The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1872, Page 6

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Tun Natap Queen, ‘ BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner Sth av.—Enouisu Orgna—Maritana, GAM SHARPLEY'S MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— Sam Saanriey’s MinstRELs. ‘ bi TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, (Neoro Eccentmicirixs, Buarxsave, & yanications will not be re- ny? am Bowety.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Sctmnde AND Apr, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, June 5, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Paan. 1—Advertiséments, 2—, Advertisements. S—Philadelphia; Imposing Muster of the Republi- an Host; Speculations as to the Vice Presi- ena ‘The. National Union League—The Equal Rights Party—The Louisiana Democ- racy—Louisiana Reform Convention—“Big aie Ugh!” A Council Party of the Oga- lalla Sioux in Town. 4—James Gordon Bennett: The American Press on the Founder of the New York HeraLp— Meeting of the New York Associated Press— Action of the Boulevard Club—Embryo Naval Commanders: Gala Days and Grand ‘Reviews at the Naval Academy—New York City Nows—Highway Robbery—Burned to Death in @ Police Vell. GeCongresst of the Tariff Bill by Both Houses; ,000 Revenue Reduction; Cruelty to Animals In Transitu—The Oustom House; Majority Report of the Senate In- festiedting Committec—The Tammany Ring: Tweed, Connolly, Ingersoll and Fields—Judge Hogeboom and the Alleged Custom House Abuses—The Grand Lodge of Freemasons— Governor Hoffman—Normal College—The New York Historical Society. G—Editoriala; Leading Article, ‘More Moxican Anarchy and Depredations—The Duty and Opportunity of General Grant”—Amusement Announcements, J—Tho Geneva Arbitration: Lord Russell’s Motion for an Address to the Crown Praying for British Retirement from the Court—The War in Mexi ble Telegrams from France, England, Ireland, Spain, Germany and Cuba— Terrible Murder in_ Bridgeport, Conn.—News from Washington—Miscellaneous Telegraph— Obituary—Business Notices. S—Intercating Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—A Crusade Against Crime— Meth ‘t General Conference—The Trini- tarian Quaker Conference—The Alleged Dis- honest Broker—Probable Murder—Brooklyn Affairs—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Financial and Commercial: A Dull Day in Wall Street; Advance in Harlem and Canton Shares; Reaction and Decline in the Rest of the Stock Market; The Latest Phase of the LHe perp Treaty Negotiations Not “All Right; Consequent Discouragement of Operations in Stocks; Gold Firm at the Re- cent Advance; The Outtlow of Specie to Europe—Mysterious Case of Suicide—More Poisoning in bse ge ad Brooklyn Homicide—The Conspiracy Case—Advertise- ments. 10—The Men and the Hours: Progress of the Great Labor Movement—Beacon Park: First Day of the Spring Trotting Meeting—Eastern Dutch- e838 ation. le of Thoroughbreds at Taylor’s Stock Farm—American Jockey Club— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 1t—Advertisements, 1k2—Advertisements. Spam—Segrano JustirieD by THE SPANISH Sznare.—A cable despatch which we print this morning justifies what we have said regarding Marshal Serrano. His conduct in the matter of pardoning the Coarlists in the Basque Provinces who surrendered their arms, though disapproved by certain political fac- tions, has been, as it ought, approved by the Dortes. The question, when brought before the Cortes, revealed the feeling of the country. One hundred and forty votes as against twenty- two show that Marshal Serrano has the Cortes at his back, and we can afford to wait to know what Marshal Serrano will do with his power. Meanwhile he is at once the savior of the present dynasty and the master of the situation. Gannison Acarst Sumner.— William Lloyd Garrison, the pioneer abolitionist, has been for many years a warm friend and admirer of Charles Sumner; but the late spiteful attack in the Senate upon the President by the sorely aggrieved Senator has proved too touch for the fair-dealing and honest Garrison, He bas accordingly written his friend Sumner a letter and a lecture, “more in sorrow than in anger,”’ against the violence and injustice of his charges against General Grant, which, it is to be hoped, will bring down the Senator's wrath within the bounds of reason. Hows ever, for tho vindication of the cause of truth and justice in regard to Gencral Grant, no reply to this spiteful attack of Senator Sumner is called for. In his ungoverned rage the Senator's assault recoils upon himself, and | ho is fully answered in the disclosure of his | weakness and his folly. Tue Jznomz Panx Races To-Day.