The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1872, Page 8

- j b 8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorum Herat. Rejected communications will mot be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. panei one THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12, Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth stroet— Diamonps, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twonty-third st. and Eighth av.—Rot Canorrs. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ‘avenue.—Tne Betis; on, THE Jew. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Senazant's Wep- ivc—Tue Deatn Trav. WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway. corner Thirtioth st— Cuow-Cuow. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—One Wirx, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway. ~ARnan-na- Brogus. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—Ixion; on, Tux Max at Tux Waxxt. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— Hourry Dower. WHITE'S ATHENSUM, 585 Broadway.—Nzoro Min- srraisy, &c. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner €th av.—Nxcro Minstaatsy, Ecoxntricirr, &c. ST. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 28th st. and Broad ‘Way.—San Francisco MINSTRELS IX Farce, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Gaano Variety Enteneainnent, &c. 72 BROADWAY, EMERSON’S MINSTRELS.—Gaanp Ernrorian Eccentaicrtizs. JAMES ROBINSON'S CHAMPION CIRCUS, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-fifth street. NEWARK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, Washington street, corner of Court, Newark, N. J. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth streot.—Straxoscn Conoxnr. fh AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 634 and 64th streets, sao iN ‘Tme Geneva Court and Its Award— The Results of Imcompetent Diplo. macy. : At last the door of the temple has been thrown open and the mysteries of the Geneva Court of Arbitration are displayed to the vulgar eye. A special cable despatch to the Henaxp brings us intelligence of the result of the deliberations of the learned members of that august tribunal, reached after a diligent examination of cart loads of documents and a patient hearing of exhaustive arguments. The Court, we are told, declines to admit the prin- ciple contended for by the American counsel, that England made herself responsible for the general escape of the Anglo-Confederate cruisers from her ports by a want of ‘‘due diligence” or the neglect of the plain duties of an honest neutral towards a friendly people struggling for national existence against a powerful re- bellion, and refuses to decide that the facts show any disposition on the part of the Eng- lish authorities during our war to connive or wink at a general infraction of the neutrality laws for the advantage of the Confederates. But by one of those mysterious processes of reasoning known only to dignified arbitrators and profound lawyers the Court then proceeds to pronounce the opinion that in the special cases of certain privateers there was such want of due diligence as renders England liable for the damages done by the said vessels to the property of American citi- zens, within certain limits. Thus, while the Georgia is ruled out altogether as one of the cruisers for which our British cousins are to be held responsible, and while the opera- tions of the Shenandoah before reaching Mel- bourne are disposed of in a similar manner, judgment is given in favor of the United States for the sum of sixteen or seventeen mil- lion dollars, one-half of which is on ac- count of the notorious Alabama. As might be expected, the Lord Chief Justice of England dissents from the decision of his brother arbi- trators—although he accepts the verdict so far asthe Alabama is concerned—and writes an opinion, long, of course, justifying his govern- ment and holding that its action was through- out in accordance with the requirements of international law, of neutral obligations, and even of the three rules of the Treaty of Washington. These are the points of the report that reaches us from Geneva to-day, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Graxp Concert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science AND Art. InstRumentan QUADRUPL E SHEET. New York, Sunday, Sept. 15, 1872. =—=— on eee CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. —-—__— PAGE. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Aadvertisements. 4—Advertisements. 5S—Lost and Missing: The Waifs That Float or Sink in the Whirlpool of Existence—Cable Telegrams from France, England and Ire- land—News from Washington—Lucca: Sere- nade to the Queen of the Opera—Literary Chit-Chat—Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley— Music and the Drama—Negro Riot in Pitts- RO earned Telegrams. 