The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD pRoaDWay AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XX XVII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—BurraLo BiLi.—CATo; OR THE WHITE SLAVE'S REVENGF. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strect.— Wives as Turky WERE AND MAIDS a8 TUEY ARE, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—THE BALLET PAN- TOMLME OF Humrry Dumpry. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Wiromrs or New York, ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-thirdst, orragy Sith ay. pOQTU'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st, coraor Six ay WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ant 13h stra, — ‘Tae Verzran. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. and 384 sh LALLa Rook, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Houston ets. Broadway, betweor Prince and LA BELLE SAVAGE, 8T, JAMES’ THEATRE, Twonty-cighth strest an! Broad- way.—MONALDI. WOOD'S MUSLUM, Bros ancesafternoon and evening. ay, corner Ath st. —Perforn, ORKINGMEN OF NEW Yore BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF Music, M — ‘Tak BOuRMITN Gini, elias MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THZATRE.— CAMILLE. 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Advertisements ‘Advertisements, News from Washingion—The Creat Oil Con- spiracy — Amusements — Conflagrauions—Ad- mitral Polo: Interview with the i Minister at Washington—New 4—Congross: another Kout of the 3 cago’s Relief Bul Passed in the Senate; The Tari” Under Consideration—The Custom House Inguiry—Tue Double Barrelicd Arms Inguiry—Tne Rumored Flight of ex-Comp- troller Connolly to Europe—fhe Brussels Mur- ler—The Judiciary Committee—Mayor Hall: he Question of the Jurisdiciion of Judge Daly to Hold a F Term of the Gener... sessions Getiing Complivated—Pigeon Shoot- ing—Cock Fight in New Jersey—EXamining whe District Attoruey's Ofiice—Depariment or Public te a an ee Register’s Oillce Tne yestigation—Homicide In Washington strect— ‘ihe Twenty-second Ward Shooting Cace—Fire in Jersey City. 5—Inlerestihe Proceedings Courts—The Pacific Mail Baitle—The Jersey Cty Frauds—The Smaiipox Hospitals—Dis- torbiug tue Dead: Application to Remove the Bowtes in the Churchyard of St. Andrew’s-- Disease tn Brooklyn—Death in Denustry— | Deaths Unter Suspicious Circuinstances—The | Preitier Homicide—Tue ‘tenth Avenue Gaug— More Aid for Chicago. 6—Kdtiorials: Leading “Article, “The Revolution in Engian ir Charios Ditke’s Sneesh— “Tue Cloud No Bigger Toan a Man's Hana’ ?— Yersoual Invelligence—Amuseomen’ Announce. TO-DAWS KERALD. in the New York menis. Y—The Swamp Angels: First Mtelligence from the Captured TusraLy Corresponc His Con+ quest of Mrs. Rnody Lowery: 1 Oudaws Armed Cap-2-Pie; The Inte: ver freated as a Spy and Warped of Death as the Penalty jor Treachery; Boss sirong Reported Not Dead— fhe Alabama Claims—-Cable Despaicies from ngland, France, Germany, Spain and ltaly—The British Universities Boat Race— News trom Mexico, Cuba and Sonth America— Miscellaneous Telegrams —Business Notices. 8—Fipancial and Commercial: The Government aving Interest on Twenty Millions More of the National Debt; ielaxation in the Money Market; Erratic Movements of Pacific Mail on the Rejection of the Subsidy Application; the Daten rented Union Pacific; the New Issue of Haonibal and St. Joseph; — Govern- meats Firm, Gold Steady, Foreign Exchange Stronger—Domestic Markets—Higaway Rob- bery in Midday—Narriages and Deatus—Ad- verlisements, @—Aaveriisementa. 4Q—'Ihe State Capital: Soutnmayd’s Erie Act Sigued by the Governor; An Atmenudatory BLL Introduced in the Senate—Tie Charter To Reported with the Department Features polled; A Canal Deficleacy Appropriation Bul; The Question of Adjournmeat Debated in the Senate; Prospects of a Scone Over the NEW j Tke Revolution in Kngland—Sir Charles Diike’s Speeoh—“The Cloud no Bigger than a Man’s Hand.” The speech of Sir Charles Dilke in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening, as telegraphed to the Hgrato, will make a pro- found and interesting impression upon our people. The scene in what the English ara fond of calling ‘‘the most illustrious and venerable legislative assembly in the world” will recall to mind the good old times in Tam- many Hall, before committeos of soventy and Judge Bedford’s grand juries had disturbed our civilization, In the ‘illustrious and venerable assembly” we learn that whilo Lord Bury was speakiag ‘‘there were cheers and shouts and confusion on all sides,” and that when Sir Charles Dilke arose there was “a storm of groans and cheors,” that there was ‘derisive laughter iu all parts of the house” and ‘so much confusion that the Speaker's voice was inaudible.” When Au- beron Herbert arose his voice was drowned with groans; there