The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1871, Page 4

v > W YORK HERALD| N BROADWAY AND ANN STREEBT, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR 3 All business or news leiter aud iclegraphie despatebes must be addressed New York Heratn. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will net be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNGUN AND EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 RioHELIRU. Matinee at erween Sih unt 6th avs,— FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (‘Theatre Francais)— FANOUOS. Matince at 2 NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tar SPrcTactE oF THE BLAcK Croox. Matinee at 24, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadwar ana 13th street.— Tur CLANDESTINE MARBLAGE, Matinee at Ly. | LINA BDWIN'’S THEAT Down; On, 1uz Two Live! 20 Broadway.—Honren: Mary Leigh, Matinee, GRAND OPERA ROUSE, corner of Sth ay, ana 23d wh — @BAND Orrzario CARNIVAL, Matinee ai % OLYNPIO THEATRE Tur PANTOMINE OF Rreweuire or rue PE 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Bicr DWwWarr—Srr Saw—Intsuaan's Home Matinee at 2. FIFTH AVRNUY THEATRE, Twenty-fourth etreet.— SARATOGA. Matinee at Ly. GLOBE THEATRE Rroadway,—Vaninty PNTer NEW YURK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 187. Goveral Gran?s Triumph=His Ue-Election | and more into the policy of peace. The Secure=His Splendid Diplomacy with England. We cannot too bizhly ostimate the import- ance of the recent negotiations between Enz- land and the United States. To our mind it ts the greatest governmental achievement since the formation of the constitution, and will be remembered, wo think, with such conspicuous illustrations of what the diplomatists call ‘high politics” as the Jay Treaty, the purchase of Louisiana, the Moaroe doctrine, the annexa- tion of Texas and California, and the eménci- pation of the slaves. The more curionsly, criticise this negotiation the more thoroughly we are convinced of its wisdom. The country will approve it heartily, aud so far as the administration is concerned it seems to decide the renomination and, with a little care and resolution, the re-election of General Grant. Whatever wo may say in our passion and for temporary political effect, the thinking men of America have long looked upon our relations with England as the anxious question. For three gene- rations we bave been on uneasy terms with Engisad, twe of these generations engaged in war, while on these occasions tho third has drifted to the very verge of battle. Nothing but some special Providence, for instance, kept us from venturing upon war about tho Oregon boundaries, the island of San Juan, and the surrender of Mason and Slidell, and we can easily seo how the Alabama claims and the fishery troubles might throw us into strife at any moment. So far as fighting is concerned, TAINNENT, &0.—LIT Bo frnr. Matinee at 2. NEW Yor von Hrruy WOOD'S MUSEUM B ances every afteragon a: STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowory.—KaTourN ONN. corner S0ch st.-—Perfortas evening, MRS. PF. B. CONWAY'S PARK THGATRE, Brooklya.— Tue Rey Lronr, TONY TOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowers.--Va- niray FE AINMENT. Matinee at 215, THRATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. ISM, NFGNO Acre, &o. "Matinee at 24), to Yooau SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 58 Mroatway.— Nea +» Fan BOR .RSQURS, ko. between 6th 1OLTEES, 40. HOOT ; OPERA Ho! KELLY & Brooklyn.—HooLer's AND oN's MINSTRALS. ASSOCIAVION HALL, £84 street and th av.-Granp PorULAc Concent. STEINWAY Brorrar at 2 een: strec!—PIANOFORTE HALL, Foa ru. APOLLO HAT. Dez. Couny’s NEW YO. THE Rina, street. NEW YORK MUSEUM SOrENcE aNp Atr. DR. KAUN'S ANATOMICAL MUSE SOMENCE AND Ant. M, 745 Brondwway.— 1871. broary 11, at! Reports from 1 Situation in from Cuba— ation of All th slington—Proceedings in Con- he Hudson B ‘orror: One More Tare Exrcrtions took place in Maryland yesterday at different points. One of the executed persons was a woman. All the affairs p: d off very smoothly, and all the individ sed the deepest confidence in a heavenly welcome. ore: Sroretany Bovurwert has decided that national bank notes are not legal tender. Being redeemable in Treasury notes, however, even when the banks of issue have become insolvent, they are likely to pars current very generaily for some tine, We Arz Giap 1o Sze rHar THE LEGIs- LATURE ms determined to have iron bridges substituted for all the wooden ones on our Siate railroads. Without question, if the bridge over Wappinger’s creek lad been of iron the horrors of drowning and freezing would not have been added to the combination of kerosene and collision ia the New Hamburg disaster. Arrams my CuBpa.—By telegram from the Heratp’s special correspondent in Havana we learn that the rebels have ceased to recog- nize Cespedes as their chief, and that Agra- monte has been declared dictator. The result operations is slso given, show- mbers to have surrendered in each of the districts, many of them rebels of note, whose names heretofore have not been given. Franetww County, Tenn., has a new rebel- lion in iis midst—this time a whiskey rebel- lion. A squad of United States soldiers, two revenue officers and a United States deputy marshal, who had seized some illicit distil- leries and captured five prisoners there, were recently surrounded by armed men and com- pelled te give up the captured property and release the prisoners, Tue TENNESSEE.