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through faith in His iiatte had triamphed < death. We publish other discourses to-day, which, with those noticed, we commend Dur readers, in the confident hope that this ‘week may be to them in fact, as It is in nai a holy week, and that out of the spiritual | sorrow and mourning through which they may pass they sball come forth rejoicing and happy on Faster Sunday. Personal Intelligence. General W. H. Smith, of Illinois, ts quartered at. (he Filth Avenue Hotel. « General J. D. Kilpatrick, of New Jersey, ts a guest Of the Hotman House, Judge FP, Jonnson, of Connecticut, is staying at ube Sturtevant House, { Captain H. B, Seeley, of the United States Navy, NKW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1872.—-TRIPLE SHEET, THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. ne eh, Zarl Granville’s Second Note to Washington— Conciliatory in Words but Unyleld- ing in Principle. “TELECRAM TC THE KEW YORK HERALE. Lonvon, March 24, 1872, Tho London Observer (newspaper) in Its issue to- day says that the second note of the English Foreign Secretary, Earl Granville, in reply to the American despatch on the Alabama claims case, ts most friendly and conciliatory in tone, but states expheitiy that England is uaable to submit the question Of the admissibility of the claims for indi- rect damages to the Court of Arbitrators at Geneva, QUEEN VICTORIA, Hor Majesty's Journey Towards Berlin by Che. * bourg and Paris—President Thiers’ Ex- exoutive Compliments To Be Dsclined. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO ~Toxvox, Mareh 24, 1872, Her Majesty Queen Vicioria departed this mornlug for Berlin, via Paris. A despatch irom Cherhourg announces Her Maj- esty’s arrival there thia afternoon. A special train was waiting, on which the Queen and guiteem- barked for Paris, where it ts expected the royal Party will arrive at two o’clock to-morrow morning. The Queen will politely decline to meet President WASHINGTON. A PROTECTORATE OVER MEXIC President Grant on the °Sit- uation There. EARL GRARVILLE'S SECOND NOTE. Something that Schenck Could Not Epitomize---What Must It Be? 1 —~ercmnenenaeaseninasieatasinalntionns Sinoteen mififions of dollars, and over sm mmyon | spifation continue to cry, “Reware » soatmidle dollars more are chargea for detention of vossels, | Bid prisons and poorhouses, famtiies once happy, 1088 Of prospective freights and mercantile profits, | homes ofoe comfortavie, hearths once joyous—all with other consequential damages, econo the warning, ‘Beware’ The only rock of Forei, a tt Safety was total abstinence. narbizerrcinr pm i ennenet Maer Those Stale Old Crain, . It ts weil understood that Mr. Curtin wili return | Senator Cameron will soon address the Senate om from Russia, He does not expect to go back to | M@ bilt providing for liquidation of the broucla St. Petersburg, but will take an active part in the | *Pollation claims, campaign, [t is not known whether he will support The House Barrel of the Arms “agrees the Cineinnatt or tie Pluladelphia Convention, aud ; , Te House Committee on Expenditures “ a ac he provably does not know lumself, but will taxe | P@Partment have nearly concluded thetr in i the course most likely to secure his election as | [8 44 to the sale of arma, They have summoi Senator tn place of Cameron, It is not improbable | Mf: Richardson to appear before them, that some of the Cabinet officers who comtempla‘e Trumbuil and His Kee. retiromens may avail themselves of the yacancies | 't !8 Now given out as a new move on the aamia- about to be created at Madrid ana St, Petersburg — | fatration chessboard that before Mr. Trumboll was and posstbly Heri, Pexin and Jeddo—to go abroad, | *8ked to accept a government retainer im the 4 Cameron did when he wittrew from tue War | McArdie case application was made to Mr. Kd~ Department unuer Mr. Lincoin, -{ mnunds, who deciined on the ground tliat he could not, a4 a Senator, accept a fee from the execunr@ The New Spanish Minister and H's Fricud!~ | yranch of the government, ‘ 4s at the Albemarle Hotel, “ Congressman 0. P. Snyder, of Arkansas, is dome- filed at the St, Nicholas Hotel. ' Colonel J. A. Pemberton, of Georgia, 1s now at the Grand Cencral Hotel. { Gaptain Dicken, of Halifax, is registered at the Clarendon Lote, , W.J, Plorence, the comedian, ts at the Firth Aves ‘nue Hotel. 4 Colonel D. W, OC. Simpson, of Texas, is sojourning at the Sturievant House. ( Colonel W. E. French, of Cheyenne, 13 regtatered @t the Grand Central Hotel. FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP, ——Prince Napoleon Is selling his Swiss property. ——Dr. Dillinger completed his seventy-third year On the 2uh of February. —Seflor Ochoa, the distinguished academician, ‘Who {s well known as an editor of Spanish classical authors, Is dead, : ——Prince Frederick Charles of Prussta, on leay- it ng ome, went to Naples, whence he proceeded to ——Queen Victoria has hired the Villa Delmar at hg for the torm until uhe 15th April. Marshal Canrobert arrived at Versaliles re- t and Nas already visited M. Thiers and shal MacMahon. Courbet, the artist of the Commune, M. " ®hough tie doors of hls prison have been thrown jopen, has expressed a wisn got to leave the Maison ‘de Santé, in which he was confined, for the present. ——Marstial MacMahon and General