The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1871, Page 6

Dt ae NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROYRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Higzavp. Volume XXXVI ——— = —= AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ST. JAMFS THEATRE, Twenty-eight street and Broad- way. —CATARIN A--BACoirus. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—ITaLiIaN Oprna.—Favst. WALLAOCK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ROSEDALE. WOOD'S MUSLUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances afternoon and evening —CLAIRVOYANCE BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 st. between 5th and 6th ava. — ‘Tur VicTins—SoLon SurneLe, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Tur Purnomrnon— SEakOHING THE DEPTHS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Houston streets.—O1 Broadway, between Prince and UR AMERICAN CoUsIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. and 23d st— Panis; on. THE Days OF THE ComxUNr. LINA EDWIN'’S THEA’ Bourre—Lr roxt pgs Sou: 1, No, 720 Broadway.—OPERa ns, FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Tweaty-foarth street. ‘Tue New DRaxa or Divorce. 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CONTENES OF TO-DAY’S Pace. aS 1—Advertisements. 2 -Advertisements, 3—Connolly Captured: The ex-Comptroller in the Custody of the Sherif; One Miilion Dollars Bail Wanted; Fruitiess Eudeavors to Find Satis- factory Sureties—Alexis and the Army; Gene- Tal McDowell's Reception to the Grand Duke; Covl Trip to Hell Gate; The Pance tn the Pavilion on Governor's Isiand—The Repubil- can Family Feud: Meeting of the Greeley Genera! Committee Last Night—Local News— Weather Report. 4@—Religious Intelligence—The Oriental Greek Church: Proposed Intercommunion of the Russian and American Episcopal Churches; Doctrines, Rites and Government of the Rus- sian Church—Ritualism in Christ Church: A Crisis Reached Between Parson and People; Resignation of Dr. Ewer—Evacuation Day. S—Magniticent Mansfeld: The FalstaMan Fisk Routed, Horse, Foot and Dragoons, py the Late Partner of His Joys; The Dirty Linen of a Lifetime Washea Publicly in a Police Court; A Row Among the Lawyers; The Cleopatra of the Erie Railroad stands a Three-Hours Cross-Examination Without a Flaw Keimg Found tn Her Character—The Gas Question: ‘The Consumers Stull Unsatiafied and the Gas Stull Unimproved—Cotlector Artour—Brooklyn immorality—Horribie Case of Chia Murder—Anotner bead Infant Found in the Street—The Death of the Inevriate Sullivan—Attempted Matricide -Onituary. G—Editoriaia: Leading Article, “The Late Signifi- cant Napoleonic Demonstration in Paris—The Powerful Elements and Causes Working lor an Imperial Restoration"—Amusemeat An- houncements. ‘7—Editoriais (Continued from Sixth Page)—Enuro- pean Cabie Telegrams—News from Washing- ton—Miscelianeous Telegrams—Fires Last Night—Local and Suburban News—Business Nouces, S—Prospect Park Fair Grounds—The Stuyvesant Bank—fhe Cause of Cnarity—Brooklyn’s Aid for the Weat—Boyle, Not Viele, the Man—The Old Dale Chest—Sad End of a Well Known Actress—Financial and Commercial—Mar- riages and Deaths—Advertisements. 9—Aavertisements. 20—Brookiyn’s Tribulations: How the Reform Movement Works; the New Charter and Its Characteristics - Proceedings in the Couris— ‘The Meriden Murder: Inquest on the Bodies of the eee Intelligence—Advertiae- men: ‘Wi—Advertisements, 19—Advertisements. Tue Geeensrier (West Va.) Independent (democratic) is willing to “fall in” with the proposition that the democratic party shall make oo nomination for the Presidency. There bas been a general ‘‘falling in” of the democratic party lately all over the country. A New Potak Expsprrion.—We hear of preparations going on in the little kingdom of Sweden for a new expedition to the Polar re- gions in the coming spring. Professor Nor- denskjid is to conduct the operations and su- perintend the fitting out of the expedition. The shipowners of Gottenburg favor the idea and will advance the means for the undertak- ing.” We wish the expedition every success in its hazardous yet desirable mission. Tux Svits commenced inthe name of the Attorney General of the State against the New York city officials and contractors are civil @uits for the recovery of the money out of which the people have been defrauded. They may end in securing restitution after long Hitigation, or they may fail. But Judge Bed- Word's Grand Jury are on a better tack. They pan lay bare the whole history of the frauds st once and secure the immediate punishment of the guilty parties. PrvssiaN RECLAMATION IN Brazi.