—The Present meeting of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park opened so auspiciously on Saturday last that a very brilliant attendance may be looked for to-day. The racing pro- Gramme is especially interesting, comprising five ovents. First on the list we have the race for the Ladies’ Stakes, for fillies three years old, one mile and five furlongs, for which there are thirty-seven nominations. Then comes the Jockey Club Handicap Sweepstakes, With twenty-two names entered, many of which stand high in the annals of the turf. The closing event, a stecple chase, in which Yoembers of the club ride, will doubtless be ee Pest interesting with the general public. ef6M6 Park races haye now become go popular, both on nrocount of their admirable | management and the delightful location, that | we may look for a steady increase in the at- tondance during the present meeting, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. More Mexican Anarchy and Depreda- tions=The Duty and Opportunity of General Grant. Mexico is distinguished for two things, just as most of the other Spanish-American repub- lies are—namely, chronic disorder and con- stantly recurring revolutions and utter unre- liability in tho statements made to the rest of the world about the internal affairs of the country. For some time past the tenor of the news from Mexico has been that the insurrec- tion against the Juarez government was dying out and on the eve of complete suppression. Day after day this was the intelligence that came through Juarist channels, and that coming from the city of Mexico was particularly: rose-colored. We have heard at the same time that the raids, cattlo stealing and other depreda- tions across the border and on American soil had ceased—that, in fact, the Juarez govern- ment was firmly scated and was ‘powerful enough to perform its duty as a neighboring nation to the United States. Knowing the na- ture of the Mexicans and the chpracter of the news they generally send out, we were in doubt as to the reliability of this intelligencd. Now, we have from the special correspond- ents of tho Hznatp at Camargo and Matamo- tos news that changes the aspect of affairs both in the interior of Mexico and on our bordering territory. The previous report of the utter defeat of the revolutionists under General Trevifio by the Juaristas near Monte- rey was premature. They obtained only a temporary advantage, apparently, while they imagined they had achieved o great and decisive victory. General Co- rella, who. was in command of the Jua- rist foreés, Was quietly resting contented with his fancied laurels, when suddenly Trevifio rallied his men, attacked the Juaristag and completely ronted them. We have no account of the number of troops engaged on either sido; but, considering the importance of the ground contested and the long preparation for the conflict, the main strength of the forces on both sides probably was concéntrated in the engagement. The day after Corella had sent a despatch to the Juarez government an- nouncing the total annihilation of the revolu- tionists—that is, on the 31st of May—Trovifio fellupon the Juaristas like an avalanche, taking them by surprise and unprepared, and gained a complete victory. The revolutionists gave no quarter to their enemy, and the whole of the Juarist force, it is said, was killed, wounded, or scattered. General Corella lost everything—all his guns, munitions, siege trains, and even his personal baggage. It is reagonably supposed that General Trevifio’s retreat on the first day was merely military stratagem to lull the government troops into a feeling of security. If soit shows that Tro- vifio exhibited a good deal of skill, and that Corella must have been stupid. It appears also that Cevallo’s advance had been checked by the revolutionists; that he was defeated and driven back near Mier, and that General Quiroga, with a revolutionary force, still holds Ceralvo, the principal city on the road to Mon- terey. Our latest special despatch from Mata- moros, which will be found in another column, gives s complete confirmation of this news, adding that General Corella had arrived at Mier, a fugitive, with a small rem- nant of his late army, and that telegraphic communication between that city and Mata- moros had been cut by the revolutionists. The scenes of panic during the recent tem- porary siege of Matamoros by Trevifio aro again enacted, and the Juarez authorities are making desperate efforts of defence in ex- pectation of the arrival of the enemy. The campaign on the northern frontier, according to this news, is probably ended. Of course the revolutionists are greatly elated. They consider this success will yield fresh impetus to the revolution and give them tho control of the northern frontier. We learn at the same time that the cattle-stealing and other outrages in Texas, which had been stopped temporarily, had begun again on as large a scaloas ever. The Mexican thieves were at their old work again, and were keep- ing the United States cavalry and mounted infantry employed. The