The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETO AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, \. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.— uawcrr. WOOD'S MUSKUM, Broad paces afternoon and evening, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. and 234 st— Aux Steerts OF NEw YORK. corner 36th st.—Perform- FE IN THE STREETS. FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, »Tur New Drama OF Drvouce. { LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—Orzra Pourre—Le Pont pRs SourEes, Twenty-fourth street. — | WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13h street.— poun Gaara. \NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broatway, between Prince and ‘Rouston streets. —OUR AMERICAN CousIN. STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowory.—GREMAN Prenatio Company, PanToMimisTs, 40. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pxcay Gneex—REp ANDES, x par | St. SAMES' THEATRE, Twenty-eight street and Broad- yway.—Tur Toogre BroTarns. ( OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—THR BALLET PaN- ypomimg or Hompry Dumpty. | MRS. F. B. 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BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOOSE, 234 st, between 6th aud 7th ave.—Bryanr's MINGTRELS, ‘ SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— fuk Ban FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. ‘NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteentn stree.—ScENas IN UB RING, ACROBATS, £0. \ DR. “pking aehiapmcaenmy MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — stem us TRIPLE SHEET. * New York, Tuesday, December 12, 1871. = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, gatn Advertisements, 2—Advertisementa, 3—Washington: Interesting Proceedings in Con- fress—Miscellancous Telegrams. 4—The Prince of Wales: History of the Inception and Progress of the Fever Which Subdued Him; What is Said of a British Republic; The Heir Apparent—Brooklyn Reform—Kings Oounty ‘unicipal Afiairs—Local Govern- ee of the Board of Apportion- ment—The New England Society—The Col- ored Orpbans—Newark’s Sacrificed Sergeant— Foreign Miscellaneous 1tems—Personal Notes, 5—Trial of Mrs. Wharton—The Hornet: Arrival in New York of the Captam of the Adventurous Oruiser—The Fotirth Avenue Man-Trap: Meet- Ing of the Aldermanic Committee; A Confer- ence with Citizens: How Rellef Gan be Se- cured—Another Murder in Death Avenue— Young Men’s Democratic Reform—A Fatal Mistake—The Death of the Rev. Dr. Higbee— Brooklyn Affairs—Young Men’s Universalist Association—A Terrible Accident. @—Eaditorials: Leading Article, “The Approachin; Death of the Prince of Wales—A National Calamity and a World-wide Sensation'’— Amusement Announcements, 7—The Prince of Wales’ illness: Progress of the Disease mad Yesterday ana this Morning; The Prince’s Condition Extremely Precarious; Tue Nation Excited by a Generous Sympathy— European Cable Telegrams—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business Notices, §S=The Courts—The Alleged Head Centre of Coun- terfelters : Trial of Joshua D. Minor, Indicted for Having Counterfeit Money and Plates in his Possession—The Methodist Preachers—- Church of St. Marv the \irgin—The Great so- cial Evil: Mra. Byrnes, the Alleged Abor- Uonist, on Trial in General Sessions—Lavinia's Dusky Lovers—Robbing a Brig—An Act of Friendship that did not Turn Out “All Right” — Fatal Car-crushing Case. @—The Pneumatic Tunnel—The Buckhout Butch- ery—Pigeon Shooting—Financial aud Com- mercial Reports—Cattle Market—Domestic Markets—Proceedings in the Boaras of Aider- men and Assistant Aldermen—Marriages and Deaths —Advertusements, 0—The International: Public Feeling Against the Folice Board; Enthusiastic Meeting Last Night; The Parade Ordered for Next Sun- day—The Italian Opera—Shipping Invelli- : ence—Advertisements, 41—Advertisements. 12—Adveitisements. Tuk SMALLPOX seems to be again on the {ncrease, and it would be well for persons who have not already been vaccinated to get waccinated at once. They should be careful, however, where they get the vaccine matter. A corps of the Board of Health physicians, under the direction of Sanitary Inspector Morris, make ‘“‘house to house visits” every day and vaccinate free of charge. It should be borne in mind that an ounce of prevention Js better than a pound of cure. A Mopgst Br.t—The bill introduced yester- fay in Congress by Wallace, of South Caro- lina, for the removal of their constitutional Wisabilities from three persons. This is tri- fling with the main question. The bill intro- duced by Mr. Cox, of New York, is the only bill which will meet the case—a bill for a gen- eral amnesty, without exception ; a bill which will take in Jeff Davis, Breckinridge, Ste- phens, Toombs and Wade Hampton, with all the rest concerned in the exploded Southern confederacy. Tue Exzorions IN SPAIN AND REPUBLICAN Gatys.