—A Worth German squadron, consisting of three gessels of war, is being made ready at Kiel for despatch to the coast of Brazil. Kaiser William will demand reparation from his brother Emperor for an insult which was fately offered to hie flag by the maltreatment of @ Prussian naval officer in Rio Janeiro. Mhe gentleman was roughly bandied and much injured during the progress of a street prawl, Many and different reasons are just mow tending to further the work of German expansion in Europe, Asia and America. Tae Privoz or Wates.—Our latest news regarding the condition of the Prince cannot be eaid to be encouraging. On Friday the were of a more favorable character, but after dark the fever increased aud during the night be was restless and uncomfortable. Great anxiety prevails all over the three king- doms, and it is universally admitied that the death of the Prince in the present circum- stances of the British empire would be a great public calamity. One proof of the gravity of the situation is to be found in the fact that tue Queen has hurried to Windaer from ber Buchiand home a4 Delmorsl ‘Tee Late SigsiGcant Napeleesic Demon- stration in Parie—The Powerful Elements and “Causes Werking fer an Imperial Restoratien. We published yesterday a despatch from Paris to this effect—that on that day, in that fickle, distressed and revolutionary city, o large number of sympathizers with the ex-Em- peror Napoleon made a demonstration in his honor—that they traversed the strects of the Faubourg St. Germain with shouts of ‘‘ Vive Napoléon,” and that no attempt was made by the police to interfere with the demonstration. Now, this is a very significant affair, for it is full of meaning. It means that a tremendous reaction has been quietly going on in Paris and in France since the fall of the terrible Commune—that the French people, with ‘‘the sober second thought,” are . beginning to real- ize the fact that the responsibilities for the crushing disasters of their late war with Ger- many rest as much upon themselves as upon their exiled Emperor. They are beginning to contrast not only the horrors of the Com- mune and the dangers of the Jacobins, but the perilous uncertainties of their present government pro tem., with the law and order, the internal peace and security to life, pro- perty and religion, and the general prosperity and happiness of France in all her industrial pursuits under the late empire; and hence this imperial demonstration and this revived ery of “Vive Napoléon” in the streets of Paris. From a state of industrial prosperity and social happiness, in July, 1870, never before enjoyed by France, from her central capital to her remotest mountain villages, she has passed through an ordeal of invasion and sub- jugation and of internal discords that have amazed the civilized world, to a state of pros- tration and exhaustion which comparative ‘ statistics can only dimly express. Disgusted with the opéra bouffe republic of Gambetta, and stunned with the fiendish atrocities of the Commune, poor France recognizes only a tem- porary resting place in the government of M. Thiers. It is not what France wants. She mows that it cannot last; but as a compro- mise between radical republicans, conservative republicans, Bourbons and Bonapartists it answers her immediate necessities of internal peace. President Thiers, considering all the difficulties of his position, has done very well. But he has evidently been feeling his way as to the wishes of France in reference to the form of the permanent government which is to succeed him, He has tried his game with his favorites, the Bourbons, and he has lost it. We hear no more of the Bourbons or their intrigues or disagreements among themselves. The reaction in their favor has died out. France has been thinking over the matter, and is not going back to the Bourbons. We find next that the repressive measures which the cautious Thiers in the outset adopted against the Bonapartists and the Bonapartes have been abandoned, and in this Napoleonic demonstration in Paris, undis- torbed by the police, we have strong circum- stantial evidence of a new departure. The historical reader will remember that, with the occupation of Paris by the allies in 1814, and while they were negotiating the treaty which reinstated the Bourbons, the Emperor Alex- ander I. of Russia desired to know who would answer for the French Senate; and that Talleyrand, in answering for it, secured the treaty whereby Napoleon was shipped off to Elba, and Louis XVIII. was recalled, and peace was restored. Perhaps the réle of ing in his capital to watoh the Jacobins instead of leaving it again apon a fool's errand to be dethtoned by them in his ab- sence, Prince Bismarck is a keen observer of the drift of passing events; but that which ap- pears so imminent to him of danger in France from a civil war can hardly have escaped the attention of the vigilant Thiers, “The old man does not sleep upon a bed of roses, and he may be casting about for the shortest way of trans- ferring his government into