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6 NEW YORK HERALD] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVII. No. 116 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVERING, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Por- formances afternoon and evening—Sxa or Ick, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Arrioix 47. ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street Broadway.—MacEvoy's New Hisexxicon, and BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Lost Lire—Srrcrae BRIDRGROOM" OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Batiet Pan- tomiue or Humpty Dumpty. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth ay.—Tux Foor's Revencs. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadwi or Love. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. and 28d st.— Latta Rooxu. Bes WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Lonvon Assurancr, Tue Pow RR NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston sts—Biack Fru MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Tus Kine's Riva. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall Brooklyn.— eLP, THEATRE COMIQUE, rondway.—Cou1e Vooat isms, Neaxo Acts, &6,—Inz FIELD OF THE CLOTH oF GOLD, between Prince and UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Wway.—Tuk Vokes Famity. ‘ourteenth st. and Broad- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Neono Eccenraicitizs, Buruesques, &¢. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL WALL, 585 Broadway.— Tuk Saw Fuxancisco MINSTRELS. ass HALL, Fourteenth street.—Gaanyo Con- ERT, PAVILION, No. 683 Broadway, near Fourth st.—Grayp Concert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrence ann Al TRI Now York, Thursday, April 25, 1872. = = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'’S HERALD. PaGE. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—The Cincinnati Convention: The Clans Marshal- ling for the Affray; August Belmont at Pork City; His Alleged Business with Groesbeck, Pendleton and Hendri What About Charles Francis Adams? Montgomery Blair Reviews the Field of National Politics—Th ate Capl- tal: Startling Rumors and Insi ations of Bribery and Corruption; The Accused Judges and Their Friends; Lively and Interesting Tilt Between Two Senators—The Late Political | Aitray, 4—Financial and Commercial: Gold 112%; Increas- ing Prospect of Dear Gold; History of a Dull Day on the Stock Exchange: Erie, Pacific Mail and Harlem the Only Features; A Fur- ther Advance In Foreign Exchange—American Jockey Club—The Revolution in Mexico—Hall’s Polar Expedition—Advertiscments, S—Advertisements, 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “Our Relations With England—Hopes of a Speedy and Honorable Settlement—Another Peace Offer- ing — England’—Amusement announce- ments. J=—The Alabama Claims: The Olive Branch Pass- ing Between England and America; Prospect ofa Peaceful Settlement—The Spanish Revo- lution: Amadeus Proclaims the Insurrec- tionary Provinces in a State of Slege—Cable Despatches from England, France and Ger- many—The War in Mexico—Cuba—Phe Inte: national Boat Race—News from Washington— Miscellancous Telegrams—Business Notices. S—Advertisements. Q—Advertisements, 10—Gould and Gordon: Horace Greeley Gives His Testimony in the Case; His First Introduction and Subsequent Acquaintance with the “Lord’’—Shipping Intelligence—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 1l—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements, Premrer Guapstone’s Position on the ques- tion of university education in Ireland and the subject of ‘concurrent endowment,"’ as between the reform of Trinity College, Dublin, and the establishment of a Roman Catholic University in the Irish capital, is defined by himself in the fact which we append to our cable news telegram from London. Tre Cowmne Man at Crxcrnnatt—The Bos- ton Advertiser, speaking “by the card,”’ as it were, states that it is informed, ‘‘in quarters which must be considered authoritative, that the nomination of the Cincinnati Convention is to fall on Charles F. Adams; that he is ‘the favorite of the East,’ ‘the favorite of the West’ and ‘the favorite of the South.’’" New York jis expected to accede. With all this pro- gramme arranged beforchand, what is the use of a Convention? Why not proclaim Adams the people’s candidate and have done with it? In view of the probable nomination of Mr. Adams the Advertiser takes occasion to com- mend General Grant for appointing him to one of the most responsible diplomatic mis- sions in the gift of his administration—the mission to Geneva. Tue Frurn or tHe Srrerts anpD Marrers is an evil which must be abated. The Board of Aldermen has acted commendably in order- ing the Board of Health to have the streets and markets cleaned, and the latter body seems willing to have something done, if we may judge from its printed complajuts. But it is, nevertheless, not done. The putrid rub- bish accumulates round the markets; the fotid side streets are innocent of a broom; the rain may disintegrate the thousand smells; the sun may spread the malarions gases in the at- mosphere; the wind may send the fine parti- cles of organic poison into the lungs of the poor huddled in the tenement houses, and there seems no help for it «ll. The street contractor is a tyrant and the community his slaves. If Rip Van Winkle had been asleep for a couple of years he would be sure that Tam- many was still flourishing if he trusted to his nose. Tammany is buried, as far as New York is concerned, yet “the scent of the sewers hangs round it still."’ Tue Turkiss Bupcer ror 1872.—In on- other place in these columns this morning will be found in condensed shape the budget of the Turkish empire for 1872. We are sorry to notice that the Finance Min- isters of the Sultan have not yet found out the means by which receipts can be made, year | after year, to meet the expenditures, This year, as last, the expenditures very considerably exceed the receipts, but not in the same pro- | portion. It is gratifying to be able to state that there are hopeful and encouraging signs of improvement. The deficit for 1872, as com- pared with many previous years, is small, and itis evident that the Turkish government, while doing its best to keep abreast of the times, is honestly endeavoring to make both ends meet. Turkey is a large borrower in the European markets ; and as she must continue to be a borrower for many years to come we are pleased to notice that she is doing so well that She is little likely to be refused when she makes her next application, Modern progress has been a great bore to Turkish officials, but at last they are beginning to learn, WEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. Our Relations with England—Hopes of a Speedy and Honorable Settle- ment—Another Peace-Offering to Eng- land, The suggestion thrown out in the Heratp of Tuesday in reference to the Alabama question has produced a profound impression upon all well-thinking minds. The desire for peace between the two great English-speaking na- tions has increased more and more with the dread of war. For two months all inter- national business has been dead. The active and healthy currents of life that swept back- wards and forwards through the wide angry seas have been arrested. The radiant aurora of harmony and peace and alliance which covered the heavens last autumn and was seen with joy and hope by all the world, has gone out in the bleakness and icy gloom of an Arctic night. Where friend- ships dyelt anger reigns. With anger came dark suspicion and invectives and threaten- ings, and words that were bitter and griev- ous and hard to bear. As Coleridgo says:—‘‘ Each spoke words of high dis- dain and insult to his best brother.’’ Following out the exquisite image of the poet, they stood aloof, tho scars romaining like cliffs that had been rent asun- der, while a dreary sea flowed between. Tho statesmen of Washington and London mourned over the misfortune, and there has been no hope more keenly cherished by patriotic men in England and America than that there could be found a way honorable to both countrios which would save the Washington Treaty and secure a lasting peace. So far as the alienation and misunderstand- ing are concerned, we have felt and we still feel that our government is in no way to blame. The record shows plainly that we made no claim in our ‘‘caso”’ at Genova that did not come within the special understanding of the treaty submitted to Her Majesty's Ambassadors in Joint High Commission. The words of tho protocols signed by Lord Tenterden and Mr. Davis are too clear and emphatic upon this | point to be overlooked. After speaking of the direct losses, which are not in question, they proceed to refer to “indirect injury in the transfer of a large part of the Amorican commercial marine to the British flag, in the enhanced payments of insurance, in the pro- longation of the war and in the addition of a large sum to the cost of the war and the sup- pression of the rebellion."" Thus we have the whole case for consequential damages in the first article of the protocols. To show that it was not written for rhetorical effect tho American Commissioners further said that “Great Britain, by reason of failure in the proper observance of her duties as a neutral, had become justly liable for the acts of these cruisers and their tenders ;”’ ‘that the cost to which the government had been put in the pursuit of cruisers could easily be ascer- tained by certificates of government account- ing officers ; that, in the hope of an amicable settlement, no estimate was made of the indi- rect losses, without prejudice, however, to the right to indemnification on their account in the event of no such settlement being made.”’ These words show that there could be no mis- understanding on the part of the English as to the claims for indirect damages, and that in the presentation of the case at Geneva Mr. Fish simply carried out the letter and spirit of the treaty. Where, then, is the difficulty? Not with the administration or with Mr. Fish, but with | the present English Ministry. There is no doubt that Mr. Gladstone accepted this treaty. There that he understood clearly the meaning of these words and heart's is no doubt | | what the duty of the American government | would lead its representatives to do at | Geneva. Thero is no doubt that he expected, | as we expected, that the indirect claims would be considered and finally determined and buried forever as a cause of difference between the two countries. | that in this anticipation Mr. Gladstone misun- | derstood the temper of the