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6 uW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, N All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York ‘Hara. Letters and packages should be properly cealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVI.......ccceecceeseeeeseee NG S44 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Ta® BALer PaN- ‘ToMIME OF Humpty Dumpty. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st,, corner Sixth av.— Hamer. WOOD'S MUSKUM, Brosaway, corner 36th st.—Perform- ances afternoon and evening.—LiFk IN THE STREETS. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. and 38d st— ‘day SreKets oF New Yora. FIFTR AVENUF THEATRE, Tweaty-fourth street.— Tux New Drama oF Divoron. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 726 Broadway.—Orera Bovurre—Le ron? Es BOUFERS, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13h street.— ROsEDALE. KIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. BOWEBY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pucar Gnren—Rep Hanps. 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Pace. ao 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3-‘he Black Friday Case: The Charge of Tamper ing Witn the Jury Investigated—Religious uakings Among the Quakers—The Wharton- etchnum Trial: Sixth Day's Proceedings at Annapolis—The Metairie Races—Canada: 0 Of the Ontario Legislature. 4—Connolly’s Case: The Argument at Albany for Redaction of Bail; Ubaries U’Conor on the War Path; Im t Points in Equity and Law; Connolly Still a Captive—Affairs Yesterday at the Tublic Departments—The New Democratic Departure—Ravages of the Smallpox During the Year—The New Appor- tuionment—Down With the Nero of Mexico— Supposed Chila Murder. G—Keligious Intelligence—Proceedings in the Courts—Postponement of the Fisk-Mansfield Libel Case—The erp na Society—Eclectic Couege—Death on the Rall—A Willtamsbu: Ferryboat Condemned—Aid for the Fire Suf- ferers—The New Reception Hospitai—A Public Fraud—Dry Goods Market. 6—Editorials: Leadi Article, “The Crisis in ‘France—The New Game of President Thiers"— Amusement Announcoments, Y—The Prince of Wales’ tliness: The Fever una- bated Last Night; Hope of the Peopie and Expression of National Respect; The Feeling in this City—Interesting from France, Eng- land, Germany and Scotland—Important from Russia—News {rom Washington—Busi- ness Notices. 8—Financial and Commecial—The Death of James Durning—Matthew T. Brennan General Asso- ciation—Destructive Fire in Bridgeport, Conn.—Alleged Arson in Trenton—Mar- aiages, Birth and Deaths—Advertisements, 9—Acivertisements. 10—The Grand Duke: Enthustastic Reception of tbe Prince Everywhere—‘L'Internationale”’: New York Answers to Paris; The Workingmen Shake the Red Fiag in the Face of the Folice eae — Shipping intelligence — Advertise- ment 11—Abvertisements. 12—acvertisements. Tue French Lecwiative ASSEMBLY was moved to noisy demonstrations by the excite- ment of debate during the sitting yesterday. Quiet was restored by a temporary suspension of the proceedings. The question at issue, relating to the conduct of the Commission of Pardons toward the convicted Communists, was dropped after the resumption of business. Tae Prog or WaLEs.—Our latest reports of the condition of the Prince of Wales have revived the hope that he may possibly re- cover. The probabilities, however, are so heavily against him that we fear that at any moment we may get the tidings of his death. Meantime, from the universal public sympa- thy awakened for the Prince, the unhappy Queen and the royal family, whether life or death is the issue of this severe ordeal of dis- ease through which the Prince is passing, it is morally certain that the British monarchy will, at least for some time, be strengthened by « political reaction in its favor against the radical agitators of the great cities of England. Should the Prince live it is hoped that he will become a wiser man than he bas been; and in the event of his death, the public mind being prepared for it, we apprehend no dis- turbances or serious excitements in the British Islands touching the government under the Queen, nor in reference to the regency by which, soon or late, she must be succeeded, Warp's New Group or Sratvary.