safer hands. We dare say, for the reasons indicated, that if he should seek the advice of Bismarck in refer- ence to Napoleon President Thiers will be ad- vised to try the experiment of a plébiscite. This is as much as Bismarck could, with per- fect safety, venture to suggest. But Marshal MacMahon may setile the matter any fine morning with a coup d'état, and proclaim in Paris the restoration of Napoleon in the midst of a Parisian jubilee. The splendors and the abounding showers of gold which fell upon the gay city under the empire are all gone. Eighty thousand lodgings within her walls are vacant. Fifty thousand of her artisans in all those little fancy gimcracks which contributed so much tothe income of Paris have disap- peared. Millions of francs spent among her fascinations under the empire by strangers have been diverted to London, brussels and Berlin. The Parisians, in short, from this Napoleonic demonstration, are evidently be- ginning to think that while French ‘‘liberty, equality and fraternity” are splendid things, they are not worth much if they cannot fill ex- Talleyrand may be reserved to M. Thiers in the recall of Napoleon the Third. Why not? Talleyrand had been a devoted servant of the empire, as Thiers has been of the kingdom; and the force of circumstances may govern the one as it governed the other. The reactionary elements at work in favor of the Bonapartes, quietly or actively, are certainly very strong. They embrace, to a great extent, the veteran generals and soldiers of the late imperial army, the shopkeepers of Paris and all the other cities and towns of France, her manufacturers and merchants and her Catholic peasantry. When the ex- Emperor speaks of a plébiscite—an appeal to the French people as to the government they desire—he appeals to his faithful Catholic French peasantry, and he challenges his ad- versaries to this trial of the will of the people, which thespresent French Assembly seeks to avoid. When a body of the soldiers of the empire wait upon the Empress Eugénie at Chiselhurst on her féte day it is no doubt to tell her that they await in patience her return to France. When the unfortunate Holy Father of Rome appeals to M. Thiers for a place of refuge in France he contributes to strengthen the cause of Napoleon as the cause of the Church among the faithful French Catholics. When Pio Nono asks of the Emperor of Germany his consent to a Church Council in France it is doubtless in view of some assistance in the work of the restoration of Napoleon. Unquestionably with Napoleon back again in Paris the Pope would be apt to secure better conditions in his settlement with Italy, in Rome or out of Rome, than he can otherwise hope for. In this view the Catholic Church party of France, Italy and Spain, and also of Germany, may be considered as the active adherents, to a greater or less extent, of the cause of Napo- leon as the cause of the Pope. In mentioning Germany we are attracted to a broader view of the subject. We had a special despatch from Berlin yesterday which informs us that ‘Prince Bismarck engages himself in privately advocating a continuance of the military system in Germany of prepara- tion for war,” and ‘for the reason that he sees the tenure of authority held by the Thiers government in France is very precarious.” But what does he fear with the upsetting of the Thiers government? He fears, perhaps, 8 fight of the factions, and that some insane radical faction will come into power which will repudiate the cession to Germany of Alsace and Lorraine, and he wants to be ready to march bis army back into France to put this faction down. But all this trouble will be avoided by France and Germany with the restoration of Napoleon. He will gladly recognize the existing treaty stipulations between France and Germany; he will seek hereafter to be rather at peace than at war with the German empire; he bas had enough of the rectification of bis Rhine frontier. He will understand the full force of that safe maxim that “the empire is peace” in camain- hausted pockets and empty stomachs. It was enraged poverty in Paris that expelled the Bourbons,.and disgusted poverty in Paris may recall the Bonapartes. The Herald’s Influence Abroad. The enterprise of the HERALD has been s0 frequently demonstrated here and been ad- mitted by the press of our own land that it cannot now be questioned. The English press have also conceded the fact and it stands un- challenged. The independence of the HERALD enables it also to treat all parties, sects, creeds and classes alike, and to show fairness and impartiality toward all. We have now another evidence and acknowledgment of our independence and enterprise coming all the way from the border line of Western Russia, where, at the office of the leading Hebrew paper of Europe, the Hamagid (Narrator), the Heratp is