The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BEOADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROFRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. antenna anne THE DAILY HERALD, pubdiished every day tn the gear, Four cents per copy. annual subscription Trice $12, Volume XXXVI... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 ‘Tux MAN O' AIRLIE. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwar, corner 80th st,—Perform- ances every afternoon and evenin;—THRBE BLIND M1Ox. between Sth and 6th avs,— WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Rosrpace. rs NIRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Paut Cuirronn; on, Tar Lost Hris. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cornor of 8th ay. ana 22d st,— Tux Tuner HUNCHBACKS, eo THEATRE, Bowery,—-Pomr—Turk Wazcn Do. FIFTH AVENUE TIKATRE, Twenty-fourth strect.— No Nar, i OLYMPIC THEATRI, PLay or East Lys GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Tne Great DRawa OF NECK AND NEOK. TONY P. 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Superintendent of Buildings for the Year Ending April 5, 1871—Arrest of a Gang of Connterfeiters in Califorma, P—Eaducation: Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Board of cation for the City and Conaty of New Yor! the Year ding December 1870—Americaus Aproal—Personal Notes— Financia) and Commercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths, 10—The Holy Hub: Virtuous Boston Frowns on Prince Erie—The Pope's Jubilee: Beginning of the Celebrauon—Political—Brooklyn Mat ters—Loca: News—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- veritsements. A1—An Immense Coal Land Suit: Five Million Dol- lara Invoived—No Hope for Mike Ferguson— Prive Fightin Syracuse—General Suerman in Kansas—Journalistic Notes—advertisements, AQ—Advertisements, having a very turbulent time nominating a coroner. From appearances it is probable they will furnish material for several ‘quests before they find their man. Tne GoverNMENT oF ITaLy has shown its wisdom by instructing the royal prefects that they sbould in no way interfere with the cele- bration of the Pope’s jubilee. The circular of the Minister, however, recommends measures of precaution in case any hostile demonstra- tions or disturbances should be attempted by the too zealous adberents of the Pope. Tre Cororapo River, and the portions of Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada which it traverses, are ag yet unknown wilds to the general public. Major Powell, who explored the Grand Colorado cajion a year or two since, is about starting out upon another ‘expedition, in which he proposes to follow the river from its fountainbead to its mouth and unlock the mysterious secret of its course. Tur Broxers 1s WALL Street have so dull a time of it that, in borrowing money, as they are accustomed to do, in the conven- tional market ou the corner of Exchange place, occasional recourse is bad to the decision of the toes of a copper to decide whother borrower or lender shall fix the rate in dispute. In the Gold Room dealings at the “split” are of frequent occurrence, while the stock brokers are often content to divide for the “‘three-and-a-sbilling.” Wenpe.t Pairs on Horack GrekLey.— Wendell Phillips, who is no half-way political geformer, curries down the intractable and fidgety war horse, Greeley, rather roughly on his “new departure” and says:—‘Tf the repub- licans are to take a new departure from Grant— the real meaning and intent of the Greeley movement—we trust it will be to some one higher up, not downward to the lower level of Mr. Greeley’s platform.” We trust so too; for the platform of the New York Onstom House is a uarrow and shaky concern, Tux Emxretor WituiaM, in closing the Reichstag, delivered the customary speech of the throne, He thanks Parliament for its liberality toward the maimed and the orphans of the fallen—a very commendable thing in Parliament to do. In alluding to the incorpo- ration of Alsace and Lorraine the Emperor took occasion to say that, however the Deputies may differ as to the means of ac- complishivg the end, there was no dissenting voice among them as to the end itself, which is German unity, The Kaiser, like a devout man as he is, closed his speech by im- ploring the blessings of God upon the new German empire. This prayer will be echoed by millions of German hearts in all climes and gonditi cas. NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE. 16, 1871.