English people, | justas Palmerston misunderstood it when in | the flush and ecstasy of the alliance with Napo- | leon he proposed that England should surren- | der political conspirators against the Em- peror to French justice. Although Palmerston was the most popular statesman in England, in power, at the head of a | large majority in the Commons, he was | ignominiously turned out of office when he made the demand. The mistake which | Palmerston made in the height of the French alliance Mr. Gladstone made in the height of the American alliance—for an alli- ‘ance this treaty was in a high moral sense. While Palmerston went down to the Commons and bravely avowed his error, Gladstone | preferred to disavow the American construc- | tion of the treaty as an insult to England—as something that could not for a moment be en- dured. In doing this he has saved his office. He remains in the Ministry, but the treaty is in peril and all the fair, inviting, precious fruits that it had borne have turned to ashes on the lips. Is there no way toa settlement? We may criticise Mr. Gladstone for his timidity, but behind the Prime Minister we see England, and it is plain to all the world that England will not accept the treaty if we press this claim. We may say and believe, as we have said and do profoundly beliove, that the attitude of England comes from ignorance— | that if her people and statesmen know more of But there is also no doubt and was our people and customs thero would be no such misunderstandings. But the question with us is :—Why do we present these consequential damages? Do we crave or expect any money, any large allowance of damages, from Geneva? Well, we have not heard of any American who expected a dollar for indirect, or more than twenty-five millions for direct damages. Why, then, ask for indirect damages? Because there is a principle involved. Because we feel that the claims exist, and should be settled to insure lasting peace. Now, then, let us propose a settlement. We vaguely hinted it on Tuesday, and present it at length to-day. What is more, we are in- formed and believe that the plan meets the approbation of the Secretary of State and Sir Edward Thornton. Let England propose that the whole question of consequential damages be reduced to a principle of international law. Let her agree that in the event of a war in which England is a belligerent and America a neutral that America shall not be held respon- sible for any indirect or consequential damages arising from the escape of any armed ships from our ports under circumstances similar to those under which the Alabama and the Eng- lish rebel vessels escaped from Liverpool. Upon this declaration being made and ratified by the two countries and hallowed into a prin- ciple of international law, so far as they are concerned, let America withdraw her case so far as claims for indirect damages are concerned. If it is said that in doing this we make ex post facto rules, the reply is that the treaty makes ex post facto rules in many other respects; that the whole value of the treaty lies in these rules. And as to the material advantage of any such declaration to us, as a maritime nation, we have only to consider that we have over six thousand miles of seaboard to watch and de- fend in the event of attempts to violate neu- trality. For this seaboard we are responsi- ble. The temptation to prey upon English commerce would be so great that Yankeo daring and audacity would defeat the vigi- lance of any government, ond we would be as liable for any consequential damages that might occur of escaped Yankee cruisers as we claim to hold to England by reason England to-day. We, of all nations, have to consider well the ultimate working of the principlo of consequential damages as a pre- cedent of international Can we afford to agree that as a precedent it should have no existence whatever? As we have said, a settlement of this kind would be satisfactory. to the administration. We are assured that it would, in the opinion of Sir Edward Thornton, satisfy the Gladstone Ministry. Let us seo whether it will satisfy the English people. In that spirit, andasa peace offering, we tender it to our cousins across the sea. The Spanish Revolution—King Ama- Speech to the Cortes. A series of telegrams, dated in Madrid and Paris yesterday, enables us to report the progress of the Spanish revolutionary Carlist movement against Amadeus; the aids and prospects of the undertaking, and the means which are being used for its suppression. King Amadeus’ speech to the Cortes is also given, His Majesty having opened the legislative session in person. The Carlist insurrection appears to be con- fined to three provinces. Its support- ers were found, for the most part, among the peasantry. The action was desultory and uncertain, and, evidently, initiated on the haphazard principle of first creating an agitation and then taking the chances for ‘something to turn up.’’ The reports of the whereabouts of Don Carlos and his brother and more immediate personal friends are contradictory. Armed revolutionists had been in actual conflict with the roy- alist forces notwithstanding. Victory was claimed by both sides. His Majesty Amadeus treated the subject of the revolution lightly. He was vindictive in his expressions against its authors, setting forth, as will be seen, the revengeful spirit of the Italian engrafted on to the ferocious animus of the Spanish character. The King asserts his power under authority of the “legitimacy of modern right,”’ a new classification of the de law. not deus’ jure and de facto theories of the mon- | archisms, with the view, we pre- | sume, to an insurance of greater force by the combination. The kingdom is at peace. Its colonial integrity will be maintained. Venezuela has made reparation for in- sult. His Majesty touched the Church question skilfully. He will seek to | reconcile the King of Italy to the Pope. This duty will prove him, it is quite apparent, a dutiful son to two fathers—the natural and clerical one—a position which may bring down a blessing on Spain, after all; a consummation which is to be wished for de« voutly by all who have the peace of Europe and the happiness of the Spaniards at heart, The Washington Lobby. Judging from the proceedings in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, with regard to excluding ex-members from the floor, the lobby has about reached the point of being an intolerable nuisance. This is clearly the case, for if it were not the members have too much consideration for their former colleagnes to talk of excluding them from the floor. The resolution to exclude from the privilege of the floor all ex-members engaged in lobbying was reported by Mr. Cox, taken up and discussed. The resolution was finally recommitted. In the debate Mr. Cox said that “the swarm of ex-members on the floor had become a nuisance,” and that it was absolutely neces- sary the House should protect itself. The “Third House,"’ as the lobby has been called, is made up for the most part of the cor- morants who have had a taste of Washington life while in Congress and who hang on to that city after their constituents have ignored them. Of late years the number hag vastly in- creased with the growth of dérraption and with the temptations which an enormous revo | nue anda plethoric Treasury hold out. Tho stfingent rule proposed for their exclusion is a good one and ought to be adopted. But a more effectual remedy for the evil would be a reduction of the income of the govern- ment to a bare sufficiency for a strictly eco- nomical administration. If no more money were raised than is absolutely necessary to carry on the government economically in every department, and the treasury kept supplied with only enough for that purpose, there would be fewer lobby jobs and schemes and the lob- byists would be scattered in despair. First re- move the temptation, and then we shall hear less of efforts to plunder the Treasury. A Period of Extraordinary Crimes— The Poison Epidemic. Itisa singular fact that great crimos of a certain character often follow each other in rapid succession, and occur apparently in something like periodical cycles. The cause of this, probably, may be traced in a measure to the excitement and universal discussion which follow the commission of an extraordi- nary crime or crimes. Minds diseased by criminal proclivities catch the contagion of such an excitement, and are apt to carry out their wicked purposes by imitating the example set. Latterly the public has been shocked by the perpetration or strong suspicion of the most heinous crimes. They have been so hor- rible and repugnant to human nature and the civilization of the age that the people and judges and juries can hardly believe them possible. Strange to say, too, most of these terrible crimes of late have been charged to women, and, in some cases, to women of respectable character and conduct otherwise. Yes, women who were exemplary members of Christian communities, and whose lives seemed to be abovo the reproach of crime, have been placed before the bar of justice under strong suspicion of murdering their nearest relatives, dearest friends, and even their own offspring. ‘A few months ago the country was shocked with the alleged crime of Mrs, Wharton of poisoning her friend, General Ketchum. Rumor charged her even with the death of others nearer to her. Members of her own family died apparently in a mysterious and sudden manner. Buf as she was acquitted by a jury of the charge of murdering General Ketchum it is right to assume sho was innocent of that crime. Suspicion feeds upon suspicion, as crime does upon crime, and a web of circumstantial evidence may be woven out of the very excite- ment and suspicion that seems damaging to one accused when there is no guilt. Still such circumstances as surrounded the Wharton case made people shudder at the possibility of a fearful crime having been committed. Fol- lowing this alleged poisoning case, and the trial for it, is that of Lydia Sherman, at New Haven, for the murder of her husband by poison, last May. Here, too, suspicion of other murders by poison at the hand of this woman is rife. The counsel for the prosecu- tion wanted to have evidence admitted of the death of Sherman's two children and another person, Dennis Hurlburt, by poison, and the facts attending their sickness to show that all these persons and Sherman died with similar symptoms; that all were attended by the pris- oner in their sickness, and thatshe had poison in her possession. Whether these suspicious cir- cumstances be admissible as evidence or not, or this woman be proved guilty or not, this