The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, } PROPRIETOR. AN bisinéss or news letter and telegraphic despatches ust be addressed NEW Yo) Letters and packages should be propérly sealed, Volame XXXVI....... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ROOTH’S THEATRE, 234 Mvou Avo Anour NorH No. 77 . between Sih and 6th avs,— Matinee at 1's, WOOD'S MUSEUM Bi Ances every afternoon NIBLO'S GARDEN, Rroadway.—Tae SpEo: Tux BLack CnooK. Matinee at Lig. ee a way, corner Sith st.—Perform- enlag. WALLACK'’S THEATR! Broatway ana 10th _ Ovus Matine—Rowanc leans ND REALITY, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRI 20 Broadway, — SkuTOURS-Davi's Love. “M adway.—LINGARD nee at GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Les GEORGLENNES. M. ener of Sth av. ana 28d st.— LA PERICHOLE, OLYNPIC THEATRE, Br dway.—Tux RICHELIEU OF "HE PERIOD. Matinee at 2. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—WILLIAM weuw. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ON Hanp—A WALL SPENT. Matinee at 2. ue " PIPTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty- street.— BaRaTocs. 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Potrick's Pageant: The Celebration in New York and All Over the Cuuntry—The Joint High Commtssion—News from France and Belgium— Movements of the pe William—The ex- Emperor Napoleon in England—New Hamp- shire Election—Attempted Murder and Sul- cide—Enibezziement in Buffalo, 4—Procecdings in Congress—Afairs at the State Capital—Proceedings in the New York Legis- Jature—Music and the Drama—Railroad Coili- sions—The Nathan Mystery—Political and Gen- eral Notes—Tenuessee Ku Klux—The French | Relief Fund—The Army Reorganization—The Seventh Ward Tweed Ciub. 5—The Great Tobacco Case—New York and Brook- Ln Law Courts—The Alabama Claims; Who Was it that Sufferel by the Alabama—The Long Island Bays—smaipox in Brooklyn— Marriages and Deaths. 6—Editoria s: Leading Articie, “The Troubles of the Republican Party—The Prospect and the Danger to the Democracy —What Says Tam- many Hall:—Amusement Announcements. 2—Editomal (continued from sixth page)—The European Conference—Miscellaneous Cabie Despatches—Views of the Past—Personal Ip- telligence—Business Notices. 8~The Path to the Sea; The Canadian Commission Splashing About in the Canals—St. Domingo— 4 Picture of Modern Society—Woman’s Suf- frage—Miscellaneous Foreign Items, 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—The Mis- souri Tornado—Suicide of a Notorious Crimi- nal—Bragg Wants to be Reconstructed— Advertisements. 10—News from Washington—The Coal Strike— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. Tok Psyevmatio TvBeE Butt has passed in the Assembly. It isa plan for extending up Broadway to Harlem riyer the Underground railway that has already made an opening at Barclay street. Cranes Hvuco, the eldest son of Victor Hugo, is dead. He was a journalist by pro- fession, and was as visionary and rabid in his political opinions as is his father; but he never became conspicuous either as a poli- tician or as a writer. Tue Members oF THE Jomnt HicH Com- MISSION are intently studying international law and the statutes of England and the United States relative to neutrality. In the meantime they do not neglect dining. They are deter- mined to ‘‘cram,” not only intellectually, but physically. A ReozIveR oF SToreN Goops was con- victed in the Court of General Sessions yester- day before Recordér Hackett. It 1s said to be the first conviction of the kind that has ever taken place in that court. The receiver is usually too crafty to be caught and too cow- ardly to run any uselessrisks, This particular receiver was as crafty as Fagin; but he was fully convicted, and Recorder Hackett, in order to commemorate the unusual ocourrence, Sentenced him to State Prison for four years ‘at hard labor. Toe Drrerexces Burweey Tox Unirep Srargs anp Spaty.—The claims of the United States against Spain and vice versa will, ac- cording to the latest agreement between the two Powers, be settled in a similar manner as the case of the steamer Lloyd.Aspinwall. Two commissioners—one for each side—are to be nominated, to whom the claims of both parties will be submitted. In case of disagreement the differences are to be referred to a third commissioner, who will be appointed te act as umpire. Naporzon’s Movemexts.