—The discussion in the House yesterday as to the unsesworthiness of the steamer Tennessee, on which the St. Domingo Commission sailed from this port twenty-five days ago, reveals most startling particulars concerning that vessel. General Banks said that be hed heard engineers say they would not trust their lives in her, and that it was almost certain destruction for her to ven- ture to sea, If such is actually the case there is great cause for alarm as to the fate of our commissioners, and not only should an investigation be held to discover with whom lies the fault of her un- ‘seaworthiness and the criminal error of send- dng the commission in her, but fleet vessels ghopld be immediately despatched from the Ports along ovr lower sqgvoard to look them up. It may be possible that the lives of these we Americans have something of the old Revo- lutionary spirit in our blood. For a new country we have had our share of fighting, and scarcely an administration passes over without some international menace and heartburning. And of all fighting questions this with Eug- land has been the most popular, Every political party, every convention, every can- didate for the Presidency, has more or less invested in it as attractive political capital. When Washington made what wss called the Jay Treaty he was stormed at by the talking men of the republic. The thiaking men, how- ever, honored him for his courage in saving the new and crude republic from a struggle which might have destroyed the new Union. Jackson’s surprising popularity was based upon the fact that he defeated the English in a pitched battle. Our relations with England have never been harmonious. We think it is Coleridge who thus expresses their trae nature :— Alas! they had been frienas in youth ; But whispering words can poison trath, And to be wroth with those we love Doth work like madness in the brain. We never thoroughly recovered from the severity of tho Revolutionary war—the inva- sion of Maryland and the burning of the capi- tal. We have shown since, however, that we ean make a war upon our friends and brothers as implacable as ever waged by Evgland, and that, perhaps, it was all in our Anglo-Saxon fighting human naiure. The large infusion of the Irish element into our citizenship has intensified our anti-English prejudices ; and yet all this time pradent and patriotic men saw that we were of the one race and language and civilization; that our liberties came from Magna Charta; that our common law came from her statesmen and Parlia- ments; that in our literature Shakspeare and Byron and Tennyson were American as much as Irving and Longfellow; that we bad been | brought within speech by the cable; that the influence of great world-embracing journals like the London Zimes and the New York Heratp had gone far toward breaking away the barriers of prejudice and custom and tra- dition, and made London and New York as one city, Nothing does so much to bind the nations in peace as association and knowledge, The cruel and bitter and ever-recurring wars between England and France ended when the French came to see that the English were not really brates who flogged their wives and recruited armies by a press gang, and went through the world in strict obedience to the rules of the London prize ring; while the English respected the French and became their allies when they really discovered that | they did not wear wooden shoes and worship metal images of saints. We can readily see how the American of Punch and the carica- turists would be in natural antagonism to the popular John Bull with his arrogance and pre- tension, _ The true American and Briton are far different from those drawn by the satirists ; and between the real men of the two countries this conference will finally be held, and, we trust, lead to a speedy and lasting peace. Without speéulatiag uponthe probable tenor of the deliberations of this joint High Com- mission, the emphatic point is that it has been agreat triumph for Grant’s administration. Nothing so conspicuous and gratifying has been accomplished since the Jay Treaty. The President insisted that England should submit every grievance lo a commission—even the Alabama claims and the much mooted question of belligerency, which was a perpetual and ef- fectual stumbling block in previous negotia- tions. He required that the commission should hold its sessions in Washington. He held that the fishery differences should be de- termined by the home government and not by the colonial rulers of the Canadian Dominion. He declined to permit the Confederate indebt- edness to become even a considered question. To debar annoying and irrelevant issues, he requested that no claims from the inhabitants of either country shonld be presented unless when assumed by the government in the firat place and officially recognized. In every re- spect the President has achieved a splendid triumph, one that will be gratifying to Ameri- can pride and honor and be received