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‘tated their widening in some places and the ‘thinning of the adjacent thickets, But all New Yorkers—nay, all visitors to New York, are deeply and personally interested in know- ing whether the complaints of the National Quarterly are justifiable or not. The Presi- dent of the Department of Public Parks owes it to himself as well as to the public to refute such charges if they can be disproved. We have recoguized the great improvements which have been made on the Battery. But if anything like the mutilation which has de- ‘troyed that once beautiful little park, the Washington Parade Ground, is actually ruin- | ing the Central Park, one of the chief glories of our metropolis, it is high time to know it and to have it summarily stopped. We had presumed that.Mr. Sweeny sought and fol- lowed the counsel of competent experts in the management of the Park; but if this be not the case all our citizens are entitled to learn ‘the reason why. Any benevolent or political purpose of furnishing destitute laborers and voters with employment could be more ration- ally and safely accomplished than by hiring them, at whatever price, to destroy what no money, but time alone can restore. Philadelphia’s Presbyterian Cromwell. Presbyterianism, since its foundation, has ‘been a splendid example of the Church mili- tant. Begotten in a troublous period, it set the edge of its teeth like a file, and has been always ready to bite. From its grand founder, Calvin, it learned the unbending theology of his time, whereby Miguel Servetus was roasted at Geneva, in 1559. The roasting process should not be looked on as exclusively Calvinistic, for Papist and Protestant could pile the faggots around a religious adver- sary with equal dexterity at that period. ‘‘Every country has its usages,” and the same may be said of epochs. Be that as it may, when John Knox commenced his hounding of the ‘Roman harlot” a knock on the head was thought quite as efficient a way of reaching the seat of intellect as an appeal to the slower process of the mind. Sometimes the individual died under the application, but the effect on the surrounding Christians was . salutary—from the Presbyterian point of view. It was the Mohammedan plan applied to the sixteenth century. It worked wildly and, as a system of proselytism, died hard. A universaf quiet was coming over the religious world, and the force of a growing toleration killed it. In Scotland it held on to life more tenaciously than any- where,else, and vented itself in legal enact- ‘ments as long as it could. From this sturdi- ness of past times, even in the present day, Presbyterianism retains a latent muscular activity. Like the Irishman who was “‘spilin’ for a fight,” and who did not much care whether it was the skull of a cousin or a Sas- senach he played ‘‘Patrick’s Day” upon, we have now the lamentable spectacle of Brother Stuart and Brother Young ‘‘laying for” each other most religiously. That the irony may be complete, the City of Brotherly Love is the scene.’ The particulars of this struggle, which commenced as far back as 1867, and has been continued since, were lueidly laid be- fore the pious public in yesterday's HERALp. The facts need not, therefore, be more than summarizingly alluded to, The first scene of strife, calling to mind the good old Kuoxian days, was at what we may call a Presbyterian primary, held in January, 1868. Brother Stuart and his fellow trustees of the First Re- formed Presbyterian church were desirous of re-election, but to their astonishment a second phalanx of holy candidates was sprung upon the’ meeting. The election day passed off quietly, and only two challenges were made at the polls. The result was apparently a defeat of Stuart and his party. ‘The defeated declared they had been ‘‘counted out;” that, in fact, the lesson the holy men had learned in worldly elections had been “worked off” on them in a way that spoke ‘better for their apprehension than for the purity of their souls. The newly elected were proud of their triumph, which was doomed to be of Abort duration, The wily Stuart felt like St. Peter when the new trustees presented them- selves for admission to the Church. The latter body had keys, it is true, but through the aid of alocksmith Brother Stuart had provided that they would not open the ‘‘celestial gate.” Since then the question of who is who has been dragged from Church to Synod, from Synod to General Assembly, and thence back to Church again. At last it has pulled up in the Court of Nisi Prius, No. 5, where Judge Williams is being frightened and bothered to death by the entangled skein of State law and Church law, which five lawyers have managed to make as unravelable as pos- sible for him, Thus the case siands at pre- sent, with lawyers wrangling and Presby- terians fuming and waiting. +, Whatever way the caso may end, the world will see in Brother Stuart one of the very last of the old Cromwellian breed. Little has he recked of accusation, of threat, or force. Aflas! there was not one among all the breth- ren who opposed him with a soul to match his. Were he the one kept out of possession wo can fancy how he would say to his opponent, like his great prototype, even in the sacred. precinct itself, ‘‘Cease your fooling, sir, and come down.” But, no; he could be heretical and schismatic with none to say him nay. It ‘will be deemed incredible, yet it is sworn on the testimony of Brother Young that on one occasion he went so far as to give out that blasphemously heretical hymn which millions reverence, From Greenland’s icy mountains, From India’s coral strand, ‘and there was not a man to consign him, even