The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1872, Page 6

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The Heraxp's special cable despatches from Geneva, published to-day, in connection with our interesting and important special correspondence from Washington, place before the people the very latest news from the Court of Arbitration on the Alabama Claims and the exact position occupied by our government in regard to the new point raised by England before the Geneva Tribunal. There was no meeting of the Court yesterday, but the agents and coun- sel of England and America had long and earnest conferences, and important despatches were supposed to haye been received by them from their respective’ govern- ments bearing upon the question now occupying the attention of the arbitra- tors. It was supposed that a further adjourn- ment may take place to-day, probably extend- ing over three or four days, in order to give . time for the receipt of official communications from London and Washington, and a rumor prevailed that these delays will afford an op- portunity for certain modifications of the posi- tion which may serve to bring about an amica- ble result. Meanwhile the utterances of Presi- dent Grant and Secretary Fish, which will be read with intense interest, will probably help us to form a more intelligent opinion as to the prospects of the Treaty of Washington. + The first question to be decided is the one rais@d by England as to the power of the Geneva Tribunal to extend the time for the submjssion of the English argument. Upon that hinges at present the fate of the treaty; because, if the eight months’ adjournment | demanded by the British agent be not granted, the English government Will then have to decide whether they will remain before the Court with the claims for indirect losses still in the-American case, or will withdraw from | the arbitration and destroy the treaty. The power of the Court in this respect can be looked for only in the treaty which created it. The Court is now sitting in compliance with the fifth article of the treaty, which it is | well to repeat here in order that our readers | may have a clear view of the argument: — | ARricLE 5.—It shal be the duty of the agent of each party, within two months after the expiration | of the time limited for the delivery of the counter | cases on both sides, to deliver in duplicate to each of the said arbitrators and to the agent of the other party a written or printed argument showing the points and referring to the evidence upon which his | government relies; and the arbitrators may, ifthey | desire further elucidation with regard to any point, | require a written or printed statement or argu- | Ment, or oral argument by counsel upon it; but in | such case the other party shall be eutitied to reply either orally or in writing, as the case may be. | This article, it will be seen, makes it the | duty of each government, through its agent, | to submit its argument to the Court and to the | other contracting party within two months | after the delivery of the counter'cases on both sides. The time for the performance of this | duty has arrived. The American argument | has been delivered to the Court and presented | to the British agent in accordance with the requirements of the treaty. The English | argument has not been delivered, but instead, | the demand for eighr months’ delay has been | made to the Court. Without commenting on ; the undue ‘advantege England would | derive from an eight months’ study | of the American argument, while withholding her own from our knowledge, we confine our | | inquiry to the single point of the power of the | | Court to accede to the British request. It is clear that the time forthe submission of the CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. | When we look into that instrument we are not | left in doubt as to the intention of the Court to ama | make the limitation binding, or as to the pur- tisements. | s Be Wala'e Jubilee: Second Day of the Great | Pose of so doing. All through the treaty runs Musical Panjandrum—Trotting at Fleetwood | inciple of bringing the bi . Park—Mystic Park: First Day of the Spring | the principle xia gad arbitration Baia BS Paar. 1—Advertisements. Trotting Waasee New Chapter ny Bri :| to a close as speedily as consistent, Curious Developments Respecting the Re- | i PEER cent Revolution—The Impeached Judges. | 904 of preventing the possibility of | Colfax at Home—The Grand Duke Alexis at | procrastination on either side. The Rio Janeiro. hee ce i 4=The Wonder Hunters: Progress of the Agassiz | PoWers and duties of the Court are for that Gonioeteal, Archeological acoosoiogieal, reason expressly set forth. The first article | Sounding, Dredging and Impalin; x On; | . The Home of Robinson Crusoe—The, Edgar | declares the object of the treaty to be ‘to pro- Stewart—Jamaica: The Contract with the West India and Pacific Steamship Company | for a Monthly Mail between Kingston and New York—The Lost Colon Cable—Another Assault . and Stabbing by RumMans, 5—Shucks for Schurz: The Man who Saw the Man of Missouri—State Politics—Andy J Miscellaneous Campaign Notes— Atlantic Yacht Club Regatta; Brook! Club—New York Yacht Club—News from and Central America—Opposition Gangs— Commencement of the Packer Institute—New vide for