The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1871, Page 8

t-) EUROPE. Sn Remarkabye Speech of Bism: ' in | wovernm: ik in that ex, ment TaAt ft Would Insint On the maintenance Prussian ro%erve (und will an indemnity is, im case of @ War, provided sor them by the Keicust: VUTY VON HOVERBRCK, jor’ 20 often alin to In the Chancel ‘now | Tepled that Busmarck’s address waa si p in | U¢contention that absolutiem Was the vest orm of To thts Bismarck retorted overni= ent for war. ment ways more constitutional witar than be- theeGerman Parliament. fore a wat—a statement received With 0 ‘the mini and with deriatve la! oy the een ne Oppesition. Ultimately, of course, rek had Dis way, and the reserve fund was teft completely at ‘the dwpoagl of the ror. THE EMPIRE WUST BE PREPARED. How, Count Beust Fell From Power in Austria. A ‘LONDON SCANDAL. | received with Miziister Scheuck’s Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet. ‘The Suitan has written an autograph letter to ‘Pins TX., am@ nas sent him a splendid cross Mounted i priiitants, his own portrait, similarly mosnted, and a considerabie sum for Peter's spence. ‘Whe Prussians, instead of developing a navy, are <@@ganizing a torpedo corps. The rreuch government have drawn ap the bill, ‘Which they mean to mirocuce as soon as the House | “meets, for the exile of the imperial family, Itruns | tims:—Ariicie 1. Tho entry Into French territory 18 Mtemictea to every meniber of the imperial family Rot pr vided with aspectal authorization. Artivie 2. Im consequence, no member of the Imperial fomily An be elected to any public fanction whatever, Atthe Culldnail banquet, on Lord Mayor's day, | very marked indtference was showa to the Queen’s | Munisters, and to their speeches. GERMANY. Tho War Reserve Fand—Continuation of the Debate in tho Ketebsrath—iiemarkable Speech of Privco Bismark. BERLIN, Nov. 6, 1871, On the 4th the bil which proposes to establish a feserve fund ior military purposes of $50,002,000 ame up ve'ore the full house from the Pudget Com- | g@iliiee, Deputy von Hoverneck proposed in the full | Ronse the amendment he had already brought for- ‘ward in the commiitee, The effect of this amend- ment was that the Emperor should be allowed to | make use of the reserve fund before receiving the eonsent of the Reichstag only in case of a defensive war, while the law proposed that the Emperor @hould have this disposing power in all cases, peaking on this ameaament, PRINCE BISMARCK SAID:— Leannot regard it as my duty to enter upon a dis- sussion of arguiuents which, in my opmion, are the result of a political attitude, the aims and asperations of which do not corre- ‘pond with those with which J am entrusted—a po- ‘Wticai aitisude which does not, tomy mind, set be- fore itself the task which I, and, I may aiso add, which many among us, set before us—namely, the sonsolidation of the German empire and the main- femance of ita security. [lt should be explained that the German Chancellor had been preceded by a2 oltramontane and a particularist speaker. As ‘ats opening words Pismarck thus implies that Qeither of the two who had procceded him were friencly to tho German empire, which, ; a whe whole, is @ convenient way of | iting out of the arguments they advanced.) | therefore address myself only to some argumeurs wich Deputy Von Hoverbeck has brought forward, ‘nd pas: over whatever else we have heard inal- fence. With regard to tie ulllity in general of a re- | verve fund Ido not consier it my duty to speak sow. I wii! merely call attention to the fact that if we | aad noi had a reserve fuud—my colieague, the Minis- ‘er for Finance, nas already pommel this out ina previons eitting—we would positively not have been | Ma position to gain the two di which sufficed to { protect ine Whole left bank of the Raine, whe Bava- Man as weil as the Prussian pert, from the French | It we had not had the reserve fnnd \ R WOULD HAVE BEGUN ON THE RHINE, | ve uad to issue Irom tie Rhine fortresses | nh ! mi Woutd have had to take back from the Fre: 0 efi aD Of the Rhine, whica river poesibly they Woutl have crossed, perhaps as faras Frankiori, | ad tails We Would hive to do re they had tad fine to encamp there tacir Ta tnd other ravple, | eputy Von Ho! peck as pul the question, “What | Wouid be the consequence if the Reichstag should pXerward3 reiuse 18 sanction’? 1 do mot and can- Pot beieve that a war could be declared and car- | d oa. in which, alter the re-erve fuud had | en spent iu mere mobilization, the means | Of obtalaing mvney, iW which the emir} ey has to resort, were refused by the ; uchstag. Lo not bedeve that a war could be car- | fied on if the Reichstag refused the moneys which Bre uocessary io carry ton, Tits same Keichsiag, | Which wou'd refuse lis subsequent approval to tna | expenditure of the reserve jund, would also refuse to sauction the loans necessary for the war, and I Dave never heard a statement here which lent an pearance of ,Ustiicauion to the lear of ine Deputy — tne confederated goveruments believed the m- | ves AUTHORIZED TO BURDEN THS EMPIRE WITH LOANS, | WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE REICHSTAG, ' | Itherefore consider the fear to be unfounded and | ‘he question not vo be practical. Iv seems to be | thought that @ demousiration in the shape | of mooi is futended, She reserve fund ight perhaps Bu for this parpose r ove occasion, but I thiak molilization for tue rpose ol demonsiration has cousiderably “de- sed in value for the last ten years. People no | ger mobilize, unicss they have tne political con- | Fiction tuat they musi strike in earnest. Deputy Vea Woverbeck ba. 0 complained of this, that onger On @ par wiih the claration of war. T ‘0 BISMARCK DETEEMINED TO BE PREPARED. 1 should add that the speech ef the Chancellor has | #ttrocted much attention: first, because it shows @hat he, at ieast, has no strong belief in pactfic shad teations on the part of Fraace or any PI und he is determined to be prepared for all hazards, The statements with reference to the wonderful re- | Bults of the reserve fand on the last war have heen reat disfavor by @ portion of the ich sees 1n such language a slur on hiberai press, w! athe parrioue spirit of ‘the monetary resources Germany. AUSTRIA. stdinhondoonernennesené The Kall of Beust—Its Origin and Conse- quences—The Part the. Emperer Played In It and Why He Klayed It—=peculations as to Whe Will Be His Successor. VIBNNA, Nov. 9, 1871, When Count Hohenwart was just on the point of carrying hts federalist poilcy to the goal of victory Count Beust stepped in. The result of the Chancel- | Jor’s intervention was the fall of Hohenwart, In the contest, then, between Hobenwart and Beust Beust came off, beyond question, victorious, ‘This happened put a week ago; and yet, strangest of sirange events, our victor of but seven days since 1s now himself hopelessly defeated, 1 cannot picture to pen the frightened astonishment with which our German organs and German citizens re- ceived the news of Keus’s fall—the incredulous joy with which the intelligence was heard by the Sciaves and the ultramontanes, You will, nowever, form some idea of the general, and, as you will per- ceive from my opening lines, the natural, bewtl- derment