The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1871, Page 8

* pointed NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STRERT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROFVRIETOR. Volume XXXVI ooo AMUSERIENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, broadway.—-Taz Drawa oF Aloatron. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. —THe SPECTACLE OF THe BLACK CROOK. WALLACK’S THRATRE, Br and Vth street.— fur Nervovs Max—Tux Unv D GENTLEMAN, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—PLuTo— Cineary's SKETOHES. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Grnwan Oreua—Louesarin, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay, ana 26d st.— Ca GRANDE DucnEser, Phat THEATRE, Bowery.—ON HAND—Tus Down FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twonty-fourty sirect— IReeEEL. GLOBE THRATRE, 728 Broatwar,—Tamiery EXTER. TAINNENT, £06,--DAY AND NiGhT—KENO. BOOTH’S THEA corner Sdth at.—Performs he i THEATRE, Brookiga, — SAN BarseMa's: . HALL, ‘ $88 Broa iway.— OYAL JAPANESE TROUPE. HOOLEY'S OPERA HO Brookiyn.—Hooury's AND Ke.y & Lros's Mr centh street. -SonNES EN NEW YORK CIR wnt RING, AOROwATS: TONY PASTOR'S ¢ RIPLY ENTERTATNNE THEATRE COMIQU ty, NFOUG ACTS, BRA HOUSE, 2 Bowery.—Va- O14 Broadway.—-Comto Vooate BRYANT'S i Bt, between’ 6th and Tth avs.—NKGRO A DR, KANN L MUSEUM, 745 Brondway.— SOUR OR AN Qu ADR UPLE SHEET, ANATOMIL Raw ome Senanys April 2% As7L. corres es oF TODAY'S HERALD vertiscnients, prtisements, ihe Capital; the ‘Attempt of the Govern- foent to Seize Montmarire; Detauls-of the Nurcer of Generis Lecomte and Ciemeat ‘“nomas by the Mon; Reds as Traitors and Arrival at Caiselnurs land—Miset ot Caned Coupons— F- Peaceini ‘Troops to puon ot the peror-King Frenkiort—ine Income T Yachting: Preparations lor the Se Englaud—Newark's Prison Pen— see: i gled Cigars—Naviz gwar Well—That P ton Territory. Leading Stil av “The ter Work’’—Amusemeut .in- U3. O—Etiitorials (cont a Eight Paz Mexico: HERAT) e ort via Mi Oppostiion to Juarez or Iu | ment—The French A Heeb ; LO 1 ages; Conn: ung Insurgents Frater- hensions Of an Attack on Arrested aud Held. as fe and Reports of Trooy iz ng—Miscelianeo' ism Comiog List New Orieaus~ Tne i Coup a L4—-AW ert seme? FH~A verre AxoTier AFRICAS ing rapidly ILouse of Re- tions on account of obliterated in Coag preseutatives con s five colored members, and yesterday that body d & white boy acti 13 a page or m ‘© youth in his pI first ing ance ia whic a colored boy bas been | e in Congress, appointed a py; Tar Brians Borie scribed in yesterd. H a | most ridiculous p rs 1 between leading | republicans of all the feu cod | party, and the funniest port of ft is the Speaker's reported aspirations for th» F dency and Butler's crac] overthrow of the Speaker's hopes. Are we to bave a republi- can ecrub race in 1872? Asin no other way can all ihe republican candidates for the White House be satisfied, let us have aserud race, We are ready for it. a this demora St. Dominco Sonrug contin to be the discordant element in the republican pirty. Leading Congressmen have become satiefied that to keep the qnestion open longer is to imperil the very existence of the party, and consequently propose to dispose of | the maiter at once ag the report of the | St. Domingo Commissioners on the table whenever that document is presented to the | Senate. A joint resoution, aleo, will protia- } bly be introduced in the Senate declaring it | inexpedient at this time to annex, Dominica, The Presidvat end his (riends, however, view | the matter in a diferent light, and still onter- j tain ihe hope that all opposition to the | measure can be overcome anda treaty of an- nexation ratified. Tar Pre Cunan Martens. — ri special telegrain to | “he Hevaro from Ilavana gives particulars of another | urrible murder, the owner of a sugar estate being hacked te ces by covlies, | From the character of the news at present coming from Cuba we should judge it to be | rather an unceriain place to iive in. Of the 8 two parties now arrayed in arms against each | other one has a delightful method of getting rig of priscners it cannot provite tor by hang: | ing or shooting them; the other retaliates by | | ypayfully ruaning a stake through a mon aod t ousting bim while yet alive. On top of | all this the coolies chop their master to pieces, avd we wait with some impatience to hear the next delightful plan adopted for ridding homan being of li The tenure of existence iy that pleasant locality is now prec: tious, and we should (h it a good place to away from. Pp | years gone by, | and the Jew dread both, We deprecate