The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI... —=— = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVERIA, GT. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eichth street and Broad- ak’; Par or rus Puutio-Baconus. ACAPEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteents street.—ITaLianw Orsea—MiuNon, WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th strest.— Rosspare WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bronaway, corer 30tu st, —Pertorm- @hoes afternoon and evering—Bi.ack Sumer, THEA’ 38a at, bot 4 - ete Vier rae eat be ween th and 6th avs. (powERy SHRATRE. Bowery.—tax Parxousxon— poe GARDEN, Broadway, betwesn Prince and streets. —OURB AMERICAN Cousin. .GRAND OPERA ROUSK, corner of &h av. ana 234 e— Sus Tioxer oF Leave Man. i, LINA EDWIN% TIRATRE, No. 72) Broadway.—Oreea Bourrs—La Gnanos Docutean: FIFTA AVENUB THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strect— fuz New Dnaua or Drvozor, birunic THEATRE, fous or Huarrr Dum RE THEAT! yout prt - cares, opposite City Hall, Brooklya—Bor Brosaway.—THS Batuar Pan. PTY. MRA fF. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN TH2ATSE.— Bicumuixs. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Steet \dvertisements, ‘The Prince at the Captsa: Format Reception Fyince Alexis one ident Grant: A ‘snore t with the ies of the White House; Fub and Uagacasy; Movements of the Frince bout Town; The Movenents of the Koyal To-Day; Keturn to New york Early on turday—Lectures Last Night—Amnse- ments—The German Faistaf—The Nord-Ust- licher Saengerbuad—Newark's t Fire— A Three Thousand Dollar Swindie—Harry Bas- tt and ye =e Horrivic Death—The Cok lon and Shooting on tue Hudson—Misceila- ‘Velegrams—Local liems, 4@—City Revelations: The Futlure of Mr. Tweed's Saureties to Justiry and the Consequences ‘Thereof—Brooklya’s Kallot—urglars Balaed— Brooklyn Art Association—Tne Kpidemic in the City: The Riug Kesponsibie All the fora from Smulipox—srovklyn’s Saaitary jatus—Untversal Peace—Cuba: The Insurreo- tion on Its Last Legs—ihe Kings County Peni- @—The Gad Question: What the Company Say About Good Gas and the City Onicials About Bed Gas—Proceedings in the Couris—rhe ler | Green Savings Bank: Meoting of In- Gignant Depositors—More Bad oulers: tur- ther Experumenis at sanuy Hook Yesterday— ristianity im China—Georgia Indusirial @—Edivorials: Leading Article, “The Condition and {one of Mexico—A Grand Upportuuny for neral Grant” —Amusement Announcements. ‘9—Faitonais (continucd from Sixtn y—Lilness Of the Prince of Waies—England: The Radical Kelormers Stull Moving Against the Monat chy—France: The Treu~ury Bauget and Pro- it of a New and Heavy News from lermany, Austria, Belzium, Turkey snd Cuba—The Anti-Grant Movement—News from Washington—Miscelianeous Telegrams—Ver- gonal felligence—Views of the Past— usiness Notices. ®—Martial Law: Melancholy Picture of Its Work- ings in South Caroiina; Interesting and In- structive Analysis of the Negro Vote in the Prossrived Counties ~hnperial Sport in Prus- sia: St. Hubert's Day ln and Around Berlin, and Its sporting Gerenonies—Meeting of the Colonial Anne xauon Society—Rallroaa Casual- Ues—ihe Mace and Coourn Fight—Footpads at Work—Run over. @—Jonn Ware, the Parrictde: Interesting Inrer- view with the Marderer—fhe Biackbura Mur der Trial; The Prisoner is Charged with Mur- Goring His Mistress—Financial ad Commercial Roporis—Domestic Markets—New and Unsafe Bulldings—“Jobnay Stole a Law’—Marriages , and Deaths. €£0—Tho Fifteenth Assembly District: The Commit, teo on Protesis Decide Against Kilian—Fif- teenth Insirict Repuvlican Association—Tae Disaster to the Steamship City of New Mormon Matters—Thrilling Scene in Chyurch—Misceilaneous lelegrama—Forty -sec- ond Congress; List of Members of oth Honses—Yachuing Note—Sbipping Intelli- v - — Advertisements, 41. fag eo) in Akron, Onlo: Hanging of John si Hi. Hunter for the Murder of the Father and Mother of the Girl He Loved—Horribie Mur- ger in Cleveland: An Old and Much Respected Negro More than Butchered—Advertisements, 92—Advertisements, Sexinc Tas Institutions.—The Prince lexis got into Washinzton on the evening of Blection day, and the election bonfires of the Dboys served as an illumination in honor of his frrival. It was a lucky bit. Axyprew C. ArMsTRONG, of 654 Broadway nd 120 East Tenth street, is a dealer in oth anda grand juror. He is bound to do his duty fearlessly and to follow Judge ford’s directions. Let him take a leading part in the investigation into the city frauds. Tae City Treasurer of Philadelphia, Jo- Beph J. Marcer, who is » miniature copy of our wn Tammany ‘Comptroller, has bgen ar- tested by the Reform Committee in that city and will be tried on Monday, Joun B. Arnes, of 25 Beekman street, as pe of the Grand Jury, bas a duty before him at he will deem it a pleasure to perform— that of indicting the cily thieves who bave fiepreciated his property and that of every pther honest citizen, Carpina THe Cimax or tHe Ku Kivx.