were many interruptions, and when at last the Speaker insisted upon order all of the conservatives and many of the liberals left their seats. The rule of the Honse is that unless there are forty members present the Speaker shall deolara it ad. journed. There must have been a small Houze, as three efforts were made to count it out during Mr, Herbert's speech. When tho division came there were two hundred and seventy-six members present, two of whom voted for the motion of Sir Charles Dilke. Ail of which, ocourring in ‘‘the most illustrious and venerable legislative assembly in the world,” quite reconciles us to our Washiagton assem- bly, which sometimes porforms queer antics, but never so extraordinary as what was seen in the House of Commons oa Tuesdiy even- ing. ‘ , We are even more surprised at this demon- stration when we come to analyz3 the motion of the honorable baronet. He simply moved for returas of the money spent upon tie Crowa and the various mombers of the royal family, and especially the revenues from the Duclies of Cornwall and Lancaster and the amounts paid to the Prince of Wales. A moro innocent motion cannot be conceived; for if Englishmen who pay taxes are not to be in- formed of the disposition of their money they have no more freedom than the Arabs or the Chinese. The speech which explained and Pro Rata Railroad Freight Bill; Wharves and Piers in New York and Brookilyu—Sbipping Tnteliigence—Advertisements. 11—Aavertisements. 42—Auvertisements, Tne Heratp Carrurep CorresponDEeNT.— We present this morning the first instalment of news from our correspondent who has for the past few days been exulling beneath the smiles of the desperate Lowery gang. After making a formal conqnest over the wife of the bandiiti chiet—Lowery, it is alleged, bas departed for a six weeks’ vacation—seeing her to church on Sunday and other little Northern couriesies, he was un ceremoniously introduced to two of the outlaws, armed in a terrifying style, who eventually entrusted him with some of their secrets, which he has transmitted for publication. The secrets were divulged, it appears, on some stringent conditions, one of which was that the intruder should in a sol- emn manner swear that he would not betray them. The most horrible death would im- mediately follow such conduct. The enter- prise of the Hrranp seems to favorably im- press even these desperndoes, who, despite their bravado, bave thus far treated their victim with decency and respect. Beware or Aprit Foou Hoaxks on the 1st of next April, especially when the returns from the Connecticut election begin to come in. Tax INTERNATIONAL Rowixc Matcu.—The names of the members of the London Rowing Club that will compete with the Atalanta crew in thelr match on the Thames in June next ara George Ryan, H. Guiston, William Stout and Albert de Laude Long, and not Strong, as ap. peared in our columns yesterday morning. Taz Hartrorn Times—anti-administra- tion—exbibite its love for antiquity by plunging into Noah’s ark and bringing forth a paper, written by the venerable Gideon Welles, as a campaign document for the use of the de- moeracy in the pending canvass in Connecticut, Tug Lovers or Art axp Arr StvprentTs ov AmeErioa generally will grieve at our tele- gram report to-day recording the ravages of the fire fiend in the Dusseldorf Gallery. Tax Hartrrorp Courant—administration-— believes that ‘Senator Wilson makes as good ® campaign speech as any man in the coun- try.” Why should he not? If ‘‘praciice makes perfect” itis personified in tho electioneering abilities of the ‘junior Senator from Massa. @husetia,” supported the motion was as mild as possible. Sir Charles merely ‘‘denounced sinecures” and wanted to know why princes wio had allow- ances from the nation should live in royal lodses, and hinted that if the princes wanted yachts they should pay for them like gentle- men in America, and not make them a charge upon the navy. He furthermore thought that St. James’ Palace was an unnecessary ex- pense, that it cost thousands of pounds a year and did not serve even a royal purpose. Considering that St. James’ Palace looks like a hospital, and is really an alms- house for decayed nobility, and might be put into the market as real estate for a million or two of pounds, this seems to be a just criti- cism. What surprises as in this speech is its temperance; yet we find Mr. Gladstone “sharply” chiding Sir Charles for his motion, and reproaching him for inaccuracy of state- ment, If that were his real objection Mr. Gladstone's proper course would have been to have agreed to the motion, for Sir Charles Dilke, as we understand bim, was seeking in- formation. The Premier, however, was swept awuy by the temper of the House, and he urged it upon every consideration to reject the mo- tion, We are ata loss to understand the