arrival of a commis- sioner to investigate these depredations was anxiously looked for by our citizens. It is evident the civil war in Mexico is far from being ended; that this rich country is fast sinking into ruin; that no stable native gov- ernment is possible; that anarchy, bloodshed and demoralization must go on till arrested by the United States, and that there is no hope for the people but inan American pro- tectorate or annexation. Juarez may hold the city of Mexico and a small area of territory contiguous, but he can neither extend nor maintain authority over the Northern States and some other parts of the republic. He cannot preserve peace or execute the laws on the border. While our government may be disposed to sustain Juarez he is powerless to perform the duties of good neighborhood to this country. As far as the interests and secu- rity of our citizens are concerned along a border of a thousand miles or more there is no government in Mexico and no protection. Our people are at the mercy of Mexican cattle thieves and bandits, except when a few United States troops occasionally check depredations, But it would require an army to do efficient police duty along such an extent of intermin- ous territory. Are we, then, to be at the cost and annoyance of maintaining a force per- petually to do what Mexico ought todo? Are we to sustain a fiction of a government that has no power to execute its laws and to per- form the duty it owes to a neighboring nation? Forbearance might be a virtue if there were any hope of order, a stable government, or a better state of things in Mexico; butno one who understands the history of that country or the character of the people can indulge such a hope. The long forbearance of the United States has surprised the world, and has been frequently adverted to by the leading journals of Europe as impolitic and unaccountable, It has been said that we would neither lot other civilized Powers put an end to the scandal of Mexican anarchy nor end it ourselves, We are, no doubt, responsible to 9 great extent for this disgrace to civil. ization and the age. It has been and is within our power to terminate the anar- chy and save Mexico, the richest country on the globe, from destruction, and we believe it is the duty of the United States to do so. Let id tell the Moxicns plainly that they have no forming the duties of one to this republic and to its citizons along tho border; that we cannot suffer the outrages upon our people to be con- tinued, and that we will not maintain a costly military establishment simply as a police to check their depredations. If Juarez or any other acknowledged leading chief will enter into negotiations for an American protevtorate, very well. Perhaps that would be the smoothest way and the one least likely to shock the preju- dices of Mexicans in solving the question. But if he or any others should neither be willing nor dare to assume the responsibility, let our government send a sufficient force under Sher- idan or some other competent General across the Rio Grande to protect our own inter- ests along tho line and to secure order. The power of our arms, the humane, generous and well-disciplined American troops, together with the money that would be spent and the trade that would spring up, would soon win over the Mexican population to American rule, and they would bless tho day that the Stars and Stripes floated over their But ceriain timid old fogies like Secretary Fish may open their eyes with alarm and cry out ‘Invasion, invasion!" Well, what of it? What should we invade? A territory that has no government; a people that are invading our territory and plundering our citizens every day; a rabble that neither can nor will be de- cent neighbors; a community that has placed itself outside of the pale of international inter- course and that is a disgrace to this civilized age. People might just as well talk of invad- ing a pirate ship in the haunts of savages. If Mexico has no government on the border, and cannot prevent the depredations of her people on American soil, it is the duty of our govern- ment to stop the evil, if it be necessary even to send an army across the Rio Grande, Will General Grant look at the matter in this light? We might go much further, and urge the occupation or annexation of Mexico on tho ground of a great and beneficent national policy. Yes, great and beneficent both to the Mexicans ond to the people of the United States, as well as to the world at large. It would save the Mexicans from continual civil war and bloodshed, would give prosperity to their country, would give them law, order, liberty, enlightenment, and all the blessings of & progressive civilization. It would add im- mensely to the wealth, commerce, mineral productions and trade of the United States, and would give a vast impetus to our shipping interests and the enterprise