The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1871, Page 6

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TRIPLE SHEET. 1 Now York, Thursday, April 20, 1871. "CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. \Paoe, A—Advertisementa, 2—Advertisoments. ‘3—News from Washington: Important Proceed- gs in Sonaret te aeons the State ode he jature—Amusemen' 4—The Crittenden Tragedy: End of the Evidence for the Befence; the Fair Laura Fined for Contempt of Court—she Would be a Countess: A New York Belle’s Romance—The McKaig iy: The Story of a Sister’s Ruin and Avengentent—Muscular Methodists—Meeting of the Board of Health—Educational Affairs— New York Oity News—Biasting Hell Gate—The Lying-in-asylum—Fire Insurance, S—Proceedings in the Courtsa—Police Killing: OM- Toomey Convicted of Mansiaughter in the arth Degree—The McCahill Will Case—Tho Bt. Patrick’s Day Murder—Real Estate Mat- ters—Financial and Commercial reports—Mar- Tiages and Advertisements. G—Ewitorials: Leading Article, “The Democratic Leaders on the Alert—Proposed Manifesto of the Party’—Miscellaneous Telegrams—New Publications—Amngemen¢ Anuvaucements. & 2 Dever nuULID is—Herald Special Reports m Paris—Government accounts—News from Cuba—The Coal Strike—The Ministerial Mar- eous Telegrams — Business Advertisementa, Ad O—Ear: Mall D tals—Shi) I ‘ope: Mail De - ; Advertisements, pains eet 1—Advertisements. Advertusements, yesterday, and it has now become a law. It not exactly the bill that had become familiar us from long discussion. It has been amended to such an extent that some of the Wemocrats who fought so vigorously for it would hardly know it. A Doox Association, incorporated by the New Jersey Legislature, which presumes to control New York harbor, undertook recently to control the United States as well, and for that purpose destroyed the nitro-glycerine works at Communipaw, erected by General Newton under authority from Congress, The ‘excuse for this action was that the Dock Asso- ciation wanted to erect a pler in the place occupied by the works. General Newton intends to bring all the power of the federal government to bear against these marauders, and we may at any moment have New Jersey egain out of the Union and exposed to the ter- rible fire of Union gunboats and federal man- damuses. Tne War rn Cupa.—By special telegram to the Heratp from Havana we learn that the Spanish troops are after the rebel guerillas with energy. Several columas have been engaged, in which the rebels were defeated, These conflicts all tell. The Spaniards are evidently driving their opponents into a cor- ner from which they cannot escape and where they mast sooner or later be captured. Fool- sh and misguided men to prolong a conflict in which they have not the slightest hope of suc- ess! Their true policy for some time past hhas been to surrender on the best terms they ould obtain; but, unfortunately, they have been urged on by those who do not want to ght, and who say that they do the cause more good by remaining away from Cuba. Tax Orrresstve AMENDMENTS to the Ka Klux bifl which were added in the Senate have jheen rejected by the House, and the bill is again oscillating between the two houses, A conference committee to adjust the pending differences is all that delays adjournment. It is not often that we find the House in so con- servative a mood as its decisive rejection of these tyranaeus amendments indicates it to be Jn at present, Gegerally the Senate, in its Brave and revéténd slyle of deliberation, Is the more conservative and thoughtful, and the House, in its impetuous and shallow method ‘of disonssion, is the more radical and un- thinking. Probably ho rapid augmentation of the minority in the House has reminded its fmombers that their terms are short at best, aad are alvraya dependent upon good behavion. nian The Democratic Leaders on the Alert— Froposed Manifesto of tho Party. It is understood that the demooratic Sena- tors and members of Congress are about to issue a manifesto to the country defining the position of the party. It is.to be, in fact, the platform of principles and policy which the democrats propose to stand upon in the ap- proaching Presidential contest. General Grant and his party friends, under the lead of Senator Morton, opened the campaign a few days ago at that improvised meeting at the National Hotel. It was a successful move- ment, for it brought down the recusant and rival aspirants of the republican party and placed the General fairly on the track for the race of 1872. Sing {hat time the leading men who were dis- posed to make trouble in the party have been silenced, and extraordinary strides have been t:ken to win popularity either by the in- troduction or promise of measures to reduce taxation, to economige expenditures and for other necessary reforms. Not much bas been done or is likely to be done this session, it is true, but the radicals hold out hops to the people, Indeed, in some of the measures pro- posed they have cut right uoder the demo- erats. Under these circumstances it was necessary that the democrats should be up and doing something to checkmate the radi- cals, The administration party is not going to let the demotrats appropriate all the political