-TRIPLE SHEET, The Condition of France and the Move- ments of tho Age. “Poor France !” say the thousands of Ameri- cans, Eaglish, Russians, Spaniards, Italians and peopl» from all parts of the world, who have been in Paris, that centre of fashion, art, taste, science, luxary and pleasure, or who have seen the beautiful and rich country which furaisbes the world with wine, the finest maoufactures and the choicest proluctions of every kind. Yes, even many of the cultivated Germana, who used to go by thousands to that gay capital and that sunny land for pleasure, appear to sympathize with the French in their terrible misfortune, notwithstanding tho pre- judices the war has evoked and the glory it has achieved for Germany. Still this is, for the most part, a barren and‘Selfish sympathy, that springs more from what these swarms of pleasure-seekers lose than sorrow for the French people. With the exception of the proletaire class—the masses—in Europe and the liberal, advanced thinkers of that Conti* neut, there is little real sympathy among the rest for the French in their struggle for national integrity and the establishment of republican institutions. The gay, fashionable and titled of all European nations who invaded France as pleasure seekers would rather see the empire or monarchy restored than the republic established, The monarchs, aristo- eracies, privileged classes and the press of Europe generally are inimical to the republic. Some of our tuft-huoting and degenerate Americans abroad even join the hue and ery against republican France. But this great republic of the United States and every true American, as well as the masses of Europe, sympathize sincer.ly with the French in their affliction and in their efforts to acquire repub- lican freedom. Certainly France is in a deplorable condi- tion. This, the proudest nation of Europe, and but recently the arbiter in a great measure of its destinies, has been conquered and humiliated ina manner that no other great nation has in modern times. Its splendor and prestige vanished like the mist before the sun in a few weeks. The empire, which kept the European nations in a state of watchful appre- hension, proved to be rotten atthe core and suddenly collapsed when the hosts of Germany pricked the bubble. The sudden breaking up of the government, with the loss of its armies, vast materials of war, fortresses almost impregnable, and two of the fairest provinces of France, together with the eapiure of Paris and a war indemnity of thousands of miilions of francs, were enough to prostrate the nation, and, at the same time, to arouse the passions of the people. Still, while enduring these disasters, the French showed their ancient and characteristic hero- ism. Though in the coils of that fearful military anaconda with which Germany bound them, the Parisians fought bravely, skilfully and long, even when there was little hope. | The improvised republican government—the only possible one at the time—revived the hopes of the people that a brighter futare was before them, and that with the fall of the empire under sucha load of disgrace they might acquire republican freedom. Then the imperialists and monarchists of all shades began to raise their heads and to plot for the overthrow of the republic. These movements, together with the election of M. Thiers—who had been nearly a life-long monarchist—as President, aroused the ardent republicans of | Paris and other large cities. They had been so often cheated by those in authority that they feared they were going to be betrayed again. This apprehension, and the failure to obtain municipal self-government at once, which they regarded as the basis of republican institutions, led to the frightful civil war in Paris. They made a fatal mistake. They committed a great crime in shedding so much blood and in their other acts of Vandal- ism when there was no real cause for sus- picion, and when nothing would justify such atrocities. They brought out from the dens and dark recesses of Paris the criminal classes, and made them their allies in the work of de- struction, But the Commune of Paris has been sup- pressed. Let us throw a veil over the bloody horrors of a strugzle in which those who fought for the Versailles government were as cruel as their adversaries. Let us look at the actual state of things, now that these horrors are ended. While we think the Thiers’ gov- ernment should be censured for the vindictive and cruel spirit it manifests at the poor, de- luded wretches who fought with the Commune, there is much to hope from the firm attitude it has taken with regard to maintaining the re- public. The frizhtful conduct of the Com- mune, or Parisians, has not turned M. Thiers from his purpose of maintaining the republic, and, if we can rely upon the news, from removing the government to Paris. This shows that he feels strong in his position, and is resolved to carry out his policy. The whole tenor of the news we bave been receiving from France confirms the impression that he will honestly maintain the republic, if that be possible. The latest tele- graphic despatch from Versailles, which we publish to-day in another part of the paper, says that the manifesto of the Deputies of the Left against the intrigues of the monarchists is generally approved, though the radical address to the electors of Paris creates a bad impression, because it endeavors to excuse the Commune. Should M. Thiers pursue a liberal and comprehensive policy and show that he is resolved to uphold the republic, this will do more to check insurrection than MacMa- hon’s soldiers. In looking at the condition of France we do not think there is so much danger to be appre- hended from the socialists or communists as has been industriously put forth by the enemies of the republic. The schemes of the socialist and communist theorists culminated in the revolution of 1848. declining since, and now are little mixed up with politics. The people of France and