all such attempia | j} to weaken American power and influence | | we come io read the pulpit utterance: NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AIKiL 2, 1871-QUADRUPLE SHEKT, sar are The Religions Croskers Still at Work. Therais a trite old saying, which we have often heard repeated, namely, that le well stuck to is as good as the truth,” and from the persistence with which some of our contem- poraries stick to lies which have been dé- monstrated to be such we must conclude that they believe in the truth and power of the old saw. Ashort timo ago, according to these leadors of public opinion, we were going to be strangled by the monster Roman Catholicism, and, forsooth, because it was acquiring houses and lots in New York and other large cities by which in a few years It would rule or ruin the country. But the Hzraxp took that bull by the horas and so effectually “floored” him that wo have heard nothing more about the real estate tyrant since. But our neighbors are not willing to stop here. Their editorial stock in trade is exceedingly limited, judging from tho variety of subjects treated of in their columus from day .to day, The changes are rung upon our corrupt city and State governments, the Tammany leaders, seo- tarian appropriations or something akin with anew name, and an occasional squib in defence of President Grant and the republican perly, ora dash at some eminent merchants of our city who have provoked the wrath of those journals, The sectarian appropriation topic and the Catholic real estate question having boen disposed of by us, the aforesaid | stock in trade of our neighbors has ,been replenished by the discovery or invention of a threatened swamping of Protestanism in America by the Catholic vote of New York city, which, itis alleged, is always ignorant and always cast solid for the democracy and against trath and justice and liberty; and we are gravely told that the habit of deferance to Reman Catholic eneroachments bas some- what weakened the spirit of the whole Pro- testant body. Thai's a terrible thing, indeed. We showd hardly have believed it, con- sidering that there are two hundred and seventy Protestant to forty Roman Catholic churches ia this city alon®, aad that outside of this clty, as we have heretofore shown, there are twenty times as many. But the Biory, oft repeated, may come to be believed by and by. As we have insisted in these columns that the vital element of Protestantism or of Catholicism does not lie in real estate, but ia human hearts, 80 now we declare that it does not consist in political votes, but in liv- ing souls. This constant harping upon the “encroachments of Catholicism is an admis- sion that it possesses far more vitality than Protestantism, and is designed to create reli- gious feuds beiween creeds and churches, But we are at a loss to know what good purpose | or end is lo be served by stich agitation. | this counsel or this work bo of God it cannot | be overthrown; but if it be of men it will come to naught.” Then, again, we are told that “ihe pos'tion of the Roman Catholic masses in our large cities is pretty much that of the Southern slaveholders in the field of politics, Both were compact bodies of ignorant people,” and as such were easily swayed by demagogues, | and “in both instances the libarties and pros- perity of the country wereia danger through their influence oa politics.” If this witness is true it is a sad commentary upon our common school system, and upon our Protestant and wpublican institutions. We pretend to furnish education for the masses, young and old, who come among us, and we offer them every facility for acquiriag it. Schools and churches abound in all our cities, villages, towns and | hamlets, and yet all that we can show here is an ignorant mass, very much like the people of the Sonth, who before the war had no schools and but few churches, and a literature without a name, if this picture is correct. But itis not. We are golug forward, and not backward, and Catholicism is keeping pace with Protestantism, and in some sections gain- ing upon it; and this is the canse of the trouble, Had the former remained where it was in this country thirty years ago we sould not hear such an ont ast it as ther in thisday. But itt the best, and here and elsewhere is putting Protestantism to shame by the number of its religions aud benevolent institutions—founded not by city or State aid, but by the hard- enraed dimes and dollars of those who have faith in their creed, and who show their faith y their works, is not a day in the in which Protestants might not receive profitable lessons