thunder; no, not even that which they bave been using, and which properly belongs to them. This party evidently is ready to abandon St. Domingo or anything else that savors of unpopularity, except those coercive measures by which it expects to control votes, and is prepared to strike out any new line of policy to hold the power it possesses. What, then, will the democrats do? How will they checkmate their facile, active and cunning opponents? We recommend them to steal in return some of the republican thun- der—that is, let them henceforth go heartily for the amendments to the constitution—go the whole figure on the negroes and everything else that has been actiled by the war and the constitutional amendments. If the radicals put Fred Douglass up on some high place to be worshipped and to catch negro votes, let the democrats take some other good-looking mulatto and honor him. And what if this makes the negroes jubilant and happy for the time, when they are sure to find in the end the level nature intended they should have? Why will not the democrats learn wisdom? Why will they not, in the language of Scrip- ture, “‘be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves?” At least let them abandon their old, unpopular dogmas and march with the times. On the question of local self-government, which is the basis of our republican liberty and institutions, the democrats can beat the radicals always. And so, too, on the ques- tions of free trade or tariff for revenue only, on revenue reform, in hostility to monopolies and sectional legislation, and in many other things, as wellas in opposition to that arbi- trary government by the sword which clings to the radical war party. In short, the democrats might and can have the advantage of popular issues if they will honestly accept the issues of the war and march with the pro- gress of the times. In addition to having a good, honest and unexceptionable platform of principles and a well defined policy, such as the conservative masses, which form the balance of power between parties, can accept, the democrats should be careful in the choiea of ¢heir candi- dato. He must be truly national, with an eye always to frown down sectionalism, to heal the wounds of sectional strife and bitterness, to place his country in the foremost position among the nations of the world, and to march with the progress of the age to the glorious destiny which awaits the great republic, It must be known that he is a defender of the constitution as it is, without mental reserva- tion as to the changes that have been made by and since the war and without clinging to old political dogmas that are no longer appli- cable to the country or the times. Then he ought to be a man of sufficient experience in public affairs to satisfy the people that they will not be trusting to an experiment. We have had too many experimental Presidents— apprentices in public life—taken up for the sake of expediency and because they were such nonentities that nobody could find out or discuss their merits. Tho country is getting beyond the point when either manufactured heroes or negative and untried men can satisfy the aspirations and wants of the Ameri- can people. If we have not or cannot find towering statesmen for the Presidential office, let us have, at least, men of some experience in public life, of respectable ability and of high character. There is another thing the democratic mana- gers should not lose sight of, and that is to choose a candidate who would have ao fair’ prospect of carrying one or more of the great States that may be doubtful and where parties are nearly balanced. Looking over the whole field, it strikes us that Pennsylvania may be, asithas been before, the most important if not the decisive battle ground of the contest in 1872. There is reason to believe New York can be carried for the democratic candidate, with any good nomination, even if the nominee be not taken from this State, provided the Tammany leaders act prudently, use thelr means well and do mot sacrifice national objects for local interests, as they did when they insisted upon the nomination of Seymour. The New York delegation to the National Convention, which, of course, will be under the con- trol of Tammany, ought to look above per- sonal or State preferences and only to the har- mony and success of the party. If it will do this Tammany may occupy almost as com- manding a position in national affairs as it does in this State or as the old Albany Re- gency did. If Governor Hoffman be the best man let him be nominated; but if New York can be carried without his nomination or that of any other citizon of this State, and it be necessary to tal Western of Pennsylyanja hian to gt et deaes lei ihe candidate be taken from the West or Pennsyivania. Should the great States of the West be doubiful, and the nomination of Mr. Hendricks or any other sound national man of respectable ability and experience in public affairs from that sec- tion would secure the votes of the majority fhere, let the oaudidate by all means bo taken from the West. But it seems tous that the great object, as we said before, should be to carry Pennsylvania. If that State and New York can be gained by the democrats the democratic