— We have it in the report that that distin- hed soldier, General Frank Blair, is the ad Continental Cyclops of the Ku Klux Jans, or the Head Centre for the United tes of the Invisible Empire of the Minions bf the New Moon and the Warning Owl. How Ie this, General, and what does it all mean? Lvorvs 8. Comstoox, of 12 Vesey street pce West Fortieth street, is the foreman of fudge Bedford's Grand Jury. His superior juirements and his high reputation for hon- and integrity are guarantees that he will thfully perform his important duties, Judge ford has told him what those duties are, we look with confidence to him to institute searching inquiry into the city frauds and to the guilty parties to justice, 4 Tue Smaturox, as in other places, is said be spreading in this city, although the new fn reported by our Health Board are few number, But meantime the streets are in a frightfully Mitby condition, and still the ques- tion recurs, Who has charge of the streets? Is {tthe Mayor, or ‘‘ Boss” Tweed, or the Com- ittee of Seventy, or the Health Board, or gome contractor waiting for his money, or who end bow ia it? NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘wee Condition and Destiny ef Mexi:e—\ Grand Oppertesity fer General Grant. The great poet has sald * there isa tide in | the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” We may say with re- gard to Mexico and the opportunity that country affords for annexation, ending the troubles there and adding to the wealth and glory of the United States, that this is the flood tide in the history of Gen- eral Grant's administration which, if taken now, will crown the President with honor and place his name among the most famous of American statesmen. Withall the glory that properly belongs to him as the great com- mander whe faished the war of the rebellion, posterity will judge him more on the merits of his public career as President than for his military achievements, And although he may be re-elected from political expediency or necessity he should have the higher ambition of meriling popular éclat and of adding to the glory, progress and territorial extension of his country, Every President bas not had that opportunity, and none have had a greater one than he has just now of leading the nation to a magnificent destiny. The adjoining republic of Mexico, which is conterminous with our owa for athousand miles or more, aud only separated by a narrow river part of the distance and by an imaginury line along the other part, is in a staie of com- plete disruption, incapable of self-zoverument, and is a continual source of troubls and au- noyance to our own goveroment and people. The regular and constitutionally chosen gov- ernment of that country is assailed all round by rival chieftains, by Governors of the sepa- rate Slates, and by powerful organized mili- tary forces. The President appears to be powerless and to have great difficulty in main- taining his authority against the factions, even at the capital itself. From present appear. ances we do not think Juares can sustain himself. What, then, must follow? There will be the same old drama— or, rather, tragedy—of wars among the rebel chiefs themselves, such as we have known before in Mexico, as well as in most of the other Spanish-American republics, and the same anarchy and destruction, There islittle chance of Juarez malotaining his authority ; but if even he should hold power for a whie over @ portion of the republic the chronic dis- organization would go on, There is no hope of a stable government in Mexico. Every governmental experiment has been tried— colonial government, a republic under differ- ent phases, a military despotism, a native imperialist régime, a foreign empire, a consti- tutional republic and every other conceivable form of government—end all have failed. Our own government bas extended a helping and friendly hand to uphold the republic aud nationality of Mexico, and had it not been for this that country would be in a more wretched condition than it is at present, bad as that may be. 4 Let us take a brief retrospective view of the action of the United States toward Mexico in order to understand the relations the two countries bear to each other and our duty under the present state of things, After the war with Mexico, when the people were com- pletely subjugated and the country in our hands, we voluntarily gave up possession, except the sparsely settled portion of Califor- nia, which was almost a wilderness then, and which we actually purchased, The majority of the Mexicans then would have preferred to live under the American government; but partly from the shortsightedness of our poli- ticians, who were afraid of incorporating at that time such a large foreign population and territory, and partly from the magnanimity of our government and people, the native Mexi- can republic was restored and upheld. 