—A happy exception to the hideousness of which the Heratp has often complained, as charac- teriging most of the public statues erected in this clty, is found in the white marble group that now stands out in beautiful relief against the heavy, massive granite of the Equitable Building on Broadway. An emblem of the idea of which the massive building is itself a monument, It represents a female figure of exquisite proportions protecting with a shield a mother and a child. It thus artistically symbolizes the protecting shield which life insurance holds over the widow and the father- ‘ens. Executed in Italy, after a model by the celebrated American sculptor, J. Q. A. Ward, it was cut from a single block of Carrara marble of perfect purity. It was first unveiled as the Grand Duke Alexis was passing before it on the day of his reception in New York. The example of the Equitable Society might weil be followed. Abolish the costly and senseless carvings that disfigure so many of our conspicuous buildings. Let the face of each stracture be made plain and massive, while the ornamentation is concentrated in one such splendid and significant work of art. The result will soon be a marvellous improvement in New York architecture. NEW YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, The Crisis ta Fraace—The New Game of | lished to-day would not satisfy all. As little, Presideat Thiers. A Heratp special, to be found elsewhere in these columns this morning, informs us that a radical change in the French govern- ment is imminent. President Thiers, it seems, has made up his mind to resign the Presidency in favor of the Duke d’Aumale. Our correspondent states that the Duke and the President have a perfect understanding on the subject. The new arrangement, it is said, is epproved of by all the members of the Right. The Princes of the House of Orleans are so far pleased with the proposed arrange- ment that they have agreed not to take their seats in the Assembly until the new scheme is ripe and ready to shape itself into visible fact. The principal reason assigned for the new departure—for so we must take the liberty to call it—ts that the President feels his inability to longer resist the forces of the Right, which have been sent up from the prov- inces. Another reason is that he bas an in- creasing dread of the influence which it is known the imperialists have with the army. There are those who think that the Duke d’Aumale, who, like his father, is somewhat of a trickster, may, once he gets hold of the reins of government, cheat the Count de Paris out of his rights, The feeling is strong, however, that the army, by declaring for the empire, may mar the plans of Thiers and destroy the hopes of the Orleanists. Such is our latest budget of news from France. We did not need this piece of intelli- gence to be convinced that a crisis had at last arrived in the history of the provisional gov- ernment of President Thiers. That a crisis was approaching has long been apparent; and many weeks ago it was foreshadowed in these columns, Of one thing this despatch makes us certain—it shows that the French people as a whole are dissatisfied with the un- certainty which prevails. The masses of the people, who care little for politics, demand a fixed government, To them it matters little whether the government be republican, mo- narchical or imperial. What they want is that an end be made to this provisional régime, which, while calling itself republican, is more despotic than the empire, but which is neither republican nor monarchical, nor imperial. This is the feeling throughout the country. With the politicians matters are entirely different. Each party has its own scheme and is bent on its own purpose. The republicans are partly pleased because they have the form although they have not the substance. The imperial- ists are not altogether dissatisfied, because the provisional government still leaves them the army, on which, when the final tug of war comes, they know they can lean, The Orleanists are impatient because they know that but for the resistance of the President they could carry their purpose, Such is the state of public feeling and such is the attitude of the different parties. We have not mentioned the legitimists, because we think the time has come when they must be counted out of the fight. No one is so fully aware that such is the state of things as President Thiers himself. For some eight or nine months he has been asking France to wait, and encourag- ing the belief that his plans were fully matured, and that when the time for action came mat- ters would be found all right. France has waited; the political factions have been rea- sonably peaceful; but to-day the original uncertainty remains, and no man can tell what is to be the immediate future. Impa- tience, it is manifest, has now taken hold of the nation and of all the political parties, but particularly, it seems, of the monarchists, and delay is no longer to be tolerated. The President is convinced that he must do some- thing, or seem to be willing to do something. Hence the programme sketched in our special cable despatch. Is the President serious in this proposal? That is the question which many who know France and French political parties will ask themselves when they read the new pro- gramme. Let us distinctly understand what it is proposed to do. Arrangements are to be made whereby the Orleans Princes shall be enabled to take their seats, So soon as they shall have taken their seats in the Assembly President Thiers will resign, and the Assembly will be asked to