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‘England for consequential damages in the matter of the privateers, as showing that the rule might be made to work both ways. But we are rather inclined to think that its pur- port is to array the German element against Grant in the Presidential election. a The Anti-Grant Republicans and Their Change of Base—Mr. for General Grant. The anti-Grant, or, as they style themselves, the independent reform republicans, of Mis- ‘sourl, recently held a State Convention, from ‘which a call was issued for a national conven- tion of these independent or anti-Grant repub- Jicans, to meet in Cincianati on the 6th of May next. The object of this call was to bring out. the republican malcontents and to commit them in a new party movement against General Grant in advance of the regular Philadelphia Republican Convention, which meets on the 5th of June. The discovery, however, has been made that this independ- ent Cincinnati movement hangs fire. Such anti-Grant republicans as Senators Sumner, Fenton, Trumbull and Logan do not respond, nd the venerable Mr. Greeley avoids the concern as covering a free trade coalition which he never can support—never, never! Therefore the engineers of this Cincinnati con- vention have agreed to postpone it till the 20th of June, ‘‘in order that they may accept the Philadelphia nomination, if it be a man on whom they can unite.” Now for the real meaning of this change of ‘base. These men understand that if General ‘Grant is nominated at Philadelphia their inde- ‘pendent Cincinnati concern will collapse, like the independent Tyler Convention of 1844, or the independent Fremont and Cochrane Con- vention of 1864, or the Andy Jobnson new party Convention of 1866. These anti-Grant Managers, every man of them a disappointed office-seeker, know this, and they have, there- ‘fore, resolved to fight Grant, not at Cincin- nati, but in the regular Philadelphia Conven- tion. If they can and do defeat him there they will abandon their project of a new reform party and whistle the hopeful passive democracy ‘‘down the wind.” Clearly 80; for what is the game of these so-called reform republicans? It is the public plunder— Only this, and nothing more. They have failed to get their fights under General Grant, in Cabinet fositions, foreign missions, custom holises and post offices, and as they despair of any new chance without a change in the White Honse, and as their only chance for a change {n 1873 lies in the defeat pf Grant at Philadelphia, they have resolved to bring all their guns to bear upon that Con- wention. If they fail at Philadelphia they will still have two strings to their bow. They can bolt or sell out to the administration, ‘‘as may be deemed most expedient.” { We expect to have some developments of the tactics of these reform republicans in the approaching March election in New Hamp- shire and April election in Connecticut. Their tics will pe to help the democrats, under the idea that the success of the democrats in New at Philadelphia. But while we think it quite possible that one or two thousand republican guerillas may turn the scale in New Hamp- Colfax Declares ampshire and Connecticut will weaken Grant shire and in Connecticut, we have no doubt that every vote of those States, whatever may be the results of these coming elections, will be given for Grant at Philadelphia. Indeed, from all the evidence and all the indications before us, General Grant will be unanimously nominated on the first ballot for another Presi- dential term. Ste. : Meantime these reform republicans, in losing Vice President Colfax, have lost their chosen instrument for knocking General Grant in the head in the Philadelphia Convention. In the letter to his Indiana friends, which we publish this morning, Mr. Colfax goes for General Grant against all comers, and he begs that his (Colfax’s) name ‘‘may not be mentioned by any one in our State Convention in opposition to General Grant, whom I believe to be the first choice of a very large majority of the republicans of the United States.” This is in reply toa telegram from Indianapolis announc- Ing a concerted effort in progress to secure for Mr, Colfax the republican nomination for Pres- fdent. He is not a disappointed office-seeker ; he is satisfied with General Grant; there is no White House film over his eyes like that which enabled the venerable Mr. Greeley to ‘‘see men like trees walking.” In short, Mr. Colfax speaks the general voice of the repub- Jican party, while the dissappointed office- Beekers speak only for themselves, Their grievances, we admit, are sore and heavy; dut as such things must be, what do they signify? In the estimation of the honest masses of the people they go for nothing. é A b Smmermnea Dowy.