with which this latest crisis has been every- where received, from the fact that all the journals of the country are hopelessly tossing from one - conjecture to another to account for this, to them, unaccountabid matter, Nor were journals alone taken by surprise. I know for a positive fact that on last Sunday Beust aud | Kellersberg, the new Cis-Leithan Premier, were dis- cussing, and, I believe, actually agreed on, the pro- gramme of the newly formed government. This, I | eay, was on Sunday; on Monday Beust received bis dismissal, ? HOW IT CAMB TO PASS. When Hobenwart, some time ago, appeared kely to carry off the victory, Benst handed tn his resignation, Hoheawart being defeated, everyboay naturaily concluded that the resignation was de Jacto withdrawn, On Monday, however, Count Beust was informed that this resignation which he had gent in some time before, and which he, as weil as everyboay else, had considered withdrawn, had been accepted by the Emperor. ‘WHY WAS BEUST LET Got What secret agency has been at work to produce this dismissal? One theory ts that the Sclaves, hay- ing been daagerously excited by the dismissai of Hohenwart, 1t was thought necessary to offer them some sop. This sop was Beust, who 1s known to have been the great enemy of tue Sclave clalma, But, then, it 1s naturally objected to this theory, Andrassy was Beust's colleague in the opposition co the Sclaves, and Andrasay, by all accounts, apnears to be the most likely successor of Beust. How, then, can the Sciaves be reconciled by the substitution of one enemy for another? The account which, to my mind, deserves most .rellance is that which places the origin of the dismissal in the personai feelings of tae Emperor himself. The secrecy, the bewilder- ment of everybody, the apparent paradox between the actual state of politics, between Beust trlum- poant on all points and yet dismissead—all these tings, should say, point to personal, not publi ‘rhese personal grounds appear to me o! the 1ollowing characte! THE HOHENWART MINISTRY. Count Hohenwart was allowed to go on with his policy of concination to the Sclaves to the very last | port, Te was in sight of the goal when his day of disunissal came. Now, it must be remembered that Count Honenwart was the choice, not of Beast, tor be learned the appolutment first from the public journals; not of the Pariiament, for Hohenwart was not ® member of that body, Hohen- Wart was solely and exclusively the choice of Francis Joseph himself. This well Known fact dipiomatist, He ought not to have time for suc ocenpations, and even if bis material interests migit not sometimes clash with his official duues, the dignity of the oflice which he ouzht to support in the interest of the nation he represents 1s ‘dy his contact with the rough world of commerce. ‘The particular occupation chosen in the preseat case is moreover pecuilarly opjectionable, 3 a Ménister willbe apt to be sought for as a direc- tor for the action which his name and the official position he occupies will give to the prospectas—a sanction which will be more sought ior, and be therefore more dangerous to give when the undertaking, a8 tn the present originates rep nt above all things to Hstant chance or suspicion name trafiiced with, and he once gets mixea up with new companies as a director. We regret, therefore, very much the step which the representative of the United States has been meduced to take. We should recommend him to withdraw his name at once, and we hope in any case that what he Nas dove will not become @ precedent, The Economist puts tue case witn considerable softness when it says that the appearance of Mr. Schenck’s name on @ mining prospectus has ‘attracted some notice.’ It is very generally com- mented upon, and it needa scarcely be said that there is but one opinion on the subject, even though in all circles one scarcely meets a man who has not some kindly word to say of Mr. Schenck personally. it is upon the prospectus of a company formed to work the Fmma silver mine that the Minister's name appears 2s a director and a trustee. This prospectus bears # family like. ness to papers of that ciass generally. Jt 1s (ramed to tempt the cupidity of those who make haste to rich, and Waut to quadruple ther capital rather by fortunate purchase than by persevering labor. It proposes to iorm a company ‘with £1,000,000 capital, and promises taat we. first year’s operation of the mine wil revurn soveuty-iive per cent of the capital, which 18 a sieep promice to be made on the diplomat'c authority of tue Minister of the United States in London. It 18 possible that when Mi. Schenck assented to the use vi his Dane aso director and trustee wll the points In the case did not immediately occur to bim. Perhaps he did not remember that as a foreign minister he stands in a peculiar relation to tue law, and that it is an abuse for a man not amenabie to justice in the ordl- nary way to occupy & position that may require:hun at any moment to wive a legal account of lis acts, ‘A RACY PILCE OF LONDON GOSSI?. There ts a piquant itb of gossip afloat, all the nore tantalizing because of @ certain air of mystery that makes it dificult to determine whetier we uve before us & case pecuitar case, resents, ie avoid the most of bavng nis he cannot do so it eccentricity or ® simple swindie, Some time | ago the #uchess de Bauffremont took a hand- some house in Fark jane. She is an ceccutrie | Once she treated her husvand to bonvons so lady. deitiy contrived that if his sweet tovth bad led to liberai induigence he would never have had any moretroubie or sorrow or heartburning in tins wicked world, This little circamstance in her history encour the notion that she was eccentric im regard to her house 12 rk lane She turoished tt ilke Aladdin’s palace, and, of course, without any regard to the length of purse strings. As sne was a duchess all the tradesmen in Loudon were eayor to put at her disposal the united contents of thelr shops; lor it i8.@ brillant peculiarity of these onie that while they will nov seil fur cash to onest Jones, unless he comes wih @ relerence, they fave iilimitable faith in all duehesses, At length the Duchess had per house finished, and her occupation was gone. Doubtiess she at once becamea preyto ennu!. So one day sno called a cab, drove to Charlig Cross, took a ucket Tor Paris, and has not been seen or heard from since. Within a few days the house and furniture have been sold to a city financier, at a rate that will pay we tradesmen about five shillings on the pouad, THE ATLANTIO AND GREA! WESTERN RAILWAY. An event of the week has been the taking up with such singular avidity of all the securities of the new company formed to apply the Atiautic and Great Western with rolling stock—$15,00),000 were offered and vnly $5,000,000 were asked jor. ‘This seems to indicate remarkable readiness for investment Jn America. The Lord Mreyors Banquet — Minister Schenck’s Speech. At the Lord Mayor’s banquet at the Gundhall General Schenck replied for the diplomatic corps, and said:— My Lorp Mayor— [ think taat in Engiand you must have an im: jon that to wk stauding promotes cigeso8. 