—The Spaniards bad an election yester- day for members of the Cortes. It was what would be termed a general election in Eng- Jand, The returvs have been reported to us in the aggregate, by cable, as they reached Madrid last night. They indicate that the re- publicans have gained an acceasion of strength to their former force in the Legislature, This new power comes chiefly from the muni- cipal or civic centres—the historlo fountains and depositories of democracy and liberty in the Peninsula, The republicans carried twenty-three out of forty-eight of the pro- vincial capitals and forty-eight of the smaller towns, Thus do the Spaniards continue to draw the line between royalism and foreign Kkingoraft and radicalism and home rule still more distinctly every day. Tae Qvacks of ENGLanp TO Queen Vio- rortA.—The telegraph line which communi- cates between Queen Victoria's palace and Sandringham was closed during a portion of the day yesterday. This action was forced on the members of the royal household, for the reason that the line was burdened with messages forwarded by quack doctors to the Queen tendering medical advice for the benefit of the Prince of Wales. The persistency of the British professional quack is proverbial the world ovey, They may seek to excuse it in the present instance under the cover of a loyal anxiety for the recovery of the patient, Perhaps they will attempt to justify it by his- The Approaching Death of the Prince of Wales—A National Calamity and a World Wide Sensation. Although the Prince of Wales still lingers between life and death, the latest accounts of his condition leave no room te hope for his re- covery from the disease by which he has been stricken down in the vigor of his manhood. The prostration that followed the more violent stages of the fever has continued so long as to leave a fatal termination almost certain. A great nation already mourns him as dead. The people are waiting breathlessly for the confirmation of their worst fears. The palace is in gloom. A wife about to be whdowed weeps and refuses comfort; a widowed mother, with the old wounds of her heart bleeding afresh, bends in anguish over the deathbed of her first-born son; and helpless children, with wet eyes, sympathetically yielding to influences which they cannot explain, lend intensity to the all-prevailing sorrow. All our reports go to show that the excite- ment in London and throughout the British Isles is almost, if not entirely unprecedented, and the feeling is general that in the present condition of the empire the death of the heir to the throne will be really a national calamity. All kinds of stocks have gone down, and the money market generally is depressed. Wher- ever, throughout the three kingdoms, the painful intelligence flashed across the tele- graphic wires has been received, the hopeless condition of the Prince is the one absorbing topic of conversation, and grief is depicted on every countenance. The importance of the approaching event is felt, not in the British Isles alone, but in every one of the vast and nu- merous dependencies of the British Crown, and, indeed, in every great centre of population throughout the civilized world. The coming death of the Prince is as much talked of, and its probable results are as much can- vassed in New York and Washington, in Toronto and Quebec, in Bombay and Cal- cutta, in Berlin and St. Petersburg, in Paris and Vienna, in Rome and Constantinople, as in London or Liverpool, in Edinburg or Glas- gow, in Dublin or Belfast. With the presence of death we are all more or less familiar. It is no wonderful thing that death should come to the palace. Princes are not, any more than peasants, exempted from the common fate of humanity, But it is rot every day that a Prince of Wales, the heir of the grandest of the European monarchies, the prospective cbief of an empire on which the sun never ceases to shine, himself still in the heyday of life, passes away from the scenes of living men. The august position of the dying Prince, the grandeur of his prospects, his youth and all the interesting family surroundings, lend to this sad event an interest and invest it with an {mportance to which no one, whatever his race or whatever his creed, whatever his country or whatever his clime, can afford to be indifferent. No sueh darkness has gathered over—no such sorrow has fallen upon the British gov- ernment and people since the death of the Prince Consort in 1861. Then the sorrow was, indeed, deep and general; for it was felt that a good, a great and useful man had been taken away. It is true that Prince Albert was more honored in his death than in his life; but It is not less true that the entire body of the people have since had time to learn how great a calamity befell them