of instractioa from the éxam- ple of their Roman Catholic neighbors in this respect. We are not of those who delight ia war and bloodshed, and we deeply deplore the persistent efforts of our contemporaries foment religious discord among na, We not so soon forget the An 1 and Know excitement of past years, when simi- lar efforts were made to breed strife belween ities and religions; but they failed ally, as will these also. Common pru- nothing else, should dictate that we should not again plange into war nntil the wounds caused by the last are healed and tranquillity is restored to all our borders. But we have no immediate fear that the silly | muttering “9 of uapriucipled writers, whose tuirst for war is their absorbing appetite, will have any more weight with sensible men in these days tuan their predeeos had in the Men are too intelligent now to be swayed by every wind of passion or every line of newspaper seribblers, They judge of things for themselves, and they are not going to murder us because church which may ba worship in a no crores upon it, while theirs has. geaius of the age We mistake the and of our owa country if such undertakings can prove ive among us. It is, iudeed,*a sad spectacle to beheld beathen nations and nomi- nally Christian nations remodeling their re- | ligious and political systems after ours, while | we in our publje ulterances through the pulpit | sud the press are trying to demonstrate to them that here, in free America, every man cannot worship God under his own vine and fig tree without fear of assault by bis neighbor— | that the Protestant must dread the Catholic These things ought not Bo to be, abroad and throw doubt and digeredit upon that common Christianity which has cone #0 much for us, and through us-for the nations of the h. We believe that peace hath her tories no less renowned than war, and as ia our egg! own columns from week to wack of Protestant, Catholic and Jew we seo,that, though in form they may differ, in faith they are very ncar to each other--each worshipping the God of his fathers and recognizing tho universal brother- hood of the race and the right of all men to like | privileges. We shall not, therefore, be among | those who seek to set brothers to cut each other’s throats. Our mission is a different one, and we expect by and by to inherit the blessing pronounced by the Saviour upon the peacemakers, while those who seck to stir up strife among brethren will find their poriion elsewhere, The Situation fi France. no news from France this morning is very meagre and contains but little of importance. No attack has yet been mado on Versailles, the insurgents evidently lacking in courage or organization for offensive warfare. Neither | has any movement been made by the govern- ‘ment forces to crush the insurrection, although it appears as if the Versailles authorities had assumed the initiative in stopping communica- tion with Paris, the complete isolation of | which city is momentarily expected. Mean- while the insurgent leaders are perfecting their | plans, organizing their “universal republic,” | with its red flag, and in other ways preparing to astonish the world by their devotion to the liberties of the people, by. putting to déath a | few hundreds or so of unfortunate wretches | who happen to be rich or moral, A despatch | | from Paris reports that a regiment of regulars passed over to tho insurgents and fraternized with them; but the report is denied from Versailles, What M. Thiers is doing nothing is said about. A statement comes to us to the effect that Bismarck has addressed him a note | asking him “‘to define the time in which he | would accomplish the suppression of the in- surrection in Paris,” and that M. Thiers has replied, resisting the demand, “‘by expressing the hope that he would succeed in his effsrts of conciliation, and by asserting the right to jadge when other measures are necessary.” The German government has agreed to an in- crease of the number of troops in Paris and has also promised, should the insurrection spread, to declare the departments occupied by them in a state of siege. Beyond what we have written the news is barren of special im- portance, A treacherous calm prevails in Paris and Versailles, To-day the storm may burst upon unhappy France and deluge the land in fratricidal blood. : Bloody Francs and Peaceful Gormany. We give in another page of the HERatp this morning a number of lettera from our corre- spondents in Paris, Bertin, Cologne and Frankfort, from the reading of which a fair estimate can be formed of the present situa- tion of affairs In France and in Germany. While