6—Religious: Programme of Church Services To- Day; Interesting Letters from the Herald’s Religious Correspondents; Shelter for the Exiled German Jesuits; The Question of the Immortality of the Soul Settled at Last— Movements of Ministers of ali Denomina- ons. TReligious (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Worla gerund to an End—Complications in the Case of the Alleged Defalcations in Wall Street—The Metis Investigation—Alleged Brutality to a Lunatic—Yachting: The Ocean Race for the Challenge Cup; The Maude and Davids—Rowing—Pigeon Shooting—Longfel- fow and Harry Bassett—Horse Notes—Trot- ting at Hall's Driving Park—The Swedish North Pole Expedition—Arrival of the French Frigate Minerve—Judge Hogeboom’s Death—The Defects of Local Telegraphy, S—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Geneva Court and Its Award—The Results of Incom- petent Diplomacy’—Amusement Announce- nts. perdtoriais (Continued from Fighth Page)— Personal Intelligence—The Alabama ims : Herald ieee Report from Geneva; The Verdict Pronounced; Judicial Decision of the Arbitrators in the Cases of the Anglo- Rebel Privateers; £3,250,000, or $16,250,000, Awarded to America; Half of the Amount Incurred by the Acts of the Alabama; Re- view ofthe Acts of the Other Confederate Cruisers; The Principle of International Law; Votes of the Tribunal; Chief Justice Gockburn’s Dissenting Position; What. the Nation: id Civilization Have Learned from America’s Loss and british Humiliation— Business Notices, 10—Rictures of Poverty: The Rotten and Tumble- Down Tenements in the Old Wards; Frightful Filth; Ruined Ranches in the Depths of Bax- ter Streets; Remedial Measures by the Board of Health—Brooklyn Courts—Jefferson Mar- ket Police Court—New York City News—Ex- tensive terri bade Fatal Fall—A Broken Head—terribie wedy: A Friend of “Reddy the Biacksmith” Mortally Wounded in Front of a Concert Saloon—A Mysterious Murder— dim Watson's Tell-Tale Book: A Remarkable Revelation of Ring Divisions—Forrester : Pro- coodlnge pea the Writ of Habeas Corpus— Detective Doings—A Crazy Smallpox Patient. 41—Financial and Commercial: Another Unfavora- ble Bank Statement; The Surplus Reserve 1,600,000; Money Easy, Closing Three to our Per Cent; Advance in Gold to 113%; A Squabble, it Not a Quarrel, Among the Clique Leaders; of the “Corner” in Erie; Another Day of ee Dividends vo the Stockholders; Stocks Strong and Higher; A Smart Advance in Government Bonds; The Cotton Movement and the Imports of the Week—Another Chapter of Erie; One of the Ways Whereby Fisk, Gould & Co, Became Wealthy—Brooklyn Affairs—Horrible Death— Mysterious Merchandise — 8 and Deaths, 12—(Custom House Pay Roll: What It Costs to Col- lect the Revenue—The Political Headquar- ters—Banner Raising in the Third Ward—En- dorsement of Gunning S. Bedford—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 13—An East Tennessee Sensation: The Troubles of a Claim Agent; A Horrible Murder that Was No Murder at All; Discovery of the Imposi- tion—Obituary—Advertisements. 14—Advertisements. 15—Advertisements, W—advertisements, Tae Weer m Watt Street was quiet, out- side of a “‘corner’’ in Erie shares which was developed towards the close and maintained to the end of business yesterday. A great deal of stock was sold to arrive from England, and the sellers subjected themselves to the penalty of very dear rates for the use of such stock as they were compelled meantime to borrow and deliver in fulfilment of their con- tracts, Gold closed up suddenly with an ad- vance to 113}, owing toa revival of operations by the former pool. Money, in face of a bad bank statement, was easy and closed at three percent, The stock market wound up strong and buoyant. “Tae Eantu Is Feventsn.’’—An earthquake was felt at Chin-Keang, China, a few days ago, and in the Sandwich Islands the volcano of Mauna Loa is reported in active eruption, and the Inyo district of California is said to be again showing symptoms of another groundswell, The equinoctial season may have something to do with these subterranean disturbances. If so we may soon expect to hear of more of them. Smoutp Tae Sus Be Farm Fifth avenue will be resplendent to-day in its ‘beautiful belles’’ in the glories of the Fall fashions as they go to and return from their religious duties. ‘ Eo OO EOE and these the results that are announced to be highly satisfactory to our government at Wash- ington, and with which, we have been periodi- cally assured, all the country is to be intensely gratified. From the initiation of the Joint High Com- eS ae it left the real matter at issue—the bad faith of England and the consequent ill blood between the two great Engli i nations of the world—untouched. When the Treaty of Washington was signed and ratified, interpreting its language by the light of common sense, we hailed it as & complete and satisfactory disposition of all the differences between England and America, in- cluding the liability of the former to our nation as well as to our individual citizens for alleged ‘unfriendly neutrality’ during our national peril. It was only when Secretary