of our people. It would, in short, add to our domain the richest country on the globe, and prove far more ad- vantageous than the acquisition of California did, All commercial nations would feel the benefit. If General Grand, instead of peddling in local politics and quarreling with politicians, would make the annexation of Mexico the policy of his administration, he would arouso and gratify popular ambition, overwhelm all his opponents by this overshadowing issue, and make his name more illustrious in history. The time is ripe, the opportunity is at hand, and if he be wise Mexico will be the crowning laurel of his public life. It is but one short step to cross the Rubicon, and that he can properly and lawfully take. Annexation, with all its fruitful consequences, would follow government; that they are incapable of pore | naturally. Where there is so mucls good to be The Philadelphia Convention. The regular Republican National Conven- tion for the nomination of the Presidential ticket and the proclamation of the Presidential platform of the party meets in Philadelphia to-day. It will be a large, harmonious and enthusiastic convention. It will be harmo- nious and enthusiastic in the renomination of General Grant because the disturbing elements which did exist within the party lines were drawn off by the Cincinnati Convention and into the new party, of which the standard bearers are Greeley and Brown. It will be remembered that the Baltimore Convention of 1864 was a unit in the renomination of Abra- ham Lincoln, although there had been a very active movement in the party in support of Chief Justice Chase against Lincoln ; but this anti-Lincoln ‘movement had been pushed to the experiment of an independent national convention at Cleveland, which defined its position in the nomination of the independent Presidential ticket of General John CO. Fre- mont and General Jghn Cochrane. The real object of this experiment, nevertheless, was to frighten the Baltimore Convention from Lin- coln and to divert it to Chase, in view of unity and harmony in the republican ranks. ‘ Tho Cleveland politicians in this ridiculous experiment signally failed, and shortly after the renomination of Lincoln by acclamation as tho republican favorite against all comers Fremont and Cochrane, as the ‘cham- pions of the ‘free demdcracy,” quietly re- tired from the field. Thus far against Grant in the Cincinnati Liberal Republican Conven- tion, and in its independent ticket of Greeley and Brown, we have the re-enactment of the Cleveland diversion against Lincoln.” But the Cincinnati movement was undertaken ‘‘by and with the advice and consent” of certain active leaders of the discouraged democracy, and with the distinct understanding that a liberal ticket and platform emanating from the anti-Grant republicans would be adopted by the demo- cratic party. Upon this understanding Greeley and Brown hold o much more formidable position than did Fremont and Cochrane in opposition to the administration; for great are the expectations of the adoption of Greeley and Brown by the Democratic National Convention in July. But while it is certain that this Cincinnati diversion will not deter the Philadelphia Con- vention from the renomination of General Grant, it is by no means certain that the Democratic Convention will adopt the liberal republican ticket of Greeley and Brown. The democratic old-liners threaten that if this ticket is commended to their suffrages they will, asa choice of evils, vote for Grant; while, on the other hand, it is surmised that if the liberal republicans are left to shift for themselves they will turn the tables against their faithless democratic advisers by voting for Grant. We hold, with the chivalric General Frank Blair, that o bargain is a bargain, and that the demo- crats are morally bound by their bargain with the liberal republicans, But there is another point upon which this Republican Conven- tion of 1872 resembles that of 1864, and that is the point of the Vice Presidency. Now, as he wgs then, the Vice President is a satisfactory candidate; but now, as he had accomplished, so much evil to be cured, and such a glorious prospect in view, there ought to be no hesitation. Gilbert on the Widening. The opinion delivered yesterday by Judge Gilbert, confirming in the main the mport of the last Commissioners of Estimate and Assess- ment, will probably put an end to the opposi- tion of the property owners to the widening of Broadway above Thirty-fourth street. The action of the old Commissioners has been affirmed, except in the case of the awards made by Messrs. Thompson, Bagley and Mur- tha; these have been sent back for correction. All the special pleadings advanced by the opponents of the proposed improygment have been disallowed and the authority and compe- tence of the Commission asserted. In answer to the complaints of the property