The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD she: Sait EE: BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. cites ie JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Rejocted communications will not be re- turned. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yors Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. No. 134 Volame XXXVIL. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Foou or tux Fauity—Wantep 4 Fatuxr, ko. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Autiotk 47. 8ST. JAMES THEA’ Broadway.—MacEvoy's WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broudway, corner 30th st.—Per- formances aiternoon'and evening. —JARTINE, BOWERY THEATRE, BOWERY.—Witcuxs or New Yorx—My Fitow CLurK. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Bauier Pan romime or Humpty Dumpty. BOOTH'S TI!ENTRE, 1 ay.—Ricuaxp Lil. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Bread- way.—Tue Vokes Famtty—BrLuxs or tux Kitonen, &c. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Lonpon Assvu ance, B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ty-third street, corner Sixth MRS. F. Arricir 47. PARK THEATRE, pnts City Hall, Brooklyn.— Joan ov ARC—FReNcu SPY. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway'—Comtc Vocat- Tams, NxGRO Acts, &e, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Nxoro Ecorxtniciris, Burtxsquss,’ &c. SAN FRANCISCO HALL, 585 Broadway.—Sam Suanr- uny's MinstRets, STEINWAY HAL ‘ourteenth street.—Granp Vocau AND INSTRUMENTAL t. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science anv Arr, DR. KATIN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, No. way.—Scresce AND APT, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Pace. Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, tone and the Heraup: Lecture by david Mitchell—The Search for Dr. ‘tone—News from Washtngton—The 745 Broad- May 13, 1872. American Boat Rac ly Grant in London—Aquatic Notes—Miscellaneous Tele- graph—New aot or News. 4—Religious: Christlanity Commended to the Congregations of the City are Suburbs by the oe of the Christian Chuiches; Beecher and Dr. Newman on Huxley, Darwin, Agassiz and Other Scientists; Religious Rites and Ceremonies ‘Discussed by Dr. Wentworth; Dr. Chapin on the Ascension of Christ; The Happiness of True Religi by Mr. Hepworth ; Enchanting Music at the Catholic Churches ; Morley Punshon at the Brooklyn Academy of Musi rst Concert of the Catholic Choral Society, | SeHorace at Home : Cincinnati's Cincinnatus at | the Plough; The Great Nominee Among His Neighbors; How He Manages the Water Sup- Ry at Chappaqua; How He Swings an Axe; ‘he Chances of the Campaign at Chappaqua— Political: John Morrissey’s Election Wagers Accepted—The Connecticut Senatorsiip: The Babel of Party Warfare—Sunday Recreations— Total Abstinence Union—Mexico: Decline of | the Revolution Throughout the Republic; American Railroads in Mexi: 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Resurrec- tion of the Washington Treaty—A Chance for | an Honorable Settlement with Eagland”— Amusement Announcements. JeLditorlals (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Trembling Treaty: Favorable Chances of an Amicabie Sottlement—The War in Mexico— Cable Telegrams from Spaiu, France and Belgium—Music and the Drama—New Publl- | cations—Personal Inteiligence—Weather Re- port—Business Notices. S—Scjence Afloat: The Agassiz Expedition on the atagonian Coast; Oysters a Foot in Diame- ter; A Desert Where Even Thistles Will Not Grow; Rich Harvest of Zoological Specimens; Hail Stones as Large as Walnuts; Plains Strewn With the Bones of the Puma’'s Vic- tims; Extinct Volcanoes of the Southern Islands; Skeletons of Sea Lions in the Isle of Gulls—Financlal and Commercial: The Stock Market and Our Dificuities with England; The Money Market and What May be Ex- ected—Domestic and Havana Markets—Mur- ler in Greenwich Street—Another Jersey ‘Tragedy—Court Calendars—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Deatis (Continued from Eighth Page)—Ad- vertisements, 10—Dom Pedro at Home: The Reception of the Emperor and Empress on Their Return— Reciprocal Theit—The Internationals—The Carpenters’ Strike—Local News—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, il—Advertisements, 12—Advertisemen' Scrence ArLoat—TuHe WonpERS OF THE Ocxan.—In another place in these columns to- day will be found a long and most interesting as well as instructive letter from our corre- spondent on board the United States coast survey steamer Hassler. The letter is dated Sandy Point, Patagonia, March 18. The coast survey party seem to have found quite a fairy world of science. We recommend our corre- spondent’s letter to the careful perusal of all those who are interested in scientific discovery and who have a passion for the wonders of the ocean. A Man Wuo May Run ror Orrice.