Fish had yielded the position we had secured: and had sacrificed the honor of our govern- ment, at the imperious demand of the English Cabinet, that we denounced the pretended set- tlement as unsatisfactory and called for the destruction of the distorted and violated treaty. The result proves that our position was well taken. The money award, whatever it might have been, is not worthy of consideration a3 compared with the graver interests involved in a perfect friendly feeling between the two countries; yet the insignificant sum of sixteen or seventeen million dollars, which may ap- pear to many a considerable sum, will probably be more than swallowed up in the counter awards made to British subjects by the Claims Commission, and after the payment of all the expenses incurred by our government will certainly leave us a loser in the mere matter of dollars and cents, as well as in honor, consistency and reputation. This England knows well enough; and while, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn coolly ‘‘dissents’’ from holding his government responsible for any- thing at all, and while the English papers will put on a show of indignation against even this paltry award, for political effect, England in truth laughs in her sleeve at her triumph over the shrewd Yankees, financially as well as diplomatically. There is only one point upon which any credit could possibly be claimed for the Treaty of Washington and this Geneva farce, and even this is precluded by the unfortunate facts attending the negotiations. It has been said that the creation of the tribunal has been tho triumph of peaceful arbitration over the old appeal to war in the adjust- ment of international disputes. But such a settlement, to be worth anything, must be made in good faith and effective in removing the cause of disagreement, It must reach the seat of the disease and not merely heal over the surface. Has the treaty of Washington ac- complished sucha work? Is it not notorious that it leaves the bitterness and ill feeling heretofore existing against England only ag- mission down to the virtual close of the arbi- tration proceedings yesterday, this whole busi- ness seems to have been mainly a carnival of eating and drinking, mutual admiration and overstrained courtesy. Controversies have arisen, it is true, and sharp ones at that; but throughout the affair there has been an appa- rent want of sincerity and earnestness, asort of diplomatic false pretence, revolting to all honest and sensible people. At Washington, pending the negotiations for the treaty every- thing was couleur de rose, and we were assured that a triumph was in preparation for the peo- ple of the United States before which all the glories of war would show dim and worthless. ssnme expectation was persistently held out ugh all the stages Of the proceedings down to the assembling of the arbitrators, and then the eyes of the ordinary spectator were dazzled by a liberal display of the glory of that distinguished tribunal. The attraction of mystery was invoked to awaken interest in the body itself and to distract attention from its matter-of-fact business. But at last the famous Geneva Court of Arbitration has gone out, like the performances of the English Cre- morne, or like one of our own Fourths of July, in a blaze of pyrotechnics, and we are enabled to behold its surroundings under their ordinary appearance. We do not mean to say that in the closing scene at Geneva there have actually been blazing wheels, twirling and twisting, hissing and spitting, and at last exploding themselves with a final noisy effort into an illuminated representation of Lord Chief Jus- tice Cockburn’s wig, or spouting jets of sparks, playing gracefully into the air and gradually taking the semblance of the jovial countenance. of Count Sclopis in a setting of variegated fire. We speak figuratively, of course, and allude to the balls, fétes, dinners, exoursions and general glorifications that have rewarded the learned and amiable gentlemen who have been for the past four or five months devoting themselves to the laborious task of discovering that England never committed an act unbecoming a neutral and never was guilty of bad faith towards the United States when she sent forth privateers to prey upon our commerce under the black flag of the slave Confederacy. These gratifying and attractive exhibitions are now over, and as they have had the effect of fireworks in momentarily dazzling and confusing the eyes of the beholders, it will not be surprising if their sudden cessation should leave a dull, heavy, unpromising appearance upon the actual work of the tribunal. We do not desire to incur the charge of irreverence’ when we express the opinion that all the noise and bril- liancy of the Geneva display have been manu- factured to order, like a pyrotechnist’s handi- work, and that, although they have been pleasant enough to look upon while being let off, they will be apt to leave, after their