—Yesterday the Empress Eugénie and the Prince Imperial were at Dover for the purpose of meeting the Emperor Napoleon, who was expected to arrive there in the afternoen. From the time he left Mézi¢res on the fatal march for Sedan until yesterday Napoleon had not seen his son, and we suppose that their meeting was marked by the most affectionate demonstrations, as the love of each for the other is well known, What achange has taken place since the two parted—the one to rush into defeat and disaster and the other to seek safety by flight to Belgium! It may be that Napoleon entered into the war as much with the hope that if he were successful he would assure the future of his boy as fer any other motive. The result NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, The Troubles of tho Republican Party—Tho Prospect and the Danger to the Demo- cracy—What Says Tammany Hall? What South Carolina was to tho old ante- diluvian democratic party Massachusetts has been, is and Promises to be to the present republican party to the end of the chapter. We have arrived at that point ii whieh Wr. Sumber, a8 A miifinger against the adminisira- tio ‘taken the place of Cxlhoun, and at which Sfsssichagetia, on hor reserved rights, like South Carolina, seems to be ready to fol- low her constitutional expounder upon an independent departure. As it was said that ‘When Calhoun takes a pinch of snuff all South Carolina sneezes,” so it may be said that when General Grant treads upon the corns of Mr. Sumner all Massachusetts makes a wry face. And now General Butler, in his quarrel with Speaker Blaine, creates a new trouble in the republican camp, charge- able to Massachusetis. The old adage that “it never rains but it pours” may be aptly applied to these never-ending but still begin- ning and constantly increasing discords and squabbles among the republican leaders, Surely the republican party, rank and file, now begin to realize hew much thoy are indebted to the belligerent ‘Andy Johnson.” His policy of reconstruction, or “‘my policy,” as he was proud to call it, against the policy of Congress, made the republicans, leaders and followera, a unit, and held them together from 1865 to General Grant’s election in 1868 as a band of brothers. They were harmo- nized by the imperious necessity of unity against Johnson, and in their hard fight with him they were so com- pletely occupied as to have no time for quarrels among themselves until they came to Johnson’s impeachment, Thus it was that is the danger of another repetition of this stupid blunder, Let the democrats avoid it, and they may regain New Jorsey; let thom repeat it, and they may lose New York. Upon Tammany Hall the eyes of the demo- cracy throughout the country are now fixed as upon the great central nucleng 1d head and 3 Tammany in New York, city and State, holds to the democratic party a relation analagous to that which the administration at Washing- ton holds toward the republican party. It is the embodiment and tho financial centre of the national organization, It cannot be sald, however, that the Tammany measures of re form, passed and pending, for this city and State, tax levy included, are calculated to shine as democratic examples for the national government or the unliy of the party. Upon the Tammany basis of twenty- five millions of taxes for this city, with & population of say one million, the an- nual taxes for the forty millions of people of the United States would be a thousand millions of dollars, This will never do. Compared with this Napoleonic taxation Secretary Boutwell’s assessments and collec- tions are mere trifles, Tammany must show to the country, from her government of New York, an example which will be good for the government of the United States, or she must prepare to keep In the background in the Democratic National Convention. Otherwise, in contrast with the lavish imperial expendi- tures of Tammany, the retrenchmonts of General Grant will stand out in luminous and glorious relief before the American people. If Tammany is simply legislating for the spoils of New York, and upon the old rule of making hay while the sun shines, it is one thing; but if, for instance, she is looking to by a two-thirds vote in each House of Con- gress, against Johnson and against the dem- ocracy, they carried through the fourteenth amendment to the constitution and all their Southern reconstruction measures to the uni- versal application of equal rights and cleared the way for negro suffrage. For all these grand and glorious results the republicans are indebted to the war of President Jobnson against Congress, It made Congress, with its two-thirds vote in each House against him, complete master of the Exccutive, and it reduced him to a mere servant of and depend- ent upon the will of Congress. It made the Presidential issues of 1868 and cleared the track for the election of General Grant and the passage and ratification of the fifteenth amendment, estab- lishing negro suffrage. Such