The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK ERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROVRIETOR. —— Velume XXXVI.......... s.eesNo. 205 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.-Taxoven Br Dar- Rigut—VALENriINe AND ORSON, LINA EDW THEATRE. No. Brrerr Faw. ov BELL RINGERS Tux 720 Broadway. OLYMPIC THEATRES, Broadway.--ScuxmoEu—Naw BosG8 AND Daors. WALLACK's THEATRE, Broadway and (Sth mrest.— Fourie. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Acnoas rax Cori NENT. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broatway, corner 20th st.—Perform- Soces aftercoon and evening—IP1or OF THE MOUNTAIN. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bi SiGuTLKes BxivR—DUTOHMAN IN Torker irene MRS. F.B CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— Arma; 02, HELD IN BONDAGE, y CBNTRAL PARK SoMMEY Nigw samenAce GARD! d ave.——JULIEN'S C & TRIPLE SHE New York, fuesday, July 25, 1871. GAROEN,--THRopon® = THowAs! ENTS. S8th street, between Lexington and ORRTR, na hl “ . CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Pace. 1—Advertisementz, Qe Advertisements. 3—News trem Washington: July Report of the Com- ner ol Agriculture The Congressional gating Comunittee’ Assaulted in Soutn tne American Guard —Literary Cait Chat—New Publications ~—_ Recetved—Must- cal Review — Bisho} Rosecranz on the New York iots — Obituary — The Mace-Coburn Mus3—Murder Trial in Con- hecticut—New York City—Alleged Death from Potson—Ohio Intelligence—Hat Factory in Brooktield, Coan., Destroved—Racing Notes— Cricket—| he National Game—Newark Ahead— aor Explosion in Brooklyn. 4—ihe Presivential Poot: Chase and Hancock; White House Longings from the Keystone, Rooster and Sucker States; the Radicals Hiv. ing on Grant; Gleams on the Troubled Waters from Political Lichthouses. 5—The Presidential Pool (Continued from Fourth Pyge)—roliics at Loug Brauch: Grant Master Ol the Situation--Running Notes, Political and General Troceedings in the Courts—Centen- nial Anniversary of the New ork Hospital— The Riot Inquest: Coroner Young's Inquiry as ton for Livel—What Is a Will Good For? 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Presidential Pooi—What the “Leading Politicians of the Country ments, 7—Editortals (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Pope: The Holy Father Preparing to Leave Rome for Corsica—Ireland: A Great Meeting and Almost a Riot in Meath— France—Telegrams from the West Indies and Corean War—Cuban Filibusters—Y ig Persoval Intelligence—The New North Germai Mmister-- Aibusements—Local Maiters—Views of the Past—business Notices, $—Emilio Castelar: Tue Great Oration of the Re- publican Leader in the Spanish Cortes; Awwerica the Land of the Future; the Govern- ment of Amadeus Assatied—Tne Sunken Dry Docks—Rev. Ur. Cuyler—Newark’s Very Latest Horror —More City Corruption—Brooklyn Af. feirs—The Camden and Amboy Lease—Funeral of Pro essor Berg in New Brunswick—Death of Captain Vobbins, of Trenton. -Quick T'ransit; The Proposed Route of the Via- duct Kaitway—The Polar Passage — Real Estate Matters --¥ nancial and Commercial iteports— Domestic Markets—Marriages and Deaths. 10—Heligoland: Tne Latest Complicauon Between Ergland and Germany; Bismarck Wants John Ballito Give Up the ‘Holy Land’; Interest of Spain and the United States in Its Settlement— Democratic, Detence—The Planplettes-—The Methodist Militanis—Shipping lnteliigence— Advertisements, 31—Music and the Drama—Foreign Personal Gossip and Miscellaneous Items—Murder in New Or- teans—Laura D. Fair--Doings of the Texan Indians—Aavertisements. 42—Advertisements. Think” — Amusement Announce. A Goop Ipga.—If it was not Prince Bis- marck it might well have been that shrewd and sagacious statesman who said no public man in these days can afford the luxury of a guarrel with a newspaper. Sunpay Rum.—Sunday last was a cool and pleasant day for July ; but still it was marked Ju this city and its surroundings by the average rufflanly transactions chargeable to Sunday rum, though no dowaright murders are in the schedule. A Sister-1n-Law of Mrs. Wharton, the al- Yeged Baltimore poisoner, writes a private letter to s gentleman in Washington, in which sie says that she knows Mrs. Wharton poi- soued her (the writer's) husband and child four years ago. The letter is replete with all the bitterness of a woman who imagines her- self to have suffered such terrible wrong from another, but it is also somewhat incoherent. Tae CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY of the New York City Hospital was celebrated at the rooms of the Historical Society last night, and was the occasion of the renewal of old remi- niscences delizhtful to the hearts of ancient New Yorkers. The recurrence of the cen- tenary also recalls the deep regret which the partial demolition of the building a few years azo caused