60, too, under political, diplomatic and commer- cial difficulties which we have had with Mexico at different times since, the integrity and nationality of that country have been respected. Though we have received ingratitude in return for our magnanimity and generosity, we have borne with it patiently, in hopes that the Mexi- cans would inthe end appreciate our kind- ness and follow our example in establishing arespectable republican government. When the French invaded and conquered Mexico and established a foreign imperial government over it, and when the Mexicans were utterly powerless to prevent this extinguishment of their nationality, the United States, by its moral power, forced the invaders and the exotic empire to evacuate Mexican soil, In fact, this country restored the authority of President Juarez, and has, by the same influ- ence, been mainly instrumental in preserving the republic under him. In every way and all through the bistory of Mexico for the last quarter of a century this country has been as forbearing and kind to its neighboring repub- lic as @ parent toa child, But all has been in vain, The Mexicans eannot govern them- selves, Their condition has been growing worse and worse, The country is in a chronic state of disorder, and there is no hope for it but in annexation or in a protectorate over it by the United States. It will not be forgotten that General Grant at the conclusion of our war was in favor of sending an army across the Rio Grande to drive the French out of Mexico, In this he represented the patriotism and repub- lican sentiment of the American people and showed the same vigor of character he had exhibited during the war. Will he show like vigor now to resoue that unhappy country from the anarchy and destruction that now threaten it? We are not willing to believe he has been spoiled by statecraft or his lofty patriotism destroyed by timidity, The great American republic has already, as we have seen, exercised a guast protectorate over Mexico, The time has come when a full pro- tectorale is needed and when it is more neces- sary to march an army across the Rio Grande than a few years ago. We are responsible to the civilized world for Mexico, When we pro- tested against the French invasion and insisted upon the removal of the imperial government the French established, the nations of Europe asked us why wo did mpt, for the sake of civilization, undertake to cure the disorders of Mexico. The civilized world holds us responsible and would rejoice to see the atrong arm of the United States governing Mexico, We believe it is the imperative duty of the United States either to exercise a protectorate over Mexico or to annex that country. Annexation, probably, would be best; for that would prevent future trouble and give at once an extraordinary development to the country. As a question of policy, simply, there can be no doubt as to the course our government should pursue, M>xico joins our own territory for a thousand miles or 60, a3 we said before; it is, probably, the richest country on the globe, particularly in mineral wealth, and in our possession it would become more valuable, both to this republic and the rest of the world, than several Californias. See what California, which was a wilderness twenty-five years ago, has become, and then imigine what Mexico would be in a short time if annexed to the United States, Her mountains are fall of precious metals and other valuable micerals; her soil is prolific beyond description, and she bas every variety of climate and products. Mexico is worth a thousand St. Domingos, with all the West Indies besides, and there are no seas to cross to reach it, Our system of railroads would be extended to and across and through every part of that vast and rich empire. Yes, we should soon have lateral railroads from California along the tablelands and shores of Mexico to Tehuantepec and Oantral America, ‘The numerous harbors, both in the Pacific and Gulf, would be filled by our vessels, and an immense impetus would be given to our com- merce and shipping interests. In twenty years