The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1872, Page 6

5 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, — LLL LLL LLL LLL et tt Mexican Pro- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Aarne uJ All tches myst be BRALD. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1872.—I1RIPLH SHEET Our Complicated um Oppressive Revenue | system is based upon the principle of imposing Syetom—Tho Referm Needed. We hear ofa great many proposed reforms at the present day, and there is hope that some of them, through the power of the press and public opinion, will be carried out, But in nothing is reform so much needed as in Kl business or news letter and telegraphic | our revenue system. We mean by this not addressed New Yors | only a reduction of the revenue to the lowest sum possible that an economical administra- Letters and packagés should be properly tion of the government will admit, but also a sealed. Rejected communteations will oot be re- turned. 78 DAILY HERALD, PMhiakta soley day ™ the vean Four cents per dopy. annua! sypscription pricd $125 -No. 85 = = eee ARBUSERMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC QvRGA—Hameen, Fourieenth atreet,—ITALIAN OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk BALLRT PAN TOMIME OF HUMPTY DuMPryY, LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Witcnrs or New Yous. w —— ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth ay. = As You Like It, WALLAGK’'S THEATRE, Broadway vnd Lsth street. — wan Vereean, RAND OPERA HQUSE, caraok be I cornot of Lauta ROOK, gf Mth ay. and 2a sth NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston ste.—La BELLE SAVAGE, batwean Priuge and ST, JAMES! THEATRE, Twenty-eiguth street and Broad way MARRIAGE, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, c: 30d sy, — ances afternoon andevening—Luwitvm, SFP ertOrae BOWERY THEAT! Hust 1 we. aereias i ‘RE, Bowery—Hunvtn@ & TURTLE Ms EV ahd TREATRS; Twpaty-fourie street F ui} THgaraE.— ee, MRS. F, B. ” ‘ Ba oF Tor. CenWar's lk PARK Burraro Cae Ae ewes BOT PHEATRE, opposing City Hall, THEATRE © 0 1MB, NEGO nomial re Ben VoeAte UNION SQUARB THEAT, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, fo. ai Bo + Nrond koctseniorizs, BURLESQUES, a SO aiweer, BRYANTS NEW OPERA HOUSE, 284 e . ond Whava.—Baranr's Mixememeg? 2 fis between dt TATRTY-FOURTH STRE! Dune VARIERY, aNrantatoanee ee atk 8AN FRANCISCO The ban Ag 0O MINSTREL WALL, 585 Broadway. — INSTERLS, NEW YORK | r aux Rina. ha tt 8190 —SURNES 1M NEW york TR IPLE SUEE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 914 Broadway.— Ti Now York, Monday, March 25, (872. ax CONTENTS OF TO- Pan, Bt Sateen What thi Chivairy tnink of pebee ah liyd Cuppings from Lumberton; Ter: Xu ; Terror and Sate biavado—Meteoroiozv: The — International DAYS HERALD, ; thorough change in the principle and plan of taxation. We never have had a simple, good and steady revenue system. Even before the war, when sixty to seventy millions of dollars were a sufficient income for the necessities of the government, taxation was too complicated, and, therefore, unnecessarily expensive in the collection, while it was so frequently changed to suit the policy or views of the different parties that succeeded each other in power that business was dis- turbed and the country checked in its develop- ment, With the war and the enormous demands of the government for means to carry it on taxes were multiplied so much that people were bewildered, aa well as bur- dened, with the number and variety of them, Almost everything under the sun was taxed, and many things that little more than paid the expense of collection, The greater part of these taxes exist now, though there has been a small reduction of the number, and a slight modification in the amount of some few otbers, Virtually the system is the aame as at the close of the war, and liltle less complicated. To go throagh the lists of imposts with a view of un- pore. or remembering them would be more puzzling than the most difficult mathe- matical problem. These numergus imposts, many hich haye yielded little to % me . po Brooklyn | arigen partly from the igngrance of our iegis- tatowd Ghd partly, srom ihe bablt of Aperolling in Congregs tg accommi data cat font sed- tions and interests. The cottod ees avers ¥ New England, wapting high protectlys lution, strike hands with theiron protectiontsts of Pennsylvania, The wool grower and manu- facturer, the sugar planter, the lumberman, the ship builder and those specially interested in other industries do the same. One member of Congress says to another, ‘‘You help me and Iwill help you.” ‘hus the tariff is made up and taxes imposed, more with a view to favor special interests and localities than upon gene- ral principles. Not that