the speedy settlement’’ of the Ameri- can claims, and to that end provision is made in that article—first, that in case of the death, | absence or incapacity of any arbitrator, or of his omitting or declining ‘to serve, the govern- ment he represents may forthwith fill his | place; and next, that if the government whose representative the absentee is, omits or York City News. 6—Editorials : Leading Article, “The Question Before the Geneva Tribunal—The Position of Our Government’—Amusement Announce- 4 ments. %The Alabama Claims: A Very Busy Day in refuses for two months to name his successor, | the King of Sweden and Norway shall be re- | } quested to make the selection. Thus we find | bye eetigy ph en heey Despatch | that so far as the construction of the Court is ‘clegraphing; The Question of Adjournment Ss e : the Subject of the Moment and Point of Dim. | concerned a longer delay than two months is culty; The Question in Washington—Cable i rainst. ‘h ic] i Telegrams from Spain, Germany aud Rome | Provided against ‘The second article requires China and Japan—Maine Democracy—The | the arbitrators to meet at Geneva ‘at the Piberal Conference indian Invasion of | earliest convenient day after they shall have 8—The Lowden Abortion Case: Trial of Dr. Gyles | been named." The third article provides charged with Causing the Death of Mrs. Mary é * Ann Lowden by Abgrtion — ng Water Biregt | that the written or printed case of each of the Stabbing Affray—Interesting Proceédiigs in | two parties, with the documents, correspond- the New York and Brooklyn Courts—A Just Lp iM $ Punishment—Brooklyn Afairs—Shooting his | ence and evidence, shall be delivered to the este andes roy Rui Comes x | Court and to the other party “within a period 9—Financial and Commercial; Another “Break” | not exceeding six months from the date of the and Further Demoralization in Erie; ‘The | atc a . ” Price Eula P 52; Alleged le of the Control | exchange of the ratification of this treaty. of the Election to the Old Erie Ring; Excite- ‘i i pari ment and Depression on the Stock Hchange: The fourth article has eo neeens Oo meen Money Ei ler gad Lending Freely at Three on the present question of the power of the t; Gold averaging 114 and Dull; ‘ ee 7 le. Shipment Anticipated for the | Court that we give its words: — Washington Bureau Speculating | Articie 4.—Within four months after the delivery Cotton Crop; The Yield expected to on both sides of the written or printed case either be about Four Million Bales—Marriages and | party may, in like manner, deliver in duplicate to Deaths—Advertisements, each of the said arbitrators, and to the agent of the JO—Eight Hours: The Metal Workers Agitating the Labor Question Throughout the Country; | ments, correspondence and evidence in reply to Meeting of the Manutaeturerg; ‘The Employ- | the case, documents, correspondence and evidence ers Resolve to Fight Against All Innovation — so presented by the other pat to the Bitter End; Reports fiom Other The arbitrators may, however, extend the time Citles—Shipping — ‘Inteligence—-Advertise- | for delivering such counter case, documents, cor- ments. MM—Advertisements, 38—Advertisements, | respondence and evide when, in their judgment, it becomes necessary in consequence of the dis- tance of the place from which the evidence to be presented is to be procured, It will be observed that in this article the Ayorner Srrrke.— The strike of Carl Schurz sl rae oe a Cincinnati nominees. power and authority are expressly given to the boat rate n Reh Conrt to extend the time for the delivery of P Iw Perv two unfortunate towns had been te counter case and additional documents, sacked by the mountaineers, which means that ¢"espondence and evidence, if, in their judg- other party, a counter case a@d additional docu- | the date of the close of the arguments on both sides, and provides .for the payment, of the award, should a gross sum be given by the Court, within twelve months after its date. In case a gross sum should not be awarded, and the assessment of damages should go to a board of assessors, the same limitations are made. Every claim must be presented within six months, unless a delay, which is in no instance to exceed three months, should ‘be granted by the assessors, and the time for the assessors’ reports and the pay- ment of their awards is also definitely fixed. No person, we think, in view of the above facts, can doubt the intention of the framers and the signers of the treaty to positively define the time for the performance of the several acts required of the contracting parties and to deprive the Court of Arbitrators of the power to remove the limitation except where such power is expressly given. The Conrt has in its possession Lord Tenterden’s own admis- sion of the force of the limitation in the fifth article, in the protest or declara- tion presented by him to the arbitra- tors on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty on the 15th of April last, reserving all Her Majesty's right of withdrawal from the Court in case the claims for indirect losses should be pressed by the Americans. In that commu- nication Lord Tenterden closes by saying: — for Hi er Majesty to cause any further com- munication to be addressed to the arbitrators upon this subject [ler Majesty Will direct that. ‘communic: to bé “made at Or before the time lit by the fifth article of the treaty.’’ It might, indeed, be an open question whether this limitation might not be set aside in the event of both contracting parties agreeing to a post- ponement and jointly applying to the Court for | an adjournment, although England has signified her belief that even this could not be done with out an additional article modifying the existing fifth article of the treaty. But both President Grant and Secretary Fish declare that while they are ‘not absolutely opposed’’ to the ex- | tension of time demanded by England, and | would be willing to ‘‘waive all claims to a strict enforcement of the fifth article of the Treaty’ if the Court of Arbitration should decide to set its provisions aside, they will not join England in an application for adjourn- ment, but will leave the tribunal to decide upon the ex parle showings of the English agents. This being the case, we are unable to doubt that the decision of the Court will be adverse to the British application. We fail to see how it can be otherwise, unless some of those singular and mysterious secret understandings, of which diplomacy is unfor- tunately so prolific, should induce the arbitra- tors to usurp. an authority they certainly do not possess under the treaty. In the event of the refusal of England’s request, as our Wash- ington authorities sagely remark, ‘we shall see what we shall see.’ The Henatp has already recorded the opinion that the with- drawal of England ‘from the arbitration and the destruction of the treaty would not be followed by any serious consequences, and would in the end be the best for, the interests, peace and good will of the two nations. We reserve for a future occasion what we «have to say ef the position of our own government | in these remarkable negotiations, as officially | ry * | “If circumstances should render it necessary | checked by all those with whom they do busi- ness. If their employers were: promptly in- formed of their short-comings it would proba- bly do away with the evil we complain of; hence it is that we now seek information on the subject, and desire to know if we are longer to be placed at the mercy of bank clerks and runners who act entirely upon their own responsibility and without special orders from their superior officers, by having to sub- mit to demands which we insist are entirely unwarrantable and unreasonable. Erte and the English. In another part of to-day’s paper will be found an interesting exposé of the latest phase of the great Erie scandal. From this it ap- pears that our excellent cousins across the water, and that eminently respectable body, the London Protection Committee, are not above driving a bargain even with a man whom they formerly so loudly denounced, the veritable ex-President of Erie, Jay Gould. In other words, Messrs. Heath and Raphael, the champion representatives of English indigna- tion against American dishonesty, have declared their former proceedings, and all the abuse they prompted, to have been wholly Pickwickian, and have sold out their interest in Erie to reinstate Jay Gould in his old posi- | tion. There is mention of one million five hundred thousand dollars in connection with this change of sentiment on the part of Messrs. Bs and Raphael ; but we are rather inclined | to believe that a better. understanding of Mr, Gould's abilities. and capacity of man. agement, as set forth totheém by Mr. Charles Osborne, a recent tourist, to Europe, has induced this action on their part, rather than any other cause. ‘Phis last turn of the cards in the great Erie game is, like in most cases, more amusing to the lookers-on than to many dirécly interested. That dis- tinguished patron of Christian culture and advanced theologian, in the opinion of Mr. Richard Schell, Daniel Drew, comes to the front as an associate of Jay Gould in this negotiation. We can readily understand how Mr. Drew's sympathies were enlisted in this matter. He is a peculiarly sensitive man, full of sentiment, and weak almost to childishness concerning his early associations. Erie was his first love. With that is identified much of his pecuniary success in life, and although he sold fifty thousand shares short at fifty-five, at a time when it seemed pos- sible Erie might touch par, it is said he wept as he did it. Under these ci | cumstances it would be invidious to suppose that his eonnection in this matter arises from other than the purest patriotic views—a, wish to keep Erie from falling into the hands of the Britisher. Of course if Jay Gould gets to be President the stock will rapidly return to its old figure, thus offering a very large profit to Mr. Drew on his great short sale; but such is the reward of virtue. Another leading figure in this transaction is Henry N. Smith, con- cerning whom little need be said, as he and Gould are one. Mr. Smith is, however, prominent. in the market as a leading bear; and a further incitement to carry forward this Erie negotiation, regardless of cost, may be found in its influence upon the general market. There is nothing really surprising in this new development respecting the future control expressed by the President and the Secretary of State, and of the extraordinary conduct of England throughout the treaty controversy, The Empires of Asia—Their Diplomacy and