of Paris have become more enlightened. ‘Their object now seems to be political, mainly to estabiish insti- tutions on the basia of the great American yvepubiic, and to leave social questions to be solved by the principles of political economy. The republic, founded upon a decentralized system of government and municipal self- government, seems to be the paramount idea i the republicans of France. If M. Thiers one of the grandest displays of the age. cable despatch gives some idea of the prepara- tions which have been made to grace the entry | area, They have been | al! will be well, and we shall hear no more, probably, of Commune insurrections. From present appearances we do not think the im- perialists or monarchists can overturn the republic as long as M. Thiers is at the helm of State. But the Church may be troublesome. The religious journa!s are not 80 favorable toa republic, and the hierarchy are endeavoring to force France to sustain the temporal power of the Papacy against the liberals of Italy. The Italian liberals and French republicans are working for the same principle, and resistance to one implies resistance to the other. The priests have vast influence over the people of the rural districts of France, and if they throw their weight against the republic that might prove troublesome, if not dangerous, Still, whatever may be the end of the present strugzle in France for and against republican government, the liberal and democratic move- ments of the age will goon. The press, the tele- graph, steam power, and the other quickening influences of our modern civilization, are fast educating the masses as to their rights and the necessity of improving their condition. The International Society, which has its ramifica- tions all over Europe, and even in America, and the other societies and combinations of the working classes, are the nucleus of a mighty power. Taisis growing up stronger from year to year, and the more knowledge is diffused the more powerful it must beconte. The idea of social improvement and the eleva- tion of the masses is associated with that of political rights and equality, If there should be found statesmen who can comprehend this mighty movement they might direct it to its legitimate results, and in doing that prevent bloody revolutions and preserve order and in- dividual rights of property. The Christian Churches, of all denominations, should aid the people in their aspirations, and should endeavor to educate them and improve their condition, The infidelity that is so ram- pant in Paris, and the dislike or apathy of the masses generally to religion, arise more from the indifference or hostility of the clergy to the working people than from anything else. The Christian religion, which was founded by men in the lowest station of life, has become so respectable and fashionable that the same class of people at this day can find no place in it. The great trouble all over the world is that the rulers and teachers are too much dispos°d to ignore the masses. But this cannot continue. Great political changes are taking place in the nations of the Old World, and these must lead to social improvement. Attempts to arrest this progress would oaly lead to violent revolutions, Ali the convulsions in France of a late period, including that of the Commune in Paris, which bas shocked the world so much, have been caused by want of apprecia- tion or undue repression of the enlightened Our Colleges—What They Are and What | it is precisely the sort of education which, ac-[ ‘The Ex-Euperor Holds a Little Fete: They Should Bo. Although the ‘‘commencements” now in progress differ in nothing from those of former years, and have a remarkable resem- blance to each other, yet they are not entirely unsuggestive, They remind us that the first step toward progress in intelligence is to feel that our knowledge is limited, and resolve to increase it, This applies to institutions quite as forcibly as it does to individuals. Far be it from us to deny that our colleges have done | and are doing much good; most cheerfully do we give them credit for all they have accom- plished. In general they have done their best. But should the public be content with this? Should a parent be satisfied with what- ever progress is made by his son on being told that bis teacher means well, and is bright and clever withal, but that his learning is not so profound as it might have been under more favorable circumstances? Even if informed that the teacher had sufficient learning, but lacked the necessary apparatus, should the parent be so well satisfied as to require no more thorongh instruction for his son? It is because no sensible, intelligent parent would entertain any such view in regard to teacher, school or colleze, that so many of our young men are educated at the colleges of all the principal countries of Europe; for s0 largo is the number that have thus to seek in foreign countries a more thorough education than they could expect to obtain at home (and the number is increasing from year to year) that it would seem fabulous to most of our readers if stated in plain figures. A thorough education is certainly worth travelling for; it is always valuable wherever it is found, but