoe. Republic, empire or king- dom, we must await the event. In this very interesting view of the subject, we dare say that if the question of the con- tinuance or abelition of the French republic were put to the women of New York and the United States, they, in behalf of women’s rights to the prettiest and most costly dresses, would vote unanimously the déchéunce of “that horrid republic,” even if every man in the Union were to vote the other way. The Churches Yesterday. The beautiful snow which fell so gently yes- terday, like the quality of mercy, was not strained, and it persuaded many good Christians that it was not worth their while to go to church, The services were slimly attended, but the sermons generally were of unusual interest. Dr. Rogers, at the South Reformed church, in Fifth avenue, under the text, ‘‘They of Italy salute you,” took occasion te fling enormous doctrinal stones at the Vati- can and abuse the Pope with an earnest zest which partook greatly of the spirit of those sin- cere Puritans who, two hundred years ago, so zealously burned witches and heretics for the glory of God. Dr. Armitage, of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, preached a very cheerful and sustaining sermon, in which he especially enjoined upon his congregation that this was an exceedingly good world—a deli- cious world, he said—and he meant to stand by it until he reached a better one, which we are sure so whole-souled and pleasant a teacher as the good Doctor will certainly reach in goed time. Rev. Mr. Hepworth, at the Church of the Messiab, also preached a sermon full of life and vim and progress. He did not be- lievo in oldstage coaches when we had railroads, nor in living up to a faith of the dead and gone ages when a truer and more beautiful faith had been eliminated from the experience of eighteen centuries. Our God is the God of Christ, and not of the Jews. Mr. Beecher, at Plymouth church, who always has a full audi- ence, took oceasion to say that there was too much church-going—a remark that very few of his reverend coworkers in the vineyards of the Lord could have found the heart to say yesterday. He qualified the remark, how- ever, by saying that this’ church-going should be distributed more; that peo- ple who go twice on Sunday should go only once, in order, we suspect, that their expensive pews in the Beecher tabernacle may be used by strangers during the off hours, There were many church services yes- terday of which we cannot treat in this brief résumé, but we touch upon them in our reports elsewhere, and there the stranger can seek them with no fear of rebuke from monopolist pewholders, and all persons of all sects and classes can lave their souls in the doctrine that to them is best. Tho Ice Blockade in the Streets Rivers. The snow and ice, twin born children of that paternal old winter which a few months ago we were all snapping our fingers at asa mild old gent who didn’t amount to much, are taking full revenge upon us for our levity, They are the bears of the period, and are intent on devouring us for making fun of Elijah. The snow has choked all the avenues of the city, stalled allthe cars and wheeled vehicles in town, dampened all the feet of our pedestrians and laid in store a full stock of colds and con- sumptions for indiscriminate distribution next spring and summer. Miscellaneous sleighing is no compensation for this thing of being mis- cellaneously slain, Gliding about on runners is no satisfactory equivalent for galloping con- sumptions, and jesting on the cold is wretched satisfaction for colds en the chest. The beau- tiful snow takes these revenges on us for scof- fing at old winter, and the snow is no ‘‘slouch” in retaliation, The ice is not behind the snow in its efforts at revenge. It feels no’sentiment of pity forus. Its severity is intense and it has no melting mood. East river and the Hudson are occupied by hosts of it bent on giving us a severe lesson. Long glistening cakes of it lie low along the water's surface, and muddy, slushy, bucketsful appear and dis- appear among the whiter