po- sition of men like P. A. Taylor, Henry Faw- cett and others of the extreme liberals, whose votes have always been radical, but who either remained away from the House or walked into the lobby with Mr. Gladstone. These men voted with Sir Charles Dilke against the allowance to Prince Alfred, and the dowry to the Princess Louise, on the oc- casion of her marriage to the Marquis of Lorne—acts in themselves as unpopular as the introduction of this resolution of inquiry. Why they should have abandoned him on Tuesday is a mystery that further advices moust explatn. What, then, is the meaning of this extraor- dinary demonstration? The clamors of the Honse are nothing, for that “venerable and illustrious” assembly is a rowdy body, gov- erued by parliamentary lynch law—volatile, easily moved, especially after dinner, with a good deal of romp about it, and apt to mako a noise over Mr. Whalley’s denunciations of the Pope or Mr. Nowdegate's invectives against the Jesuits or some keen joke of the Prime Minister. Sir Charles Dilke had been making unwelcome speeches against the Crown during the recess, and he might be sure of a stormy reception when he came to the House. But this was something worse than rowdyism and noise. If Sir Charles Dilke and Auberon Herbert were mere agitators who denounced the Crown for a livelihood ; if they were rep- resentatives of the laboring class, like Mr. Bradlaugh and Mr. Odger, anxious to speak for labor in Parliament; if they were fanatics on religion or divine right, or the pioneers of some reform in taxation, like Bright and Cob- den when they began the Corn Law movement, there would have been opposition, and vio- lence, perhaps, and a stormy scene in the Commons, but no such feeling as was shown on Tuesday evening. But Sir Charles Dilke and Mr. Herbert represent the aristocracy. The first is a baronet, a young man of large fortune, of generous, easy culture, who has had unusual opportunities for observation, the author of one of the most thoughtful books of Wwavel that has been published for many years, 4 gentleman, a student, a man of honor and courage. Beginning his career in politics before thirty, he had simply to move on In the beaten track to become @ useful mem- ber of the government—Prime Minister, per- haps, like Peel, with a coronet in his older days, like Walpole, for Walpole and Peel came from his class, All of this he has thrown aside, and not in the gloomy years of life, saddened and angry with disappointed ambition, but in the freshness of his youth, in the years of hope and promise, So also with Auberon Herbert, his sole companion in the lobby, He is also a young man—the brother of a peor, with the | chance of a coronet himself as an inheritance— a member of an old and prond family, and beginning a career that would have opened to himas surely as ft did to Lord John Russell it ho bad followed whig traditions, These meo preaghed @ new gospel, That goapel had been heard in Whitechapel and Bethnal Green, and from the mouths of a grim and passionate mob tearing down Hyde Park gates. A regi- ment of guards was always at hand to blow it out with 9 whiff if it became troublesome. It was despised as demagoguism and ignorance, only worthy of a sneer—something low and vulgar—as hateful as Communism, without the courage of the Commune. But now it is preached in the House of Commons, and its apostles are English gentlemen, in whose veins runs the blue blood of the nobility. For the firat timo since the days of Cromwell has republicanism found a champion in Parlia- ment; for, as we understand the position of Jobn Wilkes and Sir Francis Burdett aud Cob- bott, and the earlier radicals, it was not repub- licanism they advocated, but reform and extension of the suffrage. Behind this movement there is a growing public opinion which cannot be suppressed by the jeers of the House of Commons. Those who recall Vicior Hugo’s marvellous story will remember the scene when Gwynplaine, as Lord Clancharlie, threw off his plumed cap and proceeded to address the House of Lords in opposition to a grant to Prince George of Denmark, the busbind of Queen Anne. ‘ily Lords,” said Gwynaplhiine, “I am from the depths, and [represent Misery ;” and the lords + laughed and jeered and shouted like schoo!