every one prond of the patriotic associations connected with our city. A LrrtLe Arratp oF THE BOoNAPARTES. — The Prince Napoleon (Plon-Plon), always con- Bidered an advanced republican for an impe- rialist, having been reported in Havre the pther day, has been ordered to leave France. President Thiers bas evidently not forgotten Bhe Strasbourg and Boulogne adventures of Louis Napoleon, and is still a little afraid of these audacious Bonapartes. Tne Copan Frninvsyerine Scrieme in Mon- treal is the occasion of much excitement there, The men who were on the Red River Winnipeg expedition are generally ¢ tins in the new adventure, evidently being willing to soldier if they can exchange the sterile and uncom- foctable regions of the North for so delightful ®@ camping ground as tropical Cuba. Tux Way to Serre tHe Question touch- Ing the alleged corruptions, spoliations and public plunder of our city authorities is to lay all the facts and figures connected with the Jast two or three years’ expenditures of our pity government before the public. Let us Dave all the facts and the figures, We are Jike Gradgrind—‘‘Facts is what we wanj;" and figures, they say, cannot lie. Tux Coroner's Inquest on the bodies of Que dead of July 12 was held yesterday, and resulted in a verdict of death by gunshot ‘wounds received at the hands of persons unknown to the jury. This is the informal method of disposing of cases that are fully understood by the public, and with this verdics judicial inquiry into the proceedings of that fatal day is ended. It is creditable to the Coroner that be steadily kept out all matter foreign to the ae- tual fact of the kiilins, and did not permit any discussion of the right or wrong oF the Orange parade or the question of unwuthor- Azed shooting by the military to enter inte the havestige Tne Presidential Poot—What the Lending Polticians of the Country Think. We publish to-day a series of conversations with leadiag public men, in different parts of the country on the Presidential question just now loomiag up in the eyes of the people. It will be seen that there is a genoral acquies- cence in the renomination of President Grant by the republicans, the politicians of both par- ties conceding it as a foregone conclusion. But the democrats have not yet settled dowa npon a candidate, Hancock is in many re- spects their strongest man, He has a brilliant war record, and his peace record is conserva- tive and wise. He would neither govern the South by military power nor vex the North with the dead issues of negro slavery and negro suffrage. But in all the bigh qualities which distinguish him he is equalled by Chief Justice Chase, and surpassed in those which wait mostly upon age and come only with political servico and experience. If the democracy should make him their candidate they would find it difficult to fill tho other place on the ticket; but with Chase and Hancock they would have one round and perfect as a star. The perfection of a ticket depends as much upon the names of tho candidates as their qualities. The whigs would havo had great difficulty in electing Harrison and Tyler had it not been for their effective war-cry of “Tippecanoe andTyler too.” The unpronounce- ability of Mr. Frelingbuysen’s name had much to do with the defeat of Clay in 1844. What elected Buchanan and Breckinridge it is diffi- cult to tell unless it was the juxtaposition of thetwo Bs ; but Polk and Dallas, Piefce and King, even Taylor and Fillmore and Lincoln and Hamlio, were easily grasped by the peo- ple. Had General Pierce's name been pro- nounced generally as the Yankees pronounce it, Perce, this would in itsolf have beaten him. Grant’s patronymic, in spite of the well-known oddities of the paternal Jesse, is a goud name to attach a Colfax or a Cameron to; but Chase and Hancock is the perfection of beauty. Sey- mour was defeated by the everlasting blare over the name of his associate; but in Chase there are running qualities and in Hancock fighting qualities that must not be overlooked in a political canvass. These mature reflections, in connection with the opinions of the men who this day speak tbrough the Heratp, may have the effect of rousing Tammany from its lethargy. The fact 8 that just now Tammany is demoralized. The late riots have greatly discomposed the war- riors of the wigwam. They are waiting for the country to speak more unmistakably be- fore they make any movement of their Presi- dential columns. A few hot-headed persons, Orangemen and Ribbonmen, made all their pre- vious figures come out wrong, and they cannot begin again without fresh data. This we fur- nish them with in a measure this morning, and they may now again go on and endeavor to work out the great problem. But not only Tammany but the whole demo- cratic party is for the present in a quandary. The men who are aspirants for the