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8 INEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly Sealed. Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEATR. Anricie 47. ST, JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.—MacEvoyr's New Hineenivon. BOWERY THEATRE, Dertus—Sovon Suixcus. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tn Batuet Paw ‘Tomine or Humety Dompry. No. 119 Twenty-Fourth street — BOWERY.—Srancuing = te BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-thitd streat, corner Sixth av.—Tue Inox Caxst—Kataunine anv Perivento. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— IN ASSURANCE, ACADEMY OF MUSI ‘Oreaa,—La Traviata— Fourteenth street.—Tratas LAMMEn«oon, &e, THEATRE COMIQU rondway'—Comrc Voca- sms, NeGRo Acts, &. TKLS OF New Yorx. ONKE UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- fway.—Tne Voxes Faity. LINA EDWINS THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Tug PowEr or Love. GRAND OPERA HOUS! Laura Rooka. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Between Prince and Houston sts.—Biack Prrvay. STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Germay Orrra— ‘La Jurve. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mantague street.— Traian Orena—It Trovatonn. PARK THEATRE, opposite Hall, Brooklyn.— ome. bg way, corner 30th st.—Per- WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bi ning) —Lx108. ormances afternoon a CHICKERING HALL, 1 East Fourteenth st.—Graxp ONCERT. MRS, F. B. CONWAY! Twixt Axk AND Cxow: ? BROOKLYN THEATRE.— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO Bxcro Eccenrnicitixs, Bore: , No. 201 Bowery.— ‘&o. SAN FRANCISCO HALL, 685 Broadway.—Varirry Prn- FORMANCES. PAVILION, No. 688 Broadw Concent. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— near Fourth st.—-Granp MENCK AND ART. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, No. 745 Broad- SCIENCE AND Axr. QUADRUPLE New York, Sun “CONTENTS OF T0-DAY'’S HERALD. fee een SHEET, ny, April 28, 1872. AGE. 1—Advertisements. 2=rAdvertisements. 5—Cincinnati:—The President Makers Working Night and Day: Hourly Changes in the Pros- pects of the Candidates; The Contest Narrow- ing Down to Brown, Trumbull 1 Palmer; Adains too Respectable for a Reformers’ Con- vention; The Latest Developments—The Vir. ginia Liberals—The Postal Teleg ph: cropping in Congtess of Hrratp Teachi Lightuing for the Poor—Reformed Tammany: Organization of the New Tammany General Committee. G—Religious Intelligence: Fourth Sunday After ‘Kaster; The Religious Programme for. To- day; Herald Religious Cori Henry Ward Beecher as a didate; Shall Ow ee Open on Sundays !—Thir Syna- ogue—Father — Bur Lecture in” W. tephen’s--Another Episcopal Church in New Jersey—The Methodist Book Committee— ork City News—Life in the Caisson— 1 Transit—Ilinols Ku Klux— Legislature—Jack Tar’s Mis- Vv yenerally Hardly ations in Gold; A ‘—Base Ball Fire in Broad Wooster Street—A Greenpoint Marviages and Deaths—Adverti S—[ditorials: Leading Article, “The Duties, Opportunities and Lessoi son for the Di : al Intellkrence— Amusements—Ni jons Received— Amusement Ann 9—(Cable Telegrams Spain, France, England, Italy and India he War in Mexitco—The Border Rufians: Missourian Cutthroats Or- ganized for Massacre—The w Dominion— News from Washington—Miscellaneous Tele- grams—The Trial of Libbie Garrabrant—Busl- ness Notices. O—mAdvertisements. JmAdvertisements. Ax—The State ¢ : Friends of the Ross Thief in Cow resent Complex of the Tax Le A Check to Vanderhilt—Yachting— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisemenis, 3—Advertisements. 4—Advertisements. Eart Granviutr’s Rerty To TH SPpaNIsH CincomaR oN THE byrernationats.—Earl Granville has replied to the Spanish circular pon the International Society. The circular re- erred to isa reasonably long document, in Which the evils sure to come, if a check is not placed on the workings of the International, were depicted in very glowing language. The reply of the English Foreign Secretary, though St will not prove satisfactory to Spain, is, nevertheless, a thoughtful, sensible and truly ‘English emanation. England is not gojng to rouble itself about an organization which can be crushed more effectually by silence than by Buy other means. It is the unwise course pursued by politicians, who assume to be statesmen, which makes the International So- giety a fear and a terrorin Europe. We fancy, however, that for Some time to come Spain will hhave sufficient Carlist business on hand to oc- pupy its attention, without troubling foreign governments with essays on the International. ‘Tue Vesvuvies Vorcanic Exvprion.