from France comes the news of rebel- lion led by insurrectionary chiefs whose hands are red with the blood of their fellow men, from Germany we learn of the return of the victorious soldiers of a united nation to homes from which they had been called by the stern necessities of war. Peace in Berlin, riot in Paris. Welcomes to the herocs of the lato war are showered on the soldiers in the former cliy, while cold-blooded assassi- nation is the reward of the soldiers of France. We cannot reflect on the sad fate of Generals Lecomte and Ciement- Thomas, the particulars of whose murders we publish in another part of the Heratp this morning, without grieving to think that the assass! us of these two brave soldiers in the strevts by the miserable crew who now hold possession of the ciiy rods Paris of she won by the brave stavd she e the Germans poured their rain of shot and shell upon her, The events of the last few weeks stain a -record of heroism almost unparalleled in modern times, Had the Parisians, when they acknowledged that the fortunes of war were against them, turned their attention to répsiring the dam- ages which that war occasioned, all Christen- doin would have gloried in the triumphs which would surely have followed in the train of such a resolye. The Paris riots, the base con- spiracies of the reda, the ficree moasures they resorted to to enforce disobedience to a gov- ernment chosen by the French people, have | accomplished more injury for France than the desolation which marked the track left by the ste invaders. _ France secured by the failure of the armies of the empire what she had given the world to understand she desired—a republic. Daring the months the republican army struggled with the invincible troops of Germany they did better thaa was expected of them. Hostilitivs ceased and the republic of France was in a fair way to be firmly established, until this uaholy and treacherous rising of the evil spirits who con- torture the natioa with their so-called P ‘anism rose to embarrass and perhaps destroy it, Behold the results! Paris to-day disgraces France in the eyes of the civilized world, When the calamities which now rest on France will terminate it is impossibls to con- jectnre ; but we trust the day of deliverance is near, that the cup of bitterness is nearly filled, and that Heaven in its mercy will save this unfortunate nation from ber worst eaemies— her own sons, Tarm Senpay.—This in oar Christian churches is a great day as the anniversary of the Saviour’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, riding on an asa, “Aad a very great multi- tude spread their garments in the way, and 1 others cut’down branches jrom the trees and | strewed them in the way, And the mullitudes | that went before, and that followed, cried, ying, Hosanna to the Son of David: blessed is Ho that cometh ia the namo of the Lord ; Ho- sanna in the highest.” But this spontaneous demonstration from the peojle and the re- markable events wh followed it, especially ; in the Temple of Jerusalem, vo incensed and ‘ alarmed the esiablivied Church and State { authorities that they combined to capture the daring and popular reformer, and within six | days trom his triumphal enty they brought | Him to the consummation of His divine mis- sion, in His death on the cross, Tuis, thea, is the meaning of Palm Sunday. It marks the begioning of the crowning chapter in the mis- sion, the teachings, the sorrows and saffer- ings of the Saviour of mankind, and that tri- umphal entry into Jerusalem was a fore- shadowing of the ultimate unlversal’ triumph of the new dispensation, \ | tain and cannot be depended upon, The English Universities Boat Raco—Nutional Lessons from the Event. The exciting and interesting event of the English Universities anoual boat race camo off on the water of the Thames river yesterday, The students of Oxford and Cambridge seat forth. their collegiate repre- sentatives to struggle in frioudly and genial rivalry for mastery on a domain which Eng- land has claimed almost as a national pro- prietary from the earliest period of her naval history. The British people were out in vast numbers, half a million of persona appearing on the banks and bridges of the river at an early hour in the morning. The crown and the aristocracy were either absent or repre- sented very feebly, a significant result of the gradual withdrawal of the members of the two classes—royalty and the peerage— from participation in the sports of tho English nation just inasmuch as its amusements be- come popularized independently of their patronage. The crew of the Cambridge boat