is the debt the republican party owe their great enemy, as their best friend, ‘“‘Andy Johnson.” Now the case is widely different; a new condition of things exists. Having settled all the issues of the war to the capsheaf of negro suffrage, and having no great common idea or common purpose or necessity of unity, the republicans in Congress and out of Congress, leaders and followers, are quarrelling among themselves and with the President, who has finished their great work of reconstruction in the fifteenth amendment, and who has cour- ageously undertaken to lead the party upon new ideas and ‘“‘manifest destiny” to new victories, yea, to a new lease of power upon &@ new programme of peace, annexation and commercial expansion. But these grand ideas and measures of General Grant seem to be too large for the narrow gauge intellects of the republican managers, leaders and trum- peters. Senator Fenton is absorbed in the spoils of the New York Custom House, and he finds in Mr. Murphy, our amiable and honest Collector, a sufficient cause for giving the cold shoulder to the administration. Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz, of Missouri, dis- satisfied with the distribution of the spoils in that quarter, make a deliberate bolt from the party traces, and turn oyer the State to the demdérats, and turn in General Frank Biair to the United States Senate. Charles Sumner gets into a quarrel ever Mr. Motley and St. Domingo with the President, and carries it to such extremities of personal bitterness that General Grant feels compelled to complain of it, whereupon the Senate removes Mr. Sumner from the post of chairman on Foreign Rela- tions, and lo! and behold, New Hampshire, the Granite State, goes over tothe democracy. Nor does this chapter of republican dis- cords and squabbles stop here. It extends to the duties on salt and coal, to ‘‘revenue reform” and free trade, and to the questions of Southern amnesty and coercive measures against the Ku Klux Klans. And all the time, lying far deeper than these side issues, and operating over the length and breadth of the land, the financial policy of Secretary Boutwell—his fallacious policy of keeping up our high taxes in order to pay off every year a hundred millions and more of our‘natienal debt—is undermining the republican party. Let us again admonish General Grant that this mistaken policy is full of mischief, not only to the administration and the party im power, but te the whole financial system, debt and credit of the country—national, State, munici- pal and individual funds, bonds, business, debt and credit, We would warn the President and Congress that these oppressive taxes, internal revenue and tariff, must be greatly reduced meantime, or that repudiation will cease to be a word of alarm to the laboring masses in 1872, and may become a ‘‘fixed fact” in 1873. The Nerthwest winds are already turning in this direction. The general prospect is very encouraging to the unterrified democracy. They are morally certain, from present appearances, of their old Southern democratic balance of power in the coming Presidential contest, and their chances north ef Mason and Dixon and the Ohio, East and West, for a sufficient number of States Font Othe firly”” The admioteirailor of | The London Conference and the Treaty of Paris—Europe a Uult With France Reconciled. During the session of the British Parliament on the night of the 13th instant Earl Gran- ville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, announged to the House of Lords that the Furdpéan Conference which had been assem- bled in London for the revision of the Treaty of Paris of 1856 and the settlement of the questions of the navigation of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus by vessels of war, had con- cluded its labors and adjourned. Lord Gran- ville stated briefly that France was repre- sented in the assemblage, before the close, by the Duo de Broglie; that a new treaty in amendment of that of Paris had been adopted and signed; that men-of-war were to bo admitted to the Dardanelles and Bosphorus under cerlain conditions, the adjudgment and application of which had been confided to Turkey; and that the Danubian Commission had been continued in its supervisory powers eastward for ten years, By a special cable telegram from London which is published in the Heratp to-day we are enabled to report the official executive con- firmation of Earl Granville’s statement by announcing that the attested treaty protocols, which were drawn up and signed by the Con- ference plenipotentiaries in London, were sub- mitted to the English House of Commons during the night of Thursday last, thus