The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BIRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tun SrRCTACLB OF War BLacK Cuoox. Matinee at Lig. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Romanos anp Reacity. Matinee—A MORNING CALL, £0. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, 130 Broadway. Down HUNTED ; O®, THR Two Lives or Magy Lerag, Matines’ GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sh ay. ana 3d st.— La Paatonoun. OL{MPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tu® RIOARLIED OF van Penton. Matinee at 2 BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.-Pour -Ratsine THE Wino. 'H AVRNUR THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street, TOGA, Matinee at 1. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Stznaca IwDieGunie or GLOBE THEATRE, 738 Broadway.—VaRinty Ex. TAINMENT, &C.-AFTER THR WAR. Matinee at 954. ROOTH'S TAKATRE, 2d st., berweon 5itt and _— Kone Janes V. Matinee—RiogEurev. aus WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 80th st.—Perform- @uces every afternoon and evening. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Satarowa. Matinee at 3. RANCISCO M! 7} HAGEL, 885 Broaiway.— ORS, BURLRSQURS, £0, PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Va- RIBTY ENTRUTALNMENT. Matinee at 235. THRATRE COMIQUE, 51¢ Broadway.—Com10 Vookt- iis, NeGxo Acts, 4c, Matinee at 24. . euemrben 6th BRYANT'S NEW OPERA BOUSR, 34ni : aud 7ta avs,—NeGRo MinsraRuer mBSeNiatorTIES, ko, -««& HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hooner’ gHOOUETS.OW Uinssea. nate aeD ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Foarteenth street—PartuaRn MONIC SOOLETY ConogET. STEINWAY HALL, Piasovoure RrorraL, APOLLO HALL. corner 28th street and Broadway.— Dy. Couer’s Diokama oF IRELAND. siti Foureenth street. Miss Keen's SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 82 Fifth avenue.—Ex- MaBrTION OF Works oF ART. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, -SoENRe LN THE RONG, ACROBAT, 0. Matinee at 2'¢. NEW yorK mA Borexor any MCSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SCmRNO AND ART. PP Saturday, LEY March 4, 187 [ENT CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S BERALD, Pace. 1—A‘lvertisementa, 2—Advertisements. S—Singuiar Case—Journalistic Notes—Maryland Peach Crop Prospect—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements, 4—Editorlals: Leading Article, “The New Con- —. Administration and the Next residency”—News from Spain, kgypt, Porta- gal and Cuba—Personal Intelligence—amuse- jents—A Tidal Wave—Amusement Anneunce- 2 5-The M% Treaty—The Evacuatien of Paris by the mans — Additional Reports trom France—The Pope and the Lay King—The Misceilaneous Telegraphic News—Views of the Past—Business Notices. G—Proceedings in Qongress—National Law-Mak- ing—The Southern Pacific Ratlroad—Music andl the Drama—aAid for France—The Peace—Obtiuary—New York City News—Pro- babie Wire Murder in Paterson—Impeachment the Governor of Arkausas—The state Capi- tal—Missourt Intelligence—Keal Estate Matiers. S—Poor Paris: Scenes in the Streets After the Elections; Prussian Lancers Riding Down Heipless People—austria: False Security of the Hapsburgs—Formidable European Coali- tion—The Marble Cathedral—Marketmen's Proposal—A Sad Story—Educational Matters— Proceedings In the Courts. 9—Cour.s (continued trom Eighth Page)—Shaari Wane nae he and Quackery—The Found- ling Asylum—Trafiicking in Female Chastity— Champagne and Cigars—Finuncial and Gom- mercial Reports—The New —Governmen Loan—The Late New Hamburg Disaster—sin- ular Drowning Case. 40—News trom boven been Custom House Report—The Joint High Commtssion—Shipping Intelligence—a advertisements, Watt Srerzer paid no attention yesterday lo the increase of the rate of discount by the Bank of England, while our cable reports show that the screw thus applied in the London market produced the astonishing result of sending American securities up three-quarters per cent. Tag Custom Hovse Raport.—Senator Patterson's committee have submitted a re- port of their investigation of the general order and cartage business and other matters in the New York Custom House. The report, ~which-will be found in another column, is somewhat voluminous; but it will be found of great interest not only to our merchants and importers but to the general reader, Lrrrte Spracce, of “Little Rhody,” has vindicated himself completely from the mali- cious charges brought against him of aiding the rebels by unlawful traffic in cotton during the war. We never doubted that the Labor Reform giant would come out as right as a trevet. He is not Mkely to have aided the rebels much by tradiag with them, for when he drives a bargain the other party generally get the worst of it. Sr, Parriok’s Day was suggested by Tom Fields in the Assembly yesterday as one of onr legal holidays, along with the glorious Fourth and Washington's Birthday and New Year's, The question now arises, Are we all Trish in this country, or are there any native Americans left among us? We don’t believe that St. Patrick's Day is a ‘‘legal holiday” even in Ireland itself. Tur Format Presentation of the Japan- ese agbassador to the President and his recognition as a resident minister at Washing- ton complete the scheme which has happily been progressing for some time—even pre- ceding Mr. Buriingame’s missien—to unite in social and commercial bonds the vast Eastern regions of Asia with ourselves. The numbers of young Japanese students who have come here of late to learn something of our institu- tions prove that the government of Japan is Canisrtne Nitsson.