those who have to leave their own country in order to secure it experience a decided falling offin their patriotism. At best they are too apt to become imbued with the political ideas of their new teachers and fellow students, so that a large proportion return opposed at heart to the most characteristic and cherished institutions of their native country. Nor is it alone in politics that their ideas become thus antagonistic to those prevailing athome; their viewa and feelings are equally modified in regard to the basis of the whole social fabric, It would lead us too far to illustrate this.in the present article, but the leading facts and their consequences will readily suggest them- selves, That our colleges are vastly inferior to those of the principal countries of Europe it ig worse than useless to deny; for those exercising any influence on public opinion to do so is perni- cious, and the mischief it does is great in pro- portion to the extent of that influence. It therefore becomes more incumbent on the Heerarp than on any other journal in America that it should enlighten the public mind on a subject of such vital importance. We are not aspirations of the people. To establish the French republic on a solid foundation M. Thiers must march with the progress of the age. Tne Entry of the troops into Berlin will be Our of the conquerors of the war. A route has been chosen which admits of an enormous number of spectators. English and American sight-seers have already arrived in great numbers—a sure sign that the spectacle in preparation will be worth seeing. The march will be through Unter den Linden, the great thorouzhfare of Berlin, an avenue sixty yards broad anda mile and a half in length. Triumphal arches adorned with mottoes and statues emblematic of the war have been con- structed along the whole route. This grand spectacle is meant for something mere than a showy display. It is intended to commemo- rate the union in arms and sentiment of all the sons of Germany. Marsnat MacManon—His Roumorep Re- SIGNATION.—It is reported that Marshal Mac- Mahon desires to resign his command of the army of the Versailles government. Were we living in Paris or Versailles to-day we might know that MacMahon disirusts the Versailles government or that the Versailles government distrusts MacMahon. It is not impossible that MacMahon is playing a little bit of a game in thus expressing a desire to resign. If he means to stand by the Bonapartes it is not unwise on his part to take this step. The review in the Champ de Mars on Sunday next may determine the course of the Marshal, as it most certainly will determine the course of President Thiers. Tur Dock Commissioners held a meeting yesterday, at which more obstructions along the river front were reported. They were referred to the Executive Committee, with power to act at once. In this connection we would like to call the attention of the Execu- tive Committee to some impudent fellow who has just erected a huckster stand opposite Fulton ferry. This part of our river front is always overcrowded, and his shanty has already rendered the crossing almost im- passable, A Deeratcn Prom Lonpon announces that a marriage has been negotiated between the Duke of Edinburg and the Princess Thyra, of Denmark, sister to the Princess of Wales. If the announcement is true the Duke must be congratulated, as the Princess is said to be a very pretty and amiable girl. The King of Denmark is the best matchmaker in Europe. One of hia daughters will be Queen of Great Britain, another will be Empress of Russia, and now we have a third to be Duchess of Edinburg. As is well known, the present King of Greece is his son. Tux Cotton Cror promises to fall far below the average this year, owing to the wet and cold spring and to the decrease in the cotton Many planters in the South, compre- bending that cotton is no longer king, have devoted more acres to grain and less to cotton. The consequence is that the planters have been able to furnish their own fecd for their stock, {and what cotton they have will command a biguer price. No Apmisston.—It is reported that Father Hyacintbe has asked an audience of the Pope and has been refused, How could the Pope receive him as a defender of Dr. Dillinger? at all unmindful of the notion that itis pre- sumptuous on the part of a newspaper to pre- tend to sit in judment on such learned insti- tutions as colleges and universities; but we ask those who entertain it to remember that the most important reforms produced at Ox- ford and Cambridge have been brought about by the London Times, And the most learned universities of Germany and France, including those of Heidelberg, Jena, Paris and Mont- pellier, are equally indebted to the press for important improvements, Nor is the fact difficult to be understood on alittle reflection. The most accomplished scholars and ablest writers educated at those various institutions have been journalists to a greater or less extent. Scholars and think- ers like Macaulay, Coleridge, Southey, Moore, Broughem and Cooper have written regularly for the leading English journals; while Lessing, Herder, Wieland, Heine and Humboldt have done similar work for the German press. And who is not