- boys al play, and rushed out of the house in uncontrollable glee. The voice comes again, not merely to a laughing house, but to an angry, anxious house, (o Commoners who see behind these young men Misery, Care, Want— centuries of political injustice, crimes in India, crimes in Iveland—traditions which have be- come fais, and which mate England to-day the happies! country in the world for mon of large incomes and the saddest for those who jabor. They see a pablic opinion which fs be- coming more and more educated every day. Strong as and is, and happy as Queen Vie- toria must b loyal \y of her subjects, the opinion represented by Sir Charles D. can- not be despised. The fact of its being in a minority in the Commons means uothing. Every cause begins with the minority. Before the artillery are put in line the pickets feel the way. The Corn law agitation at the outset had two men to lead it. When Charles Sum- nec and Salmon P. Chase sat in the Senate as the pioneer republicans ibey were despised and denouneed, Yet in ten years their party took possession of the country and changed the political destinies of America, A minority, however small, is powerful if it represents a principle. We hear of that ‘desperate courage which makes one a majoriiy;” but this is a higher courage. England ruled by her lords and middle classes cannot sit still, relying upon her army and navy and the Bank of England, and afford to despise this move- ment. England cannot point to the crowds who swarmed from Ludgate Hill to the Marble Arch, the other day, to see the Queen, as an evidence of immutable loyalty, There would have been as great a crowd to have seen the presumed Sir Roger Tichborne on his road to Tyburn, “What an enthusiastic multitud>,” said one of Na- poleon’s marshals to him, as they stood at the window of an Italfan palace receiving the homage of the multitude, ‘Tho crowd would be as enthusiastic if L stood on tho scaffold,” was the reply. This political sentimentality means nothing. The storms will come and go, ruffling the surface of the sea, at the mercy of the uncertain winds, but the deep ocean currents—gulf streams and Jypan cur- rents—move on forever and forever in their duly appointed array. We cannot read the political signs of a nation like England by looking at the surface, ‘‘Somehow,” wrote Hawthorne many years ago, ‘‘I feel in this country of England a sense of the uneasiness and instability of society—as it were the deep, low rumbling which precedes the earthquake.” It is madness to close the eye to these phe- nomena. We are told in the Scriptures of the cloud that arose in the heavens no bigger than a man’s hand, and those who read the parable will see what became of the proud and foolish men who disregarded the omen, Wo have only to remember ourselves in 1860 to rate at its true value ‘‘the loyalty of Eng- land,” and the unseemly expression given to it by the House of Commons; remember our demonstrations in favor of love and peace and union in the months after Lincoln’s election, and how we mobbed Phillips and Curtis and the pestiferous abolitionists wheneyer they appeared in public. Yet ina few months we were in arms and waging a cruel, deadly war upon each other, doing murder and pillage and desolation, with the kisses and vows still fresh upon our lips, The elements of war were in our political system. They had been germinating since 1820. The spark fell from Sumter, and the flames arose. The elements of revolution are in the political systeng of England, Every day they show more life. May Godin bis mercy and loving kindness make it a peaceful revolution, and teach the statesmen of England wisdom and courage, that the nation may go through the inevitable trial, and attain the ultimate blessings of free- dom and justice without being compelled to pass into that dark and fearful valley by which alone we achieved our revolution and attained union, peace and emancipation ! Taz Boston Traveller—administration— dogmatically, if not judgmatically, remarks that “it is now certain General Grant will be the candidate of the republican party, and that no nomination will be made by the demo- cratic party.” Where the Zraveller obtained the informatien furnished in the latter part of the above sentence is not stated. It must be news to many democrats. Tae Mormon STATE MoveMENT is a pain- fal evidence of labor to no purpose, With much flourish and display the leaders of the Saints, having formed a constitution-framing convention, went on Tuesday last through the form of a State election. The object of ull this plainly is to give the control of the present Territory once more into the hands of the Mormon priesthood. As the greater number of them are under indictment for murder or lewdness, (bis consummation is all the more devoutly to be wished. But the stain of polygamy still darkens their record, and until that is removed they can expect no relief in regard to a State government, It requires the action of Congress to create a new Slate, and the Congress has not essembled yet which would dare to clothe the indecency aud bar- barism of volyzamy with State richtas YURK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEKT. The Shipping Interests of the United States and the Subsidy Jobs=Tie True Policy of the Government. The application of the Pacific Mail Sieant- ship Company for an increased subsidy from the government, which is now