Bourbakt lave given an assurance to M. Thiers that they will ways support the legally estabiished government. ~—The King of Bavaria wrote a congratulatory Veter to Dr, DUllinger ou the occasion of nis sey- nty-third birthday. ——The King and Queen of Denmark, with Prince “Waldemar and Princess Elvira, wili shortly embark the Pirwus for Brindisi, ahd visit Naples, Rome \d Florence ou their way to Nice, King Christian . desires to preserve a strict. incognito, and will, ,thereiore, travel as Count of Falsier. (, ——The Pope 1s going to hold another Consistory ‘for the nomimation of bishops in the beginning of March, ‘there are still sixteen Iailan sees vacant, and for those His Holmess is determined to pro+ vide wiihout further delay, fs { — Tne Princess Uarolath is In treaty with the | unicipality of Florence for the purchase of the azz0 Bicoardl, This lady (tie widow of a hus- and she married, divor and then remarried) as resolved to live in Florence, and has announced her intention of becoming thé proprietress of the Ainest palace she can purchase. —Notwithstanding what has been stated Gen- ral Ladmirauit, in spite of the eutreat es of M. Thiers, has not withdrawn ms resignation, The overmment seeks & successor, but It is dificult to faa ope, On account of the guarantees and promises lemanded from him. Chanzy is spoken of. _Mac- Mahon has tried to induce Ladmirault to remain, Dut the latter refuses. ( —Dr. Mattei, of Italia origin, during twenty years attached to the Emperor as physician, was ‘eally arrosied recently in Paris as aiready stated, he Was accused of engaging in an active Bonapartist pro aganda. Proof, however, was wanting, but as arto ia Itallan, the government expelled him Trom French territory. The arrest was not matin Aained, as on the following day he was liberated, “THE WEATHER. WAR DEPARTMENT, | OFMOR OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL Orricer, WasHinoTon, D, C., March 25—1 A, M, Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer has fallen west of and throughout tho Mississippi Vailey and extended its influence eastward to Lake Erie and thence to Florida, with easterly to southerly winds and rising temperature. An area of cloudy weather g@nd rain has extended from the Western Gulf States to Tenuessee and the South Atlantic coast, and tnonce northward to Lake Erle and the upper Jakes, Cloudy weather with light rain and snow. Clear weather continues over the New England and Middle States very generally. The lowest barome- ter 13 central over Iowa and Missouri, Provadilities, The barometer Wiil continue falling from the upper lakes ‘o the Eastern Guif and gradually extend to the Atlantic coast. The area of cloudy weather and rain will extend by Monday morning over North Carolina, Kentucky ana Onio, and as snow eastward to Lake Huron, and Zduring Monday as rain and gnow eastward over the Middle States very Benerally. Rising barometer, northwesterly winds and clearing weather will prevail throughout tne Misaissippi Valley during the night, and on Monday extend over the upper lakes and the Ohio Valley and Gull States. Dangerous winds are not auticl- pated for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, The Wenther in This City Yesterday. The following record wil show ths changes tn the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com. parison with the corresponding day of last yoar, as indicatea by the thermometer at Huduut’s Phar. maoy, eae ose 1872, 1871, 1872, 3A, M. 29 P. 40 “4 t6a. ee oP. “4 OA. M. 3L OP. 87 jem’. “4 12P. 35 Average \emperature yesterday. see cee 86% Average (emperature for corresponding TABU YOAL.......eeevecever seveeee L9G SNOW STORM IN MAINE, Rallroud Blockade and Effort for Relief. BaNGor, Me., March 24, 1872, Tho heaviest snow storm of the season com- Menced.here at ten o’c'ock last might and lasted twelve hours. Some fifteen inches of snow fell. ‘The roads are very badly blocked. The storm must have been lighter West as the night express train on the Maine Central road arrived but three hours iate Without a snow plough, Three engines and a snow plough were sent out On the Europe: ind North Ameriean road at five o'clock to clear the road, but no traia will probably get through to-morrow, i NAVIGATION ON THE HUDSON, Povcnkzersig, N, Y., Mgrch 24, 1872, The propelier Daniel S. Miller arrived here from Sow York to-tay, the first boat since the cold snap, JUDGE DAVIS AND THB BAY STATE, Boston, Mase., March 24, 1872, The Massachusetts Lavor Reform State Committee repudiate (ne protest of the Eignt Hour’s League ainst the Columbus platform, and agree to sus- ein the doings of that Convention. A DEATH DESERVED, Missour! Rowdies stoning Traine—One of the Stabs a City Marshal and is Sr. Lovis, March 2, 1872, , The trains on the Belleville and Southern lisnois toad have been stoned lately and the lives of the Passengers endangered -by & gang of scoundrels, near Pinckneyville, Two men were arrested in the act, and, while being searched by the City Marshal. one of them drew a kalfe and siabved him, inflot ng &@ Wound thirteen inches long, Waereupon the ual shot the desperado dead, A MISSOURI JUDGE IMPEACHED, St. Louis, Mo., March 24, 1872 The Lower House of Legislature yesterday Adopted articles of impeachment against Judge Philander Lucas, of the Fifth Judiciary district, {Tho charges are wilful and