candidate probably would be elected. General Hancock has been spoken of as a prominent and popular Pennsylvanian, and, no doubt, be is a fine fellow and has a brilliant war record, but the military hero business is nearly played out, and on that issue General Grant, who will be in all probability the radi- cal candidate, would be more than a match for any of his loeutenants or subordinates. No military man, however glorious his war career, could hope to compete successfully with General Grant on the ground of military popularity. Governor Geary, probably, would like to come into the democratic fold under the auspices of the labor reformers and be nomi- nated by the democrats, but he does not carry weight enough and would have the odium of a renegade hanging about him. Perhaps the best and most popular Pennsylvanian, and the one having a good chance to carry the State for the democrats, is Judge Thompson, the present Chief Justice of the Supreme Conart of Pennsylvania. He is a gentleman of high character and standing, eminent as a lawyer and judge, has served three terms in Congress, was chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House, has been soveral times in the State Legislature and was at one time Speaker of that Legislature, besides having occupied other prominent public positions. If the old de- batable ground of Pennsylvania is necessary to becarried to secure the Presidential elec- tion for@he democrats Judge Thompson, or some other good and popular man from that State—if such can be found—should be nomi- nated, Then there are men having more of a national than a local reputation—such as Chief Justice Chase, for example—who might be available if the issues be broadly national and it be not necessary to concentrate all the force and means of the party upon any particular State or section. However, we wait for the manifesto or platform of the party and then we can tell better what the prospect may be for the succession in 1872. Tho Fisheries Settlement. It appears from the HERALD’s special Wash- ington despatches that, as on the Alabama claims, the Joint High Commission, conceding the essential point in question to the United States, have agreed to turn over the settle- ment of the fisheries to a board of arbitrators. The British government, first of all, agrees to allow our fishermen to fish on the coasts of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, New- foundland and Prince Edward Island, with- out regard to distance from the shore, and that such fishermen shall have the privilege of using the shores of the coasts above named, other than private property, for the purpose of curing fish, drying nets and other necessary matters of that nature. But this provision does not apply to shad and salmon, or to fishing of any kind in rivers, inlets, &c., of the New Dominion, Here we have a great concession. Under the existing treaty stipulations our fishermen are compelled to fish outside of the marine league from the shore line, and under her Britannic Majesty's provincial construction of the treaty their marine league runs straight across from headland to headland, thus ex- cluding ‘‘the Yankees” from many of the gulfs and bays, In which there is often the best fish- ing. Under this new agreement all these restrictions aro removed, and in the great business of these Northeastern fisheries—the catching of codfish, mackerel and halibut— the Yankees aro substantially admitted to the same privileges as her Majesty’s subjects. In the next place British and New Dominion fishermen are to have the right to fish on the coast of the United States north of the lati- tude of thirty-nine (that is from Delaware Bay northward), with the same privileges on shore as those granted on the other side; but this pre- vision is not to apply to the catching of salmon, shad, oysters or clams, So far our people have the best end of the bargain, for all of these fishery troubles have been about those miraculous shoals of cod and mackerel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and thereabouts, And why these swarms of cod and mackerel in these waters? They are due to the immense volume of fresh water discharged into that gulf by the great St. Lawrence river and to the peculiar marine vegetation and animal- cular life resulting from this partial freshening of the waters of the St. Lawrence gulf and its surroundings. Now comes the main provision of this fishery arrangement. The Joint High Commission agree that a Board of Arbitrament shall be appointed, to consist of three members—one to be appointed by the President ofthe United States, one by the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and one (if the first two can’t agree on @ man) is to be chosen by the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and this Board is to decide upon the fishing privileges granted by each country, and the party having the best of the bargain is to make {t even by a money com- pensation. Could anything be fairer? But what does the Emperor of Austrigand King of Hungary know about codfish and mackerel? This is the great saving clause in the settle- ment. It is because he does not know any- thing about codfish and mackerel, nor about these St, Lawrence gulf fisheries, and it is because he has no interest, one way or the otker, in them, that he is named, for tho last resort, as the umpire in this busi- ness. But the first two of this fish- eries commission may choose their um- pire, and if they want a man who knows all about codfish, mackerel and likewise her- ring, the King of the Netherlands is their man. Next after hin—yoa, before him, as a man conversant with fishing interests—we would propose the Micado of Japan. The fifty mil- lions of people of the Japanese islands live cbiefly on fish, and if any man in the Old World, therefore, is likely to understand the importance of o just settlement in reference to these American fisheries, that man is the Micado of Japan, What says General Butler to this proposition?