—From China we learn that His Excellency Chung- how, on his return trom his mission to France, has just passed through Tientsin en rowe for Pekin. Sixty thousand of the inhabitants of Tientsin went out of the city a mile or so to ‘meet him and congratulate him on his arrival, and about the same number of people saw him for a mile from the city on his road to the capi- taL. Chunghow will have a splendid show at the poli: When he runs for office—that is, pro- vided the” imperial dynasty of China does not become jealous ot his popularity, and that he may not have his heaA of short at the poll of his neck some fine morning Possrix CHANGE oF MrntsTRy 0s Excuayn. One of our latest reports from Loudon is to the effect that if the statements of Ministers in both Houses of Parliament to-day regarding the Washington Treaty are not satisfactory { the tories are prepared to propose a vote of want of confidence in the Ministry. It is also reported that in the event of the treaty proving a failure Ministers will resign. It is by no means improbable that the tories will take full advantage of whatever opportunity offers. We question, however, whether Mr. Disraeli and his friends are particularly desirous to come into power saddled with the responsibility of Opening fresh negotiations with the govern- ment at Washington, It is doubtful also whether the liberals are not too much afraid to be sent back to their constituents to allow the Ministry to be defeated, Our news to- | night will make an end of rumors, A few | hours more will determine whether Mr. Glad- | stone will remain in office, whether Mr, Dig- raeli will come into power, or whether there will be a nenernl cleclion, NEW . YORK. HERALD, MUNDAY, MAY 13, 1872.-TRIPLE , SHEET, The Resurrection of the Washington Treaty—A Chance for an Honorable Settlement with England. For several days past we have heard from all quarters of the death of the Washington Treaty. Intelligence of the absolute withdrawal of England from the Geneva Conference in high dudgeon at our refusal to abandon our claims for consequential damages and to amend our caso has reached us simultaneously from Washington and London, and in the latter city we have been told that the announcement took a semi-official character and had received “confirmation.” The claimants interested in the awards for direct damages, their lobby friends, all the respectable and nervous old gentlemen who apprehend that the bombard- ment of our coast may follow the final cessa- tion of negotiations, and every person interested in the use of British capital for American en- terprises, have been weeping and wailing over the untimely interruption of the promised re- moval of our international difficulties, and have been loud in denunciation of all who were sup- posed to have had any hand in the destruction of the treaty. The report gathered strength from tho knowledge that the British Ministry was to make a full statement of the condition of the controversy with our government in the Houses of Parliament this evening, and it was believed that Mr. Gladstone, in his intense anxiety to retain power, and sensible of the popular feeling in England against the Ameri- can case, had resolved to save himself and his associates in the Cabinet by announcing his withdrawal from the Geneva Conference. So certain did it seem that the whole affair was at an end that the great bulk of the American peo- ple, who have néver Gared o straw for the treaty or its fate, had already begun to congratulate themselves upon the termination of a wordy dispute and the return of the Alabama ques- tion to the position it was in before the meet- ing of the Joint Hjgh Commission. But the correspondence from Washington published in the Hzratp fo-day makes a new and important change in the situation. We are now told that instead of the treaty being dead all the difficulties in the way of the Gen- eva Conference have been happily removed, and 2 compromise has been arrived at satisfac- tory to England and honorable to ourselves. According to these accounts Secretary Fish on Saturday morning received a cable despatch from our Minister in London bringing the in- formation that the British government has Agcopted, the final roposition made by the Waited ae es with respect to the disputed i Yin oma question of our claims for conse- quential damages, which proposition is now announced to be as follows:—The Ameri- can case, with the objectionable claims in- cluded, is to remain before the Tribunal exactly as itis; but a short supplemental treaty is to be duly signed, ratified and placed before the arbitrators, adding to the original treaty a fourth supplemental rule for the guidance ot the Tribunal. This additional rule will set forth that whenever the United States or Great Britain is engaged in war separately, leaving the other Power a neutral, and, by a want of due diligence on the part of said neutral, any privateer or hostile vessel shall escape from its waters or equip or renew its hostile