ex- haustion, some very uncouth and worthless framework behind them. Probably a more thorough imposition than the Treaty of Washington has never been palmed off os a great diplomatic triumph upon a credulous people. We have gained by it neither honor, credit nor pecuniary advantage. As a settlement of our direct losses through the acts. of the Anglo-Contederate privateers during the war of the rebellion the Alabama claims portion of the treaty is neither so honorable nor so pro- fitable as would have been the settlement pro- posed by the Johnson-Clarendon Convention, rejected by the Senate in 1869. The discarded plan of adjustment was a plain, straightfor- ward business arrangement, made by the clear heads of an able lawyer and a ripe statesman, and looking to a speedy and satisfactory sct- tlement of the moneyed part of the dispute. The other has been a glittering fraud, puffed into importance by the breath of scheming politicians and ending in less practical benefit to the United States, in a material point of view, than the rejected Johnson-Clarendon Treaty would have secured. The Henaup did not approve the settlement proposed by Rev- erdv Johnson and Secretary Seward, because gravated by a sense that we have been worsted in diplomacy and overreached in a hard-driven bargain? A friendly arbitration hetween great nations means something noble, self-denying and generous in action—a simultaneous open- ing of the heart and yielding of conflicting views to the impulse of an honest desire for friendship and peace. In place of any such sentiments there have been in the Treaty of Washington—or, rather, in the interpretation of the treaty forced upon our time-serving diplomats by England—sharp practice, advan- tage taking, diplomatic fencing and feinting, all the shifts of legal and political cunning, to win advantage over anadversary. A settlement that leaves 9 bitter forting of humiliation and Tnjuthoc"tinklleg in eee re ps of the parties is worse than no settlement at all. Then, again, no person can pretend that there was any danger of war with England growing out of the Alabama difficulties, and hence we cannot console ourselves with the belief that the Geneva farce has been a triumph of peace. The whole affair is an unfortunate one for the credit, honor and advantage of the United States; and yet there is nothing left but to ac- cept the insufficient award and platitudes of the Geneva Tribunal and to be thankful that we are rid of the Court and its business. Pere Hyacinthe’s Letter on Marriage in the Priesthood. That the ex-Carmelite, Charles Loyson, known as Pére Hyacinthe, should get married was avery natural proceeding and one that nobody should quarrel with. It was a ques- tion between himself and Mrs. Merriman, and was settled on that basis, no doubt. Yet he sits himself down and indites a long letter of apology for, or, as the late and prospective father would say, in vindication of his little matrimonial adventure. He starts out by say- ing that this act of marriage is to him a terri- ble solemnity. Hyacinthe is right; marriage is no joke, although many have thought it was, and it bids fair for Hyacinthe’s happiness that he weds the widow without delusions. He gives the world to understand that he did not assail infallibility, indulge in dogmatical con- troversy and quit his convent for the sole pur- pose of marrying. He, however, thinks per- petual vows of celibacy one of the abuses of the Churgh, and while he will stand by its prin- ciples he won't stand the abuses. He owes, he admits, to the rule of religious celibacy ‘some of the most exquisite joys’ and pro- found and decisive experiences of his existence. From his eighteenth to his forty-fifth year he observed it with fidelity for which he thanks God. Now in his good ripe age marriage, he says, comes to him in the awful form of ‘‘one of those laws of the moral government of the world which can- not be set aside without overturning the fabric of life and without running counter to the will of God.” If this ‘revelation’ was so forcibly thrust upon him it is gratifying to know that the means were at hand to prevent his life fabric being turned topsy-turvy. The noble and holy devotion which lighted up his social and religious ostracism he desires to recom- pense and consecrate by marriage. We do not care to follow him through his polemical essay on what church discipline is and what it should be on this point, nor into the tough subject of the beauties of matrimony in general. The latter are matters of pretty world-wide ex- perience, and the bright side of the subject naturally presents itself very vividly to an expectant bridegroom. But if there is one thing in his letter especially charming it is the vigor with which he announces his intention of fighting to open the rond forall Catholic priests to follow His example. This is gener- ousand touching. He says:—‘Nothing shall hinder me from claiming for each one of my brethren in the priesthood the legal right of marriage.”’ And further he dogmatizes gush- ingly: —“There is nota single case in which the Church should prohibit its pastors, but there are a thousand where it ought to command them to marry.” We have no means of judging the exact trath of these statiatioa; but Aaa taking his thousand priests as @ good estimate of the unfortunate clerics doomed to lose the “exquisite joys’’ of celibacy in case his con- jugal crusade is succersful, grave questions widows of mature age, or will Father or Grandfather Hyacinthe, as the case may be, make the collection of ten hundred suitable spouses another of the objects of his life? It strikes us that if there are actually fifty score priests who should marry, the best way he could go about his self-imposed task would be first to procure his thousand widows, or 8 goodly sample of them, and then move upon the enemy's works. If the widows are properly instructed each one would soon bring down her priest, and Rome would waken up to. the fact in atwinkling. For Hyacinthe, doubly armed as he is, to move alone against the citadel of Roman discipline will involve a ridiculous failure; but with his thousand widows and their captives there would be some sign of strength in the move- ment. As it is he would do very well not to write any more of these Quixotic letters ; for what- ever awful fate he saved himself from by marrying, this public justification is uncalled for and apology pitiable. If it is part of the Roman discipline that a priest may not marry, then when he wants to marry let him resign his priesthood. It is avery simple process, and is just what Hyacinthe has done, The Muddie in Local Politics. The oldest inhabitant of this goodly city would have very little advantage over the new- est arrival from the Fiji Islands or far Ujiji if he attempted to comprehend the state of city politics just now. The nominal approxima- tion of tenets of political faith between the great parties all over the Union has had a very unsettling influence in the city. Where the difference amounts really to a question of the reliability of individuals to carry out such and such a policy it is not wonderful that the hu- man apex of every little political pyramid feels at liberty to hoist whatever banner he pleases over his head. Old times are changed; old party lines gone. The Hon. Dead Rabbit of the Five Points grasps in his dewy fist the fat hand of his quondam enemy, Black Radical, Esq., of the Custom House. The Chevalier do Bourbon lets his long, lank locks float grace- fully in the breeze that is wafted from the worthy pair, as he scowls upon the smiling faces of General War Democrat, Citizen Copperhead and Mister Abolitionist Sorehead, who are locked in loving embrace. When these typical personages are cut- ting up such antics how must it be with the thousands who for a quarter of a cen- tury have voted the straight ticket and now have no straight ticket to vote? How, above all, must it be with that highly respect- able and intelligent class who are not particu- lar which side they are on, so it be a paying anda winning one? For men of mind there is a rare chance, and they improve it by declaring everything that is is wrong. In the higher grades of “leaders” things are arranging themselves quietly, because all the national and State conventions have spoken; but in the lower strata the banner of person- ality is flung to the winds, and every half block has half a dozen candidates each for he Assembly, for Alderman and Assist- ant Alderman, without whom the country will go to perdition, The Mayoralty, in its pres- ent condition, is like a solitary clam in a basin of chowder, with forty hands snatching at it. O’Brien must have it, even if Grant 1s re-elected; John Kelly must have it, though Kernan should ride to Albany ona huge majority; Havemeyer must have it whether the whole Seventy Solons scald their fingers or not in clutching at it; Comptroller Green must have it if anybody can be found to give it him. Look at the Congressional dis- tricts! Colonel Roberts rides down mail-clad through the new Fifth to find General McMa- hon gathering the citizens into little knots, teaching them disaffection, and waging a run- ning fight with the ‘‘regulars,”’ as his unfortu- nate friend Lopez did in Paraguay; and the “regulars’’ aver with the same prospect ahead. Warm work certainly in the Fifth. Roosevelt, finding himself killed off by the apportion- ment, resigns himself unto his fate. Cox, seeing his future in the old Sixth marred in the same way, saves himself as Congressman at Large, with what real result November will tell. Brooks, ousted, too, from his old ground, makes a vigorous dash to the east and hopes fairly to visit the national capital regularly for some time tocome. Smith Ely, Jr., will ride in upon a district south of Mr. Brooks, if Thomas J. Creamer and other obstacles do not overturn the buggy of his hopes. Fer- nando Wood will march with accustomed dignity (one cannot say “run” in his