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S—Congress: Speech by Senator Pool on South- ern Outrages; the President and tne Senate; Trouble Brewing in the Cabinet— Canal Tolls— Political Intelligence—Proscriptive Paris; Se- vere Measures Against the Germans—Opening at Lord & Taylor’s—Frightful Calamity—The Jersey vig, pertamcient Dominion of Canada. 6—Edltorials: Leading Article, General Grant and His Quondam Tutor in the Science of Govern- ment’’—Amusement Announcements. 7—Fditoriais (Continued trom Sixth Page)—The Rouge Rebellion: Versailies to Have Been At- tacked Last Night; Anarchy and Consterna- ton in Paris; The Insurgent Cabinet Formed; Probable Occupation of Paris by the Ger- mans—News from Cuba—Miscellaneous Tele- grams—Bnsiness Notices. 6—New York City and Brooklyn Courts—Insurance Innovation—Tne Erie Ratiway sAtigation— Woman's Suffrage—spouting Spiritualists : Celebration of the Anniversary of the Advent of the Ism—The Sleepy Hollow Atrocity: Con- tinuation of the Buckhout Murder Trial—The Brown butchery—The Reputed Railroad Rob- bers—Police Inspection—A Jailbird’s Luck— Not a Case of Arson—Shannon vs, Smith. 9—A Dead Secret: Tragedy in a Broadway Board. ing House—Real Estate Matters—Jourualistic Notes—A_ Japanese Princess Went For a Darkey—The Louisville, New Orleans and Chicago Ratlroad—The Arrest of Perpetrators of a Crime Commitied in 1867—Financial and Commercial Reports -Marriages and Deaths, 10—The rolitical Campaign in Connecticut —ship- ing Intellience—Advertisements. 11—Personal Notes—Aavertisements. 12—Aavertisements, Wao Wrote Tat Boots Desrarca—Pur- porting to be sent by Goversor English to Boss Tweed? Show him up. Wuere are toe Democratic ViGILaNce Commirtes in Connecticut? The air is filled with bogus reports. A Wet Isrormep Corresponpest in Con- necticut says there is no doubt about the elec- tion of English, democrat, and three, perhaps four, democratic Congressmen, In the New London district, Stedman, democrat, is press- ing Starkweather, republican, hard. The latter had about 2,400 majority in 1869. It is expected the negro vote will be about equally divided. Tae Leoistatrre is doing a great amount of work of late, sitting nearly every evening until late in the night, in order to continue the busi- ness of legislation. We ndtice, however, that it never fails to adjourn over Saturday and Sunday. The temptations of the gay metropo- lis are too much for it. A Sunday in Albany would probably lay up the whole working ma- jority with hypocbondria. Tae Exorisn Untversiries’ Boat Race.— This exciting event, the annual aquatic con- test between the boats’ crews of the English Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, will gome off on the river Thames to-day. The start will be made at ten o'clock in the fore- noon, in obedience to the flow of the tide—a great power in Britain since the days of Ca- uate, and, perhaps, before his time. The most essentially interesting particulars con- nected with the contest, in its initial, are pub- lished elsewhere in the columns of the Hzpaxp; the names and weights of the men of the cespective crews ; the style of their new boats ; the appearance in training, with the condi- tion of the betting in London yesterday. Our sporting frieads must bring forward their vetting “calculations” quickly, as the result will reach New York by Henatp cable tele- gram at an early hour this morning, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 1. 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. General Grant and His Quondam Tuter ia the Science of Government. As faithful chroniclers we place before our readers all occurrences as they transpire, making as careful comments on them, in pro- portion to their imporiance, as the greatest possible rapidity of publication will allow. In the hurry thus rendered inevitable we may sometimes seem to be unduly influenced by passing events; but it should be remembered that when great national questions have to be decided editors, as well as statesmen, require time for reflection. With the squabbles of parties, as such, we have nothing to do, and still less have we to do with the quarrels of individuals, When we report the one or the other and laugh or grieve, according as the combatants may render themselves a ridicu- lous or a sad spectacle, our duty is done. It is true that the outbreak between Mr. Sumner and the President is one of more than ordinary importance in its kind, and that the “exposition” of the indignant Senator has afforded our contemporaries, both in town and country, and of all political shades, a ferile topic of discussion and an excellent opportunity of displaying their patriotism, as well as their knowledge of the science of government, - international law, &c, But now that all have pretty nearly exhausted themselves, we can say, without fear of contradiction, that not only have all the es- sential facts on which Mr. Sumner based his charges against the President been published from time to time in this journal, but also many of at least equal importance which he has entirely omitted. The difference is that we have