in the death of Albert the Good. Much as the Prince of Wales will be lamented, unaffected as will be the tears which are shed, and onest as will be the sympathy extended to the Princess, to the Queen and to all the more immediate sufferers, the general grief would not have been less sincere, the sympathy would not have been less genuine if the dying Prince had been more attentive to the precepts of his father. Many hard things have been said of the Prince during his life- time, It is not to be denied that some of the reports put into circulation regarding his pri- vate character are true. It must at the same time be admitted that some of the reports are false and that many of them are exagge- rated. He has never been much of a popular favorite. Even in his boyhood he was less successful than his brother Alfred in winning the public confidence. Since his father’s death, but more particularly since his marriage, he has shown a grievous want of discretion. It is possible that he bas not been an offender above the mass of the young men of his age and order; but he has paraded his sins with an ostentatious recklessness totally unpar- donable, The memory of George the Fourth is not yet forgotten in England, and it has long been matter of public talk that all the vices of George the Fourth have been repro- duced in Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, To-day, however, more, perhaps, for the sake of his mother and for the sake of his young and beloved Princess and her youthful family than for bis own, his sins are forgiven, if not forgotten ; and the nation wraps itself in sack- cloth and sheds its tear ofsorrow as the shadow of the untimely death of its eldest son gathers closer and more darkly around it, There are many who indulge the hope that the Prince, if spared, might yet prove a useful and capable ruler, The follies of youth do not necessarily cling to a man for- ever, It would not be the first time in English history that a wayward and selfish prince has | cut his connection with the past and put on the graces and virtues becoming a royal station when he put on the crown, The stricken Prince is not without ability, It bas never been claimed that his natural talents are great; but neither has it ever been said that they are contemptible. It is known that great paina were taken with his education. To this particular he was the special object of his father’s care, himself admittedly one of the finest scholars of his time, and by no means an unskilful Mentor. The best teachers in almost every department of education were secured for him; and it is well known that the special desire of his parents, that discipline should be freely administered when discipline was necessary, was faithfully complied with. In due time the Prince went to the Edinburg University and creditably spent a session torloal precedent, and allege that during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the gypsy quack doctor Wayland Smith cured the Duke of Sussex, Her Majesty's famous Master of the Horse, by the adginistration of an unknowo confection, when he was laid sick almost to death in Kenilworth Castle there, He afterwards went to Oxford, where be attended the public lectures for e@ year, For three or four terms he resided at Cambridge for a similar pur- pose. The advantages of foreign travel have not been denied him. In the summer of 1860 -he visited she United States and Canade; and those who remember that visit will admit that the honors then paid him have been but im- perfectly repeated in the case of the Grand Duke Alexis. In 1862, accompanied by Dean Stanley, he travelled in the East, visiting Egypt and Palestine, and among other things inspecting the grave of Abraham in the field of Macpelah. More than once public testimony has been borne to the fact that he is well read in history. He is a respectable linguist ; in Greek and Latin he is fairly versed, and in several of the European tongues he can write with ease and grace and speak with fluency. His musical attainments are said to be good. In recent years he has given proof that he has inherited some of his father’s talent, and latterly he has been quite succesful in his society and after-dinner speeches. There ig no reason why sucha man, should he be spared, should not prove himself to be a popu- lar and efficient ruler. Should it be his for- tune to reach the throne, and should he in such a case realize his position and gird him- self for his proper work, the British people would pardon the indiscretions of youth, and Albert the First might pass into history as one of the popular sovereigns of England. If, however, his life should be spared and no change should take place in his habits, his ac- cession to the throne might be attended with trouble and his tenure of power might be inse- cure. His life-drama, however, is