case) in the Ninth district, and the ‘‘unterrified”’ fear that the enemy will capture the rest. Reform is the war cry all round, and it is put to the tune of so many old party songs, all played at once, that Gilmore should not neglect it in his next Panjandrum. The effect is overpowering. It is consoling to think that a tew weeks will settle the chaotic condition of things somewhat, when the Convention cure is dealt out in small doses from the Battery to Harlem. Until this is effected, from beer saloon to groggery, from thirsty morn till fuddled midnight, from ‘‘strikers’’’ club to policeman’s club, the phantasmagoria of seething municipal microcosms may be ex- pected to exhibit a labyrinthine involution impossible to disentangle into its primal elements of pretences, professions and uproar, or their apparently antithetical, sinister con- geners of addition, division and silence. Let us wait. The Suez Canal and Its Heavy Tolls, The arrival in this port of the steamer Glen- gartney, with a cargo of tea from China, has created considerable interest in commercial circles. Apart from the fact that the Glen- gartney is the first arrival by the Suez route this year, there is a feeling of satisfaction felt at the good report made by Captain Bolton as to the state of the Suez Canal. Tho influence of that great undertaking is bound to be largely felt in this city, in view of the growing rivalry of San Francisco. In a tew years we may hope to see it extinguish the second-hand trade with the East which we were in the habit of having through London and Liver- poo. The fears that were at first entertained that the sand would rapidly fill up the ship channel, time has proved to be without foundation. Indeed, the wear and tear of heavy ships like the Glengartney, pass. ing through bas not even been ao xreat as was NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1872—QUADKUPLE SHEET. calculated by the most enthusiastic of the pro” jectors, So far, then, the canal experiment must be accepted as a grand success. It is a triumph of science calculated to revolutionize, the course of trade within a few generations and so far as New York is concerned it ought to exercise a very beneficial influence on our future. Theone drawback is the want of a and administering it are considerable. These were obliged to be raised immediately, and this necessity has induced the enlightened Viceroy of Egypt to increase the tollage, or rather to exact the old toll for the total tonnage instead of the registered tonnage, which in commerce has always been adopted as the basis for all kinds of ship taxation. Tho difference is very considerable, and the result must be to discourage steamers passing through. We are convinced that if the ex- periment of cheap*tolls were made the in- crease of business would more than make good any loss that might be temporarily in- curred. This question of tollage is the only drawback to the canal at present ; but we have no doubt that the Viceroy will soon recognize the error that has been made and will remedy the evil. The Roman Question and the Coun- ceil of the Emperors. A special despatch to the London Daily News from Rome—a despatch which we printed in the Heratp of yesterday—states with some appearance of authority that the Emperors of Germany, of Austria and of Russia, during their conference at Berlin, resolved to advise the Pope to abandon the Jesuits, promising, should he accept their advice, to use their good offices with the Italian government for the protection of foreign religious corpora- tions in Rome. This is precisely what a week ago in these columns we taught our readers to expect. The Roman question, as we said then, is | one of the nicest questions of this age, and it is reasonable, we think, to say further that the satisfactory solution of that question would be accepted as a relief by united Christen- dom—Protestants and Catholics alike. It isa question which deeply concerns the future welfare and internal peace of Germany. It is of first rate importance to Austria, where the new ideas of this progressive age are rampant, but where the Church of Rome is at once the Church of the State and the Church of the people. Itisa question which must deeply concern Russia so long as she holds under her control so large a portion of ancient Po- land. It was not only natural, it was desir- able, that the three Emperors should consider the Roman question and attompt at least to arrive at some conclusion in the premises. If this report be strictly correct we do not feel satisfied that the Holy Father is at all likely to take the advice which has been offered him or that any substantial good will come from im- perial interference. The Jesuits he cannot abandon. It was they who enabled him some years ago to proclaim the dogma of the Im- maculate Conception. It was they who secured for him whatever glory came from the recent Ecumenical Council. The Pope is not the man to go back upon his friends, not even at the