verbally, toa place as hot as the aforesaid strand, There was not a sister present to repeat the mild reproof of Jennie Geddes, of blessed Presbyterian memory, on a like oc- casion:—‘ Deil colic the wame o’ thee, thoa foul thief; wilt say the mags at my lug?” A three-legged stool accompanied this old time protest, and it brought down the offender and his offence along with him. The whole affair is a sad picture of how ‘Church institutions ars liable to change, if pot to decay. Whatever may be the best cor- rective for Church Cromwells nowadays, the worst is that to be found in the law courts, It makes the church poorer, the contestants on both sides ridiculous, and leaves the matter of conscience where it was. NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. the Palpit—Rev. Mr. Paterson. Among the suggestive sermons delivered yesterday in our city churches was one by the Rev. Mr. De Costa, at St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal church, on Mulberry street. It was suggestive, not so much from the subject matter or the teachings contained in it, although it was a plain, straightforward, weighty sermon, dealing sensibly and effec- tually with everyday sins and social vices—too often neglected by our high-priced ecclesiastics for more rose-tinted subjects—and in all its ruggedness was not unrelieved by rhetorical wreaths of evergreen, but it was mainly sug- gestive on account of its surroundings. St. Philip's church is a church of the colored people, and was crowded with colored people yesterday, and its pastor, Mr. Paterson, who assisted Mr. De Costa, is a colored man, while Mr. De Costa is a white man and a clergyman of the Board of Missions. The great suggestiveness of the services, therefore, Hes in this brotherhood of the white and black races in the pulpit, where, if we mistake not, the spirit of progression in this respect has always heretofore been met with the chilling rebuff that kills, Fred Douglass and Susan B. Anthony meet on the rostrum and wrangle at anti-slavery meetings ; Revels and Garrett Davis and Elliott and Fer- nando Wood occupy seats in Congress to- gether, and draw the same salaries from the same public treasury; the colored man and the white ride on public lines of transit together, stop at hotels together, visit the same places of amusement, sit under the same pastors in church, and even in some isolated cases eat at the same table. These triumphs of civil rights have been brought about by the slow working of public opinion, tho steady dripping of drops of water upon the rock of popular prejudice, or enforced by tho power of Sumner’s legislation. But neither the dripping of the water nor the enactments of Congress seem to have effected the caste of the pulpits heretofore. No act of Congress could have the assurance to militate against a con- gregation’s choice of a pastor—to direct, for instance, that a colored man should supply the place of Doctor Potter at Grace church occasionally, or of Brother Beecher at Ply- mouth, and the white devotees of fashion- able churchgoing have shudderingly avoided discussing the unpleasant question. Mr. De Costa, however, seems to have waited for no enactments, and to have cared for no social prejudices. He has solved the conundrum of the man and brother by working with him in the pulpit for the salvation of his immortal soul more completely than Mr. Sumner working in the Senate for the securing of his civil privi- leges. e The St. Domingo Question in Congress. We learn from Washington that there isa growing determination among certain repub- lican Senators, who are satisfied that the Pre- sident’s St. Domingo scheme has done enough already toward breaking up the republican party, to settle it once and forever, by laying, when delivered, the reports of the St. Do- mingo Commission on the table. Another proposition entertained is that of declaring the annexation inexpedient at the present time. But the President and his St. Domingo friends are, it is said, opposed to this course, and still entertain a hope that a treaty of annexa- tion can be ratified. They believe, too, that when annexed St. Domingo will become popu- lar and a great card for the administration, and that the democrats oppose the scheme because it is their game to weaken and not to strengthen the adminstration and the republi- can party. Butin the meantime is it not manifest that the prosecution of the scheme, asa sort of old- fashioned democratic filibustering adventure, is demoralizing and disorganizing the repub- lican party, and that it is losing strength every day in Congress? Suppose that in per- sisting in pushing it now the President is defeated in Congress, will not this defeat be apt to finish him as a candidate for the succes- sion? This is the point which General Grant should not fail to consider; and he should consider, too, that any Executive project | which operates to demoralize his party in Congress operates to weaken him among the rank and file of his party throughout the country. Let him advise, then, at least, the postponement of St. Domingo to a more con- venient season, The Austrian Army Bill. The Austrian government feels exceedingly anxious with regard to the present aspect of affairs in Europe. His Apostolic Majesty does not know where his imperial brother of North Germany may strike next, under advisemeat of the Prince Minister, Bismarck. Francis Joseph wishes to keep armed, He displays a, hereditary love for the plan of the drutum Sulmen of his ancestors, The Austrian Min- istry proposes the enactment of a most sweeping and expensive Army bill. The people oppose it throngh their representatives in the legislative body. This opposition has