aware that Guizot and Michelet, as wellas St. Beuve and Thiers, have been journalists? In New York, Boston and Phila- delphia, all the great colleges of Europe, together with the best of our own institutions, are more or less fully represented ; and then, will any one question whether the Heratp has the spirit and the enterprise to secure the services of the most competent, no matter where gr how they were educated? But better than any prestige that a tree can have is its present fruit. If our views in regard to our own colleges as compared to the similar institutions of Europe be not found correct and just let them be rejected. It is precisely because our colleges are not what they should be that so many of our professors not only accept the thoughtless cry of the multitude against the study of the classic languages, but join in that cry; for none that have acquired even a tolerable knowledge of those ianguages—none that have learned to comprehend their peculiar excel- lences—would agree to having them excluded from our high schools or seminaries, not to mention our colleges. Still less would any one competent to judge maintain that those intended to be thoronghly educated, in order that they may be prepared for the highest efforts of the human intellect, squander their time by the study of Greek or Latin, or either. No argument is more common at the present day, but none more easily refated. All we need do here for that purpose is to, mention a few of the greatest thinkers of the modern world. Men like Bacon, Milton and Newton, Dante, Machiavelli and Angelo, Copernicus, Kepler and Leibnitz, Montaigne, Racine and Laplace, devoted many ‘‘precious years” to the study of the classic languages ; but who will say that the time so devoted was squandered or lost? Any one who donbts the fact will find on examination that it is those to whom the world is most indebted, even for their scientific discoveries, who have ‘‘squan- dered” most of their time in that way. This is true, for example, of Copernicus, the founder of the present system of astronomy. It is equally true of Newten and of Kepler, Each of these illustrious discoverers wrote his immortal work in Latin, showing that al- though he devoted as many years to the study of that language as were necessary to master it, he had still time enough left to astonish the world by the grandeur of his conceptions, The reason ia simple enough. The classic lan- guages are not studied merely for the pleasure or utility of reading in the original tho great works written in them. This is but a second- ary object. The chief object is the superior If Father Hyacinthe denies the authority of | discipline they afford the mind; by no other the Pope the Pope can at least prove his au. co-operates with them to carry out this idea! thority in the case of Lvacintha. means are the intellectual faculties so much invigorated or an hiohly developed, In short. cording to Horace, increases the tanate force of the intellect. Doctrina sed vim promovet Insitamy Rectlque cultus peetora robo. ant, so that, instead of squandering the student's time, it economizas it in the best sense of that term; it renders the work of a year more val- uable than that of a deeade would have been without its vivifying and inspiring influeace. But the secret of the low es‘imation in which the study of the classics is held in this country is the low standard of our colleges. None can appreciate at its proper value what they do not sufficiently understand; what is not ap- preciated excites no enthusiam, and no one has ever taught a language like the Greek or the Latin to another, or learned it himself, without more or less enthusiasm. We must not, however, ba unjust to our col- leges. Those of any other country would have been no better than ours had they re- ceived no better encouragement from the State. Indeed, it may well be doubted whether the best of them would have been as good as some of ours; for we have institu- tions, both Protestant and Catholic, which have made such excellent use of the limited resources at their disposal that the country may well be proud of them. It isa grave, but well founded reproach to republics that, with the sole exception of that of ancient Athens, all have, more orless, neg- lected the higher grades of education. All the great institutions of learning of which Europe may justly boast have been established by kings, princes or churchmen—not one of any eminence has been established by a repub- lic or parliament. Strange, if not incredible, though it may seem, the tendency of the ‘‘col- lective wisdom” of every country has been fo destroy rather than build up such inatitutions. Thus it was the kings and the Church that founded and richly endowed Oxford and Cam- bridge; but several Parliaments did all they could to rob those institutions of their rev- enues. Asan instance we may mention what Hume relates of the Parliament of Henry VIL. The historian tells us that by one vote they bestowed on the King all the revenues of the universities; but he adds that the King “had no intention to rob learning of all her en- dowments, and he soon took care to inform the universities that he meant not to touch their revenues.” Still stranger