being so per- tinaciously urged upon Congress, is only the precursor of a number of similar jobs that, in the event of its success, will follow closely in its wake. According to our Washington ad- vices there is a good prospect of the over- throw of all these schemes to obtain the people’s money under the false pretence of fos- tering the shipping interests of the country; but past experience teaches us that the persons interested in them are sturdy lobbyists who will neglect no means to accomplish their object, and it is therefore incumbent upon the oppo- nents of the subsidy policy to be vigilant and unceasiag in their efforts to defeat the pioneer movement. In the particular case of the Pa- cific Mail Company there is neither reason nor justice in its attempt to transfer a large amount of money from the public treasury into its own coffers, It has not been shown that such aid, even if justifiable, is a neces- sity, and there is every reason to believe that if granted by Congress it would mainly find its way into the pockets of the lobby and the ving, and would not be applied to the legitimate purposes of the company. The Pacific Mail service ought to be not only self-sustaining but remunerative, and before any demand can be justly made upon the country for assistance it should at least be shown that the affairs of the company have been wisely and economi- cally administered. Now, it is well known that the sidewheel boats of that line are the most extravagant that sail the ocean, Side- wheel steamers are discarded on the Atlantic, The Scotia is the only one of that description now running between Europe and America, and it is notorious that she is kept more asa show than for profit, as sho does not pay her expenses. Iron propellers can alone be made profitable ocean boats, aud the lofizér the voyage the more important, and, indeed, im- perative, becomes the saving of fuel and the ‘economy of space secured by this class of steamers, The boats of the Pacific Mail line are safe and fine sieamships, but they aro not such as the company would have built if guided by experience and prudence, and it is not proper that the people who have no inter- est in the service should be called upon to re- imburse the corporation for its errors and recklessness of management. There is every reason, therefore, on the simple merits of the case, why the application of the company for an increased and heavy subsidy should be prompily rejected by Congress, and the people will noi. be disposed, in these days of reform, to regard with favor or without suspicion those representatives who are found advocat- ing and supporting the unjustifiable job. Apart from these abstract considerations, the cofutry is rapidly becoming convinced that the policy of the government in regard to our shipping interests is radically wrong and is inflicting serious injury upon the na- tion. In his last annual report the Secretary of the Treasury commented in forcible lan- guage on the loss of our commerce conse- quent upon the decline of our shipping inter- ests. He showed from the returns of the last fiscal year that the ocean commerce of the United States is rapidly passing into the hands of foreign merchants and shipbuilders, and that we lose one hundred million dollars annually in the returns for freights and passengers, the great bulk of which is transmitted directly abroad. ‘The history of the loss of our commerce,” says Secretary Boutwell, “renders it certain that without some efficient action on the part of the govern- ment the entire foreign trade of the country will soon pass into the hands of our rivals, The monopoly of the trade between the United States and Europe by foreign merchants and shipbuilders carries with it the monopoly of shipbuilding for the entire world, and as @ consequence the Atlantic trade, the trade of the Pacific and the seas ad- jacent thereto will be carried on in English built steamers.” This picture is strongly, but not extravagantly, colored. But to what causes are these disastrous effects attributable ? The acts of the Anglo- Confederate privateers during the war of the rebellion, of course, dealt a terrible blow to our ocean commerce, Our flag was driven from the seas, and the carrying trade of the world, for which we were fast becoming suc- cessful competitors with England, passed wholly into the hands of foreigners, But nine years have elapsed since the war closed ; other interests that had been prostrated dur- ing our struggle for national existence have boen revived, and are again strong and flourishing, The States have re- turned to productiveness and prosperity ; the country is rich; the national debt is being decreased at a rate that astonishes ourselves as well as foreigners, and the de- struction and desolation of war have entirely passed away. Why is it that our