“ ”* Tu Greenwion Street Erevatep Rat- WAY, or one-legged railroad, as it is called, is not yet on ite last legs, It is not only alive but kicking, An attempt to repeal its charter was defeated in the Assembly yesterday by an overwhelming vote, The Civil Wer in Francc—Our Latest Despatches from Paris and Versailles. The special despatches to the Hzratp from Paris, which we give to-day, present a mourn- ful picture of the condition to which the city and the country immediately surrounding it, have been reduced, The fight at Asnitres on the 18th inst. was most disastrous to the rebels, A battalion of the National Guards broke and retreated from the battle fleld cry- ing out ‘“‘all is lost.” The people charged them with cowardice, and soon there wasa fight between the civil and military adherents of the Commune, The most terrible scenes sre reported within the city. At the time the despatch was sent the Na- tionals who had retreated into Paris were reeling about drunk and utterly de- moralized, while the wounded and dying were lying in the streets unassisted and uncared for. The excitement in Paris on learning of the disaster was intense. Shells from the government batteries have fallen on the Faubourg St. Honoré and in the Rue des Ternes. A very severo fight has been going on at Nouilly, and at last accounts the Na- tionals, in large numbers, were retreating into Paris, Many houses in Neuilly have been destroyed, and those of the inhabitants who bad taken refuge in the cellars perished, being unable to extricate themselves. The in- habitants of Neuilly endeavored to procure an armistice to remove the women and children, but this was refused by General Cluseret. The above is a sketch of the late oocur- rences outside and inside of Paris, and to those familiar with the localities the descrip- tion isa most mournful one. For all the destruction of property, for all the loss of life, allthe suffering and misery occasioned by the recent military operations the red republicans are responsible, Buta heavy reckoning is at hand; and for those so guilty, those whose hands are deeply dyed with the blood of their fellow countrymen and who have created the anarchy that now reigns in Paris, no punishment can be too severe. Gaze upon the ruin made within one of the most beautiful cities of the world; buildings, public and private, torn to pieces by shot and shell! Look upon the crowds of drunken soldiery driven within the walls, defeated and dis- graced, their wounded and dying comrades lying about the streets, left to care for them- selves, Watch the crowds of inhabitants fleeing from their homes and sceking safety away from the murderous warfare by which they have so long been surrounded, and then turn to those who atill persist in adding to the horrors by which all Paris is encircled, and say what their fate should be. Compromise with such beings is impossible, The govern- ment cannot be merciful to such fiends; they must be hunted down and destroyed, even if the ruin and desolation cemmenced is carried to the end—even if Paris is rendered an un- shapely mass of mortar and masonry; The desperate encounters at Asnitres and at Neuilly, in which the Communists have been defeated, fully establish the power of the government. Itis the intention of Marshal MaoMahon to. gain possession of and hold every point outside the city. He will drive the rebel forces within the walls and keep them there, and when once caged effectually starvation will bo tried rather than powder and shell; but if that ts found to fail, then bombardment and assault will follow, and the result may be imagined, Witness the scenes at Neuilly during the fight and shelling of that town? Of conrse all these horrors are incident to war and can- not sometimes be avoided ; but such a war, in- augurated upon so slight a pretext, carried on by members of one family with a bitterness unparalleled even in the late hostilities with Germany! And yet it must go on; the gov- ernment must be sustained, no matter what the sacrifice may be, no matter how many innocent lives are lost or how much property destroyed. The people must be made to feel its power, its ability to protect or punish, or else wo may expect to see a constant recur- rence of scenes similar to those above de- soribed. Parliamentary Courtesy ta Enaiaad. The game laws of England, with the system of manorial preserves for game and the uses of a privileged class of sportsmen, were assailed vigorously in the