—The Swedish nightin- gale, having travelled o1 the wing through so ‘many of the Weéiern cities, is about to retara here, and resume her concerts in Steinway @iall on the 13th inst, We shall be glad to welcome her back, and are only sorry that he caunoi take her place in Italian opera, Nilsson will, perhaps, be welcomed all the more because her Western experience, while It was successful in a remarkable degree, put her precious health for a little time in peril. Bhe is now, however, in the full enjoyment of that greatest of gifts, and will come back to us with her voice, her beauty and her ex- quisite grace all the better for her tour toward the Occident , NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT: The New Caengrese—Tho Administration and the Next Presideacy. The Forty-first Congress of the United States of America goes out to-day at noon, and the Forty-second Congress, with a large attendance of the membera in both houses, immediately takes its place. With the present lull in European affairs, from the restoration of peace between France and Germany, we may, therefore, profitably turn our attention from the discussion of European topics ia this article to the important political consequences depending upon this new American Congress and the administration of General Grant in reference to our next year's Presidential elec- tten. Down to our late Southern rebelllon— excepting in England, with her hypoorisies on the slavery question—the election of our Presi- dent every four years was hardly a matter of gteater interest or significance in Europe than the ups and downs of the annual revolutions in Mexico; but since the suppression of our great pro-slavery rebellion, and with the reconstruction of the Union upon the broad and strong foundations of universal liberty and equal rights, the United States have become a great power among the nations, and the mevements and probabilities of our pollti- cal parties in reference to the Presidential succession, from our financial and commercial relations with Europe, and from eur ‘manifest destiny” on this Continent, are calculated to attract the attention of statesmen, churchmen, politicians, financiers and merchants throucb out the civilized world, xeo uvw Congress marks’ a significant change in the relative strength of the two great parties in the House of Representatives, The two-thirds vote, and more, which the re- publicans have held in that body since the accidental promotion of Andy Johnson to the White Honse down to this day, has dis- Appeared, and now stands reduced to some thirty odd majority on a full vote. The repub- lican party in Congress, on the one hand, in parliamentary tactics, is thus in many things made subject to the vote of the democratic minority, aud in all things it is brought within reach of the President's veto. - These are wholesome checks and balances. But it was perhaps well for the country that, under John- son’s administration, the republican party held a two-thirds vote in both houses; for other- wise, in the conflict between ‘‘my policy” and the policy of Congress on Soathern recon- struction, this business might have been not only still unsettled, but in the worst and most mischievous state of confusion at the present day, But, Southern reconstruction and the negro question being finally adjusted, the country, under what we may call a new constitution, enters upon a new career, and new issues are taking the place of old issues, and upon these new questions coming into the foreground the Presidential election of 1872 will be deter- miued, The new Congress and the adminis- tration upon these new questions may do much to strengthen and consolidate the repub- lican party on the one hand, or to distract and disorganize it on the other. The late Con- gress, in the all-important matter of lessening our burden of taxations, internal and external, has failed to meet just expectations, and especially upon the bil! repealing the odious nd superfluozs income tax. The game of “thimblerig,’ by which that bill was defeated between the tyro houses at the late session, cannot be played by this Congress with im- punity. This tax must be abolished, for, if not, the payers of its assessments will know the reason why. We adhere, moreover, to the opinion that