not placed our facts in array against the President, having been disposed from the beginning of his ad- ministration to give him every encouragement in our power, rather than do anything to em- barrass one whose success in putting down the great rebellion had given him such a strong claim to the respectful consideration, if not the gratitude, of all in favor of preserving the republic in its integrity; whereas, although no doubt Mr. Samner was once actuated by the same friendly feeling toward General Grant, there are certain facts tending strongly to prove at least a willingness to oppress white people, as well as to usurp power which he could not now very well bring forward without involving himself in the same indictment on which he arraigns the President. The only way, therefore, in which the so- called disclosures of Mr. Sumner have influ- enced us in the least is by showing that even New England has become disgusted with the military style of government, the only style— it must at last be admitted—of which General Grant has the faintest idea. As it has ever been the aim of the Hzrarp to faithfully represent the enlightened sentiment of the nation, so it is at the present crisis; and, accordingly, the President must excuse us if he can no longer receive our support except he develops some traits of statesmanship of which we have not yet seen even the semblance. | We agree with Mr. Sumner that the President has far transcended his power by sending the fleets of the United States to St. Domingo for the purpose of coercing the people of that island to annexation, so that he might obtain glory or secure his re-election by that means; nor can we deny that in doing so he is guilty to a certain extent of usurpation. Nay, we will go further, and acknowledge that neither king nor emperor would do himself, his gov- ernment or the nation over which he rules any credit by pursuing such a course for the purpose of securing new subjécts or new terri- tories as that of which the President of this republic may now be regarded as convicted before the world. It is nothing new for us to acknowledge thus, to the fullest extent, that negroes and mulattoes have rights that ought to be re- spected by the most powerful. But we have always thought and maintained, at the samo time, that the rights of white men are entitled to equal respect, and that the latter ought not to suffer any diminution of those rights from being our own flesh and blood. It is true that a rebellious people, whether black or white, deserve to be punished, but it is not true that their punishment should be perpetual. Mr. Sumner has told us that Spain has said and done certain upright, generous things in regard to the blacks of St. Domingo—things | which present a contrast to the performances of General Grant in the same direction; but the great radical high priest has omitted to tell us that there have been other contrasts at least equally remarkable. Thus, for example, he might have informed us that, although Austria ' has been very severe on the Hungarians after suppressing their attempts at revolution, she has hesitated but a short time to grant them \ a general amnesty. In similar circum- stances the Czar has treated the Poles very roughly, but he too has been glad to grant an amnesty as soon as.the majority of the “rebels” had resumed their peaceful avo- cations. Even in Ireland, the country distin- guished above all others for penal laws designed to force it to be “loyal,” some dis- tinction has generally been made between the class who, although they may have been rebels, have become peaceable and orderly, and that which continues to be both rebellious aud disorderly, and finally, when the latter become even comparatively quiet, without making the least pretension to “loyalty,” a general amnesty has been granted, But has any similar disposition been evinced by our republican government to cast the man- tle of oblivion over all that has been disagreea- ble and painful in the past? Should the most “loyal” of us be less friendly to our brethren of the South because they once rebelled against us than the Austrian Kaiser has been to the Hungarians, the Czar to the Poles, or Eliza- | beth, Cromwell or William III. to the Irish? | These are points which Mr. Sumner has over- looked in his alkabsorbing love for the negro. Mr. Sumner alleges, "in no ambiguous terme, that the President is ignorant of the law of nations, international law, the constitution of the United States, &c., and we cannot deny that there is but too much in that allegation. But if the Senator himself is familiar with those sources of knowledge we do not remem- ber that he has ever given any proof of the fact in legislating for the reconstruction of the South. Upon the other hand, we distinctly remember several precepts and recommenda- tions of his as to the treatment which he thought the Southerners should receive, even since most of the States agreed to accept the fifteenth amendment. which were in flagrant | violation of the principles laid down by all those great jurists whose authority is respected by the most arbitrary kings