holders as to the loss that will be inflicted on them, they are reminded that their loss will be only tempo- rary. It is held with good reason that the improvements will eventually more than com- pensate for the injury which some will suffer. ‘The important question raised as to whether the Commissioners were authorized to make new. assessments or not has been decided in the affirmative, and their right to levy on such property as thoy considered benefited by the proposed improvements placed beyond doubt. Another point of considerable interest to the public has been settled by tho denial of the claim made by Mr. Sacchi for prospective losses, Judge Gilbert declaring their considera- tion to be inadmissible. As the chief obstacles to proceeding with the work have been removed by the settlement of these points of law we hope that the undertaking will be pushed on vigorously. The procrastination and uncer- tainty which at present exist tend to delay the improvement of the part of our chief thoroughfare affected by it, and the interest of the property owners is clearly to accept the inevitable and try to carry out the improvements as rapidly as possible. Their opposition is shortsighted, for the result of having the question finally settled and the increased value of the property affected will more than repay them in a few years. But even if it were pot so the interest of the city demands that the change should be made, and, as has been properly pointed out in Judge Gilbert's decision, it is the public interest, not that of individuals, which should guide the authorities to their conclusions. We are en- tirely of the Judge’s opinion, and desire to see the matter finally settled and the work in progress, Tae Dvxe Judge Broadway or Eprpura mm IReuanp.— His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, Duke of Edingburg, landed at Kingstown, Ireland, yesterday, and proceeded through Dublin to the Viceregal Lodge, He was accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Spencer, and enjoyed a most cordial reception from the people. The Prince will preside at the opening of the Irish National Exhibition to-day. The occasion will be a very grand one, and the initiatory of a series of festivi- ties, executive and municipal, which will endure for a week. The Earl of Kenmare will be installed as a Knight of St. Patrick, taking the ribbon of the late Earl of Mayo during | the period, so that it may be said that the vista of fortuue which the poet hoped would gleam through the gloom of her glory will then, he has a host of rivals for the nomination. For Vice President now there may be a change, as there was in 1864, although the change from Wamlin to Andy Johnson furnishes a strong argument in favor of Colfax, and Colfax, we that the republican ticket of 1872 will be the ticket of 1868, and that the platform of the party will be the measures and the policy, foreign and domestic, of General Grant's administration, and that Grant will hold the inside track from the start to the end of the race, fusion or no fusion between Cincinnati and Baltimore. At the some time the democ- racy, in going from Greeley and Brown toa regular old-line democratic ticket, will be going out of the frying pan into the fire. The Commercial Tariff Tax Question in France. M. Jules Favre delivered powerful argument in the French Assembly yesterday in opposition to the Thiers tariff tax on the importation of raw materials to be used in manufacture. He proclaimed the project as being fatal to French trade and manufacture, unproductive as a source of revenue, and ob- jectionable in o diplomatic sense, for the reason that it will alienate foreign Powers from the republic. M. Favre, indeed, advo- cated the cause of free trade against that of a crude system of commercial protection, the favorite budget construction plan of President Thiers. The concluding words of the orator had reference to the probable alienation of the friendship of Great Britain and Belgium if the present policy of the French Executive be maintained. The whole subject is one of very serious import, not only as a question of economic science which will immediately affect the pockets and wardrobes of the Old World peoples, but also as one likely to pro- duce governmental combinations, the influence of which may be not only exceedingly*detri- mental to the interests of France, but provo- cative of a war feeling in Europe which will be to a very great extent reactionary against future democratic experiments in the matter of goy- ernment administration. of Crime and Its Pre- vention. The records of the criminal courts in this city are unusually heavy at present in the vil- lanous matter of assaults upon the person, wherein the knife, the pistol and the slung, shot have been brought into deadly play. It would seem, indeed, that an epidemic of this class of crime sweeps from time to time