appoint in his place the Duke d’Aumale, This is the plan. On the face of it it does look like an honest attempt to secure the restoration of the House of Orleans, It is notorious that the Assembly is two- thirds monarchical, and it is not to be doubted that if M. Thiers should carry out his avowed purpose the Duke d’Aumale would be elected President by a large majority. But the ques- tion remains—is President Thiers sincere? Does he really intend to carry out this pro- gramme? Our readers must have noticed of late that M. Thiers no longer terrifies the Assembly into obedience by daily threats of resignation, That game is played out. It is no longer serviceable. May it not be that in this new scheme we have the old threat repeated, under a new form? Arrangements have yet to be made. The purpose is not to be carried out immediately, What if the Assembly should again take fright, and seeing, after the resignation of the President, another war of the factions, barricades, blood and all the horrors of civil war, should request him to abandon his purpose and remain, for at least a little while longer, at the helm of the ship of state? Would this be at all wonderful? If such should be the result the old threat will be again successful, and the wily old statesman will have accom- plished his purpose. Even the Princes of the House of Orleans will be compelled to admit that their own and their father’s friend has done for them what he could. That he had not been able to serve them more effectively was not his blame, but the blame of the Assembly. in spite of the thinly disguised cunning of this scheme it has much to recommend it, The continuation of the present government for a little while longer is, perhaps, the best thing possible for France, It is a compromise government. All parties are more or less recognized. Noone party rules, A little while longer of the pres- ent state of things and the factions might begin to undergsand that in order to have a good governmemt in France there must be concession all ateand. A government reason- ably representing all parties—that is what France needs; that is what President Thiers has been aiming at, but which he has not yet accomplished. The republic formally estab- however, would the monarchy or the empire. What better course, then, can be followed than to prolong the existence of the present provisional government? The great trouble, however, is that the French people and the French political fac- tions are not so wise as they ought to be. What should be done is more or lesa clear. What will be done is in the last degree uncer- tain. Froma later despatch we learn that the Princes of the House of Orleans have yielded to the remonstrances of the President and have promised for the present not to take their seats, This, we think, is well. But it leaves things as unsettled as ever. What if the Orleanists in the Assembly should insist on pushing matters to a final settlement? Whatif the Emperor Napoleon should some of these mornings effect a land- ing on the French coast, and the old marshals of the empire, with MacMahon at their head and the entire army of France at their back, should hoist the imperial eagle and proclaim the empire restored? These are not improba- bilities, The fact is that an uprising in favor of Napoleon is one of the main causes of the present alarm. The Orleanists are impatient of delay, because delay is in the interest of the empire. Should President Thiers honestly make the attempt to carry out his new pro- gramme we wish him all the success which he deserves; but we have an honest conviction that the present government has been a fail- ure, that the political factions are as yet irre- concilable and that France is on the verge of another revolution, Significant Speech of the Czar of Russia— The Entente with Germany and Peace and Order in Europe. His Majesty the Czar of Russia has de- livered a speech on the subject of the con- dition of the relations which exist between his government and that of the Emperor William, of Germany. Setting aside the forms and usages of Cabinet diplomacy, the Russian po- tentate has made a public personal pro- fession of his good will towards the great power which Prussia has matured at his side. The expression is of the most pointed significance, _ particularly so at the present grand crisis in the history of the governments and peoples of the Old World. The manner and moment of its pro- nouncement are remarkable. The Czar attended at the anniversary banquet given by the Knights of the Order of St. George— founded by the Empress Catherine—in St. Petersburg. He proposed a toast to “The Health of the Emperor of Germany.” The Czar prefaced the compliment with an ad- dress in which he said that ‘‘the intimate friendship which exists between the Emperor of Germany and himself would last as long as they lived;” he hoped it would be “transmitted to future generations by their