and kaisers. If there be any of our readers who forget this their memory will perhaps be as fully refreshed by a word or two from some of the jurists alluded to as they would be by quotations from the reconstruction speeches of Mr. Sumner, Thus Grotius us in his third book, chapter four, that “however absolute and despotic may be the power acquired over the conquered it is neces- sary to-treat them gently and in such a man- ner that their own interests may be combined with those of their conqueror.” Vattel says, in referring to precisely such precepts and re- commendations as formed the burden of the reconstruction speeches of the faction of which Mr. Sumner was the shining light, ‘But let us not dispute the poist; let the man who holds such principles of jurisprudence keep them for his own use and benefit; he well de- serves to be subject to such a law.” If Mr. Sumner has experienced a practical illustra- tion of this he has hardly any right to com- plain. If he did not make himself acquainted in time with the third book of Vattel, it is bet- ter late than never; for in the same book the following remark occurs, immediately follow- ing that already quoted: ‘‘But men of spirit, to whom life is nothing unless sweetened by liberty, will always conceive themselves at war with that oppressor, though actual hos- tilities are suspended on their part through want of ability.” Had this precept received due attention in time there would probably have been no need to-day for a new recon- struction law for the ‘Ku Kiux” or any other “Klang.” In short, Mr. Sumner might have learned much more humanity from the pagans of Greece and Rome than either himself or General Grant was willing to show the con- quered Southerners. Nor need he have gone beyond Seneca, in the second book of whose “De Ira” he would find a remark or two which may be translated as follows :—‘‘What would our empire have been to-day had not the con- quered been permitted to mingle with the con- querors as the result of a salutary policy? Romulus, our founder, showed wisdom in pursuing this policy to such an extent that he made citizens of his enemies the same day that he conquered them.” If the application of this sort of policy did not suit New England, especially the modern Athens, so that very different lessons had to be given to General Grant, why should the President be so much blamed now, only for having proved, in one aspect at least, a toler- ably apt pupil? His chief sin, according to Mr. Sumner, has been,. not that he has not evinced abundant willingness to oppress and overawe by means of the bayonet and the can- non, but that, instead of confining his opera- tions in that line to the whites of the South, but extending them to those of the North at election time, he has attempted to disturb the peace and tranquillity of the free and eolight- ened blacks of St. Domingo. Most readily do we admit that it is wrong and reprehensible to frighten the negroes of St. Domingo by means of United States iron-clads and other warlike contrivances; but it would take much more rhetoric than we have yet seen to con- vince us that it is not equally wrong and reprehensible to overawe and oppress the Caucasians of our Southern States by similar means, Tre Darien © We give to-day a fall and very interesting report from the Heraxp special correspondent with the Darien Canal surveying expedition. It is very evident that the party is moving with expedition and great energy, and if a practicable route exists they will find it. The work is laborious and attended with many hardships, annoyances and dangers, which, when s passage is found, will cause @uch delay in the completion of the great enter- prise. Suez was nothing in comparison with what the Darien route must be, as will be dis- covered when the work is fairly inangurated. That which may be nothing to an engineer force will, to the construction party, prove, probably, a serious obstacle; but perseverance, energy and determination, with the neces- sary funds, will remove mountains. Hence we expect that, at some future day, steamers will pass from ocean to ocean by way of the Darien Canal with no more trouble than is now experienced at Suez, if as much, Our correspondent gives some very interesting and amusing incidents connected with his exploration of the rivers. His de- scription of the mountain scenery, the woods, the jungle and other features of tropical localities, are entertaining, and his experience with animals, insects and reptiles will allow our readers to form a very correct idea of the terrible discomfort attending life in a primitive country within the tropics. Fortunately the party.thus far has enjoyed good health. Ex- cepting in a few cases the debilitating fevers, caused by the malaria of that section, bad not attacked them, and the work went on without a drawback worth mentioning. We hope their good luck in this respect will continue, so that before the season is over they will bz able to tell with certainty whether the routé is practi- cable or not. al Expedition. Tae War ix Cupa—Horristg Arxoci- t1es.