House of Commons last night. A bill was introduced for the abo- lition of the game laws. Mr. Peter Alfred Taylor, member for Leicester, a reformer, and a, novus homo in family beside his aristocratic compeers, attacked the old time manorial sporting right. He alleged that in Scotland alone ‘‘two millions of acres of land are re- served as deer forests, and the population exiled to make room for game.” The Right Hon. Henry Bouverle Brand—heir presump- tive to the Barony of Dacre, late Keeper of the Privy Seal to the Prince of Wales, late Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, and also lately a Lord of the Treasury—opposed the bill vehemently. He ‘‘pitched’’ into the abolition proposition with all the vehemence of a gentleman who wishes to continue to en- Joy the pleasure of ‘‘stretching his legs” now and then in the Highlands after the cramping confinement at the desk which must have been incident to the work of so many publie offices. Mr. Bouverle asserted that ‘‘poachers and thieves, exclusively, urged the abolition of the game laws.” If the cable report of the remarks of the right honorable member be correct he was certainly very uncompli- mentary to the large and influential party of Englishmen which supports Mr. Taylor’s plan of abolition, and exceedingly unparliamentary toward Mr. Taylor himself, We regret this very much. We should not like that the public men of Britain should sink to the class or party demoralizations of ‘You lie, you villain, you lie!” The National Consus of the Population of Great Britain. The census of the people of Great Britaia, which is almost at the point of completion under government inspection, will, it is ex- pected, show ‘‘a large increase in the popula- tion of all the principal cities of England.” So says our cable telegram from London. The complete statement of facts relative to the gen- eral causes which have influenced this social movement will be quite interesting. Do the vital statistics prove the existence of a healthy and hopeful condition of affairs all over the country, or bas the population of the English \ cities: increased, to any vory great extent from indiana, Wisconsin, Olio, York, A committee on through the influx of an adult pauperized population coming from the rural districts with the object of hiding its rags, its emaciation and its griefs within the bricks and mortar of London and "the great manufacturing Babels which dot the land? Have tho economies of the landlord system, the exigencies of the consequences of the baronial plan of the law of entail in property influenced or con- trolled the returns and deprived the green fields of a ‘‘bold peasantry, their country’s Pride?” These questions are highly impor- tant, not only to England, but to the nations of the world at large, as the universal family is now made either more happy or the reverse by the joy or sorrow of any one of its branches, owing to the almost daily intercommunion of the peoples of the globe by means of steam, commerce and electricity. We append some very interesting facts to our cable news tele- gram, which go to support our first view of the census subject, by setting forth the extent to which England proper was weakened in its population by the home consequences of the Irish famine. Six millions of people emigrated from the United Kingdom within a term of fifty-two years to the year 1868, and millions and millions of others have burrowed and died at the great manufacturing centres of the country. Doctor Bollinger Excommunicated. A oable despatch which we print this morn- ing announces the excommunication by the Pope of the celebrated Bavarian theologian, Dr. Dollinger. We are almost unwilling to believe the news which we publish. Dr. Dol- linger has certainly been a rebel; but the readers of the Hgratp who were faithful followers and watchful observers during the sittings of the Ecumenical Council know that the Bavarian Doctor was the one man who fought and braved the results to reconcile Catholicism and the spiritual sovereignty of the Pope with modern progress, From the first he was dead against infallibility. During the session of the Council of the Vatician the letters of Janus, which before the outbreak of the war were published and traaslated ina handy volume, proved to be the most bitter pills which the Pope and bis friends had to swallow. If ‘JJanus” was not the work of Dollinger. alone, it was, at least, the result of his special inspiration. It is fair, we think, to say that “Janus,” to all men who read newspapers and buy books, made infallibility ridiculous, ‘‘Anti-Janus” has since been pub- lished; but on all hands the counter blow has been felt to be weak. Poll the thinking world to-day and the confession will be that Dol- linger, the Bavarian scholar and professor, was a better friend of the Catholic Church than the Fulda bishops or the Newmans and Mannings of England. Some few days ago the Paris Communists complimented the Bavarian professor. Not caring much for the compliment, and not ignorant of the religious strife which now exists in South Germany and all over Ausiria, we must express our regret that the infallibility of the Pope should have proved itself so fallible as to excommunicate the best friend