unless this Congress in good season shall cut down our internal revenue and tariff taxes to an extent which will give a sensible and grateful relief to the country the people will provide a decisive remedy in the elections for the next Congress. The President and his Secretary of the Treasury, upon that beautiful idea of hurry- ing up the redemption of the national debt at the rate of over a hundred millions a year, have been doing wonderful things. But the taxpaying people have been seized with another idea, quite as brilliant as the first, and it is this—that the present generation, after bearing all the other trials, self-denials and heavy sacrifices of the late terrible war for the Union, have the right to tranafer a portion of this debt to the generation that is to follow. The administration, therefore, is called upen to tack ship upon this questien, and a fine op- portunity is offered to General Grant ina reconstruction of his Cabinet. It was given out as by authority from Washington severa weeks ago that, with the meeting of the new Congress in March, there would be a Cabinet reorganization, and that this reorganization would certainly embrace a new Secretary of State, a new Secretary of the Treasury, a new Secretary of the Navy and a new Postmaster General. But upon this proposition the inter- vention of the Joint High Commission may have changed the mind of the President; and yet a new Cabinet in full accord, and appointed by and with the advice and consent of the new Congress, is a measure which cannot be wisely abandoned by General Grant. With the lessening of our burden of national taxations, as suggested, the country, in our domestic affairs, does not ask for much beyond the careful system of economy and retrench- ment pursued by the government, Cempared with the lavish extravagances of Tammany Hall the collections and expenditures of Gen- eral Grant's administration give us a wonder- ful exhibit of old-fashioned honesty in square accounts of value received for moneys ex- pended; but, nevertheless, the country is needlessly taxed, under existing circumstances, to the extent of nearly a hundred millions on account of the national debt, Let the proper remedy be applied here, and the financial policy of the administration in other respects will pass through the public ordeal even of a Presidential campaign. Let the people be substantially relieved in the matter of their taxes, and the opposition politicians will be powerless against the administration and the party representing it. Upon our foreign relations General Grant has two, yea, three, big irons in the fire—the Joint High Commission, the St. Domingo an- nexation and the Darien ship canal acheme. The Joint High Commission promises a satis- factory settlement of the Alabama claims, of the question of the Northeastern fisheries, the St. Lawrence navigation disputes and of all other existing difticultica between bes ae fulfilled, and it will be a crown of glory to General Grant's administration; but should this promise fail it will be crown of thorns to all concerned. The St. Domingo annexation scheme, from the reports of the exploring expedition so far recelved, looks well, barring those jobs of the specula- tors in the real estate of the island, and barring the warlike preparations of the black republic of Hayti. But those jobs can be cut dewn to 4 fair margin, and those warlike Africans of Hayti cgn be quieted with a little “back- sheesh.” With these points adjusted, the an- nexatioa of the whole island of St. Domingo, in connection with the Darien sbip canal, bo- comes a desideratum the importance of which cannot bo estimated in dollars and cents. We can hardly doubt that Commander Selfridge has solved the problem of an isthmus canal in the route discovered between the Gulf of Darien and the Gulf of St. Miguel. If so, the canal will soon follow, and then the value of St. Domingo as a half-way house to the com- merce of the United States, and asa watch house and outpost for our navy, will be beyond all price. Here, again, is a fine prospect for agreat hit to General Grant in the comlog Presidential election, The two Houses, with the organization of the new Congress to-day, will, of course, inform the President, as usual, of the fact, and that they aro organized and in session, and ready to receive any communication hc may here winake, In reply he may say that he has nothing special to submit; but he may also send up animpertant message. In any event, we think it probable that his desire will be communicated to the two houses for a con- tinuance of the session till the return of the Commissiqa from St. Domiugo, and till the Joint High Commission shall have concluded its labors, im view of such legislation as events may demand, Upon these great questions General Grant is playing a great game for the prize of the Presidential succession, and with very encouraging prospects of success. It is @ great game, we say ; for in the