malicious ression, Rarilality, misconduct and abuse of judeuat aus ——_ PICKING A DETROTIVE'S POOKET, While waiking down the Bowery yesterday morn- Ing Detective Elder, of the Central OMce, observed One of the light-fingerea fraternity attempting to pick his pocket, The man was at once throttled @nd taken to the Tombs Po; Bis uae as ike Livyd, ie gues ¥6 Qa lala” The Observer deserbes the despatch as very lengthy, ENGLAND. The Treasury Budget and Prospect of a Tax Reduotion—Revenué Income and Extension of the Commercial Interests—Customs and Direct Fiscal Imports. TCLEGRAM TO THE WEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, March 24, 1872, The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, wiil make his Onancial statement to the House of Commons to-morrow. It 18 expected that be will propose a reduction of two per cent on the income tax. The Pressure of Taxation on Property Income, The debate on Chancellor of the Exchequer Lowe's budget—even if ne should propose a reduc. tion on the income tax—will cause to be brought be- fore Parliament, for more complete discussion at a future period of the session, the whole question of the comparative pressure of taxation upon prop- erty and income in Britain, We, therefore, append to our news telegram from London a statement of facts which will materially aia to the elucidation. Of the subject. Discussion has turned of late in Britain to the direct taxes levied upon property and income—real estate and personalty—and also upon industrial iacomes. Jt 1s asked which of these sustains the heavier burden of the State? The figures show that £12,000,000 of rates are charged solely upon net income of £93, 000,000 out of ‘the £890,000,000 of — rty andincome Hable to income tax in England and Wales, while the total £30,000,000 of direct taxation of England 13 distri. buted—£3, 500,000 on £145,000,000 income from earn- ings; £10,600,000 oa £152,000,000 income of personal property, and £15, on £93,000,000 net income Of real property. Doducting from the direct taxa- tion the classes who are exclnded—t. e., the in- comes below £100 a year, and the wages of the working classes—the taxavie property of the British Klagdom 1s ey resented :—Gross value of real property (less 453,000,000 sterling of mortgages), £93,160,C00; personal property and mortgages, £152,725,000; property and earnings, £390,060,000, THE CUSTOMS INCOME AND COMMERCIAL CUSTOM. ERS. As a source of balance for his ledger account, with the Income tax reduced, Mr. Lowe will show that the declared value of mérchandise imported into the United Kingdom during the fiscal year of 1871 was £390, 035,243, oe nerease of ten per cent, of which totat £60,066, 201, or nearly one-fifth was from the United States. To Kussia there were Britisn cus- tomers to War extent of £23,540,352, and to France £25,476,141, although a falling off of about eight millions was consequent on the Franco-Prussian war. Of Egyptian produce Great Britain took £16,335,647, and of Tarkish £8,057,840, while China figures for £11,475,126. From Germany the total was £19,170,453; from Holland, £14,017,207; from Belguam, £13,630,020; from Spain, £7,974,225, and from Sweden and Norway, £7,556,611. From tie English Coiouial possessions the ett totals are—India, £36,877,212; Australia, £14,517,580, an Canade, 1294258, 40 IRELAND. Political Conscrvatism and Clubbing in Cork, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALD, DuButy, March 24, 1872, A meeting was held at Copk last-night to denounce the International Society. The proceedings were disorderly, There was some fighting among the audience. ITALY. British Royalty Represented in Rome—Frenoh Diplomacy and the Parliament. TELEGRAM T) THE NEW YORK HERALD. Rome, March 24, 1872. Thetr Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Alexandra of Wales bave arrived tn this city. M, Fournier, the new French Minister, has also arrived. The Chamber of Deputies yesterday approved Minister -Sella’s nancial scheme and adjourned ‘until April 15. AUSTRIA. Parliamentary Adjournment and a Pleasing Re- ces. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. VIENNA, March 24, 1872, The Reichsrath has adjourned until te 7th of May, " HERR STRAUSS AND THE BOSTON JUBILER. Herr Strauss, the famous composer of dance muaie, has accepted an invitation to assist at the World's Feace Jubilee to be held in Boston in June, THE REV. DR, HOUSTON, pies eae trait. ew The Investigating Committee of the Methoe divte—Kresh Charges Coming In. BALTYMORE, Md., March 24, 1872, The investigation on the part of the Church into the charges made against the Rey. Dr. Houston, une Methodist divine whose alieged immoralities with the youthful sisters of hia congregation, an account of which has appeared in the HERALD, and Las made him an unenviabie, notority, will begin this week, The presiding eider of the district, Rey, Samuel Rodgers, has appointed the following cler- gymen as THE COMMITTER to make the investigation:—Rev, A. W, Wilson, Presiding Elder of the Washington district; Rev. J. 8. Gardner, Fredericksburg, Va., und Rev. Dr. 8, Regester, of the Maryland Agricultural College. Dr. Huston having charged the clergy of the Balu- more districts with being imbued with a feeling of jealousy and hatred against him, the presiding elder Belected the committee from other districts, and