—The London journals on the Alabama claims are beginning to sim- fer down. They advocate a moderate course ‘on the part of the British government. Premier Gladstone, in his brilliant effort in the House of Commons to play the patriotic demagogue with Disraeli, made a blunder, and he will have to come down. A calm and ‘stalesmanslike treatment of the subject in the outset would have saved him this humiliation, With an eye to business he ought to devote himself seriously to the consideration of the American case and the necessity of meeting it before the Tribunal of Arbitration. His newspaper agitation is a fiasco. It does not shake and will not shake our case, Tho report of the London 7éelegraph that Prince Bismarck has offered his services as mediator in this business is, most likely, an invention; but we think that Mr. Gladstone would do well to ask the advice of Prince Bismarck in the matter, for he isa man who can under- stand a big bill of indemnities. FIRE IN PROOKLYN. A fire broke out about haif-past nine o'clock last efvening in the brick building 136 Prince street, Brooklyn, occupied by D. H. Dietrich as a grocery store. ‘the building, the upper part of which was ‘occupted by three families, Was completely gut by une dames, involving a loss of $4,000. ‘The struc- ture is owned by Mr. Kock, of Pacific street. letrich estimates his losy at $400; insured in @ vestern company. The house was also insured, ‘The fire originated from the explosion of a liquid @as laiop in the store. A meeting of the committee appointed by the Produce Exchange to inquire into the coopers’ strike Was called yesterday at the Astor House, but in Consequence of the few members present i was adjourned subject to the cali of the Cuair ee ON NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. THE SEARCH FOR LIVINGSTONE | been furnished with arms from this country in the late Franco-Prussian war. Perhaps this is intended as an illustration of the absurdity sof this government making a demand on Herald Special Report from ; London. Interesting News from the Herald Special Corps of Exploration. Its Travel and Movements to September 30, 1871. The Commander at Ogara, in the Dominion of the Chief Torka. WELL IN HEALTH AT THE MOMENT. Subsequent Rumor of the Death of the Herald Correspondent. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Heraxp has been received from our corre- spondent in the capital of Great Britain: — Lonpon, Feb. 12, 1872. Special advices from Africa have reached this city under date of Zanzibar, December 16, 1871, The intelligence brings news of the expedi- tion despatched by the New York Herap, under command of your correspondent, Mr. Stanley, in search of Dr. Livingstone, to the 80th of September, last year. POSITION OF THE EXPLORER AND TOPOGRAPHY OF HIS ROUTE. Mr. Stanley was at Ogara, situated in the do- minion of a native chief named Torka, twenty days’ march from Unyanyembe, He was then well in health, Stanley, atthe head of the Heratp corps of explorers, left Unyanyembe on the 30th of August for Ogara. An vxpedition arrived at Unyanyembe from Ogara on the 25th of October, the members of which reported Mr. Stanley's arrival at Ogara, having accomplished half the distance between Unyanyembe and Ujjji. This intelligence, was forwarded by Mr. Sutton. It is said by Bevegush, whose messenger left Unyanyembe four days subsequent to the arrival of the expedition from Ogara at that point, that it is a thirty-nine days’ travel from Unyanyembe to Zanzibar. RUMOR OF THE HERALD SEAROH COMMANDER'S DEATH. On the 8th of December there was a rumor in circulation at Zanzibar which said that the Heratp special explorer, Mr. Stanley, was dead. The source of origin of the report could not be ascertained, but the statement was not credited. ENGLISH NATIONAL HOPE—INDIVIDUAL EFFORT FOR LIVINGSTONE’S RELIEF. The news of the progress of the Heratp’s expedition in search of Livingstone has stimu- lated his countrymen to further exertion in the cause of the personal relief of the African eller, of, should shat yn wid Hane of that of universal scietice, “ig The latest meeting of the Royal Geographi- cal Society was numerously attended. Sir Bartee Frere, who was in the chair, stated what steps had been taken by the council with regard to the search for Livingstone. The council, he said, ‘had come to a resolution that the time was now when they should endeavor to afford assistance to Livingstone, whose whole history closely connected with the society. Two and a half years had elapsed since they had received any written communication from Dr. Living- stone, and