—By tele- m from Naples and Rome, under date tof yesterday, we are informed that Ve- suvius continued in angry eruption during the Way, asstfring the Old World of the una- bated severity of the present attack of its in- ternal chronic disorder by the exhibition of * the most painfully violent symptoms of the active return of an aggravated disease. The forces of the earthquake were arranged and fired off in rapid succession, the mouths of the crater serving as points of exit for the dis- charge of rocks, ashes, and streams of the lava liquid fire. Italian official reports go to diminish the number of the killed nd wounded from the totals which were stated in the first returns, and do so to a very consoling extent. Thesame source of koformation assures us, however, of the depopu- tation of many villages by the flight of the in- habitants, the people moving away in the face of an absolute and uncontrollable danger. The lava ran down the mountain sides with most unusual rapidity for some time, but the flow of the current was abating in speed at the moment when our latest telegram was de- spatched from Rome. The Italian government continues active in its efforts for the relief of the sufferers, and the prayers of the faithful, both in the Old World and the New, during the Sabbath to-day may accomplish what re- gains for the insurance of the temporary pAribly salvation of the afflicted people, vw a rid. BS oni _ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET. The Season —Its Duties, Opportunities and Lessons—Our Lesson for the Day. The season opens with sunshine and warm, genial weather. Winter lingered long in the lap of spring, but he has gone, hoary, gray and forbidding, to sleep in the icy chambers which enfold his ancestors. Farewell, faro- well! and yet not without sorrow, for there are gracious and noble traits in Old Winter in his severest moods, if we properly note them. This winter has had its own experi- ences. We remember the season of chaos which came with Christmas, when our whole social and political system seemed to tumble and whirl, with traditions, customs, organiza- tions, rings, railways, all carried away as it were in a consuming lava flood of ashes and fire, like what we see sweeping down from Vesuvian summits. The winter just left us will long be remembered. Tammany was overturned, the masters of New York fled like thieves in the night; poor Fisk went out like a pistol flash, and of all his gaudy ambitions and dreams, his bonds and stocks and railways, and opera houses and dancing women and singing birds, only a memory and a fading memory, to be torn and stamped and dark- ened by quarrelling lawyers before an intelli- gent jury. And with the young Prince the kingdom has vanished, and the new masters of Erie are really gentlemen and men of honor! Only think of that, and bless the dear old Win- ter in whose reign it came to pass. Somehow on the Sabbath, which is the day of thought as wellas of rest, the mind be- comes retrospective, and we draw what com- fort we may from the philosophy of the hour. We are not optimists. We believe in the principle that sees good in everything, sun- shine behind the darkest cloud. Is there not something in this idea of Thackeray ?—‘“I see my lord riding in his chariot, and I see poor Jack in the cart on the way to Tyburn tree. I know in my heart that Tamas good as my lord and feel that I am as bad as poor Jack.” We should not lose much respect for the world if it stood still, if there were no more progress. We can no more check the spirit of progress than arrest the planets in their courses. The world is better to-day than yes- terday—better, let us think, because of yester- day. The triumphs and achievements of this generation will be the experiences of the next generation. When chaos reigns we know that order will soon have a wider dominion. We shall have a better sense of public duty and virtue, of what is right and wrong, because of what was done last winter. And when we extend our vision, and see what we see all over the world, we feel that the oscillation of dynasties and thrones will lead to the world’s advancement. There is our old friend, the Pope, for instance. Well, the gallant King Victor has been hustling him and disturbing his reign over his little dominions, and we fear the successor of St. Peter has had many sad, weary moments. But he might be worse off, if he only looked carefully at the matter. Popes have been exiled, imprisoned, martyred; even this Ninth Pius has known banishment, and in his own life he has seen a Father of the Church under the charge of a French jailer. We fear, as things go in this distracting time, he will not have much com- fort in the Holy City. Matters have been going badly for the temporal power ever since the | French revolution, and it will require more ‘os | thunderbolts than the Vatican can forge to | drive King Victor from his throne. | Holy Father know this as all the world knows | it, and, instead of craving a temporal power Let the which was really subordination to France, abandon Rome and come to America. We un- derstand he has expressed a desire to do this, and it would be well. Pope, prophet, bishop, elder, patriarch—we shall welcome and protect them all if they pay taxes and obey the laws. New York would honor Pius as becomes his virtues and his station. Already we are build- ing a cathedral that will bea glorious monu- ment, and we could adda palace or two that would surpass the Vatican. On the banks of the Hudson, for instance, near Fort Washing- ton or Spuyten Duyvil, a palace might be built where he could rule the Catholic world, as free as ever Pope was in Rome, and no guard but a squad of mounted policemen. Let Pius come to New York, the only city in the world where he could be really free, and