successors,” and that the fraternity of the armies of Germany and Russia—which “dates from an ever-memorable epoch”— would be perpetual, thus giving ‘guarantees for the maintenance of peace and legal order in Europe.” No public man could be more explicit than the Czar—very few of the professional statesmen of the day would say so much, Russia and Germany are one in senti- ment, as they will most likely be in policy when a proper moment arrives for the com- plete fruition of the national union. Judging from the words of the Czar, as they have reached us by cable telegram, we incline to the opinion that the cause of radical democracy is in danger in Europe. With the Courts of St. Petersburg and Berlin in intimate friendly communion French republicanism must be very watchful for the preservation of its life. The allusions to the former ‘‘ever-memorable epoch” and ‘‘the future maintenance of peace and legal order in Europe” recall the remem- brance of the era of the allied occupation of Paris, and premonish the radicals of the pre- sent day of the vast power of the imperialist pacificators and the probability that ‘‘order” may be made to reign generally in Europe and the East, from St. Petersburg to Frank- fort and from Berlin to Paris and Con- stantinople, President Thiers and Pope Pius. The relations between President Thiers and the Holy Father, at the present time, are of a peculiarly interesting character. The French Executive, possibly in anticipation »f changes which may occur in the immediate future of France, is trimming his sails accordingly. He is anxious to conciliate the Pope, and is doing everything in his power to make as good a show as possible in that direction. With the French peasantry manifestations of this kind goa great way. Devout Catholics as they are, they are also strong Bona- partists, They associate the days of the empire with the most prosperous in their recollections, and long for a return of these times. No one knows this better than the present bead of the French nation. Ca- lamitous as were the disasters which befell France during the last days of the empire, the name of Napoleon is not forgotten by them. The position of the Pope in Rome, the rumors of his proposed departure from that city and the recent interviews of the Minister accredited to the Vatican, prepare us ina measure for any movement on the part of His Holiness, In case he should leave Rome, where will he take up his residence? M. Thiers almost as good as answers the question when he places the Chiteau of Pau at his disposal, and has stationed a frigate at Civita Vecchia to be used in case His Holiness should need it to bear him to the hospitable shores of France. Gen- erous as this offer of M. Thiers is, we think he would rather the Pope would remain where he is. In his dealing with this question M. Thiers is attempting the difficult undertaking of riding two horses. He does not invite the Pope directly to take up his residence in France, but he offers him the generous hospitality of the nation if he should come, If M. Thiers’ sentiments were thor- oughly estimated we think they would amount to this:—“‘Your Holiness is welcome if you come, but I would sooner you would remain where you are.” It is impossible to say what course the Holy Father will eventnally adopt, but it is some consolation for him to know that he has a home to go to should he resolve to leave the Vatican; and, generous as is the offer of President Thiers, there are other nations, we have no doubt, ready to accord the Holy Father quite as friendly an offer as that given by France through M. Thiers, eetene Es DECEMBER 10, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET, The Rumored Design of the Impeacimeat ) marshalling of both the Canadian provinces of President Grant. The reported combination movement of the disaffected republicans and the democrats of Congress for the impeachment of President Grant has in it the elements of a great politi- cal agitation, and, perhaps, of a great political revolution, The parties concerned in the scheme, and the grounds of their contem- plated action on the St. Domingo imbroglio, as reported by our Washington correspondent, make out a very plausible case, both for the projected impeachment and in view of the chances of its success as a firebrand in the re- publican camp. There are many republicans in both houses of Congress whose first desire is the defeat of General Grant as a candidate for another term. They, perhaps, see that as he cannot be defeated in the regular party convention, nor by the democrats in the election, some bolder expedient must be adopted to cut him off. They, perhaps, expect that in this impeachment acheme, if nothing else is accomplished, a great agitation may be raised, which will so split up and dis- organize the administration party as to give the coming national election to the combined opposition forces by a heavy majority. We await