through the lawless classes of the community, and that nothing short of stern, speedy punish- ment is ever efficacious in stopping it. It will be remembered that some years ago in the city of London this class of violent assaults, combined with robbery, became alarmingly frequent, and that a special act of Parliament, increasing the term of imprisonment and re- viving the lash, was enacted in thé gar- roters’ interest, and acted almost as a specific in preventing that tiger-crime. The constant use of deadly weapons is a sure badge of social demoralization, and in well-ordered communities should be dealt with as severely as the law will allow. We, therefore, feel that the remarks of the City Judge to the Grand Jury yesterday were well-timed, and hope that the result of the jury's labor will bo such as to restrain the tendency of the rowdy element in the use of their lethal weapons. The subject, The Increas soon shine out for Erin however. takes a wider bearing. and one that dare say, will be the man. In short, we expect - wili suggest itself at once to afli—namely, an efficient police force is of the first impor- tance. While the City Judge calls the Grand Jurors to be vigilant in meting out justice to criminals, on account of an increase of crime, it seems absurd that another branch of the city government should be taking steps to leave the community still more exposed to the Ikmife, slungshot and pistol of the rowdy. Yet this is exactly what will be the effect of the Comptroller's reduction of the police estimates, which will cut down the force by five hundred men. The City Judge’s recommendation, coupled with the Comptroller's peculiar economy, looks very like saving at the spigot while wasting at the bung. We want good, cheap government~by all means, but the economy which leaves no resource to law-abiding citizens but the heavy punishment of an occasional rowdy taken red handed is of small account, and will convey little wholesome lesson to the numbers of others who would escape capture under the operation of a reduced police force, Tho Passage of the Tariff and Tax Bill—The Revenue Reduction. With that gratitude which accepts half a loaf as better than no bread, we congratulate the country on the Tariff bill which, being reported from the Conference Committee, was yesterday passed by both branches of Con- gress. It provides.for a reduction of revenue in all of His three million dollars perannum, dik ‘everything in the nature of ® compromise, it will be unsatisfactory to a great many. Its principal features are an almost general ten per cent reduction on im- port duties, the equalization of the tobacco tax at twenty cents per pound, instead of, as formerly, at sixteen and thirty-two cents ; the consolidation of the tax on distilled liquors, without any actual reduction ; the abolition of a number of stamp taxes, and a considerable addition of articles to the import free list. These changes are all in the right direction, but at every step through the bill one is met with trifling exceptions and haltings. Next to | the free trader’s dream, namely, grouping a few articles on the tariff list at reduced rates, the additions to the free list may be taken as a test of the sincerity of Congressional inten- tions. On this point it will be found that many articles have been excepted which yield little revenue and do not pay the cost of col- lection. This will be accounted for, as usual, on the compromise basis, by which support to one course of action is purchased by carefully guarding another. By this means a host of little items were reserved which we must ac- cept as the price of the larger concessions. A most useful reform is that which abolishes a brigade of the vexatious stamp taxes. These internal revenue nuisances, which grew up'under the war, should have no shadow of existence in the present prosperous condition of the countsy. They have given oceupation to an army of office-holders whose return to private life should be the dearest with of agonized taxpayers. It is, therefore, with joy we record the fact that between two hundred and seventy and two lfundred and eighty politicians of minor note will be enabled to give up as many collectorships and assessorships, and enter the ranks of more ennobling labor, where their profits may not be s0 large, but where they will not be looked on as public plunderers. This should console them, and for our part we will applaud the sacrifice. The stamp tax on fric- tion matches, which was abolished by the House, was restored by the Senate, and the Conference Committee failed to move them from their obstinate stand. The House clause making one-third of the custom duties payable in legal tender notes was rejected in the Senate and its rejection confirmed in the Conference Committee. This 4s not very suprising, as it would upset Secretary Boutwell’s plans to an olarming éxtent as well