1 cannot very well otherwise comprehend how it is that after naving fed us at your banqueting board with all tuat can tempt the appetite you think it necessary to callus to our legs in order to respond to the kindly mention of our names, Atany rate, if you do not act upon some sanitary theory of this kind, you at least seem to proceed on the idea that it has got only a comlorting effect, but promotes good health, to create in the mind of any one & good opinion of himself, for you not oniy feed us, but you kindly receive us, and still more kindty compliment us. I am ata loss, however, to understand why my name should have been coupled with the toast you have beea pieased, throug’: the Lord Mayor, to present at your Meeting in favor of the represcatatives of toreizu exercise’ considerable influence on the course of Count Hohenwart’s policy. Hohenwart’s Mraistry was cautiously spoken of in Hoheawarv’s organs 98 the Emoercr’s “own Ministry."’ Again, the aa- dress irom the throne, by which the Bo- hemian Diet was opened, certainly used language which appeared to justify high hopes on the part of the Sclaves, and tlis the Emperor was made wish ‘godspeed to the work oi the Bohemians. From all tnese facts there was not the sligitest douvt fn the minds of the great public that the Emperor was personally favoravie to Hohenwart’s policy, and tne Sciave organs very freely binted tat a dental of their Clalms would amount toa breach of his word on the part of Francis Joseph, Can we wonder that the monarch should feel # litile of seli-reproach and dis- comfort at being oviiged to thug suadealy turn back frow 4 cause to whic he was thus so publicly and £0 deeply pledged? On whom wiil the copsequent irritation fall so fitly as on him, who was the great cause of Hovenwart’s defeat? In the journals here I find a whisper, wuich appears Lo me to fnily bear out this view, Count eust, it is said, 1s considered to have mtcrvened against Hohenwart at too late a period. Tnere’s the rub, M.le Comte. You did not intervene unt _Hohenwart had gone so far that a return was rendered aifficull, nay, almost impossi- bie. You did not interfere’ until the sovereign was 50 bdo g pledged u hia retreat has on it something of shame ani a@ ilitle of dishonor, you watted unt he hang over the abyss in place of giving him time!y warning; and therefore you fall.” BEUST'S PLACE, Of course everybody 1s now engage In discussing the chances oi the various candidates for Count Beusi’s place, and the probvaole result of his dis- placement on the foreign policy of the emptre, | snail DOC enter into the discussion of tne fret question jor the good reason that it will have been decided long before vais letter reaches you. But it will be | weil tosay afew words on the two men whose names are most frequently Mentioned at ile present moment in conection with the vacant chanceilor- 1 SMPIRG, Wes in the fact that the Imperor can only make &@ declaration of war, without asking amy one, dn the case Of ap atiack on tue territory or coasts of | the Confederation, the consent of the Bundesrath | Being requisite in ovper cases. 1 did not think that this ecurity would be used as an argument against | 8, in the suppostiion wat @ declaration of war goul.! be mace in a spiric of levity. A severity les in the agreement of ine Bundesrath, winch, by the | Senstitntion, is reyuisite, But tars jurisdiction of | She Bundesrat Gocs not correspond With ine juris diction Whicn Deputy Von Hoveroeck claims for the Reichstag. Tne preparations for a war, deemed mecessary by tie Emperor, wese the’ Bundes- | prevent. A_ real deciaration of | War of deence, ig it A much more exten- | heresore, be cialmed for sive prerogat: the Ketchsts rendiiure of the reserve | fand for mobilization could be prevenied by it Forther, tus must be takeu into cousideration, that | Shis nigh assem; deuberates 1a public, wale ta the rau essily Of & declaration of war | can Ctseussed without going beyond govern. | Ment civeies, where re ave an interest in being gilent, and b 0 bot aa interest in | deing'siieni, are not allowed to be present. us fs a very important ditevence, J believe you wouid Mot long endure Lac exisicuce. I beheve tae Deputy Bimsell, Wio Nos aie tis proposal, if he had te | gorres in.nis bands, would not long énuure the ex. | ence of a government wich allowed a deciara- tion of war to be pusiicty discussed, and you would, | Lveleve, consider such puvilicity to be atiended | with too much danger. AB TACTIOS OF PREDGRICK THE GREAT. | The Deputy next cast douvt upon the tueory that | ® War of atiack could poss.bly be “made | fo the =lutere: of velf-detence. If believe that such a ime of defeace by a brisk | @nticipaiory movement is the most freqaently | Gael. and in the majority Of cases tac most effective, | 801 that for a country Whica occuptes such @ cen: | @ral position in Europe, which bas tures or four | boundaries on witch It can be atticked; it is | very useiul to foliow Ure example o: ¢rederick tue | Grexst bolore te Seven dears’ War, who did not wart | ‘Buti! the net, Which was to cuvclop him, Was turown ever iis bead, but tore it asunder with & quick autict- petory movement. TL think that these follow an ‘un wWiee und unreliable policy WhO Suppose that tie German empire is in the position Ww guietiy await $0 avack, which might ve planned against this eupire, perhaps, by powerful coallttons, perhaps, also, by single Powers, unui the most suitable aad couvenient moment appeared to the enemy to have nptopeg SOs Diow. in such a position It e yovernwent, and Ln dy demaad it from the government, — Set eee THAT IP WAR REALLY CANNOT LE AVOIDED st wii! select the proper moment for carrying 1 on, in Can be carried on, Willi the swailest sacri pew for the county, sorihe nation, | vomla aduuce direc instances Lo you t which it would not have been wmivisable for the Prussian State to have Qwaited complete preparation on the part of its enemies, (ne full reaiuizatuion of aii Its enemiew plan 4 where & louger period of expeciation would | ve entailed greater sacrifices aud perhaps de- | feat on sue country. ANOTHER QUESTION ANSWERED. If in my official no 1.00 T have to auswer anotner question of Deputy HMoverveck's it wifl be by barge What ine government thiuks of the fate | the WU in Case an amendment such as Wat of | Depaty Uoverbeck vo introduced into it. 1 neca | @earcely say thai in this case the pill could Jonger be acceplied by the confederatcd ments, awl they would then bein the pala Mov to hope and no} overs ‘al posi+ expect of ihe Prussian govero- | thus very much surrounded by Ger | tainly Lo be incompatipie with slip. I mean COUNT ANDRASSY AND COUNT LONYAY. Count Andrassy, as your readers are aware, Is at this moment the Premier of Hungary, His party is Known a8 the Deak party, the party formed vy Francis Deak, the illustrious patriot and states. man of Hungary. There is, perhaps, scarceiy in the world @ minister so geueraily liked und trusted as Count Andrassy; and, 80 long as he re- ; maias in Hungary, his power 18 provaoly secure, | A Mazvar, living in the German city, Vienna, and US—tiat 18, to Tala extent anti-Magyar influerices—would not be quite 80 secure; and i Andrassy succeed beust Vienna must, in future, be his nome. Moreover, his ac party seem’ at the present moment moat anxious that he should remain