now nearly ended, and the English throne will probably never be honored or dishonored by his occu- pancy. The death of the Prince will be but little likely to make any immediate change in the government of Great Britain. The Queen has been pronounced, on good authority, to be as capable of discharging the duties of her high office as ever she was; and it is reasonable to take it for granted that this fresh sorrow, while it will stifle all discontent, will rally around her all ranks and classes of the people, and secure for her their hearty sympathy and support. If the Queen should on an early day desire to retire from the cares of State it will be quite as easy to appoint a regency if the Prince should die as it would be to invest him with the crown should he live. The Duke of Edinburg is more a popular favorite than is his brother, and, failing the Duke of Edinburg, the Princess Alexandra, as mother and guardian of the youthful heir apparent, would command the confidence of all. The death of the Prince of Wales will be an immediate national sorrow, but it will not be regarded as an irreparable national loss. In one respect this death will be accepted as a world-wide lesson. Youth, strength, wealth, science, care and dutifal hearts and hands have all fought for the pres- ervation of his life; but it is almost certain that Death, in spite of all, will claim his victim and come forth the conqueror. So must it be until the grim and merciless mower shall have gathered in bis last sheaf. Palida mors «quo pulsat pede Pauperum tabernas, regumque turres, se Royal Family of England and Their Present Sorrow. The certainty of the near approach of the death of the Prince of Wales leads us na- turally to think of those who will be left behind to mourn his loss. It is seldom that a death comes so directly home to so many nations. The death of the Prince of Wales would of course put all the Courts of Europe in mourning. But the mourning would be special in Berlin, in Copenhagen, in Athens, in Brussels, in most of the minor Courts of Germany and at St. Petersburg. After all, however, the chief mourners must be the mourners at Sandringham and Wind- sor, The Princess Alexandra first claims our sympathy. Her husband and the father of her little ones will soon be no more, How great the change since March 10, 1868, when London welcomed her as London never welcomed a Princess before! Her chil- dren are too young yet to fully understand their sorrowful position, But tie poor Queen, what shall we say of her? Of infirm health, and not yet recovered from the blow which she received in 1861, when the Prince Consort died, the Queen must feel that all the consolations of religion are neces- sary to enable her to bear this fresh stroke. How Queen Victoria, who has given abundant proof that she feels domestic sorrow, is to get over this new agony, no one can tell. This only we can say with confidence, that while the courts of Europe will mourn, some of them formally and some of them with a genuine sorrow, right-thinking men and women, the wide world over, will feel and confess that two persons have a strong claim for their sympathy—a sympathy which they will un- grudgingly give. These two persons are the Princess and the Qneen. Little as we care in this country for royalty and its surround- ings we feel that Alexandra and Victoria are our sisters. Let us hope that needed strength will be given them, and that this heavy calamity, if it be really destined to fall upon them, they will be enabled to bear. Cruelty to Prisoners. In the name of mercy, as well as justice, we ask, cannot something be done to lessen the miseries of those prisoners held in the Tombs and in other places of confinement awaiting examiuation and trial? Innocent and guilty, the hardened criminal and the novitiate, those accused of bigh crimes and those charged with petty delinquencies,’are all frequently huddled together in common cells until their cases are decided in the due and procrastinating process of law. A day or two since we had to chronicle the case of a poor prisoner freezing to death in one of our city prisons. Since then, we learn, the narrow den in which the deceased was confined has been supplied with a huge stove, and now the purpose of the keepers seems to be to roast to death instead of freezing to death the prison- ers placed under their charge, This {s a re- finement of cruelty only paralleled by the tortures practised by the infamous Council of Ten in Venice during the Dark Ages. It was the practice there to nearly freeze a victim to death, then restore him by casting him into a caldron of boiling oil or roasting the soles of his feet over a slow fire. Are the terrible tortures of the Dark Ages to be restored in this enlightened age? We have a Soolety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Can not we have