he then described himself in great want of everything that was requisite for travel in Africa, The government and the society took all proper means at that period to for- ward him supplies, and as he had not then passed beyond the ordinary route of traders it was thought they would reach him without difficulty. But, unfortunately, disturbances broke out among those tribes that intervened between ‘Livingstone and the coast, and it was found impossible to reach him. What evi- dence was there that the great traveller and fellow countryman was still alive and actively pursuing the great object of his life? There had been various rumors about him, but they all described him as doing things which showed he was carrying out the plan he laid down be- fore leaving England. They believed him to be still alive, with spirit unbroken, and his hopes still fixed upon the great object of his life. The reason for the society pressing for- ward this matter now was that a small steamer was about to go through the Suez Canal to Zanzibar. The council of the society had appointed a sub-committee to receive ap- plications from national search volunteers. The response to their call had been most effectual. They had already received forty applications—one since they had come into that room—and he was sure that every day would bring more. With regard to pecuniary means the council proffered a grant of £500; and there were many subscriptions.” Mr. Walter Brodie held that ‘‘as the British government had spent eight or nine millions on the rescue of a dozen persons in Abyssinia, they ought to subscribe at least £500,000 for this expedition in search of Dr, Livingstone,” LIVINGSTONE'S LATEST LETTER, The Royal Geographical Society furnishes we was the following statement of facts concerning Dr. Livingstone :— The last letter received from Dr. Livingstone 1s dated May 30, 1869, from Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika, in it he speaks of “the unwillingness of the Arab traders to take cnarge of his letters to Zanzibar.” He writes for fresh stores and men, and says that 10 the meantime ‘he may explore the Manyema coun- try and the lakes west of Tanganyika.” The British government then granted £1,000 “to supply fresh #tores and men to Livingstone’’—not by means of a relief expedition sent from England, but by parties of natives sent by the British Consul from Zanzibar to the interior. One only of these native parties, with @ portion of the stores, succeeded in attaining & point within reach of Livingstone at Manyema, but neither letters from Livingstone nor proof of the stores having reached him have been received at Zanzibar. The native in charge of the stores simply states that “he received a letter from Living- ‘stone, dated October 15, 1870,” but which letter he did not transmit to Zanzibar. THE NILE EXPEDITION. Herald Special Report from London. Progress of the Herald Explorers in Search of Sir Samuel Baker. On March from Khartoum for Gondokoro. CAN BAKER AID LIVINGSTONE? Latest Letter from Sir Samuel. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special dkspatch to tho Heratp has been received from our corre- spondent in the capital of Great Britain:— Lonpon, Feb, 12, 1872. News has been received in the city which conveys the important fact that the members of the Heratp expeditionary corps to tho river Nile in search of Sir Samuel Baker left Khartoum for Gondokoro on the 7th of Feb- ruary. OAN SIR SAMUEL BAKER AID LIVINGSTONE? The Reyal Geographical Society has been engaged for some short time past in canvass- ing the question, if Sir Samuel Baker can by any possibility aid Dr. Livingstone? Sir Bartle Frere, presiding over meeting of the body, which has been held in the theatre of the Uni- versity of London, referred to the mattet pointedly in the following words :— “Before quitting the subject of the Living- stone search there is one point to which I wish to allude. The question has been raised whether the relief of Dr. Livingstone might not be left to Sir Samuel Baker, Within the last few days Sir Henry Rawlinson has re- ceived letters from the English Vice Consul in Egpypt onthe subject. It was stated that a European gentleman who had been on just his way up the Nile to join Sir Samuel had returned with a story that ‘the latter had met with un- expected difficulties, and was very much crippled in his means.’