to many will appear the tes- timony of a distinguished historian of the present day as to the effect of the Reformation on the educational ideas of the boasted repre- sentatives of the people. Froude tells us that by means of the Chantries and College act the government appropriated all the irregular endowments of the universities, ‘under pre- tence of checking superstition. They can- celled the exhibitions which had been granted for the support of poor scholars. They sup- pressed the professorships and lectureships which had been founded by Henry VIII.” This, however, was but the beginning of the reforming process as applied to the univer- sities. Froude tells us how they were called “stables of asses, stews and schools of the devil.” ‘ We mention these facts in passing to show that those who wish to see superior institu- tions of learning established in this country need not despair, since, althouzh our govern- ment has yet established no great college, it has at least not attempted to despoil colleges established by other means. Perhaps we should be thankful to it for this; but we should be much more so if it were-half as willing to make large grants for the benefit of colleges as itis for the benefit of railway companies. At all events, we need not expect any such institutions as the great universities of Europe until the State learns that it is its duty to endow such and provide them with ample revenues. In the meantime we must not blame those who send their sons to institutions where superior learning is not only taughi, but rewarded by liberal salaries for life, as well as by important privileges and immuni- ties, as we mean to show in another article, Nor must those sons blame the institutions at home in which they may have graduated if, notwithstanding their diplomas, they have to undergo more preparation before they are admitted into Oxford, Cambridge or Heidel- berg; but all should blame Congress and our State Legislatures and try to impress on those short-sighted bodies that even in poor, con- quered Poland a larger revenue is devoted to university education than in the great, wealthy and enlightened republic of the West. Tok Paris Commoxists Nor WANTED Herre.—A cable despatch has it that the workmen of Paris are almost all Communists, They are very bitter, it is said, because their cause, has been defeated, and they bate M. Thiers qnite as much as they hate the Bona~ partes. Many of them, we are told, have made up their minds to emigrate to the United States. Whether the Paris workmen are or are not Communists, whether they like or dis- like M. Thiers and the Bonapartes, are no affairs of ours. But we protest against the Communists, with. their levelling principles, coming to the United States. Our doors are open to all. Our country is the home of the unfortunate and the disaffected of all lands. But immigrants must come here to work, to make honest livings, to obey the laws and otherwise to prove themselves good citizens. We have no archbishops to shoot, we have no desire to see our public buildings in flames, and what few monuments we have in New York and our other large cities we wish to preserve. If the Paris workmen have seen the folly of their ways and wish to show signs of repentance by peaceful living and honest industry they may come, but not otherwise, YESTERDAY GENERAL TrRoonu continued his speech before the French Assembly in vindication of his defence of Paris. He declared that individuals who had been arrested by him as Prussian agents had re- appeared as leaders of the Paris insnrrec- tion, and named among them General Dom- browski. Trochu added that the revolt was merely a continuation of the war with Prussia, and he condemned Prince Bismarck’s ‘‘mild allusions to the Commune.” Of course it is nataral for Trochu to make the best defence he can; but we believe that history will record his military career during the siege of Paris as a series of gigantic blunders, by which he wasted opportunities and rendered impo- tent immense resources We have the interesting information fromr London that the ex-Emperor Napoleon visited the Kent cricketers yesterday (the 14th); that he received quite ‘an ovation, and held a fete; that he is undoubtedly surrounded by his old adherents, and that bold movements are rumored, Napoleon, Engénie and the Prince Imperial are great favorites among the English people of all classes except the reds; and it would be a strange thing if it were otherwise, considering the twenty years entente cordiale between England and France so faithfully maintained by the government of Napoleon, and considering the intimate social relations thus established between the imperial family of France and that of England. Hence this ovation to the ex-Emperor from the Kent cricketers and this little féve on the occasion held by the fortunate exile. He could not resist the wishes of his English friends, im view of their generous and delicate hospitali- ties. He had been the faithful ally of England in war and peace, in the height of his power and prosperity; and the English people have not forgotten this in the day of his adversity. © Nor can we doubt that, so far as Kaglish sympathies are concerned, including Queen Victoria and