Mexico would become the richest por- tion of the United States, and the whole world wonld be benefited by the change, In a political point of view, General, Grant would make more out of the annexation of Mexico than by anything else. If he were to pro- claim this policy he would arouse national ambition, give vent to popular favor, unite political parties, find searcely any opposition to his re-election, and send his name down to pusterity as one of the greatest statesmen of the country and age. Let him drop San Domingo, or any other small and questionable scheme for national expansion, and take up this grand oue, which would move the popular heart and give unparalleled progress and developmect to the republic, THomas DuntaP, of 825 West Thirty-first strect, is a grand juryman. He is coanected with Tammany and an office-holder under the city goverament. But he is the more strictly bound to do his duty in securing the indictment of all who have bzen con- cerned in the plunder of the city. The poopls will watch with interest his action at Tho AuthGrast Repablicas Movement— Geveral Butler, Senator Wilson and Thurlew Woed en the Stand. The report from Washington, which we published the other day, of a conspiracy among certain prominent anti-Grant republl- cans for the defeat of General Grant in 1872, through a coalition with the democrats, includ- ing the rumor of a projected secret council on the subject, at Harrisburg, of republican soreheads, has created a great sensation among the politicians far and wide, and a fear- ful fluttering among the pigeons. A Hxzatp reporter at Boston, from an interview with General Butler and Senator Wilson, exch on the aubject, brings them out into bold relief touching this alleged conspiracy. General Butler, on the call of our reporter upon him for information on the subject, burst iato a hearty laugh. He thouzht the whole affair very fuony and a clever joke which had been play:d upon some fresh cor- respondent at Washington; but finding that some of the papers and portion of the public were swallowing the story he had set bimself right in @ letter to the press. He says in this letter, in regard to this reported anti-Grant conspiracy, ‘I have neither sald, thought, nor dreamed of such a thing,” which we accept as ‘a full acquittal of General Butler. But he is wide of the mark in pronouncing this snti- Grant republican movement as nothing moro than a joke, Senator Wilson, we are sorry to say, has not had much time lately to read the papers, and they have got a little ahead of him; but, touching this Harrisburg scheme, he does not believe there is a word of truth in the whole story. He believes that General Grant will be renominated and re-elected, that he is an honest man and at the head of an honest ad- ministration; but he noticed at Paris that George Wilkes ‘‘was far from enthusiastic over the administration of General Grant,” and thinks that Wilkes may be working for the “one term principle.” In reference to his colleague, Senater Wilson says that, notwith- standing the fact that Ganeral Grant and Mr. Sumner are personally hostile to each other, “T am quite confident that the Senator would not degrade himself or his party by such a conspiracy as that which the papers allude to.” General J. D. Cox, ex-Secretary of the Interior, who is suppo3ed to be among the disaffected by reason of his enforced with- drawal from the Cabinet, has alsé been ques- tioned as to the matter, way out in Cincinnati, and he says that so far as be is concerned this critical moment, He must not screen his warmest friends if they should be implicated in the cily frauds. Of all the grand jurymen his action will be the most closely scrutinized. The Great Kald em the City Plunderers. The movement of Judge Bedford for the punishment of the parties implicated in the city frauds has spread consternation among the criminals and the politicians with whom they ara associated. Notwithstanding the valuable work accomplished by the Committee of Seventy under the leadership of its able President, Henry G. Stebbins, in the direction of the exposure of the rascalities of the municipal plunderers, it was the hope of the guilty parties that the unwieldiness of that body and its lack of authority would de- feat any practical result to its arduous and important labors. But the groundwork laid by the Committee is now used in an unex- pected manner as the basis of proceedings from which the actual criminals will find it difficult to escape. A legitimate power is at length brought to bear upon the case, and the stern reality of a fearless Grand Jury, a just Judge and an honest District Attorney now confronts the