with gratification by both countries. This triumph is an evidence of an advance in civilization. Napoleonism, as practised by the first Napoleon—to-day a grievance, to- morrow a threat, the mext day battle—has come to an end. Truly, as the dramatist writea, ‘the pen is mighticr than the sword ;” and with Richelieu we can say, ‘‘Put away the sword! States can be saved without it.” England and America have so much in com- mon, they are held by tics so strong, that any war would be an unspeakable calamity, a crime against humanily. To the English- epeaking races Providence has committed the destinies of freedom—the advance of civiliza- tion and peace. United in interest, policy and waluable men are even now depending on the tenure of some lifeboat or piece of plank Jo tho wild wares of ths Atlantic. affection, as mon of the same blood should be, they can control the world. America is the country of peace, while England drifts more foolish ‘‘questions” which Palmerston held and tossed for sixty years like a dicer at play—the Black Sea, the Hellenic islands, Rome, Luxembourg, Denmark, Belgium, the balance of power and the Holy Alliance—and | twenty other distracting follies have been put aside. Palmerstonism has faded away with Napoleonism, and the modern stateamen of England seo that their business is with Eng- ~and—her prosperity, wealth and power; that the duty they owe their people must never be subordinated to the interests of nations, who must either take care of themselves or give way toa people that can. Instead of fighting Russia, as many Englishmen insist, Mr. Gladstone wisely avolds any new campaigns in the Crimea or the Gulf of Cronstadt, and seeks for peace with America. He has answered President Grant In the proper spirit, and sent to us com- missioners worthy to sit in council with the distinguished gentlemen named by the Presi- dent, As we havo said, this wise and temperate and manly statesmanship on the part of the President insures his renomination and his re-election, “Mr. Sumner may ‘growl and Mr, Trumbull quote forgotten musty law records, and Mr. O'Donovan Rossa hold up his mauacled hands in protest. There may be copperhead criticisms and murmurs from the war-at-any-sacrifics pariy, and some regrets in the minds of the political managers that a “war-with-England cry” will be out of the next canvass; but the country will s:e that General Grant and Mr. Fish have done wisely, and will sustain them, Tbe administration is strengthened at home and abroad, But for one flaw it would stand before the country as “broad and general as the casing air.” Its weakness is the Treasury. With a Secretary of State who has done as much as Mr. Fish it is unfortunate to have a Secretary of the Treasury who has done nothing, like Mr. Boutwell. Mr. Boutwell is simply a negative, feeble man, without ideas or generous vision, who sits upon the neck of the President, like the Old Man of the Sea—a Minister whose statesmansbip would -ruin this generation to make himself President, and who injures the country he serves, the party who put him in power, and the Executive who retains him in the Cabinet, General Grant has done se splendidly in this English question, and has given his administration so much strength, that he shonld take one step further—send Boutwell off to Germany or Spain, and put a live, progressive, aggressive and able man in his place. Let this be done and he can walk the course in 1872, and be re-slected as triumphantly as Washington, Jackson and Lincoln. As it stands to-day he is a re-elected President, and it is not wise or just for him to handicap himself and his party by carrying this inert, sluggish and narrow minded Secre- tary. The French Elections. The cable despatches from France, so far, show that the elections have been carried on without any of those disturbances which were anticipated a few days ago. The people have recorded their votes quietly and orderly. In the northera and eastern departments the moderate republicans have come out pretty freely; but in the southern departments it is feared that the radicals have been able to exercise a bad influence over the voters. It should be borne in mind that while the people im the north and in the east have suffered severely, and that while the cities are de- streyed, the towns ruined and the fields wasted, those in the southern districts have experienced comparatively none of the rigors of the war. In fact, they never received their “baptism ef fire,” and hence they still ery out for the maintenance of Bordeaux republicanism. Reports received in Versailles last night show that in eleven de- partments few republicans have been returned. In these same departments the Bonapartist, Orleanist and clerical candidates have been elected. From this indication it may be inferred that in these districts, at least, the people are sick of the war and are anxious to conclude a contest which they cannot fail in perceiving is hopeless. In the cities of Brest and Havre the Gambetta ticket was elected. This result dees not surprise us when it is remembered that these places are occupied by large numbers of young soldiers who have been summoned to arms by Gambetta himself. We question whether the cities and towns north