bidding of three Emperors. During the present incumbency of the chair of St. Peter we have no hope of any radical change in the policy of the Roman Curia. - In the interests of peace, however, the agreement of the three Emperors must be accounted of some value. The Italian gov- ernment has just made some very fair propo- sals to the Holy Father, and it is reasonable to infer that # the Italian government is com- pelled to take decisive action without the consent of the Pope it will be able to count with confidence on the support of the three great powers of Northern Europe. In the Papal territory outside of the city of Rome the same laws are to apply as in the rest of Italy. The orders are to be suppressed and the ec- clesiastical property is to be sold for the benefit of the State. Inside of Rome there are to be two differences. Ecclesiastical property is not to be sold for the benefit of the State; the money realized by such sale is to be devoted to religious, educational and sanitary purposes. Then, again, the re- ligious institutions, which have their central seat in Rome, are to be allowed to retain their houses; but for the property which is to be taken from them they are to receive an equiva- lent in the shape of Italian rentes. All things considered, this seems the best arrangement possible. Now that the Great Powers of the North and East are of one mind with the Italian government the presumption is that this arrangement will take effect. Pius the Ninth will not be satisfied; but his successor will find it necessary to accept the situation. The Tenement House Abominations. Bhe action of the sanitary inspectors in turning the inhabitants of certain rickety structures in Elm and Oak streets out of doors at first sight appears a little harsh. It will, however, meet the warm approval of all par- ties interested in the well-being of the poor, because, though it may have inflicted tempo- rary inconvenience on many of the unfortunate denizens, the ultimate result of the vigorous application of the law will be to give the poor decent homes. It is sad to think that in the midst of our boasted civilization thousands live, and die, in a state of squalid wretched- ness unknown to ruder forms of society, where the evils of poverty are not aggravated by contrast with the splendors of unbounded wealth. But as this inequality seems to be inevitable and incurable, the only thing that can be done is to endeavor to mitigate the evil by taking such measures as will secure the extreme poor from congregating in dens unfit for human habitation. There are laws on the statute books of suffi- cient potency to remove the evil, if they were enforced constantly and rigorously. Unfortunately this is nbt done, and the raid on Oak and Elm streets can only be regarded as one of the chronic exhibitions of vigor that from time to time promise the inauguration of reforms that never come. If the law were more evenly administered there would soon be little occasion for its application, as the wretched alleys and tumble-down houses would soon disappear to give place to healthy struc- tures. Not alone as a matter of humanity but as a question of prudence this ought to be done; for in these crowded abodés of misery all forms of infectious disease are generated, and once the demon of pestilence is un- chained all classes and conditions fall poverty will always be strong enough to drive the wretched to live wherever they can do so at the least expense, without regard to sani- tary considerations, the government of the city must interest itself in what at first sight appears altogether a personal matter. But in view of the dangers to others involved, it is clear that the laisser aller principle cannot safely be adopted, and that we must insist on cleanliness and propriety in the habitations of the poorer citizens. The only way that this can be effectively done is by the establishment of a system of fines on the landlords in all cases where they neglect to carry out the orders of the Health Commissioners. In order to secure vigorous action on the part of the officials they might also be subjected to fine and dismissal for neglect in their duties. Some such system must be established before we can hope to have the tenement house nuisance abated. Religious Press Gossip. The Boston Pilot notices the announcement that a new religion, conformable with common sense and modern enlightenment, is to be pre- pared for the Japanese. However favorable this news may be received by Protestants, the editor says that to a Catholic it is, and must be, simply shocking. Where the right of pri- vate judgment is recognized it is natural that new sects should arise, that even there should be as many forms of religious belief as there are individuals. But Catholics abhor the idea that men have the right to do aught but humbly accept the faith as revealed and handed down without change from the time of the apostles. So the Jews, too, deny all right of deviation from their