won, They made tho distance in twenty- three minutes and nine anda half seconds. The start was effected in good style. The Cambridge boys took the lead and maintained it to the close, We report the facts by cable telegram. They were hailed as the victors with most enthusiasiic cheers on the purt of the vast assemblage. The betting was in favor of Cambridge from the beginning. The populan joy at the triumph of the crew appears to have been hearty and wholesouled, and entirely uninfluenced by interested con- siderations of money, This is quite natural. Cambriige suffered defeat conseculively during agreat many years, A gleam of victorious sun- shine was vouchsafed to its rowers in the year 1870, It shone forth # sunburst yesterday, Luck has not been with the Oxfords as usual, Have the defeats of the Oxfords come from the absence of good luck? Can it be ex- plained as having occurred in complete har- mony with the rule of a fixed, unalterable law of physics? Can it be read in the light of science? We think so, Oxford !s beginning to display the attenuated muscle which is pro- duced by an aristocracy which has bred “in and in” by family intermarriage, Cambridge has put forth the power of that thew anil sinew which is the formation of pure, healthy b'ood transmitted from a clear fountain head, untainted by vice and presenting the mens sana in corpore sano as a pleasing and = = most valuable national result. Premier Gladstone's Universities reform bill has already democratized Cambridge to_a very considerable extent. distinguished statesman witnessed the evi- dence of this great fact personally from his stand near tha, Thames water yesterday. Victory ever perches in the end on the banner which is borne by the hands of an educated democracy, which regulates its social life in accordance with the rules of bygiene and the discipline of religion. Germany presents a brilliant attestation of this grand fact to-day. France—so far as the power of reason remains with France—has terrible cause to lament her neglect of it. Her children rejected its unerring | trath in the long hours of their glittering demoralizitions, They are afraid to acknow- ledge it in the moment of their defeat; to confess it with bated, heated, feverish breath before the peopies who read the daily chroni- cle of their progress towards a condition of feeble senility by the light of the fires of Paris run mad in its riot, It is a Godlike, con- soling fact, notwithstanding. A nation must be moral in order to be truly great. Ger- many, England and the United States stand forth as eximples, They can be classed as moral nations. Their present great power and material force result from their ob- servance of meral law. Obedience to the rnies of morality enables their children to test their individual strength in the exercise of euch manly sport as that which was enjoyed hy the English Universities boats’ crews on the Thames yesterday, and which we hope to have repeated, and with greater ¢clat, in American waters whenever either the victors or the vanquished choose to pay a visit to the shores of the United States, The United States Steamer Tonnessec, Tho United States steam frigate Tennessee, Captain W. G. Temple, arrived at her an- chorage off Staten Island yesterday morning, having completed her saort but eventful cruise with the St. Domingo Commission. has proved herself a fin» ship, stanch and sea- worthy, and bas given the lie to the assertion that she was little better than a floating coffin, Captain Temple has won golden opinions from all who were his passengers, and the balance of the officers are spokea of in the highest terms by reason of their exertions to make the cruise pleasant as weil as for their profes sioaal ability, For a ship that has foundered, been burned up, run ashore, totally wrocked, capsized, on her boamends, had her decks swept, been dismasted, rudder unsiipped, upper works stove in, battery thrown overboard and all hands deowned, she is one of the best specimens of naval architeciure we have ever seen, ard we hope that the sensation papers which so stoully insisted upon one or the other or all of these accidents having befallen her, will do justice to her present fine appearance, order and discipline, and state that she is here in this harbor, safe and sonad, and not gone to Davy Jones, Sheis not a phantom ship, as they would have had us at one time believe, by putting her one day in one position and a few hours after hundreds of milos off, but a good, substantial specimon of a steam frigate, well fitted to encounter the battle and the breeze for many years to come. Her officers and crew are not spectres, returned to haunt those who would throw slurs upon their pro- fessional reputation, but living men, capable yet of,doing good service, and who can afford now to laugh heartily at those who, in their utter and entire ignorance of everything ap- periaining to navel affairs, consigned them to aa early and a watery grave. Mexican Arrars.