Presidential nomination are averse to the interviewing re- porter; they are afraid to talk lest a word should blow their political craft clean out of the water. Hancock is ready enough to de- clare himself upon any necessary occasion, and to define his position when the work of a convention is ended; but now he keeps his mouth hermetically sealed. Chase is also silent, but a few weeks ago he spoke clearly and succinctly to a HeRatp correspondent. That conversation we partially reproduce to- day, together with some of the letters and opinions of General Hancock, to show the fit- ness of both to become the democratic standard bearers. Hendricks alone has the courage or the foresight to discuss the Presidential issues, and even he is wonderfully reserved and reti- cent on the great question of the nomination. Everybody will come rouad to it in time; but then it may be too late to catch the breeze which bears forward to victory. The thoughts of the leading politicians of the country are always an important matter in the year preceding a Presidential nomina- tion. The republicans all think that Grant will be renominated, and most of them believe he will be re-elected. But the democrats do not appear to be thinking to any great pur- pose. They have too many candidates and too few counsellors. Each of their leading men demands the Presidency or nothing. Hoffman, Hendricks, Pendleton, John Quincy Adams, even staid old Asa Packer, would hesitate about the Vice Presidency. The office seems to have fallen into contempt, whether through Andy Johnson or through Ben Wade we are ata loss to decide. This should not be the case, for the position is an houorable one, which has been filled by John Adams, Jefferson, George Clinton, Deniel D. Tomkins, Calhoun and Van Buren, and it only falls short of the responsibility and dignity of the Presidential chair itself. To name a weak man for the place is to weaken the chances of a ticket immensely, and sometimes to defeat it in the face of excellent prospects. If the democrats should repeat in 1872 the folly of 1868 they will be likely to be puuished then as they were punished before. One of the most remarkable indications of the personal feelings of leading democrats up to this time is the declared preference of Mr. John Quincy Adams for Governor Hoffman. Should Mr. Hendricks pursue the policy he marked out for himself to our correspondent, and repress the ardor of his friends, and¢he New England element take up Hoffman in earnest, the Governor may make a very strong fight. But even if he should be nominated the difficulty of finding a colleague for him would prove almost insurmountable. Not that the task would be a more severe one in his case than in the case of Hendricks, or Hancock, or Pendleton. The democracy can make only one combination which is a feally strong one, and that is the combination we have named for them. With any other ticket the Vice Vresidential candidate will come rattling be- hind like an extra mule tied to the tail of the curt porse. Of all the signs of the approaching canvass | Colonel McClure points to the most cheering prospects for the democracy. McClure is a republican, a politician aud a ‘disappointed man,” 80 fur as Grant is concerned, He made his money in politics, and we have bis owa authority for it that it was ia politics that he lost it, When be was the editor of a country newspaper, nearly twenty years ago, he organized the war against Cameron, and has \ ever siace kept it alive. Curtia was a mere NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, puppet in his hanas, and Cameron was scarcely a match for bim either in activity or astute- ness, The ‘new departure” of the democracy has pleased him well, because it affords him | and his faction an opportunity for going over | to the democratic party. He could not, as a matter of course, carry over with him the entire Curtin wing of the radical organization in Pennsylvania, but he could divert votes enough from the republicans to defeat them in a State where their majority is not overwhelm- ing. He seems to be making an unlooked-for opportunity for the democracy and endanger- ing Grant where Grant can least afford to be attacked. It remains to be seen whether the democracy will profit much from this oppor- tunity; but it cannot do so unless the ticket strengthens in every respect the new move- ment principles of the party. All that the politicians on either sido have yet uttered on the issues of the next campaign shows that the dead questions of the past are to be forgotten. Mr. Trumbull thinks the great questions of the Presidential canvass will be the finances, taxation and civil service reform, Mr, John Quincy Adams fully accords with Mr. Trumbull in this view. General McClellan, in his Tammany letter, indicated something very like this, because the burying of dead issues