Industries. By way of San Francisco, and thence over- land by telegraph, we have news reports from Japan and China, dated in Yokohama on the 25th and Hong Kong the 15th of May. The travel between the United States and the two empires of Asia is very great, and the commercial dealings of the peoples still more extensive and profitable. Two prominent members of the Japanese Embassy have | returned to America, their power of commis- sion having been greatly and pleasingly enlarged by the Mikado. The United States diplomacy for effecting the opening of the whole country of Japan to foreigners, or of the great tea district, at least, has been received in a cordial manner by the ruling powers. Should the President succeed | in obtaining entrance for Americans into the tea district alone it will be a very grand affair, the results of which will go far to render him popular, not only in the woman's rights meet- ings, but among all ladies who may be ac- cepted personally as morality’s prim personi- | fication, and who delight in ‘‘measuring the in- tensity of blue.’ The negotiations with the | Japanese will be, most likely, classed as the | Souchong policy of the government with the | view of distinguishing it in future history from that observed towards the English in Geneva. We have had further evidence | of the progress of works of industrial develop- | ment in the East. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China will, according to an official proclamation, be married on the 16th of Oc- tober. Business CourtesiesA Hint to Em- | ployers. On Monday morning a draft was presented at the Heranp office by the collector of the Fourth National Bank, and payment was offered in the notes of national banks and legal tenders, and the same were refused under in- structions, so the collector said, from one of the clerks of the bank, who had directed him to receive nothing but a check or legal tender | notes. ‘The consequence was that the col- lector left without the money and the ment, it should become necessary in conse- in each case a gang of brigands had made a quence of the distance of the place from which successful foray. But as an offset to these little misfortunes a new discovery of the great- the evidence to be presented is to be procured. est value, not of gold or silver, bit of guano, If the power to adjourn or extend the time for had been made on the Peruvian coast, And ‘H€ performance of any of the acts required of this is one of the marvels of modern civiliza- ‘be two parties by the terms of the. treaty tion, that these deposits from her sea birds | Tete with the Court there would have been have become to Peru as valuable as mines of | BO C°e@sion to bestow it expressly in this one gold or silver. instance. The fact that the arbitrators steak are thus in direct terms authorized .to Twetve Tuousaxp Germay Mixers have remove the limitation of time struck. More the necessity, then, for’ the performance of the duty by the contract- draft went to protest. This trouble has occurred more than once, and from the | game source; and we now deem it best to ask the officers of the above-named institution | if their employés are instructed to demand not | only money, but money M such shape as will be | most convenient to them ?—or, in other words, are we to be subjected to great annoyance in | order that bank clerks shall have less to do? No funds are tendered by us other than those of Erie. With the exception of Jay Gould there appears to have been no one on this side of the water really anxious to obtain control of the road. On the other side, with” the exception of. the Atlantic and Great Western party, represented by Bis- choffsheim and Goldschmidt, equal indifference, as far as persons are concerned, appeared to prevail, while even that party, demoralized by. the late act of the Legislature which prohibits a director of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway from being a director in Erie, were also without a leader. As with both Heath and Raphael and Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt the principal point, then, was to obtain a profitable market for their stocks, what won- der is it that Jay Gould’s proposition, pre- | sented as set forth elsewhere, was well re- ceived and an arrangement consummated be- tween them? There is another point, however, in the arti- cle to which we allude which also claims at- tention—that is, that the late change in the management of Erie was wholly collusive, and formed part of a scheme previously formed, in which the present promised sup- port by the English interest of Jay Gould for reinstatement is only a corollary. There was enough that was curious and inexplicable in that revolution to justify this assumption; but whether such was really the case or not is not important now. The last couple of days have shown a very feverish and excited movement in Erie, with rapidly declining prices in Lon- don, followed by o similar falling off here. In London yesterday there was almost a panic in Erie Railway shares, a condition of the market which, as explained elsewhere, goes to sustain the anticipation of Gould's early return to the control of the road. This is nineteenth century justice. Two | continents have for years been ‘in throes of in- dignant protest against the outrage of Gould's | administration of Erie. The rights and wrongs of the Erie stockholders have com- manded the attention of the world, to the lasting prejudice of American credit. Yet, this outrage having been in part amended by the removal of the cause, the very parties who had been most blatant in proclaiming their wrongs and had combined for their redress use that organization to reinstate in position and power the man who, most of all, was responsible for | the evils complained of. And these last were | Englishmen. | Tue Corton, Crop or 1872.