—By special te! from the Hexatn's correspondent at Havana we have later news from Mexico, The situa. tion ia that republic bas not materially altered, It appears, however, that Juarez is sirengthen- ing his position, and that he has the army with him, which will give him great advantage in the coming straggle, provided it remains faithfal to the last; but sach .cinies are uncer. They are apt to fall when most wanted, and this may aud prebwbly will be the case in Mexigo, The Perhaps the | She | prees of the country considers the present condition of affairs as very critical, and well it may, for the prospect at this timo is any- Roflgtous Reconstruction—Oherch Troubles in Earepe aad America. Very few of our readgrs who take any in- ‘thing but favorable to the maintenance of | terest in our attempts to reflect the religtous peace, other political moves aro being made having in view the pending crisis, which cannot be much longer delayed. Am Iwpecuntous Lealalnture—Party Mea- sarce. The legislative body at present serving at Albany are earning the title of the “‘uncor- | rupted,” if not of the {ncorruptible, In fact, they have almost passed through the ordeal with clean skirts; but, sad to relate, showing the fallacy, in this instance at least, of an old saw—that virtue is its own reward—with uneasy consciences, long faces aud very empty pockets, This, at the first glance, may appear unaccountable and strange, but it is neverthe- less true, aad truth, as ‘the boys up the river” know by this time, is siranger than fiction, The simple fact is that the ‘‘Boss” bas the manipulation of the body legislative from this city as completely in his hands as the show- man behind the scene has the working of the puppets on the stage, and this being so, like the honest boss that he is, he will not permit any of the old party forays to be made upon the public purse if he knows it, that being his own peculiar prerogative, The pursestrings are now for the first time entirely in bis hands, and this being so “the boys” need not be reminded by him that “yon know how it is | yourself.” They do know how it is too well to make the joke pleasant just now, They are irate, they are voracious, they are almost desperate ; but it is all of So use; they dare not be refractory. came down ‘‘like a wolf on the fold” last ses- sion, when his fangs were not half so terrible as they are now, and they patiently await the adjournment, when they will come home like little Bo-Peep’s lost sheep, “carrying their tails behind tuem.” But from present appearances at Albany the qnes'ion is, how are our legislators to get tome? This brings us to the consideration of | the title we claim for the present Logislature of the .“‘Uncorrupted.” Modest men are pro- verbially diffident; they ‘do good by stealth and blus} to find it famé;” and, therefore, our city delegation may be averse to seeing their virtues blazoned forth to the would and their | names inscribed on the new roll of honor we suggest for them, The noted Jack Sheppard, from an impulse in his youth, did an honest act, for which he did not receive the proper credit, when at once he vowed within himself never to try to be honest again. We are anxious, in view of this frailty in human nature, to give public meed to the acts of our present representatives in Albany, lest from any neglect to do so, or from any cause whatever they should a mental vow record that if ever they got to Albany a second time they would not, even if they could, be honest again. But, on the other hand, it is charged against them that they are not im- pulsively honest, but only compulsorily so un- der the lash of the Boss, Here is the rub, here is where the political shoe pinches, and our legislative honesty, after all, is only like a corn or a bunion, the result of an undue pros- sure brought to bear upon tvem under the name of ‘‘party measures.” “A party measure, boys; come, vote for it, rnn it through—nothing ia it, you know—no stamps—all for party.” Tois is the Boss’ whipping-in cry whenever he wants a pet measure to pass, and, of course, the boys,” nolens colons, have to put the measure through. “No stamps in it! Why, that's a mighty quare thing to say when we all know there is, Shure the Erie bili is no party measure unless the