and firmer masses. Small gorges of ice sweep majestically down the streams, driving with their whole force against the ferryboats, and huge floes, with no flow-of reason at all, break themselves into tiny bits against the buckets of the paddle- wheels. But the ice has its revenges. Now and then an immense mass, reinforced at every eddy by smaller masses, comes crushing and pushing down the river, and until its slow length has been dragged along beyond the ferry piera crossing is stopped entirely. On Friday night, or rather Saturday morning, from midnight until half-past three o'clock, the Fulton ferry steamers were closely besieged in their slips by a threatening line of investing ice on one side and a clamorous and indignant band of nightworkers, printers, night editors, milkmen and revellers on the other. No in- dignant clamors, however, could move the ice nor raffle the calm temper of the benignant old gentlemen who sit at the gates and calmly take your money with the intimation that the boats may go out at any moment, and the op- pressed representatives of the publiq were compelled to wait—wait three mortal hours, too, before they could cross, spending the time in tramping from one ferry slip to the others trying to happen upon some boat that was willing to make the passage. There is one gleam of comfort in these exactions of the ice blockade. We can take our cool revenge next summer by devouring ice at something less than six cents a pound, and the cause of the Brooklyn Bridge is so strengthened that in the course ef ages we may have one. and the CHINA. A Tartar Rebollion—Alarmieg Progress of the Insurgonts. Lonpon, Jan, 29, 1871. Arevolt has broken ont among the Tartars in China, and at last accounts it had reached alarming Proportions. The rebels had seized many points of imnortance SPAIN AND AMERICA. Minister Sickles Concludes Important Negotiations with the Spaniards. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonvon, Jan, 29, 1871. The Henatp special correspondent in Madrid telegraphs from the Spanish capital, under date of this morning, the following despatch for transmis- slonto New York by the cable. He says:—United States Minister Sickles has just given a grand state banquet to the members of King Amadeus’ Cabinet and the diplomatic corps accredited to the Court, ‘rhe fete was tendcred by Major General Sickles to celebrate the conclusion of tmportant negotiations: between the United States of America and the Spanish Crown, which he has couducied in his official capacity. EXPECTING THE QUEEN. ‘The HERALD correspondent adds:—King Amadeus, attended by a royal suite, will leave Madrid on the 4th of February and journey to the coast to meet and receive his wife, the Queen of Spain. The Queen will leave Turin on the Lzvh of February for Madrid. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. Elections for the Cortes will cormmence tate in February. VISITATION BY FLOODS. Tnundailons tn the Northern provinces Nave douse much damage to property, Cabivet Finance and Adjustment of Taxation Maprip, Jan, 28, 1871. The Imparcial foreshadows, though unable to Dublish details, an importani financial measure af- fecting general interests. The reported project to raise a loan on the tobacco revenues is pronounced unfounded, NEUTRAL IN THE WAR. The government has resoived to wara the Frenco® and Prussian war vessels now in the harbor of Vigo to leave, and will Ox the exact time for their de- parture. * ENGLAND. Promier Gladstone on the Alabama Claims, LONDON, Jan. 29, 1871. Mr. Gladstone, replying to the Bristot Chamber of Commerce, who urged the settlement of the Ala- bama claims, satd, ‘he could assure them that her Majesty’s government had given its assent to every allowable proceeding looking to a settlement, and Was still so disposed, believing that the long un- Settled state of the controversy was disadvantageous to both countries." The Parliamentary Tactics Canvassed in the Clubs. LONDON, Jan. 29, 1871. A rumor which has been im circulation, that ow the openiag of Parliament Mr. Disraeli tntended to challenge a