plunderers of the city treasury and warns them that the hour of retribution is at hand. We have already reminded District Attorney Garvin of the duty which he is called upon to perform, and we trust to his past honorable record for the strict fulfilment of all its requirements. We now cali the attention of the members of the Grand Jury to the fact that they are omnipotent in the matter of investi- gation and can originate any inquiry they may think proper to pursue. As Judge Bedford has instructed them, they ean call before them Charles O’Conor or any other witness they may deem desirable, ‘and base such proceedings as may appear proper upon the testimony they elicit. They “have thus the means at their command of dis- tinguishing themselves in an extraordinary manner before their fellow citizens, and of se- curing to themselves the credit of practically bringing to account the men against whom the judgment of the whole city has already been so emphatically rendered. Judge Bedford has laid the corner stone of the monument of re- tributive justice; it remains for District At- torney Garvin and the Grand Jury to com- plete the structure. Tax Prinog was réceived formally, but cor- dially, by the President at the White House yesterday. Secretary Fish and MinMter Cata- cazy both having very generously sacrificed thelr feelings of personal animosity toward one another to the absolute demands of diplo- matic daty. A pleasant quarter of an hour was passed in conversational chat between the Ince and his suite and the ladies of the White House and gentlemen of the Cabinet, after which the royal party returned to the residence of the Minister. To-day they visit the Naval Academy at Annapolis and take the train to-night for New York, where they will arrive to-morrow morning. As happy trib- ute of the Prince to the magnificent fascination of American institutions, it is stated that he took two genuine American “‘veesky cockatails” at a little barroom just round the corner from the Min- ister’s residence, sending a servant after one and going himself in person after the second. This generous compliment to the superiority of republican ideas over those of despotic Europe, while it cannot but occasion a doubt of the diplomatic discretion of a Prince who thus casts aside his imperial reserve and laves his soul, unmindful of diplomatic dis- tinctions and requirements, in the untram- melled deliciousness of a republican drink, cannot but make the hearts of Americans, and especially American barkeepers, swell with patriotic emotion. James Rexve, of 337 East Forty-first street, is @ grand juror, stanch as oak, We will not be found wanting in the great duty of the hour, the reported conspiracy is without foundation in fact. So far so good. We now come to the venerable Thurlow Weed and his remarks to another Hzgatp reporter in search of information, On the matter of this aforesaid conspiracy, ‘I declare to you, candidly,” he said, ‘‘this is the first I hava beard of such a movement. The story is made out of whole cloth, so far as Iam coacerned; but I cannot say anything as to the other gentlemen;” and then, as a knowing smile crept over his face, he bade our unsatis- fied reporter “Goodby, sir,” and went up Fifth avenue. Full as he must be of the subject he had not a word to say about General Grant or Mr. Greeley or the democratio situation. As the venerable President maker, however, has not been to Long Branch or Washington for some time, it is possible that he is preparing a mani- festo with which to startle the world one of these fine mornings on a new departure. We shall get at this projected coalition between the anti-Grant republicans and the democracy by and by. There is a good deal of it visible upon the surface, but there is more in it than has yet appeared above water. We expect some very interesting develop- ments on the subject at Washington with the reassembling of Congress and the gathering there of the leading inside and outside poli- ticians of the democracy and the -aati-Grant republicans, Coalition or no coalition, the necessities of their case will compel the Democratic National Committee of Congress, as soon as possible, to define their position. The case admits of no delay. Wasnincron Maoxenzig, of 35 East Nine- teenth street, is one of the Grand Jury, and he fully appreciates the responsibility of his position, Toe Persian Famive.