among luis own people. There can be little doabt Uiat his party stanas greatly in need of bis support. It shows numeroas symptoins of a@ tendency to | disintegrate and 1s principally kept together by the imposing izQuence of Deak, who 1s growing old and ted of public life, aad of Andrassy, who tur to desert it. Moreover, the hilnistry of Andrassy is essenUaily weak, consisting for the most part of puppets, obeying Andrassy’s hands, Of all the men who fougit for Hungary in the days of ner sorrow, dud who are thus enitled to share im the | glories of her victory, Andrassy alone hvulds ofiice, Boie, lke Eotvés, are dead; oluers, like Gorové, are estranged, les, (he man generally mentioned as likely to succeed Andrassy is not calculated to reasure the Jaindog spirits of the Deakists. Lonyay became rich in a few yeurs, and is @ Couut of but one Mouth’s standing. This parcexue in purse and ue fuds but littie favor with @ party composed Principatly of a nobility with whom hat htiness and predominance are @& tradition, and Lonyay’s personal manners ace no.’ likely to re- Move the unfavorable im} sion, for he joes not possess the happy kuack of maxing frends. In addition to all this Count Lonyay 13 a Calvinist, and the beak party 18 Composed, to a very cousiderable extent, of Latherans and Catho- fies, and to Lutherans and Caihalics a Caivinistis he grata persona, So much for Andrassy and Lenyay. With regard to tne future foreign policy of the empire, i An- drassy became Chaacellor, Irendiiness to Germany may be kept up, and Russia wiil have to deal with an opponent wuch less yieiding than Count eust, ENGLAND. Minister Scheack—Hie Name im Connect With a Mining Company—A London Scan- del—Iiow a Grand Duchess Acted—The At- lantic and at Western Railway Secari- ties. Lonpox, Nov. 11, 187. Tue following appears in the London Economist of to-day:— The appearance of the nane of the American Minister as the director of one of the new minim: companies whose prospectuses have peen this week has attracted some notice in the city. It ig considered @ novelty that the name of @ Gstingwished member of the diplomatic bg should appear im such a connection. ne novelty, However, 18 one rather ior regret than commen On, Aud 80 far as We have heard this ia the general opinion among the city suthoriti Whose opinion no one who wishes Lo oceupy a goo Position in the cly could afford to disregard. A f- al comuiercial occupation of any kind appeare cet the functions of Powers in this conntry. My colleagues on either seule of me, representing Continental Europe and tne Orient, Well Know, though you seem to have for- gotten, that I am the junior member of the diplo- matic body present in ‘this hail, unless it is that, adopting the princtpie foliowed at a court marual, those who preside over city feasts give a prowl. nent position to the juniors, The ladies may not understand that when we allude to seniors and juniors among the diplomatic body those terms have no reference to age, but inaicate the order in olnt of date at Which ile memoers of that body ave been presented at the Court to which they are accredited. In that sense lay that my venerapio colleague, the Honduras Minister, has happily expressed the satisiaction whica we must all fee) at the Jact that at tuts moment there 19 ae war Wwagin: tween aay two ¢lyilized peoples on t wHacho the globe, (Hear.) ie the picasure of feciing that #ngiaud, your couuiry, ts at peace with all the Worid; and, whatever may ave been iu the past aud whatever may -be ree served for us in the unhappy future, on this at least we may ali congratulate ourselves, that no sword 18 now jlfted against sword anywuere to all the civie lized worid, (Cueers,) But my colleagae having answered for the diplomatic corps, I should here conciude, except that here, in tne presence of the Lord Mayor of London, here at a great city banquet in this great city of London, | have someining to re- spond to, not on my own account only, but on bebaif of wy country—something to answer for to the city of London, someting to answer lor to a Lord Mayor of Loudon, We all know how ready we are In every country to turn towards the rising. sun, You, my Lord Mayor, for tnis nigat and for tne next year are that rising sup, which will shed ite benignant rays on this metropolitan city; but tt is firting that our admiratioa aud thanks should be direcicd to the setung as well as to Che rising sun, andl hope that vefore the close of this festival some gentieman will propose to the company tie name of that Lord Mayor whose term of service just ends, (Cneers.) When I think of my country and of what has been done for one 01 its great communities during the Mayoraity of the late diayor If cannot help hoping that we shalt with cordial heartiness thauk him for the manner im which he filled the office of Cmet Magis. it 18 impossible for the trate of London, (Hear, hear.) me to forget that whea the appalling news of dreadful calamity which under Providence the beautiful and growmg city of Chicazo first reached tuis counuy, and when, a3 soon as I could Tecover irom the stunuing blow of its first an. nouncement, T summoned the American citiz 3 resident in London to take into constderation at y could ao for the relief of I found u it ho had not antici- Dated me, had taken such Immediate action that pari passu wath What we Were doing a generosity was displayed oy ihe ciiizens oi London, which, If it did not exceed, equaiied that manifested vy the Americans themselves, (Hear, hear.) ‘tbe Lord Mavor aad the ciuzens of London may congratulate themselves on the part tiey have taken in promot. ing kindly Jeelings betwee: the people of the United States aud the peopie of Great Britain. matists may feel prile in tue part we have taxen to effect the same object by meaus of diplomacy. ‘Treaties may do much, couventions may do muchi, material communications ines of telegraph and Atiaatic steamers—may do much to estabitsh and Manian such feeiags; but HOMNg Leuds 80 In aed in that direction as the fact of the great popular heart in one country beating tn sympathetic aod kindly response to the tnronbinigs ot lhe great popular heart in another, (Cheers.) It is, therefore, my Lord Mayor I say that the prompt, cordial and generous help extended py the citizens of London turough Uheir civic authorities to tne city of Chicago, and the readiness with which the people of other parts of the empire came foward to assist In the same work, evince a spirit that has @ value beyond that of treat. Jes and conventions in briaging people kindly and lastingly together. 