. Upon receipt of this information Colonel Staunton went to the Khédive and asked his opinion about the rumor. ‘The Khédive replied that if it bad been well founded he must have heard of it from the Governor of Khartoum. The proba- bility is, therefore, that Sir Samuel's difficul- ties have been exaggerated, if the rumor was not altogether unfounded. Apart from that, however, it must be recollected that up to the latest accounts that traveller had not succeeded in penetrating further than he had hoped to have done nearly a year ago on his way towards the great lakes of the interior, He would have some seven hundred miles before him to reach the point where Dr. Livingstone was presumed to be, and there was not much hope, therefore, of relief from that quarter. The meeting would bear that in mind in forming an opinion as to whether the Council had not acted wisely in resolving on the expedition in search of Livingstone.” LETTER FROM SIR SAMUEL BAKER. The following are exiracts from a letter from Sir Samuel Baker to the English Consul Rogers :— et TEWFIKEEYS, Dec. 6, 1870. The expedition is in complete order, and the first diviston of eight vessels started on the Ist of this month, followed by sections of the flotilla. I bring up tne rear on the 9th inst.—in all fity-nine vessels, 1,000 bayonets and ten pieces of artillery. I returned ail my sick to Khartoum. The north wind is strong, the river full, and I have no fear of | the impediments that were fatal last year—shal- lows. The dams of vegetation we must cut througn, bat itor that I am well prepared. Out of twenty horses I have lost only one, thanks to great care in stabling and attendance. 1 regret to say that poor wr. Gedge is dead. He be- came suddenly insane, with much violence. He nad always been eccentric in manner and habits, but I had no idea that so frightful a malady was working insidiously within, I forwarded him to Khartoum, but after some weeks, during which he refused all nourishment, he withered away and died almost a skeleton, insane to the last, Mr. Higgin- botham was in Khartoum when he died, He directed his effects to be sold by auction, and paid to the Governor General the amount, to be handed to the British Consulate upon application. I believe the amount realized was about one hundred paunds sterling. * * * Our Europeans are all weil, although they have all more or less suffered during the rains. Thank God, Iam always well, and Lady Baker 1s the strongest of the party. SAMUEL BAKER. ALLEGED ARSON IN A TENEMENT HOUSE. Last night the tenants of the thickly populated tenement house in the rear of No, 7 Chrystie street aiscovered the house to be on fire between the ce 1- ing of the basement and the first floor, causing but litue damage. Upon an examination of the premises tt was discovered a large quan- tity of paper, saturated with kerosene, nad been placed between the rafters, The timely dis- covery of the fire prevented @ calamity, as the house was thickly populated, Fire Marshat Me- Spedon has been notified and Wil lold au lavesit+ a @ation to-day. a | THE WASHINGTON TREATY. The Tone of Britain Moderating Towards Indirect Damages. Movement of the English Democracy for a Simple Settlement. Premier Gladstone’s Position En- dangered by a Parliamentary Party of Adjustment. English Assertion of German Hostility to the United States Policy. Bismarck’s Tender of Media- tion Denied. American Counsel in Consulta- tion in Paris. Austrian Inferences as to the Mov- ing Sentiment of England. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. “~Lonpon, Feb. 12, 1872, ‘The London press this morning continues the dis- cussion of the difficulties which have arisen with America regarding the claim before the Geneva Board of Arbitration for indirect damages. The papers advocate a moderate “course” on the part of the English government. HOPE OF BISMARCK’S MEDIATION. The London Telegraph states that Prince Bis- marck “has tendered his good offices to the govern- ments at Lonion and Washington with a view to effect an agreement upon the points at issue.’? DENIAL OF PRUSSIAN INTERFERENCE, At six o'clock this evening tne report published by the Telegraph newspaper in the morning, to the effect that the Prince Chancellor Bismarck haa offered his mediation between Great Britain and the United States in the Alabama claims dificuity, has been ascertained to be without foundation, PREMIER GLADSTONE ON THE AMERICAN CASH. Mr. Gladstone, replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, stated that “tne case of the American government submitted to the Geneva Board of Arbitration had not yet been printed, and it would thereiore be unjust to publish the document here at present.” THE WORKING DEMOCRACY PROPOSE A PROJECT OF SETTLEMENT, The conflict of opinion in Englan@ on the Ala- bama claims increases. A meeting of working men Will soon be hela to oppose the course of the British government and demand “an immediate settlement or the ciaims, the sum paid to the United