of Havre will make any such exhibit. The despatches received here up to this time are not sufficiently full to enable us to form any fair estimate as to the final result. From all indications, however, we should judge that the elections have been car- ried out fairly. The candidates of all parties lave had an equal chance, apparently, im- perialist as well as republican, republican as well as monarchist. The Gambetta party, judging, however, only from the meagre news received from France last night, is very likely to prove as unsuccessful in the election campaign as its soldiers have done in the military. There is little or no chance for Gambetta or his fire-eaters to secure a ma- jority in the National Assembly, but that they will in numbers be sufficiently strong to create treuble is to be feared, The Napoleonists, Orleanists, clerical and moderate republicans are each separate and distinct, and though any one of these separate parties possesses more genuine patriotism than the Bordeaux levellers, yet if they attempt to carry“out to the letter their particular aims, disregarding the claims of the country, the very worst con- sequences may be anticipated. If the full re- turns of the elections were before us we should be better able to form an opinion of the senti- ment of the French people, and also of the probabilities of a permanent peace, Tae Brut to Anvex Parr of Westchester county to New York has been reported upon adversely by Mr. Tweed as chairman of the Senate committee, The principal ebjection of Westchester to annexation was that she would then come under the domination of Tweed, and the fact that Tweed don’t want her will be considered a dreadful snub, Tue Rarmw Transit Question is again before the State Senate in a variety of bills looking to the establishment of some decree to hurl people from the Battery to Harlem in ten or fifteen minutes. Two of the bills favor the underground or old arcade plan, and consequently do not afford the best aglation of the quegtions Is Riemarck Crazy or Dying? | Our agrrespondent at Versailles telegraphs that matters look gloomy there, but that he is | precluded from explaining the cause, He fur- ther states that Bismarck is agaia quite ill, and that his condition exciies grave uneasiness, It is probable that the explanation which he is not allowed to make bears some connection with the health of the Prussian Premier. For some weeks past rumors have been current concerning Bismarck which have seemed to possess some foundation. His illness has gene- rally been admitted, but the reports have gone so far as to state that the excitement resulting from rocent events has unsettled his mind and subjected him te periodical attacks of insanity. The armistice convention with Jules Favre rather destroyed what little credit was given to this story, Atanyrate he was sane enough to induce Favre to sign an agreement in which all the advantage rested with Germany. People may, we think, safely dismiss all ideas of Bismarck being insane; but it is evi- dent that be is in a very precarious: state of health. He had hardly recovered from an attack of illness when he was called upon to negotiate the terms of the surrender of Paris of the armistice. It is likely that the labor incidental to the performance of this duty has brought on a second attack, which has cauged the ‘‘grave uneasiness” referred to by our correspondent. The deaili of Bis- marok would be a terrible blow to Prussia and to the whole of Germany. If he dies after the conclusion of a treaty of peace with France it will be after his work is accomplished; but if he dies now he will leave great questions un- settled which his genius alone can decide in a manner advantageous to Germany. We sin- cerely trust that our next despatches may report more favorably of his condition, Ttalian Concessions to the Pope. Most of our readers will be glad te know that the Italian Chambers have carried out the original bill, which we have already in these columns commented upon and characterized as just and liberal. The Holy Father is to be well provided for. There is to be no want of money—no want of palatial space or comfort, The bill, which has passed through the Légis- lative Chambers, secures to the Pope all the aforementioned privileges, assigning him at the same time regal honors and a body guard. We cannot refuse to admit that the policy of the Italian government is liberal. Butso long as Pio Nono and his unflinching and unchanging Minister insist apon the full reclamation of the ancient patrimony of St. Peter, stretching from the line of the Po to the Ngapolitan frontier and from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean, we do not see how a reconciliation is to be effected. We have no means of knowing how far the Vicar of Christ dare recognize a conference of mere mortals; but it does seem to us as if a conference must try its hand on St. Peter's patrimony before a general agd secure peace can be said to be established. It may yet be necessary for the Holy Father to submit to a human tribunal. Meanwhile we have no choice but await the issue of events and the sometimes startling results of the world’s pro- gress. . Legislation at Albany. There seems to be a hitch in the progress