1 might have rested content with what Ct lieagae, the Honduras Miutster, said, because I joined in (ne hopes he so well ex: pressed, but with so much on my wind and heart with re.erence to Cutcaro f coud not retrain from making an acknowlcdgment on my own part and that of the United States, eera.) their wh: ati that the: ml A GOOD GRABBER, BUT A BAD RONNOR, Yesterday afternoon, as Mra. Ham, of No, 580 Lexington avenue, was passing through Fifty-sec. ond street, Michael King approached her from pbe- bind and grabbed her pocketbook, contain Irom her hand. He ran down Lexinuton agents and into Steinway’s factory yard, wire he con- cealed himself, Ofticer Gorman, of the Nineteenth precinct, had, however, seen King running and gave Chase, coming up to bimin the yard and arrestin: him. He was taken to the Yorkville Pollee Court and beld for trial by Alderman Plunkitt. SUICIDE BY RANGING. Jean Bobtistelechein, & Belgian, tuirty years of age, and a cigar maker by occupation, yesterday morn. ing was found hanging to a clothes hook, in his bed- rooin at 476 Pearl street. Deceased, who had veen but a short ime jn tne country, was out of means and employment, which mate him despondent, exciting a desire to terminate his existence, De: ceaked had concluded to return to his native country and was to have sailed in a day or two, but taking a sudden freak he hung himself, Coroner ha Was notified to hold an inquest over the nat HERALD, THURSDAY, NUVEMBER 23, We diplo- | - ‘BURSTING BAD BOILERS. Trying the Strength of Trou with the Might of Steam, The New Era in Engineering—Startling Experi- ments Disturbing the Solitude of Sandy Hook. made in the way of testing boilers with steam were inaugurated under the direction of Mr, Francis B. Stevens, who was authorized on the 13th of Septem- ber last by the united raflroad companies of New Jersey, of which he is superintendent, to use $10,000 from their treasury for this purpose. Some experi- ments in hydraulic pressure were made at Hoboken on the 24 of September, the resulta of which de- termined the tial of others with steam, which should be of a bolder and more enterprising character. Shortly after the appropriation of money for the purpose Mr. Stevens received permis- sion from the Secretary of War, through the instance of the President, to make use of “the United States reservation at Sandy Hook, General Grant on that occasion telling Mr. Stevens playfully that he “must not hurt any one.” Yesterday morning the steamer Jessie Hoyt started from the foot of Murray street at about nine o'clock and steamed down THROUGH THE BAY AND NARROWS, pointing her prow toward Sandy Hock. On board were a large number of prominent engi- neers and other gentiemen connected with steam. | boat, rasiroad and sctentific nterests:-——Joseph Bel- knap, Inspector General; Be L. isherwood, Chief Engineer of we United States Navy; A. Albert, Ens | gineer of the United States Navy: Professor R. #H. Thurston, of Stevens’ Technological In- stitute, Hoboken; . HW. Haswell, E. W. Smith, Andrew Fife, Juio Fish, T. S, Crane and others, The party arr, 1 at Sandy Hook at eleven o'clock, and leavin; tic boat walked for about a mile along a dreary weach, where we coia winds syept over the sands with A BITTER LAUGH aad «catterred fakes of foam in their faeces, The spot chosen for the experiments Is very near tho shore, overlooking the bay, and made desolate by the “nor'easters” which blow from landward and biizht even the crisp salt grasa which struggles ap through the sand. It1s FAR ENOUGH FROM THE METROPOLIS and sufficiently forsakeu by humanity to make it very suitable for purposes which would involve much danger to any poor mortal who might chance vo siraggle near just at the wrong moment and walk unawares into the arms of death A white, ghostly - looking = paling = surrounds @ square piece of ground, within hearing of the rushiug souuds on the beach, just where the land 1g most unprotected and the wind sweeps keenest, NINE BYEAM BOILERS ‘re here set up, each of which 13 numbered dis- unetly in white characters painted upon the aide, with the dace of building and the pressure already Teached in hydraulic tests, A concise description Of these boilers 18 given velow, No.1 and No. 2 are alike, ‘hey were built in 1858, and were yemoved from a vessel in last July, in which they had been used for tnirteen years, ‘ihey are calied by engineers “rcturn flue bouers,”’ iden- facal 1 shape and construction with tnat of the Westfleld, but smaller, They are twenty-eignt feet long, and the circular portion is six and a half feet in Sameter, ‘They were tested November 4, in their preseut position, with @ hycrostatic pressure of eighty-two pounds, and nine days afterward No. 1 sustained twenty-five pounds, and No, 2 sixty Pounds to the square inch without tracture. No. 3 was built in 1345, and was taken from a Doat in August, having been in nse twenty-ilve years, No experiment was made upon tt yesterday. No, 4 was built 10 1849, and has been wscu twenty- one years. 1% is yet to be tested. No. 5 is a new bover, without flues, bulit for these experiments. In previous tests 1b has witnstood 172 pounds of hydrostatic pressure and seventy-ive pounds of steau. The lua! test yet remains to oe made. No, 6—upon which the most interesting experk Tent was made yesterday—is a flat sutluce bo.ier, six feet long, four teet and four inches high, built Jor these experiments, and 18 an exact copy of the back end, or, in tecnnical terms, the “leg” of THE WESTPIRLD KOILER, It 1s made of toe best iron, and the plates are the game thickness as those oi the Westtield’s. Even toe rivete 1 heads of the braves which ‘the cavity Weatfeii’s. to 185 pounds hydrostauic pressure without fracvure, and to a steam test of 1s mouaas of steam on the ‘spot on witch it stood yesterday. Nos, 7 anc 8 are sinall oprigne boilers, nearly new. They have boen tested to 180 pounds of hydrostatic pressure without fracture, No. 9 is a ‘cylindrical retarn tubular” botler, having already witastood a hydrostutic pressure of 18) pounds. All of these botlers or secitons of boilers except No. 1 and No. § ave a W be tested to the extreme Umit of tn Hr siren iE BXPRACAENTS TO BR CONTINUED day.after day, 80 that definite results will be attained betore wiuter, Each bolier has near it a Justice’s pressure gauge and can be conoected by means of pipes with two other gangs statione’t at a distance of two hundred feet from the eaclosure. The fence ‘Was thrown down in sections, so that the view was une obstructed from the point of observation. After one or two hours of waiting In rather disconsolatetook- ing groups opon tie sands and in wandering about among the ‘oves of siunted evergreens, tne steamer Willitm Cook was joyfaliy doscried—anx- fously looked for because its coming would hasten the hour of lunch—cominz up in the distance, and soon landed @ company of scicntitic xentiemen, WHO HAD COME FROM PIILADELrHts, Among them was a commitiee from the Franklin Instivute—Coleman Siilers, President of Frankun Tnstitute; Professor Jacob Nalor, Di. W. H. Wahl and Mr. William M. Henderson, and also Mr, Thomas J. Lovegrove, Steaiu Boller Inspector; and Messrs, KE. H. Shallcross and W. Fisher Mitciell, of the Commoa Couccil of Philadelphia, The first botler tested yesterday was No, 2, appa- rently quite rotten and weak. THE FIRES WERE SLOWLY BUILT UP while the Sosipany, grouped around the indicators 200 feet away. Mr. Stevens ran repeatedly back and forth between the lookout and 6:2: enciosure, comparing the registrations of the gauges at a dis- tance and of those at the boilers, Tue plan of hay- dng gauges at a distance so great was found entirely success'nl, The men weo Were busy feeding tne furnaces were watched closely, and ceria gentle- men, intent upon detec.ing any variation ia the gauges, levelled spy glasses and field glasses at “Lhose near the boilers. Waiching the indicator, a3 