strength in the neutral’s ports, the latter shall only be responsible and liable for the direct damages inflicted upon the bellige- rent by the operations of such vessel. This rule, being retrospective, actually declares that the claims made in our case for indirect damages are not admissible; but it satisfies American amour by leaving our case untouched, and it is said to remove the British objection to our consequential claims, which now appears to have been that they found no sanction or war- Tanty in the language of the treaty. As by this supplement, which becomes, in fact, a part of the treaty, indirect damages will be indirectly alluded to, the British cavil is, of course, at an end and the amicable negotiations again go on. To plain, matter-of-fact men all this Pick- wickian diplomacy will seem absurd and unbecoming two earnest, powerful, Anglo- Saxon nations. The people havea right to complain, we think, of the conduct of their statesmen who thus trifle with serious ques- tions, and for political considerations put to hazard the friondship if not the peace of two great countries. It is notorious that American sentiment has always been opposed to seeking any money compensation for the in- juries inflicted upon us during the war through the instrumentality of England. We de- manded, as we believe we hada right to de- mand, an acknowledgment by England of the wrong she did us, and this we have received H. hex, ex- * ~ oN OR < ri + pression of regret at escape of the rebel privateers. If our statesmen had understood the feeling of the people they would not have made any claims for indirect damages in framing our case; but having done so the whole nation would have resisted to the last their absolute withdrawal at the demand of England, not over courteously made. The British Ministers, no doubt, believed the consequential claims to be absurd, and never dreamed that they would be allowed by the arbitrators. On this account, probably, they made no objection to their in- troduction into our case until the assaults of their political opponents drove jatg opposition to their consideration. On both sides, then, the politicians have been at the bottom of the mischief; on our side by introducing bunkum claims into a serious freaty ; on the side of England by making a no<¥ Opposition toa mere shadow, as though it ware ay reality a substance. If they have now resolved to. *ttle their foolish difficulties by the compromise st forth in our Wasizing- ton despatches the pec le will laugh at them, but will good nature.” Suffer the farce to proceed, in the hope that sor@ Solid advantages to both nations may grow ous of the treaty after all. At all events, it is proba- bly a good thing that Lord Granville and Sec- retary Fish are in the same boat, and that one cannot claim any advantage over the other. On our side, after making certain claims in a serious manner, we insert a clause in the treaty declaring in advance that | they ore inadmissible. On the side of the | English, after a blustering declaration that | they will withdraw from the Genova Confe- renee unless our consequential claims be un- | conditionally and entirely withdrawn from | our case, they insert in the treaty a clause which makes a sort of allusion | to induvct Glaims, declare themselyes | satisfied with that, and suffer our case to stand as it is. The thought suggests itself, however, Is this reported settlement of the difficulty actually true? At the first glanee it appears somewhat improbable that Mr. Gladstone would risk the unpopularity, in the present state of English feeling as we understand it, of backing down from his imperious demand for the unconditional withdrawal of that portion of the American case relat- ing to the subject of consequential damages. Yet the treaty, which would be Mostroyed by the breaking up of the Geneva Conference, is of vast value to England, and, driven to the horns of a dilemma, the Minister may have deemed it moro prudent to com- promise on the point of honor and save the treaty than to insist upon his first ultimatum and lose it. To-night he is to face the British Parliament, with a sharp and watchful opposition ready to give him battle, and he may have decided that it would be more dangerous to say ‘‘The Americans refuse to abandon their case, we have withdrawn from the Conference, the treaty is destroyed,” than to announce, ‘The Americans have pro- posed a supplemental treaty declaring their claims for consequential damages inadmissible, although made in their case, we have accepted the proposition, the Conference will go on, the treaty is saved."’ We incline to the belief that the report is’ reliable, and that some such compromise has been arrived at by the politi- cians, who have been s0 thoughtlessly and imprudently playing with fire for the past three months. At tho same time we must caution our citizens against accepting too readily as a fact the statement that all diffi- culties are at an end and the treaty out of danger. It must he made very clear to the people of the United States that their honor and self-respect have not been used as a football by politicians, over-enger, _por- haps, to prevent tho failure of the nego- tiations they have fathered. There must be no juggling about the terms of the understanding or in tho language of the proposed supple- mental treaty. ‘The Amerigan case, with its claims for Consequential damages and its severe indictment of England, must stand in- tact before the Geneva Tribunal for its con- sideration and judgment as it came from the hands of its framers. We may probably without dishonor agrée to declare by a rotro- spective rule that no mozéy shall be paid by aneutral in the shape of indirect damages under circumstances similar to those in which England andthe United States are now placed; but the Consequential claims in our case must be considered by the arbitrators nevertheless, and this rule must only guide their judgment upon such claims. Unless this is made as clear as Innguage can express it the American people will spurn the pro- posed arrangement and will scatter the treaty to the winds. It will be interesing to note, if the cable despatch of Minister Schenck should be con- firmed, whether the settlement of the Alabama differences in the manner proposed will save the official lives of Mr. Gladstone and his associates in the British Cabinet. No doubt the brilliant and dashing Disraeli will be prepared for the unexpected change in the Public Measures Waiting Upon Po- litical Developments—Seven Months’ Interregnum and Then a Fresh De- parture. No great measures can be expected from Congress this session. Only appropriation and revenue bills, and such as may be deemed expedient for immediate political effect, are likely to be passed or urged. Any others, except such private or lobby schemes to plunder the government as may be adroitly sandwiched in general bills, have little chance of legislative action. The same may be said of our State Legislature, and, perhaps, of other Legislatures also. The Presidential election next November, and the Congressional and other elections during the remainder of this year, which will be influenced by and have a bearing upon the Presidential contest, will ahsorb the attention of our law makers and polititians. They will be disinclined to do more than is absolutely necessary to carry on the machinery of government from fear of touching the interests of certain classes. All parties desire to secure the greatest support, and will, consequently, avoid alienating any section or class by decisive measures. They prefer to bridge over the next seven months by comparative inactivity, and to hold out hope for the future, Look at the political work laid out for the next seven months. It would puzzle ordinary people, or any people except professional poli- ticians and the men of the press, who have to keep a vigilant eye on all such movements, to understand the purpose, machinery and drift of the numerous conventions, national and State, to be held between the present time and next fall. They are all arranged, however, with reference to one another, and all have a bearing towards the grand general result of thd Presidential election, the political com- plexion of the next Congress and the policy of the government hereafter, Even the local politics and measures of the several States are managed at this time more with a view to national affairs than to State or municipal wants. The difficulty at Albany about pass- ing a proper charter for the city of New York and other needful acts of legislation, ar in a great wiéadiirs from that oltizg. ee of Connecticut are more interested just now in the election of a United States Senator to repre- sent their State than in local legislation, be- cause that bears upon federal politics and the issues lecided in ber. These re- macht Spats ie Moca Toadies well, for all are under the same influence. All are looking to the great quadrennial contest in our national politics, This is the maelstrom that carries along with it every object till the end shall be reached. Judging from what has been done already in the preparatory work for making a Presi- dent and from the programme before us, there is a prospect of such excitement as has not been witnessed since the election of 1860. Though there had been some preliminary skir- mishing during the winter and opening of spring, the political campaign fairly com- menced with the Cincinnati Convention. This was really a national convention, though brought together in a more informal and impromptu manner than such bodies usually are. There will be two other important situation, and will immediately alter his plan of attack. Instead of denouncing the incompetency that destroyed the treaty and lost the advantages it secured to England he will assail the cowardice of the British Ministry in yielding to the