shipping in- terests alone show no revival, but rather droop and decline more and more year after year, until, as Secretary Boutwell says, it be- comes almost certain that ‘the entire foreign trade of the country will soon pass into the hands of our rivals?” Is it because we do not give a paltry subsidy here and there to an ocean steamship line, or is it because the policy of our government is radically wrong, and has succeeded in destroying the most important interest of the nation ? Secretary Boutwell’s remarks are the most severe commentary that could be made on the mistaken policy we have pursued during the past eight or nine years, Nothing can be more conclusive proof of our error than the fact that our shipping interests under the gov- ernment policy have gone from bad to worse, until they are now almost wholly desiroyed, We have shut out our ship owners from buy- ing in a foreign market by refusing American rogistry to foreign-built vessels, The conse- quence is the loss to the country of one hun- dred million dollars annually for freights and passengers in the Atlantic trade, We have “protected” our iron interests so effectually that iron ship building in the United Slates is scarcely attempted, To remedy these evils Secretary Bout- well proposes that we shall guarantee subsidies to persons who may run lines of American built first class iron steamships of not less than two thousand tons burden; and on the strength of this recommendation a hua- ary lobby crowds the pational cavital, der re, manding large grants from the Treasary with all the confidence and persistence of professioaa! peggars. It is time that this blind and pernicious trifling with a great ques- tion should cease; for every year of con- tinued depression of our sbipping in- terests inflicts a dangerous injury on the nation. Does Mr, Boutwell suppose that the patching up of a bankrupt transportation company here and there will accomplish a revolution in our commerce, will set our ship- yards alive with business, will draw to our shores skilled mechanics and engineers, will develop our vast iron resources and cover the ocean with our vessels? If he does he must possess a fruitful imagina- tion and a sanguine temperament. If his policy is to prove so efficacious in the case of our ocean shipping interests what is to pre- vent its application to all other interests? Our river freight lines and our canal trans- portation companies are necessary to the commerce of the country, and when trade is drooping and dividends are small why should they not be entitled to their aub- sidy as justly as is the Pacific Mail concern? If we are to give away the people’s money in gratuities to private corporations we shall in- sist that the distribution be made general. There ts but one remedy for the evils under which we now rest, and that is the adoption ofa broad and statesmanlike policy that will serve to direct capital again into the channel from which it was driven by the war of the rebellion, and from which {t has been effec- tually excluded since through the fatuity of our rulers, Let our ship owners, or those who would be our ship owners, purchase their ves- sels in the cheapest and best market they can find, and let American registry be accorded to every vessel owned by American citizens, no matter where she may have been built. We shall then soon have American lines of ocean staamers competing with those of for- eign nations, and surpassing them through the natural gntorprise and energy of our countrymen. ‘Let all articles needed in iron ship building be admitted free of duty, and we shall then soon have our Pennsylvania Rip Van Winkles awake to the progress of the age and willing to seek in large sales and quick returns the profits they now strive to squeeze out of class legislation and mis- called protection, Capital once directed into the channel of ship building and ship own- ership will not again leave it, and we shall soon see our shipyards full of life and bustle. A great nation like the United States must be powerful on the sea as well as on the land, and it is well known that an efficient merchant ma- rine is the groundwork of naval power. Every yonr that is lost in the petty policy of lobby subsidies is an injury to the nation’s honor and a peril to the nation’s safety. We have experienced elght years of such states- manship, and its effect is before the world. It is now time that it should cease and give way to broader and more enlightened views. The people are tired of lobbies and jobs and government tinkers. They are ahead of their rulers, and can comprehend the great and glorious future that is in store for the republic. Let their voices be heeded by Congress, and let the effect be first shown by the prompt rejection of these lobby subsidy schemes and the conversion of Secretary Boutwell