it momentarily showed a slight or ai times rapid to- creace Of pressure, grew to be an interesting em- loyment, os the pressure , Siathe gf climbed up to he limtts reached in former tesis. Ib was rather a sorry excitement, however—a chill gloom creeping Urouga one trom the biting breeze, Every one was shivering wntle peering closely at the yauges or watching the effect of the test on the botler, and tus conlinne] jor an hour or more, pressure reached 92 when the steam gan escaping, evidently through arent at tho base of the smokestack. Sulll THE FIGURES CLINTED UPWARD until, at 93, the steam tssved from every seam of the boller: but unfortunately at this polnt the fire vegan to slacken and the pressure to decrease, the rent having eniarged go that the steain escaped as rapidly as it was made, Here the test vermin. ated; pat it was evident that but a few pounds more of steam would have terminated the integral existence of the boller, lt was, low. ever, liberaily praised Jor the strength it seemed BUll to possess, after thirteen long years of service, Portions of the shell were constderably distorted and bulged, and ANOTHER SLIGHT RUPTURE haa beon caused through the bottom letting steam and water upon ihe fire. very inch of tne entire sheeting was criticany examined and many sage o-mions were exchanged while we were waking the preparations tor the second episode, Al about a quarter after tures the section of @ botier, designated as No. 6, and representing @ por- tion of the Westfield’s death-trap, Was got ready tor the same ordeal, As it was entirely new pothing short of a vioient rending asunder was antici pated when the pressure should have reached & figure much higher than that of the iydrostatic tests, 158, The gauges showed a remarkably rapid Imerease of pressure, leapmg trom 44 to 100 in ten minates, and then ristug at the rate of ten pounds per minute, THY EXPERIMENT GECAMR VERY EXCITING, especially ax no one Was sure that 200 feet was a safe distance from the boiler. Professor Thurston looked eagerly at the indicator every second and dotted the figures down in bis notebook rather ner- vously. Mr, Stevens Was 4 ig through ®& spy. giass ata distanc., with an expression of confident expectancy. ¢ pressure had reached 165 ta seven minutes more, Suddenly there came a sharp de- tonation, like the quick volley of a battery, the white steam burst in a great cloud into tie air, and above it rose fragments of the boiler, bricks and other missiles as if HURLED BY THE HAND OF PATE ino blind fury at some uncertain object. Three or four of the bricks were hurled far up into the air and direc\ly toward the party of observation, vut were very Gasily dodged, although caasiug a deal of alarm. ‘They feil within @ few feet of ono or two persons near the gauges. A DENSE CLOUD OF 8TBAM was seen rushing from one of the large boilers, and on hastening to the spot it was found that a hage hole had been driven through the shell at the first corner, ‘There was bgt Bad a Gamp heap of al bricks where had been tne tested ana one side of it jay a few feet from the large boller which bad beeg injured, the corner } Yesterday the first experiments that have been | Finally, the | be- AU 1SM.—TRIPLE sbi. ———.———————_q—— rir stuck being plainly indicated Oy te and sharpeniag wiich had been producea ry cutiing turough the thick plates under of the bursting, This fragment was doubled up into a concave form, the connecting bolts having their neads drawn olf. Had the heads ‘been screwed on itis sald that tue pressure might have been sustained at over 20 ‘The other siae of ‘the section, or “le, Was BLOWN THROUGH THB FENCE, breaking a large opening, ond fad dropped about 100 fect from its place of stariins. 1 was bent similarly to the other, the edges jookiu as ii cut by @ buge panes shears, Professor Thurston remark d upon the peculiar effect of the siraiming of the metal on the particies shown im rings ground the hole through which eacn bolt had passed, alnost a8 Mf marking infin tessimel grooves. At half-past five tne whole party of investigators went on oe Cook and wes? soon DING AWAY HOMEWARD, while seated at a pieasant dinner, over which Mr. Btevens presiried. Ere the boat passe: old Castle William several toasts had already been diunk and speeches had been made by Messrs. Stevens, Sel- ; lers, Esherwoud, Haswell, and Profes- | Sor Thurston. Inspector General _Belkna) quietty hid himself while others were talking, 0 ing the terrible ordeal of an after-dinner speech. ‘The expression of all was that the experiments begun uid be continued, as concucing not only to the good of science, but of humanity, and that w#reat corporations, either national, State or private, should carry them through, The city Was reached at seven o'c.ock. wb the force PUBLIC INST Resignation of Commissioner Bell—Appoint- ment of Tenchers—Superintendent’s Report. The Commissioners of the Department o! Public Instruction met yesterday afternoon as four o'clock, in stated session, with President Smythe m the chair and nine Commissioners 1n their seats. A communication was received from the Mayor containing the resignation oi Commissioner Isaac Boll. A resolution was adopted by the Board ex- presstve of cordial recognition of Mr. Bell’s services ana of regret at Its resiznation, A communication was received froma the trustees of the Fifth ward, nominating Samuel AUCTION. School 44, A communication was receive) relative to old furniture and books forthe mission at Ratger’s place. Commissioner Lewis was appointed Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Commissioner Wood the Chairman of the Committee on Normal, Evening nd Colored Schools, in place of Commissioner Bell, Areport was submited concerning repatra of heating apparatus, &c., calling for an aggregate of $7,893, John F. fownley was appointed Vice President of the male department of Grammar School No, 12. Mary Sherwood was appointed Irincipal of primary school No, 11, Comanssiover Woop offered a resotution to the effect that the amendments in tue course of study for the schools be postponed untii aller the Isi of | January. ‘There being two parties, each having a | #€. oO: amendments, Mr. Wood waihed the work of hoth parties to be printed, so that ihe Board could bave iull opportunity to decide. Mr. VAN VOORST offered as an amendment that the decision be referred to the next mecting of the | Board, Tho amendmeut was lost and the original | resolution adopted, alter cousiderabie discussion, The jolowlag report was submitted by tne vity Superintenaent:— Orry SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFTOR, New YouK, Nor, 22, 18)1, Byte RONORABLE THE Boanp oF Puviic LysTRvo Gan TLEMeNn—T respectfully report during the month of October taxt there were On the registers of ibe several 4, With an average attendance of 847% t we mouth last year the rezister numb was 101,751 and the average attendance 85,312—showing at increase this vear oi 3,458 pupila in attendance, an well as Teduced percentaze of xbsentees. Siace the Istof October last there have been promoted from the primary t the gram- schooin 84 puplis. There bi nie c jools, two trom female grammar genools and thirty from primary ' departments and oolr. Tavain call the