which is best for the nation at Jarge or the mass of the people is considered, but that which will bénofit par- ticular classes. These remarks apply, bow- ever, to manufactaring iodustries chiefly ; for, slrange, to say, the greatest interest of allin the country—the agricultural ‘| interest—-is' least protected or promoted by legislation. Nor is special legislation for its protection either practicable or demanded. Free trade is‘its best protection, That opens the markets of the world to our agriculturists, Souxreas at Vienua This Summer—The Snow | ereates a greater demand for their vast Storms ou the Plains—ihe Mormons: Pin Movement for Aduussion Into te Union Obituary—River aud Caval Navigation, 4—Relieious: Palm Sunday; Glad fHosannas to the Prince of Peace in Ail the Churches: Dr. Rylance on the Entry of Christ Into Jeru- Salem: The Lessons of Palm Sunday aud the Undecaying Power of Faitn, by Dr. Friel; Henry Ward Beecher on the Imagination; ne Garhiolig dissin to the Colore.| Race. De- . Vaughun; Dr. ‘Christian it-Saeritice, cptbaasuaice S—Reiigious (Continived from Fourth Pagey— duies Favre's Book: The Relations Between the Holy See and the French RepubdliceMusio and the Drama—Smallpox—Brooklyn Affairs. G—Haitorinis: Leading Article, “Our Complicated and Op sive Revenue System—The Reform Neecieu"—Amusement Announcements, 7—Ednorials (Wontinaed from sixth Page)—The Alabama Claims—Cavle Telegrams from Eurland, Ireland, Italy, Austria, France, Ohina and Japan—Queen Victoria—Personat Luteiligence— irom Washington—The Rev. Di. Houston—Misceilaneous Telegrams— The Weather—Business Notices. S—Hobeoschwungan: Tue Mountain Home of Bavaria'’s King; The Palace; lta Legend, History and Past, Associations; His Majesty’s Character“aca; The King and the Players; Cuba: ‘Toe Grand Duke Alexis’ Farewell to Bevana; Dr. Moward’s Terrible Fate; Inter+ view or HERALD Correspondent with the Aged Captive; Condemned, But Innocent; Latest About the Insurrection—“With Mus tary Honors’'—Meeting of the Internationais— The Death of Mr. 3 9—Financial and Commercial: Retrospective and rospective; The Vagariés of the Speculative Current lor Six Days; The Rise and Fail of Ene; The Truce in Pacific Mall; The ‘jump’ jiver; The Demoralization of Union Tbe April Settlements and egy of the Cliques—Engilsh Racing— Steeple Chasing in krance—Trotting in Calitornia—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- mevta. 10-Tue Dominican Monk: Father Tom; Barke’s Masteriv Anaiysis of the Times We Live Ja— Opening a Great Organ—Literature —Literary Chit-Chat—Miscellaueous Telegrams—Snip- ping intelligence—Aavertisements, J} Advertisements 12 -Aavertisements, “Festiva Lente."—Governor Parker is “making haste slowly” in accepting the labor seform nomination for the Vice Presidency. Toe River OpENinc.—The steamboat Wal- ter Brett on Saturday pushed up the river as far as New Hamburg. A few days more and the blockade will or ought to be broken at Albany. Tur Kyoxvitie (Tenn.) Press and Herald mentions, in connection with the name of Horace Maynard, the Latin maxim—‘*Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.” Does it mean that Maynard's Congressional laurels are dying out? Our Late Sxow Storm extended from the latitude of Washington northward into the New Doiinion, and westward beyond the Mississippi. Now, if we have a heavy and extensive rain storm we siall before the close of this week have the breaking up of a hard winter. ieee Tar Present Wi Be 4 Livery Weer fo Connecticut. Both parties have brought out their big guns, and a rattling fire all along the lines will commence to-day and be kept up until Saturday night next. From present appeararices the republicans have the heaviest products, and, as a consequence, promotes every branchjo! trade connected with agricul- ture, port he made as Special Conimissigner of Revenue, that moreythan fifty per cent of the industrious classes were agriculturists, that their production:was little less than half It is estimated by Mr. Wells, in the re- and the total products of the country. We see, then, how an unjust and oppressive system of imposts operates agaiast more than half of the , community, and in favor of special classes. Instead of log-rolling protective legislation, ' by which the agricultural population is ¥ic- timized and the devolopment of agriculture re-’ tarded, we ought to have a simple plan of raising revenue that would bear on all classeg.