giving the ratification of a cabinet and legislative sanction to the proceedings of this interesting and important assemblage. The HEeRatp cor- respordent supplies also a special chronologi- cal record of the different meetings of the Conference, as well as a very spirited outline of the debates which took place and the essen- tials of the work which was accomplished each the promotion of ‘‘the Boss” to the United States Treasury, it is quite another tune, and must be played to different music. What has Tammany to say? Is she bound up or down? Congress Yesterday—The Southern Investl- sation Committee in the Senate—Ben Butler’s Persistency in Evil, The question of a joint committee to inves- tigate the Ku Klux outrages in the South came up in the Senate yesterday, and after a very harmonious and dignified debate, parti- cipated in by Senators of both parties, a reso- lution looking to the appointment ef such a committee was passed. The tone of debate was remarkable in view of the unreasenable and clamorous partisanship displayed in the House on the same subject. Mr. Thurman, in the Senate, suggested that the investigation was not to be a party matter, and asked that a fair representation of the minority be placed upon the committee. This was promptly accorded by the other side, and the sentiment in regard to the absence of partisanship in the securing of peace and order in the South was cordially acquiesced in. In fact, the Senate really seemed anxious and willing to protect the lives and property of all men in the South and to secure harmony and peace there, even if it took what so disgusted Ben Butler—demo- cratic votes—to do it. Another obstacle to an early adjournment presented itself in the Senata. Mr. Sumner objected to the discussion of any proposition to adjourn until his supplementary civil rights bill is passed. It secures hotel, ateamhoat, railroad, theatre and church accommodations to the colored race, in the North as well as the South, and thus we have the darkies and the chivalry alike banding together to inflict upon the country the continued presence of a Con- gress with no business todo and no commit- tees fo do it. In the House General Butler came forward again with his Ku Klux bill, to which he clings with the fondness that mothers feel for deformed offspring. The more that bill is kicked and cuffed the closer Butler will cling to it, and, no doubt, long after the investi- gating committee have made their report he will be found fondling his deformity and inventing some new parliamentary device to bring it before the House. He failed to bring it up en this occasion, for objection was made. Then he insisted upon the regular order of business, which would have brought his pet into notice under the call of States; but a movement was instantly made to adjourn, and carried by a vote of 108 to 80. Between Butler's determination to press his bill and the filibustering determination of his enemies to smother it we are threatened with a deadlock that will step business altogether. No doubt the free lance of Essex takes considerable commendation to himself for being able to stop legislation by his single word, and plumes himself upon his bravery in withstanding the onslaught of all the clans, like Fitz James, when “‘his back against a rock he bore.” But the fact is it is a mere piece of childish spite on Butler’s part, not bravery at all, and we advise him, while his party is threatened with disintegration and defeat through the petty bickerings of its leaders, not to add to its sore discomforts by any such nonsensical stubporn- ness as he contemplates. Reportep Orrer To SELL MuLHousz.— Among the despatches from France which we publish this morning is ene which gives a rumor current in Paris that Prussia has offered to sell Mulhouse for two hundred millions of francs. A few days ago the report was that Bismarck was willing to cede back Alsace and Lorraine to France for a pecuniary considera- tion, and that unofficial negotiations were pending on the subject. But little credence can be placed in these stories, although the hostility to Germany of the people in the two provinces is such that Prussia is likely to regret their acquisition should she ever engage in another war with a great Power. At present, however, the military importance of the territory precludes its return to France, hence the rumors concerning the desire of to give them the election appear to be good. Their greatest danger is the danger of another sop to the South- ern fire-eaters of 1872, like that of 1868, de- claring all the reconstruction doings of Con- greas ‘“‘uaconstitutional, revolutionary, null and void ;” or like that of 1864, declaring the war for the Union ‘a failure.” Upon this rock the democracy, if rash enough again to try the experiment, will again be dashed to pieces. The democratic platform of 1864 de- feated McClellan with his nomination; the Tammany platform of 1868 enabled General bas been to convert the Prince from an heir toathrone to a young man with ‘great ex- poctations,” perhaps, but which may never be realised. Grant to walk over the course, Northern copperheads at Chicago, and Southern fire- eaters fresh and hot from the rebellion, in « Tammany Hall, did the business. Yet there Prussia to sell may be safely dismissed as mere fabrications, Procress oF THE Emperor.