regularly received and-duly translated into the biblical language, to be thence transmitted to the remotest borders of Russia, China, India, Turkey and Africa, and wherever a scion of the ‘‘House of Israel” is found speaking or reading that language. The Hamagid has English speaking editors and correspondents, who show their shrewd- ness by seeking the best news from the best sources. Among its American correspondents may be named the eloquent rabbi of the Thirty- “fourth street synagogue, in this city, Dr. Vidaver. The Doctor writes Hebrew and reads it with the pen and the eye of a critic. He is also more or less familiar with Russian, Arabic, German, Polish and other Euro- pean and Asiatic languages, and speaks Eng- lish almost as correctly as a native. This will show the character of the correspondence of the Hamagid, which paper, as will be seen by an article in yesterday's Heraxp, has done much toward the amelioration of the con- dition of the Jews in the great Russian empire. And it has done it under the inspiration of the Hzratp. This paper is doing more to elevate the race and to spread pure democracy in the nations of the earth than all of our contemporaries combined. Sign for Judge Bedford. The political bogus reformers do not like the idea of Judge Bedford’s bold attempt to bring to justice the criminals who have robbed the city treasury. Now that the election is over, these worthies hope to obtain possession of the municipal spoils, and hence they are anxious that the agitation should cease and the peculators be suffered to go unpunished. There may soon be a chance for a new set of cormorants to plunder the people, and a few convictions and severe sentences would be awkward precedents for the hungry incoming commissions, The organ of the new spoils- men therefore assails the movement of Judge Bedford, sneers at his charge to the Grand Jury and questions the official integrity of District Attorney Garvin. All this is encouraging. It shows that Judge Bedford is on the right path, and that his Grand Jury bave an opportunity to render their names famous. If they can bring the whole history of the city frauds to light and the guilty parties to justice, they will succeed where the first citizens of New York and the ablest lawyers in the nation have hitherto failed. Judge Bedford will not be swerved a hair’s breadth from the strict line of his duty by any efforts of the politicians or any abuse that may be heaped upon him by their organs, It is to be hoped that the District Attorney and the Grand Jury will second the efforts of the Judge and as fearlessly perform their part in the important work. A Good A Severe Winter THreatenep.—The winter has set in severely and sharply in London. The cold is said to be most intense. Already the ill-clad and ill-fed poor are suf- fering as they have not suffered in many years, The police reports show that at least seventeen persons have perished from the im- mediate effects of the cold. These things, taken in connection with the news which we have had regarding the frost and snow in our own Western country—the snow in the Utah valleys being some six feet deep—seem to in- dicate that the winter on which we have en- tered will be more than usually severe in northern latitudes the world over. Measures are being taken in London to succor the poor. It will be well if the warning is taken here in time. Let the poor be economical and give proof that they are not unwilling to help them- selves. Let those to whom Providence or fortune has been more kind be generous to the extent of their ability. It is a mistake which seems incurable that caution on the one hand and kindness on the other come when it is too late. A Wester Paper gets things slightly mixed in regard to a recent demonstration in New York harbor. According to this authority it was ‘‘O’Donnavan-Russia,” and not the ‘Grand Duke of Russia,” who was the victim of the ovation, + se NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Suit Against the City OfMficiale—Arrest | The New Seasation in Italian Opera. | to the exigencies of any réle in their of Richard B. Connolly. Republicans, as well as republics, are un- grateful. Yesterday morning, while all our gay and festive city officials were dreaming of an early release from their onerous municipal duties and a pleasant ride in the Lane, as is their wont of a Sunday afternoon, an unusual excitement burst forth im the City Hall Park, and a sudden consternation, amounting almost to a panic, fell upon the loungers in that famous or infamous locality” Ex-Comptroller Connolly was in the hands of the Sheriff. The man who had been the ally and main prop of the Committee of Seventy, the man who had been lauded by all the political sensation organs for his patriotism, disinterestedness and zeal in the cause of reform; the man who we