| alike, and that should be derived chiefly from luxuries, It is probable now that Congress will take the duty off tea and coffee, w hich will reduce the revenne thirty millions of dollars or more, While this may be acceptable to all classes and be felt pretty equally by all, and while it will tend to cheapon living, the effect will be inconsiderable. This tax is so generally diffused and the amount that fay be saved to each family or person by abolishing it will be so small that there will not, after all, be much difference in the cost of living, It will be but short stop in the way of revenue reform. Those who are advocating the abolishment of the duty on tea and coffee are protectionists for the most part, because they expect that with this reduction of government income other duties and taxes which afford protection to certain interests will be con- tinued. But there are other things which enter more largely into the cost of living, of the household and clothing, and of the mechanical arts and industry generally, which need to be relieved of the burden of taxation. We want, really, a sweeping measure of reform, that will take off a hundred millions of taxes at least, and the relief thus afforded to be such as the mass of the people will feel and the government expenses of revenne col- lection be greatly reduced, 3 The English system of taxation is on the whole, perhaps, the best model to follow, though there is inthe United States, as in some other countries, exceptional conditions or circumstances that require a modification. We could not do better, certainly, than to copy England in the principle she acts upon of ralsing a large revenue from a few articles, Her revenue, for example, is, ia round num- bers, about three hundred and sixty millions of dollars, Out of thiga hundred and sixteen millions is drawn from excise—that is, from taxes on spirits, beer aud other like luxuries, and from licenses to sell these, This is exclu- sive of the customs duties on importation of such articles. If we raised as much from the artillery, although the democrats produce a splendid array of oratorical metal, This day week will tell the story of how the battle was won or lost. Tag Numerous InvestiGatTine CoyMITTErs at work upon frauds, corruptions, &c., bere and in Brooklyn, and at Albany, and Wash- ington, and Trenton, and Harrisbutg and other places, too numerous to méntlon, are getting on as well as could bo expected. Among them ll much good, We hope, will follow their disclosures ; but bh biggest Mmare's nest of all the Alleged corruptions involved ia that discovered by Cerl Schurz in the Freuch arms business. So far this wit. hess on the subject before the committee Sppears a regular kgow nothing, while in his fiery declamations befors 4 Repeated to know svervthing, same source it would be nearly balf what the whole revenue demand of the government ought to be under an economical administra- tion, Andwby not? Our population is eight or nine millions greater than that of Great Britain, and consumes more, probably, of these exclsable luxuries, What go fit to be taxed? They are not necessaries of life, and are almost always injurious, The property tax of England yields ‘about thirty-five mil- lions of dollars and stamps kos forty-six millions. The customs yielded something over a hundred millions, Of course there are @ number of articles taxed under the heads of stamps and customs, but these are few com- cxmrepeny dig taxes imposed under these eads in the United States, Therd are other naneceasary to ¢numerate here, The whole as few taxes as possible with the largest re- turn that cao be obtained. This simplifies it, reduces the cost of collection and enables the government to exercise mora easily a strict control over its officials and the public. The more the taxes are multiplied and the larger the number of officers employed to collect them the greater the frauds and more difficult it becomes to collect the revenue, Suppose our government were to raise from excise a bundred and sixteen millions, thirty millions from tobacco in its various formas, which is another luxury injurious to the peo- plo, thirty or forty millions from a tax on property in some constitutional form, which would be easily collected and at little cost, and from customs duties on a few articles of luxury to the amount of eighty or a hundred millions, an ample revenue would be raised and the whole list of vexatious and burden- some duties and taxes, including the income tax, would be swept away. What a simple system of raising revenue thia would be! How thorough and easy might be the supervision of the government over it! Three-fourths of the army of employ¢s now under the Treasury Department would be discharged and the expense proportionately reduced. But there is no hope of this much needed reform until the Secretary of the Treasury abandons bis absurd policy of calling for an enormous revenue, more than what the government re- quires, and till Congress ceases its loz-rolling protective legislation, A great deal of the corruption at Washington, aud the number of subsidy and other