involves the taking up of living ones. But Mr. Hendricks is timid on the ‘‘aew departure” resolutions, ‘‘I haven’t thought much about them yet,” he says; ‘I haven’t had time.” Manliness and straightforwardness in forgetting the past are necessary to the democracy now. If the party acts wisely in this respect, takes advantage of republican dissensions, and unites upon a good Presidential ticket, Grant will not be allowed to walk over the Presidential course next time. Our accounts of the Presidential pool failto show complete evidences of this wisdom and unanimity, and we shall have to wait yet awhile to see more. Spain and Cuba—The Outrages Which Precede Disintegration. The evil condition of affairs in Spain is re- flected even in Cuba. The prison in Havana is called the Hotel de Concha, after a man who was once Captain General of the island, and whom Zulueta, the noted slave dealer, is seeking to make the successor of Valmaseda. In such hands, and even in the hands of milder men, the prisons and the garrote take the place of law and the aathority of Spain is disregarded. Most of those upon whom the young King is compelled to lean received at least a part of their training in the Cuban school. The roitenness at home is aggravated by the rottenness in the colonies, and the whole fabric of Spanish nationality seems on the eve of falling to the ground. A recent outrage in Cuba will show with what disrespect Spain is treated in that island. A planter hamed Don Juan Colas, living on his estate some distance from Santiago de Cuba, received permission in 1869 to have a number of armed mea on his plantation to protect it from marauding insurgents. Lately the spirit of condemning men to death has become so rife in that part of the island that nearly fifty persons have been executed for the mere purpose of seizing their estates, and as the plantation of Colas was a valuable one the fact that he could not account for all the arms he had received was made the pretexi for his arrest. When it became known in Spain Marshal Serrano telegraphed asking that he should be kept fully advised of the trial of his good friend Colas. But the wealthy Cuban was hastily condemned. Even then the bloodthirsty Spaniards were afraid their prey might escape them, and the Circulo Espafiol of Santiago de Cuba endeavored to telegraph to the Casino Espaiiol of Havana to influence the Captain General to approve the sentence of death. General Polanca would not allow the telegram to be sent. Then Colonel Carizales, the president of the court martial which had condemned him, went to the prison where Colas was confined, and, removing some negroes from the stocks, he put the head of the aged prisoner into them, and in this manner suffocated him. A more atrocious murder never was committed, and yet the brute who commiited the foul deed will be promoted rather than punished, When it is*remembered that this crime, which is only a specimen of kindred outrages, was done in defiance of the authority of the Captain General of Cuba, and against the in- terposition of the Prime Minister of Spain, it is not to be wondered that Valmaseda is pro- nounced a failure that a man wo will seck to reopen the slave trade may be appointed in his place, or that Serrano should fail in com- pleting an acceptable Ministry and the young King be toppling to his fall. Spain has many woes, but Cuba is the worst of all her mis- fortunes. Cuba is humbling Spain, and some day other nations will be compelled to humble Cuba in the interests of civilization and hu- manity, Bad for tho Places of Summer Kesort. The long spell of comparatively cool weather in the usually hottest part of the season is bad for the hotel proprietors of our numerous places of summer resort. Those who have not left their homes in the cities are debating the question as to the wisdom of leaving at all, particularly as more than a month has passed since midsummer's day. The days are shortening perceptibly, the sun is losing some of its,power, and the nights are becoming longer and cooler; and though we may have spells of hot weather for a few days the “backbone of the summer,” to use a com- mon expression, is broken. We are not likely to have exbausting, continuous hot weather. In fact, many of our people begin to see the folly of leaving comfortable homes for the inconveniences and bad fare generally of watering places. From all that we learn the hotels at almost ali the summer resorts have been doing a poor business. Unless they be ess exorbitant in their charges and afford better accommodation their business will de- cline from year to year until their customers are reduced down to the shoddy people, who put up with anything for the sake of making a display. Tne Lovwvine Courier-Journal is tighting for the new departure iu spite of the opposi- tion of what it calls the Bourbous, It