from his tinkering Yankee notions of govern- ment. If the Pacific Mail Steamship Company cannot stand alone let it fall to pieces, and then, under the policy of free trade in ships and ship building materials, we shall speedily have lines of ocean steamships, both on the Pacific and the Atlantic, flying the Stars and Stripes and competing gallantly and success- fully for the carrying trade of the world, Vior Presipent Cotrax writes to ex-Gov- ernor Hawley, of Connecticut, expressing bis pleasure at the result in New Hampshire, and saying “‘it would be a great pity to sadden any with a democratic victory in Conneoti- cut.” The ‘saddest of any” will probably be the democrats themselves when the result in Connecticut becomes known. The Smaiipox ‘Hospitals. Ju another place in these columns will be found an interesting and instructive excerpt from the able and valuable annual report of Dr. Macdonald, chief of the medical staff of the Smallpox Hospital of this city, This hos- pital is under the jurisdiction of the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correction, It is not always that we feel it to be at one and the same time a duty and a privilege to speak well of an institution and its managers, Ino the case now before us there really is but little, if any, room for exception, Di. Mac- donald’s report is in the last degree satisfac- tory. That the hospital has served a good purpose is manifest from the fact that it re- ceived during the year nearly three thousand patients, and that of these only five hundred and thirty-three died. The rate of mortality in this virulent and fatal disease as treated in the hospital has been only slightly over twen- ty-one per cent. It is no doubt a large death record; but when it is known that in the English hospitals, where it is supposed by many that perfection in the mode of treatment has been reached, the death rate has been twenty-seven per cent, and that in this city the cases taken charge of by the Board of Health and managed without removal from home have revealed a death rate of thirty- five and one-third per cent, or over fourteen per cent more than those treated in the hospital, it will be admitted that it is larger in seeming than in reality. Dr. Mac- donald is not without reason for saying that pauperism has its advantages. It will be found by those who read the report that it offers a complete refutation of certain charges made against smallpox hospitals in general. It is shown that while grumbling is common on the part of the patients it is often without cause. Most of the patients are in the hospi- tals against their wills ; in such circumstances grumbling {s most natural, When patients become partially convalesceat they are im- patient to get out; resistance to their wishes makes them grumble, Then, again, fault is found with the food given to the patients; but the report shows that the table is fur- nished according to the rules adopted for Bollovue and charity hospitals, and that if there be any error in the observance of these rales the error is on the side of liberality, Many complaints have been made because anxious—more anxious than wise—friends word, denied agcgaa t@ the hoavitak When the contagious, virulent and most dangerous charadler of the diseaso is borne in mind, most persons, we think, will justify the manage- ment in this parsisular and reject the com- plaiat. On the whole, tre consider Dr. Mac- donald’s report as highly satisfhistary. ‘ The Alabama Claims Negotiations and British Crown Right of Treaty Mak- ing. The correspondence which has been cone ducted between Secretary Fish and the British Cabinet on the subject of the Alabama claims bill adjustment was brought to the no~ tice of the English Parliament again yester day. The Right Honorable Edward Hors- man, member for Liskeard, a reformer in pol- itics, and a man who has had consid- erable official experience as a Lord of the Treasury and Chief Secretary for Ireland, moved in the matter, in ace cordance with his notice, which has been already published in the HeraLp. Mr. Hors- man did not impugn the essentials of the case asan international one in any respect, par- ticularly with reference to the equity of the American bill of damages, or the liability of Great Britain for its discharge, Hie anxiety was expressed with reference to the constitutional right, power and independence of Parliament with regard to treaty making, as against any executive assumption tending towards the fixing of an unusual precedent in that respect on the part of the Ministry of the monarch, Mr. Horsman wished the Queen's Cabinet to pledge itself to Parliament that, “in case fresh negotiations relative to the Alabama claims are entered upon with the American government, no proposals will be finally accepted until they have received the sanction of Parliament.” The