cause of peace and in the cause of commerce it enlarges our interests as_a people to the interests of every people on the face of the globe. All Quiet in Paris. The special despatches of the New York Heratp from France which we publish this morning in another column will be found full and interesting. The Germans have entered Paris and crowned their victories by the occu- pation of the city; but now that the terms of the treaty have been complied with by the French National Assembly in the signing of the terms of peace, the next part of the contract must be fulfilled, and when night closes to-day we may expect that the city will be entirely evacuated by the victors. In sadness and without disor- derly demonstrations, if not in silence, the Parisians watched the troops of the conqueror file through the streets. It was a bitter scene for them to witness, and one which for long years to come will fill an unpleasant place in the memory of all who witnessed it, When we consider the impulsive character of the French, and think what the hasty action of a few rash persons might have produced, a weight is lifted from the mind with the know- ledge that everything passed off as quietly as ithas and that no act was committed which could justify the perpetration of any severity on the part of the German soldiery. The Germans have had their holiday. They have crowned the edifice of German success with the occupation of Paris, and if the Parisians have shown too plainly the feeling they have experienced in the presence of their victors in the capital, let them remember how they would have felt in witnessing the occupation of Berlin by the soldiers of France had the tide of victory been reversed. Paris has done well, The city made a noble defence; the people fought bravely in its defence, and suffered almost uncomplainingly severe privations. Hoping against hope, they clung to the idea to the last moment that Paris might be saved. This brave resistance en- titles them to universal respect, and the calmness with which they bore the exultation of the Germans in their entrance into and occupation of Paris shows that a people who can bravely fight can also candidly and nobly acknowledge defeat, while painfully bearing the sting which that defoat inflicts, The Joiut High Comuission. Oar Washington correspondent from day to day is keeping us posted on the rumors re- garding the possibilities of the doings of the Joint High Commission. The rumors, of course, are numerous. As the Commissioners on both sides are desplsing the Lenten fast and preparing for their more serions labors in the true Reverdy Johnson style, we are not disposed to make too much of mere table talk. Dining and wining are good things in their way—the best of all things for many-voiced rumor—but we must not be rash in our judg- ments, At the same time we must take tha liberty to give our Washington Conscript Fathersa hint: Let them beware of John Bull in the fashionable and illustrious guise they now behold him. Poor Reverdy Johoson lost his wits in London. The style and manner of John Bull seem to be too much for our repub- lican simplicity. It is something for a simple- minded American tobe on dining and wining terms with real dona fide members of the British aristocracy. The United States repre- sentatives in the, Commiasion must not forget that the eyes of forty millions of people are upon them. We shall rejoice if the Joint Com- mission does well. The French Treaty of Peace. The New York Heratv’s correspondent at Versailles furpishes us by special telegram with a résumé of the treaty of peace agreed on between the German authorities and the National Assembly of France at Bordeaux. The treaty which has already been signed by the Emperor explains the full extent of territory ceded by France to Germany, gives the new line of French frontier, names the depart- ments to be occapied by the Germans until the money indemnity is paid, and provides for the liberation of all French pri- soners now incarcerated in Germany. The terms differ in no material respect from those published in the HeRatp on 8 former issue of the paper, save that now we know for a certainty what France loses by this unfruitful war—a war of her own seeking and and the United States. Let this promise be | one in which she calculated to be a gainer. not aloaer. The territory ceded by the treaty just ratified is not great inextent ; but when its strategtic importance is considered it will be readily admitted that Germany has reaped the full fruits of her trinmph. She now holds all the passes of the Vosges, and should the French ia days to come resolve on the invasion of Germany they will find formidable obata- cles in their way to such an undertaking. Resume of the Forty-frst Congress—Its Sins ef Omission and Commission—Yesterday’s Proceedings. The Forty-first Congress expires at noon to-Aay. The verdict upon it will be that it has lamentably failed to come up to the standard of the