schemes to deplete the easury spring from the temptation which an enormous surplus revenue affords, Birds of wy agsemble where the carcass , Instead of burdening the country now with taxation, fhe polloy should be to reduge the revenue to ie loyeat sum necessary for Sbe support of he governmént and payriiént of interest on the lebt, and to leave té the increased milliong of population and multiplied wealth hereafter to bear a portion of the obligations incurred in preserving the Union. The abolition of our multifarious and oppressive taxes now would do much to stimulate industry, increase production and wealth, and make the payment of the debt very easy in a few years hence, The Sad Case of Dr. Howard—Appeal to the Spanish Government. We call attention to the letter of our Havana correspondent, but more especially to the portion narrating the terrible fate of Dr, Howard. . It is a case which appeals to all our sympathies, as, indeed, it cannot fail to appeal to all those who feel for the sufferings of the innocent aud oppressed. Dr, Howard, {it appears, waa convicted and sentenced to elght years’ penal servitude by the Spanish authorities in Cuba on the accusation of only one witness, and that witness evidently a false one, His accuser was a captured insorgent leader. This man, in order to escape the death penalty, proposed to make important revelations to his captors. . The revelations consisted in the false charge against Dr. Howard of having given aid and comfort to the insurgents. The Spanish authorities lent him a willing ear, and the wretch purchased his life at the cost of a base falsehood. But once within the limits of the United States he made another declara- tion, asserting Dr. Howard's perfect innocence of the charges he had brought against him. Dr. Howard has vainly appealed to the United States for protection, The Spanish authorities deny his claim to American citi- zenship and have not heeded the remon-: strances of our Consul General at Havana. We do not propose to enter Into subtleties and legal quibbles on the question of Dr. Howard’s nationality. Enough for our pur- pose to know that Dr. Howard was boro in these United States, that he now inndcently bears the felon’s doom and drags the felon’s chain. This is a powerful claim for our inter- cession. Dr. Howard is an old man, a man of culture, and three daughters in distress weep over the mournful fate of their aged father. Consul General Torbert appears to have done all in his power to obtain the release of the un- fortunate gentleman, but it was in vain to look for justice where passions and prejudices bave an unbridled sway. We make an appeal to a higher authority— to the government of Madrid and its su- preme head, King Amadeus, with whom the clamor of an_ ignorant mob can have no ruling consideration. We are confident that our appeal will not have been made in vain; but we also look to Admiral Polo, the new Spanish Minister at Washington, | for prompt intercession, He is a just man and an advocate of clemency, He has spoken words of peace and amity, and we believe him, Here is a good beginning for him to make, No better opportunity could have presented itself for the inauguration of his diplomatic mission. Nor can the Spanish government refuse justice to & man wrongfully accused, who has already suffered what must be agony worse than death, to one of his age, culturo and frame of mind, The vessel that carries Dr. Howard is now on her way to a Spanish penal colony in Africa. We hope the day of her arrival there will also be that of bis liberation, Tue British Crown REPRESENTED ON THE ConTINENT.—Queen Victoria arrived at Cher- bourg yesterday afternoon, where she em- barked on a special train for Paris. Her Majesty, with the members of her suite, were due in the French capital at an early hour this morning. The Queen will, it is said, decline to see President Thiers, and continue her journey towards Berlia after a polite ex- pression of her personal good feeling for the Chief of the French republic, The Prince and Princess of Wales are in Rome, His Royal Highness js personally acquainted with the Pope, and also with Victor Emmanuel, so that British diplomatic action moved simul- taneously from London, Rome and Berlin, may produce a very decided influence as to the future direction of public affairs on the Continent, TALKING OF ‘‘PRESIDENTIAL S:pE Sows,” the Chicago Repudlican—administration—re- marks that the venerable Chief Justice Chase “comes upon the scene at the eleventh bour, with his old properties of four years ago, an sets up his side show to draw off the few cau- The President and a tectorate. The mutual advantages which would accrue to both the United States and Mexico from a protectorate of the former over the latter have, it would