catalogue of supposed crimes is startling and awakens serious thoughts as to the tendency of our boasted civilization. More horrible still was the news we received a few days ago from Leesburg, Virginia. There awoman, Emily E. Lloyd, was arrested for poisoning her own children, four in number, her husband, and an aunt. Mrs. Lloyd was deemed a very respectable person, was a strict member of the Episcopal church, was long a resident of Leesburg and known well to every one in the community. One after another of this family was taken sick and died under similar circumstances, beginning with Mr. Lloyd, the husband, in the winter of 1869-’70. The fol- lowing summer her two boys, aged eight and ten years respectively, died suddenly; after that her eldest girl, and then the fourth and last child. All were buried, seemingly, without suspicion being expressed, such was the re- spectable character of the woman, till the last child died. Then the people in the village began to whisper their suspicions, and finally a post-mortem examination was made. Poison was found in the stomach of the child, and Mrs. Lloyd was arrested. Orders have been given for the disinterment and examination of the other bodies. It is hardly possible to realize that such henious and deliberate crimes as these would have been committed by a wife and mother, especially by one whose character was deemed so respectable. We must wait for further developements of facts and to show the motive before admitting such an unparalleled horror. In our own neighborhood another woman, Fanny Hyde, has just been tried for the murder, by shooting, of George W. Watson. This caso, though very different from the ones we have mentioned, shows how reckless people have be- come in taking human life. The provoking circumstances that led to this deed may in the minds of some appear to justify it, and the jury, acting from the same impulse of sympa- thy which the public entertain, failed to agree and have been discharged. This will, no doubt, be the end of the affair so far as a trial for the capital offence is concerned. But is it not time that the taking of life should be pun- ished, or that the homicide should, at least, bo kept under restraint? Society must be pro- tected, and this cannot be if every one is to take the law in his or her own hand. The poisoning epidemic or mania seems to be on the increase. There is still another report of a whole family being poisoned in East New York. These victims were colored people— three children and their mother. The wretched criminal isa white man, and a Swede, who was living in the same house with them. There appears to have been no motive for the crimes except revenge for the petty and trifling circumstance of the refusal of the woman to lend this man a dollar. As we have intimated before, there must be something radically wrong in our society, in the laws, or in the ad- ministration of them, when such fearful crimes—crimes by the wholesale—follow each other in quick succession. Where is the remedy? This is a matter that our legisla- tors, magistrates, judges, preachers and other teachers of morals should seriously consider, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.’ Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister, will leave the Albemarte Hotel for Washington to-day. Niles Gerald Keon, Her British Majesty's Colonial Secretary for Bermuda, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. M. Lefatore, French Consul at Charleston, is stop- ping at the New York Hotel. E. Thompson Gale, of Troy, is at the Hoffman House, State Prison Inspector Fordyce L. Lafiin, of Saugerties, is staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Viscount de Thury, of Paris, one of the pas- sengers of the steamship Cuba, that arrived on ‘Tuesday evening, is at the New York Hotel. Colonel Lee R. Shyrock, President of the Board of Trade of St. Louis, is among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General John E. Mulford, of Virginia, is domiciled at the Grand Central Hotel. Congressman W. ©. Smith, of Vermont, is regis- tered at the Brevoort House. Judge G. R. Spalding, of New Orleans, has quar- ters at the Grand Central Hotel. Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister, yes- terday returned to Washington from this city, Colonel Eugene Castero, of Mexico, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. Charles Francis Adams, the American member of the Geneva Tribunal, reached the Brevoort House late on Tuesday night. Yesterday he departed for Europe on the steamship Russia. Baron Offenburg, the successor of Catacazy as Russian Minister at Washington, arrived by the steamship Cuba. He is now with V. Schirkoff, whom he relieves from the performance of the du- ties of Chargé d’Affaires, at the Clarendon Hotel. Messrs. Arthur and Charles Wallack, sons of Mr, Lester Wallack, were among the passengers by the steamship Russia, that departed yesterday. These young gentlemen are to make a tour of the world. ‘The Russia was accompanied down the bay by a tug, bearing the parents and many friends of the voyagers. During the trip a collation was served, at which a number of speeches, expressing the heartfelt desire of all present for the safety and happiness of the tourists throughout their travels, were delivered. Admiral Inglefleld, the present ‘“‘Naval Attaché” of the British Legation at Washington, has been called to be second in command of the Mediter- ranean squadron. He has to sail for his new place of duty in a few days. This officer has been in this country buta few months. He was appointed to the position of Naval Attaché, it was said, because it was a place of no responsibility, and as it was wished to allow him to pass the remainder of a use- ful life in ease and quietness. He was here but a short time when he disturbed the quietness to which he had been assigned by making a thorough inspection of our system of defences. His recall to active duty, in view of these facts, is somewhat strange. The President yesterday nominated to the Senate D. W. Shyrock as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-first Pennsylvania district; A. J. Ritchie, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fourth Iowa district; Willlam M. Dagliesch, Ap- praiser of Merchandise at Pittsburg, Pa.; Elisha P. Terry, Governor of Washington Territory. In executive session yesterday the Senate con- firmed the following nominations :— John Jay Knox to be Comptroller of the Currency; Thomas Cole to be Collector of Customs at Saco, Me.; A. J. Ritchie, Collector of Internal Revenue, Fourth district of Towa; Hiram P. Newman, Post- master at Oswego, Kansas; Fletcher A. Wilson, chief engineer in the matty William K, Nauman, second assistant engineer in the navy; Comman- der Francis A, Roe to be captain; Lieutenant Com- mander John A. Howell to be commander, vice, William H. Dana, deceased; Lieutenant Comman- der Allen V, Reed to be commander; Master Daniel Delehanty to be eutenant; Master Charles 0, Allibone to be lieutenant vice William M. Paul, resigned; Master Charles C. Crowell to be leutenant, vice Lieutenant Commander A. V. Reed, promoted; John A. Gray and Joshua Riley to be members of the Council of the Legislative Assem- bly of the District of Columbia, the latter in place of Charles Peck, resigned. AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opera at the Academy of Music. The presentation of “William Tell’ last night at the Academy was one of the greatest triumphs achieved by the present management. The diM- culties to be overcome were of no ordinary nature, but such as might dishearten the most energetic and enthusiastic im- presario, it is, therefore, much to the credit of Carl Rosa that he undertook the responsibility of presenting to the New York public the great opera, which by many is considered to be the master- piece of Rossini, in a manner never before wit- nessed in New York, and succeeded so well that the most exacting critics must acknowledge that he has surpassed their expectations, The chief difficulty in the way of an effective rendering of “William Tell” is the character of the music. The score was written in a style adequate to the grandeur and impressiveness of its theme, and the constant introduction of grand choruses and concerted pieces of great elaborateness has been the result. Although the roles offer excellent scope to the artist the main interest of the opera cannot be said to centre in the performance of individual actors, we seek it rather in the general effects than in isolated efforts. The organization of the chorus and orchestra, therefore, are matters of very great importance which cannot be neglected or attended to superficially in the case of “William Tell.” Knowing this, we confess we went to the Academy last night not at all expecting to find the com- pleteness which marked the performance, We came away disappointed, but agreeably so~ The cast was such as has been rarely equalled, even in the European capitals, and the choruses, and orchestra were remarkably satisfactory. The per- formance last night was superior to many represen- tations that we have seen in Covent Garden, Lon- don, not alone in the higher but even in the inferior roles, and certainly Carl Rosa deserves the fullest recognition for his endeavors to make opera in America worthyjof the name—not the lame and imperiect thing it had been made by managers whose only aim was to squeeze as mucl as possible out of the American public, and give as little as possible in return. We do not mean to say that no fault could be found with the ded tcali but we have never seen one so per- fect as to please everybody, or, to be absolutely be- yond the reach ofadverse criticism. But, taking the excellencies and the blemishes into full account, we pronounce the performance last night highly credit- fue to the mapagement AW a be roles are_un- interesting and unimportant. lame Parepa-Rosa sane the part of Matilda with much sweetness and brill anoy, imparting to it an importance that does not naturally belong to it. She sang the romanza “Selva Opaca” with great feeling, displaying finished vocalization of the highest order, er voice was in good order, and the notes produced were clear, pure and flexiblein a re- Iarkable degree. The honors of the evening were undoubtedly due to Santley, whose persona- tion of William Tell was one of the most. finished performances we have seen before him. It sient have been improved, perhaps, by the ad- dition of a little more energy, but nothing could have added to the sweetness and nobleness of the conception. Santley sang well all through, but in the scene with his son the tenderness