States to be subsequently recovered of the builders of the vessels which caused the damages,” A PARLIAMENTARY PARTY ORGANIZING ON A POPULAR BASIS. A political party, made up of members of Parlta- ment, is preparing to move for the resignation of the present Ministry, on the ground of ‘its biunder- ing incapacity,” and the formation of a Cabinet which shall propose ‘a settlement of tne American claims on a new basis.” SPEAKING FOR GERMANY AS AGAINST TIE UNION, The London News pubiishes an editorial on the Alabama claims question and the subject of inai- rect damages, in which the writer asserts that “pubile opinion in Germany 1s strong in its condem- nation of the course pursued by the United States government in connection with the Alabama claims.’? THE AMERICAN COUNSEL IN CONSULTATION IN PARIS. Messrs. Caleb Cushing, J. Bancroft Davis, Willlam M, Evarts and Waite have arrived in Paris and are in close consultation in regard to the business be- fore the Geneva Board of Arbitration, * é PRAYERS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE, Prayers were offered yesterday in all the churches at SheMleld for the prevention of war betwven England and the United States, sh AUSTRIAN OPINION. Simple Inferences, but tural aud National. v NA, Feb, 12, 1872, Tne Presse, of this city, in an article upon the claims of America before the Arbitrators at Geneva, says, “Hngland has probably learned that the opinion of the Board will be unfavorable to the conduct of that nation during the civil war in America and fears the consequences of her course towards the United States."’ THE SAN JUAN BOUNDARY. Minister Bancroft’s Reply to the English Case Before Emperor William. BERLIN, Feb, 12, 1872. Mr. Bancroft, United States Minister, has com- pleted his reply to the British case on the San Juan boundary question, and will immediately submit it to the Arbitrator, the Emperor William, A copy has been despatched to Washington. CONGRESS AND THE TREATY. The House of Representatives Throwing Out General Butler’s Washington Treaty Reso. lution of Inquiry—Satisfied with the Posi- tion. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 1872, General Butler introduced his resolution of in- quiry in regard to the Geneva tribunal difficuity in the House to-day, but he met with no favor. The House was in a temper to leave hot-headed or impetuous speech-making to the British Parliament and the Senate. The attitude of the President on this question has given such universal satisfaction to both parties in Congress, and there is so strong & disposition not to emoarrass him by hasty or ill- considered action, that no resolution has any chance of passage in either house for the present. THE CIPHER TELEGRAM FROM MINSTER (Washington (Feb. 11) correspondence of the Boston Post.) On Tuesday last, at eleven o'clock, the State Department received a telegram in cipher from our Minister to England, General Schenck, which ine cluded @ copy of the Queen’s communication to the United States government, mentioned in her speech in Parliament, relative to the ciaim for consequential damages in the case ‘before the Geneva arbitrators. The Queen’s communica- tion is very brief, expresses unbounded friend. ship, mentions several unimportant errors or irreguiarities in connection with the aroitration, and then, without seemingly attaching great im. portance to the subject, calls attention to the fact that our agent has made a claim for indirect or consequential damages, The communication 1s ex. ceedingly diplomatic tn its character and cantious to a degree. No appeal is made for reformation of the treaty or of the case. No appeal is made for any remedy, but the object of the communication 1s evidently simply to command a reply from the United States government, ‘This copy was tele. graphed as a matter of expediency by Minister Schenek before mailing the written ‘original com. munication from the Queen, the latter bemg de- livered to Minister Schenck a few hours before the Queen’s speech was read in Parliament, As heretofore stated, no action Will be taken on this communication by the administration until the orginal airives by Steamer, The case made out on our sidg Hag been thorguguly discussed bere, and the general verdict is that it ts inal Mnexcusadly redundant and {ul i irrelevant or uncalled for, The document was pre- pared by Bancroft Daves, as agent for the United Statea, and before its nal adoption was by him submitted to several prominent citizens and states- men for thew ‘cratiokens and suggestions, Among those to whom it was thus submitted was Mr. Reverdy Johnson, whose criucism to Mr, Davis was that the tone of the argument, as it then stvod, was too