of the Catholic Church in these thoughtful but trying times. While the Council sat the Heratp stood by Dollinger. We cannot now desert him. The -Vatican Council gave to France Father Hyacinthe. The excommunication gives to Germany Dr. Dollinger. Both gifts are bad—bad, at least, for the holy Catholic Church. Hyacinthe may become another and more potent Calvin, and Dollinger may prove to be a more destruc- tive Luther. Pius the Ninth is old, and An- tonelli seems to have lost his wits. Tae Onariry APProrRiaTion BILL was passed in the Assembly last evening. It ap- propriates nearly nine hundred thousand dollars already, with the Senate yet to hear from. "JAMAICA, — The English War Steamer Immortalite Ashore. Kincston, April 19, 1871. Tho English war steamer Immortalite is ashore on & mud bank in the harbor, Other war vossels and 2,000 sallors were unsucceasful in thcir efforts to re- move her guns, Tho rigging, however, was removed and placed on board of lighters, The commander Was tried by court martigi on # charge of negll- gence, $ The paymaster of the Immortalite yosterday fell out of a window and was killed. TRIAL OF PHE, THE FORGER. ToRonTo, Aprii 10, 1871. The trtal of Pike, for the forgery of a check on the Bank of Commerce here, commenced to-day, The offence was committed to obtain a part of the proceeds of the Brockway forgery on the Bank of North America, of New York, amounting to $3,500, which Brockway had deposited in the bank here. ‘The Pike forgery is supposed to have been com. mitted at the instance of Bello Seymour, mistress of Brockway. Pike, on obtaining the money, refused to give if to Belle Seymour, and the latter 1s now the rinclpal witness against him. Her evidence, which — ‘an hour and a half, clearly proves the guilt of KO. The case for the prosecution nas closed and the jury is locked up for the night, The case for the de- feuce Opens \o-morrow, DISTILLER’S GONVENTION. Cutcago, April 10, 1871. A convencon of the the distillers of the United States met in Chicago to-day, The call for the con- vention states that the distilling interest is more heavily depressed than any other branch of busi- ness; that the cause of this is overproduction and the tllera; want of concert of action among dis- that to obviate this there should be consolidation of interests and pooling of profits; that it is proposed to embrace in this movement the States of New York, Pennesylvanis, Maryland, Ohio, Indians, Kentneky, Miinots, Mis sourt, Iowa and Wisconsin, which States last year paid taxes on 70,427,000 gallona of spirita; to valne each distillery according to its rezis- capacity; form an fio" geveral”’ taws of onlo. or some other State; elect a Board of Diroctors, who shall have absolute control over the Juction and sale of ta; place 8 uniform it of ten cents, at ia aaa ben etre rae } at cord to the registered capacity of cach house, qrnether Tanning or not. Charles of New York, was chosen Pre- Tallman, sident of the Convention, which embracea del from Uhicago and various other inte nization was appointed, and afer rectes the Convention "went Into secret session. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Wo nave recetved for notice the following named works:— The collection of Horace Grecley’s essays On “What I Know About Farming.” G, W. Carleton & Co, aro the publishers. “Thoughts About Art,” by Philip G. Hamertén, and’ “My Discontended Cousin,’® published by, Roberts Bros., of Boston. «The Holcompes; A Story of Virginia Tome LAfe,7 by Mary T. Magtll, the publication of J. B. Lijypin COW & Co, Of Ppiladelphlite ENGLAND. What is Said cf the Joint High Commission—A& Journalistic Pundit’s Opinion. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, April 19, 1871, ‘The city prews continues to canvass the subject of the labors and results of the Joint High Commission in Washington, a litle bonind time, as it appears to many Ainericaa readers resident nere, ‘The London shtpping Gazette, a daily paper which professes much acquaintance with the principle of international naval law, treats the matter edite- rally in its columns this evening, ‘The writer expresses the belief “that counter Claims for the seizure of British vessels will be con sidered by the High Commission at Washington, along with the claims for property destroyed by the Alabama,” and quoves trom the works of Mr. Mom. tague Bernard, now a member of the Commission im Washington, aud President Noolsey, of Yale el lege, and from former treaties and commissions fer precedents. The National Census—Increase of the Muni- cipal Popslations. Lonpon, April 19, 1871. The national census of the populatidn of Great Britain proper, which has been in process of enu- meration, by order of the Queen’s government, during the past eighteen months, 1s being urged forward to completion rapidly forthe information ef Parliament. i T have been assured to-day that the footing of the totals will show a large increase in the population Of all the principal cities of England, The bases of the government plan of this great and important social work were laid in the year 1868 by the officers of the Home ‘ At wat period the oficial returns ef mortality proved that the excess of births over deaths in the United Kingdom was