were told only a few weeks ago had made ample atonement for his errors; the man without whom the recent vic- tory in this city could scarcely have been won, and but for whom the power of Tammany might never have been broken ; the man, in short, who bas been for nearly two months the patron of Green, the pet of Havemeyer and the delight of Tilden, was actually under arrest, and an arrest, too, that had been made as unpleasant and incon- venient as possible. When the facts became known it appeared that Richard B. Connolly had been joined as a co-defendant with William M. Tweed and others in the civil suit brought by Charles O'Conor, in the name of the Attorney General of the State of New York, for the recovery of the moneys alleged to have been charged under city contracts in excess of the actual work performed and divided among the parties in interest. As in the case of Tweed, the summons came from Albany, and the new defendant was required to furnish bail in the amount of one million dollars, the sureties to justify in double that sum. When the city agitation first commenced, and the developments of the frauds were made, the HERALD insisted that all the parties concerned in their perpetration should be included in any proceedings taken to force restitution or to secure punishment. But the politicians at that time stood before the ex-Comptroller and would not suffer him to be attacked. They desired to,use him until after election. Now that the election is over, the party triumph secured and’ the resignation of Connolly obtained, the politicians, having no further use for him, abandon him to his fate. It is very proper that Connolly should be united with Tweed in this suit, and that the law enforced against the one should lay its hands upon the other as well. Yet what a lesson does the ex-Comptroller receive of the ingratitude of politicians! In the case of the Tweed arrest ample notice was fornisbed to the “Boss” of the coming storm, and he was prepared to give his bail in a few hours avd to walk forth smilingly from his throne room in the Department of Public Works. Not so with Connolly. No whisper reached his ears of the intended proceedings. Tracked by detectives from his house to the new Coart House, he was pounced upon suddenly in the Comptroller's office, the scene of his past greatness, and there at once placed under @ polite arrest. The writ was served on Saturday, when many business men are absent from the city, and two million dollars bail is a large amount in which to justify. Besides, the Committee of Seventy and the republican politicians all appear to have ‘‘gone back,” as the vulgar saying is, on the ex-Comptroller. They had weaned him from his old associates, who would otherwise have been as true to him in the hour of need as they were to the ‘‘Boss” himself, and when misfortune came they left him in the lurch. When a Deputy Comptroller was to be ap- pointed Havemeyer was the counsellor and friend of Connolly. When developments were to made Havémeyer was at Connolly's shoulder ready to prompt and receive the evidence. But when Connolly was io the hands of the Sheriff Havemeyer failed to appear. ——Where was Roderick then? One blast upon nis bugle horn Were worth @ thousand men ! And so Connolly was left to figure as well as he could among his humbler friends for release from his awkward position. We have not great faith in these ‘‘recovery” suits. They are likely to lead to long litiga- tion, and should any of the plunder be recov- ered it will scarcely benefit the citizens of New York. The cost of such proceedings will be very likely to swallow up all the money that cap be obtained from the defendants. We believe that Judge Bedford's energetic and earnest movement to bring the guilty parties to justice is more likely to end in a vindica- tion of the law and the punishment of those whohave defrauded the city than any other proceedings that have yet been taken. The people are, nevertheless, quite willing that the Attorney General's suits should go on, and it is proper that Connolly should be made a de fendant with Tweed and the rest. Anythiog that can be done to force restitution should he undertaken. But the eleventh hour onslaught on the ex-Comptroller teaches a lesson of the unreliability of political friends, and probably indicates some alarm on the part of certain politicians at the recent movements among those democrats who in the late election ac- complished the overthrow of Tammany. PorvtarR DisTURBANOES IN BRUssELa.