induced the very.excited parliamentary debate which we report from Vienna, by pas ornare cable telegram, to-day. The chief features of the new Army bill of Austria are appended to the telegram specially for the Hrra.p. It will be scen that Austria contem- plates the perfection of a huge measure of military force, and that at a time when Europe is supposed to have realized a moment of com- plete governmental peace. What can be the reagon? A Russian glance Eastward since the revision of the Treaty of Paris by the London Conference? Or is Italy becoming intolerable in Rome? Will Austria arrange the Concor- dat and her Emperor accept the now vacant but honorable commission of ‘‘Eldest Son of the Church ?” Toe Treasury Programme. — Secretary Boutwell has directed tte Assistant Treasurer ‘at New York to sell during the present month eight millions of gold (two millions on each Wednesday), and to purchaso ten millions of bonds. Tux Rervsti0a’ Opponents of a strong anti-Ku Klux bill in the House say they will vote for a moderate one, because it would be considered an evidence of weakness in the party if one did not pass. They will have to compromise similarly on several other subjects in order to cover up all the evidoaces of weak- ness in the party. THE WICH COMMISSION. The First Months’ Deliberations of the International Arbitrators. Nothing Yet Done Besides Wrangling. Dining, Fox Munting aud Picnicking os the Auxiliaries of Diplomacy. THH FISHERY QUESTION. Claims for Fenian Raid Expenses Ready for Presentation, THE ALABAMA CLAIMS QUESTION. Prospects of a Fierce Wrangle Upon the Subject. WASHINGTON, April 2, 1871. It is now just a month since the Joint High Com- mission commenced their labors, During the last week they have done VERY LITTLE BUSINESS and have met only twice in joint session, namely, on Monday and Thursday. The reason of this ts more especially ecause the British Commissioners have been awaiting instructions from the home government. Meanwhile they have improved the. opportunities thus afforded to indulge in RECREATION. On Tuesday, as already stated, they visited Mount Vernon, and on Wednesday they went onu picnic to the great falls of the Potomac. On Thursday evening some of the British members dined with Colonel Rathbone at his elegant man- sion in this city, On Friday they visited both Houses of Congress, and on yesterday all the British and ali tne American Commiss{oners, ex- cept Secretary Fish, went with a number of other, invited guests to the rural residence of Mr. Gait, in Maryland, for the purpose of enjoying A FOX HUNT. Unfortunately the weather proved unfavorable for the hunt; but the guests were otherwise well paid by a magnificent indoor entertainment. In answer to the question which arises what nave the High Commission been doing during the past month, and WHAT HAVE THEY ACCOMPLISHED? It has been seen, as shown in these despatches, that they have canvassed upon the general ques- tions of dispute between the two couutries; and It may now be said that, aithough they have not yet arrived at any definite conclusions upon any of the questions, there 1s a concurrent expressiyn of senu- ment among the Commissioners that within the next two weeks they will agree among themselves upon some BASIS OF ADJUSTMENT of ali the principal pending questions. The recent announcement that the labors of the Commission would be concluded in a few days seems to be without foundation. In fact, up to the present time no definite arrangement has been come t9 upon any of the questions, With reference to the CANADIAN QUESTION, which has been the principal subject of discussion, It would appear that all the British Commissioners, except Sir John Macdonald, have been willing to eoncede the freedom of the fisheries upon a reci- procity basis, but thaton this question the American Commissioners have been divided in their opinions. It is said that Mr. Fish and Mr. Williams have been disposed to coincide with the views of the mojority of the Bri- tish Commissioners in this matter, but that General Schenck, and especially Mr. Hoar, are opposed to is. They appear to cling to the idca that the tree import into this country of fish taken by Canadians would seriously interfere with THE INTERESTS OF AMFRICAN FISHERMEN, and that as the result of such an arrangeinent tn the course of a few years that class of our New Eagiand population would find their occupation gone and that with it the country would be deprived of the only practical school it now has for sailors, It 1s proba- ble, however, that the sequel will show a propo- sition to adjust the questions between the United States and Canada upon a basis of TRADE EQUIVALENT. Whether such an arrangement #1ll be satisfactory to the people of the country in general is anotuer matter. In this connection it may be said that the telegram from Ottawa, published yesterday, to the efiect that in the Senate the Postmaster General stated that the claims of Qanada for FENIAN RAID EXPENSES had been submitted to the Joint igh Commission at Washington, and that if they were not enter- tained the government would press them on the attention of tie imperal government does not present the matier m its proper aspect, The facts are that the British govern- ment requested the Canadian authorities to putin writing their claims for damages on ac- count of Fenian raids, and the announcement in the Canadian Parliament was to the effect that the British government had acknowledged the receipt of the document and intimated it would be forwarded to the Britiso Commis- stoners in Washington for their consideration. It does not follow that the home government come mitted itself to the point that these clatms