appear from our special despatches, been made apparent to the President throuzh the channels of his Mexi- can experiences and the editorial columns of the Herarp. Under whatever aspect the case may be viewed, the experiment of a protectorate would be worth the trying. Day after day our Mexican despatches mark the recurrence of ubiquitous pronunciamentos, forced loans, bloody battles, with one man killed and another wounded; provinces in re- volt, government generals joining insurgents, insurgent generals betraying their fellows, both parties seizing Custom Houses, varied with a little performance over the Texan border in the shape of ox and hog thievery, occasionally seasoned with the murder of un- armed citizens. The President, with his knowledge of the rich fature in store for Mexico, if once she had a stable, powerful government, sees the deplorable features of her present and past history, and appreciatés the benefits to civilization and humanity in its establishment on a firm basis. It is bard, however, to blame him too severely for a reluc- tance to let ont on a Mexican protectorate such another nest of hornets as stung his St. Domingo annexation project to death, But, waiving all this, io view of the great question of the public good, we fisist that it ts no time for timidity. he President has reduced it by a very planalble course of reasoning to a matter in which Con- gress fhust take the initiative. “He favors the project within these bounds, and tt femains- @ seen whether our national legislators will do their clear duty in the matter. The Mexicans themselves must be made to understand the fact that their ever- lasting revolutions in their own and forays into our territory are sources of Menace and weakness to the Uniled States and the whole system of republican government. It is hinted that intervention would bring a war to our doors. If it did the difficulty would soon be satisfactorily settled, and we could then guarantee a free and firm government to the Mexican people, a great fat land, with a delightful climate, to the sturdy toilers of the world, and a perfect im- munity from the princes out of place that Europe may have on hand. Is not all this worth the experiment of a protectorate ? Tur EVANSVILLE (Indiana) Journal is anx- fous to koow the use of the democrats running a candidate for elector at large when the democracy do not intend to run any candidate for the Presidency. The Si. Louis Repudli- can—democratic passive organ—might answer this conundrum. Progress on Our City Charter at Albany= A Clean Sweep. The bill providing a new charter for this most unfortunate of cities in its municipal affairs has been undergoing in the committee of the Senate a regular overhauling from stem to stern. By the amendments agreed upon, with the consent or without a protest from the Committee of Seventy, all the heads ‘of departments now in office are to go out, and new men are to take their places, by election or appointment, There are to be two branches of the Common Council, each to con- sist of thirty members, six of whom are to be chosen from each Senatorial district, and these new city fathers are to serve without pay. Cumulative voting is still adhered.to. They want to see how it will work, The Com- mittee of Safety, of six members, is to be appointed by the two oldest Judges of the Superior Court. The City Chamber- lain is to be retained and invested with large powers, as a check on the Comptroller. The salaries of all the principal officers are fixed, those of the Mayor, Corporation Coun- sel and Comptroller at $10,000 each, and go. on, with a sliding scale downward. The bill as amended is the special order in the Senate for to-morrow, and unquestionably on the various amendments proposed there will be an animated discussion, What shape the charter will finally assume no man can tell, but we are assured that in some shape or other we shal! soon have a new charter. Tue ALABAMA CLAIMS CoRRESPONDENCE.— Earl Granville’s second note to the American government on the Alabama claims question is said, on English newspaper authority, to be most friendly and conciliatory in tone, very verbose, and decisive against submitting the ‘indirect damages claim to the Geneva Court, The steamship Baltic, which bears the despatch outward, is expected to arrive at New York on Easter Sunday, a season of reconciliation, good feeling, hope and reso- lution for fair dealing in the future. It is to be hoped that His Lordship calculated the sail- ing time of, the vessel before he penned his missive. Tor St, Paur Press considers the nomina- tion by the Chicago Tridune of Horace Greeley for Vice President ‘‘one of the curiosities of political mountebankism.” It is only another ecene in the political side shows now amusing the people