— Brussels at the present momert, so far as we know the facts, is in a state of great excite- ment. The government has appointed and the Chamber of Representatives sanctioned the appointment of a certain M.de Decker Governor of Limburg. M. de Decker is not a popular favorite and the people will not have him. So serious bas become the trouble that Parliament has found it convenient if not ne- cessary to adjourn. Military reinforcements were marched into the city yesterday. Quiet prevailed, but the advent of a sudden out- break was not at all improbable. When people have generally the right conceded to them of electing their own governors there will be less likelihood of such trouble arising. Belgium is in some respects the best gov- erned country in the world; but even in Bel- gium there is room for improvement. Tue Weex ws Walt Street, so dull and quiet, was varied at the close by considerable activity in the Stock Exchange and a slight flurry in the money market, Gold was monotonously steady. Cotton advanced and wheat was dull, The o1 success attendant upon the first representation of Ambroise Thomas’ new opera of “‘Mignon” on Wednesday even- ing, a success which was even eclipsed by the performances of the same opera on Friday evening and yesterday afternoon, is an addi- tional evidence of the earnest desire of the metropolitan public to recognize and patronize liberally everything that is good and great in the lyric drama, The charming melodies of the opera, the stray waifs of concerted music with which it is adorned, the brilliant finales to the first and third acts, the exquisite imper- sonation of the childlike creation of Goethe by Mile. Nilsson, the sparkling, coquettish réle of Felina so admirably interpreted by Mile. Duval, the impassioned love scenes of Capoul, the dignity and paternal affection of the aged father of the heroine, so artistically shown by Jamet, and the liberality and taste displayed in the stage setting of the opera, were all received with deserved applause by the extremely fashionable audience that thronged the Opera House. Seldom has an opera taken such a hold on the public from its first representation, and it grows more attrac- tive at each subsequent hearing. It would also be difficult to name an opera season which has been ao invariably brilliant and success- ful; and now all doubts as to the practicability of making Italian opera a permanent institu- tion in this city have been removed. «It re- mains for all future managers to secure the very best talent and to bring out operas in the most complete manner possible. The public will take care of the rest. The Nilsson Opera Company, now almost at the end of their season at the Academy, will return to this city in the spring, when, likely, the best opera in the Swedish nightingale’s répertoire, ‘Hamlet,” will be produced for the first time. There will be then an exceilent opportunity for the director to make a genuine sensation, and to eclipse even the brilliancy of the present sea- son. This may be done by the engagement of two artists like Miss Kellogg and Herr Wachtel, who can alternate with Nilsson and Capoul. The interest of the public would thereby be excited to the highest pitch, asthe competition between these artists would cause them to put forth their utmost efforts, and to raise a discussion as to their respective merits which would all be beneficial both to the director and the public. For instance, should Nilsson and Capoul appear in ‘‘Faust” one week, everybody would go afterwards to see Kellogg and Wachtel in the same réles, so that they might be able to judge for themselves on the preference to be accorded to either representation. Then we have this season one of the finest operatic baritones on the stage, one whose appearance in opera would be of itself sufficient to: create a sensation in opera. This artist is Santley, at present the star of a concert troupe. An Italian opera numbering among its mem- bers such transcendent artists as Nilsson, Kellogg, Wachtel, Capoul and Santley might extend its season far into the summer. Such engagements will, of course, entail very heavy expenses on the management; but the public have shown an unmistakable inclination to patronize opera of the highest order in the most liberal manner. Patti and Lucca are the rival stars at Covent Garden each season, and their attractions generally succeed in drawing away a considerable share of the patronage from Drury Lane. Combinations of great artists have never been known to fail as attractions, and now that we have the best that Europe and America can boast of, in this city, the Nilsson management should not let the opportunity pass. It is useleas to talk about the enormous expense and risk of a combination of this kind. It was thought at first an impossibility to reconcile the public with London prices, but this season they have cheerfully paid fiva hundred dollars for a box for twenty nights; and with such a combina- tion as we speak of the management would, if necessary, receive one thousand dollars for the same box. To enlarge on this subject, we would ear- nestly suggest a spring and summer season of Italian opera at