one to prevent the torturing of prisoners—at loget until they are tried and found guilty? Congress Yesterday—An Avalanche of Bills and = Propositions—Constitution = Tinkor- ing—Fernande Wood as a Referm Her- cules—Hurrying Up Manifest Destiny. Mondays are the periodical seed times in the two houses of Congress. That is the day when, particularly in the lower House, the opportunity {s given for introducing bills and having them referred to committees. The States and Territories are called in their order every Monday, and each representative and delegate can then set his particolar little argosies afloat on the insweeping tide of legislation, few of them, fortunately, being destined ever to reach port or even to be heard of any more. Yesterday was one of those days, and the fleet of little paper boats that was sent adrift was positively bewildering. Let us try to pick out and describe a few of them. First comes the stately chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and launches his several ventures by which he proposes to supply provisions for carrying out in various respects clauses of the Treaty of Washington, upon which President Grant plumes bis admin- istration so much, These may all come safely to port; but so mueh can hardly be sald for another venture which he sent out in their wake, and which has for its aim the prohibition of American citizens residing abroad from owning slaves, How Mr. Banks calculates to bring these unreconstructed and unre- generate Americans within the jurisdiction of this government, and to make them amena- ble to our laws, is a question which we do not care to discuss or attempt to explain. But Congress is great, and has already tried its hand on legislation quite as difficult and as far from the scope of its authority. Who, then, can say that it will not undertake to stretch out its arm even to the Golden Horn, and punish the American Sybarite who dares to own, in the city of the Sultan, a graceful Circassian or Greek slave? Mr. Cox, always ready to cast his mantle of charity over the erring, introduced a bill for general amnesty, without exception. Many other members, more chary of their mercy, came forward with propositions for am- nesty in particular cases, while in the Senate the General Amnesty bill, passed by the House at the last session, was reported back from the Committee on Disabilities with a re- commendation for its passage. It lies over for the present. But let us here repeat the hope, which we have so often expressed, that a clean sweep be made of the matter, and that not asingle person be left to complain of our government for any lack of generosity. It is mean and impolitic to make any exceptions, or to punish any man, of high or low degree, for participating in a rebellion which was the work of the whole Southern people, Among the other House bills deserving a passing notice was one introduced by Mr. Kil- linger, of Pennsylvania, looking to a whole- sale governmental reformation in the railroad system of the coun¢y; one by Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, to secure and protect \he free- dom of travel and commerce within the United States, which means, we suppose, to give colored people the entrée to the grand saloons of the Sound and Hudson River steamboats and to the palace cars of Pullman ; one by Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, te pro- tect the elective franchise, and one by Mr. Negley, of Pennsylvania, to prohibit the col- lection of harbor, port or pilotage fees by virtue of State or municipal authority. Va- rious propositions to amend the constitution were also ;made—one by Mr. McNegley, of Minois, depriving Congress of the power to raise taxes by imposts or excise, but only by direct tax on property, such tax to be assumed, collected and paid by the States respectively, at their option, and one by Mr, King, of Missouri, to prohibit miscegenation, and to authorize the States to provide for the education of white and colored children in separate schools. Mr. Fernando Wood laid down, in a resolu- tion submitted by him, a programme for governmental reform on the most comprehen- sive scale, and which may probably be re- garded as embracing a new democratic platform. He demands that the repub- lican party shall, through its legislative and executive powers, provide for the im- mediate reduction of direct taxation and import duties to a strict revenue standard; for the reduction of expenses and the abolition of sinecure offices; for the res- toration to the people of the States and their local governments of the rights originally pos- sessed by them under the constitution; for the abolition of governmental paper money and the restoration of hard cash; for the reduction of the army to a peace footing; for the preven- tion of Treasury “‘bulling” and ‘“‘bearing” In Wall street ; for bringing the President and his Cabinet under the authority of law and enforc- ing their obedience to it; for restoring to the Southern States and people peace, prosperity and contentment, through the cessation of vindictive legislation and military interfer- ence; for the revival of American commerce, the restoration of American credit and the reinauguration of repub- lican simplicity; and for aiding in the full development of the agricultural, mineral and commercial resoarces of the country. There, indeed, is @ programme which, if Mr. Wood could have it carried out, would entitle him to be considered the very Hercules of Reform, But he proposes that the labor shall be per- formed, if at all, not by himself and his party friends, but by the President, Congress and the republican party. Mr. Wood failed, how- ever, to get the assent of the House even to the consideration of his omnibus measure, the House having refused by a vote of 77 to 136, to allow the resolution to be offered, The next notable scheme that was aired in the House yesterday was a proposition, offered by Mr. Campbell, of Ohio (General Schenck’s successor), requesting the President to commence negotiations with the British and Mexican governments for the annexation of Ganada and Mexico. Mr. Banks was willing to have the matter referred to his committee— that of Foreign Affairs, but Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, objected absolutely to ita introduction, and so the resolution was not received by the House, The recent official defalcations in the War Department and in the Treasurer's office at- tracted attention in both houses, In the Senate a resolution, in connection with Fay- master Hodges’ case, gave rise to « general discussion on the question of civil service reform, in the course of which Senator Trumbull, of Mlinois, gave some very hard hits to the present administration in regard to the exercise of its official patronage, citing particularly the extravagant management of the New York Custom House, where, in the single matter of supernumerary weighers, there is an anoual outlay of fifty-seven thousand dolla! where, through the warehousing system, immense robberies are perpetrated on importers, and where appointments are made for mere parti- san purposes, or even from personal motives. No action was taken on the resolution, but an investigation was ordered in the House on the late Treasury defalcations, The question of final adjournment has already presented itself, in the form of a pro- position in the Senate to fixthe day for the third Monday in May. No action was taken on it, but it is not to be supposed that the revenue reformers, who are in a majority in the House, will allow their game to be blocked in such a manner, There will be a hard fight over tariff and internal revenue duties before any agreement for a final adjournment is arrived at; but, in the meantime, the House has agreed to a holiday adjournment from Thursday, the 21st of December, till Monday, the 8th of January. There is no question as to the Senate concurring in the resolution. The Intornationals and the Rights of the People. The members of the International societies who were arrested on Sunday last by the police, in consequence of the stupid and ill- timed order of the Board of Commissioners, | were arraigned at the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday, and were at once discharged by Justice Shandley. The charge made against them was of disorderly conduct, and the officers who made the arrest testified that the prisoners were shouting and disturbing the peace. Many persons who were present at the time assure us that this evidence is entirely incorrect, and that the conduct of the men arrested was as peaceable and orderly as it was possible to be; but, accepting the story of the officers as true, Justice Shandley found nothing in the charge to warrant the detention of the prisoners, and so set them at liberty at once. It is, therefore, evi- dent that these five citizens, all respect- able workingmen, were taken in custody through the streets on Sunday afternoon, locked up in a station house all night, and placed at the bar of a Police Court in the morning, among a crowd of drunkards and felons, with- out having been guilty of any offence against the law. Whether this will be the end of the affair remains to be seen ; but it is certain that some person must be responsible for the unjust arrest and the violation of the rights of these mep, and as the International {s a powerful and influential body it is probable that the case may be brought up in another shape and before other authorities, Indeed, at the im- posing meeting of the societies held last night, a full report of which is published in the HeRaxp to-day, it was indicated that the question of the personal rights of the mem- bers would