the high character 6! the gentiemen named is a@ guarantee that the investigation will be conducted ‘With tue single purpose of getting at the truth, DR, RODGERS WILL PRESIDE over the committee himself, and will see that there is no intimidation of witnesses, but that all shail have an opportunity to speak both for and agatust the accused, The nurver and 'y of the charges made ogainss the reverend gentieman will Make the investigation 4 long and tedious one, and it will probably be @ month before it can ve com- pieted. They include almost al! grades of immo. railty, and are daily accumulating. Letters are being received by the committee from PRENTUCEY, OHIO AND GEORGIA from gentlemen of high etanding in the Churen, Telative to bis career before he came to Baitt- more, and there is every reason to believe that his character, past ahd present, will be fwliy deveioped beltore the investigation closes, So far as the actual development before the committee little will be known, as the proceedings will be private: but if there 14 the jeast shadow of truth In the documents Dow in the hands of the commitiee br, Husion's life has been A CARRER OF FEARFUL CRIME, such as has never before been presented to the American people. The statements of lis alleged | victims, young Finley almost chilaren, are oi the lost pouited and damaging character, 4 MARYLAND TANNERY BURNED, HaGanstown, Ma., March 24, 1 The building and stock of the Washington County Leather Manufacturing Company, the largest tan- ning establishment in the South, were destroyed by fire this morning. The buildings were new and ex. tensive aud the machigery of the most approved ROO 1008 $79,00% MAUIANCS 840000 s Thiers, and continue her journey to Berlin a3 privately as possible, FRANCE. The Revenue Income Satisfactory and Commerce Slightly Reassured—Paoris in Siegs— Pressmen and Pistols, TELEGRAM TO THE HEW YORK MEALS. PARIS; Maroh 24, 1572, The taxes established wjthin the last few months Nave produced 500,000,000 trancs, which exceeds the estimates over 30,000,000 francs. ‘The government ts now disposed to postpone the debate on its proposition to tax raw materials*for use in manuiacture unill after the conclusion of the legislative recess, PARIS IN STATE OF SIFGE. The Committee of Initiative has reported un- favorably to the Assembly on the proposal to raise te state of siege in Paris. PLEASANTRIES OF THE PRESS, A duel was fought yesterday between M. Rogat of the Pays (newspaper), and M. Richardet of the Cossaire, The latter was wounded in the chest. CHINA AND JAPAN. Loss of a Steamer—Sufferings of the Celestials from Famize—Malitary Mutiny and Its Punis:ment—Popular Progress Under the Mikado. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALO. SAN FRANCISCO, Mareh 24, 1872 Tue steamship Great Republic, at this port from Hong Kong, supplies the following news report Jrom China and Japan, additional to the contents. of the telegram forwarded to the HERALD yester- day :— * China. Tne advices from China are cated in itong Kong on the 17th of Febriary, The steamer Suwonado was lost on the rocks near Foochow. All hands saved. Terrible suffering still prevatis in the flooded dis- tricts near Tientsin, Many persons were dying dally from want of tood. Details of the revolt of the native troops in Cavita, Manilla, show that the conspiracy was general for @ rising throughout the island, and had not accident Precipitated matters toa crisis before the time ar- fanged by the conspirators few Europeans would have escaped. The prisons are filled with suspected persons, including many Creoles. Every insurgent taken was bayoneted or shot. Japan. From Kanagawa comes the following intelligence of the progress of affairs in Japan, under date of the 20th of February:— “ The Japanese government has assumed the lia- buities of the deposed princes co foreigners for loans of money and ships or goods supplied, ‘The prosecution and deportation of native Chris. ‘tans continue, A daily mail has been established between Jedilo and Yokohama, The ratiroad will be opened soon. The empire 1s quiet. UPAR, The Snow Disappearing in the Monutalns— Mining Prospects=The Mormon Prisoners= The Railroad Again in Order. SALT Lake Crry, March 24, 1872, Passengers report the Union Paciflé in fine order, and that trains are running on time. The snow 18 rapidly disappearing in the mining districts, The miners anticipate an unusually prosperous season, ana business prospects generally were never 80 Tavorable, SPECULATORS FLOCKING IN. A large party of Eastern capitalists arrived last night to examine the mining property, MORMON PRISONERS. United States Marshal Porter reports that he has 128 prisoners in his custody awaiting trial, mostly for high crimes. A GENTILE PAPER. The Daily Review, Gentile organ, will reappear next week under tne control of Oscar G. Sawyer and Samuel St. John, FIRES. Iwo Blocks of Buildings Destroyed in Ban« gor—The Oriain of the Conflagration—Fire in Springfield, Meas, Banaor, Me., March 24, 1872, A fre broke out in Berry’s block on the corner of Main ana Limerock streets, in Rockland, at twelve o’clock Saturday night, destroying that and the ad- Joming brick block, including TLimerock Bank, ex- press office, Western Union Telegraph office and several other offices and stores. The fire origi- ted in the store of P.R, Moore & Co., prov. ly