vote of confidence ia the Mintstry, la pronounced groundless. Smalipox Epidemic. Lonpon, Jan. 28, 1871. The smallpox has become epidemic in London, The rapld increase of mortality causes alarm. The deaths from the disease, which in the first week in January were 79, in the third weex increased to 188, BELGIUM. Democratic Agitation—Sympathy with the French Republic. Lrgas, Jan. 28, 1871. A meeting of workingmen is announced in Ver- viers tn favor of the recognition of the Frenca republic by Belgium. A disturbance is appre hended and troops have been sent there. ITALY. The Removal to Rome Sanctioned by the Seuate. FLORBNCS, Jan, 27, 1671. The bill removing the capital of the kingdom to Rome passed the Senate by 3 vote of 94 yeas to 30 nays. A resolution complimentary to the city of Florence was adopted. ROME AND THE CHURCH. Pere Hyacinthe and the Pope. Lonpon, Jan. 28, 1871. Pere Hyacinthe writes to La Liberté denying the validity of the Pope’s Encyclical and Syllabus and denouncing generally the hierarchical pretensions of the See of Rome, THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DISASTER. More Dead Bodies Fouund—Eighty-Seven Lives in All Believed to Have Been Loat—No Cause Yet Discovered for the Explosion— Nobody to Blame but the Boilers. Memenis, Jan, 29, 187t. The bodies recovered from the Arthur have been identified as those of Mrs. Jennte Ulier, of Golcond, Il, and Martia Graney, second steward, Maysville, Ky. Another body, belleved to be that of Miss Paxter, Philadeiphia, was found on the Arkan- as shore to-day. The following are also believed to be lost:—James Neagie, deck hand, Dubuque; lowa; Charies and Andrew Cole, boys, Leavenworth, ana Peter Benton, striker, Memphis; Albert Rose, striker, Carlisle, Ill.; Willlam M. Gregon, cabin boy, St. Paul, Minn.; Albert Cranch, passenger. it is now believed that eighty-seven hve3s were iost by the disaster. The following saved have not been reported: Joseph Reed, striker; Patrick Roberts, Samuel W. Ullery, carpenter, St. Louts; Fred. Halstiae, W. T. Foster, A. Brysor, James Slith, rousters; Jorry Mack, Chicago; Timothy Barr, Cincinnati; Fred. Moralt, Pittsburg; Charles McKinney, Loulsyiile, deck hands. ‘The wounded are all doing well, and it is believed none of them will die, The second engineer, who was on duty at the time, says everything was working weil up to the time of the explosion; that the beller was carrying lesa than 120 pounds of steam, and was allowed 126, He had just tried the water and found it all ght, One of the boilers was blown aft the rudder post ana smashed the yawl, while the other, it is believed, was driven through the hull, causing the vessel to slox. VIEWS OF THE PAST, January 30. 1866—The boiler of the steamer Missouri explod on the Ohio river and killed eighty persons. . ee The boiler of the steamer Miami exploded and Killed 180 pergons on the Arkansas river. 1865—The Surrey theatre, London, destroyed by fire. 1852—The Sioo-Tehuantepec road formally opened as Minatitlan, Mexico.. Lawrence Reilly exe- cuted in Brooklyn for the muraer of his wire and mother-inJaw......Hiram Knickerbocker executed for the murder of Mr. Raukner, in Buffalo, N. Y. een transport Sea Horse, with 300 lives, loat 1785—Lord Metcaif, the English statesman, born. 1175—Walter Savage Landor, the poet, born. 1649—King Charles I. of England beheaded, EUROPEAN MARKETS, Lonvon MONEY MARKET.—LONDON, Jan. 28-. M.—Console, 924 for money and the account. An curiules ‘firmer; Five-twenty boats, 136881 1866, Bee toe, GO yp; tonfortieg, 8035. American’ stooks—Krio,’ 8}; Lilt nofs'Contral, 11039; Atlantic and Great Western, 26%. aLoxvox, Jan. Yh-2:20 P. M.—Consols, 924 for money inca American securities and stocks un & arse 32 30 P. i biags firm nnd ain Tp ERO Roe ant encanto, ca named aold ai id, for ‘middhage’ Cotas Yeon 28—3:B0 P. M.—Wheat—Caltfornia whi Cora —No, 3 Wheat, Rovh jo No. itor tet d ee Livgupoo.’ PuOVIsIONS MARKET —-LI Oty Jan. 2e-Na0 PM —Fork, Wnt beet ibe; ; 6d.{for short i tntdelog 1 Hie; lard, 6a; ‘bacoa, LEUM MARKRT.—Ai a Mee oe ARKET ANTWORY, Jen, 24,—Petroleum