principle involved in Mr. Horsman’ resolution ig not of exact interest to the Awerican people in the present instance— his Parliamentary profession, by the wording of the paper, appears to be more serious, When he uses the words ‘‘in case fresh ne- gotiations relative to the Alabama”, and the remainder, does he mean to convey that the negotiations which have been already had be- tween the United Stutes and the Queen have failed, or does he profess to know that they have been successful to the point which bas been already reached and require merely some technical elaboration to insure their friendly completion? The cable news report does not elucidate the perplexity, Premier Gladstone’s reply does not make it anything more clear. The chief of the Cabinet confined his explana- tion to the constitutional point. Parliament shall be at all times duly informed as to the policy and direction of the ministerial action, the Queen’s speech at the opening of the session having acknowledged the monarchical liability in this respect by Her Majesty's reference to the Alabama claims case. Ministers are yet in cen- sultation with respect to the terms of the official exposition which shall be made to the Legislature, members would be duly enlight- ened, but it would be “impossible to allow Parliament the treaty-making power.” The American people can thus perceive that the treatment of the Alabama claims case by the Washington government is likely to advance to a beneficial fruition a very grand principle of popular self-government in Britain, by ultimately bringing the treaty-making power within the control of the popular will ex- pressed in Parliament, as it is in the United States, and thus prevent the occurrence in the future of international misunderstandings through the caprice or envy or prejudice or aristocracy of individuals or Cabinet officers. Tux Boston Traveller is more prosaical than poetical when it says :— CHASE TO SUMNER. Where you are now, so once was I; Where I am now, you soon will be. A seat upon the Supreme Bench for Mr. Sumner might not be an unhappy event, in case of a vacancy occurring by the elevation of Judge Davis to the Presidency. Tre Kaiser's SuBsriTvUTE YOR THE Cone OORDAT IN ALSACE AND LoRRAINE.—The fed- eral Councils of Alsace and Lorraine, in which are vested the legislative power for the re- cently acquired German territory, are engaged in drafting a statute for the regulation of tha Catholic Church within the provinces, The Kaiser thus indicates his determination to rule his newly conquered people in his own way; and now that the Concordat of 1801 with France has ceased to have any binding effect in these provinces German laws for the regulation of the Catholic religion will supply its place. This step is decided upon, and there will be no departure from it, as Cardinal An- tonelli has been, no doubt, already notified tbat overtures with the view to the re-estab- lishment of the Concordat in the conquered provinces will not be considered in Berlin. “Tne New Haven Palladium—administrae tion—announces that Chief Justice Chase has gone to New York to urge Mr. Belmont to call a meeting of the Democratic National Com- mittee, to meet at an early day, to take action regarding the calling of a National Conven- tion, The Palladium thinks the Chief Jus- tice might be more profitably employed. Per haps he is, Personal Inteiligeace. General W. Preston, of Kentucky, 13 stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. George Francis Train has turned up at the ot Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Robert M. Douglas, of Washington, DC, 1s at the St, Nicholas Hotel. This gentleman, although the son of the “Little Giant," has not embraced the political faith of his father, and ts the private secretary of President Grant. Captain Gurdon, of the British Navy, Las arrived at the Brevoort House. Ths oMcer nas for some months been travelling through the Southers fare George H. Sheridan and ex-Superin- tondent of Police J. W. Swords, of New Orleans, who accompanied Governor Warmoth to Washing: ton yesterday, returned to the Fifth Avenue Hotet, and in the evening left there for Bosion, Vice Ambassador I. M. Okubo and seven other members of the Japanese Embassy reached the St. Nicholas flotei last evening. General Ben Butler arrived from Washifgton at the Astor House yesterday. In tie eveuing Ne de- purted for Boston, The Rev. Father Bjerring, of the Greek chapel om Second avenue, sails to-day on the steamer Holsatia for Hamburg, He will proceed fvom there to St. Peiersburg, while his wife and chtla will goto Stutt. gard, Tho ovject of the reverend genticiman's visit to St Pelersourg 18 to acquaint tue Patriarthat Council wiih the needs of the members of the Greek faitu in this city, and lo bresure permission to eveck a cuurck Gdilcg here