would be presented to the Joint Commission, aithough they may be so presented wien the general question for claims is belng considered. It does not appear that the question of the NORTHWESTERN WATER BOUNDARY, including that of the possession of the isiand of San Juan, in Paget Sound, presents any sertous difl- culty, The question is slinply oue as to which channel ts to be acknowledged as the northwestern water boundary. Tae British claim the channel which will throw the islands of the Huron archi- pelago within her Majesty’s jurisiiction, and the Americans claim that the boundary was de- fected from the forty-ninth parallel by the Treaty of 1846, simply so as to give to England the whole of Vancouver's Island, and that, tooking at that inten- tion of the treaty, the main channel undoubtedly gives the Huron archipelago to the United States. So clear is our claim believed to be that twice the United States proposed to leave that ques- tion to the arbitrament of the Swiss republic and twice England by treaty consented to that refer+ ence, but the Senate failed to act upon it, owing to causes Not aifecting the merits of the matter, Tucre- fore, it is said that the only consideration for the Commission to determine on this subject 1s, whetner they will adjust the channel question at once or agree, as both nations nave done before, to leave it to arbitration, THE ALABAMA? QUESTION has been the subject of more warin discusston than any other. It 1s understood that the home govern- ment is now considering the suggestions of the Eng- lish Commissioners, made by cable from here, and that further instructions wilt be received to-mor- row. It seems that the Gladstone government is not disposed to sanction any proposed adjustment which might tend to lessen its popularity in Eng+ land, for Gladstone Knows how anxious DISRABLI 1S TO CRITICISE the foreign policy of the present government, Hence it 18 that the British Commissioners, who seem wir ling w come to an amicable settlement, are embar- Tossed by the attitude of the authorities in England with regard to the Alavama claims, It will be re- membered that Mr. Fish, In the Motley correspond- ence, abandoned the ground originally taken in alg letter of Septemoer, 1869, which laid great stress upon the premature recognition of the Southern confede. racy by England, claiming that premature recogni- tion of a fact which was not tien In existence ac- tually created the fact by the encoufagement which it@ave the Confederate cause. This was the strong point made tn that letter, which was understood vw have been inspired by the highest authority on international law in the United Statea, Mr. Fish’s last letter to Mr, Motley abandons that view of the case and holds that the recognition of belligerency of England ts only of importance us tending to show the animus which induced the sub- sequent fitting out of the Alabama and other Anglo- confederate vessels, and is im that light a portion of the case, but not of sufficient consequence to demand in itself claims for damages. Mr. Fish’s position, therefore, 1s that our claims are based primarily upon the depredations of the Alabama, and not upon the pres vious condition of Engiand. 1t is sald thet, if the Ameriean Commissioners hold to tnis opinion, tt ts easy to understand how the British Commissioners, adopting Mr. Fish’s line of argument, may contend for A SET-OFF in the shape of claims of British subjects for damages inflicted by us during the war. As thus presented the question would be one of mere pecaniary arrange- ment. It is said by prominent people here that, while that would simplify the matter very much, it is more than doubttul if an adjustment upon 80 essentially a pecuntary basis will satisfy the ex- Pectations of those who see in the conduct of Eng- land more than the mere capture and burning of American merchentmen, and who consider her whole policy ag a part of the wrong which she has done us, From all that can be gathered, the impression pre- vails here now that the Commissioners, judging from what they say themseives, will ultimately agree upon bases of settlement of all the questions which will, in the spirit of MUTUAL CONCESSION, commend themselves to the sover second thought of the most intelligent people of both countries, but the inference to be drawn from important indica- tions 13 as heretofore represented in these de- spatches, that the determination they may come to 18 not so cervain of being satisfactory to the popular American mind. However, during the next week or two we wiil most probabiy have something definite one way or the other, MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS. Verdi, the composer, has arrived i» Paris. M. Clemenceau 1s the Mayor of Montmartre. Marshal MacMahon has retired into private life, The National Museum of tne Louvre was reopened on March 15, Prince Metternich has been. reappointed Austrian Minister to France, The countersign of the Montmartrists on the 18th of Murch was “Toulon” and ‘Traupmann.”” ‘The Austrian army has adopted the mitrailleuse as improved by Christophe and Montigny of Brussels. Aleiter from Bordeaux, written by a friend of Rochefort, who ts staying with him, states that he 13 ow quite out of danger. M. Olozaga, Spanish Ambassador, who was ex- pected La Paris, 1s detained at Bordeaux by imdispo- sition. A terrible explosion took place in a powder mill at Chambery. Eighteen. persons were killed and forty wounded, The Germans have bought a large piece of ground at Bougival to bury tue bodies whica were tempora- rily interred after the battle. Doctors Sykes, Swinburne and Joanston, of the American Ainvulance, have besa decorated with the Cross ol the