acrimonious; that there Was much th it as argument and statements of history that was merely cumulative and might dis- peused with without detriment, and that a3 to the claim for consequential damages, while it might do to insert this demand, that it might be finally passed upon, or in some wise auxiliary to the main poinis, the claim for these indirect or con- sequential damages could not ve sustained under the clause in the treaty upon which alr. Davis rests his argument. ‘this ovinion of Mr. Reverdy Johuson is concurred in by all the statesmen here with whom your correspondent has peen able to converse upon the subject, aud it is known that the administration does not propose to em- phasize Uns demand, nor to take any special steps toenforce it upon the arbitrators, but wil stand upon the treaty and our case as presented by Mr. Davis, and abide by the decision of the arbitrators thereon. Much surprise is expressed at the trans pareee dodge of Disrach and Giadsione, that men in their position as statesmen should have indalged in this excitement about the points made in a case presented for consideration by the arbitrators, They, of all men, should have known that the functions of the arbitrators do not extend beyond the rules and agreements of the treaty itself, aad that the arbitrators must be governed by the strict interpretation of that treaty aud the pertinent proof that shall be offered thereunder by either party, INSURANCE PREMIUMS, Magnitude of Marine Lnsurance Premiums During the Raids of the Rebel Cruisers. During the war of the rebellion, while the Ala- bama and other cruisers fitted out in England were afoat, the premium for insurance of United States vessels and cargoes was increased nearly or quite 100 per cent, To inaicate how much was paid by our merchants and shipowners on account of these cruisers being permitted by England to ve at large letus mention the fact that the marine premiums accruing In the business of one of our insurance companies during the past year (1871) was $7,446,452 69—tmis_ in a period of peace and at a time when our shipping was less im amount «than =f) was) during the years of the war of the rebellion, The amount of premiums we have quoted 1s that earned by the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company of tis city, to be sure one ol the largest as it is one of tue best managed companies in the world taking risks on property at sea, But there are several scores of Marine insurance companies in the country, none perhaps doing so large a business as the Atlantic, yet many of them earning premiuins the annual aggregate of which 13 counted by millions of dol- lars, ‘The reader may inier trom the above and irom the appended table the cost to our merchants and shipowners of the Alabama and her coadjutors— @ bill the magnitude of Which may well alarm the British authorities, ‘Yo show more 1n detail the Increase of premiums paid by our merchants and shipowners in couse quence if not of the “acts” of the Alabama aad other rebel cruisers, certainly the direct consequence ol the Jact of those vessels velng permitted to sail from English ports to prey upon our commerce, we compile trom te files 1n this oilice the figures suow- ing the premiums earned by the above named com- pany in years beiore, after and during the period in which those vessels cruised, to wit:— PREMIUMS RECEIVED BY ONE NEW YORK INSURANCE COMPANY, Years, Amount. see $4,800,793 05 5,393,647 13 10,005,001 17 9,960,771 86 8,952,471 53 7,446,452 69 ser ing the two years in the above table in which the revel cruisers ‘were afoat—namely, 1863 and i864—tne premiums re- ceived by the company were nearly doubled, the in- crease solely growing Out of war risks, lmasmuch as from causes which we need not recapitulate our commerce on the ocean was lessened instead of being augmented in those years, The increase in the company’s premiums since the war, we apprehend, 1s not atirivutabie to & general increase of United States commerce on the ocean, but from the fact, among others, that the company has succeeded to the business in later years of certain large insurance concerns which have meantime suspended or talied, as weil as to the fact that the good management and repute of the company named has attracted insurers to it. Certain it 1s that the maritime commerce of the United states has declined instead of increasing since the day that the Alabama and her cousorts steamed from British ports to make the ships aud cargoes of our citizens tueir prey, THE WEATHER, WAR Department, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WAsiinoton, D. Feb, i3—1 A. M, Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The highest