—Yesterday the Emperor of Germany and his suite reached Weimar, where, as might be sup- posed, they were enthusiastically received by the authorities and citizens, The grand recep- tion will, however, be in Berlin, where special day. It will be observed that Russia and Turkey met by their plenipotentiary represen- tation in the Congress in a really fine spirit, ready for debate, but disposed to make reasone able concessions. Italy appears to have assumed the position of a central peaceful negotiatory mediator—a really happy idea. During the first meetings France was not rep- resented at the ‘Green Table” in Downing street, There was a chair vacant near the board, and the remaining members of the aggregated European family were troubled, gloomy in mind and, perhaps, distrustful of cach other in consequence. To- ward the close of the proceedings the Duc de Broglie took his seat in this chair on behalf of the French republic, thus symbolizing by his presence, as a statesman and man of title, the changed governmental aspect of the powerful continental chameleon, as well as its aristo- cratic traditions, and so presenting to the neighboring hereditary legislators 4 present point of union in the panorama or dissolving view of the European ruling system as it was established in ages long past. The work of the Conference was easy of accomp¥shment after the appearance of France. France was docile and quiescent. The republis acceded to what had been already done. This work is set forth in our special telegram report. Russia and Turkey expounded their respective positions openly and frankly. The result is that the Treaty of Paris is in reality set aside by means of its revision and an inte- gral confirmation by the Treaty of London. Turkey 1s reassured. Russia bus Wwued down considerably from the first reading of the famous Gortchakoff circular of the 20th of October, 1870, and Russia, as will be seen by our telegram from St. Petersburg, proclaims the advent of an age of peace. France is ac- knowledged as a democracy. In this last the European peoples have gained a point. It denotes progress both ways—for a general radical reform of the Old World governments and a united European advance from the re- enlightened centre toward the Holy Shriaes. Acting in the spirit of this conviction, we have taken pains to illustrate our cable news telegram by the simultaneous publication of a complete historical exhibit of the Eastern diplomacy of the European Powers from the year 1739 to the moment of the invaliding of the “‘sick man” of Turkey, in 1853, and thence to the period of the Crimean war and the perfection of the Paris treaty of 1856. Thus does the Hzratp note history by paus- ing and duly observing each distinct era in the order of its chronicle—the “‘post houses of Time, where the Fates change horses.” 4 Coal and Salt—Ten and Coffee—Where are the New York United States Senntors? Salt and coal, tea and coffee, are articles of prime necessity. They are brought into the everyday domestic life of the American people in all parts of the country. Hence any cus- tom duty imposed upon them is a tax upon every househeld. The people have demanded a repeal of these duties, and their direct rep- resentatives in the lower House of Congress bave responded to the demand and passed a bill to repeal the duties on the articles named. But this progressive and beneficial movement for the benefit of the masses is obstructed in the Senate. The republicans there refuse to act upon the matter, being influenced to that end, it is reasonably supposed, by the Pennsylvania and Maryland Senators, who have coal on the brain to such an extent as to overshadow all other interests and considera- tions. Were a vote taken the republican ma- jority, we are convinced, would not dare to vote against repeal. This question ought to be settled at once. If staved off until the next session there will be such an amount of log-rolling brought to bear upon it in the meantime as will very likely insure the re~ tention ef some proportion of the present duties, and the final adjustment be delayed two years, Let us glace for a moment at the effects a repeal of the duty on coal will have upon a very important article of consumption, We refer to gas. Take off the coal duty and the price of gas, which is now so enormously high, can be reduced nearly one-half. No kind of coal can be kept in the market at a MARCH 18, 1871.