further information on the sub- ject. Let us hear, not that some democrat is going to lead off in this movement in the House of Representatives, but that some re- publican has authorized the fact to be made known that he will take the initiative, and we shall know that mischief is afoot. If the Senate possessed the initiative on impeachments we should have had from Mr. Sumner or Mr. Schurz an indictment, with a long string of specifications, against General Grant at the last session; but the initiative belongs to the House, and when we hear of a republican in that body bold enough to make the venture and resolve to try it we shall be ready for a great commotion. Impeachment resolutions from a democrat would be quietly laid on the table, and that would be the end of them; but a republican, in taking the lead, backed by a strong force of anti-Grant repub- licans, would ‘‘make Rome howl.” We walt for further information. The Canadian Provinces—Meesage of the Lieutenant Governor of Canada West. The Message of the Lieutenant Governor of Canada West, or Ontario, to the Provincial Legislature, shows that the old strifes and jealousies existing for a number of years between the upper and lower provinces of Canada have not been set at rest by the scheme of confederation. The original union between the two provinces was based upon the princi- ple of a balance of power, so as to prevent either section from gaining a preponderance in the united legislation, At the time the union was formed this was regarded as a necessary precaution by Canada West, in order to guard against any encroachment on the part of the Eastern province, then the most numerously populated of the two. It was provided that no increase in the representation of either province should take place without a corresponding addition on the other side. Upper Canada was English and Protestant, Lower Canada was French and Catholic, Thus, if the population of any portion of the lower province increased so as to entitle the district to an additional member of the Union Parliament, it was forced to hold its right in abeyance until a new member should be added to some district in the upper province. In the course of time this resiriction worked injuri- ously for the upper province, or Canada West, whose population increased rapidly by immi- gration, while Canada East remained stationary or actually lost ground. The former, therefore, demanded representation on the basis of popu- lation—a reform rendered the more imperative from the fact that the lower province managed to monopolize the power of the government, although a minority of the people of the union, The reason of this was that the Catholic representatives of Lower Canada held solidly together, while they could always manage to win over some of the members from the West, and thus command a majority in the Parlia- ment. The Western province was thus forced to see objectionable school laws enacted; the legislation of the country and the Court proceedings conducted tm a foreign language, and the interests of Upper Canada generally made subservient to those of Lower Canada. The scheme of confederation was concocted to get rid of this sectional strife, and was con- summated none too soon, The upper province agreed to it in the belief that it would be the means of overthrowing the increasing and en- croaching power of the lower province. The latter, after much opposition, was induced to consent to the Dominion plan, partly in the belief that they might yet retain their superl- ority and partly because they feared that a longer continuance of the old condition of af- fairs would lead to serious results, It appears now, however, that one of the earliest acts of the new confederation, the adjustment of the liabilities and assets of the two provinces, is likely to lead to strife and may be the means of overthrowing the new order of things, Lower Canada objects to the award made by the arbitrators appointed by the govern- Bent and gagtq all possible technigal obsta- eles fo the way to prevent a settlement, The Lieutenant Governor of the upper province, in alluding to these facts, declares that the action of the lower province will revive those political and sectional conflicts which fur years prior to the confederation endan- gered the peace of the country. He declares that the people of Canada West agreed to the policy of confederation mainly in the hope of escaping these critical issues, and casts upon Lower Canada the responsibility of reopen- ing them and of the momentous conse- quences likely to result therefrom, It is evident that the natural enmities and jealousies between the two great sections in the new confederation are left unhealed, and must assurredly lead at last to a serious con- flict. Lower Canada is resolved to maintain her preponderance or to leave the government, Montreal and other portions, whose interests are closely identified with the United