irom the ignition of a large invoice of new goods from the stove, near which Ue were piled. Owing to the destruction of the telegraph oiice no further particulars have been received, but communication will, probavly, be established by tnree o’clock P. M. to-morrow, instruments and supplies having been forwarded from Portland for that purpose, i SPRINGFIELD, Masa., March 24, 1872, The interior of a new house on Pearl street, owned by J. B. Beck, was burned out this after- Loss, $5,000. Insured for $6,500 in the American, of Philadeiphia. noon. North Destructive Fire in Maine. BIDDEFORD, March 24, 1862, A fire broke out this afternoon in Hobson & Stimpson’s sawmill, which, with its contents, was entirely destroyed. The fire soon extended to the large building known as the Shannon Mill, ope. rated by G. Hl. Adams as a general manufactory of lumber, and by J. A, Johnson, manufacturer of Sash, blinds and doors, The peng, and contents Were wholly consumed. Hobson & Stimpson were insured for $1,000 iu the Bay state Company of Worcester, and Adams tad $2,000 In Messra. Dow & CofMin’s Agency, Portland. Johnson's insurance jolicy in the Royal, of Liverpool, was cancelled WO Weeks silice, The occupants of the two story dwelling house Opposite side of the street, in attempting to move a stove, upset it and set fire to tue house, Which was pretty weil gutted, Total loss, #12,000, Fire at Long Island. On Saturday night the farm buildings of Mr. Daly, at Comac, were destroyed by fire. Two horses, two cows, Wagons and harness were burned, Loss $5, 000, - WAR ON THE LONG ISLAND FISH OIL FAO. TORIES, The people of Greenpoint and Shelter Island nave commenced a tirade against the fish ot] factories, For many years the proprietors have expended thousands in trying to prevent the smell, Failing, they stole a march om tne people, and had the Jaw prohiviting them from allowing the refuse to run into the bays re. pealed, The factory propritors have beeu notified to remove their factories before May 1. ‘The labor- Ing Clagses side with the lactory proprictors, They are benemted to the extent of over one million dollars annually, while the income froin all the fao- tories foot up several millions. The proprietors ‘@ notice that they will not remove, and hold that fiey can now prevent the offensive smeil, LECTURE BY DR. COLTON, Dr, Colton will give another of his amusint ox- hibitions at the Cooper Institute, this eventug, aided with ‘uluaio UY te booue Sutera Our Private Claims Against Great Britain, $25,000,000. POLO DE BARNABE A FRIENDLY SPANIARD Murmurs of Change in the For- eign Ministries. oe] Value of Government Se- curities, COLFAX ON COLD WATER. WaAsuINTON, Martech 24, 1872, A Protectorate for MexicoWhat the Presie dent Thinks—Willing, but Congress Must Move First. ‘The artictes in the HkRALD in favor of the annexa- tion of Mexico, ur of establishing a protectorate over that unhappy country, have created great at- tention h ere and have been under discussion by the administration, President Grant is known to take @ deep interest tn all Mexican questions, His ger- Vice in that country during the war made a fayor- able impression upon his mind as to the resources of the country, its capacities for a good government and what might come of the country under a firm and resolute authority. He thinks thai there coula be no greater blessing to the Mexican people than the establishment of a protectorate by the United States, He feels that it would bea triumhp of the administration, and would go far towards carrying out those theorles of manifest destiny, which are so dear togthe American people, He feels that we should not leave the country at the mercy of a foreign prince like Maximilian, ana that as long as the country in unable either to command respect for its Nag abroad or obedience to its laws at home it will be a; the mercy of any adventurous Power. The argument that in the event of such an occu. pation of Mexico by a foreign army we should be Justified in going to war unaer under tho Monroe doctrine he regards as .an argument in favor of a protectorate now. and easier to prevent the landing of & forelgn force or the intervention of a foreign prince than to drive them out after in- tervention had begun. ‘ihe dificulty in the Mext- can question 1s twofold, In the first piace his experiences with St, Domingo are not calculated to inspire ‘hid to new enterprises m ‘the tropics, nor would he care to Invite the misrepresentations and criticisms that were inspired by his mdependent efforis to annex St, Domingo, If there is to pe any movement looking towards annexation it must come from UVongress, The protectorate theory is only another phase of auuexation. The idea has long been familiar to our poliuics, Sam Houston, of Texas, when in the Seuate, was the champion of the protectorate scheme, but the cold judgment of President Bu- chanan was against it, his experience with Mexico when Secretary of State during the Mexican war not being of a character to excite him in favor of , any measure that might lead to war. If a protec- torate were decreed it 1s thought that Senator Schurz would support tt, as he pronounced himself in favor of a policy of this kmd towards St, Domingo. The diMficulty avout a protectorate would be a legal one. In St, Domingo we bad the assent of Baez, the President, and the