that marked his __ renderin; of the aria, Benedico,” was perfectly charming. Watchtel sang well, but his rendering of the rdle of Arnold was disappointing. At certain moments he was power- ful and brilllant. Few tenors could sing the de- eet aria, “Ah muto asil,” with the same tell effect that he did, and the man- ner which he executed the many dim. cult 3 Was masterly and beyond all praise. One of the most artistically rendered and effective of the concerted pieces was the trio in the fourth act by Matilde, meee and Jemmy, the two last being filled by Mrs. Schofield and Miss Doria. The way the choruses) were fiven was one the happlest features of the representation, For the most part the chorus sang in unison, and kept with the orchestra, though there were several times when hitches occurred. The conspiratorial scene and chorus was sombre, but was wanting in earnestness and intensity, It did not mee It as it ought to do, although the nate, “Gurlam,” was well and effectively given with much force and dramatic expressiveness. “William Tell” will be repeated on Friday, when, no doubt, many of the little blemishes incidental to a firs representation will have been remedied. The last matinée of the season will be given on Saturday, when “Martha” will be repeated by desire. The Church Music Association. One of the most interesting features of the sea. son is the approaching performance of Beethoven's Grand Mass in D by the Church Music Association, For nearly three months this admirable body of yocalists have been under drill, and, to agreat ex- tent, have succeeded in mastering most of the almost insurmountable dimculties of this composi- tion. Twice in the week they have been engaged, with their conductor, Dr. James Pech, with persistent determination, and by which, if we may judge frome the last two public rehearsals, they have come from darkness into light and have disentangled most of the Knotty points of the work. There have also been several private rehearsals with the orchestra at Steinway Hall, lasting from three to four hours - ay by which the orchestral part, @ aym- [ory BO oor eae been mastered with Justice te the rection of ‘Dr. performers themselves, under will not uninteresting to know that Beet- ie two masses—one in Gand another in . Tho former mass is the exact opposite of the lat- ter, the expression being eminently melodious. The mass in D, though not quite so melodious, is one of the grandest and most profound works of art ever executed. Taken a8 a whole this mass in D is rather a sublime than a religious conceptton—not @ timass,”" properly speaking, with music adapted to the text, but a lofty, expressive composition om words from the Church service. Of this work. the “Kyrie” is the most devotional; the “Gloria,” with its scarcely practicable “Presto finale,” the most vigorous; the “Credo” the richest and most pro- found, and the “‘Benedictus,” with its violin: obligato, the sweetest and purest, ‘The next public rehearsal will take place to at three o'clock, when “solo,” “orchestra” “chorus’’ will meet in full force at Steinway Hall. The orchestra will also perform two oratoriog entirely new to this country—the ‘“‘Acia ang Galatea” and “Undine.” Mendelssohn’s “Lorelei! music will also be rehearsed, and in which Mra Imogene Brown will take the part of Leonora, The principal vocalists in the mass are tobe Madame Ackerman Jaworska, Miss Antonia Henne, William 8. Leggat and Franz Remmertz. ’ “Little Ollie.” A very fair audience assembled last evening, at Robinson Hall, to listen to Little Ollie Goldsmith, whose Shakspearian readings have already at- tracted considerable attention and much favorable comment. The programme included the soliloquy from Hamlet and Antony’s oration over the body of Casar—certainly rather dificult passages for # {oat genius of seven years of age. They were, jowever, rendered with an animation and telligence that were perfectly Cabrel and the audience yielded frequent tributes of deserved applause. But we cannot Dele 88} also, that the readings were marred with seve blemishes, the evident results of defective training. That, for example, is not usually pronounced!’ “thart,” nor man ‘“marn,’’ These errors will, doubtless, be worn off by a riper acquaintance wittr the canons of elocution. Little Ollie has shown con- clusively that he has the possibility of a great fui in him, and his talents merit recognition acknowledgment. ‘The entertainment was en- livened by some pianoforte solos by Mr. Poznansk& and some songs by Miss Alice Singer. Bonawitz’s Piano Recital. The smaller hall of Steinway’s was pretty well filled yesterday afternoon, when Mr. J. H. Bona- witz commenced his second and last piano recital. The programme was one calculated to interest every musician, consisting of the “Coriolanus’’ overture by Beethoven, arranged for the plano by Bonawitag three works of Chopin, the Nocturne in F minor; Mazurka in B flat and the great Polonaise in A fat major; Beethoven's sonata in D minor, one of Bach’s Gavottes, a selection from a Mozart sonata, one of Mendelssohn's songs without words, “Novel- ette, No. 7,” Schumann; Fantasia Impromptu and “Album Leaf,’ by Bonawitz, and a very, brilliant and telling arrangement of the introduction to the third act of “Lohengrin” by the same. Mr. Bonawitz, whom we were the first to recommend to