States, are at any moment prepared for annexation, and would prefer a union with the republic to a secondary position in the New Dominion. It appears probable that the confederation brought about at such cost and exertion by the Home government, may, after all, be only 4be preparatory step to the severance of Canada from its British connection, and the among the States of the republic. Our Religious Press Table. Henry Ward Beecher, in the Christian Union, discusses the subject of ‘Liberty of Speecb,” in which he avers that he has no great store of truths in advance of public sentiment; but he has a good many thoughts before and behind and on all sides of public sentiment, “pat,” “ some die out. “Bomne ‘change enee sotae prove 6 be old as the hi! won't ripen, but lis, Many of tne oe of worm-bitten. Tshoutd De astamed to hide or at ler hold any truth of whose authenticity I had, Suhanod'not to put upon “probation toss. swartas ion of thoughts with which this stimulating age inspires every thinking man, until time should Prva which were tru! which halt ao tempt! foe truths, and whic! ping This is a little in advance of the old axiom which suggests that even the truth should not be spoken at all times. If every man, or, what might possibly be much worse, if every woman, were to give utterance to his or her thoughts, what a pandemonium this world would be! There is an old Latin maxim which, literally translated, means that ‘‘all men are liars,” or, more or less, humbugs, There- fore if Henry Ward Beecher wishes toretain his reputation for trath and veracity he is justified in being careful how he utters his thoughts, for that which may be true one day may be a lie the next, Mr. Beecher touches upon the subject of “Amnesty in the South” in a manly and mag- nanimous spirit. He says :— We say, let us have done with punishing the South, Let us no lot humiliate those who have had so many humiliations, Is not the nation | enough to risk the admission of these men to fal political privileeest Are we not forgiving enough to have done with the infliction of pains and penal- ties? Are we not wise enough to cease trying to promote peace by a policy of exasperation’ ‘There 1s especial reason for decreeing universal amnesty at this time. The control of the national govern- ment was never 80 secure to the republican party. There 1s no longer any danger of a reversal of the measures that secace the black man’s rights. * * * There is a work of magnanimity and trust to be done as well, and it is full time that the work was wrought, The great: measure should not be marred by any reservations and exactions, If five hundred or fifty or five men are singled out to remain under the ban the practical benefit of the measure will be greatly impaired. We want it to speak to the Southern people & message of free and fearless wil, it cau only bear that me: effect- vely as it 1s unqualified and absolute in its serms. It is to be hoped that Mr. Beecher’s views will be duly entertained in quarters where the power lies to apply the remedy called for, and extend to the South the balm of universal amnesty. The Christian Union thinks it is not plain Bob Schenck who is peddling in watered stock, but the Ambassador of the United States, and ‘the more it thinks of it the less it likes it.” The Freeman's Journal (Catholic) refers to a new organization that threatens to convulse all Protestantdom—we mean the ‘Catholic Union"”—an organization that had its first cel- ebration in this country on Thanksgiving Day last. The Journal says of this confederation of Catholics that Itisatthe callof the Holy Father, the beloved Pius IX., that these unions are commencing all over Christendom. As they progress, and become more and more efficient, they will receive, frum tne same high source that inspired their beginnings, farther direction as to their co-operation with each other, It is not with them as with @ variety Of societies formed outside of the Catholic Church and of her sacraments. For in very Ogtpolic Pion, begun with the blessing of ne Ohurch, dnd fooking only to interests that be- long to her, there is an element of the mystical body of Christ, which is one, whether the numbers composing it be few or countless in thelr aggrega- ton. Referring to the repnted military intentions of the order the Journal remarks: — Looking to this country alone, tt would not be con- sistent with @ proper self-respect for gentlemen of such character as those who inaugurated the New York circle of the Catholic Union to disavow any Intehtlon of Violating or of evading the laws of this land. There are Smong them enough of me& per- fectly aware of the full meaning and intent of our traditional ‘neutrality laws,’’ and there 1s not one among them that could consider it an act proper for a Catholic to do, much less as meritort- ous, to violate any just law of their country. There- lore, in forming @ “Union” to ald first of all the Vicar