all over the country, The venerable philosopher is reserved for a higher position than the Vice Presidency, Tnx Cuinzsk Prope in the nelghborhood of Tientsin still endure terrible suffering, resulting in the death of thousands, from the effects of famine consequent on the destruc. tion of the crops by river floods. The army was mutinous at one particular point, and, judging from the latest news, His Celestial Majesty does not progress near so comfortably as his neighbor the Mikado of Japan, who is engaged in giving beneficial feffect to mea- sures of public reform and for the attainment of a solid national advance. Tue Cwicaco Tribune thinks that the edi- tore of the Louisville Courier-Journal, “might as well be republicans of the order of Greeley as to be democrats of thelr present stripe.” The Courier-Jourual, like the Tri- bune, is fond of gay colors—political organs, as it were, of the Dolly Varden pattern, Wirn Osty a Vor of three hundred and nineteen in New Hampshire, the labor reform- tious gentlemen who are skufking about the | ers can hardly expect to carry the country in big tent seoking free admission, with the hope eta under war.” the next Presidential election, That ntimber she Bonate he | sources of less amounts of Income, which it is | of being engaged as actors when the company | does not even come up to King David's Scrip- tural foux hundred malaontentas The International Meteorological Vongrosae A Second Brussels Conference. The latest move in the solentific world ts the proposed early calling of a grand Inter- national Congress of Meteorologiata at Vienna. The distioguished men who have taken the initiative in this matter are Mr. Buchan, of Scotland, M. Dové, of Berlin, and Professor Buys Ballot, of the Royal Datch Meteorologi- cal Society, Ever since the session of the famous Brussels Conference of 1852, held in the international Interests of navigation and commerce and the systematic arrangement for deep sea and other researches, the value of such meetings for interchange of scientific opinion has been fully demonstrated, Pro- fessor Ballot, of Utrecht, in a circular dis- tributed very widely, has just announced the outline of such subjects as require the special attention of the International Congress, and he suggests the propriety of meteorologists generally publishing in advance their views on the important subjects of discission. “Man is by nature a meteorologist,” some one has said; but this very fact, if true, may explain the tardiness with which the weather has become a matter of actentific inquiry and rigid analysis; and the want {s deeply felt of organized, co-operative and world-wide ob- servations of the atmosphere iu order to bring up meteorology to the standard of its sister sciences, In the decisions of such q body as it is proposed to convene at Vienna there will be imaiiy points tu which, as Professor Ballot suggests, the old question—if Romo or Geneva shall impoge thgir gceptre on the world—will be revived, But this ts an objection to every effort for Intetnatiofial co-operation in such labors, and may as well be met and over- come now as hereafter. ‘The aerial ocean, now the subject of so much interest and in- vestigation, is a complete mechanism, with phenomena Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea, It is idle ever to hope to comprehend or discover its laws and idlosyncracies unless all nations can combine to some extent in syn- chronous reports, based upon similar readings of instruments of one pattern, giving results tbat are easily compared with each other and can be harmoniously charted. If discord threatens the deliberations of the Congress as to the prime meridian from whose time all observations are to be made—whether that of Berlin, Paris, Washington, Greenwich or St. Petersburg—it might be settled by taking the meridian of some {sland like that of Ferro, in mid ocean, Such difficulty, however, is not likely to arise, and the labors of the Congress will, no doubt, prove of the greategt utility to all the nations who are represented init. Io a very short space of time the United States has organized a Meteorological Office, which, in the avowed opinion of maay foreign authori- ties, is already in advance of the older institu- tions of the kind in Europe. We are, of course, deeply interested in having our sys- tem extended over the whole field of meteoro- logic research, and our Signal Office, never quiet, is throwing out its Briarean bands in every direction for information of atmospheric phenomena. The United States was fore- most in the proposition and support of the first Brussels Conference, and is ripe for the investigation of all such questions as are proposed for the Vienna Conference. M. Ballot may be regarded as the leader and pioneer