presumptuous Yankees and suffering the American case to go before the Geneva Con- ference in its original shape. He will charge, and certainly not without some reason, that the indiscreet remarks made by Gladstone in the House, when the subject was first under discussion, make no very creditable show in the light of the proposed compromise. We shall probably receive the consolation of learning from the tory leader's speech that we have gained the best of the bargain and brought the British Cabinet to their knees. It is just possible that this popular English view of the affair may prove too much for Glad- stone in the House, and that he may go down under an overwhelming weight of British senti- mentality. But it is more probable that the satisfaction that will be felt at the preser- vation of the treaty, coupled with a plausible explanation on his part, may suffice to save him forthe present. How is it to be with Secretary Fish? We repeat, that the Amori- can people will in the first place de- mand to be well assured, beyond per- adventure, that the national honor has not been sacrificed to secure the present settlement of the difficulty forced upon us by England. But even if the compromise be such as we may accept without a forfeiture Of pelf-respect, the removal of Secretary Fish from the Cabinet ‘will be none the less imperative upon President Grant. Tho conduct of the negotiation has been signally un-American from first to last. There has been nothing sincere ond earnest in our diplomecy. It might have been fitting enough for Spain, or Austria, or Italy, but not for the republic of the United States. The people have cared little about the Treaty of Washington, whether it should live or die; but they have some regard for their national re- putation, and whatever may be the fate of the treaty they will insist upon disponsing with, the services of Secretary Pish-. un se pt amen Eka Sein Sp ry Budget—The Item of Charge for the Church. The Spanish Treasury budget has been pub- lished in Madrid. According to our cable despatch the Cabinet paper recapitulates the items of income and expenditure during the past fiscal year, showing that the gross outlay did not exceed the income by any very heavy figure. In estimating the government ways and means for the present year the Ministry solid, substan." profitable interests, Tailwa; receipts, governiners Ponds dividends, lega- cjes and landed property. ve até not assured that the more harsble,industriés baye been cor- respondingly, or at all,yrelieved of the pressure of the public impost—azr« ‘mission which makes all the difference in the'wetld in the matter and means of attempting to ca,'culate the exact condition of the kingdom at “ge or forming any correct estimate of the social .'ome status of the Spanish citizen millions, ‘Tie budget for the maintenance o: the clergy is main- tained without change, ‘This latest intelli, NC? | may serve to explain the sudden exciteme. 4 | and the collapse, of the Carlist rising, Che’ Spanish clr understand the Lrish political \, syste of “iustige’’ by ipatalres ry t appea:” to have carried out the idea of taxing | b rcs national conventions—that of the regular republicans and administration party, at Phila- delphia, on the 5th of June, and the regular Democratic Convention, at Baltimore, on the 9th of July. In the meantime, there will be conventions in the different States to choose delegates to these and with a view to give direction to the political currents. Wo shall have, for example, the Democratic Convention of this State at Rochester on next Wednesday. Each will give some indication of the current of public or political sentiment, so that as one after the other finishes its work we shall be able to form an opinion of the prospect. The Women’s Rights Conventions, and, per- haps, some others that may be worked up by a few erragic agitators, are hardly worth notice except for the amusement they afford the public. They will have little influence on the Presidential election or action of the great political parties. This period, then, while being one of politi- cal excitement and activity, necessarily brings something like an interregnum of legislative and governmental action; for, as was said be- fore, the minds of our public men are too much engrossd with the Presidential contest and national politics to attend properly to legisla- tion. They are narrowed down to temporary expedients. It is much the same with the Ex- ecutive as with the Legislature. Any compre- hengive and statesmanlike action on the tariff, amnesty, civil service reform, reduction of tax- ation, or anything else on the part of Congress, or any decided and gble foreign policy with regard to England, Spain, Mexico, or sny other country, on the part of the Exéantive, is not likely to be adopted. A little demonstra- tion for popular effect might be made, but that is all. If even the administration or any party in Congress were