attention of the Bonrdto the want of unl formicy in the time of ciamissing the schools particu’arly om stormy days, In some wards or schools the pupils are dis- mises in others at hait-past one or two P.M, gp auch days. As the law sevme to resiire :hat there should jons of three hours each there is aeed eral Tulo by which the thine of dismissal may be re.ulated under a)l the varione circumstances of the achoo!s, Bidce the last report the undersigned, with bis assistants, has visited and inspected the achoois on board the school ship Mercury andthe Industrial School on Uari’s Island under charge of the Commissioners of Charities and Correge ton, In tho former tie achuot was found to consist of 194 pita, tanght in (wo divisions, holcing sep arate actaions,.and jaught by one mnie teneber, ‘ihe disci; nd ona appeared ta be cog! und the school as eiicient ices perm't. dustris! Shoo! co ou: of 95 bo} che tsiant, “Tsea9 are all j quenta, aud aght by two female teacher No {n.truction ia persaitte.t in either 0” these ecaoola, ‘The schovis of the House of Reiuze on Randall's {land have also bern visited ani inspectert, Taise schools com- prise @ male and fc: tment, each wamuivided 1:10 Separate i woof Keopine theoder aud more de} rt from thove who are more ame 208. In these senso the aver 1 7D! bie to reformatory inf @ } attenvance for ie year ending Soptomber 1 teachers employe ia iftecs. “The who! a and tang during the year waa fond to be in at éonattion ne and Jnairuglion. No secturiam in- strucito. ese echool: 1 ed hag also visited und tnanected the tollow- foe Nos. 5 8, 54 44 aud 43, Logether with colored schools Nos. 1. a 8, T respect ul): the attention of the Board to clent le accommodations of Prk No, 1,40 this sebool ia the basement of @ church ap‘uraishea exeapt by rettees encfrely too high for litte children. ‘The rooms dark and unwholesome, and tie proximity of @ sen due in the adj ining bai » Devents, by wale’t on the part of the teachers, ard o” two bundr thia altendanee wou! occasions, all ‘There san al gilidren in the school be g-eatiy incre comnodasious aitor ied. “Al! of which is reapect{ully sub: | miited. HENRY KIDDLE, City Superiuendenk, CiTY GOVERNMENT. (OFFICIAL) Boar. of Aldermen. ToRsbay, Nove 21, 1571-2 o'clock P. M, ay, ~2 o'clock P.M. The Board met in their Uhamber,’ No. 16 City Lail, par- suans to adjournment. Prosent—Thomus Coman, Eaq., President, 11 gubitabiatimmenuee en jent, in the chair, Mitchell, O'Neill, we iH ‘aldermen Charlock, Cuddy, McKtever, Plunkit , Schlichting and Woltmai Alderman vuddy moved that the read! nt put the question whether the Board would agree with sald motion, Which was decided in the affirmative, PETITIONS. By tho Pansies Claim of George P. Sweeney, in the matter of the applica- ton of the Mayor, &c., of the city of New York, relating to the witening of Broome streat, on te soutuerly side tuereof, between Lauress and Wooster strocts. ‘Which ‘vas oruered on file, By the same— Claim of Eliza Payne and Cella Payne Hobert, in the matter of the apotication of the May New York, relating to the whleaing o southerly site tuereof, be: ween Which was ordered on tile. RFSOLUTIONS, By Alderman Woutwan— Resolved, ‘hat James Start be and he ts hereby appomted Sergeant al-Arms of thia Board of Aldermea, in the piace of Terence P. 8 remove L. The PRESIDENT put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution, Which was decided in the aMrmative by the following vote (@ majority of all the members elected voting in tavor thereog)'— Afirmative—The Presi it, Aldermen Cuddy, McKiever, Miteheil, U' Neill, Piaakict, lly, Schilcuting and Woit- man—9. ‘Negative—Aldorman Charlook—1. Ky the. SIDRNT— Kiso.ve!, ‘That permission be and is hereby given to Charh hier, the proprietor of the Lyceum Theatre, in Fourteenth street, near Sixth aveoue, to erect a portico over ‘the main entrance to sai theatre, of such dimensions and under auch directions as may be ziven by the Commissioner He Works, the work to be done ct the expense of the nd the permission hereby given to continue only Neagure 0; the Common Counell. DENT put the question whether the Board would agree wiih said revolution, Which was decided in the affirmative by the folowing vote jority of ail the members clected voting ia favor there- Afirmative--The President, Aldermen Charlock, Cuddy, Mekiever, Mitcheil, O'Neill, Flunklet Kelily, Nehlichtiog aud Wottman. Ani the same was directed to be sent to the Board of Aasintant Aidermen for concurrence. By Alderman IRv! Reaolved, That \\ rection of ths Uormm! ‘Which was laid over. VITATIONS. The Preeiment laid before the Board an invitation from the Americus Coterie to attend their annual ball,on Monday evening, Rovers vt 2% 18}, at Irving Mall Wivtch was ncceptet, OFNERAL ORDERS, Alderman MITOU ELT. calied uy Orne being a preambie and Whereas the rate o! Harlem Rairond, above Forty-second atreet, along ti Fourth avenne, f# ceneraliy so at as to endancer Uven of persons having occasion to cross sald Fourth a Pitéemived, Ton from and after \f th aoived, That trom and after paswage of this resolntion stalall not be lawful to. propel way car or train of ars sicam power op any pt ‘of the Yourth ‘avenue, north o! Forty-second street, at a greater rate of # than seve miles an nour, under a penalty of Blu0 Lor every violation oF the provisions of this resoitiion ; and be ft farther Resolved, That the Commissioners of Pollea are hereby anthorize! and directed to carry into effect the provisions of this ordinance by detailing patvolmen or others to guard the said Fourth avenue, between the points above 1udieated, and ray Violations of the resoluvion to the Corporation At- port torney for prosecuth moved that sald preamole and reso- o— rstreet be renumbered, under the di- jouer of Public Wor Aldorman MiTOHR! lutions be referred to a apecint cornmittes, The PRESIDENT put the question whether the Board would ‘grey with said motion, hich was decided in the affirmative, Subsequently the President mamed as auch special commit- tee Alderinen Mitobell, Piunkitt and Retliy, TONS, MO’ Alderman PLUNKITT moved that when the Board adjourn itdy soto meet on Monday next, 27th inst, at two o’clock P.M. Tho PREGIDENT put the question whether the Board wodld with said motion, Winch war decided th the afirmative, Alderman RFI1.1.y moved that the Hoard do now adjourn, ut the question whether the Board woul The Paearnr. rp ee with said motion. a Woe m the President declared that the Board stood at two o'clock P, M. Thich was deolded in the adjourned unt) Monday neat, 2b Tg MAKDY, forehouse a8 | ‘Vice Principal of the male departmeat of Grammar | a e feet Sed eas Se ok ee SNe PERILS OF THE DEEP. Total Destruction of the Steamship : City of New London, Loss of the Cargo, Several Passengers and Two « 4 ae. poeeneneee NAMES OF THe MINSING. Norwion, Conn,, Nov. 22, 1871. Tho steamer City or New London, Captain Brown, ofthe Norwich and New York line, toox fire at about half-past four o'clock this morning on the river Thames, five mtles below the city. The fames wore first discovered issuing from one of the ven- tilators, The captain was on deck and ordered the boat anchored, Efforts were immediately made to. extinguish the flames, and after a short