her Majesty’s government, they are in favor of the restoration of the Bona- partes. Ifad he followed the advice of Eng- land in regard to that little affair of the Hohenzollern, nominated by General Prim as Wing of Spain, instead of yielding to the sense- less hullabaloo of the French people for war, it is morally certain that Napoleon would have escaped the disaster of Sedan and all its dis- astrous consequences to the empire and to France, Now it appears the ex-Emperor, with his old adherents about him, is wide awake to the opportunity for a restoration. He is at least on safe ground in England; for England, wiih his restoration, may surely count upon the revival of his extente cordiales but M. Thiers is just now master of the Frenck situation, and his game appears to be neither the Bonapartes nor the Bourbons, but a strong republic. One would really think, too, that the ex-Emperor hud had enough of French caprices and French revolutions; but, in alk the long catalogue which history furnishes of kings and dictators, we find only here and there an occasional example of a voluntary retirement from the fascinitionas of power— of power securely held or of power lost but which might be recovered. And so, between the Bonapartes, Bourbons and republicans, the fight in France goes on. The Pope's Jubilee. This day twenty-five years ago Cardinal Mastai Ferretti was elected successor to Pope Gregory XVI. Since the days of St. Peter, so far as history and tradition have preserved to us the iadividual records of the Bishops of Rome, Pius the Ninth is the first who has lived to see his twenty-fifth anniversary. St. Peter and Pius the Ninth—these two alone of the two hundred and fifty-nine occupants of the holy chair—have reigned twenty-five years. This day,’ therefore, is a great day in the history of the Papacy. It is most meet that it should be celebrated. Apart altogether from the peculiar circumstances in which the Holy Father is placed, this day ought to be regarded as a great day in the history, not of the Catholic Church alone, but of the Christian world. When, however, we take into account the sorrows which have gathered of late years around the head of the Holy Father, and which are still accumulating, this jubilee becomes specially important. How it must gladden the heart of the Holy Father to know that his children in all lands are sympathizing with him in his misfortunes, thanking God for pro- longing his life and permitting him to see this happy day and offering their united prayers for his welfare! How it must cheer him to know that he alone of all bis predecessors has seen St. Peter's days! It is most natural for him—it is most natural for all his followers— to conclude that his being spared to enjoy this jubilee season is a special mark of Divine favor. Away from all personal considerationa regarding the Holy Father, it is to us a sab- lime thought that on this day the minds of millions upon millions of good people in all lands, in all climes and under every sky, are filled with pure and heavenly thoughts. The Christian attitude of New York to-day, not to speak of other citics in both hemispneres, gives us convincing proof that the religion of Jesus Christ is not yet dead among men, The Paris Communists almost filled us with de- spair. This jubilee bids us hope on. The: religious demonstrations of to-day and to-mors row and next day ought to convince the Holy Father that in losing his temporalities he has made a great gain. His spiritual empire re- mains, and in the region in which alone he ought to rule his power seems greater than ever. We congratulate the Pope on seeing his twenty-fifth anniversary, and we wish him many more years of earthly happiness. A Versaittes DEspatct announces that a proposition has been made in the National Assembly for that body to sit for two years longer. Should it be adopted considerable dissatisfaction will be caused thereby. The Assembly was chosen for a specific purpose— that of conciuding a treaty of peace with Germany and enabling France to establish a permanent government, If it can increase its term two yearsit can make Itself perpet@@t. As 3 large majority of the members are mon- arcbists, who only await an opportunity to restore the monarchy, we would prefer to see the Assembly adjourn sine dic, and give the people a chance to elect another legislative body composed of moderate republicans, who would soon effectually put an end to the ine trigues and conspiracies of Bourbons, Oxlean- ists and Bonapartists. Tue Parts Commese as a Rat Trar.—It is said that Prince Bismarck in various ways encouraged the Paris Commune for some time, and particularly in admitting on that side of the city held by the German army all comers into Paris without questioning, and that his idea was that the Commune would thus draw within the walls of Paris all the most vicious revolutionary elements of the Continent. But what for? ‘Theu,” said the great rat catcher, as reported, “‘whon the trap is full we will shut the door.” And so it was, that when the trap was full the Germans did shut the door on their side, and the Versaillists, entering om the opposite side of the city, the fighting in- cendiaries of the Commune were all killed or