—The latest mail news from the East is neither encouraging nor hopeful. The famine still coatinues its rav- ages, and the most heart-rending stories are told of the sufferings of the people in Persia, During the month of August the miseries of the inhabitants of Yezd have increased rather than abated, owing to want of employment and the lack of means to obtain the necessary wants of life, The peculiar geographical po- sition of Persia renders it an easy prey to ca- lamities like that which is now desolating the country. Short yield and decreased crops are always sure to be felt by the inhabitants, and when, like the present, a terrible visitation falls upon them, and they are in no adequate manner prepared for it, terrible misery is sure to result in consequence. Lewis Fortmay, of 70 Broad street and 161 West Thirty-fourth street, is a merchant of this city and a member of Judge Bedford's Grand Jury. He will do no better business for the next twenty years than he now has an opportunity of doing, in the fearless investiga- tion of the city frauds and the conviction of those who have been guilty of plundering the people, Tae Fresca Bupart ap a New Loax.—A cable telegram from Paris reports that the Minister of Finance of France, when submit- ting the budget estimates to the members of the Legislative Assembly, will propose a pro- ject for a new national loan of the amount of four hundred millions of francs, The near approach of the moment for this serious finan- cial undertaking affords us occasion to present to our readers to-day an exhibit of the mone- tary condition of France, its debts and credits, income and expenditures, since the overthrow of theempire. A retrospective glance enables us to set forth also the treasury resources of the country as they were seen under the latest of its kings and in the days of the Bona- partes—the First and the Third Napoleon, Osoar A. Natuvsivs, of 10 Division street, 229 Broadway, and 239 East Sixtieth street, is on Judge Bedford’s Grand Jury, He is in the hardware business, and itis to be boped will be true as steel in pressing the investiga- Hon into the city pegulationa, — ‘The Vinduct Rallway—Ie It in the Hands ef Thieves? . The following are the names of the directors of the Viaduct Railway:—Alexander T. Stewart, Sidney Dillon, August Belmont, Charles A. Lamont, James F. D. Lanier, Franklin Osgood, William Butler Duncan, Oswald Ottendorfer, Charles L. Tiffany, Wil- liam R. Travers, William B, Ogden, John Jacob Astor, Abram S. Howitt, Levi P. Morton, S. D. Babcock, William ‘1, Blodgett, James B. Colgate, José F. Navarro, Edward B. Wesley, John Taylor Johnston, Andrew H. Green, William H. Appleton, Jos:ph Seligman. These citizens are now entrusted with the duty of carrying to completion the great work which is to give us rapid transit through the city, and of expending honestly the amount of the city subscription of five million dellars agreed to be contributed towards the construc- tion of the road. The Times demands the repeal of the clause appropriating this sum to the Viaduct Railway, as well as ‘“‘the expul- sion from the Board of Directors of the thieves who put it there,” Will the Times specify who are the “thieves” in the Board of. Directors whose names we have given above? Wriuam B. Dinsmore, of 302 Fifth ave- nue and 59 Broadway, is a citizon of respon- sibility and worth. He should bs anxious to vindicate ihe character of the city by brin;ing to justice the dishonest public officers who have plundered the city treasury with such shameless impudence, His neighbors will expect him to follow out Judge Bedford's sug- gestions and push the investiga‘ion of the city frauds to the utmost limit of the power of the Grand Jury, of which be is a member. The Bavarian Government and the Ohurch of Rome. The Bavarian Cabinet has—as we have already announced by cable telegram— instructed the King’s represcntative serving in the national council of united Germany to take due measures to pravent clerical agita- tion and “‘unpatriotio intrigue” on the part of the hierarchs within the territory of the King. Another telegram which we publish to-day will instruct our readers as to the chief fea- tures of the new measure, The bill is penal against clergymen who ‘‘abuse the privilege of their office.” It is the first of a series of measures of a like character which have been framed in Munich with the viow of checking the ‘encroachments of the Church on the liberties of the people” of Bavaria. In other words, Louis the Second appeals directly to the consolidated Imperial authority of the Em- peror William for protection against the reac- tionary agencies of the Church of Rome, both lay and priestly, {a his dominions, as well as for the shaping of a general measure of German provision against the consequences, King Louis of Bavaria is a young man, but a ruler who bas gained a vast deal of political expe- rience during critical moments