—By special telegram from the Herap’s correspondent in Havana we learn that the most horrible atrocities are now being carried on by the Spaniards and the rebels. It was only yesterday that we announced the capture and killing of an entire party of contra guerillas; to-day we hear that the volunteers roasted a man alive, first driving a stake through his body, and that an entire family, consisting of old men, women and children, was murdered by Spanish troops. Thus the war goes on; and, as we thought it would, it now assumes & shape in which no quarter is given. We must be prepared to hear henceforward of many sach terrible atrocities, that are a burn- ing disgrace to those who perpetrate them. When will this wholesale murder ccase? When will peace be once more restored to the dis- tracted portions of the Island of Cuba ? Two Goop VeTors.—Governor Hoffman has shown good judgment and pluck in veto- ing the pneumatic tuve or underground hum- bug and the Stout advertising bill, We con- gratulate the Governor upon the wisdom he has displayed in stamping out those two ob- noxious measures in the face of the mighty influence brought to bear in favor of each of them, tells | The Frightful Cenditien of Paris—The Armed Intervention of Germany a Ne- cessity te Franco. Our latest advices from Paris fully justify the conclusion that nothing but the armed in- tervention of Germany can save France from civil war, a Robespierrian Reign of Terror, and all the horrors of anarchy. The Com- munal Council of Paris are drifting rapidly into the old red revolutionary programme of the original Jacobins, All documents from the government at Versailles are forbidden circulation in the insurgent capital, The old Jacobian cry of “the Universal Republic,” of “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity,” is revived in flaming proclamations. Paris grows sadder in its appearance from day to day, and it would be something miraculous if it were otherwise. One hundred and sixty thousand citizens have left the city within the last ten days. The mass of these emigrants are no doubt people of some means and of some reputation for respectability, and they have fled to save their lives. Chaplains have been ordered to cease the pious service of mass in the prisons. We may next expect to hear that all the institutions of Christianity, including the Sabbath, have, as once before by the same school of reformers, been abolished, and that the liberated citizens have been called to worship a woman of the town paraded through the streets on a trium- phal car as the “Goddess of Reason.” A search has been made among the insurance offices for the imperial jewels supposed to have been left behind somewhere in the city by the Empress Eugénie, in her hasty departure last September, with one shoe on and one shoe off, through a backdoor of the Tuileries. Forced contributions, to the extent of a million of francs, have been levied upon the Bank of France, and larger demands will doubtless follow upon that bank and upon the money changers, pawnshops and jewelry stores, &c.; for your Paris Jacobin holds to his dogmas that money accumulated is robbery, and tnat property is theft, and that all surplus funds and means beyond the necessities of the day belong to the State and to the people, on the tule of equality. M. Blanqul, in the formation of the Paris Cabinet, has followed the example of Mazzini in his Cabinet of 1848-9 at Rome— a visionary concern founded upon the idea of a universal republican brotherhood, looking to the millennium in something like Fourierism or the Oneida free love community. It is apprehended that a struggle is close at hand between the government forces from Versailles and the Paris insurgents, and that the conflict will be desperate and bloody. It is probable that the insurgents, if attacked by the loyal French troops, will fight with the desperation of pirates driven into a corner, and itis possible, on the other hand, that when brought to the pinch the government troops will not fight the reds. This is the opinion of the reds themselves and the sus- picion of M. Thiers. Butthe reds, with all their recklessness and audacity in everything else, have still a wholesome fear and a pro- found respect for the Germans. They actu- ally propose to pay the German indemnity, and they are deliberating upon the plan of raising the money by selling Versailles to an Anglo-American company for one milliard of franes, St. Cloud for eight hundred millions to a German gambling proprietor, and Fontaine- bleau for five hundred millions. Compared with this communal establishment of Paris, this grim burlesque, what « blessed govern- ment was that of the philosopher Sancho Panza over his delectable island ! But with all this hideous and perplexing catalogue of French red republican absurdities and atrocities, the question still recurs, what next? Only a prophet or a lunatic would un- dertake to answer. From all the facts before us, a sanguinary collision between the govern- ment forces of Versailles and the Paris insur. gents is inevitable and cannot be many days delayed. The government is stopping all horses and cattle from