of legislation among our Solons at Albany. Perhaps this fs wise. Possibly the repre- sentatives of the people have learned that they were hurrying along at teo fast a rate. The democratic Mother Cary majority, as if running at ligutning.speed upon an express. train, seemed to have forgotten that faithful switch-tenders were necessary to preserve the machine from running off the track, if not from ultimate disaster. Unwise measures, fathered by the Tammany Regency, have, for the present at least, been laid on the shelf. Our readers have new for their edification the perusal of discussions on euch matters as a bill to probibit fish from biting on the Sab- bath, a bill to enable aliens to acquire and hold real estate—as if that could not be done without legal enactment—and a bill to ex- empt bonds and mortgages from taxation, which is a very good thing. Tom Fields has introduced a bill to indemnify bounty jumpers— or some persons of that stamp—for losses during the late attempt at rebellion, Beyond these latter measures, throwing out jobs for the construction of new police court houses as matters of but little consequence, the cili- zens of New York may congratulate them- selves that legislation at Albany is of a quiet description, But it would be well to look out for remarkable demonstrations after Ash Wednesday. Germany's PEAcE TerMs.—In these columns yesterday we printed a special cable despatch, giving, on the best authority possible, Ger- many’s ultimatum to the French people. Ger- many demands the whole of Alsace and sixty German square miles of Lorraine—a piece of territory in all comprising four hundred and thirty-seven square miles, and including, among many others, the fortress of Metz. She demands also one and one-half milliard francs for past war expenses, thirty million france for captured ships, forty million francs as indemnity for losses sustained by German workmen, and some millions more for the maimed and orphans, Hard terms, very hard, all will say. But as France began this war, and as France would not make peace when peace was possible, who can blame Germany ? No war was ever so practloal, so far as Ger- many has been concerned, as this one. If anything is clear amid the confusion which at present reigns this is clear—Germany does not mean to lose any more than she can help. Tae Canavan SxuB.—Among the many lessons to be learned from the action of the British government in the matter of the joint commission not the least important is the snub which the {mperial government has given to the little snarling Canadian terrier. We have had so much snarling of late on the part of the little terrier that the big Newfound- land has been compelled to put his foot upon him. The howlings about fisheries, about reciprocities, about Fenians, about privileges, have been such that John Bull at last saw there was nothing for it but to lay his big paw upon the New Dominion terrier. Our patience was exhausted with the, ‘creature. It is just as well, however, that ‘the big fellow has come to the rescue. On this Continent we must have peace. We are not sorry that Groat Britain has fouad qut qur ability to enforce It. Tue Metropolitan Musouct of Art. We are glad to perceive that the establish- ment of a grand museum of art has taken a tangible shape, and that many of our most prominent and wealthy citizens are taking part in an enterprise which must redound to the honor of the city, as well as increase the educational advantages of our whole popula- tion. In many respects we. are not behind the great cities of the world in our public libraries and public parks, But our great want is a public museum, where art in ali its finest forms, and science in all its most novel and subtle discoveries, can be placed at the dis- posal of the whole people. Those who look \ Congross Yostorday—A Naval Con{ict In the House~Pensioning the Veterans=Tho Jot Iuteruational Commisston. The House got into a regular sea fizht yew terday. Banks and Butler, with figurative cutlass in hand, and breathing direfut denun- ciations, led the boarding parly in an attack on the Admiral, while Farnsworth and Sar- gent with equal fury resisted the assailants, but were borue down by overpowering num- bers. It all came about over a very innocent. looking Senate bill, which simply proposed to permit a former naval constructor in the Charlestown Navy Yard to withdraw his resig- nation, accepted five years ago, and to be re- deeply and wisely undor the upper stratum of | stored to his position in the navy. Tho bill our metropolitan society must observe how much is needed to eliminate the grosser parts from human nature, and elevate popular taste and give a higher tone to popular thought, A good deal has been done, it is true, in this direction by the Improvement of our public parks; by the introduction of music of the best order on stated days'in these breathing places of the populace, All these are very well in their way. They are not to be despised, nor can their influence be justly underrated, But this project of a grand metropolitan art museum reaches a higher step in the progress of popular, educsHen, “The: ‘company hae already obtained a charter from the Légisia- ture, which embraces among its Incorporators