disposed to make a bold movement to win a large share of popular favor its open and secret opponenty would throw obstacles in the way. Gevoral Grant has become embarrassed by tne division in his party and hardly kiows which way to turn. Political discussions have been fanned into real difficul lties, With the open or secret defection of rivals and_ disappointed men in the republicaff Yanks, ‘Together ‘with the open hostility of the democrats, the President is afraid tostep either to the right or the left. If he saw his way clear he has bold- ness and firmness enough of character to act very decidedly, and even to take the initiative in some great popular movement; but he is in- experienced, lacks knowledge of public affairs and fears making a false step. Unfortunately, too, his principal advisers in whom he has reposed confidence have | yyeak = wh have misled him. a DTD can ui he poem both in the executive and fegislative branches of tho Bov- ernment, in abeyance, and waiting the result of the Presidential election. After all, this periodical fermentation in our political life has its advantages, though at- tended with such temporary evils as referred to. It tends to expose defects, to check evil and to bring about reforms. If General Grant and the donfinant party should be kept in power they will receive sucha lesson as will make them, probably, wiser and more liberal. The formidable opposition that has sprung up has had a good effect already. The organs of the administration begin to speak of the ne- cessity of a change of policy. That really is the issue before tho county, A laivser faire policy will not do for this progressive and vigorous country. The memories of the war muat be blotted out as far as possible, univer- sal amnesty conceded, the South be re- stored, taxation greatly reduced, revenue reform be carried out, a foreign policy com- patible with the greatness, dignity and future of the republic be established, and the idea of military authority must be given up and civil government made supreme. General Grant must abandon his military proclivities, must ignore Mr. Boutwell’s oppressive financial policy, must denounce Mr. Fish’s weak and humiliating management of our foreign affairs, and must repudiate Mr. Morton’s cen- tralizing views, which would virtually make the United States a monarchy or centralized despotism. The people of this country revere the government established by their fathers, and, including the amendments to the consti- tution, want to see it re-established on the original basis of simplicity and economy. The Cincinnati movement, apart from some per- sonal rivalry and feeling in certain of the leaders, was made to this end. Will or can General Grant understand the wants of the country and what is required of him? If so, would the people have confidence in his change of base at the eleventh hour? They do not forget his great services in the war, and are disposed to give him credit for the best intentions. They may, therefore, re-elect him, trusting that he will make a fresh depar- ture after next November. Should the Baltimore Democratic Conven- tion decide to support the Cincinnati nominees, or, what would amount to much the same thing, not to make any nomination, and there should be a good understanding between the liberal republicans and democrats with regard to the policy and patronage of the government, General Grant might be defeated and a new administration be inaugurated next March. In that case there would be, no doubt, a radi- cal change of policy. That is the object of the liberal republicans. It is declared in their platform, and we know the views of the lead- ers. Besides, the democrats who would cou. tribute so largely to the succesq tf the Cincinnati nominees would iécessSrily have influence with the ney 4¢vernment. It seoms certain, therefore, that wiih the election of any candidate opposed to General Grant by this combination we should have a fresh de- partdte both in our home and foreign policy. The opposition may drive General Grant into that, and he may ride into power again on their platform. In any event we think there willbe achange. When the hurly burly of the election shall be over and public sentiment be expressed the new government, whoever may be at the head of it, will act undoubtedly in accordance with the will of the people. We must be patient, then, till November, not doubting that a better state of things will fol- low the election. The Ameri Oarsmen in England. The race between the crew of the Atalanta Club, of this city, and the crew selected to uphold the honor of the London Rowing Club, is likely to be one of the most exciting events of the London season. The growing taste for those peaceful international contests is very marked, and their influence in establishing friendly feeling between nations is beginning to be universally recognized. They bring the peoples into more direct contact, and bring