entering Paris, and in thus cutting off their supplies M. Thiers is pursuing the right course to bring the insur- gents out. The Commune is actively disarm- ing the loyal National Guards, which means that the Commune is preparing for the tug of war. It means war and ‘“‘no quarters,” for measures of proscription are secretly enforced everywhere in the city, and the ominous word “guillotine,” though spoken only in whispers, isin everybody's mouth. We can perceive now that the Bonapartes were the proper doc- tors for these virulent revolutionary disorders of Paris; but is M. Thiers equal to the appli- cation of their efficient remedy of cold iron? He may succeed in marching upon the insur- gents; but he may fail, and if he shonld fail, what then? The London Standard has a despatch saying that the Germans will occupy Paris immediately on the downfall of the Thiers government. Has it, then, come to this, that the downfall of the Thiers government is expected as the result of an armed struggle between it and the Paris insurgents? If so, and if M, Thiers has any doubts of the issue of the sanguinary contest for which he is preparing, why not apply at once for the armed intervention of Germany to prevent a needless and profitless waste of human life? A modification of the treaty of peace, so as to provide that fora specified time the German army shall occupy Paris, will settle the difficulty at once. Mea- sures in the interval could be adopted to secure the city against the ‘‘reds,” by disarm- ing them, and by bringing in to the support of the government one or two hundred thou- sand of the veteran soldiers from Germany of the late imperial army. Then, with the retire- ment of the Germans, M. Thiers would have Paris completely within his control. On the other hand, let us suppose that, rely- ing upon his hastily gathered raw volunteers at Versailles, M. Thiers is defeated and his government is overthrown by the ‘‘reds,” and that the Germans, as the only alter- native left them, march into and occupy Paris; what will be their situation and the situation of France? They will be in occupation of a conquered country, without & government, and France will be in chaos, Poor France! She does, indeed, appear to have run her course, not only as the arbiter, but as one of the great Powers of Europe, and she seems rapidly going in that decline from which Spain, once the head and front of the Continent, has been reduced to a mere cipher among the nations, There must be peace in France, or France, for the sake of poace, may be incorporated bodily into the German empire. There can be no peace in France while the Jacobins of Paris are in arms, They must be dispersed and disarmed and held under the supervision of the mailed hand before there can be peace and law and order and the re- vival of industry in poor France. The season is at hand when her peasantry’ should be in their fields and gardens, in the work of producing such articles of subsistence as they may yet be able to produce this year to meet the necessities of an exhausted coun- try, otherwise threatened with a general famine. In this view alone M. Thiers should no longer trifle or temporize with these Paris in- surgents. Ifhe has any doubt of his ability to put them down with the doubtful troops he has collected at Versailles he should at once provide for the complete occupation of Paris by the Germans,,in an amendment of his treaty stipulations with Prince Bismarck, Under the existing condition of things the armed intervention of Germany in support of the Thiers government appears as a necessity to France. Germany may be indifferent as to the fate of M. Thiers, because in the last resort, she can exact her indemnity, if she wants nothing more, in the appropriation of two or three more French provinces. But Prince Bismarck, while holding France to the conditions of her bond, is ready to give M. Thiers a helping hand. Let bim provide for the occupation of Paris, for a limited time, by the Germans as a guarantee for peace and that indemnity, and there will be peace and law and order in Paris and throughout France. The Erie Railway Litigation. An important step was taken in this litiga- tion yesterday in the United States Circuit Court before Judge Blatchford. The case of Heath and Raphael, the English shareholders, against the Erie Railway Company and Fisk, Gould and Lane, had been at argument for two days on demurrer to the bill of complaint filed by the plaintiffs. As yet there has been no devision by the Court upon the demurrer; but at the close of the argument counsel for the plaintif&s made a motion for an injunction restraining the defendants from issuing any more convertible bonds of the Erie Company. This motion was based upon an affidavit sworn to by an English solicitor, who is acting in this country as the agent of Heath and Raphael, and who states, upon informa- tion that has come to his knowledge, that the Erie Company and Fisk and Gould and their “confederates” intended to make a large issue of Erie convertible bonds. The design was, as the affidavit alleges, to place these bonds in the market and