in the history of his country. The Church be- came doubtful as to the healthful condition of His Majesty's mind on religious subjects soon after the formation of his intimate ac- quaintance with Richard Wagner, the com- poser, and their subsequent joint stndy of the writings of Buchner and Feuerbach. Party influence secured the dismissal of Herr Wagner from Court in the year 1866. The King has maintained a system of almost com- plete personal isolation since. He has no desire to be mzasured by the standard of in- fallibility. He is averse to the ghostly disci- pline of the clergy and dislikes restraint either of home or from abroad. The conduct of public affairs in Bavaria is consequently, for the most part, in the hands of men who play politics perseveringly for the sake of power, and this in a spirit of emula- tion which is scarcely kaowa in publio life in Northern Germany. The present remon- strances of Bavaria against infaltibility and the Church are serious matters, however, The movement may be the cause of very consider- able discussion in the Parliament of the Ger- man nation, and thus lead the Berlin Cabinet to a new and significantly explicit ‘‘departure” on the subject of Papal infallibility and the Roman Pontificate. Jos zPn Boom, of 888 Bowery, isa dealer in fancy goods and a solid citizen, Men like him are deeply interested in an honest and economical city government, He is one of Judge Bedford’s grand jurors, Let him se- cure honesty in public officers in the future by fearlessly presenting those who have defrauded the treasury out of millions of dollars. A REMARKABLE SENSATION now agitates Philadelphia. John Prudham, » young man in that city, ate a hearty breakfast in the presence of his adopted mother, who at the close of it was called by her duties to the cellar. While down there she heard a heavy fall, and, coming up stairs, discovered Jobn lying dead on the floor, with 9 butcher's knife through his heart, Whether it was a suicide, a murder or an accident is the question now agitating Philadelphia, Joun W. Draper, the well known auotion- eer, of 112 Pearl street and 113 East Twenty- fifth street, isa member of Judge Bedford's Grand Jury. It is his duty to ald in the prosecution of a searching inquiry into the city frauds and in the presentment of those who have been guilty of robbing the people, no matter who they may be. We expect him to be faithful to his trust, Tae Ustversat Praos Society, which is continually at war with the existing state of affairs, met in Philadelphia yesterday and had an unusually harmonious session. Lucretia Mott insisted that standing armies should be abolished and men-of-war should be converted {into merchantmen, But the blessed old lady ought toremember that the first nation that disarmed itself to that extent would be in- stantly overrun and partitioned among its ag- gressive neighbors, Wison Smart, of 266 Henry street, is charged, along with the rest of the Grand Jury, with the duty of bringing the Ring rob- bers tothe bar of ‘justice, We may depend upon bim, Tue Wooven Horse um Trox.—The Tro- Jans are waking up. They have had « meet- ing for reform in reference to ballot stifling. Good! Let the wooden horse be thrown out- side the city walls, and Troy may yet bo saved. op. ee te ‘The Primeo ef Wales’ Minces, The Mncss of the Prince of Wales com tinned during the day yesterday. He passed ® rather uncomfortable night from Wednes- day, his case prosenting the symptoms of typhoid fever in the morning. A medical bab lotin was issued in London yestorday, sign-d by the attending physicians, which announced that the symptoms were “uot alarming.” I sct forth also that the fewer was of the | typhoid typo, His Royal Highness the Prinee of Wales is thirty years of age, He was born on the Uh of November, in the Year 1841, It is inferred in somo quarters that he is of an unhealthy conatitution ts ah hereditary predisposition, and that he bh taken any duc cure to avert the cousrquences of this physioal tendency to diasase, The Queen,’ his mother, must feel sorely grieved indeed at the serions fact of hearing the Brities monarchy denounced before excited ass-m- blages of the people at thy very moment when the heir apparent to the Crown lies invatided by fever. Her sorrowing recollections of Prince Albert will bs urost likely renewed 1 all their intensity by tie remembrances of bie latest and fatal aitack of iihiess—gasiric irri- tation, producing a typhoid f-ver which tr minated ia conzeari f the brain, De Grasse Livintisron, of 121 Fifth ave nue, is a geutleman of solid wealth and re sponsibility, and, foriunately for tue peeple, he is oneof the new Grand Jury