—The report of | the Department of Agriculture on the cotton crop of this year is encouraging. The aver- age increase of the area in acres planted | throughout the cotton States over that of last year amounts to about thirteen per cent. The condition of the plant is about as favorable as for the | which are bankable, and we shall certainly | at the corresponding. period last year. If, not place ourselves to great inconvenience | therefore, nothing unusual occurs to damage ‘Joint High Commission of Arbitration on ing parties in this single case, is of | im order to meet demands that are unjust and | the crop between this time and the time of Labor and Capital,” with Hamilton Fish at the — itself conclusive evidence that where the power | unreasonable from impertinent bank clerks. We | gathering the yield will be probably thirteen thead, as we have already suggested, If the is not expressly given it is intentionally with- | have frequently had occasion to remark the | per cent greater than last year. This increase g fever continues to spread in Europe | held and does not exist in the Court. The | offensive manner and language of some of | is not likely to affect the market price much, aS i hos in this country the sooner Commis- | third article, as we have seen, requires the two those men who are employed by banking in- | for the increased demand keeps fully up to the sions of Arbitration from both hemispheres, to | parties to present their arguments within two | stitutions to do their outdoor work, and doubt- | augmented supply. When the South recovers hold their deliberations here in the city of New | York, be selected, the better for labor and cap- | filed, and it is this provision that England ital, peace and order, humanity and civiliza- desires to violate. Article seven requires the Aion, the World all over. ; arbitrators to make their decision, if po same. We can hardly believe that they are acting under any special instructions, but think * = * is but a mere show of self-um- months after the counter cases shall ‘have been | less hundreds of others have observed the | entirely from the war, its labor becomes well organized again, and a flow of immigration sets in there, we shall have a greater cotton | race. In 1612, 1820, 1836, and repeatedly in spoduct and cheaper cotten. possible, “within” three months from | Portance on their part, which should be | @paim and Her Troubles—The Disease Chronic—What Is To Be the Cure. To another placo in these columns this morning will be found a cable despatch, special to the Hunan, revealing a most alarming state of things in Spain. It would scem as if all tho political parties had been reduced to some- thing like despair, The conservatives have done their best, but they have failed. It ap- pears that in their despair, seeing that they had failed and that no other party was strong enough to take up the lapsed reins, they ad- vised the King to consent to a dictatorship in the person of Serrano. The King has refused his consent. All things, in consequence, are in the wildest confusion. Serrano, it is said, ig about to retire in disgust and seck a temporary home in England. Sagasta, equally disgusted, is about to cross the border, and from some snug retreat in France contemplate the fate of his country. The radicals are arousing the populations of the great cities. The leading journal, devoted to the interest of Serrano, ex- claims, “A radical Ministry and then the deluge.” To-day Spain must be pronounced the most unfortanste country and the Spanish people the most unhappy people on the face of the earth. To call the disease chronic is but to repeat what every sensible and thoughtful person has been saying of Spain and the Spanish people for the last seventy years. We mow no good, reason why Spain, but for some perversion of the national character, should not have been one of the most forward of the nations of Europe in everything which essen- tially belon, m ivili It isour duty’ ‘and our privilege, orate’ look. facts in the face ; and, looking facts in the face, we have no choice but say that Spain is in a con- dition in which she has no claim either to our sympathy or support. If we look at the domestic state of the country we find chaos. In the wild turmoil of confusion, which has lasted for over three years, the native sovereign has been dethroned and the dynasty exiled ; a republic has been found impossible; the adoption of a foreign prince as sovereign ruler has been found necessary; the leading spirit of agrand and promising revolution has been assassinated; the alien Prince has done his best to make good and maintain his position by courting the assistance of each of the great political parties in turn; but after many hope- ful signs and after many great failures it is im- possible to say