sell them, at a greatly reduced prico, to the detri- ment of the company and its stockholders. A stipniation has been filed by the company to the effect that they will not issue any new con- vertible bonds, and upon this undertaking an injunction has been issued to that effect, and will remain in force until such time as it shall be modified or withdrawn by the Court or by the consent of the parties to the suit. This is a great point gained thus far, and one of the interrogations which they must answer in the United States Circuit Court is— Have they sixty thousand shares of Erie stock belonging to English shareholders unjustly in their possession, and, if so, why not deliver them up at once to their lawful owners? There is no escape from this position. There must be a categorical answer. The Court will compel one, and the public will be gratified to see justice done. Tae Czar’s Reward To GorTOHAKOFF.— His Serene Highness Prince Gortchakoff is the title by which the eminent Russian states- man and Minister is to be known in the future. The honor is made hereditary in his family by order of the Czar. The Russian Ministers, at the Courts of England and Turkey have also received aristocratic promotion at the hands of their imperial master. These facts, which are embraced in our cable tele- grams from St. Petersburg, go to show that the Emperor of Russia is vastly pleased at the issue of the London Conference and the virtual obliteration of the Treaty of Paris of 1856 so far as it restricted the navigation of the Black Sea by Russian vessels of war. Prince Gortchakoff has won his honors well, as have the other gentlemen, and it is to be hoped that they may continue to wear them for a lengthened period to come. The famous Gortchakoff circular of October 31 (new style), addressed to Earl Granville, accom- plished a grand work for Russia in every sense of the word. It appears as if ‘‘mon- archs” are not ‘‘ungrateful” invariably. Tne Trompoyg’s WratH AND THE HERALD's Enterprise.—Compelled to pay homage to the enterprise of the Heratp by using our special cable report of an interview had by one of our correspondents with Prince Bis- marck, the 7'’rombone, with brazen assurance, speaks of Bismarck defining ‘‘the position which Germany takes in the French domestic troubles in conversation with the corres- pondent of an English newspaper.” It is really remarkable, under the circum- stances, that Bismarck should have ex- pressed to an English journalist his apprecia- tion of the good sense and consistency dis- played by the people of the United States dur- ing the war. The Trombone, however, is mad—mad because it was necessitated to acknowledze our superior enterprise by using our special despatches, and doubly mad be- cause our sources of information on matters of State are Emperors, Cardinals, Princes, Pre- miers and other men high in authority, instead of ‘‘my lords’” valets, coachmen and flunkies generally, retailing at a porter house, over @ pot of beer, the news they had overheard in the conversations of their masters. Tae LoaN—Apviors From Tit TREASURY Department.—Mr. Boutwell is ratber jubilant because the new five per cent loan is taken up faster than at first. It is not unlikely that two hundred millions may be taken of these five per cent securities, for there are through- out the country a number of institutions that may invest in them; but it is not probable the Secretary will be able to get much more of the loan off or hardly any of the four and half and four per cents. Money is too valuable and too much in demand here for capitalists to accept such a low percentage, even with long timo bonds and with the other advantages offered. As a general financial scheme Mr. Boutwell's ioan measure will bo a failure, : SS a Ta SS ea a aa sat a EE EE Des ea be a Be ee SN Dinners as Diplomatic Demoralizers. When the historian of the future, Macaulay’s New Zealander, for instance, shall take his seat amid the fossil files of contemporaneous journals and try to form a just idea of nine- teenth century diplomacy, he will be sorely puzzled by one fact continually staring him im the face. That will be'the connection betweem affairs of State and affairs of the stomach. L¢_ ventre gouverne le monde is: the French cyni- cism on the subject. The aforesaid historian will, perhaps, add that the diplomats of our day gave the principle a pretty good trial im practice. The whole system is an outrage om posterity, for future generations will be plunged in an inextricable muddle when they attempt, for example, to evolve our little bills on the Alabama claims from the surrounding cataract of bills of fare. It is unfortunate for the High Commission, at present supposed to be sitting in Washing- ~ ton, that the word “Joint” is at its head. Every time the Commissioners eat, the entire press of the country goes into a succession of little firecracker jokes oyer the event. Though we may smile faintly at these small pops, the philosopher of the hour should learn his se- rious lesson from them. Eating is an ancient, useful and honorable occupstion; drinking Is equally ancient, undoubtedly