more than 1,000aday, Im England it was above 250,009 a year; in Sceuand, above 40,000; in Ireland, estimated at nearly 70,000. Notwithstanding the large emigration to distant parts of the world the number of the Tesidemt population of the United Kiagdom never in any year of this century fatted to increase until the period of the Irish famine and the months of tne great emigration which followed. Tnen for five years there was @ constant decrease, In the midale of the year 1846 the resident population ef the United Kingdom was estimated at 28,002,094; im 1851 it had fallen to 27,303,837, At that moment the tide turned, but is was not until 1856 that the num- bers reached 28,000,000 again. ‘Tho rate of increase, after allowing for emigration, amounted in 1868, to about 200,000 a year. The Registrar- General estimated tne resident population of the United Kingaom as follows:—In the midole of the yoar 1807, 17,184,902; 1817, 19,814,027; 182%, 22,872,040; 1937, 25,650,426; 1847, 27,972,537; 1857, 28,188, 280; 1867, $0,157,239. There was no reason te suppose that in Great Britain the population de creased in any year of this period; but in Ireland the highest return of population ever made was in 1845, when it was estimated at 8,206,061; the population remaining in Ireland has ever since been decreasing, and in the middie of the year 1867 the estimate was 6,556,062, @ decrease of 2,738,099 in the 22 years. The emigration irom the United Kingdom in 62 years te 1868 exceeded 6,000,020, THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Democratic Assault on an Aristocratio Privi- lege—The Game Laws, Their Conse- quences and Advocates—Class and Party Vehemence, TELEGRAM TO THE_NEW YORK HERALD. Loxpon, April 19, 1871. ‘The Parliamentary proceedings become quite ani- mated and interesting justin proportion as the members commence to settle down to work after the feativities of the Easter recess, ‘Tne sentiment of the House of Commons is de cldedly democratic, as will be seen from the HEBALB report of the debate, which I transmit by cable:— In the House of Commons this evening thore was an excited discussion on the bill for the abolition of the game laws, Mr. Peter Alfred Taylor, member for Leicester, im support of the bill stated that ‘a tenth part of the surface of Scotland, or 2,000,009 acres of land, has been reserved as deer forests and the population exiled to make room for game." The Rignt Hon. Henry Bouverle Brand, member for Cambridgeshire, in the course of some remark@ im opposition to the bill, sald that ‘poachers ané thieves exclusively urged the abolition of the game laws.” Upon a division of the House there was found te be @ majority of 123 against the vill, its supporters being pretty well satisfied with the result, notwitt standing. It was rejocted. Mr, Giladstene Against Sanctimonious People—The Admiralty Management Sus- Lonpon, April 19, 1871. Dnring the session of the House of Commons last © night—subsequent to the transmission of the HERALD evening report by cable—Mr. Gladstone spoke im opposition to a resolution for the discom- tinuance of the telegraph and postal sermoe on Sun- days, on the ground that “ut would deprive a large number of people of employment,” ‘The Premier also opposed and succeeded in de- feating a vote of censura on the naval administra tion, indirectly arising from the loss of the tron-ola@ frigate Captain, the House upon a division sustain. ing the government by forty-nine majerity, ROME AND THE EPISCOPACY. AGermaa Theologian Excommunicated—Force and Consequences of the Ecumenical Counoil. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpow, April 19, 1871. A telegraph: despatch from Munich, which was received in this city during the afternoon, states that Herr Dullinger, tne distinguished Bavarian an eminent Catholic theologian, has been excommunt- cated by Pope Pius the Ninth for his course of ac- tion, by speech and writing, in opposition to the dogma of infallibility as pronounced: and adopted by the Ecumenical Council in the Holy City. BELGIUM. ‘The Peace Conference Still in Session—No Com. cossion to France. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK BRUSSEL, April:19, 1671. Ihave beon toformed this evening, for the gervio® of the Hasan, by cable telegram, that it ls very the Peace Conference, some time past here, will soon conclude tts labors. All the negotiations have been, 1t is said, made by ‘Writing; bot it is known that “no concessions LAT® been made to France." DISASTER AT _SPUYTEN OUYVIL. Sruyren Dorvit, X. Y,, April 19, 1871. One of the lofty brick chimneys of Johnson's rem foundry at this place gave way about ten o'clock this orning, crushing in the reef and burying 7 workmen rer the. Fulks No-one ing, “Chicas Three men were taken Outof the ruins whose recor. ery ts doubtful. VIEWS Of THE PAST. APRIL 20, of Abensburg;: Austrians defeated’,py Napoleon. F +1808—Emperor Louie Napoleon born, Spanish feet vanquished and burned by a British feet of Admiral Biake, in the iarvor of Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, . gtr ig dissolved the Ramp Parliament of jane a rant Typogespnical error the date of the death of lished 1 torday’a HBRALD, Was Tendo ¢9 road 174 Losvoud Or 1804, 1g00—Batele