bring his cardinals with him, and so end forever the Roman ques- tion. If things go badly with the Queen, as the signs threaten, we extend the same welcome. We have our share of oppressed and down- trodden Fenian patriots longing for the hour when they may strike the hated Saxon. But it is the hated Saxon over the seas, who in- spires his vengeance. Patrick gets along well enough here, and have peace and harmony, and never a word of anger beyond a little trouble now and then at Tammany Hall. A discrowned Queen with an interesting family of children and grandchildren would be quite an addition to our society, and would add to the operas and balls. We could give them a season box at the Academy and sing ‘God Save the Queen” every night she chose to at- tend. And with Victoria let us have the retinue of unemployed monarchs who are now wandering over Europe without any visible means of support. What with the Commune and Dilke, and the mad doings of the Interna- tional Europe must certainly be an uneasy place. Let Napoleon come, with his brave, bold, patient Spanish wife. He knows New York, or rather did thirty years ago, and we can promise him something better than the small Hoboken tavern where he drank his claret and dreamed of empire as he smoked our fragrant Virginia tobacco, And 80 with the Count de Chambord, that goodish, innocent, sorely badgered man. He may have as many flags as he Wishes, white and red if he chooses; and he may write as many procla- mations as will please him, which we promise to republish in the Hrraup as space permits, especially when we are not overrun with sixty-four columns of advertisements, as unfortunately happens this morning. We do not promise rashly, for however much we would honor gearrulous and letter-writing royalty without charge, we have a duty to the chambermaid who wants a place and the merchant who has wares for sale and the wanderer who seeks employment or a home. So also with Grandfather Thiers, who is not doing so well with his toil and trouble at Versailles that he may not want to do bet-- ter, contemplating time and eternity and the immortal glories of France from some rural retreat on Long Island or on the Palisades. Likewise the noble Kaiser William. Deutschland, who has not quite settled the liberals and ultramontaniste, and having known exile once, may seek it again. Whata welcome we should give the gallant old chief, and what peace he would find to smoke his homely, comforting pipe, and drink his beer, under our Hoboken vines and fig-trees, with fraulein and kinder, and old Moltke and Bis- marck to gossip with as they dipped their noses into the foaming mugs, and Carl Schurz to comfort him, and two hundred thousand of the Fatherland to do him honor, and the New York Heraup telling him from day to day of the clatter and. war and strife over the sea! Such a Heraxp as what we print this morn- ing, for instance! What a surprise it would be to his sacred and imperial eyes to read down its long columns and meditate upon them. sixty-four columns of advertisements, for instance. What a volume they make! The world speaking to the world, as it seems. The mother who seeks her child; the lover who has lost his beloved and will not be com- forted ; Gretchen, who wants a home and occu- pation; Fritz, who would have work and opportunity; the merchant with his wares ; the landlord seeking a tenant; the tenant craving a home ; marriages and deaths ; ships going to sea and coming from sea; the strifes of politicians ; clergymen inspired to preach the Gospel and calling upon sinners to come and hearken and be saved—what a world it is! what a world voice here speaks! It is not what we say, dearly beloved brethren, nor what the news reporters say to us from all nations, that hath the deathless eloquence that lies hidden in these sixty-four columns of printed advertisements. How snug, compact! Indifferent, unnecessary perhaps they seem to the careless reader, who hurries to the editorial page and the news narratives. But every line has a voice. Some human soul with a pur- pose or a want or a duty or an ambition, crying out on the calm winds of this mild spring morning, to be satisfied. Is there not eloquence in this, and true poetry to those who see the beauty and fitness of things? And after all it is the advertisement that lives, Long after we have passed away, and this bright, inviting page has grown yellow and dusty, and the Hxraxp is written and printed by men now unborn for generations that are to come, there will be a life in these advertis- ing columns to the student, the thinker, the historian—to all who care to know what the New York of to-day really is. For, friends, these columns speak the voice of New York. The essays we ‘write, the news we print, the comments, criticisms, sage, prudent observa- tions and speculations, the theories of learned and gifted men, the gossip of entertaining story tellers—all of this is for the day; the columns of marriages and deaths are fever. Great and manifold as are the missions of the Herarp, it has none higher than this—to be the exchange of New York. The Sunday Library Question, The immense crowd which on Monday evening last assembled, in the large hall of the Cooper