Legislature to annexation. But there 1g no assurance and no intimation that Juarez and his Congress would consent to any interference On the part of the United States, The Mexicans have all the pride of their Castilian ancestors, and would rather bean independent nation of banditt! than a dependency of any Power. A protectorate, until asked for by Juarez, could only be by an occupa. tion of the country in force, and this would be war. War can only be aeciqgred by Congress. We have no army to march into Mexico. Hven if a protec. torate was established peaceably we should have to | send 50,000 men to exterminate the banditti and sup- press the smouldering insurrections, All of these } 7 | rection, considerationstiavebeen carefully reviewea bv the President, to whom the Mexican question is one of great interest, and upon wiich he is as well in- formed as any man in the country. He appreciates each class of security, of January and February, 1872, of like character, sues Of these flve-twenty securities betng, In gene- | ral the prising the six over, appears that, months, ending with the close of 1871, the price It would be much cheaper | | able portion of the city of Chicago by the fire which ; couraging resuit of the clection m city of New York | pared, and tne large Weather map changed to indi- } tory manuer in which they pertormed their duues, | and afterward entertained his distinguished visitors ness to the United States. The stories to the effect that the new Spanish Minister ts hoatt!6 to the United States, and has so expressed himself, and that bis coming here isa menace to this country, are disproved by a despatun received from our Minister at Montevideo, The Minister says that when Aamiral Polo De Barnabo Waa tp command of the Spantsh squadron in the South American waters, he was always: a warm ad- mirer of America and our institutions, and that tits admiration was not the mere phrases of dipiomatic courtesy, but genuine and hearty Kindness and syin- pathy and friendship, This despatch nas made a pleasant impression at the State Department, Six Months’ History of Unitod states Securi- ties, A communication on the credit of the United States, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, by Mr, E. B. Elliott, of the Treasury Department, the sixth of a monthly series, is now in print, mak- ing a pamphiet of twenty-seven pages. This com- Muntoation gives for the month of December, 1871, for each of the outstanding classes of coupon secu- ritles of the United States government she average market price of the security in currency, including the accrued interest, its corresponding gold value excluding the accrued interest, and the correspond- jug calculated rate of interest realized to investors in cach security as indicated by its average market price and the period which it has to run before payment, There ts also appended a summary statement of current illustrative events, Similar values are also presented by half months, months aul quarter years for the entire period of six months ending with the 3ist of December, 1871, for Statements for the months havo been prepared, but are not yet inprint An inspection of the columns in the tables for Decem- ber, which exhibit the calculated rates of interest realized to investora in coupon securities of the United States, shows that of the various classes of securities those at five per cent interest, payable in gold, were the most popular, the calculated annual rate of interest realized to myestors being but slightly in advance of five per cent, The currency sixes, so called, or Pacific railroad secu- rities ranked next as to popularity, the rate realized being about 514 (5.22) per cent. ‘The six per cent gold interest securities of 1881, issued in 1861, come next in order, the calculated realized rate of inter- est being 694 per cent. ‘The five-twenty six per cent gold interest securitues, of various dates of issue, rank next in order of popularity, the late is. | favorite, a8 having the longost time to before pryment. Krom the tables com- months’ summary it, more. during & period of six run of securitics Were most depressed in the month of October and most buoyant in July, August and December, Tho depression in October was coin- cident with, aud, believed in, large part, to have been occasioned by the destruction of a consider. prevailed from the Sti to the 11th of that monti; the fall in the prices of United States securities from the 7th tothe 10th of the month averaging fully 2 per cent, The advance in the prices of securities In the latter part of November and in the month of becember is manifestly attributable to the healthy stimulus imparted to every department of industrial and commercial activity by the en- early in November, Japanese at the Signal Bureau, Last night the military officers of the Japanese Embassy visited, by invitation, the Signal Office to witness the manner of receiving and preparing tne weather reports. There were present General | Myer, Colonel Mallony. Lieutenants Cralg, Jackson, Greeley and others, Mr. Schaeffer, the observer, showed them the manner of reading the scientific instruments and the mode of trausmitting the results py cipher. The Japanese were much inter- ested in witnessing the transmission of tie reports by telegraph, Mr, Maynard, the manager, answering thelr questions