time were apparently successfal. A rigid examination di covered no traces of fire. The anchor was hoisted and the boat proceeded up the river, When abont three miles below the city, abreast of the mouth of Poquetannock Cove, fire was discovered In some cotton which was ondeck, Tne donkey pumps were started, and the captain and engineer, alded by tie crew, in less than one minute had three streains en we fire. Despite ail the exertions the fire spread with great rapidity, and soon enve- loped ail the forward part of the boat. The captain, secing al) efforts to extinguish the tire were useless, ordered the boat beached, but the engineer could not start the engine, The donkey pumps were, however, still kept at work, until the engineer notified ine captain that he feared an ex- plosion of the boilers, in whic event all would be lost, The apread of the ames Bad in the Meantime cut off all communication with the boats and ren- dered the life-preservers inaccessivle, The passengers and crew theu threw themselves into the water, clinging to such portions of the @argo ana boat as had falien overboard. Those who were able to swiin had pot muci difiiculty in reach- ing the shore, Some were picked up by boats, from floating pieces of the cargo, nan exhausted condl- tion and taken to farm houses tu the vicinity, where. they were cared for and resuscitated, Some half a dozen of the crew and passengers are still missing and, it {3 feared, lost, among whom 1s ©. B. Rogers, @ Well-knowo manufacturer of this city. One of our reporters, just from the wreck, reports her lying about fifty to seventy-five feet from the river bank with bow down stream, still burning fiercely, with no hope of saving anything of conse quence, Everything above ner deck is already con- sumed, ’ Atrain, with a fire engine, was taken down from the city, bat too late to be of service, The wreck has drifted down stream, and to leeward, about @ quarter of @ mule below Haiden’s Island, where it has been abuntoned by the crew, and Hes fast aground just below Poquetanoo Cove, ‘rains aré running down hourly, and @ vizilant search 1s being made for the missing men. ‘The City of London was 4 first lass boat, and had @ large cargo. ‘The oifice of the Norwich aud New York Trans- portation Company in this city 1s crowded with persons anxious to learn the fate of thetr friends among the passeugers and crew, and much excite ment prevails, Later. Norw'cu, Conn., Nov. 22, 1871, ‘The following persons are now known to have been lost on the steamer City of New London:—O. B. Rogers, William ‘T, Norton and Harrison Aldrich, Passongers; Matt Baker, eogineer, and Harry Dugan, steward. Wreck of the Bria C. H. Kennedy on thi New Jersey Coust—Statement of the Cape tatn. Oa the evening of the 14th instant the brig ©. BL... Kennedy, of Portland, laden with lumber and bound irom Bangor to Phitade!phia, experienced a’ heavy gale when of Canegat Light, during Which she went ashore at Wrick Pond, near Shark River, New Jersey, and became @ total wreck, the captat, his family and crew being Saved by one Of the lifeoats stationed on the coast, ‘The following 4s Lhe statement of Captain Noah B, Dodge, the master of the vessel, from which it will be seen he and his comrades Lad 4 Very narrow e& cape of a watery yrave:— At a1 Pelonk P, \. on Tuesday, November 14, we encountered dhe of tie most terridc storms (rom the east lever experienced on the Avactic. We were bound from Hhangor to Philadeiphia; kept the brig heading southerly until south of Barnegat Lignts tacked ship and stood nortneriv, making 2 noru course, Ateignt P. M. hanied down the matnsail and close reefed it; took in close reel topsalls, took in the jib ant mainstaysail to quick succession; hove to under close-reefed mainsail, tne gale still creasing, At twelve we fina ourselved m the breakers; the crew and myself took to the my wie and child were im ‘teroom, the sea boardin; me brig in ali directions, making it impossible for me to reach the cabin gangway, a8 the bri; swung head off shore, and all tn? crew and mysel ‘were in the fore rigging, At daylight worked my Way to the cabin, anu with great joy fonnd wife and son sull alive, with the water three and one- half feet deep 1m the cabin, but not 80 deep as to overflow them in their berth, my wile supposin; all those dreary houra that we were wash overboard and lost, | touk my wife and boy on deck and lashed them to @ weatuer kevel, uide at the time springing aud the sea sweep! By this time ai toe cre’ wina having over the brig fore and a't. had succeeded in getting aft, the somewhat abated. We knew not.where we were, ‘but hearing @ voice from the shore found we were among the living, A® the day wore on the people began to arrive on the beaca, The brig this time appeared to be within one hundred oan of the shove; but with tue Boise of the wind and Tushing of the sea notlung could be understood from the shore. At this time (six A. M.) the brig began to list to the ses and incline to swing broadside to the veach. Fearing all would be iost, I cut the boat. from the davits, tumking to place my wile in lier, the men on the shore making signs to keep back. No sooner, however, had the boat touched the water than she was capsized and washed ashore, In this awiul state of suspense be- tween hope and despair we were huddled together on the quarter until about seven o'clock a. M., when we saw them arriving with life-saying paratug. Thi was quickly placed in position, under the supermtendence of Captain Pitny Curtis, atded by Benjamin D, Pearce, by which means we were all safely landed, Our lauding was not eifected @ moment too soot for we had not been rescue! a halt wour when th brig swung round broad side to the sea, headed off shore, and the sea Dilla across her in such volumes that her deck load of timber New ta all directions, and nota soul could ave remained on deck one moment, RAPID TRANSIT, To THE Epitor OY THE HERALD:— We would suggest the following arrangement es offering an almost inimeaiste relief to the people oB the west side and the river towns, to wit, the exten sion of the elevated railroad (which has been reor- ganized by parties of 1arge means) with an ensy curve through the unimproved block bvetweew Twenty-ninth and Thitieth streets to the Eleventh avenue, thence along the said avenue and parallel with the New York Central and Hudson River Rath Toad to about Sixtieth street, or the commencement of the deep cut on the last mentioned road, - where @unton depot could be erected. Thon let the Hud» son River Ratiroad ran @ few local bec eed morning and evening for the use of commuters. stopping below Yonkers and yy will disarm = molers at that place and at by pl Fest named place within fifty minutes of Doy street. This arrangemeut would also satisly the people on New York Island uy giving those Who Wish gee down town raptily facttittes for changing to U cars of the clevaicd rvad without exposure to the ‘weather by having to walk to tue Ninth avenue, BAILROADING IN NEW JERSEY. Naw YORK, Nov. 21, 1871. To Tite Eprror or THR HERALD:— Why cinnot the great Ventral Railroad of * Jersey make some Improves" " certain m7" const « on Frid delayed | p Sriiout 8 Bave top made. 4 suaie <ssiye 18 Not BOOB a MoM UIrTBR