saya that it is firing into them instead of the radicals because they (the Bourbons) will get in the way—and, like the National Guard in this city oa the 12th fust., it is fring bullets, too! Rome—The Pope and the King of Linly— France and tho Island of Corsica. We submit to our readers this morning an exceedingly interesting special Henanp de- spatch in reference to the action of the Pope, now that King Victor Emmanuel, with the Italian goverament, is established in Rome as the capital of united Italy. From this de- spatch it appears that the Holy Father may leave Rome any day—that they are making preparations for his reception at the chitoan of M. Valery, in the island of Corsica; that in pursuance of an understanding with Cardinal Antonelli said chateau has been placed at the disposal of the Pops, and hence the movement in France to guarantee to the Supreme Pontiff the temporal sovereignty over Corsica, It further appears that Pio Nono wishes to pub- lish a Syllabus in regard to the Italian ocen- pation of Rome, declarlug all temporal powers held from the Pope and void when against him and his decrees, and that measures have already been taken in Romo touching the choice of the next Pope. Several Cardinals, says our cable despatch, are in favor of a man not unfriendly to Italy, and of a compromise through his election. Another cable despatch has it that M. Favre persists in his resignation bacause the petition of thg bishops urging the government to sap- port the temporal power of the Pope has been referred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs It was scarcely conceivable that M. Favre could act otherwise. He has all his life long been a consistent liberal, and it is not to be imagined that now, when some of the princl- ples for which he has nobly fought are in the ascendant, he will go back upon himself and upon the principles of liberty. In regard to the threatened abandonment of Rome by the Holy Father and the taking up of bis abode in the island of Corsica, we cannot say that we have not been prepared for some such course of conduct. The Pope has never accepted the situation; nay, he has on more than one occasion openly and emphati- cally declared that he could not and would not accept it; and his Prime Minister, Car- dinal Antonelli, has never retracted the state- ment that compromise was impossible so long as any portion of the territories included be- tween “‘the line of the Po and the Neapolitan frontier” was withheld from the Holy See. It ought not to be forgotten in this connection that some months ago it was reported, on what, at the time, seemed good authority, that directly the King of Italy entered Rome the Pope would retire and take up his abode in Corsica, where accommodations had already been provided for him. There is nothing, therefore, in the announcement of our special despatch which can be regarded in the light of a surprise. The departure of the Pope from Rome, seeing that he cannot and will not accept the situation, is what many are fully prepared for. And since there is no longer any Gaeta to which he can flee for refuge, since Avignon and Fon- tainebleau are both associated with un- happy memories, and, since the Dillinger movement has made Fulda, which was once spoken of asa residence, in the last degree un- desirable, the Holy Father can hardly make a better selection than Corsica. Malta, for many reasons, is preferable; but Malta, un- fortunately for the Pops, is the property of heretical England. If it be true that tue Holy Father is about to issue another Encyclical, declaring himself to be, under God, the source of all temporal as well as all spiritual authority, we can only say, neither does this surprise us. Has he not made such declarations time and again? Such sentiments were emphatically expressed in the famous encyclical of 1864. They found expression again in the syllabus, which will be remembered in all time to come in con- nection with the Vatican Council of 1869-70. The reiteration of such sentiments, in any such document as that which is said to bo in preparation, will only serve to prove, beyond all possibility of doubt, that there cannot, during the life of the present Pope, be any new departure for the Papacy. His successor, it is possible, will feel himself more at liberty to look at things from a new stand- point; and it will be well for himself, for the Papacy and for the peace of Europe, if recog- nizing accomplished facts, he shall succeed in making an end of the war between the Holy See and modern progress. For the present, however, it does seem as if Pope Pius the Ninth was about to leave Rome; and, as we have said already, it will not surprise us to learn, any one of these fine mornings, that the old man, having sbaken the dust of Rome from his feet, and having invoked the vengeance of Heaven upon his enemies, has