home the fact that we are so likely to forget, in the heat and passion of political strife, that mankind is bound together by common sym- pathies. These have for ages been repressed by the scheming of ambitious politicians ; but the spread of education and better knowledge which the peoples have of each other are rap- idly making them comprehend the unity and brotherhood of mankind. It is from this point of view principally that we admire those international contests which bring no sorrow in their track and leave nothing of bitterness in the breasts of tho defeated party, but only a gener- ous resolve to do better another time. The present race is an effort on the part of Ameri- can oarsmen to recover the laurels which the Oxford crew won from our Harvard crew on the same waters. The triumph of the Ox- fordians was hailed through England as a national victory, and though full justice was done to the pluck and muscular power of the Americans, not a little self-laudation was in- dulged in by the Britishers. The contest on the 10th of June will be regarded in exactly the same light, whatever may be the result, and though, owing to the ab- sorbing interest of the political struggle in which we are even now engaged, the same attention will not be given by us to the fortheoming race, still our best wishes will be with our gallant citizens in the somewhat un- equal struggle in which they are about to en- gage. The challenge to this latest trial of skill and endurance went forth from the Atalantas, and yea eal. guce gggapted by the London Row- ing Olub. There was gomething manly and dignified in the dpen, generous way in which the English club responded to the invitation of their tote friends, , on. Which. over side fortune min) We believe that the race will be creditable to both. For a moment a shadow seemed likely to be cast on the friendly relations which sprung up on the receipt of the English letter of acceptance. Some one in whom the instinct of the snob @ Inetropolitan papets impugning the bona ‘fide amateur character of the gentlemen selected | by the Atalanta Club, on the ground that they | were not gentlemen amateurs in the English | sense ; and for a moment there seemed to be a | possibility that the good understanding would | be destroyed. This question was fortunately settled in a manner creditable to the good sense of the English club and to the perfect satis- | faction. of the Americans. wei Since the arrival in England of the Ameri- can crew the pate been the object of con- siderable attention from the press and sporting community. On all sides admiration is ex- | pressed for their fino physique; for, though they are considerably lighter than their Eng- lish opponents, they are admitted on all hands to be dangerous rivals, The impression | made ou the public mind by tho hard fight | yas largely developed wrote a letter to one of | are not rivals that can easily be disposed of, and hence the coming contest is regarded with some anxiety. As the moment ap- proaches when the representatives of the two nations will struggle with all their ener- gies for the victory the public interest is becoming intensified. We have faith in the pluck and muscle of our American crew, and whether they win or lose, we feel that they will come out of the race with honor. They have, however, heavy odds to contend against, for the difficulties of the current between Mortlake and Putney are considerable. It will be im- possible for the American crew to become ag thoroughly acquainted with the river on which they will row as their English opponents, who know every current as well as they know the Strand. The question of weight is also am important one, and here again the Americans are at considerable disadvantage. But it is impossible not to admire the pluck of the men who have elected to go into a contest where so many obstacles aro in the way of their achieving a victory. Should success crown their efforts they will doserve the more praise; but if fortune should decide against them, they will still receive from their country- men that honorable recognition to which their pluck entitles them. Princess Nelly at St. James’. The presentation of Miss Nellie Grant at the English Court has given rise to much speculation among our transatlantic friends: With that love of the mysterious which be= longs to human kind of all ages, sexés and conditions, the British public have been try- ing to persuade themselves that there is some- thing meant by the visit which does not meet the common eye. It would be useless to en- deavor to dissuade people who are in search of the wonderful from the pursuit of their hobby, and we will not, therefore, waste our energies in endeavoring to dissipate the suspicion that attaches to Miss Grant's movements. The President is a very silent man, much given to kee his own, counsel, and if the charges made by ; enemies against him have any founda- ion, rather addicted to