perfected reli- gious code and worship. Alluding to the marriage of Father Hyacinthe, the Pilot con- cludes it is quite a proper turn about, that as the lady had been converted by the eloquent monk to Catholicism she should convert him from celibacy. The St. Louis Christian Advocate copies from many papers highly eulogistic allusions to the late Dr. Thomas E. Bond, one of its editors, recently dead, a gentleman of great worth and ability. The Baptist Weekly prints an admirable ser. mon from Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the emi- nent English preacher, now visiting this coun- try. This sermon was first published in the Hegarp and reprinted without credit, and we learn that the editor was not responsible for the omission to credit us, to which we al- luded last Sunday. The editor handles poli- tics very cautiously, stating a fear that Mr. Kernan, as a Catholic, would not veto a bill, if it should be passed, for dividing the school fund among the religious denominations, thus breaking up the school system, while General Dix would be apt to interpose the veto. Possibly a bill might pass making rivers run up stream, but the danger does not appear imminent. A thorough en- dorsement of Stanley’s discovery of Living- stone shows the editor to appreciate enterprise and possess common sense. The Jewish Times, which is printed in Eng. lish and German, and adds a poem in Hebrew, alludes to the project of a general emigration of the persecuted Jews from Roumania to this country, and deprecates such action until proper preparation is made by securing land for a colony, and providing funds and imple- ments to enable them to support themselves. Speaking of the Hznatp's Livingstone expe- dition, it says, ‘‘Who does not feel proud that Mr. Stanley is an American, and that we possess a journal that can excite the envy of our English cousins?”’ In speaking of the nomination of Mr. Kernan for Governor, and the opposition to him on sectarian grounds, the editor cautions our people against the introduction of religious topics into politi- cal contests as tending only to endanger free institutions by exciting strife and contention. He also objects to an illustration in Harper's Weekly representing ‘‘Jews drinking water in Central Park,’ and reads the ‘Journal of Civ- ilization’”’ a lecture upon rousing vulgar pas- sions and dragging the noblest reputations in the mire for political purposes. Democracy and the Bible is the subject of the leading article in Church and State, and its text the assertion of Emilio Castelar that “Anglo-Saxon democracy has for its only lineage the Bible.” It concludes that in the education of Anglo-Saxon democracy, which had the Bible for its foundation, is found the seeds of all that is noble in character, just in laws, equal in rights, grand in purpose and wonderful in career; and appeals to Americans not to abandon such teachings for those of any other school. The Observer, in an article on interchange of pulpits, congratulates the world on the fact that progress of thought is overcoming State Church establishments, breaking down the walls of separation between sects and per- fecting a practical union of all Christian people. The Baltimore piscopal Methodist takes exception to the Hraup’s personal descrip- tions of ladies and gentlemen at social gather- ings and other society news, in the publica~ tion of which, it says truly, other papers imi- tate our enterprise. It might be queried whether any one connected with the Methodist had been too truly described? The Evangelist alludes to “something wrong with the sun,’’ and observes that ag the light and heat of the centre of our system is some- times deranged by the effect of dark spots, only discoverable by powerful instruments, so the Church, which is the light of the world, often suffers an abridgement of its beneficent power from internal defects, though to the un- skilled observer it preserves its brightness. Fidelity and vigilance are enjoined, to the end that a pure religion shall make its light so shine before men that they shall glorify Him who is the source of light and life. Mr. Beecher’s ‘Lecture Room Talk,”’ in the Christian Union, illustrates God's workman- ship in men, fashioning them and building them up into the highest ideal of spiritual manhood—a structure to last forever. The Golden Age, in the absence of its editor, who is stumping the Union for Mr. Greeley, presents a handsome portrait of Mr. Tilton, with an eulogistic biography. Mostly devoted of late to politics, it mainly shows its religion this week by liberally endorsing the nomina- tion of Francis Kernan for Governor. Say- ing that he is a Catholic, it attests his nobility, his pure and incorruptible integrity, which add lustre to that old Church of which he is member, and urges the voters of this State to show their wisdom and freedom from sec- tarian principle by electing him. victims to his race As the force of | The Baptist Union thinks the prosperity of@