-TRIPLE SHEET, price much higher than {t can be brought in from the British provinces. The. provincial coal mines are for the most part owned by United States capitalists, who would immed}. ately prepare to meet the exigencies of the trade. Moreover, the repeal of the coal duty envoys from foreign potentates have arrived for the purpose of saluting his Majesty. “Rare” Ben Butver, as an admirer once called him, hag boen pretty well done by Biaiag, would be one of the best means of terminating the troubles between the miners and operator: inasmuch as both would see the necessity of ceasing ‘their quarrels and of going to work for their mutual, benefit. A Sepators Fenton and Conklipg, 9f this State, should recogni e will of thelr constituents, as plainly exp: through the State Legis- lature, and use their infludnee and votes for the passage of the coal repeal bill in thé United States Senate without further procras- tination, The press of other States should call upon their Senators to do likewise. If our New York Senators neglect their duty in this respect on account of the petted Onondaga salt interest wo oan tell them decidedly that “salt will not save them” in any political aspirations they may entertain for the future, pach Sha a Rome and Maly—Precarious Condition of the United Kingdom, The Pontiff Sovereign of Rome and the lay Crown of Italy in Rome have not been recon- ciled. Italy has gone to the centre, it is true; but the Vatican Council appears to exercise the power of seme centrifugal force, the effect of which seems to make his Majesty the King realize to a very considerable extent the truth of the adage to the effect that occasionally with some people ‘“‘the nearer the church is the further from God.”. We hear by our cable telegrams, both from Rome and Florence, of crimination and recrimination, of offence and of protest, of circulars and appeals by and of the high contending parties in Italy; but we find in the reports nothing of the spirit of the com- mands, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods” and ‘Love one another.” His Emi- nence the Cardinal Secretary of State, Anto- nelli, has protested against the acts of violence which were recently committed by the Italian soldiers near the Jesuit church in the Holy City. The Italian Parliament is about to remove its sittings from Florence to Rome in order to vote the national budget. Perhaps the lay legislators of Italy reason that the fact of their being near to a grand cash tribu- tary reservoir will enable them to put money in the King’s purse more easily, either by a forcible “raise” as before, or by the light of the traditional inspiration which has been afforded by the example of the first persecu- tors of the First Great Visible earthly Head of the Church, when ‘‘for His garment they cast lots.” The King of Italy wants money sadly. Our cable telegrams to-day confirm our first statement that there is a most heavy deficit in the treasury account of the Italian kingdom. Two hundred and forty millions of lire are wanting. Paper money—that “last and best supply, which lends corruption lighter wings to fly"—as it was described by the poet Pope in England—is to be resorted to by large issue, and the present taxes—most onerous ones at the moment—are to be in- creased by an addition of ten per cent at all points of the territory. A sort of quack measure of a commercial, naval, free port trade is propounded. Over all this comes the musket and the bayonet—the soldier against the citizen, the military man of Italy, idle, but trained to shoot, if commanded, his own loving brother. The Italians are to have martial law under the guise of a parlia- mentary bill entitled “‘A bill for the better maintenance of the public peace and security throughout the kingdom.” Why, this is per- fectly astonishing! United Italy, in the very moment of the perfection of the civilization of the nineteenth century, demanding the power of a penal law, headed in words almost identical with those which the Ministers of Elizabeth held in Ireland, and which were cvutinued betweon the island partners of the British monarchical union from her day to the days of Peel and Wellington, with slight varia- tions suited to the time and the tone of the actors! The aged Pontiff