that-Spain has found the light likely to lead to the end of her troubles, or that the fate of the Savoyard King is todiffer in any essential particular from the fate of Maxi- milian of Mexico. Inside the country it is chaos and wild confusion. The domestic policy—if it is reasonable in such a state of things to speak of a domestic policy—has been’ scarcely more a failure than the policy pursued by Spain in all her foreign relations. We do not blame her for doing her best to keep a firm hold of her remaining colonies. In the one case, in which a little wisdom would have stood her in good stead, that little wisdom has been found wanting, and her wretched Cuban policy has effectually and forever alienated from her the sympathy of the United States. In her treatment of Dr. Houard and in the impertinence which she has just shown in suggesting or demanding the recall of the American Minister we discover the stubborn- ness, the intractability and the hopelessness of the race. Why has this great nation so fallen, and what is the cause of the hopelessness of her condition? When we think of Spain, as Spain once was, and look at the Spain of to-day, the exclamation involuntarily escapes us, ‘How are the mighty fallen!’’ Full of energy and the days of Charles the Fifth, and powerful as no nation and people had been powerful | since the fall of Rome, in the days of Philip the Second, it is a question which has puzzled the philosophers why such a nation and peo- ple should have sunk so low. For at least one hundred and twenty years, from 1478 that belongs to material progress and pros- perity, was one of the greatest on record. At the first of these dates the Mohammedans were still masters of Granada; and Castile and Arragon had each princes of their own. Before 1590 Spain had become a unit ; and in addition to her territory proper Portugal, Navarre and Roussillon, Artois, Franche-Comté and the Netherlands, the Milanese, Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands and the Canaries, all recog- nized the authority of the Spanish monarch. During the interval one of the Spanish kings was Emperor of Germany, and another for a brief space was virtually King of England. | Such at this period was the power of Spain | that the independence of Europe was in | danger. Out of Europe the Spanish do- | minions were great. In America sixty degrees | of latitude, which covered both the tropics, marked the extent of her sway. Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, New Granada, Peru, Chile, with Cuba, St. Domingo, Jamaica | and other islands—all were Spanish. In Africa Spain really had no rival. In Asia she | had settlements on each side of the Deccan. | She owned part of Malacca and had found a | solid foothold in the Spice Islands; and, | finally, by the conquest of the Philippines, was completed that connection which girdled the world and justified the boast first made by | the Spanish monarch that the sun never set on his dominions. Since 1598 the career of Spain has been ever downward. In spite of the tremendous vantage position which she fortunately had won, and in spite of her enormous natural resources, to this day undeveloped, she has gradually lost ground, until we see her as she is to-day. Rich in what at one time seemed a noble race, rich with a glorious history, rich in mineral wealth and rich ina splendid soil, Spuin has never- | theless sunk so low that recovery seems to be impossible. It is fair to say that Spain, in the misfor- tunes of these late years, is reaping the bitter fruit of misused success. The wealth of the Indies demoralized all ranks and classes of the people. The nobility, in proportion as they grew rich, grew selfish and indolent. The Church, pampered with gifts, grew rich, and in proportion as it grew rich it became cor- rupt and sought to accomplish by tyranny | | what it ought to have tried to do by educa- tion. Attempts have again and again been mado to put life into the dormant and dying daily adding to her strength in the | days of Ferdinand and Isabella; mag- | nificent, aggressive and resistless in until 1598, the history of Spain, in almost all | | into trouble with Brazil. later veora, all has been done that ardent spirits could do to resuscitate the nation ; bat all has been in vain ; the downward tendeney has remained, and hope seems to-day as far distant as ever, There are many who think that Spain is suffering now because in the day of her opportunity she abused her power; and when we reflect on the harsh policy ‘of Charles the Fifth and on the cruel policy of Philip the Second and recall the memories of the Inquisition, it is difficult to resist the conviction that the sins of the fathers are being visited upon the children beyond even the third and the fourth genera- tion. Spain has Still need to repent and to reform. During the progress of this repent- ance and the process of this reform Amadeus may find it necessary to retire. Alphonso may return; but unless we greatly mistake revolution must follow revolution before Spain finds peace, rest and prosperity. The disease has become chronic, and it will not be won- derful if before the disease is uprooted the nation should perish. We can have no reason to object to this rotten Power remaining and doing its best and its worst in Europe ; but it must cease to be a source