Institute to hear what the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher had to say about the opening of public libraries on Sunday, and the hearty enthusiasm which his broad and generous views, stated in his own attractive styte, evoked from the audience, proved how strong and firm a hold this Sunday library question has taken of the public mind. There are hun- dreds of thousands who think, with Mr. Beecher, that the Puritanical view which is taken of the Sabbath in this country, and in some of the countries of Europe, particularly in Great Britain, is alike without the sanction of Scripture and opposed to common sense, **The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath’’—such was the emphatic statement of the Master. It is one of the strangest features of Christianity that the ancient Jewish and Pharfsaic view of the Sabbath has for well nigh nineteen hundred years prevailed in spite of, nay, in open violation of, the generous teaching of the Founder of Christianity. As Mr. Beecher well put it, the Sabbath is humanity's day. It was clearly the Master's intention that the day should be a day of rest and of recreation—of rest.to the wearied body, of recreation to the wearied brain. In its excessive and mistaken zeal for the preservation of its power, the Church, in all its sections and from the first, has perverted the purpose of the day of rest. In this particular the churches of the Reforma- tion have been even more to blame than the churches which were hallowed by a hoary an- tiquity. The teaching under which millions of Christians have been reared has left no room for any opinion but one—that the Sab- bath was made in order that man might go to church. With Mr. Beecher, we agree that it is well to go tochurch, and that there is small danger in these times that men will go to church too much. But we endorse also the other sentiment—that the day was not made for this purpose alone. There is one simple mode of looking at this question of the libraries. Our well-to-do classes have their comfortable homes, their pictures and their books. A Sunday at home with such people is a day of rest in the true sense, They can rest, if they will, in well- aired, well-ventilated rooms. They can study what works of art they possess and enjoy the companionship of the great master spirits of the past. They can roam at will through their well filled boékeases and hold converse with the illustrious minds of their own and former times. How different is the case of the poor man who, with, it may be, a thirst for knowl- edge, is shut up with his family in some corner of a wretched tenement house! How hard is the case of the young man who belongs to some such family if it should be that he is hungry for knowledge, and that he has neither the book which he wishes nor a place to read it ifhe had! Can any one tell us how many thousands of young men are allowed intel- lectually to rot and physically to give them- selves up to the most abandoned habits because of the absence of encouragement to the aspirations of their higher natures? How much of crime, how much of what we call im- morality results from this cause? If we would have the young grow up virtnons and useful it is our duty to do our best to lead them in the right paths. Our Church leaders and our respectable Puritans must make up their minds and decide between the public libraries and the gin shops. The gin shops on Sunday, in spite of the law, flourish and gather in rich harvests. Open the public libraries and what of | art galleries we possess, aud a brief experi- ment will show that the gin shops are less in demand and that the increasing balance is on virtue’s side. Weare glad to learn that the experiment is likely soon to be made by the Mercantile Library, and that the question of opening the Astor Library on Sunday is to be discussed at the next meeting of the Board of Directors. Let us hope that common sense will win, and that so far at least religion and intelligence will cease to hinder the growth and development of public virtue. Facts and Fancies of the Religious Press. The religious press this week devotes con- siderable space to defining its position in regard to Cincinnati. The Independent, after showing that the gathering at Porkopolis will comprise only a minority of the republicans, and that the masses of the party still believe in Grant, and Grant alone, comes to the conclu- sion that the sole hope of success for next week's convention lies in a coalition between says :— Would such a coalition succeed, even if formed ? Far more than doubtful. Its platform would be merely a system of political jagglery, too ambigu- ous to have peanieat power with the people. Its candidates, being selected, as they must be, from the schedule of anti-Graut republicans, would be likely to repel quite as many democratic votes as they would attract republican votes, The whole local machinery of the coalition would have to be mainly run by democrats, and this would re- veal its true character to the people. Nothing could conceal from them the fact that it was chiefly a democratic movement under a republican dis- guise, or that its success would accrue to the benefit of the democratic pasty. Such