in Reme may be right with respect to Italy, after all. Law and Order in France. The word ‘‘order” at the head of this article is rather a misnomer, for, while there is pkeaty of law in Paris, the despatches which we publish this morning show that there is any- thing but order in the French capital. ‘‘Dis- orders continue in the city,” says the report, and it adds, with that naiveté for which the French are famous, that they are not of a serious nature. A Parisian’s idea of a row is what we would loek uponas a pretty for- midable insurrection. But Paris is so well used to violence and disorder, except when ruled despotically, that we are not surprised at the complacency with which her citizens view an impending conflict, One-quarter of the city is in complete possession of the insur- gent National Guards, who have intrenchments and behind them a large park of artillery. General de Paladines, in citizen’s clothes, haa visited Montmartre and inspected the cannon, and it was expected that an attempt would be made last night to surprise and capture them. Ifany such ruse de guerre was attempted we shall, doubtless, have intelligence of the result to-day. As the success of the movement depended upon the treachery of a part of the insurgents it must be regarded as extremely problematical, There are no more unreliable warriors in the world than the National Guards of Paris, as De Paladines probably discovered last night, It ia much to be regretted that the French authorities do not exhibit a little more energy and determination in Paris than they appear to be doing. During Napoleon's entire reign there were but two attempts at violence in the city, and those were repressed in their incipiency.. Despotic rule, it. is true, pre- vented hostile demonstrations ; . but, if respect for law and maintenance of order canmot be obtained by any other means, the safety of society will sanction extreme meyasures. Allowances must, we admit; be made; for the position of the government; but, in “pursuing a vacillating policy towards the insurgent National Guards and the other disorderly elements of Paris, itis trifling with a powder: magazine which may explode at ‘any momeat and hurl it to destruction. University Tasts 1x, ENGLAND.—A, cable despatch which we print this morning states that the House of Lords has allowed to be read for the second time the bill abolishing University tests at both Oxford and Cambyidge. This really means revolution, and the Oxford and Cambridge magnates must look ‘out, It will not surprise us if for.one time Amore the , bill must be defeated. If not this ‘time, nex. time the University reformers must win. Rome St. Patrick's Day—Tho Procossiou, The weather yest rday, at least daring the time that the faithful doherents of St. Patrick wore out of doors, was gv tial and pleasant, The sun was not out and thw streets wore somewhat muddy, but there wag’.othing in the weather or the mud that would bogin to daunt the heart or stay the step of evan the most dainty Irishman. The procession, \ith its numbers of societies and associations, its regiments of infantry and cavalry, its Shand O'Neil and his heralds and gallowglasses, all dressed in orange and green and gold, and the huge car with the bust of the Liberator and an ancient Irish bard upon it, and numerous open carriages with prominent} officers of the various associations, and, myriads of banners and fisgs and numbers. of brass bands and drum corps, took its tor-' tuous way along the crowded city streets, The transit business of the metropolis took a resting spell wherever the great caravan crossed its route, the Broadway omnibuses piled themselves together for hours waiting till it had passed, and on all the stoops and sidewalks and at the windows of every house on the line of march every inch of space was clung to by the desperately pressed spectators of all nationalities and both sexes anxious to geta view. Probably forty thousand persone marched in the line and a hundred thousand looked on, We are glad to roport that the day and the celebration passed without disturbance, Tlie blending of the orange and the green was promptly accepted by all sects as a har monious reuniting of all divisions and splitting of all old differences. This wae to be noticed among the spectators as well as in the line, A prompt cheer for the orange as well as the green was given when the heralds and gallowylasses of Shane O'Neil came along. As to other causes for disturbance, Irish whiskey was either totally neglected or laid aside for a more convenient season later in the evening. Nineteen total abstinonos societies, flying the banners of Father Mate thew and marching to the