set sail for Corsica. Whatever may be thought of the wisdom or unwisdom of the Holy Father fighting against fate, there are few who will refuse to admit that in interferiog with Italian affairs France is taking a step which, while it can do the Pope no good, can scarcely fail seriously to imperil her own best interests. Matters, in fact, already look bad, President Thiers has never concealed the fact that he is opposed to the course pursued by the Italian government toward the Papacy; but on Saturday he had no choice but to speak against the petition of the bishops. M. Gambetta took a similar'view of the situation ; and now, that the good sense and sound advice of the best men in France have been despised, Thiers and Gambetta and the rest being outvoted, M. Favre threatens to resign becanse the petition of the bishops has been sent by the authority of the Assembly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We do not wonder that France should be anxious to re- gain the protectorate of the Holy ather, Her relations to Rome have for many centuries been flattering to French vanity. It is not forgotten that the bayonets of the French republic brought back, in 1850, the present Pontiff from bis temporary exile and re-estab- lished him in all his authority. It is not for- gotten that for twenty years the soldiers of France maintained him in Rome in spite of the will of the Roman people. It is as little for- gotten that the blow which struck France to the earth strack down the temporal sove- reignty of the Pope. Lt is not, therefore, at all unnatural that France should seek to re. store the temporal power. Butis it wise? The temporal power fell with tho entire consent of the thinking, reflecting, reasoniag men of the age. And now that the temporal sceptr e has been broken, we know no maa no: blinded by prejudice or misled by foterest who wishes to it rostered. The fall of ane JULY 25, ISTL—TRIPLE SHEET. the temporal powet was a prelimi necessity to the compete unification of Italy. The unification of Italy and the consolidation of Germany are, to all who have the wel- fare of humanity at heart, the two great encouraging events of these times. They are accomplished facts, The worl Is done, and it cannot be undone. Is France prejared to fight for the restoration of the tempora‘ities ? It would seem as if the bishops were ready to buckle on the sword. It is quite clear that M. Thiers is not so prepared. Neither is Gam- betta, Neither is M. Favre. Even if France were united as one man, would France be allowed to set foot on Italian soil for the pur- pose of reinstating the Pope? It is not long since Italy was a useful ally to Prussia. Would Bismarck ailently look on? Would any of the great Powers of Europe permit such an outrage? MM. Thiers, Favre and Gambetta know that war with Italy for sach a purpose is impossible, What, thea, can France do to restore the Pop to his temporal sovereignty ? Absolately nothing. Acitation on this subject can bave but one result. If persisted in it will make an ead of the rule of the molerates, who are really doing well, and flag the coun- try once more into the hands of extrem- ists, opening the door agala to the Commune and furnishing a fresh opportunity for the restoration of the empire. As France is too weak to act she onght to be wise enough to be silent, While we see great trouble arisiag ia France through the agitation of this qrestion, we can see no good which can result to the Holy Father by bis abandoning the ancieat city. His position is made as comfortable as the Italian government can make it, The letter of our special correspondent at Rome in the Heratp of Monday shows that the Roman people bave no sympathy with him in bis sorrows. They rejoice in the change. We must repeat our advice to the Holy Father Let bim remaia in Rome and peacefully spend the remainder of his days. He has done what he could. Let him leave it to his enecessor to resume the fight whore he haa left it off. In Rome he is still the spiritual chief of the Catholic world. Away from the Chair of St. Peter be will be an exile and a dependeat, Sach is our advice ; but we are by no means satisfied that the ad- vice will bo taken, The presumption is that this Papal qnestion will breed great trouble, not only in Italy and France, but all over Europe. The election of the successor of Pius the Ninth promises to be one of the greatest events in the history of the Papacy. Carrying Out the Treaty eof Wasbingtes. Another step toward the fulfilment of the Treaty of Washington has been taken, The Spanish government has authorized Sefior Lopez Roberts, its representative at Washing - ton, to appoint a third commis:ion or to act as such for the mixed commission appointed to examine the claims of American citizens” against Great Britain. Seiior Lopes, we see, has already been elected as third