coalitions are not very apt to succeed ; and this one, especially, would be almost sure to tumble to. pieces by the elements of incompatibility and incoherence which it would contain, The democracy would simply swallow up the reform republicans, as the tools and servitors of its purposes, and, if victorious, claim the principal share of the spoils, The poor satisfaction of con- tributing to the defeat of the republican party, in the event of their success, without gaining any- thing for themselves or the country, would be the chief reward of their labors. The Golden Age evidently has a leaning to- wards Cincinnati, but is profoundly impressed with the gravity of the situation. Both par- ties, it says, are disorganized, and ‘the hour is full of confusion.”” If the republican party would listen to reason it would abandon Grant and take up some good man who is popular with both wings of the organization. For it thinks that party has no other dissen- sion within its ranks save only that which grows out of the attempt of office-holders to perpetuate their master and themselves in power a second time. Give the republican party some other nominee than Grant—we don’t care who he is, any one of a dozen or twenty good men—and there will be no split or bolt. But if Grant is foreed upon an un- willing party whose just expectations he has not realized, it will be riven asunder. It winds up, however, by saying that, as the Philadelphia slate is already made up, it is idle to talk in this vein about what might be. Nothing remains but Cincinnati; and even at Cincinnati there is not much hope except in Horace Greeley. The Freeman's Journal (Catholic organ, and ukra-democratic, politically), talks of those papers professing to be democratic that indulge in that silly nonsense of ‘anything to beat Grant.’’ Such a cry, it adds, is under- stood, coming from men now out of place, who want place, or patronage, or power, or plunder. For the true yeomanry (meaning the true democracy), who will neither take nor ask any favor at the hand of governments, itis a'matter of impartial examination as to whether any othér representative of the repub- lican party will not be more objectionable than Ulysses S. Grant for the next Presidential term. The Journal says that if the next President is to be a republican, and to carry on the bad principles of that party, by all means don’t change its masters. Between Grant and any other representative of that party, it concludes, ‘let us have Grant.” This is support for Grant from a rather unex- pected religious source. If the advice of the Journal be followed by the mass of Catholic voters it is by no means certain that the city of New York will, at the Presidential election, maintain its long-tried position as the demo- cratic stronghold of the State and the whole country. The Liberal Christian discusses the important question of ministers’ salaries. Of course, one opinion expressed is that clergymen, as a rule, are very sadly underpaid. That is a complaint, however, not confined to clergymen. Still, the Liberal Christian recognizes the need of ‘‘chok- ing off’’ those who are ‘‘inefficient and incapa- ple for the real work’’ of the pastor by ‘‘starva- tion.”’ But one main reason, as it proceeds to point out, why inefficient men are now in the ministry is, that the salaries are too low to tempt really competent men into it. The best gradu- ates from the colleges naturally prefer law and plenty to being a successor of the apostles on five hundred dollars a year. The matter is one that deserves careful attention, for it is grow- ing notorious that the better paid professions are absorbing all youthful talent. The Evangelist claims that this country would best consult its honor in the matter of the in- direct claims by backing out of a false position. It uses some pretty hard language about Mr. Bancroft Davis, whom it claims is neither a statesman nor a man who has ‘“‘a reputation to lose.”’ But we will let the Hvangelist speak for itself: — 3 But what can be done? We answer that, as out government is entirely wrong, it ought at once to Set itself right by promptly and manfully withdraw- ing this absurd claim for indirect or consequential damages, England hasdone everything that could be asked of her. She has humbled her pride to con- sent to enter {nto this negotiation, e has made an apology; she has expressed her “regret,” and while honestly believing’that she is not justly lable for depredations committed by the rebel cruisers, she agrees to submit the question to a Board of Ar- bitrators chosen from different countries, and if they soadjudge she is willing to pay the full value of every ship which they destroyed at sea. Is not this all that can be asked? The Aeaminer and Chronicle proposes to re- form an abuse growing out of the anniversary May meetings. It has always been customary for the good people of New York to hospitably eutertain at their own homes such Christian brethren as a call of duty brings hither at this season. But their good nature has been of late greatly imposed upon, and it has even been whispered that certain pious gentlemen from the country seize the opportunity to come to the city for the mere purpose of indulging in a