music of St Patrick, were examples enough to keep.evea the most confirmed absorber of the “‘crather” on his good behavior, Mr. Seward’s Trip Around the World. William H. Seward, who may indeed, and not inaptly, be regarded as the great Ameri- can traveller, has arrived safe and sound a¢ Calcutta. Having paid a flying visit to China, after being thawed out of icy Alaska, he looked in to Japan, and now turns up in India: en route for Europe. No doubt the sage will while away an hour or so in the locality pointed out to travellers as the Garden of Eden, pass through the Suez Canal, do the Nile, and rest for a while under the shadow of the Pyramids. Touching at Athens, the sage will possibly linger amid the ruins of classic Greece and drink in inspiration while © wandering in meditation deep through the places where the old Greek poets and ora- tors sung their songs and addressed the cultivated Athenians, Homeward bound the venerable statesman will proceed up the Mediterranean, and may rest awhile to witness Etna and Vesuvius, in order to compare notes and see how the European volcanoes compare with those of America—for Mr. Seward, in his grand tour through Mexico, visited Pococa- petl and Ovlima, The ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum too, no doubt, will receive his attention, Rome, the city of the Caesars and the Popes, but now the capital of united Italy, will certainly be visited by the great traveller, and it is scarcely possible that the land of Tell, the little mountain-locked republic of Switzerland, will be neglected. Crossing into France, Mr. Seward will probably run over the battle fields of that country, from Saar- brack, where the first meeting of the Ger- man and French forces took place, to Sedan, where the last army of the empire ' in the fleld surrendered to the German con- queror. The battle fields—Orleans and Le Mans—the cities of Bordeaux and Paris, the . latter city disfigured and stripped of much ef the beauty with which she enticed travellera. « from every clime, will also receive him as a . guest, Let him have a word of encourage. . - ment for Thiers, and urge him to emulate the «+ example of the great republic of the West, ‘' whose triumphant march to a great and.glo- / rious future now attracts the attention of the.’ great nations of the earth. And when Mr, Seward returns to the shores of his own. America and retires to his peaceful home im, Auburn, let him, whils his years are crowding { on him in the autumn of his days, give us hiat experience in a book portraying the peoples and lands through which he has passed. The Political Horizon of Mexico... Mexico ig.on the eve of. an election for Pm . sident of the repubiic, and party spizit. ray ig high. Juarez is in the field and is considerr .g@ strong; he has several oppononts, howew or, but the latest advices state that in ‘all: prev ba bility the strongest of these ‘will Ibe-sele¢ ted, upon whom the entire opposition will w nite, and,. unless interfered with by /the par ty im power, the chances are that the/ existing ; gov, ernment will be overthrown. J is az pinion , generally expressed, however,/that ‘na matter who the successful candidate fmayibe, the ena of the contest will be,revolu/ion, snd one that will involve the entire country. Thia announcement will cause ‘no. sarprise—none whatever. Wea all are too, thoroughly aon- versant with the Spanish-Arnerican form of republican government, wiiich means. the ballot first and the appeal toparms afterwards, to express wonderment 4f anything that may occur in Mexico.s Their elections generally ead in this’ manner, unless the defeated party fis too much in the minority to give it/: reasonable prospect of success, and as the two. political parties, appear to be nextly alike in strength at the present time in Mexico a revolution may assume serizsis proportions, and what the.end of it will ‘2 no one at present can foresee, We mey express the opinion, however, ju feyra the past history of that distragted coun- fry, that it will be only, as all the others have been, ® short peace ot breathing Spell, after one party or the other is exhausted, before the tumult and bloodshed are ago'in commenced iy no longer exclusive, Why should Oxford ‘and Cambridge hinder progress ? ys Tue Erm Crassirication But, has been given another rebuff in the Asesimbly. The loaves and fishes and the fieshpots of Erie are very entlolog, between others anxious forypower and plun- der. With one exception, Gnly revolution ia the chronic coudition of ‘he Spanish American republics, and as noth\ag can or will be done to provent the constant civil, wara in. which thoy gre Gngaged, and as they appear to be bY