such names as Andrew H. Green, General Dix and others known in all the walks of art and literature ; and among tts officers men like W. H. Aspinwall, H. G. Stebbins, Edwin D, Morgan, A. T. Stewart and Marshall O. Roberts; and among tis trustees the Governor of the State, the Mayor of the city, the Presi- dent of the Department of Public Parks, the President of the National Academy of Design, and nearly all the leading artists, whose genius and labors have given us not alone @ metropolitan, but a national reputation. Established upon this basis, then, the Metropolitan Museum of Art solicits the co- operation of the public. It puts its claims upon the necessity of the object proposed, and upon this ground few will be found to dispute the claims, Subseriptions are being received from our citizens generally, and wo believe that a large amount has already been place d upon the list. We believe that it is the intention of the company not to take any active proceedings towards the com- pletion of the design until the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is subscribed. Then the subscribers will be called upon for their contributions and the work will goon, the company being fortified with a good pecuniary basis to start upon. The model of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will, as we understand, be that of tho splendid museum in South Kensington Gar- dens, London, which is probably the most per- fect thing of the kind in the world. If we can succeed in establishing anything like the Kensington Museum in this city we shall be doing great work in behalf of civilization and education. There is certainly enterprise and money enough in this community and appre- ciation enough of the need to foster popular taste and lead it into higher channels to sup- port an institution like the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The plan seems to be ex- cellent, and we do not see how the enterprise can fail with such men among our best citi- zens at the head of it as those, whose names are pledged to its successful accomplishment. Ta Crowns AND THE CentRE or Unity.— Special telegrams addressed to England from the Continent of Europe announce that it is expected the Pope will recognize the new dynasty of King Amadeus in Spain at an early day. As the Pontiffs of the Roman Catholic Church have always accepted ‘‘facts” which have been legally “‘accomplished” the intelli- gence becomes important. Should his Holiness Pio Nono take this solemn step the Bourbons will be obliterated as a royalism. A new Power will be instituted by boly unction, and tho Spanish revolution, which evolved that Power, be consecrated by the head of the Chutch, The acknowledgment of a necessity for such Pontifical action, the very asking of its exercise by the King of the Spaniards, will go to prove that the legitimate monarchs still look to a common centre of unity—one which cannot be conciliated in an ‘‘edifice crowned” on a coup d'état, Tne Jomwr Hien Coxsission anp Watt Srreet.—The financial barometer, which always records the changes produced by great commotions in the political atmosphere, has settled at “‘fine weather” with the news of the negotiations for a settlement of our difficulties with England in the matters of the Alabama claims and BaP avestions In other words, Wall street sumed a cheerful, buoyant tone, and stocks are rising. On the other hand gold keeps strong and is also ascending, and hence some confirmation is given a theory pre- vailing in the street that the sottlement of the Alabama claims dispute willbe followed by a more vigorous policy on the part of England with reference to the Black Sea question and, possibly, a war between that country and Russia, - Is tne Pore To Be Kinemaker?—A Ver- sailles despatch says that returns from eleven departments of France indicate the election of the Bonapartist, Orleanist and clerical candi- dates, but of very few republicans. If the three first named be evenly divided the cleri- cals will hold the game in their hands, As they will doubtless act as instructed from Rome the Pope will virtually be the king- maker, We know that the Holy Father has dubbed Napoleon the ‘eldest son of the Church ;” but the Orleans princes are also devout Catholics, It will be interesting, therefore, to see which of the dynasties he will place on the throne. Granting that our supposition proves a fact, will it not baa sin- gular illustration of the immense power still wielded by the head of the Catholic,;Church, that at the very moment when higstemporal domains. are in the possession ofthe Italian troops and he has no physical means of expel- ling them he is able to place a rdonarch on the threne of one of the most powesful of European nations ? J Tor Lake Gizav Wager Brit, for the sale of certain additiona}’waters to the Croton Commissioners, has couie bofore the Assembly and been referred to ‘fe Committee on Cities, This will secure its favorable report, and pro- ably ite paasaga : ‘was opposed on the ground that the resigna- tion of the officer in question had been inspired by the fear of meeting a charge of corrupt practices, made against him in connection with his official duties, and that, therefore, he was an improper person to