week's sight-seeing gratis, The only way to stop this evil, says the Araminer, is to adopt the principle of electing delegates to the anni- versaries on the same plan as delegates are elected to a political convention. Then those legitimately entitled to hospitality could be easily provided for, while the men who simply come to New York because, at this season $f the year, they can be boarded for nothing will be left out in the cold. A good idea, and one ea at inne a a well worthy of being acted upon. The Christian Union bas on interesting the democrats and liberals, And then it | | his article on ‘The Christian Law of Local Unity.” It deplores the excessive denomina- tionalism that now prevails, and thinks that “religion is dishonored and faith shaken in the minds of outside observers, by the efforts of Christian churches to gain strength at the ex- pense of each other.” There is, however, no immediate hope of a change in this regard. We have to welcome a new journal, the Catholic Union, of Buffalo, which promises to take good rank among its contemporaries, if the vigor and variety that mark its first num- ber are maintained. It contains several good controversial articles, and its news columns seem to be unusually well filled. The Catholic Review has a short but caustic article on the “canonization” of Mazzini by his disciples in Italy, and says that “‘a lock of his hair’’ and ‘this spectacles’ have been ex- hibited for the veneration and worship of the faithful, in the hall of the United Working- men’s Association at Genoa.’ If this be all true, Mazzini will soon turn over in his grave in indignant horror. The Spanish Insurrection. The telegrams from Madrid, which reached the Heraxp yesterday, bring only meagre reports of the progress and prospect of the Spanish insurrectionary movements as they presented during the day. Whether this re- sults from a lack of new material or from a general interruption of the means of commu- nication between the capital and the provinces remains to be seen. The Carlist action may have been of a merely spasmodic character, prevailing at certain points, and thus rendered the general scheme plan piebald in the eyes of its partisans—a very discouraging feature to men who risk their lives for the advocacy of a principle, the sustainment of a politi- cal cause, or the support of a governmental dynasty. The telegraph wires have been cut by the Carlists at very many points in the rural districts, so that it may be that there are important facts behind, and still remaining for the purpose of our record of modern Spanish history. In the meantime we have from Madrid extracts from the Spanish official despatches, specially accorded to our corre- spondent for the use of the Heratp, which throw considerable light on the current of the insurgent movement, its mode of inception proclamation and progress. There is little doubt that the insurrectionists in the provinces have acted according to a plan of preconcerted arrangement, and it is equally certain that the King’s officers were pretty well informed as to their inten- tions beforehand. This latter fact is quite in accord-ance with the system of treason which has ever prevailed within the ranks of secret organizations pro- fessing, or apostolic of, revolutionary pur- poses. The fact is patent, notwithstanding, that Amadeus’ officials were alarmed at the very outset, and although they claim to have dispersed the agitators here and there at the very commencement of the movement, there is no telling, as our writer remarks, what amount of news may have been concealed from his eye in Madrid, and that, too, with the most courteous tone of a Castilian compliment. An Inverestine Fryancter—Worsk THAN Butt or Brear.—The Premier of the Fiji Islands has arrived in Sydney, Australia, under commission to negotiate a money loan for the use of His Majesty King Thakambou. He had not experienced any encouragement at the date of our latest advices from the an- tipodes. Whether this fact is really more threatening in its prospective consequences to the Australian bankers or the Fiji monarch re- mains to be seen. The King isa very ugly customer to attempt to put a ‘corner’ on, owing to the fact that he may make a sudden burst and “gobble up" the ‘ring’ men, not merely figuratively, but physically and sub- stantially. Queen Victoria’s soldiers have had a vast deal Of deal of trouble with the African potentates, Oko-Jumbo and Ja-Ja and Theo- dorus, and, still more recently, with the titled aristocracy of New Zealand. The Fiji monarch is really dangerous when offended. The Syd- ney banks should ‘place’ his loan, if at all possible, and thus secure for the colony the pledge of a treaty tooth of friendship, the same as we have in Washington. Nothing ike amicable diplomacy without consequential damages. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General A, C. Lyford, of the United States Army, is quartered at the Glenham Hotel. General J. C. Sturn, of Indiana, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Dr. L. J. Jordan, of San Francisco, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand Central Hotel. General Rice, of Massachusetts, has rooms at the Glenham Hotel. veneral S. K. Dawson, of Kentucky, is domiciled at the Grand Central Hotel. T. T. Oshima, Commissioner of Public Works, Japan, and fourteen Japanese students, arrived yesterday at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Freyre, the Peruvian Minister, left this city for Washington yesterday. The Hon. Russell. Gurney, late Recorder of the city of London, and at present a member of the British-American Claims Commission, yesterday sailed for home, with pis wife shi | Aarhntfer He will rear ae a ee sume his labor at Washington in September. Baron Charles Lederer, the Austro-Hungarian Minister Plenipotentiary, sailed for Europe yester- day in the steamer Hermann. The Baron has been in this country during four years, and in that time his official course and social habits have been of a nature to acquire for him hearty respect and friend- liness from all sides. His departure was signalized by a cordial fecling of regret for even the short ab- sence he intends to make, and he will receive a spirited welcome when he returns. The Austrian Legation at Washington remains In charge of Mr. Hengelmitiler-Hengervar, the First Secretary. Intelligence has been received here that Franz Abt, the eminent German composer, left Bremen on the 20th inst. in the steamer Rhein. He is, there- fore, expected to arrive in this city about next Friday. The preparations that have been made for his entertainment by the German societies of this city must give Mr. Abt a gratifying idea of the esteem in which he is held by his music-loving countrymen resident here. He is tobe received on arrival by the officers of the Saenger- bund, and that socicty is soon after to parade with torches and give him @ serenade. The music of the programme for the serenade will be rehearsed at the Germania Assembly Rooms to- day. The Liederkranz Society, of which Mr. Abt is an honorary member, will give @ concert for his benefit, at Steinway Hall, on the 18th inst., of which Mr. Abt himself will be conductor. The Arion So- clety has also made arrangements Jo entertain Mr, nquet. bette ae rretee of St. Peter’s church, Bar- clay street, was granted three months’ leave of absence yesterday by his flock in order to recuper- ate his waning health, A presentation of $1,100 was made to him by members of his congregation on the vocasions |- will previously sing at tl | Peay AMUSEMENTS. The Academy of Music. Yesterday the Academy was well filled by a fash- jionable and appreciative audience. ‘Martha’ was selected for representation, without any change in the distribution of the rdles. During the perform- ance an amount of enthusiasm was exhibited quite unusual with the correct and somewhat frigid people who mostly attend matinées. As is usual with the very critical public the robusto efforta were applauded to the echo, while the quieter and more artistically rendered Dasanent were passed over without notice. On Monday the Parepa-Rosa combination will appear in Brooklyn for the last time before their departure for Europe. They will give “Il Trovatore.” Her farewell performance, consisting of selections from different operas, will be given on Tuesday night. Nilsson’s Farewell, Mile, Nilsson will take leave of the New York pub lic on to-morrow evening, at the Academy of Music, when she will appear in several of her most cele brated rdles, It is expected that the occasion will be brilliant beyond precedent. Madame Manzocci’s Concert. Through a typographical error the forthcoming testimonial concert to Madame Manzocoi was an- nounced to take place on Thursday next instead of Tuesday. The brilliant array of artists who have kindly volunteered their services on this occasion will render this one of the most attractive and en- Bree concerts of the season. Although Miss Phillips has to sing ae Ape at the Academy she concert. M. Favarger’s Benefit. Music, song, comedy, and recitations in French constituted the entertainment presented last even- ing at the Union League Club Theatre, for the bene- fit M. A. A. Favarger, who is so favorably known te the élite of this city, in his diversified capacity of lit- erateur, dramatic reader, and teacher of French and elocution. The neat, cheerful looking hall was filled by a select audience,partaking of the character.ofa gathering at some fashionablé amateur perform- ance, and more disposed to commend than to cavil, But the soirée, on the whole, was really deserving of praise, and the differen artists merited the ap- lause so liberally bestowed upon them. “Le achemire Vert,’ one of those light, agreeable comedies, founded upon French domestio life,. from the inimitable pen of Dumas, was first presented and favorably received. Mlle, Cavé did ample justice to the pleasing, idip- matic French of the dialogue, which she spoke with great expressiveness and effect. The brusque soldier (by M. Juignet), the courteous suitor (by M, Rousseau) and the complaisant gargon (by M. Leonard), who form the remaining characters of the piece, were played in a manner recall- ing the performances at the best Pari- sian theatres. The musical part of the soirée was rendered by "M. Leoni Berthelot and Mile. Pauline Nininger, both of whom met with warm appreciation. M. Berthelot eang “Comme & vingt ans” with good