the Academy of Music with such a company as we will now name. Mile. Christine Nilsson has already proved herself the first lyric actress of the day and a singer of exceptional ability. We have also Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, the sweetest song bird that ever our country has given birth to, and who may be justly termed the Mocking Bird of America. Then we have one of the grand- est of all dramatic prime donne, Madame Parepa-Rosa, whose voice brings back recol- lections of the days of Malibran and Grisi, and who is without a rival in strong, dramatic voles like Norma, Donna Anna and Lucretia Borgia. Next comes an old favorite, one who has during her stay in Europe gained the highest laurels, and who has there proved her- self a first class artist, Madame Jenny Van Zandt, a lady whose admirers in this city may be counted by the hundred, Mlle. Pauline Canissa, a fifth prima donna soprano, has gained enviable laurels in opera in New York, and her name would add very much to the company. Here we have five prime donne, all of recognized talent and capable of singing creditably in any réle in opera. We are equally strong in the contralto line. Prominent among our artists in this particular we may mention Madame Gazzaniga, Miss Adelaide Phillips, Miss Cary, Miss Nettie Sterling, Mile. Clara Perl (who has made a genuine success during the Wachtel season) and Mile. Frida de Gebele. The tenor de- partment is richer still in materials. The greatest of all living tenors is Wachtel, who has been the chief attraction at the Stadt Thea- ter for thirty nights, and whose transcendent abilities caused even a Providence critic to in- dulge in the high-flown criticism which we pub- lished yesterday. Capoul has already proved himself a very acceptable and highly cultivated artist and a genuine favorite with the ladies. What more is needed for a light tenor in opera? Brignoli’s silvery voice has never failed to please, and he has long held a posi- tion second to no Italian tenor in popularity. First among baritones we must mention Santley, whose triamphs in London recalled to opera-goers the days of Tamburini. Then come such artists as Campbell, Randolfi, Barre and Cook, all of whom may be relied upon as conscientious artists, We have no more La- blaches or Formeses, but Jamet and Her- manos may be considered am adeanate line. Then, as the first experiment in mew Scenery and appointments has been sc succees- ful, it would be a very judicious investment for the same Management to repeat the at- tempt whenever a new opera, or even an olé one, is brought out. Mr, Wallack would not think of presenting “The Rivals” or “(Rose- dale” with the scenery, dresses and appoint- ments used at the firat representation of either play at his theatre. On the contrary, at each revival of such comedies he endeavors to lm- prove upon former representations as much as possible. An opera manager should do the same in the production of old operas, and not fise scenes and stage furniture almost worn out in the service, Nothing can be more gratify ing toa lover of art than the hearty, liberal response of the New York public this season to the representations of the Nilsson troupe, and we can only express a hope that the cause of opera will not be permitted again to lan- guish, but will progress under the influence of a combination of such artists as we have re- ferred to. There is plenty of time before the spring season to effect the necessary arrange- ments. Already the other papers are follow- ing our course in recommending the combina- tion of great artista we have so repeatedly urged. We published yesterday an editorial from the Hvening Mail on that subject, taking up some of the main points already advanced by the Heraxp. ; Objection has been raised, and justly too, by many of the subscribers to the present season of opera, on account of the very un- warrantable proceeding of the management in defrauding his patrons out of the regular sub> scription night on Monday next on the flimsy excuse of paying a compliment to the Grand Duke Alexis. Now, this compliment might aa well be offered on another evening, when the rights of the subscribers would not be violated. It is, to say the least of it, a palpable breach of contract, and an apology is due from the management, Such things should not be allowed to mar the success of such a season as the present one. Our Religious Press Table. ‘ It is a somewhat noticeable fact that what- ever our local religious contemporaries have advocated in the matter of municipal politica and reform has been triumphantly accom- plished. Since the war against the Tammany Ring conspirators began every religious sheet in this city, of any respectable tone or stand- ing, has taken a positive position in demand- ing those reforms which the people so cordially sustained