barometer continues, as on Sunday night, on the Atlantic coast; but the pressure has fallep very generally everywhere. A slight local depression has passed over Alabama, east and northeast, to Cape Hatteras, with rain in the South Atlantic States, At present partially cloudy and clearing weather prevails there, and clear weather in the Gulf States, The low ba- rometer west of tho Missouri has developed into a low pressure area and bas moved over Kansas iuto lowa and Wisconsin, where the barometer is very low and tem- perature unusually high. Winds from between northeast and southeast have prevailed on the upper lakes, with Increasing force. Fresh northeast winds are reported from the lower lakes, The ba- rometer has risen, with @ rapid fall in temperature west of the central lowest pressure, and at the Rocky Mountain stations. Clear and clearing weather Is reported trom Ualifornia, and heavy rain from Oregon. Probabilities, The low barometer in the northwest will probably move northeastward over the upper lakes into Canada, preceded by brisk and high southwest winds Tuesday morning on Lake Michigan, and followea ‘Tuesday night by high northwest winds and @ rapid fall in temperature. Threatening and rainy weather will probably extend on Tuesday eastward to the lower lakes, with northeast winds veering to the southeast; pleasant weather continue in New England, fol- jowed by cloudy weatner. Tuesday nignt; partially cloudy Weather, with southwest winds, prevail in the Southern and Gull States. Dangerous winds are not anticipated for Tuesday morning, except trom Lake Erie to Luke Superior. ‘The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicatea bythe thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building, corner of Anu street and Broadway :— is7l, 1872, 1stl, 1872 3A. M 35 256 6AM 35 42 9A. M, 39 88 12M. “4 38 Avert mperature yesterday re) Average temperature for corresponding date fi last year... frees 9 Personal Intelligence. Ex-Congressman J. B. Alley, of Boston, is at tne Astor House, Judge A. L, Roache, of Indianapolis, ts stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General William B. Franklin has apartments at the New York Hotel, General Franklin is now a resident of Hartford, Conn., where he is Superin- tendent of the Colt Arms Manulactory. Galusha A. Grow, ex Speaker of the Mouse of Representatives, is at the Astor House, but is regis- tered from Texas, instead of Pennsylvania, as of yore, Mr. Grow has become connected with a rall- road in Texas, and the better to further the for. tunes of himself and the institution, has taken up his residence in that State, Messrs. Larz and N, L. Anderson, the brother and nephew of General Robert Anderson, with wh se bouy they arrived in this city yesterday, are stopping at the Gilsey House. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Court Martial on Commodore Stevens. WASHINGTON, Feb, 12, 1872, The Naval Board for the examination of oficers for promotion and retirement has been ordered to Annapolis, as a Court Martial, to try Commodore Stevens, of the Guerriere, on charges growing out Of the disaster which occurred to that vessel some months ago in the Mediterranean Sea, Rear Ad- miral Goldsborongh has been designated President of the Court, The tial commences to-day at the Naval Acauemy, Naval Orders. Ensign Edward H. Wiley, Midshipmen Charles @. Bowen, Arthur P. Osborn and William P, Potter en ordered to the gunnery practice ship ation; First Engineer G, W. Hall and Seo ond Assistant George 8, Gutes to the Lroquois; Mas pd ward i a hs has been detached from tele. graphic ofiice and placed on waiting orders; First Assistant Engineer W. H, Raton frou the Now York | Navy Xard wyd ordered te tag Mauovace — ariiaddeasinecd eal — a | INDIA. Assassination of His Excellency Eart Mayo, the Governor General, He is Stabbed by a Mohammedan Convict—Death Almost Immodiately—Sketch of the De- ceased Statesman—History of His Public Life—Effect on Change. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Feb, 12, 1872—P. M, A report is prevalent throughout London this af ternoon to the effect that Lord Mayo, Governor Gene eral of India, has been stabbed and killed by @ con- Vict at Pott Blair, Andaman Islands, The influence of the report 18 already felt on the Stock Exchange. The prices of all securities affected by Indian affairs are lower. The authority for the statement, however, is nos yet traced. Cabinet Confirmation of the Terrible News— Parliamentary ‘Iribute to the Memory of the Statesman, Lonpon, Feb. 12, 1872—Night. In the House of Lorus this evening the Duke of Argyle announced that the government has received oMicial information of the