through the inter- preter regard:ng the working of the instruments, General Myer afforded every facility, and neglected no means to enable them to understand thorouglily the complete work: Ing of the. system in its various branches, From twelve o’clock to half-past one the reports were received and translated, the bulletins pre- cate the state of the weather, and the small map set up and printed, cach of the Japanese present receiving @ copy of the last named. General Myer complimented all the employés upon the satisfac- with reireshments, Tae United States and Spanish Commiss'on. The United States and Spanish Commission, which was organized here in June last, has not yet decided any claims. The delay is owiag to the digi- culties on the part of Spam in taking and fliing proofs as offsets to those of Americans in support of the facts presented in thelr memorials, The claims are for wropgs and Injuries committed against their persons and property by Spanish authorities in Cuba since the commeucement of the present insure The Senate Investigating Committee, The Senate Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment expect to finish the New York Cus. tom House branch of the inquiries this week, only the force of that public opinion which the Henaxp | our or five witnesses remaining to be examined, so cleariy represents, and would most heartily | give it effect and purpose, but le 1s in the hands of the law-making power. not look unkindly upon the movement, takes shape no one will more willing!y support it than the President. The Alabama Claims—Granville’s ich’s Epi, billties—The Private Claims, The contents of the despaigh of Lord Granville to of consequential damages, are not known. Mr, Schenck telegraphs that the note is elaborate and argues the question, but that it 1s Impossible for | morrow evening before the special committee ap» pointed to examine into the charges made against Secretary Robeson are Surveyor Wood, ex-Chiet | of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy ! Department, Engineer King, Chie! of the Bureau,’| Post ofice. : | of steam Enginecring; William Faxon, Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Gideon Welles; William | bes! H. Allen, formerly Chief Clerk o1 the Bureau, of | Steam Engineering, and his son, who was at © lime @ cierk 1D the oilice of the Secretary off pie Navy. him to give even an jaea of wuat it contains, The General's incapacty to indicate in two or three preg- nant telegraphic sentences the meaning of an im- portant public document, and thus give his govern. | Ment valuable and timely information and enabie it to take advantage of time in continuing the discus. | sion, has excited a little surprise and leads to the | suggestion that @ good HERALD news editor would | ve @nm accession to our London Legation, In the absence of tis Information, the administration advances. no theories or problems as to the result of the negovations, It is believed that Lord Granville simply discusses the whole question from the generally understood English point of view, ond makes no proposition for compromise other | than an absolute eurrender of the case for conse. qnential damages, If it were otherwise General Schenck would have telegraphed it. Tho impres~ s10n is that Lord Granville ana Mr, Fish look upon Un as the great pacifcator, after ali, and that they Dxean to gain time by prolonging the discussion, so ‘as to allow the passions of the people to end ana the statesmen to come to a better understanding, The State Department will send to the Amerigan agent and the counsel at_Paris, in a day or two a printed statement of the private claims, ‘hgainst St. Domingo subject. given his testimony, and he—General Babcock— The administration will | knew of no corrupt influences having been used to promote annexation. and ifit; veing made by Rev. Messrs. Chickering ané, Hail, | Scnators Buckingham and Ferry, ana Vio, prest dent Colfax, all on the subject of tempera ice, Mr, | Colfax said he did. not come to speak oF; political parties or legislation, but on liberty fram tne ‘en. It is probable they will next call witnesses on the | Only one witness has thus far The New Civil Service Kegnlations. The regulations of the Civil Service Advisory Board, now in course of preparation, will, when Second | completed, be presented to the President. There amatic Impossi- } have as yet been no appointments mace under the rules heretofore adopted, for the reason that the details of investigation and examination contem- Mr, Fish, in reply to our recent note on the subject | plated by the rules have not been completed, The Robeson Investigation. Among the witnesses summoned to appear to Vice President Colfax as Father Mathew, Lincoln Hall was crowded thiq afternoon, speeches | slavement of intemperance, He way there pot to denowace, but to persuade—not to demand, but to plead. Intemperance crowds courts, fyijs jails, peoples poorhouses, wrecks bodies, abat vers minds, | impertis souls and filis the world Witta woe. Ho | ‘Urged a temperance revival to si the young as well as ola, the pledge to be the be nner of the cause and sympathy for the tfaile’ its inspiration Warning all against the dangers ot moderate drink- England on account of the rebel privates, The | tng, without which 4% A) ‘commencement there Claims (or-direct and qotual losses