Boss himself is the measure, and big measure he is at that. Then there’s the ‘Wather bill’—well, he will keep the wathor-* ing of that to himself, small blamo to him! But then there is the Canal bill, as [ said before, and the Advertising bill, and the Aque- duct bill; but the worst of all are our own boord bills. Now, if the Boss. woald only make it a ‘party measure’ to veto the whole of them bills we would support him slick through ; for without some such party measure of relief the same bills will hang firé, as they say, a mighty long time on their passage to liquidation.” This is the state of ‘representa- tive” sentiment from this city on the course adopted during the present s°s3'on by the great party leader of the day, by which he has diverted to himself all the sources of revenno from polilical jobs hitherto open to every will- ing member who had a vote to soll or barter. The, Boss is, in the meantime, enjoying— if not with a mens conseia reeti, at least with sides almost exploding with langhter—the situation and the pitiable condjtion of his sub- servient supporters. But what is fan and profit to Tweed is spite and disappointment to “the metropolitan delegation, who are, as the report goes, warble to pay their board and washing bills—the latter an insignificant item, to be sure, The Delavan House and Stanwix Hall people have already taken counsel together for the purpose of getting out a'tach- ments against our legislators the moment the session adjouras, The saloon keepers, though suffering some irom the “wetter” portion of the delegation, fortunately for themselves dried up a litile some time since—not trasting beyond a certain allowance per diem, and their scores ara consequently not 80 heavy, though they may be very long ones. The last hope for all theso.interesta is in the Tax Levy. If the two recaleitrant demo- erats would only hold ont and keep the bill within the Legislature then all would be well. ‘Then the now despondiag members would get the whiphand of the Boss, aud they would undoubtedly give him a new version of his own pet phrase—‘‘You know bow it is yourself.” But they naturally fear that anything will be good enough for Morgan just now, and that the leavening of Graham bread is not 60 difficult an operation when once the Boss puts his band in the dough as present appearances might indicate. Should their fears be all too trae the certainty is that our “‘ancorrupted” Assemblymen will come home from Albany poorer, if not wiser, men. Tue Fentan Rat Crarms.—The Canadian Fenian raid expenses have been subimiited to the Joint High Commission, If they are not by that tribunal entertained they will be sent over to the imperial goverament at. London. Why not submit thei to the Fenian Congress ? Is it nov the rule that the defeated party ina war must pay the costa? A new Cabinet has been formed, and | They remember how the Boas world of the hour, and who ars daily and conscientious readers of the HRaup, but must teel that religiously the age in which it it is onr good or bad fortune to liye is like the heathen Chinee—‘‘peculiar.” Ours is an age which has had few parallels in history, At a time when, as we thought, we had good reason to conclude that an era of peaco and good will—an era in whioh the. smiles of | Heaven and the wishes of mon were in | wondrous harmony—it has been found that the world is allogether out of joint, and that politically, scientifically, religiously, things are all wrong. Rome Is atill 9 grand religious centre, Tho Christian world—which means the civilized world—ihinks of Rome, and sometimes feels it difficult to tell the reason why. If a man thinks of English literature he thinks of Shakspeare, and he cannot help it. Not more naturally doea a man when he thinks of reli- gion, particularly of the Christian religion, think of Roms—of Rome, rather than Jeru- | salem. It you ask him the reason why, about the best reason he can give is that he cannot help it. Speaking of religion, we have little | to do with anything but the Christian religion, and the Christian religion cannot yet afford to despise Rome. After all, Rome is yot the centre of Christianity. In speaking or writing | about Christian movements and agitations, it is not therefore unfair to begin with the old centre, How, then, is it with Rome? Bad. | It has seldom been worse. It was bad when Pope Stephen the Second craved the assistance of Pepin; it was bad when Leo the Third wel- | comed the aid of Charlemagne; it was bad when Otho the First was crowned at Rome by Pope John the Twelfth; it was bad when the Monk Hildebrand came to the reseus ; it was bad during