in such matters in Europe, and he already has the earnest sympathy, as he will assuredly have the solid support, of our American meteorologists and government officials in all that concerns the welfare of true science. We wish him every possible success in Immediately consummating the plans and fixing the time for the assembly of meteorologists at Vienna, Italian Opern in New York—The Nilsson Revival. This evening ‘‘Hamlet” will be repeated at the Academy, the last performance here of Nilsson and the Strakosch Italian Opera Com- pany prior to their departure to fulfil a brief farewell engagement of four nights at Wash- ington, The company then returning to New York a Nilsson matinée will be given at Wallack’s Theatre on Saturday, April 6; but whether this special engagement is or is not to be the last of the public entertainments in New York of the sweet singer of Sweden prior to her departure for Europe we have yet to learn, At all events, her great American campaign, asa musical and financial success, ig without a parallel, excepting only that of our first Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind. But the visit of Nilsson, in the revival, nay, in the resurrection, of the Italian Opera in New York, after it was supposed to be dead beyond recovery, has made a far deeper, more grateful and more enduring impression upon our musical world than that of any European operatic missionary to these shores, And how admirably this delicate young woman has borne all the hard work, all the trials of this rough winter, and all the fatigues of travel and of exposure to the sudden changes of our wintry climate, falfilling, with an ex- ception or two, every engagement in every always excelling in every réle undertaken, we need not bere recite, We regret that the day is fast approaching when she will leave us, but we hope before long to welcome ber retarn, We dare say that if the Academy were capable of seating ten thousand people the standing room would be all appropriated this evening. On the 1st of April the Parepa-Wachtel-Sant- ley Troupe open a new season with the “Tro- vatore.” Cuancetton Lowe's Bupeet.—The British Treasury budget will be submitted to the House of Commone this evening by Chan- cellor of the Exchequer Lowe. It is thought that the project will contain a proposition for a reduction of two per cent on the income tax. This would make John Ball, senior and junior, in bigh glee for Easter Sunday, ds it would enable the middle classes to put a good many more plums in the pudding, and thus | cause the Parliament to come to the general debate of Mr. Lowe’s measure in much better humor after the recess, —— Asks AN INDIANA journal—‘‘How would it sound for w democrat to shout “Hurrah for Davis?” To which « republican editor responds—“'Prefix ‘Jeff’ to it, and it would be the most natural sound in the world. Tt is just as likely that the democrats will shout “Jeff” as that they will sing songs of praise for “David.” place, through a period of many months, and | Passion Thoughts from cho Pulpit, The anniversary of the most solemn event which the Christian Church commemorates is drawing near, and the hearts of the friends of Jesus are touched afresh with the remembrance of His love and of their obligations to Him. And those, too, who have no conscious interest in His salvation feel at such a season as this a solemnity and a thoughtfulness which they cannot account for, The story of the Saviour’s bitter persecutions, His “agony and bloody sweat,” His triumphal entry into Jerusalem amid the hosannas of the multitide and the rejotcings of those who bad so oft and so eagerly listened to His words was repeated yes- terday in many a Christian temple and home in this land, And it can never be read or heard thoughtfully and alone without producing a good effect upon the mind. In the Catholic and Protestant Episcopal churches especially the event was solemnly and appropriately observed. Dr. Rylance, in St, Mark’s-church, pictured the scenes which transpired on the road toward Jerusalem, and contras‘ed the changeful temper of the people, who, at the beginning of the week, had shouted hosanna to the Son of David, the King of Israel, and at the end orled as lustily for the release of Barrabas, the murderer, and for the crucifixion of Jesus. His whole course, as the Doctor remarked, showed unselfishness and a meek desire to bow to the will of the Father, The Rev. Dr. Friel well said, in the Church of St? Charles Borromeo, that we cannot dwell upon’ Christ's life and passion without giving our hearts and souls to Him. The contemplation of His death must be the sure pledge of our love to Him, which should never wither or decay, but be always green, It has been the greatest difficulty,” said the reverend speaker, ‘for some