Legion of Honor, The Pope has refused the request of the Prussian government to separate the dluceses of Alsace aud Lorraine from those of France. The Prussian Moniteur, lately published at Ver- sailles, has been removed to Rouen, which town has become the seat of the German government in the North of France. The Germans are demolishing the old fortifications of Strasbourg. They will be replace by a system of detached forts and include Kell, which 1s un the other siue of the Rhine, Several of the advanced. journals of Paris have objected to the nomination.of General Vaientin, the new Prefect of Police, on the ground that he hoids high yank i the army. ‘The Elberfeia Gazette caiculates from the result of the elections that the new German Keichstag will exactly resemble the last, with the addition of a slighty liberal element, The Pope has written a letter to Cardinal Patrice, defending the Jesuits against various charges, but declaring at the same time that they had no induence over him (the toly Father.) Several of the Florence journals publish news from Rome to the effect that Cardinal Antonelli has sent afresh note to the Powers re.ative to tne late disorders at te Jesug churoh, The Paris journal¢ are unanimous tn urging the people to retrain from all acts of violeuce towards Germans returning to Paris, but they demand the uncompromising application of their woral exclu- sion. The strike of the weavers at Roubaix Is over, and work has been resumed. The trvops whicu had been brought from Lule have returned to their quar- ters and the National @uard has recommenced. its ordinary service, Prince Adalbert of Prussia has written a letter in which he expresses regret that the negotiators of the treaty were not able to obtain from France the cession of Saigon. The Prince, cousin of tae Em- peror William, 18 Admiral of the Prussian fleet. The French authorities at Versatlies have searched the houses of certain women who are suspected of having entertained Prassian oMcers. Several obj jects of art which had been taken from the palace of Versailies were found in their possession, Prince Frederic Charles, during his stay at Paris, made @ daily requisition tor forty-five bottles of champagne. It is probable, therefore, for lis par- tality to his quid that he got himseif appeinted Governor of Ciampague, with headquariers at Rheims. ‘The Itatian Minister of Finance made nis state- ment tw the Chamber of Deputies on the 16th uit, He showed a probable: dedcit of 270,000,009 m_ tne budget of 1872, Inciuding 24,000,000 of credits claimed by the War Departinent for the increase of the. mili- tary forces of the country, Under those cireumn- stances he proposed to the Chamber to renounee the sale of titles of Italian rente authorised by a former law to an amount of 186,000,000, and toreplace that resource by an augmentation of ten per cent en the direct taxes. M. Sella also announced that the Pars lament would sit at Rome im the month of July. When Count Bismarck stopped at Frankfort on his wav from Versaiiles to Berlin, he was wattet upon at the railway station by a deputation of citi. zens. Their spokesman held a large and mysie- riously shaped package in his hand which he pre- sented to Bismarck with these words:—‘As you have a long journey before you, we have thought to offer you something which wiil do you good.’’ Bismarck burst out laughing when he found thai it was a gi- gantic Frankfort sausage. The spokesman con- tinued;—"*May heaven grant that you should govern us yt ity years.” “That's along time,” replied Bis+ marck; “i Should be satisfied with fifteen years. But rest assured, oer as long as you and I live, there will certainly be no war.’’ The Moniteur Oficiel has the tollowing:—“During. the first few days of the armistice a National Guard passed the French lines and fired a revolver at a. Prusstan sentinel, who was mortally wounded, Some time after two Germans were arrested in Paris by the malcontent National Guards and taken to the Central Comittee, by which they were tned and sentenced to death for Friday meraing. The Prus- sian military authorities, on learning this fact, demanded the day before the restoratien of the condemned men. General D'Aurelle ae Paladines sent a captain of the staff of the National Guard to. claim the prisoners, but the appiication was refused, and tie envoy told that the authority of the General was not recognized. A commissary of police then. continued the begotiations, and finally the commit- tee offered to give up the Germans on condition that the National Guard above mentioned, wno was an officer in the [47th battalion, should be set at liberty. The offer was accepted by the French authorities, and the prisoners were handed over to them. As to the officer, who 1s retained by the Prussians at Auber- villiers, the commander of the fort refuses to reiease tim, and aeclares that he isto be tried by court martial. The two Germans in question do Lot ap- Re to be soldiers. They were railway employes, Wertz and Haussmann, and believed they bad & right to enter Paris."’ Personal Intelligence. Secretary Boutwell stil resides at the Fifth Avenue. Senator Fenton has arrived at the Fifth Avenue, Juage Monell, of the Supreme Court, is stopping at the Albemarle Hotel. Celonel McCoy, United Statea Army, isa guest at the St. James. General N. P. Banks ts sojourning at the St Nicholas, General J. KR. Partridge, formerly Gnited States Minister ‘o Venezuela, ts stopping at the Aibemarie House, having just returned from Mexico. General W. U, Wickham, of Richmond, Va., ts a sojourner at the Fifth Avenue. F. M, Gilmore, of Montgomery, Ala., and Colonel Sam Tate, of Memphis, both of whom are identified With ravroad tnterests in their respective localities, are at the St, Nichalas. Of the lately arrived guests at the Grand Hotel the Most prominent are General Reeve, United States Army, and M. M, Moncada, of Spain. Colonel H. M. Finch, of Minnesota; Paul Sears, of Boston; KR. H. Thurman, of Troy; Coiunel J. U. Currie, of Baltimore, and Jéan Doagiass, of Glas- gow, Scotlaud, are domiciled qt tae Grand Ceatral, LITERATURE. Criticisms of New Books. ROMAN IMPERIALISM, AND Oriern LECTURES AND Hssays. By J. RK. Seeley, M. A., Professor of Mod- ern History in the University of Cambridge. Kob- erts Brothers, Boston. ‘The author of “Ecce Homo” requires no tntroduc- tion to American readers, No man of our day thinks more clearly, more independently, or writes more felicitously than Professor Seeley, Few anonymous works have ever acquired a popularity so general and | 80 immediate as aid “Ecoe Homo.” The grace and finish,as weil as the good taste aud goed temper of the work, commended it to all thoughtiul and imquiring readers. in these lectures and essays we discover the same excellenctes, altnouch we cannot say (hat the high tone of “Ecce Home” is uniformly sus- tained throughout, The best pieces of writing are the three lectures on Roman imperialism. The con- ception is admirable, the composition is exquisite, and it is not coo much to say that they are more In; structive as well as more suggestive than many volumes of Roman history, There are two essays on Milton—one on his political opinions and another on his poetry. Nothing so fine has been written on Milton since Macaulay’s magnificent eulogy first waw light in the Edinburg Review. Among the other essays there is a noteworthy one on “The Church as a Teacher of Morals.” This essay is able, daring, revolutionary, and proves Mr. Seeley to belong to the broadest stripe of the broad Church party. The central idea of this essay is taken from Carlyle, who says that a nation’s true Bible ig tis history. Enlarging upon this idea, Mr. Seeley advises that im piace of perpetually holding up to the people the examples of Abraham, of Moses, ef David, of the Prophets—men who lived tn an age essentially unlike our own—whose surroundings were totally different from ours—the preachers should draw more largely trom recent and particu- larly from national history for illustrations of their moral teaching. “The most impressive and practically useful of biographies,” says Mr. Seeley, “are, ceteris paribus, those of fellow countrymen of the most recent date, Their characters are legible to us without effori, their conduct imitable without much modid- cation, and everything about them is interesting to us, Their relics are among us, ready fora worship which need not be pushed to extravagance."’ This is hero worship undisguised, Mr. Seeley’s position May not be quite defensible; but we, nevertheless, commend to the attention of the preachers this very suggestive, if daring, essay. It may not be ad- visable for them to go so far as the Cambridge Pro- fessor advises; but the Cambridge Professor touches @ truth which the clergy wiil do well not to disre- gard. It 1s no. necessary to abandon the ola record; but the lessons of the pulpit would not be less effective if enforced by tllustrauons drawn from a wider historical field than thit which the Btble presents. Tur fHtstory or Greece. By Professor Dr. Ernst Curtius, ‘Translated trom the German by A. W. Ward. Vol. 1. Scribner & Co, ‘This 1s the first instalment of a translation of Dr. Curtius’ History of Greece, a work which has deserv- edly excited a great deal of favorable comment among scholars. The present volume 1s divided into acouple of books, The first book gives an interest- ing sketch, the facts of which are based wholly upon. philological conjectures, of the migration of the Hellene branch of the Argan race from «Asia to the land in which their genius reached its highest development; and it also narrates the semi-mytnicat growth of the earliest Greek States. Dr. Curtius insists more strongly than any of his predecessors upon the marked. likeness— in national. character as well as in lan- guage—between the Greeks and Romans. He devotes much space also to bringing out the kernels oftruth imbedded in the hero-legends, and displays Great ingenuity in freeing the well known fables from film after film of absuratty and exaggeration, until they are reduced to a residuum of possible fact. The second beok gives the histery of Pelopon- nesus and Attica, from the migration of the Hera- clida to the Persian wars. The narration is clear and yet graphic ; and while a vast mass of unimportant detalls that overload Grote’s histery are thrown away, the essential facts are preserved. This history is readabie and yet thorough ; and it supplies the want long felt of a good brief account of the growth and character of Hellenic civilization. CROWN JEWELS; OR, THE DREAM OF AN Empire. By Eroma L, Moffett, author of “Cragfont.”’ Carleton, Madison square, New York, publisher. The author of this work has given us a romance. founded on a page of history which thrilled the en- tire world at the time of its occurrence, and will continue to do so through all time as successive generations peruse its record. The very names of vhe Emperor Maximilian and. the Empress Carlota® are synonymous with romance, love and misiortune. “Crown Jewels’ is written by alady of Columbus, Ga., whose secession proclivities occasionally make themselves manifest. Tne book is not without grave faults, especially in its earlier portions, much of the dialogue being forced and unnatural. Maxti- millan of Austria startles us by quoting Tupper, Jeremy Taylor, and even Hooker; whiie the familiarity of the entire Court with Byron, Coleridge, Worasworth, Southey, &c., cannot fail to excite surprise in the mind of the attentive reader. The autnor, however, appears to ‘warm up to her work a8 she advances with it. The historical portions are given with clearness, preci- sion. and fidelity. Unhappily but little coloring is needed to the tragic events which occurred during the short duration of the emptre of Mexico to give the book all the sentiment ana romance that could be presented In the most sensational work of fiction There is little doubt that “Crown Jewels” will find many readers. It 1s divided into three parts—the openivg scenes are in Brussels, and the Princess Carlota 1s introduced atthe time when the Arch- duke Maximilian had asked her hand in marriage It is well known that the noble pair were, in fact, strongly atiached to each other, and this gives the negotiations for their union an in- terest too frequeatly wanting in the alliances of those of royal blood. A description of the wedding, the residence of the young couple at their beautiful castie of Miramar, the offer of the crown to the Archduke, the circumstances whica led to this offer, the coronation, and the commencement of the voyage to Mexico, are all given in book the first. ‘The second part is devoted to Mexico, the arrival there of the new-made sovereigns, court scenes, and the ex-confederate colonization of the Department of Vera Crua; while the story of the hfe and loves of a beautiful Spanish maiden— Inez Gonzales—give to this portion of the work @ strong undercurrent of interest. In tne beginning of the last hook the treachery of Colonel Miguel Lopez 1s already discovered by som: of Maximihan’s faithful adherents, but, unforta- nately, he refuses credence tothe tale. The deser. tion of both empire and Emperor by France, and the withdrawal of her troops,upon the demand of the United States, the visit of Carlota herself to the Emperor of the French and the Pope of Rome, the utter failure of her migston, resulting in the insanity of the uofortumate Empress herself; Maximilian’s own despairing efforts.to. save his empire; the hour ‘of his betrayal—of his death—are all portrayed with much pathos, and yet with historical truth. The closing pagea are deyotea to the obse- quies of the nobie but ill-fated Maximilian, and the author of “Crewn Jewels’’ has not forgoiten to hold up the mame of the traitor Lopez to the scorn which it so well merits—fitted as it is to forma trinity with thas of Judas and Arnold. Taz Story or My Lire. By Hans Christian Andersen, author of ‘The Improvisatere,” “Won~ der Stories for Children,” &c, Hurd & Houghton, New York, publishers, Acomplete translation of “Tne Story of My Life” ia now offered the publie for the first ume. Previous. Snglish editions have contamed but a portion of the original biography and the auther's expertence of the last fourteen years—the most interesting, per- haps, of his MWe—has never been in print before. Andersen first wrote his autobiography tn 1846, when auntform edition of his writings was to be vrougut out in Germany. Mtas Howitt was the tramslator of this, ard it was published tn England, with the title of “The True Story of My Life.’ The nal completion of the author's autobiography was written expressly / for his American readers upon @ proposition berg sent him from this country to bring out a uniform edition of bis works. He ooncludes these addl- tional pages with au aocount of the great fesitval of Quense, in the year 1867. ‘This ilaminagga of bis 7 Pnareniboil —~ Mative city tn nonor of ms retorn—a ruifiiment, I seems, of a prophecy made to uim in early child- hood—ts looked upon by Hans Christian Andersen as the crowning triumph of tts life. The admirers of this well Known anthor wilt doubtless welcome the advent of this book. The reader is made acquainted in the course of its perusal with many Who are famous tn the world of the drama, of music and of poetry. It is, of course, a matier of neces- Sity that an autoblographical work should be ego- tistic; yet it must pe acknowledged that two many “I’s)’ grate upon the reader's ner ves, and many por- tions of “The Story of My Life’ would have come with better grace from another pen than that of Andersen himself. The volume ts handsomely brought out, and contains an ongraving of the author, WALLACE’S AMERICAN TaortiNa REGISTER, cone taining all that is Known of the pedigree of trotting horses, their ancestors and descendants, with a record of all published performanc in whieh & mile has been trotted or paced in 2:40 or less, from the earliest dates to the close of 1868, and a tull record of the performances of 1369 and 1470, giving complete sumuaries of over six thousand contests, ‘The work also contains an Introductory eseay om the true origin of the American trotter, and a set of rules for the governinent of all trials ef speed. This {8 @ most valuable work, and, as a book of reference, Should be in the hands of all turfmen. George BE. Woodward 1s the publisher. FRANK Forrester's Horse AND Hore?Mansuce OF THE UNITED STATES AND BxITISH PROVINGES OF Norra Amkxiwa. By Heury Willam Herbert, author of “Frank Forrester's Fleld Sports,” “Fish and Fishing,” ‘fhe Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen,” &c., &c., revised, corrected, enlarged and continued to 1871, by 5. D, & B. G. Bruce, with thirty original portraits of celebrated horses, in two volumes, las Just been issued by Geo, E. Woodward, publisher, 101 Broadway, There 1s a great deal of uselul Information ia tuis work, and it will be ® great acquisition to the itbrary of all lovers of the equine race. WaT HER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, OFrick OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OvFIcER, WASHINGTON, April 2—7:30 P. M. Synonvsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The rising barometer and clearing up weather, which were reported on Saturday evening in the lower Mississippi Valley, spread last night rapdly north and eastward. Heavy or light rains wore ex- perienced along the Atlantic coast and snow inthe extreme East, The weather this morniag was clear in the Gulf and South Atiantic States and still con- tinues,so; but, with falling barometer and fresk southwest wid. The clearing np weather on the Middle and Kast Atlantic and lower Lakes 1s now succeeded by clouds and faliing barometer. A heavy fall in the barometer is reported in the upper Lakes, Probantlines , it {8 probable that stormy weather with high winds will be felt on Lake Michigan; threatening weather on the lower Lakes and in the Mlssissippt Valley; and partially cloady weather aud fresa winds on the galf and Atlantic coasts. Atwood Mrs. Virginia D. has just presented through Dr. Sayres a collection of forty-one splen- did lithographs and chromos, to be hung up to or- nament the surgical wagsd at Bellevue Hospital. The pictures are weil selected an‘ are copies of magnifi- cent landscapes and other paintings, which cannot fail to be of great interest to those who are untortue nate enough to be compelled to remain in the ward. AS @ gift to the Hospital it is most praiseworthy on the part of Mrs. Atwood, and if they only tend to amuse the patients she will have performed a dou- ble act of churity, In a letter which she sent to the Doctor with the pictures she said:—‘I could wish that the sight of these pictures would make the sick for a moment forget their sulferings, go that I might aid you a littic in your noble work.” Let others do Likewise. “TELEGRAPING NEWS (TEMS. The Gilbert Clock Company's entire workasin Winstea Conn., were burned yesterday afternoon. Loss, 60,000; insurance, $80,000. A prize fight at New Orleans yesterday, between John Grogan, formerly of Chicago, and’ Mike Hyde,ten miles be- low the’clty, was won by Hyde in one hundred and fifty-three rounds, Time, one hour and fifty-three minutess A number of salt boilers and other empl os in the Salt Works, near Syracuse, struck on Saturday because of a re- anotion of wager. It ls expected that the strike will become general, and suvolve 5,00) workmen. ‘Adam Zuelch, a German, aged thirty-five years, shot him- self on Chelsea bi Boston, on saturday night, He lett ody to be sent to Mew York for burtal. Charles Robinson and Charies Stevenson Into = Might on Saturday over a game of pigeon hole, at, Jackson ile, I Stevenson threw Robinson and got one of bis thunbs Ia’ ite mouth, whereupon Robinson selzed Stevongon by the throas and choked him to death. Robinson was arrest A supposed incendiary fire on Satarday night in the town of Suilne, about three miles from Syracuse, burned three large barha and several other outbulldings, together with fifty tonsof hay, a lurxe amount of grainy, sixty cows aud four horses, belonging to Johm Reed. These 1s an tusurance ouly on the buildings, SUICIDE BY HANGING, John B. Holmes, a man aged..seventy years, last evening committed suicide in the basement of 271 Hudson street, by hanging limself to a beam, Coroner Keenan has been notified, HAVANA MARKETS. HAA, April 1, 1671. Sugar—Prices stiff and quotations. unchanged. Seles of eek, 20,000 boxes. Exported during the week from rt vnd Matanzas, 24,000 boxes. and 3,000 hhds., ineius- tn 6,000 boxes and 2,600 hus. to tho United states, Stack warchouses at Havana aud Matanzas, if!7,0W) boxes an: plasaes-All quotations slightly’ advanced ; Bacon declining, owing to large eupplice;enies Coal oil quiet; Uns 44 reals, varreis 459 reais. U2 7.4 $14 6. Aagos, hrm. Lard a eeu tins Zc. a Z1gc. $22; pited vine dulbat $26 a Lumber—White pine sieady ‘at a 426 30, Box shooks dull at 9 a 934 reals; hogshewd shooks dull; empty hogeheads firm at 840 4 Hlooys—Long shaved steady at ®4. Freighis firm. A rise in feelghts in expected. Box ar ty United States, to Northern and Southern ports, 81 @ 1 64 ; hogsbead sugar, to Norther and Southern ports in the es, $6 wn 877 5 molasses, do., #4 a BS. premium; on United Stat re do., short sight, 4 a 4)o premium ; do., short sight, VIEWS OF THE PAST. APRIL. Be Chile, almost 1851—Valparaiso, destroyed by an earthquake. 1849—The Sardinian garrison of Genery Italy, after a severe fight surreudered to the tnsurgents. 1783— Washington Jrviug born. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamship Silesia with leave this port on Tuesday for Plymouth and Hamburg ‘The mails for. Europe will close af. the Post Ofice at half-past eleven o'clock A. M. Tus New York Heratyp—Filtion for Europe— will be ready. at half-past rige o’ciock in the morning. Single copies, im wrappers for mailing, ax cents, A.—Esapenschetd Excels All Others in Hie ring atzle for 18/?. Moulded with exauisite waste and akilh, Is brings out the bask expresalon of the face, a8 a fine setting ro. to the ia ; pers hore casts.only $4 BSPENSRHETD, 118 Nassau strech. allerring’s Patent re CHAMPION SAFES, 201 Bragdway, co: tec Murray sect. Ay Fine Sock of Imported Piain ‘Vastings and Tres fonorder work, oe “3. W. MOKINLEN, Mere 54% Broadway, corner A Specialty —Genclemon’s Silk Hats G4, eee EO. De AT COMPANY. [a Couuands street, Boke Trifle, with a 9 Couch oF, Oe whee a As ,ware, Lom EXPLOTORANT cau be'roaahiy obtainers Sold everywhere. Electrical, Treatment fev the Relief of Aaute and Chrfaic Diseases at No. 7 Weet Fourteenth street a i Hible Rem: $ Calle EN RY, No, 8 College place. 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