have in sucha position. Mr. Banks, im defending the character of the person thus assailed, who is a constituent of his, was carried by his im- petuosity so far as to declare that that person was in point of reputation as far superior to Admiral Porter as the Apostle John was to the traitor Judas. The attack upon the Admiral, thus suddenly opened, became general. ff Was followed up by the assertion that oven if the charges against Mr. Hanscom, the person referred to, were true, his character would still be better than that of the high naval officials who persecuted him; and thon, shift. ing his point of attack somewhat, the fate of the missing steamer Tennessee was alluded to, in connection with the statement that seores of naval engineers had represented her to be un- seaworthy, but had not warned the St. Doe mingo Commissioners or any of the three hundred people on board, because, under the evil influence of the Navy Department, they were cowed and feared lest they should lose favor and standing in the navy. Mr. Butler came to the support of Banks, and opened his batteries against the Admiral; whi¥ Farnsworth, ever ready to break a lance wits. Butler, quoted Mr. Justice Dozberry’s maxim, that ‘‘comparisons are odorous,” against the idea of placing the services of Admiral Porter in juxtaposition with those of the two Massa- chusetts generals. Cox bronght the funny element into the dispute by proposing that, as Judas Iscariot was on the republican side of the House, he should have a chance of getting into the scrimmage. And thus this naval fight went on for a couple of hours, ending in the complete discomfiture of the gallant Ad- miral and his allies, and in a brilliant victory for the ex-naval constructor of the Charlestowa Navy Yard. After the decks were cleared and the smoke of the battle had floated off the House went to work and pasecd the Naval Appropriation bill, which will allow the Admiral to overhaul and repair. Subsequently the report of the conference committee on the bill to pension the veterans of the war of 1812 wag presented and agreed to. Uader the bill, ig its present form, a monthly pension of cight dollars is to be given to all surviving officers and enlisted and drafted men and volunteers who served for sixty days, in the land or navat forces of the United States, during the Revo- lutionary war or the war of 1812, or to their surviving widows. The pensions are to com- mence and be made payable, not from the time of application, but from the time of the passage of the act, The Senate spent most of the afternoon in executive session, in which the appointments of the commissioners.on the joint international commission were confirmed. In the evening there was a session for legislative business, AMADEUS AND PIO NONO. The Pontiff Expected to Recognize tho New King. TELEGRAM T) THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Feb. 10, 1871, A special despatch which has been recetved io- day in this city, addressed to the London Zelegraph, announces “the early recognition by the Pope of the new dynasty” just established by his Majesty Amaaeus, King of the Spaniards, at Madrid. ITALIAN LEGISLATION, Conciliation To and From the Centre, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. FLORENCE, Feb. 10, 187%. 1am enabled to inform the HzRatp by cable tele- gram of the fact that the Italian Chamber of Legis- lative Deputies has approved the bill authorizing a financial convention with Austria. y ‘The bill providing for the establishment of a fund for the support of the Pope was finally passed. ITALY AND AFRICA, An Imperial Commissioner of Peace from Tunis, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Feb,.10, 1871. The international difficulties which have existed for years past between the Italian government and the Ministers of the Bey of Tunis, and more imme- diately of late between the governments of his Majesty King Victor Emmanuel and that of his Highness, are ina fair way of adjudication tors peaceful settlement, As I have already anticipated in my despatches by cabie to the HERALD. his Excellency, Hussien Bey, has left Tunis for Florence with power “to settle. the questions at issue between Tunis and Italy.’? SWEDEN. His Majesty the King Invalided: TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, STOCKHOLM, Feb, 9, 1871: Ihave to inform the HERALD, by telogram. report to-day, that His Majesty Charles XV., King ef Swe-j den, is invalided by sickness and, just at the presen& moment, very ill in health, Thavo been informed, in reply to inquiries, thas. the attack is not of @ positively dangerous nat but that his recovery to hig usual strongth wit slow. King Charles 12. forty-five years of age, having been horn in the month of May, 1826, f Personal Intelligence. | ‘Ten Japanese noblemen and suite, numbering iq all sixteen persons, bave arrived from Yokronara. The almond-cyed aristocrats are lording /1t at the Metropolitan Hotel, preparatory to tueix/ dcpartura for Washington. > Mr. W. B, Cochran, of Glasgow, and Mr. B. Balloy, of Birmingbam, members of the British Paptiament, have arrived by steamer Algeria, and are Staying at the Grand Contral Hotel. , J General D. T, Casement, from Ohig, ts sojourning at the Pifth Avyouue Hotei, ‘