be taken to the Courts, and it is stated that Judge Edwards Pierrepont and others have already tendered their profes sional services to the International gratul- tously in any legal proceedings they may think it advisable to institute. There are varying rumors aflout as to the influences brought to bear upon the Police Commissioners to induce them to commit the folly of interfering with the proposed Sunday parade of the societies, According to some accounts their object was to curry favor with the high-morality branch of the republican party, who are supposed to have matters all their own way in Albany, and to be pre- pared to run the police machinery of the city of New York for the next few years in the interests of cant, conscience and cold water. Others affirm that Archbishop McCloskey was at the bottom of the prohibition, the Arch- bishop being desirous of suppressing the Inter- national, in the apprehension that a large number of Catholics may be drawn into its ranks in violation of the order of the Ohurch against secret societies, But we are assured that there is no foundation for this acousation. Archbishop McCloskey has too much of the true American sentiment in him to be con- cerned in any such folly. Another story, and one that reaches us well authenticated, is that the French Consul in New York drew upa formal protest against the proposed demon- stration, in accordance with instructions from his government, and that he induced the consuls from other European governments, except those of Russia and Germany, to add their signatures to the document. It 1s said that this paper was laid before the Police Board, and that the Commissioners decided to forbid the pa- rade at the request of these intermeddling outsiders. Probably there may be some grain of truth in this last report, for we can- not suppose that the action of the Police Com- missioners would have been taken but for the application of some strong outside pressure. The broad liberality of their official conduct for the past two years is a guarantee that they would not of their own free will have adopted any such arbitrary course. Have they not re- cognized the right of the people so disposed to get as intoxicated on a Sunday as on any other day of the week? Have they not gen- erously closed their eyes against the picayune matter of licenses, and suffered on the Sabbath as free a trade in rum asin religion? Has there been any let or hindrance to the en- joyment of free fights between mid- night on Saturday and midnight on Sunday, with the exciting accompaniments of biting, gouging, stabbing and shooting? Have not the police looked complacently on at target excursions, Jones’ Wood picnics and society parades, Sabbath after Sabbath, without a thought of the desecration of the day? It is absurd to suppose that men so thoroughly {mbued with liberal principles would of their own free will have forbidden the proposed memorial funeral procession of the Internationals as a moral and religious enormity on the first day of the week. At the meeting of the societies last night It was resolved to appoint a deputation to wait upon Governor Hoffman and request his au- thority to hold the demonstration as originally proposed, on the Sabbath, On the well re- membered occasion of the 12th of July pro- ceasion Governor Hoffman evinced his appre- Clation of the rights of the people, and it is to be hoped that he will act aow with the wisdom and firmness that distinguished hia conduct then. He should remember that the propriety or impropriety of a Sunday parade is not now at issue; the question is whether, « in the particular instance of the Internationals, @ memorial funeral progession is to be pro- hibited wheg the same thing bas been suffered dyer and over again in this city. The Gover nor is under no more obligation to leave the decision of this matter to the police authori- ties than he was to suffer them to act thelr pleasure in regard to the Orange procession. He iatervened to protect citizens in their personal rights ang privileges in the, one case; he is exhorted to do the same thing in the other case. Indeed, while a violent opposition, growing out of preju- dice and bigotry, threatened a dangerous col- lision on the famous 12th of July, there is nothing to indicate any trouble at ail at the Internationals’ demonstration, unless a con- flict should grow out of an unwarrantable interference with their rights. Governor Hoffman, therefore, has it in his power to insure the preservation of the peace by doing as he did five months ago and overruling the order of the Police Commissioners, Buf should his decision be adverse to the prayer of the deputation it is evident from last night’s proceedings that the societies, in- censed at the arrest of some of their number,’ are preparing to defy the police authorities, and to parade on