the American public, is one of those pianists that gaim on the public the more frequently they are heard. He brings to each work he essays—and for versatility no performance could be more diversified than the one just mentioned—all the culture of a thorough artist and a conscientious player. He aims at no sensational effects, but contents himself with losing his individuality in the characteristics of each work. Therefore, to the true musician, Mr. Bonawita is always a welcome guest in a concert, and his career in this city cannot fail to be one of unvarying suc- cess. Mrs. Henry C. Watson sang during the recital two of her husband’s compositions. Mr. Bonawita should extend these plano recitals to the end of the musical season. THE WEATHER. A War DEPARTMENT, Orrick OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasuinaTon, D. C., April 25—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. The barometer continues highest over the South Atlantic States. The lowest is probably central over Southern Minnesota and Eastern Nebraska. Brisk and high southerly winds are now prevailing from the lower Missouri Valley to the upper lakes; clear weather is prevailing very generally at the stations east of the Rocky Mountains. Probabilities. The lowest barometer over Nebraska and Minne- sota will move eastwardly over the upper lakes re- gion, with increasing cloudiness and threat ening weather and probably rain, which will extend to the lower lake region. Brisk and high southerly winds will extend eastward from the upper to the lower lakes, Clear and pleasant weather will continne very generally on Thursday over the East and Middle Atlantic and Southern States, with southerly winds, Cautionary signals continue to Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Haven, Detroit, Toledo and Cleve- land. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes In the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- arison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building :— 1871. 1872, 1s7l, 1872. 3A.M...... 51 45 8P. M. 70 6 A.M. 49 45 6P.M 68 9A. M...... 48 54 9P.M 63 12 M.. . 54 63 =12P.M 61 67 Average temperature yesterday... 58% Average temperature for corresponding. ‘date last year... LYDIA SHERMAN. Opening of the Case for the Defence—The Testimony of a Weak Nature—The In- nocence of the Prisoner Not Yet Estab- lished. New Haven, Conn., April 24, 1872. In the trial of Mrs, Lydia A. Sherman this morn- ing the defence opened their case. Mr. G, H. Watrous, counse} for the prisoner, made a brief statement before the jury of what he in- tended to do, He would try to show that the State had not made out a case, because they had proved no motive which would induce the prisoner to com- mit the crime, If there was arsenic in the stomach it was not put there through any agency of the ac- cuse He called for the first witness, Lewis G. Hubbard, who lived in the same house with Sherman. He testified that Mrs. Sherman had the sole care of her husband, but their relations seemed to be the same as of any man and wife. The Court adjourned at one o'clock, with the wit- ness on the stand, What the defence expected to prove the witness they do not seem to have Rone —harhe ly,the most tender aifection of Mra. Sherman for the deceased, ‘ of the witnesses was finished tl afternoon, and to-morrow the arguments of the connsel will be given. The defence introduced very little Rahal fearing to produce what they had lest it shoul lead to the admission of the evidence of the a soning of three other persons, whose death Mra. Sherman is suspected of having caused, This could only be introduced by way of rebuttal of evi- dence for the defence. The prisoner’s counsel rely on the weakness of the State's evidence in showing a motive, which they were unable to do without the evidence just mentioned, The testimon: MRS, WHARTON. The Second Trial on the Charge oft Attempting to Polson Van Ness Post- poned, Owing to the Defendant's IHl- wait Bartmmore, Md., April 24, 1872, In the Cireult Court at Annapolis yesterday the case of Mrs. Wharton, on the charge of attempting to murder Van Ness by poison, was continued. Mrs. Wharton's counsel presented a certificate from her attending physician that in her present ith she could not undergo the ex- precarious hep iigue of a trial, ‘The eifect of her ‘an Sead ill Health will be to put the case off to the rm. For several weeks Mrs. Whartom pee een in a very critical condition. EXTRAORDINARY TROTTING—THE FASTEST OOLT IN THE WORLD, Mr. Bonner drove his celebrated colt Startle yes- terday afternoon, on Fleetwood Park, a quarter of a mile in thirty-three seconds to his road wagon, in the presence of a large number of gentlemen, The colt was timed by Messrs. Daniel Pfifer, Johm Lovett and several others. No horse of any age has ever trotted, when hitched to a road wagon, @ quarter of a mile as fast as this, except Dexter, he made it in exactly the same time. A few days ago Startle trotted a half mile toa road wagon at the same park, ona heavy track, in 1:09%. Such veteran horsemen as Pellman, Pfifer, Saunders, Ro- den and Lovett pronounce Startle the most extra- ordinary trotter that has ever been known. Mr. Bonner paid $20,000 for him a little over a year ago, but Mr, Alley, from whom he bought him, has sinca. then gifered $95,000 fo wet Lim bugk agli, .