people. None of the great measures which it was expected to mature and perfect {nto acts of legislation have been accomplished. All of them have remained in the condition of mere prejects. The General Amnesty bill, which would have restored to all the people of the South those political rights which many of the best of them tor- feited by rebellion, and which would have been attended with the best results, socially and politically, was allowed to sleep in the unfriendly embrace of the Reconstruction Com- mittee, The several billa reported from the Commit- tee of Ways and Meana to repeal the income tax, to abolivh the duty on coal and to reduce the duty on salt were strangled ia the House, Various propositions to reduce the tariff and internal taxes were smothered in committee and never permitted to see the light. The question of civil service reform, which so nearly concerns the existence of our political institutions, was the theme of much useless discussion in the Senate; but no practical measure of reform was proposed or could be carried out. The proposition te incorporate a company for the building of an air line rail- road between this clty and Washington was stopped in the House by a parliamentary quibble, and never could get over the im- pediment; and as to the revisal of our commercial and shipping interests, the move- ment in that direction was limited to the ap- pointment of a special committee, which took evidence that exposed the paralysis and decay which had seized upon those great elements of national prosperity, but stopped there and prescribed no remedy for the evil, And now Congress expires to-day, having performed no single act of legislation on which it can appeal to the people for an endorsement of its wis- dom or ability, On the other hand, what schemes of private jobs did it not foster and promote? Let the reckless manner in which the public domain was voted away to great railroad corporations answer, Let the peculiar legislation by which the securities of the Union Pacific Railroad Company were appre- ciated at the expense of the national Treasury answer, Let those projects for making the people of the United States pay for the losses incurred by the South in the rebellion answer. These schemes, together with political measures to keep alive rancor between the sections, and to establish a fede- ral police to control elections in the States, occupied the time of Congress to the exclusion of these useful and necessary measures of legislation to which we first referred. Ina word, the expiring Congress may, with its last breath, repeat that confessional phrase of the Episcopal liturgy, ‘‘We have done those things that we ought not to have done, and we have left undone those things that we ought to have done, and there is no health in us.” The proceedings yesterday were for the most part confined to the completing of gen- eral appropriation bills through the action of committees of conference. Qutside of these appropriation bills the only other important measure passed upon was the Southern Pacific Railroad bill. A compromise was effected be- tween the two houses, in which each house yielded some of its-positions, and under which provision is made, in addition to the grant of thirteen million acres for the main trunk line, for two branch lines—one from New Orleans to the eastern boundary of Texas, and one from San Francisco to the western terminus of the line, or to connect with it on the thirty-fifth parallel at er near the Colorado river. The additional quantity of land given to subsidize these branch lines is loosely estimated at be- tween four and six millions of acres. We suppose, however, that if we set down this land grant of yesterday at twenty million acres we will not be very wide of the mark. It cer- tainly cannot be said that, if Congress is re- gardless of our ocean commerce, it shows any lack of care or liberality toward inland com- merce, as represented by great railroad cor- porations, An effort was made in the House to take up and pass the Senate bill increasing all the pensions to disabled soldiers and widows and orphans twenty per cent—an increase whieh, according to Mr. Dawes, would have taken seven millions a year out of the Trea- sury ; but it failed, there not being enough of its supporters 1n the House to order the yeas and nays upon it. If there had been the re- sult might have been different, because the anxiety of members to have a good record among their constituents is naturally very great, and the soldier element in elections is not tobe lightly antagonized. The dependence of lawmakers on popular suffrage is not with- out its drawbacks, for if it sometimes imposes a wholecome restraint it just as frequently operates im overriding the judgment. The House agreed yesterday to the Senate amendments to the bill regulating telegraphic communication between the United States and foreign countries, Those amendments were important, as prohibiting the