the Avignon period; it was bad during the tyranny of the First Napoleon; but it mever was worse than now, The government of Victor Emmanuel has brought {more sorrow to the Iloly See than was brought to it during any of those poriods; | and it is fair, we think, to say that Pope Pius the Ninth, considering his extreme old age, | has had to bear a fuir proportion of the sor- rows which, according to the decrees of the All Wise and the All Powerful, are to fall to the lot of the Vicar of Christ. Clear it is to all who know anything of history that the Pope is in a worse plight to-day than be was when the'grand schism took place between the East and West, some ten centuries ago; when the Reformation took place in the six- teenth century; when infidelity, like anothor deluge, rushed over the world in the eighteenth century, or when the present incumbent of the chair of St, Peter fled to Gacta in 1848, All our latest news shows that tho situation as between Italy and Rome, between Victor Emmanuel and Pope Pius the Ninth, is painfully uvcertain, The Pops will not leave Rome. He will not accept the terms of the Italian government, The Italian goverament occu. pies palaces, invades nunneries, and does as it pleases with all things sacred in the once Holy City, and the Pope is virtually a prisoner in the Vatican, What does the Pops mean to do? Germany has refused to interfere in the matter, Austria and Italy are of one mind on the subject. Spain and Portugal are indif- ferent. France is helpless. The Catholics of America speak loudly ; but what can they do? If the Pope is to remain at the head of the Catholic Church, from what centre is he to govern? From Rome? From Malta? From Sardinia? From Fuld? From New York? Who can answer? All that wo can'‘answer is, that while the spiritual sovereignty of tho Vicar of Christ is recognized by the adberents of the Catholic Church in all lands, bis tem- poral sovereiguty is ou almost ail hands aban- doned, The maintenance of the spiritual sovereignty of the Pope without the temporal sovereignty—that is a leading question in the Christian world; tie leading question in the Romaa Catholic Church, If we look at the religious world aside from Roman Catholicism, apart from the Papacy, we find things not one whit less perplexing. It is chaos allover, Over the face of the waters we find brooding not a shadow of sun- light. The Eastern Church, involyed in all the unquestionable ceriainties of Easiera decay offers to hope no excouragement. So far as the Eastern or Greek Church is identi- fied with Russian aggression it cannot be said to be dead; but, while the Russian Church is torn by division and enfeebled by dissent, it has to be admilied that eastward, beyond the Dir. danelles, Moliammedanism is more powerful than Christianity, In the Lutheran and other Protestaut churches of Germany, in the same churches in Holland, in Denmark, in Sweden and Norway, the spirit of inquiry is stronger than faith, That they shoud believe these peoples all admit; bat with a stubborn per- sistency they ins'st on knowing the reason why, It is the santé in Great Britain ; it is not others wise in theae United Stales: The theories broached by the authorof tie ‘Vestiges of Cre- ation,” the laborious synthesis of Owen, the science of Darwin and the luminous lectures of Hoxley have made philosophy once more the apparent enemy of the Christian religion, Long after we had in this country given a good example of the benofiis to be derived from the divorce of GCluveh and State, and ata time when our example, after having told in the Canadas and ia Aus tralio, was telling with wondrous forces, uot ia Ireland oaly, or in Scotitnd or in Wales, bub in Rome itself, and whea many were willing to believe that the undoing of the folly of Con- stantine and of Charlemagne was to prove the salvation of the Christian faith, the fruit of the long and patient labors of science hag revealed itself, and the Protestant world ig rendered more chaotic than ever, Few Chris- tian mon have any desire to call the ape his cousin, or, in friendly embrace with the tiger, to recognize in the tadpole a common ancestor, Father Hyacinthe quarrels with Rome, but can find no rest for the sole of his foot, Dean Starley, of Westminster, and Brother Beccher, of Plymouth, hail the disaffected preacher of Notre Dame as a potent and skilful fellow Inborer; but all that Dean Stanley and bis English friends, all that Brother Beecher and his American friends can do or say, they can- not induce Pere Hynctuthe to abandon Romo and take a new point of departare, Charles Kingsley, a priest of the Bnglish Church,