iepotism, ‘This lattor fact may ish the key to the puzzle. What if the ident should have appointed his daughter his plenipotentiary extraordinary? It is well known that lndies, even the most. artless and yell seeming, havea decided turm for intrigue; aid et we . a ian na; tion, not to be bound by the antiquated ou tows of the Old World. Hf this should faa out to be the true solution General Grant would deserve special thanks for throwing open to women another employment in which they are specially calculated to achieve fame. Unkind people at this side take a somewhat cynical view of the travels of the President's children, and, though ready enough to fall down in a fever of snobbish admiration before anything in the shape of a scion of royalty whenever the opportunity offers, they rather turn up their noses because the Grants want to hobnob with royalty. These dear, democratic souls are scandalized that Miss Nelly Grant should put on airs and wander about like » real American Princess. The daughter of Ulysses the First need have no vulgar ambi- tion to be patronized by a Hapsburg ora Guelph. Her father's glory makes her equal to the best of them. Miss Grant's reception at the Court of St. James was certainly significant. It was not regarded in any sense as a mere presentation of courtesy. The Queen of England could not fora moment forget that the papa of the young lady is the chosen chief of the great American republic. A few years ago such an incident would not have been possible, and we see in it another proof of the advance, of the rising wave of democracy. The prea-° ence of Miss Grant affords Queen Victoria an excellent opportunity for a matrimonial coup d' at, and if her advisers be the able, crafty. men they are supposed to be, they will not’ allow the chance to slip away. Several of the Princes of the House of Guelph. are unpro- vided with partners, and, now that the Wash-’ ington Treaty has failed, the easiest mode of settlement of the Alabama claims might be a matrimonial treaty with the American Prin-; cess. We are inclined to be generous, and’ would not mind throwing in the Alabama claims as the young lady's dowry. The musty old blood royal would be all the better for the addition of a little of the fresh demooratie tide. And the decrepit kings of Europe can- not do better than try to bolster up their raca by alliance with the blood royal of the sove- reign American people. We commend this new mode of settling international difficulties to the serious attention of the diplomatists and rulers of the world. Earnest Words from the Paulpits. Whether there be anything inspiring or suggestive in the times and seasons which should make our religious teachers more earnest than they are wont to be we canngt certainly say, but the sermons of eb day appear to us to be lew * elo hory ant the ° “hore direct in thelr appeals careless and impepigent to turn and seck God. Dr. M> | Eddy, of Washington, preaching dn the exe ceeding great and precious promises of the Gospel, rejoieed to be able to declare that they are limited by no tinse and curtailed by no | circumstances. The cdnitions havo only j to be observed and tig reward ia sure. But if it can be shown that ac’ ¢ of God's promises ever failed in accomplisn. ment he was willing to admit that the record in which they are found is uninspired. They hold out two things—escape from the corrap- tions of the world and the reward of our con- stancy. The noblehess and royalty of those promises, so touching in their tenderness and tich in their reward that they commend thom. selves alike to the G@tandest faculties and the simplest intellect, were made the subject of remark, and they were freely offered to the audience in St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal’ church, God's still small voice is heard in them all, and He stands behind and guarantees’ their certainty. To the sinner and the saint they are alike precious. . There are féw Christian graces more needed than cheerfulness—not levity—and upon this subject Mr. Hepworth discoursed yesterday. made by the Harvard crew, under consider- able disadvantages, has not been forgotten, and there is more respect for the prowess of our oarsmen than there ever was before. The | issue is no longer felt to be assured; for, | though the Harvard men failed to win a vic- | tory, they pressed tho victors so hard that | they shared the honors with them. Since that | time the defeat of tho professional English erow in ow waters bas shown that our oarsmen | | Ifany man hasa right to be happy it is tha Christian, and hence, as Mr. Hopworth re- marked, long faces, except under the greatest afiliction, and whining tones, under any possi- blo cireumstances, have no place assigned in the divine cconomy. With great truth and emphasis this reverend, who is undoubtedly competent to judge, declared that thore is a groat deal of stuff in the community labelled religion that is uo more like