com- missioner or umpire, and we applaud the choice as a sagacious one, American interests will receive an equitable settlement at the hands of the Spanish Minister. It were well if the Commission would hold its session in this city. New York, being the centre of commercial interests, would afford great facilities to the claimants, and there would be less delay and difficulty in getting the witnesses, who mostly live in the city. We recommend this consideration to the at- tion of the Commissioners. The government of Spain has likewise signi- fied its intention to adhere to the rules of neutrals towards belligerents as set down in the Treaty of Washington. This is a graceful act onthe part of the*Spanish government, and will tend to strengthen the friendly rela- tions already existing between the United States and Spain. The Question of Rapid Transit. Mr. Hilton, President of the Viaduct Rail- way Company, has presented a report of the proposed routes, cost, income and probable results of the projected rapid transit scheme, The road will cost, according to his estimates, $22,500,000 for each of the two branches from City Hall to the upper end of the island. There are to be four tracks to each branch— two for fast travel, stopping only every two miles, and two for half mile accommodation trains. The time of the fast line will be twenty minutes from City Hall to Harlem—a rate at which the most impatient Young American cannot demur. Branch roads will be built between the City Hall depot and the Battery. Mr. Hilton estimates that two hundred and fifty thousand passengers will use the Viaduct cars daily, and the number will constantly increase by reason of the increase of popula- tion in the upper part of the island sure to result from the completion of the road. But the cars will also carry freight, and as it will connect with the great interior trunk lines that will then make their terminus along Harlem River, if we judge rightly Mr. Hilton's language, it will receive large cargoes of freight and immense numbers of passen- gers from these sources. Then the store- houses on the lots of the company will be let out at good rents, and from all these sources an annual income is aggregated of nine and a half millions of dollars or five and a quarter miilions net. These figures, except that some of them seem to be taken for granted upon rather slender premises, are encouraging enough to stock- holders in the Viaduct Railway, but they are not as soothing balm to the sore oppressed denizens of the city who want to go from the City Hall to Harlem in twenty miautes. Mr. Hilton says not a word upon the important subject of when we are to have his road. Elaborate estimates will avail nothing so long as there is no visible evidence of any ener- getic commencement of the work, and they are worse than nothing now—a mere mockery of figures, indeed—if the work is to consntae five or ten years in construction. Op Pat Rarrerry, who was found burned to death in the ruins of his house, at Newark, a week ago, is now declared by a coroner's jury to have been murdered by some persons unknown, It is thought that robbery was the main object, and that the robbers, in pursuit of their plunder, found it necessary to kill the old man, and then set fire to the house to | cover up the traces of their crime. The case shows that no murderer can ever be sure that he has left no clue behind, can never feel cer- tain that he has done his work 0 thoroughly ] as to bar detection, for the murderea man in this case bad been buried once, being consid- ered a victim of his own intemperance, when circumstances came to light showing that be was rather the victim of foul play. Now the detectives are on the scent, and the murder- er’s ever harassing spectre has commenced the work of rendering his life a burden. The Gloemy Condition of Spain—Serrano’s Failure—Castelar’s of the House of Savoy. The position of Spain to-day is such as I» not calculated to sustain confidence in the minds of those who believe in the prosperity of the country under the guidance of King Amadeus. The news which for the last two weeks or more we have been receiving, an- nouncing the disruption of Ministries and the formation of Cabinets, has at length reached a climax by the deteat of Marshal Serrano in his late attempt to form a new Ministerial combination. Serrano retires from the position which became his after the bullet of the assassin snatched Prim from the arena of Spanish politics. Seiior Zorilla, formerly Minister of Public Works, and a man of experience, ability and energy, takes the position vacated by Marshal Serrano. His first stop will be a most difficult one, The formation of a Ministry such as will be acceptable to the Cortes as at present constituted is an operation which will require all the skill, delicacy and forethought of the new Prime