of annoyance to us in this new home of liberty and progress. Senn Our News Budget from the West Indies, Central and South America. We have this morning quite a budget ot interesting miscellaneous news items from the West Indies ,and Central gnd South America, First, we. are informed from Kingston, Ja- maica, that the contract with the West India and Pacific Steamship Company for a monthly steamer between Jamaica and New York will Pacific Mail. Company yill run their fast steamer under their expiring Satialea subsidy on the 9th of July. It is supposed, however, that they will not allow themselves to be driven out of Jamaioa in this way, but that they will run their steamers via Kingston with- out any subsidy at all. We hope they will, and we think they can. We have no faith in these s ubsidies, From Hayti the news, referring to certain revolutionary movements, is discouraging. Our African friends in that quarter have been comparatively quiet for some time; but as they are fond of excitement and military glory we apprehend that the existing government will soon be required to fight for the mainten- ance or restoration of peace. From Aspinwall we have a curious story of the unfortunate adventures of the Cuban filibustering steamer Edgar Stewart, which has at last been taken in charge, for the pro- tection of American interests, by the United States steamer Wyoming. Another filibuster- ing steamer, the Virginius, is at Puerto ‘Cabello, Venezuela, guarded by two Spanish ships of war. One of these attempted to cut out the filibuster, but was prevented by the ugly preparations for resistance on the part of the Venezuelan government. At Carthagena it was generally believed that a schooner which left that port recently with arms antl ammu- nition was bound for the island of Cuba. Meantime it is somewhat remarkable that all | these Cuban filibustering ventures should so signally fail. They must be most wretchedly managed, or surely now and then one of these swift little steamers would be successful in landing her troops, arms and ammunition, and in getting away. It would appear that the liberal Cubans who furnish | the funds for these costly expeditions cannot find the right sort of men to take charge of their ships, or that they are too careless in their selections. Where is Admiral Semmes, late of the Anglo-rebel cruiser Alabama? A “bold privateer’ of that type is the man for the Cubans, at any price. We are downright glad to hear that there is no fear of a commercial crisis in Guatemala on account of her war with Honduras; but we are sorry for Honduras, for she isin a sorry position. Her President, Medina, was forti- fying himself at last accounts in the city of | Gracios, expecting a combined attack from the forces of Guatemala and Salvador, and in the meantime a fire had been opened on the rear of Medina by a revolutionary faction. Wo know nothing of the merits of this war on the part of Medina, and very little of Medina: him- self ; and yet in defence of ‘the sacred soil’’ of Honduras we wish him success, even though it may be followed by a commercial crisis in Guatemala. As the silver lining to this war cloud, the envoy of peace from Nicar- agua had been well received in Salvador.. This _ is the man for our money, and his name is Don Evaristo Carajo, and his motto is, “Let us have peace."” In Nicaragua, we are informed, three routes for an interoceanic ship canal are being ex- amined by Captain Hatfield, of the United States exploring expedition, and that the pros- pects of success are great. This is no news to us. Aglance at the map of the Isthmus of Nicaragua, with its great lakes, Nicaragua and Managua, and their outlet, the San Juan river, navigable for good sized steamers at high water, are facts which, together with Commo- dore@anderbilt’s experience, ought to settle, this question. The ex-Emperor Louis Napo- leon, from an examination of careful surveys made of this route, has left it on record as his ‘opinion that here will be the great ship, canal of the New, World, and that with this ship canal the little town of Masaya, between the lakes Nicaragua and Managua, in its commer- cial, political and military importanee will eclipse Constantinople. a The Argentine Republic, as some time ago we apprehended would be the case, is getting That alliance with Brazil to put down the republic or despotism of Paraguay, or whatever you may please to call it, was a bad investment for the Argen- tines. But Brazil has her own tronbles, An epidemic of some kind, we are told, has attacked three towns of the empire, and car- ried off eight thousand of their thirteen thou~ sand people. The epidemic, we suspect, was: | the yellow fever or smallpox, these diseases being reported as very malignant further south, at Montevideo and in other parts of South America. But, turning the reader to our despatches for other details of our South American budget of this paper, we close with the good news that Professor Agassiz’s scientific expedition had arrived safely at Callao, and was about to proceed to Panama. This deep-sea-sounding expedition around our Continent, with the dis- coveries of the learned Professor, we doubt not, will hereafter be marked as one of the greatest events in all the record of scientific researches by land or soa ge into gffect on the 22d of July; that the