combination be- tween cable companies to increase the rates, prohibiting the consolidation of companies without the consent of the Postmaster General, and giving that official general jurisdiction over the business, Both houses passed yesterday a bill for the redemption of copper and other token coins. A report was made in the Honse by the Library Committee in favor of purcbasing for preservation in the Capitol Mr. Mathew B. Brady's invaluable collection of photographic scenes of memorable events and personages in our civil war, but no action was asked upon it, The next Congress should certainly make an appropriation for that purpose. The usual complimentary resolution to the Speaker was offered by Mr. Cox, of this city, and supported ina neat speech, wherein he , port on the Emerald Isle, did justice, but not more than justice, to Mr. Speaker Blaine, for the fairness, impartiality, good temper and ability which he has dis- played in his high office. Only one member, an Ohio democrat, named Mungen, had the bad taste to vote against this well deserved tribute, and he seems to have done so in an offensively conscious manner. There were several ills before both houses yesterday for the construction of additional judicial districts In several States. There is a constitutional provision against the appoint- ment of members to Congress to offices cre- ated by themselves, but nevertheless the opinion prevailed in the Senate that the anxiety which many members of the other House manifested for the passage of these bills originated in their expectation to be appointed to these judicial offices, It was publicly rebuked In the Senate by Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, and the result was that one of these bills, applying to Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama and California, was laid on the table by a vote ef 30 to 28. One was passed in the House creating the Northern judicial district of New York, The night scenes in both houses were of the usual character that marks the last night of a Congress. The lobbies were swarming with what Mr. Cox characterized, in his picturesque language, ‘‘the gilded flies of corruption.” The galleries were crowded with spectators, and the business was transacted in the midst of noise, confusion and excitement. Aan ani- mated discussion took place in the House, in which insinuations of jobbery and corruption were freely but vaguely made. Conference reports were presented and agreed to on all the general appropriation bills except the “Omnibus,” and at midnight that bill had not been returned by the Senate to the House, The Situation in Rome—Health of the Pope. A special telegraph letter from Rome, which reached us through the cable, appears in our columns to-day. The communication renders still more patent the fact that the re- lations which exist between the Sovereign Pontiff and the lay power of Italy, as it is represented by his Majesty King Victor Emmanuel, remain in a very delicate con- dition, and are still tending toward ulterior complications and agitation and congregational grief and scandal. The HERALD writer confirms the report that the question of a temporary retirement of the Holy Father from the Eternal City in face of the Italian executive lay occupation of the Vatican was at one time spoken of; but at the same moment he enables us to deny the assertion that it was seriously entertained by. the Head of the Church. Pope Pius the Ninth determined to remain, a venerable .nd faithful sentinel on the watch tower of Catholic Christianity. He will take measures, however, to avoid the perpetration of insult to religion and civilization by the commission of acts of indignity or violence to his per- son, The Cardinal Secretary of State, Antonelli, reviewed the circumstances which attend the existing situation in council with his Holiness previous to the adoption of the Pontifical resolve. Rumor had it, as it appears, that the chiefs of the Jesuit Order in Rome recommended the Pope to quit the city. The same antiquated Dame Rumor left it to be inferred by the outside world that the disciples of Loyola advised the adoption of this course with the intent of precipitating a politico-gpligious crisis, the results of which would react against the Italian crown. Such assertion must certainly be very difficult of proof, provided always that the Jesuits are correctly credited with an exact observance of that line of prudent reticence for any adhe- rence to which they have always obtained the name, and which has sometimes been charged against them, indeed, as a fault of giscipline. It is made painfully evident, however, by the contents of our special cable report from Rome that the tiara of the Papacy and the crown of Savoy have not been reconciled; that it is not likely, in- deed, that they can be made friendly and mutually trusting in Rome, The Pope appears to guard one centre of independent authority in Europe with anxious care, It