of Christ, and, next, to promote Catholic interests fenerally, the gentlemen of the Catholic Union will no more put in the qualification that they do not Intend to be law-breakers than they would, if about to take up a collection, add the re- mark that they 1ntended to pick no one's pocket. That is to say, it depends altogether upon circumstances whether moral or physical force shall characterize the proceedings of this Catholic Union—a union which has its ramifications all over the world, and is likely to be as powerful for evil as it may be for the good of mankind. The Hvangelist (Presbyterian) quotes the Catholic World as eschewing the despairing cry of the Pope, ‘‘All is lost.” Says the latter: — ‘The soverelgns of Furope, without a single oxcep- tion, have abandoned, or turned against the Church, and there is not one on whom the Holy Father can count. Heis alone, with the kings and princes of the earth either hostile or indifferent to him, while the old habit of relying on the secular authority for support, for the moment, at least, paralyzes_ nearly od whole body of the Catholics in ai! old Catholic nations, The Hvangelist regards this as a humiliat- ing confession, and adds :— How singular that in every period of its history the Papacy has found its rise and fall foretold in prophecy. Its pride and cruelty have led the world to see in it the “Babylon” of the Apocalypse, But her present misfortunes Rome has brought upon herself. Her own subjects have repudiated her Poggi Her own children bave turned against er. The nations that have been her tools are now in full revolt, And yet the band of brothers known as thé “Catholic Union” is alarming our Protestant brethren most confoundedly everywhere. The Hoangelist thinks there is an ‘‘incom- patibility between Communism and Roman- ism.” If the assassination {n cold blood of Roman Catholic prelates can afford grounds for “Incompatibility” the Hvangelist is un- doubtedly correct, and in a meaning which even that seven syllabled word fails to convey. The Observer Is still fighting sectarian ap- propriations, atid éonsiders the present ‘“‘a very appropriate time for agitating this sub- ject and for securing some action by the Legislature. It is the time for making thorough work of the abuses which have crept into the administration of our public affairs, especially where money is concerned.” The Presbyterian women in Utah are out in acircular, published in the Obdserver, appeal- ing for assistance to their sisters in the Church in behalf of the “‘poor, deluded, down-trodden women of Utah.” Five thousand women of the Church are called upon to contribute an amount averaging five dollars each—‘‘a Christian gift to the Lord.” What do the Mormon elders say to this? Salt and brim- stone are likely to make a combustible mix- ture, The Golden Age speaks of General Grant's Message as the ‘President's basket of chips,” Is not this making game of a rather digniflod subject? The Age has also an editorial on “Woman's March to Victory.” It probably was intended to read ‘The Editor's March to Victoria.” The Independent Is outspoken on the sub- ject of the “Cuban Horror,” referring to thé —_— Feoent heartless butchery of a numoer of young students in Havana by official order. Ps Independent rightly says :— ¢ Interests of 7 nected with those or oube ae Mexico. on myo longer to allow them to remain in a state of sav- age warfare and constant revolution. In the name of humanity we demand that some sort of stable overnment be secured. And if the military mar- ler of these reckless young martyrs to the cause of thelr ilves could have been, Fe *Tuitfat tan Something will grow out of that inhuman slaughter, or we are much mistaken, The Boston Pilot—Catholic—has an article on the subject of the International Societies, in which the following appears :— Were it not for its extremely pernicious ana abominable nature, the existence of the Interna- tional tn chis country might well be treated with silent contempt—anarchy is eminently unsuited to the practical American tnd. But #0 many peo) are daily deceived by shallow cheats that we think itis good tolet a hearty breeze whistle through current impositions as often as we can spare room in our columns, There is a slight diversity of opinion in re- gard to the Internationals in this city at the present time; the future history of the organ- ization here may be quite interesting. We are glad to state that a work of Chria- tian grace is going on among the students in Princeton College. Let it spread. Let the United States military and naval institutions at West Point and Annapolis become inocu- lated with the Holy Spirit, Levthe good work go on. The Connolly Case at Albany. The argament in the Connolly case at Al- bany was concluded yesterday, and Judge Learned took the papers, signifying that he should make his decision as speedily as posst- ble. The proceedings show the insufficiency of any