at the polls. The political influence of our pious people should not, therefore, be reckoned lightly of by the old political stagers and ward tricksters and canvassers. There is a vein of sound morals and strict political purity under- lying our institutions which needs but the alarm being sounded to bring to the surface and make. the political scoundrels and mid- tight burglars in the political arena shrink back to their kennels like whipped hounds. Occasionally our friends of the religious press will open a raging tempest of bigotry and ia- tolerance, but that, we may say, is the excep- tion, and not the rule. The Evangelist (Presbyterian) this week discusses the subject of ‘‘misgoverned cities,” taking for its text an article on the misgovern- ment of New York which appeared in the last* ~ number of the North American Review, and the points of which are thus briefly enume- rated: — He (the writer in the North American) would have one responsibie executive head, who should appoint his subordinates, to whom the peopie might look for the enforcement of tne laws, the preserva- sion of order and the maintenance of honesty and economy in each department. He — insists, and justly, on a judiciary appointed for life. He would have a legislative body tnat shoula hold the parse-strings and determine how much and for what aa sean public money should be ap- propriated. This legislation might consist of @ single body sufficiently numerous to allow the re; resentative of each district to be known to voters in it, It should be prohibited from the exer- cise of any executive functions whatever, and no special legisiation should be allowed. Over every matter concerning the city specially, the municipat ret should have control, thus relieving the tate of a task which {t can only discharge imper- pour at best and at the risk of ts own demoraliza- jon. These points have already been urged in the Herarp in framing the new charter, but the Zvangelist is inclined to think they are not radical enough. But amid the evils flow- ing from the present charter the Hoangelist is of opinion that almost any change would be ® relief. At any rate the present system, it de- clares, ‘‘is doomed. What shall take ite place?” The Hvangelist answers its own question by saying :— The question challenges the most serious atten- tion. It is one of general interest. It conceras us as anation. More and more, as railways and &in- dred improvements oxtend, are the muitiplying millions of our population cougregating in cities, New York has furnisned them already @ warning. She has been forced to learn by great mistakes. Men cannot be reformed or regenerated by legigia- tion. To reach the masses, and fit them to exercise their rights intelligently and honestly, we must all the mears of popular education, moral and gious as well as intellectual. But we may at least so construct governmeng tnut it shall not become a premium on corruption. The Mvangelist has some caustic words to utter in regard to the recent outrages com- mitted by Americans on Chinese at Los An- geles, Cal. ‘Every blow,” it says, “‘struck on our Pacific coast by American roughe at an innocent Chinese endangers the lives of our own citizens on the other side of the globe.” This especially refers to American missionaries, who, like all missionaries from outside barbarian nations, are regarded with distrust and aversion by the masses of the Chinese. The Observer (Presbyterian) refers to the “Dying Doings of the Ring,” with especial reference to the late charity donations made by the Board of Apportionment. The Ob server declares that ‘Those so-called charity schools are an organized wariare against the educational aystem of New York and the United States generally, and if sus tained either political y will result tm the establishment of @ Komanized system ot public instruction hostile to our repnolicaa institutions and fitted, as designed, to per euate and spread the Romish despotism, over he minds of the youth of this land. * Hence there has long been @ y willing to support tais Romisnh c tracy for the sake of tne Romish vote. Hence the alliance in this city between the corrups Ring and the Roman Irish vote, which ts in hands ‘of the pricsta, and is given to suppurt the men who will give tne priests money in the form of appropriations for charity schools. The Observer should remember that ‘‘Rome was not built ina day.” How can it expect, therefore, that the prodigions Romish inftu- ence of which it complains should be over- turned in one election day? Don't be too impatient and too radical is the advice we give to our brother, the observed of all Pres- byterian Observers, The Independent, trae to its natural in- stincts (it is always bowing in that direction), is out in an elaborate article in favor of the renomination of General Graut as the reoubli-