expression. Mlle. Nininger has a voice of great power and purity, and ren- dered “D’Amor,” from “Trovatore,” in @ very fine manner, but her organ is more adapted toalarge theatre than to a hall of small dimen- sions, Seiiors Ramirez and Martin, in Spanish cos- tume, executed several national airs on guitarsan@ were repeatedly applauded. The béi viatre him- self was prevented by hoarseness from giving the recitations announced in the programme. Rustlings from the Wings. Harry Palmer sailed for Europe on the 23d inst. Ben Sherwood, of Niblo’s, returned from Europe last week. “The Hibernicon” is drawing like a double team at Apollo Hall. “Humpty Dumpty Remodelled” is still the feature on the boards of the Olympic. Mrs. James Oates’ troupe play at Niblo’s Garden this summer, commencing June 3. Some new features will be shortly introduced inte “Lalla Rookh” at the Grand Opera House. “ Richard ITI.” will be produced with much care and completeness at Booth’s on Wednesday. The inimitable cast of “London Assurance” at Wallack’s is effecting the inevitable result—stand- ing room only. Freligh’s “Buffalo Bill’ and Susan Denin combt- nation closed its travelling tour on the 22d inst., and the company returned to this city on the 24th. “La Juive” will be given at the Stadt Theater on Monday, with Madame Fabbri as Rachel, Richard aw Eleazer, Eisenbach as Leopold, and Wiegand as the Cardinal. On Thursday evening the third concert of the Church Music Association takes place at Steinway Hall, Beethoven's Mass in D being the feature of the programme. San Francisco Minstrel Mall, will be opened on Monday as a variety theatre, under the manage- ment of Sam Sharpley, the well-known minstrel manager and performer, “The Power of Love’ will continue to be the at- traction at Lina Theatre during the coming week, the acting and singing of the Chapman Sisters im the piece proving very attractive. Miss Henrietta Beebe will give a soirée musicale in Chickering Hall on Thursday, on which occasion she will be assisted by Miss Antonia Henne, Messrs. Becket and Mills, and the Weber Quartet. Signor Brignoli, Mile. Pauline Canissa and Messrs. Jacob Muller, R. H. Stratford and the Ninth Regi- ment Band appear at the twenty-eighth Sunday concert at the Grand Opera House this evening. Miss Ella Burns, a very young lady, who has, during her engagement in Mrs. Conway’s Brooklyn Theatre, gained a popularity and success of the most flattering kind, takes her first benefit in ““Twixt Axe and Crown” on Monday evening. Mr. Philip Warren, who will be remembered by many as the treasurer of the original Broadway Theatre years ago, is lying ill and in straitened ctr- cumstances in this city. Some of his old profes- sional associates should get up a benefit in his be- half. It would prove a eget relief to this old and incapacitated servant of the public. Mr. Augustin Daly commences his season at the Grand Opera House early in September, with “Le Roi Carotte.” Mr. Daly has secured the ra louse for five years, and has engaged Du Floc, rts, Dayton, and two other scenic grtists. Charles Fisher, Ringgold, GS. Ketchum, J. Jennings and many other first class artists have been secured. On Monday evening a new opera called “ The Pearl of Bagdad” will be performed for the first time in public at the Brooklyn Lyceum. The It- bretto is yy Mr. Edwin F. De Nyse and the music by Mr. John M. Loretz, Jr., of Brooklyn, The leading roles will be filled by Miss Emma Howson, Mis# Minnie Treadway, Eugene, Clark and Frank Dallon. lessrs, Provincial Gleanings. The Claire Sisters open at Frank Wild's Opera House, Syracuse, New York, on the 29th inst. ‘Tony Pastor goes out travelling with his variety show, commencing in Providence, R. L, on the 6th of May. ' Elise Scott commences an engagement at the Front Street Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland, om May 6. Nelse Seymour did not go out travelling with Bryant's Minstrels, Dan having given him a sum- mer’s rest to recruit his health. Hughey Dougherty sails for Europe by the steam- ship Batavia, in company with Perry Moore, the manager of the Christy's Minstrels, on May 4. Mr. he appears with Christy's Minstrels in Eng- Cool Burgess, who has been sectifed for a th months’ engagement at the Alhambra Theatre, San Francisco, starts on July 1. Sheridan and Mack, Ae vmeees by Colonel Brown, left on Sunday, the st inst, The “Black Crook” will be National Theatre, Washington, ., on May, 6, with the following artists:—Lupo, ‘as premibre, and the full ballet from the Front Street Theatre, Baltimore. Simmons & Siocum’s Minstrels played in Wash- ington the past week, closing there on the 27th, and go thence to Baltimore for one ee after which Colonel Brown starts them for California, where they play three months, il NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. From D. Appleton & Co.:—“How the World Was Peopled. Ethnological Lectures.” By Rev. Ed- ward Fontaine. “Goodby, Sweetheart.” A novel. By Rhoda Broughton. From J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia—“The Science of Wealth; @ Manuel of Political Economy, Embracing the Laws of Trade, Currency and Finance.” By Amasa Walker, LL. 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