as useful, and there is no question about its being highly honorable per se. There is, however, » dif- ference of opinion as to what should be drunk. Why, then, diplomatists should not be allowed to dine as seriously as less distinguished mor- tals is a question to which we shall address ourselves, There is no shirking the point that popular belief inclines to the idea that the discussion of affairs of State is intimately associated with discussing edibles. Like all popular beliefs it is “founded on fact.” cramming process was first applied to inter- national difficulties it would be hard to de- termine, Cleopatra was as famous for her diplomatically seductive dinners and petit soupers as any one nowadays, Lacullus was When this © & most magnificent maitre d'hotel ; the Epicu- _ rians were devoted to dining, and an antique Sybarite’s cuisine covered all that was recherché in prog. As @ general thing in those good old times the stuffing was done after treaties were signed ; now a dinner is supposed to have great force in shaping a treaty. To the wily, slip. pery Tallyrand we owe much of the celebrity to which this has attained. Castlereagh feasted Ireland out of its Parliament, and since then eating has been looked upon as a powerful means to soften the head of a hard- shell diplomatist. We had a pregnant instance of its success lately in the person of a gushing old gentleman we sent over to England as Minister to the Court of St. James, It will bo seen that all this points to England being the land which shall be awarded the honor of first applying the dinner as a diplomatic demo- ralizer. They are the inventors and perpe- trators of post-prandial oratory. No wonder they should elaborate the rubicund idea of cutting a slice off a neighbor's territory, while helping him to a slice of plum pudding. But the system is not likely to work with Americans, What an old gentleman may say over his grog, call it ponche, sorbet or whatever you please, we are likely to take with a biecuit. But there is a fearful side to the question, which furnishes a fresh pic- ture of modern civilization. When a whole republican nation becomes nervous at the sight of a live English lord in full dress because he holds an invitation to dinner in his hand, there is something wrong. It makes us feel worse than the poison ef Lucrezia Borgia ever made her guests. ‘‘Be- ware, the dreadful avalanche—of English din- ners” is the last good night our eastward of bound statesmen hear, We have learned to laugh at their doughty cry of ‘Excelsoir,” for public opinion soon lays them out as straight and stiff as Longfellow’s youth in the poem. So long as this went on we had the corrective in our hands. English dinuers have been dead-sea fruit to our envoys abroad. But now the odious practice has invaded our soil and spread its wheedling white cloth under the Stars and Stripes. We havea Commission among us which dines our legislators not only highly and jointly, but separately and every other way. What is worse, our iron-clad fathers of finesse have taken to dining the Commissioners, Like the Indian who saw the white man use mustard, and took a spoonful himself, they seck to discon- cert the British lords at their own game. How it will end Heaven only knows; at present the record is frightful. The first batch of the English Commissioners arrived in Washington on ‘the 24th of February last. There were two to follow, and of course busi- ness could not go on without them. In the meantime the dinner demon was not idle. ‘The traditional green baize-covered table was prepared by Secretary Fish; but a snowy linen damask table cloth was Iaid over it, with a smile of self-gratula- tion. A similar scene was enacting at the British Embassy. The plot on both sides was laid very deep in the internals of human nature. The first dinner of the series was given on the 25th February by Secretary Fish, and only to the members of the American Commission. It ought not to be counted in the list of prandial per- formances, for it was only a rehearsal, Cer- tain newspaper correspondents told won- derfal stories about the weighty hints of State policy dropped among the crumbs; but they knew nothing about it. The whole time was taken up in each member expori- mentally pumping his neighbor on questions of statecraft, so as to prepare them for the battles of dainty dishes and the war- fare of costly wines looming up before them. On the side of the enemy Sir Edward Thornton called together his brothers to sharpen the edge of their diplomatic dinner knives, somewhat blunted ‘by a transatlantic voyage. They chuckled at the prospect of an easy victory, but knew not what was transpiring in the other camp. There was @ day of rest, and on the 28th of February they met face to face around the table of the British Minister, The fare was excellent, but the guests eyed each other like gladiators in the first bont. They were only feeling each other's strength, and the combatants went to their corners smiling, The American chickens led off onthe lst of March at the SS ——— ee neg i EIDE STE RAE SAGE AELLE DEES NO EE ai 0 ES ee