empanelied to indict the city robbers. Sxativa Near Losvox, ani a fatal acck dent on the ice, The first biuster of the winter in Britain, and that, too, ata very un comfortable moment both for the people and the governing clisses, The Belgian Tumait Against the Goverm ment. The citizens of Brussels remain deeply excited in their opposition to a recent Cabines appointment to offlee, The gentleman whe has been selected by the Miuistera appears to be obnoxious toa large number of his coun trymen, They do not, at least, approve of him in his official capacity as oa officer of the Education Board. The street tumult scenes which we reported by cable telegram on Wed nesday were renewed in the Belgian capital yesterday. The people demonstrated at the doors of the Parliament House and in tue public thoroughfares, They wre outin ‘‘esor- mous” numbers, The goveroment remained firm. The police were culled on duty in force. Serions disturbances were commenced ia tre evening and the riot was continued to a late hour last night. The Minisiry of Puvlic Works was iovaded, but the people were driven off by the consiables. Quist was restored after midaight, but no opinion ts given as to the probability of its permanence. Belgium has been, apparently, happy and coa- tented during a number of years, but we must not forget that the revelry of a ball in Bras- sels has, in time not lonz past, heralded the “heavy sound” and brought forth the re-eche of the clang of arms of the most deadly war struggle ever recorded in history—ihe batty of Waterloo. The kingdom. has been toiiing and sleeping over the embors of that great fire since the accession of the late King Leopold to the throne, The Belgian revolution bae not been yet vindicated in Europe, nor has the memory of the mea who first proclaimed it from the ramparts of Antwerp. Samurt L, Broxrey, ot 132 East Twenty fourth street, is a grand juror, He must de his whole duty and make a thorough inves:i- gation into the city frauds, Tox New Opera or “‘MiaNon” is a great bia, The music is bright and spariling, the story ts romantic and interesting, and the réle of Nite» son is admirably adapted, in its pleasiog ve rieties of the music and the situations, to bring out her distinguishing excellencies in the finest relief, We think she ought to be kept in New York, She likes our country aud iw institutions, she likes our city and its people, and sbe is just the prima douna we had so long been hoping and waiting for, but of whose oper- atic merits we knew nothing till they were re vouled to us in ‘‘Lucla.” The fact Is, our musl- cal circles have become so much attached to this sweet singer that they do not like the idea that her stay among us, short or long, Is lim ited to a specific engagement, C. W. MoAuuirrr, of 659 Second avenue, ts @ member of the Grand Jury who kaows his responsibility and will not shirk it, We count upon him to do his utmost to bring the city peculators to a reckoning, Rotanp 8. Dory, of 69 Warren street and 829 West Twenty-second street, is a mercbant of this city. He serves on Judge Bedlord’s Grand Jury. He is a man of family and knows how important it is to keep down taxe- tion, We look to him to press the inqoiry into the city frauds, with a view to accom plishing a practical result, British Radicalism Moving Against the Monarchy. The British radical republican democracy are in active and apparently energetic move ment for the overthrow of the monarchy aod the establishment of a democratic republican form of government in the kingdom. Sir Charles Dilke lectured on the subject, in favor of the change, before a large audience in Leeds yesterday. The men of toil, those who sweat eway their humanity and dwarf their children in the ‘‘mills,” were out in force, A row ensued. It was caused bys collision between the police and some of Sir Charles’ hearers, Very trifling Incidents have tended to set John Bull in a roar against royalty at different epochs, from the time of Watt Tyler to the days of Sir Francis Burdete— and thence to the movement of the great re- form and emancipation and ohartist meetings in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and the end is not yet. a esencsheninintaanetanse Tuomas W. Knox, of the Astor House, is a man of brains and experience. Let him use both in the service of the people at this criti cal time, and fearlessly discharge the duties of his position as ® grand juryman, Judge Bed- ford’s charge will point out to him the course to pursue, Let him follow it without feyr and without favor, Witrtam Sonavs, of 749 Bron man of property and of msthetic 7 Ring robberies may not shogy wens, for they were very piilful ae | —