civil suit in the case of the city frauds. Everybody knovs that the public treasury has been robbed of millions of dollars by means of fraudulent vouchers and forged warrants; that the robberies were planned and executed in the Comptroller's office; that the parties supposed to be concerned in them have grown in a few years from poor men into millionaires ; and yet, at this tate day, months after the crimes have been discovered, we find a host of learned lawyers before a Court arguing technical points as to whether the State has any right to sue Tweed or whether Connolly can be legally arrested on this or that affidavit. If two poor men had atolen a han- dred dollars apiece by means of a forged check or fraudalent order they would have been arrested, committed by a magistrate and sent to Sing Sing. No person would have thought of suing them in a civil action to recover back the plunder. The only way to deal with a criminal is through the criminal law; and now that the Albany argument has closed the people will be glad to hear from Judge Bedford’s Grand Jury. They can reach the core of the matter without technicalities and without lawyers. Judge Bedford has done his duty in affording them full time to com- plete the work before them, and he will give them more if they need it, Let them act fear- lessly and honestly, and there will be no farther need of nice legal points on one side or the other. When the guilty parties are io a criminal jail there will be no difficulty io recovering the money they have stolen, The Edict Against the Proposed Interna- tlonal Procession—What For? Our Police Commissioners have issued an edict forbidding the proposed International procession, which was appointed for this day, as an expression of popular indignation against the recent execution at Versailles of General Rossel and other Communists. We are surprised at this high-handed proceeding of the Police Commissioners. We had sup- posed that the lesson given them in the public indignation excited against Superintendent Kelso's order No. 67, of last July, for the sup- pression of the Orange procession, would be remembered by our police authorities for at least a year ortwo. But as they seam to have forgotten that affair we will remind them of the essential facts in the case. The order was issued in the evening; but the general outburst of the public indignation through the city newspapers the next morning, against this invasion of the reserved constitue tional rights of the people, was a warning Which Governor Hoffman felt himself called, upon to respect. He accordingly interposed bis authority as the Governor, in a proclama- tion revoking said police order, and notifying « the Orangemen that they were not only free to carry out thelr proposed procession, but that by allthe powers which he could com- mand, as chief executive officer of the State they should be protected in their rights in the premises. We know what followed. It wasa day of bloody work, that 12th of July, but the constitutional right of the people ‘‘peace- ably to assemble,” regardless-of race, creed or nationality, was vindicated and confirmed, Why this interdict? Is it because these Internationals, In their Sunday parade, would interfere with he rights of others tk their religious duties? If so, this reason is no justification of the act; for the general rights of the people “peaceably to assemble” are not suspended on Sunday. Moreover, from time immemorlal down (6 the famous “Bill Poole” turn-out, and from ‘Bill Poole’s” funeral parade down to this day, Sunday has been the favorite day for funeral processions ig this olty ; and this proposed International affair may be properly classed with this order of processions. Let these Internationals, then, appeal from our Police Commissioners to Governor Hoffman, and adc of him the right, which all other parties have exercised in this city without dispute—the right to have their funeral procession on Sunday, and we cannot doubt that the Governor will stand by them and revoke the police order in this case, as he did in the case of last July. eo Department Build- Improvements to the St ing. WASHINGTON, Dec, 9, 1871. The Surervising Architect of the Treasury Depart- ment, after a careful examination of the walls and interior arrangement of the buliding ovcupted by the State Department, has reported that tt caa be made safe for the uepartment at a small expense, and will on Monday proceed to tm- prove the flues and chimneys, as a sateg@ard against fire, It has been ascertained that tne cause of the fire on Monday evening last, by which the destruction of the most valuable archives of the government seemed imminent, was from @ trimmer bullt carelessly into the fue, Alt defects in construction of this character will be immediately remeuicd, The most importa papers will be stored in @ room in the Treasury building unul the now State Department buliding ia cous~ ployed EEE OOOO