Sunday next. This propo- sition does not meet the approval of all the Internationals, many of them, indeed, having been originally opposed to the Communist demonstration; but it is believed that thera are a sufficient number in favor of it to render its attempt highly probable, In this event a disgraceful and dangerous street row may be the consequence; and we warn the police authorities in advance that. the people will hold them morally responsible for the result, The police have no better right and no more occasion to interfere with the proposed memorial procession than with any military or Masonic funeral. The best thing the Commis- sioners can dois to recall their absurd and objectionable order, and to suffer Superia- tendent Kelso to eat his hot mutton in peace on Sunday next. If they Interfere at all ia the matter it should be to uphold and protect the societies in their right to meet and parade. The Internationals are for the most part honest, sober, orderly, hard-working men, and they will, no doubt, conduct themselves in a becoming manner on this occasion. Even the free lovers and free thinkers among them will observe decency and respect the law, and the police have already given ample proof of their ability to preserve the peace if any rioting or disorderly conduct should occur. There is, therefore, no pretence for the arbitrary interference of the Police Com- sioners with the proposed parade, There may be some dead-letter law on the musty statute books prohibiting Sunday demonstra- tions; but it is neither expedient nor practi- cable to attempt its enforcement now, aad it is too late in the day to revive the old Puri- tanical witch-burning spirit that prompted its enactment. The Eclipse of the San. On a line extending from the South Pacific Ocean, northwestwardly through Australia, Ceylon, and British India, ta the Arabian Sea, there was a total eclipse of the sun last night, which may be called this morning, in the far Eastern Hemisphere. The scientific companies espe _ cially detailed to make observations of this eclipse are one English company in Australia, and another in Ceylon, and one or two Dutch corps in the island of Java. Since the intro- duction into these observations of the photo- graph and of that wonderful instrument, the spectroscope, they have become exceedingly interesting. From the formation of the lines of light on the lens of the spectroscope the barning substances from which the light ia drawn can be ascertained. Thus it appears that the rays from the sun disclose a large proportion of fron among the combusti- bles which make up that stupendous globe of fire; and that the same degred * of heat applied to our atmosphere would speedily reduce our little planet to a body of gas. The phenomena of these eclipses of the sun, however, which men of science seem most anxious to get at, are those immense pro- jections of flame reaching out beyond the line of the moon’s shadow from fifty to a hundred thousand miles, But the question may be, asked, What does it all signify? We answer that in solving these mysteries of the sun and the moon we shall soon know how to predict the changing seasons on the earth and in dif- ferent parts of the earth from year to year, sa as to enable nations and communities to pro- vide for seasons of plenty and seasons of drought and famine, Our Signal Service Bu- reau is doing good work in this direction, but when we get into the mysteries of the sun, ita light, heat and electrical force we shall know much more. We expect to learn something which will ultimately affect the price of butter from the scientific observations of this eclipse. Toe Latest PresipENTiaL Ticket out fs Colonel Thomas A. Scott, of Pennsylvania, for President, and General Mahone (or the .. “steam engine in little breeches”), of Virginia, for Vice President. This would make a colossal consolidated railroad ticket, which, if successful, would only require suct Cabinet Ministers as Commodore Vanderbilt and a few other railroad monarchs, to con- situte an administration that would be bound to go ahead—or burst! Tue Next Convention of the National Board of Trade, we perceive, is to be held im * New York, What is the use of holding it ia any of the interior provincial towns like St. Louis, where an ocean ship is never seen, and where the principal trade {s confined to wild bnffalo meat and new whiskey? The present St. Louis Convocation has a very appropriate 4 presiding officer—Blow ! Tar Crry oF St. Pavt, Miny., is in peril of a fire conflagration in consequence of a diffl- culty between the city authorities and the Water Works Company. “By St. Paul,” then, the water works don’t ‘‘go bravely on.” The city should own the works, and then there ‘ would be no bother on the subject. Bory To Dgatu—The newspapers with the lengthy reports of the National Board of Trade, a