Minister. If the telegraphic news reflects the condition of Spain in such gloomy colors, showing at this moment a government without advisers, let us see what manner of intelli- gence does the mail news convey. The Heraty corespondeat, writing from Madrid on the 7th inst., furnishes us with » comprehensive report of the great speech of Emilio Castelar in the Spanish Cortes on the 22d ult, Castelar's oration is as remarkable for its boldness as for the beauty of language in which bis daring is expressed. It is one of, if not the greatest efforts of the great republi- can leader of Spain. He assails the govern- ment of King Amadeus, stigmatizes the family. of Savoy as the disturbers of Europe, and complains bitterly of the foreign domination which obliges Spaniards to doubt even their owa nationality. Throughout the whole of Castelar's address his repub- licaniam «is observable. Referring to America be prefaces his remarks in these terms :—*‘Asia is the immovable land of the post, the patriarchal land of the empires, the theocracies, the castes ; Europe is the volcanic land of the present, the arena of combat be- tween the avcient powers and the new ideas ;” and then, conclading bis sentence, he says :— “America, aod especially Saxon America, with its virgin territories, with its republic, with ite equilibrium between stability and progress, with its harmony between liberty and democ- racy, is the Continent of the future—the im- mense Continent stretched by God between the Atlantic and Pacific, where mavkiad may plant, essay and resolve all social problems.” And this language was made use of in the Spanish Cortes, and was received with loud cheers by the members. Is there not in these republican manifestations in the Congress of Spain, under the very eyes of the Ministry and within the hearing of roy.lty itself, something which may well cause the young King to regard with anxiety the fast approaching future? Amadeus finds himself in a foreign land, almost withoat a party—a king, elevated to throne by the iastrumen- tality of one bold, aspiring, ambitious man, who would, had the assassin spared him, in an hour like this have proved of invaluable as- sistance in meeting the difficulties which on every side threaten to drive the foreiguer from Sprin. When we remember with what tenacity Castelar fights his battles for the success of the cause so dear to him; when we consider the activity of the Carl- ists and clericals; the vigilance of the adherents of Queen Isabella and her son, the Prince of Asturias, and the flerce and determined opposition of the Duke of Montpensier @yi those who surround him, we cannot but regard the position of Amadeus as becoming more and more critical, So far be bas been a thoughtful and considerate ruler; one who, in the face of numerous dif. ficulties, has played a skilful part ; but with a disturbed and discontented people at home, and colonies in revolution abroad, it is difi- cult to arrive at «oy other conclusion thao that a crisis in Spain is approaching which may end in the downfall of the throne set up by Prim and which is now occupied by Amadens. Denunciatiou Tux Kixe or Conta “a PiLaw-Sromen Man.”"—In the letter of the King of Corea to Admiral Rodgers, published in yesterday's Henarp, he speaks, like Red Cloud, very much to the point and the purpose, He says:—“‘In the year 1868 & man of your nation, whose name was Febiger, came here and commanicated and went away ;" and be asks, “Why can not you do the same?” Me says:-—‘‘In the year 1865.0 people called the French came here, and we refer you to them for what happened. This peaple and kingdom have lived in the enjoyment of their own civilization for four thousand years, and we want no other. We trouble no other nations. Why should they troable as?” He says the shipwrecked crew of the American ship General Sherman were panished for piracy, and then be concludes >—"“Do you want our land? That cannot be, Do you wat inter- course with us? ‘Toat eannot be.” He talke as Red Clond once talked about the Pacific Railroad going throagh hie busting grounds, but for all that it bas gone through; and so the King of Corea will be competied to opea his doors to. Intercourse with the “outside bar- barians of the West.” Tis four thousand years of exclusion from the rest of the world aro long enough. — Le Ma A pee Me. Gronae Dixon, MP. for Birmingbam, startled the Mouse of Commons yesterday with the bold interpellation, “Cannot we cut dowa the Queen's Civil List?” “No,” roplied Mr. Gladstone, ‘we cannot, because it would not be right, because it would be shabby, because if the Queen manages to save something hand some out of her pay she ought to have the benefit of it, because it was an understood agreement, as between employer and employ, that the Royal Civil List would not be cur- twiled during hor fifetime. and some more rae