to understand that there is a future to’ live for—a higher reward to be attained-by man than the mero perishable things of earth.” And yet men receive facts of smaller moment upon far less evidence. In the New England Congregational church, the Rev. Mr. Wright," of Boston, spoke tonchingly about the manner of Christ’s deati, and the different stages of Christianity. He portrayed the spirit with. which the Saviour bore all the cruel: mockings and scourges, the insults and indignities that were heaped upon Him, and added that ‘‘it seems to be in human nature to mock the unfortu- nate.” Whatever has been touched by. Christ, he said, has been sanctifled. The cross, until Christ died on it, was an emblem of: infamy, now it is the pinnacle of churches, the orna- ment of woman, 1800 years ago all the men of learning mocked Jesus; a few women only worshipped Him, and they were deemed the maddest of the mad. Now whole continents. — confess His glory, and kneel before His. throne, Mr. Beecher got off some good things yestere day in bis treatment of the use of the imagina- tion in spiritual life and its relation to faith. Faith, he sald, makes noble natures stand ou€ populously in the heavenly land by awaken- ing the affections of the heart. The imagina- tion enlarges the range of our being; it gives: anew power to man’s thoughts, and by it wa open up new possibilities aud the imagination in the real sense is sanctified, Mr. Beecher familiarly illustrated the drudgery of daily life and brought out so fully and so patheti- cally the contrast between, the present life and the future and the faith and imagination necessary to enable us to ‘endure as. seeing Him who is invisible,” that his audience was moved to tears and he himself almost: broke down. Dr, E. G. Andrews encouraged St, John’s Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, to practise Christian self-sacrifice by setting before them the noble example of Jesus Christ, whose utter self-abnegation stood out in striking contrast with man’s selfishness. The Doctor illustrated from nature the neces- sity for a vicarious atonement. An enlarged civilization, he added, is the result of the sacrifices of pioneer life, and the existence of anation where the principles of liberty are conserved and enlarged, is the result of the sacrifice of thousands who stood the shock of battle to preserve their native land. Dr. Andrews showed that such a life of self noblest type of Christian manhood. The character of Moses—a prophet whom the Lord knew face to face—was painted inf glowing colors by the Rev. Mr. Backman for! the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church. He -was a man of colossal character, wh: resisted all the corrupting {influences aro him in the Egyptian court and maintained his simplicity. The prominent traits in his chars acter, as brought out by Mr, Backman, werd his strong faith in God, his cheerful obe¢ dience, and his profound devotion to his works and his people and his wonderful benevolen:e.’ | These traits were illustrated and elaborated. Mr. Hepworth had a’ tender word to say about the refreshing and restrain- ing influences of home. In illustrating the ideal home of the soul he presented an old fashioned thanksgiving dinuér in a New Eng? land home, and said that nothing showed tha enduring power of home life more than such 4 dinner, But he thonght that in these days wa are too civilized to have such a dinner, Wa don’t care to see our aged parents, witig ungloved hands and awkward gestures and | bad grammar, sitting at our city tables, The | importance of home life in giving inspiration ‘to patriotism and to religion was ably “4 | forth by Mr. Hepworth. Dr, Morrison preached in the Church of the Messiah on the oS and ennobling power of religious truths, an Scriptural illastrated his theme with many incidents, Very different was the sermon preached by Dr, Chapin, in the Academy of Music, Brook~ lyn, last evening, from some of the utterances’ made in that place since the meetings were began there, There was none of the cant, — clap-trap gnd see-saw meaningless tras! which has been at times delivered to the muly titudes there in the mafve of the truth ae it ig in Jesus, It was a simple exposition of Obristian prayer and Christian life, with Christ the ideal and the central figure of the soul, We can commend the discourse to thosa ministers among us who, as Dr. Chapin ree! marked, ‘sometimes in a critical mood’: compare Christ and Socrates, and the. comparison is sometimes made with the balance slightly in favor of thh heathen’ philosopher, But, the preacher asked, how had Socrates moved men, or who had ever died with bis name on thoir lips? Hundreds, of thouaanda had been moved hy Obrist. and sacrifice conduced to the development of thet ; J