amoyiat to about | would be Bo JMKOXIGAH@.. He said natuce amd in , | the Pacific const montaly, call on DOUGAN, 102 Nu Smallpex ac the Chpltal, The Health Oficer: reports a matertal abatement in the number of smalipox pationts during the pasate Week, The whole number reported was eleven, of Which three cases proved iatal. Personal. General Robert 0, Tyler, Chief Quarrermaster om and jormeriy a division com mauder of the Army of the Potomac, is at the Ar~ lngton, He came to Washington in referenc® to | the Quartermasters’ bill betore Congress, by the | passage of which the rank conferred on him at the close vf the War would be tnjurtously affected, Richard H. Dana, of Boston, formerly United: States District Attorney, and widely known by hts connection with the’ prize cases before Judge Spraguo durivg the blockade running era, is at the Arlington, Simon de Visser and family and George R. Chit- tenden, all of New York, are stopping at the Aritng- ton, and T. Seymour Scott, ot Philadelpinia, and Charles Callender, of Newark, are at the same hotel. General Jacob Ammen, a brigade and division commander in the Western armies during the war, is the guest of his brother, Captain Daniel Ammen, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Navigation, Representative Samuel Shellabarger, of Onto, formerly Minister to Portugal, has returaod ta Washington, and has rcoms at the Ebbitt House. General Rufus Ingalls has left the Arlington for New York, and Mr. D. W. Gooch has also departed from that hotel for Boston, his business before Congress being closed. J. W. Groesbeck, United States Army, and Francla H, Swan, ana George Dewey, United States Navy, are at the Ebbitt House, KE. T. Hubbard, of California, is among the arrivals av the Imperial Hotel. Mr. 8S. A. Purviance, of Pittsburg, Lbpitt House, TRAPPING A BURGLAR. A Thief Caught in the Act. For some time past Mr, George B. Clatke has beem missing goods from his clothing store, 112 ana Lit Willtam street. Determined to put anend to the depredations of the thief or thieves, Mr. Clarke, Jt, and Officer McLaughian, of the Second precinct, secreted themselves in the building last Saturday Bight and quietly awaited developments. About two o’clock in the moraing they Were startled by @ noise at one of the windows, Lying still they were very soon rewarded by seeing a man, who had pre- viously raised the window, prying open the tnside shutiers, A moment more and he had gained an entrance, and no sooner had he struck the floor tham MeLaughian’s powerful hana gripped nis throat and he was @ prisoner, Yesterday morning he was takem belore Judge Dowling, at the Tombs Police Court, and, in delanit of $2,60u bail, committed to answer. THE WELD PROSECUTION. Boston, March 24, 1872, The Advertiser will state to-morrow morning, upon authority, that there is no truth in the rumor that the prosecution of William F, Weld & Vo., of Boston and New York, for alleged frauds on tl revenue, has been compromised by the paymeat 60 JAPANESE VISIT TO THE ROMAN OATHOLIO CHURCHES, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 24, 1872, The Japanese visited several of the Catnolie churches co-day and witnessed the religious observ. ances of Palm Sunday, Monday wil be occupied ta visiting the Mint and ‘Tuesday in a tour among the Manayunk cotton and woollen tactories. On Wed- nesday they go via. Reading Lo the coal regions, and irom thenee to Newark and New York, STATEN ISLAND PEBRYBOATS. Last evening the Staten Isiand ferryboats re sumed their night trips, Deputy Sherif’ Seebacher has sull two deputies detatied on each boat. COURT CALENDARS—THIS Q4AY, SUPREME CouRT Cincust—Part 1—Held Judge Barrett.—Nos. 951, R. C, 217, 169, R. 0, 1 1094, 122844, 1290, 1143, 1359, 723, 1059,'1287, 131 2253, 821, 1297, 883, 701, 77834, 100034. Part 2—Mel ry J Brady.—Court opens at eleven A. M.—Noa, 642, 43234, Ry C, 6614, R. CO. 36%, 59444, 460, 24 R. Ce 34234, od, RC. 232, 382, 486, 430, I O. 60%, 418, 44446, 448, 502, 1713, SUPREME COURT—SPEOIAL TermM.—Held by Ju ls at the Barnard.—Court opens at eleven A. M.—Nos, 2, 135, 52 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 69, 60, 61, 68, 66, 67, 63, 6% 70, 71, 12,73, 75 76, 77,80, 81, 83, 84, 86," 87! SB 8% 00, 91, 92, 93, 94, 99, 100, 101, 1, 10, 24, 2%, 46 47. Surreke ' Covrt—Citawpers.—Heid ‘by’ Judge Cardozo.—Court opens at eleven A, M—Calendar called at twelve M.—Nos. 47, 61, 74, 82, 86, 88, 162, 165, 163, 168, 170, 174. Superior Covrt—TriaL TERM—Part 1—Held S Judge Barbour.—Nos, 145, 1497, 183, 1697, 1166, 783, 1583, 1819, 19 369, 1469, 1186, 1783, i789, " 2—held by Judge Me- Cunnh—Court opens eleven A, M, 08. 1068, 760, 540, 352, 624, c48, 00, 816, 1046, 1218, 368, 868, G10, 1240, 1126, Court or Common PLEAS —TRIAL TeRM-- Part Held by Judge Van Lrunt.—Nos. 1301, 35, 1493, 1! 1033, 1384, 1374, 1301, 1259, 1427, 1430, 1449, ‘L6aze 1522, 1 Mar CounT—TRIAL TERM—Part 2—Held if Judge Curtis, —Nos. $225, 5201, 9133, 8153, 8258, 8747 8124, 8177, 8340, 8343, 9147, 8311, 8313, 8203, 8205, 8303, 8307: Pari 3—Hield by Judge Shea—Court o} and calendar called ten A. M.—Nos. 9070, 9220, 861%. 8816, 5837, 9230, $233, 9254, 9235, 9227, 0038, 9189, 8673. 8164, 9226, ‘ Died. bs TimMs.—On Saturday, March 23, at the residence’ of her husband, Exiza, wife of Benjamin J. 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