assassination of the Gov- ernor General of India, tho farl of Mayo; and, with several other Lords, pronounced eulogies on the deceased, In the House of Commons Mr. Gladstone stated that on the evening of the sth inst, the Karl of Mayo was stabbed by & Mohammedan convict, and s00m after receiving his wound expired, The Premier proceeded to express “the regret the whole country would feel at the sudden death of this distinguished statesman.” Mr. Disraeli referred to the great public services Of the deceased in terms of the highest praise. Sketch of the Earl of Mayo. Richard Southwell Bourke, Earl of Mayo, who has been cut off from life in so sudden and viotent a manner in India, was an eminent statesman and experienced servant of the Crown of England. He was the eldest son of Robert, the fifth earl of that title, by his wife Anne Charlotte, daughter of the late John Jocelyn, Esq., of Fairhill, county Louth, Ireland, The late Governor General of India was born in 1822, He was educated at Trinity College, Dube lin, and took the degree of A. M. in 1544, He served as Chief Secretary of Ireland at diferent periods and Was appoited Governor General of India in toe year 1863, His rule in the Kast was an exceedingly brilliant one for the interests of England in Asta He reconciled many hostile native chiefs, and within @ year past journeyed over a large portion of the empire, meeting the most powerful of the native leaders in {riendly Durbar, or conterence, ta state, He was joined just lately by nis wife, the Countess of Mayo, and could scarcely have aspired to any higher distinction under the Crown than that with which he Was already honored, In Ireland he Was classed as a “bad landlord.” It has been alieged, indeed, that he exacted the most trifling charges of Money income trom 1s impoy- ertshed countrymen and tenants, even when roll. ing in the wealth which his exaited official position secured to him. ‘These things may have been done merely ta his ame, but his reputation asa man and @ Christian gentleman suffered not less owing to the occurrence in the eyes of the impoverished people and otuers at home in consequence. Karl Mayo, previous to his elevation to the Britis peerage, was a member of the House of Commons, representing, in his minor ttle of Lord Naas, Kil- dare, Coleraine and Cockermouth at intervals, His son and heir is Dermot P. Wyndham Bourke, Lord Naas, born in 1851 and educated at Eton, FRANCE. Imperialist and Republican Influences and Electa ral Triumphs—The German Indemnity Debt—A New Plan of Payment. TELEGRAM TG THE NEW YORK HERALD Paris, Feb, 12, 1872, M. Rouber, formerly Minister of State undet Napoleon, has been elected to the Assembly from the Island of Corsica, A republican 1s elected to the Assembly in the De- partment of Eure, ANEW PLAN FOR CASH SETTLEMENT WITH GERMANY. Telegrams+from Versailies, daved at the legisia~ tive seat to-day, state tnat the parliamentary com- mittee upon the subject of a national loan for the payment of the German indemnity has suspended its deliberations, having veen apprised that tne government is negotiating with the German autho» rities for a new basis of settiement, which will shortly be communicated to the Assembly. GERMANY. Consular Appointment for Service in America. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, Feb. 12, 1872. Mr, Meyer has been appointed Consul for the North German Confederation at Philadelphia, GENERAL SHERMAN’S TOUR. Arrival of the General and Lieutenant Grant in Rome—The American Fieet in the Bay of Naples, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW TORK HERALD Rome, Feb. 22, 1872. General William T. Sherman, Colonel JosepR& C. Andenreid and Lieutenant Frederiek D. Grant, of the United States Army, have arrived tn this city. THE FLEET IN THE BAY OF NAPLES, ‘The United States feet, Admiral Alden command- ing, has arrived in the Bay of Naples, where ti will await the arrival of General Sherman and party after their departure from this city. The collision between two freight trains an, the Ohio end Mississippt Railroad was greatly magnified in ite conse. quences by the reports yesterday morping. The accident occurred near Mitchell. ‘Two locomotives and several freight cars were damaged and the passenger train eastward was delayed ten hours, There was no loss of life. MAILS FOR EUROPE, The steamship Hammonta well leave this pert oa ‘Tuesday for Piymouth and Hambarg. The malls for Europe will close at the Post Office at eleven o’clock A. M, THe New York HERALD—Elition for Surope— will be ready at half-past nine o'clock in the morn- ing. Single copies, in wrappers. for mailing, six cents. 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