as making ‘‘corners” in greenbacks more practicable in Wall street. The strong point of the prosent bill is that it has paved the way for a still further reduc- tion next year, in spite of the Pennsylvania Senator's (Scott) remark yesterday, that he hoped legislation on the tariff was disposed of for several years to come. The Washington Treaty Before the British Peers. The subject of the Washington Treaty and the American demand for compensation for indirect damages, with that of the propriety or policy, of Great Britain renewing the arbi- tration in Geneva, were brought before the House of Lords ina very exciting shape last night. Earl Russell offered his motion, which has been deferred by postponement from time to time, for an address to the Crown praying Her Majesty Queen Victoria to in- struct her regente vee to retire from the Geneva arbitration if the claims for indirect damages are not withdrawn by the United States government. The noble lord delivered a very lengthy oration, He reviewed the évenis of the civil wor in America and the circumstances which attended the escape of the Alabama, and then Proveeded 2 era fi negotiations which have been ¢ai led on tween the two nations relative to the entire subject of the consequences of that event, It must be acknowledged that this wasan ex- eeedingly heavy undertaking for a gen- tleman who is in the eightieth year of his age, particularly when we call to mind the fact that the responsibility of its ctablion Wis ed by him at a very late hour of the evening, and : that its finale was not completed in the mo- ments long after that of midnight. Perhaps he got along more rapidly than we imagine. In one portion of the effort—his history te pe of the Alabama—Lord Rus- mt ive been completely at case, for it is probable that no man living iy better pc- quainted with all the circumstances which sur- rounded and all the motives which impelled her exit than is the statesman who was tho first in Britain to openly, yet adroitly, in his official capacity as Seeretary of State, accord to the Southern rebel confederacy bel- ligerent rights, by addressing to tho House of Commons the words “either bel- ligerent’’ when he announced the neutrality, as he then termed it, of the Queen’s government in the war for the Union. But the nature of the man prevailed even against the memories of the ex-Minister last night. Earl Russell was spiteful; but that does not exactly surprise us in Earl Russell. He alleged that the Eng- lish nation must be jealous of the honor of the British Crown, and that “it must treat the United States ag it treated them in the Do eae pes that | Trent. affair’ ‘This latter allusion: wae received, as we. see by our cable report, with — cheers, although we find, just subsequently, that ite utterance was classed as an “alarm- ing’’ incident by some of the compeegs of the speaker. It looks to us as if it had-the effect of bringing Earl Granville toa more clear un- derstanding of the-dangers which surround the More acute aj which may pa the Alabama claims question be fostered much longer as an unwholesome irritating element, of political party excitement ‘The British Foreign Secretary accorded the. American right of a free, independent interpretation of the Washington Treaty, and also acknowledged our right to introduce indirect claima. He wished for the completion. of ‘a supplemental article, and denied thas Eérl Russell's argu- ment touched the caga. He administered a stinging rebuke for the allusion to the Trent; proclaimed that the sentence wit create ‘hy calculable ill feeling,” and faid that- it is by no means certain the He closed his eee reference to the shanceg of settlement Which still exist, Kark Grey and Lord Dénman wero cautions and hopeful, and thé Young Lord Derby, manly, straightforward and equitable, upholding tha dignity of his lineage, as is his wont, by re- questing the government to come to the point; and, to use his words, if the indirect claims are excluded, say that they are excluded. Lord Kimberley classed Earl Granville as an Ameri, can advocate, and the Marquis of Salisbury gave evidence that ~the aristocrats aré convinced that the British Cabinet thinka there is something in the case of tho American people, or astute Yankees, as he calls us, after all, and that Earl Russell may become a failure in his character ‘‘as a prophet of the past," pretty much as he has been in that of a geo- graphical calculator for the creation and sus tention of two separate governmental con. federacies on the soilof the United States.’ The House had not come to a vote on the motion for an address to the Crown when our cable despatch closed. The debate will be renewed after a brief adjournment, and the discussion is likely to produce very decided results. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Congressman Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, id at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Quincy A. Gilmore, of the United States Army, is at the New York Hotel. Judge J. G. Abbott, of Boston, is stopping at the Brevoort House, < Judge E, ©. Battell, of Binghamton, is at the Astor House, George W. Miller, of Albany, ex-Superintendent of the State Insurance Department, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General ©. J. Paine, of Boston, is sojourning at the St. James Hotel. General J. M. Harlan, of Kentucky, is among thé late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Francis B. Hayes, of Boston, President of the At lantle and Pacific Railway, is at tho Brevoor€ House. Colonel H. F. McComb, of Delaware, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. rat James H, Ramsey, of Albany, is stopping at thd Astor House. J.C. Stanton, President of the Alabama and Chats, tanooga Railroad, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Christopher G. Fox, of Buffalo, and a large num: ber of other delegates to the meeting of the Gran Lodge of Masons, are stopping at the Sturtevant House. It is reported ghat Mr, Fox ts likely to be. elected Grand ter of the Atate. i Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany, is at the Fifth Avé enue Hotel, Mr. Pruyn was formerly Minister to Japan, and in 1866 the democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor. ’ Madame Anna Bishop will sail for Bermuda.in thé steamer Metropolis to-day, She will be accom- panied by Miss Sedgwick and Finlayson, who will aid her in the concerts she intends to give, ~ AMUSEMENTS. Wallack’s Theatre. ie) Monday hight inaugurated the summer season al this popular house, and the opening play was that of ‘The Long Strike,” @ piece which is populai with the patrons of this establishment, Many the actors in the principal rdles appeared origin, ally in the cast, and their acting has been criti cised in the columns of this journal, Mr. Money- penny, a lawyer, as played by Mr. Stoddard, is a piece of acting with which the patrons of Wallack's are woll acquainted, and his rendering of the char- acter on Monday night was the same as on former, occasions, The pee je at tho lawyer’s house wit! Jane Learoyd, Miss ie. Germoil, éXéellen t, and that in the tele; yh office, one of the most stirring scenes in the whole play, was Dartioaieny) effective, Mr. Char les Fisher's Noah esos thi leader of the strike, was equally well done by that ainsts ye) and the Johnny Reilly of Mr. ontgemnel is glso deserving of & good word. The other characters in the play were fairly played, and that is about all that can be said of them, A full house received the piece, and brought tho. principal actors once or twice Befgre the gurtaliy, ieee | The Summer Season of EBngitsh The summer season of English opera was in- agugurated on Monday night at the cosey little theatre of Bryant’s Opera House under sufictently. favorable auspices. The house was well filled and the audience inclined to be very appreciative, or, we should rather say demonstrative. It is not ta be ex] that the performance should be per- fect, and it Hes fil! ose Who dre not too exact ing may pass a pleasant evening. The laurels, such as they were, were carried off by Miss Enpe Howson, who sang in the role of Arjine, lady has a voice of much sweetn but it evidently lacks cultivation. Mr, Brook- house Bowler’s singing of the rdle of Thaddeud ‘was scarcely satisfactory, and his rendering of the “Fair Land of Poland” must be pronounced & failure, notwithstanding the applause of his friends. Mr. Henri Drayton filled the character of Count Arn- tably. Mrs. Zelda Seguin as the Gypsyw if febured @ approbation of the audience. e pce Were filled as follows:—Mr. E. Devilshoof; Florestin, J. H. Chatterson; Buda, Mrs. Brand; Min eo of the Guard, Mr. Kin- ross.’ ‘The concerted pieces were given with much spirit and and, if we may accept the audience as a representative one, the is likely to give satisfaction to the public, and clear and clearing weather prevail on Wednes- day over the Middle States, and extend over New England; clear weather continues very genera! from the Upper Lakes to the South Atlantic an Gulf coasts; falling barometer, with easterly t@ er winds, over the Northwest. getous winds are not anticipated, The Weather in This City Yesterday. | ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the ponding day of last ear, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut'a’ soutl Dit Deki ty hat Se 1srt, 1872, 3A. M. 8 P.M. 92% 59 OA. M, 58 9A, 60 2M 5 Average temperature for corresponding date vy wee BONE last year.. NAVAL ORDERS, WASHINGTON, June 4, 1372. Lieutenant CommanderMerritt Miller is. ordere® to the receiving ship Sabine; Licutenant McKenzie special duty at Wilmington, Del.; Ensigns Savomn, Potter, Howman and” Breck wie detached from the Constellation and placed on waiting OVd eT He * aff