may be excellently well that he does 80, for Europe, in its political disso- lution, may—and at no distant day—have reason to be grateful to find a rallying point at which to reconstruct the shattered elements of its social system and from which the peoples may take a new start both for governmental and domestic rule and control. Keeping these considerations in view, our telegraph letter from Rome comes as a useful light by which the American people may read the initial letters of a new era in history. We regret to learn, by the same means of information, that the aged Pontiff Pio Nino is becoming more feeble in his bodily health every day. He suffers from general debility. His weakened physical condition only affords him an argument for remaining at his post, for he asserts that if he took his departure from Rome in such a state the enemies of the Papacy would assert that he fled discomfited. A brave resolution of a brave man—a man in the seventy-ninth year of his age, and nearing the close of a very eventful life. Eagland Adjusting Herecif. The British people are giving us a fresh proef of their habitual inconsistency. Great Britaio is always equal to the world in arms; yet when trouble comes she is seldom ready for it. Now and again she makes a dash and does it well, But more often when she ought to make a dash she beeitates and enters upon a course of preparation, When the prepara- tions for the emergency begin, the emergency, asa rule, is no more ; and before the prepara- tions are completed they perish from inanition, This Franco-German war hag been a snub to | Great Britain—a very severe snub, She could not interfere. She was too weak to command’ peace, or, in fact, t© command respect. The helligerents despised her. Now, when the danger is past, she is adjusting herself. The army was all wrong; therefore an army re- form bill must be passed, Her relations with her American cousins were all wrong; there- fore she must appoint a Joint High Commis- sion, Ireland, in spite of the disestablishment of the Church, and the Land Tenure Reform, and the Fenian pardons, is all wrong; there- fore for the one hundredth time she appoints a committee of inqniry, to consider and re- We are not sorry that Great-Beltain is once more aroused; bat we shall not be surprised if she again goea to sleep and awakes some day to find she haa slept too long. The streak of “silver sea” is a good defence, but it is not enough. Joba W. Young, & scion of Brigham’s famiuy, bas arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Edwin Forrest ta stopping at the Metropotitas Hotel, General S. F. Marvin, of Albaay, tga gueatat the Brevoort House, General 0. L, Shepherd, of the United States Arty, is among the sojourners at the Astor House. General Henry Lippett, of Providence, R. L, ar- rived yesterday at the Hoffman House. Emule Scheppers, of Philadeiphia, and Judge Monell, of Fishkul, are guests at the Albemacte Hotel. E. M. McCook, of Colorado, and Dr. J. T, Jonson, of Washington, are among the latest arrivats at the Astor House, Colgate Baker, of Yokohama, and Richard Salk- van, of Boston, are sojourning at the Brevoors House, Charles Whitney, af Calcntta, aad Joslah Cald- well, of Boston, arrived yesterday at the Huaman House. W. 3. Rice, of Terre Haute, Ind., and @. FE. McOnt ber, of Saratoga Springs, are at the St. James Hotet Charles A. Shaw, of Biddelord, Me.; Rev. Dr. De- lancy, of Connecticut, aud Alexander Henderson, of Washington, are stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. State Senators 0. S. Wimanta, of Dunkirk, and Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg; J. H. MoVicker, of Chicago; Oliver Dairymple, of St. Paul, Minn,, and Judge S. D. Petton, of Poughkeepsie, are the moat prominent of the arrivais at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. Prince Mits Fusimi, of Japan, accompanied by Jugor Armori, the Japanese Minister to the United States; Hon. Charles W. Brogks, Japanese Consul te San Francisco, and twelve students and attachés, returned trom Washington to the St. Nicholas Hotet yesterday. He will to-day, it13 expected, depart for Europe, where, ta Russia, he will remain for some. UUme studying. SPAIN AND EGYPT. Great Britain in Friondly Modiation. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALY. LoNpoN, March 3, 187%. ‘Tha dimiculty which origimated between the gow- ernment of King Amadeus, of Spain, and that of his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, 1m consequence of an insult given toa Consular ofiicer of the Spanish Executive in Cairo, the circumstances of which t reported by cable at the moment to the HERALD, it dn a fair way of settlement. 1 have to announce to day the fact that the proffer of England's mediation has been accepted by both parties in the dispute, and that it is likely to pro- duce @ reconctliation, PORTUGAL. The Ministerial Crisis Terminated. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. Lonvon, March 3, 18Tt. Lhave advices for the HERALD from Lisvon while assure me that the King of Portugal has formed a new Cabinet, after experiencing a ministerial crisi@ of an uausuaily prolonged endurance. Oficial Accounts of the Ei ari and Tunas—Severa! Killed—Additional ance, gements at Maye osurgent Officers Surrenders of Importe HAVANA, March 3, 1671, The oMicial account of the engagement near Mayari states that one captain and fourteen soldiers: are missing. In the engagement near Bayamo, Oclasco and Modesto Diaz and thirteen insurgents were killed. In the affair near Tunas fitty-three in- surgents were Kliled and the insurgent Captain Cle- mente Garcia was also killed. Near Trinidad the insurgent Carlos Cereceno was captured. A Spanisit column also captured Major Leovold Villegas, a son of General Villegas, and killed seven insurgents. The insurgent leader, Chicha Valtadares, surren- dered, together with ten armed men, at Platopolo, During the past fortnight, in the Central Depart- ment, fifty-two: imsurgents were killed and over 4,000 persons gave in their adhesion to the Spanish government, The Case of Casanova. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3, 1871, Th? telegram in to-day’s papers, dated New York, relative to the expulsion of Innocenclo Casa- nova from Havana, excites much comment, but re- calls the facts that in the spring of 1869 Consul Hall wrote to the Department of State that Casano- va was connected with the flilibustertng expedition of the Commandario. He was released on the 23 of April, and the Consul secured for him a passport to leave the island of Cuba. Casanova some weeks ago procured a passport from this government and returned to Cuba under the pretext of attending to business affairs, but, it is alleged, with different tu tentions, which were made kuown to the Depart- ment of the State. The subject of his recent expal- sion from Havana will, however, be mvestigated, AMUSEMENTS. Miss Clara Loutee Kellogg sung at the Academy of Music yesterday a scena and arla by Rubenstein, entitled “-Edunque Ver,” and the well known ‘Bel Raggio” of Rossini’a “Semiramide,”” She sang both selections in such style that eyen her most enthusiastic admirers were astonished, and her success was of the most com- plete kind. The immense audience which, despite the weather, filed the entire buiiding was mani- festiy attracted by the announcement of tle appear- ance of America’s favorite and unrivalled prima dora. Where Kellogg appears there Is gure to be A large house. The orchestral programme consisted of three works—Schumann’s Third symphony tn § flat major, opus 7; Bargiel’s overvire to “Medea, and Keinecke’s ov to “Aladdin.” —To-night the concert takes p! ‘The only feature of interest is Miss Kellogg. STEINWAY HAiL—GRaND ConceRT.—This con- cert was given last night by a number” of ladies of the Methodist Episoopal Church for charttavie purposes, The hall was pretty welt filled and encores were numerous, Miss Kel- logg and Mile. Tedesca were the principal ttractions. The exquisite voice of the tormer lighted up the vocal part with a brilliancy wnich covered up certain shortcomings and disappoint- ments in that department, and encores were de- manded and redemaanded of her in quick succession. Mile, Tedesca's artistic and expressive violin piag- ing formed the principal feature of the instrumental - pre me. dirs. Mixsell made @ decided success, aud displayed more talent than the bili gave her seat for ju of being an amateur soprano, Tue er ai Al were:—Mesers. Colby, Leggat, W. &. Jounston, Hall, Martinez and Ghistant vurand. The absence of Mise Sterling and the a eal of mr, fat Necessitated some chunges in the po: me. But the map attracuons were Miss Kel- jugs and Mile. Ted Stapt TMRATER,—Madame Seebach performed last evening in the poetic drama of “Griseldts,"” We have repédiediy dwelt on the merits of this great artiste. Her impersonation of the faithiul and pr- tient seldis isa triumph of dramatic art, and gave delight to those whe witnessed it. The past ppezi in the seound act, wien her chud ut to be torn from her, fairly thriiled the andi- ence and obtained proionged appiause. Suc was equally pathetle in the scene where she Is cast of yi her stern husband in order to prove hor ddetity. le, Veneta, ag the Queen, was dignified and effec- uve, » Mile, Bisstuger gave by her ox-sllent actiug ee to the miuur part asslgoed her. err Dombrewsky, & very woud actor, tniused muct: fire and energy iuto tls linpersenation of the leadi: male part, The other characters wore well acted. In apite of the bad weather there was n Zood attend- ance. This eventing Mudie Seebach wil perform, for the last time, “Faneuon"’ (Die Grille), A TIDAL WAVE. On Tuesday @ tida! wave occurred in Long Itan& Sound, which demolished the iniet mii and bridge and nearly drowned tho milter. 1t was one of the el bee waves scen for upwards of naif a century, = Imad & Creal bar a snoct dustancs som oie aitore,